skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A chain of first/second/rest/nth is also unreadable, as is the equivalent using plain car/cdr. Lists should not be used as a substitute for defining a structure with properly named slots.

I am a big fan of Lisp but it is an old language family that comes with some baggage. The "list processing" view of the language is part of that baggage. One of the greatest shortcomings of Common Lisp is the lack of standardized data structures -- no binary search trees, no priority queues, etc. The language encourages people to use lists as a one-size-fits-all structure, to the detriment of readability, maintainability, and often efficiency.

Sure, constructs like cdaddr have not created the mountain of bugs that we see from the "traditions" of C, but I suspect that has more to do with what you said: cdaddr is rarely used. Most professional Lisp programmers would find a better way to write their code, almost certainly using defstruct to define complex data structures and only using lists when they need list semantics.
Landscape Modification by Last Interglacial Neanderthals
Plus, it's free.
I enjoy Developing Leadership a lot. So much good content: https://www.developingleadership.co/
I had a technical talk I was planning on giving, but am saving for when I can be in person. I wouldn't be surprised if I wasn't alone in that.
Sounds like a scene from Parks & Rec.
LOL I know right!

for the record, the project idea came first, and the brainstorming for names came after.

But it was definitely a eureka moment that made me double-excited to create and share the project !

Thanks [for] the comment,

-TW
Honestly, I think Joby’s not likely to even get to the point where they fail at that part of the problem, but I agree with you that’s another significant filtering point before success.
You can go a little crazy assigning meaning to everything, but at the same time it's a lot of fun.
You're mixing terms up, you don't rip using a torrent or any other p2p protocol. You download things.

You know how Netflix only allows you to stream 1080p in most browsers? That's because they don't support the DRMs content providers use for high-res content.

You'll see webrips all the time with 1080p because someone can just record their screen and call it a day, but the 4k content is harder since the DRM prevents everything on your system from recording it.

Not sure if webrips are screen recordings or actually downloaded copies, but it doesn't really matter.

I have subs for D+ and HBO Max, if they're using DRM I for sure don't notice and don't care about it, I use either the app on my TV or the app on my phone to Chromecast and it's flawless.

While content not on these platforms that I've chosen to subscribe to requires me to go though more hoops to get the same experience.

It's not that the torrent experience is shit, but things like synced subtitles can be hard to find (requirement when watching with most of my friends and family) for example.

I'm part of a quite decent private tracker we'll call "TD" and while I have nothing bad to say about my experience there, I will say the things I pay for work better.
Ezra Klein's interview with Noam Chomsky
- https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id154...

Even though I was familiar with most of Chomsky's spiel, this was a total joy to listen to and I was very inspired by the great righteous indignation and moral clarity that Chomsky still speaks with and only he can summon. Lots of provocative thoughts on capitalism, class, American politics and a breadth of other topics, as a bonus.
Many other posters have said 6 months, but it will likely be much earlier to get the first images.

6 Months is the time frame for regular science operations. It is likely NASA will share some images well before that from the calibration phase as part of mission PR.

As regular joe's on the internet we are only interested in those PR images, regular science operations are more important for astronomers applying for time on the telescope.

Beyond those initial PR images, we can perhaps expect some PR worthy research papers (i.e. kind of papers that will get posted here) maybe a year from now, given the first projects will get access 6 months from now.
There are centuries (millennia?) of philosophical thought on ethics and morality that is disconnected from religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
There's a very vocal minority that would object to suggesting that Arch Linux is bare, especially since it comes packaged with systemd.
What do you believe would improve the UX? I'm genuinely curious.

I've been using DDG for several years now and I guess I just don't give much thought to the UX - has been "good enough." In the same way, I find that the accuracy continues to improve such that I use g! out of curiosity rather than necessity.
> For instance, you now are focused on values that matter ”to you”, but a belief in God makes it easier to abide by values that matter to everyone else.

That right there is the root cause of all the problems with religions. If you don’t believe in what everyone else in the community believes in then you don’t belong to the community and hence you are the enemy. My god is the ultimate judge not 999 other gods out there.
You might be curious to check out Faust[0] which is a functional programming language specifically designed for audio dsp, sort of based on a simulated-wire structure.

[0]: https://faust.grame.fr/
SeqCst as a default atomic ordering considered harmful
Please put some effort into the question, giving examples, motivations, or something. As it is, it reads like, "I want a great startup idea, got any I can have to become the Stripe of X?" What APIs do you want in the world that's not currently being served, or why do you find this interesting?
x86 is a pain, and for much functionality, you need to do things like parsing the ACPI tables.

Oh, before someone comes up with "Just use UEFI". UEFI was made by the same people and is the same kind of pain in the ass.
We've banned this account. You can't attack others like that here (and you've unfortunately don't it before, though this level of aggression is...noteworthy).

