skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true and is why apple succedeed so much : make things easier for the mass.

The lisp community refused, and has a serious elitist taste that you can even feel in the comments.

I'm ok with it, but you must accept the price of this is peopme leaving, or not comming in the first place.

To me it seems an acceptable deal. Plus you can't have your cake eat it.
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Observatory Crest is underrated.
This is rather surprising coming from JSConf.eu, which is widely respected and run by people who really care about their community. I'd like to hear their side before making any judgement.
This story follows the same narrative as similar stories about fast food: It explains unhealthy behavior as a simple "evolutionary accident" where otherwise useful evolutionary urges are simply misplaced in today's industrialized world.

I don't think that theory holds up when a lot of today's product design is not only acutely aware of those urges but actively tries to exploit them.

E.g., yes, today, we are able to produce almost arbitrary quantities of fat and sugar-rich food. We could also produce food with different nutritional composition. Yet design for fast-food skews heavily towards heavy on fat and sugar and not much else - because obviously this kind of food will sell best, thanks to the evolutionary urges mentioned in the article.

The same thing happens on the internet - social networks actively waggle the carrot of rewarding social interactions to maximize engagement with the network.
DefCon and HOPE usually have an assortment of real solid talks, a few 0-days, and new maker products to mess around with or buy. Plus there are plenty of people who actually know their shit. I don't think you'll get the same kind of entertainment from a bunch of coders who solely do JS. But yeah, something about mass audience, technology, and a detached culture makes these conferences more watery every next decade. Still worth it at least for now but I acknowledge your point.
Meh, I was hopping to see some conclusion at the end. I hope there will be some followup.
It's like saying guns don't kill, people do.

Well yeah but guns make it much easier.
How does using a Twitter blocklist achieve 1)?
XMOS are kind of interesting. Not Open Source chips though.

Their IDE is Eclipse based (or used to be), though the language used is a variant of C. I still have 2x their original audio dev boards here. They have ports galore on them (USB to PC, then 7.1 channel out, 7.1 channel in, SPDIF, has it's own timing crystal, and apparently does things well at 192kHz). Could have sworn they do 384kHz as well, but that doesn't seem to show up in any of the options (when I last checked anyway).

These days mine are just getting used as weird looking consumer items. eg to drive the 5.1 setup on my CentOS 7 desktop. ;)
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It's good he publicised this but the length of the post and how hard he tried to get a response leads me to think he cares. He should not care about petty, deranged people.
Why does verge get a pass on clickbaits headlines? They're the worst "respected" offender
> Imagine that Hacker News would ban your account jakobegger, no explanation, no way to get informations why or what you did wrong. Would you just accept this as just "leave me alone"?

I mean, they literally do this in the from of shadow banning.
I was going to say that.

It's possible to write horrible python code. But it's way harder

Even without an editor, you are forced to indent. You can't use macro or make huge anonymous functions. The whole language is designed around readability.
> I'm pretty sure you misunderstand market orders because by definition they are only visible to the market after they have traded, so nobody can get ahead of you or do sonething irrational before your order lands.

Have you read Flash Boys? Dunno if the loop-holes have all been solved, but basically it was possible to front-run orders. There was a regulation requiring brokers to execute an order on the exchange that had the best current price. This rule gave no weight to size. So HFT firms could place a tiny, negative expectancy order on one exchange. Then they could see the result of that trade and cancel/place orders on the next exchange that your broker's matching algorithm was going to hit up before your order got there.
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> So, unless you're already very clear on what your exact use case is going why the spend time analysing before even getting your project off the ground?

Because if you don't know what you want you are almost guaranteed to pick the wrong technology.
Plenty of HNers are also fans of Eich..the dude singlehandedly built integral parts of the XPCOM base that Mozilla & Firefox sit on.
The problems in Greece were not caused by the credit crisis. Sooner or later Greece's model of government spending without a solid tax regime would have collapsed, the crisis only made the underlying problems more apparent.
It sounds like you dont understand the intent of the post you are responding to or that i am not understanding your irony?
Jobless people are often stressed.
As an American who lives abroad...I hear this about American bread all the time but I've yet to discover what's actually different. Supermarket sandwich bread is just about the same everywhere.

Perhaps the rest of the world is just used to buying from a bakery, rather than the supermarket?
Disagree.

A while ago I experimented with giving job applicants honest feedback on why they were unsuccessful - not just the old platitudes like"there were stronger candidates".

