skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never know what the next step in these conversations is meant to be: a nation of people did a really bad thing. They - or their children their grandchildren clearly changed their mind when first given a real, unrigged vote.

Now it only happened because the evil party told them to and the world was forcing them to? So what ? They haven't really changed deep down? And the proof is somehow the absolute strangers in the minority who didn't change their mind?

I am going to have to call a halt to my participation here as: to quote teachrdan - is absurd.
Couldn't agree more. As a longtime donor, I feel uncomfortable not donating, but even more uncomfortable at closing a positive feedback loop on bad behavior.

New management is probably the only answer, as Wales clearly feels this is the best way to run this particular railroad. But what will we give up when that finally happens?

The whole situation sucks. It would be so much better if they just knocked off the shady shit.

Lately I've been redirecting donations that would have gone to Wikipedia to the Internet Archive, as I feel their work is at least equally important. But IA's reckless legal behavior is likely to result in my donations going straight to their defense counsel and/or plaintiffs, which is also not something I want to be part of.
Yeah, that was a bit more than one year before we filed for IPO :)
Anymatrix: An Extensible Matlab Matrix Collection
I see Deno getting a lot of play here, and I think rightfully so. The recent globally distributed chat example in like 20 lines of code is basically the level of accessibility I like seeing brought to otherwise very complicated distributed systems setups.

That said how is Deno being seen in relation to Node, iirc Deno is being made to correct on a lot of the issues Node originally had but I’m curious about adoption and how this is going to fit in the JS world where Node has become so cemented, what’s the killer feature to move those people over?

Or is that not the play, will this peacefully coexist?
Except the organization already has liquid assets nearing twice its annual expenses, on top of the endowment, and >20% of the revenue is simply redirected to other organizations. It's also a little ridiculous to suggest that the infrastructure is substantial, given that the costs are only <2% @ $2.5 million.

I'm sure the engineering efforts to make that infrastructure operate so well would make for a fascinating blog post which the rest of us could learn from, but it's almost irrelevant in regards to the bottom line of the organization.
If you're a grifter, you're very much excited by opportunities for grift.
These are all subjective. I worked on Haskell, without a degree, on interesting problems for an NY salary remotely out of my bedroom in Oxford. I have since moved to the Bay Area and am working for an Eastern European country while earning a Bay Area rate.
Don't get us started on car touchscreen controls...
> streaming media today is usually encapsulated in small frequent chunks over the same https channels as the rest of the page are delivered as that's what's available in JS/native

$> --- HLS ---<3
So is there anything actually wrong with what I said?

Also, here's Godwin himself on Godwin's Law, when talking about the alt-right folks who are now the backbone of the GOP: "By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."

[1] https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320
One of the problems I observed working with GE was they had pockets of a few smart folks who knew what they were doing and armies of people managing outsourcing without really having retained the industry specialization knowledge. It seemed like they barely knew their own business at times, they didn't understand the technology and they were highly specialized in dealing with external vendors. This would lay blame on execs like Gary Reiner who pushed outsourcing everywhere. They did try to turn that around and it is probably worthy of a book to review what they tried to bounce back from over-outsourcing, what worked, and what didn't.
+1 for Argentina. There's an argument from the book Germs, Guns, Steel that in the past civilizations flourished most where geography allowed for trade to happen at roughly the same latitude, where all the same crops would grow and could spread - for example, Europe and the fertile crescent, which is in contrast to the Americas and Africa. Now there seems to be a opposite effect happening along longitudes around remote work because of time zones, and I would expect South America, despite the lower % of English speakers, to be at least as big of a receiver of SV benefits as Europe in the short term and probably bigger over the long term.
The software development job market doesn't even encompass large parts of the US labor market, such as women, black and brown minorities, and poor communities. It's not suddenly going to open to the entire world.

The education system and opportunities in the latter create very little chance that those kids will grow up to work for Google. I've had CS teachers in the magnet schools - these classes should be the top CS high school students in the district - ask me to donate old broken computers to work on. When the pandemic started and home schooling became a need, I read that some poor districts discovered that 50% of their students lacked a computer at home - their only Internet connection was via phone. I've had employers tell me that (a few) kids didn't know how to use a full-sized keyboard. Think how far that is from becoming a developer; think of the vision required and the obstacles they would have to overcome.

You need more than an Internet connection to have an opportunity to become a software developer, or for any job.

(Writing that makes me think: A development environment designed for beginning developers using phones might give some of these people one piece of the puzzle. Vim isn't so great on a phone.)
what did you search for? I searched for a few thing like kittens, ducks, and cookies which I figured would have a big contribution from pinterest and I didn't see any at all? On google search of course
I think Conan would like this joke. Sounds like one Andy would make at his expense back in the day.
Yep. At some point, maybe after the 4.x or 5.x releases, someone will get fed up with point releases and push for an aggressive release schedule on new Webs and incrementing the whole version number each time.

