skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. No, it's not all cleaning data.

2. Yes, it's possible to get those jobs.

3. Is there any point - if you want to, sure, it can be a great career. Given that you sound kind of skeptical, maybe look for a field that interests you more than ML.
> In Spain, 70% of the vehicles stays on the street overnight[1], that means a charger every roughly 10 meters. Imagine the amount of copper necessary to cover that.

Not every single one of these cars needs to be charged all the time - and in any case, most people drive short enough distances that they can be charged at a simple 230V outlet over night, which means it would be enough to add outlets to existing street lights. Alternatively, employers, shopping malls etc. can provide charging opportunities in the exact same way. The only place where high-power chargers are needed is for people commuting long distances.

In any case, the goal should be to take as much individual car traffic off the streets as possible by providing usable and affordable mass transit as well as usable bike infrastructure.
Interacting brains sync without physical presence
So, the article is harsh on CL: YMMV. Also, your goal may vary: I want to build and ship (web) applications, and so far Julia doesn't look attractive to me (at all). Super fast incremental development, build a standalone binary and deploy on my VPS or ship an Electron window? done. Problem(s) solved, let's focus on my app please.

The author doesn't mention a few helpful things:

- editor support: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Emacs is first class, Portacle is an Emacs easy to install (3 clicks), Vim, Atom support is (was?) very good, Sublime Text seems good (it has an interactive debugger with stack frame inspection), VSCode sees good work underway, the Alive extension is new, usable but hard to install yet, LispWorks is proprietary and is more like Smalltalk, with many graphical windows to inspect your running application, Geany has simple and experimental support, Eclipse has basic support, Lem is a general purpose editor written in CL, it is Emacs-like and poorely documented :( we have Jupyter notebooks and simpler terminal-based interactive REPLs: cl-repl is like ipython.

So, one could complain five years ago easily about the lack of editor support, know your complaint should be more evolved than a Emacs/Vim dichotomy.

- package managers: Quicklisp is great, very slick and the ecosystem is very stable. When/if you encounter its limitations, you can use: Ultralisp, a Quicklisp distribution that ships every 5 minutes (but it doesn't check that all packages load correctly together), Qlot is used for project-local dependencies, where you pin each one precisely, CLPM is a new package manager that fixes some (all?) Quicklisp limitations

> [unicode, threading, GC…] All of these features are left to be implemented by third-party libraries

this leads to think that no implementation implements unicode or threading support O_o

> most of the language proper is not generic

mention generic-cl? https://github.com/alex-gutev/generic-cl/ (tried quickly, not intensively)

Documentation: fair points, but improving etc. Example of a new doc generator: https://40ants.com/doc/

Also I'd welcome a discussion about Coalton (Haskell-like type system on top of CL).
"Life in excrements" is supposed to evoke an image of maggots poking up out of horseshit.

At the time, maggots were thought to form spontaneously. Fly eggs were discovered sometime later.
Last time I worked in finance, the typical 2U machines that we ordered were configured by IT with 256Gb by default unless we said otherwise. The typical workload was data analytics, and when you've got lots of cores, you get through RAM pretty quick for those sorts of workloads (and any spare caches data which is also useful).

Home machines are typically consuming rather than producing stuff, so it seems reasonable that the RAM hasn't leapt ahead, since typical workloads aren't memory bound.
> The problem is we're continuing to encourage open air street usage of drugs

Ok, so we agree. We need safe injection sites to get any and all usage off the streets.

> it helps to have more frequent cleanups of trash around the site, giving local residents a hotline, more regular police patrols of the surrounding blocks, etc.

Cool, so we agree. We need to ensure amazing execution of safe injection sites.

> Some of them, you can actually get drugs prescribed by a doctor. This is more sensible than relying on the "market" to provide drugs.

I’m not sure what you mean by “market” here. In this thread we were talking about the state sponsoring free drugs for consumption at safe injection sites. There is no “market”.
>No, the fundamental reason Europe doesn't enjoy friendly relations with Russia is because Europe is liberal and Russia is not...

Are you for real? Europe [and its puppet-master the USA] enjoys cordial relations with some of the most odious regimes in the world because they're 'on our side'. It's kindergarten stuff and self-delusional to pretend western nations form their relations with other countries based on moral principles.

>I don't buy the argument that their political or economic system is based on having an external enemy. It certainly wasn't that way before WW2 nor afterwards..

Maybe you should do a bit of independent reading and thinking, before making such nonsensical statements:

* https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/heres-a-list-of-all-t...

* https://www.maurer.ca/USBombing.html

* https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/

* https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/how-many-...
What's the endgame here? Because the site's not going anywhere and everything that's happened has only emboldened their user base. There's likely to be unintended consequences too with even less scrupulous and accountable operators popping up to offer their services to sites like Kiwi Farms. They're not going to have any shortage of customers going forward.
> adds perhaps 20 cents to the cost of a single, 250g package.

