skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always got a rush from solving problems in LISP but then realized I could much more easily solve the problem in an imperative language without the baggage of thinking through multiple levels of recursion wrapped into a function. If that feeling of accomplishment is because you’re succeeding at doing something clever I question the utility of the language. Maybe just down to what I’m used to.
What I like about the aspect of a site like this, and especially the process of curation (I believe Drudge does the same), has to do with the headline writing. This has got to be one of the better practices of becoming a better headline writer I've seen other than actually writing professional ads.

For copywriters, this practice is invaluable.
If I'm at JPL, doing C++, they probably have several more C++ programmers. I probably work with some of them. If I'm gone, they probably have someone who can take over, people who maybe use the same coding standard I use (they almost certainly have one for C++). But if I'm the first person there using Lisp, there probably isn't a standard (unless I wrote it, and if so, it's a standard nobody else there uses). There may not be anyone else there who knows the language. So while Lisp may be a perfectly reasonable language in terms of functionality, it's not a perfectly reasonable language in terms of the organizational issues. I, the programmer who wants to use Lisp, may not have to think about those issues, but managers do.
iTunes was one entire antipattern.
> Ex-USSR fiefdoms, Russia included, are ran by very simple people, without any geopolitical ambitions.

The people of Georgia, Crimea, and the rest of Ukraine would beg to differ.
> I'm not about to throw away that investment of time and energy on a new, untested app with a different UI.

Come on, now. Think of the poor product managers, the struggling UX researchers and designers. How are they going to make their careers off of minor upgrades tied down to past investments of users?
If the impact of legacy is small - equivalent to gaining 0.01 points of GPA - then if they need legacy to be admitted, they're only 0.01 points above being rejected - one of the least qualified students at the school.

And if the impact is large - equivalent to 1 point of GPA - then there are legacy admissions a full GPA point worse than the least capable of their non-legacy peers, which is even worse.

I agree mediocre is inaccurate, because mediocre means half way to the top, and students who need legacy admissions are at the very bottom of the class.
I remember reading how some Chinese company was using face recognition on livestock (chickens maybe?), which (although this might be human centric) seem far less diverse in appearance than humans.
> That's a sunken cost fallacy. Only because other things are hackable as well doesn't mean there is no danger.

It's really not a sunken cost fallacy. It's good evidence that the "think of the terrorists" angle is overblown. There are plenty of other problems with self-driving cars, but not that one.
With Lisp, the language is simple. But everyone writes their own DSL on top of the language because the language is simple. It's easy to do in Lisp, but it's also easy to make it incomprehensible to anyone else. I've heard this called "the curse of Lisp".
You're more worried because a century later, cars are still limited to the speed of a horse, and this has obviously stunted the economy?
I worked at a Monsanto subsidiary when I was in college and became somewhat familiar with GMOs. I think it depends. You’re right that genetic-guided breeding is low-tech, efficient, and safe. But some traits can’t be bred, and nitrogen fixation sure sounds like one of them. Given the GHG emissions and environmental impact of anhydrous ammonia application to crops, this seems like a worthy use of GMO. Bt-corn perhaps is as well, when considering the reduction in pesticide use.

(I should note: I have no love of Monsanto nor wish to defend them/apologize for them.)
Sure, same goes with luck, skill, natural abilities, etc. It's all an outcome from several major inputs.
Maybe it would help the earlier poster to lay it out more explicitly.

The bulk of an animal's structure is made of things like hair, and skin, and muscle, and cartilage, which are made largely of proteins, which in turn contain a lot of nitrogen.

The bulk of a plant's structure is made of things like cellulose and lignin, which contain no nitrogen.
Dumbest misunderstanding of the technology industry, ever.

There is no real benefit from passing this repeal.
Web PKI is just its name‡, like my name is tialaramex, names are not meanings. The Web PKI is a PKI for TLS services with names from the public Internet not just for HTTPS (the web).

Names meaning mostly DNS names like news.ycombinator.com but also numeric names such as 1.1.1.1

The Baseline Requirements (the rules Certificate Authorities agreed to obey some years back now) currently provide 13 potential ways to verify domain ownership, but these ways are sometimes called the Ten Blessed Methods dating back to when Gervase Markham was alive and worked on the Web PKI.

Although some of the Ten Blessed Methods are specific to the web in practice, such as 3.2.2.4.6 which involves creating a document to be retrieved from a web site, others really aren't such as 3.2.2.4.7 which is just a DNS change. Let's Encrypt offers both these (as challenges http-01 and dns-01 respectively)

Method 3.2.2.4.12 is specifically for domain registrars in the sort of relationship you're talking about, and is used by some registrars which also have a CA business (such as Google) today I believe.