I hope to be present at that meeting so I can deliver a swift Service Pack to his face.
This is one area where music has got it right, imo.

The value of a singular service with 'all' the content is higher than a plurality of services each with only a little. In other words I'd happily pay more per month for the Spotify of TV, movies, and sports that I currently do for a sampling of the usual streaming services.
It stands to reason that the government won't need a warrant to gather criminally admissible data from a service broker if it is voluntarily transferred to the government and the service broker forced its users to agree to a terms of service agreement.

I also see lots of talk in the comments about a social credit and hiring potential. There are no restrictions on hiring software developers. As horrible as a social credit sounds at least its some kind of guardrails, where now there are none. In any system without constraints there is maximum potential for implicit bias.
Ask HN: Lisp users, how powerful is metalinguistic programming?
For experienced lisp users: how important have metalinguistic capabilities been for your work? How often do you create DSLs, interpreters, compilers, language extensions, syntactic features, etc.?

For those of you who find it vital to the way you work/think, do you think the same level of power is possible with anything other than Lisp?

Would you rather work with a system that embeds various computational approaches into an environment with metalinguistic capabilities, such as lisp? Or would you rather use a system that glues together various tools that are focused on whatever approach is needed for a specific piece?

By computational approaches I guess I mean a lot of different things here. Functional, imperative, and relational programming. Binaries, web UIs, desktop GUIs, etc. I think the main difference would be having different pieces be first class citizens in the core environment.
OK, I can't let this slide. I have to call this out. 99% of this is a blatant word-for-word copy of existing AWS documentation. It's not even re-written in his own words, just straight up copied. Every bullet point is there. Every picture is a copy. Looking at Basim Hennawi's other posts on his blog, he seems to have a repeating pattern in his other posts of ripping directly from other site documentation and passing it off as his own.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/operatorguide/anti...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/operating-lambda-anti-p...
Also explain(analyze,buffers) is by far my favorite. It shows you the number of pages loaded from disk or cache.

Also to note: EXPLAIN just plans the query, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) plans and runs the query. Which can take awhile in production.
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To apply:
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Since the future is pretty much set, I think it's more relevant to try to obtain skills (albeit more difficult to obtain because fewer companies have them) and jump into the wagon.
>I like Wikipedia but does it really take that many people and that much money to run it?

Maybe we could ask Mozilla. /s

At least Wikipedia is not actively working on sabotaging their flagship product.
>People who place significant value in their physical appearance (eg most young women) are not in a rush to replace their bodies with an avatar.

This seems backwards. Wouldn't being image conscious make you more likely to want to replace your real-life self with a perfectly shaped avatar?
> You can’t wear glasses while taking the exam

Don't know what class/proctor you took, but I took several UoP tests with ProctorU and never had issues with glasses.
Emacs is my go-to when working on "lispy" projects such as Common Lisp, Scheme or Clojure. It's also my go-to for C/C++ projects.

VSCode has become my go-to for everything else.

As with most things it's not a question of emacs or VSCode, it's both - and the knowledge of when to use each.
It's not worth it. They also forget to mention that in most EU countries you pay ~30% of your income before taxes for healthcare (in addition to taxes). By my calculations, average software engineer pays 10x more for healthcare in EU than in the USA - in absolute numbers.
This article uses very inefficient mathematical computations to illustrate concurrency. That’s fine, they are just examples. But you might also be interested in learning how it’s really done, for example by reading the Primes package. [1]

[1] https://github.com/JuliaMath/Primes.jl/blob/master/src/Prime...
So it would be best if those services simply advertise their new address on the v2 domain right? Rather than sit still and lose their traffic when everyone's forced to, or when attacks really become feasible.

It's not even a hard upgrade, afaik it's literally just a change of what address users have to copy/bookmark and nothing else. I just don't get what the reason to not upgrade is.
Did it give you the this is dangerous message or a permissions error? If it’s the latter, you probably got stopped by System Integrity Protection.
If I had to channel Ray Dalio he would say:

- Keep your Beta as high as possible, you want to be as diversified as possible heading into a difficult environment

- Cash is trash

- Value will accrue to real assets and hard money. Real estate, equities with consistent cash flows and strong books, commodities, crypto, land, natural resources. These kinds of things

There are plenty of videos of him on youtube going deeper on all of these topics
It's not hard to be "most accurate/neutral" when comparing against every batshit blog and podcast, which is what your source does. In fact, NPR and PBS are clustered among the mainstream news sources, which only supports my "NPR is in the swamp with everyone else" claim. That said, I don't put much stock in JPGs that look like something a high schooler put together with PowerPoint 20 years ago.
I've interviewed at Google twice - passed once, declined continuing the process due to not being super interested in the product. I've declined interviewing at Facebook/Amazon. I haven't talked with Netflix nor Apple. I have not worked for one, but have never gotten any indication that the lack of diploma would be a problem. I gather that a decade of professional experience makes the lack of diploma irrelevant.

