skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this mostly, but the new GNOME releases are almost universally a design regression IMO. Pretty much everything that they added was doable with extensions in 3.38 (most of which are now broken with GNOME 40), and the only substantial changes that I can discern is the shift to libadwaita and forcing people away from things like custom stylesheets and shell extentions, which were the only things that made GNOME tolerable for many people, myself included.

Combined with the overall hostility and 'my way or the highway' mentality that's been pervasive throughout the GNOME team, I didn't feel too bad dumping their DE for KDE Plasma. I respect the constant desire to improve things, but their refusal to kill sacred cows and infatuation with destroying people's workflow doesn't really inspire me to spend more time with their software. It's especially ironic when you consider that they recently re-wrote their CoC to be vague enough for the developers to systematically silence anyone who makes feature requests they disagree with, or post bug reports for stale issues. If this mentality continues to spread across the rest of desktop Linux, it will probably be dead in the water. It's no surprise to me that Valve decided to eschew all that GNOME drama with the Steam Deck and just shipped it with Plasma. QT is a genuinely terrible toolkit by many metrics, but at least it doesn't have developers that call you fascist for enforcing a custom stylesheet in their open source software.
If you've tried it properly and didn't personally found it compelling that's ok. I've seen people for who their mental model of how they think and approach computer tasks doesn't land to it, or people who just have other personal preferences.

As for example of software made with a Lisp, I feel people are never happy with them, like a constantly moving goal post, but there's a certain chicken and egg to it.

Some examples:

- HackerNews
- Emacs
- LispMachines (the entire OS)
- AutoCad (uses Lips as a scripting language)
- Jak and Daxter (the first game)
- Yahoo Stores (pre-sale)
- Reddit (pre-IPO)
- Datomic (no-sql tuple DB)
- The flight system in the Boeing 747 Next (their latest 747 as of this writing)
- Apache Storm (the distributed stream processor)
- Walmart (they use it for backend stuff)
- CircleCI (build automation)
- Riemann (a high scale distributed event stream publisher)
- worldsingles network (bunch of dating websites)
- NuBank (a Brazilian bank)
- ConsumerReports (all their backend)
- The Climate Corp (agriculture software)
- Roam Research (note taking app)
- Kevel (ad server as a service)
- HighSpot (sales rep software)
- Reify Health (health related software)

Now those aren't all Common Lisp per-say, but Lisp languages so Arc, Common Lips, Scheme, Clojure, EmacsLisp, etc.

There's also a lot of use of Lisp that's not like a closed software, a lot of times it'll be a backend service or parts of a system is using Lisp, I know Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix have some such use, it's not wide scale, but you'll find some teams there using some kind of Lisp, as you'll sometimes see job offers that mention it.
In Germany the government went out of the way when it came to digital technology
Look where we ended up
> sending people to die on Mars

It's about people wanting and choosing to do something great with what's left of their remaining time. It's not about shortening their lives.
Solution 2 is still iterating, once by 3, then by 5 then by 15.

Solution 3 uses the closed-form solutions the the question "what is the sum of the multiples of k between x and y".

If you're not familiar with that last part, it's pretty easy to get there from the formula for the sum of numbers from 1 to n, ie n(n+1)/2 (which is itself ~easy to see by pairing up 1 and n, then 2 and (n-1) and etc.)
It is the equivalent of using heavy marble blocks instead of paper to prevent flipping the page because answers are written on the back of the exam: it tries to hide the symptom of the problem instead of fixing the real problem.
> Their business empire grew N-fold, they just didn't grow in Japan, but the rest of Asia.

I feel like that’s strengthening the point you’re arguing against. Consider the quotes sentence alongside the realities of American firms outsourcing their manufacturing. Yes the firms are still juiced by American investors, but there are additional concerns beyond the investment capital. It affects individuals jobs, industries, and economies here in America (or in Japan) for large components of the economy to happen elsewhere.
Climate change is an emergency for everyone everywhere
Trapped in the Metaverse: Here’s What 24 Hours Feels Like
Quality private tutors for only 64k salary?
Do you mean that ITER could be obsolete before even reaching a production phase ?
At least the kids who have the gumption to know how to inspect the source now get a neat lesson about how the grown-ups really work.
Life span can be easily translated into standardized units more convenient to talk about which the breeder's equation would apply to, the same way binary or categorical or polytomous traits can often be treated as a normal latent with thresholds. And people calculate heritability of lifespan all the time. (It's low, but that's not because lifespan happens to be Gompertz-distributed.)
>we will only know in years or decades.

