skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even after Py2 -> Py3, the platform-dependent decoding sitting around for _so long_ was so annoying. Just constantly running into issues with file reads because servers were configured a certain way. "Just specify the encoding" is like... fine, but annoying when it's some third party script I just can't use.

I'm at least glad we had some guarantees from being Python 3.
Are there similar payment systems out there similar to this? If it has truly surpassed credit and debit transactions, and there are no serious flaws that need addressing, then why don't we all start Pix in our countries?

Disclosure: I'm heavily invested in crypto and payment processors, and this payment system sounds awesome!
So I saw a newspaper headline about Mitch Mcconnell's... glitch... today and was curious so I went to Youtube to watch what happened for myself.

It seems Youtube is just HARD censoring searches of Mitch Mcconnell right now, it just returns nothing!

Checked on two different browsers and my phone, same result.

Gif in the link above showing what happens when you search (or you can just try for yourself, but it might be uncensored by the time you read this).
Funny how the article was published on one of the most esthetically neutral website I have ever seen.
Time moves on. In the 80's, 90's and 00's entire genres and niches were explored and defined. Much of the software I use matured around the time that article was written, and the "new features" in a lot of software are so niche, that they are big enough draws to buy new software versions. Hence the move to subscription for everything. Microsoft office is a generic example. The company I work for has all versions from 2007 through current in use. There are no features in the newer versions that change how we work.

Many people I know in my industry have been looking to dump the service contracts for CAD software for 10+ years. No useful added features, no improvements in stability, and no service to speak of through the VARs. What is the point of paying?
Pretty sure the apple chargers will only work if the cable supports the charger’s max watt output.
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Where I live, most decks are made out of this material too. We have warm humid summers and cold dry winters, so after a few years a wooden deck will be all uneven. These on the other hand don't change at all. Cost wise, it's the same price as, or sometimes even cheaper than, wood.

The only issue is when you cut it you end up with plastic particles everywhere, and it ends up staticly charged so sticks to everything.
it's a shitty sport from a shitty culture in a shitty country, it's not a house quality issue
It used to be possible to make a radio receiver out of a diaper pin and a blue razor blade. The coating on the blade acted like a crystal. You needed a cheap pair of headphones or a tiny transistor radio speaker. I made one when I was a kid, and I could clearly pick up 77 ABC in New York City from 50 miles away.
Razor blades aren't blue anymore, but there must be other things that work.
It may well be too late, given Google has absolute control over web standards and their policy of introducing draft features in Chrome and then making them part of the standard. Unless an anti-trust case is brought against them which explicitly mentions their browser engine and standards monopoly, and correctly points out that every other browser today is just a skin around Chrome while Firefox is controlled opposition. Every case against them seems to obsess on the search engine monopoly.
There's also: https://buttercup.pw
Be suspicious of any law that both parties want to pass quickly. Media likes to write about “gridlock” and other such obstacles and perhaps it feels frustrating sometimes. And it is. But the other side of it is frustrating to them too. Most of it is trivial in the end.

But when they start quickly agreeing on things you can be sure they’re up to trouble.
I want ONE breakthrough like this in my lifetime. Something completely game changing.
Thanks for the answer. Makes sense now. I suppose I've seen such a concept abused too many times by low quality SEO articles.
Does Java have any sort of precedent for dynamically swapping out implementations at the first call of charAt to a more specialized string class? I have to imagine there's a lot of string stuff that _doesn't_ do this at all.
The could implement that irrespective of where your vault is stored/synced.
Ah, finally they integrated the good old C-x M-c butterfly.
You can't buy GPUs to build your own cloud. You can access cloud GPUs via the ones that NVidia is selling to.
> If you’re that stupid, you deserve to be swindled.

Absolutely not. Laws should protect the vulnerable...no matter how stupid they are.
I like it except their data privacy policy is a deal breaker. I do not consent to having my code submitted to third parties without any restrictions on how it will be used.
In the Vsauce video "Do Chairs Exist?" (I highly recommend it!), Michael talks about the concept of vagueness and how defining boundaries can lead to paradoxes. While it was primarily dealing with an ontological perspective, the linguistic perspective of a particular line has always stood out to me. Perhaps it makes a bit more sense in context of the full 40-minute video, but it is:

>"Composites are causally redundant. Believing in chairs is like believing that, while yes, the burning gas from my stove completely describes why the water in a pot boils, there’s ALSO a magical invisible substance called boil-o that comes out of my stove that does the same thing as the flame at the same time, and if there was no boil-o, the flame would warm the water just the same, but there IS boil-o... Chairs are no more real than boil-o. Composites over-determine what happens in the world."

