skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a user of both Guile and Emacs this project has always intrigued me, but I think people arguing for speed, multitasking, or configuring Emacs in Scheme or Javascript are missing the point. Guile Emacs represents an ideal where GNU projects share a common library that all benefit from shared improvements. For example, if Guile gets native compilation, Guile Emacs, Guix, and any other Guile project gets native compilation. I would never write my Emacs config in Scheme, but I wouldn't hesitate to call a Scheme library from Emacs, or an Elisp library from a Guile project. Guile Emacs would be a huge step unifying all of these separate GNU projects from both a technical and social point of view.
It's pretty impressive that binaries from Windows 1.0 still manage to run on Windows 10.

I wish desktop Linux had even a fraction of that level of backwards compatibility.
Seattle is still cheap for what it is tbh, a bunch of my friends have moved there and I feel like I’m getting completely fucking robbed by staying in Toronto (shouts out to covid hitting pandemic status just as I was preparing to job hunt).

Lower housings costs, significantly higher salary, much lower taxes, and better weather along with more interesting/nicer outdoorsy stuff makes Seattle probably my #1 choice for where I’d like to live right now.
> But it's still fundamentally immoral and operates on the assumption that humans are not entitled to ownership of their own lives.

That's a lovely principle, but it means little without enforcement. How would property rights be enforced in anarcho-capitalist society without a system of property laws, courts to adjudicate them, and law enforcement?

> And I've been to Afghanistan and it's a much much more complicated situation than you're describing.

Every real-world society is more complicated than the models we use to describe them. These things all exist on multiple spectra. Socialist Northern Europe is not perfectly or fairly distributive of wealth. Some people in Afghanistan have their property rights enforced by the state.

But on balance, the enforcement of property rights in a country with a weak state like Afghanistan is lower than in Northern Europe, especially the further you get from the government's seat of power. At least today, a warlord cannot take over a town in Belgium and forcibly take over a section of houses to build a garrison.

State enforcement of property rights is the stable foundation on which higher level societal productivity happens. Without it, there are no factories, no secure supply lines, limited commerce and communication. The GDP of most advanced nations would vaporize.
No, the US does have maternity leave. It just doesn't have paid maternity leave.

Also known as: it doesn't take money out of my pocket to pay for your kids.
Good point. That's a reasonable place to start investigating from.

Personally, I can't be bothered (to much higher priority stuff to do). But if someone else gets around to testing this specifically, I'd be interested in the answers as well just to "make sure" the common understanding isn't wrong. :)
Or for a slightly more positive take on the South than that book

https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Across-America-Peter-Jenkins/dp/...
Teaching a dog to not run into traffic, even if ordered to do s (a) is quite doable, and (b) doesn't the dog to have any notion of the assisted person's mindset.
Except the imagery they link to is actual satellite imagery from Maxar, a space company that sells orbital Earth observation imagery.
There's two kinds of C programmers: those familiar with Duff's device, and those who wouldn't expect Duff's device to even compile.
The Sand Reckoner
btw just noticed "...that even I have never seen before..".

The implication of his incredible knowledge makes his allowing the post by the author of Task Manager even more gracious! What a guy!
there was no China Vs India. Just Tiktok vs Youtube - really Indian Youtube and Tiktok content creators dissing each other...
It takes more than one person to design, approve and implement this feature. Ammon is trying to take the heat for a decision made by multiple people.

Right now, Triplebyte on a resume doesn't tell me anything very positive.

Why hasn't their VP of Growth or the Product Manager of Growth said anything on the subject?

People should be held to account. Working for a startup, it's easy to figure out who's to blame for these terrible ideas.
One company in SF using MeteorJS deploys a whole container with DB and everything per customer.

I think their primary reasoning is that Meteor doesn't scale super easy, so it was easier to just "shard" the whole stack per customer.

Personally, it's a lot of work. It depends on what you're doing to make the tradeoffs worthwhile.

I see this as an optimization. Build everything so you can deploy once for all your customers. If you need to shard by customer later, it's just an infrastructure problem.
It is not politically correct to state the reasons for this. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_cultu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_cultur...

Unfortunately, some cultures have this as a part of their history. They need to be taught a different path.

Edit: In my other comment I was flagged, so I want to make sure I'm not misunderstood. I am not making a moral judgement here of any kind. I'm just trying to say, there are cultures out there that have no history of the Judeo-Christian faith, until much later when it was imposed by colonialists. I think this is a net benefit, because their cultural history before was to kill someone when it started raining or some other natural event.
Every dollar spent on helping to care for the nation's children that are below a certain age saves several dollars on down the line on things like incarceration.

This is a penny wise, pound foolish attitude. If you want to be a "stingy bastard," the "stingy bastard" option is to take care of the kids so they don't become bigger problems down the line.

