skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.

This is what I was replying to. Bit of a confusing way to say “enter a room containing a urinal” if that’s what you actually meant.
Because they know if they didn’t they would lose tons of users immediately. They’re betting that many of those users will slowly get used to the new site, or they can remove access to the old site in smaller groups instead of all at once. They also could be trying to work out bugs on the new site and the old one gives them a decent fallback for people. Also could be that some of the more obscure functionality of the site has not been ported to the new design, so they can link into the old one for those pages.
I would guess that the majority of HN users never even think about the fact that the site is affiliated with Y Combinator and its associated personalities.
Among Lisp users this is known...

Also if one knows a bit about Lisp history, the headline "O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp" triggers some memories, since for a long time O'Reilly actively discouraged people from trying to contact them about publishing Lisp books. ;-)
Thrift, ProtoBufs, and Avro solve the messaging compatibility layer problem at least (optional fields in a schema are all you need 99%+ of the time) and so far nothing out there has managed to solve any data schema incompatibility problem automatically because that’s pretty much intractable, but providing tools that make finding problems earlier certainly helps with the reality of SOA in its various incarnations.
If you're committed to investing in startups (as opposed to index funds/real estate), I'd recommend checking out AngeList's spinoff https://republic.co/

Their startups raise crowdfunded equity rounds that you can invest in for smaller amounts without meeting the requirements for being an accredited investor.
Why not going to a hedge fund?
My rule of thumb when considering adding a dependency these days is to start by trying to implement the functionality myself. But I don't let myself spend too much time on it (maybe an hour or two. maybe a day). More often than not I'll get bogged down pretty quickly and realize the problem is more complicated than I assumed. This approach gives me:

1. Greater appreciation for the dependency

2. Better chance of modifying the dependency when it breaks or doesn't work the way I want, because I'm at least somewhat familiar with the types of tradeoffs you have to make to implement such a thing.

3. A chance that the problem turns out to be simple enough to not require a dependency and the prototype works just fine forever.

4. Get to learn something new.

Obviously there are exceptions. I wouldn't try to implement a relational database just because I need one. But in these situations I try to take a step back and ask if I even need a full DB. Would flat files work fine for the task at hand?
Great idea!

Note: some of the information you linked is out of date, e.g. the linked summary says 'You have to sort the LookupLabels by name for match to work'. But MATCH() takes a third optional argument (match type) which, if set to 0, means you don't need to pre-sort your Lookup labels, and you have no risk of having an approximate match returned.

I wrote a short blog post with the Excel advice I most commonly give to colleagues, or when I've reviewed people's Excel sheets as part of a training session: https://www.encona.com/posts/excel-best-practices
"anything that is legal according to compiler will eventually make it's way into the codebase" (approximately quoting Carmack here)

default behavior should be safe and simple to use, dangerous behavior should be hard to reach and inconvenient to use.
Yeah I got here without having anything to do with Lisp at all either.
Nuclear is far from being cheap. Take a look at the exploding costs at Flamanville [0], Olkiluoto[1], Hinkley Point C[2]. Those 3 Plants alone already cost more than 1/50 of the 2 trillion which you claim would have been sufficient.

Decommissioning of 1990 retired german nuclear powerplant Greifswald is still not even close to being finished.

newly installed PV is far cheaper than nuclear and I'll exclude storage/PtX here as usually when nuclear prices are looked at they also ignore decommissioning costs which are probably way higher than future storage technologies will be.

[0] http://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Weld-repairs-to-delay...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-nuclear-olkiluoto...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
Thanks I've reached out via email. Thanks for the tip - I also updated my bio to include my email.
I'm well aware of the start up incubator link, but you're definitely right otherwise in my case. When you get here it just looks like a nice lil' news site!
Well, it is not Arabic only, "mañana" in Spanish means actually tomorrow, but often it is intended as "some time in the future", more like "soon" but also "not now and not so soon".

In Italian it is almost the same for "domani", with a lot of nuances depending on the context.

Only as an example, in Italian "Domani puoi sempre fare questo" which would translate literally to (and is probably perceived by a foreigner as) "Tomorrow you can always do this" actually means "In the future (indefinite, or "any time") you can still do this" (usually meaning reverting a present decision).
> The Chinese firm is a member of an American organization called the OpenPower Foundation, which was founded by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation.”

So the link is all three happen to be members of an open consortium? That has to be one of the most tenuous 'links' imaginable, on par with "have employees who attended the same conference once".
Crypto memes, come for the memes stay for the tech
This is the first HN comment I have seen that actually describes what about the new design makes it unusable. Most that I have seen are "The new design is unusable! Everyone agrees with me! I use old.reddit.com and do not use the new design!" A few comments point out that nothing loads without errors, but that's not a design problem -- that's an implementation problem.

