skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand arguments of the kind: "Lisp A vs. Lisp B". A Lisp is a Lisp. I am honestly so grateful for my younger self for the decision I made years ago to learn Lisp. These days, pretty much any platform, any hardware, or a VM supports at least one dialect of Lisp. And that's awesome!

I switch between Lisps with relative ease: Scheme, Fennel, Clojure, Elisp, Common Lisp - they feel pretty much the same language. Yes, each has its own oddities and quirks, but I still feel like if I'd discovered some ancient secret - learn it and you start understanding every possible human language. That's how knowing and "breathing" Lisp feels sometimes.

Because Lisp is not a language. It's an idea. An incredibly awesome one. Arguably - the most influential idea in Computer Science. "Once in a millennia" idea.

That's why I never feel anxious about the popularity of programming languages. I don't care what's in the top of RedMonk or TIOBE or whatever else. I don't care if some new programming language gets promoted by the Queen of England, Supreme Pontiff, or Dalai Lama. If it's not a Lisp - it has an expiration date. Lisp, though, will never die.
Oh lemme clarify. I thought you were talking about college interviews. If we're talking about job interviews then certainly they can cut through someone's BS.
Yet you often hear in this forum about how content-id is bad and is too easily (ab)used to take down content. The reality is without content-id most rights holders would be as screwed as Vasallo.
Apple should be broken apart by the government because YouTube abides by the government’s copyright rules?

Sure, the current situation isn’t what I’d want either, but this line of thought makes no sense.
I don't know if this will work on Twitter, but on Instagram, I decided to deal with annoying ads by liking all ads from reMarkable, a device I already own and whose ads at least look visually nice, and reporting all other ads. So far I only ever see rM ads and I hope it stays that way. Which it might as long as reMarkable runs ads on Instagram.
I once had a colleague throw his wireless mouse at me because of a windows automatic update during crunch time. Apparently did not expect me to throw it back. We're still friends.

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Also reminds me of the day I picked up an xbox one for my team. We were traveling and it was cause for a little change of pace. We were going to play a zombie shoot em up game. They plugged it in, and first thing the damn thing did was run an update that took 30 minutes. We weren't on a great connection, even by 2014 standards.

They ran the game and it forced another update that wanted to download like 20gigs, even when I made a point to grab the disc. Couldn't cancel. I ripped the thing out so quick and launched it as hard as I could. The xbox smashed against the concrete floor and was in pieces. It caught everybody off guard, but it lead to pretty fun night, nonetheless. They had never seen me like that before, or since.

I got a nice plaque from the team a week or two later with the xbox decal and the message "I just want to shoot some fcking zombies!" :)
At the end of the day, someone has to produce it
That's all I'm asking. Good on you and I think it's courageous to do that in a topic where there's so much stigma
Producing great scientists is a failure? Maybe we should aim to fail more.
It looks like Google 2FA will support using a Yubikey or something like it, which in my mind is preferable to being required to use the Google mobile app.

> You'll enter your password [...] Then, a code will be sent to your phone via text, voice call, or our mobile app. Or, if you have a Security Key, you can insert it into your computer’s USB port.

https://www.google.com/landing/2step/#tab=how-it-works
What critical race theory is about
Writing on a piece of paper and throwing it to the wind?

Seriously, though, if you have an inch of computing skills, any of the static site generators combined with a free tier CDN like Netlify. The most popular generators are pretty easy to use.

But perhaps I'm underestimating how hard that actually is.
Um... Now you sound like the one who is ignorant. Not everyone thinks killing an animal for food is some terrible blight on the world. I have zero issues with it and no amount of "but they're living things and so cute" is going to change that fact.

It's exactly this type of nonsense that gets people to turn away from meat like products. We don't need a lecture about sad little animals every time we order a delicious smash burger.
When I was at university, there was a "blind examination policy" in place.

The people marking the exams did not know whose exams they were marking.

It's possible that corrupt professors worked around this, but there was never any scandals related to this policy.
This is ridiculous.

Is the term PWA also "designed" to make me question my own sanity, which is a key component in gaslighting?
That's a bit confusing because the OP makes an opposite point: "The intermediary host species of SARS1 was identified within four months of the epidemic’s outbreak, and the host of MERS within nine months."
I'd argue this is a lie and not an example of gaslighting.

A lie is simply stating something that is not true. In this case, stating that HTML5 is synonymous to PWAs.

Gaslighting is an attempt to undermine an individual's (or perhaps even a group's) certainty that they are able to perceive reality correctly. It's essentially an effort to make someone question their own sanity. Lying is a tool that may be used as part of this effort, but it is not the only method of gaslighting.

