skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
inlining part of the readme:

Before you say "oh no, another lisp",
consider the following:

femtolisp is about 150kb,
is very self-contained,
and has the following features:

* vectors, strings, gensyms
* backquote
* exceptions
* printing and reading circular/shared structure
* all values can be printed readably
* prettyprinting
* hash tables
* support for directly using C data types ala Python's ctypes
* equal and ordered comparison predicates that work on circular structure
* proper tail recursion
* io and memory streams with utf8 support
* highly compatible with Scheme, including some R6RS features
* simple, well-organized, powerful API with as few functions as possible
* compacting GC
* and...

...it is fast, ranking among the fastest non-native-compiled Scheme implementations.
"workplace democracy" is nothing new. The common name is 'socialism'...
https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html
Wasn't anywhere close.
We've had Chernobyl where the core was fully exposed and recently-high-power radionuclides were aerosolize by a graphite fire and the people in nearby population centers were not quickly evacuated nor given iodine tablets nor told to not drink the milk, and by the UN consensus study UNSCEAR (parallel to IPCC) showed that 60 first heroic responders died from acute radiation syndrome and "up to 4000" will die of early cancers, on top of a population where millions would die from cancer naturally (small increase). In later revisions, they refused to even give a number [1] due to uncertainties associated with the conservative linear no-threshold model.

Also: the operation error and design flaws at Chernobyl were astounding [2].

Then we had Fukushima, where an earthquake trigggered an automatic shutdown of the reactors, which worked great. Then the tsunami knocked out the backup cooling generators and decay heat melted fuel and released nuclides through an in-tact reactor vessel to the atmosphere. Multiple meltdowns. What does UNSCEAR have to say? 0 deaths from radiation. Some sources say "up to 1 death from radiation".

I think it's really, really hard to postulate millions dying from nuclear.

4 million die per year from air pollution due to non-nuclear energy [3].

[1] https://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/09-86753_Report_20...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident#Accident

[3] https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/
> I never recommend Wix or Squarespace because the code is usually atrocious, which impacts mobile and SEO and accessibility, but there are lots of excellent WP templates.

I can't vouch for Wix, but the code in Squarespace is actually usually very well done and semantic for most themes. And honestly, they can end up being just as bad or good as any WP template you'll find, so I wouldn't personally just throw that accusation around.
This is a complicated one: US generics are vastly more expensive than international generics, but at least part of that is because US manufacturers sell those drugs abroad at the cost of production, making up their remaining costs in the US. People in the industry have described it to me as a tactic of "we help people in need, please don't regulate us".

This isn't the whole story; east Asian manufacturers also produce cheaper products, for a bunch of reasons from lower costs to lower regulation to lower profits. And it's notably not the case for non-essential, non-basic medicines (e.g. most psychiatric meds), expensive new generics not used abroad, and certain other high-demand generics like insulin. Those are either expensive everywhere, or more expensive in the US than other wealthy countries and largely unused in poorer countries. (How all this relates to your story depends a lot on whether we're talking about Bangladesh or Taiwan.)

But as far as generic antibiotics or antihistamines, it's going to be hard to separate "US manufacturers overcharge" from "US manufacturers sell cheap abroad".
Slightly different if you play renegade :)
See my other comment.

Fukushima has one official dead person from radiation.
But what about the 1% increased cancer risk? Has noone dead from this cancer? Is noone going to die from it in the future?

The normal rate of Thyroid cancer among children in Japan is 0.35 per 100,000.
In Fukushima the rate is now 13.4 children per 100,000. [1]

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[1] http://www.ippnw.de/atomenergie/gesundheit/artikel/de/schild...
> The most likely outcome is that they will figure it out, and much earlier than any of their competitors.

Disagree. The most likely outcome is that many folks who paid a lot of money for a car end up with a car with a screen that's flawed in some way. (I own an S that has the yellow box.)

It is also possible Tesla "figures it out" earlier than their competitors; but that's less likely as the former is now a certainty.
Also BBC one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48262681
Neural network driven vehicle going around randomly-generated paths
Could the story be renamed to 'How YouTube's "Let's Play"s are Preserving Video Game History'?
Perhaps because installers are knowingly and willingly choosing to take the risk of falling off a roof, and are getting paid to accept that risk. It doesn't seem right to compare that type of death with people dying from lung cancer caused by air pollution that they have no direct control over.
Understanding eWhoring
Code https://github.com/CodingTrain/NeuroEvolution-Vehicles
My view is that the loss of driving jobs can be handled normally, via existing free market and education institutions -- that it's no different from the loss of other job categories over the past 50 years.

That this isn't special, that we're not "on the cusp of some pretty hairy water", but rather that this is just par for the course.

