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Rich Hickey "thinks in lisp". For example, he talks about his "maps" data structure (aka association lists). See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc

Since data and programs are the same thing in lisp you can fluidly shift from one to the other, like I did with "knowledge" vs "rules". They both have the same representation (defstructs) but they are also code and have execution semantics. Clojure allows you to do this with map objects.

The fact that you can use the whole language on everything at any time and that everything at any time is also "the language" is how you "think in lisp". Nobody thinks of Python programs as "data" or data as Python programs.

Watch anything Rich Hickey talks about. He really "gets it".
Sure, compared to their market cap, it's small. But it's 1.5B$, a very significant percentage of the cash they have on hand.
I think he is talking about upsert
Well I just posted a link to my little subleq article in another thread the other day but in case someone didn't see it:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/biomimetic.me/subleq.gmi

On that page I have a little subleq program written using HSQ (High-Level Subleq, a C-like language that compiles subleq) that uses ANSI graphics for a simple D&D dice roller.

One thing I think that should be a little different than what is on Rosetta Code for example is to make sure that the STDIN input does not require an ENTER key or something like that. Because that allows for more interactive programs rather than line-based.

Here is my little C subleq interpreter that does it that way: https://github.com/runvnc/sq/blob/master/sq.c .. and it also flushes STDOUT quickly if I recall. Mine is based on this one: https://github.com/davidar/subleq/blob/master/src/sq.c

Maybe using ANSI escape codes is cheating. But if you don't mind cheating, just having the STDOUT allows you to also do vector graphics, if your terminal happens to support that. Such as an xterm which can do vector graphics (draw lines) using Tektronix 4010/4014 escape codes.
The book's central thesis is that when the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g) over the long term, the result is concentration of wealth, and this unequal distribution of wealth causes social and economic instability. Piketty proposes a global system of progressive wealth taxes to help reduce inequality and avoid the vast majority of wealth coming under the control of a tiny minority.

PGs attack on the wealth tax is how much a zero effort investor could lose in 60 years. 45% in one case. 40hr per week income tax rates are very often higher than that. PGs paen to the idle rich is absolutely ridiculous. Some one who works hard like Musk will be barely affected by such a tax. It only mildly hurts the idle rich.
I had no idea this happened. What a fascinating read!
Very cool, has some interesting ideas!

Things I love:

- Many common operations are a single keystroke - saving, switching buffers, opening a new buffer. Simple design choices like this make the editor feel incredibly fluid.

- Jump mode is very cool

- Using interactive search for commands and opening files

Things that I miss most coming from vim:

- text objects

- paragraph motion.

- Jumping back to the previous cursor location - often useful after a search.

Overall, I think the decision to neglect almost all motion commands in favor of focusing solely on jump mode, w/b and hjkl, is mistaken. While f is undeniably fast for many operations, there are cases where it performs terribly.

Suppose I want to move a function somewhere else. In vim, I'd probably do something like `{d}` - move to the start of the paragraph, delete til the end of the paragraph.

By contrast, Amp's jump mode kind of implicitly assumes I want to be on the start of some word. It's difficult to quickly jump to an empty line. I have to hit f, enter the character pair for the first target in the paragraph, then hit k. Then I go v, hit f again, go to the final target in the paragraph, press j, and finally hit d. That's a 3 character operation that can be performed with muscle memory, to a 10 character operation that prompts the user for input twice, both times forcing them to slow down to visually locate a point near where they actually want to go. That's a pretty massive useability regression. It'd be good to see some better navigation options for use cases like this.
Someone hand-converted 2°C to 3.6°F and missed the decimal point, yielding 36°F. Also, almost certainly classic precision blunder--the original source material is probably using 1 significant figure but it's being reported as 2 because the calculator reported it as having 2 digits.
Their graph only goes back to 2013.
> They don't demand a full year in advance to get the stated cost, or increase the monthly cost because you didn't pay for a year upfront.

In my experience, typical apartment leases are offered on a 12 month basis. Month to month is usually substantially more expensive.

If you break a 12 month lease early, you're legally on the hook for whatever the contract specifies (typically the entire year in my experience). Most landlords will "generously" agree to let you out of the lease for the equivalent of a couple monthly installments though (again, just my personal experience).
NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter to get a software update
Last commit was 2 weeks ago.
It seems like the theme here is asymmetry in legal firepower & resources between entities.

I do personally feel like that the asymmetry is smaller between elastic and AWS than the say an indie dev and a company with $1M revenue for various reasons.

This doesn't mean that there still isn't a meaningful asymmetry between elastic and AWS.
SEARCH method for HTTP (GET with a body)
Parsing your statement literally - it is ridiculous.

Anything that forces you to think more about your words is a good thing?

Terrorist attacks for wrongspeech force me to think more about my words. Is that a good thing?