It's also possible to lie without gaslighting. Speaking mis-truths may happen accidentally. But trying to cause someone to believe something that isn't true, isn't necessarily or inherently an attack on their trust in their own ability to perceive the world.

In this case, I can't see any indication that the goal is to cause anyone to feel insane.
I have seen 50+ foot tall trees growing directly out of ancient lava flows, nearly zero soil.

From a cursory search, it looks like about 88% of the dry mass of a tree comes from the atmosphere (CO2 and H2O).
> Is it really unethical to eat animals when the natural trajectory of most animals lives was likely to be eaten by other animals or die some horrendous death in their natural environment?

The ethical base of factory farming starts off equivalent with putting a wild animal into a zoo cage for the remainder of its life against its natural will to have freedom. Tack off some “ethical” points for the misery of its living conditions, which are almost universally terrible. Tack off still more ethics points for systematic premeditated murder on a commercial scale for profit.

> Isn't it better for an animal to live its best life on a free range farm being grass fed, then get quickly and humanely slaughtered?

As someone who has lived in an area with heavy animal agriculture, “free range” basically translates to “cram as many $ANIMALS as we legally can into an area modulo our budget, and then neglect them to every extent allowable by law, followed by murdering them in cold blood because we need money”. IOW “free range” is sick, twisted marketing that doesn’t reflect reality.

> If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically?

Nothing matters more than money to animal agriculture operations. Don’t underestimate the power of taking your money elsewhere.

The rest of your commentary is more a critique of human overpopulation, and the myriad problems this poses.
The nature argument falls apart quicker because we're mainly talking about the massive animal breeding complex we have built where we force breed billions of animals specifically to kill them. If a cow could kill you (in self defense), they would, but most of these cows are never given the chance.
That is what exactly I think the Wuhan labs was studying, given that SARS did jump from another animal to human very recently. What would happen if these things mutate naturally and infect humans? They add gain-of-function genes to a near relative, study how it infect cells and come up with a plan to treat it. Except someone dropped some stuff on their shoe and went out shopping to the wet market.

I did plenty of these gain-of-function experiments in my postgrad studies. Mice tumours cells given genes to super-express certain cell adhesion molecules. Without this kind of approach, it is difficult to impossible to study these reactions. You just gotta be careful.
Most places that I’ve seen that are toxic, the HR either ignores it or joins in.
One explained to me that he would love to quit in disgust but HR managers are a dime a dozen.
I had the same experience with Pencil, but switched to the desktop version of Draw.io https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/ which I really like and recommend.
Usually there is a recovery partition, and Windows 10 has a built-in function for a refresh/reinstall from the recovery partition. No USB drive needed. I did this recently over the phone for a relative's computer, but I forgot the exact name of this feature in the settings/control panel.

In my case, it was necessary because the computer had not been used for months and was unable to connect to various websites, perhaps due to an out-of-date certificate. Rather than troubleshoot the issue, it was easier to just do the refresh.
You won't be around but your burger will be.

If you are going to not care about any life in 100 years why should you concern yourself with thoughts of death now?
I'm not familiar with Clojure Specs, but it definitely sounds exactly like the "Dynamic language implements type checking tooling to assert correctness", as referenced in the above post. The spec website just looks like type assertions as "validation" - what am I missing?

> Even Nodejs doesn't always let you re-use code between backend and the front.

This is not true. Check out Lodash. It's a dependency of pretty much every FE and BE NPM package that exists. Ignoring rendering libraries like React, client side JS and backend JS are "just" JS.

> I've never experienced the joy of creating such robust, predictable, and reliable software with any other (statically typed or otherwise) language before.

I think you should definitely keep doing the things that bring you joy!
Yeah if your team/org is forcing you into no-win situations, my advice is to update the resume and find a place that treats you better. Teams that treat ppl like that don't deserve the staff they have. Your life will be so much better not dealing with that BS.
I just went to the bother to confirm that, exactly as I expected, Google just asks me for my Security Key when I sign in. This is what their UI says they will do, and sure enough it is in fact what they actually do.

So whatever you're seeing is not in fact some sort of Google policy to prefer insecure SMS.
I find that with most social networks.... normal people ruin it. When twitter was all tech people it was great. Once the normies came in they ruined it. Same with clubhouse. When paulG and other tech luminaries were chatting overnight it was magic. Now it's garbage fake rich people.
That wikipedia article says

> In late May 2003, studies were conducted using samples of wild animals sold as food in the local market in Guangdong, China. The results found that the SARS coronavirus could be isolated from masked palm civets (Paguma sp.)

and

> The SARS epidemic began in the Guangdong province of China in November 2002 ... Chinese government officials did not inform the World Health Organization of the outbreak until February 2003.

