skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I think it says something very blunt. If you're not overweight you probably don't need 5 boosters and you can probably go about your day and play the odds. People still know how to play the odds right, they do it everyday? It's funny to me people are so scared of Covid when they're going to die of Heart Disease or Cancer.

There's just no nuance in any conversation related to Covid.
The official documentation[1] is quite good. An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp[2] is just what it sounds like. It will get you familiar with writing Elisp, using the debugger, and some other basics. At that point, you should be able to navigate the Elisp Reference Manual without too much trouble.

Once you have that foundation, you shouldn't have much trouble scratching whatever itches that arise. The community is thriving so often a web search will return a blog or video explaining how to do exactly what you want. And once you're familiar with it, Elisp is a fairly readable language, so you can learn a lot from looking at the source for other packages to get ideas.

Edit: Sibling comment for Advent of Code is also a solid idea. Arguably Emacs's greatest strength is that it's a fantastic Elisp development environment.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html
There's no "at least" about this, it's completely shady to opt you in by default. The fact that they're legally required to notify you in some places is probably what changed.
We have long passed the point at which it was obvious we needed an open smartphone alternative, but even after years of effort, none of them Pine64, Librem, etc.) are suitable for daily use even by us propellerheads, and completely hopeless for Grandma.

Just maybe instead of advocating vaccine-induced genocide, Bill Gates should try turning his hand to real philanthropy by funding a couple of open smartphone projects (no strings attached) to develop both open software and state-of-the-art open hardware for next-gen smartphones. Yeah, I know - dream on...

But seriously, this takes money - and a non-trivial amount of it. Who will step up to fund this? If no one does, we're locked in for another couple of decades at least...
Working on an improvement in thermodynamic performance – Stirling Engines
Just to be clear, you are saying that you know what makes people happy better than people know themselves. And even if you are right, people's current behavior shows that they disagree with you on what is best. Therefore they won't voluntarily give up buying new shoes. You will have to force people to agree with you and this type of paternalistic "I know what is best for you better than you do" leadership is rather dystopian.

Also the human desire for endless consumption predates advertising as evidence by the lifestyles of much of history's royalty, aristocracy, and wealthy. People consume because it feels good.
But top-tier physics and math professors? They ARE smarter than you.
Who's claiming that? My impression is that official sources are now acknowledging it does nothing but lessen the chance of serious illness & hospitalisation for the person taking it.
Agree with this pretty strongly. However there is something I've observed: org multipliers can exist without managing people. HR generally doesnt know what to do with them. It's almost unreasonable to call them ICs, but there you have it.
yes I realize it is not literal, but the structure of that part of the text as you progress from two people in love come up with a plan to always stay together ends up a just so story about how marriage was created.

Does it work as a list of incentives for how marriage came to be a successful institution? Well since it structures it as an origin story of marriage that you realize is an origin story of marriage at the same time you realize this is obviously not at all how marriage came to be, no it does not work. And I mean - for how marriage came to be a successful institution even has the phrasing came to be inside it. How do you explain the lasting success of an institution based on a fairy tale of it's creation - well lots of things are explained as fairy tales but not rationally. This document has a style that argues the author believes they are making a rational argument, which grates.

It's frankly idiotic the more I think about it! Which I guess would be ok if it was something you told your 5 year old when they asked hey how did marriage come to be. Fairy tales can be charming and funny, but I think the author thinks they're being clever and serious.

So now I went back to read more just to be sure they didn't deal with the fairy tale aspect better further in, but it was a waste of time.
Sounds like you think this is some kind of "Web 2.0" situation, but that was just a marketing term.

Languages are software; they are dependencies of other software (the only unavoidable dependency!) and as such should absolutely be versioned.

Versioning isn't for marketing or providing easy ways for users to remember when features were released. It's a tool for change management. Exciting features often come with breaking changes, but not vice versa.
I don't think the OP is being pedantic to make a strawman, rather I think they are pointing out that the bulk of policy proposals are for the most part internalized assumptions about what is to be desired.

"Why is climate change undesirable?" is the fundamental question which is not often talked about. Is it bad because it will affect humans adversely? Is it bad because it affects non-humans adversely? Is it bad because there is some particular state the Earth should be in?
The “No Brown M&Ms” Story: Contract Theory at Work
Preventing transmission != reducing transmission rates.

The vaccines absolutely do the later.
Hope this explains it

- Taking out which Govt?

I mean by that three parties. His company let name it A. Some Israeli Company let name it B and Govt let name it C. So let's just say there are real humans behind A, B and C.