(Not intended to name call. Just intended to characterize a certain position.)
>Upon reflection, it is so extractive that it seems slightly misleading to even levy it in discussion as trade.

I think my contention is that how narrowly scoped this extraction is belies the alternative, of broader-based capital development which might have produced greater value in the long run. It seems impressive, because it fed the imperial machine in an extremely lucrative manner for the empire; however, what happens when you factor in the value extracted from Britain by the 20th century's wars, resulting in a rapid decline to present circumstances? The British Empire was incredibly short-lived compared to its predecessors, depending on how you look at it. Is this part of a trend? Possibly. But there's room to conceptualize the situation as one of optimizing towards catastrophe, of the entire enterprise being wrongheaded on balance, and of an alternative approach - one which doesn't strip mine non-European civilization, leaving existing structures not to collapse so violently, with ramifications to the present day - being "better" because the knock-on effects might have been less destructive.

Would Mao's purge of intellectuals have happened in a world where Britain's appetite for wealth extraction had been less voracious or narrowly-focused? Would we today be reaping the rewards of Chinese academia emerging from the mid-century intact?

I mean, in a sense, it's impressive what the modern war "trade" bankrolls. 200-300 years from now, will we characterize the military-industrial complex as eliciting the same sort of sense of awe, in its complexity but basic effectiveness in maintaining hegemony and access to resources crucial for the unprecedented build-up of global wealth since the 1950s?
You're right that the CEO wasn't “all over Hacker News”.

But the parent is indeed correct in implying that the comments he did make were anything but receptive or conciliatory.
"Blink, Think, Choose, Refuse"

"Blink, Think, Make a Stink"

or, the classic, "Question Authority"
The article is not good. It is not terrible either but it seems a little like the author is shoehorning in their preconceptions about what they think historians believe about China.

But, there is no lack of study into China pre-Industrial Revolution or the period mentioned by the author. This was maybe true when Landes was writing (the author picks the leading culprit of Eurocentric economic history...this is somewhat inaccurate, Landes just didn't know much about China but his books are valuable) but isn't true anymore.

There is a huge volume of books comparing China and Europe: Pomeranz is probably the best, there are many others. Many of these also look at India...Tirthankar Roy has some great stuff on Indian business history but India is also in Pomeranz (Great Divergence is by far the most important book here...it is huge).

So yeah: I would say that what the field is lacking a good bottom up history of Chinese business (say pre-1900) but documentation is tricky and there is a fairly complete top-down understanding of capitalism/how people worked/etc. anyway.

And just generally, I would actually say that most economic historians that look at this period don't actually look at Europe at all anymore...they almost solely focus on the integration of hinterlands into the capitalist global economy (I studied economic history in the UK...I did precisely no courses on UK/European economic history...in this period: Australia, the US, China, Caribbean/early US colonial...and all looking at the interactions that the author alludes too...talking about Eurocentrism is largely an anthropology student's meme of history students at this point) which was the most interesting trend in the period.
From Feb 2020. Due to the speed of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, I think the month a news story on it is featured on HN needs to be added, otherwise people may think it is a breaking story.
Energy doesn’t vanish. Part of it is dissipated in the wire’s resistance and the rest is radiated as EM energy in a ring-down oscillation.
Can we get dates, e.g., (Feb 3) for posts about coronavirus? Sometimes even days matter, but this is months, and -- regardless of whether this study was in fact flawed -- we now have strong evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted by people without symptoms.
Interesting, I’ve never heard of CBT being used for insomnia. Seems like the method has been used for quite a while too.
It is unlikely that google owns trademarks in all countries for all trademark types.
Cumulus was a pure software company; now that they are part of Mellanox there are more business models available such as subsidizing software with hardware.
Significant flaw to not talk to the supposedly asymptotic patient, but what's the current knowledge on this front? Are there other, reliable cases of asymptomatic transmission documented since then?
How did you get the search to work?
I did not experience that once on 3 trips to Cuba, all different parts.

Hmm, are you American?
For example, write a type that implements a Turing machine parameterized by a program and a natural number N of evaluation steps to take. Apply that type to Graham’s number or some suitably large natural number.

To do that you’d first need to be able to fit Graham’s number into your source code which unfortunately is never going to happen.

Idris has a termination checker which in practice rejects non-primitive recursion. If you can’t prove to the type checker that your recursive function deferments toward a base case at every step then your program won’t type check. So there’s no back-door method to get Graham’s number or other silliness like the Ackerman function into your types.
People do make mistakes. Sometimes people really do just fuck up. We're only human. All of us. Whether you're a CEO or just a worker. Whether it's even heartfelt or not, it's nice to see someone without any bullshit or wishy washy words, just straight up say, sorry everyone, i really fucked up.

