skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this... it was just a fork. Projects get forked. It's unfortunate from some perspectives, but from other perspectives you can understand why forks happen.

When you have a long-running fork, especially one that is so active, merging it naturally becomes a nightmare. This is expected and ordinary.

The Linux kernel gets forked by Android vendors and others all the time. A lot of the changes never make it upstream, for various reasons. At least the story ends a bit better for KHTML / WebKit.
What are the three questions? Are they always the same or do you adapt on context?
It’s not. You can use any editor. Emacs just happens to have a package called slime that helps - I’m told. I’ve been using just lisp+emacs w/o slime for decades. To be clear, except for slime, which as above is optional, any editor will do just fine.
In the US the government just ask corporations to censor content and they comply. Activists will spout their usual XKCD-interpretations of free speech, which is legally correct, but heavily fails to see the larger picture.
I consider these to be reminders that even with a state-of-the-art testing suite and 100 % branch coverage, bugs still find a way, heh.
they don't even have multilingual website. and i have no interest in online banking.
Building a scheduling system with Workers and Durable Objects
This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine
Care to pay the author for an Allegro CL and/or LispWorks license so they can broaden their article?
I get the same thing out-of-the-box. I get tap-to-pair, noise cancellation, spatial audio, transparency mode and a better microphone than the Airpods (can use a higher-quality codec than AAC). Settings stay on-device, too.

Airpods were a neat party trick maybe... 5 years ago? Wireless audio isn't complicated nowadays though, I've tried at least a dozen Bluetooth headsets that embarrass the Airpods Pro (often at a lower price point).

The last thing I want to do is stop people from buying overpriced headphones though. If Airpods make you happy, then by all means, buy them. You're mostly paying a premium for iCloud integration though, which I'd frankly pay extra to avoid.

Shit though, if you want proof that Airpods are a downgrade from regular headphones, just compare the audio quality: https://youtu.be/N6Y_Q7RYmmY?t=360
You just solved a random mystery I was having with mail forwarding from a single particular provider.
I agree with you, but think 16 would be a better base than 12 as it's binary reducible all the way down. It doesn't have a factor of three, which can be useful, but being able to natively understand and do math in a hex base would be such a boon, especially in the computer era.

The Babylonians base 60 was quite a practical decision we partially inherited, but the metric 10 and Aztec 20 were probably just cavemen looking at their fingers (and toes).

If you use your thumb to index the interphalangeal joints of your hand, you also get 16 which is super slick. A4 is a nice standard, but we really missed out on realizing base 16 metric.
A simple web server can hold millions of connections. With some smart caching you could serve a wide audience. If the DDOS is big enough you will max out your 1GB/s line - I'm not sure on ways around that. Even blocking ranges on your router won't fix it.
Nope. Game companies want to end those games so they can sell the same engine or mechanics but repackaged by an army of asset artists.
> YC's current portfolio value of nearly $1T

I don't think you mean portfolio value. That would mean YC actually owns $1T in the companies they funded, at their current valuation.
The following on YC front page is more meaningful:
"Our companies have a combined valuation nearing $1T."
> Right now there is no clear use-case

Why people keep repeating that? You mean that if somebody creates a machine that can simulate chemistry and materials science in polynomial time, nobody would use it? That's crazy.
I have seriously irrational plans taking shape on securing and restoring this so I can finally feel like Joaquin Phoenix in 1986's coolest movie, Space Camp.
Can’t you just make a separate profile on the iPad for your kids.
Easy for “us” developers. If I mention NPM to my neighbor in construction, I would get a vacant stare. No I mean for adoption to take place, the bar needs to be a lot lower.
Thanks for this comment. I also went down the same path. However, for me mails to Microsoft (outlook, live etc) don't seem to be working.

You said -
> I then spent a couple of days setting up the various DMARC MTA-STS policies etc. [most of that time involved looking up what they were and why I needed them!]

Can you tell me how you did this? It'll be a bit help!
> why a family of languages should be this dependent on a specific editor...

The language isn't, but SLIME is because emacs isn't just an editor, it's a platform and system that people develop applications on top of. And the community was already there, using emacs, to continue with that option.
My city turned our event center into a COVID treatment facility (warehouse-scale) but it never got used. Kind of wish they had- in retrospect, having large numbers of people sick with COVID congregating in hospitals with people who weren't sick with COVID was probably not the best strategy.
> The Dodge Charger has been around a lot longer than EVs.

Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Charger) the name has been around for 56 years (since 1966). Or 58 years for the "show car" version of 1964.
>In many places, the police won't do anything

Calling the police would be more to deter stalking than to help with theft recovery. Knowing that the police will automatically be notified if the tracker gets set to stealth mode would be enough to deter many stalkers.

>Are you going to track down and confront the thieves who stole your bike?

