skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If it was a reasonable claim, then would someone name the production OS from the early 70s written in LISP, and explain how it's better?

Better or more performant for some measure of performance? I mean, you can always read the UNIX hater's handbook if you're interested in qualities that UNIX did not possess decades ago.

>You need much more sufficient-smartness to make LISP fast. Isn't it obvious? Or is that somehow counter to any history you've read, except when cherry-picked and reinterpreted by some HN commenter?

If you want to make a pedantic argument, then no, it's not difficult to make Common Lisp potentially as fast as C. This is because I can very easily drop down to a level of safety which is on the same level as C. This is, of course, unsafe and I would never recommend it.

I don't understand why numerics performance is cherry-picking, but "systems programming" (what does that mean? OS dev. only?) is not.

This would be a much simpler discussion if you concisely describe in a semi-formal manner why C has a larger potential to be fast than CL. If you did so, it probably would be a lot more difficult for me or anyone else to refute your claims.
Wow.

USPS continues to bleed money but that's due to the mandate from Congress about pre-funding pensions. That's a requirement that nobody else has - see the articles about the 3rd-largest coal company declaring bankruptcy and shedding its pension obligations.

Is always understaffed? Yeah, there are lines a lot of the time. So go to USPS.com if you can and buy postage online. Go to the offices that have ATM-like machines if you can't. My usual problem is that I have a letter that I don't want to send Priority Mail and I've gotten out of the habit of having 10 different amounts of postage labels.

Misplace the mail? I signed up for their service that sends me a picture of almost every piece of mail that gets delivered. The last problem with the mail that I can remember having was dropping off a check at the airport while leaving on a trip. The contractor suggested that mail there got extra inspection, which delayed it. I'm not sure that's right but I can see somebody dropping something "bad" in the mail right before they leave the city/state/country.

They're certainly not perfect and I bet it's not any more fun to work there than when "going postal" was a thing. But I'm pretty happy with USPS.
Rooftop Solar is 0.44 deaths/TWh, wind is 0.15 deaths/TWh, Hydro is 1.4 or 0.1, depending on if you count the biggest accident or not.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...

I don't think that would count natural gas emissions for backing renewables.
Remember when it raised $50 million and people thought that was a lot of money?
We probably still have a few thousand years left. We're not going extinct tomorrow.
There's almost no effort. It takes less than five minutes each time, to both order and request a credit. I've wasted a lot more time than that on trying to get them to remove USPS as a shipping option. At this point, it's just a game for me.
It's a case of solving the problem where you can. Reduce your waste because you can't force other countries to do it or to accept your help cleaning up their own. Also bans don't count towards budgets where cleanup programs would.
In git(1) it's below LOW-LEVEL COMMANDS (PLUMBING). You cannot expect a novice to read thoroughly past something like that.

And it's remarkably hard to find using web searches, since most git documentation uses the term "commit" for these things, not "revision".[0] I found it after I discovered "git help -g", which lists "some concept guides" according to "git help".

Of course, n=1 and stuff, but there's a lot about git that is not obviously documented. Something like this should be linked to in multiple places, so even if you skim over one you'll catch it relatively early.

[0] The name of the man page was chosen to avoid conflict with the "git commit" command, I guess?
They do that. However it shouldn't be legal in any sane legal climate, where competition law is not a fake facade. And who would defend the monopoly except for shills?
What's somewhat ironic to this discussion is that some Linksys routers modify STUN responses, which breaks legitimate functionality if the router is used with dual-NAT or CG-NAT:

https://www.voip-info.org/stun

Both Linksys and CG-NAT need to be avoided.
Usually the code is not important, just the specification. Data sheets and explanations of how the hardware acts will do, they can keep their secret code.
No, I believe that it doesn't.

Here's a link to the relevant section of the article: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Google+Pixel+3a+Teardown/123...
I know it's not completely related since it's not about human deaths, but wind is quite disruptive for the local fauna actually.

My country invested a lot in wind generated energy in the past decade (and that's a good thing), but the bird populations in those areas clearly suffered for it.
I'd love to see "Clean Coal" on here.

And solar, wind, hydro-electric, thermo-electric, etc.
It is odd; isn't it? It's a rather substantial component of the world's energy and wind and water have safety implications, but it isn't even considered here.
Amazon has ten to twenty thousand new trucks for delivery and yet I am getting split deliveries from orders still. Example, ordered three items recently and UPS used one package in the morning and Amazon delivered the rest later. Wal Mart has improved but their use of Fed Ex has seen an order split as well between Fed Ex and Fed Ex Home all on the same day.

