skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the conclusion, that what we call homoiconicity is a scalar, not a boolean. And I agree both in this case and in general that people should talk about languages more directly (“the syntax is easy to parse”, “the semantics of the language are completely defined on the single page of a book”) rather than label them as homoiconic or not.

If you'd like good argument for writing in languages that call themselves homoiconic, you can see Bawden's Quasiquotation in Lisp. Its section 2.1 compares writing a program that generates programs in C, versus Lisp, first without quasiquotation, then with.

https://3e8.org/pub/scheme/doc/Quasiquotation%20in%20Lisp%20...
I think OP is right suggesting this could be possible. But (my addition) only within scope of deconstructing the entire agriculture system as-is (and was for decades), and replacing it with something else. IMO this will be forced upon us (read: our children) anyhow. So better start early.
They are rare because it takes like 15 yrs of day and night hacking & learning from books that range from software to sales, through system & networking and communication, and found ways to practice, not something many people are both willing and able to do.
That is in alignment with the work I have done as a “devops” person. I have also worked as doing primarily backend development.

The single-most useful skill I have used is problem solving in an unknown context. Knowledge of architecture patterns help a lot in both cases. There have been times when I have had to read code just to figure things out.

There was a technical interview for a devops role I did recently. Whomever designed it was brilliant: a deceptively simple task (install an obscure blogging platform and get it running) with many hidden landmines and gotchas, compressed into 45 mins. Just another day at work.
" In the short term, he writes, there are clearly challenges, but over the long haul, he argues that diversity has a range of benefits for a society, and that the fragmentation and distrust can be overcome. It’s not an easy process, but in the end it’s “well worth the effort.” Putnam cites the integration of institutions like the U.S. Army as proof that diversity can work."

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/robert-putnam-say...

The point about the army is a particularly interesting one because they certainly are experts in integration and conformity, which hits back to my point in my previous comment as well.
2. is more like an ant trying to overshoot its importance; a very limited being running inside a very limited universe demanding stupid things from the point of view of extraverse. You would probably laugh but most likely become angry at the ant's stupidity.
Seriously touchscreens are so bad for most controls, it irks me that they’re so gratuitously over used
At least you can find it without taking your eyes off the road. This works fine for fan power, where you know when to stop based on what you feel, but not so much for temperature, where you can’t immediately tell what’s right.
One day I hope someone builds a VS Code distribution that comes as a 1-step setup as an IDE for "all" languages. So long as you have docker (or snap or whatever is favorable then) you can install a plugin and get LSPs, linters, code building, etc setup for "all" languages. Also autocomplete for things like proto/thrift files would be cool (by finding .proto and .thift files, running code gen, and indexing that in the language server).

One can dream...
Some people at the top of the hierarchy push it and promote it, doesn't mean other people agree with any of it, they are just powerless against it. Why do you take it as society agrees I don't know, but I can understand why those at the top of the hierarchy would like you to think there's the morals of society.
I think he focused on the practical, day-to-day realities of this. His experience pretty much aligns with mine’s.
Everyone is already scootering drunk with two people per. Chaos is the answer.

But ideally your transit will capture more ridership and improve as rideshare withers, and your ebike will be your last mile solution.
Interesting article, especially when you think about public polling (political or otherwise). Polling data is going to be heavily biased with people who are willing and have the time to be polled, which may be vastly different than the audience you are trying to model. Seems like the author is talking specifically about something a little more quantitative, but to the general point about these kinds of samples being biased in ways that aren't obvious at first, it has something in common.
There is a significant time value of money effect at play here - better to get the tax advantages from writing the investment off in Year 5 than getting paid back in Year 12
many, many CS research papers obfuscate their methods as a barrier to entry by making them sound more complicated than they are ... case in point any paper describing part of its computation as applying the 'Haar Wavelet Basis'
Practically Accurate Floating-Point Math [pdf]
This times 1000.

Back in the day around 10 years ago I could go out and spend less than or right around $20 for a night out (a few hours at my local haunt)... now I am unable to do that for less than $70. My wages have not increased 3x; so now, I go out maybe a couple times a month... and I even still drink cheap well whiskey (Old Crow, ka-kaw!).
Consider the ever-expanding region lists of cloud providers, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of cloud infrastructure was purpose-built to support their cloud offerings.
Slightly off-topic: Nature conservation is very likely the proper term, but I really like imagining the idea of modern day druid rings to describe these sorts of efforts.
Going uphill is my favorite kind of biking. Uphill, your speed is linearly proportional to your effort. On a flat road, it's proportional to the cube root of effort. So it's more motivating to work hard going uphill.

