skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said he couldn't hang out at a library because he didn't have a library card, which struck me as odd.

Do libraries not let you inside unless you have a card in California?

Because there's not a single library I've been to that required a library card to enter or spend time at the library. I only have a library card for my city, but I've been to libraries all over the suburbs to read their books (on the premises), write, attend events, and even secure meeting rooms (just needed my driver's license).

Actually when I was poor that was one thing I did a decent amount of, was just hang out at libraries. Although I've never been so poor I didn't own a working computer, either, although I came close once. One time, when my computer died I spent a couple weeks hunting down a cheap one (just the tower) for $80 on Craigslist that wasn't too much of a downgrade from what I had (mine was kind of old to begin with).

I don't remember exactly what was wrong with it. I want to say it was the power supply fried, but if that's the case, I don't know why I thought I couldn't just buy a replacement for the same cost. Maybe I just felt I couldn't afford to take the chance.
Lisp and Forth might be the only languages out there where writing a basic interpreter is a reasonable weekend project and a decent way to get your feet wet with some new language you want to learn.
How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
My (lack of) sense of smell agrees with you. 9 months post infection.
Forty five million people live in the NYC and LA metro areas alone. NYC is about 3% of the national population. Los Angeles is another 2.5%.

The average American lives in a fairly considerable city, depending on your definition of "large." The vast majority live in cities of 100,000 or more.

Almost half of Americans live in the 100 largest MSAs. For perspective, the #100 MSA is Fort Wayne, Indiana, at roughly 500,000 people.

Not to mention, struggling to make rent, homelessness, and poverty don't just vanish when you step away from the most expensive cities.

Living in "Santa Luna" (which I assume was actually Santa Cruz) instead of the suburbs where he worked didn't make his rent affordable in 1994, and it certainly wouldn't today, in 2020.
You can take your car to not-Volkswagen and get it repaired.
As long as people are getting water, nothing is wrong?

The city is losing 7 million gallons per day in leaks (this also includes firefighting).

Are there alot of fires daily?
Best advice my dad ever gave was: The middle class is disappearing. In the future there will be only rich and poor. Your job is to end up on the correct side of that line.

He then peaced out of my life but that part stuck.
'Brain fog' following COVID-19 recovery may indicate PTSD

https://www.uclahealth.org/brain-fog-following-covid-19-reco...
Ungated:

https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/markets/story/Making_sense_of_...
If you traded it off tor with a burner computer at a cafe or something, there is absolutely no way anybody could trace it back to you. It took the FBI to catch the silk road guy several years and iirc they pinned him on buying a hitmans services, not drug trafficking.
Quite simply, the energy and capital costs of growing bushel of wheat are more than the bushel price of wheat. This difference isn’t just a little, but a lot. If I’m reading the table right in page 19 of the appendix linked, it’s as bad as 37x in 2019, and only projected to fall to 4.6x by 2050.

Paper
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/32/19131

Appendix
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2020/07/22/200265511...
Python's semantic whitespace but for Lisp... is not a sentence I thought I'd ever type.
Buyforlife.com was inspired by the subreddit and it's where I posted my very first prototype :)

The problem with this subreddit and part of the reason why I started my website was summarized pretty accurately by another user:

"I joined this sub for the purpose of buying stuff like lifetime warranty backpacks, tools, camp gear, kitchen wear ect. Yet this sub has basically became an Instagram for the old shit people find in they're grandparents house which offers no benefit to me now. I'm not going to buy, nor could I even find a kitchen aid mixer you grandma still uses from the 70s. Most stuff back then was made to last, we know that. I want stuff thats still made today with quality."
Sadly you are correct about Japanese vs American sizing. But beyond that hanging clothes to dry vs having a dryer, inbuilt grills on stoves, rice cookers, dishwashers being rarer, etc all add up to more efficient use of space.
Cephadm: The new way to install Ceph
That was good. I link it to that previous entry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547448
> Having better tox models seems like the highest value, albeit very difficult, route here. Which to me is a separate, more general, problem than a specific disease model.

Agreed. Better toxicity testing would go a long way towards solving some aspects of the search problem.
These all reasonable points, but my comment was that this isn’t a good article. Indeed it didn’t mention any of these examples. (Plus it made the very, very silly Stalin analogy.)
Most minimum wage workers are alive and not homeless. Sometimes they live 10 to a 2-bedroom, especially the illegal immigrants who often don’t even make minimum wage, but the world you describe is not the reality out there.
Ah, that was going to be my followup question. I'm having trouble finding a block diagram of the CM4 (and RPI4), if you happen to have a link, that'd be incredible.