Like your example with lift and fluid dynamics, simple explanations like "plane pushes air downwards" or "faster flow sucks the plane upwards" might be insufficient, but they're at least useful to the layman. It also reminds me of how Richard Feynman answered the question, "What is the feeling between 2 attracted magnets?" by explaining that it would be impossible to give a complete answer. Feynman pointed out that when you ask why two magnets attract each other, there are different levels of understanding depending on your background knowledge. For someone with no knowledge of physics, the simple explanation would be the existence of a magnetic force causing the attraction. However, delving deeper into the question raises complexities that can be challenging to explain.

Feynman highlighted the difficulty of answering "why" questions in general. Explaining magnetic attraction in terms of something else that we are more familiar with, like rubber bands, would be misleading and circular, as it ultimately comes down to electrical and magnetic forces. He acknowledged that some aspects of the natural world may need to be accepted as fundamental elements without a more profound explanation.

This is echoed in the Vsauce video, where defining boundaries and attempting to explain everything can lead to paradoxes and vagueness. The concept of "boil-o" illustrates how composites, like chairs, can over-determine what happens in the world and our own perception, making their actual explanation even more elusive.
There are plenty of old business systems which are critical, can't be removed or turned off, and use LISP, COBOL, etc. Meanwhile, nothing important uses Clojure or other trendy flash-in-the-pan language. If you want an interesting project, sure, use Clojure or something. If you want money, learn COBOL.
Your project is really interesting to me - are you just looking at the physical buildings (e.g. you have 5 urgent cares within X distance), or are you trying to cross-reference provider data to number doctors/specialties? Or something else entirely?

Totally understand if you can’t discuss (or don’t want to), but it’s in my domain and I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about how to do it without coming up with much, so I’m super curious about your thoughts.
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I don’t think that they do. I know that Erlang has something similar; you can reload a module and it will gradually replace the old code as processes are replaced. In principle you could debug a single thread in a C (or C++) program without stopping the others, and some IDEs will let you edit the code and recompile while the program is running (they patch out the old function definition so that it jumps to the new one instead), but good luck doing that in production.

But don’t forget that in Common Lisp, you can redefine classes at run time as well as functions. All existing instances of the class will be updated to the new definition, and you can provide the code that decides how the old fields are translated into the new ones if the default behavior is insufficient. Good luck doing that in C or C++.

My favorite story involved a race condition that was discovered in the code running on a satellite, after it had been launched. The software on the satellite was mostly written in Common Lisp (there was a C component as well), so they opened a connection to the satellite, started the REPL, debugged the problem, and uploaded replacement code (which obviously added a lock or something) to the satellite all through that same REPL. While the satellite was a hundred million miles away from Earth, and while it kept performing it’s other duties. You can’t do that on a system which merely dumps core any time something unexpected happens.
Thanks for the link. I was scratching my head trying to figure out the evident disparate treatment (Why not Visa? Why not credit cards?) but that explained a lot.
Not true. Very few people do this in an enclosed space where I live. They aren't doing it on the plane, at the gym, in the store, in the restaurant, etc. Unfortunately people do seem to think it's cool to play their music outdoors just about everywhere, though.
Has anyone been able to visually assess this dataset's accuracy against OSM / Google Maps etc for any given region?

Looks like it will be a while before that can be done, seeing as it uses a custom schema.
How would you be able to prove that you are in fact a part of the sinaloa cartel it’s kinda weird your js admitting to it but that is not the point if you really are part i would want to ask some questions if you dont mind
Keep in mind most of the things you care about, half the country is against. And you win some and you lose some. So you don’t get your way every time. No one does. But your opponents are just as upset. Because you do win some battles too.
The main reason why containers are (a lot) better than the former status quo is shockingly simple: Dockerfiles. They list the steps that you need to build a working image. And yep, there are some caveats, but most of the time they do not cause problems (example: I have containers where :latest has been fine for over 5 years.)

I'll go as far as to say that if you want reproducible images that don't unexpectedly break without some kind of ability to trace it back to a change, always use sha256 digests in your `FROM` clauses, never fetch files directly from URLs (and/or check sha256 digests of things that you do fetch,) be thoughtful about the way your container is designed, and favor multi-stage builds and other OCI image builders to writing silly shell scripts that wrangle the build command in unusual ways.

