skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This phenomena, combined with the alternative medicine woo movement, makes me feel like we are hopelessly between a rock and a hard place with medicine.

I say "US medical treatment often doesn't explore valid alternative remedies and focuses of treating preventable conditions after they've developed into serious problems."

They say "Yes, rub some sage oil to kill the nanobots"

scream

My favourite example as a trans woman is that the orchiectomy could be apparently replaced by a 2 cent ethanol injection.

Saudi Arabians are the only ones willing to try it and publish the results.

Get into pubmed commons, see for yourself.
Earlier JavaScript was basically bad Lisp. Still like it better than Java and c++
Also, 2c/kWh is a hedge against inflation. Utility prices go up not down.
Parent is not labeling the poster as conservative; he is labeling the argument as the underpinning of the same argument conservatives often make. That's a nuanced difference.
OnePlus Admits It Throttles Popular Apps on Its Flagship Phones
A tab in vscode has a dot in it if the contents are modified since last save.

If a save is complete, that dot will go away. If there is no dot, the file is unmodified.
Show HN: 60+ Free Animated illustrations of beautiful scenes around the globe
VS Code has some of the worst product quality I've seen from Microsoft in quite a while. It doesn't hold a candle to IntelliJ or Visual Studio. Even directly comparable "lightweight" editors like ISE are far superior.

Random examples of bad behaviour in commonly used parts that would affect just about every user:

If you try to search & replace, it'll refuse to remember "replace in selection". It'll reset every time, destroying your entire file instead of replacing just in the selected block.

If you do enable this feature, it'll change what you've selected, because... why?

Even with the feature enabled, the "search preview" will highlight matches outside the selection block! WTF?

There's no memory for recent searches, so if you've just spent ten minutes carefully crafting a regex and you accidentally click the wrong thing, then it is gone forever.

The recent files list isn't a list of recent files.

The console overwrites itself sometimes, resulting in gibberish output. It's particularly bad with PowerShell that uses Write-Progress. I've sat around for nearly an hour waiting for a process to complete, when in fact it was prompting me to continue. I couldn't see the prompt because it had overwritten it (incorrectly).

Someone thought that manually editing JSON files is a suitable GUI for configuring basic settings.

Ctrl scroll up/down doesn't change the zoom (or font size).

Unlike most Microsoft editors like the PowerShell ISE or Visual Studio, MS Word, and most third party text editors, block select isn't alt-drag but middle-button-drag instead. No middle button on your mouse? No block select for you!

It's unfortunate that many new Microsoft languages are supported in VS Code only. It feels like a huge step backwards that's being forced onto an enormous community.
I also suspect it's indecipherable. I think it's someone's sample piece: meant to showcase the creator's talent for producing such books without giving away real or false alchemical or botanical knowledge. Lorem Ipsum wasn't popular yet, and the author was kind of quirky, so we get... this. It has statistical properties consistent with natural language because humans suck at randomness, not because there's anything there.
Two Wishes for Dev Tooling
For the work I do, I use

- SBCL as the compiler

- Emacs and SLIME for the editor/IDE

- Quicklisp for package management

- SBCL’s built-in static executable compiler for deployment, or sometimes docker if that happens to be more convenient

- Practical Common Lisp for training; Paradigms in AI Programming for taking a trained Lisp programmer “minting” a better Lisp programmer

For individual libraries, there are too many to name. I like yason for JSON, Hunchentoot for web servers, Postmodern for Postgres/SQL, cl-sqlite for SQLite, fiasco for testing, etc.
The $100/month was for an intern. There are tons of unpaid internships in the US, so I wouldn't assume it wasn't there. Though in the tech world with talent in demand, if they aren't paying interns then that may be a red flag. However, from sentence structure, I would guess that English was a second (though well known) language.
From one guy who writes about drugs supposedly being shallow* to assuming that drugs make people shallow is quite a leap of logic.

