skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Can you connect to a running server or other running application, inspect live in memory data, change live in memory data, redefine functions and classes and have those changes take immediate effect without restarting the server or app?

The answer to all of these things, at least in python, is emphatically yes. I do this absolutely all the time. You can debug from one process to another if you've loaded the right hooks. You don't need to take my word for it or even try to do it; you just need to reason a fortiori: python can do it because it's an interpreter with a boxed calling convention and managed memory, just like lisp interpreters.

It's amazing: people will die on this hill for some reason but lisp isn't some kind of mysterious system that was and continues to be beyond us mere mortal language/runtime designers. the good ideas in lisp were recognized as good ideas and then incorporated and improved upon.
> Having three is ideal

I use 3 even at home.

> No advanced window management needed!

This is why I'm still on Windows.

I'm a Linux 'guy' for a long time as a Linux sysadmin/Devops - over 10 yrs. But Windows is just simpler. Window management is top notch on Windows 11, sans tiling. I find that I don't change apps/windows often enough to need tiling. I just set my virtual desktops as is, and switch between them.

Many people spend time setting up Win+# to launch in Linux - I do this too, and the first 10 items (after the Windows icon) are already assigned to Win+1-0 and can be used to switch applications (Shift+Win+# can be used to always launch a new instance, Alt+Win+# can be used to invoke the quick menu which can be navigated via keyboard).

I use PowerToys to setup my windows and then it doesn't need much changing after that and use Virtual Desktop feature to separate my applications by context. The nice thing about Windows Virtual Desktop is that, often, it acts as if the applications aren't even open even if they are open on another desktop. So, launching a browser window or file manager won't kick me back to another desktop. If I want the same instance one very desktop, I can Win+Tab and right-click the preview to pin it to all desktops.

IMO, one of Windows' advantages is consistency. I can sit at someone else's desktop and still be effective, which in my line of work, is quite common for me to do.
Europe is not a continent. It is a peninsular sub-content of the Eurasian landmass. Like India.
Elections prove my point. Popular votes are entirely uncorrelated with Senate representation, by design. Same with presidential elections. Compare the voting results of the US house (which is also biased but I won’t dig further into that now because it will devolve into a flame war) to the US senate for empirical evidence.
Very interesting, seems to support fairly new devices (e.g. Jasper Lake).

Although newest ones tend to have unsupported boot or audio (e.g. Lenovo 100e Chromebook Gen 4, codename rusty): https://eupnea-linux.github.io/docs/project/supported-device...

Mapping between devices and codenames: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
How was crew dragon so successful? From my reading, NASA worked closely with SpaceX, why did this not help Boeing?
Spent about 2 hours going to three stores and trying 7-8 pairs, standing in front of trial rooms, talking to cashiers about sizes in the system... before I got the right size and fit.

Could have easily saved BOTH money AND time if only I knew how to patch them. They only tore near the crotch (I am suspecting planned obsolescence).
I don't know what the use case is for other people is, but I've been playing around with book covers. This one took about two weeks, but it was my first real try and I was still learning how. Composition is a little off. The one I'm working on now is going faster (and better).

https://imgur.com/a/CxX5eYj

I've found that I rarely get a usable image completely as-is. It might take 5 or 10 generations to find something sort of ok, and even then I end up erasing the bad parts and letting it in-paint (which again takes multiple attempts). The T-rex had like 7 legs and two jaws, but was otherwise close to what I wanted... just keep erasing extra body parts until the in-painter finally takes a hint.

I was also going to do a few book covers for some Babylon 5 books, but it does so bad on celebrity faces. Looked like Koenig's mutant love child with Ernest Borgnine. Dunno what to do about that. I keep wondering if I shouldn't spend the next 10 years putting together my own training set of fantasy and science fiction art.
Read PG's "Roots of Lisp" and you'll understand what I mean.
My world view would be classified as "ethical", because I take the feelings and desires of others into account and don't put myself before them - which you, on the other hand, don't. And this is the exact same reason why humans exploit animals in every possible way imaginable, reasoning with all kinds if "pseudo-arguments" that don't hold up a logical and ethical consistency check.

"Because they are animals" is not an argument. The singular fact that you state that humans aren't animals implies that you are lacking even the most basic knowledge in biology. Given that, I can understand that applying ethics on top of that is currently too much to ask.

After all, maybe a good documentary film, that actually deals with these topics, could help you with that. I can assure you that no zoo will.
But also when one family with school aged kids moves out, some proportion of the time, the buyers don't have kids. The houses don't have to be vacant for their stated number to hold. I didn't look closely but their data did consider other racial groups.
Showing some ads in an ad funded website is the admission fee. You’re not willing to pay it, which is completely fine, so just don’t go to that website. But if you keep coning back to an ad funded website because you enjoy their content, it’s only fair that you disable the ad blocker in that site.

