skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm wondering why a family of languages should be this dependent on a specific editor...

As mentioned by others, its not. But Emacs is also a Lisp runtime. People who are attracted to Emacs eventually learn some Lisp (Emacs Lisp, closer to CL than Racket et al) or were attracted because of Lisp in the first place. As a result, the overlap between CL devs and Emacs users is naturally higher than that for other editors. This translates into people developing more and better tools for their editor, and higher popularity usually translated into more and better tools (with obvious exceptions).

As mentioned by other commenters, SLIME can be used with Vim too, if that's your thing. But just like SBCL, Emacs is kinda of de-facto editor of choice, not by force, but by love of its users :)
What is it about this group? I'm in many FB groups that large or larger, and I've never seen posts about people finding rogue AirTags.
Strangely enough Russia is quite a transphobic country itself where people like Keffals are thrown into prison so I'm surprised they would take action against something they blame the West for

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/23/putin-gender...
They're adjacent fields and get into things like polymers and there's a fair bit of overlap. But metallurgy, for example, deals with a lot of things that chemistry mostly doesn't related to mechanical properties at different size scaales for example.
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to explain the concept! I'm familiar with these (and others) now, but I was curious to know what others issues the commenter alludes to
You Are Now a Guardian of Liberty (2016)
Have you read Marx?
Following on from my comment which you replied to, I had over the years at least 50 discs and 2 different players. I loved the format, it was a good middle ground before DVDs finally took over the world. By importing Japanese discs, you could also get Dolby digital 5.1 sound. I even managed to get Phantom Menace on LaserDisc within a couple of weeks of the UK theatre premiere!
The standard of proof should be conducting actual science, not epidemiology or surveys. Epidemiology is good for some things, but as someone with an ongoing interest in health and especially metabolism, I don't believe epidemiology is very good at all for assessing what's optimal for human health unless the datapoints are overwhelming (ex. smokers have tar in their lungs that is rarely found in non smokers). Such evidence doesn't present itself against meat eating, nor dietary cholesterol or saturated fat. To assume that the science is settled for any one of those things in isolation is a display of ignorance of the highest order. Though they can be debated, as can anything.

But we're unlikely to see better scientific research because there's ethical problems around keeping people behind forcing people to eat specific foods and keeping them behind lock and key for observation, and so they don't eat a single gram of anything outside the boundaries of the study. Unless more of such research can be carried out, too much of what we do is uncontrolled to make meaningful observations about what's unhealthy and what's not.

What meat eating has that other diets don't have is not just the phenotype of our digestive systems (being like that of other meat eaters), or archaeological evidence of our ancestors using sharp tools and arrows, but stable isotope testing of fossil evidence linking our recent ancestors to a substantial amount of meat eating for around 4 million years. If you compare that to the amount of time we've had agriculture, ~30k years, the time in which we've been subsisting not only on more plants but plants selectively bred to be more nutritious than they were in the wild is a flash in the pan.

My opinion is that we should reconsider the ethics around researching nutrition, because it's been an overall failure, and has probably harmed more people than would scientific studies. This isn't to say that ethics in science should be abolished, but relying on the mouse model and epidemiology doesn't appear to be doing the most good.
At the beginner (high school / undergrad) level all Lisps are more or less the same. The finer points of Lisp-1 vs 2, CLOS, etc. are not comprehensible without a lot of prior work.. and by that point you should optimize for real world practice anyway IMO (something which many university courses do not do).

If we're talking middle school then there are some arguments to be made that Racket's easy-to-use graphics libraries are more conductive to learning. It will never be Flash though.
> Having an email address amounts to opting in to receiving email.

Well yes but from everyone. There is no granularity which is the problem.
How is the performance (cpu and memory wise as well) compared to Go?

In my case I have existing Go and Node code.
> What do you think is a convincing real-world example that should motivate its inclusion in Python?

That Rust example is a decent one. Also the various "find something in a nested structure" examples people have posted.

(And the fact that you can achieve the same result in a more awkward way by putting it in a function and using `return` is irrelevant because there are many many language features that are just convenient sugar: +=, lambdas, even while loops!)
Great discussion question! It's also interesting for people moving into web development to see what experienced devs think about this - the sheer quantity of tools and their fast-changing nature can seem quite overwhelming at first.

I just asked a related question [0], if you have any beginner-focussed opinions would appreciate :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32724950
> But freedom of speech/expression/opinions aren't about defending those who speech/expression/opinions you like but all of them.

This is not true at all, and educating yourself on the matter is trivial. "Free speech absolutism" is a very niche, unpopular, and unrealistic (some forms of speech ultimately limit other's speech, e.g. the dead don't speak) form of free speech.