Now A is cancelling B (that is my understanding). In response C cancels A.

- Who is the he who is allowed to cancel? What is this person cancelling?

As I understand this person (A) is refusing service to Israeli companies. Actively participating at BDS. By that he is cancelling B.

- Who is the some one else who is not allowed to cancel?

I think now it should be clear. See above. It's C.

So my assumption was that he actively participated at BDS and refused services to other companies. If that is false I take my argumentation back. But if not I don't see his reason to complain.
that's right, it can work in a reflexive manner but you never know the reason or rhyme of it so it's still a game of chance.
I don't know how we solve for the people that get a dopamine hit from a sales transaction.

My MIL is a great example of this, she goes shopping just to go shopping and get a deal. She buys more than she could ever want or use. Christmas is especially bad, buying so many presents she has a hard time wrapping them all in time.

Consumerism embedded into the American psyche is no joke and I don't know how we change it given relentless marketing campaigns, habit, etc.

I wish we could pull back but I don't know how we do it at a large scale that people will agree to.
Here is Tesla's problem, in a nutshell: https://youtu.be/xwHu9xPsE3U?t=302

Telsa used to be the cool kid because their cars were fast-charging, neck-snapping fast, had autopilot, and were very efficient per-mile.

It was enough to make up for the assembly/initial quality, material quality and NVH issues in the interior, poor reliability, and for some models, very dated design.

Now they're being beaten in almost every category. GM has one of the best fully automatic cruise control systems now; Mercedes has full self driving on the autobahn. Many cars are as or more efficient per-mile, out-accelerate all but the most expensive Teslas, have as fast or faster DC charging systems. The Audi e-tron and Porsche match or out-accelerate them while having top-of-the-market build quality and design; stepping into any modern Porsche is a like stepping into a swiss watch. Lucid's car out-accelerates and screams "FUTURE!"

There are a ton of good EVs out or coming out in the next year or two. All of those cars are assembled better, are more reliable, have nicer interiors, less dated designs, are backed by much more extensive dealer/service/parts networks, etc.

Ultimately Musk's problem is that he thought he could to better at building cars than companies which have been building cars for a century.

The problem wasn't that car companies couldn't do better than Tesla; it's that they didn't want to. Now that EVs are a Thing, they want to. They have more cash, more manufacturing capacity, more R&D, more dealers, better supply chains, and much better relations with the media and automotive press.

Tesla is fucked long-term. I suspect Musk's plan is to pivot to being an energy/charging company - that Tesla cars were just a vehicle to get him a worldwide charger network and accompanying infrastructure (it's the one thing that Tesla does just about flawlessly.)
In this day and age of "I did my research on the internet" ridicule, there's a fair part of me that treats this with a grain of salt. Though it kind of makes sense, and I get how non-distilled water could create issues (as documented).
There are one or two Haskell applications you might touch in real world use without realising that they’re written in Haskell. Pandoc is the obvious one.
Do a Google search for weight gain diet soda. There are a lot of articles saying that, while drinking diet soda may not directly cause weight gain, it can stimulate appetite, lead to increased belly fat, and increase the risk of metabolic syndrome.
This sentiment seems completely useless (actually incredibly dangerous) without at least some attempt at explaining how we might distinguish between aspects of society which seem terrible but are actually secretly good even though no one knows why, and aspects of society which seem terrible because they're terrible.
They'll usually advertise it, or you can tell if they don't require a filter and are 'cool mist' then it's likely ultrasonic. The other types of humidifiers use a fan blowing over a filter/wick that absorbs water, or generate steam (i.e. warm mist).
Of course if you just do everything correctly you don't need safety. But if you are fallible it is nice to have.
In my experience, using distilled water or ZeroWater-filtered water does not produce any meaningful amount of PM2.5 or PM1 particulates when used in ultrasonic humidifiers.
"all of the other people come together to ask you to stop, thus infringing on your liberties."

You've very insight-fully described the policy debate/disagreement between people in pretty much any liberal democracy. Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty. Not being able to legally kill me without some just cause is also an infringement on your liberty. What's often lost in the conversation on liberty is that everyone agrees that its a matter of degree. IE -- everyone having absolute liberty isn't viable. Absolute liberty would effectively just be an anarchy. Its just a matter of where the lines are. But somehow the conversation ends up getting reduced absolutes on both sides.
Are you trying to say that it’s NOT expensive or painful to just lay down and die en masse?
"Dashboard is all green" - AWS
Group Minds Differ
Whoa, TIL. This feature seems to be hidden away in MacOS under Accessibility settings -- it's not available in the regular trackpad gestures settings menu. So for some reason Apple seems to not want to show it very prominently. But I just enabled it and at least initially it seems really useful, so I wonder why.
That is a lot of writing without linking to actual detailed issues you are having. It is complaining while making it near impossible for anyone to help you or figure out exactly what your issues are to try to resolve them.
Rely more on the map/map_err/or_else/... methods for the Result type. You'll get something like (pseudocode):

may_fail_who_knows()
.map(use_value)
.map_err(some_error_processing)
.and_then(another_computation_which_can_fail)
.or_else(with_some_error_handling_that_can_rescue)
.unwrap_or(a_default_value)