I wouldn’t confront thieves but I certainly would track down where the bike gets ridden and take it back when it’s somewhere (semi) public. Years ago, a friend’s bike got stolen and by sheer luck we saw it a couple weeks later locked to a bike rack. We got some bolt cutters and took it.
In the US, it varies by state. They are not enforceable in California, apparently they are in Texas.
The comment I first replied to said the US was in the same middle-ground as the UK.

That is not true -- it's in a different middle ground, much further from a fully-metric country. That's all my point was.

> Why do you care if Americans talking amongst themselves speak in their own vernacular and system of measurements?

It's fine if they keep it to themselves. I'm never bothered by traditional Japanese floor area measurements, for example. But Americans attempt to use their own, private system when communicating to the rest of the world, in commerce, software and media. (Search "Weather Taipei" on Google while in Taiwan, with a browser set to not-US-English, and you end up with Fahrenheit etc. Set Windows to "English Ireland" and random bits of stuff will still be in miles/°F.)

This even leaks to non-Americans (or maybe English translators). It's annoying to go to a museum in, say, Brazil and see the Portuguese text uses metric, but this has been translated to pounds and feet in the English text. Most of the tourists reading the English aren't even American!
Interestingly, cold may kill more than heat (but it’s complicated) https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Ex...
Why not support both ID versions pointing at a single resource?
This is a neat example though of how arbitrary EV drivetrains are. A Toyota marketing exec's (just guessing) FUD about imagined consumer FUD turns into, why don't we just ramp down torque in notches in relation to road speed increments? Of course anyone who buys this is going to try it once then leave it in all-the-torque-all-the-time mode, but that's not the point. I can't say I've met a single three pedal afficionado who bemoaned the lack of shifting after experiencing the mild concussion inducing levels of acceleration of some of these new EV's. If roadgoing gas cars had that kind of torque, they wouldn't shift either, just like the fastest drag cars. There's no point.
I wonder if the updated Anno 2070 will remove their silly online restriction. I am still waiting that to play that game.

For those that don't know, in Anno 2070 there are some single-player features that can't be used unless you are online, for example newgame-plus style item transfer. This "feature" is obviously some hamfisted DRM on top of the realm DRM the game already has (in fact some versions has two different DRM on top of each other, and some players can't play because they deadlock).

If Ubisoft removes DRM from Anno 2070, I will then buy and play it. I refuse to touch it until then, even borrowed from a friend, I just refuse to play a game that does this (another one is Diablo III, never played it, and I won't play until it becomes accessible 100% offline when in single-player).

But I won't hold my breath waiting, currently it feels that waiting Ubisoft to ditch DRM is like waiting gravity to fall upwards, considering instead that they add DRM to games that had none before (Anno 1404 for example)
> What is "Find Energy" ?

We take a bunch of data relating to electricity, natural gas, and solar, make it understandable, then compile it all together on our website so people can get a good idea of the national/local energy landscape.

> is this like far-away smart people digging through your garage to "find" tools ?

Although some would consider us "far-away smart people" (depending on their geographic location), rest assured that we're definitely not digging through your garage for anything.
Wasn't the risk from Teflon primarily related to manufacture rather than the use of Teflon-coated products?
Perhaps something has happened to your battery or the charging equipment. My 2006 Prius still gets great fuel economy. I'd get Toyota to check it.

A taxi driver in Vancouver had a 2004 Prius and drove 1 million kilometres only changing tires, bulbs and wipers and it was still going when Toyota bought it back from him and shipped it to Japan to study it.
Hurricane hunter airplanes just went where they have never been before
good point about cherry picking. I'm not familiar with Kary Mullis, but Erdos is indeed a good example of someone who rose to the top of their field via obsessive work, although I would like to point out that much of Erdos's work was done socially, whereas the examples given in the article refer to solitary work time.

The article does give non-anecdotal evidence, however - the correlation of hours worked by scientists and productivity, as well as the study of violinists.

Of course, you could rightfully claim that for the violin players, sleeping was also a part of their work - there is a fair amount of evidence (detailed in the book Sleep by M. Walker, which, while I've seen some critiques of it, I still consider to be a decent source) supporting the hypothesis that sleep aids learning, and so for a violinist, getting enough sleep would be necessary to learning the skills for their job.

However, to once again use my former boss as an example, not everyone understands that hiking and walking and in von Neummann's case sleeping/dreaming are an integral part of productivity - my former boss would sleep less than 5 hours a day, and he was proud of this fact.

Furthermore, while I think you are right in saying that the article overly focuses on one path to success (some people got successful by spending relatively little time at their desks), the message that long hours spent toiling away at a desk are not necessary for productivity, and indeed, can harm it, is very useful.