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
To be completely honest, I've never been able to figure out what "spiritual" actually means. Every use of it in the wild appears to be directly reducible to some other mundane meaning minus the rituals, which always led me to believe that rituals were the purpose. My father was a well-educated preacher and he could not explain it either when I was growing up, saying it existed mostly as a suitcase word that had no distinct constructive meaning, while also asserting it was nonetheless important to the nature of religion. He acknowledged this was an objectively poor answer that raised questions about why anyone should care but couldn't offer anything better. Yet there is this weird expectation that everyone should be "spiritual" in some way, and this expectation can be perfectly satisfied via trivial performance in practice.

So when people ask me if I am spiritual in some way, my response is always "I have no idea". When they try to explain it, it always ends up being equivalent to the reductionist meanings I've inferred by default. (Human languages have many suitcase words, many without any connection to religion, that encapsulate incoherent concept spaces. The idea of spirituality appears to be just one of many.)
I'm a little surprised such a histrionic headline is sticking for this one here. After living through the same dramatic statements every day from 2016-2020 here in the US about how the last administration was the biggest disaster ever, well, thanks to that "disaster" we had gas that was $1.50/gal cheaper, inflation was minimal, taxes were lower, we had far fewer illegal border crossings, a competent leader for getting us out of Afghanistan the right way, and so on. But, if you read the headlines daily, the world was coming to an end.

Today we have a more polite president, but far more expensive gas, crazy inflation, the Afghanistan situation was a mess, we have the most illegal border crossings in decades and decades, and double the deaths in the same period as the last administration. But if you read the headlines, things are heading in the right direction, well, because, totally unbiased of course. Bad things happen, but they're really not a big deal, and actually, Biden doesn't really have much to do with it. Here's Why.

The media drives me nuts.
I was raised atheist by atheist parents. My mother was raised in one of the weirder Christian sects and got out of it before they married. I have always been an atheist despite growing up in a small town with a church on every block, including one whacky church that actually did things like book burnings and burning Michael Jackson in effigy for corrupting the youth. Most of my friends were catholic, growing up, and that led me online for friends on days when they had CCC. 300 baud hayes for the win and online atheist communities, etc.

That said, as I've gotten older, I think I've concluded that many people - maybe even most - have a sort of need for religion that I somehow never appreciated. Without religion, I think we end up with the modern world, and by that I mean the weird secular religions (on all parts of the political spectrum) that keep springing up in the absence of a formal church, complete with weird notions of sin, apocalyptic thinking, etc. As an outsider, and as someone fascinated by cults and moral panics, it's interesting how similar the structures and language are between these movements and (new) religions are.

So 100% atheist.. but a suspicion that the world would be better off, Chesterton's fence-style, with a dominant religion secretly run by atheists.
Thanks for the feedback - I’ll give it a try.
Astronomers Dream Big, Consider Four Future Space Telescopes
I don't disagree, but your post feels out of place. This Ask HN is "What is your spiritual practice?", not "Debate others' beliefs."
If the software development process lacks QA, performance is likely to be the least of their concerns.
> ...the users of the GPLed binaries have not had their right to see the source satisfied.

That's the intent of the GPL (GPL v3 Preamble) but it's not an outcome that a license can guarantee. A copyright license can only be enforced using copyright law, and the remedies for copyright infringement are limited to monetary damages (actual or statutory). Sometimes the threat of a copyright infringement suit may compel an infringer to release their source code rather than be ordered to pay damages, but sometimes not.
wake up: offer my day to God, thank him for as many things as I can

morning: read the Bible

noon: pray a Rosary and offer the prayers for peace (generally) and healing (for specific people)

throughout the day: thank him, praise him, tell him my anxieties, ask him for help

evening: pray to saints, ask them to pray for me, praise God

night: examine my day, thank God, see where I faltered and wronged Him or my neighbor (anger, lust, sloth, etc.). Pray with my wife for people in our lives and in thanksgiving. Ask for restful sleep.

Always be praying! :)
How do the block chains that rely on hoarding hard drives work if you can't download the contents from the disks to verify?
The UK is too densely populated to be agriculturally self-sufficient, thus all major parties believe in free market principles when applied to food imports, because attempts at protectionism would lead to huge inflation and would doom any party that tried it.

The only debate is whether food should be imported from the US or from the EU.
"In those aged 16–39 years, the rate of these severe outcomes was too small for meaningful estimation of the booster effectiveness. "

Also, what I read is that the main D fference comes out from people who have multiple underlying conditions.

