skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few interesting points that stood out for me:

• 40% interact with the Common Lisp (CL) community on Reddit and 32% on IRC. Indeed, in my experience too https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/ and Freenode #lisp channels have active and supportive CL communities.

• 89% use SBCL. This is not surprising. SBCL has been the most popular Common Lisp implementation for a long time.

• 48% are 32 years old or younger. This is going to help the CL community to stay active for, I believe, at least another 20 years and perhaps even beyond that if the community can attract more programmers to this language. It is a beautiful language that is a joy to program in, so I do wonder why it isn't more popular.

• 31% are from the US. Countries like China, India, Netherlands, Poland, etc. have less than 3% respondents to the survey.

Incidentally, a bunch of us from Freenode IRC are doing a Common Lisp Programming Challenge this month. The objective is to help beginners get started with learning the language while being a part of a community. You don't have to join Freenode IRC to join the challenge. If you are interested in participating in it, please visit https://github.com/spxy/clpc to participate in the challenge.
I hope that second 80% wasn’t a typo because it made me spit my tea out in laughter. I’ve tried my hand at a few indie games like probably every programmer/gamer and wow does that last mile to “done enough to say done with a straight face” seem to stretch on into infinity.
I hope all drugs are legal before the end of my lifetime. We're making great progress with Cannabis and mushrooms.
Oracle really pushed this idea too, because they knew that it would mean more load in the database so you’d need a bigger box with with more cpus. Oracle charged per tiered cpu so their incentives were not aligned with the dev’s. IMHO this is pretty damning reason to generally avoid using the db for this reason. It may be true that a db has lots of spare cycles to utilize but so do your hot spare servers, and I’d hope that you’re not trying to wring performance out of those without thinking long and hard as to what hot spare means.

Source: migrated code from oracle to mysql to avoid insane licensing fees once upon a time. Luckily we only had limited stored procedures at the time, most of which I could ignore.
> Is that the reality?

Certainly is for me. The $170k/yr startup salary I get is certainly not enough to afford jack shit around here. Even an extra $50k/yr wouldn't do anything to alter my lifestyle. I couldn't get any kind of home around here with that and I'd still be very uncomfortable renting a home on that income - as it'd be more than a third of my take home pay (lose your job? You better have a very large emergency buffer - unemployment won't even pay a third of your monthly rent).

The engineers I know who stay around here are A) wealthy (bought home long before average price was past $1m or inherited one), B) rent, dual engineer income, and enjoy the renter lifestyle, C) Work at FAANG and/or have a spouse who does and make big fucking $$$$ D) Going to move away, no plans to stay permanently.

There are no young people (<35) moving here, working for no-name companies, and buying homes after saving for a down payment after a few years. Almost all young people I know who do such things have A) had a startup IPO or B) work at FAANG.

Certainly can't make it here on a single startup salary - not even in the faintest. I'm proof of that.

The reason people move here is because there's a chance (insert dumb and dumber reference) to strike rich. There's also way more jobs here than anywhere else in the country and that's why I moved here. I couldn't get a job anywhere else but I somehow managed to get one here four times in a row now.
Where are you signing up? Micro Center won't do stock alerts or waiting lists.
For some reason I have it in mind as growing in much the same conditions as tea does. If so, lots of Africa and Asia could get in on the act too.
Not really. There is an infinite available of cars that may be driven into NY. There is only a finite number of CPUs available. I have money and want a CPU but cannot get one. I doubt there is anyone in NY who cannot find a car for sale.
Since there is a limited supply of Bitcoin, people are buying Bitcoin now with the hope that there will be more demand for the limited supply in the future. There is a hope that Bitcoin becomes "useful", thus driving demand. Since supply is fixed, demand causes an increase in value.

So, it's a speculative "investment". I suppose whether it's an "investment" depends on your definition of "investment".
Do I understand correctly that you cracked about half of the 12,000-iteration PBKDF2 hashes using a first-gen ThreadRipper and a GTX 1060, and would have cracked more except for a formatting problem in the hashes? That's eye opening.