There are a large number of highly productive creative people who work 4 hours a day max. Looking at the study of research scientists mentioned in the article, it would seem that they are the majority, and as such a confused grad student/developer looking to be more productive may actually benefit from working less, not more, which is a counter-intuitive/surprising (to my mind at least) truth. :)
Lol, it's all about that sweet sweet spectrum
Excel workflows are terrible though. No version control, hard to test, prone to indexing errors. And doing very sophisticated things with it gets hard; lots of financial analysts/quants are moving over to Python for analysis anyway.

If you’re thinking about this in isolation, I can see why it would seem a bad idea to move power-excel users to Python. But take this in the context of a much wider shift where many shops are already shifting to Python for other reasons, and so we need a way to help transition the Excel power users over too.

Excel has its place for sure, but I think it’s interesting to consider whether another tool paradigm could gradually replace it; we would need to really hone the flexibility and expressivity of the UI for simple tasks. The benefit would be that when your task grows you don’t need to re-implement it in a new Python engine.
I built slackware package manager replacement based on Judy Arrays, 17 years ago. :)

https://spkg.megous.com/

It was quite fast even on 50 MHz 486-DX2.
Fishing largely contributes to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific
Here's an interesting theory to consider. The covid-19 vaccines are intended to administered intramuscularly. The resulting immune reaction is intended to be localized to that area and generally the expected result is some localized discomfort (and the creation of antibodies) -- so far so good, right?

Medical professionals are recommended to perform a technique called intramuscular aspiration. It helps ensure the vaccine is delivered to a localized area. The technique involves injecting the needle, sucking back on the syringe slightly and looking for blood. If there is no blood, push the contents of the syringe into the muscle and complete the vaccine administration.

If during aspiration there IS blood, it means the needle may have hit a vein or artery in or near the muscle. At that point, administration should be stopped and the medical professional should re-administer the vaccine in a different location.

Here is the theory: Intramuscular aspiration has not been consistently practiced. A certain percentage of covid-19 vaccinations have not been administered locally, but into the circulatory system via a vein or artery. This is not how the vaccine was designed to be administered, and it's not fully clear on what (if any) negative affects may result.
Right. If the government hadn't stepped in to encourage Microsoft to play nice, we might live in a world where "the web" simply means Internet Explorer.

I'm beyond the point of negotiating with the people on this website. Apple is due in for exactly the same treatment, it's only a matter of time before the US eats their favorite crow.
The power restrictions were in the evenings when people are cooking and using a lot of electricity. EVs normally charge at night when usage and rates are low.
Ask HN: Starting an Association
I'm in the process of starting an association for companies in a certain niche. Can I structure it as a non profit or should it be an LLC\Corporation? Any tips\advice?
> I think mac users have been happy so long as the actual machines last about 8-10 years before becoming obsolete, which they generally do. Phone users can make do with 4-6.

This is exactly right. My MacBook Pro from 2013 is still running fine and all the day-to-day productivity apps I have been using still work just fine. 90% of things I do are via a web browser, so there's that. I might buy a new M2 based MBP this December, depending on what they release in September/October.

Same is true for iPhone. iPhone 7 lasted till iPhone 12. I'll likely replace iPhone 12 only with iPhone 17 or so (likely when 5G is being replaced with 6G).
Yes.
I’ve done this before, with a bicycle specifically. Found a stolen bike, and chased the thief until the cops took over. They showed up FAST, multiple units with lights and sirens. They treat it as an active crime if you know where the goods are rather than an investigation.
That's odd. I have a pair of airpods pro shared with an m1 mbp, and an iphone. The airpods seem to randomly connect to 1 of the 2 devices, almost never the one I want them to connect to. This is the same experience I've had with other BT devices.

The only good BT experience I've had is my Bose QC35ii headphones, which can connect to multiple devices at the same time.
I'm living in a country where the monthly minimum wage is $275, and I work for a US company with a good salary, at least in my country.

I understand the basics of economics, but I must say this pay gap is pretty disappointing for me too. Yes, I'm living in a country where the cost of living is much cheaper, but the same country is classified as "not free" by Freedom House. The only reason I still live here is to save money before I, hopefully, move to any first-world country.

I want everyone to understand that the cheap cost of living usually comes with restrictions on human rights and mental illness.
Not exactly. Because not all locations have the same value. Ie; harder to travel to, less infrastructure, more latency, working hours not lined up with certain market hours, etc. Two prior doing the same thing in entirely different places, aren’t always equal.
So, he's saying it's just like quantum computing? duck
Please don't take HN threads into internecine PL flamewar. It's not in the interests of the thread, the HN community, or the Lisp community.

On HN, we've always particularly wanted to avoid the nasty tribal fights that have afflicted CL discussions in the past.
The reason exponential speedups are required is due to the extreme cost of quantum computing R&D and extremely limited quantum computers that come out of it.