But generally? It's still a massive improvement just having the steps written out somewhere. When I first started, it seemed the best you could get is a Vagrantfile that basically worked after you stepped on a bunch of rakes to figure out exactly what quirks you had to work around. With containers, things break a lot more predictably in my experience.
Then Prolog should be somewhere on your list also.
Yes, I did see that, but I was scared off by having to apply patches :)
Your original comment was how free markets, seemingly alone, had fixed hunger in America. The response was: "American famines existed long after the year 1800. You ever heard of the Dust Bowl? The Grapes of Wrath?"

During the great Depression, food was, in general, both cheap and largely unavailable. The prices that farmers could get for many of their crops had fallen to a level that the cost of getting their crops to market would result in them losing money. So they destroyed a lot of their crops. Again, this is some basic American history, easily found in text books for High School and college classes. Essentially, it was an economic problem. There was physical food and crops. However, the price farmers could get for food had fallen to below the level that they could profit from it. The government had decided to implement price supports. It might be hard to believe, but that's what happened.

People here at HN know what novels and history books -- there is no need to insult anyone by explaining it. The book, Grapes of Wrath, was clearly brought up to illustrate a point, not as a proof.

I'm willing to go along with characterizing The Dust Bowl as a time of famine in America, and one that happened after your claim, that free markets eliminated the specter of famine in the US.
Exactly! It pretty much ensures I can't use this for any confidential work for any clients.
It was clearly an idea worth discussing judging by the follow up comments, downvoting on HN is for unproductive comments not disagreement.

To the parent comments point, I have noticed more downvotes on valid but disagreeable comments recently, I think there might be some weight to it anecdotally.
But can you get a token and then not send it and save it for later? That's more what I was thinking. Not replay attacks but gathering a bunch of tokens thst are valid but never submitted to the origin, and then provide them via api requests to those that need one to use unauthorized devices with that origin.
Operant Conditioning in Generative AI Image Creation
Is there a royalty on the chipset to do it better than resistor pullups? The article implies its a relatively high BoM cost to have the negotiation. I can see its pinouts, board design, test but the actual chip.. surely is still down in the 0.0001c range? or is this one "pay the cartel" expensive?
And because of that, even as far back as 2005, there were 10 ways to create a string in C and depending on which Windows API you were using, you had to convert between them constantly.

Considering how Microsoft has failed to move past Windows while Apple uses the same OS more or less for watches, phones, tablets, monitors, set top boxes, etc without having to support legacy crap.
On some level I'm inclined to agree, but there is a point to be made here that sufficiently large targets are attacked virtually 24/7 and reporting all of those may result in burying legitimate threats in the noise.
You should look at flowstorm for Clojure. It lets you step through and back from a function and you can send maps to the repl with their functions.
Kendi freely admits that he is racist, or that the ideology he invented calls for racism. He believes short term racism is the only way to get an equal society in the long term. Similar to reparations I guess.
Thank you for your Lisp books!

I like your pragmatic approach of using Lisp where it makes sense and not being afraid to shell out to something else where appropriate (among many other nuggets of wisdom).
Well bite me for not chiming in with some rehash of the Earths-heating-be-very-afraid greenhouse dogma, but specifically

( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05449-8 ) Persistent extreme ultraviolet irradiance in Antarctica despite the ozone recovery onset ?

That is an Earth change I could sink my teeth into because our measurements of ozone are first rate, the crisis continues and Antarctica is a known target of the phenomenon.
UPI[1] exists in India. FedNow[2] recently went live in the United States.

As for why it doesn't exist in every country: it takes a bit of technical work to get the system working and governments move slowly, for better or for worse.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow
Two big reasons:
1. It’s a distraction from developing a solid IDE. I’m already displeased with their obvious VSCode envy and the new UI, so focusing on shiny features makes me unhappy as a customer.

2. I don’t want AI assist, let alone “deeply integrated” AI assist. It is a security and privacy nightmare. As the article notes about the privacy policy, “Neither the user nor JetBrains has control over this third-party data processing.”

Perhaps I’m a Luddite, but I think tools like this and copilot are terrible, and I don’t want to be forced into them.
Colin Furze has a fun series where he tunneled around his yard a bit :)

Supercut video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVLim5tVwU&ab_channel=colin...
I think you are replying to him.
Let's forget cloth bags for a moment. Using a bag once instead of twice but still getting the same job done means you're reducing instead of reusing. That's not a bad thing by itself. It's only bad if your other costs are causing problems.

> That's unfortunate, but a natural consequence of optimising for profit based on a self-fulfilling prophecy: the belief that the bags will only be used once, leads to them being made so that they can barely be used once.