* Also, how the Ethernet PHY connect to the CPU and what are the implications?
Well, that's not really covered by correctness guarantees and nor could it — what happens does not lead to undefined behavior and memory corruption but “external correctness” related to writing to files depends on what the outside world does with the file to begin with.

There are other strange things in the IO monad, such as the ability to observe evaluation orders by throwing exceptions.
Why SeaWorld Must Be Saved
I think what might change things (at least in the US) is the demographic shifts. Housing demand (and so, related, prices) is obviously related to the number of people and what they can pay. If anything, the lowering of the 10 year yield, which is used to determine mortgage rates, allows people to spend more for a house due to the low interest rate. If interest rates go up, then the prices should go down to keep steady with what people are able to pay for a monthly mortgage.

Same thing about all the retirees eventually dying off and liquidating or handing down all this money, stock, and housing (honestly, I feel the same about political leanings, but that seems fairly steady unfortunately). Seems like if history has shown us anything, while one person might be good with money, the same can't always be said for their children (3rd generation rule - by the 3rd generation, 90% of wealthy families lose it).
I think these days there is only one metric that really matters: the size of the Fed balance sheet. And it is going up [1]. As long as the Fed keeps printing, asset prices will go up, no matter the financial ratios.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
How did you get past app review? I tried to ship a free HN reader with more features than this one and was told I didn't meet the minimum functionality requirements.
It is extremely unlikely that distillation of alcoholic beverages was known to the Ancient Greeks. Once distillation took off at the point when it is documented in the early first millennium, it swiftly spread through Eurasia. It beggars belief to think that the Homeric-era Greeks had these beverages and kept them to themselves.
Ask HN: Any cool things I can use my spare VPS bandwidth for?
I have a VPS but I only use it to host my blog.
Since it's a $5 VPS in DigitalOcean (1G RAM, 1 vCPU, 25G SSD), it's not really feasible for distributed projects [1] that requires large computational resources.

However, I would like to utilize my 1TB network traffic quota.
Is there any cool things (especially for charitable purpose) I can try with the extra bandwidth I have?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects
I'll be curious if those countries that minimized infections will be more competitive over the next few decades because of a population with less mental impairment.
WebAsm is not performance competitive:

"We find that the mean slowdown of WebAssembly vs. native across SPEC benchmarks is 1.55× for Chrome and 1.45× for Firefox, with peak slowdowns of 2.5× in Chrome and 2.08× in Firefox."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.09056.pdf
Divide a month's rent into 12 and you see it's a 100-200 dollars, which highlights how much you'd have to raise rent for a month's vacancy.
I don't see how strict vs. lazy has anything to do with linkage. I guess you are talking about foreign functions defined in a dynamic library. Calling a foreign function (regardless of linkage) will just evaluate the arguments and pass them according to the calling convention of the foreign ABI. If you link to library dynamically and it gets updated (in an ABI compatible way) you don't have to recompile anything, it just works as you would expect.
Sure, rename it from “Buy It For Life” to “Bought It For Life.” More accurate and you don’t even need to change the acronym.

But seriously, one way to leverage survivorship bias is to buy the old thing that survived. Hence why old used Toyota pickups are still expensive.
It's not just that social networks go bad the way cheese goes bad, but also that any "social network" business becomes opposed to the interests of its user base at the moment it becomes a "sustainable" business (e.g. the users would want 100% of the surplus to go to improving the system, but management, employees, investors and such won't agree)

Once you are #1 in the Google Economy there are many reasons to say "why try harder?" Questions might have better answers some place else but there is no one site that threatens the SO hegemony. Also, a site like SO has a proven compatibility with Google SEO -- if you made any big changes to a site like that there is a high risk that your traffic would drop catastrophically.

What I would do:

StackOverflow Q/A are all available by a "cc-by-sa" license, so it would be a good starting place for something better: an "antisocial" project curated by a small group of people. Take the top 0.1% of questions from SO and only the best answer and strip away the "socialjunk" (e.g. see "chartjunk") and you are starting to get there.

A system like that could justify itself it were your own personal knowledge base, but to make something generally useful I'd expect to curate 100 questions a day for 3 months or so: about 10,000 questions in all.

There are a number of methods that could speed up that curation a lot, not least of which is that you'll find some authors who consistently write great answers and others who consistently get upvoted with mediocre answers, etc. No amount of analytics will make up for zero manual curation work, you could be maybe 5x as productive once you've curated 10,000 questions and developed some automation.
I’m not really sure what you’re arguing for. I didn’t say anything of those things were non-problems, I said that having a minimum wage job isn’t some kind of homeless death sentence.