Basically, instead of nested match expressions, you get a "pipeline".
They're not using 2.0 because 2.0 might have breaking changes, and they don't want to burn the version number for something that doesn't break the Go 1.0 compatibility promise. Makes sense.
> "hey, it's better than nothing". I tend to use my high beams more in scenarios where it would have been too annoying to turn them on and off, so it's net safer.

I wonder what are those scenarios? Shifting gears? Aren't drivers suppose to be more careful before shifting?

I'm just asking because at the moment I'm not sure If I can agree with "better than nothing". Putting assistant in to MS Office is one thing but cars?
Yes. We recently moved up to a place with real winters, and I got a series of humidifiers. I run air quality sensors indoors (yes, multiple), and indeed the ultra sonic ones kicked up a CRAZY amount of PM2.5s, PM1s, and PM10s.

We now only use evaporative humidifiers.

And of course, this guy has a video for this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28
I don’t really care if you say sigmoid when you mean exponential, my point is that both of those are wrong. People shudder in fear of the phrase “exponential” but disease does not spread exponentially. It never does. That’s a laymen fairy tail and it does a great deal of harm in understanding the disease.

Exponential is not well understood. People don’t know what it means, as evidenced by the fact that they consistently use it incorrectly.
Progressive and not right wing are not the same thing.
I don't like pointing devices either, but if I have to chose between abandoning them and improving them until they become likable, I choose the latter.
> Hmm.. There is no web service that returns response in <5ms, unless you are sitting at the very terminal of the hardware producing the output.

Typical Google Cloud Bigtable P(50) is <= 4ms to a GCE VM in the same region.

Source: I work on Google Cloud Bigtable.

EDIT: I should clarify that applies to point reads on an established connection using gRPC-over-HTTP/2 from e.g. Java/golang/C++ client, and doesn’t include cold connection set-up / uncached auth / TLS negotiation, but those are well into P(99.999) territory if you’re doing millions of QPS (which applies to most of our large customers).
Some languages even have real for statements because it makes more clear what the intention is.

In Pascal, you can’t break out of a for statement, the limit and step value are evaluated only at start of the loop, and you can’t change the value of the variable being looped over.

Consequently, the number of iterations through the loop taken is known when the loop gets entered.
Neal Stephenson's latest novel Termination Shock, is largely related to point number two -- Geoengineering the atmosphere using sulfur filled bullets fired from really big guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
There are already effectively 2 ways to deal with language changes:

1. Min version in go.mod
2. Add a build tag for what to do for new/old version of go (These tags are automatic, you just need to set them in the files)
This. The requirement for trust is not eliminated just shifted. That’s the elephant in the room.
>Tesla is fucked long-term. I suspect Musk's plan is to pivot to being an energy/charging company - that Tesla cars were just a vehicle to get him a worldwide charger network and accompanying infrastructure (it's the one thing that Tesla does just about flawlessly.)

This was always my take as well. He wants to make cars (they're a halo product), but the real value of tesla is in skateboards, batteries, charging. I suspect that things like the roadster/cybertruck are tesla preparing to transition to a business model where car sales are not the largest part of their business.
> standard well working chip

What is it about the problem that means it needs custom silicon?
I defer to your knowledge, i'm not trying to be a jerk. But Hubble took like 30 years? or so to develop and build? How long would a second Hubble take? I'd have to imagine it's less than 5 years, no? That has to be a huge cost savings. The testing process would have to be more streamlined or efficient, i would think. You have a much better understanding of failure modes.
Surprisingly I did not spring fully conscious and new formed onto the internet a few hours ago and have read things in the past.
Does that cause a problem with acid rain?
For binaries, I agree. For libs, I prefer semver
You don’t think people commonly notice the manner in which they cover this and other stories, and conclude that Teh Liberal Media (tm) is a bunch of liars who have taken them for rubes?
The 1855 date of that quote doesn't give you any pause?