Is Word Machine publicly available, or is it the sort of thing that has an audience of one?
In many places kids can buy heroin more easily than alcohol. You know dealer won't ask for an id.
Viva colombia!

Given the left and right decriminalization and legalization we are seeing these days this would be one of the greatest shifts in our world history
Because the demands are related to some internal project covered by a NDA, maybe?
You don’t really need the book for the first half of the course, but I found it very helpful for the second half. More so than the vids, which got boring due to repetition.
I got 99 problems but `SameSite` cookies ain't one
UX and UI, while related in some cases are two distinct things.

UX = User experience
UI = User interface

In my opinion, UX should be used to drive the UI, backend & architecture.
> The domestic cocaine industry in Colombia is irrelevant

Export markets can be "less illegal" if they merely need to hide as domestic consumption, not be completely hidden. This will tame, if not eradicate, the Cartels.
This reminds me of "The Darwin Economy" by Robert S. Frank (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12035503-the-darwin-econ...) where he proposes a tax on super expensive luxury consumption precisely because its main utility is social signalling. For example, spending $6 million on a sweet 16 party would have exactly the same utility as spending $3 million and paying $3 million in taxes on it, if everyone had to do the same. Probably more useful as a thought experiment than workable policy, but interesting to consider.
I mean if you're literally talking about the difference between 'buying physical servers' and 'buying Bitcoin' ... well, it seems to me you're missing out on a range of other options, like: investing in companies developing new hardware, for starters. Personally, I just lease what I need at going rates, which get ever cheaper. And by cheaper I mean: in dollar terms - so to keep up with that, I don't see the need to hold highly volatile Bitcoins when I can just hold inflation-adjusted Treasury bonds.
You probably need some 'cooldown time' to take the emotion out of that selection process :)

I also take thousands of pics when travelling...well used to anyway before Covid.
Then I store them all in some cold storage, like a backup HDD so they are handy, and look at them again after 1yr or so.
By then the important memories of that trip are cemented and I can easily delete the irelevant ones. By then you will know which are important and which need to go in the bin.
If we can't fight it then join them. I still don't quite understand this mentality although I know a lot of HN users may approve it. I'd rather have a stronger central gov that can fight the war instead of giving up and joining the game.
Or... compare that to the US cocaine market:

https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/1.3_The_globa_c...

which in 2008 was worth $55 billion. Legalizing cocaine production, and becoming the defacto global supplier of that market which is exactly what would happen-- the gray market export of Cocaine would become utterly enormous.

I personally think this would probably be closer to a $50bn+ a year boost to their economy-- maybe more. The street value being 2x-3x more than the add to GDP, but most of that additional value will probably be consumed by cartels importing the drug to larger markets.
Is the loss of Arecibo a big blow to the scientific community? I was of the impression that Arecibo was long past it's heyday and in general that large arrays of smaller receivers were now considered superior.
Someone please explain this to me:

How is any negative-yielding bond even considered an investment vehicle? I would classify myself as a Boglehead and I believe in the fundamentals of investing in bonds because it all its technicality (and given the buy-and-hold strategy), you are indirectly lending to a government by buying its bonds, which naturally means that you will and do get returns on it, both in terms of the interest (coupon payments) and value growth (further decline in those bond yields).

That being said, again, why would negative yield bonds ever be considered a good investment vehicle? Isn't it analogous to me investing in my money in a depreciating car, which will only lose value unless the car happens to have a random spurt of high demand that lets me unload it at a profit?
One of the several Danish retailers publishes their waiting list data: https://www.proshop.dk/RTX-30series-overview which are impressive -- just that one retailer received 3500 cards, 4300 clients have bought and not received them and they have ordered 24000 cards into their shop for future sales. And out of the 24,000 ordered, they only have confirmation for 860.