Obviously, the absence of a line is untenable.
The math behind Jess Bezos' 8 hours of sleep:

24 - 8 = 16
I don't see how kyc/aml applies to this particular stock over every single other ticker they will happily sell you? There's no difference, they aren't selling cryptocurrency here.
Go! gives me goosebumps every time
The real problem seems to be experience transfer. People reinvent because they don't even know what already exists. They run into the same problems because they don't know they've already been solved. They come up with a flawed solution because they don't know someone else already had the same idea, took their hits, and learned from it.
It's a very old idea. Donald Knuth implemented it with both Pascal and C to promote an idea of "literate programming" -- you'd literally just write prose sprinkled with little bits of programming. On compilation, you can choose to compile either the documentation or program.
For Chrome you can also run:

chrome --js-flags=--noexpose_wasm

More info for other browsers and platforms:

https://github.com/stevespringett/disable-webassembly
Thank you for posting that it could be just the thing to give inspiration to someone who needs it! Keep up the great work!

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They don't go out of their way to make it clear but it's not hidden that it's a yearly subscription paid monthly. Annoying, but I knew it was a yearly sub when I signed up so wouldn't consider it particularly sneaky.
Tried to open a bank account with them for a promo. So. Much. Paper.

And I still didn't manage to open my bank account despite filling stuff out online and visiting a branch.
It’s a great signal for potential buyers to just leave HSBC and find a better broker.
20% is for medical isotopes not power. They can also export not just for domestic use. Good thing we don’t base international law on deduction.
That's not what they're doing though - they're advertising a monthly price with no mention that it's actually a discounted price only available if you sign up for > 1 month.

Only explaining that in fine print once you get further along in the sign up process is the convoluted/dark pattern bit here.
It doesn't sound like he had threatened that (at least not explicitly); articles about it just say he requested Netflix stop streaming it, and so they did. Of course, them expecting him to create more specials for them in the future likely motivated them here, but it doesn't sound like it was an explicit ultimatum.
>There is never an ‘advantage’ to limiting ones foods.

I agree in theory, if there were no tradeoffs required to consume any particular thing. But my comment took for granted that there are. Even for really versatile species, there are to some extent.
Lots of German billionaires don't want to be listed on it except I think a guy who flaunts it because it his brand to be rich.
Can you explain? This was a cost center for a large conglomerate with a number of multi-year contracts but I haven’t heard of cost-plus contracts only cost-plus pricing.
Domain Modeling with Monoids [pdf]
Because they gave you a discount on that basis! How is it ethical to receive a discount from someone and then go back on your word?! They also offer a full price monthly option (ie no cancellation fee) if that's what you want.

The "cancellation fee" is because you are breaking a contract which you agreed to in order to receive a discount. If you are actually given a meaningful choice (which I feel quite strongly that you are in this case) and you can't be bothered to understand such a basic aspect of the choice being made, then I have absolutely no sympathy for you.
Ha! Perhaps you have not published a theory paper. I'm on the systems side but theory is real too, even if there is no perf test. Systems papers can benefit from code and data though ;-)
I had a very similar takeaway.

As a kid, I used to get stomach aches and a long list of other issues. Fast forward after a bunch of tests as an adult and the results reported to me by a doctor spelt out that most artificial sweeteners are effectively poison to me. If I want a headache, stomach ache, etc I just consume one of the many sweeteners out there.

The "hyper-sweet" taste and after-taste I get from most artificial sweeteners for me is a signal of poison or bad food. Its a clear signal to avoid that food in future.

My question is the same: I wonder if D2O would have that same kind of "twisted" sweetness?

Secondary questions: I wonder if our ancestors did the same? Noticed that they didn't feel well and that was enough to tip the selection balance such that we now have the ability to detect D2O? How subtle would that effect be? or is just it tied into a specialised "anti-poison" set of structures we've got to detect bad-food? I think this is more likely. D2O is bad water. We have senses for other kinds of bad water as well.
The author says that middle-class incomes have dropped since the 1980s, but the associated graph:

(1) is pertaining to wealth, not income.

(2) shows that middle-class wealth has increased since the 1980s, not "decreased"
Not my intent to be snarky in posting this

Did you miss the part where the federal government of the U.S. went around seizing shipments of PPE to the point that governors had to facilitate private deals and then guard them with troops and secrecy of logistics to supply their own states? As one member of the presidential envoy stated "they're our masks" - not for the serfs of the nation, apparently.