That's six months from the start of the outbreak, and less than four months from WHO being informed, not three years.

Where did you get your "three years" figure from?
> That would also be a political choice

Obviously, but that isn't my argument. My argument is that when you create a culture that approaches political decisions from a profit perspective, it is easier to make a profit.

> And in many cases there isn't going to be a choice that maximises profit without taking into account the PR effect of choices, which again devolves into politics.

This is wrong. You are conflating understanding a political position with believing in a political position. Understanding a political position doesn't require you to believe in it.
Convincing is your value judgment for you. And that's fair enough but just because you don't find it convincing doesn't mean we as in everybody should default towards not believing. Or discounting that it's possible. to me the large number of people who have personal experience is extraordinary evidence. I think that definitely means something's happening but I don't know what that something is.

keeping the middle ground is just remaining open-minded. Not discounting any possibility. I think that logical argument you make is a trap and I don't really understand it. Why assume non-existence is a default position. It seems kind of stupid and arrogant that because God hasn't come down and shown you something personally because he hasn't personally convinced you then the smartest thing for you to do is to believe that it just simply can't exist. No offense and you're not the only one who thinks like this but I just think that's kind of stupid and arrogant. I don't think you're stupid I think you're a very smart person but I don't understand why people think that default not existence position is smart. I mean to put it in an engineering point of view just because you haven't seen a bridge failure or just because your software hasnt experienced a particular failure mode yet is not a smart reason for you to believe that it's impossible. I'm sure without an eye blink within one heartbeat you would accept that statement so I don't get why you contract away from this notion as applied to other areas particularly areas where we have no fucking clue what's going on. No offense

my feeling in general is that people contract away from that because the implications emotionally psychologically are too scary. But I don't think that subjective emotional reaction to a possible implication should guide the primary response. maybe I'm making too much of it maybe it doesn't matter but I just think it's an important topic it's an important question. I don't think whether it's decided one way or another I don't think that will have all the answers for us as a species I just think it's interesting and it would be interesting to know.
If I recall, this is the same point the Nestle CEO infamously made. It's a good point, but clearly the world is not ready to have that conversation.
As irrigation becomes more efficient, the majority of water used in agriculture does indeed go to plants and then to evaporation. And while California does get some water back from the Colorado river, most does not. The water coming to California from other sources, such as the Pacific, is not materially affected by the amount of water flowing into the Pacific from California.

Therefore water given to California agriculture in any given year is unlikely to come back to California within that year. So for planning purposes, water given to agriculture should be considered mostly consumed and available to no other use within California.

And as the climate becomes hotter, this becomes even more true. A hotter climate means faster evaporation and an easier time for it to blow over the Rockies. Which is part of the reason why the trend as the climate changes is for land to the west of the Rockies to become ever drier, while land to the east to become wetter. (Most of the water to the east comes from the Gulf of Mexico.)
The burgers are full of stuff I wouldn't consider to be food. That's why I don't eat them (regularly at least). I don't think being violent to my own body is a good substitute for violence against animals.

Also I actually like their taste and texture.
As others have mentioned, plenty of revolutions have been led by the elites of society.

With Trump the appeal wasn’t because he wasn’t elite, it was because he was perceived as an “out group” of the elite.

Whenever he trashed the existing institutions that just further reinforced it.
How does RTK query compare with react-query[1]. I replaced my redux stack with react-query and simple usestate/usecontext.

[1]https://react-query.tanstack.com/
Or, you know, it’s little cool window panes for the web and not a clone of Windows’ window system...

Does this person owe you something?
> But then given ZFS is an older and more mature project and ZFS already works pretty damn well, I also question why anyone would want a replacement to ZFS when they could just use ZFS.

Basically just licencing. The great irony is that btrfs was started by Oracle (not sure if they're still involved) before they acquired Sun. A relicensing effort to GPL would probably be better, but, you know, Oracle.

I argued in the past that OpenZFS should have contributors sign a small CLA which permits relicensing to GPL to prepare for this nonetheless, it's a small effort and could save a lot of effort later.
You aren't kidding... I just spent a little time reading about the process, but stopped when I was about a dozen tabs deep.
I'm not a boat person, so I have no first hand experience other than seeing a picture from a friend whose boat was half under water because the drain plug had corroded away.

He blamed it on galvanic corrosion from the boat being plugged into shore power with depleted anodes.

A quick google search shows that corroded drain plugs do happen from time to time. And the drain plug is just one of the through-hull fittings that can leak.