With that said, I am throwing my hat into the "I disagree" camp. I do not find the new design unusable. It is not slow for me (American cable ISP, Firefox browser, uBlock Origin enabled, JavaScript enabled). My experience is just as fast as the old design. I have direct access to both the shared link and comments (the title now goes to the comments and the shared link is the orange link to the right of the title). I admit I did have to retrain my brain to the new design's conversation-focused design vs. remote-link-focused design, but that took all of a week. I do not have any slowness managing text formatting, but then, I do not comment a lot and I do not write long comments. I appreciate that the new design, on most subreddits, appears cleaner and the information, for me, is more clearly laid out. To me, the site appears "prettier." With the ad-blocker on, some of the sidebar ads get blocked. I do not know how that impacts my experience.

I have also not experienced any of the page loading errors that people have described. Not once, unless it was a known outage causing the Internet to collectively scream.

I am mostly a reader on reddit. I visit my subreddits twice a day, during what are probably peak usage times in North America.
Just sent you a note on LI :)
Did you ever play Star Citizen? I bought into the kickstarter because it was a "spiritual successor" to Freelancer, but never actually got around to playing it. Also have no idea what happened to it, if the development tanked, etc.
I think a big contributor to the popularity and scale of spelling bees in the US is the high cost of university tuition. Many families couldn't afford it without a scholarship.
This is a nice bibliophile piece.
If I had to guess, they're keenly aware of the demise of digg and don't want to follow in their footsteps. They're probably tracking what percentage of their users are still using the old design.
Damn, I wrote a sibling comment to yours. Looks like Star Citizen fell short of Freelancer's legacy :/
If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that animals could react to stimuli
that we would consider painful by following the same behaviours that they
would if they felt pain, not because they feel pain but because they have been
programmed to follow those behaviours in response to those stimuli?

I find this unlikely. The set of stimulus-response behaviours necessary to
avoid every possible danger that might arise in an animal's environment would
be immense. It seems much more economical to "program" behavious that avoid any
painful stimulus (e.g. by setting some "pain threshold" and programming the
animal to avoid anything that causes a sensation of pain above that
threshold). This is particularly so for insects that have a limited number of
neurons in which to store their stimulus-specific programs.
Lisps are hackers' languages - programming languages made for writing programming languages.

The following applies to Common Lisp at least, if not others.

It is homoiconic and most implementations are written in Lisp.

It is very open, in that you can inspect existing structures from the REPL.

It has a long history and was the language where many common software paradigms were developed.

It comes with powerful builtin tools like a debugger with restarts where you can make changes to the system live.

The core language is very small but doesn't constrain what can be done with it.
Even if they are at LP levels, it will be difficult for them to get in to funds that have deal flow.
looks similar to seedrs http://seedrs.com (which was used by revolut to get investment AFAIK)
TimescaleDB looks cool. I'll check it out and have a play with the source code.
But then, you’re downloading GB of stuff, just like windows update.
Gouache
But there's clearly a lot of people who still seek funding but can't find it, so how does that mesh with the idea that "there's too much money and not enough places to put it"?
There is still quite a bit of friction at the seams to the "core" language though. If you write a plain templated function, you have to wrap it in a lambda (or some other functor type, or std::function I guess) before you can do anything with it except calling it. Pattern matching is also quite verbose currently.

Whether this matters really depends on the code you're trying to write of course.
This is my Kinesis with a touchpad in the middle - extremely easy to DIY: https://twitter.com/max_sixty/status/1144236070369988609
I don't feel it gets any more attention than Python, C, C++ or any of the functional languages. What do you have against Lisp?
Wykesha's Urban Life Distribution
In my opinion, that is doing fashion right. Fashion has the power to create separation and distance between 2 people, or to bring them close together. Some people want to create distance, but most people should want to be closer together. Having similar style makes that much easier, than having to constantly fight an uphill battle against bad first impressions.

There’s massive utility in a bit of effort, and these days that level of dress can be achieved without a huge cash outlay.
Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism
Shipping and Tracking by Poland Post
Basic Bayesian analysis.
> “Team Silverblue” or “Silverblue” in short doesn’t have any hidden meaning. It was chosen after roughly two months when the project, previously known as Atomic Workstation was rebranded. There were over 150 words or word combinations reviewed in the process. In the end Silverblue was chosen because it had an available domain as well as the social network accounts.