* I mean, two people on HN called him shallow. Must be true, right?
Seen the same
It seems almost inevitable that Windows will eventually become a Linux distro. Microsoft could replace incredibly resilient cruft like NTFS with EXT4 or ZFS and the registry with human readable configuration files. On the other hand, they could replace Bash with PowerShell and hopefully pressure various orgs to adopt some sensible subset of configuration formats.
Doesn't do exactly what you want, but try -fopt-info-all in GCC. Gives you a reasonably informative guide of what it tried to do and whether it used the transformation or not.
Tesla whistleblower complaint about solar fires
Can you elaborate? Why doesn't the traditional WPA1/WPA2 string work? What happens if a non-WPA3 client scans this new one?
You have to start somewhere. Knowable prices are the first prerequisite for markets.
You could go the opposite route, and run Lisp in your favorite language. Here's a Lisp in JavaScript and Lua: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

Integration is easy because there's no integration. You can just call whatever functions you'd normally call.
Great idea, would love to use this for my dead first gen pair if could.

It doesn't mention what country or countries this is available in, so I'm guessing it's America only?
Non-paywalled source: https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/california-paying-victims-of-f...
As far as pricing goes I view US hospitals basically as money grabbing scam operations. What they are doing is just insane. It’s hard to believe Americans are putting up with this nonsense or even defend it.
The basis is so completely obvious though, if your health is badly compromised then you will be much less able to make good decisions in any circumstances, let alone dealing with the current for-profit healthcare system in the US.

You Americans are getting so screwed... I got 4 separate X-ray scans done for $40 recently, modern machine, sent home with physical copies and USB, etc.
I love my Tozo T6, screw apple. $25 and I have better sounding way more cheaper product. I wouldn't care at all if my $25 headsets fail after a year or two. I'd get 6 pairs instead of one Apple. My other bluetooth earbuds worked over 2 years and had no battery problem until I lost them.

Stop throwing money at Apple.
Yes nicotine is toxic, I tried to compare it with caffiene, and it sounds like 5g of caffiene could kill you, whereas it might only take 0.5g of Nicotine.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/quarles2021...

The whole speech is worth the read, the synopsis is:

"To conclude, I emphasize three points. First, the U.S. dollar payment system is very good, and it is getting better. Second, the potential benefits of a Federal Reserve CBDC are unclear. Third, developing a CBDC could, I believe, pose considerable risks.

So, our work is cut out for us as we proceed to rigorously evaluate the case for developing a Federal Reserve CBDC. Even if other central banks issue successful CBDCs, we cannot assume that the Federal Reserve should issue a CBDC. The process that Chair Powell recently announced is a genuinely open process without a foregone conclusion, although obviously I think the bar to establishing a U.S. CBDC is a high one. The upcoming discussion paper that constitutes the first step in this process will importantly ask for input from the public. I look forward to reviewing public input on the discussion paper, which will inform the Federal Reserve's ultimate evaluation of a potential CBDC."

Parachute Pants and Central Bank Money, Vice Chair for Supervision Randal K. Quarles at the 113th Annual Utah Bankers Association Convention, Sun Valley, Idaho
Biden’s real estate tax plan may hit smaller property investors
Troy Hipolito, Founder of ReturnClient, offers tips for selling on LinkedIn
They might be talking about the 8Gb version
Branson got infinitesimally closer to the stars and supposedly achieved his dream, although the 50 years spent on other businesses would seem to indicate he took a rather circuitous route to that dream. His pyramid is made of assets and holdings, rather than the sandstone of the ancient Egyptians, but we shall see whose monument to narcissism outlasts the other.
It’s really a shame that “lisp” is such a generic term, because different lisp dialects have wildly different programming experiences.