Personally, i appreciate the honesty from people, whether they mean it or not, it still takes some bit of honour and humbleness to openly admit your mistake. It's not an easy thing to do and i can appreciate the effort it takes to come out and just straight up say 'yeah i'm an idiot and i fucked up pretty bad.'

Plus, the way i look at it, you always have to remember, no matter how badly you fuck up, you're not that dude that fucked up the space station and caused a slow oxygen leak that had to be repaired with a risky space walk and even he was forgiven...probably.

ETA: Just to add to this as i've thought of it. Years ago, somebody i knew stole a few hundred dollars from me and disappeared. I thought i'd never hear from him again. A couple years later i got a random phonecall from him. He didn't have my money or anything, but he had the guts to call me and apologize and admit he'd just straight up ripped me off. I've never heard from him since and i'd never trust him again, but i respect the nerve it took for him to do that.
This article is absolute garbage.
It doens't gives a single reason as to WHY it should never have closed (we can think of several reasons why flattening the curve was necessary and how lockdown helped to achieve that and disclose the flaws in the management of this country by its leaders).
The article says there were protests by "average" americans in every town (don't confuse readers with your hyperbole and comments without any sources to back it up).
The article is written purely out of emotion and lacks even the modest rationality what so ever.
For anyone unfamiliar, this is a clever riff on a classic economics joke about the Efficient Market Hypothesis [1].

"Two economists are walking down the street and one of them notices what appears to be a $20 bill (or a $100 bill—the monetary amounts vary) on the sidewalk. “It’s not a real $20 bill,” the other economist declares. “If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up off the sidewalk already.”

[1]: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_...
Trip of a lifetime with no end in sight: life on small boats stuck at sea
Welcome the the club.

These are my domains

https://mythos.one/brianswichkow?q=my_domains
I think international transactions have some way to skip the OTP thing.
I just meant that Tiktok is a chinese owned company (and therefore state-owned). China has forced companies to do similar things before.
Java Concurrency with Load Balancer Simulation
I am not sure what is being solved here. As if I wouldve asked for 4 seats, instead got a mansion, even though a car would be more in budget and useful.

Are we just creating complexity for the sake of feeling we are solving something? This system would still go down if there is a fire, which is IMO more likely. Rebuilding the cluster would take time, why not solve the issue of hand-made local deployments?
This is also the primary motivation in censorship, from social media companies to authoritarian regimes. You believe that you know better and must censor wrong information so that stupid people don't consume it and get hurt because of it.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/25/mafia-logic/#ddosecretsin human-readable form:

Bahamas Company Registry leaked

The Distributed Denial of Secrets project publishes leaks that reveal corruption, particularly leaks that undo financial secrecy. They have just released their latest dump: Project X-Ray, a leak of scanned the Bahamas Company Registry.

https://xray.ddosecrets.com/

These are scanned documents – 135,166 in all – that reveal the directors and officers of shell companies, many of them used to hide the looted wealth of poor nations, or funds hidden away by corrupt "businesspeople" evading taxes, or just plain criminals.

They're looking for help transcribing the contents of these records so they can be made fully searchable. Many of these companies are matrioshke grifts, numbered owned by other numbered companies in other notorious secrecy jurisdictions from New Zealand to Delaware.

A previous dump revealed the contents of the Cayman National Bank and Trust, a favored cutout for Russian oligarchs.

https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/Sherwood/
God forbid either of you let them keep the change
Short historic overview: Building JavaScript apps that receive server events
My general sense is that the scheme community doesn’t have the “live system” culture the way the Common Lisp and Clojure communities do: schemes generally seem to deemphasize things like live code updates in favor of a more “batch” compiling strategy: I’ve especially noticed this when talking to people in the Racket community, but my general sense is that Racket inherited this from scheme.
thanks for the link! i really liked the series, but forgot to bookmark it and couldn't find it after. the Windows series starts here: https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a... honestly, it could probably be made into a Halt And Catch Fire-style miniseries, it's so good. actually i think i'll re-read it now :)

"New Tricks For An Old Z-Machine" was great too!
Germany, France, Spain etc are small nations? What's the criteria for one then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus

"The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that in 2002, infection caused 17.8% of human cancers"
There's a lot of stuff available but the problem is knowing what to look for.

For example, the book "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" chronicles quite a bit of Commodore lore, and there are numerous resources for both Amiga and C64 online. Too many to mention, really, and lots of them are heavily specialized. CSDb[0] for the C64 demo and cracking scene, for example.

I also recommend The Early History of Smalltalk[1] by Alan Kay himself and Mark Ferrari's talk[2] on creating pixel art for LucasArts games.

[0] https://csdb.dk/

[1] http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0
They are f%%%ing overheating. Latitudes, Precisions, Alienwares, HPs ZBooks and Elitebooks, all of them have a barely good enough heatsink on the CPU, and often GPU. I dunno about Lenovos, tbf.

