skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Given how authentically good Apple is at protecting user privacy, it's very dismaying to see it doing the wrong thing in other areas, especially its relationship with the [Chinese Communist Party],” one former Apple employee told BuzzFeed News.

Apple seriously needs to stop knee jerk reactions and pause to think about the values its been trumpeting. Its actions seem to portray a company that will say things that are favorable to it in the market. I don’t believe that to be the case in every instance with Apple, but soon these actions will drown out the positives it has done on its own initiative.

The sooner Apple moves manufacturing out of China, the better for it and others. There are many other markets it can make money in.
> I assume by "spreading" you mean that the Pikachus can reproduce?

No, they're all created by the mad scientist but can think, reason, communicate, teach, interact, invent and construct perfectly fine on their own.

> I don't think "what material they're made of" matters much ... If the Pikachus don't reproduce themselves, and/or are created with perfect fidelity every time, then yes, I would call them technology and not life.

So, to distill your criteria for life, it comes down to:

• Species must consist of "individuals" who join in pairs to produce another individual.

• New individuals must be slightly different from the individuals who reproduced them.

In other comment [0] you say that you could consider software to be alive:

> Note that "alive" by the given definition doesn't imply "conscious" or "intelligent"

> We certainly wouldn't say that iPads (Pikachus) coming from a factory ("mother creature") are alive.

But if an iPad had a software process that connected to another iPad, and they both commanded the factory to create a new, slightly different iPad, would they be considered alive? :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231043
Maybe this is a case of false memory, but I am sure I have seen this scene before in a TV cut of the movie.
TL;dr Progress only happens at the borders.

This long piece of wrongthink is such a great handbook for the 2010s
It seems quite implausible that JPL would have sufficient confidence that things would play out as you say (everyone freaks out because everyone is convinced by this line of reasoning) to deny themselves a rather good opportunity to get people excited about space exploration.
This would be preventing, not recovery.
Ok so nothing concrete.

Let me share my anecdotal evidence than with numbers. I have migrated an on-prem cluster of 150 nodes which has hadoop, elasticsearch and docker apps running the UI. We have achieved 30% saving in the year over year budget for the company which is ~600.000 USD. This is not about EC2 vs a Dell server for example in a datacenter because this comparison would be an apple to oranges one. This is the sum of all the costs on-prem vs the sum of all the costs in cloud. When people try to compare purely EC2 to a node running on-prem, the only thing is 100% crystal clear that they do not understand how the cost is structured for a infrastructure. Quite often they forget that we need networking, electricity and cooling in the datacenter. They also forget that datacenter capacity cannot be given back when not needed (auto-scaling) and few minor things. This results in the conclusion that the cloud is more expensive than on-prem which in my experience of moving several fortune 500 to the cloud is not true, quite the opposite, significant cost savings can be achieved.
Same on Android Chrome.
believe same with any 2 factor authentication system.
intolerance guarantees stagnation. tolerance has more optionality
UI.Vision: machine vision driven desktop automation
I find value in taking notes of different views, wether or not I or others grant them values (which in itself is of value to me).
That people bring out building more housing in NYC as their goto example of something awful that must not be allowed to happen is the most depressing thing I saw today.
> (every company does to varying degrees).

That is where the problem comes in, it isn't a single censored outburst by a single player and not a single company doing the censoring. China is using that uncaring greed to ensure that these protests are censored on a larger scale.
Ha, the cost of an abstract "cross border transaction" is zero. The problems start when you want to cash in and out. At this stage welcome to the real world and appreciate the barriers Western Union/etc need to go through to comply with local AML/anti-terrorists/whatever laws. The "cryptocurrency" technology does not help in this case, that's the one of the crypto-shills agendas:

1. Cross border payments

2. Bank the unbanked 3rd world

3. Means to help for the hyperinflated currencies.

4. Store of value

All of them are completely delusional and only work for people who never had to make those payments, know 3rd world from the discovery channel and learn about hyperinflation on CNN.
How does this relate to Arc?
It's not the inverse , but a corrolary: With heretical ideas being purged from each Church, the churches have doubled down on absurdness
Ah, sorry. I'd somehow got it into my head that we were specifically talking about the movie.

I do love the book too. But the movie is better.
Good move. The name 'Perl' has connotations (good or bad depending on who you ask), but this language always seemed like a different kettle of fish.

Names matter.
Pending a fix, here are the links. (Edit: should be fixed now.)

The way Lisp began: http://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

A guide to the Bel language: https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt?t=157...