‡ It got this name because the Web is why this PKI exists. SSL was invented by the Netscape Corporation, whose Web browser is the ancestor of today's Firefox. Netscape's successor, the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation continues to be the most visible and only public oversight for the Web PKI. Perhaps if instead some other group had secured the Network it would be named, say, the Usenet PKI, or the IRC PKI or the NetBSD PKI, but they didn't and it isn't.
If you have to modify the environment to make it easier for the cars, then you haven't achieved fully self-driving technology.
I think what they meant by "tricking" the cars is to paint roads in a deceiving way to make cars meander into lakes or something like that, not hacking everyone's cars.
It's working just fine.

When was the last famine in the United States? When was the last famine anywhere on the planet that wasn't due to some kind of fucked-up government?
Not my field, and I'll admit a confirmation bias (this idea fits my subjective view of nerds/geeks) so I remembered the idea and didn't fact proof it much back then. I can't find anything on a quick Google.

I'll give you the community-side rundown:

Most "experts", veterans and passionate people in a field are not easily swayed by classic marketing because they have a 10,000 feet view, they can usually tell you right away who ads are targeted at, what's the catch, what's their recommendation of a better product or method altogether...

Like security experts know well the limits of a "VPN company" selling "privacy and security and ease of mind".

Cue any field, any domain.

It also doesn't mean nerds and geeks don't buy (obviously, and they rather spend more than the average) but they have their own opinions and that of their community, and ads are really just a distant noise in the background. Think of that guy who laughs at memes on ads and then goes to reddit or their Discord/Slack/whatever to make a purchase decision.

So you have to use different kinds of approaches, usually much more substantial, to win over these people. You can't really fake it, it's more of a virtual negociation by ways of company image and community response in trust and $.
Aren't all of those problems solved by more trains?
Trump is also a big fan of Russia's activities outside its borders as we all know. I won't get into the "Russia if you're listening" or excluding American translators from his meetings with Putin, as we can consider one element of Russia outside its borders:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/26/trumps-be...
From my perspective, in the life-sciences space, it’s certainly the lack of high quality data. To be more specific, there’s tons of data, but it’s sloppy, lossy, and non standardized.

Many of those discussing the promise of near future AI are either academics or new to the field. The real data landscape is so much worse than they would imagine it is.
Why does this have to be a cloud app? Just make a great app, sell it for download for ten bucks, and go away. Repeat this if you come up with more awesome ideas.
Microsoft used to make Windows Home Server, a server OS with a simplified UI on top. Shame it didn't take off and they killed it.
If MAD were all that you actually needed, NATO wouldn't exist.

It's entirely reasonable to believe that France is not going to commit national nuclear suicide merely to defend Czech or Poland from a Russian invasion. MAD - mutual assured suicide - would only be utilized in a case where their own existence were threatened.

That's where a very powerful traditional military comes into play.

That's why NATO exists instead of merely relying on having a stockpile of nukes to point at Russia. You might actually have to stand off Russia in a real military confrontation or at a minimium give the strong impression that you can if necessary. Russia can gamble that France isn't going to commit suicide via nuclear weapons to save Lithuania, and it would be a correct bet, at which point it's down to traditional military vs military.
Do you think that hostile foreign nations are actively trying to end the run of the petrodollar?
Greece was fiasco for Euro.

It's a lesson learned now, and ECB will hold binge spenders on a leash.

UK can leave EU, Greece or Eastern Europe can not.
That's why you post under a throwaway account.
His blog post goes into a lot more detail about things, and he has a part 2 where he adds keyboard input and screen output via interrupt handlers. It's useful as a "Hello World" level intro to the topic.

Kernels 101 – Let's write a Kernel
http://arjunsreedharan.org/post/82710718100/kernel-101-lets-...

Kernels 201 - Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support
https://arjunsreedharan.org/post/99370248137/kernels-201-let...
Go back another 60 to 70 years and a few more would too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/politics/sanctions-ole...

Maybe you should have asked for 100, or 1000. I can probably come close to 100 though.
Not OP but as you seem to be better informed with regard to cellular biology than me I am curious about something and figured this is a good time and place to ask.

- Isn't part of the reason that plant cells contain so much less protein by mass because plant cells are larger and a large portion of their mass is a vacuole for storing carbohydrates and water?

- How much lower is the protein content per cell in plant cells vs animal cells?

- What organelles or increased concentration of organelles cause animal cells to contain more protein than plant cells if it isn't just that vacuoles skew the results?

- If it isn't a difference in the cells, is it just a difference in organ structure between plants and animals?

Note: Not trying to be snarky, legitimately interested in this as I have always has a passing fascination in cellular biology.
You are right, but it was the closest I could find.
The modern instance has far less apparent rational motives. The threat of imposition of sanctions on Iraq is coming almost solely from the President of the US, framed as a retaliatory gesture. The language used implies the threat is guided primarily by emotion rather than by a sober realpolitik diplomatic move.

