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> I'm convinced Lisp self-asphyxiated by fighting a last stand on parentheses, which is so far from the point of Lisp.

I think the reason Lisp self-asphyxiated is because people don't get it.

Most try to spend a little bit time programming it as if it was C/Java/Python/whetever else they have used on their last project. They just see a language that can do what they need but it is all wonky and so why bother?

Compared to other languages, to get benefits from using Lisp you actually need to understand what the benefits are and what causes the benefits.

You can switch from C to Python and reap benefits of Python without having some kind of deep understanding.

That's because programming in Python is basically same thing as programming in C, it is just more efficient. There is less stuff to set up (unless you run into compatibility problems), less stuff take care for (begone pesky pointers and memory allocation!) and better API to do repeatable tasks.

On the other hand programming in Lisp is different than every other language. But you also can program as if you were programming any other language. So you get confused about what makes Lisp different and if you don't stick it out you might think you just learned Lisp and "what is all teh fuss about?"

I think getting from regular programming to Lisp should be presented as same step change as going from not programming to programming.

Person who has never programmed and never heard about programming might have a lot of trouble understanding why you would even want to program (in the end it is just adding numbers -- why would that accomplish anything, I am not an accountant?)
He's imprisoned for violating state law. Why else?

Same as Julian Assange.
When assigning to val more than once: in a statically checked language the compiler will complain, and devs default to 'val' anyway. In a dynamic language you'd quickly get a runtime error.

Using 'var' instead of 'val' where possible: the compiler/linter will tell you this.

Or do you mean something else?
Hot diggity that's a sweet machine- keys for car and cdr! I want one really badly, but I know it'll just sit in a drawer, because 90s tech just isn't gonna hold up for practical use.
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> I find it strange how many people seem to be able to separate a tradition from physical items traditionally involved in that tradition.

They're just symbols - I don't think it's strange that many people are able to separate them.
If I hadn't been using RFC 4122 UUIDs, I wouldn't have had any reserved bits to work with. There are a bunch of places in this system that restricted the report ID to be a hex string of length 32 that would have needed updating if I switched to a different format.

There's also no functional difference between a v4 UUID and a v5 UUID with fixed namespace and random bits for the name portion, so I disagree what I'm doing is no longer RFC 4122 compliant.

It's lucky I used RFC 4122 UUIDs in the first place, that I could take advantage of the designers foresight to set aside some extra bits.
In the alternative universe women who can't afford diamonds, buy diamonds for men. In the same alternative universe, the families of men look at the Cs of the ring and judge if "she is good enough for him". In the same alternative universe, men get together, pull out their diamond rings and discuss if those rings are worth the sacrifice. And in the same alternative universe the commercials on TV are "She went to Jared!" and "Give him the gift of Pandora"

Alas, in our universe it does not happen.
Ask HN: AI for Report Writing (SQL Queries etc.)
Are there any startups that use AI to generate business reports ? Either from financial data or OKC type data...
If an analogy doesn't help you look at a situation any differently... is it a good analogy?
Rituals do make a lot of sense even if the content of them makes no intrinsic sense:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-rituals-work/
> No amount of growing forests is going to fix this issue without being able to turn those forests into carbon that's in the ground. We need to get carbon out of the carbon cycle. The natural life of plants doesn't do that.

Taking (sustainably harvested) wood from old trees which are close to dying anyway and using this wood to build durable (lasting decades) houses would be helpful.
This would channel carbon from the natural cycle into an artificial reservoir made up of buildings.

Questions left unanswered:

- would this reservoir be big enough?

- is the rate of carbon fixation sufficient?
>The societal answer is at least two months.

Might be an American thing? My parents spent about 1 month worth of my dad's salary on two wedding rings a long time ago. My dad actually wanted to buy a far more expensive ring for my mom, but she insisted to keep it simple and "cheap" and "unproblematic" to wear. Same story in the rest of the family.

Friends (usually a lot younger than my parents) spend even less on rings, I'd estimate 400-600 EUR per ring from what I keep hearing.

I've heard about that two months rule before, in American TV shows and movies, never thought about it. Now I wonder if it's really an American thing, or if people around me are just cheapskates :P
var => variable

val => value => is immutable

Of course people are different, but this seems clear as day, assmuning very basic familiarity with functional programming?
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Way to Health has had a huge impact on Penn Medicine's COVID response, having cared for over 12,000 patients with COVID Watch, and having communicated over 14,000 COVID Test Results to patients by SMS. In the next few months we expect to hit a milestone of 1 million patients who have been in Way to Health programs.

