skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During my doctoral years, two students in my department took their own lives (separate events, to be clear). The events themselves were horribly tragic, but the lack of even a clear acknowledgement of the causes of death left a surreal sense of denial.

Mental health is an enormously under-discussed issue in an increasingly digital society that hides suffering in so many of us.

Work becomes an increasingly integral element of our connection to others while certain employment becomes increasingly transactional.

We all can do better. So sorry to read about another human being lost too soon.
If net metering is available to me, I’d orient them for maximum energy (what you called power) production as well.
> APKs and alternative stores are a huge turnoff for me

This is significantly more than what Apple offers
Yeah, I have been effectively banned from video chatting with my family, since they all use FaceTime.
Assuming that we won't get our hands dirty and end the war.

Yes that might mean Putin starts jabbering about nukes, but if the west says from the outside that their waraims are limited to freeing Ukraine and ensuring its freedom, Putin isn't going to trade his nice life for nuclear war.
Putin is evil. What he is doing is not morally acceptable. But it’s possible for Putin to be evil and for the western leadership to be inept and to have helped precipitate the instability. Is one of these more salient than the other? I tend to think so, despite popular opinion.
I understand what you mean, and have felt a connection to older art because the people look more “likely” or “realistic”.
I’m having the exact opposite reaction to these two works though. “Lady With An Ermine” strongly reminds me of someone I used to know in college, while the faces in “Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters” don’t feel realistic to me. On the other hand, her “Boy Bit by Crawfish” is great and looks natural. Art is subjective I guess.

As a side note, I’ve often thought that maybe facial structures were just different back then and these works really ARE realistic. Harder lives, more homogenous groups, or maybe even inbreeding led to different looking people!
Sadly, it is infectious. That may be why traditions have tended to marginalize it when it happens. The evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker discussed it in one of his books by noting that when a prominent suicide happens and is televised, there is a corresponding slight uptick of accidents in the area. He suggests that merely the suggestion of suicide can tip the balance in favor of reactionary recklessness for a tiny percentage in response to a bad event.

It's important to have empathy for all those left behind, and it is sad for those who take their own life, but there is a danger in elevating their actions to being virtuous or somehow noble. The consequences are indeed quite selfish for all those left behind.
I think you're right about the outcome, but unfortunately I think it's inevitable. The increasing population allows the government to print money now, knowing that future tax revenue will make up for it. It's a source of power that doesn't easily go away. Any attempt to resist population growth, such as by paying people to NOT have children, would go against the entire pyramid scheme.
Not all production companies choose to do the forensic watermarking distribution method. Production companies are cheap summabitches. The main users of the forensic watermarking services were the Majors (the traditional studios, not these young upstarts).

It could very well be possible that nobody working for this company even knows it's possible to do this. It could be possible they know and decided it's not worth their money for it. I cannot provide the definitive answer.

If it is a pressed DVD release, then there is no way for each disc to be unique without each disc having a glass master created which is just beyond the realm of sanity. Even with Apple having more money that God, this particular silo of the Apple universe cannot tap into it willy-nilly for something like this.
I listened to this a few weeks ago and was amazed by this guy's story. He didn't have a great start in life but didn't let that slow him down in chasing after his interests. Also, it shows that having a supportive partner that believes in you can really change the course of your life for the better.

Does anybody know this guy? It would make me feel great that he reads Hacker News.
With a pragmatic approach, you can first write the blog post and then worry about the date. When the post will be ready, there might be a slight chance you won't care anymore about the date issue?

Also a tip to get started: next time you start your pc, write only the _first_ line of your blog post.
I've been using ceramic based everything in my kitchen for a while. I honestly don't know anyone who uses those old nonstick teflon pots, pans, skillets anymore. Just ceramic coated and cast iron like me.
Yes, this is normal.

I have even seen non-Saas competitors sign up under false pretense, names, new emails- and get private demos, special trials, and so on.

Here, their honesty is a positive point.

If I were you, I would even reach out to them for direct feedback. They are paying customers, and you are the provider, and you are within your rights to reach out to them.

It will be a show of good sportsmanship.
“The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,”

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2021/6/21/bill-and-mel...

Perhaps the marketing is good
I already admitted my mistake, so I don't understand why you're still being accusatory.

To make clear, I was incorrect in generalizing all the other Nordic countries as having a lower population-weighted density. But it's an outlier and I think the support for the broader point is still strong.
Menus, of course. Commercially people did use DVD menus to make interactive trivia games. There was some fairly sophisticated linking possible between different menus and videos.
Yeah, I didn't say you shouldn't use your own custom domain I just said using Google for email isn't a huge issue. I suggest an anonymous email service for this reason while using a custom domain. Doesn't matter if they shutdown one email, you can just create a new one and change where the forwarding email in your relay.
I agree, especially with the statement that Unix isn’t good enough and getting worse.