Rees-Mogg (an avid supporter of Brexit) famously said it would take 50 years to see any benefit from Brexit.
sooooo....dollar signs? Exclamation points? What would you pick?
It would be nice if new plants could be built in places lacking the issues causing the closure. Then this wouldn't be such a question.
"Best alternative to a negotiated agreement" (BATNA) is from 'Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In', Fisher, et al. The idea is that you want to be aware of what your options before entering a negotiation.
They state in the article if the world 100% stops making new glass we will save 19 lbs of co2 per person from being emitted. 86m tons world wide per year. Stopping a 1/2 beef burger from being made will save 18 lbs of co2 equivalent from being released. So glass is not the place for a big greenhouse gas impact. What sucks is if I don't buy this big burger I will not stop it from being made. I will just make it cheaper for others to eat beef.
The second point sounds like something that can be fixed with regulation and/or fines.
Kyoto: Development notes 13/11/21
Well, good thing there isn't some -other- way to view the source code of a webpage.
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> He doesn't define what distinguishes the population of 120 IQ parents from the population as a whole.

...Surely what distinguishes them is that they have IQs of 120, whereas the parent population has average IQ of 100?

> Further, he says that 120 IQ parents having children with mean IQ of 110 is an example of regression to the mean. I would say the exact opposite: the 110 IQ children _define the mean_ of the next generation (in the correct usage of the equation).

Surely you understand there is not only one mean in play here? There is also the mean of the population from which the IQ 120 subset was drawn. It is their mean that "regression to the mean" normally refers to, and has referred to since Galton invented the concept in 1886.

> With regards to "ideological warfare", the author himself explicitly introduced eugenics into the conversation with his analogy about the desert island populated by National Merit finalists

Not all things "eugenics" are inherently evil. Genetic screening of embryos to avoid infant suffering from horrible genetic diseases is also eugenics. Should mothers not have a choice to save their children from horrible genetic diseases?

It's ideological warfare to paint all eugenics with the same moral brush, as all having "unpleasant undertones". There is no moral flaw, per se, in seeking to understand how desirable traits might be increased in the human species.

I can't speak on whatever research the author has done on "human races", but it does not seem relevant to the discussion of the breeder's equation or to eugenics in the broad, perfectly benign sense of increasing desirable traits in a population.
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A lot has changed. It's not just wage stagnation and inflation, but consumption habits and jobs have changed too.

Many things are cheaper or free now. YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, etc. provide hours of entertainment for "free". Streaming music, etc.

70'' tvs are cheap, ad supported.

Clothing is cheaper. Disposable electronics and garbage products cheaper.

Durable physical goods, tools, and food are more costly. Cars. Houses. Things of value and craftsmanship.
A mix of google keep and a whiteboard works great for me!
I believe it’s obvious that if a dumb projectile can be n% cheaper, Spacex would go for it. The question is what magnitude of n?
Mark 9:14-29, depending on the translation. The translation of biblical fasting is suspected to be one meal a day type thing, like Ramadan.

More about the history of fasting and epilepsy here (which also cites the Bible verse, god forbid):

https://www.medlink.com/articles/ketogenic-diet-in-the-treat...

Of course I’m being downvoted because I mentioned a religious text. It’s in other secular ancient texts as well. My point was more about how fasting and the ketogenic diet has been recognized as a treatment for mental diseases for a long time. As it relates to the title, a lot of them are suspected to have roots in inflammation and metabolism.
Ok, we've gotten rid of the creator from the title above.
Looks interesting, will try it out later this week for my pet project.
If you're worried someone might spoof your domain, then use DMARC.
Maybe they'll just pick up the rights to Stephenson's Baroque Cycle
Eh, I think of what Jaron Lanier said years ago about how VR is more ethical when it's time-limited and kinda clunky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDRN_dZNJUM&t=1935s
I bet it is comforting because if it is true, CSW is SN and has a boatload of coins (heard anywhere from ~850k to 3,000k including ones bought on the cheap in 2011) it’s catastrophic for BTC. The best scenario for BTC is that SN came and appeared, created the money machine, and was never heard from again. Like a Devine spirit. That’s what’s always been troubling about BTC…this SN guy is out there somewhere.
> They focused on what Robbeets calls “culture-free” vocabulary, including words for basic items such as “field,” “pig,” and “house.”

Words for such material goods often jump languages. These aren’t the terms one should be focusing on if one is actually seriously trying to prove the existence of a language family. There is nothing in this research to suggest a change to the consensus view that the Altaic languages don’t constitute a language family.
Thanks for the feedback, added some sliders to the article, it indeeds help!
Well we are getting a metaverse, just like we are getting a crypto economy. Our choices are around the form it takes, not if it will happen. If good people sit idly by, or dismiss it, we will get the worst versions of both.
Great ideas... I always wanted to have something like this, but keeping goats and sheep in urban home is not an option. Hope I will be able to do something like this in coming years.
In ‘learning trap’ experiment, adults leap to conclusions while children explore
This is the conclusion that I am coming to as well. You need to pick the correct tool for the job.

