skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is TXR Lisp.

I assure you that me.(get-sidx 'foo) is (qref me (get-sidx 'foo)), where (get-sidx 'foo) is not an ordinary function call, but a macro argument that is never treated as a form to be expanded and evaluated:

From the repl:

1> (expand 'me.(get-foo 'bar))
(call (slot me 'get-foo)
me 'bar)

So as you can see get-foo turns into a quoted symbol used for a slot lookup. The qref macro receives (get-foo 'bar) unevaluated and does this simple transformation.

Don't let the repetition of me fool you; a gensym will be used when it matters:

2> (expand '(car x).(get-foo 'bar))
(let ((#:g0012 (car x)))
(call (slot #:g0012 'get-foo)
#:g0012 'bar))

Likewise

3> (expand 'me.sidx)
(slot me 'sidx)

Again, by the me.sidx -> (qref me sidx) -> (slot me 'sidx) route. me.sidx is read syntax; nothing sees that but the parser. You can just pretend it doesn't exist and read it as (qref me sidx), just like you can read 'foo as (quote foo).

In any expression where some symbol sidx is susceptible for being treated as a symbol macro, that (almost) implies it is being treated as an evaluated form, which would be the bad thing. If we have some (. obj sidx) where sidx could be expanded, it means that sidx is being evaluated as a variable, which is the bigger problem. If the . operator can prevent that evaluation, surely it can prevent the expansion.

The reason for "(almost)" is that macros can do anything. We can have a (mac foo) which symbol-macro-expands foo, but doesn't evaluate it.

I have an operator like that in TXR Lisp called equot: expand macro, but suppress evaluation ("expand-quote").

1> (symacrolet ((a (+ 2 2)))
a)
4
2> (symacrolet ((a (+ 2 2)))
(equot a))
(+ 2 2)

But me.sidx doesn't do anything like equot on sidx; just regular quote!
You can use any language you want, as long as it’s Go.
Years ago I had IGN - IBM global network - to complement os/2 and it was flawless although dialup. IBM got out of the consumer market and evidently sold their users to ATT. Which, I found, was a billing company that would occasionally shift some bits.

Ever since I have avoided ATT and they are still far more into billing than provisioning (my neighbors) who have max 75 mb down when I am getting 200/15 from a competitor. ATT is a useless dinosaur and should do the honorable thing: but they haven't ever acted anything but self-serving.
One of my big takeaways from reading GEB was that while higher-level semantics can emerge from any low-level symbolic substrate, the details of how that semantics emerges are not at all simple or obvious or “likely to happen by random chance”.

Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene, published just a few years earlier, is the clearest exposition that I have read of how this process probably played out in terrestrial life: the “semantics” encoded by amino acid sequences correspond to a molecule/cell/organism’s likelihood of surviving and replicating. For all but the simplest and most ephemeral replicators, this generally means accurately predicting environmental conditions. General intelligence, then, would conceivably arise simply due to selection pressures pushing organisms to live in the broadest range of environments.

In some sense, this process does sound more like an engineering problem, as the embodiment which “contains” the intelligence is probably not an optional component.
No, this was "if you can not conceive children you should be single." It wasn't about being hiding things from your spouse or anything like that.
> My general sense is that from a corporation which lacks emotion or psychology of any kind, the only real expression of appreciation is in payment

This makes me sad to read.

It makes me sad because it implies you're working in jobs that see you has a tool, the proverbial cog amongst cogs, and nothing more.

The truth is: money, your payment in exchange for your time and labour, is simply an economic tool to facilitate our ability to obtain the things we need. The things we need can be found in Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Without the exchange of money, we'd all suffer from the Coincidence of Wants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_of_wants. With it we can store away value and use it later on.

As for feeling as though that the only way in which your employer can praise you: this tells me you're not working for a company that aims to serve society, but instead simply exists because it's economically advantageous to exist.

I'd argue that finding a company that wants to serve society and its people via its products and or services, as a matter of first principles, will organically grow a culture of praise for you and everyone around you.
The US governments love putting people in jail for inability to pay fines. But mostly <$1000 fines and poor people.
I hope you charge a good fee for your evaluations.
Yeah, we had access to DreamSpark around 10-15 years ago and it was pretty awesome.

I was very much a Linux person at the time, but I could still appreciate all the free stuff MS lobbed at students.
It doesn't actually matter what story points stand for, as long as they converge towards a metric that can be used for consistent predictions.

In fact, if you pin them to something concrete, you lose the ability to adjust the point value to account for less-concrete variability.