We currently have 5 developers on the team, and are looking to hire two more. Requires 3+ years experience with web development (especially but not only PHP) and a Bachelors degree.

More details at https://www.waytohealth.org/careers/. I'd also love to chat informally with any interested (or potentially interested) developers directly. Email me at my HN username at gmail.
That article's not opening for me on mobile, but do realize that just because something "affects the reward mechanisms" doesn't make it an addiction. There are lots of things that affect the reward mechanism - learning new things, spending time with kids - that we wouldn't consider addictions. The junk science on this topic has really gotten out of hand.
Abc.net.au is the public owned broadcasting in Australia. No Murdoch, however it has got very click baity in the last couple of years.
Location: Czechia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-kuklinca-28b7b95a/
Email: marek.kuklinca at matfyz.cz

Hi, I'm looking for part-time programing in C# or other nice, statically typed language with extension methods.
So that it's possible to write something like this: :)

@"c:\work\py-project".as_dir()
.get_all_filesystem_nodes()
.Where(nd => nd is DirectoryInfo)
.Cast<DirectoryInfo>()
.Where(d => d.Name == "__pycache__")
// .println_in_columns();
.for_each(d => d.Delete(recursive: true));
I doubt you can run blueutil directly on the headset. This app controls the headset's pairings, from the Mac.
Diamond branding taps into a much more fundamental obsession with scarcity, which manufactured objects cannot provide.
Scott Galloway explores this really well in a recent post comparing NFTs to long-standing art world practices: "Scarcity has always been a function of bits, not atoms." [1]

I wonder if synthetic diamonds that were organized into specifically limited editions would hold more value...

[1] https://www.profgalloway.com/scarcity-cred/
That an emotional attachment exists explains why a difference can exist, but doesn't explain why the attachment points in the direction that it does. Lab-grown diamonds could just as easily be the ones with emotional attachment, perhaps emphasizing how much hard work, research, ingenuity, and dedication went into making that diamond as a symbol of the hard work and dedication one is willing to put into a relationship. That the emotional attachment is specifically toward mined diamonds shows the strength of marketing.
Is it a Bose product? It sounds like he reversed engineer the protocol for controlling bose headphones. That's OK. He is infringing on the trademark though.
Not disproving the current theory is not the only benefit that can happen:

- You have to kick the tyres now and again. Sparingly perhaps, but you have to do it.

- A lot of what people learn is NOT whether this is a new form of propulsion. It's things like "how do we make a really really sensitive propulsion measurement system?" along with with come more mundane things like teaching the grad students how to code.

If we only exercise when we're sure something exciting will happen, we won't exercise.
Bilingual LGBTQ people used it before it became mainstream English.
There are currently very few (no other?) pieces of space junk as big as this one.

Not if you limit it to anything that might fall to Earth any time soon.
Tech certainly does have some effect on mental health. Probably both positive and probably some negative, too.. It's really easy though to blame the tech and miss something much bigger. We thought my daughter wasn't getting her work done at school because of she spent too much time on TikTok. We were taking away the devices when we should have been talking and understanding what was going on in her life.
Diamond prices are fairly stable, the issue is jewelers mark prices way up and most people don't know what a good price is. If a diamond goes for $5k wholesale, chances are they're looking to sell it for $10-20k. Since most people only buy 1-2 engagement rings in their lifetime they don't know what is a reasonable price. They "shop around" at three stores that are all owned by the same company. So they end up paying $15k for a ring. Then if they need to return it they only get $5k for it. They overpaid due to the emotion of the moment and expect to get something close.

Even in the article you listed there were a number of offers all close to each other. ~8-10k is a 'reasonable price' for that ring.

Most jewelers I've interacted with are more than happy to buy your diamond for a bit under wholesale cost. They're also happy to make rings with old diamonds. They make money selling settings too.

One issue is the public. There are a number of people who don't want a "Used Ring". But, there are a large number of diamonds being sold that have been owned previously.
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> Sure, but random change is different from what we do. That's not random, it's deliberate and usually ends up in a disaster.

The selfish human decision to eradicate nuisances is just as random as the selfish decision of a predator to find new lands and drive local animals to extinction.

Most of our our eradication is not intentional, usually just hunting or eating a species out of existence. We are just dumb predators doing what successful predators do.

> We humans introduce those events at a massive scale, which is an entirely different quality than random changes in nature.