The Bel source: https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bel.bel?t=1570864329&

Some code examples: https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/belexamples.txt?t=157...
not an expert here on wework, but reports are they run out of $ next month...

https://gizmodo.com/wework-could-run-out-of-money-next-month...
If JavaScript is calling into WebAssembly modules compiled from C and C++, naturally do we have to care about security.

The existing model does not prevent exploits taking advantage of internal memory corruption inside the sandbox.
The board wields the size of the company.
Motivation for Freshers Looking for Internships
I love the idea of trying to build a mathematically pure language. I wonder how far it is possible to use optimisation techniques to make Bel efficient. For example, can the representation of strings as pairs be automatically optimised to a sequence of characters?
The only reasonable response is removal of all penalties and an apology, anything short of that is insufficient.
That's why I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21230286 and pinned it to the top.

Experience has shown that switching to a better URL is generally better for discussion, though there can be a lag before the thread catches up.
But the only way to do the second is to keep a separate 'ledger' associating real people/companies with network wallets, and to ban the use of wallets whose ownership is not known.

And this automatically brings back a lot of hassle with verifying paperwork, it again allows people to be barred from the network, and it again prevents people withput paperwork from owning currency.
The team who handle the payments should have a post coming up soon.
Yes, google is known for shutting down many products
It was not a version upgrade from Perl5, but instead practically a new language with some similar design principles. So the name was both holding Raku back by associating it with the warts of Perl5, and also holding Perl5 back because people assumed "Perl 6 was the upgraded version so why use the old one". People have been talking for a long long time that the language is different enough to deserve a different name, and things finally seem to have come to a head recently. As a Perl 5 fan and an early ~Perl 6~Raku enthusiast, I'm happy about this change, though it's almost certainly coming too late. Better late than never, I guess.
Wish I could have Lisp without all the parentheses. Parentheses just sour the experience for me.
Is a Tech Company Ever Neutral?
The search for life is the way NASA gets funding.

If life is found NASA will not get funding.

Therefore NASA is doing all the science it can before it does a test for life. At least we will be able to say something about what it is and the context that it's in.

Then the plug will get pulled.
When inmates design prisons for rehabilitation (2016)
Do you mean the Librem laptops from Purism?
Yeah, but in a basket, so there will still be an exchange rate risk towards each of its currency components individually.
Exciting! This has a lot in common with Nock/Hoon
Yeah, a recruiter actually told me to add "downsized" but I see your point too.
- Governments: oh yes, we'll trade our ability to set monetary policies for the off-chance that someone who wanted to hide from regulators will choose to trust Facebook with their shady transactions, and will continue to do so after the first time we catch them in the act based on data Facebook provided to us.
> Can't you take Metro-North for a bit and then rent a car outside NYC

It's a bit amazing, but the rental car companies have already taken this into account. If it costs $120 to rent a car in NYC, and $30 to take metro north upstate, rental car companies upstate charge around $90. It rarely makes sense.
What Are Some Criticisms of the Communist Party of China?
”Even at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at 4m/s at top speed (without running).”

4m/s? That’s 14,4 km/hour. They must have met a racewalker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_maste... says the world record for 45 year old for 5k is 20:28:28. That’s almost exactly that speed)

I can surely imagine those walking at those speeds to be healthier than average.
Also a Drum & Bass classic:

Paradox - A Certain Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PeZ6YsbQ8
due to the central limit, its behaviour will be more predictable
Folding text sometimes allows you to quickly browse all the commands inputted. But it doesn't matter if you don't want to use, just ignore it or shut it. A tool always used by various people, and everyone has their own unique needs. As a tool maker, every need needs to be carefully met.
Server side web development is probably the area where Clojure is used most, perhaps in combination with clojurescript on the front end.

A small google will take you to plenty of resources and libraries.
> Ideally, the West Hide Highway and FDR would be torn up, buried

If you lived the thrill of driving down either of those highways, with their amazing views, tightly packed cars, so close to the water, you may disagree.
It's a blend of a couple things.

First off, it's really fun(!) and I'm learning a ton of things about software, hardware and even a little bit about people from working with the contributors who want to help out.

Secondly, I'm building an operating system that I want to use. The contemporary OS'es don't really appeal to me anymore, for one reason or another. I realized that if I just focus for a long time, I could probably build a replacement that looks and works exactly the way I would like instead. So that's what I've been doing.

Thirdly, it keeps me sane. I've had some serious problems with addiction in the past, and having something meaningful to dump all of my excess time, energy and attention into, instead of drugs, has dramatically improved my life over the last year. :)
It's worth checking out the Red ORM, great progress is being made and it feels very Perl 6 native in terms of its semantics.
I do not see any text file...

Must be hidden somewhere or not showing in my browser (firefox android with ad blockers)
I highly, highly, doubt that. If life was found, I expect that the amount of money invested in studying it, would be orders of magnitude what they are getting now.
It’s great to see a technical post from pg after a while!
I thought Apple was in the process of moving some of its production to India?
How can fighting intolerance "suppress things the mob does not agree with", if that is in itself intolerance?

The whole point is to allow different ideas to exist.
This probably means your "experience" of lisp was very short.
Why I No Longer Use Haskell
This new language of mind-bending corporate doublespeak deserves more parody.
The parens are the shadow cast by Lisp's consistency, which is the reason to wish for Lisp in the first place.

The solution is not to look at the parens. It's a bit like not listening to tinnitus, which is harder for some than for others. Tools help.
For all who are interested in this I can strongly recommend the book Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae coaoutherd by a favorite authour of mine Christopher Matthew.
> Do you think there are less people on those buses than there was before the ban?

There probably are more people on buses, but that's the incorrect question to ask. You should be asking whether the additional people on buses is greater than the decreased people on cars. If before the policy, there were 3,000 bus riders and 10,000 car drivers, and after the policy there were 10,000 bus riders and 0 car drivers, that's still a net loss.
>I do love the book too. But the movie is better.

there must be other people who believe that, but I've never met any of them.
It's mind boggling to me that Apple has become so big, and a huge majority of their revenue is still coming from outsourced products.
There are links. They are hard to get to because of lack of link styling.
I've been unable to play this week. I haven't outright deleted my account, but it made me sick to the stomach to think about opening the Blizzard launcher.

I've seen others in StarCraft related subreddits share similar feelings. I agree the majority seem to still want the game and community to continue on as is.
The thing about that is all the energy from a star is still being radiated, just in infared. So if this was true a IR telescope should see a star like object with no visible light but a large amount of infared emitted.
> Ghost-like moving lights, resembling will-O’-the-wisps on Earth that are formed by spontaneous ignition of methane, have been video-recorded on the Martian surface;

I was surprised by this statement. I thought atmosphere on Mars is too thin to support any kind of combustion.

After some searching the closest thing I found was a bunch of popular science articles seeing aliens in white pixels on images from Curiosity [1]. It seems all very much like people trying to make a thing out of image artifacts. NASA's much more reasonable explanation is stray reflections in the optics or cosmic particles striking the detector.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-saw-a-we...
Here is old reply from pg to this very complaint.

>More than anything else, I think it is the ability of Lisp programs
to manipulate Lisp expressions that sets Lisp apart. And so no one
who has not written a lot of macros is really in a position to compare
Lisp to other languages. When I hear people complain about Lisp's
parentheses, it sounds to my ears like someone saying: "I tried one of those bananas, which you say are so delicious. The white part was ok, but the yellow part was very tough and tasted awful."

To make this more clear, lets' look at one example of pg's code. In verbatim it looks like this:

(mac case (expr . args)
(if (no (cdr args))
(car args)
(let v (uvar)
`(let ,v ,expr
(if (= ,v ',(car args))
,(cadr args)
(case ,v ,@(cddr args)))))))

For Lisp programmer it looks like this:

mac case (expr . args)
if no (cdr args)
car args
let v (uvar)
`let ,v ,expr
if = ,v ',(car args)
,cadr args
case ,v ,(@cddr args)

Lisp code relies on indentation for readability. Lisp aware editor knows how to automatically indent the code because it has been explicitly told. Only few of the inner parenthesis convey semantic information to the programmer.
I'm not sure it's realistic for many or any countries to move manufacturing out of China. Say assembly is moved out of China, they still need to source the parts, and how far do you go with this? To the point where Apple is making, in their own factories, every resistor, capacitor, logic IC, ribbon connector, PCB etc? This would seem to require a reversal of the changes in manufacturing that have occurred over recent decades in a much shorter period of time.

I am no fan of China - in the news recently a couple of our politicians have been called out as having a 'cold war mentality' just because they pointed out there differences between Australian and Chinese values - but I have to keep using Apple devices to develop and support software for clients. Likewise, I bet no matter what Apple does there will be others who stick with them as a matter of commercial reality. 'Commercial reality' has been and will continue to be China's way to be a mandatory part of world events.
I am unable to understand the difference between (a b c) and (a b . c)
The Great Depression had nothing to do with people being free to buy stocks. It was a classic bubble being burst, followed by counter-productive government measures to prevent prices/wages from deflating (which they needed to do as the money supply contracted):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/uoc--hps0819...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123353276749137485
PG is still alive and coding! :)
I would assume most companies use per diem for business trips. Agree that it would be great with something similar for other small expenses.