It personally made me think of "Silverlight".
Chandrayaan-2: Stage set for India’s own Moon landing
My (fairly rudimentary) understanding of the United States is that the right wing controls most of its governmental apparatus as well as the biggest news outlet. How are they being 'deplatformed' or segmented in any way?
I installed it and never used it as I have moved over to Google docs.
One of the substances featured on the excellent "5 Most Dangerous Chemicals" episode of Sci-Show: https://youtu.be/ckSoDW2-wrc
one point to keep in mind, even if you are not eligible to participate in GSoC, you can still volunteer for the projects. the advantage is that GSoC projects are already set up for mentoring, so they have the people you need, and they have projects for you to work on, so they will most likely be able to take you on.
As I state in the post containing my question - nothing :) just wondering is all
Yeah because until it pops outta the vagina it has absolutely no status or ability to feel.

/s

(Dumbass)
Oh it was a total mistake, Fortunately it wasn't mine. But I did have to support it and migrate away from it.

Cassandra session are quite heavy, We have a large farm that spins up, does stuff and closes down. So thats the first problem. (yes we used kafka to pipeline the data in, and that worked well, but...)

It _used_ to be a very heavy write/read ratio. But as time went on, we needed to read more and more thing concurrently.

Because its "distributed" and basically a glorified token ring system, throughput drops dramatically as load increases.

We are not inserting that much data, just lots and lots of records. We then do a geospatial query later on to pull that data back. postGIS is far better at handling this, compared the datastax graph layer + solr(ie, the full datastax "stack" ).

But honestly, we could have coped with that, if the backups worked. That and shipping code with a 4 year old CVE that could have been easily remedied if they'd bothered to do an automated scan.

Every point release would involved 1-5 days of hard work from me. considering the support cost was > my wage, that stung quite a lot.
I unironically suggest cryptocurrencies.
> Planets rotate so backup power is needed during nights.

This does not rule out use of solar energy.

> During interstallar journey there is time delay in communication, so it may take hours to adjust the power beam when spacecraft moves a little bit

The vehicle tracks the beam, not vice versa.

> Fusion is like solar energy just near to us and MSR will be eventually replaced by fusion reactors.

Fusion is ridiculous when examined closely. It's like fission, only far worse from an engineering and cost perspective.

> Stefan–Boltzmann law: Radiation heat transfer is proportional to 4th power of temperature.

Which means waste heat from a reactor in space has to be radiated at higher temperature than for a reactor here on Earth, which means nuclear is worse off there than here. In contrast, solar works better in space, as I argued upthread.
I think the push to mobile is to increase lock in and engagement, not to gather sensitive data. From my in person discussion with some of the admins, they seemed to genuinely care about privacy.

With regard to the layout, the head of the redesign really emphasized that user choice was important, and that they will never deprecate old.reddit (in fact, they still have .compact from their very early days!). In a way, it makes sense. "Hardcore" users will use RES / old.reddit, while casuals will be pushed to new.reddit, which may be a better fit for them.

My takeaway from talking to them was that, even if I don't believe in their product vision (I hate the app and redesign passionately), I do believe in their team to do the right thing. I hope my trust is well placed.
If this is true, then one way to look at it is that making career progress in academia is ethically untenable, for the time being. I know many people who have chosen not to be in academia, and they are doing fine. Comparing myself with family and friend with PhDs and tenure, and being in academia (them, not me), I am doing fine without any of those.

In statements of the form "if you want to get x, you have to do y", when y is something morally repugnant, then that should lead to questioning whether filling your want for x is the only way to be happy.

I recently had a commenter disagree over my criticism of a company that locked in their customers and then gouged them. The commenter said something along the lines of "well, the people wanted to make more money, so it's OK that they did what they did" (where what they did happened to be very bad for users). No, it's not OK. A personal desire for some end does not make any means whatsoever OK.

But I'm making a general statement there, not criticizing you. I realize this is simply how it's done now in academia, and if you're embedded in that, you mostly get a pass for the time being, but I do admire those who stand up and work against it.
Live stream starts at 21:00 GMT - https://www.isro.gov.in/gslv-mk-iii-m1-chandrayaan-2-mission...
There's a difference between an honest question and the "I feel like hackers cling to the..." bit, which is an entirely unfair accusation. Not once have I seen a post negatively commented on just because of its age. Old posts are far more positively received here than elsewhere, and you'll often see a comment linking all previous posts because each time it's posted interesting discussion has come up which shouldn't be ignored.
Some people seeking funding don’t seem like good investments.
I think the parent is attempting to ridicule the GP or trilialise the way they see circumcision - some Americans get practically religious with their defence of mutilating their newborn boys' penises.
I use crawlera, and it does have the capability to establish and maintain a session. I can't pick the precise initial IP but once the connection is made I can certainly tell it to keep using that IP.

Sessions are the only way to use crawlera with libraries like cloudflare-scrape, which pin your authentication to a specific IP.
But this is not the whole list, is it?

I learned from Larry Wall of ʘ which is a bilabial affricate clic, used in some African languages.

