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The points for Common Lisp are:

1. It is ANSI standardized and mature.

2. Common Lisp programs are safe. Some implementations violate safety for performance reasons, but this one certainly won't.

3. Common Lisp has the best error handling mechanism that I know of (Conditions, handlers and restarts).

4. The language is programmable, both at the syntax level (Macros) and at the object level (CLOS with the metaobject protocol). So new ideas from other programming languages can often just be ported.

5. The language has been designed for interactivity and safe incremental redefinition.

6. Lisp has already been used very successfully for operating system development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine).

This makes it pretty much the ideal choice for such a project.
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Still no thunderbolt in all their portables ? I've used a Surface Pro before from a coworker and in general I liked the device but no thunderbolt 3 was a deal breaker for me.

It sounds so frivolous when describing but in practice I noticed having a single cable thunderbolt setup is a huge win for me - I used to avoid moving my laptop because plugging in 3 cables and keeping them organized on the desk was a chore. I have to work on two laptops (I sometimes take my work laptop home) so dock is not an option either.

With thunderbolt this became a non-issue - no docks, no messy cables, just one clean USB-C cable connecting 5K monitor, charger, USB hub, network adapter.
The argument is not that this is controls the USD value.
Instead, the argument is that this gives an intrinsic base value to the USD. This base value means people have some reason to hold USD, which causes them to make other transactions in USD. The actual current value from USD comes from the other transactions, but that is not intrinsic to USD. Instead, it is an emergent property.

The intrinsic value of USD is consoling, because it prevents the value of USD dropping to 0, hence there will always be a possibility of the emergent value reappearing.
> that with every new person born, that is a new person thinking of scientific advancements that can be made

Smarts for scienfic advancement is not evenly spread across global populations.

It's possible to have population growth while the high IQ fraction shrinks. All evidence says this is the current state of the earth.
Ask HN: Notice of Branding Violation for Zapier Integration – How to Handle?
Our product integrates with __ through Zapier and the same was advertised in our website. But, the company __ sent us branding violation notice (as shown below). Can HNers shed some light on?

To whom it may concern,

We are the _**_ brand protection team notifying you of our recent review of
your site example.com.

It has come to our attention that the _**_ trademark(s) appear as a logo,
metatag, keyword, visible or hidden text on the below listed URL(s) located at:

https://example.com/_**_

The use of _**_ brand and logos in the URL/S above is a violation of _**_’s
Copyrights and Trademark rights and privileges. While we appreciate your
enthusiasm for the _**_ brand, we currently do not show your company as a
partner or as having obtained prior written permission to use _**_ trademarks.

If indeed you have attained Partner status with _**_, or was given permission
by _**_ to use these trademarks, please let us know and provide us with your
_**_ contact person so we can confirm your status and retract appropriately;
thank you for your understanding. We aim to protect the rights and privileges
of not only _**_, but also the exclusive rights of our affiliates and partners
to use our trademarks.

Otherwise, we must request that you please remove all logos, metatags, keywords,
visible or hidden texts including trademark presently appearing on the
above-cited web site(s) and any other web site(s) in your control which use
our marks. If you have obtained permission to use these marks, and think your
receiving this notice in error, please provide us with details as soon as possible.

Should you require additional information or wish to further discuss this issue,
please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at: foo@_**_.com.

Sincerely,

_**_ Brand Protection Team
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Unfortunately for me, Hanlon’s Razor applies.
Wow, you can hear it in their voices as well.
The only justifiable case for full automation of an HR termination is a no show, involving an hourly employee, for extended absence, like 30 days of being on the schedule, expected to appear, and not clocking in or out at all. No detection whatsoever, no flagging by the supervising manager, nothing.

Performance based automatic termination is grounds to disassemble the company with anti-trust action, cutting it to pieces, and rendering it unrecognizable, after investigating those who thought this might be a good idea, and considering criminal pursuit of charges.
Thank you for sharing - not being familiar with calibration cards, I only paid attention to the features of faces (which seem well-rendered on the print), though the white dresses seemed to unnaturally lack shadow. I did not notice how the black hair texture on the women to the left and right was completely lost until you pointed it out.
I'd assume most of the people on HN are already in the top 10% of programming. But what are the benefits of being top 1% or even top 0.01%? Does it beat being top 10% in multiple fields?
Do you have a good example of schematics? There's nothing quite like real-life good design (think Tufte), and far too much space is given to how things are done wrong as opposed to how it has been done right.
What is the timer for? To close the tab if you miss clicked and don’t want to see NSFW stuff?
Yes it’s been very obvious for at least a year.
I'm fairly sure they are being used. I see them in the wild quite often.
Any way to print this manual or buy a hard copy?
AFAIK according to gdpr a DPA can act against a company in another country, there is no such thing as national jurisdiction. (This is already the case for complaints against e.g. google brought to austrian DPA). It even has provisions in case 2 DPAs are in conflict. So what is the article talking about?

