skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the subject of "lost" heroes? Not really, I've just come across a few in the course of my life. It would certainly make a great book though!
It is, but you don't really need a car. Public transport and Uber/Taxis work very well in most cities.

Most of my friends don't have cars, around half doesn't have a driver's license. They can afford a car easily, but just don't see a need.
Rust has this with its macro_rules! macros. It's not as good of a solution as it initially seems.
Even without multi fuel cycle reactors, burry it in a salt mine or anything similar and cover it with concrete there’s enough places to literarily dump nuclear waste in a safe manner.

As long as it doesn’t get into the water supply you can build your house on top of it, anything really nasty burns out quickly anything that has a half life in the 1000’s not to mention millions of years isn’t a concern.
Physicists Observed a Quantum Property That Makes Water Weird
> Another issue is most languages with macros are Lisp/Scheme types,

Rust, Julia and Zig (if you consider comptime to be a specific type of macros) don't look Lispy to me but all have macros. In Rust I would consider them essential to the language (don't know the others well enough to say), without them Rust would be terribly verbose.

> having linked-lists-of-boxed-objects be the default representation for everything often isn’t great for domains that are performance-sensitive

Disagree, there are extremely performant Lisps out there, including Common Lisp and Chez Scheme. They run as fast as, or faster than, any language that's not a systems-language (C, C++, Rust, Zig).
Nothing prevents you from denying read permissions to bots in "private" channels. Slash commands are still available even if you do. If you still need normal functionality, you can always restrict the bot to its own channel.

The only thing this prevents is new bot authors from, well, writing interesting bots.
Only in the short term. The additional food allows for additional bullies to survive, so now the bullies occupy their old stomping ground AND the bird feeder. And of course the new bullies need nesting sites that they’ll happily take from submissive birds.
Interesting. What are the program architecture tradeoffs you are suggesting?
Thanks for the link. Indeed a nice programming language proposal. I love the opinionated set of design principles https://flix.dev/principles/.

There is also a former thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513397
I'm not a programmer/developer by trade but I do like writing scripts to make my job easier.

I'm looking into APL and Lisp type languages basically to expand my mind as up to now I've really only being using "traditional" type languages.

It's like starting from scratch again.
As an addendum, I’ll also add that the psychiatric system was the main Avenue for suppressing dissidents in the post-Brezhnev USSR.
Do you feel comfortable sharing as to why these problems exist in the first place?
RT and CGTN, avoid all Western news outlets like NYT, BBC, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, AP, DW, etc.
>The things you mention are 100% policeable separate from porn production in general.

Yes, and that's what banks are asking porn producers to do. To implement policies and procedures to ensure that those types of videos aren't on their site.
Little Snitch – Network Monitor
Thank you! I couldn't originally figure this out for my "on air" script, so my workaround was to query the existance of the `zoom.us` process every second.
> It (B12) is synthesized by some bacteria in the gut flora in humans and other animals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12#:~:text=It%20is%20...

so yea not directly by us, but by our guts flora, you validate it?
Personal attacks are not arguments.
Payments are like water and electricity, utilities, and should be regulated as such. If you’re not breaking the law, interfering with legal payments should be a sanctionable offense by regulators. Social platforms are not utilities, nor is my blog and its comment section.

This speaks to the need for censor proof payments systems that can still accommodate KYC and AML requirements (so you’re not violating financial regs and end up closing up shop). Stablecoins perhaps? I leave that to the domain experts.

TLDR Disintermediate legacy payment systems without breaking the law.
I Just Lost 1,400 BTC (2020)
If someone’s harming someone else, stop them. If they aren’t, offer help but if they tell you they don’t want your help leave them be.
Another popular bot, Mudae, allows the user to use both prefixed commands and slash commands, and the latter can take a few seconds to go through. Not acceptable when you have to fire ten or more commands at once in under half a minute.
I believe central-bank digital currencies will solve this problem if they offer transactions that are guaranteed anonymous, unless there is some kind of law enforcement warrant to inspect them. This will be a much more sane and accountable system than the robber baron system of unaccountable gatekeepers.
Why did you remove it if it doesn't matter?
A quick search on iwantmyname.com picking two random letters, in this case "qm" I found that qm.pe, qm.ms, qm.je, qm.ht, qm.hn, qm.gl, qm.tc were all available at regular retail pricing. So, it looks like there are a number of 2 letter domains still out there if the TLD is no issue.
> I’m reminded of his argument about how hackers choose languages that let them type the fewest characters possible

Ah yes, just like real writers write in Ithkuil, a language constructed to maximize the meaning encoded per syllable.
> A girl pleasuring herself isn’t the same thing as encouraging people to storm the White House and overthrow democracy

That comparison doesn't work because calling to storm the Whitehouse is calling on people to perform an illegal act which is illegal by itself. I think everyone is in agreement that platforms should remove content that is illegal.
I feel the same way about Snobol4. It gave me the same wow factor that Prolog did.
That's the crux of the issue isn't it. Society has to set some ground rules, no?

