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'REPL is opening interactive mode (if the language supports it) and entering "2+2".'

If I'm going to enter "(+ 2 2)" using my normal development tools, I'm probably going to start Emacs and tell it to start a SLIME session with one of the Common Lisps I use. When I do that, it'll create a repl buffer, because that's the way I have slime configured.

I mean, I don't have to load slime-repl. I could just interact with the Lisp's read, eval, and print functions directly from an arbitrary buffer without involving the SLIME repl display at all. But, y'know, force of habit. Also, I do occasionally type something in SLIME's repl buffer, especially if I want to see some big wad of output and don't want it spewed into the middle of the expressions I'm working with.

Most likely I won't type "(+ 2 2)" in the slime-repl buffer, though. I'm more likely to type it into a scratch buffer and send it to the Lisp by hitting C-x C-e. As soon as I start typing Lisp code, I know I'm probably going to want to add some more and maybe edit it and probably send it to the Lisp again. That's just more convenient if I have it sitting in a buffer in front of me, and not scrolling off the top of the repl buffer into infinity.

So am I working in a repl? Lisp is running a loop waiting for input. I'm sending expressions to it. It's reading them, evaluating the s-expressions produced by READ, and then printing the resulting values to a stream I can look at. Sounds like a repl to me. It's what I've always understood a repl to mean, including when I'm building them.

Does it count as working in a repl when I use a keystroke to send "(+ 2 2)" to the Lisp from the scratch buffer, or does it only count if I actually physically type the text in the buffer where the Lisp displays its prompt? What if there is no prompt? What if I start Lisp and SLIME but don't load the slime-repl extension? Does that mean that the loop that is reading, evaluating, and printing stops being a repl?

I'll probably save my scratch buffer to a file at some point, if there starts to be enough text in it that I think I might forget some of it. Does it stop being an interaction with the repl the instant I save the buffer to a file? I can save the slime-repl buffer to a file, too; does it stop being a repl when I do?

What about Lisp and Smalltalk environments where the read-eval-print loop doesn't display a prompt? Take a Smalltalk or INTERLISP worksheet, for example. Is it a repl if there's a loop reading, evaluating, and printing expressions, but no prompt? Does it stop being a repl if the incremental inputs and outputs get saved to a file? Does it count if it's not a text file, but the environment automatically saves the state of the worksheet to an image file that it automatically deserializes the next time you start the environment?

I don't think I'll adopt your lexicon, but I am sort of curious where its boundaries are.
The main guy interviewed, Guo Wengui, has an interesting Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui
Again, you’re asking things you could easily read in the article.
“massive” is somewhat ambiguous and common Chinese citizens would disagree with you that they have “massive” attacks and riots every few days. Fake alcohol WAS an issue that people talked about years ago but it’s rarely heard nowadays.
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You lie, if they accuse you of perjury then you say "I googled it after I was asked".
I was watching a behind the scenes featurette of Pixar's Brave and suddenly, there's Inigo! Turns out he was brought in to assist the animators with rendering the moss in the movie procedurally using a raymarching technique as he does here for the girl.
Why can't H1B employees leave? Can't they go back to their countries?
If rent would be the only obstacle I believe they would move East to Hungary or Romania or any other Eastern Bloc country to pay 100-200 euros rent.
J.ORDERS410. I order the discharge of Julian Paul Assange,pursuant to section 91(3) of the EA 2003.
At that, what is basically a startup, level it is possible but for a company the size of Google it would not put a dent into the system. Totally different power dynamics.
>Everyone else is looking for that too. And since it’s easier to find those places (or was) they get bid up as all things do with lots of demand and relatively low supply.

These people want the benefits of insanity with none of the drawbacks. If they were to meet any of the great artists they think were great they would try and cancel them for being *ist. This is first hand experience, I ran an artists commune after I dropped out from my phd for about a year.
> That's not how it works for Chinese billionaires; it would elevate their status to that of CCP heavyweights. When their time comes, billionaires simply vanish:

Yes, it's exactly because they don't want to cause a billionaire chicken run, unlike with own party officials, which are humiliated, punished in the most public, and terrible way.
While Trump definitely impaired US soft power, I doubt that's the reason a judge decided to rule this way.

You are essentially implying that "District Judge Vanessa Baraitser" is making a political calculation -- under pressure from who?
At her own discretion?

Do you have ANY evidence to suggest the judge is corrupt?
Because isn't that is exactly what you're implying, isn't it?