I feel like that was one of the core assumptions and point of the article, but it didn’t have any explanation beyond “multiple programming languages.” Feels a bit flat to me.
How is the ARM not a "JavaScript Machine"?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip...

>Why do ARM chips have an instruction with Javascript in the name (FJCVTZS)?

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture...
I think it does. At the end of the day they will (and should) choose to protect the company above all else. That's their only job.

They can also want to help people, have a ton of empathy and be literal saints. But that's their personal motivation and not what the job actually is.
I'm as big of a Lisp fan as can be. I'm a proud owner of Symbolics and TI hardware: a MicroExplorer, a MacIvory, two 3650, and two 3620. Not to mention an AlphaServer running OpenGenera.

Today, we have computers that run Lisp orders of magnitude faster than any of those Lisp machines. And we have about 3–4 orders of magnitude more memory with 64-bits of integer and floating point goodness. And Lisp is touted to have remained one of the most powerful programming languages (I think it's true, but don't read into it too much).

Yet, it appears the median and mean Lisp programmer is producing Yet Another (TM) test framework, anaphoric macro library, utility library, syntactic quirk, or half-baked binding library to scratch an itch. Our Lisp programming environments are less than what they were in the 80s because everybody feels the current situation with SLIME and Emacs is good enough.

We don't "need" Lisp machines. We "need" Lisp software. What made a Lisp machines extraordinary wasn't the hardware, it was the software. Nothing today is impeding one from writing such software, except time, energy, interest, willpower, and/or money.

Don't get me wrong, there are some Lisp programmers today developing superlative libraries and applications [1], but the Lisp population is thin on them. I'd guess that the number of publicly known, interesting (by some metric), and maintained applications or libraries that have sprung up in the past decade probably fits on one side of a 3"x5" index card. [2]

Though I won't accuse the article's author of such, sometimes, I find, in a strange way, that pining for the Lisp machines of yore is actually a sort of mental gymnastic to absolve one for not having written anything interesting in Lisp, and to excuse one from ever being able to do so.

[1] Just to cherry-pick a recent example, Kandria is a neat platformer developed entirely in Common Lisp by an indie game studio, with a demo shipping on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261430/Kandria/

[2] This doesn't mean there aren't enough foundational libraries, or "batteries", in Lisp. Though imperfect, this is by and large not an issue in 2022.
> What a load of bullshit. The OUN which committed literal genocide[0] during WW2 is now openly celebrated. Stepan Bandera, the leader of the OUN was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.

Where is it being celebrated? According to wiki on Stepan Bandera [1]:
"In January 2011, the award was officially annulled.[20] A proposal to confer the award on Bandera was rejected by the Ukrainian parliament in August 2019.[21]".

Also keep in mind it even though Bandera was was leader of OUN he was arrested by gestapo in 1941 and was in concentration camp between 1942-1944. Also from wikipedia: "According to Yaroslav Hrytsak, Bandera was not completely aware of events in Ukraine during his internment from the summer of 1941 and had serious differences of opinion with Mykola Lebed, the OUN-B leader who remained in Ukraine and who was one of the chief architects of the massacres of Poles"

I don't think ukrainians also deny massacres of Poles in volhynia - the dispute was if it can be recognized as genocide. On the other hand Poles claims genocide about Katyn massacre [2] by Russsia that Russian denies and try to downplay. The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD.

Edit: Also keep in mind Poles don't keep any grudge to Ukrainians for massacre in Volhyn - something that happened 80 years ago. They are happily helping a lot currently 1.5m ukraininans who were running away from the war. Also no Poles even think about taking back Lviv just because a long time ago it was a Polish city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
> the government was reimbursing hospitals for COVID treatment

That's how all of medicare works.

I can't believe people have been regurgitating this talking point since the beginning of the pandemic with no thought whatsoever about what it means
That is why you should add a custom domain. You have the same lockout issue with Outlook, ProtonMail, or any email service where you don't own the domain.
John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood about this is absolutely amazing as well
.. and get more new users each year than four generations of PCs combined
I personally find numpy irritating, surprising, misleading and definitely a wrong definition of "usability". YMMV.
If Russia is responsible for the missing materials it could easily be part of a propaganda campaign. This specific scenario has been discussed a lot in the last few weeks
Fiddle with?
Simply select what action closing the lid performs.
It works every time. I have gone months without shutting down and just relying on this.
I am a small farmer, and I have seen huge increases in the costs of my inputs over the last 12 months. Enough to make me question the ongoing viability of my operation. If things get as bad as projected in the article, I expect many small farms will be forced to close their doors. When the crisis passes, big ag will control even more of the food supply.
I’m not saying this as any kind of brag. To be honest, I ended up as a manager by accident and when the team grew too much I found someone else to do it. I still work at the company and come by to help the team out once in a while. That shift happened about 6 months ago.

