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Plain old Common Lisp has similar issues on the Mac. (And possibly Windows too - I haven't looked.)

There's supposed a one click dev system installer, but it hasn't been updated for a while. There's a many click recommended collection of tools, but it looks like half a day of work to get it all installed and then you're supposed to use Emacs.

You can add a REPL to something like Sublime Text. Or install Atom and go through another convoluted process which launches a Lisp server and etc etc etc.

I gave up and got back to work at that point. It might work smoothly if I worked through it all. Then again... it might not.

Which is a shame, because I like the look of Lisp very much and I really would like to play with it.
I'm always a bit skeptic when I see relatively obscure programming languages trying to bring in new users. Are there any examples of something like this working in the last 10/20 years?
I would advise against that, because a decision to start a business basing on that short term inspiration/envy moment would not last.

It's better to let the emotions play out, and not make decisions basing on them.
Very unsuitable analogy.

If you remove syntax colouring from a text, you do expect to still be able to read the text.

Why the difference? Because the wheel is an essential component of a car, while syntax colouring is more akin to the paint job of the car: you change change it, remove it, it won't affect the function of the car.

BTW, if we remove the CSS, the text becomes apparent again. So if we keep going with the same analogy, it becomes even more unsuitable: removing half of the wheels prevents the car from working, but removing all of them now restores a smooth ride. We quickly see how it turns absurd and contradicts.
nice article. the tone might offend some people, though.
Trust me, mathematicians do not sit in libraries.
Well sure. But my point was that for two bodies you don’t need to simulate at all, you can just get the answer for any point in time.
In your example, the moment you move from UK to Cayman Islands, the Spanish government/tax system will know (unless you make sure you hide it... but this is another topic). At some point you won’t be a UK taxpayer, in that moment the Spanish government/tax system will categorize you as Spanish taxpayer. I mean, if you are a Spanish citizen and you try to pull this trick, it may work as long as you never try to transfer the money you saved in the Cayman Islands to any Spanish bank account (any normal bank account, actually).
This is not the first article I've seen which has repeatedly assumed the worst possible intentions for the "hacker":

"He stole the money", "he only gave it back because he was scared", etc.

This article flat out calls him a "disruptive criminal".

All of this ignores three important points:

1 - These people don't know his intentions, and it's approaching libel to say they do.

2 - There's a strong argument to be made that this "hacker" did nothing illegal. He broke no law, and executed code as it was written; enhancing the strength of crypto in general in the process.

3 - The guy could have churned the coins up and given them to friends and family before doing a little time. I think most people - the vast, vast majority - would happily do ten years in jail for half a billion dollars.

So, my question is, what do these awful publications have to gain by being such arseholes to someone who didn't do anything illegal, strengthened crypto, and gave back 611 million dollars that he had no real obligation to return?
You’ve already got it figured out - be happy for him. Some of the best advice I’ve heard is “someone else’s success isn’t your problem”.

We all know that financial success isn’t the measure of a life. So take it to heart. And that means your job and whether it’s a waste is a completely different matter entirely.
No corporate IT would have firewall setup to allow every computer to be routable from the internet.

So practically a globally addressable IP or not makes no impact on ability to be routable publicly
>> If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job.

Which I (genuinely) assume you are. The reality is far more nuanced than this. Building a "nice online product that brings in more than a job" is the non-trivial lede that you buried in there, and everyone working a job is not wasting their time working a job as a cog.
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It's super userful for local development.

When I run my apps locally, I run a local postgres, local redis and minio as a local s3.

It also works well for applications that you need to run in the local network (for example, in regions with slow or unreliable internet connections).
It's actually a perl feature. And trivial to implement in the parser only. No new ops needed
Most people have only one spouse and many friends, and probably more people claiming to be friends if they hear there’s money in it.
Apple alters planned new system for detecting child sex abuse images
"Apple says its iCloud scanning will rely on multiple child safety groups to address privacy fears"

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623859/apple-icloud-pho...
I was in almost the same situation as you. I got $800 and I'm grateful, $0 would have been okay, too.

Of course I'm also a bit jealous.
It actually applies at smaller levels too.

The moment I went from being in debt to having $100 in a savings account was the most transformative.

I honestly think it’s diminishing returns from there.
I think if you hit the first M and invest it in a reasonably broad manner you'll likely avoid touching poverty again. For someone who grew up poor that might be the most valuable buffer you can buy. But yes of course 10 would be better ;p
Everything works well. The unix filesystem works well unlike wsl on windows. The trackpad feels like an extension of me rather than something I'm grappling with. You can close the lid and not worry about whether it will wake up when you reopen it. Software/OS upgrade support is great, my old laptop died on me when I upgraded to windows 10, I'm now on a 2013 Macbook Air and it feels as if it were new and it's still running the latest OS. The ecosystem is also important, the cohesion between apple devices definitely removes a pain point, particularly copy and pasting between devices, opening browser windows from your phone on your laptop etc.

