skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a macro preprocessor circa 1999 which could have developed into a M4 replacement.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070209223522/http://users.foot...

Then I discovered Lisp so I probably lost interest in MPP because of that.

One distguishing feature of MPP is that it preserves indentation when generating code. If you have a macro which generates multiple lines of code, and that macro call is indented, then its output gets indented. So in theory you can use this for Python and Yaml and their ilk.

Interestingly, without any prior Lisp knowledge, I based this project on nested list processing. It has programmable read-tables, like Common Lisp, and also lexically scoped local macros, like macrolet. Lisp showed me a vastly better designed architecture of all the infrastructure that I greenspunned inside MPP, which made it seem pointless to continue that project, and pour more effort into ramping up on Lisp.

Probably for the same reason, I never migrated that mpp.html page and its sub-content to my newer home page locations. I have all the code in version control and all. I'm always having to refer to it via archive.org.

I posted about MPP in the comp.lang.c newsgroup in 2008, when John Thingstad started a thread with my name in the subject line, asking:

I have noticed you have become dramatically better in Lisp in a relative
short period of time. What is you "secret"?

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/xvuivrEnQ9s/m/z...

There is a deleted article, which I think is my first response to the question, which I replaced using the Usenet supersede feature.
Several items are concretised in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998576

I've addressed specific dismissals and their proponents numerous times on my subreddit, search "cornucopians":

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=cornucopians&r...

One of the most cogent arguments for limits I've found is in William Ophuls, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, most especially the first three chapters. The book is available on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/ecologypoliticso0000ophu/page/n7...

As well as many libraries: https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=au%3Ao...

Other examples of dismissed consequences can be found in the works of Naomi Oreskes, notably Merchants of Doubt, on the negative long-term latent and complex consequences of asbestos, lead, CFCs, cigarette smoke, and fossil fuels. There are also the consequences of pesticides (both environmental contamination and increased resistance), antibiotics (resistance), various medications (thalidomide comes to mind), advertising, shipping (invasive species), just off the top of my head.

Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome argues compellingly that civilisations co-evolve with their plagues, which raises some interesting implications.

I've been suggesting in conversations elsewhere that we're living in an era of consequences.
From what I understand, ".22 LR" is nominally .22 inches, actually is .223 inches, and is labeled as 5.6x15mmR in Europe while actually being something like 5.66mm (the 'x15' is the length of the case in millimeters, and the R means rimmed.) They are called different things and both are not quite their nominal sizes, but I think they're interchangeable in practice.
I think you need to read the grandparent comment as a statement on what's wrong with society rather than an endorsement of the status quo.
How much RAM do I need for this?
Hey, I am sorry you had a bad experience on the platform. We released as a beta and have made rapid improvements. I am confident if you give us another try you will have a better experience.

If you have feedback or want to chat feel free to email me: sam@planetscale.com
I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to feel weird about watching old DVDs of the Cosby Show, for example. With the "benefit" of context, the vibes are sort of irrevocably off.
I've put in probably over a thousand hours on it, and have played it over the years as new releases come out. I've gotten to the point where I usually hit FPS death (too large a fortress that it overloads the CPU) even on the harder starts and with dfhack to help.

The draw for me was the steep learning curve that rewards you with logical complexity when you finally understand it. The lore that your fortress generates, as well as the random stories, is just icing on the cake. It's definitely not for everyone though since the UI requires additional programs like DF Therapist and DF Hack to be manageable still.
I can’t help but chuckle at the idea that someone somewhere is having the most legendary day of their life right now. Lol.
This is one of the best articles I've read in a while. The background story is entertaining, and the scientific part is relevant, well explained, and insightful.

My initial reaction to personal stories in science article is to expect trudging through, but I didn't feel bored for a second here.
You seem to be unfamiliar with (edit: or object to) the very idea of lawyers.
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I didn't say local area. A pandemic is an epidemic in multiple countries. So when I say "local epidemic" I mean the epidemic in their country.

I expect that some countries will reach herd immunity and have no major outbreaks anymore while there are still outbreaks across other parts of the world.
"When she received Facebook’s offer, she was upfront with her recruiter: she didn’t think the company was making the world better, but she would join to help fix it."