Can you share your math?
Latest release of pipenv improves the python package manager install time performance.
When crypto currency companies started to raise billions from the markets and have Superbowl commercials just like normal banks I knew the anarchist libertarian Cyberpunk experiment was subverted.
I'm not sure I understand the logic. Everybody die, is it a reason to not seek happiness during the time we're aliveN
The Lua C API is now bad because you can't easily make Rust bindings to it?
moreover, someone is building a CL editor in Rust and Tauri! https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/x41i0e/what_features_... (no code release yet, very much POC)
I'm trying to work entirely inside the repl. Its not bad but for large stuff the lack of go to definition hurts, and there isn't an easy way to copy commands that worked into my module. I'll try vscode next. That is what I use for c++/c. Is there anything else I should try?
That sounds like a profoundly immature external examiner. Any seasoned person here is aware of this effect.

In my view the "logical sciences" all aim for triviality: the hardest thing is to specify the problem in such a way that the solution is trivial. All the work is done, precisely, so that it is trivial.
no wandows installation :-(
-Wextra is also in Clang and is definitely not everything in either compiler.

-Weverything is everything but that is only really useful to discover new warning flags (in combination with lots of -Wno...) for which you are better off reading GCC/Clang's release notes and/or documentation.
GP here. You’d have to encrypt the data before sending it to rsync.net. Borg and Restic can do that for you, but you’d have to manage the encryption keys safely). Doing it by yourself before borg or Restic do the backup is unnecessarily complex.

There’s a special “borg account” at a lower price (compared to the standard one) on rsync.net. That one assumes that you setup the retention policies for older versions in borg since rsync.net doesn’t do any (additional) snapshots/retentions (like it does for the standard, but slightly costlier, accounts).

The bigger issue is making sure others (in one’s circles) who may need the data are able to use the tool for backups and restores. That’s where I prefer GUI tools that are easy to use and easy to demonstrate, rather than CLI tools and scripts.
> Which is a problem considering how small the H2 molecule is: we can't reuse our existing LNG pipelines.

Add carbon to it to produce methane (CH4) or higher-order hydrocarbons (butane, propane) and that's it.
For the most part, I stopped looking. Once the dust settles, you realise that most of what you've read was either speculation or oversimplification. Everyone got their panties in a bunch, and lost interest before the media could get the facts right.

In any case, I'm powerless to affect any of it. The best I can do is get upset.

So I try to read about things that happened longer ago. I try to read about places, culture, and things that move slow enough to be worth following. I like to take a slow, deep dive into countries I'm about to visit. I like to Google things I don't understand.

It's hard to find a good source for that. I'd recommend https://longreads.com/
I moved abroad 5 years ago. All my 7 US bank accounts + 2 credit card issuers have my old address as physical, and VirtualMail as mailing address. No problems so far. New cards are sent to mailing address, and virtualmail forwards them to wherever I am.
Ohh, I understand what you mean now, thanks!

I was thinking of something like "would he like a cup of tea?" when you said third person, and that didn't seem to match anything I'd heard/read, so I was feeling very confused.
“ Never fix a bug and refactor in the same pull request.”

I’m sorry, but this is backwards. Bugs are many times caused by badly written code and you can tell when it’s the case. Refactoring the code many times fixes the issue without ever having to figure out where the needle was in the haystack.

I guess in every field there are platitudes and prescriptions. At the end of the day, I try to follow first principles and ignore them and just focus on building a great product.

What I see in this article is a disregard for the costs associated with context switching. My argument is, if you think you can handle the rabbit hole, and you think those related tasks will need to be done anyway at some point, head off to Wonderland. Because you have the context of the situation fresh in your temporary memory, so you’ll get it done faster than if you switch contexts and come back later.
Nokia came to my mind as well. They made rubber products (galoshes, etc) before getting into telecom equipment in the late 70's and ultimately cell-phones in the 90's!
From Boom to Gloom: Tech Recruiters Struggle to Find Work
Thanks for MOAT comment.
Do you mind elaborating on that last sentence? How is it a moral responsibility you mean?
Anyvoy – Instant Invoice Generation
anyvoy (anyvoy.com) lets you generate invoices instantly: You edit directly on your final invoice layout, so you can immediately see what you will get. Plus you can clone your old invoices which minimizes manual input.
Your argument appears to be circular. He said he believes critical theory to have done social harm. You observe that he says there are ideas present in society that cause social harm. Then you say this means we need critical theory to examine such damage(as OP said is the result of critical theory).
I need a task list, I need to prioritise, so I publish that list on a wiki along with done/blocked/remarks. Each task ~1 day

Once this is done (with a few blocked items that are manglement responsibility) I never get asked for estimates, or worse, Jira issues.