I am just amazed Amazon ran the numbers and determined spinning up an entire last mile delivery process was cheaper than using the previous setup.
Another way of saying it: database abstractions should be specific to your codebase, rather than use generalized patterns.
Reminiscent of one of Tom Hanks' lines in Apollo 13 when Jim Lovell announces his retirement: "I'll be walking in a place where there is 400 degrees difference between sunlight and shadow. I can't imagine ever topping that."
This is the same author as the amazing 2015 Businessweek full-issue article, What Is Code?, which was quite popular on HN.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698870
Disney takes full control of Hulu in deal with Comcast
I have to say no, as well -- unless you're going to do high end sites that require custom code. Shopify is one option if you can get into their experts program but, like any other platform, they can cut you off anytime they want and there's nothing you can do about it. Outsourced devs overseas have also cut the price of this business to nothing. I did custom web dev from 1995 until 2015 when the bottom dropped out.
It propelled technology:

> Here are some Apollo specific innovations: microchip, cordless tools, joystick, CAT scans, technology in MRI machines, modern shoe designs, freeze dried food, vacuum sealed packages, dampening material, retro-reflector (detects chemical leaks), water purification, silicon based storage of records, fly-by-wire, ground water cleaning, large fabric roofs used in landmark buildings, anti-tip rafts, insulation blankets, and countless others.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/411/what-are-the-e...

http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/database
One of the first hits on google. Deaths are per 1000 TwH, and numbers are somewhat different, probably illustrating how hard it is to estimate casualties from pollution. Nuclear is still safest, followed by solar and wind.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy...
Frustratingly vague question that is asked very often.

What are you good at? What skills do you have? What are you passionate in? How much spare time do you have? How much are you willing to invest ($)? Physical or digital? Craft or service?

The list goes on. Ask yourself the above, narrow down the scope of the question.
I really dont like nytimes so here is info from the source:

https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568

and

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/whats...
Possibly but it's no big loss to me. For years I've been a customer more because of my spouse and my now toddler. As she's getting older, driving to the store (she hates cars) is less of a problem. Amazon, on the other hand, has grown increasingly worse in just about every aspect (quality of service, customer service, employee/contractor treatment, civic duties, etc).
If you don't maintain the mall, shoppers won't come to your mall and this in turn will drive the stores away. So you stores are your primary customers and shoppers are your secondary customers.
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The risk of cancer for small children is doubled near a nuclear plant, see https://www.bfs.de/DE/bfs/wissenschaft-forschung/ergebnisse/...
You do not have to check out when getting off of the bus.
Animal sounds in different languages are weird in the first place.

Ducks go "Quack" in English, but "Coin" in French (sounds more like "kwan"), "mac" in Romanian and "rap" in Danish.

Horses go "vrink" in Danish and "gnagg" in Swedish.

And as for frogs... https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/anim...
I'd guess that hydro is worse than solar/wind by this metric. While rare there have been some pretty bad dam breaks, the Banqiao Dam failure alone killed ~200,000 people.
As another car guy, I agree. Never quite thought of it that way but it's true.
Markets aren't rational because people aren't.
Do you have any verification for that suspicion? Even coal counts protected deaths from increased cancer rates.
Imho: because Western populations care about environmentalism and don't like to use their power to compel others, even if that would be more efficient. They can do something while not feeling bad when they restrict it in Western nations. I do believe that there's a culture thing as well, the predominantly protestant nations appear to be more eager than the catholic ones.

Projects focusing on the developing or third world will likely be regarded as colonialism, lecturing from a position of power etc, and perception has become more important than correctness or efficiency.
The problem are not with kids, but with the parents that don't do their jobs. You should know what your kid are doing and teach them how to not waste money on skins or other temporary product that worth nothing. It's just a matter of understanding and teaching, it was always the case when parents, can't understand how it work.

BTW, I sell all theses crap items and make money. (PUBG, CS:GO,...) for playing for "free", I have earned around 20$ at least.
> And I feel it in my bones that there is a revolutionary GUI waiting to be invented. Why can't I drag a commit or set of commits from one branch to another? With safe, easy undo (reflog doesn't count) and super smooth conflict resolution? Etc etc.

The model of git feels very nice and intuitive once you grasp the central architecture -- an immutable append-only content-addressed file system. The changes mentioned here in particular just don't really fit the model. You can certainly argue that we need a better model, but in order to move commits between branches in anything other than a mechanical manner, you would have to deal with the fact that often in source code repositories there are semantic connections between unrelated changes -- one file has a change to update its interface, the other file changes to use the old interface, and now you have something that no general-purpose version control software can reasonable reconcile or even identify as an issue.

