skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a suggestion based on how I work: I have a private git repo common-lisp that contains all of my personal CL code and I make this a root for finding libraries with Quicklisp. As the style guide suggests, I break up my large CL projects into many small libraries that are subdirectories in this repo that I use alongside other people’s libraries in Quicklisp.

EDIT: to be more clear, my single git repo contains as subdirectories all libraries I write as well as all applications I write that use my libraries and other people’s libraries in Quicklisp. I almost always provide Makefile files to create standalone applications for each non-library I write so I don’t have to run code in a repl unless I am developing.
Karaoke experiment explains how embarrassment keeps you up at night
Of course I'm sure that's the only reason why they use special proprietary screws that you can't normally find anywhere else (along with the special screwdrivers themselves) because if there's a shortage of anything, it's small screws that can be used in the production of electronics. Let's not pretend that apple is interested in keeping older (and by older I mean not the current newest) machines alive any longer then their decaying, conveniently irreplaceable, battery lasts.

When apple starts making a show of actually putting up not-intentionally-cryptic schematics and supplying the market with the parts necessary to repair their dying machines (batteries would be a good start) I might loosen my tinfoil hat, but you'll have to forgive me for the time being...
Languages do evolve, so by that criteria, yeah so what? For that matter, things crash, people die, mistakes are made. Doesn't mean you can't discuss them.

The big takeaway on this one, to me is that a moonshot is usually not just an ambitious project with a high risk of failure. No, a moonshot is typically an ambitious project with a high cost of success. There is a very big difference in that.

If you try and keep things low cost, then a moonshot is doomed to failure. If you are willing to set ambitious goals and pay whatever it takes to hit them, you have a solid chance of success.

The article takes issue with folks coopting a moonshot to say that it was nothing but clever people that succeeded against all odds. By that, some clever people use it as an excuse to play in projects that they think has a low chance of success. Hoping to find one where they are clever enough to beat chance.

Now, I confess this is appealing to me. I've been in teams where they tried to brainstorm a "moonshot" that would change the future. Note, they wanted to brainstorm it. Not to pay for it.
> Apollo was a monumental accomplishment, like the construction of the Pyramids. For Google to emulate that might mean erecting a 10-mile-high earthquake-resistant skyscraper, to literally overshadow Apple and provide an object of public marvel. Does that sound like something Google management would authorize a massive bond issue for? No, it does not—even though the project would surely spur advances in architectural engineering, improvements in materials science, and create a lot of engineering and construction jobs.

Far from enjoyment, I got pretty depressed by this. Advances in architectural engineering, improvements in materials science, ok? Is this what the country and world needs right now? Maybe I'm missing something, and the author is implying the skyscraper would be a giant methadone clinic!
Trump Administration Moves to End Food Stamps for 3M People
If only there were a difference between murders and freak accidents.
That wouldn't comply with the license terms, which require the first two paragraphs (The above copyright notice and this permission notice) to be included in copies. LibreJS tags don't include that.
Hard to take seriously when the author doesn't know what a "ponzi scheme" actually is.
Apple is the best?

At what? I've never heard this.

I've thought people are forced to buy Apple products due to proprietary software.
Perhaps not?

My point is we put and awful lot of trust in Apple and they are almost always unworthy of it as soon as you scratch the surface. Like right here in this article. Right now surveillance tech is something that some are worried about. Maybe not you but it's a current concern repeated around here. Right now some think Apple are ok because you pay them so you're not the product. That's repeated here on HN often. I disagree with that. Because Apple have shown, in my opinion, that they are as vile as they can be to customers to enhance their profit. You don't have to agree. Perhaps neither of us are subject to a reality distortion field either.
Agreed. Any idea why Google didn't work with WebDriver and decided to spin-off yet another homegrown tech?

My conspiracy-laden mind veers towards the obvious but I'd prefer a better explanation.
The Future of Decentralised Finance
It baffles me that people pay so much for an apple product but then have to go somewhere to get it serviced. I bought a Dell XPS, my keyboard was having issues, next day someone came out with a new keyboard and installed it for me at my house. Very little downtime.
If I was I would wear a pink shirt with 10X on the front and RTFM on the back.
The only reason the game came with the expansion pak was to fix that one memory bug, IIRC.

They couldn't figure it out, but realised the game didn't crash when it had a bit more ram so they just gave everybody an expansion pak.
Likely part of a web scrapping project that may require navigation or other browser things to get to. Or they are trying to avoid detection with a more real browser (you have to change some stuff first).
If you can find an answer to that that works you'll double the success rate of software projects.

Some stakeholders and managers don't understand software, the importance of clean code, and how insidious feature creep can be. They are used to a world where strict deadlines are necessary to keep people accountable.

