skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember loving these papers back in the day.

First, I would be far less skeptical than this author is over the tradeoffs of scripting languages. Given the tools offered by scripting languages, there is one obvious way to do things. The overhead of building a fancy "just right" data structure almost always makes things perform worse than the straightforward solution using dictionaries, arrays and scalars. Given that, people go directly to that solution, leading to less variation in length of code, time and performance. It is always possible to beat a scripting language's performance, but a surprising number of programmers won't.

This is a lesson that generation after generation of programmers have learned in a variety of scripting languages. With the latest winner being Python. But the differences between popular scripting languages generally matter a lot less than the commonalities. (There are exceptions, specialized languages like Lua, R and Julia have very specific strengths and weaknesses despite being aimed at scripting.)

Second, there are two basic reasons why Lisp loses.

The first is the disadvantage of being an image based system. This has a lot of upsides, but the downside is that people lose access to a long toolchain that they are used to for dealing with files. Tools including editors, source control, and so on. Programming expertise is fragile, and that is a pretty big shock.

The second is that Lisp attracts people who want a perfect language. Unfortunately people's ideas of perfection different. So we get a large number of related dialects of Lisp, which are almost compatible with each other. And fail to get critical mass behind any of them.

That said, how big a deal is achieving critical mass? Well obviously it matters. If you're using a mainstream language you can find packages for things that you need, answers on StackOverflow, and so on. But there are diminishing returns. The size of CPAN didn't keep Ruby from rising, and JavaScript and Python in turn have seen meteoric growth.

But that said, there is a fundamental tradeoff. Working in a popular language matters more if you're planning on leveraging lots of existing work. The more your project is building on what you yourself have built, the less important the easy start of external packages is relative to your own development familiarity. The more specialized the thing that you're building, the more it makes sense to use the perfect language for you/your space, rather than going with what's popular.
So far, the slowest bit is the "loading..." of news. Each time you click on a tab on the left, you seem to re-load RSS feeds, which takes several seconds.

I saw you are working on equities. So perhaps you just launched a little too early (before reaching utility for a typical trader).
apologies: I was watching the YouTube video that's in the bottom of this article, where graduates were asked "what causes summer and winter"
that's what my comment above is about!.
The problem isn't cars. Cars are the symptom. The underlying issue is zoning that disincentivizes walkable areas and public transport infrastructure so bad that most people don't even want to use it.
There is unoxidized carbon buried underground, but the bulk of the Earth has vastly more reducing capacity than relatively piddling amounts of buried organic carbon. Fully oxidized, the Earth could consume orders of magnitude more oxygen than exists in the atmosphere. Simply oxidizing all the minerals in the crust down to a couple of hundred meters would use all the atmosphere's O2, and then there's thousands of kilometers of mantle loaded with ferrous iron and sulfides, and then the iron core.
I’ve been saying for some time the first mover advantage in football penalty shootouts should be removed by doing a Team A/Team B B-A A-B etc. as they do in tennis tiebreaks. I’m not sure if Chess would ever make such a change.
It protects the company when you fire minorities, because you do it base on data. It's like proving that you've bought stock fairly (not according to insider information) by showing research.
I try that, but it makes tracebacks harder frequently. Adjusting my programming style based on error message availability is a pet peeve of mine.
That's the model I'm accustomed to, as well. Most shops I have worked with in the past 10 years use Gerrit, which facilitates that (transparently).
Yeah… good luck getting spare parts if your laptop goes down. Also, the power goes off at 10pm every day, you have to generate your own for the night.

It also seems like most people there grow their own food. That takes time when does for self-sufficiency.

And it looks like there is no property currently for sale along with limited rental options. You basically have to build your own house (with only supplies coming it every 3 months)

Solving the internet problem is only the tip of the iceberg for remote working there, there are easier locales to be a remote worker in with similar living costs but easier logistics.
Not sure if pet medicine is regulated by the country's food and drug administration, but you might consider reporting it to them.
As a chess variant fan, this is a cool idea that has a lot of potential. I would like to see it extended to include say, the first ten moves. Black may announce a double move any time during the first ten moves after which white gets his double move and then play continues with single alternating moves as usual, with the sole restriction that mate may not be delivered by a double move.
Every solution has flaws, as you say. The careful reviews have worked very well - science is one of the great triumphs of humanity.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't look for improvements, of course.
I have a serious medical condition that can seriously interfere with my sleep at times. I see absolutely no contradiction in saying "Addiction is not just about avoiding bad feelings" and saying "I think he drank to suppress his nightmares."