It's not unreasonable that management want to know what you are doing and how long it will take. Make that easy for them in a way that suits you, and it stops being a burden.
This seems like a bad idea..
That would mean leaving Bitcoin and Ethereum behind.
Once ad-blockers get big enough they get bought out by google/others. You just need to switch to a new one once that happens.
I'm bumping this take. I'll never cry for Amazon or anything, and I'm sure the marginal impact of something like this existing would be almost nothing to them, but using their service for all the convenience it brings you in terms of product discoverability, but then paying some other vendor, seems both bizarrely mean-spirited and clearly not universalizable, in either direction. If every consumer did this, Amazon would make no money at all, the convenience of one-place discoverability would disappear, and we'd be back in some pre-Amazon world that is worse for consumers. If consumers did this to every business and not just Amazon, then it would become nearly impossible for anyone to make money selling commodity goods, returning us to some artisan/merchant economy where goods are generally high quality and unique, but also rare and expensive.

Cory can argue Amazon is a monopoly and those are bad no matter what all day long, but the reality for consumers is monopolies are bad because no competition allows sellers to raise prices and degrade customer experience, neither of which has happened with Amazon (because hint, they don't actually have a monopoly on anything they sell). As he says himself, their prices are consistently low and the customer experience seems to be good enough that he would prefer using them to find things to buy even if he doesn't buy from them. If you tried to turn them into a kayak.com for retail, they'd either have to take a cut of every transaction, raising prices for all other sellers, or they'd have to make money purely from ads instead. How is that better? Whatever else you want to say about Amazon, unlike, say, Google or Facebook, at least they're monetizing the delivery of real value to consumers. They're not just delivering value to advertisers. The one truly bad thing about the Amazon customer experience, which is the unreliability of product ratings and the proliferation of counterfeit and low-quality goods, would be made even worse if all a seller needed to do to get your business is convince a browser extension their good is equivalent to what you're looking at on Amazon, without even needing to get onto the marketplace.
I guess with the same limitations as on the iphone - with a developer account for 7 days before you have to relicense it.
I have questions on fire safety. I lost some close friends recently to a fire. I had never thought about it before.
The term always reminds me of this classic little video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oHBG3ABUJU
That seems like the worst control scheme ever... no visiq/feedback, just a bunch of screen transitions based on micro gestures? No thanks.
You're getting downvoted by people who don't get the South Park reference.
A Strangely Cold Day
Pay close attention to your build system though. Many will pass all compiler flags to the linker driver as that is needed to make sure that they affect LTO.
I'm surprised stories like this aren't posted more in crypto threads to counter the general HN hate
When I disclaimed the patronizing nature of "not even wrong," making a value judgement on whether it is worth consideration was one of the things I wanted to avoid. I'm not really interested in telling someone what they shouldn't consider, and whether or not it is worth it I've spent some time thinking about it over the years. I do think that this question isn't really able to produce useful insights, and I wanted to state my view on that, but I don't want to apply a moral judgement on the act of considering the question. I probably would've been better off steering clear of that term.

What I mean to suggest is that, though this is often presented as a scientific hypothesis about reality (eg, sometimes people say things like, "there's a 20% chance the universe is a simulation"), it is unfalsifiable, and therefor not a scientific hypothesis. That doesn't necessarily mean it can't be approached with other ways of knowing, and the argument I present is essentially a spiritual one.
Cut the trees to save CO2 emissions. Somebody forgot that trees consume CO2 themselves and if this type of housing gets adopted widely, some companies will not wait for 10-20 years for the planted trees to grow, but will look for less ethical sources like existing wild forests.
Next step is to make an editor where we type/edit AST, not text.
You're right, real pressure to keep software bloat under control mostly doesn't exist, but it should, for the sake of our users.
Not GP. “rsync”, the HN user who’s the founder of rsync.net, has commented here that everybody who works for them is a Unix engineer and knows the technology quite well. Based on past comments (you can look for comments by rsync on hn.algolia.com), I’m sure they’d help with setup. But custom scripts…I’m not sure. Maybe that depends on the complexity.
Confirming zooinosis outside of the lab (eg outside Wuhan) would disprove lab leak

Finding the animal reservoir, would disprove it was modified in the lab. I guess it would also lower the chance of a lab leak (though I could still be natural)

China allowing a proper investigation would reduce the odds (though how to prove they haven't tampered with evidence in the years since)

I think every day the natural source isn't found should increase the odds of an unnatural one
Whether or not you're overweight, when you come in they'll take your vitals and run some standard tests until they find something they can treat and medicate for the rest of your life.