This is large retailer, but once of a dozen in Denmark.
I think this position might be a great fit and applied on your website. I noticed that the application only listed Berkeley and Boston, but I'm in Denver. Are you hiring in Denver as well?
SMT-Lib the Satisfiability Modulo Theories Library
This is quite the coincidence. The drone operator seemed prepared for exactly what was coming.
Even when I ate meat, I wouldn't buy a whole ham. What the heck am I going to do with a whole ham?? I literally do not have the freezer space for this. I've never had children, and have only been in a house with one other human.

That's a lot of food waste. Heck, I sometimes lament that I can't buy smaller amounts of spinach because I hate seeing half the bag go to waste.And I'll add that this has nothing to do with cooking or not cooking: I like to cook, and do so most days.

That packaging keeps food waste down because it breaks things into smaller portions - not to mention that many food places seal them in ways to make them last longer (example being adding a mix of gasses to help it not oxidize).
On Windows 10, and I have tested various text input boxes. There's no way latency is anywhere near 100ms, I would notice that.

Generally, from the tests I've seen, input latency is 30-40ms on a wired keyboard on Windows.
Yeah, it may be that the union word is too tainted.

A union doesn't have to be a monopoly keeping everyone else out ("you have to hire our licensed workers") or something that is in the way of doing your job ("you're not allowed to crawl under your desk and plug in ethernet"). Which are the examples I often see here.
DBs can have debuggers and breakpoints, but they do not come anywhere close to something like Visual Studio debugging C# code.

Of course, many programming languages also do not have a debugging quality-of-life compared to Visual Studio.
>I don't see why someone should work full time and still end up poor.

no offense, but this assumes too much about a person. you could make minimum wage $100 an hour, and there will still be poor people because some people make bad decisions. (not even taking into account that that would cause massive inflation etc). just giving a person $100 an hour doesn't guarantee they won't end up poor, as evidence by all the professional athletes that made millions and ended up bankrupt

another note, your link above gives massively different outcomes based on life situations (1 adult, 2 adult, 0-3+ kids etc). Do we need to make minimum wage such that it works for 1 adult with 5 kids who somehow got there with no skills whatsoever such that they are still working for minimum wage? Some people make poor choices in life, and we can't just raise minimum wage to a point that makes up for that. It's simply not possible.

Now, we can talk about other safety nets, such as a universal basic income, and universal healthcare, etc which I'm 100% for. The gov't should help these people, they shouldn't force small businesses to pay people more than the value they bring to the business. This is just picking winners, amazon will get bigger, and small businesses will get killed. Let the free market decide how much people are worth in the market to a business, and let gov't help keep people out of poverty.
All my coworkers remote desktop into their workstations at the office from a laptop at home to do dev work. I can't do it. vscode remote development extension has been my savior when I need to code locally and then flip over to RDP to run the deployment from a specific environment (the office)
> Similar trends are seen in other fields: recently, top tier law firms in London complained

The takeaway for me is “complained”. If it’s the same market why the difference in “willingness to pay”?

Are they holding on to higher margins or have higher costs?
Marc Benioff Sets His Sights on Microsoft
> So I’m not saying salts are without purpose, I’m saying that they don’t prevent dictionary or brute force attacks (which they don’t)

Only true if you don't know the salt. Of course, most folks store the hash and salt in the same table or column (Django).
None of those remotely compare. Covid just became the number one cause of death in the US, in terms of deaths per day. Unlike heart disease and cancer, this was entirely preventable. Compared to banning cars, the safety measures are minor inconveniences, and only need to last until vaccines are widely available, which will happen in a few months.
I might take toro for a spin this weekend.
Generic traits and associated types in Rust
Glad to hear, please keep the feedback coming!
Googling. Got it.