A more forward posture (which you get with dropped handlebars) and clip-in pedals help.
You could use an import hook in python, then create a whitelist of APIs that will be mapped to UnsafeString and then will receive SafeString as an argument.
The client is actually pretty good, so we could continue using that and I believe that for popular discords with lots of fans it wouldn't be the end of the world to have them re-register if everyone knew the alternative is losing the community.
Pretty sure that's one of the ones he worked with.

There's also that class-action suit for Roundup users who are also cancer-havers that I keep seeing ads for lately...
If you disagree with the thesis of this article, let me ask you: how many times have you or someone you know hesitated leaving a current employer due to benefits uncertainties?

Or more to the point: how many startups never happen because the right people are unable to manage the personal risk of leaving defined employment?

IMO this the consideration -- human ability is not really allocated all that well when you're bonded to an employer without cheaper switching costs.
devops in my department means developers they push into a full time support role to fill out release paperwork, oversee manual regression tests, and fix production failures.
>> Yoga classes, coffee shops, CrossFit, meetups, hiking groups, rock climbing, dance parties, marathons, evening painting classes where they serve wine, improv comedy shows, improv comedy classes, cooking classes, language classes, indie band shows of every type.

Your white upper-middle class is showing
The parent might be a non-native speaker and might have a mother tongue in which nouns have genders - the co-worker in German is of male grammatical gender.
They are rare because the primary skill of a devops person is creative problem solving in an unknown situation and with unfamiliar tooling. You are plumber, not a cowboy or farmer.

While I have some deep knowledge in a few areas, most of the work I do has a lot more to do with researching tools, tracing down problems, and figuring out solutions that do not always appear on Google or StackOverflow.

That mindset has also served me well when I write backend code.
What I find confusing is how in a perspective he serves the DevOps methodology by pushing DevOps tooling and Human interaction, but in the other he seems to be doing the sysadmin work for the rest of his team, which seems contradictory from a higher (managerial) perspective.
They have used pest control measures for that entire time. Primarily tillage which contributed heavily to the desertification of the area.
Having written a voxel renderer for ts models I can confirm that it's definetely a 3d rendering engine. It's not just polygon_based (nor are they hw accelerated)
This reminds me of the (mind-blowing) book "Honest Business: A Superior Strategy for Starting and Managing Your Own Business" by Salli Rasberry and Michael Phillips

https://www.worldcat.org/title/honest-business-a-superior-st...
For another example in reverse: the Thrust master Warthog [0] HOTAS (hands-on throttle & stick, a controller for flight sims) is based on the A-10C controls. Part of this is for an immersive experience if one is flying a Warthog, but a large reason many people favor it is the excellent ergonomics. Fairchild & the Air Force spent a lot of design effort and thought on control placement and developed a very nice to use set of controls. Just like there are control schemes where a game controller makes perfect sense, aping actual aircraft controls is a great way to fly a pretend plane. Or on my case, a pretend spaceship.
I've used an Xbox controller to control various robotics projects because there was no need to reinvent the wheel, and I can certainly understand why there is a niche market for controls to mimic cockpit controls.

[0] http://mobile.thrustmaster.com/node/812
Uber has scooters and bikes now too
Apparently it's no longer available on the store, as it's too old, but here's how it got written:

http://blog.badlydrawngames.com/2010/11/very-angry-robots-an...
You can blame it on young people. Nobody wants to be on a beach with a bunch of bros being loud, passing out, fighting...
Even if that were true everywhere, people drive vehicles other than the one they used for their drivers test in their lifetime.
Why would there be a specific law covering this situation? It's an obvious violation of fiduciary responsibility to buy back shares in an inefficient, price-elevating fashion.
You paint them as wise and restrained while they are actively in a price war with less money than uber. The candle is lit from both ends.
To add, we're analog creatures.

For a human to interface with anything digital, we need to drop what we’re doing and fully engage the touch interface.

Dangerous when driving, or similar.

With analog interfaces, our hands know exactly where to go and what to do just on feel, keeping attention elsewhere.

I’m glad the DOD made this decision and I hope others will follow.

Just because you can chip it doesn’t mean you should.
Yes, but could we maybe get a decent approximation of the windshield temperature from interior temperature, exterior temperature, and speed? Combined with interior/exterior humidity (maybe these gauges might be the expensive/finicky part of this project?), we could calculate a probability of window fogging.