It appears that most of the government, even most Republicans in Congress, disagree with the idea. Though Republicans are currently in a vulnerable state with regards to political pressure from the President, I find it unlikely that a bill imposing sanctions will be enacted without a significant change after the 2020 elections.
Computer models of reality will always be simulacra, and the gap between reality and the model is where death and failure in general reside. "A map is not the territory," explains that computer models are always a perception, and while a technology may even be able to switch between myriad of these "perceptions", the conclusions derived will themselves be limited to a simulation of reality, no matter what.

Sure, technological advances will boost the vision resolution or interpretive rigor to insane levels (compared to present day), and this will be used to acquire increased confidence from the public, but is that enough for you to sit your child in the street and trust the driverless car to steer around it? This is the question I would ask of any proponent of any model-interpreting public technology.
That's a nice bit of advertising, but; They cheat. When the car detects an unusual or difficult situation developing it prompts the driver to take over. This means that all the really tricky bits of driving are done by the human and all the easy bits are done by the machine..

There was a competing study done against cars with similar price/age/safety equipment that didn't have the auto pilot option and Tesla caused considerably more accidents.
Agreed. Keto is effective because it's an exclusionary diet, and while it does exclude some healthy foods, it also excludes the majority of junk food that makes modern diets so poor.

The adaptability of humans makes me think the "perfect diet" doesn't exist. But I imagine the closest we can get is being grounded in common sense moderation.

This coming from someone who has been on keto over two years, lost 80 lbs and kept it off.
I also picture the moment a lot of cube satellites are above broadcasting internet across the globe 24hrs a day combined with millimeter gps combined with 5g cellular technology we could do a reasonable job of driving cars anywhere.
I'm fascinated by the shift in internet culture to allow this. In the early 2010s MLB would have done their best to remove unauthorized clips from the web. It would have always been done as 'copyright violation'. But, the shift democratizes the content itself - and makes it available for critique/analysis/comedy.
I don’t hear a lot of fans of FP and friends admit this very often.

I think there are a lot of great uses of the patterns that come out of s-expressions, for example, but I would still choose Go, Python or JS / TypeScript as my daily driver.
This sort of thing sounds plausible, until you work in the legal industry and see how big corporations are involved in hundreds of lawsuits at any given time. Are they all just bad luck, or irrational people, or a conspiracy of plaintiffs' lawyers? Or are they just the product of any large company screwing up peoples' lives every day? Most lawsuits don't even attract the clickbait journalism you read.
The only thing they become "sole owner" of is the newly modified plant genome.

The original one is still there for all to use.
Luhmann just intuitively came up with the same addressing concept as represented by a Xanadu Tumbler, essentially it relies on (implicitly) transfinite numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbler_%28Project_Xanadu%29

Only, he realized that using letters for every other number makes the dot number dot sequence as a separating character redundant, thereby shortening the address length tremendously, and he didn't need versioning in the way the Xanadu devs thought it would need.
Maybe if cars could fly, they could sort themselves at different heights so that they would never hit each other. And also communicate with others to make sure there are no collision courses. Tall buildings could be a problem. But it should be way easier problem to solve then city street driving. Because it would be a new tech we could require all flying cars to be autonomous and only allow manual control in case of emergency.
If you ever visit a city that gets substantial snowfall, road markings are essentially nonexistent, even when the snow and ice melts in the spring.
Why should students get free parking? It is a choice to use the parking facilities (those with mobility issues aside). I am in favor of parking rates being based on commute distance. If you live within a reasonable walking distance, say two miles, then you can't get a parking pass. Then concentric rings out from there with decreasing cost. While there would be some address fraud, it would help to reduce the dependence on parking.

I went to a university that has no shortage of land to expand to. This meant that they have a couple of very large parking lots for on-campus students and some large commuter parking lots. If you didn't mind walking, parking was easy to come by. Those that complained about a 10 minute walk thought there was no parking. Funny thing was that it was easy to cross all of campus in less that 15 minutes. Really is a matter of perspective, I suppose.
Lisp aside, I found something tragic, or at least a terribly tragic phase to their career: They stayed at JPL because it was a more meaningful place to work and abhorred the possibility of Java drudgery. Fine, good.

Then they went to Google, as it appeared different from the corporate bureaucratic programmer = widget approach, only to be charged with implementing a massive Java project. So, irony.

But the real tragedy was that it was all for Ad Tech. Presumably tired of the same JPL work, they not only end up using a hated tool, but also working on something that seems on the opposite end of the "meaningful work" spectrum. Adding to the tragedy, they could have taken any number of development jobs that happened to use Java and yet pushed the needle forward on meaningful work.