Given that this is the UK, with a fairly reputable court system, let's assume the judge made a ruling on the basis of the reasoning she gave, quote:
"Faced with the conditions of near total isolation without the protective factors which limited his risk at HMP Belmarsh, I am satisfied the procedures described by the US will not prevent Mr Assange from finding a way to commit suicide and for this reason I have decided extradition would be oppressive by reason of mental harm and I order his discharge."
I work with Twilio SendGrid. What do you mean? IPs are the de facto way that reputation is tracked and a dedicated IP’s trust is based on your sending habits. How would a smaller provider be better? The only thing that I can think is similar IP ranges can also influence delivery, so you may want a dedicated range for transactional email. I don’t see smaller providers as able to do that.
Not really for M&P managerial and professional, SAG doesn't limit what say George Clooney gets for a film for example.
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Just look at the unions california has and see how well the work. Teachers, Bart and Police.

Great examples of the success of unionization?
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> What can the trade blocks do? Sanctions would be tantamount to what was seen at the start of the pandemic.

What happened to never again? Or was it really "never again, unless we don't want to offend our authoritarian overloads, because god forbid we do something that offends them".

EU and US should absolutely sanction China, and hard. Potential negative economic impacts is no excuse for continuing relations with China.
Some of these require certifications to be applied (employed?) - Medicine, Law, ..., and some of these require hardware (and legal stuff for buying components?) - chemistry, ...

Software is unique enough in that it doesn't require any certifications to be gainfully employed, generally you don't run afoul of laws and the hardware is very cheap compared to other stuff (a woodworking shop will quickly cost you 10k, while a decent computer is <1k).
>Arguably, unions are the best judge of someone's competency, because its supposed to be a group of peers. It's already how it works in tech, software engineers evaluate the skill of prospective software engineers, not management.

I'd much rather have 8 companies with bad interviewers and 2 with good interviewers than 10 companies with the union who block me because I made one of their evaluators personally mad at me.

This just sounds like it is ripe for corruption and nepotism.
Can you make a version for my audience too? https://speedfriending.at/ at each of our events we get 100 people, it's something people care a lot about, we are the 2nd biggest meetup group in vienna https://www.meetup.com/speed-friending-events
Normal payments are not debt. If you want to buy a tv at a store, they can decline cash as a form of payment. You don’t owe them. The tv in your cart at the checkout aisle is still theirs. There is no debt.

But if you bought that same tv on an installment plan, they would have to accept payments in cash.

The first one does not involve debt, the second does. That’s the difference.
Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine
Aquaponics system growing cannabis or other plants.
Bottle it and sell it.

Gravity generators are fun, but there's a problem of lifting your heavy weight once it has descended. Use a water bucket and pour the water away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsc-pQIMxt8
you don't control the supply though. Google will just offshore these jobs to India.
> Instead, you need to run off to a dying rust-best town in Ohio

Not Ohio, but most of my serious bo-ho hipster friends went to Pittsburg or Detroit. Aging and rust-belty, but with enough actual city to also satisfy.
Because it requires rendering by a browser? You could make the same argument that the interpreted language answers are also not “full programs”

But stepping back even further why are we talking about this, it’s just a fun exercise against a hello world. The only thing being solved for is fun.
A High Court judgment would also bind lower courts, including the Magistrates’ Court.
I did not know this - thanks!
In a dense enough place with narrow streets you can just walk on the road. A lot of old towns are like this.

In montreal there is an extensive system of back lanes, and I did a lot of my walking there, no sidewalks. The lanes were shared by cars but they were slow and infrequent.
> You iterate on implicit schemas by rewriting code, and you iterate on explicit schemas by rewriting code and the schema itself.

You've missed a step: you also have to migrate the data. In my experience this is by far the slowest / most complex step. And it's much easier with SQL where you can `UPDATE WHERE` and `INSERT FROM SELECT`.

If you want a flexible schema then Postgres has JSONB which is just as flexible and usually performs better than firebase anyway. Plus you can use all the querying power of Postgres, JOINs, etc just like typed columns.

> For basic data models (think mobile game leaderboards, etc) it's just unnecessary.

If you're completely sure that you won't need powerful querying, joins, etc for any of the data you'll be storing then sure. Otherwise you lose all that time and more the first time you need a JOIN or a query that firebase can't do. And you pay that cost every time you need to implement such a feature (or you end up storing that data in Postgres or similar and you end up with two databases, which is much more painful than having two platforms).
> Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right?

By user choice. You had to register your phone number and address to be in that book.

It was immediately obvious to everyone what was going on: everybody received the same complete book of information and knew how that was published, with at least a system of opting-out (it was always opt-in, from what I remember).
Thanks. I think I feel similarly. I don’t have direct control over externalities so I try to pick employers with as much consideration as I can.