It's the smack of a kiss, which is kinda cool.
SSH Considered Harmful
> Today it’s a test of who can commit to memorizing essentially the entire dictionary. You’re going to see a lot more high-performing doctors, lawyers, etc. in the future compared to older winners.

Why would the latter follow the former? What does memorizing the words in an entire dictionary (not even the meanings, just the spelling of the words themselves) have to do with being a high-performing doctor, lawyer, etc.?

It may well be that the hyper-focus on rote memorization that the bee is known for now will lead to reduced outcomes. Rote memorization just isn't that important of a skill in modern society.
That's reasonably hilarious, thanks for the info :)
Contrary to the stock market, Bitcoin _is_ a zero sum game.
A lot of people (notably the creator of YCombinator and HackerNews) are arguably "in love with" Lisp.

I bet circa 1940's you would say the same thing about binary, and your question might be "why is X this interested in binary?"

Just as binary notation is a very simple notation that underlies all of computing, and has completely changed the world once an enthusiastic group of early adopters figured out how to leverage it, so goes Lisp. The details people haven't gotten quite right yet with Lisp, but once those are straightened out, imo, it will finally go mainstream like binary has.
BitCoin wants to replace Aws https://twitter.com/_unwriter if you are interested
Your first two claims are mostly correct.

Your third claim is utterly wrong. And it's 2 trillion, of course, over a period of 20 years, 2011 - 2030, an estimate from 2012 that Siemens made.
Let's assume for a second that the (widely debunked) 2 trillion the former Siemens CEO/nuclear lobby president literally pulled out of his ass in 2012 is reality. Replacing those 2 trillion in renewable with nuclear for USD 40 billion? Germany is spending roughly EUR 10 billion a year on nuclear currently. If we replaced all nuclear stations with with new fancy "cheaper" ones we'd still be at EUR 7 billion. Let's assume we tripled the capacity to roughly 35% of total production (from now less than 12%), that's 21 billion a year. So EUR 420 billion over 20 years. So the factor would be 4x for renewables (given the worst estimate published by a guy in 2012 who happened to be the president of the main nuclear lobby group at the time) vs nuclear (the cheapest estimate I could come up). You're an order of magnitude off at least and that is when you believe the Siemens numbers.

Regarding your 4th claim about negative price: wrong conclusion. Negative prices mean an oversupply of generated power. The eventual solution is not to subsidize producers, but to refine the system not to produce such large oversupply in the first place, while still making sure that a sudden drop in supply (because e.g. as a rather blunt example it starts raining and PV output goes down) can be managed.
> And in C++ I don't think you can prevent casting away constness.

Well, UB prevents you from doing it if the object is originally const.

My bigger gripe with the C++ (and C) const system is the lack of transitivity. A function taking a const X& may still modify e.g. the contents of an exposed pointer member of X.
If you wanted to use an immutable data structure, then you’d just use one. The im crate is a good example.
I'm not sure about public data, but here is what I'm seeing from one of my larger subreddits: https://i.imgur.com/YPUvYiu.png

Looks like new is gaining on old.
Because most people doing things are not worthy of investment (i.e. crappy ideas, bad execution, not ready for investment, etc)
The Falcon tool sounds very similar to the stingray device manufactured by Harris Corporation. The same company that strong armed law enforcement with NDAs on the tools itself and releasing any information about how the law enforcement officers actually gathered the evidence.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180120/06352239048/harri...
I'm with you 100%. Many of the things I used to really dig into, just don't grab me as much anymore. I'm not completely sad about this, though. It lets me explore other activities that I ignored before because of my fixations. I still play games, read, watch movies/shows, but it is really difficult to let go of the detached part of me critiquing constantly as I'm consuming. There's writers/creators behind there and I end up thinking about them and why they chose to do it this way or that. I find some things I enjoy enough that I can totally relax and get into, and honestly quite often it is things that have some rough edges. Thor Ragnarok and Last Jedi are two of my favorite movies in the past couple of years, and the reason I love them are reasons others hate them. Things that are weird or unexpected, even nonsensical. Because that makes it feel more real to me, in a way. Too many films and shows these days are slick as shit, and feel incredibly manufactured, like I can sense the teams of people working the material again and again until it is smooth and hitting the targeted emotional responses.

The Flying Princess Leia scene in Last Jedi was dumb, but that made me love the movie more. The Original Trilogy had a bunch of dumb moments in them too, but JJ Abrahms Force Awakens had none of them (it had a different kind of stupid ;) ) and felt soul-less to me.
password-less SSH is not supposed to work, use a console cable or just inject your SSH key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and it should work.
Is it just the Italians? My observation is that it's most Western Europeans. Be they British, Spanish, French, Swedish, what have you, nearly everyone is just markedly more buttoned up than your typical American (btw I'm American). Especially older men, say mid-50's and over.