Expanding it out to reveal that JS Mill wrote it in a letter just feels like an appeal to authority (if we are to be so "debate" about it).
Yes, this is one of the areas that are flooded seasonally, and devastated every 20-50 years. To put it into perspective, the tidal range in the pacific islands is around 2 feet. Yearly storm surges go from 5 to 20 ft (hurricane required for the upper range). This is why there are surprisingly few buildings at risk [1]. Nobody builds/rebuilds where frequent destruction happens. People are smarter than that. People will slowly move inland, which is unfortunate to those at the perimiter. But I don't think this is "doom".

1. https://cop23.unfccc.int/climate-action/momentum-for-change/...
If your debts and bills are denominated in the currency of your country, the bills and coins have value because you know how many of them you need to pay what you owe. So yes, if we ever got to the stage where your rent is priced in some coin, that coin would correspond to a currency. But until then, it's more like a volatile stock and "currency" is a misnomer.
Honestly, I think D's betterC would be the right choice for someone that wants to keep writing C but wants modernized features. Go might be great for someone looking to replace C, but betterC is comfortable for someone that prefers to continue to write C.
Yes. It's not everywhere, but it's very common in regions with snowfall.
Secure Containerized Browser
What's the problem with barrel plug (outside being a standard)? I'm pretty curious about it.
Reinfection has been well established all over the place. You can identify it via PCR, you don't need to sequence it.
2003 is "very old", really? FYI IDA dates to 1991.
I hadn't realized that.
To be honest this looks like half-baked. Couple of points:

- migration queries for up and down should be persisted. Here migrations are always read from files. If one changes down migration it might not match the up migration.

- migration content should be tracked (crc, hashing, whatever) to prevent any changes to migrations once applied

- my opinion is that each migration should have strict order and not be relied upon file sorts to prevent adding migrations in the middle of existing ones. This is accomplished by enforcing each id/migration number in files to be incremental

- 1-to-1 mapping should be enforced and errors should be produced if there are migrations in database, but not present in files

- one nit pick: two tables for migrations seems overkill

This is mostly coming from Java background and having the above things was really life saver in some situations. I think the Playframwork's way of managing migrations was really good. Flyway is good too for SpringBoot (not sure if exists something besides it), but lacks down migrations.
> I think the problem is that such sites are very difficult to find algorithmically

I don't even think it's that. The issue with older content isn't the search but the sorting. Google and to a lesser extent Bing (and thus DDG) have prioritized content claiming to be more recent relative to the time they were indexed in their display of results.

Showing more recent content is likely generally a safer bet for a search engine. More recent content is less likely to have suffered link rot and covers more recent developments in a subject.

Unfortunately Google et al don't really respect user preferences with respect to sorting. They have a financial incentive to show results they can turn into dollars (or cents).
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547241-unorthodox

If you haven't seen movie yet, check it out. But the book talks about what happened to her before she left her husband and place she grew up.

This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56015023-this-is-your-mi...

Excellent book about plants and they role in our life.

Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail by Rusty Young

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43081.Marching_Powder

Excellent book about inside life in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world and what people do to survive it.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12158480-why-nations-fai...

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50743767-between-two-kin...
Definitely true about most subs, but not all. Some, such as /r/askhistorians, are very strict about low effort posts so what you end up seeing (amongst a handful of deleted replies) are very well resourced to whatever the subject of the thread is. Of course, this requires an engaged moderating team which not all subs have. That being said, it still doesn't quite match the magic of stumbleupon and clicking a link to be shown a page matching your interests from obscure corner of the web.

To be honest, I don't know why a similar app or extension hasn't come up to replace what Stumble did. Surely there's advertising potential there (1 ad per every X clicks) and even a subscription option (remove ads or access to unlimited interest categories for $x dollars).
I dunno, masks seem pretty effective as are capacity limits. That and rapid testing before gathering seems like a pretty good plan.
What the f.

What about fuchsia?
It's funny you have concerns with Windows using too much memory at idle, I actually have no idea how much memory my daily-driver Ubuntu install uses at baseline, but my #1 issue with desktop Linux is how badly it behaves when low on free memory. Windows and MacOS will at least warn/prompt you to kill programs. On Linux, by default....the mouse just stops moving and you can't do anything. You can fiddle with settings and install tools like earlyoom to mitigate it, but the default behavior is insanely bad for a desktop OS. Despite having 32GB of RAM I still run into it occasionally and it drives me nuts.
Depends on whether you are a ThinkPad user :)
> And why does the dock keep the icon of every app I open and close.

It doesn't, do you actually quit the app or just close the window?
PCR has false positives. Also I came with sources, you didn't provide any.