skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a consequence of the language never getting another standard. If it did, and given the way Common Lisp systems work, I think there could've been something like cl2 and cl2-user packages which could've pushed more towards that generic style that CLOS promotes, and maybe eliminated some of the elements that were redundant or didn't quite fit with everything else (is it `(function sequence index)` or `(function index sequence)`?). Those conflicts make sense given the history of the language (it was created to help connect several branches of the lisp family). And the older standard would've been easily preserved in the cl and cl-user packages.

But the language is essentially frozen in the existing standard, and can only be extended by community consensus right now.
Yeah, the clients are different - Microsoft and IBM target enterprise clients and they know that if a client can't reach someone on the phone, they will lose their business. Google on the other hand is a business-to-consumer business trying now to be a business-to-business one, and still thinks that it can ignore the "older" generation and target the current generation who are more familiar with interacting with automated response systems. It's already biting them in the arse.
that's the balloon task, it measures willingness to take risks in contexts of ambiguity (the chance of it popping is not known). the button press task is probably used to normalize response time data, since some of the between person differences in average response time is due to (probably uninteresting) differences in motor-control of the neuromuscular system. were there any other tasks like ones that asked you to identify the color of the text regardless of what the word said (e.g. a blue word "red")?
This reminds me interviews with Japanese artisans who approach their swordmaking/pottery/baking/tofu-making as a spiritual practice. These all seem to be older people.
This post has 629 pts, 1039 comments, and was posted 5 hours ago.

Why is it slipping to 2nd page of HN already?
I agree the Russian government (as opposed to all of Russia) is absolutely a legitimate threat to the integrity of US networks, as are the governments of many other countries. And of course the US government is a proven threat to the integrity of both US and non-US networks.

Unfortunately the reporting on purported Russian hacking events seems invariably to collapse when examined. My conclusion from all this is that the Russian equivalent of the NSA or GCHQ (the GRU?) must be pretty good at not leaking and not being caught with obvious fingerprints on its operations. Every plausible connection between a serious hack and Russia I've seen is extremely circumstantial, whereas for the NSA or GCHQ we actually have their internal training materials and presentation slides.
>If it is possible, by a simple intellectual process, to make the choice to renounce religion, it can then not possibly be integral or essential to your identity. That's completely antinomic. You either don't understand those words (and funnily accuses me of misusing English), or are being dishonest.

By a simple InTeLlEcTuAl pRoCeSs, again, since you lack basic reading comprehension skills, for some people religion is an integral part of their identity, that's not even up to debate. Something can be an integral part of your identity and still change for various reasons, nothing of that will change the fact that it is an integral part of some people's identity. Your embarrassing attempts to defend your absurd claim is just pure comedy.

>But I realized you're most likely just a troll. My bad.

Says the guy who desperately clings to 1 of the many arguments that were made ignoring all others and is not even able to make sense on that front. Embarrassing.

>It is telling though to see how you kept avoiding the concept that by apostasy I was referring to the honest personal choice of people renouncing their religion for intellectual honesty (someday they believe then, maybe after self debating the absurdity of the idea, they don't anymore), but you kept insisting instead that it must be because someone or something forces them to. It really shows how narrow minded you must be.

You are heavily misquoting and distorting yet again.
I said that apostasy can occur for various reasons many times, yet you make this completely bizarre and far fetched case just to inflate your terribly false argument.

>Keep to your fascist trolling if that pleases you, your moral values are not on the right side of history.

Says the guy who defends french fascism and persecution of minorities based on fake french values, which only serve the secular elite. The barbary of french colonialism continues, after murdering millions of Algerians and Africans and force their secularism on them, now they try to intellectualise their oppression. France even betrayed the jews and cooperated with the Nazis, delivered them to be murdered, so don't ever talk about being on the right side of history, you never were and never will be.

>Blasphemy laws and similar barbaric values have been successfully fought and repealed in France (that you seem to despise so much) and other countries, they will eventually be everywhere else too.

Nope, wrong. France and its barbaric values are still present in its own blasphemy laws which prohibits denigrating the french flag among other deceptions to not respect its own values, thus violating free speech, but everyone already knows that france has only fake free speech, protecting the rich secular people, but not minorities.
Your asking the wrong question. What does the board of Tesla know that the average investor doesn’t know? Obviously that no matter the value, news like this will spike the price of Bitcoin. So they just made a huge profit just by slowly aquiring a security, then pumping its price and eventually dumping it.

Quite an ingenious scheme there. You have to wonder how it will play out long term though.
Great work! Love the backstory. Clean and intuitive design. Looking forward to seeing how this develops further.
I find these anecdotes to be completely untrue. Women are often assumed to be less competent, and are often passed over during hiring for men of equal competence.