I would like to read comparison data about non-vaccinated, vaccinated with two doses, vaccinated with three doses. The three dose is impressive compared to two doses when not comparing to non vaccinated.
I find it challenging to choose one but Andrew Huberman's podcast is exceptional. Latest in neuroscience/neurobiology which is accessible to the general public. From topics like sleep, anxiety, learning, performance etc. I have learned so much and applying the protocols have been great.
Another, rather surprising example, is that while almost every proprietary EULA has clauses prohibiting it, reverse engineering, including decompilation, is legal regardless of EULA terms in the EU for several purposes, including interoperability and, apparently, fixing bugs.
809300 deaths out of 51574787 cases is 1.5%. that's nothing if you don't care about the people that died, or the many that suffered and lived.
> There was a 50 year period of liberal thinking.

I'm not sure that's justifiable.

> The current has era has swung back to the conservative.

In the American particular Church more than in the Universal Church that seems correct. (Up through the papacy of Benedict XVI, I would have responded differently.)
I flagged it because it's a Well, Actually (https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html) that makes an unsupported claim.
A few years back I discovered that the third-party licensing files we had used in the '90s would roll over in 2016. The format used four ASCII digits for the number of days in an otherwise binary file and the epoch was the founding of the licensing company, sometime in 1988. If they had just used a 32-bit integer instead it would have saved me a lot of headache!
The ToS says rent but the UI says buy, what gives? It may be technically correct that it's not a purchase but also purposely deceitful: this has to change.
Second this. I have a lot of stuff I save for later and just don't get around to reading, been looking for a solution.
You wrote it off ("uninspiring and unoriginal") but Star Trek Discovery have been a very pretty & decent enough sci-fi cinematic experience. Lower Decks grew into itself pretty well midway through the first season. Picard was enjoyable, although hard for me to decide how much ofy enjoyment js nostalgia. They all feel pretty original to me.

Agreed these arent exactly thought provoking but i still wouldn't write them off, still happy to have them. And definit
Sonic Pi and Chuck are two others
Also, being an atheist does not mean you lack any belief in the supernatural. For example, if I believed in ghosts but have no belief in god, I could still have spiritual experiences with my ancestors.
Dead for me too.
> do this?

What is "this" for you?

For me it is a cheap intro/evaluation tool for the very expensive Eurorack hobby. To meet that goal it must be skeuomorphic. I can mess around with VCV + maybe a cheap (relatively) midi control to get some physicality. To discover my interest is superficial and lasts only a few months. Saving me from thousands of dollars of more "toys" that just sit on shelf.
That's ridiculous. If the GPL weren't valid, then you have no right to copy the code under normal copyright law and the Berne Convention, and thus you're breaking the law.

In the US I believe the charge tends to be somewhere in the $150k per copy, so if you use a GPL, don't agree to the license, and sell 1,000 copies of your sofwtare, you're simply distributing "pirate software", and should be on the hook for a $150m fine.

I don't know if Italy has similar statutory damages
HIATUS (Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Structure) Proposer's Day
-fsanitize=address,undefined,etc

There's even threadsanitizer which will tell you about deadlocks and unjoined threads.
https://cesletter.org is probably what you are thinking about.
How many deaths does it take be considered deadly?

Based on the survival rate of 99.8% in 7B (approx world's population) is about 14M deaths (if we are not there yet, we should be tending towards it based on the survival rate). Besides, this doesn't consider cases of long covid, financial and other impact on people/families etc.
> BUT WHY?

In US even the idea what there are could be some nation-wide (ie federal) registry of it's own citizen could get you pitch-forked. US still doesn't have a national-wide internal ID, and for the thing what essentially replaced it in function - driver's ID, every state has it's own format and idea what should be in it. It is not uncommon to hear what for something what requires ID (like buying alcohol or entering a nightclub) the people out of state would be barred from doing so because the clerk doesn't recognize the driver's ID of some other state and thinks it is a fraudulent one.

Most European countries have it easy, compared to the US, having a single law across the country and one citizens registry, or at least something much closer to it than the US.

Add to this a whole "embarrassed millionaire" mentality and a total unwillingness even to acknowledge the need for a change.

For the last one see any thread on Reddit where sane^W any non-American asks why US shops can't write the final price on the tag already.
Cool! I guess this aligns very closely to what I believe, or lack thereof :P
I think sites that fail the accessibility test should be shamed into compliance. Possibly like how they handle sites that aren't https. I can just imagine how frustrating it must be to have an impairment that hinders usage of a website. Especially if it might be something essential.
> but a belief in God makes it easier to abide by values that matter to everyone else

What tends to happen if I look around the world is that instead of "everyone else" it's more like "what some religious version of a politician/dictator/tribal-committee/etc thinks is a value".

Take one example most "westeners" would probably agree is a bad version of this: the Taliban. Afghanistan is now ruled by the religious beliefs of an organization made up of people that have very strong beliefs and that - from what news we can get on it - do not hesitate to enforce with violence. I'm sure internally there's the 'regular' power struggles and social dynamics you will find in almost all of the rest of humankind to gain the upper hand. So what about _everyone else_ in Afghanistan that just wanted to live the lives they got accustomed to in the past ~20 years?