I'm all for live and let be, but letting vagrancy fester and destroy cities where other people want to live is where I draw the line.
There is a big difference between cutting off financial services for organizations and people; in general, in business-to-business relations organizations are free to serve only whom they wish, but individuals (unlike organizations) deserve protection from discrimination, and having access to core banking services is considered an important right for individuals in EU.

Dutch banks denying accounts to someone because they are a conspiracy nut would be big news; even someone who's declared bankruptcy and is currently sitting in jail after being convicted for fraud would have the right to a basic bank account.
>The jury is still out on that

Lol- any other result and it'd be plastered on billboards along with the hospital population scare numbers.

>motorcycle helmets will save my life

Do you wear a helmet, fire-retardant suit, and 5-point harness in a car? It will save your life.

>based on astronomically rare vaccine complications well below the risk of the disease complications themselves.

Oh- we're saying the jury isn't still out on this one? Even though we've got less than a year of data?

And besides the fact that it ignores individual risk factors, including age, weight, and natural immunity?

My family got it when the cdc said it couldn't possibly be here yet, that masks were worse than no masks, and back before Trump was called xenophobic for wanting to shut down international travel and Nancy said we should go spend money in Chinatown.

And we got it because family members are the front line, dealing with "safe-side" idiots who are the infected ones, but are more worried about catching it "again" from hospital staff with 3 layers of uncomfortable ppe on because they heard that 4 layers is safer.

So take your conspiracy theory projections and shove it. Some people still value autonomy, even if you don't. You have no problem with unnecessary mandated medical treatments, but probably were part of the choir on here last week complaining about "muh device privacy! and muh software freedom!" with apple scanning for blacklisted hashes, and government wanting e2ee backdoors. Why are you worried if you have nothing to hide?

>Antivaccination beliefs are on par with moon landing hoaxers and flat earthers and deepak chopra followers IMHO. It's intellectual snake oil.

LOL- you forgot "Think of the Children!"
My school started everyone with a semester of Scheme, followed by a semester of C.

I don't have any sort of legitimate control group to compare to, and I'm obviously biased as heck, but I do still hold the impression that I and others who learned that way can learn new languages and programming techniques much more quickly than acquaintances who were fed a steady diet of Java or Python. Many of them, even 20 years on, still don't really have a firm grasp of what single dispatch is in the first place, which hinders their ability to use it well. Which is ironic, considering it's all they've ever known.

I agree; I hate the "smart" perception. My guess is that, if there's anything there, it's just the gift of a stronger grasp of the fundamentals. Scheme brings you very close to the abstract foundation of computer science. C brings you very close to the technical foundation of computer engineering. I'd like to think there's a lot of value in starting out by establishing a firm foundation like that.
I watch YouTube and play music through my TV. I have no choice.
That’s a bummer
This is a line that resonates with me, and the one which some negative comments might overlook (3 hours in, at least):

"What can you say in this language that would
be impossibly inconvenient to say in others?
In the process of learning how to say things
you couldn't previously say, you'll probably
be learning how to think things you couldn't
previously think."

This is one of the value propositions of language. It's one of the ways we learn new things, and thus become more capable of doing valuable work as people.

Criticisms of this essay in comments so far have seemed to fall into these buckets:

1. Lisp? Macros? Boo. (Not novel/too weird/etc)

2. Languages are solved, not important; I build systems.

3. I don't like the tone of this essay.

(1) and (3) are side points, unrelated to thesis. (2) is the interesting one, and at the heart of what the essay talks about.

I've always been in the pg camp on this one. Sure, systems are the thing, we can't be purists, etc -- but saying that languages don't matter, for us, would be like rocket engineers saying that materials don't matter.

If you're building a table, you can make it out of almost anything; a table is a solved problem. Wood, carbon fiber, steel.