Common Lisp, which is what I generally mean when I say “Lisp” can be embedded in any language that speaks C with Embeddable Common Lisp.
I think pretty much all players in the US health system are a problem. They all benefit to some degree from this corruption. If I had to pick the worst I would name hospitals. But everybody else profits handsomely too.
Their multipathing is just swarming with multiple TCP connections so it requires no changes to the network. I agree that having no "permanent" storage is really risky and overall this paper looks pretty complex and overengineered compared to something like WebTorrent.
Deep Blue history and Kasparov match mini-doc [video]
Quelle horreur - has Mr Adams not noticed that that vast majority of financial transactions are completely digital, with all the risks that he details? Not blockchain (thank god) but every card debit/credit/charge transaction is performed entirely without notes,coin, or gold and is recorded and tracked with similar detail to blockchain ledgers.
None of them I saw were anti-American. The one I snapped a pic of is at 1:35.
The case in Pennsylvania is not representative of pension funds. If you read the linked article from Bloomberg, it explains that this allocation in “alternative” investment is double the average.
I think it's sorta decentralized. You can download the SQL files (couple GB) from the libgen site and search in it for the IPFS hashes you want, then download p2p from IPFS. A more decentralized way of searching those databases for the hashes would be trickier.
Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom
Backchanneling is not exclusive to Japanese, but overuse in other languages can be perceived as rude and a sign of inattentiveness. You need to experience a casual Japanese conversation to realize how prevalent it is [1]. After my stint there, people noticed how much I backchannel even in my other languages.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-in-society/...

"The findings reveal that backchannels of several types are displayed far more frequently by Japanese listeners."
I realize making over 500k on property does not put you in Zuck level wealth but we shouldn't pretend like this is representative of the median person. This is still only going to effect the top 10% of individuals, at most.

There will be some trickle down effects. I acknowledge that. But hard to see how these won't be counteracted overall by the extra distributed money on the other side.
Because it is not the right tool for the job.

A cheap logic analyzer, like DSLogic, would probably work much better for the specific use case.
What happened to the comment about banks being the most powerful entities on the planet?
Aah whoops! thanks
Australian judge dates a court aide 45 years his junior, leading to her death
> Implement a piece of code as a side project that solves a real problem that people care about at your company.

Yeah, been there, done that, got in trouble for it. I suspect it's that way at most companies.
> There's no memory for recent searches, so if you've just spent ten minutes carefully crafting a regex and you accidentally click the wrong thing, then it is gone forever.

It has this now, although the click target is some teensy text.

(I also find the search very frustrating, like it replacing the search with your current selection sometimes)
That's a fair comment. But I believe the number of these is probably a small percentage given the size of the stores (at least for Apple). At least in the case of my mother, she has somewhere to go to when there is a problem.

I am not discounting the personal computer as a utility, but app stores and restrictions for some are not a hinderance either. With a mac (I am not sure about windows, I gather with ARM it is not possible), the ability to be in a hybrid mode suits most cases.

A mobile device at least from an Apple perspective is not a general computing device. Android on the other hand is more general purpose. But even with Apple's case there are ways to deploy your own app to your own device.

At least in the desktop space there is a choice, and it's not bad thing.
What do the fish eat?
Works on Android using Termux. libqrencode is a package in its default repo. From what I understand, Android is quite popular.
It's about control. These "Big" companies are in a position to collect plenty of data about the market - companies and individuals. They are now able to do what previously was exclusive (read: monopoly) to the government.

I'm not defending "Big *", simply noting that historical context is mostly irrelevant. The game is different now. The rules also different. It's not about markets and dominance. It's not about economic monopolies. It's about control. Control of the future. Control of the narrative.
Maybe not, but I feel like as a C programmer I'm already kind of a control freak, and I really want to be able to tell the compiler what I want and where, I don't want magic. I'm using C explicitly because I want to know and control what's going on.

If I'm dealing with atomics and concurrent code I really want to tell the compiler, hey, inline constants maybe, but don't reorder or combine operations. Even if the compiler is "right" or my code is subtly wrong, I don't want the compiler making things worse.
I'm early in the tinkering/prototyping phase of a developer tool (not a text editor) that is native AppKit, and it'll stay that way if/when I release it.