Big mistake. When you reject people, they really really want to dig in, know why and then refute or try to overturn that.
And nothing of value was lost :)
it raises the friction for people quoting your tweets and encouraging their followers to harass you.
It's probably because the OP makes unwarranted assumptions:

> This is why after 50 years it is still a niche language

where "This" is either the REPL or macros, which they do not specify.

It's just as easy for me to speculate that Lisp isn't popular because money talks:

- You have an idea for a piece of software and create a start-up.

-You hire competent Lisp programmers to write that software. Since they're rare, they're expensive.

-The start-up grows because the idea was good and the software works, and somewhere along the line someone sees that more money can be made by cutting expenses on development.

- They shop around and find some outsourcing party that claims to write Lisp cheaper.

- They outsource development, but the software goes down the drain. "Lisp" is now the problem, according to the new developers. But costs are down, growth is still continuing, and they got rid of the weird people who made fun of their Gucci tie.

- People cash out, and on advice of the new developers stuff gets rewritten in the popular language of the day.

- Stuff muddles on for some time, until everything comes crashing down. The cycle starts anew, except now it's clear for everyone involved: don't bother with the software, focus on growth, and in case of doubt:

Blame Lisp!

So yeah, that's my "Why isn't Lisp more popular?" hypothesis: modern software for start-ups is about enabling growth, not quality.

And without further substantiating it's just as valid as blaming it on the "ability to self-modify."

> It makes lisp a terrible experience for beginers.

That might be true.
I only trust real algos that are grown in a free range PHP forum.
Just a half-baked idea: If you don't want to make a new request for every connection, and the recipient owns a huge block of IPv6 addresses, the recipient can create an asynchronous key pair where the public key is used as the IPv6 suffix. The United States Department of Defense owns /13. This provides 115 bits of public key information. The sender can use the IPv6 address as the public key.
How are you going to pay your taxes with crypto?
plenty of people walk into stores and get robbed. sometimes it's just 1$, sometimes it's more, sometimes it's misleading advertising, but the physical world has exactly the same problems.
I understand but "Vigilance is noble. Caring enough to cause a stink, even though you know it isn't worth anyones' time, especially your time."
My car keys!
AWS sends you emails 9 months in advance of needing to restart individual EC2 instances (with calm, helpful reminders all the way through). IME, they're also really good about pro-active customer outreach and meaningful product newsletters... Even for tiny installations (ie less than $10K yearly).

Anecdotally: I've been an MS gold partner in a bunch of different contexts for years. The experiences I had as 'small fish' techie with AWS were on par or better. YMMV, of course, but I'd be more comfortable putting my Enterprise in the hands of AWS support than MS's (despite MS being really good in that space).
Does that mean I should stop ingesting C60 Buckminsterfullerene despite the superstrength?
Is your project/business public? If so any chance you could provide a link? I'm interested in this space from a research angle and it would be great to be able to point to a real-world use case.
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In the early days of this project, before we shipped the website (ie. ~March of 2017), we did some explorations around Mechanical Turk. The problem with the Mech Turk approach is that for recording your voices you need a lot of different people speaking (ie. 10s of thousands). But for languages other than English, Mech Turk simply doesn't have these kind of numbers. And indeed English is not that interesting to us, since there exists public data already in English (see LibriSpeech). There are of course other micro-task platforms popular in other countries (for instance, there's a myriad in Indonesia), but we didn't have the time to manage jobs on all these different platforms.

However, Mech Turk is better for things like validation, since you only need a handful of people doing the majority of work.

In any case, I have some very hacky tools we used for this exploration, if you are interested:
https://github.com/mikehenrty/mech-turk/
Funny how materials of each era have very different durability (and complexity)
"The Jaguar I-PACE is an incredible, gorgeous vehicle"
https://electrek.co/2018/06/14/jaguar-i-pace-review-the-240-...
it could as well be stolen and the thief tried to destroy it
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> The problem I am having with ponzi-coins is that there is none of that, not even a veneer of wanting to make the world a better place.

My experience with the Bitcoin community goes back to 2012-3, when they were very much Libertarian Utopians trying to make the world a better place (at least their concept of a better place!). Those people still exist, though they've been drowned out a bit by the "Lambo" goldrush types.

Of course, the VAST majority of scamcoins are just about getting rich and have no idealists at all, just the conmen and the conned.
Didn't that happen several years after 2011, though?
On a side point, handheld XRF readers are really cool. It's literally you point the device at a sample and it tells you what chemicals are in it. But why do they cost such a huge amount of money? Last I looked they were about $20,000-30,000 range.

example: https://www.bruker.com/fileadmin/user_upload/8-PDF-Docs/X-ra...
I get that vertigo personally when going thru any large city. Rows and rows of large habitations with thousands, hundreds of thousands of individuals makes me feel very humble at how difficult it is to grasp that degree of complexity when we just refer to it as "society".
And is not invading your privacy as it stays local.