There's no changing people like that. There's only choosing your battles and doing your best to (politely) contain them.
i think this kindof misses the mark. A unikernel is both the kernel (just the things you need) + app together. It’s build for one thing: whatever the app is doing.

Tooling/Perf/etc is not needed when running (do you really want to debug in production) but tooling can be used in the process of development.

Why consider unikernels? 1) they’re stupid fast. You have only the things you need (booting in nanoseconds? yepp) 2) small attack surface (because you only have your app that’s the only attack surface. you don’t have cruft that build up in you os/kernel over years) 3) light resource usage (you could run thousands of these on the same physical machine) 4) true isolation via the hypervisor

definitely worth keeping an eye on the developments in this space
It's 2019, if you breath chances are you're pico-aggressing someone. People spend more time being outraged about something than time actually trying to solve (or even understand) the underlying issue.

The best part is that people are sensitive about topics that have nothing to do with them. Ask Buzz Aldrin what he thinks about "moonshot" he'll probably tell you he doesn't give a flying fuck. Let's call it outrage by proxy.
Here's your friendly reminder to not misuse a mental health illness :) Mental health is an important topic these days, thus it's important not to downplay certain illnesses and their meaning.
Do you want a plague? Because that's how you get a plague
It's conceptually interesting, but it also strikes me as a problem that doesn't need solving.

Having worked with and taught foreign language, nobody learns the first 1,000 words of a language from a same-language dictionary, nor should they.

Children learn from the world; adults learn from classes or a translating dictionary. (Only intermediate/advanced level learners start to use a native dictionary.)

The idea of "bootstrapping" language knowledge from a single dictionary just... isn't going to be necessary for anyone?
Yes, all that and more is described in The Perfect Predator. ThePerfectPredator.com
I agree it isn't mocking. It is an appeal to the goodwill the Apollo program had, though. Often used to gain extra respect for whatever someone is doing, even in failure.

Worse, it is used to excuse and invent new practices that are not tried and true. Which is, ironically, exactly the opposite of how we got to the moon.
> Declawing a cat is the equivalent to removing someone's fingers at the individual knuckle level.

Cats do not have opposable thumbs, but humans do. I would consider that a false equivalency.
Apollo 11: Heart rate data reveals the tension of the first Moon landing
Another vote for following it up. These kind of people usually have one tool that works well in that environment because nobody anticipates their level of mendacity.

We should start identifying and naming these ploys in categories. The tactics are so diverse and situation specific that the list is too long to be more useful than a bunch of grievances, but their logic that identifies the opportunity to apply the tactic is going to be a very small set.

Is it just asserting counterfactuals and betting on the agreeableness of others and your power relationship to them to become implicated in it?

e.g. 1. "You're going to have this by thursday." Repeat until people stop challenging you because you are unreasonable or insane. 2. tell a third party, "X told me he would have this by thursday." 3. "If you don't have this by thursday Third Party will hold you accountable and I will not help you."

The play seems legitimate because you are driving an issue by getting bigger players to have a stake in the outcome, and making yourself the broker between that power and the delivery team.

As awful as it is, some of this is just the lot in life of being on the delivery side instead of the management side.
New York pressures Tesla to open up Supercharger network
> If we look at a worn out drive, one very close to end-of-life, it's specced to retain data for one year to three months, depending on the class of drive.

What happens once the data expires? Does the SSD return an error when the data is read, or does it read the bogus data without knowing?

I would kind of prefer the drive bricking itself rather than risking silently backing up bogus data. The earlier comment about ECC and bit error rates suggests bad reads are identified as such, but I'm not sure how far to trust that given that, as mentioned, I/O is hard.
> Aaron Greenspan is short Facebook stock.

The author seems to be talking up his portfolio. Although there may be truth to this article, it seems the author is attempting to move the stock price with negitive press.
AFAIK systems "bus based" are very similar, even for home/office electric cabling.

In the home/office "domotic" ones there are usually two couples of wires, two are the mains (poass-through) and two are "signal", every device is connected to both.

The closest thing in typical networks is - I believe - PoE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet

In automotive, normally the frame is 0V or "ground" and you need only a single (big) wire with +12 V and the signal cable/wires.
Betterment Announces Checking / Saving Accounts
Apple is probably best at extracting cash from their consumers while selling older hardware.
Curlie – The Collector of URLs
> deep a history of twisting facts to make Apple look bad.

Can you provide examples?
It's generally considered to be "the rules" that what should not be on HN is questioning what should and should not be on HN.
This is great advice, thankyou for taking the time, and for your kind words
You can dive pretty deep into sports: strategy, execution, training, statistics etc...

You can dive pretty deep into kids: educational, behavioral, development etc...

You can dive pretty deep into wine: flavors, style, type, region, economics, science.