In the face of ice ages, our eradication attempts are no more impressive than a child killing ants in their backyard. The only thing in this regard that is truly impressive is our delusions of grandeur.

Granted, we gain little from messing with nature, but our attempts to maintain the status quo is guaranteed to fail. Nature is the furthest from a constant as one could possibly get, and species and ecosystem are ephemeral at best.
My bad it's actually https://www.gdeltproject.org/
Diamonds are cheap. You can tell by their resale value.
Good move. The problems related to mining is my main reason for not wanting to buy any jewelry with gems. Maybe I'd consider buying something from a brand that avoids all mined diamonds.
I was all excited about this and then I saw that it is a paid app with no access to the source.
I don’t really know why this prompted straight up downvotes. These are the exact concerns voiced in multiple Nature articles over the past decade or so.
Loved that phone... and its brothers

If anyone could have made it happen it was Nokia.
A great movie that relates to this is Blood Diamond (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz6kAEQl9mw
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Yes, and we did.
"In the absence of any hard evidence about Paul’s whereabouts, the Park Service formally fired him for abandoning his post, a move that was grounds for denying Dody survivor’s benefits and Paul’s retirement funds for nearly a decade."

That's pretty odd, it doesn't sound like there was any evidence that he abandoned his post.
> Are human lives less important than your right to go outside?

Yes, of course. Depending on the number of years potentially lost.
Hurtling towards earth is a GOOD THING. Staying up there is bad.
People did get angry at what he did say so there's no need to concoct thoughts in his head.

If the reporting is accurate, his words were twisted. He said "I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture" (meaning American culture) which another employee changes to "white supremacy doesn’t exist."

Based on what was reported, I don't know why Singer was suspended. I do understand why he resigned, given the reaction of many employees. He's not an avowed white supremacist.

Singer is very wrong, he needs more education, but it seems like many of the employees can't handle the idea of working at a place where someone so wrong works. At a large workplace, there was another worker who I saw coming in to work had a large sign on his bag making clear he was a 9/11 Truther. I saw he also sat at lunchtime with his bag prominently displayed (not at the workplace, in public). It made me really angry but I'd never do anything to threaten his employment or avoid all contact.
For those who don't get it, this is a reference to the greatest HN comment of all time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863.
Engagement ring had a diamond, but pretty basic. Think I paid €250 six years ago (which wasn't even 3 days salary, let alone 3 months). Wedding rings are just white gold.
> You seem to know about their architecture. What do they do now?

Random 64-bit primary keys in mysql for newer videos. These may sometimes collide but then I suppose you could have the database reject insert and retry with a different id.
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It's still free, I've been asking the creator for something like this from day one. I don't like downloading my sessions, I'd rather pay to have something managed with projects etc so this is very much welcome.
How is the Earth not entirely made out of Mosquitoes then? What are the things that currently limit their growth, maybe it would be good to find out and use those?

Also I’ve been reading up on how Gene Drives work, it’s very interesting but I’ll just leave the Wikipedia page here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
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Source for this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9 says some companies claimed patents on it, but google basically ignored them.
Wouldn’t it be even faster to solve that problem conditionally? P(x >= a)P(y >= a | x >= a), since the conditional distribution is known and normal?
What you describe is essentially a general practitioner. If you look at what they do (and how their training is organised), they essentially follow decision trees to either a clear diagnosis or "refer to specialist". The difficulty for using computers for this tasks is that several of the things going into the tree are based on observations of the patients behaviour, look, speech etc., which is difficult to categorise for a machine.
Other related threads:

[flagged] Bill and Melinda Gates Separated (twitter.com/billgates)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030269

[flagged] Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage (bbc.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27035625

Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030972

Ask HN: Married and Unmarried Hackers Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27035032
Before I send my data to an anonymous website, what does it tell me that the Fitbit app doesn't?
Deductive Verification via the Debug Adapter Protocol [pdf]
In this case it would be completely normal and legitimate for Bose to sue.

You need to defend your trademarks otherwise courts will render them moot.
Is this open for candidates from all timezones?
Which is why we read comments and not articles. Articles are full of fluff, comments for some reason aren't.
Yea, but that misses the point to all the qualms against the idea that this is "good writing". I know the name of this eassy structure changes depending on region and generation, but 3.5 essay structures teaches you the basic principles of "good writing". What are you arguing, quickly overview your 3 points to prove it, next 3 paragraphs explain and support each point, then a conclusion paragraph. Super simple, basic and on the nose writing to help teach kids how to write WITH PURPOSE. ML based writing doesn't even come close to this. It's just good at the statistical chance of what words follow each other. It's a keyword hound that has some notion of what makes a sentence "look real".

