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I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with newLISP evangelists. In my experience, every single language has overly eager evangelists, and it's best not to let them affect one's overall view of things.

I am a huge newLISP advocate, and I would never dream of claiming that the language was a) first at anything, b) first to be used for practical applications, or c) does not have any limitations or flaws.

I chose to investigate the language about six years ago because I wanted to create web applications with Lisp, and I was having a lot of difficulty getting Common Lisp and Hunchentoot working (purely because of my own ignorance, I'm sure).

Newlisp, and the Dragonfly web framework, had the following advantages to me at the time:

0. It had really clear and easy to understand documentation

1. It was easy for me to get started

2. The syntax was really clean and simple

3. It had native support for parsing XML into S-expressions in a simple way that worked even with very complex XML (which was the case with the application I wanted to build at the time)

4. When combined with Dragonfly, it made it possible to create web applications that were really really fast.

I liked it so much that I ended up making my own web framework, newlisponrockets.com, based on Dragonfly. Since then I've used this framework to make my own website and to create internal tools and prototypes at work.

I don't consider myself a great or knowledgeable programmer, and I can't refute any of the people on Hacker News who mention that newLISP lacks this feature or has this poor design decision. I'm sure both of these things are true. I would never try to sell the language with an Amway-style sales pitch, or claim that it could do things that other languages couldn't.

What I do claim is that it was (and is) a very helpful and useful language for me. That's all.
Your experience mirrors mine.
This setup seems to be missing IPv6 support (hello significantly worse performance due to CGNAT on all mobile devices!) and you get harsh CPU & I/O throttling from Amazon.

If your going to use a VPS (which is what Lightsail is), go with companies that focus on that as their core offering. You'll generally get more features and higher limits at a lower price point. As an example: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/151580/impact-vps-nvme...
As far as I can see from the article the "birds" were of the ostrich kind, not the flying kind we imagine when hearing the word "bird". As far as I know the modern science also says that many dinosaurs that didn't fly also had feathers. So why aren't the other dinosaurs considered "elephant birds" while this creature is?
Totally agree. Also recommend the audiobooks, which I've been listening to for these summer road trips!
Wouldn't it be difficult to model the passage of time, without running the experiment for years on end?
The Davy Crockett could certainly fit in a suitcase - just take a peek at the photos. Briefcase nukes may be a bit less likely.
That was my first question and I was disappointed the article didn't address it. How can we call a material "strong" if it can't even hold itself together without such extraordinary help from its environment?
It's also funded from the Thiel Foundation.
So they actually eat ~ 2000 calories in one sitting with this diet?
Not OP, but it's completely possible to build a complete webapp with just two dependencies: Python/Django and a database adaptor for PostgreSQL/MySQL.
Yep. Both of these systems change as usage changes. More cars makes traffic worse. More public transit increases crowding, but it also allows more times and services to become profitable.

This experiment doesn't tell us anything except that we're not currently in equilibrium. It doesn't tell us what any equilibrium is, or how many there are, or how many are stable.
I was talking about international routes in Europe[1]. But at least in Germany and Poland (after acquiring Polskibus), Flixbus also controls above 90% market share for bus routes within the country.

[1] https://global.flixbus.com/bus-routes
iOS can't handle their scale
> completely devastating to the approach of training users: "Save As HTML".

If you are training users to rely on information that can be spoofed you are Doing It Wrong.
CoCalc is an open source system. It is convenient to pay for a setup, which is how they hope to get revenue to pay developers.
Note that that video specifically mentions the Northeast corridor and the Acela as an exception. The Northeast is definitely dense enough to support rail.
Yup, Rust will too.
Ok, I'll bite, what? I just do the obvious, drop fast from left to right. That way you can cross without being forced off the top of the screen.
Brontosaurus was rebranded as Apatosaurus.
How can we call steel "strong" if it can't hold itself together unless cooled down to less than ~1500 °C?

It's all relative.
https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-ap...
Naming things is a hard problem for computer programmers, but not for physicists. For them it's all fun!
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+the+facebook+iOS+app+so+big%...
>If you know any 18-to-34-year-olds, they likely enjoy, or perhaps fearfully consume, Rick and Morty

Why "fearfully consume"?
>They are measured the same way they always have been

As I explained in the very next paragraph the creativity is in determining which people are in the workforce and which are not. Measuring the "same way they always have been" when work today is unlike it has "always has been" is like measuring inflation by the cost of commonly bought 1940s items.

>Oh this talking point again. Never mind the two world wars that made it all possible

A fact doesn't change based on what made it possible.

>You are aware that there are multiple unemployment statistics that are tracked and that discouraged workers are included in some of them? Nobody is purposefully ignoring discouraged workers they are just not relevant to the market because they aren't participating in it.