What's the correct tool? The simplest tool that can get the job done, the Principle of Least Power[0]. We often hear "Favor Composition over Inheritence", but never "These are the instances where Composition does not work, and Inheritence needs to be used instead."[1] Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" shows many more examples, but this principle is very wide reaching. Prefer expressions over code blocks. Prefer for over while. Prefer map over for. Prefer data over functions. Prefer functions over macros. Prefer monoliths over micro-services. Prefer companies over governments. Prefer bikes over cars. Prefer smaller teams over bigger teams.

It's that last one that is intriguing me. You need to ensure that all of the skills that you need to be in the company are there, you can leave a bit of a buffer like Kelly-sizing, and then you want to optimize for that and cut as much as you can. Vertical integration is just another instance of tight coupling. The less people in the company, the less you need to communicate, the more it can get done. You want the skills Venn diagram of the team to look like the Olympic rings.

Social media runs into this same trap where communities grow far to large. The economies of scale within the space grows and even with the worsening of communication the entity gets stronger with each member according to a network effect. Both need some sort of dampening effect or forced splitting, but I don't know yet what that is.

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
Rather than fixing the broken quiz, they’ve chosen to restrict access to a web browser feature with limitless educational value.

Perhaps if the creators of the web service had spent more time with the view-source tool during their own schooling they would have designed a better quiz system, one that was less vulnerable to this “exploit”.

The layers of incompetence are hilarious. Incompetent web developers restrict access to a valuable resource, which will inevitably lead to more incompetent web developers.
Reference counting is mostly a cop-out for people who can't design code properly and reason about ownership and lifetimes.

It essentially makes your code Java and defeats the point of the language.

I would expect most decent teams to reject your code during code reviews.
Strangest borrowing claim I heard was that Germanic strong verbs (hence English) came from Semitic language verb forms. Columbia linguist McWhorter claims this his Story of English book.
I think German has a particle (doch) to alleviate this
I’d say both. The author of the post called Rust async/await a disaster, and the top commenter, who withoutboats replied to, agreed with the author’s criticism.
It’s not hard to create a fake protolanguage by focusing on borrowed terms and accidental cognates.
Not very mysterious. The reason you were elected was due to an intensely-expensive PR and media campaign. This requires a lot of money. A potential source of this money is a small group of people who financially benefit from the country's use of fossil fuels, and who are wealthy enough to never be affected by climate change. So you either comport your policies with their desires or your opponents do, and get elected instead.
I just now remember a presentation about how hard it is for public schools to save money. Just one of the many examples was busing.

Apparently, staggering schedules is obvious low hanging fruit. Instead of all the schools starting at (roughy) the same time, break it up into 1/3rds. Eliminates need for 2/3rds of buses and drivers. Employ remaining drivers near full time. Win, win, win.

Proposal is floated on a regular basis. Broadly popular with parents in the strictly hypothetical sense.

And then most every parent loses their frikkin minds once the details become more concrete.

So administrators recoil from the shit storm. And we're stuck with 3 times the number of buses and drivers than is actually needed with a more rational schedule.
And software buffers! Those are usually much worse than the hardware ones.
Tone policing is used to reinforce the status quo. It's not nice to talk about the crimes someone is abetting; how many dead in Iraq due to the unnecessary invasion? The 40,000 US citizens who die every year from automobiles? The hundred thousand innocents dead because some people won't wear masks? It's certainly reasonable to suppose people of the unchallenged world superpower 1992-2019 are not normal.
Believe it or not, that is actually against the law. Lessees of public lands can be required to extract resources from them or lose the lease. https://reason.com/2019/11/18/why-dont-environmentalists-jus...
It gets worse. Google Forms won't show the answers in Response view. It only happens in Editor view.

See https://support.google.com/docs/thread/39605334/google-forms... to verify.
Using your smartphone to photograph your Hasselblad focused on your Leica is certainly a flex.
Parent is saying that you can declare your closure 'move' and move references rather than values, therefore getting the mixed behavior you described. You don't have to move all values.
> Seems most industries will evolve into a state where you have 2-4 competitors that suppress all competition by building up regulatory hurdles and by their ability to buy small companies.

This isn't a natural law, it's the point at which antitrust stops letting them buy each other. If it wasn't for that they would merge to monopoly. And that few competitors is enough for them to implicitly or explicitly collude instead of actually competing.

But it only works if barriers to entry are high. Otherwise investors would see profit in going into competition with the cartel. Which is why they lobby for regulatory barriers to prevent that from happening.

> I would be in favor of massively progressive taxation of large companies. I just don’t see the value of them beyond a certain size but I see a lot of danger accumulating so much power in their hands.