I miss this feature all the time on other browsers.
Like probably a lot of people, my first proper introduction to him was through the song "Her eyes are a blue million miles" on the Big Lebowski soundtrack. That song - and most of the Clear Spot album it comes from - has this amazing quality where it initially comes off very well as a classic rock track, but the more you listen to it the more you realise how many musical conventions it breaks. For example the starting vocals come in in just the weirdest way, as if he's already halfway through the song.
That's two cases out of nine in a photo of two pages of Gray's anatomy style illustrations - it takes a sharp eye to quickly identify the dongle, and it's clearly a medical book.
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I find notions of 'saving' things, particularly industries, to be disingenuous. If the NES flopped, or never existed, it's not like the console gaming industry would not exist. There is clearly a market for it and so we would simply have different names to recall as the 'saviors' of the industry. This is also why companies failing is not a bad thing, nor something that should aim to be avoided.

For instance with our massive automotive bailout. If these companies went out of business it might have been a rocky few years, but clearly there is a demand for vehicles and this would have created a vacuum enabling new companies, perhaps with more innovative ideas, to take their place. Instead we propped up a failing industry for no apparent gain. It could have even been detrimental in the longrun. Not all automobile companies were failing -- Hyundai-Kia were booming for instance. And had we let the dinosaurs go extinct it's entirely possible that today most cars being sold would have been much more fuel efficient. Instead, as soon as gas prices dropped we ran right back to giant gas guzzlers. Ford, for instance, even recently announced they've decided to stop making all passenger cars... except the Mustang. So what happens the next time gas prices spike? Deciding to save the company has predictably incentivized myopic behavior.
Then simply telling him that would have been just as easy as the response they sent, and no ruder.
I found the xkcd comic today especially fitting

https://xkcd.com/2013/
Why "worst"? I see you use it consistently, so it's not a typo.
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Someone's clearly trying to win an IgNobel Prize in Physics!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
Stating that multiple choice tests are free from bias is already highly suspect.

The decision-makers on this seems to be both tech illiterate (or with hidden agendas) and hilariously arrogant to the point that they seem to think that epistemology is something that happens to other people.
> The reason we respect HN and its respective admins, is because they explain their decisions quite openly and transparently

...Except when they shadowban people. (Who aren't obviously spammers or dedicated trolls.)
Yup. Google has been pretty awful for the past, oh, 5-10 years or so. They used to be a high quality search engine, a way to index the depth of material on the internet. Now they are just a semantic front-end for the most popular content on the internet. Do you want to find something from wikipedia, youtube, medium, the new york times, amazon, etc? Google does great. Do you want to search for something that thousands of other people also search for routinely? Google does great. This role is also the easiest to monetize for google (through promoted links). But if you want to search for something highly technical or very specific, google is now terrible, in fact it's worse than it used to be 10 years ago.
I thought it was interesting to see ID cards and paper currency show up for modern times and to see plastic emerge as a new durable material among the ancient metals and pottery.
It's a nice story except you can replace lisp with any language and it still works.

Gucci ties will always try to outsource, and it will often lead to this, lisp or not.
I have this feeling you are implying Pivotal Tracker is lacking some things? (Excuse me if I'm wrong.) If so, what sort of things would you like to see improved? (I've no relation to Pivotal Tracker, I'm just curious.)
You can also read Ha-Joon Chang: Kicking Away the Ladder.
I didn't modify my comment are you confused?
Service Level Agreements dictate the quality, availability, and responsibilities with the client. They put bounds on how long things will take to get answered, and sometimes fixed.

GP is saying that even though they had a contract to resolve issues within X hours/days the issues were not being solved within X hours/days.

Cynically: most SLAs with the 'Big Boys' tend to give guarantees about getting an answer, not a solution. "We are looking into the problem" may satisfy the terms of a contract, but they don't satisfy engineers in trouble.
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Thank you for bringing this up.

Indeed Common Voice is not for everyone. We try to make it clear in our Privacy Policy [1] what pieces of data we collect and why. We do not publish email address or names with the data, and we even strip speaker identification info (so that a speaker's recordings are not grouped but instead everyone's recordings go into one giant bucket). That said, if this still makes you feel uncomfortable, we understand. And if you would like to contribute without donating your voice, you can always validate the recordings of others.