As best as I can tell the only time it has hurt me is when I tried to emigrate out of the US and was unable to as some countries require a degree to get a work visa, even with a job offer.
I generally use both - a serial for internal RDBMS storage to coerce writes to be in order, and a secondary GUID that is app-specific and generated. The app will never care about the serial, and the RDBMS doesn't care about the GUID other than secondary index look-ups (since they're rarely used for range scans).
Religious beliefs are mainly a product of childhood indoctrination. It's one of the most "heritable" beliefs out there.
I think the key take away in the parent comment is:

"This was how I knew OSX was a real Un*x"
It's really expensive, yes. But honestly, another significant part of it is that the way of life of some americans is crazy.

I'm considered a spender among my peers, and even I am amazed when I discuss with american friends, watching the money they throw away.

Most of them have huge food budget: they never cook and eat outside all the time. They have so many recurring payments for so many services. They spend tons money to refund a student load for a degree they never finished, or a mortage on a car or credit cards fees. Cigarets, alcohol, weed, then various kinds of meds.

Some of them have several generations of console, one PC, and changed their phone every 2 years for the last decade.

When I visited the USA with my father (he worked for an airline), we always ended the trip with flipping through garbages in nice neighbourhoods. Once we found a printer. Another time we found a tennis racket.

So when they tell me they are having a hard time with money, it's not easy to be compassionate.

I know there are people working 3 jobs, living paycheck to paycheck and eating junk food to survive. But they are not coders in the valley.
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I know, it's an obscene price given the category of the book but I guess he's got a very small niche of people who are willing to pay a lot for his tell all. I personally found it worth it (for the digital one of course)
Maytag is just a brand of Whirlpool now. And the appliances are not as good.
Uhhh - that was because of the people at the top, not the employees there.

Hell, the USPS was going to mail everyone masks but someone nixxed that idea.
You can try https://dadabik.com (disclaimer: I am the author/founder).
The shape of software
Or rent an apartment/house in many cases
"Free speech" of the type often invoked these days is essentially, "the right to be hateful, attack other groups and lobby for their subjugation". Then, of course, there's the "right to poison society by spreading radicalizing disinformation".

Adherents to this style of free speech decry their de-platforming by "big tech" which doesn't want to endorse their toxicity (partly because dysfunctional societies are bad for business and partly because their targeted customers may speak with their wallets).

The acolytes' standard reaction in response to this violation of their right to be awful is "who gets to choose which speech is acceptable?" as if we don't otherwise have a functioning society, social contract, and laws.

Other people get to choose. That's who. Their right to free speech includes a non-obligation to regurgitate your speech. Don't want to be "censored"? Then, don't pretend you have no idea what anti-social behavior is and don't be awful to other people.

Otherwise expect that you're free to talk, but no one's obligated to listen.

For those who don't agree with this, then tell you what: pick something absolutely and near universally abhorrent, say sexual abuse of children, and make the right to lobby for its legitimacy your rallying cry. Use it as the example of speech you intend to allow because "who should be the arbiter?"

Until you're willing to stake your beliefs (or project, etc.) on that, no one should buy what you're selling. Because then it becomes immediately obvious that what you're really lobbying for is a narrow, but vocal group of people whose ideas you likely agree with, but whose speech you view as recently restricted.
Religion is something that you can control.
> 1) Eliminate "tracking" which separates high achievers into advanced classes where they can't help the poorer students.

I'm not familiar with US school teaching methods, but is it not normally the teachers job to help the poorer [less able] students?
Lets say it was more level than it was today.
> deliver a better than a regular desktop/laptop/smartphone user experience these days

the quest delivers an experience you can't really get with those devices, and it does it with just that hardware. The GPU inside it does what it needs to do (mostly).

Also, i bet an apple vr headset with apple silicon GPU would kick ass
Matrix v1.1 Release
Maybe WashPo's fondness for "austere religious scholars" was counted as 'conservative points'?
Engineers who can put together and maintain this hardware don't exist on the job market.
Does anybody here use Notebooks for non-data science things?