My wife caught COVID last month while I was out of town. Since I continued testing negative, we decided that I would stay at the farm until either I tested positive or she tested negative. I posted a message on Slack explaining where I was and why, just as a “why is Tony joining all meetings remote this week” kind of update.

Immediately, three of my previous reports reached out directly to let me know that they were more than happy to drop off anything she might need: groceries, medication, Dairy Queen, anything. That is the kind of relationship a manager/leader and their reports can have. We’ve never really done much outside of work socially. We do the odd team dinner to mark special occasions. Two of them have had car trouble and are handy but didn’t have the tools they needed; I had the tools (tubing bender for a brake line, electric impact for getting a stuck bolt out) and dropped those off on the weekend.

The big dance I have always tried to do is make us into a team that always has each other’s back. I’ve made it clear that sometimes The Business wants us to do weird things that don’t always make sense and we’ve gotta just do it, but in general I’m doing my best to shield them from nonsense and help make sure we’ve got an environment where everyone can do their best work.

I dunno, it was all an experiment and it seems to have worked out.
Humanly traversable wormholes (2020)
what? They draw blood with needles and use little glass thingies to hold it. They aren't going to draw a liter of blood to check it for plastic, they just need a small sample. There might be some plastic involved somewhere but they aren't stupid enough to not control that. I mean there scientists. If you thought of it they thought of that and a dozen more things to be careful about.
From the article it sounds like the main issue is that they lost years worth of building their brand/community/user-base and aren't sure they'll ever be able to publish to the play store under their name again.
It probably does. Where do you find one of those free countries, though?
I opened this wondering if it was a retrospective assessment of the famous record label.

But no, it's a new company using the same name.
They play about as nice as Microsoft and Google and other big tech on protecting patents. Also, Monsanto was purchased by Bayer (a German company).
The 1108 wasn't really special purpose Lisp hardware. One could run other operating systems on it. What made it special purpose was the loaded microcode for the CPU.

> Life is really good on modern hardware.

Agreed: On modern CPUs.

More support for the additional hardware features like GPUs, media processing engines and the neural network engines (see the M1 Pro/Max/Ultra) would be welcome.
Every Screen in Your App Should Be a Scrolling View
Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 6, 066007
Published: Mar 9, 2021
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.066007

>. We have not given any plausible
mechanism for their formation. We have only argued that they are configurations allowed
by the equations.
Its hard to find ppl that know how to work securely, so we create tools to make work of security oblivious ppl more secure.
You missed the link directly after the first paragraph.
When I left my last job I pinged everyone I was friendly with. Then I sent out an email to everyone I knew just so people knew I was leaving and how they could contact me. Not everyone feels a connection to their coworkers and if they want to just leave the job without fanfare that's fine with me.

I do think that due to legal reasons, companies will say as little as possible to employees. We had an exec suddenly leave and we had a large meeting about it where the VP told us, but you could tell that there were a few talking points he had to stick to. Basically that the director was no longer with the company and that there wouldn't be a discussion as to why. Nearly two years later I learned it was because he said some rude shit on social media and got canned.

If someone is leaving voluntarily and on good terms, I'd expect an email or announcement. Maybe even a farewell party. But if you hear nothing, I'd assume it's because they declined to have one or they did not leave voluntarily. Either way, best to leave sleeping dogs lie, unless you really felt a connection to that person.
I didn't find how to do it
and also, before creating a new account I asked the support team, they said there is only one way: to create a new account
dupe and all they have to do is provide SMS feature
I could see the difference with "commodity" employees, and that sucks, but what's the big difference if we are talking about programmers? The company is obviously very interested to make us not want to leave, and also probably interested that we feel like caring about the product.
Qt Creator is free
It’s amazing how often the authors point of “agility” arises in real world circumstances. I’m not a programmer, but I use Python a lot in my engineering job. There have been 3 times in the past month where I got an order of magnitude speed up because SciPy implements a very complex but highly efficient algorithm which I would never have had time to deploy.
Awk is a strange seeming suggestion, but I agree it's probably the next most universal, installed, stable over time option, and more readable than sh.

Using awk as a general purpose language means slightly bending it out of shape, by mostly ignoring the main section (which runs once per selected record of input) and writing your entire program in a big END{} section.

BUT

* It's installed everywhere and has been forever just like sh

* A 20 year old awk script from hpux or something, works in todays gawk, just like sh.