1.) https://voice.mozilla.org/en/privacy
Except he got a reply. Someone read his message and took time out of their day to tell him to fuck off.
A Chinese company making money via licensing and copyright has got to be the sweetest irony I have ever seen.
I was too, maybe our middle school was more into piracy than your school was, but Napster use was rampant.
Indeed, I was most disappointed when I looked at the Django Con Europe twitter and the first thing I saw was codes of conduct and comments about genders and bathrooms. I was wanting to read about Django.
IIRC, the US desktop computer game market was also unaffected. It should be called "The great US console game crash of 1984."
Oh wow, I missed the replies because I couldn't understand them. Thanks!
ok that sounds like fun, how do you start with that. get a magnet... and then find a spot?
Higher paying (premium) customers actually get premium support in GCP, e.g. SRE who can get paged on an outage.

Prices seem high though: https://cloud.google.com/support/?options=premium-support#op...
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Just to note, we will never require your email address to contribute. There will always be an anonymous contribution workflow.

But adding new languages to Common Voice is a bit complicated at the moment, and we haven't built a way to do this through the website yet. So for now, we are doing this through a very manual process, and we plan to use email addresses to communicate.
I think I read recently that they outsourced g suite support
If you think that is why Lisp is a "niche language" then you should check out C. It has a "preprocessor" and you can do all kinds of things that make it hard to read your code, yet it is by any metric very popular, which provides a counterexample to your claim that "There is little demand for programming languages that are hard to maintain." Check out [1] for a few examples.

[1] https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/obfuscate.html
> Moreover, the two approaches are not mutually exclusive.

I would say that they are based on two different view of what probability is, and that subscribing to one means that you cannot accept the other.
It looks like they used a personal GCP account for their multi-million dollar business.

Would be interested to see what would've happened if they would've used a business account.
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Functions have a unique interface. It's always the same. Params in, return value out. Plus an imported function is something custom, by definition. You don't have to wonder.

Now you encounter custom syntax. It will not be clear it's custom first as you have no import path. Maybe it's a variant you didn't know about. Maybe it's part of this particular lisp flavor, after all there are so many.

You google it, but it's hard to google syntax so you are not quite sure that no result mean it's custom, impossible to search or just an obscure feature of lisp. After all there are many too.

So you try to decypher the syntax. But there is no contract for it like for a function. No unique entry point and output. It could be doing anything.

Now wihtout an import path you are on a fun hunt for its possible definition with grep.

When you are finally reaching it, it will be 50+ lines of dark magic you now have to decipher because syntax is hard and not trivial code makes awesome features.

In some lisp shops it works because you have three 10x programmers with years of lisp experience working in the same office. In that particular configuration, lisp is cataliser to this great potential, with xp and communication compensating the rest.

But the world is not solely revolving around this perfect combo.
What's a good lisp ide other than emacs?

To me, learning lisp and Emacs at the same time seems like a tall order
Maybe problem is you do not have records of your answers 10 years ago, how do you compare the quality? Gut feeling?
the key factor is whether they ever _told_ him "hey, you're spamming the conference at this point, please tone it down." - otherwise it's just passive-aggressive. Would you simply close a client's account and refund them without ever telling them that you were considering such actions? Because that would be extremely unprofessional.
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That's not a bad point IMO, and one that I often vaguely wonder about too. Just how much of the reduction in poverty is because of capitalism/globalization, and how much is because of improved technology?

I'm not sure I know the answer to that. Then again, I'm not sure it's so easy to separate out these things - capitalism almost certainly lead to more technology.
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This is not the only situation where investigators are hiding iffy information sources, and committing perjury. We all know about deals with informants, who sometimes receive immunity for major crimes, in exchange for their information.

But the elephant in the corner is DEA's Special Operations Division (SOD).[0] This funnels information from the CIA and NSA to the FBI, IRS, DHS and USCIS. But you will find nothing about SOD in any of the cases where it reportedly played a key role (according to that DEA Museum lecture).

Anyway, there's no evidence that SOD has ever been used except for major drug cases. But there's no reason to assume that it hasn't been, either.

0) https://www.deamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/042215-...
>I am strongly opposed to private blacklists

HN uses similar approaches. Just saying. You can have tons of points, but if some of your recent posts were unpopular for whatever reason, your account will be limited to the point that you can't really take part in conversations.
It's incredible how much I miss this kind of articles, like those I read on Byte and on several other magazines.

I am old, I know.
Why do you think Tether is being generated without backing dollars?

Have you seen their Transparency[0] page?

[0] https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
Is there a difference, other than what the parts are made of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford#Megamachines