Those sites that showed you the “disable ad blocker” pop up that prompted you to leaving won’t miss you.
Last time I took a ferry with car capabilities (between Hokkaido and Honshu) the car deck was very much accessible to passengers.
Ask HN: What is the implication of room-temperature super conductors?
If recent claims are verified and superconductors can be used at room-temperature, what does that mean for society? I'm curious about the implications at all scales (computer chips, maglev trains)
or allocating resources to listen to these things.
> why don't we all start Pix in our countries?

Regulatory capture?
Sounds like we need to use the Big List Of Naughty Strings to weed out troublesome usernames...

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
reset is in this useful list of reserved usernames:

https://github.com/shouldbee/reserved-usernames
I agree. Landfill has been demonized as a solution to plastic waste but is likely optimal. If stuff is in landfill we can just leave it there until better recycling tech becomes available. Problems like plastic leeching are ignored by recycling proponents because it is a hard problem to measure, so it is more convenient to ignore.
Exactly, so until we see any skerrick of that information, what we have to date is useless.
Same, one of my cheaper bags started to come apart at the seams. I sewed it together because I liked the print on it.

So far after going to cloth bags in around 2009 or so ive yet to throw one away.
Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team
> Every time I have attempted to interact with Gnome has been incredibly frustrating.

The changes they made to GNOME 10-15 years ago was enough to get me to abandon Linux and switch to macOS all those years ago. Every time I look at GNOME, I just keep seeing features they removed rather than the ones they added.
I like how their usernames reflect their positions on usernames
Store-provided bags are perceived as brand vehicles by management, so they'd rather be on the safe side when deciding about which gauge to get, wether recycled bags from stocks might be good enough and so on. Purpose-bought bags? Unless you get the heavy duty stuff like someone planning to dispose of their hacked-up murder victims will be much less material per bag.

But the main issue with ubiquitous bags is that not all of them make it to disposal, und that just doesn't happen that much with bags specifically bought for that very purpose.
Your logic is based on the assumption that those alien crafts were intending to come to Earth. Perhaps they were intending to go somewhere else, and crashed into Earth mistakenly? Then the volume of total flights could be much larger, and the proportion of crashes could be much smaller.
Drill down on your DSA and start doing problems on leetcode. Be regular with your prep.
Side by side, review your web dev course and start building projects.
Freecodecamp would be useful here.
Actually all open source projects are big cooperations. :)
I've been using Copilot and Copilot chat for a while now, and I really struggle to see why I should use any of these ChatGPT wrappers over it. I know some support local inference with open models, but they're just not that good in July 2023.

Sure, it's M$, sure it's not open source (IIRC), but all you get with these alternatives is a wrapper around the ChatGPT API, or in some cases a lesser model. No one's solved the whole directory context problem yet, no one seems to be doing much the Copilot suite can't.

Copilot is currently reasonably priced, and pretty much guaranteed support and development going forward. There's pull requests and cli in the pipeline [0].

I'd need directory context inference on a quality open model to be convinced to use anything else, and we're just not there yet.

[0] https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x
> I see a lot of “coding” talk in the blog and comments from the author here, but few mentions as to what kind of software they’re building or what use cases they’re targeting.

Good point! This is all currently just a hobby. For Common Lisp specifically, the only things I've produced are a (mediocre) Battlesnake client and a (now defunct, as of yesterday) multiplayer word scramble game. Neither of these really derives much benefit from being created in Lisp, but I learned a lot along the way (which was really the point).

Unrelated to Common Lisp, I've found myself often needing to write code that generates code. This is an area where I suspect Lisp will shine, although I haven't had a chance to give it a try yet. Two examples from recent projects (which I tackled before ever thinking about using Common Lisp) are:

* Generating code to validate a particular JSON Schema (used in a static site generator)

* Generating JSX from Markdown (used for story content in a programming game)

To say nothing of the innumerable C macros I've written in my lifetime :)
This should work in reader mode: https://pastebin.com/raw/hanm8mgG
I didn‘t „get“ Jupyter the first time it used it. A year later it clicked. A Notebook keeps state while you write it. This is different from IDEs, where programs lose state while you are writing code. Now I use it all the time - next to an open IDE, as a playground to quickly test ideas and algorithms.
I believe that is an argument from authority (if I remember correctly).
Is it just the word “disturbing” you take issue with? Maybe it is too strong. Is “weird” okay? Because if I’m being honest, I have never in my life seen a cafe “filled to the brim” with students doing school work, and I live near several large universities. It would indeed be weird to see that, especially so if the students were in high school!

Maybe not disturbing, fine. But very weird.
Outliers can trick the optimizer into the wrong plan
It would not roll over continuously as it's affected by gravity as well. The heaviest part is at the bottom.