You're aware that the officially circulating numbers (U3 et all) don't show the impact of the problem by a very large margin? And that those people who "are just not relevant to the market" still need to put food on the table, pay rents, and pay medical bills...

>What do you think happens to money in those tax havens?

It gets further removed from the communities that fostered the companies that made it and their control, and on to the company's (or private owner's) discretion.
Chrome 70 will support MacBook Pro's Touch ID for website authentication
Yeah, blockchains, whatever. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay and if you think bitcoin is the xml of crypto, you’re going to look exponentially dumb in the coming years. Good luck with that.
Seems like that is the chip: https://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Espressif-Systems/ESP3...

Maybe you can flash them yourself somehow.
Facebook is not good at mobile. Uninstalling the app is the single best thing you can do for your phone battery life.

Just use the mobile site with safari. It’s blazing fast and doesn’t slurp your address book or location and drain your battery.
Keep in mind that the size of the app listed on the App Store is not actually the size of the app on device. Apple automatically removes unneeded assets [0] from the bundles based on the device that's downloading it. I just downloaded Facebook on my iPhone X and the app size came out to 314.5mb [1].

[0]: "App thinning" https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1795/_index...

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/lTJhMbx
> Relationships with other people can become strained if you are at least approximately self-sufficient.

If I (or anyone) is happier in solitude than in interacting with person X, it strikes me as quite patronizing to come to the conclusion that 'gosh, they may feel weak, better throw them a bone.' It simply means that the two people in question should probably seek out others to meet their respective companionship needs.

Self-sufficient people are not 'defective' any more than more social types are. People who are self-actualized do not owe more social people anything, any more than someone who craves social activity should force themselves into loneliness to meet the more independent person's wishes. They're just different personalities, and both have their own value.

>The mutual exchange of vulnerabilities is an important component of close friendships.

I do not think this is a universal. This has never been the case in any of my friendships, and I am not a misanthrope. I feel lucky to be able to say that I have lifelong, close friends, whose company I greatly enjoy. What we all have in common, even though we are all very different people, is enough comfort and trust in one another to be able to speak our minds freely, without any reservations, even when we know the other will disagree. The discussions that come of it are treasures.
"you can be alone, millions of miles away from any human contact, and still feel joyfully connected to the world"

I'd like a citation.
I'm truly disgusted by this. Russia can simply assassinate someone on UK soil and literally nothing happens but some stern words. Utterly utterly appalling.
If you want to post something complaining about how fat the FB app is and perhaps solicit comments from people who know about it, you should do that. It's not much of a 'Ask HN', though, because it's Ask HN, not 'spit take FB'.
I’m sure part of it is A/B tests for tons of things. Doubled or tripled resources and code but any given user only sees one variety of them.
The size you see on the App Store isn’t necessarily what the size will be when you install it to a device either. For example, on my iPhone 8 Plus is 307.3MB.

https://imgur.com/a/VwkFvxg
That's not a significant difference...
Or just disabling background updates for the app.
And this doesn't include Messenger does it? The last time I had the misfortune of installing the app, they forced me to install a separate app for that.

I figured I'd just use facebook.com on the browser, and I happily did until they removed chat from the mobile site.

Now I use mbasic.facebook.com, which is incidentally much better because there's no bloated JavaScript (afaik).

I'm sure they'll discontinue mbasic soon too; it'll be a shame because Messenger is all I use Facebook for.
New Moore's Law: Every year Facebook's iOS app doubles in size.
Hi this is Eslam co-founder and CEO of Shieldfy , happy to answer anything regarding the product or web security in general
I would say so; it's more than a third smaller than the figure quoted in the OP's title.
Or since they are already parsing the email's contents to create the trip, they could also pay attention to the traveler's name.
Curious, how many cocks you suck each day?

Just because you had interesting conversation we are supposed to believe that?
Of course. The same is true for Rails. Realistically though, wouldn't a Django developer -- like say a Rails developer, a C# developer or a JS developer -- usually add some convenient packages?
> If only we could guarantee immediate segfaults.

It should be possible to create a malloc implementation that does that by making the minimum allocation size a page and then not reusing virtual addresses for new allocations. Then once an allocation is freed, any access to it is permanently a segfault.

That may not be practical on existing architectures with 48-bit virtual addressing though, since you could plausibly exhaust the address space. The full 64 bits might be sufficient for most things at least.

