skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a divisive question, because of survivorship bias. Remember when the WWII Brits wanted to reinforce planes where they saw bullet holes coming back, till a statistician asked why no planes came back with holes in the other spots?

People who use lisp like the parentheses.

I don't, though they're no more objectionable than all the {}; languages. I just don't like unnecessary punctuation.

I coded in scheme for years using a preprocessor that understood

define-syntax opt
syntax-rules |
$ _ (x v) b ...
let || x | if (null? x) v | car x
b ...

which is line for line equivalent to

(define-syntax opt
(syntax-rules ()
((_ (x v) b ...)
(let ((x (if (null? x) v (car x))))
b ...) )))

It's a matter of taste, but I'd rather read the former. The key ideas, other than using indentation to carry parenthesis level, are to use $ to hang double indents, and | to open a parenthesis that auto-closes.

I gave this up learning Clojure so I could use other people's tools. Instead I prefer lighter parentheses, and I use this script to tailor fonts for coding lisp:

https://gist.github.com/Syzygies/226253bc38743ef474ee67cbf58...

I have the most trouble with comment characters, in any language. In various languages I used a preprocessor that implemented a practical version of "comments are flush, code is indented" (hey, it cost me one level) and relied on syntax coloring to mute the comments. Again, I gave this up to use other people's tools.
This doesn't work even as a joke.
Shannon – a tiny Irish town inspires China’s economic boom
I have no doubt at all that, if owners suddenly had to pay waitstaff more, the prices of meals would go up. Because the owners need to make money too, and most of them have pretty thin margins.
I think there is a lot of variety in the space depending on what type of fund and what time scales they work on. HFT will have FPGAS almost certainly. Crypto funds generally don’t have the same time constraints (yet) and are becoming more cloud native but it’s not just crypto funds that are on the cloud: e.g. https://medium.com/prooftrading/proof-engineering-the-algori... . I think most traditional hedge funds still collocate with the exchanges they trade with. Crypto funds tend to be more distributed and figure out which “link” is the fastest to their exchange of choice.

Programming language wise I think the most common ones are: C++, Java, C# (there are some strange window native shops out there)

Hardware: FPGA, Solarflare cards (moves part of the network stack out of the kernel space to user space to reduce context switching and reduce latency)
That would be true if work actually mattered for the majority of the population. Most work is just there to make someone else richer, not progress humanity in anyway.
This show is a steaming pile of crap.
It's low effort, low IQ political propaganda fan fiction in Tolkien's universe. Lead characters are Mary Sues and the rest of the cast serve as useful idiots. Nothing in the storyline makes any sense, or has any coherence.
This very same show would have bombed immediately and hardly been mentioned if it were in a new universe.

Can't believe Tolkien's heirs sold out for that kind of trash.
Evil cannot create anything on its own, it can only corrupt. JRR was right about that.
It makes sense for OpenBSD because:

- it separates /, /usr and /usr/local

- it has special mount options such as wxallowed which is usually enabled on /usr/local only

https://man.openbsd.org/mount.8 / https://man.openbsd.org/fstab.5
I also use MRP (Minimum Remarkable Product) as in, your product has at least one feature that is of value to someone.
Wishful thinking. Most economists will be replaced by machine learning algorithms sooner than later.
> > Some of their sunscreen has already washed off into the water.

Yes and you can't change that, since there's already a ban.

> > Cláudia Mieiro, a marine biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal who was not involved in Downs’ study, remarked on the high concentrations of sunscreen chemicals found in the sand near the showers. The sand, she said, appears to be acting like a sink for these compounds.

Isn't that a good thing?

If you care about corals and marine life, and if you know that some people will not use the ideal sunscreen, you should prefer that sunscreen to be in the sand (where UV photodegradation may clean it out), rather than in the ocean: people going back into the ocean, or taking a shower at home (with the waste water then going... into the ocean) seems far worse.

So a ban + allowing showers so that the uncaught sunscreens ends up in the sand seems like the best possible outcome.
(Lithium hydride. The resulting caustic vapor is lithium hydroxide.)
Implementing a Liquidity Pool with Python
Did u change your name because of the startup having a similar name?
A $2 taxi fare dispute in 2013 turned into two days in jail
It would have been a perfectly ironic rant, if only it ended with "Sent from my iPad".
Effects of the Psilocybin Derivative Baeocystin
Can you say what is specifically wrong with bstr (while tying it to real world use cases) instead of trying to tell me what I do or don't understand?
Like a lot of rust belt cities, Flints biggest employer are the three hospitals, combined. Next up is General Motors which still employs 7,000 people. The majority of those are at the truck plant, which shouldn't be affected by EV's for a while. The small engine plant down the road, however...