Arguable there's a space for merging tools that build on the git model and contain language semantic information, so it can actually highlight conflicts that are deeper than patch-based, but until then I'd prefer that the version control system not try to be too smart and let me repair things after it does its mechanical actions.

> The CLI in particular ... Line diffs suck in many ways

These are changes that I think are in line with what I see in the future of git -- because git just contains a series of snapshots of a hierarchical tree, diffs are a secondary thing that an external tool can be brought to bear on very easily -- rather than trying to merge patches to create a diff, you actually have two fully realized files, together, potentially, with their common ancestor, which is all the information necessary to create a fully semantics-aware diff between files or trees.

I would almost want git to double-down on the grammar of tree changes; commands like "checkout" and "reset" are very basic manipulations with fairly clear idioms. But since those words are also English words that carry a whole bunch of connotations, it makes it confusing when you use "reset" to do something that does not involve returning something to its original state.

Having a "worse" command line interface, with some commands like "git make-my-working-tree-look-like-this-ref" and "git point-this-ref-to-this-other-ref" would break the connection with traditional version control systems while allowing us to use the full power of the git model.
https://newsblur.com/
I've worked in oil & gas, and the deaths come primarily from human error, which increases as operations scale up, as you end up hiring people who are not already experienced at running plants, and have to train them up -- mistakes happen.

So what we need to ask to be sure nuclear is really as safe as the number makes it appear is... what happens when we scale up and introduce more new employees, and more errors? What is the worst thing that can happen if a new worker makes a bone-headed move and causes an incident?

I honestly don't know the answer, and would be interested in hearing more. But I'm not going to be sold on nuclear safety by a chart, not when I've seen how crazy hard it is to keep a large operations staff in energy plants safety-conscious enough to prevent accidents, injury, and deaths. These are human issues that need to be addressed to be sure safety levels stay on track.
Also: define “cost”. If you include the benefits of avoiding a climate catastrophe, then nearly any amount of spending today will return a profit over the long run.
Or you can have that logic at a back-end application level (assuming all clients are going through this one back-end to interact with the database).
What other deaths due to nuclear energy do you think are missing from the list? Uranium mining?
The moon landing itself, that's reasonably fair. However given the overlap with Gemini (many experiments ended up having to be adapted on the fly), Apollo Applications (like ASTP and SkyLab) and subsequent programs that built off of them, there's quite a lot of scientific understanding and secondarily, technological advancement and international cooperation that couldn't have come as easily from sending robots for a lot of that.

But partly I just disagree with the premise that we gained nothing by someone being the first to the South Pole. No one's going to send well-funded and well-equipped professional scientists until it's proven it can be done. The explorers who have to work on figuring out how to get there contribute to those who come after them with more certain paths. It's like saying we gained nothing by having Gemini dock with an Agena. Sure it was mostly a stunt in many respects, but they had to work out all the math and logistics behind rendezvous that made Apollo possible, and that we now use all the time on the ISS.
> Too much regulation is not responsible for high drug prices, deregulation is

> regulatory capture, intellectual property

Ostensibly would seem that relaxing regulation and (more importantly) abolishing or heavily weakening medical patents would help drive down costs.

Can you imagine if tech companies could patent their products the same way medical companies do today? Uber would no longer have to worry about finding a moat, their moat would simply be their patent on "digital ride sharing provided by dynamic pricing to predict demand and position supply" (or some similar conceit). Smartphones would all be expensive and Apple would have a monopoly on multi-touch phones with capacitive displays and built-in app-stores.

If food companies could patent food the same way drug companies can patent drugs that they prepare, bread would be expensive and you wouldn't have store brands and generics to keep the price of the fancy Whole Foods bread in check.
Wait, we're in Nerdopolis Central here, and you just called a car enthusiast a dork? What. The. Hell!!!

O tempora, o mores...
Since "Clean Coal" is more about marketing and some token gestures at carbon capture, it is already represented on this list.

But it is very surprising that hydro, wind and solar aren't on this list. It is a non-trivial component of the total power production of both the US and Europe.
...more fare hikes

10 Which will lead to even less ridership,
20 which will presumably lead to more fare hikes
30 GOTO 10
In this context architecture is mostly about homes, so gut reactions aren't unreasonable.

And the Modernists very much were trying to change the landscape.