I actually find myself a lot more productive (i.e. can build a given feature faster) with Xcode+Swift+AppKit than VSCode+Typescript+React+Electron[0], and the near-unanimous disdain for Electron-based apps here gives me a lot of confidence that being a truly native app might actually be its own selling point.

[^0]: I learned to program in the early iOS days, spending 3–4 years tinkering around before moving to web dev for the past ~7 years. This is my first project using Swift.
Wow! This sucks. At Stripe I felt a similar thing. Crazy schedules, being yelled at, being told I’m terrible over and over again. I quit after 5 months.
It seems like there would be a large space (that's sidestepped here) between learning basic syntactic differences and 'mastering' Lisp. Are there not novel concepts (outside of syntax) which programmers struggle with in that space? And does gp's comment about needing to learn 'restraint' from experience not apply to that middle space too?

IME if you were diligent about only hiring very smart + intrinsically interested programmers, the kind of outcome you're describing might be realistic. But I don't see this going well if you draw from the large pool otherwise available of more paycheck-motivated programmers who may or may not have a strong grasp of conceptual underpinnings of programming languages.
Writing correct, even if non-optimal, code that uses atomics is already highly non-trivial. Transforming code that uses atomics into more efficient forms while guaranteeing the same behavior is even more non-trivial.
Samsung Galaxy Ultra 21 can do this too.
Executive orders were a constant theme of the previous administration. It was the first time that I’ve really heard about them consistently as a presidential technique and similarly as much in the media.

The lower executive order numbers from the previous 2 administrations before made me think that these were tools used for media attention when I kept hearing about them.

Now the current administration is using them (for causes that I hope will benefit) and I’m wondering are these going to hold weight or is this another media ploy?
Go home QAnon.
I’m not a cracker but messing with the system clock is a classic exploit for all kinds of things.
> This is, I claim, unlike macros where you really don’t need to know about the machinery of macros (or even of their existence) to understand and use AND, OR, DOLIST, LOOP, etc.

Nah you do need to know about them, otherwise you won't understand a bunch of weird errors in your program (e.g. hmmmm... why does (reduce or my-collection) blow up?).

I agree you don't need to know much about them. Really a novice Lisp programmer just needs to know, "don't use macros in anything that isn't a first-order construct, otherwise just treat it like a normal function," and that'll get them pretty far. But that's, as you say, really just the same difficulty as "sort of parroting these operators for specific class instances of interest, like IO and Maybe."

And to understand one more level further down is really easy in both cases if you have any amount of hand-holding by an experienced mentor.
VSCode running on the Linux container thing.
I've heard it described as "Scheme in C's clothing." I remember reading something about how that's a misconception, but I can't recall where.

On that note, does anyone have any resources or stories about Self? [0] (The language from which JS inherited prototypal inheritance.)

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774
I think it's valid to like desktop apps, not saying it should be the only option, just that it can be done quite painlessly. It's family names in our family :)
Yes, it's non-sensical, just like it's non-sensical to use a word that basically means "our language" when it's not actually a language that you speak. (Not a grammatical error though, but rather a semantic error, a dangling reference as it were!)

Let's say you don't speak German but keep hearing Germany referred to as "Vaterland" in the media. You might deduce that the word "Vaterland" is synonymous with Germany, and start using it yourself to refer to the country, but that would be wrong, because the word (without additional context) simply means "homeland", typically the speaker's homeland, whatever country that is.
Oh I’m not calling you vile. The insurance companies are. Mine is already very intertwined with the hospitals in my area.
Teaching other teachers how to teach CS better
Traditionally Japanese houses are designed to pass natural winds for cooling in summer. But now winds are no longer helpful so those houses are really bad for both summer and winter.
Phloretin Suppresses Neuroinflammation
Welcome to the editor wars, my friend. Shit has been flung far and wide for nearly 50 years now.
Uniqlo Airism saves us!
While I generally appreciate silence more so than most, I've noticed a kind of unhealthy silence in certain work situations over the last 18 months.