So I don’t think I am responsible, but do feel guilt or pride based on organization actions. For a historical example, even if I’m not building the slave ships, I wouldn’t want to work on building them. Depending on the particulars I would either try to change the firm to stop this practice, or leave the firm for another job and then use other legal actions to stop this practice.
One more issue is if you're using eg microsofts webmail (office? hotmail? I'm not sure what it's called but my university had it) the links will get queried automatically to "scan them for viruses" which tends to expire them.
It's written in German, a bit different and even more complex:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/auslieferungs-gesuch/2803478

Argentina asked Switzerland to extradite Jean Bernard Lasnaud for smuggling Weapons to Ecuador and Croatia (he's French), and why Argentinia? Because the former President Carlos Menem and other Politicians where involved in it.

As an example, France would ask A if he can extradited to France and prosecuted there, even when let's say the crime was in Country B. The US did something like that with Otto Warmbier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

That whole thing is often not National or International Law but Diplomatic (especially with someone like Assange)
I would liken unions to corporations rather than cartels.
>So then be a publisher or content host but not both and then you don't need section 230 for protection at all, according to the letter of law

Really? Tell that to the judge who decided Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy[0].

The law does distinguish between "interactive computer services" and "information content providers," but that is not, as some imply, a fancy legalistic ways of saying "platform" or "publisher." There is no "certification" or "decision" that a website needs to make to get 230 protections. It protects all websites and all users of websites when there is content posted on the sites by someone else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....
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I think this refers to server instances instead of server implementations.
Funny thing is when you secure "millions" you experience "more money more problems" CCP may operate as the IRS/Kingdom etc on complex grandeur scale. Wise know $$ is used to move away from monetary obligations. If this is the case...China has a huge problem. This happened in US when folks secured land grants and never wished to return to the US colonies. This always brings wars or conflict as the rich elect to tap out with the knowledge of systems... In this case the system(s) fear such knowledge (of the previous rich) will be passed down and spread to the point where government truly has to serve the people.
> In a way, only we in IT/CS are "dumb" enough to give away education for nearly free.

This is not true, at all.

You can basically get a free education in math,physics, chemistry and engineering (among others) if you know where to find the info:

1: Edx,MIT OpenCourseWare, Coursera, etc

2. Individual course pages by University

3. Asking in say Twitter or Reddit, about the best online available course for the topic you are interested in

4. If you are not a strong believer on copyright issues, certain online libraries named after biblical books can help too.

Let's take a non-CS scientific topic kinda randomly(first on my mind): Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design aka Chemical Reaction Engineering.

After a little bit of searching, you can come up with:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemical-engineering/10-37-chemi... (MIT)

http://umich.edu/~elements/5e/344/notes2013.html (U Mich)

http://umich.edu/~elements/5e/lectures/umich.html (Prof Fogler is author of one of the most well known textbooks on this subject)

Want to try another countries?

Finland : https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=20481&section=...

India: https://cosmolearning.org/courses/chemical-reaction-engineer...

I could repeat the same with almost any other science or engineering main fields of study.
What is HN doing about serious attempts from the likes of Pinkertons to create FUD in these threads?

We know for a fact that tech companies are their customer, and we know they're ruthless in online disinfo. Is HN doing any monitoring to the discourse to make sure the comments are coming from actual individuals rather than a company buying up a bunch of HN accounts with history and creating disfino and FUD?
Only tangentially related, but I have heard the urban legend that game OSTs are by design meant to get you to be more focused at the other task at hand (usually gameplay). I wonder if it could actually increase your focus if you had the music playing in the background.
I can't wait until this technology is perfected so that we can finally put an end to online disinformation for good.

Those dangerous idiots actually believe that a billionare pedophile spent decades inviting high-ranking politicians and influential decision makers to his private island for orgies with underage girls, and that when he was arrested he managed to hang himself while on suicide watch in a maximum security prison! They really are that deluded and dangerous. This needs to end, now.

The nutcases also believe that the governments are working with big tech to eliminate cash so that anybody who doesn't toe the line can be "permanently cancelled". Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? I hope in the future we can just have an algorithm that disables the bank account of anybody who spews such divisive nonsense online. There is no place for that kind of hate in a society that strives for any kind of progress.
Asssuming I had enough money, working on my various useless but fun side projects. A little bit of venturing in various other things, trying random hobbies / jobs / etc. seeing what I like and what I don’t like. Going out, sometimes to random places and just talking with people about their life stories and passions. I would be lying if I didn’t admit I’d spend time playing games or other unproductive tasks as well.
Good app and nice execution, some missing things for me:

- I would like to have the possibility to repeat tasks in a predefined manner, like daily or some particular days.