40 years ago GM employee 80,000 people in the Flint area.
U.S. regulators allow ethanol plants to pollute more than oil refineries
They always want you to cancel because that doesn't hurt their metrics. Same with somehow invalidating the credit card payment.
Take them to court over what exactly? Where's the damages? FB would have to show that being misinformed about your name cost them anything whatsoever. They could try getting the DA to prosecute you under computer fraud and abuse (unauthorized access to a computer system under a false identity). Even that is a huge risk. Imagine the precedent set if the jury decides to nullify, and what sane jury wouldn't nullify over the charge of "set up a fb account under a fake name and ID"? And does the DA really want to risk gaining a reputation for being FB lapdog?

The truth is, FB demands an ID but they have no real right or basis for making this demand.
It heats them up (The joke is I'm describing the sun and solar panels as the end state of trying to overcome the technical hurdles of building a heat engine to extract electricity from fusion if you're not just playing along).

Jokes aside, TEGs are pretty neat. In addition to harvesting what is currently waste heat in someplaces or having applications in geothermal or solar collectors they might even make fission not-stupid. Can't forsee any way fusion works as practical power generation this century though. It has worse power density than chemical and much higher temperatures to deal with and much higher neutron flux than fission as well as needing massive 2 kelvin magnets right next to the 100 million degree plasma that explode if they warm up to 3 kelvin.
SSL is overrated
I think it's less a "Spidey sense" and more an ego self defense mechanism. You hate or fear something and go into anger mode because you want to change it. But there isn't actually any external threat - the threat is internal. You're fighting a feeling or thought you want to suppress, and it's being directed outward because you don't want to acknowledge it. (IANAT)
yeah, man's natural state is better than this bitter dystopia.

>> using your “higher faculties” doesn't always leave you better off. As I wrote recently, smart people aren’t happier

glad we've come full circle, all the way through self help gurus back to self-referencing barbarians masquerading as intellectual saviors.

no, the notion of work is not the devil. idle hands are. if you need evidence, check out all the people who apparently don't have to work and spend all their time on tiktok.
Snap firing employees is epiphenomenon. There is lots of demand I receive lots of offers every day and other people I know too.
There's no equivalent to a "direct line to andrewrk" because Rust does not have this one man setup.

Culturally, there's more of a "pitch in to help" and less "ask before touching". So people are mostly looking for hand-holding, "How do I?" and "Is this correct?" rather than decisions and permission.
Aka cute abbreviations that are impossible to remember or understand (c62d).
Small Molecule Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing
> For example AirBnB is just a CRUD database with a website that connects demand and supply. Anybody could build it, I bet some HNers even in a weekend :)

The value is in the data, not the software. They have hundreds of thousands of properties on their platform ready to accept bookings - that takes a lot of legwork to produce. Same thing for Uber.

You could build it and start rolling it out locally in your town, but do you think a) you could convince a solid number of hosts to use your platform, and b) that people visiting your town would use your (unknown) platform rather than the "safe bets" of airbnb or vrbo? If you can solve those problems, go for it; once you conquer your first locale, hire some salespeople and expand to the next geography.
Desal needs a lot of power. Like nuclear scale power. So it's hard to get those projects to go.
> Storage is not a source of energy.

strictly speaking, sure. But it's a source for all intents and purposes, because in order to achieve the same outcomes using renewables as with fossil fuel powerplants, you'd need to pair it with storage. Or produce so much renewables, and be able to distribute it so widely, that no single location would lack power at any given time.
Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs Reflect on Steve Jobs at Code Conf
Is Svelte blowing up in popularity? I've never heard of it until seeing it multiple places today.

https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop
Oops, autocorrect strikes again.

The blanket is lithium hydride, not hydroxide.

Some people talk about adding beryllium.
I was surprised to find out that earplugs can be misused; maybe that is why fingers are more effective than plugs for you. You have to prepare the plugs by gently rolling them (with no wrinkles) into a thinner state so they expand in the ear to form a better seal.

If self harm is a real option, seek help from a professional and/or move. Perhaps sleeping at a friend's house or going camping can provide some relief.
Matt's interview with the author, Christopher Leonard [1]

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/interview-christopher-leonard-...
Lithium hydride. The oxide is what you get after it explodes.
They cant take you to court without knowing who you are. What they can do is to refer your IP address to the FBI for "forging IDs", but even then the IP adress needs to be real and FBI must be overstaffed to deal with such matters.
None.

We already have proven basically unlimited electric energy in the form of PV panels (and batteries if you need it stored). So far, that tech has not solved climate change at all, because actually building enough of these things is something that people need to be willing to pay for.
I like to blindly attribute these things to bodily chemistry. Anything you put in your body now will affect everything from now on in your material world :)

That approach works for me, anyway.
>> Societies could mandate that works of art that are stored in freeports be publicly accessible

This is true, societies could choose to be less free. Alternatively, societies could choose to be more free.