Having those chips run at 95+ degrees most of the time (when doing serious work for which the laptops were designed) and depending on Intel's built in thermal throttling (A. Last. Resort. Measure!) is ridiculous.

Dell has even been smartassing it with lower throttle thresholds, god forbid they use better cooling instead.

But hey, they save £1 on every heatsink, so F U, buy a new laptop when this one breaks!

Frankly I am sick of this. Just make proper heatsinks, I can personally come and shove a £2 coin up yours, thanks.
You would think mapping memory, files, pipes and general IO would have stabilized by now, at least in their basic forms.
The charger is just letting the load side know what it can supply... There are tons of cheap charges that are specified to supply 65 watts but will happily provide more than that until they melt or light the floor on fire..
I remember reading somewhere that the EU members treatment of Greece that you're referring to could be considered both a betrayal and common sense. I guess something vaguely similar can be said about brexit, but it should be more like how the UK betrayed EU due to lack of common sense.
Last commit: Tue, 12 May 2015

But to be fair Guile Elisp is doing fairly well.
The song isnt anything special itself, especially for this artist.

It's clearly a critizicm of governing party approach to lockdown and martyrology. They clearly set the rules to avoid limitations and even avoid the rules. They also lost most relatives in 2010 crash including twin brother of the leader of governing part, then president in office. Though he doesn't hold any formal position he is most influential. So he used position to visit the grave, they made it an official celebration.

So the song is just a criticism of perceived abuse of political power. Normal stuff with out any judgment.

The funny thing starts at the radio. President of Polish Radio (national broadcaster) is politically appointed. They appointed CEO for this station. The station were run by people with 15-30 years within, so all govts basically, even when current party was in charge some time ago. Some of the redactors left, were forced out or let gone before. The chart is published for like 30 years, by same few people. The CEO knew the critic song will top it. Blocks whole programm, says vote was a fraud by chart leaders and listeners had right to know chart was bothched, this is almost a literal citation. Chart runners leave because of accusations. Their friends leave over all of recent managment. The station's programme director, which wasn't politically swapped showed SMS from the night before chart was supposed to be aired from polit CEO "To make sure the song they talked about is not aired". Supposedly CEO wanted redactors to sing paper saying vote was erroneous, they refused, so CEO blocked the air resulting in censorship. It's basically PR Chernobyl, and it was most iconic station in Poland.

Sorry for long text but it's still a summary leaving few details. It shows overreaction blown out of proportions and mindset of people placed as directing managers. They could let the chart run and deal with it later but they choose worst option for some reason. They wanted to appease the party or were afraid of consequences of letting it air. Even the party leadership voices were saying it's poor decision making or straight up unacceptable, even if the song is crap.

So, there's nothing in the song, it was the people appointed to run the thing.
Artificial Intelligence: a concise conceptual introduction
Trying to make sense of some basic concepts around AI and Machine Learning.
No. The job of a parent is to raise a child so they can know what's best for themselves and be able to handle problems without you. Most adults think with little evidence that they know what's best for their child. I've talked to many adults who think that their child should go to Harvard, or should go into a trade school, or shouldn't hang out with risk-taking friends, or shouldn't be gay, or should go to church. Outside of the very obvious situations where immediate safety is at risk, I don't see the evidence that most parents know what's best for their child. It's just arrogance. You should be trying to raise a capable adult rather than be protecting a foolish child for 18 years.
"U.K. leave and profit from the deal.|

I find this unfortunately phrased. There is not much the EU can do and the EU has no intention of "punishing" the UK.

But the EU will

1. Protect its common market and the four freedoms

2. Will not give a European country the same deals as a non-European country to protect the European idea. (e.g. won't insists on freedom of movement with, let's say Japan).

Both things are hard to comprehend for many Brexiteers.
I was thinking more specifically, I wanted to look at the cove formed:)
Yea that's fair
This, exactly.

One thing I've learned about "infosec" companies is that their litigiousness is inversely proportional to their actual level of security.

The similar domains I've seen are only $9 though so it's just a matter of time.
Misleading title. It should be "We don't own the digital services or products we use online even if we paid for using them...". There is no "digital life" aspect to it. Still intersesting lawsuit against Amazon, can't expect any better from them.
Don't know what the issue was, but HP and Dell supplies are the same, they'd be interchangeable if not for the smart charge features.
Here's another barebones reader from 2018: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/02/my-feed-reading-system...
I sort of have something like this for PHP and MySQL. https://github.com/ellisgl/GeekLab-GLPDO2
Not as silly as you think
You offer an apology because it’s the right thing to do. You fucked up and you want to own it and recognise it. Once you realise what you’ve done, respecting yourself as a man/woman depends on doing it.

It shouldn’t be for gain. In fact if apologies always led to a positive outcome they would mean less and the world would be a worse place for it.