As much as I'd like to see things in the light you are, I'm just unable after the entirety of the shitshow that was the US handling of Covid-19
The ThunderX3 team is mostly gone, it's been hollowed out.
> [...] and because the rest of us are literally slacking as we post here, and want to believe our slacking is some kind of biological necessity

Maybe that's because we've observed one too many "I work 80-100 hours per week" CEOs, who still find time to write blog posts, keep up with the latest memes, and shitpost on Twitter.
It's worth mentioning that at least a few popular and successful games, such as Genshin Impact, use this protocol. The aforementioned is actually the only reason I knew it existed before now.
I have a Git alias for `rs = restore -SWs`. `git rs commit :` more-or-less mimics what `git checkout branch :` did. (BTW, : means "repository root, regardless of current .")
If a cache is a map(key => cached_content), this proposal offers with a straight face that the key should be able to contain entire file uploads.
I'm in a similar boat, I love both services. Reveddit [1] [2] builds on Netlify with Cloudflare's DNS. I might consolidate into Cloudflare if Pages were to give a free allowance of workers, similar to Netlify's free allowance of Lambda. For now my setup is smooth. I had one hiccup when the site was not responsive, and I fixed that by using CNAMES for subdomains to <your-project>.netlify.app rather than an IP. Upon import from Netlify's DNS, my subdomains were all A records.

With Netlify and CF as DNS I get the basic 30-day high-level analytics from Cloudflare (# unique visitors is all I look at there), along with some results from google analytics for whoever enables that (which seems to be about 50% of traffic).

So I am not sure what benefit I would get for moving right now, other than to satisfy my curiosity of trying something new and consolidating into one 'hosting' service.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/

[2] https://github.com/reveddit/reveddit
I ran a quick search and apparently it works for stuff like bees and mosquitoes too. Interesting. If I had a couple thousand spare which seems to be the going rate in AU it could be worth trying for my wife who gets giant mosquito bumps that itch for days (they love her blood).
> What do you think will happen if the net exporters experience a global supply crisis?

The way that countries that manufacture PPE halted exports last year is a good reminder that the same can happen with food!
Yeah, I was prepared to be outraged, but when I saw the pricing page I had to agree that it’s really, really obvious what you are signing up for.
A very well thought out and articulated essay. Essential to get the billionaires of the pedestal that they have perched on.

Put your money where your mouth is and fund the wealth tax.

Personally, I vehemently disagree with the 10x programmer narrative in IT. It fuels " management provides more value than replaceable workers". If there were no workers, then management is just sitting there coming up with random ideas. Everything else is management lingo which is fine and good but we all have 24 hours in a day. One thing doesn't make you more valuable than the rest.
It goes month to month after 12 months, it doesn't stop, but I grant you sure they could make their own deals sound less appealing, but without a law forcing them too, they aren't going to.

This right below the button you press to start your subscription.

By clicking "Agree and subscribe," you agree: You will be charged US$52.99 (plus tax) monthly and at the end of your one-year term, your subscription will automatically renew monthly until you cancel (price subject to change). No annual commitment required after the first year. Cancel anytime via Adobe Account or Customer Support. Cancel before Apr 26, 2021 to get a full refund and avoid a fee. You also agree to the Terms of Use and the Subscription and Cancellation Terms.

I mean, at some point, you are responsible for the financial transaction you make, this person that is playing the victim in this case had several chances to see what they were purchasing. They wanted a lower price, and signed up for it, they are acting like they are a victim of some trickery.

They made a mistake, adobe honored the subscription, and they should too, take it as a life lesson to pay more attention before obligating themselves.

People need to learn to treat transactions and contracts as a hostile situation and they can easily do themselves great harm by blindly ignoring the terms of a deal and some how thing it will be to their benefit.
Although the author is being sarcastic, but the solution is to "just be rich, already"
I respectfully but also totally disagree. Value of money in particular is not intrinsic, it comes directly from the ability to redirect resource today (buy a home) and the future (be able to retire comfortably).

People made rich by Google will absolutely be able to redirect more resources to themselves in a world of bounded resources.

I think a lot of founders are idealistic about it and refuse to believe that at scale the start up mentality will increase inequalities. That's PG's point acutally, see the last sentence of his essay: it will. But he doesn't care. I do.
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I read that graph very differently than you.
D1X, the beast, is Hillsboro, there's also Aloha, which is technically Beaverton, but them's fightin words to the locals. ;)
A lot of people who are just as smart and motived as Elon Musk or Steve Jobs will never be able to start their own companies and get rich.

Because they have family obligations that take priority.

Because they live outside high-income countries.

Because they have no access to support network, so when they fail, they fall all the way to bottom.

Because they may have made a crippling mistake in their pasts that now prevents them from reaching their full potential.

And so on and on. While I would still recommend everyone to pursue the dreams over never trying to do so - being poor is the single most powerful force that prevents people from doing that.
I tried a few. Caster and talon were the best. I’d recommend talon with dragon as it’s speech engine, but apparently talon has a new built in speech engine which people like, so maybe try that engine first to save money.
Good attempt to use semantic confusion to distract from the point, but his main thesis that 'the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer' stands up to your points.
https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda/status/1380284657820782595
As @chungy says in a sibling comment, this is what's known as a literate program. It never really took off, and I suspect it's partially because doing it well means you'll be writing a lot more text than you'd typically see in a program's comments.