It doesn't have to be perfect -- we can have it just turn on the defrost whenever the probability of window fogging is >10% or something.
Move to a small town. There are still dollar beers and burgers to be had.
> The survey took place from November 2014 to January 2017 in seven European cities: Antwerp (Belgium), Barcelona (Spain), London (United Kingdom), Örebro (Sweden), Rome (Italy), Vienna (Austria) and Zurich (Switzerland).

(From the linked study.)

This leaves out the Netherlands and Denmark, two countries with a well-established habit of riding bicycles and world-leading, exemplary infrastructure that focuses on cyclist and pedestrian safety.

I would love to know what the increasing popularity of e-bikes does here in the Netherlands, because as a casual observer it seems to me that a lot of people who use them hardly pedal at all; depending on battery power for what seems like the biggest part of the load.

While there are indubitably a good number of folk (elderly in particular) who can now stay mobile using e-bikes in a manner that stimulates using your muscles for much longer, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that there is a large group of people who uses e-bikes to stop using quite as much energy as well — to the detriment of their health. I.e., most people in developed countries don't meet the daily minimum of exercise; the Dutch habit of riding bicycles for almost anything that doesn't require distances over 10km keeps a lot of people on the healthy side of that requirement.

E-bike are attractive, because parking cars and mopeds is much more bothersome; bicycle racks are everywhere.
We entered that zombie phase our 5th year in business. Now we are in our 9th year and have ticked along slowly slowly decling a bit each year. Down to two employees and probably have one year left to go. All investors except for our single biggest have said we should shut down largely so I can personally move on. Our biggest has been happy to see us stay alive being that there’s still a chance for success they believe.

It’s largely been depressing coasting as a zombie. Making enough money to pay the bills but not enough to save or do anything for the future, but have been afraid to start something again for fear of going down this same route again.
Can you retest with a cold reboot? I don't think this is a new security issue,mostly because there is nothing the OS can do if the reboot was abrupt or due to a panic/bsod.
My point was that Sam Walton didn't seem to exactly price in carbon when he went to market with wal-mart in the 70s. Had he, maybe the price and selection would not have resulted in that degree of wealth extraction (generation), the same could be true for Ikea tables, Amazon Prime 1 day toothbrush, Sugar and chemicals for candy, Pesticides on crops, Opioids, red meat, etc. We got exactly what we wanted, loads of new cheap stuff with loads of selection at our convenience. We also got a labor crisis, a health epidemic, climate change and massive knowledge and wealth inequality.
They can fight it on the basis of censorship, and I'll support them on the basis of a decentralized Internet that does not rely on some folk who leaked private data all over the Internet a few years ago.

Fuck DoH. It's political and technical centralization under the tired old banner of "freedom!" when reality is absolutely the opposite. It'll be abused in a heartbeat the moment it has majority share, assuming folk like CloudFlare don't already have people working full time on how to profit from the data, or formulating policies on which sites they shut down that they never hosted in the first place

If you're new to this game, it always progresses the same tired old way:

- it's optional, you don't need it, but if you use it your life will become 1000% better and starving orphans in China will learn about democracy

- we're using it for just this one particular service you might need it for but it's fine because that particular service is totally optional and you have a "choice" between 3 vendors who all accidentally depend on this new thing, because they're all playing the same game

- we rolled out a new feature but it's only available to newer clients, you probably genuinely do need this feature, and the choice to avoid the new service seems to be less and less appealing

- we don't have people working full time on the older product any more, and it's full of bugs, and we're struggling to support it

- we've made some commercial agreement you weren't expecting that interacts somehow with our adjusted position thanks to the new service. somehow you've become the product without any warning, but you're so far down the river it's much less effort to stay put than try to undo becoming the product

- we've encountered a bug and made a huge negative PR fuss around the old service. it's officially insecure and you will catch cancer if you continue using it

- [3 months later] we're deprecating the old service

- [1 year later] captivity achieved
Good vegetarian food can be easy but some ingredients like tofu require seasoning. Almost all meat dishes can be made with only salt and pepper.
‘Succession’ is a demolition of the absurdity of our overlords
They can always sell the shares back for a dollar and do the write off whenever they want.
Speaking about cycling. Something I don't understand about bikes and e-bikes is their price. Why are they so incredibly expensive? How come economies of scale haven't made them dirt cheap?
Here it's a 15 minute walk to half a dozen bars that serve $3 and $4 drinks. There's cheaper housing that is closer to those bars, so it isn't a special location or anything, just a normal smaller town.
It's like the creationist argument but inverse. If a thing has sufficient complexity it must be made. Hence we must be made, hence there is a god.

Like how there's flaws to the above argument there's flaws to the simulation argument.