I really regret the last 20 years of the best & brightest being drawn into the modern equivalent of Mad Men advertising firms. I do however take a fair bit of solace in the fact that these massive companies and massive systems have resulted, if only as a side effect, in excellent technology that allows corralling and orchestrating massive amounts computational power in a way I thought a bit too "utopian" when "utility computing" was being bandied about in the 90's. Just kind of wish some other monetization model had emerged. Freemium looked promising for a while, but it turned out there was still an infinity of user acquisition friction in between "free" and "extremely cheap". Oh well. I still have hope for the next decade or so.
Ask HN: How do you manage your abandoned code?
There are times that I have invested quite some time into a chunk of code and realize that sometimes its just better to abandon it entirely and try a different approach. This code often contains useful techniques that don't always get carried over to the final release.

The thing that bothers me is that many times I suspect I wasn't too far off in solving the sticking point, and I sometimes find myself wondering if my initial approach wasn't the better one.

My current solution is to try to move all such code into a private repo for later review, but I don't always have the head-space to interrupt my work and manage that overhead.

What are your techniques or tools that you leverage in managing your abandoned code?
Do you commit it somewhere for a later review by yourself or a team member? Do you just git stash and move on?
My apartment complex doesn't really care about how off-my-butt I am.
Can't edit it now, but noticed the negative sign was missing off one of them, "single family" should be a negative value.

From the paper:

These values effectively state the correlation between the odds
of the product succeeding, and people who buy the product having
that characteristic.

Age Average age of head of household
Home Value Estimated home value
Income Est. household income in the zip code
Single Family % of households in single family homes
Multi-family % of households in multi-family homes
Distance Distance to nearest MassStore store
Comp. Distance Distance to nearest competitors’ store
Nbr Households Number of households in the zip code
% Urbananized % households classified as “Urbanized”
% Urban Clusters % households in “Urban Clusters”
High School % of households whose highest educational attainment is graduating high sch
Bachelors % of households whose highest educational attainment is a bachelor degree
White % of households that are identified as “White”
African American % of households that are identified as “African American”
Asian % of households that are identified as “Asian”
Hispanic % of households that are identified as “Hispanic or Latino (of any race)”
Musk, for all his genuine achievements, is also a bullshitter. If/when his FSD prediction fails to come to pass, I expect that he will just say "Well, when I said FSD, what I really meant is..."
> For them, blackmailing Germany and other wealth nations in Europe by threatening to close the tap has no political story to it at all, just plainly a way to extort some extra bucks

As a counter-example (one of many), Russia has been for a long time losing money by subsidizing Belarusian economy with cheap oil.
I agree, I always thought in theory it could be possible to mix memory palaces with VR.

Someone did a research study on it here if you're interested.

https://obj.umiacs.umd.edu/virtual_reality_study/10.1007-s10...
You need a depth map to compute parallax.
This is garbage analysis.

When you are comparing numbers. You compare like-to-like. Tesla specifically prohibits engaging Autopilot in difficult situations and encourages during long boring straight drives.
I'm still not sure I understand. It's just the streaming piece of Steam?
Open Syllabus 2.0
Speaking of that, iTunes Radio and Apple Music are TERRIBLE guis! The web-based column views are really limited and crappy. You can do so much better with web GUIs if you want to, but Apple just wanted to waste a ton of screen space.
Having been in and out of Sydney a lot, I find this very easy to believe. The airport is straining at the limit for capacity, so they have been quite adventurous in getting planes in and out of there for some time. Particularly with the curfew limiting the hours of operation.*

* Not saying the curfew is a bad thing
The difference is, when you go to the gold standard, how much gold you acquire to support the currency.

After that, they are the same (but keep in mind, the value of a currency is dependent on a lot of factors, and not just the gold that is backing it. Otherwise currencies backed by nothing would all be worth nothing, which we know isn't true).
Every corn farmer in the Midwest already alternates corn with soybeans. They've been doing that for many decades.
As someone with kids I can verify it's a huge amount of work taking care of them! It's incredibly hard work, by far the hardest thing I've ever done. If you want to call that a burden then so be it.

For you to call that a feminist lie makes it sound more like you are trying to make this an ideological argument rather than anything based on experience. All your arguments are based on some strawman argument if feminism.

Why do you think mothers "less often" don't want to stay home?
People die all the time from driving under a semi-trailer. Look up "Underride". Over 200 people die every year from underride crashes in the US, so this isn't a mistake made only by autopilots. In other words, if we switched to self-driving cars and three people died every week when the autopilot drove into a semi-trailer, that would be a big improvement.
My iTunes Library is 15 years old, contains 11,496 songs, 871 music videos, 2,418 television episodes, and 67 movies.

Only now it's split up to two different apps, once of which is laughably unfinished but otherwise continues to do the job.

Meanwhile, after 5 1/2 years and $578, I cancelled my Netflix subscription and have no intention to ever start it up again.

Dead, indeed.