skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not hearing anything about trout in Kentucky.

That probably says more about environment research funding in Kentucky than it does their fish.

Washington is one of the most pro-science states in the US, the Puget Sound area has one of the greatest concentration of environmentally focused people, and salmon are historically deeply ingrained in Washington culture. If it took all of that to garner enough resources to discover this problem, imagine all of the other environmental disasters out there that we're simply oblivious to.
You can create one in the repo settings, just not from your user settings.
Many (not all) small islands also have a disproportionately large EEZ. Why should that depend on population anymore than domain names?

> transferring money from populous countries to sparsely populated countries.

If small countries have something large countries want then what is wrong with transferring money.
There is a real trap in always feeling like you need more career wise or comparing how you are doing to other people.

It's way too easy to shift the goal to being a little bit more successful then you currently are and it makes people miserable even if they are doing well by most people's standards.
Google unleashes Project Treble for 4 years smartphones support
honestly I found playing Cookie Clicker to be really transformative in terms of perceiving those situations. Ever since then, I look at games differently. The most recent example of this is Hades. I played that game very compulsively, and feel that most of the serotonin I was getting out of it was the result of operant conditioning, not something that I really like. That game has an absolutely perfectly designed reward loop, but I wasn't really enjoying playing it very much.
I do believe that in a lot of cases people would be better served by measuring it first. I live in central London near a small street on the first floor and measured PM2.5 for a year, it barely ever went over 2ug/m3, with 10ug/m3 being safe long term threshold set by the WHO, which makes any PM2.5 air purification useless. Now, NO2 is a bit different and I haven't measured it, but common household air purifiers do nothing for it.
> they are already poor so they don't have mortgages to default onto - they can't afford even in good times - and that avoids a major risk of repeating 2008.

Yeah, well you are forgetting the people they were renting from have mortgages… 2008 will be a cake walk compared to this… can't "extend and pretend" forever…
>Is it possible to build web apps in common lisp or any lisp? Any frameworks available?

Yes, many.

>Is it possible to build multithreaded apps that use multiple CPU cores for performance? What is used? POSIX threads?

Yes, threads, there's many libraries also for channels, software transactional memory, etc.
I pretty much agree.

What would be an example be of an economic policy that would maintain stability while bringing the birth rate down below the replacement rate?
You appear to be laboring under a misconception. The responsibility to act on public health measures has always been primarily at the state and local levels. Under our federal system, the federal government doesn't even really have legal authority to order lockdown measures. Granted the federal response has been an appalling mix of corruption and incompetence, but the federal role is mostly just advisory anyway.

State governments have the power to pay people to stay home. They might have to shift funding from other areas or raise taxes in order to do so.
I guess I don't see the difference.

People running the corporations who decide to be "socially responsible" are "being nice." The reason they do it is because their customers want/will pay for "social responsibility." If nobody wants social responsibility, why would it fall on corporations to do it anyway? Why do they get demonized and everyone else gets off the hook?
Amazon has been using HERE maps internally for many years. It was the map included in the Fire phone and tablet, and also it's used in the online shop, such as for showing the parcel on the map, among other things. When I left HERE it was also heavily using AWS, so it's a two-way relationship.

For those who may not be familiar with HERE, they're huge on Enterprise, especially in Automotive, logistics but also on public sector.

HERE used to be part of Nokia and used to power their maps application. It's now owned by a wide consortium where the well-known German car making companies still have a majority. They also heavily use HERE maps and location based services, as many other car makers do. Not sure if they still do, but when I left, it was heavily used by Microsoft for Bing maps. Yahoo and Facebook maps were all based on the HERE map data and used many of the the same backend services.

Note: I currently work at AWS and previously worked at HERE but this message is not written on behalf of my current/former employer.
> You can also create your own functions as synonyms, if you feel like, it's easy and compiler has no issue with that.

This is specifically what was trying to suggest. I wish folks would do more of it. Write the synonym for your function and then a brief docstring about what it means for this specific case.

All the generic tooling means that writing your getter or whatever might be simpler than it is in another language, but it's still worth writing. Even when it's just a synonym.
Is Raindrop active? I can only find archived / discontinued stuff.
I feels like Heroku 8 years ago. Cheap to get started, but I never recommended it for startups with a tight budget. You can get stuck with an architecture that becomes very expensive very quickly, and that scares me.
I've been using regolith for a year or so now on both my work laptop (Dell XPS 13) and personal dev box (System 76 Meerkat) hooked to the same 44" TV monitor.

Overall it has been a good experience. Once you get muscle memory for the shortcuts to move between windows and workspaces, resize and toggle fullscreen windows you can start really flying. The built-in cheatsheet mentioned by the parent poster helps to get there.