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-60-gdpr/
Or you may say that Nadella chose to focus on improving Microsoft's core business products to maintain the company's leadership in those areas through quality instead of chasing new industry fads.
Ah, no. These people are shady AF. They intermingle funds and shuffle them around behind the scenes. This whole system is a black box surrounded a tower of cards.

Not accesible, that’s a good one.
I've only been living in Denmark for 4 years, but nearly every single julefrokost or påskefrokost I've been to used lard instead of butter as the initial layer for the smørrebrød.
A lot of people (from every kind of background) come to the US and work. I would say someone dad's being an IAS would have almost zero impact on stepping up in the career ladder in a US tech company, however, being from a prestigious university gives one a strong network and connections.
I agree with everything you say here. But I can't tell whether this is an argument for, or against, funding The Jasons.
I know you said you don't want to dwell on this matter, but if you are later inspired, please consider contacting RMS, to point out a specific example of something counterproductive to his goals, and how it might be improved.
Apple sell a unified package of hardware and software. An iPhone without iOS is just another flagship phone with mediocre battery life and a good camera. Many (most) of the advantages of MacOS disappear if Apple supported the same range of commodity hardware as Microsoft.

Samsung can't credibly claim that their software is a selling point; for Apple, it's an integral part of their business.
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As an hobbyist, I find that datasheets usually provide this kind of understanding. They often contain a section called "typical application circuit", (if they don't that's a good sign you shouldn't be using the chip anyway).

Often there are also evaluation board and they usually have some particularly interesting datasheet, because they are quite minimal but exhaustive.

Open-source electronic projects usually are very instructive.
What a gross mischaracterization of open source.

> The fact that someone uses their open source product is an endorsement to the open source movement, not of the company ...

Terribly ungrateful of you, but okay, it's not a crime.

> The fact that it is open source means that the company doesn't own the product nor can it control you.

No, releasing open source code doesn't imply signing away copyright or ownership. For instance, Mozilla owns Firefox (not only in the trademark sense); you can build another browser with their code, but you need to call it Iceweasel or something else.

> And the fact that it is open source means that the product is being made by contributions from the general public too, and not just the company.

Open source doesn't mean that at all. Good old immutable tarball dump can be every bit as open source as accepting contributions from everyone on the planet. In fact, check out esr's The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

"Open source" is already intentionally or unintentionally skewed to represent many things it isn't, please don't add more arbitrary attributes to it.
I would like to, but text is hard to read in VR. Perhaps we need a Minority Report like graphical coding interface to go with the VR headset.
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Not a Gmail user myself, in case there's really no setting for it there are some userstyles (to be used with the 'stylish' browser extension) that seem to put gmail into dark mode:

https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=dark+gmail
Seems like counterparty risk would make this a bad trade; if Tether collapses, the whole system is likely to follow.
From the article:

> In this study, the researchers deliberately prevented the pig brains from regaining consciousness, by using chemicals to block neurons from firing.

> And last year, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, reported that ‘mini brains’ grown in a dish had spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time.

Maybe the way is not that long!
> People like to shit on webpack, but I don't get it. It's a well thought out tool that works extremely well.

The problem isn't that webpack is bad but too many projects use it where there's not need for it. Also for newcomers to the js world it looks terrifyingly complicated. Sure those bootcamp rookies eventually discover how terrible C++ buils are but who cares since this is more like comparing a spoon with a shovel.
I find this worrying.
I know this is market valuation and it's not comparable, but this is nominally more than the GDP of 168 countries in the world.
The fact that 5 enormous companies are owning the future through tech is an astounding fact that can't lead to any positive outcome for our global society.
>You don't need to be first, Apple has repeatedly claimed to have the first of its kind but it was always just a clever rebrand of an existing technology.

The First part is invention, the second part is innovation.

And yet people and media keep complaining about Apple will / might / could be late with Phablet, 5G, Folding Screen etc.... And being late will fall behind and damage the company. I could understand this coming from common people who are not well versed in tech, but tech journalist? They are either an idiot or making up stories for attention.
So cool: I have a pet project where I hope to use a Type 28 reperforator and had your repo starred for this. Small world.
IIRC Show HN shouldn’t be used for blog posts
They don't just make money from you by directly showing your ads, so don't make zero $ if you as an individual manage to block all their ads.