While I've mostly enjoyed the pandemic-induced remote meetings via Teams/Zoom, et al, one thing that's annoyed me is people's unwillingness - when they don't turn on their cameras, which is 95% of the time in my org - to compensate for the fact that no one can see anyone else.

So someone will ask a question like "Does anyone have any questions?" In pre-pandemic days the questioner could scan the faces of those in the room and see people shaking their head "no". In virtual meetings with cameras off that's not possible. To me, that's awkward, and not in the good way that Uma's character in Pulp Fiction means[0]. Are people even paying attention? Did they hear me? Are they checking their email or otherwise multi-tasking?

So I've begun responding verbally to such questions and to otherwise fill the void that's left when no one wants to turn on a camera.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVX-uv-QPc
This is more of a multi threading & ordering topic than a compiler topic. There were never any guarantees about another thread discretely observing those two observable operations in the first place, due to the memory model.
Since my other got flagged, you’re clearly a confused person. You post videos of trumps lies and defend some narrative that does harm to our democracy. The election was won by Biden.
It would be less of a stretch to say that wearing pants is offensive because the conquistadores wore them.
It’s the entire model to Kaiser Permanente, so it’s working for someone.
Are they actually replacing the battery at all? Or are they simply sending you “AirReps”? The clones these days cost $30. Most folks wouldn’t recognize the difference, except for the poor microphone recording quality.
Yes, I understand that. The applications I’m thinking of are those that either have a longer shelf-life and/or are business applications. In Finance, for example, many important vendors have been rolling-out trading front-ends based on web frameworks (maybe Electron for all I know). They are absolutely terrible, again, because of the lack of standard UI usability rules. Combine that with very poor documentation, and non-existent training and it’s a disaster.
Drug companies are just similar to software in that regard. They acquire a bunch of companies that do basic R&D and get drug pipelines. Those founders get rich because they have patent protection. Just look at biosimilars for a taste of what might happen without patent protections.

I am more familiar with the 510(k) that most people are. It bypasses some testing, but there is still a fair amount of work. It has nothing to do with R&D expenditures that may or may not be behind an submission.
Sorry for her loss, but the surgeon reminds me of Doctor Benway from the book Naked Lunch
More that the function calls for the system clock are fairly easy to trace back to find these DRM hooks.
Are Americans really fluffy?
Many of the questions people perceive as fluffy aren't actually questions...
How you doing? etc that isn't a question and you aren't supposed to give a detailed response- it is basically just a dumb was of saying hi.
I love the idea of windows registry though, I hope it stays. With linux, i have to to poke around the file system or google "package X config location" and many programs have their own idiosyncratic rules around which config paths take precedence over others. Windows registry as implemented is not the best, but the idea of something like a central sqlite db for config is great.
Up arrow within the textbox also works to restore previous searches.
I'm not so sure. Windows driver model is vastly different than Linux. Linux drivers have to be compiled for every kernel release. Windows drivers that are more than a decade old can still be installed and work correctly.
no one took or will take that chump b*itch seriously
Huh, yeah, I'd really like more detail on that. Google isn't turning up anything.

Having used the patch, it does feel right...
> Biden recorder the most votes in history, while winning the fewest counties.

Say what now? That doesn’t seem right.
Really? They were a huge topic of conversation when W was president and then again for obama.
Lazarus is still pretty nice for putting together an app: the Cocoa port is still a bit unstable, but the app it self captures a lot of what was great about Delphi in the 90s
Obama dwarfed Trump’s number of EOs. Bush Jr. and Clinton were extremely high as well. This seems to be a response to congressional stonewalling (with varying outcomes).

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...