Bonus: when I'm sharing my desktop with a work colleague (they all use Macs) I often get asked how I'm doing what I'm doing so fast.

I do sometimes still get a little frustrated when I want to reorder windows in a workspace. It can be done but feels a bit like solving a Rubik's Cube. It would be nice to be able to do things like:

1. Rotate the windows (either direction) that touch all the screen edges and then inherit the window size that the window moves into.

2. Be able to flip window sets that touch the side edges, eg swap all the windows on the left with the right.
A Bitcoin owner typically controls many addresses. It is typical to create a new address to receive change. But (apparently) sometimes an address is reused (to receive change), and that's the yellow
Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine enough.
I object to the editorialized title. No one condemned him for giving the hospital a bunch of money. They condemned him for being Mark Zuckerberg (a human being who shouldn't have hospitals named after him on account of his being Mark Zuckerberg, so they say).
Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine.

Edit: also, the military, FEMA, and non-profits built temporary hospitals in spring, but they weren't needed.
A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
Trump Twitter Account Hacked, Dutch Cyber Unit Claims
A Full-size sedan fits 3 child-seats, if you choose an appropriate thin design of seat.
Systems for Coordinating Coordinate Systems
Bitcoin is the use case for blockchain.
Casey Muratori on getting rid of OOP mindset [video]
Very anecdotal but I just switched from cable to fibre and latency significantly reduced, form like 20-30ms to 5ms.
I am really interested to know why should anyone go with this when Debian or Ubuntu LTS exist. The two later have not changed their policies in the last decade, and they have a clear path for upgrading. CentOS was always a clear choice for device drivers support, but I never understood the stability claims.
i3 window manager was an eye opener for me. I was so surprised to see how we can control our windows just by using keyboard and this is why I love using linux and i3 was one of the major reason why I keep going back to linux
He left in 2013, most postdocs positions have a 5 year cutoff for eligibility. It's been 7 years since he got the degree so a lot of doors have already closed for postdoc opportunities. Professors will find reasons to not hire him such as being out of the game for too long and thus he's not caught up in the literature or whatever. He could try to go in as a data scientist. It is true though that usually that job goes to students because they're cheap and capable, they just take longer. So yeah it's kind of hard to compete against cheap, passionate labor that students provide.
Even in a full-size SUV, you can't fit three car seats in one row of the back seats.

Combine that with requirements to keep kids in various car seats and booster seats until they hit arbitrary age and weight limits, which stretch out longer and longer all the time, and it's still a problem.
> On top of that, being geographically bound doesn’t help.

I can absolutely believe that this is still an issue, but it's also highly disappointing that's still the case.

All your data analysis is done on a computer, and I'd bet that every telescope or instrument you have to interact with is computer controlled and can be worked with remotely with little modification.

Yes, astrophysical datasets can be absolutely enormous, and bandwidth can become a serious constraint, but we have solutions to those problems too - that's one of the reason terminal sessions (in their various modern guises) are so powerful.

You would think or hope that by the end of 2020 when a global pandemic has taught many of us that, for much of the time, for those of us whose working lives are mostly spent "in computers", we would have learned that geography is not a significant barrier. At least not with decent enough internet connectivity.

Again, sadly, I'm not surprised to see that in certain circles it is still an issue. It's a cultural change, and those can take an awfully long time to work themselves out.
This article teases apart factors: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/28/...
I remember reading about covid death numbers and uncertainty around them. No one dies of HIV, they die of secondary infections. No one dies of obesity, they die of heart failure.

Maybe its time we had immediate, short term and general causes of death?
Vitamin D the Clue to More Autism Spectrum Disorder in Boys
Not 100% sure, but I expect it asks the server if mail to an address is deliverable. I recently was doing some testing directly talking SMTP to a server and recall a special check command. IIRC it said it check if the server would accept mail for an address. So I don’t think it would fail on a catch all.

Assuming this uses that technique.
Minivans are only un-cool until you are forced to appreciate their practicality. They can transport groups of kids and all their gear, a bunch of dogs, a surprising amount of furniture or even large sheets of lumber or drywall. I would only consider replacing my minivan with an electric minivan.
Hmmm, yeah. From the linked article,

Mr Gevers had told officers he had substantially
more evidence of the "hack".

An earlier article gives a little more detail, but nothing substantial. From https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55019858 --

He did not post any tweets or change any settings, but
said he took screenshots of some parts of the
president's account.

If he has screenshots of private messages, etc, that would certainly prove he had access... but only if Trump or somebody with legit access to Trump's account was able and willing to verify them.

Of course, I don't blame this researcher for lacking more concrete proof. He could easily have proved his access by changing something in Trump's account, sending a tweet/DM, etc. But by doing so he likely would have brought some serious legal issues down onto himself.
I'm on windows now and have been using emacs through WSL. Do people tend to prefer the native windows version or not?
We're using blockchain technology to build a decentralized cloud where users can store data on remote hosts without having to trust them, and without giving up ownership of the data.