I just don't see any statistics that suggest the scale or rate will be anything close to larger/faster than our economy can normally handle. If someone can show those comparative statistics exist, then I'll change my mind.
YC company SFOX brings FDIC insurance to crypto traders
But there are people who are constantly downloading the let's plays of those youtubers, so there will nearly alway be a copy of a video if it isn't on youtube and it might end up on archive.org later on
Single use plastic bags are the ones that end up on my porch. And on my street. And the lake at the end of my street. And in my local parks. And in the creek down the block. And in the river running through town.

Single use plastic is an eyesore. It's garbage that doesn't stay where it's supposed to.
It is known that Germans have weird taste for life, preferring cash to digital payments and not really understanding what does “global city” mean (just kidding here). I’ve lived in several German cities and Berlin does not differ much from others, except that it’s much less boring and probably much more English-speaking. The railways are as irregular as in Hamburg or Cologne, the beer can be as good as in Munich and you can get in some places as good Maultaschen as in Stuttgart. Berlin airports are shitty, too much multi-kulti on Alexanderplatz for some people and no one says “Servus” or “Moin” - but that’s a feature, not a bug of this city.
And if solar and wind and storage become cheap enough that the next generation reactors are never needed? Then what?

A plan based on tech which either isn't created or not yet deployable is a little too handwavy for me.
True, edited the post. I was thinking about Cowboy and JSON processing packages when writing this.
We literally do not have time for "few decades". This is why we're building out renewables at the rate we are.

(Also, the breeder reactors only use spent fuel - most "waste" by volume is lower level waste of various kinds. Especially from decommissioning.)
I don't believe justinmchase pre-supposed anything.

They fairly pointed out the evidence of mainstream news sources promulgating conspiracy theories.
> How could the APIs .. be abused?

The app is infected, calls a 0-day using an illegal parameter that’s normally rejected by app store filters, and gains a permanent beachhead in your Android system services list.

> access photos in the background

Unclear. Apps can show thumbnail galleries of your photos within their native UI, so it may well be possible for them to continue directly to reading photos.

> access the camera in the background

Unclear. Does FaceTime continue transmitting video when the phone screen is turned off? Is it possible to capture stills or video when the screen is off on a jailbroken phone?

> or spy on the user in a broader way

Android WhatsApp seeks permission to read your SMSes, so that would be almost certainly correct as well there.
I'm all for nuclear but let's be honest here, many more people died prematurely because of Chernobyl, the nuclear cloud were all over Europe, the thousands of people who were on site to contain the disaster got very high doses of radiation too.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...
> Aren’t git commits stored as patches?

No, they aren't, git commits are stored as snapshots. Each git commit has one tree, which is a snapshot of the state after the commit; zero or more parent commits; a pair of authors with corresponding timestamps; a commit message; and nothing more. Any patch you see in git is an illusion, made by comparing the commit's tree with the parent commit's tree.
Or the gas wasted on each trip.
Well then why not figure out the numbers so we can compare them to the others...?
Owing to that I simply no longer have space or money to repair my older consoles, I've often turned to these let's plays to relive some of my favorite video games.

With every new console generation, backwards compatibility is discussed as one of the main points of contention, yet continually it is shelved. Because of this, I am skeptical of the rumors of the supposed universal compatibility that the Playstation 5 may have.

I will note, as someone who hasn't played since the 360, that Xbox appears to be taking steps in the right direction. I hope that continues to put pressure on Sony to allow their own games to be compatible with the new consoles, and maybe Nintendo as well to offer better virtual console offerings (a long shot, I'm sure).
It is pretty good. It has a few other problems:

* Can't be built in lots of areas due to geography

* Struggles seriously in droughts

* Large reservoirs emits significant biogenic methane (especially in warm areas) [1], which is a powerful greenhouse gas

* Messes with fish

* Gets scary in major rainfalls

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023102/
> Interesting position that we're in as a society where you can't be trusted to make decisions about almost anything thing until you're 18 but would allow a child and help them stunt/alter their physiological growth process because the they insist this is the correct thing for them.

This seem to be written from the point of view that children improvise their gender identity to get attention, or that gender transition isn't the method used to alleviate the serious mental health issue that is gender dysphoria. It is a lifelong source of anguish and suffering if not treated correctly.

Children have a quite clear idea of their gender and gender dysphoria is usually serious enough so that a professional won't confuse it from something else.