It is completely possible to survive on a minimum wage job in many cities across the country. It isn’t luxurious, it isn’t fair, and it certainty isn’t ideal, but exaggerating the facts to make a sociopolitical point only makes the opposition have a stronger foothold.
The body of TFA rightly points out that we don’t actually have evidence that COVID directly causes problems with sleep.

What we know is that since COVID and lockdowns, the number of people reporting sleep issues and seeking treatment for insomnia is increased. This is obviously entirely unsurprising.

I think the more important point, somewhat ironically made on HN, is the critical effects of sleeplessness and promoting healthy sleep as a national public health priority. It seems to me this is just another pernicious example of how lockdowns and disrupting a population’s routines directly and indirectly damages public health.
And actually all of those things are problems with the default prelude and not the language core. There are alternative preludes that one can use, and hopefully these warts will be fixed in the future. It takes time because it's a breaking change though.
There are alternatives which split the difference between humane and productive. Generally what small time farmers will do is keep cows in pastures that don't have enough food to feed them but do have enough area for them to roam. They'll then use their farming ground to produce enough hay to feed the cattle.

But that said, small time farmers are getting priced out by factory farms. Unfortunately, the dollar is king when it comes to meat production.

The worst part is that there's no real way for a consumer to fix this problem. You can significantly reduce or eliminate your meat consumption and that won't affect factory farms. Remember, they are the cheap meat. So who gets the brunt of reduced consumption? Generally smaller operations as they end up priced out of the market.

The only 2 ways I know of to really hurt factory farmers is for either lab grown meat to be less expensive or for government regulations to outlaw the practice. If the quality of lab grown meat is high enough, however, you are going to see major issues with small time farmers being priced out of the cattle industry completely.
I think for sake of argument, trade here is all encompassing. Trade on future, trade on credit, on loan, IOU, or cash... it’s still a trade. A barter between one entity and another for perceived value.
Blame interest rates. Yields tracked Fed interest rates pretty tightly up until the GFC. This decade has been anomalous in this respect, with yields going up while interest rates fall, and so it seems that the market is on a correction-course.

We've also had nearly a decade where inflation is higher than the Fed rate. Making borrowing effectively more profitable than saving. And what are investors going to do with this borrowed cash? Well, probably buy assets that, at minimum, track inflation.

The Fed tried raising rates in 2018, but Yellen was replaced at the Federal Reserve with Jerome Powell, who quickly reversed course and put into place policies which are fueling an asset bubble. Now we are in this awful position where the economy needs higher interest rates, but whomever pulls the trigger on raising is going to tank the market, hard.
I think that's a function of american suburbs. It's rural round here which isn't really walkable (narrow country lanes with poor visibility).

Suburbs where I live are very walkable, with footpath on both sides of the road, and typically plenty of traffic calming. Rare to be more than a mile to a school for under 11s, maybe 2-4 miles to high school, half a mile at most to a bus stop.
You can get a template of something similar for less than $20
How to Build a Flask Web App to Compress Images Using a Variational Autoencoder
That's absolutely it. People not only are unwilling to sell - as in their right - but also insist that everyone else be unwilling to sell. If they are willing, the permitting process is made to be as painful as possible, in an effort to discourage everyone involved.
Why healthcare in US is so expensive. From the perspective of a programmer
The problem with disqualifying someone for life is that people will start to dope each other's skis.
Master of Play – The many worlds of a video-game artist (2010)
So it delivers 97% of the product to the user. Seems pretty good. What is your standard? According to the EPA the typical water system loses 16% to leaks, that means SFPUC is well above the typical system performance.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-04/documents...
Implementing join planning in our open source Golang SQL query engine
Regarding Staingate - I checked with a few of them and they said they didn't know anything about it. I got puzzled expressions when I mentioned it.

Furthermore, one of them knew about it and quietly advised me not to do it because it is an extremely harsh and clumsy with scraping of glue and other such steps involved, some of which may inadvertently cause other damage, and so they recommended I just deal with it and upgrade eventually but they were happy to attempt it.

So my choices were to either live with the stains or risk the replacement based on what I was told. I use it with the stains till this day.
> Russia involves itself only in affairs of few neighboring countries

Was presumably meant in reference to neighboring countries where Russia involves itself to the point where it would be wiser for a citizen of such a country to store their data in the West.

The U.S. is not a country fitting this definition by any stretch.
You can’t be serious. Jekyll blogs are pure text files you can download and view in a thousand ways. Good luck extracting sensible data from WordPress’ database without losing metadata. Which one has the worst lock-in? The former certainly isn’t locked to anything.