I would rather my society be more free than it currently is, rather than less free.
You really just closed that overton window didn't you
Rust cares about a subset of PL ergonomics, sure. But it is not true that Rust as a project is an experiment in hammering down costs on ergonomics as small as possible. If that were true, the Rust toolchain wouldn't be what it is.
What's "bloody awful" about Gmail? All the mail clients look the same to me, you got folders and sorting on the left, a list of mails, and when you click on a mail you can read it.
I wouldnt have tipped. That said, as a guest to the country and at a work gathering you may want to tip just to not leave a bad impression of yourself.
I think sweet-expressions[0] address this, though they haven't caught on much.

[0]: https://dwheeler.com/readable/readable-s-expressions.html
Oh god, let's not start a10g words this way.

a10g means "abbreviating" by the w1y.

I promise it will not burn up too many more calories of soylent to just type it out, nor will it take much longer.
Pancreatic cancer actually has one of the worst survival rates; in the UK around 25% of people diagnosed survive past a year, with 5% living more than five years after diagnosis [0]. Chemo in those circumstances often has the effect of prolonging life while significantly decreasing the quality of life, and as such many people choose not to go through with it.

[0] https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-can...
It's just about personal aesthetics. You no longer like yourself, so you went and started to change yourself to better fit your new aesthetic sense.

Obviously the sense is informed by what you perceive.

You higher could be pretty low for someone else. Like yourself in a couple of years.

It's the biggest lie of them all that some behaviors are higher than other. That's how they sell you church, work week and other frogs.

Why? Because most of us converge on the same basic idea that with cooperation, we can have generally more fun. So we invent ways to get others involved in our shit. Some of it manipulative, because ends justify the means. Well, except when you like to play on hard and limit the set of your means, because it's more fun that way.
> The highest share was in the Netherlands (23%), followed by Germany (19%)

The real problem that this sort of headline is spun to hide is that countries like the Netherlands and Germany are heavily reliant on fossil fuels and have actually prioritised gas until very recently.

So what the headline should say is that a sunny summer helped somewhat improve a bad situation created by bad policy.
https://archive.ph/WCLxr
It is possible to buy an anonymous eSIM, the only provider I have come across won’t allow outbound SMS or calls though. Inbound SMS and calls as well as data are fully functioning. (Therefore can be used for messaging services that require a verified phone number).

I know that’s not exactly what everyone would want, but for some use cases that may suffice.
Is the Fiat currency world ending?
This channels list out the dooms day vision of all the top thinkers.

The forecast, FED printing more money in future leading to more chaos.

The conclusion are not great for common folks. What should a Millennial/GenZ do in such an environment?

What are the points which can counter these hypothesis?

What happens to common people if they get true?
No, thanks. I'll take the "unmatched liveability" of my current home.

Those who would be our Masters never tire of trying to shape the world in service of their ego and fears, do they.
TINA — There is no alternative.
Text-Grab: Use OCR to quickly and easily copy any text from your screen
Those invariants look to me pretty much like additional constructor arguments in languages with dependent types. Which both do "Make Illegal States Unrepresentable" and can provide "natural" ways to represent the data, along with the additional arguments (those proving the desired properties).
But is he really?

I would argue that he has undoubtedly had the greatest impact on educating end-users on the dangers of password reuse.

From what I have seen of his interactions he seems like an incredibly intelligent and humble guy.
I know svelte is a very common choice for larger news sites to build interactive stories. Ive specifically heart of NYT using it as well as pudding.cool.

It makes sense for this small website extension because you can build and compile a small component without having to bundle the entire react runtime in.
But some libraries are not build with performance in mind and libraries like [momentjs](https://momentjs.com/) have proved to be performance bottlenecks on many occasions.
This functionality has now also been implemented in Microsoft PowerToys: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/#text-ext...
Interesting. OK, so I think two things here, if I understand you correctly:

– Bounce effect IS disorienting for some people in some contexts. Hence the decision to disable it in line w/ "Reduce motion" pref.

– On YouTube, Safari bounce-scrolls the whole page, whereas Firefox just bounce-scrolls the scrollable part. I agree the Firefox behavior seems better here (and it sounds like Safari might adopt it).
Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules
You do you, but if it would creep them out and you knowingly continue while hiding the fact from them, that feels to me like a breach of trust.
Almost certainly the driver was using an Uber feature to their advantage. They use Uber every single day and talk to each other - they know how to act so that they get what they want.

"Non masked rider" is probably a way of getting a fee back or invalidating a bad review or something.
Honestly feels like a very, very different use case from utf8-ish strings, at a quick read?
I feel like any argument that starts with the idea that blocking ads is unethical would inevitably lead to that black mirror episode where the ad pauses if you close your eyes or look away, and you must pay to skip it.