Came across this quote:

To quote BoatUS Insurance, “for every one boat that sinks underway, four sink at the dock” and “failed thru-hull fittings account for 50% of all sunken boats at the dock.
> The sad part of online ads is that the internet allows an advertiser, with Google's help, to potentially annoy hundreds of millions of people in order to make some small number of sales.

This sentence suddenly made me see all online ads as essentially modern, “intelligent” robocalls at scale.
RotaJakiro, the Linux Version of the OceanLotus
SARS-2-CoV was almost assuredly not natural, and RaTG13 was a keyboard virus. The only question is if it was accidentally leaked or if it was intentional. We'll never know, the CCP destroyed the evidence.

There are many videos and articles on this site about how SARS-2-CoV was not zoonotic. I don't necessarily blame China, but the funders of the research.

https://www.peakprosperity.com/more-evidence-covid-19-may-no...
Is there a [Linked Data] resource with the information in this interactive IPA chart (which is from Wikipedia FWICS) in addition to?:

- phoneme, ns:"US English letter combinations", []

- phoneme, ns:"schema.org/CreativeWorks which feature said phoneme", []

AFAIU, WordNet RDF doesn't have links to any IPA RDFS/OWL vocabulary/ontology yet.
The California central valley is probably the best climate on Earth for growing almonds and that is why about 70% of the world almond production happens there. If we don't really need to grow them here, then one does not really need almonds at all. But what singular food item does the world really need?
Can you share the incantation that summed a human, for future reference?
I don't get what you're trying to say. Of course people like the taste, but why pretend to eat meat? We all know it's not the same. I'd rather have a real version of something I like than a fake version of something I miss.
Interesting strawman argument, but yes. What would you plan to do about it?
Identify Plant diseases using ML
For such disruptive events the most logical reaction would be to shutdown all the possible causes.

But wet markets and virus laboratories are still on...
Personally I think the basic building blocks of the password manager workflow is pretty damn close to perfect. Maybe the contemporary password manager could be refined further, but I do like the building blocks:

1. There is an encrypted blob which contains distinct authentication tokens/passwords/whatever for every website/service I have an account at. This blob can be moved around, synced and updated however I like, with zero concern about who has a copy of it.

2. I decrypt this blob locally on device, using a combination of multiple factors such as what I know (a passphrase) and what I have (e.g. a copy of a static but un-guessable and un-rememberable account key, which is copied to all my devices, potentially stored at rest inside a secure enclave).

3. The decrypted blob then authenticates me on services using data which is entirely random and arbitrary.

I could only imagine how much more perfect this arrangement could be with total industry uniformity. Imagine if a common, uniform password manager API was integrated into computers from the earliest days, and all browsers integrating this system service from the very beginning of the Web. Every website could have been built be built around this workflow, not to mention every binary application on desktops and smartphones.
Windows was a GUI shell on top of DOS, which this seems to be loosely alluding to. No Aero, no taskbar/superbar, no other features you're talking about.
> 2)If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically?

I think this is a slippery slope, ethically speaking; you could use the same logic to argue that there is no point reducing your CO2 emissions because there are billions of other people emitting too, or no point in taking any good action like donating to charity because you won’t solve world hunger.

I think having a significant impact on the environment is an unreasonably high bar, as an individual in modern society. All you can do is control your personal impact, and maybe convince some other people too. Maybe eating meat represents 10% of your overall negative impact on the world (maybe more, maybe less, that is up to you to figure out); that would be a significant improvement worthy of effort and praise, even if you alone didn’t change the overall environment.

After all, it’s only by everyone making an individual decision like this that we could actually coordinate to make a big difference to the environment.
IBM says it has created the first 2nm chip
>I've seen a grown man, extremely well educated, data scientist make a fellow data scientist cry. I've. Seen. Things.

Data scientists seem to be on a level of their own when it comes to disrespecting colleagues. I've been surprised by this recently.
As a FB marketing expert, this wouldn't work. Yes we could target you, but the market is too small and not worth the effort. The minimum audience worth targeting
I never understood beyond for a health product though. Is that really their branding?
Wha?

Can you provide some more information on how using Google's security prompt provides "where you are and what you are doing"?
This piece is missing. The audience can't do much. They should at least have chat while people are on stage. Seems like an obvious feature to increase participation.
> He mentioned at lunch one day that he wouldn't hire a non-white, non-male programmer

Holy crap! I'd like to think I'd notice that someone is that terrible before I start a job, but if I heard that from a boss, I'd quit on the spot. And I'm a white male programmer.