skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim that learning how to read and write s-expressions is hard might well be a "made up thing". (I agree with you, I think anyone, if they sat down for a day and really applied themselves to it, would get it.) On the other hand, I think you'd agree, the fact that people have strong, negative, emotional reactions to s-expressions when they first encounter them is absolutely not made up.

We could sit here and grumble about how silly it is that people cannot overcome such an irrational response (indeed I often do), but that won't change the fact that people have these responses. If we did that, we'd be doing the same thing that GUI designers did in the 90's. "Why, the widget for $x is right here. Any reasonable user will RTFM, know that $x can be checked there, and behave perfectly rationally." (And it happened just so, as decreed from developer's rolling chair, right?) Of course, we know now how misguided this is as a method for UX design: all users are in a sense irrational, and systems need redundant strategies for saving the user from themselves.

The similarity here is that we cannot will away intellectual blemishes in users, we can only accommodate them. That is Lisp's challenge if it is ever to get big. For GUI's, the solution was to take seriously users' need for visually attractive interfaces, redundant display of information, and guardrails/handholding for actions commensurate with their risk, to name a few strategies. For Lisp, it's hard to know what might be the right approach. As klibertp writes in a sibling comment, maybe the solution needs to come from outside the language itself.
Are you sure? Every party republican I know seems convinced that everything they've ever done is theirs and theirs alone, and has nothing to do with the 200+ years of work that the United States has put into education and infrastructure
It's unlikely to need an optimized C backend :-) -

http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v32/issue_4/IJCS_32_4_19.pd...
I don't mean to be a grammar Nazi, but by "humbrence with" do you mean "umbrage at?"

In a neat coincidence "umbrage" and "umbrella"
apparently share a common origin in Latin "umbra" (shade).
No, I strongly disagree. Exposing the datamodel can be part of an excellent user experience if your target audience are programmers, as is the case with git. Where git goes wrong is numerous commands that do numerous very different things if given different flags. That has nothing to do with the underlying datamodel being exposed; it's just sloppy planning and design. That part is terrible UX.
Stop trying to blame consumers--consumer products only make up ~10% of plastics[1].

[1] http://theconversation.com/the-world-of-plastics-in-numbers-..., https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782/tab-fig...
For me it's board games, and more specifically expansions. The last expansion I bought had slightly differently colored card backs than the base game, meaning you could tell if someone had expansion cards and making the expansion unusable. I had to compare them both to a friend's sets to know which was counterfeit.
Air-Mountain: A Translucent Inflatable Structure
Attention, Amazon Shoppers: Google Wants Some of Your Spending Money
There's a concept called Parasocial interaction that describes the relationship between an audience and a media personality (originally observed for tv personalities, but more recently YouTube and internet ones apply too).

"Viewers or listeners come to feel and consider media personalities almost as friends."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
That's really quite cool, how many blocks could an instance potentially have though? Seems unlikely you'd be saving that much space over having a list
Parallel Streaming of Progressive Images
>I type at 120wpm and having to slow all the way down to 30wpm on a phone stabs me to my very soul.

I feel your pain. I hate typing on phones; feels so inefficient. It is definitely good to not have the 50 tabs problem mobile too.
Thank you for posting. It helps to know that others, too, haven’t had this uphill slog just to use it. It just faded into the background right from the start.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is an interesting member of that group. They were concerned it was too dark.
> Why don't we put our plastic in landfills then instead of trying to send it out of country?

Because some countries take a lot less money to - supposedly and according to their word - do that job cleanly for us.

We know that in fact they are probably lying, but it is quite difficult to do business like that. If we refused to make business with those countries on that basis, we would be accused of discrimination.
I am still amazed that people take BBB complaints seriously. It’s just like getting a bad Yelp rewiew.
Is 'thinking about thinking' correctly actually an unsolvable problem?

Let's say I'm trying to do X.

- Level 0 might be: do the first thing that comes to mind

- Level 1 may be 'consider your possible choices and do a cost-benefit analysis'

Most people would say that Level 1 is preferable, but only for 'weighty' decisions where the cost of thinking is outweighed by the benefit of making a better decision. For example, nobody does rational deliberation for 'should I brake at this red light?'

So in practice, we seem to do some level of rational metacognition that takes into account the cost of thinking about a problem.

What about level 3? Are there large classes of problems where it's not really worth it to 'think about whether to think' - you should always ponder them, or never? And what about levels beyond yet?
VB6 forms designer was actually really good. I don't there is still anything that rivals it in terms of stability, customization, speed and round-tripping.
I think going with your gut can be a fine solution, but it's probably worth assessing how well your gut has served you historically.