I've seen some incredibly useless dudes sit back and rest and vest for months and months without any repercussions. I don't have an equivalent story for women because I work with significantly less women. Let's try focusing on the apparent and obvious biases against women before we start keeping score on how men are so disenfranchised.
Note that PG has made "On Lisp" available for free: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
Haha i _am_ the only one.
Martha Minow signed the letter calling Trump's First Amendment (wrt insurrection liability) defense frivolous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/trump-defense-first-am...

As such, I'd expect her views here to be quite a bit more nuanced than what she wrote two years ago about the legal system in general (as a whole).
Doesn't the material found in L'Anse aux Meadows in Canada pre-date this by over 400 years?
There would definitely be applications for a tiny ultrafast serial CPU with on-board RAM. Not all algorithms are parallelizable.

I'm imagining a small in-order 32-bit core with ~256KiB static RAM running at 100ghz. Call it the Serial Killer.
I would legit watch a Star Trek franchise that had the Ferengi running Big Tech.
Here's Ray Dalio on Bitcoin

> That is why to me Bitcoin looks like a long-duration option on a highly unknown future that I could put an amount of money in that I wouldn’t mind losing about 80% of.

https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/ray-dalio-...
You're a prosecutor. Your goal is to get convictions. You are objectively graded largely on your ability to secure convictions.

Every incentive you have leads you to preferring convictions.

You have a choice between two labs to hire for your field test. Lab A and Lab B.

Lab A gives you conclusive evidence leading to a conviction 95% of the time. Lab B gives you conclusive evidence leading to a conviction 65% of the time. Price and speed are roughly comparable between the labs. Which lab do you select?

---

You are now a lab director. You are under pressure to improve the sales of the lab's forensic services. You have pretty much maxed out making changes to improve price and speed, and have been matched by other labs. You understand very well the decision making process prosecutors will use to hire your lab.

---

The incentives clearly lead prosecutors to pursuing labs that deliver better results. Labs know this, and so are under market pressure to delivery convictions for prosecutors.
Maybe things are different in America than they are here in NZ, but I don't think it's only the price of BTC rising. Having house prices rise 20% in a single year definitely screwed me over here.
Director to junior engineer is absolutely a demotion (albeit a voluntary one), and might even come with a paycut.
I'm curious. I've always been frustrated by this "closed" business model in the legal system. I feel like the entire process & details should be detailed in the open (code, methodology, controls, etc). Of course the counterpoint is that it makes it easier to copy this business & undercut all the time & energy spent on building it (copying is easier). Is that the only reason? I feel like open kimono is a critically important concept for anything related to the legal system because of how any perversion removes its legitimacy. If it really is that prohibitive to run a profitable business in this space, is there open standards that can be enforced (e.g. "this is the core algorithm that is approved" & businesses must get regular audits to continue to be used & any failed audit causes a reexamining of any court cases you were involved in the past year?). That's less ideal because then who audits the auditors but maybe at least it's an acceptable middle ground from where we are?

In general I've been extremely frustrated how regularly & consistently this entire industry keeps everything secretive & trust-based despite consistent examples of how insufficient trust is for this field & how devastating the results are when that trust is violated.
This review fraud has got way out of hand. Right now, it would be better to remove reviews entirely and for consumers to make a decision based on the product page alone. The consumer trust in reviews is at such a low that it’s adding friction to purchase decisions and starving honest businesses from being able to invest in quality products.

One solution might be to only publish reviews/ratings from accounts with a minimum spend threshold and unique active payment details. This would effectively price out the scammers.
Yeah, there need to be consequences for this. The alternative is empowering people and corporations to destroy lives with impunity in pursuit of their own goals, as long as they can later claim it wasn’t intentional.

What really pisses me off is how we fail again and again to ask the question of whether these entities should have been doing what they were doing in the first place, if it even can be done safely. Facebook, Equifax, police surveillance and misconduct, totally unaccountable “forensics” techniques—in all these cases where incalculable damage is done in totally predictable ways, we only address it reactively (if we address it at all) and completely fail to fix or even really consider the root cause(s). It’s like we have this huge blind spot where we take as a given that established entities doing thing(s) just have a right to keep doing them, regardless of any other factors.

In this case, forensics “experts” (essentially witch doctors) and fly-by-night black-box “labs” with unproven methodologies an undergrad intern might have developed in a week or two are institutionalized in our courts. This has happened because there is zero oversight and zero accountability for their claims, and lives are destroyed as a result.

It is insane not to pursue criminal charges for these indiscriminate arsonists of justice—if they can’t do what they claim to do fairly and accurately, they should not do it. They don’t have a right to “try” just because it will make them money, regardless of the consequences.
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> They are becoming the AT&T Wireless of Cloud providers.