I don't get people who think like this. They're hiring you to be a "low level data scientist" not CEO. How would you possibly change a giant company?
According to https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vaccine-compen... from 2006-2019 alone, about 4 billion vaccines were administered in the US. Compared to something like 200 million COVID vaccinations so far.

Yet, if you look at the VAERS data, 2021 had more all-cause deaths after vaccinations than the previous 20 years combined. Also had more miscarriages after vaccination than the previous 20 years combined.

Keep in mind also we are only a little over half way through 2021.

Run the queries and see for yourself, https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html
I think you’re missing the point if that’s what you’re getting from my posts. The issue isn’t picking the right definition from wikipedia - the issue is not being able to distinguish between an object and a person.
Keep an eye on Ben Brode's scrappy new studio, Second Dinner.
> Of the millions of open source projects, a large portion of the contributors ARE speaking up because they don't find this to be acceptable.

Is this true? Is there really a large portion of contributors speaking up against this? I got the opposite sense, that it was a very small portion of contributors speaking up against this but I don't have any evidence one way or the other.
Well, the myth says that cast iron is thicker and heavier, so the thought process is that if you get it nice and piping hot and then slap a steak in it, you will get a good sear as all that latent heat energy is released into the steak.

I never did any actual experiments to back this up though, so it's hard to say if it's true or not.

I did end up buying a set of stainless steel pans from Costco that were 5 layers of stainless steel and aluminum (basically Costco's answer to All Clad d5 pans), and those worked equally well for searing. Food stuck to them like crazy though, and I ended up just taking them back to the store.

My new favorite pans are my Misen carbon steel pans. They are truly incredible. I'm seriously considering just giving away all my other pans.
https://misen.com/products/carbon-steel-pan
Or they may become offended, or cut you out of communications, or tell you their misunderstandings as if they’re true…

Many organizations cannot handle discussing or even innocently questioning their communication problems openly.

I would never use this calculator, for the record. There are ways to redeem the time, including trying as much as possible to make the bad meeting worthwhile.
That's interesting and rather unfriendly of Nissan; after all it has been well known that 2G or 3g or both would be scrapped for quite some time. Here in Norway Tesla replaced the 3G radio with an LTE module at no charge because 3G is being discontinued in Norway. I think owners who had upgraded to LTE at their own expense earlier were also offered some compensation.
He's a huge name in sociology.

I'd just sort of stumbled across a reference, then kept finding good stuff in his work.

His son, Robert C. Merton, is a Nobel laureate economist, FWIW.

(Cue the old economics-sociology rivalry.)
Like I said, the question that needs to be answered is how long can an emergency power be exercised before Congress or the courts step in.

In the early days of the country we had plenty of exercises of emergency powers. It was common for large numbers of buildings to be demolished in an attempt to prevent fires from spreading across cities, and nobody waited for a judge to rule on the acceptability and compensation requirements of such actions. There was never any doubt that if a foreign army was invading the President could immediately order the US army and state militias to respond, without waiting for Congress to vote on a declaration of war.

It is also worth remembering that when the constitution was drafted the prevailing theory of disease was the "miasma theory," and only a rudimentary understanding of disease containment that included some vague concepts of quarantine. Disease outbreaks would routinely create ghost towns all over the country. I have no doubt that the framers of constitution, had they understood disease as we understand it today, would have had no problem whatsoever with the CDC's emergency powers and would have focused on how Congress could regulate those emergency actions (as they did with the military).
Wow, 90 minutes. That‘s mind boggling. How many people do attend these daily meetings? I guess there‘s only a few persons using most of the time for their talking?
Hades is a better Diablo than any of the Diablo games imo. I feel like it's the perfection of the mechanics that diablo's dungeon runs were supposed to be.
I don't disagree with you on running games on the BEAM (although slow is a little too far imo), but in this case what they're doing is using Elixir to connect clients with the server. The actual physics simulation and such isn't running on Elixir.

edit: I just read through the article, and it doesn't seem to say one way or the other. 99% sure they aren't running any kind of physics engine on the BEAM, but there isn't anything specific
I meant more because those states have a higher minimum wage. Citizens in those states can't legally make the federal minimum wage, so they're excluded from statistics on "what percent of Americans make the federal minimum wage". I've edited the post to clarify.