Multiple people have told me that's a contradiction and I'm wrong to take that position. It's probably not worth arguing any further and needs to be filed under "We can just agree to disagree on this detail."
Best time is 25 years ago. The second best time, of course, would be right now :)
In the absence of long-term studies, isn't it prudent to assume it has a shell-life? And if so, who's to say 6 month isn't a sensible heuristic?
BTW, the app gives me "Uncaught JavaScript exception: TypeError: cannot read property webContents of null" on the Mac.
I've been asked to whiteboard this or very similar problems in 45-minute job interviews. Based on my experience in those interviews I am not surprised to see it typically takes 3-10 hours to do a proper job of it.
An educator suggests[1], in the context of preK science education, that students have a human right to make sense of their world "now". That's very not the focus of current science education content. PreK-13. But what if were? What might that look like?

Status quo is students being told the Sun is yellow, from preK on through to the most common intro astronomy college textbooks, with only a few of them getting an "oops, nope, our bad" decades later, in astronomy graduate school discussion of common misconceptions in astronomy education. We've known Sun color for a century, had detailed limb darkening and tint numbers for decades, and now years of intensive effort on stellar atmospheres in support of occultation and exoplanet work. Also years of hemispherical-camera daytime-sky surveys. And science education content manages to remain decoupled from all of that.

A startup pivoted from supporting learning of English in Japan, because the market there turned out to be for performance on English proficiency exams, not for English fluency. And a teacher remarked that it seemed the societal objective was English accessibility for work, while avoiding the fluency which could contaminate culture. Similarly, an truly excellent briefing on biology would necessarily be pervasively steeped in evolution... and thus be less than entirely welcome in the US. Not that Europe or Russia, or China, India, or Brasil, have incentivized its creation either. It seems neither the science research nor science education communities are set up to pursue it.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Larimore+Vision+2020
This comment shows the power of disinformation — pure lies like “the election was stolen” or “vaccines cause autism” if repeated enough become “differences of opinion” with two different “sides.”
Right.

When you weigh a certain weight, you have a certain resting energy expenditure.

Let's say the average 200lb(Sorry for the American units) man burns 2000 calories a day. If he then goes a week only eating 1500 calories, he will have burned a pound, and now only weighs 199lb, and his new resting energy expenditure will be slightly less. The next week when he is still eating 1500 calories, he will lose only 0.99 pounds.

So of course you will run into a time eventually when you plateau. At some point 1500 calories a day will be your new equilibrium weight and you will no longer lose weight without additional changes.

This is typically an argument the other way, as when you do the math this way it's very clear that the energy when stored as fat is incredibly energy efficient. An extra 100 calories might mean that you gain a pound in slightly more than a month, but you won't settle on your new equilibrium until you gain more than 10 pounds. According to wolfram alpha, the basal metabolic rate of a 200lb male is 1997 calories. The basal metabolic rate of a 300lb male is 2465 calories. The daily energy expenditure of a 200 pound male, who runs daily for 3 miles over 30 minutes, is equivalent to a 300 pound male. 100 pounds of fat is actually a shockingly small amount of daily calories difference.

Anecdotal evidence: I've lost 70 pounds, then regained the 60 pounds, then lost the 60 pounds, and am currently up 30 pounds. Simple does not mean easy.
The comfort that they provide is trap sometimes! Algolia suggests that frontend sends the queries directly to its service instead of going through our backend, which is good if you want to have a good search engine fast. But don't go for it without considering the consequences. It will take over part of the frontend and your product will depend on Algolia to the point that implementing a single favourite functionality for your users may need to integrated with their service if you're not careful!
> Next I started getting memories from OneDrive. I use my 1 drive for dev backup and as such I get an email from MS with a bunch of icon images as a memory.

I'm sorry, but that sounds hilarious.
I happen to be reading Dune today, and AI is referred to as counterfeiting the human mind
To be called a “snake” by a traitor like Edward VIII is high praise indeed.
Can someone explain if the introduction about quantum states is in any way the same effect or just an analogy? Could it be that discrete energy levels in atoms exist because those are the non-radiating states and they're non-radiating for a somehow-similar reason?
Yes, I think so. Thanks.
This is strange. WASM can't handle half the things Docker needs to run. I'm genuinely confused as to how he can say the two are equivalent in any way, despite being the author of docker.