They're almost always "pointless" in the beginning, no better than a Super Wild Ass Guess (SWAG). But if you use them relatively consistently over time, have relatively consistent work, and account for team size changes, they can become valuable tools for predicting completion time of complex/complicated tasks/project.
Why spend billions on upgrades when you can spend millions on lobbying and setting up legal obstructions?
Sounds like you’re looking for a government job, or a government contractor job. The bar in that domain is fairly low and the benefits and work/life balance are good, but it usually comes with certain lifestyle expectations (no drugs, in some cases passing a rigorous background check for security clearance).
I'll agree with you that I find their reasoning faulty (I did), but what I dislike about my atheism is that I get lumped in with people who'll tell theists that "they're wrong"

To my mind, most of the planet's population have got to the 'right place' (show love and compassion to those you meet) - and how we all got to this same place is immaterial.

I'm without a doubt an atheist to my core - but doesn't stop me admiring those with faith who use it to lead a good life.
I would love to know what kind of internet AT&T executives and lobbyists have.
> Hiding the price means a customer can't see a number and compare it against a competitor in a drive-by fashion.

It means they can't compare at all without giving away valuable information.

> It's a very, very reasonable and sound tactic.

No it isn't. It's a tactic used my sales weasels to gain leads. You a paying with your private info for the opportunity to see a price that's usually custom to you based on how much they think you can pay.
Yeah a little help popup might make it more clear. Like defining what happens when it is owned vs not owned. Without any description it sounds like your organization owns anything created by the tool except for enterprise customers.
This is an excellent post but I’d also add stir craziness/reassessment of housing needs due to WFH
Thanks, but will this work through walls? (The wooden kind you get in Californian houses, not concrete or anything.)
They can always get acquired by Amazon first.
Ive been using them since gen1 hardware on 2.6 controllers. And their advertised features like zero handoff were hot garbage. Their channel selection to this day still sucks and isn’t even self aware. I often have multiple aps on the same channel close enough they have their own co-channel interference. This even happens on 5Ghz where theres plenty of space, not even considering DFS and I live in the country.

Standards like fast roaming are fraught with issues.

And at one point they added call homes/telemetry. I think the 5.x code.

That is to say they have always been buggy in one form or another. More so than other vendors like Aruba or Cisco, I’ve managed both at campus scale in a previous life. I wouldn’t put them in an enterprise but a smb or soho deployment sure.

When they did the call homes/telemetry I created some firewall rules for the controller. The controller can only talk to the Ubuntu repos. Aps are on a private vlan with no internet. I only open the controller up for Ubnt upgrades and then shut down the rules and disable the ubnt repos in sources.list.

If I were someone new in the market I would look at the ruckus unleashed platform for wifi. You can get aps with extensive features cheaper, especially grey market.

I would and have avoided UBNT for all routing and switching.
I'd like to receive security updates for at least the warranty life of the device, but I wouldn't mind paying for new features/major versions of the firmware. That said, owning what I've bought is non-negotiable. I paid for what I bought and I'm not going to allow myself, or my friends, to be turned into a product.
What an absolute ghetto. I’m so glad I didn’t buy this garbage.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

I really like the simple client/server architecture, that it's easily self-hostable and there are no servers outside of my control.

The invite system reminds me of the way Tinc[1] handles it, which is great. It's so good to see user friendly tooling on top of WireGuard.

[1]: https://tinc-vpn.org/
>He therefore raises the point that we all may need to reskill multiple times during our lives and will require significant cognitive strain on older people who may have previously been able to master their professional for decades.

Maybe we need to usher in retirement at a much earlier age, 55 perhaps. Of course you can keep working but could also retire if there is that desire.

My view is we are all going to be out of work soon enough. Sam Altman agrees with me. Probably in the next 2-3 decades for sure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/openais-altman-ai-will-make-...
That is one well written Github issue!
Scientific Materialism posits that you are merely a random bag of particles, bouncing through a random universe.

In such a model, there is no intelligence, consciousness, rationality or even reason.

In order to even accept the very notion of 'reason' you have to accept some kind of higher truth.

In addition you have to accept that there is 'a reasoner'.

You can't avoid taking a metaphysical posture - this is the anti-rational position that a lot of knee-jerk opposition to religion is founded upon.

There's nothing about the Church that is 'anti reason' - the Church founded all the best/most Universities in the world, and every other university is modelled after that.

The Motto of the Ivy Leagues are: 'Truth' or 'Truth and Light' or 'Light' etc. i.e. metaphysical aspirations.

Religion is the contemplation of higher order truths, mixed in with a bunch of applied social stuff.

Therefore: "Preferring Reasoning to Religion" is to misunderstand religion (i.e. Apples to Oranges), although to be fair, a lot of religious adherents do have a problem with that as well.
I keep researching the same thing and it’s not great, everything else is significantly more expensive.
>somehow

Makes it almost sound unintentional.
I really enjoyed the article overall.

The section on Darwin was an eyebrow raiser. It makes sense to include someone like Darwin (very interesting and well known), but he's not a great example to compare to "normal" people (like the couple mentioned in the opening paragraph).