The blockchain is a critical part of the infrastructure because the hosts need to be paid for the services they provide, but as untrusted entities we need assurances from them. Also, if you don't have a blockchain in the middle you need something like PayPal in the middle, which is a single point of failure.
The amount of dirt thatin the air is surprising. Taking it out of my ionizator weekly. I doubt it’s healthy
Ha, the first time I tried VR it was a multi-person experience. Back in the early 90s, I played Dactyl Nightmare at some tourist location. All 4 members of my family were in the same "world" and could see each other. It was, like most VR games today, fun for about 10 minutes. There's still some interesting experiences being developed at portable venues (ie, thevoid.com).

But I'd also say that FOV is really, really important. Right now the experience is just like putting a little TV on your face with an IMU. Immersion requires peripheral vision and spatial audio.
Herd immunity is the end-state (with or without a vaccine) not some policy option to pursue. It is what will eventually happen. The trick is getting to that end-state with the least amount of damage incurred. I would've advocated for something more closely resembling: https://gbdeclaration.org/focused-protection/
By understanding the stability I mean the other two are as stable as far as I have experienced them in the last decade.
Those bills were DOA in the Senate. This was all posturing on both sides.
No you need JS to view the site, to view the image just go to

https://i.imgur.com/zM5gMjt.png

(add i. before imgur)
Even the linked Google cache page of SolarWinds customers is returning a 404 now, but archive.org's copy is still up[1] and a screenshot of same[2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201214054313/https://www.solar...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/rQqy8pl
But hey, the NASDAQ and DOW are setting historical records. Nothing to see here, move along.
I find Julia great at linear algebra, also heard there’s some ODE support. Octave and Matlab feel outdated in comparison.
> Chrome didn't dethrone IE and displace FF because google advertised it, it was legitimately the best browser at the time. FF was awful, and so was IE.

It started that way, then it dominated because every google search not using chrome popped up “Better with Chrome” or “Try Chrome.” Same with all of Google’s properties. There’s no way to disable this. That’s billions of free adverts every day. It adds up.

I think similarly back in the 90s that IE4 took off because Netscape4 was horrible and then stagnated, but dominated because Windows bundled and required it. They had bundled and required IE2/3 but those were inferior to NN3.

So being good gets them to critical mass and then anticompetitive forces got them to owning.
To clarify, what I meant was specifically "exchange value". The sole purpose of buying Bitcoin or USD is to exchange it at some later point in time. There are practically no other uses. As opposed to the many trade-able things which can be consumed, used, exploited, etc. Of course it's not black and white. Gold has some intrinsic value but its "intrinsic value demand" (e.g. industrial uses) only accounts for a tiny share of total demand.
>And found them to be very hostile.

I started 4 years ago. They are very helpful and friendly.

Just approach them with a genuine interest.
What is the vision for Rocky Linux?

A solid, stable, and transparent alternative for production environments, developed by the community for the community.

Hence the name Rocky Linux, I suppose? Solid as a rock.

Although I'll be inclined to think of it as series of movies. Perhaps even split wood before installing Rocky 5?
What's wrong with Japan?
> It seems correct as a matter of policy to not earmark PPP loans directly to employee wages.

At a minimum, it should be tied to maintenance of payroll, since that's the entire theory of the Paycheck Protection Program.

Alternatively, it should just not have existed, and direct individual aid should have been increased instead.

> We don't want to set up a scenario where a bunch of small businesses fail the instant the PPP ends because they haven't been paying the bills.

The fungibility of money means that earmarked funds for payroll frees up any other funds for other uses. It might make sense to earmark less than 100% for paychecks, or to have a separate relief mechanism, to account for ongoing fixed costs. If business is reduced so that revenue is not available for marginal costs, than those marginal costs should also not exist.
My thinking is that there are better ways to do this, even for people that can't afford to pay for their content. I think the BBC is a perfect example. Why can't we have state-funded social media?

I know this is a fairly left-wing perspective, but I feel that the implicit agreement - which I totally agree exists - isn't necessary. There doesn't need to be a buyer and a seller. Once that is taken away, where is the incentive for sinistrum?
That's a great story. I remember being blown away by Descent - probably the second 3D-type game I played after Doom. The thought of free spaceship movement through caves with 6-axis control was amazing - though IIRC the level design was carefully done to keep mostly 2D-ish with a clear up-down orientation. Must have been mind-blowing in VR in 1995.

All that said, I think people playing alone is a big enough demographic to support a VR breakout, if the killer app comes along.
We ended up buying Diono Radian carseats [1], which are marketed as "the 3-across car seat"

We can fit our three kids in the back of our Honda Civic perfectly well.