I feel all these minor annoyances are worth the premium for me and I'm about to . Don't get me wrong, MacOS isn't perfect but it's a better experience than Windows for me, and Linux is a pain to get setup on a laptop. The biggest one for me is the trackpad on Windows and Linux really suck.
This is not a requirement for a system to lack chaos, nor is it a metric by which we can judge if a system DOES have chaos.
That's almost certainly not the case since I know multiple people who got in trouble when COVID started because they weren't able to board for a long time and they would stay on land for >6 months and have to pay income tax on the year so far + no income from not being able to work.
As a person with more severe color blindness/deficiency than most, I guess I'll ask the question: is it actually a big deal?

I ask because for me, I really don't think about being colorblind, and colorblindness becomes an issue maybe a few times a year? But I'm also sensitive to the fact that I may be a bad example too (maybe I don't run into presentations where it is apparent? Or I just think the person made bad color choices and didn't realize it's my colorblindness?)
VAT is not the only tax to be paid in the EU. Not to mention they pay less VAT than the local businesses through various schemes(i.e registering the company that makes the sale in a country with lower VAT)
Interesting perspective / story; from a work-life perspective, it does seem that those that win, take a lot more low risk, low probability, high pay-off shots. It's all about how you can setup the odds to be in your favor if you are willing to work that extra x%.

Here it's the same thing - spending extra effort waiting for the right moment to happen. He would not be just waiting for 3 days to just wait. He is waiting to get that lucky chance when the odds are in his favor.

Interesting short story.
My experience with out of memory is that in every single language and environment I worked on in the past, once an application hits that condition, there is very little hope of continuing reliably.

So if your aim is to build a reliable system, it is much easier to plan to never get there in the first place.

Alternatively, make your application restart after OOM.

I would actually prefer the application to just stop immediately without unwinding anything. It makes it much clearer as to what possible states the application could have gotten itself to.

Hopefully you already have designed the application to move atomically between known states and have mechanism to handle any operation getting interrupted.

If you did it right, handling OOM by having the application drop dead should be viewed as just exercising these mechanisms.
Reminds me of the Teller (from Penn & Teller) quote: "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
It worked for me, but it’s easy to imagine why it wouldn’t on another device.

The text is made to very slowly render in line-by-line as you scroll. If you scroll quickly, it’s very easy to get way ahead of the rendering. Maybe it’s trying to prevent skimming the article or skipping to the end?

Anyway, the page was riddled with affectations like that, and all the affectations seem like they’re designed to make you feel both uncomfortable and fascinated, like when find a dead animal covered with maggots…obviously the article fits that aesthetic as well.
Software isn’t math.

Don’t agree with the patent system particularly, but I just object to this specific categorical statement.
> Or maybe you believe that mask mandates don't help much since the mask pores are 5k times larger than the size of this airborne (not aerosel) virus.

The COVID virus is about 0.1 µm.

The pores in a 3-layer surgical mask are about 50 µm to 500 µm in the first and third layer averaging around 100 µm, and 12 µm to 30 µm in the middle layer averaging around 13 µm.

For a 3-layer N95 mask, it is 50 µm to 200 µm first layer averaging about 75 µm, 40 µm to 120 µm averaging 50 µm for the third layer, and 10 µm to 20 µm averaging 11 µm for the middle layer.

If the only mechanism by which filtering of air worked was to catch particles that were too big to pass through the pores, then the virus would indeed go right through.

However, that is not the only mechanism. Here's a short article from a filter company explaining the different mechanisms [1]. It is quite counterintuitive--as particle size goes down below the pore size efficiency starts to drop as you would intuitively expect but only for a bit and then as particle size continues to go down efficiency rises.

[1] http://donaldsonaerospace-defense.com/library/files/document...
>you only need to get to $10m

The problem is making just $100 is difficult for a lot of people.
Today’s electric vehicle market: Slow growth in U.S., faster in China, Europe
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But the US has set an EV target of 50% of all new car sales by 2030, so let's see what impact that has.
Often yes. How often happens in practice will usually depend on the size of the solution space.

A chaotic system is pretty much a random number generator, and random number generators can spit out the same number (or nearby numbers) twice (otherwise they wouldn't be random).
I very much agree. HN is about the only social site that works well on a crappy connection. E.g. when using the computer on a train. Truly awesome!