You can dive pretty deep into religion, especially if you are interested in the "examined" life. A bunch of philosophers did this, one famous example is Nietzsche.

Make it a challenge to find out one interesting thing about every new person you meet.
Cycling. Lots and lots of cycling. Road or mountain, I do it all. Century rides (100+ mi rides), charity rides, etc. and I'd love to get into gravel stuff one day too.
I guess the ink, since it is water based, would also evaporate. I keep my pen firmly capped, so that's probably not a huge factor.
The classic suggestion is Brualdi, there's also R. Stanley Enumerative Combinatorics http://www-math.mit.edu/~rstan/ec/

but right now I'm starting with basics on S. Gill Williamson Foundations of Combinatorics with Application.

I don't mind pure reasoning, but I need practical programming uses to at some point. (maybe joblessness anxiety showing)

I also have some graph books but since it relies on combinatorics rapidly ..
Your police analogy only makes sense if you shop at a warehouse club. You sign a contract (subscription) that agrees to let you take whatever you want (content) from the warehouse store (vendor), but at the end of the year (subscription term), you agree to let the warehouse club work out what you took (true-up) from the store by looking in your garbage (logs, DB, whatever you use to track usage).

If you then are so disorganized at your job that you empty the trash, throw out the receipts, then sit dumbfounded as your contractual obligations come to roost, maybe that conversation with your boss should probably be uncomfortable.
Targeting the Microbiome to Treat Malnutrition
We need Rust to mature a bit before we can do that.

Everything looks great on surface but as soon as you start doing low level coding a lot of issues pop up and you need the nightly compiler and xargo and some undocumented library for the boot sequence and whatnot.

TL;DR: great idea. Let's just wait 2 years
It's interesting to see how you use your if and when in your sentences. Surprisingly, you have an if without an else, and a when with an or at the end! :p

I do remember that convention though, and it makes sense. I just found your usages in text interesting.
Funny how personal anecdotes go. Let me tell you mine with Apple.

A few months ago I spilled about 300ml of water on top of my MacBook Pro. It's one of the newer models with the touchbar and the terrible butterfly keyboard (otherwise it's a fantastic machine though). The spillage happened just as I was about to finish work for the day. There was a lot of water there on top of the keyboard. It took me 5 or 6 large napkins to dry it out, even after having drained it first by leaning it sideways. I closed the laptop, put it on its case and went home for the day.

Next morning I took it off the case at work and switched it on, just to find the display behaving oddly (weird colours and artefacts). After a few minutes, the display froze and I believe the whole computer did too. I force-rebooted it and the same thing happened, only this time a lot quicker. After a third time I decided to keep it shut down and head back home to get my backup computer.

I made an appointment at the Apple store and took it in. I described what happened precisely, didn't leave a single detail out. They took it in, found zero water damage but acknowledged the problems. I was told it could take up to 10 days as I use a US keyboard (this happened in London) and they might not have one in stock.

About 4 days later I got a call to pick it up. They had replaced the logic board and the display and cleaned up the keyboard, all free of charge. I do have Apple Care on it but if I recall correctly this was done under warranty and would have happened regardless.
> Was surprised to see someone down vote the parent.

It happens, it's just the internet. I have enough karma, haha.

> Before I answer, I should say how much I appreciate the work you do. It really is awesome.

Thanks! It's cool, I was just legitimately wondering. As you said sorta, it's helpful for me to understand people's perspective. If you'd like, I can give you some explanations here, but I wasn't asking to try and correct you, I was interested in your perspective. Thanks for sharing it :)
I don't have a kid, but I recall one of my nieces friends went to the kitchen. We turned around and asked if she needed anything and she said "oh I'm just getting some food for the group." We nodded and went back to our conversation. In the corner of my eye, I realized she was scrounging up chocolate/candy. I sort of shrugged and thought, well technically that is food.
What is the most environmentally friendly analog writing tool?

How is ink made? Is it less invasive than mining graphite, etc?
The government can't afford giving 121$ to the needy but still, can't tax the billionaires and doesn't hesitate spending it on drones and rockets. We're becoming a joke in terms of standards of living, people can't pay for college nor buy the food they want, but how is that improved? Scrapping food aid programs!
That's the business model of Costco across all departments, they don't offer much selection but everything in the store has a local maxima of value for the money.

Costco gets you the best deal, Walmart and the dollar stores only sell garbage at the lowest possible cost, Amazon sells literally everything and has converted over the years from having the best deals to having the fastest logistics, and then there's whatever niche specialist suppliers are left like digikey for electronics parts etc.
This is going to sound absurdly simple: empathise more often.