"A total of 55 young transgender adults [...] who had received puberty suppression during adolescence were assessed 3 times: before the start of puberty suppression, when cross-sex hormones were introduced and and at least 1 year after gender reassignment surgery [...] After gender reassignment, in young adulthood, the GD was alleviated and psychological functioning had steadily improved. Well-being was similar to or better than same-age young adults from the general population. Improvements in psychological functioning were positively correlated with postsurgical subjective well-being." [1]

"On both more-controllable self-report measures and less- controllable implicit measures, our group of transgenderchildren showed a clear indication that they thought of themselves in terms of their expressed gender. Their responses were indistinguishable from those of the two cisgender control groups, when matched by gender identity. [...] In summary, our findings refute the assumption that trans- gender children are simply confused by the questions at hand, delayed, pretending, or being oppositional." [2]

"While they may not have had language for it at the time, 59% knew that their gender identity did not match their body before the age of 10, and 80% had this knowledge by the age of 14." [3]

The differential diagnosis of gender dysphoria makes it quite clear that GD is not to be confused with other similar issues which won't require an hormone replacement therapy (body dysmorphia, the transvestism paraphilia, borderline personality disorder and psychosis, Asperger's syndrome possible obsessive preoccupations with gender, etc.).

It is not the child which request how the therapy will go but the health professional. Blockers are used because they are relatively safe and reversible without serious sequelae. When compared to a the lifetime of issues that would happen in the person's life should they go through an extra puberty are considered worth the risk.

[1] Young Adult Psychological Outcome After Puberty Suppression and Gender Reassignment https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/4/696

[2] Gender Cognition in Transgender Children"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761456815...

[3] Challenging the BinaryGender Characteristics of Trans Ontarians http://transpulseproject.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Trans...
Athletes Hire Him When They Think They’ve Been Swindled
If you're concerned about the definition of a word, please go ahead and say what definition you prefer, rather than just saying "I disagree."
More like at least 4000 and up to nearly 100000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
> While there is rough agreement that a total of either 31 or 54 people died from blast trauma or Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) as a direct result of the Chernobyl disaster (see § Differing direct, short-term death toll counts), there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of deaths due to the disaster's long-term health effects, with estimates ranging from 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia), to no fewer than 93,000 (per the conflicting conclusions of various scientific, health, environmental, and survivors' organizations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
Until something happens to Google, and youtube.com goes down (^_^;). Can we consider any website to be permanent?
>Competition with deep pockets and a lot of relevant expertise. Tesla is going against the whole automotive OEM sector and did well dor quite some time.

The same story was told 5 years ago. I think Tesla proved that it has enough expertise in the industry and the deep pockets do not matter if you can't produce one decent EV model.
It's not so relevant for compiler suites that handle many languages, but for Wirth-style compiler the compiler is largely a bunch of branches and IO, so while it won't be representative for everything, it is quite representative.

And of course it will mean the result is slower, but it represents a belief that the speed and simplicity of the compiler matters more for a whole lot of uses.

Thankfully nothing prevents us from having multiple compilers, or settings, so we can get both very fast compiles and optimizations. Indeed, several of Wirth's thesis students did optimization work that plugged in optimizations in the Oberon compiler.
The post is irresponsibly spreading fear based on imagination.
Love Your Job? Someone May Be Taking Advantage of You
Good suggestion, and done.

(I originally submitted it with the headline as formatted in the article, How YouTube let's plays are preserving video game history)
It's hard to answer without having enough context. Indexes, Transactions, and Triggers are three common choices, respectively. But don't forget complex data integrity requirements are also often a sign for bad design.
Are there any concerted efforts to archive these videos currently?
The last example [0] really should reference the obligatory XKCD [1]

[0] https://ohshitgit.com/#fuck-this-noise

[1] https://xkcd.com/1597/
I've been freelancing for 7 years, and the market has never been better for reliable web developers. A knowledgeable full-stack dev can earn above SV-level salary as a remote freelancer.

However, if you're marketing yourself purely as a "web developer", you're already commoditizing your skills. Instead, become an expert in a specific type of business/client and sell your ability to solve problems in that business domain. Your clients should not care about the tech you're using. You need to instead be seen as the expert who solves their problems with tech.

If you go this route, not only is freelancing viable - I think it's the best way to maximize your earnings as a developer.

I wrote about freelancing in more detail if you're interested: https://andyadams.org/everything-i-know-about-freelancing/
> so if you want to pass data between them, you must copy

Big binaries aren’t copied; they’re passed by reference to a shared ref-counted heap (where each process holds one reference to the binary on the shared heap, and the process’s heap can hold N references to the far reference pointer.)

In theory, more types could be made to do that.

In fact, I believe that handles passed back from NIFs actually reuse this infrastructure, presenting themselves as binaries such that sending the handle to another process is really just creating a new smart pointer in the new process-heap, holding the same raw pointer that the original NIF handle held.

And you can do a lot with that. Erlang’s new-ish `counters` module, where you get a handle to a mutable uint64 array, is essentially just a built in NIF that passes around a mutable NIF handle pointing to a uint64[] buffer, exactly as above.

There’s nothing stopping the Erlang runtime (or your own NIF code) from adding all sorts of other operations against native, mutable types, and exposing them as these sorts of abstract data structure handles. You could, for example, have a `matrix` module for doing matrix math; or a `data_frame` module that can participate in every operation a Pandas.DataFrame can (with all such operations implemented as native code); or a module exposing SHM buffers; or even a module exposing GPU driver primitives (e.g. vertex/shader/texture buffers).