A 50 year old in the 1800s whose job was catching a ship to the other side of the planet is a little different when compared to a factory worker, software engineer, doctor, etc.

Also, what the fuck is this off-hand remark:

> Unfortunately, Mendel’s work was published in an obscure academic journal and Darwin never saw it—and in any case, Darwin did not have the mathematical ability to understand it.
This is disappointing. I've been waffling on buying a full Unifi setup for my home, but all the terrible reviews for the UDMP, and now this, have given me pause.

Are there any decent non-Chinese pro-sumer networking suites like Unifi that folks would recommend?
No sorry it does need line of sight :/
> Should the author of some text have a right to ask money from people, for allowing them to read it? I think they should have such right and it is wrong to break it.

So your issue isn't “if you think the law is wrong, breaking it isn't a solution” but “disagreeing with the law is wrong”. Which may be a legitimate opinion, but it is dishonest to say the first when you mean the second, and your disagreement with the action isn't because you think people should work to change the law without breaking it as a tactical approaches, but because you think people should support the law in the first place.
I’m considering something like this as well and my two current contenders are Nebula and ZeroTier. Would you say there’s and specific reason you singled out ZeroTier and is there anything you miss?
In western Canada, the majority of the run is fibre with the last mile using coax. This seems like a good compromise for delivering gigabit internet. It works well for me.
I wonder if USB WiFi dongles account for this at all.
It also allows them to look at your info and come up with a personal quoted price.
> such a path seems somehow "better" than popping Metformin in front of a television in a Boca Raton retirement community

The person who doesn't pop Metformin will obviously have retired earlier and be in that retirement community earlier.

> tooling around the country in an 8 MPG RV.

Once again the the person who doesn't pop Metformin will be crippled sooner and mentally declined sooner. (Assuming you are degrading tv and RV's)

So I have no idea of the point on this bit.

I also think you romanticise what happens to people "too old to work the farm". You can go check it out today in many developing countries.
Hahaha I'm sure most companies wouldn't want you either. If my code is broken I want to know ASAP.
He's lying about the "noble lie", he literally believed masks did not work - and he's not the only public health person to say that.
> And yet we've never seen anyone beat Amazon yet.

That largely depends on your definitions of "beat" and "win". There are plenty of software infrastructure firms out there that Amazon has yet to smash into the ground.

Nature seems to think (and I agree) simply existing is winning.
Please don't try to play rhetorical games like that. I asked that of you, since you implied that the workers at Amazon cannot determine what you have been able to discern. You are the person with 40 comments on this page repeating what is essentially the same comment.
That quote of Kaczynski's
seems to recur in my experience, and I suppose I understand why; out of his whole manifesto, I recall nothing else that so succinctly states his thesis. (If you haven't read it, that such an extended excerpt should be fairly called "succinct" may yield some idea.)

I had a few things to say about it once before. Four years on, I think they've held up well enough to merit linking here again: https://aaron-m.com/2017/07/09/on-kaczynski

In any case, as implicit criticisms of Taylorism go, this one doesn't strike me as being worth much, because for all his intellect, Kaczynski lacked the wisdom to think through all the consequences of the success toward which he aspired. I have tried to amend that error on his behalf, he being presumably unable to do so from whatever deep hole he's been thrown in. I can't speak to whether he would appreciate the likely outcome past the revolutionary moment, however fleetingly transcendent that might be - I don't think he understood that all revolutions become both permanent, and nothing like themselves. But neither do I feel any real need to gain his imprimatur.

The consequences of Taylorism can be, and deserve to be, criticized on their merits, and without reference to Kaczynski. I haven't been a close reader of Lapham's, but what I know of their reputation suggests they could be expected to do better for such critique than this.
Make me think of the stephen colbert christmas special
https://vimeo.com/57953108

"
Then you got your nothing.
Some folks believe in nothing.
But if you believe in nothing,
then what's to keep the nothing from coming for you?

...
Call me silly
Call me sappy
Call me many things the first of which is happy

You doubt, but you're sad.
I don't, but I'm glad.
I guess we're even.
At least that's what I believe in
And there are much worse things

- Written by Adam Schlesinger (RIP)
I don't doubt for one second that you're right about this being prevalent as well. Tom Selleck sure tries his best to talk more boomers into this line of thinking.
That's good to know— I've heard others say that it's fine if you just have a cluster of a few nodes, private cloud, that kind of thing, particularly if it's "throwaway" compute like CI workers, as opposed to something genuinely high availability.

Now, all that said, Canonical certainly advertises microk8s as being production-ready, production-grade, and suitable for use in production environments, for example in [1]. It definitely seems like it's meant to be far more serious than, say, minikube, which explicitly is just for local development.