People who are afraid of the current generation of ML writing are absolutely dogshit writers with terrible taste in writing. I keep forgetting who said this, but theres a saying to never start writing by describing the weather. Lots of folks miss the point to this. You could modernize it by saying, "Dont start talking about your childhood when writing a recipe." Why? Because no one fucking cares. They want the recipe. Not a description of your childhood or what the weather was like. Take the time to notice articles and "journalist writing". If it starts with the weather, notice how incredibly long it takes for the author to get to the point or describe anything functionally meaningful. You'll notice these articles are extremely long in word count and extremely low in actual information/content. These are the people afraid because yes, a machine can keyword drop and fluff better than them.

Is it possible that there will be a future AI/ML to write with purpose? Maybe. But realistic idea connection and logical flow is still a huge hurdle for AI/ML. Summary engines seem good on the surface, but again, if you actually read them for a real world reason, not for "look how good ML is", you'll notice they're as meaningful as a politician running for office. Lots of keywords, lots of nothing really said or done... just like anyone with a liberal arts degree.
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The problem is that you never know where better optima lie. You have to guess.

It is easiest when a new optimum is easy to reach by just following the gradient. Short-term thinking works well here.

There may be some optima much farther down, which take a lot of "buried" investment to reach: efficient photovoltaics, electric cars, reusable space launch systems, maybe even fusion power. We know that some of them are better optima than the previous state, because they have been reached. Some, like fusion power, haven't been, but there is a lot of hope that they'll work. Some other attempts, like supersonic passenger aircraft, ended up not as optimal as their proponents had hoped. You never know.

The problem is that you can only reach these distant goals by concentrating resources and spending them without an apparent commercial result for years and decades. This takes a high concentration of resources and a commitment. Currently only billionaires and certain national governments can afford that. Most public companies are too beholden to their quarterly results to follow long-term policies which do not bring steady profits along the way, and many governments are in the same situation because the voters do not care about long-term goals enough.
If you want to read about the insanity of manipulation in the diamond industry, this Atlantic article on de Beers from 1982 is a … gem.

Of the many shocking moments, one that stood out to me was the way they went after post-war Japan to convert their "backwards" desires to ones of a more "forward-thinking" diamond friendly impulse:

"J. Walter Thompson began its campaign by
suggesting that diamonds were a visible
sign of modern Western values. It created
a series of color advertisements in Japanese
magazines showing beautiful women displaying
their diamond rings. All the women had
Western facial features and wore European
clothes. Moreover, the women in most of
the advertisements were involved in some
activity -- such as bicycling, camping,
yachting, ocean swimming, or mountain
climbing -- that defied Japanese traditions.
In the background, there usually stood a
Japanese man, also attired in fashionable
European clothes. In addition, almost all
of the automobiles, sporting equipment, and
other artifacts in the picture were conspicuous
foreign imports. The message was clear:
diamonds represent a sharp break with the
Oriental past and a sign of entry into modern life."

"The campaign was remarkably successful. Until 1959,
the importation of diamonds had not even been
permitted by the postwar Japanese government. When
the campaign began, in 1967, not quite 5 percent
of engaged Japanese women received a diamond
engagement ring. By 1972, the proportion had risen
to 27 percent. By 1978, half of all Japanese women
who were married wore a diamond; by 1981, some 60
percent of Japanese brides wore diamonds. In a
mere fourteen years, the 1,500-year Japanese
tradition had been radically revised. Diamonds
became a staple of the Japanese marriage. Japan
became the second largest market, after the United
States, for the sale of diamond engagement rings."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
Stunning argument.
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> A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth. Here's how worried you should be

Imagine that headline in a printed newspaper. It would look ridiculous-- like a supermarket magazine article. It feels to me as if the quality of most media presentation had devolved into blogging. Maybe this is a side effect of competition, but its terrible. Unfortunately, we must be in the minority, because the style must be making them money or they wouldn't be doing it.

Edit: changed actual to printed for clarity and added title
I'm willing to sacrifice my life for my loved ones. But I haven't.

Not sure how any sane person can claim that saying you're willing to do something and actually doing it aren't different things. He said he was willing to do something but then... never did it.
Already been in touch directly but just wanted to give a public shout out to say thanks for doing this, it's awesome :)