They make money by being able to target ads, not just from simply showing them, so all the data they have about you, and your links to other people, and correlations that can be derived from all that, and so forth, all feed in to that earning potential.

You might not be seeing the resulting adverts, but can you say that about all your direct contacts, and all the people in groups you are linked to, and all the other people who interact with posts & events you comment on or otherwise interact with, and all the people that...?

You are still very much part of their income model by being part of the data graph - you are not breaking the system remotely as much as you think by arranging not to see adverts.

Letting people pay to not see ads would require both initial and on-going development & testing effort so you have to include that in any cost/benefit analysis of the situation too. And that design & development could be pretty complex: by making a legitimate ad skipping option available they risk creating a hacking opportunity that makes it easier for people to skip them without paying. It might also send a bad signal to the advertisers: people with more disposable income are more likely to pay to skip the adverts, because the cost will feel less to them, and people with more disposable income are usually those that the advertisers usually most want to reach.
Yes. Within the natural simulation of the world that is the phenomenal field (the aggregate sensory datum) presented to consciousness. Why would you want to work within a simulation within a simulation? This VR is guaranteed for life, and without a subscription model (excluding taxes of course) :p
Firefox and Chrome render same shade of black differently. Why?
A great video.
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Sincerely, but if they were completely backed up and valued at par, they wouldn't call it theter, they would just be using USD.
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I've just been reading Why we sleep by Matthew Walker. In it he mentions doctors will on average kill one patient during their residency due to sleep deprivation.
If you have ever interacted with Azure, you might have found that quality is far less of a focus then selling it at any cost. It's a model Oracle has practiced for long time. Just go give it a spin at portal.azure.com.

Also, these new markets are absolutely not fed. Smart speakers is already $7B market, Apple/Android/Fitbit wearables at $10B and along with smart home are the fastest growing markets. No one now doubts if cars would self-drive in 5-10 years. That would be a market that would transcend economies of many countries and industries.
Pedantic point. It’s ‘Sass’ and not ‘SASS’.

Sass certainly pushed things forward in CSS world. Without Sass and LESS, Stylus et al. I am quite certain we wouldn’t have CSS custom properties and colour functions. Great additions to the language.

That said, I left Sass specifically some years ago. https://benfrain.com/breaking-up-with-sass-postcss/

Tangentially related — in terms of dealing with CSS tooling/output for large projects with many devs I have found the PostCSS ecosystem indispensable.

I wrote this a few years back after setting things up with PostCSS at bet365.com this way: http://ecss.io/chapter9.html

The good thing about PostCSS is you can reduce the features as CSS becomes more capable and easily incorporate extra tooling like autoprefixer.
After a little therapy, it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
The solution is to not write css like this... ;)
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Also CVS is a big corporate pharmacy chain where people buy their toothpaste, etc. I doubt this is how CVS does their marketing
I'm not buying any home automation crapware that routinely spies on me inside my house, either by design or by being comically easy to subvert with spyware.
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So the fact that Scruton is part of an "intellectual culture" we don't like and that might somehow be adjacent to views that are actually religiously intolerant, supremacist etc. (of which "it is literally, logically impossible for any follower of Religion X to assimilate into an open culture featuring broadly liberal values" is one, of course - that I find genuinely scary and that we should hope does not become the fashionable, contrarian position to hold!), should give us license to outright misrepresent what he thinks and remove every nuance in his position? That makes no sense. If anything, it makes very problematic views look more salient and supported than they actually are!
I’ve been using Linux for deployment and development for literally decades now. I would never have even considered using .NET for anything under the old MS regime. I’m keeping an eye on it now though. I can see some real technical merits there. It just needs a longer track record of maturity and stability outside of windows.
They will still monetize network effect and monopoly status, which paying users will still contribute to.
When I was a child - northern England, mid-1980s - my grandmother would give me dripping on toast to eat as a special treat.
If you don't want the bloat, the OpenBSD folks rewrite many bloated tools (including GNU or GPL tools) with their own implementation. Their recent project is OpenRsync.
I spent to month on LinkedIn to find out if its a waste of time
It's good news (if you believe those valuation mean something). There would even be more companies competing with each other "owning the world and the future" only if states didn't gave them so much advantages (taxes, intellectual "property", entry barriers etc.)
Why the Windows key though? Not everyone runs Windows. Call it Super. That covers every OS, including Windows and Mac. Also, caps lock is arguably useless. First thing I rebind... on Windows with a *.reg key, on macOS with Karabiner Elements.
In many places you can be tried as a minor even after turning 18.
In general, corporations make better decisions than countries. Do not worry.
What?