You could also get most of the benefit by not reusing virtual addresses until you run out.
They employ a bunch of coders who are really good at solving textbook CS problems and whiteboarding medium/hard leetcode style questions but lack the experience, interest, and in some cases ability to stretch beyond that into, say, proper systems or application development. There are far too many of these individuals who are able to "contribute" to the application code base more or less without the supervision of properly experienced and qualified engineers (there was some article, I think on Reddit, about how the app used to have thousands or tens of thousands of classes, re-wrote large bits of iOS core libraries, etc.).
Cool, now I have an intuition for how a black hole distorts lines of sight. Basically it's like a black ball hanging in space, with a "halo" that shows you a distorted image of everything that's behind the ball. For example, if there's a hula hoop around the ball, the near side of the hoop will look more or less normal to you, but the far side will look like it's warped, like it's refusing to go around the ball and instead shows up above or below it (or both). And the innermost part of the halo shows infinitely many images of the hoop (and everything else around the ball), stretched thinner and thinner.
I really enjoy the everchanging Dino-taxonomy. I have a book about Dinosaurs that I read to my kids, and I think most of it would currently be considered wrong.
Tbh that is a significant decrease. Find me a compression algorithm that can compress already compressed binary data by 30% and I'll give you a million dollars (after I make a few million dollars myself).
Instead of complaining, how about you fetch the package and reverse engineer it so you can answer your own question.
You need a lot of other stuff around the plutonium to make it go bang, but something that would fit in a rolling suitcase or large backpack is totally doable. See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Mu...
It probably is at least partially autogenerated, contains tons of legacy code, code for different markets, code for yet unreleased features, NSA tracking code...
AirBnB is cuckold company. They discriminate against people who didn't go to Ivy.
Not a thing to be proud of cuck.
One of my favorite PBS Space Time [0] videos discusses the nature of the matter of neutron stars, and although he doesn't discuss the different pasta types, he does discuss the theoretical possibilities of "strange" stars (where the some of the quarks flip to strange to get around the Pauli Exclusion Principle) and also some larger neutron stars may have an electro-weak core, an apple-sized core where the electromagnetic & weak nuclear forces have merged (similar to 1/1,000,000,000 after the big bang) with the mass of 2 earths.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4RNGRyzt10
Please, it’s a big drop in terms of percentage, but it’s absurdly large for what the app does.
For reference, messenger.com is a standalone FB Messenger web app that works great -- my use-case for FB is largely the same as yours.
Agree with your comment. Even on opinion articles HN often offers greater value than many other sites. Of course there can still be a lot of vitriol. HN is also criticised for being an echo chamber. Well, when a site becomes popular, your users will always be between a representative sample of society (and will be hard to avoid vitriol), and a particular group of people (and you will end up with an echo chamber).

Of course there might be a lot of things to improve, but I think it's unfair to criticise HN when it's doing much better than many other sites. Well, maybe the article doesn't even get to that, but I have this feeling of misplaced blame. The real problem lies in society, not in the website. There's no shortcut to education...
Oh I completely agree it's bloated as fuck, but your statement that it's not a significant decrease is untrue.

Edit: sorry, just saw you're not the person I replied to.
Show HN: Weather data created by phones for machine learning classifier training
https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo14/...
I've always thought that our contemporary world pushes these two sometimes contradictory ideas on us: that we are unique individuals and that we are supposed to have a "tribe" of people like ourselves. The more "unique" you become (or the more intimately you know yourself) the more you're able to draw differences between you and others which impedes finding your "tribe." It's a trope in media to have a "friend group" of people that share certain core, common, traits but these are entirely artificial constructs that don't accuractely reflect the messy business of human relationships. The sleight of hand comes about when we begin to feel as if WE are missing out, as if WE have failed, and not that this artificial notion that's been distilled in us is in actuality unreasonable and unrealistic.
Uninstalling it is the best thing you can do for YOUR life!
The "security issues" with IoT are a consequence of security mindset (or lack thereof), not a programming language.
Just finished "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond. Great book on how evictions can keep people in a spiral of poverty.
I have a couple of the FHD mods from here ( https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=122640 ), but they took quite a while to get to me, and by then my enthusiasm for experimental soldering had waned, but sometime I will try.

But even just swapping in an 1366x768 IPS panel for the TN panel of the same resolution makes a great difference. And those you can find fairly cheaply.
Maybe the downside is that Bob will observe that others express displeasure at his behavior, having let down their expectations(maybe unreasonable) of him. Now Bob isn't callous by nature so this will weigh upon his conscience.
I'm building 'virtual weather stations' out of disparate, unused data sources.

This effort is to create new data sources that describe our atmosphere. I don't know if any of it will be useful but I cannot find much else out there that is working towards this kind of effort. So here we are.

The main experiments I'm working on are 1) sky photos, 2) sensor data like barometers in phones, and 3) user-submitted current weather.

1) Sky photos. I think that we can use a machine learning classifier that is built from user-submitted labelled photos of the sky. We should be able to them auto-tag weather data in the photos and get (numerically?) useful historical weather data from all outdoor sky photos. Additionally live photos could used to gain real-time information as well. Smartphone cameras are getting really good and can detect significant detail.

