skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LISP is worth learning for a different reason – the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot. (You can get some beginning experience with LISP fairly easily by writing and modifying editing modes for the Emacs text editor, or Script-Fu plugins for the GIMP.)

It’s best, actually, to learn all five of Python, C/C++, Perl, and LISP. Besides being the most important hacking languages, they represent very different approaches to programming, and each will educate you in valuable ways.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1
No, it's more like going from ~2500 maintenance to ~1400 cal/day before your body finally decides to start burning fat instead of lowering its metabolism further. At least for me.

Obviously different people are different.

And it has utterly nothing to do with habits, you can see my other comment. It's about the whether you can even manage the other health consequences you suffer from your metabolism being so low.
Thank you for bringing up the hardware perspective for LLM intelligence development.
I agree. This is really top notch journalism; something we don't see often anymore. I would give this piece an award honestly.

It seems the real scandal is that they've caught Dow giving lip service about its recycling program. I think I'm fine with where the shoes ended up though. I'd rather see them get used.
Masonry Heaters: 18-24 hours of heat output from a single wood fire
Can can doing that be faster?

Pressing the home button five times can be done in under a second.
I do the same, and it's entirely possible Uber has sold your address. But do you realize that people send email shotgun-style? My domains get emails sent to address that have never been used. Anything that is common, popular or even a reasonable guess.
At best you get a pat on your back, at worst you go to jail: why should anyone take the chance?
If you can't update it to fix security flaws, it's not repairable. Software and firmware updates is 100% a repairability issue, as is the ability to customize those things with your own patches.
I'd say it works about the same on desktop and mobile. You might prefer something that isn't so wasteful of whitespace and doesn't make you scroll but that could be accomplished in a way that works the same on desktop and mobile.
I agree with this totally.
Marx thought that technology would ultimately make production so cheap that laborers would rise up, but that hasn't quite happened.
The question I have is that even with the 1st derivative at 0 (ie no inflation), the prices will still be too high. I believe prices won’t drop.
Loss of smell due directly inhaling ammonia
I'm going to have to ask: ... made us incredibly vulnerable to what?

Losing our status as the most powerful nation?
Impacting the livelihoods of our most vulnerable and in-need (citizens)?
That is the typical success launderer blueprint.

The steps:

1. Make money from family business you didn’t start, or just inherit money.

2. Start your own business, doesn’t matter if it is successful or a failure you just need something that’s yours, you already have money.

3. Talk a lot about your “successful” business, do the minimum to make it seem successful and maybe do some actual business activities. This will confuse people as to the ratio of your inherited money to self earned money. No one actually knows what your business is doing.

4. Declare yourself a successful investor. Investments have a wide range of success and failure. This gives more plausibility that the majority of your money may be from “investments” and not inheritance or family business. Literally anyone can be an investor, the difference is the size of investments.

With these easy steps, you can now dismiss people’s claims that you were just born into the right family by pointing to some vanity business you started or going on about how your modest investment in some stock or crypto blew up. You can come up with all kinds of wild stories that way, and never really reveal the true secret. If they try to bring it up you can say how supportive your family was but most of your success was self made, which can just be a lie no one will be able to truly verify unless they look at your accounting.

This is how Gary V operates, and even if he knows some stuff, it’s just not that impressive as an actual businessman like Mark Cuban or something. Selling courses is beneath anyone who made actual success, it’s just not going to happen.
JVM is a specification which can be implemented (and has been plenty of times, completely independently of each other) by a single developer in like half a years tops. It is a simple stack-machine with 100+ basic instructions, a simple exception mechanism and a heap. A GC is not even necessary if we are talking about minimalistic approaches, but a basic tracing GC is also not hard.

It is only a (huge) plus that it can be run everywhere with top of the line performance thanks to OpenJDK (which is mostly developed by Oracle, but is big enough that an insane amount of companies critically depend on it and several one could single-handedly finance the future of the platform if anything were to happen, which won’t because it has the same license as Linux).
Because they already did?
>Recycling shoes means that the materials are used to make new shoes.

that is almost never the case. that's exactly the lie that companies like DOW want to sell people, but other than a few specific materials like aluminium and glass, almost all recycling is actually downcycling. the broken promise here wasn't that the shoes would be recycled into more shoes, it was that they'd be recycled into playground equipment. most consumer goods are made with virgin materials, and the output of a recycling process is used for industrial goods or processes.
"I'll just be blunt. You sound like a fucking idiot for regurgitating something SO OBVIOUS"

First, don't be so rude. You think what I'm stating is obvious but there is an entire industry built to deny it. Even on this thread there are people who deny it.
Fairphone that's mentioned in the article has 7 years of support (IIRC).