Spreading this pro-KF propaganda needs to stop.
Another one to watch out for is Gmail silently truncated emails (if the unsubscribe button is missing, often it is in the truncated part). You can't get to the missing parts easy on mobile I think.
Its not so much about suddenly starting to decode something. It’s more when your stream for some reason gets misaligned or corrupted and whatever is still streamed is happily consumed with no possible way to detect the error.

Common reason being someone forgot to check how many bytes read() actually returned and just assume it filled the buffer.

Robust data formats have double protection against this class of bugs with unambiguous SOF and EOF boundaries that the consumer can assert. I guess a sanity-byte once every X Megabytes wouldn’t hurt either.
There are economic and regulatory factors involved, it is more complex than people being resistant to change which no doubt makes up part of it.

In the UK, for example, automatic cars are more expensive to buy and insure [1]. They also tend to be more expensive to learn how to drive as instructors mostly have manual cars to teach with.

This incentivises new drivers towards manual cars, especially as younger drivers are more likely to be in lower-paying jobs and therefore more price conscious.

There is also a separate license category for automatic cars. If you have this license you are not allowed to drive manual cars, whereas the manual license entitles the holder to drive both. Therefore most new drivers opt to learn manual for the flexibility and the cost reasons.

1: https://www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/automatic-car...
If you’re paid to pump out code then sure. I think that attitude is probably attainable in a contracting or agency relationship.

But if you’re on a team full-time, where the expectation is that you’re there to build a company, then chasing some founder’s intuition over market feedback is an emotionally destructive death march for everyone involved.
I love that if you stare at that article for a while and then navigates back to HN the top bar is magenta until you move your eyes!
What happens today if I pick up any random USB-C and try to charge my non-Apple phone is that it charges, in some cases fast, in others slow. I don't have to carry around a special cable. I would expect the same from Apple, once they implement it.
As for the data stuff, I'm sure they will manage somehow.
> EV Dodge Charger (car not car-charger, oh my god, what a branding screw up)

To be fair, the Charger name was created long before it meant "thing you use to plug into an electric device", and the Charger is a very popular vehicle in the Dodge lineup. And you don't abandon popular models without generating negative PR. So Dodge didn't really have a choice.

Plus, they can use the pun in witty commercials.
> Yes, if we're talking about actual physical assault and not mere criticism. Are you actually arguing that Lorenz prevented imminent acts of physical violence through her doxxing?

Yes.

> vague "stocastic terrorism" arguments that are used to justify censoring pretty much any culturally conservative speech.

The arguments aren't vague when mass killers have mentioned right-wing talking heads in their manifestos and suicide notes. Maybe conservatives (people of all political affiliations actually) should watch what they say instead of crying when they face consequences for their speech, no?
This 'nonsense' seems a lot more feasible now. We are now able to direct the formation of covalent bonds between two molecules using an atomic force microscope to position said molecules close to each other such that a reaction occurs in the desired location[0]. They show how NaCl films may present a solution the fat/sticky finger problem.

It's still a long way from drexlerian nanotech, but being unable to controllably form covalent bonds through positioning was one of the big arguments against drexlerian nanotech.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-021-00773-4
Your screenshots look like they were lifted directly from TradingView (and cointelegraph). My first hunch is that this is some kind of Trojan or virus. No thanks.
So ? The fact that rustc compiler uses a component written in C++ doesn't mean that even pure Rust projects have a C++ dependency. Follow any language's bootstrap chain and you'll find C somewhere (or a bootstrapping purists telling you that didn't properly bootstrap the thing), making the "some of the FOOLANG compiler is written in BARLANG" argument pointless.

You don't need a C or C++ compiler (not even Clang) to compile Arti. The rustc packages typically use a vendored version of LLVM.
No, the extreme example was deliberate to make the point clear. The point would have been less clear with a less extreme example.
AlethiCorp (Interactive Fiction)
Except that eating meat is a common activity globally for all of human history...

It would be like publishing a paper that says walking upright is harmful and then people start crab walking. Like yes you can explain many back problems with walking upright, but does that actually justify a different form of walking?
After accepting an email for delivery, the only choices the mail server should have are "inbox" or "spam folder", not "deleted forever in a black hole".
12 month ago "Growing Veed.io from $0 to $5 million ARR in 2 years" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYS3QKJHUDM

YC is mentioned at timestamp https://youtu.be/pYS3QKJHUDM?t=715

I attended the talk. The founder said they'll grow organically and won't need any VC money. I can't find the sections are not in the youtube video (missing minutes?). So I'm interested why the founder changed his opinion.
> That would be an interesting research project. The domains getting most spams on my servers are the ones that are old (20+ years) which I guess makes sense.

The old lists may be more plausible.

Some spammer once associated 'Robin Bennett' with my email addresses at some point 20 years ago and kept reselling it. Never used that name, didn't even know Bennett was a surname. I assume they linked me up with that name to fill up empty cells in their list and make it look more plausible.