What causes this is really the opposite, and what you're suggesting would make it worse.

Corporate expansion is a tax deduction to corporations because corporate income tax is a tax on profit and building new factories etc. to expand vertical integration is a cost. So they'd have more incentive to reinvest all their revenues instead of paying the tax. That's how you get Amazon.

The real problem there is that we double tax corporations. So Ian invests in Apple and his share of Apple's profits are $1000. If Apple pays the money to Ian so he can go invest it in a company that makes electric cars, he has to pay tax on it right away, and then he has less to invest. If he leaves the money inside of Apple and Apple expands into making electric cars, he doesn't have to pay the tax until he sells his shares and gets to earn returns on the money in the meantime.

So then investors have a preference for share price appreciation over dividends, which is equivalent to preferring conglomeration over returning profits to the investor to invest in independent companies. Then we get more and ever-expanding huge conglomerates and less independent companies that do one thing and do it well.

The solution is to make dividends a tax deduction to the corporation. Then corporations with money they don't know what to do with will do that for the tax deduction.
Using the chance to ask: what is currently the cheapest, most efficient place for home PC backups (on linux)? Backblaze B2? Something else?
necessity is a wonderful sounding criteria when being applied to things you don’t care for, and ghastly when applied to things you enjoy.

we could sooner justify the elimination of all alcohol products on these grounds than soda. sugary beverages just have calories; alcohol has got the calories along with liver damage, alcoholism, drunk driving etc.
I somehow expected this to be some kind of [Skyhook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_%28structure%29?wprov=...).

Thinking about that, would it be possible to "fling" an object trebuchet-style by flying some crazy maneuver with a "hook-plane" instead of a satellite?
Just another reason to use/advocate/support Firefox, and alternative browsers. Ultimately this is good for Google. Just like with hiding the url, as far as they're concerned, the less people look under the covers, the better.
"You have violated the terms of service and your account has been suspended. You no longer have access to Reality."

You know you're going in the wrong direction as a species if a corporation can have control of your every interaction, and they can take that access away if they so wish. They do it today, why should it be any different when the metaverse exists?
It's gotta be retaliation. See these reports about TheDarkOverlord that Vinny Troia has released:

https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-...

https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-...
Both failed me with recovery at some point (corrupt indexes)
Both Japan and Germany chose to accelerate their nuclear decommissions, thereby extending their use of fossil fuels.
Rust also just enforces good C++ practices, so you could just get yourself familiar with the 40 years history of C++.
The reason we do not have a free plan is b/c we are about to be listed on appSummo and they do not allow a free plan. However, we do have a coupon FREEMONTH that will set the first month completely free!!
Here's the correction: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washing...

This article doesn't seem to add any context or new reporting, might be an improvement to just swap in the link to what it's lightly rewriting.
Absolutely, as is the case in any huge project, it takes long enough to build that at some point you have to freeze the design and technology keeps progressing. It's hard to predict which pieces of technology will mature on what timeline, and at some point you just have to start.

That ITER doesn't use superconducting magnets to me means that it will definitely be "obsolete" in the sense of using the most modern technologies, but it's still going to do the job it was designed for.
I’m a woman, and none of my smartest friends are interested in having more than 2 children. A few aren’t interested in having any. I’m the weirdo who wants 3, but I don’t see why I should be part of someone’s experiments when I can find a high quality mate on my own anyway.
The app seems to be Google Forms ;)
This would get the book thrown at you in any court of law. Hacking FBI email servers is what happened. The IP and subdomain are FBI.
Ask HN: How do you back up your Android phone?
I am primarily concerned with app data. I have many apps like messaging apps that have important private data such as contacts and message history that is difficult or impossible to export. A big concern is if I lose my phone, there are some accounts that can only be recovered using the same phone number, which may be impossible if the phone company refuses to issue another SIM card with the same number (a problem when traveling abroad).

So what do you guys do to get full (preferably offline) backups now that Android 12 has removed backup functionality from adb? Is the only option to use a phone that can be rooted? (unfortunately not possible with my Samsung Fold 3 without disabling the camera).
Good, thoughtful, comment, but the statement that ammonia is more "energy dense than H2 is innacurate and misleading. Ammonia has very slightly higher Volumetric Energy desnity than H2, but it has an extremely lower Gravimetric (mass) energy density.[1] The difference has significant implications for the intended application.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_density.svg
Being able to transport waste heat to heat homes would be a great help to energy and environmental costs.
Why is it acceptable to have a quiz where the answers are obvious from the HTML? Come on…
I don't agree that using view-source during a test is a critical event in the life of a web developer the lack of which could derail them into "incompetence". But what do I know?
It feels like many of us are already living in a dystopian nightmare, even without the metaverse. Day-after-day of mentally draining video calls, constant slack notifications...