But we've had exactly the same conversation. In order to have a fourth kid, we'd need to swap out our vehicles. House is fine, insurance is fine, income is fine, but we'd need to upgrade vehicles, and that seems to be just enough friction to make the idea unappealing.

[1] https://www.diono.com/us/product/radian-3r-2020/
Meanwhile, some of the strongest voices calling for near-permanent lockdowns came from the well-paid professional classes, who could afford to order Uber Eats twice a day and had zero chance of losing their over-inflated incomes.

The continuing erosion of the middle class isn’t a good thing. Expect populist political rhetoric to continue growing.
Totally agree with you on Arch. I think I would get out of my comfort zone and install arch and customize it
It's probably a mistake to put "SUVs and trucks" all in one bucket. Can you even fit a third car seat in a crew cab pickup, assuming two adults in the front?

See https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/research/the-rise-of-th...

That massive green chunk is for crossovers, which typically have space for two adults and two car seats. Fitting a third means graduating to a full-size SUV (or minivan), which means a significantly more expensive vehicle (assuming similar trim levels, etc).
I have been hanging out on IRC since 2006 too. The open source communities back then were indeed caustic. #python was an exception. #python used to be very nice to beginners. #c was perhaps the worst.

The attitude of these communities has changed a lot since then. It has been 14 years since then! Right now, #lisp and #emacs and their Reddit counterparts r/lisp and r/emacs are a very pleasant, friendly, and supportive community. For those looking to becoming a part of the Lisp or Emacs community, I strongly recommend giving #lisp, #emacs, r/lisp, and r/emacs a chance.
This is a pretty complicated subject, but the global TL;DR, is that until now, OEMs required support from all of Google, SoC vendor, ODM to manage major Android upgrades, and OEM to manage to upgrade to newer Android versions. This was supposedly fix by Project Treble, but until now Google prevented this.

So with this, OEMs no longer require support from SoC vendor and ODM to manage to upgrade to a newer Android version. They can keep the drivers provided originally by the SoC vendor and ODM, and "simply" upgrade only Android framework.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351189 for the complaint this is addressing
Newer cars disable the passenger airbag if the weight of the occupant is less than a certain threshold (65 lbs according to https://owners.honda.com/vehicles/information/2018/Civic%20S...).
Adjusted for inflation and dollar printing it’s probably flat actually
Matlab also has toolboxes, I guess they aren’t all available in Octave?
What has been gradually removing personal agency from the masses is this ever-growing debt black hole, accumulating for decades.

Small business owners aren't feeling some pressing desire to continue their craft during the pandemic, beyond that of anyone with a passion. What's really driving their desperation is needing to pay rent, as the banks continue operating as normal, demanding their periodic tribute, and threatening to confiscate businesses if they don't find some way to pay up.

You said "people with their small businesses don't want handouts". The problem is that they've internalized rent as some inherent fact of life, while viewing anything that could mitigate rent as a "government handout" - despite decades of government financial meddling being responsible for this jam!

The direct solution was/is to suspend all rent/mortgages denominated in USD, and let the pain accrue to those who are usually benefiting from vacuum-up economics. Instead, as always, disinvolved capital was given a pass (along with a huge bailout!) while the political machine went to work dividing the productive members of society to distract from their real enemy.
I have it there by default on FF, I was talking about chrome having a worse UX on Android. Reading the original post, I admit I phrased it in a confusing way.
It is a statistical nightmare to do what you suggest.

1. False correlations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

2. True correlations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding

3. The number of normal compounds in our body from cell processes or digestion is large. Measuring tiny amounts of unknown compounds is extremely hard in that environment.

A better way is to proscribe more in-depth testing of compounds on animals. Removing all other factors gives statistical power to observations.
Direct cash transfers to those who opt out of having children voluntarily (as their opt out has value they should be compensated for), while accepting that more tax revenue will be needed to support entitlements during the population decline curve. We’re in a sort of resource debt and will end up having to pay it back, balancing gdp cost with quality of life of those here now who will eventually age out.

Can’t grow forever in a physical system with constraints.
So 1.5M out of the 70M+ that voted for him...
Underlying paper: https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665...

In the comments on my post about the paper when it originally came out (https://www.jefftk.com/p/three-car-seats) people pointed out that the methodology cannot determine whether there is a common cause, and a common cause is actually quite plausible. Posit that over time people are becoming more protective of children, for whatever reason. This (a) makes parenting substantially more work/money (closer supervision, more childcare hours), leading to people having fewer kids on the margin, and (b) makes people supportive of legislation to protect children (car seat laws). So while it looks that car seat laws are causing fewer children, they could actually both be caused by changing societal attitudes toward child protection.