- When I create a task I would like to have the title focused so I can start writing right away.

- Keyboard shortcuts to create/go to each of the different items.
Assange wins. Cost: Press freedom crushed, and dissent labelled mental illness
In most countries, even those commonly regarded as democratic, there is no such constitutionally guaranteed right. A simple ministerial decision or even by mid level functionary is sufficient to violate your privacy.
>Engineers at Google are very well paid and have very nice perks (at least that the general perception), so I think what many people might wonder is what better deal do they feel they need strongly enough to unite in order to get it?

Also hope to gosh that there is a membership rate cap.

1% of every Google engineer's salary every year is an absurd amount of money. I don't understand why Sally Joe making $200k needs to pay more for her protection than Billy Bob making $150k.
But when Jimmy Hill became secretary the PFA did succeed in vastly improving things early 1960's
In this somewhat reductionist approach, would it be fair that CEO overseeing that process be paid billions of dollars?

I think this is a decent thought experiment for ownership of an AI sufficiently good at a hard and profitable problem. Should that company be able to collect those billions forever even if they no longer have to do any work?
You bring up an interesting point which is how gore removes the plausible deniability of violence from death, a fascinating observation about human psychology which I generally agree with. But I wonder if you're talking about something orthogonal to what GP is -- that is, you're talking about literal violence whereas they're talking about a more meta form of violence, if I'm understanding correctly.

The meta form of violence they are talking about is simply the mechanism of "might makes right" -- if I am not misinterpreting them, it's the idea that violence comes not just from the force but from engagement with the opposing character as a hostile threat to be neutralized rather than an independent agent to be reconciled through diplomacy, and that this is a function of the game design. And so a non-violent game design would entail not just removing gore but removing these kinds of engagement styles completely.

I'm not inclined to agree with this line of reasoning because I think it rests on faulty assumptions. And I think you call out the prime one pretty specifically in your comment:

> People are unable to separate a response triggered by visual stimuli away from the actual intent of "violence" that usually is associated with such stimuli.

It's a subtle but crucial distinction, and I think it gets to the core of what makes people make the conflation. Thanks for bringing it to the fore.
All unions end up being political. The elected union leaders are voted and the democratic process compels the leaders take decision that helps them stay in power. This is what causes the problem where you have elected union leader whose values don't align with helping companies bottom line. This will be the slow death of Google as the company we know. Can't wait to see right wing and left wing groups forming within Google.
The abolition of the maximum wage was arguably a consequence of organisation by the PFA under Jimmy Hill. I agree that the picture is mixed.
Well 299,999 :)
The title is technically accurate, but I think the omission of scale and any sense of how far along these plans are leaves quite a sensationalist tidbit. "Google workers announce plans to unionize" translated to "the necessary amount of employees at Google to form a union are unionizing" on my first pass. I clicked immediately because that seemed significant. I'm sure this was the intention, though I can only speculate. A clear and less sensationalist (though less click-worthy) title could have been as simple as: "230 Google workers announce plans to unionize"

That being said, I'm not contesting the validity of the movement - it's certainly possible that thousands of Googlers will sign on in support now that the movement is public, and more power to them!

It just seems like the reporting on this should be making it more clear where this effort stands and just how much needs to happen before it's legally viable. Arguably, more honest reporting in that regard would help make clear to potential allies that their support is needed, and this is not a sure thing.
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That is the problem with autocracy. If the leadership is good, it is very efficient and effective. Unfortunately based on thousands of years of examples, good leaders are rare. Without checks on power, bad leaders can tear a country down at lightening speed. Democracy is absolutely a messy government and it is frustrating to watch the glacial speed and bickering. It is also a very stable government that checks the worst impulses of the human lust for power. It keeps the power-hungry chasing each other's tails and away from the ship's wheel.
Yes, I guess that theoretically works. As you say, it's much less convenient than abandoning "something I know" and just going for a password manager. Which I do.
I've had that experience. Also the experience of not being able to carry a monitor to by both to replace one the broke because "only an authorized union person can carry things into the convention center"
Some oil and gas related gear stays subsea for 20 years before it's pulled up, so presumably similar alloys/paints/techniques are being used.

Source: I've worked, within IT, in the oil and gas sector for many years.
I'd argue that most of their capital comes from their employees, not their hardware. Any company can buy hardware that's functionally equivalent to Google's. Even with a massive pile of cash and being able to buy the same amount of hardware that Google has, it would be useless without the software that makes it run, and that software is made by their employees.

There are definitely sectors of the industry (such as manufacturing or insurance) where capital and automation drives value generation, but Google is in the business of writing software, which isn't really automatable.