Can you speak to specific limitations with microk8s, or point to resources which go into more depth on this?

[1]: https://microk8s.io/high-availability
Forget support - just getting a chassis even tested costs an order of magnitude more. For the price of a single five year model refresh and accompanying crash testing, NASA would be able to buy at least a dozen SpaceX launch vehicles or three to five full missions once you include overhead. The average car company will do at least half a dozen of these refreshes every five years like clockwork and you can bet a chassis optimized for LIDAR will have to do the full suite of tests.
Evidence points to China government trying to cover up details.

https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coro...
Checkout https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

"Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE
Religion, tribe, and ethnicity are all backup plans for if/when the protections given by modern society fail.
You're too young to throw in the towel. Figure out what you want, make a plan to slowly but steadily move in that direction, and execute it.
Yeah only UK experience but probably similar on the continent in the EU. In my experience as a .NET developer the latest tech isn’t chased which might be a good thing. I think reasonably modern tech is the easiest to work with. Too old and it gets hard and too modern you are playing catch up too much.
You'd think someone who's been here as long as you have would be well aware of the guideline re: "omg hn is turning into reddit" comments.
I feel like people are talking past each other here.

To me "TypeScript runtime" means running TypeScript in a mode that runs faster than JavaScript by actually using the type info to generate better machine code. It does not mean translating to JavaScript at runtime and running in V8.

For example at one time there was an experimental version of Chrome that had a Dart Runtime. A quick google finds this HN thread when they decided NOT to have a dart runtime

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264531

So can we get clear? Does Deno plan to execute TypeScript natively (not via V8 or via a heavily modified V8) or are the plans to continue compiling TypeScript to JavaScript internally and actually just run JavaScript
You can't attack someone else like this, no matter how strongly you disagree with them. Moreover, you posted this 6 times. That's outright vandalism and will get your account banned here if you pull a trick like that again.

Moreover, we had to warn you about this kind of thing before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403181.
Please review the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Accusing another user of being a communist agent just because they argue different positions than you is, besides being a gross violation of the rules, simply cartoonish. Obviously a large site like HN is going to have people on all sides of major issues.
> I do wonder if the lack of religion in society is leading us to a bad place

With respect, this is a popular right-wing talking point that has been repeated since the 1970s whenever the US is on the precipice of making real progress in terms of equity and rights.

I'm surprised to see this claim here, as I would have thought the previous four years of the Trump admin, and the disastrous influence of evangelicals on policy making and governance, would have prevented anyone from even bringing it up again.

More recent research indicates that when a society is under immense social pressure and internal conflict, and fails to provide for its citizens, religious adherence tends to increase. However, in peaceful societies where the citizens have access to a wide range of services, religious participation drops considerably.

There's a lot more to this than I'm summarizing, but the data is clear: nonreligious societies are wealthier, happier, and more peaceful.

In the US, the most red, religious states have some of the highest poverty in the developed world. This isn't a coincidence. Religion tends to diminish when good governance provides for its people.

And most tellingly, what did we see happening in the US during the last four years of the previous Trump admin? The rise of Christian nationalism, often aggressive and violent in nature, and the loss of basic governance and services for most Americans.

Source: Ed Diener, Louis Tay, David G. Myers. The religion paradox: If religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011
https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0024402
It's a tool in the toolbox. I've used it in the past when I had brutal loads of Anki reviews and I wanted to get through it without my soul getting crushed. Most times I didn't need it, but if I fell behind it often did the trick.

I feel like it's vastly over hyped, but also like it's an excellent tool in the right situations.
Religion is a social organization and embodiment of a Spiritual practice.

Technically, not necessary, but that would be like saying, technically, humans do not need 'each other' or need 'education' In reality, we do, immensely. When we don't have it wee seek it out learning ans religion, couched in different terms.

A good example is 'Yoga'. Yoga is 100% a religious practice, it's Hatha Yoga, a subdomain of Hinduism. Yoga exists to help prepare the body to be enlightened, specifically via the Kundalini Fire.

By removing the direct, religious language from Yoga, it's promulgators hoped to make it more amenable and acceptable to Westerners and it has been. (I do Yoga myself).

But merely changing the words to make them 'not seem religious' doesn't really change the underlying religious practice.
> it implies you're working in jobs that see you has a tool, the proverbial cog amongst cogs, and nothing more.

I wouldn’t say this is so. Praise from individuals, I feel, is something I can accept as genuine, and is something I do value. Public praise? at that point the person speaking is not the person, it’s a corporation, or at least indistinguishable from a corporate message.
I don’t know what your caching settings are, but my users download the app exactly once, and then only again if I push any update (or their browser cache randomly decides to clear itself, don’t really have any control over that).

Aside from that, they use the app literally their entire workday, so spending 5 seconds loading the thing isn’t going to hurt anyone.