They still treat their enterprise customers like shit, have no opt out data collection on all their platforms now, are extending their tentacles across everything that has a processor in it, QA has actually dropped off a cliff and they've left a half finished charred pile of shit for an OS on our laps, disposable low quality line of tablet wannabees and have piled their entire effort into marketing away their problems rather than delivery.

But everyone focuses on Nadella being the second coming of corporate Jesus. Wolf in sheep's clothing I'm afraid. In ten years I bet you I am not wrong on this.

Honestly I think that windows is the best desktop platform out there (seeing as Apple can't make a keyboard that works) with all the compromises but it's difficult to actually compliment it in any way. We could be somewhere a lot better and everyone knows where that is.

For earnings and shareholders they're doing good. But for the customers, not necessarily. They're just doing barely ok in an ocean of crap.
Of course it encodes assumptions whether imperfect or not.
used to cook a lot with lard in the last 5 years in austria, after discovering that many supermarkets stock it. right now i prefer clarified butter. the only vegetable oil in my pantry is pumpkin seed oil for salads. margarine is banned in my household; my mother used to use it but switched back to butter and lard in recent years.
With studio lighting (often powerful strobes, though this time it might just be continuous hot lights), it's pretty easy for something white to get blown out completely. If you also have something dark in the scene, you might need more light on that, at the same time that you're trying not to get too much light off the white. One tool in the studio is to use multiple light sources and modifiers. I don't know why that didn't seem to happen for the black woman's hair in this particular print. (The exposure of the white dress might be exactly as they intended, however -- almost an extreme, but the folds still detectable.)
> obviously there is no Smarthone story from Nadella yet.

probably because that boat has sailed.
>The closest thing you can find to shortening in a Norwegian supermarket is coco fat

You can get regular lard frozen at Meny.
You might get less people killing each other, and you might get a small amount of famous athletes or artists, but are you significantly improving the lives of those people and preparing them to work in a modern economy? Midnight basketball and street art might merely be bread and circuses, a way to keep that demographic quiet and avoid troubling more privileged levels of society.
Oh wow, I just found it few weeks ago. It was really helpful for me.
I guess "saindoux" is the closest translation for lard. I've more often seen people cook with animal fat (goose and beef, mainly) as opposed to "saindoux". That was only for specialty recipes, though. As you've indicated, in the south where I grew up, olive oil was by far the fatty substance of choice. In ratios of 10-20 to 1, I would estimate.
To make it really open, would be better if the collection was stored as Github issues. Less shiny website but easier to add and no curation process (PRs may be refused, aka censored)
Any plans to join the Rank of Shopify / Github / BaseCamp running on near / close to Rails Master?

I believe Gitlab is still on Rails 5.

[1] https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/4/24/Rails-6-0-rc1-relea...
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That is definitely an oversell. An entry level IAS officer makes Rs. 56100[1] which is about 800 USD a month. Definitely not an amount to scoff at in India but not even close to a level of privilege that would make you the CEO of a trillion-dollar company.

Satya has two advanced degrees from US Institutions and has worked at Microsoft for over 27 years. I think his father has had very little to do with his current stature.

[1] https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/
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Those countries are still pretty much USA. So nothing changes.
I'm not sure there are very many people smarter then Elon. He no doubt unifies people to his cause but I doubt even a small fraction of them are actually smarter then Elon himself.
Yeah, source as in text form, not some binary that your brain compiles those letters into!
> They seem to believe what they're saying

Most trolls do.
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TBH they seem to mostly just depend on their enterprise lock in, The azure story is just a reflection of this. Most enterprises just can not move out of the stranglehold and will have to cough out whatever price Microsoft demands,(which will creep up inevitably) for decades.
Should mention that Mezzano OS satisfies most of these design points and already runs.

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
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Because I find them pretty similar in terms of size, the e-tron is 4.9 m long while the model 3 is slightly shorter, at 4.6 m, but it’s in the same ballpark. For comparison my hatch-back is 1 meter shorter, it has a length of 3.6 meters. In the end the market will be the one to decide.
Not every open database should be on Github...
thanks for the suggestion!
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It doesn't take much R&D to assemble a Qualcomm chipset, an LG display panel, a Sony imaging sensor and some Samsung memory into a phone, nor does it require any kind of reverse-engineering or industrial espionage. The latest flagship phones might use semi-custom components, but midrange handsets are just commodity parts.
Show me a big company without those kinds of problems.
There are 118 million customers who are ok with it, however.
MSFT gross margin is 72B, this number better matches GDP and its c.70 rank by nominal GDP. Interestingly, Luxembourg has $69B GDP with 590K population, MSFT's "population" is 131K. Each MSFT citizen is 4.5x more productive. And Luxembourg is the top country by nominal GDP per capita.
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