For me, my gut has generally been more right than my over-analytical mind. But I have a number of friends where I think it's the other way around.
> But Soph’s popularity raises another, perhaps more difficult question, about whether YouTube has an obligation to protect such users from themselves — and one another.

It's nice to see a publication so seriously grapple with the issues of free speech in the digital age. :|
Unacceptable to criticize Germany on HN. Please delete this.
These are not controversial claims.

Walmart revenue is $514 billion. Amazon revenue is $232 billion. Currently, about half of the retail revenue of Amazon is marketplace sales, where Amazon does not own the merchandise but simply warehouses it on consignment and charges fulfillment fees, or in some cases simply places a drop-ship order for it.
To the electric battery's advantage, electricity doesn't need to be "transported" until it reaches the car. Gasoline in the other hand needs an entire specialized and -I assume- expensive supply chain.
Approximating isn't the same as an abstract model, which uses glyphs and, well, math.
This issue is highly contentious, perhaps nowhere more than on HN. The many nuclear advocates here believe that few people die from nuclear. The anti-nuke crowd disagrees.
It's quite incredible how progressives defend Islam. The self-deceiving needed is pathological. They are teetering on the edge of insanity.

As a religious person I would prefer an Islamic take-over to an atheistic State any day, but let's be clear that Islamic democracy is not liberal democracy (that democracy where minorities are not coerced in the private sphere), and Islamic 'peace' is very much on their own terms and not in a "love your enemies and do good to them who do ill to you" kind of way of Christianity.

The wonderful irony, however, is that equality dogmas and anti-discrimination laws have heralded the end of liberal democracy in the so-called "Free West". Apart from a few hold out States in the US, the West has embraced the dictatorship of the Equality fanatics.

"It's a free country", no it isn't.
African artists are not benefiting from digital music
Haha. "Multiple of base year" on the y axis, starting with 1950 when industrial output was very large, and the cold war (responsible for much of the public increase) was just getting started? Nice try. Business owners need to stop voting up so many extreme idealogues, that's the problem.
So their main improvement over Chrome is that chrome doesn't benefit from progressive images -- they load images in sequence instead of parallel. Sounds like a simple fix. (If you actually know the images are progressive.)
I started using zprint code formatter for clojure. The binary is running GraalVM. I invoke it form editor and the result is instantaneous! No startup, no warmup, just nicely formatted code where the jungle used to be. I'm really excited about this technology.
This is exactly what I’ve seen. Thank you for validating that viewpoint. Without being told they’re going to find it hard, they just rapidly build a model of how to interact with the tool and how it improves their life.
What do you propose, that we stop doing any business with a poorer nation if we suspect they will somehow behave badly - according to our standards - while carrying out the task?
The jobs sound interesting, but the application process involves a bunch of manual data entry. Is there a way around that?
Git Ransom Campaign Incident Report–Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab
Sorry I wasn't clear, each peer maintains their own personal bloom filter that contains the hashes of the blocks that they have. The filters are sent upon connections with another peer and updated every so often.
> It's worth remembering that the military in typical country is set up with certain similarities to free market economy

So are other governmental organisations in lot's of cases. Is the military special here?
That's actually where most of the curbside recycling ends up now though - in the landfill. People can still feel good that the plastic container they carefully washed out and placed in the recycle bin like a good citizen is being recycled, but generally it's just going straight into the dump and buried with the rest of the trash, and they wasted even more resources (water) cleaning it out thinking they were doing something good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china...
Yeah this is a great point. I spent hours watching my buddies play and vice versa. My dad asked me this weekend , as i half jokingly put on the Overwatch tournament on tv, how can you watch someone play video games it's boring. I said well dad how can you watch golf on TV it's boring. We both agree, yes we watch it but really we want to play. but sometimes you cant play.

The lets plays are fun for me , same with twitch. Sometimes i cant fully get into a game so i hop onto twitch, or i'll start up a lets play series. Watch 30 minutes everyday on lunch break and after a few weeks/months you are done.

I mainly do lets play to relive my first experience in dark souls & bloodborne haha.
>Implying local is better

I've found local/mom and pop is significantly more expensive, than our national counterparts.

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/dog-food-per-dollar-store...

I don't think lowest income Americans could live at their current standard of living off local mom and pop stores.
Sorry I haven't released anything, potentially in the future.
China is the source of that plastic. Flip over any plastic doo-dad; where is it made?
It is wrong to generalize an entire group of people by the actions of a few.
I'm an art student. Prefix notation is a non-issue. If people want an infix Lisp, Dylan is awesome and doesn't add yet another flow-breaking set of different parantheses to the syntax.
Star Wars movie hitting theaters in 2022 will be from GoT's Benioff and Weiss
Just checked and the instances are running Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03, which has `ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"`.