On that note - I have AT&T. I'm fine with AT&T, except that group MMS / messaging is broken with non-iPhone users. I've tried calling support, walking into a store, and now - simply given up. I tried two other carriers a few years ago, and had far worse problems, so I just suck it up and call people when we have to communicate. At least that part works.

You sum it up well.
In short, yes. You need capital willing to fund a given idea for it to happen.

That doesn't have to come from a bank or a VC, but it can.

So the capital allocators who allocate to successful projects are a necessary component of the equation.

They may not "deserve" "most" of the credit, but you still need them around. So to loop back to your point -- if people like Sam have convictions about what to fund / how to choose, they can be a useful (even integral) part of BUILDING things.

Just because he's not an operator in the equation, doesn't mean that his exhortation is hypocritical. IMO

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Why, o why? If they intend to be paid in Bitcoin, they don’t need to own any.

Unless they also intend to pay with Bitcoin, I also can’t see how this can be a hedge against exchange rate fluctuations (or do I overlook something?)

So, it seems this is gambling on Bitcoin becoming worth more. I don’t think that’s something a car company should do, as it can end badly. As an example, Volkswagen lost about $400 million in 1987 when some employees bet on the exchange ge rate of the dollar (https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1987/3/30/computer-fraud.... That wasn’t following management orders, to put it mildly, but if it had been, it would have ended similarly)

Also, it surprises me they have that much cash, but reading https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/1LRLZK_2020_Q4_Quarterly_..., they have almost $20 billion.
Advances in performance are largely about impedance matching, from sequential access tapes to registers in a CPU. You want to use an efficient interface and abstraction for the level you're at. The direction of progress is toward faster, more randomly accessible with less seek cost: HDD -> SSD -> XPoint, etc. This totally makes sense--using RAM through a disk interface (e.g. RAM disk) is useful if you want a faster disk, to get something faster change the interface to take advantage of the medium.
I have self-hosted E-mail for myself and my family for years, probably close to a decade now--I lost count. It's a learning curve at first but once it's dialed in and working, there's really nothing to touch. Occasionally, like once every two years or so, I find my spam filter process crashed and failed to relaunch or something, causing delivery delays.
I think the idea is that many people know the offset of their timezone from GMT/UTC, so they wouldn't have to look it up, but nobody can be expected to know their offset from any arbitrary other timezone.
I have no active military experience but I have been trained in small arms and tactics. There is sufficient video evidence of US troops shooting to suppress an enemy when given an order to do so. I'm not rejecting RoE but I am referencing such scenarios.
They discovered an attack on part of AES. Article is light on details, but this is not the end of crypto algorithms as the article implies.
Cryptocurrencies are a decentralised P2P digital version of Bernie Madoff.
Cold weather people can checkout something like yaktrax - have found the ones with chains hold up longer, the ones with straps across the top of the foot stay on (if you lose one you will walk in circles!). No shame in using poles, coldweather facemasks either.

Dogs are a great motivator and pretty good companions if you like them/can swing that...
She was a director (manager of managers), so going from that to an IC developer is absolutely a demotion by any definition of the word.
jakub_g refers to the claim that "automated filtering systems are a myth". That doesn't mean that HR aren't filtering them manually.
When you make a decision as a manager or a director, the impact of that decision has a multiplicative force.

As an individual contributor, the impact of your decisions may be broad, but however broad your individual impact is, your manager's impact on you is [broad * number of directs], so it's always "greater" (note: not better, just greater).

So in that sense, the "value" of a manager/director is "higher".

IMO it's all just a series of roles, and you need someone to do both. Someone has to be designing and building code while someone else attends meetings and understands the larger context of that code, making sure the code makes sense a week/month/year later.

In fact, I prefer it when managers take on a much less "HR" role, and instead act as "go-fers" for their team, a la "how can I unblock you today?". Bonus points if they can mentor, but not necessary.

Being an individual contributor isn't a "demotion", but it is a change in where your impact hits (people vs. things). You need both, and it's fundamentally a partnership, I wish more people realized that.
Most of the value that Gates created was as a pure manager.

He was a programmer before, possibly amazing at it too, but I'd hardly say his role at Microsoft was that of an engineer-manager.

He regularly attended engineering meetings throughout his tenure as CEO (he says so in that Netflix mini-series about him) but by far his largest drivers for creating value were how he envisioned software eating the world (esp. the enterprise), and how he executed a commercial strategy to perfection to build a monopoly around that vision.