Never used it though, my last 3 phones were all from Nokia. It's pretty much the only manufacturer that still releases new stock (Android One) models regularly.

(Excluding too-expensive-for-my-taste Pixels and some Motorolas I could never find in my country).
Interesting. Can you point me towards some further reading on that?
In the UK if you want to buy food in the supermarket you have to have a HD video camera pointed in your face (often two cameras).

Which supermarket is that? I've never seen anything overt like that where I usually shop and doing it covertly would be risky in multiple ways.
This is true for tools in general but I've managed to master vim to the point I can be somewhat productive yet it never feels quite ergonomic. Moreover, I think vim-like UI is holding everyone back nowadays. Learning all the intricacies of vim feels like an exercise in brute-forcing a deliberately user-hostile design.

For example, is it really still OK to have little to no visual feedback when entering commands with range/count prefixes, or to have to fall back to custom commands and configs in order to search for strings containing "/"? Or have commands with tiny edit distance between them do radically different things (e.g. "w! " and "w !")?
Vim's modal editing implementation also can't handle non-Latin keyboard layouts so I find myself switching keyboard layouts all the time (e.g. normal mode->insert mode->layout switch->type some text->layout switch->normal mode).
Out of curiosity, what resources are you using to learn C? I too have started learning it recently, and I am working through "Modern C" (Manning).
> For most people, it’s simple.

If it were that simple, most people would be able to do it. The actual evidence shows it's far more complex than you think.

There's no cop out here. Many people's bodies simply refuse to burn fat until their metabolism has gone so low it has other dangerous health consequences.

Also, as for "move more", the evidence shows that people generally eat even more after exercise to compensate. Exercise is great for general health, but it's a terrible strategy for most people for losing weight. It simply backfires.
AI art critic vs. Jerry Saltz
AI-powered art critic (insta @critbot.ai) takes on Jerry Saltz's review of Refik Anadol's "Unsupervised" AI artwork at MOMA
Nissan is now using heavy-duty electric trucks to deliver new vehicles
> 'string is a quoted string that is terminated by a space.

Sounds like LISP symbols, which have the same syntax, are also essentially strings, and are also used to refer to names of function and variables.
As opposed to the single, so-huge-that-nvidia-ships-binary-blobs-for-it xserver implementation?
The Invention of the Wristwatch: An Evolution over Time
I'm glad to hear that. This was from an Ericsson employee for the record.
Or skip the middle man and let people keep their dollars and spend them how they want?
You seem to be suggesting that authoritarian and democratic are exclusive attributes but this isn't the case. Authoritarianism (the degree of control vis a vis personal liberty) has absolutely nothing to do with democracy (the way decisions are made).

A dictatorship can be less authoritarian than a democracy.
It wasn't 'caught' with anything, as much as those spicy news articles would have you believe.

It was a URL suggestion bug. It was supposed to be turned off by default, and suggest content instead of replacing it.

The bug was fixed in a day after release, the PR is on GitHub. Brave is open source, unlike Chrome and Edge. Let's stop treating FOSS like the other spyware.

This also happened when Brave was like 5 months old. The feature since then has been turned off by default and the affiliate thing was shut down a long ago.
LaTeX was written by a famous computer scientist to write a computer science book.

Yes, mathematicians love it. But computer scientists were first there.
Statements “something is in your future” and “that fact is independent of the observer” seem incompatible. When you are saying “your”, you are talking about that particular observer, so you are negating the “independent” part.
peek-a-boo
There are others, that was just one example that came to mind
Ehh, so what? Should they have unstitched the shoes, sold the components to a shoemaker who then restitched them and sold the result in an Indonesian flea market? If the input and output to the pipe is shoes made of existing materials, why should I care about the intermediate steps?

This outrage is so tedious.
Posted a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849592
It’s called out later in the article.
Ok fine, but they could've just said 4 years ago instead and their fundamental point would've remained the same. The rate of progress is staggering.
That what I was thinking, at least it’s a step up from dumping it in the ocean. It seems people are having to relearn that we can’t trust these companies to actually do the right thing all over again, as if history didn’t exist.
It's only a "crime" if I lose money doing it!
It is always mind-blowing to remember that in the astronomical scale, it is impossible to know things that are happening right now or relatively recently by our standards unless there is information traveling faster than the speed of light, which is something that at this point remains purely in the realm of science fiction as far as we know.
Building an institutional-grade algorithmic trading platform in the cloud (2021)
Small, high power, and long battery life is a choose two situation.
I'm torn on this. As somebody who is too stupid to goto MIT, I chuckle thinking of spoon-feeding how to use Git or a terminal to MIT students. It's useful information but not everything useful needs a sit-down, by-the-numbers, "this is how you branch" discussion. I also wonder if it does more harm than good teaching these topics so matter-of-factly since it's only the current programming zeitgeist anyway. It only further entrenches the "way things are". Like depriving children of that impactful exploratory phase and sticking them into a rigid box. In any case- won't these topics propagate natually from good professors using them themselves? What do I know, I'm too stupid to attend MIT.
Gun-Toting Wing of IRS Wants to ‘Put the Fear of God in People’: Ex-Agent
https://www.theepochtimes.com/gun-toting-wing-of-irs-wants-t...