EDIT: I changed the title of this post to reflect that fact.
I hate (or at least am annoyed by) dealing with source control, although I acknowledge the need for it.

So does the analogy still fit? And which one is better for people that are merely putting up with the necessity for source control rather than enthusiasts?
That does appear to be the plan, keep the Disney (+) brand entirely family friendly (up to the PG-13 of Star Wars and Marvel) and let Hulu house all of the more mature stuff or stuff not traditionally associated with the Disney brand (such as the back catalogs of Fox's brands, Touchstone, Miramax, Buena Vista).

It also sounds from PR that despite taking control of Hulu, Disney also has interest in Hulu remaining their Live TV offering for non-Disney channels, and that Disney would still like Hulu to be a welcome home for what Time Warner and NBC Universal content it can continue to license, though that will probably start to get weird in coming years. It probably would still be in Disney's interests that Hulu seem a "neutral" or "cable" brand, especially given the actual cable infrastructure that AT&T (Time Warner) and Comcast (NBC Universal) directly control.
Some how my wife got them to stop doing USPS on her account and she gets either UPS(which I rarely get from Amazon) or Amazon's own delivery. For a while she was getting quoted less next day and Sunday delivery dates since she was UPS only, but now that Amazon is doing a lot more deliveries in my area, she's about to about the same shipping days as me again(mine being split between USPS and Amazon).
Yesterday we were looking to buy a few movies, Amazon was 6x the price of Walmart.

I no longer choose Amazon, I actively search for the best deal now.
Really?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-defect-chernobyl/higher-b...
Tram Bowling Is an Actual Sport. Let's Look at the Physics
That may make sense if the inverse of percentage of people that actually go to the trouble of returning a bulky item multiplied by the margin is higher than the shipping cost of a new item.
That's fine and you're free to do that, but it doesn't make what I said "incorrect." The uranium cycle uses carbon and, what's worse, produces vast amount of tailings (radioactive waste) which contaminate land and water. This is in addition to the spent fuel rods which most people think of as "nuclear waste." I hope that you could agree that those are true statements.
Well, I've gathered that much.

But, just earlier today was a fancy chart comparing deaths/TWh of each energy source, which I believe used the numbers this particular article is refuting. I was wondering if anyone had a similar chart/data, except using the numbers presented in this particular article.

Opinions are great and all, but there's actual numbers to use which is what I am more interested in.
>There are hints you can use at CREATE time that are supposed to do the same thing, but they don't actually work in this particular case.

Are you saying that "option(recompile)" doesn't work for you in this case? It works just fine for me when using that 'X is null or' pattern for optional filters.
AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead
Because people make money moving it.

At some point in the past, someone proposed that we send plastic overseas for recycling. Win win right?

If any one counter-proposed that it be buried they'd be considered a bad person.
Stan Lee's business manager charged with elder abuse of Marvel creator
>As a religious person I would prefer an Islamic take-over to an atheistic State any day,

So you prefer any religion over no religion? Oh brother.
Thanks for the detailed comment! Regarding OpenCL on RPi, what about something like this: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/24/running-opencl-on-a-raspberr...
Do you think it could support ML training/inference on a Pi GPU (albeit very slowly obviously), or even OpenCV?
I found it also useful to realize that there are many situations in life where there are just too many unknowns. You're faced with two possible futures: should I go to University A or B? This choice is necessarily going to radically alter your life: depending which university you pick, you'll make different friends, date different people, hang out in different spots, maybe live in different cities. Based on this choice, the life you'll have in 5 years will be completely different. How do you pick which future to choose from, which one is better?

The thing is, you simply have no way to know. What exact future you'll end up with is about as predictable as the weather on this day five years from now. You have no idea who are the people you haven't yet met that are going to change your life, what roadblocks you'll find on the way, whether you'll suddenly fall into a depression, etc. You can only rely on objective metrics (trends, statistics), testimonials, and general gut feeling.

For myself, 3 years ago, after my studies, I was wondering whether I should relocate to silicon valley for a big tech job or not. It was scary. I loved my hometown, had many friends, etc. I figured, however, that I might as well do this sort of experiment (moving to another city/country) while I'm young and have no spouse or property. I did make the move, and unfortunately, I didn't enjoy my big tech job, nor did I enjoy living in silicon valley, it wasn't a good experience, so I moved back, thankfully with a decent wad of cash to wipe my tears with.