Closing your eyes is just another ad blocking measure, and the idea that that would be unethical ought to be utterly preposterous.
Judge Slams Musk for Not Handing over Texts in Twitter Fight
Climate change: Europe's warm summer shatters records
- Strong isolation constructs. With WebAssembly, there's no access to the host system by default. Even something as simple as reading the system clock requires exposing the appropriate WASI API to the WASM module.

- The ability to snapshot and later restore running state.

- A cross-platform and language-agnostic way to distribute plugins (e.g. Envoy proxy allows loading WebAssembly modules as extensions)
Yeah... I had one of the Mac-like-things with a built in monitor. It was very cute and I actually liked it, but it was dog slow. Upgrade the memory from 4 megabytes to 16 and put a 1000 - megabyte hard drive in it eventually.
Unless you're Hitler, memorials always focus on the positive. The "jerk" side of Jobs is well documented and well known. Having used Apple products since the Apple II+, I've followed Jobs from nearly the beginning.

I recall when he left Apple and started Next, there were plenty of articles that talked to Apple employees at the time who would tell stories of getting berated by Jobs. But the employees also asked to remain anonymous. "Why?" asked the writer. "Because I want the opportunity to work for him again."

Leadership can be all positive focused feedback (the current trend), all negative focused feedback or or mix (which Jobs was). You're either Brilliant or a Bozo.

Don't be a bozo. Positive focused feedback really doesn't help with that.
The "small tip" is to let them know "I didn't forget to tip, I'm tipping you a tiny amount so you know I'm mad".
From Matt Taibbi's interview with Christopher Leonard [1]:

"But the 1% of Americans who own 40% of all the assets just get tremendous gains before that first job is created for the middle class. And so these policies dramatically widen wealth inequality, they’ve just wrenched this gap between the very rich and everybody else, which is the defining economic dysfunction of our time.

To get back to your point, nobody thinks about that when they think about the Fed, because the Fed presents everything it does in this really clinical, hyper-technical language that obscures what they’re doing and obscures this facet of it. Part of that is from how dysfunctional the media conversation around this stuff is, and that’s what I was trying to get across in that scene with the Glenn Beck monologue."

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/interview-christopher-leonard-...
Yeah, this matches my experience moving from React (5+ yrs) to Svelte (2 shipped 3 month projects over the last couple of years at this point). Svelte clearly lacks the massive community support of React but I've found it easier to get by on my understanding of JS and the DOM when I get stuck. I've heard lots of gripeing from other React devs about the $ syntax and a few other things around lack of JSX but that feels like really small change when compared to the flexibility Svelte allows around things like transitions (no more hooks!).
Everyone these days does it.

Looks like the property count is not infinite, so many of them will accrue negative reviews with time.

So rental companies demonstrate to us they only care about their own livelihood and not about the quality of the product they provide.

Expedia/Hotels.com prevented me from publishing a negative review and made it impossible even to edit it (to supposedly meet their "review guidelines").

I also had terrible experience with Airbnb due to fake host review.

So yeah - just use Booking.com. Most apartments are there anyway.
Feels like it should constitute false advertising to misrepresent the overall customer feedback on a property.
One criterion the article omitted was portability: I haven't followed React Native for a few years but I imagine a lot of people want a framework that will allow them to share code between mobile apps and web apps.
I would agree that $39 is steep, and would likely encourage piracy of it.

His story sounds interesting, but not $39 interesting.
I have seen like 5 articles now that are just dumps of AI generated images and a nonsense article like this.
Absolutely. I tried to push us to try Svelte at my last job at BigCo for over four years, to replace an internal templating system. We didn't even use React or Node yet, so not only we had to convince the old guard to adopt something new, but also deal with the React-grown crowd protesting.

You can't imagine the amount of flak I've taken for that. Managed to get it on a back-of-the-house system, while we built a massively complex React app for the main product. Everyone who worked on it loved it, but was still considered risky. Now that it has a gazillion GH stars and is mentioned in 1 out of 3 blog posts, of course things are much easier.
As a full-stack developer, I enjoy working on meaningful and fun tasks that will affect many developers and users.

That story made me better as a developer, and forced me to design better.

So I turned all the insights into a #Medium blog post.

Hope this helps you out, it could really save you time, frustration, and make you a pro.
Microbenchmarking Is Tricky
The Communist Manifesto
Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
This comment provides a good reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32763149
Yay America
Yeah, the "Total Emacs Bugs" chart is amazing:
https://quimby.gnus.org/circus/stats-emacs/stats-emacs.html
It has to be high within the core. I suppose you could add some empty space nearby
Is anyone actually taking this proposal seriously? It's just not going to happen, and thank god for that because it would become the slum to end all slums in no time