And if it's not completely superconductive, what stops it from not being completely magnetic?
For all we know, only the thin part could be magnetic, being repelled from the magnet below.
But the lack of fees are not benefits for the consumers, only for the merchants. Unlike cards, that have several consumer benefits. And you can have them on your phone as well.
Love your site's CGA vibes.
> All possible execution sequences must ensure to satisfy all possible cross-interaction rules to not make any time channel visible

Does this refer to some theorem? I'm very interested in how to model & prove formally that a given operation on a given system doesn't have timing side channels
Cool down the hysteria.

The Catholic Church has 100x less abuse than public schools (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-...) , and yet schools don't have this negative reputation.

I know a single abused child is a child too much, but the bad reputation the Church gets is excessive. They probably have a better track record than any other institution.
Future Japanese kid names: Fumiko Wang, Aoi Kim, Akira Nguyen
Exactly this... my time and money is more important than the cost to the planet. I earn enough to not care. Recycling is a scam. I do not even know what reduce and reuse mean! My car has a bumper sticker that says "SAVE THE PLANET", with the subtext "without impacting my lifestyle". /s
AFAIK the main problem with the Seine isn't industrial pollution, it's black water biological pollution that results of how the sewers have been designed: unlike in most cities, in Paris the sewers collect both wastewater and rainwater, but when it rains “too much” (and the ceiling isn't that high) then the system overflow to the Seine, bringing a lot of heavily poluted water to it.
France has Paylib which was created by the banks and is used by nobody because it’s an incredible PITA to use.
Nobody is going to start calling it X. The company, maybe. But people will continue to refer to tweeting as tweeting and the platform as Twitter. I predict they'll backpedal within weeks.
There are 17576 three-letter combinations in the English alphabet.
They sell those, but broadly speaking they're both illegal and ineffective.

The way ALPR systems typically work is that there's a camera running OCR against rectangular objects in frame. What you're asking is whether there's a way for a only human eyes to be able to see the plate. That doesn't exist for obvious reasons. Products that attempt to do this anyway usually try to reduce viewing angles or blur things, but these aren't very effective strategies.

Furthermore, obscuring your license plate for any reason is illegal in every jurisdiction.
> Either he’s lying and we have crazy people in very high levels of government, or he’s not and we need to get this information into the public domain.

There are some other possibilities. My main theory for what Grusch specifically is talking about is that intelligence agencies probably deliberately sprinkle different fake programs into the lists that different people are given access to, so that when information leaks, they can track who is doing the leaking.

Someone probably had a little too much fun creating fake documentation of alien corpses and crashed spacecraft instead of something less world-changing, and some of the folks who ended up being assigned material from that set felt like that was getting into territory that the public really did deserve to know about, because it would change everything if it were true.

It would not only explain the entire Grusch side of this discussion, but the reactions it's gotten from different branches of government. Everyone who knew about the leak-detection mechanism would be tight-lipped because they wouldn't want to disclose its existence. So it would look like an attempted coverup, but it would be a coverup of a security mechanism, not space aliens.

I actually found the story more believable until some of the specific testimony today. A red cube with sides as long as a football field? Where would Boeing even hide such a thing from other countries' spy satellites? Three-dimensional shadows of hyperdimensional objects? That's a really neat idea, but I think it fails the test of Occam's Razor in this case.

Military pilots encountering strange phenomena is a separate bucket, IMO. The US military has some of the best pilots and equipment in the world. I trust that if a bunch of them say they saw something strange, especially with visual, radar, and thermal evidence, there was something strange out there. But OTOH, I think it's an enormous stretch to attribute it to space aliens. It's probably a mixture of rare natural phenomena, classified/experimental aircraft of one sort or another, and mundane objects behaving very oddly when they're far outside their normal context.

When I used to work in a skyscraper, I once looked out the window and saw what looked like some sort of tear in spacetime dancing around the sky. Absolutely black, but with a chaotic silhouette that would smoothly ripple, then suddenly jerk into a new shape. I watched it for several minutes, and it kept going. Eventually it got close enough for me to see that it was just a black garbage bag that had somehow ended up in the right air current to be whisked around almost endlessly. I never did see it land, or even get close to the ground.

I'd love for Grusch's story to be true, but at this point I'll believe it when I see it.
a wise parent right now would certainly be having their child learn some mandarin in youth
https://xkcd.com/327/

relevant XKCD
That book I linked has another name, “the wheel building bible”. Jobst Brandt earned an obituary in Bicycling magazine including quotes from his friend Tom Ritchey (one of the original mountain bike makers). Jobst was a bike fanatic and a mechanical engineer.

Bike spokes are not loose, they’re under substantial tension. Bolts, I just learned a couple weeks ago, work in the opposite way. A tightened bolt compresses the two pieces of metal together, and when you tug on them, the bolt doesn’t stretch more. The tension instead first cancels out some of the compressive force on the two pieces of metal, before the bolt ever feels more load.