They look like a potential candidate for personal notes.
Twitter needs to do something about Elon Musk Twitter spam
It's out of control.

https://i.postimg.cc/bYBR7B5M/Screenshot-from-2021-11-09-19-41-12.png

This is just a tiny fraction of how widespread the problem is. Thousands of twitter accounts being hacked daily and being changed to Elon Musk's likeness to scam people. I wonder how they are getting all these accounts..this is thousands of accounts per day, day after day, forever. Brute forcing? Obviously there is some weakness that is allowing this to happen, which twitter is unable or refusing to fix. I am not even sure they are aware of this.

Could be something like:

1. scape millions of twitter accounts daily

2. run a list of the the 100 most common passwords on them, via cloud clusters , so one IP per x login attempts.

Landing page:

BCRYP. NET

one of the addresses

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MuskihuVqz86PGj5ypjeMJhWFDxmtLwbe

there are many of these addresses, rotated hourly. the scammer(s) probably earns more in a week than a google engineer or quant makes in a year. 0.11 btc=$7k in just hours. Probably only Forbes 100 execs and top entertainers earn more. But no media coverage about this huge widespread fraud on twitter and how thousands of twitter accounts are being hacked daily. Email scammers make less money yet ISPs cracked down, so why can't twitter stop this? We're talking millions stolen in stealth mode. Even ransomware gang Revil does not make this much and they take much more risk in terms of feds.
Thanks, it’s always so easy to forget how much work has to be done so that things seem easy and effortless.
> They aren't a student, it's some guy running a script to scan for vulnerabilities and then beg for bounties.

Yeah, in this case it's pretty obviously scammers following a script from a foreign call-center.

But I mean getting a legitimate student pointing out what he thinks are security flaws (and not begging).
The parent's premise is that it will make the US more powerful economically and make its tech companies more dominant. Which is exactly what it will do.

The local tech labor supply will go to work for US corporations, which pay better than most everyone else. That will cement the US hegemony globally in tech (the sole major exception being domestic China, and to a far lesser extent domestic Russia). The US tech juggernaut will buy up the world's talent without having to plant expensive offices everywhere; that will occupy the talent pool and reduce competition to US tech.
That makes sense, I might have a play with the array agg approach. I'm especially curious if it has any impact on slot time consumed
me: hey, how can I do $x?
random: $ sudo rm -rf

I love stupid stuff like this that gullible and naive people follow. It reminded me of my early days in Counter Strike.

XxXButtStuffXxX: how do I spray decal?
random: press F10
random2: press Alt+F4
...
XxXButtStuffXxX left the game

It's classic, harmless trolling/pranking before it became the toxic beast it is today.
European server sales sink to 4-year low
How would a programmable search engine look like to you? Would providing what you look for with a) a search query b) tagging what you are looking for on screen on 3 results and c) getting results at scale sent to

you be a programmable search engine? (then --> [1])

[1] https://get-sentinel.io
Thanks, that makes sense.

I'd expect you could make the same heavy use of hashtables in either, though I suspect it isn't obvious to lean on setf so much if new to CL? That, or if you are insisting on immutable structures?

I confess I assumed that alists are probably more competitive in speed for many collections than makes sense.
The old version in arc, mirrored at https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90..., uses the file system as a database.

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90... shows the monotonically increasing number:

(def new-item-id ()
(evtil (++ maxid*) [~file-exists (+ storydir* _)]))

It's used for stories:

(def create-story (url title text user ip)
(newslog ip user 'create url (list title))
(let s (inst 'item 'type 'story 'id (new-item-id)
'url url 'title title 'text text 'by user 'ip ip)

and comments:

(def create-comment (parent text user ip)
(newslog ip user 'comment (parent 'id))
(let c (inst 'item 'type 'comment 'id (new-item-id)
'text text 'parent parent!id 'by user 'ip ip)

No clue how that code structure compares to current implementation. For all I know it's completely different.
Where are we at with Deno in terms of gotchas? Can it be used comfortably end-to-end for an average project? Does it have enough features implemented that you don't end up needing to find workarounds in the middle of a project?
> I would say upwards of 80% of the graded portion of a nursing license and it’s certifications (trauma nursing, cardiac life support, etc), you’re graded entirely on multiple choice questions.

A lot of places won't let you take the exam without practical experience, under the supervision of clinical personnel. Harder to google your way through that.
Is there any mouse on the market that has three actual buttons and a separate scroll wheel? So that you don't have to use the scroll wheel as a button?
So if you provide a service you get to dictate a lot more about it than if you try to make use of someone else's sevice? That's the difference in this context between an evil corp and a humble poor soul, if I'm not mistaken.
That's been the story of VR since the 90's.

If you view VR as a spectrum between ViewMaster 3-D and a holodeck, we're very much still on the ViewMaster 3-D end of things.