GitHub Pages with Jekyll don’t even need an explicit build step.
Ok wow. Any few-weekends length resources you know about?
Meteorite samples are far from perfect surrogates for asteroids, though. They experience extreme pressures and lose a great deal of their bulk when falling through Earth’s atmosphere. Once they land, they pick up contaminants from the terrestrial environment that are hard to distinguish from native substances. Pristine samples from an asteroid might not only answer questions about the origins of life’s chirality but also offer clues about how water ended up on Earth. One hypothesis suggests that asteroids, which contain some water, may have also seeded it onto our home planet during collisions (Science 2014, DOI: 10.1126/science.1261952). [0]

[0] https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/tale-2...
it's relevant in this case because most simple Lisp-like interpreters are written in... Lisp (or at least one of the many other Lisp-like languages).

Interpreting a simple lisp-like in lisp is borderline trivial. Interpreting a simple lisp-like in an imperative language demonstrates a significantly more fundamental understanding of how lisp-like languages work.
They are called "forever chemicals" because they don't naturally degrade in the environment. That term does not refer to how long they stay in your body. Because they are don't degrade in the environment, the amount found in the environment is continuing to increase: http://marinespecies.org/introduced/wiki/Polyfluorinated_com...
Not only is that very unnecessary strong language, but I find the types of squabbles around water rather unproductive. Sure, (referring to your other comment) one can see that efficient toilets have been productive in doing what they are supposed to do, but that also totally dismisses things like the fact that sewage systems designed/engineered in the past were created for specific flow rates that things like high efficiency toilets and faucets and generally low water usage have caused problems with.

It also oddly erroneously equates water usage with some sort of negative thing in and of itself, akin to saying that rain is wasting water. It is not the use of water that is the problem, ignoring the rather minimal cost of things like moving the water, which is overwhelmingly a fixed, not variable cost. The real and only consequential problem is the contamination and pollution of water through things like significant quantities of soaps/surfactants, as well as almost unremovable harmful chemicals like birth control and other pharmaceuticals, preservatives from vehicle tires, and carcinogenic PFOA/PFOS that are now said to essentially be in EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET.

I can assure you that pumping a million gallons of water out of a well and letting it seep back into the ground is not nearly as destructive and damaging as the emission of various hormones into the municipal water system by women simply going to the bathroom.

In other words, if I were to use essentially nothing but moderate levels of natural surfactants, e.g., animal/plant fat produced soaps and did not take or use products created with "chemicals"; I could use tens of thousands of gallons of water per day and it would make no difference to the water cycle or availability. However, I could also use the amount and number of different destructive, polluting, toxic products that the average self-righteous person uses and I could pollute millions upon millions of gallons of water EVERY SINGLE DAY, all, while feeling self-righteous about my low water usage, while tossing new technology and plastic products produced by pumping tons of chemicals into Asian rivers.

A lot of these things are about perspective. You would ask that you take a step back and reexamine whether you are actually rational and using the scientific method that requires the questioning and reexamination of all assumptions and facts, or if you are being militant and extreme, aka an activist.
Linear types don't help here.

The complaint is that with lazyIO, even if your code does the write before closing the file, the actual order the operations occur in could change, to put the close first.

If you look at the lazyIO documentation, you will see:

>Although this module calls unsafeInterleaveIO for you, it cannot take the responsibility from you. Using this module is still as unsafe as calling unsafeInterleaveIO manually. Thus we recommend to wrap the lazy I/O monad into a custom newtype with a restricted set of operations which is considered safe for interleaving I/O actions.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lazyio-0.1.0.4/docs/Syst...

TLDR, don't use lazy IO.
Interestingly enough, that's one thing that actually works well for left handed people, the numeric keypad isn't in the way using full sized keyboards.

But you should've seen the incredulous look I got when I gave a USB number pad for Christmas to a left handed accountant.
It's the first thing I thought about when learning Lisp.
If you think anyone believes LVT will be perfectly 100% efficient, you don't understand how to move markets.
I suppose when the citizens are property of the state, the state knows best. Gotta keep those sheep nice and healthy so they can live a long life generating tax revenue!
“SPARK”?
This is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. I can see myself using it when I need to quickly prettify some gnarly queries. My only question is why is the text area limited to the top half of the screen?
Gold has terrible historical returns compared to equities. If you bought gold 30 years ago and sold now, you'd have about a 5x return. You would have done significantly better if you bought stocks 30 years ago and sold them at the bottom of the market in March. If you sold now, you'd have done more than twice as well.

BTC might go up, might go down. But it's a risky asset and there's only so much money that can flow into a non-productive asset.
Newly developed best quantum bit, big leap in quantum computing
I had the same question.

"And that could explain why investors don’t shy away from stocks even at record valuations. There are simply no alternatives."

To repeat the question, why isn't real estate considered as an option?
Hi all, author of the article here. Happy to discuss any disagreements or specific points, or expand on why I believe this.