Conversely, all the spokes on the wheel are under tension. When you put the wheel on a surface and push down, the compression cancels out some of the tension on the bottom of the wheel. Cancel out all of the tension, and the wheel turns into a potato chip if you don’t reload it exactly, perfectly on axis. IIRC, none of the prior models or theories for how a spoked wheel works could adequately explain how potato chipping happens. His does.

I used his book to build half a dozen wheels or so and the information it contained to fix many more.
Errr... Maybe try telling this to the people in developing countries who already do this and more because they have no choice. Think of the lesson you'll have learned if you make it out with your life!

Any plan that relies on humanity to collectively go through some kind of personal growth prescribed by you, the individual, is bound for failure. You can't force people to give a shit, and you'll have a hard time convincing the guy pulling tuktuks through the rain that he actually has a better deal than the local taxi drivers. And he's not even the guy you really need to convince. We can't even convince billionaires who supposedly believe in climate change that maybe there are alternatives to private jets.

If you really want people to drive less, the only thing you can really do is provide alternatives and hope people hop on board, which is how the car originally spread in the first place. Spoiler though, they probably won't in any scalable long term capacity, because despite their flaws, cars are inherently a force multiplier. They just let you do a lot more, and as long as that remains true, people will be willing to pay the price of ownership.
eSIM is altering how consumers interact with operators
I use both Copilot and ChatGPT, they're entirely different things. Copilot works best for one line autocomplete, ChatGPT works for writing entire functions, if needed. This is to be expected as Copilot currently uses a much older LLM, and it is due to be upgraded to GPT 4 soon.
Basecamp is the best reading I've found on this. https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
Aww, I loved GNN. Free email and nntp I believe were the most compelling things about it.
The offices of President, Representative, and Senator are all ultimately decided by popular votes.

Yes, the President is acshuarry voted in by the Electoral College, but do you know how the Electors in the College decide who to vote for? By reflecting the results of the popular vote in their respective state.

Now, if you are sincerely ignorant of how civics work in the USA, kindly go and educate yourself. It's honestly a really interesting and fun subject.

But, if you are deliberately spreading false information, kindly sod off like the third rate bank clerk that you are and stop inciting conflict.
This is the market that powers the advertising industry, which in turn powers most consumer services, and billion-dollar companies. It's not going away anytime soon.

Individuals are generally unaware this even exists. Even if they are, few are willing to fight it; and even if they are, there's hardly anything an individual can do to change this.

Regulation needs to exist to prevent this, but considering governments are likely also using this data, and that lawmakers are in bed with lobbyists, the chances of that happening are also slim.
Of course they claim there is no leeching: there is no way to prove it ex ante so even if the claim is false it will be decades before any downside to making the claim arises.

As the other commenter notes, this is pretty common among new chemical products.

"There is no harm" -> "The harm is marginal" -> "The harm is manageable" -> "Remediation is too expensive for the private sector, the government needs to fund the fix"
> I have to wonder if there's some deep wizardry possible, some hacky function you can call hidden way deep inside Dock.app or Mission Control.app, that will do the workspace switching without any animation.

There's a plist file with animation speeds in it somewhere, and you can reduce the duration of the animations to something extremely low, which is what people with preferences like ours often used to do.

But some time in the last few major releases of macOS, Apple locked that away behind SIP. So to take advantage of it you have to disable some security features (not sure if you have to leave SIP off— you do for some changes but not others), and this may not be possible on a work machine.
Talking about failing to parse names, I remember a co-worker once was working on a form and had added a special character validation field to the name field. The only problem was that it blocked apostrophes, and he was Irish so his form wouldn't actually accept his own name.
> Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Europe

Continents are more about how humans want to group landmasses rather than a hard scientific definition.
Instinct has just become aware of its irrelevance... and it will not go down without a bloody flight*. :D
It's a mailing list archive. Use a real computer.
Just FYI, Firefox Reader mode works great with it.
Makes sense for what it is. The only thing I'd add would be to save business details in localStorage.
I'm a hardcore UFO skeptic but to your question, maybe it's like, trivial to travel through empty space for a billion years, and much more complex to travel in high gravity navigating all kinds of spiky terrain?
Do you know of Jeremy Singer-Vine's mailing list* 'Data Is Plural'? He's the one person I think would have the datasets on hand, or a pretty good idea where they might be found.

*https://www.data-is-plural.com.
Your comment is basically "I hate 'A implies B' because people twist it to mean 'B implies A'". Your comment is, in other words, _literally_ absurd.
I don't think people realize that even a little amount exercise will make a difference tho.

Something as simple as a daily fast walk is going to do wonders for one's health when compared to a 100% sedentary life.
however, taking your name from an Atari Teenage Riot song is forever braggable