See http://www.literateprogramming.com/ for more information and examples.
> Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing. With more people starting more valuable companies, how could it not be?

By taxing people properly?
You will have access to 100% of the service if you hold up your side of the contract you signed.
Agreed. I can't recommend the course enough. They do a great job of simplifying multiple classes worth of material so you understand the key concepts quickly. If you haven't studied how computers are built up from logic gates, each of the lessons is mind-blowing.
Are you actually interested in learning about it or are you just criticizing the site?

Maybe try the Wikipedia article then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch
Haha, yeah... but that's mostly just "why I'm a bit famous" and not "why I care about this" ;P.
Also: if China marches into Taiwan, TSMC is off the map and the world is fuckered. AliBaba has PinTouge fabs which are ramping like mad. Which means China could shut down TSMC and come out on top.
Imagine waking up one morning and being considered “harmful”? That your behavior you can’t control or your beliefs that are part of your identity are deemed to be an impediment? Your personality deemed toxic? What do you do? Specific acts can be condemned but a personality? He can’t do anything at all about being what he is. Why is it, then, than others can claim the right to be exactly what they are despite causing discomfort to others? Who has the right to say that “these weird people we like and use their weirdness for good and learn to live with their weirdness but these weirdnesses we won’t learn to live with and turn aside when we accounter them”?
Am I the only person that thought "Paul Graham's/ycombinator's product is startups" when reading his essay?

I don't think it's nefarious, but I suspect he's been incubating startups and nouveau riche, so his essays might map the territory he sees.
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The graph shows that middle class wealth increased from 1983 to 2001, then decreased from 2001 to 2016. The latter period (with the decrease) is the most pertinent considering the Graham essay is from 2021 and called "How People Get Rich Now" (emphasis mine).
Do you think anyone will expatriate rather than pay a wealth tax?
I think competing in sports helped me out a great deal in that regard. I went from being a top notch athlete in our HS division to being mediocre at best for a small Division 1 school. It forced me to take a look at myself and figure out what I wanted to do with myself. So I instead focused on school and hanging out with friends and playing intramural sports as long as they just remained fun. In the end it really is about having multiple facets in your life, when one doesn’t go well if you have nothing else to lean on you will likely fall. So if sports are life and you get injured or are no longer competing at a high level, not surprised people have a hard time coping.
Hey is anyone else worried about China halting TSMC and then falling back on their PinTouge fabs? Or am I succumbing to a right-wing fever dream?
Netflix and Airbnb are profitable, and as far as I can tell the others could be profitable but aren’t because they want to stay huge / have the capital access to do so. When you have unlimited money pouring in, whats the point of profit other than a checkbox for wall street? You can pay everyone their wages, compete fiercely, grow like crazy, and so on. Profit is just inefficiency - we don’t have a use for this money so we just put it in the bank.

I don’t disagree that Uber and Tesla and many of these are on life support currently, but from a game theory perspective, if you have unlimited access to money, why bother being profitable when you can just spend it getting bigger and smarter?
The graph shows middle class wealth at 102k in 1980s and 115k in the 2010s.

EDIT - these numbers have already been adjusted for inflation.
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Isn’t it agreed upon that the Gini coefficient is misleading though? According to it, the worst inequality can be found in the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries, just because borrowing money for a house is cheap and safe.
> ‘git restore’ is the way to do this in the current version of git.

No, that’s incorrect. `git checkout` is the way to do this in the current version of Git.

The current version of Git allows you to use `git restore`, but the documentation says this about it:

> THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.

Until that warning goes away in a future version of Git, `git checkout` is the way to do this.
Chinese autonomous vehicle startup WeRide will test driverless cars in San Jose
If I promise to pay you $100 for a job (and sign a contract saying so), you spend $50 of your own money in preparation for that job, and then I back out saying "that money was imaginary since I never actually paid you", are you not entitled to some compensation?
Even with a well designed wealth tax, people will make the choice to leave, hence negotiations for a global wealth tax.

A wealth tax is simply a more broad version of a real estate property tax.
Adjusted for inflation, 102k in 1980 was worth almost 270k in 2010.

Using this calculator which seems to be using buying power instead of actual inflation. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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Yeah, I agree that is the truly shitty thing here. You should be able to cancel, but still pay until your contract runs out.
Nothing truly insightful about the troubles of poverty has ever been said by someone who never lived it. Divorced of the appropriate context, advice and opinions are like the proverb says; everyone's got one and they all stink.