* Unlike sh, the language is more like a normal generic language than, making it more readable and less arcane for non-trivial jobs.

For example, bash has a handy substitute feature, in the form of a brace expansion. ${FOO//a/b}

Awk has an actual sub() or gsub() function.

A lot of things in bash require tricks essentially abusing various fancy brace expansions and messing with IFS to hijack the line parser into doing things there is no explicit command for, especially if you're avoiding external commands. IE you're not simply writing code that does what it says, you're running a bash interpreter in your head and manipulating strings so that when they are expanded and resolved, they mean something to the the parser and results in the parser doing something more useful. It's like your always writing code that writes code, instead of just writing code.

External dependencies is another whole point too. Shells main explicit job is to run other programs. You actually have to work pretty hard not to run an external binary by accident, ie you have know which commands are built in and which are executables. In awk or anything else, you have to go out of your way to exec() or system().
I recommend avoiding this kind of thinking, which leads to bundling all sorts of stuff in every single container. My philosophy is that images should contain as little as possible.

To debug a container, a better way is to enter the container's kernel namespaces using a tool such as nsenter [1]. Then you can use all your favourite tools, but still access the container as if you're inside it. Of course, this means accessing it on the same host that it's running.

If you're on Kubernetes, debug containers [2] are currently in beta, and should be much nicer to work with, as you can do just "kubectl debug" to start working with an existing pod.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/nsenter.1.html

[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/d...
Now imagine pulling the same crap upstream, have your boss and his HR hangarounds click through hours of shitty made up or outdated intranet trivia about you and quiz them on it while leaving them hanging on the impact of the answers or the result.

At least some aren't even pretending; what really rubs me sideways is when they pay lip service to caring _while_ wasting your time, makes me want to punch someone.
30% of world supply of fertilizer (Ka-based) comes from Soligorsk -- city in Belarus, dictatorship country that helps Russia to attack Ukraine (provides it's territory, transportation, railroad services, airport services, fuel services to Russian troops.
...and for the non-US?
I wonder how many days have been wasted on non-programmers trying to get their Conda environment up and running or similar. Half the data science stuff isn't reproducible, not because of the science, but because getting the notebooks running with its dependencies is almost impossible.
no it's not, it's fluoride and some soapy binders like SLS and ceramics or baking soda for whitening/cleaning. I suppose some of the tube might break off and form these microplastics, however I don't know too many people swallowing their toothpaste leftovers. It's a bad idea as you shouldn't ingest that much fluoride, which is much more highly concentrated than fluroide in water. If you're talking about microbeads then those were outlawed in toothpaste/cosmetics/etc in 2016, which went in effect in 2017.
Instead of using a faraday pouch to prevent this kind of attack, I added a kill switch to my key fob, a few years ago, and still use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02M57GPix-4

The problem is that manufacturers are using strength of signal to detect keyfob proximity, which is, of course, defeatable with a (somewhat expensive) amplifier.

I wonder how hard could it be to measure response latency instead? That should solve the problem.

I thought about selling those for a while (and got a few requests), but realized I can't easily design them for the many kinds of key fobs out there. I suppose the manufacturers are not adding them themselves because that would hurt the image of "security" of these key fobs.
Being able to hack out code to explore and experiment with data while not having to reload and reprocess data (thanks to that global mutable state!) saves a hell of a lot of time in the long run.
Nobody runs more than one X server. And the X server isn't involved with other localhost services.
Meh the problem is "Which Lisp?" There are dozens of incompatible Lisps. Even this site is written in a Lisp dialect written by its author (Arc).

In fact I conjecture that this is the reason Unix is more popular than Lisp -- because Lisps don't interoperate well. They haven't built up a big ecosystem of reusable code.

Whereas Python, JavaScript, R, C, C++, and Rust programmers can reuse each others' code via Unix-style coarse-grained composition. (Not just pipes -- think about a web server running behind nginx, or git reusing SSH and HTTP as transports.)

You can also use link time composition. It takes some work but it's better than rewriting your Common Lisp code from scratch in Clojure.

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Honest question: how do you communicate between two Lisp processes on two different machines? I know Clojure has EDN (which is sort of like JSON : JavaScript), but I haven't heard of the solutions for other Lisps.

I wrote about this problem here: A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html

> The lowest common denominator between a Common Lisp, Clojure, and Racket program is a Bourne shell script (and eventually an Oil script).

I'll definitely update it if there's something I'm missing.

I would say the design of Unix is "rotting", but the answer is to IMPROVE Unix. Not dream of clean slate designs that will never be deployed. Plus this post doesn't actually propose anything. If you actually start trying to build your Lisp machine, I believe you will run into dozens of reasons why it's not a good idea.