https://archive.is/e6ZwG

original article:
https://archive.is/08NBG
It's not really a joke as far as I know. It's a saying.
That's because the government wants to steal your money through inflation.
Curious if this can be used to discern AI-generated voice recordings vs authentic.

A determined faker could always add their own noise, but this be a good first-pass detector.
This page crashes on my Android phone once Mathjax loads.
For me, it's more of a fidget-spinner. I keep popping it off and on when bored.
That's something I need to look into.
- Should be possible by saving the store in the localstorage and fetching it again on a different page.
- Or saving the store to the window[1], as long as the page transitions happen through a live redirect[2] it should still be there.

I'm building a collection of examples[3] and if I can get it working I'll add it.

[1] https://wout.space/notes/how-to-share-store-between-multiple...

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/live-navigation.html

[3] https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte/tree/master/examples
> Ah, so we're arguing in bad faith.

Yes and no. My very first reply pointed out exactly what I found incredible in your story.

If we're sticking to anecdotal data, over 22 years as a programmer I've never seen those amazing feats of vim voodoo you're talking about.

> But then, I'd guess from your tone that this won't stop you from misreading another comment of mine and accusing me of lying

Really? Misreading? Go and read mu very first comment, will you?
i use qemu for that. bypass all speed and virtualization improvements via flags and you have a rather isolated system
My university had Dijkstra's quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes". They made us aware of tools and we were free to use them as little or as much as possible to do the science. I always assumed that software engineering degrees focused on tools more than computer science degrees (among other differences).
Yes, I skimmed through that and was surprised to see it be compared to Django. It's different.

Django is for building CRUD apps quickly. That's it. It's not for the long haul of super complicated apps, which many projects don't ever reach before they fail/get abandoned.
From the name, I was hoping it to be written in Vala.
Totally agree. But I would love a competitor. This smells like the start of one, if compromised by committee.
Also recommend A Sea of Words, which is a lexicon of the nautical terminology from the books.
I wouldn't. It'll explode in your pocket.
We also have some (a lot) problem with Teams, to the point that I started recommending my colleagues to use it from a browser and nuke cookie and other data every time the authentication stopped working.

Basically when we login we need to use the "personal account" but sometimes it will not ask what account to use and automatically choose the wrong one, and once it gets stuck in this state i didn't find a way to fix it.
>We care a lot more about one of events like natural disasters than say automotive deaths - this isn’t a special insight.

Yeah we agree about that, the interesting question is why?

>the victims of mass shootings (children at schools, attendees at festivals, etc) are the definition of innocent. That’s part of the reason.

This is an explanation in the specific case of shootings
Yah, that quote is problematic because it's primarily reflecting the successful man's position when the problem is more broad. Unless you really screw up your choice and marry someone you fundamentally can't get along with once the smoldering sex burns down to embers and you are stuck coasting on talking to each other, the occasional bang, and potentially shared commitments to raising children, marriage almost certainly far outperforms consumerist sex without consequences across any individual's life cycle for the majority of individuals (at least from what I can see from my personal experience and the experience of the people in my peer group). I know so many young women that had a blast through their early 30's and now sound exactly like the writer of this article and I know a lot of men who are still struggling because they were average or slightly less than average levels of successful professionally as well as a minority of men who had it rough in their 20's but are having a blast in the 30's and 40's because they stayed single and did well professionally and now basically have their pick of the dating apps. I am an atheist but I can see the superiority of the outcome for most people of the religious monogamy with social consequences setup for most people from my dataset.
It’s dependent on a specified reference location not the existence of an observer at that location. Further you can compute these timelines for that location without physically being at that location.

Thus given location X you can get a universally agreed upon ordering. Or alternatively you can devise locations from various sets of orderings. A related example might be using multiple audio recordings to determine when and where various shots were fired.
If you want full desktop integration why are you using sway. Most of the functionality you're talking about requires writing scripts if you used i3 or awesome WM on X11 as well so has nothing to do with wayland.

Regarding exiting and restarting a wayland session, how do you do it? GDM, the console? It obviously works for most other people so it seems you're encountering a bug related to your hardware or setup so you could file a bug report with the appropriate project (again doesn't really seem like a wayland issue though).
This makes no sense, sorry. If NATO was truly hellbent on invading Russia and just threw 5-10% a year into building up a huge tank army, Ukraine wouldn't have made a difference. Not to mention that the Baltic route towards Moscow is shorter.