I can provision 1k CPU based servers or ~20 4x GPU based servers in a cloud computing environment for an hour for <$400. These are mature technologies with massive economies of scale behind them. A quantum computer needs to not only outperform scale out GPU/CPU performance on a particular problem set, it needs to crush it.
Both.

UUIDs require much less storage/memory than string keys, and you can create offline bulk inserts quickly and easily with them.

Make your table with UUIDs as the primary keys, and then create a unique, human-readable lookup key as an additional column.

This gives you the best of both worlds.
I was under the impression that there are no studies that demonstrate that flossing is good. He certainly doesn’t link to any. I floss, because I suspect that it is helpful, but can anybody point to some actual research on this topic?
More than 80M people are under flood watches today, from Alabama to Maine
Sheets of paper are not used to measure or calculate things, unlike the metric system.
Tough love.

I grew up poor, with uneducated parents who could hardly speak English. My parents depended on me a lot. Growing up poor gave me independence and growth. Resilience learned from struggles. Opportunities to make my own decisions and mistakes. My parents couldn’t tell me what to do or give advice because they just didn’t know how to grow up and be successful in the US. So it was up to me to make my own life decisions. I’m a late bloomer, but I’ve obtained a lot of life lessons along the way.

A way I see to teach kids this lesson without the struggles of being poor is to give them some autonomy and the mental tools to push through their failures.
> your assertion you can't build great apps (including desktop and mobile (hello Electron and Capacitor))

I have yet to see a great app built on web technology. All Electron apps provide a terrible UX, they are slow, unresponsive and feel out of place with the rest of the OS I'm running on. I want my apps to feel native, to look and feel exactly like all other apps.

One of the greatest tragedies of web UI's is the lack of a standard UI toolkit. Almost evert web-based app has to roll their own UI components, there is no consistency. This is terrible for usability, especially for users that are not as tech-savvy as we are. It's one thing to have to explain what a certain UI component is and does once, but it gets infinitely worse if every app has their own spin on it. Who doesn't love teaching their grandma 1232043 different variations on a checkbox ?
Thomas Piketty’s Radical Plan to Redistribute Wealth
( submitting this as a reference to Piketty's whole school of thought not just the latest book )

( Discussion prompt: what are some radical ideas for slashing poverty/inequality globally in 2 decades or less - assuming the public support/political will can eventually be obtained through effort/luck )
The operators can even intentionally speed up or slow down the grid by small amounts to re-align the # of expected cycles over periods of time.

Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24602162
However, there is also data that suggests large gaps in reporting coverage as well.

"... fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported."
https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publicatio...
NLP endpoints: Haystack plus FastAPI
Do you have a handy list of first check VC’s that you can share ?
That's a good point. Assuming physical dials, it'll still show the correct time twice a day, which is twice more than an unpowered digital clock ;)
What is the public benefit here for open data? Where is your code/pipeline published? What is being done with this data? Who is benefiting and/or paying for this "research" on critical USA infrastructure?

edit it seems that 3 months ago, we both commented on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31555938
I think that's a separate issue that would not have affected this particular case.
Oh, thanks for clarifying on the swap part. I somehow thought it's as good as let's say DDR2 RAM haha
Predatory Bacteria Are Fierce, Ballistic and Full of Potential
Every single Apple patch to GitHub projects is done by the same single indistinguishable user account. This isn't just "some long-running fork". It is Apple culture to actively prohibit contributions to open source projects unless 5 managers sign off on it.
Something to keep in mind is the fact that, as opposed to the 2020 referendum, this one was mandatory for all registered voters[1]. This increased the number of total votes by 5.5 million (7.5m in 2020 versus yesterday’s 13m).

[1]: In Chile, voter registration is automatic and voting is usually voluntary. Until 2012, registration was voluntary but voting was mandatory for every registered voter.
Yes it does apparently.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jalopnik.com/this-chinese-elect...
Still relevant, since we were discussing email, it would not need the whole "internet community" to agree, just a handful or two of provider could impose it in practice.

Standard are useless if majors providers apply a different de facto norm. That behavior has a name, it is called a cartel. And on some matters, that is punishable by law.
OK but is this an issue?
Do you guys actually use the word disingenuous in face to face conversations?
> Really “material science” was a sort of fancy label for the chemistry of things we use to build other things.

Wrong, much of what material scientists do relate to the physical properties of the materials.

I know a few material scientists, and while they do have a small part of the lab that looks pretty much like a chemistry lab, most of their methods and goals differ from what happens in a typical chemistry lab.
Common Lisp is awesome. SBCL is fast, there are a lot of decent libraries (https://awesome-cl.com/), and you can use it immediately in production. Lisp REPL-centric development requires some adjustment, and basically* you don't have other IDE options besides Emacs with Slime or Sly, but Common Lisp was the reason I finally learned how to live with Emacs.

* — there are also Slyblime for Sublime Text and ALIVE for VS Code, but they are very beta-quality.