But at the limits of what's possible, like a rocket, the material's properties, limitations, and weaknesses in extreme circumstances matter.

You can definitely imagine that important things are happening, in the maker's mind, when they start working with a new material, seeing what others are able to do with it, seeing how the making process is easier, or what steps are unimportant/unnecessary now vs. in their usual materials. And that informs their thinking, going forward, about what's possible in systems they might build.
I see someone already put a link up, but extremism is extremism and the Christian extremism in the U.S. parallels Islamic extremism quite a bit. Including openly murdering those you disagree with.
Because organizations can be refounded, desolved while humans can't be. An organization is a vehicle for purpose. Humans aren't a vehicles for a purpose.
The irony is that a lot of "very popular" PLs are unergonomic for those 99.5% tasks, and sometimes worse when you take into account "best practices", like testing, documentation, CI/CD, version management (the tax rules will change!
But in november for these jurisdictions and September for these jurisdictions ) etc. PLs that are "clever" like pg advocates are often even worse.
Link local minimum wage to three times median rent for a 2 bedroom apartment, then. Solve both problems! :)

(EDIT: assuming you have policy to maintain full employment…)
So they all have a right to the most desirable locations? What about the rights of the people who worked hard and sacrificed to live in an area with single family homes? I don’t want to live in a multi-story egg carton.

I understand that there is a huge worker shortage in the US, and that the bus leaves twice a day.

When my wife and I were getting started, we moved to a city with a lower cost of living. We renovated 2 fixer upper houses over almost 15 years. I did most of the work myself. Two years ago we finally had enough equity to get the house we really wanted. We paid $850k for a house on the east coast in a nice area. We don’t have ivy degrees or come from privilege. We worked really hard for a long time. There were times when it was really really hard. I’ve been on unemployment. I’ve been a single parent of two toddlers for months on end, multiple times, while my wife was away for work. I’ve worked shifts and barely saw my wife for months. I’ve had to grit my teeth and stay in a job for years with an abusive boss, who suffered from a personality disorder, because there were no other options to pay the bills…

My response to all those who have been priced out is: what have you done to move yourself forward? What have you tried? What have you sacrificed? Because if I can do it, it’s possible. And I don’t feel bad about opposing zoning changes so others can just coast in on what I had to earn.
Ratio. Payload to orbit is about 5% of launch mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_fraction
Wonderfully stated!!!
it's funny because factoring out so called commonalities sometimes results in even more code that can actually be harder to read than the initial mess
using a nonstandard script type (babel, data-type bla bla), mind blowing!
Agreed with every word of your comment but

> your brain doesn't wear out from thinking the way your back wears out from carrying boxes.

this is not obvious at all.
What is to explain?

The article is an Opinion and not representative of The Guardian. It is written by Jillian C York, the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism.

Trying to conflate this opinion piece with The Guardian itself is dumb and shows a failure to understand what an Opinion is.
I wouldn't be so sure about quality changing, rather it may just be visibility
Too late?

It seems somehow they retrieved physical emails back in the day, before everyone removed their mails from LI. Now they're hitting mail directly but somehow still aware of your current LI profile.

I assume they have an aggregated DB connecting everyone's socials together with physical mails which they share or even sell to each other?
Correlation does not imply causation.

Poland was a communist country with closed borders until not long ago.

Commercial enterprise was not exactly blooming in the late 90s.

In addition, supply chain and shipping costs hadnt yet grown and fallen in price to the level they have today , making new crops a real export opportunity.
It's not only chargebacks, it's also stolen credit cards being used on porn sites to "launder" the money.
but this happened because payment processors feared being held to account
Here we go, it’s all his fault, she was just an innocent young woman. There’s a lot of talk that she will get away with it.
Calling on people to storm the capitol and over throw democracy isn't the same as protesting politicians who refuse to take allegations of election tampering seriously, and yet people with censorship powers keep insisting that the former is what January 6th was about.
In fact I see the opposite situation: a closed source algorithm will be protected as a trade secret. So identifying a bias might be harder. And correcting it anyway will still require them to ship a new version.