I didn't like silicon valley, but I don't regret my decision to try it. Why, because I also knew that I kind of had to try it, because if I didn't, there might always be some FOMO in the back of my mind (what if I'd taken this big silicon valley job, would my live be better right now?). Now I've done it, I've been there, and I know what it's like. The pressure/temptation is gone. So my two cents are to trust your gut, do commit to decisions, and also don't be overly afraid of experimenting when you're young: it might not work out, but you'll learn something along the way.
GKE Security Using Falco, Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions
The vast majority of the waste is fishing nets so blaming this on trash export is silly.
I always have thought that a surfeit of choice would have driven prices down, but maybe my movin' picture watching needs are different than most consumers (basically 100% amateur youtube at this point).

I think that one of the great ironies of on-demand media is just how much stuff is locked up by rights holders and is unavailable. The Disneys and Netflixes of the world make remarkably small catalogs available. You should see some of the libraries that tv stations have sitting on the shelf.

Maybe it's just that a serious change in format and/or delivery always loses 90% of the previous material. It's funny how few LPs made it to CD.
> Not sure what you mean by illegal trash dumping. Trash that's dumped directly on the coast and not into a river first?

Trash that's illegally dumped off shore. It's harder to dump large amounts of trash in a river and not have somebody notice - it's easier to say you're transporting it and "lose" part/all of it while at sea.
Your best clients are you past and present employers/clients.

If 2-3 represents all of them then I would just put in conversation with them that you'd appreciate any referrals they can make and if you think it would help offer them some financial benefit for it (the amount is culture dependent, I find).

If you exhaust them and the rest of your professional network, try local industry meetups (especially industries that you have made sites for before).

If all else fails then try your luck in the forums and job boards. I suggest taking on small stuff to get your foot in the door and aggressively vetting the personal and business characteristics of new clients for this way.

I'm back to full time employment though so make of that what you will!
I think the parent post's argument was that instead of stopping the usage of plastic straws locally, take the effort spent on that and spend it on helping China, etc. manage their plastics disposal.

I believe it would be more economically expensive to help another nation recycle than to pass a law domestically and ban/fine for certain disposable goods, but as far as work-effort expended, I think you'd get more bang for your buck to work with those that produce the most plastic. Of course, international processes are always harder than domestic ones, and this isn't an exclusive-or style problem.
.oO( the beatings continue until morale improves! )
Lampard has Chelsea message after Hazard deal agreed
It's crazy to move from Nuclear to coal for the sake of the environment. Renewables are great when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, but the rest of the time Nuclear is the better choice
Coinbase now available in 103 countries
People never mention the Kyshtym Disaster ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster - this barely scratches the surface)

Arguably that was the worst accident in history, hundreds of square miles are still contaminated and off-limits. It was so bad the CIA helped keep it secret from the Americans so as not to discourage their nuclear industry.
Given the dead humans caused by the military, the extreme costs of funding, I think you would need a massive invention to offset the costs.

The trillions of dollars spent, could be argued, is better spent in the private sector on innovation.
I believe we lack enough fundamental knowledge to critically analyse it with any sort of certainty, most of what is known comes from theory combined with individual experiences.

This book is often recommended:

https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeut...
That is pretty hilarious to post on the internet, a DARPA developed innovation..
Could Epicurus Save Us?
Doubt it. Product bundling [0] is almost always a more profitable strategy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_bundling
The article says she's 14. Her videos go back at least 3 years. Isn't YT worried about COPPA?
They already have a bulk retail subscription with Sams Club. A membership that includes access to both the retail store and one-day walmart.com shipping could be attractive.
Still better than hidden instability
Gail.com is the greatest typo website you’ll ever stumble across
You are not wrong - in reality we have had a tiered internet for years now, where big sites pay for faster transfers over better routes.

However nothing says you actually have to use these fancy services. Everyone wants a quick loading site but the drawback of an extra 100ms are minimal. Almost everyone should be more concerned with good site design and minimizing client-side dependencies if they want good performance.
Considering both Romney and Brown lost in 2012, I'd say it failed. Trump, for all of his many failures and faults, pivoted away from this logic in 2016.
That's not how sequestration works unless they were burning the plastic before.
I'm in no way saying that companies should be allowed to do evil things like that, only that the justification for preventing them would be consumer protection, not device ownership. Which I guess in your world is option 1.

I actually think the option 1 world would actually be better than deriving rights from device ownership because then it would be super easy to get around by renting devices or by using SaaS services; consumer protection litigation protects you against various types of fucking in all cases.

I don't really want to live in a world where companies are allowed to be maximally evil with their software but it's okay because you are technically allowed to replace it with your own. All this would do is allow a tiny tiny fraction of the population to enjoy their devices while everyone else would be fucked.

I'm on the side of "I would personally love if companies were required to allow/support device modification but the justification for such a thing is weak and wouldn't actually protect or solve problems for consumers."
We just asked you yesterday to please stop stoking nationalistic flamewar. If you won't follow the guidelines and post thoughtfully and informatively we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html