Everything that the bytecode would do to such ADTs would be slow-ish, but the point would be to load stuff into them in your glue code, and then in your hot loop, just bump already-loaded ADTs together in fast, native ways.
Being poor — or indeed normal —means not having $200 to spare on making yourself resistant to bankruptcy. Tech workers like us are much richer than most: I started on my country’s national lifetime average salary, and most recruiters now expect me to ask for double the local national lifetime average.
It is correct that Hanja is no longer used in daily life, but most people do know enough Hanja to start with. It is still mandatory to learn Hanja in middle schools (AFAIK), and since Hangul is pervasive now the use of Hanja ironically adds a good visual cue---many newspapers frequently use 美 or 英 in place of USA or UK and people is fine with that.
Nuclear industry is notoriously shy about making comparisons to wind and solar.
How do you "insert yourself in the loop" on a FBW plane when the computers conk out? There is manual reversion on an Airbus but it is very minimal - if you ever end up in a situation where that is needed you are having a very very bad day.

On the other hand, 737 is actually fly-by-wire - literally, because actual steel wires are still connected between the cockpit controls and the control surfaces. So if the electronics dies and the hydraulics isn't working neither for whatever reason, the plane can still be controlled.

These "magic boxes" are there to augment the control characteristics, such as the "feel" of the control column (which is normally lost due to the hydraulics driving the control surfaces). Or, in the case of MCAS, to help with an aerodynamic issue. Both are hardly unprecedented - the last large transport plane that didn't rely on any computers/electronics for controls was maybe the 707.

The problem is the poor design of the MCAS software/system, not that it exists as such.
Why is Roundup still being sold at Homedepot and Lowes?
Even if retailers are sticking with Roundup, I don't understand why consumers are still buying Roundup.
Very nice how the resolution increases when zooming in. This should exist for every city.
Recall that because it's getting energy from the nucleus rather than from electron shells, there is 2,000,000x more energy in the mined raw material when you're using nuclear. That's why a train car of nuclear fuel per year can power a city, where a coal plant needs a mile-long train car per day. Nuclear energy density is crazy high. So you don't have to mine a lot, you don't have a lot of waste, you don't need lots of land, and you don't emit any carbon dioxide.

See: https://www.xkcd.com/1162/
I thought this had already been debunked....quick search shows that it has - https://www.reddit.com/r/badscience/comments/aj0idr/debunkin...

How this has made it to the front page I don't know...
Thank you, I had missed that.

While that does strengthen the point of the chart, it doesn't invalidate my concerns. It was almost 10 years ago now, but I recall an incident that made national news, when a gas hub in Texas exploded, and there were impressive, but sobering, photos of flames shooting 500 feet into the air from the resulting fire. That is one worst-cases for oil & gas. Some of the spills we've had from tankers are other worst-cases. And they do happen.

So again, I need to know what the worst-case for nuclear is before I'm going to be sold on it. Because if it scales to the capacity of our gas industry... something will happen. And we need to know what it will be and be ready to handle it.
Nobody forced Tesla to push "$35,000 EV" as their rallying cry. They did it because, among other reasons, they saw how successful it was for brands like Apple, which they like to be compared to. The problem is, when Apple announces a new iPad model at $499 (2010-2015), they know they can manufacture and sell profitably at that price.

Tesla on the other hand cannot meet its own production targets, so they shouldn't have tried to publicly anchor their own price at $35k.
Wikipedia has a table that still puts both above nuclear with rooftop solar at 440 per PWh and wind at 150 per PWh. (Doesn’t include other solar and I haven’t dug deep to verify those numbers.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities
Thanks for bringing up another benefit of s-expressions - paredit and friends!
Benefits to Outsourcing Credit Union Forms and Disclosures
Here in Nevada, my experience is that Walmart's online business and delivery is strongly superior. It has been a refreshing thing to see a massive global company turn around and do something very right.
Scientists Are Now Tapping Our Brain Waves [pdf]
You'd need a solid theory to explain that to assure others it's not just poorly gathered data. Perhaps purposefully so.

In any case, the millions of tons of coal that Germany burns instead, thanks to German "greens", will cause a lot more death and suffering.
Replying to you from Berlin with 200 MBit/s, thank you very much. Moved here a few years ago and can't really imagine living anywhere else in Germany.

Saw some similar weird hatred on Reddit recently. Not sure what happened to people in Berlin but just like any other big city there are lovely and shitty parts. You got to spend some time here to know which is which (obviously this may be different for all of us).

Anyone is allowed to be whomever they want to be in Berlin - so there is a mix of things and people quite unparalleled.