Not to downplay the difficulty of building operating systems at scale, or that Microsoft might have made some impressive innovations in the 80s and 90s, but they always had a reputation for their products being "OK" at best, so I'd argue their dominant position was acquired through wheelin' and dealin' more than anything else.
There have been attempts to make these SFQ circuits work for ages, eg see this from 1999: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3310945_Rapid_Singl...

What I want to know is, what were the problems that prevented them succeeding before, and have they been overcome now?
> physically you can at least own the address

No, a town owns an address and rents it to you. If something goes wrong with the billing you get evicted, if they want a mall they forcibly "buy" it from you.

There's no resource you can count on in this way. Resources get reallocated at some point.
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It's really not off topic. It's incredibly common these days and extremely annoying that news articles do not link to the source. I don't see why it is difficult and should be done.
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I find the concept of not being allowed to hire (or not hire) whoever you want horrifying.

My life goal is to get my kids to a level where they can afford to refuse to take demeaning tests. But if companies want do employ them, they should be allowed to do so.
Clojure is my only serious exposure to lisp, and I get jealous when hearing about features like a `breakloop` in Common Lisp.
Even fairly strong correlations break down on restricted ranges of inputs. Eg, if you're hiring between 80-90th percentile candidates (top ones get better offers, lower ones get filtered out), yes, the correlation will get swamped by noise; not so much if you are hiring between 0 and 100.
You don’t need to pick a bad partner to get utterly fucked over. Sure, paying attention to warning signs is important, but believing making a sound choice is going to protect you is “just world” fantasy land.

However, don’t assume it’s about them, perhaps you’re the one that gets tempted to break things off for one reason or another. Are you happy with all the choices the you of 20 years ago made? Sometimes divorce is a straightforward process where people can remain friends after the fact, but that’s rare as normally someone’s upset.
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It means creating an algorithm which suggests a highly probable input that provides a given output.

Check out Grover's Algorithm
In the public sector in Europe we’ve long liked Microsoft because they actually sell support. When they decided to push 365 additions as enabled by default and no easy way to turn it off, we suddenly had a couple of thousand employees trying this new teams thing out. After a few hours on the phone with Seattle, it was possible to disable, and later Microsoft changed policy to let their enterprise customers decided what features are on. We have a lot of those stories, and it’s something people often overlook when they wonder why the public sector favours Microsoft. We have more than a quarter century of great relations.

When AWS first arrived they had the same automated support system that Google does, and they didn’t really want to comply with GDPR. We probably would’ve gone with Azure anyway because it’s the easy option for operations when you’re already in bed with 365, but the Amazon/Google attitude meant they weren’t even considered beyond the first look.

Since then AWS has overtaken Azure in GDPR compliance and the availability of their support, and we now have several supplier operated solutions in AWS.

Google is still on the “do not buy from this company” list.

But maybe they just aren’t interested. They are primarily an advertising company after all.
Is OpenVAERs a legitimate source of information for vaccine injury? The site claims the data is sourced from the HHS. Has this been validated? If so, is this raw data or has it been reviewed and vetted by HHS. Self-reported data from non-medical professionals likely needs significant vetting, analysis and interpretation.
Ah, nice to see the mention on Lua-based game libraries (Corona2D (now Solar2D), and Love2D), which have also fueled my programming interests in the teens.
This is such a horrible misogynistic comment, it saddens me greatly this crap is on top, tells a tale about HN audience. Janitor? Charity? Hot female? Just listen to yourself, you're so full of hate.
I just launched a jigsaw puzzle website last week that has a backend API written in Rust and uses the postgres crate [1].

Since this is a side project for me, there wasn't much risk if it ended up being a bad decision. Multiple times throughout the project I got frustrated with the DX of existing http frameworks I tried and ended up building my own [2] on top of hyper. However, after launching my site and seeing how it performs in production, I could not be happier with the result! I had a bit of Rust experience before the project but learned a lot more through building this.

For you and others, I think it really depends on the situation. Building a Rust CRUD app will likely take longer than the other languages you're used to as the ecosystem is under heavy development, especially with async/await. So if you or your team are in a rush, I'll just echo that you should build with the tools you already know. If you have time and budget to experiment like I did, it might be worthwhile and I can promise it will be fun :)

[1]: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres

[2]: https://twitter.com/jakedeichert/status/1205230350160539650
I think the point is you know how far your timezone is from GMT, but you don't necessarily know what "CT" means.
Blockchain technology creates object permanence in digital spaces.
Looks like the site got Slashdotte....errr...HN'ed.

Here is the Internet Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210208171420/https://codewrite...
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If you use it as a full project management tool it can be a bit painful, but is there a better tool you’d recommend for someone who just wants a good bug tracker?
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c.f. https://time.com/5931343/william-barber-inaugural-prayer-ser...