Wow, what a time saver I wish I had known about that earlier.
We are extremely in favor of making financial services available to more people in more places at lower cost and with less arbitrary restrictions. That said, we won’t be able to solve this problem singlehandedly in a day; Stripe Treasury is presently only for businesses serving businesses. As an infrastructure provider, we are also reliant on our users building the platforms their communities need.

Fees matter for businesses too, though. Many small business owners are greatly inconvenienced by e.g. the $X,000 minimum to avoid a $15-25 monthly maintenance fee. By bringing large global banks a great deal of deposits at once, we’ve convinced them to not impose maintenance fees on the end-users of these accounts; they’re willing to send the money they’re not spending on customer acquisition (advertising, branch networks, sales reps, etc) back to Main Street.

Another thing scale allows us to do is advocate for our users with financial partners. For example, earlier this year we successfully convinced the relevant parties to approve processing payments for telemedicine companies, which was previously not something they were comfortable with. That is something that previously each company would have had to individually negotiate, and e.g. startups in the space or individual medical practices might not have had sufficient reputations with their financial institutions to cause major changes in their appetite. We were able to get it through by emphasizing how our scale, maturity, and robust compliance program allowed us to allay their concerns.
You have examples of this? Are you saying they lean left or right? You have the axe to grind, so I feel like the burden of proof is on you. Your down votes makes me feel like I'm not the only one thinking this way, but without evidence to back up your claims... Your throwaway account is also very chickenshit-esque.
Wow. As tragic as the collapse is, at least it has been filmed (i thought it had not when I saw the announcement tweet with its far-away photo). If nothing else it's about as spectacular as I had expected.

Had I been in the area I'd have been tempted to set up my camera somewhere close (remember that the risk of collapse was known to be high).
Yup, I would've kept it in the submission except the full title is 16 characters too long for the HN Title field. It felt weird to only include part of it, so I just chopped all of it off.
I learnt of Plastic SCM [1] a few days ago, apparently better suited to gamedev. Any experience or opinions?

1. https://www.plasticscm.com/
To be fair the traffic is jammed. The traffic surge happened a while back. I guess these are "presales". Our economy is getting jitted, wonder how that will end up working.
The primary problem of DNS load balancing is that DNS is cached, which is not what you want for load balancing.

However the solution here is to use SRV records. I wonder if we will ever be able to use SRV records for HTTP. This way even if the response is cached and served to all of backend servers the application can still round-robin as it knows about the available servers.

I also wonder if it would make sense to add some standardized load-balancing headers to HTTP. For example I can imagine a `Prefer-Other` header that suggested another peer that should be used for future requests or more simply just told it to use another peer if it was aware of any. (for example an A or SRV lookup returned multiple servers) If we want to get even fancier we could do something like return `Load: [0-1]` which the client can use to load balance when it is connected to multiple servers. It should prefer sending most of its load to the least loaded server. There would be a lot of details to work out but it seems that some basic primitives could go a long way.
We have fairly little data on gold as a freely available modern asset class (around 50 years), but yes, in small amounts it can limit volatility and potentially even increase returns (or at least: risk-adjusted returns). That said, over the long haul, independently, it has tended to roughly track inflation. I'm not against it, just see it as something of limited utility to an ordinary investor.
Scientific Studies on Attention Training
Also:

> One bottle of wine per week is associated with an increased absolute lifetime cancer risk for non-smokers of 1.0% (men) and 1.4% (women). The overall absolute increase in cancer risk for one bottle of wine per week equals that of five (men) or ten cigarettes per week (women). Gender differences result from levels of moderate drinking leading to a 0.8% absolute risk of breast cancer in female non-smokers.

Source: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
You realize all Western power came from doing things (like colonialism, and industrialization) first but not exclusively?

Don't underestimate head starts.
Laws aren't necessary in extremely smaller groups. Do you and your dog need laws?

You and your family probably have rules.

Very small communities don't even have police.