2) Most phones have a barometer now, other sensors as well like hygrometers etc. This data needs major QC and protection for user privacy and for preparation for integration and assimilation into models like WRF. This is a ways off but research has been done already here and there can be significant progress with good quality data. Here is what data from a single phone in Colorado looks like spanning a day or so: https://imgur.com/a/45lTZ6j. The sensor code for Android is open source to encourage other apps and make the process of collecting atmosphere data from smartphones much easier. [2]

3) Current conditions reporting. I found that MADIS stations don't update frequently enough to keep track of rapidly changing weather events. Users can submit current conditions and an algorithm picks which to show based on recency, trust, and other metrics. So far it can create a more accurate current conditions experience for the user.

I have taken significant effort to show the weather data from NOAA in a clear and readable way. The large graphics and animations have significant logic code behind them to attempt to most appropriately display the conditions described by MADIS stations. For example, even when most APIs will return a thunderstorm icon for a 30% chance (I find that misleading) All Clear takes an approach of showing a faded flashing bolt with a clear indication that it is 'chance'.

Other efforts are made to improve weather data communication, such as automatically converting text forecasts to units set by the user. It's not simple! But it is a useful thing for users. (See this forecast API result:https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/OKX/33,37/forecast/ for example). It has text forecast only in US units and I don't see any options to change it otherwise.

Thanks!

[2] https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary
It’s already against the law to “abuse” children.
True, but there are also religious reasons against anything else that isn't Assembly or C89, when reading about experience reports about trying to move devs forward to C++ or even more up to date C versions.
Am I pretentious or are 95% of medium posts boring and trite?
How are you using messenger.com on mobile? I use it on the desktop, but on mobile, the website just links to the app.
I guess exploits due to logic errors caused by lack of strong typing.
Yeah, his series is really great and it made me realize the FW flashed on these CARTA panels are actually nothing but the raw waveforms themselves.

One thing that I want to note is that while their documentation might be closely guarded secret, the actual waveforms are actually available out in the open.

For instance here are the raw waveforms for one of the latest Carta generation e-paper panel:

https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable/blob/master/refer...

~ hexdump -C epdc_ES103CS1.fw | head -10
00000000 34 88 c4 7c 01 2d 01 00 dd 09 00 00 07 06 a4 00 |4..|.-..........|
00000010 03 58 21 1d 3c ca 01 85 02 00 00 00 40 00 00 fe |.X!.<.......@...|
00000020 47 00 00 01 00 04 0d 00 ff fc 00 00 00 00 00 54 |G..............T|
00000030 00 03 06 09 0c 0f 12 15 18 1b 1e 21 26 2b 30 28 |...........!&+0(|
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3e 05 00 00 00 00 00 e8 |........>.......|
00000050 cb 06 00 00 00 00 00 c8 8d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 a8 |................|
00000060 4f 0e 00 00 00 00 00 98 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 |O...............|
00000070 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 a8 bc 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0 |e...............|
00000080 0b 01 00 00 00 00 00 b8 5a 01 00 00 00 00 00 c0 |........Z.......|
00000090 aa 01 00 00 00 00 00 c8 31 02 00 00 00 00 00 d0 |........1.......|
Yes, “hard” scifi is a sub-genre that adheres to physics as much as we know it to be true - no faster-than-light travel, for instance. Arthur C. Clarke and his 2001 series as well as Nivens and his Ringworld series would be good examples, whereas Dan Simmons and his Hyperion Cantos trilogy, while extremely well-written, wouldn’t qualify.
Is it a patent issue?
If you don't believe in anything metaphysical then good and bad are still statements about the human brain. If you really committed to materialism, you could keep going as an English professor but you would have to start explaining things in different terms.

If anyone was willing to do it, "this painting is beautiful," could be put on exactly the same footing as "this drug cures clinical depression."
It may not be a literal shadow ban, but don't get too left/socialist/anti-capitalist/"SJW" or the cis-het white capitalist tech bros will downvote you into oblivion.

e.g. Any post about removing "master/slave" terminology.
It's well over half again larger than any other app on my device, even after "thinning". Yes, it's a big savings, but it's still ludicrously large. At that point, I think it meaningfully falls into the "distinction without a difference" bucket.
Could such “pasta” exist on its own? I always thought these exotic materials depended on neutron stars’ immense gravity and pressure to keep from blowing apart.
To be fair, they claim at least some subset of Node.js compatibility. Node adds a ton on top of the base JS engine, and would require more resources too.
Soviet war plans have never been declassified, and the plans that have been - let's say - interpolated are just plain insane. They envisage massed Soviet tanks and infantry trying to blitzkrieg through the radioactive remains of Northern Europe on a suicide mission.

A few low-yield tac nukes make no difference in this scenario, because the radioactive remains of NATO would still have been raining megatons on any attempted Soviet advance.
I disagree you need to like each other. You just need to be professional. Understand that a team is like a distributed system, only that you have meat and neurons instead of boards and circuits. If you can't deal with your technical job, then you're not a fit for it.