Additionally, Wyoming and Georgia have a lower state minimum wage. Employers in the state that are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the federal minimum wage. Here's who that covers: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/compliance-assistance/handy...
Sullivan and Cromwell helped overthrow an entire government to avoid unions.
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Even mortgage forbearance wouldn’t help with taxes and the like.

That said, I don’t think that’s typically allowed on a second home.
the two previous large earthquakes in July and October 2020, those previous events were foreshocks of the July 2021 earthquake

A year apart and they're still considered part of the same event. A nice reminder that in geological time, a year is less than an eyeblink.
Read the rest of the paragraph. They think it is unacceptable and unjust from certain perspectives that are trivial for them. However, there are other perspectives that are worth exploring, and that is what this is about.
I keep mine connected to the internet so that it automatically updates my reading place because I frequently switch between reading on my phone and my kindle.
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Ask HN: How does this “webkey” automatically start controlling my PC?
Not a coder, just a lurker on HN. A company gave me this usb "key" embedded in a business card for further information on their product. When I plug it in thinking it's a usb drive, Windows pops up with a "Setting up USB WebKey" and then somehow starts typing a URL in the run box. How is this possible?

I googled webkey: http://www.webkeyfactory.com/usb-web-key-information.html
> Is not the same as 61 unrelated to the vaccine.

You do understand it also does not mean they are related to the vaccine, right?

I mean, putting aside the grasping as straws aspect of this claim, let's look at your original claim: in a country where there are already 20 million person's who already were administered the vaccine, and given that by your own account you can only put together two dozen cases among those 20 million that are not ruled out vaccine side-effects, don't you agree that the tradeoff is clear?
NextDNS blocks sites because the domain registration hasn't existed for long enough? That sounds... useless.
Yes, if we change the meaning of words we can change their meaning.
Yet Michael Jacksons music is still played on the radio and in other media contexts.
master, origin/master
So, since you seem to have some knowledge here, what would you suggest a single engineer trying to make a somewhat scalable multiplayer game? Either instanced with <64 players or a more larger user count.

I did some experimenting with rolling my own networking layer in c++ and it was a lot of work, and tried to do it through unity but it seems to require quite a large investment in time to understand how networking fits in the overall picture of the game. But maybe I'm looking for magic where it does not or can not exist :)
Cast Harrison Ford as the wrongfully accused husband. Have him escape after his bus to the prison crashes, then have Tommy Lee Jones as a US Marshal chase Ford down while Ford is trying to prove his innocence.

Might just make for a blockbuster movie.
It sounds like your cult is Theta Gang then! Seriously though that seems to be what the quiet crowd is doing - taking advantage of the premiums caused by the general crazy that permeates the market. I don’t know enough to sell options but I keep meaning to read up.
People might wonder why attitude control is important. First and foremost: power. Solar power requires that the solar arrays be directed toward the sun. Losing attitude control means that they'll lose efficiency and thus power. This isn't a big deal in the short run, but long term is a big deal. Surely they'll have this fixed before that comes into play.

Aside from that, there's a lot of other smaller factors such as being able to orient the station to boost orbit every so often. Even though they're in Low Earth Orbit, there is a just enough atmosphere to cause the orbit to decay slightly over time, and this has to be compensated for by boosting the orbit. No attitude control = no orienting thrusters.

Obligatory Scott Manley video that's way better than what I just said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDp8jbP_22c
No, they have a position and arguments to support it, but those have nothing to do with the machine learning aspects, just with the fact that the software is proprietary.

They are asking for views on the machine learning, which they do not have arguments or a position on.
I think Bezos has demonstrated quite convincingly that simply having a lot of money does not mean you can compete with SpaceX. Similarly, I don't know much about the automotive industry, but turning a company with a few employees into one of the most valuable companies in the world is not easy, even if you have $100 million to play with at the start.