HN was developed initially by Paul Graham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

Now it’s taken care of mostly by 'dang: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Fincancially backed by Y Combinator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator
Yeah. He never again has to worry about having food, roof over his head, about a job, about finding a romantic partner, about having enough for his children. He doesn't have to worry about most laws since he has lots of money for lawyers and most legal systems are pay to win. He dorsn't have to care about climate change, droughts, flood, whatever, he can move anywhere in the world instantly.

He will have no human worries, no human problems.

You probably can't be friends with someone who is effectivelly a different species.

EDIT: also just with 1m usd you're set for life and never have to work and be poor again. So in a way, he doesn't need 99% of his wealth. So if he is not using at least some of it to help people and the world, he's not a good person.
What does "People Management Team" mean? That's what our HR has adopted, I think to sound less scary but to me it comes across like total social control.
Above and beyond how to not be jealous, it might be worth considering how to also be a good friend. I imagine everybody this guy knows now has had a similar reaction and he may not have many real friends left (maybe I'm wrong) who can treat him the way they did before the money. Some people let wealth become their whole identity though, so if that's what he's doing it can be hard to connect.
> all the failed socialism attempts in the past 100 years, from Soviet Russia or North Korea to Venezuela and Cuba.

As someone from Northern Europe I feel the need to point out that socialism != communism.
The failed states you mentioned above all have/had a communistic rule. My impression is that media in the USA portrays these as being the same and evil which I don’t agree with.
This is new information for me; very cool; I assumed there had to be a reason. What's your background in the subject matter?

To the gentleman's post above, it does seem to me that Delta has a more negative public image as compared to say the Navy Seals... is there any specific reason for that? or do you disagree with that comment?
Yes, it is non-trivial.

But a job is non-trivial as well. So many hours of your life go into it. Over so many years.
£3m for 8 weeks of consultancy work: McKinsey given contract to advise UK.gov
Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment and even consider me as a padawan - I have found a mentor now.

Wishing you all the best!
That's quite a narrative you're asserting. Curious what facts you have to support it.
It's natural to have such thoughts along with the feelings they bring. However, you should reflect on the following instead of thinking about 'why not me?' as the latter would cause only suffering.

"Oh mind, his present life and success is based on the choices he had made and ours is similarly based on the choices we had made (here we is collectively referring to you and your mind since you're having a conversation together). It's possible that we could have made similar choices but it's not guaranteed to have similar success as 99% of startups fail so we chose a safer alternative which most people choose anyway."

Now count your blessings (things you have in current life like family work-life balance, hobbies, trips etc.) that have been facilitated by your path.

Finally, "Oh mind, if you think we should also try the other path, are you ready for the risks, struggles, compromises and lack of any guarantee of success it holds?" and reflect on the worse that can happen. If your mind is fine with that, you can plunge into the new path.

But, wait for at least a week and see if the mind still holds the same enthusiasms; it's one thing to get influenced by something and take an impulsive decision while sticking on one's decision is a different ballgame
Here you go:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56755/16-amazing-facts-a...
It would not exist "as you know it today", which is a valid version of "it would not exist".

Like i said, i appreciated the comment, it was pedant for a very valid reason. Yours, less so.
This site appears to be related to another site linked in a different thread that has been criticized for cherry-picking results and including studies with dubious methodology or statistical power.

Plus it still includes the large Egyptian study by Els-Alam et al that was retracted last month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177029
But it's more likely that the new friends are already rich, same 100M+ Club, whom you meet at the Fundraising events, Private Jet Review Meetup, and other events rich people do.

So i think it would be natural and they would not be interested in your money.
> Can you pinpoint what exactly makes the expectation of friendship and marriage different in this context?

No, I believe you're trolling at this point. I'll end here.
or something preconfigured like spacemacs or prelude.
I think the biggest problem of emacs is that it's an entire universe by itself: everything is there in a zillion flavours (which always ALMOST work out of the box) and I don't know which one to pick.
Beer, pepperoni, and mozzarella are all fermented foods. Pizza and beer sounds like a fine diet :)
You don't have that for sale, because you don't own it, and if you try to announce it you will get disconnected from all your peers and will have to close shop.
I believe you are right. I think Matthew Flatt mentioned it in one of his more recent talks. Chez scheme didn’t become the default implementation until Racket 8.0 which released Feb 2021 so it took awhile to iron out all the bugs.

They are still in the brainstorming phase and you can look at the issues in this GitHub link https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming to see what is being discussed

1. https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/02/racket-v8-0.html
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Nope. It’s the only personal computers I really like. And I truly appreciate the fact that the hardware and the OS is from the same company. Only the Surface can rival that, but I’m not a fan of the Windows 10 UI.
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Perception >>> Reality

Rest assured, there won't be another Saigon. The videos coming out of Afghan countryside and Kabul will be erased by BigTech under some corporate speak reason or another. The masses will never see them. 'Covid Misinformation' (TM) is just the dry run.
> Technically, it’s no different than a landlord checking up on their tenants to make sure “everything is okay.”