The larger the group the more need for laws to protect each other against ourselves.
Palantir is not a data company (Palantir Explained, #1)
For another data point, cannabis became legalized in Canada in 2018 [1]. I'm not a user of it myself, but I have a number of friends who are and one who is for pain management, and according to them, the rollout of licenses for legal storefronts has been pretty disastrous.

Understandably, that's probably a transitional pain, and may be more of a bureaucratic hurdle than something germane to cannabis. But all this to say that changing these kinds of things takes a lot of careful planning; you can't just flip a switch to solve the problems of prohibition.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Canada
False positives could lead to wrongful arrests.
How Children Took the Smallpox Vaccine Around the World
Good. Then the same applies to someone saying #KillAllWomen. We either judge everybody by the same standard, or not at all. Everything else is sexist (or racist, in the case of race, and so on).

By the way, personally I don't care about somebody saying "KillAllX" regardless of who that X is, when it's used in hyperbole. The problem is that, with some people, context gets disregarded. "KillAllMen" doesn't really mean actually killing them, but if someone said "KillAllWomen" all of twitter would be arguing that they totally definitely absolutely one hundred percent meant it literally and should be imprisoned.
This one too:

https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/tlaib-garcia-an...
It would be interesting to measure input latency on the new M1 Macs and add them to the table. It certainly feels like they’ve managed to claw a bit back.
Scalpers don't keep them. They redistribute them to normal customers.
Banks tend to be just as picky. Seeing as Stripe needs continuing love from banks, they are probably contractually obligated to be equally picky.

This is a banking and regulation issue probably and not a Stripe or Paypal specific issue.
In the UK firing someone for being a member of a union is unfair dismissal.
>And yet we wonder why people get Alzheimer's and Parkinson's left and right.

correlation =/= causation.

>I threw out all Teflon pans years ago.

AFAIK teflon pans in their finished state doesn't really leech any toxic chemicals. All the emissions come from manufacturing, the coating itself is mostly inert.
These are definitely a step up than what I'm used to and I appreciate the effort put into the reply. I'm still naively hoping there will be a scifi-esque biometric scanner or finger-prick analyzer, as another commenter put it, some day ;)
I personally believe the CIA killed Gaitan back in 1948 starting the decades long civil conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogotazo
In the Bay Area, I can roll into a high end dispensary that feels like a Beverly Hills wellness spa. The breadth of product is amazing and the associates are super positive and knowledgable. Almost feels a bit bougie :)
That's fair. (Although I've gotta selfishly hope that if that's true it won't stop people from leaking the email.)
> Also typical database uses 96% of the time for logging, locking etc. and 4% percent for actual data operations

That's a strange claim, in my work it's always been 100% data ops.

> “Letting people connect directly to the database is a madness” — yes it is.

why?

> Killing database by multiple connections from single network port is simply impossible in real life scenario. You will long run out of free ports

Depends entirely on the workload. And it's very possible. All too entirely so.
It shouldn't be considered an investment vehicle if we follow Benjamin Graham's philosophy (father of value investment, Warren Buffet's mentor).

I'd say it should be called a speculative vehicle. The word speculative carries a negative connotation, so financial companies won't make money off of bitcoin trades, so hence the name investment vehicle. It's as manipulative as the name almond milk, which is not really milk.
If I write my employer an email that says "do x, y, and z or I resign", that is pretty obviously a resignation if x,y, and/or z are refused.

In fact, there is no law that states resignation must be submitted in writing (though a contract can stipulate that requirement). I can walk into my boss' office and resign verbally with immediate effect. California is an "at will" state.

That said, I would be happy to read the source you're citing with respect to the employment law relating to resignation if it contradicts my claims.
You think legalizing cocaine will stop us meddling?
for me, the main WOW factor is multiple people sharing their windows simultaneously -- such a differentiator. like the post said, this has huge implications for productivity. a new standard in collab.
Banking on Status
Who even knows the names of movie stars anymore? They just go by their SAG-AFTRA member IDs since the union has made them all practically interchangeable.