Meanwhile in open source there could be many users raising issues if a bias is suspected. Many people working to fix it regardless of other priorities. And then an update will be pushed.
A vacuum tube is not based on "distillation" of anything. It operates with charge carriers in vacuum, with no phase change of any masses involved, whereas distillation involves liquid/gas transitions so it can't possibly have anything to do with the operation of a vacuum tube which is based on an arrangement of solid electrodes in a vacuum and the flow of charge carriers between them. As for the history of technology, I'm moderately familiar with it and I don't see the relevance here. If absolutely everything you touch when creating something were relevant for the question of "Have you an example of a western invention not based on existing technology?", then not only would the answer be "there isn't any", but as a corollary, one would have to conclude that there is NO example of ANY invention from ANYWHERE that isn't based on existing technology. Clearly that doesn't seem to be the intended reading of that question.
Curious why a solution such as Wise (formerly TransferWise) doesn't solve the transfer fee problem. Are certain countries in Africa not supported?

Not affiliated with Wise, by the way, simply a satisfied user (but I've only used it for USA <-> European transfers).
Would you mind to make a clear counter-argument, so it informs all of us what "arguments are full of prejudice and ignorance" and why?

I found the arguments very well rounded, with good references, sound math, and a window to personal experience that reflects the lives of many back in Brazil.

I am not going to pour more anecdotal evidences to reinforce the original argument, but there is a widespread problem of impunity in Brazil: the low-hanging fruits (known “chicken burglars”) are severely punished, in my opinion, while the extreme cases (both assassins and politicians) are “roaming free”.

As many things in Brazil, I have the impression that justice is only “para inglês ver” (just for the show).

At last, I suspect you might be biased by your own prejudices when reading and reasoning on the arguments of superflit.

Thus, I think it is important to neutrally reason and point out the flaws of the argumentation, as well as show new perspectives, instead of an empty, straw-man attack, full of personal sentiment behind it.
Yep. I had no idea sourced scripts don’t need execute. Once they were pushing files up there I snarked to myself “psshhhh good luck running them!”
The content that encouraged people to storm Congress didn’t contain overtly illegal overtures. And yet that’s what happened, relatively predictably from the scenario.
"... plans to defend herself at her federal fraud trial starting next week by arguing that her ex-boyfriend, who was an executive at the company, emotionally and sexually abused her, impairing her state of mind at the time of the alleged crimes, according to newly unsealed legal filings in her case."

She better have some really damn solid evidence otherwise the "he said, she said" of this is going to get nasty, and if her character and behaviour regarding a public company is how she behaves in her private relationships - this will more likely unfold as that she's actually the abusive one in the relationship; much like how Amber Heard claimed Depp was the one abusing her, in fact there's video and audio evidence of her abusing him including causing an injury to a finger of his that he had to have sewn back on; not to mention the untold amount of harm done to his reputation who still believe her story over his, and loss of revenues from cancelled/lost movie contracts.
wow. is there something like this but for a whole project ?
Possible if you are from India. I am on the same boat
> Using their own fan connectors instead of standard connectors is such a pain!

Even for repairs. I made much use of used server gear, bodge wires were commonly needed. HP particularly sucked with silly software disables.

One that pissed me off was an HP server with dual PSU. It would run with one in the system, or two; but if it had two they both had to be "functional." so when one failed (with a fan problem forex), this expensive server with redundant PSU shut itself down rather than yaknow, use that spare PSU it was perfectly happy doing. "Yes we have redundant power circuits.. no it doesn't actually help"

Sun gear didn't step on itself like that, at least. Their stuff would keep running even as the flames consumed the VRMs.
Ask HN: What's your favorite config management tool these days and why?
After reading a HN thread about Ansible tricks and the expected debate about whether or not Ansible is actually good, I felt like a discussion around that specific topic was useful. Here's my current case:

I have a field deployed appliance that needs to be able to update automatically. Today, since we're still in an early phase, the fee I have deployed are accessible over SSH. This won't be the future case though. While in the current mode, I use Ansible over SSH to push changes. It works well enough but we're doing a bit of a pivot and now feels like the right time to do the rearch and move to a pull based model.

I've used Puppet, Chef and Ansible over the years and I could make this work with any one of them. I have not use Salt and my experience with cfengine is about 20 years ago. I'm curious to see if there's some compelling reason to get away from the devil I know right now (Ansible) that I'm missing. Salt gets brought up a lot but I rarely see arguments for or against and many of the articles I've read make it all seem like a coin toss.

Anyone have strong feelings backed by data?
Checks are slow and can be faked or scammed.

Sending cash also wouldn’t work.

MasterCard and Visa had a strong monopoly on instant transactions at a distance. They fought PayPal quite a bit in the beginning as it encroached on their monopoly.

Thankfully crypto has solved this monopoly