It's OK to simultaneously believe that "Elon Musk is very effective at growing engineering businesses to the point that they disrupt entire industries" and also that "Elon Musk is not as smart as he thinks he is, and his tweets are embarrassing".
Specifically (as stated in the video this indirectly points to) it was the "new" Nauka module's thrusters firing inadvertently and apparently out of control.
Speaking of Watts, is there any way to translate the magnitude M for an earthquake into an equivalent MW of energy?
Totally echo all of this. I'm one of the owners at the Orange County Lingual Institute (oclanguages.com) and we see Duolingo as the gateway for people to tap into their language learning interest but then get serious with in-person or online language learning classes. We have seen firsthand hundreds of students unsuccessful with apps since they are not practicing live conversations and not understanding grammar. With 80+% retention of our 2 month/once a week classes, adult professionals get through a college textbook in a year and can become fluent enough to travel to those countries, speak with relatives, and read novels & newspapers with high levels of profiency. Language learning is hard work with no shortcuts but can still be accessible without apps that overpromise and underdeliver. Ping me privately or check out our site for more info.
It seems Barnacle made the same mistake: https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/students-defeat-new-barnac...
The entire team...
> And to reiterate, I have zero sympathy for landlords who are essentially engaging in rent seeking and speculation (whether they realize it or not). If grandma and grandpa loose all of their money speculating on bitcoin, I will have zero sympathy for them. It is no different if they loose it all speculating on real estate. If they can't handle they downsides they should have put their money in a safer investment.

If you feel that way, you should also be opposed to the moratorium. Those people were speculating they’d still have jobs (according to the fed, people’s greatest single asset). And they lost it. There should be no sympathy?

I’m in agreement there. Let’s just let individuals figure it out and I think all would be better off. At least better than the law not being applied evenly.
No, they just advise what internal tactics to use, and where to hire said external resources.
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I cannot imagine that Disney didn't consider this when making the decision to release on Disney+. There's a shadow budget somewhere to settle this.
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I'm targeting couples that are bilingual that want to learn each other's languages. Immersion is difficult to achieve alone. So I'm trying to channel a native speaking resource that is around you all the time.

Right now the system is a mixture of SRS on your own, sourcing vocabulary from songs and podcasts, and combined with immersive multiplayer mini-games with the native speaking partner.
If you are a Linux neophyte like me, Midnight Commander[0] can be very useful for learning directory structure and basic commands. After starting it (`mc`), you can quickly toggle its terminal UI on and off with `ctrl-o`.

0. https://midnight-commander.org/
Russian Module Unexpectedly Fires Thrusters After Docking to ISS
I have a 1st gen kindle but haven’t used it in ages after I got a paperwhite. It can be traded in for a free Oasis? Woa.
RMS is not the dictator of FOSS. There are plenty of valid competing opinions of what "freedom" means and not all of those include legally compelling everyone to share. The MIT license, for example, is both older and more popular than GPL. There has always been a lot of people who do not agree with his opinions.
I'm from Denmark, not the US, and they don't store my picture by default. The passport picture is stored in the chip and then supposedly discarded.
I deleted my blizzard account at the time as well and I had most of the products they had ever offered. Aside from missing playing starcraft2 occasionally, I’m not sorry.

These companies are organizations who can change rapidly as management and staff turn over. Blizzard from last year isn’t the same as blizzard from 5 years ago isn’t the same as blizzard from 20 years ago.

The veneration of brands based on their inheritance from what the brand used to be distorts people’s view of reality, and leads to brands that feel they don’t have to continue in terms of excellence.

Personally I think the start of WoW was the end of an age for Blizzard. Similarly the release of Fallout Shelter was the end of an age for Bethesda. Beyond those points the organizations were distorted by the success and profit they encountered there, and basically shifted to new companies with different priorities yet still holding the brand name.
> Sounds competitive with Lion and possibly cheaper? What’s the catch?

All previous works on sodium batteries showed very low cycle lives for both cathodes, and anodes.

Since they are not giving it out now, I guess that's it. And this may well be why they keep nailing solely on the point of it being operational at -20C° (which is a big thing for any lithium battery, still)
> Entanglement, in our experience, only manifests itself when the cleverest of our species capture and protect it appropriately in controlled and delicate experiments.

He definitely comes off as slightly off-putting.
The average worker—including my self—doesn’t know that and can therefor be intimidated by a potential law suit.