It's a good way to filter spam. The last decade almost all spam calling me 'Bennett' is from some US political group, which mostly reminds me that it will be a long time before anything GDPR-like will pass in the US..

But almost all spam goes to that old 20 year old email address I don't use. My current email addresses are much cleaner even after 10+ year of use
The inverse is probably more true, being the animal industry is extraordinarily well funded and established?
Some of Pfizer's contracts were leaked. They were analysed on Twitter by a now banned user called eh_den.

I believe he has a substack.

Edit: https://ehden.substack.com
What percentage of America has to deal with freezing weather versus heatwaves though?

Also, it’s much easier to warm up in cold weather than it is to cool down in hot weather.
>> A hidden benefit that is not clear. Maybe this benefit is no longer applicable in modern times... but we can't know for sure

>It goes both ways then.

It's not logical to assume that it goes both ways. One could say only 1% of our biases are unsuited for modern times and as a result of this not even worth considering as a general fact. This is a real possibility.

To assume it "goes both ways" is a bias.

>I think I see my biases as weaknesses (for taking well-thought decisions) and you, as strengths.

Everyone sees biases weakness. This is in itself another bias. You are also taking a specific perspective of something. To be unbiased is to take no perspective.

>I mainly seek truth, you mainly seek survival.

You seek survival over truth, this is universal across most humans and any deviation from this, has a very low probability of being true. Humans place survival and survival of offspring as priorities higher than anything else. This is an evolved trait.

Think about it, let's say I'm a psychic with a gun. I point the gun at you (or anyone) and tell them to actually believe that the world is flat or I'll shoot them. I'm psychic so I know if they don't truly believe it. I'm pretty sure you (and everyone else) will be trying their damn best to deny all truth. Survival > truth for basically anyone.

I hate to say this, but being unaware of this without me illustrating the concept with an example is also a form of bias. Centering your opinions and viewpoints around something you "seek" is also another form of bias.

>> to be truly emotionally uninvested into anything
>I'm not advocating this.

Any emotional investment is bias. By not advocating this you are advocating bias.

Basically, you are not an unbiased person. The content of your writing shows this. You buy into cliche biases that most people buy into. This is a good thing.

It's also possible that you might get defensive over what I'm saying. It seems, part of your identity is invested in "truth seeking" so for me to say you're not biased can in itself trigger another bias in you.

I, on the other-hand, am more unbiased then most people. The fact that I can see most of these things easily is a form of detachment that most people aren't capable of. My unbiased-ness literally makes me believe in things racist people believe in. It makes me have zero identity, zero pride, and zero patriotism of any form. I don't even take pride in "truth seeking" that most science believers like you believe in.

I'm telling you. Being unbiased is not necessarily a good thing. This isn't knowledge that changes your life for the better, it makes you disconnected from most people. It's a deviation from our biological nature and achieving this state is highly unnatural. Humans are evolved to be biased. To deny our bias is to go against our true nature.

But then again It's pointless for me to say this. You aren't an unbiased person to begin with and most people in your position don't ever get to the point where I'm at.
I’m sorry to be blunt, but unless you have specific reasons to be concerned about custodial kidnapping, “foil baby snatchers by putting an AirTag in your car seat” is nonsense.

So is using this form of consumer tech for shipment tracking, for that matter. More robust trackers have long been in widespread use by the shipping industry.
SBCL is de-facto most popular implementation of Common Lisp, if I dare say. It is free, it is well maintained, it is easily available, and it is fast. As a student/enthusiast, it doesn't get much better.

Lispworks/Allegro is better if specialized requirements or actual money is on the table. Lispworks supports mobile platforms IIRC which SBCL does not, for ex. But if all one needs is server side deployments or personal projects, there is no need, nor any use of commercial implementations, as good as they might be.
It's not based on partisan affiliation, I never said anything of the sort. I said bad actions/bad actors.

The fact that you assumed I was talking about targeting conservatives just goes to show that they happen to be the ones rocking the boat with violent rhetoric, which occasionally gets backed up by actions.
Mostly people take mundane, boring and poorly shot photos. When they go on vacation they take pictures of the same landmarks and in the same ways. I probably printed[1] the Leaning Tower of Pisa approximately 8 million times. Everyone thinks they are clever posing so that it appears they are holding it in the palm of their hand. And while people also take pictures of other people naked, those also tend to be mundane, boring, and poorly shot. So yes, I printed nudes, but rarely were they notable enough to cause me to raise my eyebrow at them. I don't recall ever printing photos of criminal behavior.

[1] The one-hour lab equipment we had was semi-automated. The printing machine was about the size of three refrigerators side-by-side. There was a console/desk at one end that I would sit at which had the projection bulb underneath shining up through a small hole over which I'd place each negative one after the next.