Everyone can do it, but not everyone does it. If you make an effort to actually imagine yourself in others shoes, your boss and your colleagues, and then feel it... Do this especially whenever any negative emotions or uncertainty appear in response to a colleagues actions or words.

I think all of the so called "people skills" are just side effects by comparison. If you empathise, it's genuine, and so called people-skills will emerge naturally. This also goes beyond the mere appearance of people skills, because it will make you better understand the needs behind the demands of others, and make it more likely they take the effort to understand yours when they see you understand theirs (subconsciously).

Like I said, as a premise, it's absurdly simple, but in practice it's a big deal.
> Lying to advertisers would not make Facebook a ponzi scheme.

That would just be Fraud. And on a long enough timeline, publicly traded companies may eventually come to that point.
Airbnb Clone with React Native Part 1: Home Screen UI
You are right that monopoly only applies in a market. Sometimes the word ‘monoculture’ is useful to describe this kind of situation.

However there is a large amount of diversity within Linux, so I would hesitate to call it a monoculture.
These days we have yearly budget deficits of a trillion dollars. At some point, we’ll be paying more on interest for the national debt than the Apollo program:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-gover...

I imagine as a percentage the government spends a lot less on research. R&D pays future dividends. Most of what we waste our money on now has little future value.
Hell, a Raspberry Pi will do in a pinch... I mostly just need a terminal, I can spin up a beefy Hetzner server to work on for a few days for $1.
Would you happen to have a link to some sources describing some of these issues?
Natural Disasters Caused a $73bn Global Economic Loss in 1H of 2019 [pdf]
Doesn't just Mono have an interpreter (which is now being added as part of tiered compilation)? Aside from .NET Micro. I was under the impression that .NET by and large was JIT-only. Yes, by now it's more complex, and there have been multiple different implementations, few of which would be relevant on a Windows Server environment for ASP.NET. But AFAIK a situation like in Java where the official implementation has an interpreter and a JIT (and debugging usually falls back to interpreting with horrible performance) has never been the case in .NET.
I was told that there are many English-French false friends.

Vide Casually Explained on French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69toGGjoO0
The Lion King Is a Clone of Japanese Film “Kimba the White Lion,” from 1965
Since the name doesn't explain it:

"Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,275,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting."

Cool, but I haven't lived in CA in years and dgaf.
It's your job to advice them to use the proper solution.
But the customer ultimately pays you, so if they really want an email monitoring solution, you should built it for them.

Also, the cost savings by automating the task should outweigh the monthly cost of the tools that are required to run it. If not, the task is probably not worth automating.
I really like https://microlink.io for browser-based automation.
Seems Firefox's reader view is immune to it. In fact it's rapidly becoming my way to consume all text content online.
You can just try it with this:
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
The ink will evaporate, yes, and leave its pigment behind. Which is one reason you sometimes need to wash out a fountain pen if you haven't used it for a while.
I started out working as a senior Facebook / social app developer at digital agencies. Saw it firsthand.

Agencies would hire me late in the process, when most of the campaign was specced out (as some silly app on a page). I saw many times that the campaign wouldn’t really be that viral etc. But the design had already been nailed down and it was my job to make it happen.

So what they would do is just buy 50,000 likes and maybe get some organic action. They showed the results, the guys at the brand showed the results to the giys upstairs, everyone seemed happy.

It was one of the things that made me realize current social media platforms were about fake or shallow online engagement, and gave me the impetus to start Qbix
You sound like a sociopath.
DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Releases Reuse Plan for Lithium-Ion Batteries
"freewall: the rise of data capitalism"
It's more like a fraud against consumers than a scare tactic. Walmart is being robbed, trace amounts of moisture doesn't mean Apple is being robbed they've just invented that condition and threshold as an excuse to not service warranties. They have a rich history of requiring legal action before respecting consumers rights, even to fix their own mistakes.
I guess the counterargument I've seen for this is that declawed cats are more likely to be adopted, and allowing declawing makes intact cats more likely to be adopted--both societal benefits. It seems like the fact that it also benefits an individual is sort of a distraction here.

Thanks for trying, but I think I'm still in the same place: I don't have a persuasive argument for or against declawing.

That said, my gut feeling is still against it, so I'm not going to exactly go lobby to bring back declawing. I wonder if that's basically why declawing is illegal in so many places--people following their instincts are against it, and nobody feels strongly enough for it to defend it.

In any case, I'm not bent that it's illegal now (I live in NY), just puzzled.

EDIT: Okay, I guess I have a question which would settle this for me: is adoption of cats actually a societal benefit as compared to having more strays? An Aoshima-style[1] island of cats doesn't seem like a dystopia to me, and it seems like stray cats are capable of caring for themselves without human intervention. There are probably some downsides (in NY state, ticks) but there are other solutions to those problems.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/a-visit-to-aoshima...