VMs existed at the time. Java was one of them, probably the most prolific of them all, and certainly had a standardized system interface.

Further WASI is a nightmare. Most projects I've personally seen disregard it completely.
same zomato does.. these bastards increase the food price if they see many positive ratings.. i have seen some food items price increased by 21% in 6 months
I think at least skimming some edition of the

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style

and some of what is available under

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=military+writing+guide

would be useful for american english and technical writing.
YouTube-dl dead? Latest commit on Jul 1, 2021
> still had a hand written note taped to the side of it, something to the effect of "Please don't turn this computer off."

You sound like "nobody has cleaned this piece of paper off [yet]" or "will be cleaned of soon". But it is the central piece of the exhibit, very intentionally. Probably written by TBL himself and illustrating a feature of the new invention: "The internet is always on"

And I heard of this before, that TBL developed the WWW on a (NEXT-)workstation, which also was the first www-server with a sticker on it that said "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!" (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_Machine_is_a_...)
As I said, I've used that idiom myself many times. I'm just trying to be more careful.
Yes, I believe it was. One machine had to be the first www server.
Some famous GMs agree with you:

> Some players, including world champions such as José Raúl Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, and Bobby Fischer, have expressed fears of a "draw death" as chess becomes more deeply analyzed.

> To alleviate this danger, Capablanca and Fischer both proposed chess variants to revitalize the game, while Lasker suggested changing how draws and stalemate are scored.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_ches...
As far as I understand/remember it:

Analog color television color information is sent "out of band" from the point of view of black-and-white television (as a sideband frequency, with neat analog trickery to cancel out its effect on main signal). Color TV is backwards compatible. It's unlikely that random input happens to look like meaningful properly encoded color information, so television static is largely black and white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence

> In mathematics, the Thue–Morse sequence is the binary sequence obtained by starting with 0 and successively appending the Boolean complement of the sequence obtained thus far. The first few steps of this procedure yield the strings 0 then 01, 0110, 01101001, 0110100110010110, and so on, which are prefixes of the Thue–Morse sequence. The full sequence begins 01101001100101101001011001101001....
Naturally it had to leave out CLR, TIMI, z/OS language environment, BREW, TenDRA, Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit as examples of bytecode formats that support multiple languages, including C and C++.

The only innovation is being more marketable.
Another way of improving chess would be kasparov10 or a once per year chess960, chess480 starting position.
https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-problem-with-chess960
Main Internet, across main Internet, between networks, intra-domain. Intra-station. Anything that joins it all together that isn’t “front facing” i.e wireless network towards handsets
A few must haves:

- Bunna 12

- Nikka FTB

- Craigellachie 13

- Springbank 10

- Ardbeg 10
> we decided to go with Node.js, C++, React, Redux, and Electron.

Why?

Strikes me as a very odd choice for an application that is going to handle your money.

Just because a lot of people make silly decisions (Node.js??? It is not, and never will be, secure. Broken design) is no reason to do it in your software.

Good on you for getting into the reliably profitable part of the business though. Making money out of bigger fools.

"In times of war the bad make war, the good make peace, the cunning make bullets"
>I'll have to point out that LISP has absolutely not been a teaching language across universities around the globe

In France Lisp was an essential part of any computer science course at university, and I am pretty sure it is the same today. Same for oCaml.

Actually I do not see how you could seriously teach computer science without studying Lisp.

Schools that do not teach Lisp but more mainstream languages are not universities, their only objective is to make sure their students find a job at the end of the cursus, not to teach them the fundamental of computer science.
The original article is about the unincorporated community Mendocino. It's population is about 1000.

Mendocino county is almost 4000 square miles (more than 10,000 square kilometers). Other parts of Mendocino County have substantial agriculture.

The links provided are about the county not the community.
Plenty of seemingly smart or even "woke" people have some mental derps that make them antivaxxers, antisemites, racists, xenophobes.