I can create simulations of my universe and my simulations can create simulations of their universe and this can continue on an infinite chain therefore I am in a simulation by probability.

Where is the flaw? Let me apply the same argument to 3d printers. 3d printers can print clones and in turn the clones can also print 3d printers then by probability it is very likely that 3d printers are made by other 3d printers.

Well that's not the case in reality. 3d printers come from all kinds of sources and right now, most of the time it comes from a factory.

Why is this the case? Because the 3d printers ability to make other 3d printers does not effect the probability of it's own origins. Just like how the universes ability to create simulations of itself does not affect that it itself is a simulation.
One of my friends has a motorized knob he uses for volume control- shr wrote a script that relays the current volume to the Arduino that controls the whole thing.

It's awesome- I love that thing so much and have parts on the way to build my own.

I think the issue is more bad integration than it is a bad idea.

A VFD or 7-segment display next to a pair of buttons for up and down works quite well for temperature control, and lets you integrate it nicely with digital controls.

The issue here is not that it's impossible to integrate the analog physical and the digital aether- it's the implementation that's oft lacking.
Additionally, they are proven to be highly ergonomic for a very wide swath of people. They aren't ideal for everyone (no input device can be ergonomic for literally everyone) but as shown from the wide array of people who can effectively use them they are tolerable for long periods of use for a (likely majority) of the population and already benefit from muscle memory for a lot of people. There's a good reason the Xbox and Playstation controllers share a very similar form factor, and have done so for several hardware generations now.
Life is likely to continue even if our species goes extinct. Encoding the message and embedding it in our DNA would be an appropriate place.
One: I think we can discuss this without condescension for anyone who doesn't agree with you.

Two: You are making a false choice: Automatic settings need not replace manual ones. Essentially what we are talking about is a spot on the dial that says "auto" which you are free to not use, much like headlight controls on higher end cars.
Which is ironic because I'd happily pay more not to have one. I bought a replacement for my 10+ year old MP3 player. The new thing is so cool and slick and flat and sophisticated and plain complex, and it's horrible to use. It demands your attention for everything.

My old MP3 player with its physical buttons and weird control lever, well, I could work it by touch and muscle memory.
> As it turned out, electric bicycle riders ended up slightly edging out pedal bike cyclists in terms of total exercise each week.

There was no correction for selection bias so you can’t make any assumptions.

For example; it’s likely that e-bike riders are older and have more spare time. How much would a regular cyclist exercise with the same spare time?
> The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

~H. P. Wells, "A Short History of the World"
How is this a monopoly? Serious question - do you know what a monopoly is?

Another question - how does Amazons practice compare to the other publishers? Is it better, same, or worse for authors?
Come to think of it, I was employed by Commodore (Danmark) A/S precisely 35 years ago this week.
Or LEGO games/movie...
That's a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.

There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.

That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.

US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.

[1] https://www.autonews.com/article/20030602/SUB/306020843/the-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
Has it always felt this way? I've been reading a lot of Chomsky lately and it seems at least for a few decades in the later 1900's workers had more power in the workplace.
Is the same true for someone that opens a restaurant or tire store?
I've always thought this was really obvious. Benefits tied to employment will stifle entrepreneurs who aren't already well off.

This tips the scales towards the largest employers for labor, how many low paid internships could be replaced by high risk startups?

Before anyone has had a chance to accumulate to many obligations, that is the perfect time to grow by taking a risk and going after something disruptive.

That also would be the time in which many have the energy and optimism to do good rather than for greed or meeting obligations such as feeding/housing a family of four.
Interesting article.

> "War on drugs”: It's a term that may elicit memories of the US government’s 20th-century campaign against the sale and use of illegal psychoactive substances

Every country in the western world and Asia set up a war on drugs too. Like most things it's not unique to America.

The whole banning drugs thing extended into plenty of different cultures. But became a much bigger issue after we developed our modern economic system which combined mass production with global distribution channels and provided a whole lot of people with disposable income to spend.

> Or opium, for which the British government went to war — twice — with China.

Opium wasn't really the reason they went to war, it was mostly just economic bullying by Britian's part which extended into a bunch of other reasons. It could easily have been over any product like tea (which is what Britian was exchanging the opium for).
School Kids Suffer with the Snap of a Finger
Why do you say it's quick, as if the concept of Google, censorship, and illegal protests just came to be?

This is just the latest example.
I've been listening to a couple of Podcast interviews Bob Caro has done with Preet Bhara and Conan O'Brien. Both are recommended.
Maybe the real civilization is in shutdown due to some catastrophic event and this is the cheapest way to preserve conscious beings until the event is resolved.
The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck