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Well, the author of that doesn't mention anything about important developments in Lisp coming from Scheme in the first half of the 1980's, second half of the 1980's and so on. It seems to imply that the important contributions to Lisp from Scheme took place in the late 1970's, and then it dried up (as far as contributions relevant to Lisp).

Furthermore, none of the Scheme-influenced features in CL are from anything but he late 1970's Scheme. The lexical scoping is pretty much, pun intended, the extent of it.

Furthermore, the wording later in the paragraph is in the past tense: "The major contributions of Scheme were, ...".

That's it; Scheme was done contributing to Lisp by the end of the late 1970's. We took some of the good bits, thank you very much!

> You'd think they would have mentioned this if they thought that early versions of Scheme were Lisps while later versions.

Stated explicitly in such terms, it would kind of be an inappropriate rant with respect to the topic of that section, and in the context of the whole document. (That sort of extended section on history is not that common in ANSI and ISO language standards to begin with.)

You'd also think, by the same token, that if they thought Scheme continued to evolve as a Lisp, rather than something else, that they would crib newer features from Scheme. Like for instance, making the empty list a Boolean true value, and introducing a dedicated false constant.
What an irresponsible use of energy. At least mine Bitcoin...
Lesson: never bet your business on a Google product other than ads.
> I'd recommend you to use your favorite text editor plus Markdown. If your favorite text editor is Emacs, then consider Org.

My favorite editor is Vim, but a big part of why I learned to use Emacs was to try org-mode. Now, org-mode is pretty much the only thing I use Emacs for (email too, but not as often).
It is much easier to do those actions with Python (https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter20/)
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For things like polling, yes. Bigger is better. But scientific studies deal with the question "does this have an effect." In that aspect, you introduce Type I and Type II errors, and sample sizes play into the chances of making them.
I’m from the future, you should learn Chinese.
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So Tensorflow 2 is built on top of a Keras API.

Its supposed to be better UX, but Pytorch really is far superior UX.
The availability of developers' keys on github can be quite useful, a few jobs ago I leveraged this to auto-provision ssh bastion hosts with public keys for all of the collaborators of a repo. Much easier than getting people to send them to you and add them to authorized keys by hand.

https://gist.github.com/femto113/ef9162d670def84b3c684d2d305...
Amazon, SpaceX and OneWeb are all doing satellite based internet service(or atleast trying to push in that direction.

I wonder why project loon/whatever google calls it's think tanks now discarded that as an idea? seems like a thing purpose built for the google brand - huge idea, requires massive funding, literally no government can prevent you from beaming internet at it's citizens without a satellite killer(which they can't deploy without intl negative attention)

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/22/fast-internet-via-satellites...
I can relate to the post, having just started for couple of months now, learning to write code for your self is satisfying. I have followed several youtube videos to learn programming language, but the fruitful results only come from working on side projects/challenges etc.

The only way to account my progress is through github commits. I love the color green. ;)

Would love to get feedback on my blog http://codingbbq.github.io. Cheers.
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So far here in in Guangdong all of the supermarkets and wet markets that are open are fully stocked with fresh produce like eggs, meat, tofu and vegetables. Factory-produced stuff like instant noodles seems to be going through waves of reduced availability, but there still aren't any bare shelves.

The only thing that is completely sold out - and has been for weeks - is the facemasks that are mandatory to wear outside (go figure).

It seems that the agricultural supply chain at least is still working. Farmers are harvesting and drivers are delivering.

I am also worried about the power, though. Our building had a power outage on Friday morning last week which lasted 4 hours. That's especially inconvenient when so many people are essentially stuck in their apartments trying to work from home.
> Then Google found out that when the street lights turn off, there's no power to run the access points.

Uh? Duh! What did they expect? A switch in every street light? (Which also would need to be controlled in some way ...)
Would have made it harder for the public to hate big tobacco if they had been putting their names behind good stuff for all the years they had insane profits. Might even have kept regulators from decimating their business.

Google learned from mistakes of the past.
Is there a link somewhere where he published the result?
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Firefox.
If not for some stupid corporate policies, I would use it at work too.
Tried Vivaldi cuz the cool kids were using it but didn't get around to explore all its features.
This sort of statement can't really be proven true or false, because you put no time limit on it. Of course, eventually the economy will shrink instead of grow and you can claim to have predicted the future. In the same vein, during a recession you could predict a return to growth, and it'll probably eventually happen. Neither are particularly meaningful unless you give a hard timeline, after which we could declare you right or wrong.
Arguably Google's system is fairer, because the committee doesn't know you, so their decision has to rely on the facts in the packet (and their cursory validation of such facts against other evidence). IOW, you don't get a promo just because you brownnose your boss or skip, or butter up some bosses that you know will be present when the decision is made - they aren't on the committee, and they aren't the ones making the decision.

Even though this system is objectively fairer, it _feels_ shitty nevertheless, I suppose because it's much harder to game through the mechanisms outlined above. You have to game it in other, much more labor-intensive ways, such as "work with" people who are a level or two above you (of which there are very few in remote offices, so you better be in Mountain View for that), sit in important meetings, "show leadership", virtue signal, etc. In fact if you do all of these things really well, you could skip the actual productive work by switching to the management track. If you're not super good at this, you have to do them in addition to your day job, and your promo prospects become tenuous at best beyond level 5.

Regarding metrics, there's a universal law at Google: you can't improve what you don't measure. This is part of the reason why Google sucks at UX for example, and rocks pretty hard at ads and search. The former is not measurable. The latter is.
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Once you have the slightest desire to avoid Amazon you notice how easy it is. I order a ton of stuff from walmart.com and the only difference is it takes a couple more days to arrive.
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Considering how easily you can get banned from Google ads, you should also prepare for that scenario.
As a FYI your password requirements don’t mesh with Apple’s auto generated passwords. Funny how that’s become a barrier for me to create an account.
Autohotkey is such a beast. I really miss that now that I've started using Linux. i spent nearly 4 years writing scripts to automate all sorts of things in windows but to recreate them on linux might take me much longer since i would have to learn maybe 6 or 7 different programs just to get the same features. but alas Windows was doing my head in so I had to jump ship!
Last week I built an automated expense tracking dashboard on Tableau using SendGrid and Google Sheets. I use a Gmail filter to forward my credit card transaction emails to an Inbound Parser setup on SendGrid, which makes a POST call to my home server with the content of the email. A regex then captures the details from the POST body and pushes them to a Google Sheet.

Next I use Tableau Public to read data from Google Sheets and publish a dashboard to Tableau Public Online. Tableau Public automatically refreshes data on the server side from Google Sheets every few hours.

The good part is that all of this can run automatically without any manual intervention whatsoever and I get a
beautiful near real-time dashboard for my daily expenses that I can access from anywhere (dashboard is publicly accessible but hidden).
Thanks!

I'll try 國語日報, I'm not sure where to buy it though (it used to be available easily in every 7-Eleven out there but it's been a while since I've seen a copy in a convenience store...).

I already know between 800 and 1000 traditional characters. Looking at Outlier Linguistics products, it seems more targeted towards the entry level. Their Pleco dictionary is nice, though. Reminds me of the explanations one could find in Wenlai (a desktop Chinese-English dictionary with a lot of historical explanations for each characters).
I suspect they're withdrawing due to infrastructure issues. We also have frequent power cuts (in my area it's up to 4 hours a day with no electricity) and loads of cable theft. Some of the cell towers even get shut down because people steal the hardware, the batteries that keep them operational. Heck, we've even had cases of people stealing fibre cables, because they thought they were worth more than copper.

*I am a South African living in South Africa.
Yeah, some degree of isolation is probably a good idea. The issue wouldn't be an accident due to plugging into an output, but issues with bad grounding or a short to mains. It's unlikely, as it would be a failure condition for the modular synth too, but better safe than sorry. I'd personally like 2-5k kV of galvanic isolation between me (and my $$$ prosthesis!) and the wall.

Plugging into an output would merely make some op-amps unhappy. Maybe a little magic smoke, but nothing lethal...

(Not a real EE and I'm definitely not confident enough to design interfaces between fleshy bits and mains-powered hardware.)
Nope. Medical staff effectively saying you must feed your baby now or it will die three hours after it was born and after a 24 hour labour tends to focus your mind and scare the crap out of you.

There is just as much unsubstantiated fear generated by medical staff when it comes to kids as everywhere else in the community.

Seems that just having been a child qualifies somebody to comment on how you choose to raise your children.

Too much attention and you are a helicopter parent, not enough and you are neglectful. God forbid you let them play in the park without you being there.
Is it just me or is there zero explanation to what this actually is?

It somehow "helps" me understand deep learning but its tutorial / doc is one python notebook with three cells where some nondescript unknown API is called to train a transformer.

Huh?
Sorry, my message was not very clear. I've studied Chinese in the past, and I'm using it daily. I already know a bunch of written characters, it's just that reading articles seems really out of reach...

And yes, I know what you mean with English... and yet, I'm lucky enough that my mother tongue (French) actually shares a lot of vocabulary with English!
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Google is not a person. It can't feel anything. It is also composed of several teams, so it's perfectly possible for Google to look both to the left and to the right at the same time, before the higher ups decide to do some spring cleaning and shut down projects that don't align with their bigger picture.
Google doesn't say that at all. What they say to samsung is to push there changes up so that the kernal teams can review them.
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> How was that such an important decision?

Taxes. Politicians still think Microsoft pays taxes. Though 60M [1] per year in taxes while paying much more for their software is technically a retarded thing to do deal-wise.

[1] https://www.northdata.de/Microsoft+Deutschland+GmbH,+München...
Yep, of course RCE would have to be precisely defined in the case of this approach. You could have a turing-incomplete language that prevents interpreting, or you could have a more general language that just prevents uncontrolled RCE due to memory safety compromise. Or some formal proof of not interpreting received symbols in a way that affects control flow in a complex way..
It's not directly a security problem as in your computer is gonna get hacked, but it can ruin your opsec if you don't want people to realize that you're the person controlling a specific key.
Google operated city-wide public WiFi in Mountain View for many years. So, it's not like they didn't have any experience.

I would also like to point out that most cities have a utility electrical grid to power traffic lights and the like. While I imaging some south cities could get away with solar-powered traffic lights, it's unlikely that Chicago is one.

I don't know anything about this Google+Chicago experience (even though I currently work at Google), but I would bet the issue was not as simple as "they found out that street lights turn off".
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Not sure why one would bother with this. This is a less mature version of PyTorch. And I know there's XLA and stuff, but I've yet to see any major benefit from that for research in particular. A ton of time in DL frameworks is spent in the kernels (which in most practical cases means CUDA/cuDNN) which are hand-optimized far better than anything we'll ever get out of any optimizer.
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What I find interesting is that there is so little discussion of the demand for fentanyl. I know it's convenient to blame doctors and drug companies, but why is there such a high demand for fentanyl as a drug of abuse/intoxication in the USA compared to other countries?

By the way, I have fentanyl patch prescriptions, and have done for years, due to medical issues. I use maybe 7-10 doses per year, with no real urge to take more. I can see how it can be appealing to people, but there has to be something in US society that makes fentanyl and other synthetic opioids so enticing.
Wait isn’t having a bot send you notifications all day the opposite of “distraction free”?
I mean we just had Uber. It's still a $68B company despite somewhat mixed sentiment and performance in the public markets.
You can whine all you want, but the other option is not being in control of your own project and answering to someone else who is paying you. Grant writing sucks, but you control your funds and how it's spent and what it's used for. There's a reason it's hard to get hundreds of thousands of dollars from people, and it's because you can basically spend it how you want. So of course they're going to make sure you know what the hell you're doing.
If you try to SSH into some new machine that you own, someone can redirect your request to an attacker's machine (via DNS attacks or MITM), and since it's a new machine, it won't be in your known_hosts file, so it will prompt if you want to trust this machine and 99% of people will say yes.
> The rivulrous nature of physical goods is inherent

As is the rivalrous nature of all subjects of non-physical property. Otherwise, there'd be no advantage to exclusive privileges. Exclusive access being more valuable to the exclusive holder than shared access would be is exactly rivalry.

But the rivalrous nature of the subject of property doesn't make property rights natural, it just provides the basis by which such rights create incentives which drive behavior which may or may not produce social utility.
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Freelance contracts that anyone can understand
Most of the people who do this are reading english subtitles.
Ask HN: My clients always lose interest towards end of projects
Hi,

I am having a problem where my clients are losing interest towards the end of projects. When the agreed contract is delivered, usually very early in the amount of time agreed, I usually ask for feedback on the deliverable before sending them the invoice.

The work is not garbage - it's high quality work, fully commented, and I'm good at my job.

In 2 instances now, my client has taken a long time relative to the contract period to send back feedback (i.e. up to 2 weeks on a 3 week contract), and in two cases now the client has simply become either non-responsive or argues long-running of the contract, mainly to do with their delay in providing feedback.

I was wondering perhaps instead of sending the deliverable for feedback, I should be sending them an invoice as soon as the project is "100% complete" and allowing them to argue any touch-up points rather than leading with the assumption that the client may want touch-ups made.

Does anyone in a contracting or freelancing background have any feedback about how to deal with this issue?
> how NY taxi drivers have always been crooks.

I feel like this sort of thing happens in a large number of places I've been to. People in some professions think, "oh, here is an out of towner, I will charge them a little more." By no means restricted to New York or the United States.
How do you know whether you're SSHing to a place you're not supposed to or not? There's no CA telling you that it's legit like there is for https. 99% of people don't manually verify the host key fingerprint.
Knowing how bureaucracy in Japan works, I bet it's still there buried in station documents altogether with pile of papers stating when it was found, who passed it to who and when, probably detailed description with meticulous description of all dents on the coin.
Unfortunately, this is the downward spiral of having bad actors. I kinda wish we lived in a world where communities could self-regulate and expel bad actors to let the ones who want to work together to achieve something can thrive.
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Curious now to know how much would this cost to compute in AWS?
I love this idea of generated content. I'm wondering what artists thinks about that.

There was a recent Show HN project about generate quotes having some great results having sense : https://machineswisdom.com
800-1000 characters is not enough. Should be about 2500-3000 characters to be comfortable with reading news and random articles online. I am at this level now, but can't handle novels yet. Need to learn much more vocab for that.
Honestly, the truth is probably very mundane. It’s more likely that inter-department political vying for power has created a lot of redundancy, unnecessary work justified, and everything’s just barely being held together by the public’s faith that because they’re big they’ve got it all figured out.
Fake that smile, save up, move on to places where you will really enjoy your work in a meaningful way.
I wonder what would have happened if EA went with Will Wright’s vision instead of the disaster that was released
I guess it does create perverse incentives. If you look busy and making progress, it is easier to justify to upper management on what you are doing.
A note here since I did not know this: It looks like Redream is no longer open source. As far as I can tell its not formally acknowledged anywhere. It seems like it was silently closed source when it moved from GitHub to GitLab some time ago. I feel like people ought to know since some folks may be under the impression it is open source when it's not. I usually don't bother trying to use closed source emulators personally, for practical reasons (At the very least, closed source anything is a pain in the ass under NixOS.)
Hahahaha! Indeed. That's basically what it all boils down to.
openssh makes the situation worse because if the key is already in your host file and it's just the ip/domain that changed it will not tell you that it recognises the key.
I’ve felt those frustrations one too many times myself. One thing I learned though is that there’s a reason and method to the madness.

The people that do the decisions and prioritizations are usually just as smart as developers, but have different priorities.

It’s often more lucrative for a company to release something early even if it’s beta quality, since business knowledge is a very lucrative commodity. The company will know more about its customers, how it can help (or exploit) them better.

And things get more complicated when you have multiple teams. Yeah you can spend a sprint or two to polish things now and save yourself 4-5 sprints worth in the future. But if there are 4 more teams waiting on your deliverables, it might be a worthwhile trade for the company as a whole.

Understanding where your own team fits inside the huge structure of a big company is of course the PM’s job, so you as a dev don’t have to know about it. But thats a lot tougher than figuring out estimates is for us, and even more disruptive if gotten wrong.

Estimating a dev task deals with a lot of unknowns. Building a sequence of tasks for teams to follow takes _those_ as input and needs to produce something thats not just pure chance. I don’t envy that one bit.

Once I started to get the bigger picture into account myself as a dev, it became much easier to go along with those decisions and to know when I can push for good quality stuff and where to leave it be.

It’s the whole “let me help you achieve your goals so you can help me achieve mine” thing and has made my life as a dev much more pleasant.
The bribe here is not to people but to the government. If the tax effect for the city outweighs licensing costs it makes sense for the city to switch. The city where their office used to be is the one suffering under the decision.
Working in an office decorated by a bot is the most demoralizing experience I could imagine. I would probably go into an existential rage and start breaking things until someone more physically powerful came and subdued me.
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How do you make the jump and apply the real life sources? A dictionary and a lot of free time? Two copies one in each language? Kindle French?