How employees treat each other should be the factory's business, but often is not. Or it just slips under the radar. As long as the job gets done.
He should have gone talk to Microsoft and learn about MSIL.
That's the I don't know anything about whisky but I read on pretentious blogs that these are good list.
You can reinvest them it or he stock after you’ve paid income taxes on them.
Somewhat late to this discussion. But I am willing to bet Apple Watch didn't start out as some sort of innovative product. It was born as an urgent need for a product with leading edge technology. Or a need for the operation and supply chain. That is why the user experience didn't quite match the usual Apple standard and went on for a few years as path finding / soul searching.

iPhone success has its own problem. You can no longer put leading edge technology into it, because these tech dont scale to hundred million of unit per year. That is why you always see Apple being late to many tech. The only way to do that, or to help doing that, is to have a product that are sold in lower volume, higher margin, and allow them to test and innovate. Both Apple Watch and iPhone Pro ( or iPhone X ) were that. Apple Watch allowed their supply chain to test and improve OLED, LTPO, playing around with material such as ceramics, stainless steel, titanium alloy ( coming soon to iPhone Pro ), SiP ( System in Package ), Double Side Packaging, New Battery packaging, Low Power Bluetooth and WiFi and lots of other small details. They allow Apple to refine the process before they are put on iPhone, or in many cases never actually arrive on an iPhone.
Maybe actually, or at the very least it could explain the confusion. Better than some of the other explanations I’ve heard for sure.
If I was in a situation where I had to write on occupational health and safety in forestry I would shamelessly appropriate "mean square blunder" and "arbitrary timberland", those are superbly above the mean square!
I miss the days when software basically did what it was told (by the user, not the author) and didn't spam you with adverts (also known as "recommendations" now), smarmy cutesy messages, or otherwise get in your way of doing things.

Browsers are probably one of the worst offenders. Edge is not far from Chrome, and although Firefox is probably the sanest, it also has a disturbingly small marketshare and seems to be going down the same path.

When I use "modern" software, I don't feel like a user; I feel like I'm being used.
This makes me think of people smelling bad, in dark robes, wearing white powdered wigs, frantically using their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_fan
Not sure if there's a more eloquent name for these kinds of "throw enough shit and hope some of it sticks" arguments but the article is very confused, from claiming ad hominem attacks are as bad as racism, to ranting about millenials and throwing in WMD's in Iraq for good measure.

The actual key issue is somewhere in the middle of that article:

>"When tech companies take it upon themselves to arbitrate what is or isn’t misinformation, or taking action based on events that occur outside of their own platforms what they are doing, at its core, is adjudicating international law"

No, it isn't. It's a private company determining how and who it conducts business with. Being a 'patrician' of your own property is completely fine and in fact a basic right, and if you don't like Mailchimp's content policies, go to a competitor.

Unless someone explains to me, in plain English, why we ought to abolish the very important freedom of deciding for themselves who and how private entities do business with, I don't want to read any essay length pieces any more about the Gulag archipelago, Orwell or how his friend being cancelled by Mailchimp is like being stuck in Soviet Russia.

And to preempt the inevitable "but they're so large!". This is not an indicator of anything. Tech companies are large yes, but competitors are, as Google actually correctly put it at one point, one click away. Size is not an indicator of market power, inability to chose alternatives is.
++ stacked changes workflow. @tomasreimers made me a convert after debating traditional github workflows for a year
It was kind of amusing that in his section giving examples of what he said were various logical fallacies in the "vast majority of all media narrative around COVID-19" he committed several of those same fallacies, plus a few more.
That computers don't seem to be correlated with productivity improvements is a thing. And also despite the huge valuations of tech companies, their secondary effects on the economy appear to become negative quickly.

That's very much unlike for instance GM in the 1950's. Where GM had a huge valuation. And spawned secondary businesses that themselves had large collective valuations.
July 1 2021 was just over a month ago.
That's interesting - I must have just been lucky in what I've encountered ES-wise as of late. It relieved me greatly to no longer have the horror of mixing user data and method/"special" names.
Google photos does not by default upload photos in WhatsApp folder till you enable it, default is no, so no...
I shouldn't have to spell it out so much for you. You have no return for thirty years only if you cherry pick the top of that bubble in the late eighties. Start anywhere else and there is a positive return (ie what you said is false unless you cherry pick the start). You can do the same cherry picking in the US market and people frequently do. To look at long term average returns properly picking fair start and end dates is important. And then remember, we won't see growth over the next 100 years like the last hundred, so expect much lower returns. But the same is true for other assets as well. Bonds have negative real yields right now.
Wealthy people own assets that keep up with inflation. They may have 10% in cash which doesn’t keep up with inflation but in general most of their holdings either keep up or outperform inflation. Poor people have wages that don’t keep up with inflation unless they start job hopping. The poor are typically more affected by inflation than the rich.