The Catholic church nowadays I suppose is more of a political organization but in its past it comes a lot closer to the above. Nevermind the hiding of sexual abuse by priests and shielding them from prosecution. To me it matters that these offenders get behind bars. Now. I think most of _everyone else_ feels the same.

I picked out two examples here but there's a ton of other examples and you can use any major or minor religion for this.

Don't get me wrong, I share a lot of beliefs about what one should or shouldn't do w/ Christianity and some other religions and law makers. I don't need to believe in a deity for that though. I don't mind if someone else does. Feel free, no problem. Just do not try to make me believe in the deity or use the deity as an argument. Or worse, use violence to make me comply with "believing" in it and practicing it.
A bit of slight tangent. I’m an atheist, but sometimes I envy the communities religious groups build (e.g. church). One big advantage I’ve seen is some of my Christian friends can move cities and almost instantly have a community via the local church. They make friends, have a place to go on a regular basis and has a support network.

Anyone aware of anything similar but not based on religion?
Heh, it's easy to think these days that the moon is larger than you think. Especially with so many articles showing huge detailed pictures of the moon.

Try taking a picture of the moon with a cell phone (even one with the best in the market camera) and be prepared to be disappointed.
You're assuming it's secret, but the more likely case is it just isn't anyone's job to make it public.
> It is not disingenuous to call data stored in plain text as stored in plain text. Transport security is very different from security at rest.

Data is not stored in plaintext. It is stored encrypted, at rest. Period. In the very Twitter thread posted at the top of the comments, Moxie states he uses "plaintext" as shorthand. So he is making up a new definition of plaintext to slander a competitor, something he loves to do and has done, repeatedly, throughout history. The Durovs, on the other hand, do not pull this kind of crap and are content to let their product speak for itself.
Moreover, it is really a word semantic point. If someone says that their spiritualism is atheism, they are just using the word atheism for something other than "non-belief in gods", like "non-belief in gods, in combination with some other kinds of beliefs".

So, I am not tone deaf: I do hear that. Just let's use "atheism" right, too.

But note that someone identifying as an atheist, but with spiritual beliefs, might not be found to actually be an atheist, if their beliefs were examined by hard-line atheists. It is possible that a belief can have the trappings of being free from gods, but when you examine it critically, the entities in that belief can be identified as god-like after all.

Strawman examples:

"I believe everything has a purpose; but there is no such thing as god". Sorry, a purpose requires a being to articulate the purpose and set it into motion. If you mean inherent purpose (rather than a human interpretation which ascribes a non-inherent purpose) you have a god hidden in there.

Or "There is no such thing as god, but the world was clearly created". Oops again. Creation without a creator?
This is just the telemetry data. They deployed the high data rate antenna yesterday which can do many GB per day.
Ask HN: How do you find meaningful work?
Before I go further - let me clarify what I mean by "meaningful". There are two criteria that I consider, internal value and external value.

External value is what fundamental value or service is the company I'm working for providing for the world? Is our net impact helping or hurting people? How severe is that impact? Etc. For a job to be meaningful the external value has to be such that there is a substantial, positive impact in the lives of our customers or community .

Internal value is how meaningful the day to day labor is to myself. Am I being challenged? Am I solving problems? Do I wake up and want to work? Etc.

If either of these values are significantly lacking, I don't consider the work meaningful. I'm still relatively early on in my SW career, but I've thus far had a difficult time finding work that meets my definition of meaningful. I'd happily take a pay-cut or work longer hours if I felt what I was doing was meaningful, but I just can't find it and I'm not sure if perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places or if it just doesn't exist.

So, to those of you who work jobs you consider to be meaningful, how did you find that position? What advice would you impart to a young engineer who doesn't want to spend his career working on things he doesn't really care about?
George Hotz (geohot) was a teenager when he cracked the iPhone and was 20 when he cracked the PS3. So...yes, young adults certainly can extract keys if they have the time and motivation, and being young adults they often have plenty of time on their hands.
Entering my mind palace, which has no connections to reality, everything(including me) is perfectly still yet able to morph into anything.
Are you saying large Transformers 1 mva, 10 mva, 100 mva, 500 mva are obsolete and should be replaced by switched mode power supplies? What mva is the threshold?
> In a Landsburg's queue, it is compulsory for everyone arriving at the scene to join the queue immediately. Otherwise, people would just swarm around the head of the queue, fighting to join the queue as soon as the current customer gets served. In the following discussions, I assume such swarms are successfully prohibited.

That’s still a non-physical solution because you can’t actually operationalize that rule.