A Russian puppet state in Ukraine would've given Russia an "early" warning of about a week. Would they be able to muster a defense in a week? Of course not. Would they be able to conventionally defend against NATO? Of course not. That's why their doctrine has been "any conventional invasion against Russia will be answered with nuclear weapons", and that's a great deterrent. That nobody actually wants to invade Russia is the cherry on top of the "if you invade, the world ends" threat.

The Russian invasion certainly surely has plenty of reasons, but "we're afraid of NATO" is all the way down the list. Much higher will be: domestic politics, fertile grounds for farming, natural resources to exploit, increasing the size of the population you can steal from, and likely also a generous amount of "I'm old, I want to be remembered as the man who returned Russia to former USSR-glory".
1 in 100 UK officers faced criminal charge last year
There is no reality because there is no central authority to dictate what has happened and when/where. Your reality IS the reality.
Yeah, for a big complicated system, I don't think defining everything in models is great. I don't do that, and it's also not how fastcomments is built.

But for simple stuff it's amazingly productive!
As someone who wants solar the legal barriers are the main hang up. I can buy 8 KW of panels for around $2,500. Permitting and licensed install will cost a order in magnitude more than the panels themselves.

At this point I'm thinking of just doing a renegade install and taking my house off the power grid
Interesting, does it have a solver?

Shame it isn't open source, something like this that could be iterated on would be huge.
The open circles gives this an insect mandible vibes that clearly screams "bio" something.

Just like cats fly away from cucumbers, we probably have a few innate patterns triggered by some shapes. Snakes maybe, multi legged things.. oh and Trypophobic patterns.
The thought experiment is: all guns owned by non-police civilians magically disappear overnight. Legal or illegal.
About five years ago, after experimenting with some diet changes, I started having some pretty terrible digestive issues, like extremely bloating and indigestion. The issues would fluctuate, sometimes being much worse than others. Along with it came personality changes, like apathy, and they would also fluctuate along with the digestive issues. It's actually pretty scary how much it affected my brain. There are times when the apathy is so extreme I feel like a psychopath, and that comes from someone that once upon a time was vegan due to ethical reasons, so I am (or was) an empathic person. It really is mindblowing. The thoughts I have had and sometimes have would put me in a psychiatric hospital, thoughts I would have never imagined I would have.
Even at 9, thats supported from devices bought in 2016 or later. Who's battery lasts > 6-7 years?
Asian components are fine from a foreign policy perspective.

Japan, Korea, Taiwan are allies and I don't see any reasonable future where that's threatened.

The main issue is that Taiwan is directly threatened by military action by China. Even if Taiwan remains friendly with us, a war in that region would cut off our supply of chips.
Brave is pretty amazing, anybody who's not using it because of bias is missing out.

It's the best mainstream privacy browser that's also FOSS and if someone disagrees here's a research paper: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
> and some Motorolas I could never find in my country

Hm? Writing this on g30 and Motos aren't popular here for years.

Edit: like I bought the cheapest Samsung last year and the experience is night and day.
Something similar happened in my previous organisation with less than 5 people on the engineering side where I was asked to do a major refactor of the codebase that touched 70% of the files while also adding new features(with changing requirements) at the same time. Though I was working day and night, it took me thrice the time to do it than we initially expected. I was put on PIP after delivering the work(prod deployed) so I left. Then they got 3 engineers from top 1 percentile of industry to work on the same codebase. All this time I was shouting that I need someone to help me in the team but got no one :) . Question mark was put on my performance rather than the management of the team/resources.
Not saying it could no be true, but that's exactly what a company like Nvidia would say. Do we have any reasonably unbiased info on what the boundaries of the current approach are and when we will reach them?
Paywalled.

Is this Netflix discovering that increasing the cost for less content did not increase profit but instead just made people halt their subscriptions?
None of my banking apps will work on a rooted phone, so I need to keep a 'clean' android phone around if I care to use their app. (I don't.)
> What’s the scandal here?

The money these journalists wasted chasing sneakers all over Asia, while hypocritically complaining about others' misuse of resources.
They weren’t. The web was text based. If you wanted images you went to an alt.binaries.pictures newsgroup in your newsgroup app and uudecoded the attachments.

People fucking HATED Marc Andreesen for making the world wide web like magazines.
> The Nokia G22 will cost from £149.99 shipping on 8 March with replacement parts costing £18.99 for a charging port, £22.99 for a battery and £44.99 for a screen.

So, after a year of use the cost of replacing a battery and the screen will be close the market value of a used phone. A lot of people will go for a new phone.