By this logic, you don't own your phone but rent it from Apple?
It's true that AZ isn't enough for herd immunity, but as I understand it neither is Pfizer or Moderna. It's also worth noting that AZ is extremely effective at preventing serious illness or death from the Delta variant (as are the other vaccines). Had we all gotten AZ months ago, we would be talking about the transmission of a virus that's been rendered much less menacing, which is a totally different risk-benefit calculus.
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> the differences between the ultra-rich and the masses impact every aspect of life

> It would be incredibly difficult to know whether someone wanted to be friends genuinely, or if in some way it was really about the money

I guess what the other commenter was implying is that they make friends with other ultra-rich people?
I think the difference is that at the C-level, executives play checkers, where every piece is the same and you can allocate "resources" (aka people) as commodities. Below that we're playing chess and every person is a distinct individual. It's at the transition in either the hierarchy or in this case you're co-working trying to position himself in the former while working in the latter where it gets unpleasant and weird.
Tricky bit is finding the real deal. Don’t have much faith in the large chains distribute anything that

> teeming with live microorganisms,
Agreed. And I very much disagree with this paragraph:

> When a developer can go back to the individual check-ins leading up to the current code, they can work out the answers to such questions using only the level of personal brilliance necessary to be a good developer.

When I have to investigate past commits, I hate it to have to dig through a history of WIP commits containing code that didn't make it into the final version.

Of course it's also difficult to dig through a single commit with hundreds or thousands changed lines of code.
But when a single commit includes a proper description and an issue reference, it much easier to investigate the developer's full intention than from multiple WIPs.
It's also likely that the old friends can change, and start to see you as source of money.

And can definitely ruin the friendship, if every few weeks a request for 300k to fix some stuff comes up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo
> might reasonably expect

That part made me laugh too hard.

I am stealing that quote now, though. It's so true - think of the effortlessness with which a musician does what they do. It's more or less magic. Same thing with most things.
Patents should include source code. The original idea behind American patents is almost exactly the same as the GPL.
Waiting on a large-display iMac, only because my eyes could use the larger canvas.

M1 MacBook Air is class-leading, and there is no Wintel equivalent of the 24” iMac.

There are plenty of imperfect elements within the Apple ecosystem, but hardware is not one of them.

iCloud (excluding third-party storage backend) is a complete ecosystem; a sufficient parity replacement would take a decade to commercialize.

If you want a sufficiently-decent Linux or FreeBSD hardware ecosystem, call the Qualcomms of the world to task for continuing to make self-service wireless drivers a PitA. Ubuntu remains the most widely-supported option.

As for desktop development, Linux is an embarrassment; Flutter is your only hope. Look and feel should never be second-class; shave your neck-beard and start taking the native presentation layer seriously.
Yes, but not for the recent privacy-hostile announcement (though that obviously doesn't help).

Since Big Sur (and to a certain extent Catalina) it's clear that the Mac is moving away from being a work machine suitable for professionals to create things into a toy for consumers to consume media on.

It started with these new "apps" such as Music, Videos and News which look unfinished given how empty they are (especially comparing to their iTunes predecessor), completely out of place (as some are just ports of iOS apps), and the few features that are in there have bugs or don't behave like you'd expect.

In Big Sur there appears to be a Stocks app, that somehow asks me to accept a privacy policy and tries to connect to Apple News behind the scenes (which I denied). Is it for people who are too stupid to look it up in the browser?

The Big Sur UI is also an absolute insult.

The constant nagging about iCloud is tiring, and that feature is outright dangerous for anyone working with confidential data. Did you know that having iCloud Drive enabled and opening a CSV file in Numbers will silently upload it to iCloud in the background?

I used to like Mac because the UX was nice and as long as you gave them their money, Apple seemed to respect you and get the fuck out of your way. I don't remember Mac OS being actively hostile against the user until the Catalina era where Apple transitioned to their services approach, but I can't see every buying into these services for 2 reasons:

1) they are still so behind the competition - see Apple Music vs Spotify, iCloud Drive vs OneDrive.

2) I don't want my data siloed into apps - I want the option to access it on the web

3) I don't want the auth to said service depend on the entire machine being logged in. You can't easily log into 2 iCloud accounts for example because it's not just a client app where you can run 2 instances, it's built into the system

Finally, if you get a Mac and install something like Little Snitch (a firewall) you'll be scared of how the machine is constantly pinging Apple about something.
Hmm, I was just this minute looking at apartments in Croatia after a nice trip there. Think I’ll put that plan on hold!