Here's a video about the Smithsons who designed one of the UK's largest housing projects. They're clearly serious and well-intentioned, but also... "eccentric" is probably a diplomatic description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5thwHTYNk

But... it's worth remembering that these projects were replacements for slum housing, not showcase palaces and cathedrals. While they weren't ideal, they did usually manage to be warmer, healthier, cleaner, and more sanitary than the hovels they typically replaced.

Over time some of the harder egdes of modernism have been filed off, and modern projects seem to be trying to learn from the past, while still keeping the functionalism of the original modernists.

There are plenty of blocks on the European mainland which are very liveable, built in that style. And unless Mr Dalrymple wants to propose a new archiectural style that he thinks can improve on them, it's not worth taking him seriously - except as a self-indulgent grumbler.
How? I don’t see a single issue in the post that a PR would avoid. All the problems listed happen before you’re ready to push or present to others.
But muh ctivity...
I don't understand how good content can be automated either.

Recycling content, finding out optimal posting times, posting content ... sure, these can all be automated.

But how do you automate generating content, especially good content and not article spinners or whatever? Can you explain?
I really could not. Nuclear power stations are not nuclear bombs and current nuclear technology is way safer than those that caused main problems.
Technically you can flag a shipper. After recording delivery drivers stomping across my landscaping and literally throwing packages at my door, I got them to stop using that particular gig economy delivery service for my packages. Getting them to do feels like pulling teeth though. It seems you can't do it for a single incident but interestingly they'll gladly give you the number to the local shipping logistics company, so you can call and yell at them.
In the US passenger numbers for ALL forms of public transport are collapsing and have been doing so for years. I submitted a story about it earlier [1] which covers BART's concern about the problem.

Making it free would help but also not curtailing bus routes to pay for the rail solutions is needed as well. So not only are they not getting riders their backlog on maintenance is growing to well over a hundred billion dollars across the US with new expensive rail programs trying to get complete. However it sounds good to expand it while the truth has been the opposite. Building a rail solution is like building a stadium, all the promised payoffs are a lie and the only payoff is to the consultants and politicians

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Flagging-ridersh...
Search for Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Pine64 and FriendlyElec. These companies offer a wide range of $10-$30 dollar single board computers based on Allwinner or Rockchip SOCs (most of which include a Mali GPU).

You can run ARM based Linux distros on them (such as Armbian). Up to now, most people use the ARM proprietary blobs to get OpenGL ES acceleration working on those things.
"Clean Coal" is a meaningless marketing term. Unless you specify what that means. (It used to mean CCS - which doesn't exist at scale - or more efficient coal plants - which probably only makes a very minor difference, because they're still terribly inefficient.)
Yes, but the honest money is at the higher end of the market.

At the smaller scale (think $2k budgets), clients are honestly better off with a Wordpress template. 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.

Clients who have bigger budgets can now look at things like:

- Honest to goodness great copywriting. If the purpose of their website is to sell their products and services, great copywriting is the easiest way to improve. It's inexpensive compared to everything else, it's super fast and easy to test ideas and optimize results.

- E-Commerce. This is usually best served with a service like Shopify, but it's still relatively involved enough that clients tend to like having some assistance in the process.

- Uniquely good design. Design CAN have a tremendous impact on a business. But I list it in 3rd here because the vast majority of web designers are putting out the same site[1] over and over again. If you're not doing something truly unique, or if the client's needs are best solved with a relatively standard template, then why are you re-inventing the wheel?

- Engineering. Virtually any business can benefit from good web engineering, because the out-of-the-box options will never 100% meet any businesses precise needs. However, the cost versus benefit is usually far too high for most businesses.

This is why I say the money is at the higher end of the market. Businesses that have annual revenue in the double digit millions will not be well served by default Wix or Wordpress templates. They generally need quality design, copy, and engineering. And they won't be scared off if that ends up costing $50k or $100k or even $500k, so long as the value is there.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you can make some quick-hit money helping clients who simply don't want to do it themselves. I tend to charge roughly $3k for a simple site, I'm 100% transparent about what they're getting (a template, customized for branding; out-of-the-box WP functionality; very light copy editing), and so far a lot of smaller businesses have been happy with that service. The value is there for them, and they get the confidence of knowing I'll solve any unforeseen problems that might come up.

[1] Ex: https://www.dagusa.com/
> Not really, this only uses speech recognition but it can't do images.

Neither can blind people. I think there would be legal repercussions (in the US at least) if Google effectively walled off the internet to visually impaired people.