You'll be tested for thyroid dysfunction, for diabetes, for hypertension, for all sorts of stuff that won't be on your radar until a blood test turns up "abnormal" results once. Then you'll get pills, all the pills you care to eat and remember, there is no road map for getting off those pills, you'll just get larger doses and more frequent as your problems worsen (because you're not addressing root causes, just being medicated for "treatable" issues which correspond to existing pharmaceuticals.)
> Is it okay (...) Am I being a weirdo?

Even assuming that it that makes you a weirdo: you can be weird if you want.
TypeScript is backward compatible with JavaScript. It means there is pretty much zero investment required to get started with TypeScript. Refactoring existing SQL codebases to Malfoy would have cost me more than 1000 hours over the last ten years.

The problem with SQL alternatives is that they tend to lack features once you get beyond the shiny examples on their documentation pages.
In what way is Brave better than browser extensions? Is it e.g. more reliable in blocking ads, or better maintained?
Thanks, that's very insightful. But still, it is an engineering response

If you go to the e-fuel page he links it says: "They are manufactured using captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, together with hydrogen obtained from sustainable electricity sources" (and what's the efficiency in that process? less than making only H2 for certain)

Electrolysis efficiency can go up. Safety issues exists, but fossil fuels are only safe today due to major engineering work.

I think most investment in H2 is betting on it "just in case".
Over here in the EU these taxes are specifically designed not to reduce consumption.

The relation between a tax and consumption is not linear. Below a certain treshold there is 0 consumption impact. In fact, taxes need to be rather huge to change behaviour especially for addictive/craving substances. We learned those lessons many decades ago with the tobacco industry.
>>Oh come on, they could start by accepting everyone with a 3.5+ and decent MCAT instead of requiring that you have a 3.95, volunteering experience, clinical experience, and near perfect MCATs. The path is unattractive because it's filled with bullshit requirements that don't matter.

I for one am glad that it s hard for doctors to get into med school - allowing less qualified people to practice medicine sure doesn't sound like a recipe for good outcomes.

As far as the non-academic 'bullshit requirements' as you put it, they matter - last thing you want is someone going to med school because they were above average smart, and there parents told them to goto med school (it happens) - much better to have people that have been in the trenches dealing with medical issues at some level who know what they are getting into - i.e. people who perhaps were a nurse first, or EMT or paramedic, or even a non-skilled person who provided personal care to dementia patients in nursing home - just being smart isn't enough to be a good doctor - doctors deal with a lot of things that most of society would find distasteful - better to weed out those folks before they ever set foot on campus taking up the slot of someone else that is more well rounded and proven they are not choosing medicine just because it pays well and their parents pushed them to it.
CDC is not a reliable source. They are completely partisan and sold to Pfizer and Co. Look for other health authorities around the world for a better picture.
Actually, I'm saying "most of the country", but what I only know for sure they are out of use in middle-class-ish Bucharest, they may well be alive and well in a lot of the rest of the country. Though I was explicitly taught in school that they shouldn't be used as polite.
Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, grapples to deal with rains, floods
> Because it also sounds like some kind of critical theory...

What's the "theory" exactly? It just sounds like common sense.
Yup. Currently building a new storage setup with 18TB disks. Each of my 18TB HDD is also backed by a 512GB NVME cache to speed the already fast HDDs up.

Distributed raids (like ceph and glusterfs) and raid expansion (recently added in zfs) also make it easy for a homelabber to get started cheap and continuously add new disks.
This is almost assuredly caused by a private bank being forced to comply with AML laws from a public regulatory body. How would a public bank be any better?
there are windows releases
occams razor is another name for confirmation bias. you dont win an argument with this kind of bullshit.
Should we maybe take that as a lesson?
Oh yeah at these speeds everything is a microwave stripline
Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.

The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing."

"That's not true," responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!"
Understanding const and constant literal in C
this video is argumentative but it is meant to explain const and constant literals in a shallow case. looking at it critically, one can argue that we will both come to same conclusion as in. the video
Occams razor is overhyped. It is almost never useful when it comes to complex systems.
most buildings in america today are wood frame, this is likely no better or worse. it is more important to consider what you put in the building, have a good electrician do the wiring, and design your layout and exits to fire code compliance.
No poor person would get a $100k loan.
I think (maybe I’m wrong) that your graph searches correspond to diffing single lists and you can have an expensive diagonal step to recurse into two sublists whereas the tool in this post has extra nodes for every token and extra edges for inserting/deleting delimiters. That seems to be the biggest difference to me and I guess is what you mean by it being complicated to design a good heuristic for the expanded move set. I agree it sounds complicated. I think that my guess was that bigger graphs would make things harder but that isn’t a reason for A* to fail.
Too, very, very, true.