Yeah but better bags require more plastic. I'm not convinced that a sturdier bag will get enough people to increase their reuse enough to have a net benefit.
Care to share what you’re using CL for?
I don't think legally they will win. Only from the consumer perspective this is misleading, they are taking advantage of a position of power to harm a user.
Prince when asked about music piracy: Great! Now people can finally go back to making music for making music.
If the Fed wants to get serious, they should sell assets.
Treat your CI system as a product for faster and better feedback
3090 is still under powered by quite a bit though it does have 24GB
Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
They should have never let themselves get to that place to begin with, but it's not the company's fault, so they shouldn't punish the company. They should own their mistake and push through. Or don't, and realize that it may come back to bite them. And if it does, they should realize that they are solely to blame.

And yes, I've been there. Burnt out, depressed, you name it. It's always possible to muster up the energy to do the right thing.
The solution to such problems isn't just technical - if you see a mail from someone that sounds out of character like in your case, best is to contact them directly or via a fresh mail composed to their address to confirm what was sent.
Other examples are receiving an attachment from a known person with just a one line 'check this out' or sometimes nothing.
Social engineering attacks always trump technical hacking and tend to be more successful.
This looks like a fantastically useful product. In my mind this is the type of product that suits platform builders. How are you thinking about moat-building.
See also advertising. C++ and Java had enormous advertising budgets, while Common Lisp had virtually none. For years, virtually every programming book and magazine was touting C++ and then later Java. Every conference, every keynote, everything a CTO might ever read or notice was telling them to use C++ or Java.
Why is everyone who criticizes JertBrains getting downvoted? It is frigging expensive for what it does!!
One of the reasons Pix took off as hard as it did is because the incumbent instant payment system (TED) only worked during business hours. It basically got digg'd once a 24/7 free service came around to replace it.
Most WSJ op-ed pieces are by their editorial board. Almost exclusively partisan chicanery. They write a column almost everyday that exists solely to further GOP talking points and muddy the waters. Some of their columnists are decent, but I immediately second guess anything the board writes.
Like Feynman's "Disregard others" https://stepsandleaps.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/FEYNMANS-BREA...
> It's bound to happen at some point, right?

No. As a hardware hacker myself, the benefit and draw is the fun of it, I don't want to have to hack my own dishwasher and make it work to my requirements, not maintain it.

Hackers usually write very bad code, in case you weren't aware
I have some cons!

Last time I checked on it, QuickLisp doesn't support fetching packages over anything except for plain http, with no encryption and no verification mechanism in place to detect files that may have been tampered with during transmission.

I think not supporting encryption or authentication for something as important as fetching source code makes QL a non-starter for me and hopefully for anyone else who cares about security.

Another issue I have ran into, is that SBCL is hosted on sourceforge, which has in the past injected malware into projects downloadable archives! I consider this to also be a security issue, and sourceforge in general is not pleasant to work with. I don't think there are any valid reasons to continue to use sourceforge today, so why such an important project continues to use it confuses me a lot.

I don't see these issues mentioned by anyone else which is bizarre to me.

I really like lisps and common lisp specifically but things like this has driven me away from using it and it doesn't appear that anyone cares about fixing these things.
> You can't say "Well I thought I was getting REAL magic", because that doesn't exist. You can absolutely say "Well I thought I was getting a REAL car", because it's expected to buy a car, and cars exist.

And Maria Duval exists, so it's possible that a bespoke letter from her to you could exist, even if you don't believe the contents.

Feels more like saying — if you went to Disneyland & bought a ticket for "Get your photo taken with Mickey Mouse: $20", would you accept a photo with any random person instead because "of course you can't get a photo with Mickey Mouse, he doesn't exist"?
Yes. India has UPI since 2016 I think.

> then why don't we all start Pix in our countries?

Good question. Maybe some inter-bank tech is already in place in some countries that make it easier/harder.

I've been repeatedly told the Banking system in Brazil is top notch and an early adopter of many innovations. (I have also been told that this is because banking fraud and security are entangled in a very fast-paced arms race)

Maybe its just matter of time. There was a (top) post in HN about how the Fed was starting something that I _think_ is Pix in the US.
Good luck! It's safe enough and cheap enough, for sure.
What is with this obsession over bots? If anything, a horde of bots that seem identical to humans could be a good way of artificially boosting metrics, and it's not even illegal because Twitter didn't create or encourage people to create these bots.
> every time a comment was added it would append to a HTML file

Hey static sites are a thing that keep coming back no matter how much things change. It doesn't matter how fancy your back-end for rendering/populating a website is when at the end of the day a lot of sites really really have no real need to be that dynamic. They could easily be rendered out to static files and be much more performant. Not to mention that if your backend falls over you still have some simple static files to spit out so people might not even notice downtime.