But none the less, all company expenses needs to be verifiable by some kind of receipt in the accounting to be legal. At least thats how it works in my country. So someone has to enter that into some sort of system, ideally the economy people would take care of that.
It surely is meaningless, because whatever your favourite WebAssembly implementation is capable of, ultimately it only matters if it is spec compliant.

A spec, which is under control of those organisations.
On mobile Firefox links are indistinguishable from regular text.

Workaround is to view full site (link at the bottom)
D language (dlang) Template Tutorial (2012)
If Bel doesn't have irrational numbers, how do I use pi? Define a function that returns an approximation to a given precision?
> Species must consist of "individuals" who join in pairs

Where did you get pairs from? If the Pikachus reproduced by binary fission (splitting in half and then growing a new half, like cells do), or had 18 genders, they would still evolve. They only have to make copies. Doesn't matter how.

> No, they're all created by the mad scientist but can think, reason, communicate, teach, interact, invent

If they can't reproduce (and/or aren't made of stuff that can reproduce), I would say complexity of behavior is irrelevant.

For example, the identical iPads coming off the factory line are still technology, whether they are loaded with simple software or complex software. The complexity could go all the way up to AI, but they would still be technology.

Note that we are used to "intelligent" meaning "alive", because the only intelligent thing we know of at this point in history (us) is alive. But I think it is perfectly valid to suppose that non-living things could be intelligent or even conscious.

> So if an iPad [...] created a new, slightly different iPad, would they be considered alive?

Yes, under those conditions they would certainly start evolving, and I think that's a perfectly reasonable line to draw between technology and life. In this new example, the "phenotype" of the iPads would change in a self-sustaining way, emergently, independent of any design or intent.
(a b c) is (a b c . nil). That is, (a . (b . (c . nil))). On the other hand, (a b . c) is (a . (b . c)). (Edit: rewrote post)
Science is not about finding life per-se, it's about satisfying curiosity. Articles like these conflate real science (satisfying human curiosity) with finding life on other planets (we're not alone). Of course, finding life on another planet would be an amazing discovery, but for any true believer in science, it would just be the beginning of a million more questions, not the end goal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231348
Right? It's fucked to the point of comical absurdity. How on earth did they let anyone write this?
Seriously there is some sort of amnesia effect going on. The rate that banking execs get in trouble closely matches mafia families.
The MNT Reform seems to have open sources for the case and boards but a proprietary SoC and modules. There is also the Teres-I laptop from Olimex with open sources for the case and boards but a proprietary SoC and modules. The Librem 5 from Purism will have open sources for the case and board but a proprietary SoC and modules.

It is good that we have at least the choice to buy a device with a blackbox from China (Allwinner A64, Teres-I) or from Europe (NXP i.MX8M, both MNT Reform and Librem5). But I think we would benefit from reusing common components in hardware just like in software.

What do you think about cooperating with other developers that have similar goals to yours? Are you already?
I think the mobile site doesn't show the links for some reason. If you click on the "View full site" link at the bottom, the links show up.
%hash is an actual hash with a nested array ref inside. If $hash is a reference to such a hash, yes. Never used the second syntax and I doubt that it works with something other than subroutines, but in that case it's either hash() where hash is an actual sub, or $hash->() where $hash is a subroutine reference. Both return an array refetence.

See? Confusing. That's why people hate Perl. At least I'm glad dereferencing is gone in Raku.
It's easy to say this when your definition of 'power user' is based on it meeting your personal use case.
It is trivial when you are transferring from a Western country to an African country using services like Transferwise, Worldremit, etc but I consider transferring money from Africa to a western country non-trivial. I have personally experienced this when parents are trying to pay for tuition fees, upkeep allowance, etc. This is one of the great advantages I see Libra bringing.
() is equivalent to an empty list and nil according to this notation, in which case both would be proper lists. But according to pg, in bel, (a b . c) is not a proper list.

Edit: I think I understand now, hmm.
IPO Lessons for Public Market Investors
It's strange that the description of the language [0] starts using numbers without introducing them at first and then far later in the file says that they are implemented as literals. I didn't get to see the source code yet (I'm on mobile and have to randomly tap the text of the linked article to find links…), but I don't understand the point of this nor if it's just a semantic choice or actually implemented that way (I don't see how).

[0] https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt?t=157...