The machine had a computer which assumed the colors and exposure in each photo averaged out to an 18% grey image. Looking at the negative, I'd have to punch in offsets: e.g. I'd recognize the image has a lot of sky, or a lot of green foliage, or it's at the beach, etc, or it was over or under exposed, so I'd add "+3 blue" or '+2 green", or whatever I thought was needed to offset from 18% grey, then punch "go". The machine would then expose the negative onto the photo paper above which was on a 4" wide by 1000 foot roll. So it would expose 4" x 6" above, then it would feed the exposed paper into tanks filled with the chemistry to develop the paper. About 12 minutes later (as I recall...) the photos I'd previously exposed would pop out of the machine.

Another employee, or me if it wasn't too busy, would then do quality control. I was pretty good, but some photos I would have misidentified so we'd have to sometimes re-print a few. After we were satisfied with the quality, the photos would all go into a paper envelope and we'd cut the negative roll down from 12, 24, or 36 images into strips of 4 images. Those would go into plastic sleeves and get inserted into the same paper envelope with the photos.

I never really thought about it before, but I guess I've traveled vicariously all over the world through other people's photos. I don't think we ever thought twice about privacy and I don't think our customers did then either. Occasionally someone might mention there were nudes when dropping off a roll, but mostly not.

I vaguely recall we had a customer with a mistress and he would use a different name when dropping off photos that included the mistress because his wife would sometimes come in to pick up the family photos. Okay, one more: a guy who had a new girlfriend every few months and somehow he'd always get his girlfriends to flash the camera. It was amusing because we'd see he had a new girlfriend and knew it would be just a few weeks before he'd have a photo of her flashing her breasts for him. It's been more than 30 years, but those are two I recall.
> At its core, however, the math here is very simple. In the US, the average person uses 77,000 kWh per year. The average Finn uses only about 58,000 kWh. The Brits, good global citizens, use only about 30,000 kWh on average.

Does anyone understand how the article arrives at these figures? I might have missed something, but these numbers seem to me as a lot. According to my energy provider my 2 person household uses about 2100kWh annually. This is in my case without gas-powered heating, and external power use (such as personal transportation, or production of bought goods).

I can understand if these more indirect uses of energy are included in the average, however it would be helpful for the discussion if these numbers were explained. It might for instance help to explain how the West can slash it's energy use five fold, as the article suggests.
Yes, but gnome two and three cannot coexist on the same box, so distros like Mint ended up forking Debian to preserve access to the old gtk ecosystem.

Later, gnome announced they were moving to a rolling release model that would routinely break backward compatibility.

Since then, I've stopped paying attention, but noticed that QT utilities are slowly replacing all the (still maintained, but stalled, feature wise) gnome programs I used to use.
This is in my home town and my first job out of high school was giving tours of the various mining sites for tourists.

I can tell you the official story was at the time it was believed that if you send the pollution high enough, it wouldn’t lead to so much damage.

For context, prior to the super stack, ore was refined by burning huge fields (the size of football fields) of crushed ore to separate the metals. The result is why Sudbury is known for barren black rock. We later won international awards for our regreening efforts.

Does that mean I think the stack was a good idea or fair to the world? No. But I do think it was understandable.

Today, something like 99% of the “smoke” is actually steam, because they’ve done such a good job of filtering the smoke that they needed to pump steam in to get it to reach the top of the stack. They’ve also been talking about decommissioning and tearing it down for years, but it’s somewhat beloved as a major landmark.
Interesting to see the comment thread digging into all sorts of criticism of the article (is it 2 kWh / fridge? Or 1.1? Should the author discuss renewable earlier or more seriously?)

The main point I got from the article was a helpful reminder that a large part of the world doesn't have basic things that I take for granted (not just refrigeration, but you might also include air conditioning, transportation, etc). And that if we did want the entire world to live a life that includes things like that, we just don't have the energy right now.

EDIT: I kept thinking about this and it doesn't stop at just basics. It's also things like living in a comfortable, well-manufactured home. Being able to buy toys for your kids. Taking airplanes to visit family or to vacation. Enjoying the consumption of meat, or food delicacies. The list goes on as you expand the threshold from basic necessities, to comfort, to luxuries, and you can decide where you want to draw the line.
How does that help reduce ewaste if you still don’t force standardization on the type of USB C cable being sold - ie a cable that supports 100W PD, video over USB C, and data? What are the chances that the $100 Android phone is going to come with a cable that supports the “standard”? What are the chances that your random convenience store is going to be selling cords that support “the standard”?

And your quoting the law showing that the government also didn’t know enough to consider all of those questions proves how incompetent the government is at writing laws concerning technology.