skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that was a hardcore Lisper (you could find me arguing that Scheme is not a Lisp, etc.) before adopting Clojure: I thought muddying the language with a new kind of syntax was terrible.

I don't suggest that this is what primarily drove the lack of adoption of other kind of braces but I, as a follower of the church of Lisp, had an immense dislike of the lack of purity.

In the end vector and map "syntax" is just the reader being more ergonomic in Clojure than in Common Lisp. (See https://clojure.org/reference/reader for details)

After I also got over my aversion of the Java ecosystem and just accepted that the jvm can be great without thinking Java is great, I'm all in on Clojure for the last few years.
I think the language is fantastic and due to the huge amount of interop I can use my favorite language in settings that would be difficult otherwise.
I've used Clojure on the web as ClojureScript, as backend as Clojure, on a ESP32 and reMarkable as ClojureScript and since relatively recent I can even accomplish scripting tasks with very good start-up times using babashka.

I'm a super happy camper and I've found my language for life. A pragmatic Lisp. (duck because stones are incoming.)
We don't have 16h each day if we're working and sleeping,
we have 8.
Brain implant gives blind woman artificial vision in scientific first
Ok, I'll think of a different excuse next time
Interesting ! Thank you for the examples. Yes Racket is also on my someday-soon-list !
I used this tool a few month ago, as a way to quickly profile some slow running functions in one of my notebooks. The color is mapped to the cumulative run time of the line.
Old games are really gaining new life with techniques like these. Games from 90s are still getting bug fixes and new content, such as "Caster of Magic" and "HoMM3 Horn of the Abyss"
I'm also really curious if this drives existing players to try to circumvent rules. May work for the next generation who never knew what they were missing but for current kids who are players, it'll be interesting to see what happens!
>This kind of failure (high voltage parts close to low voltage ones, close to liquid damage prone areas, without any underfilling) is documented by Louis Rossmann. It is, however, not always feasible or possible to entirely prevent.

Why not feasible or possible? Laptops are not even used in any harsh conditions at all, they die off on the most minuscule water ingress. Take a washing machine - full of electronics with proper power lines and microprocessors - lots and lots of vibration and humidity. While washing machine PCBs tend to be silicone potted for instance, yet conformal coating goes a very long way compared to bare copper and solder joints. Putting high voltage power lines next to lower one is a rookie mistake, every single wall charger has an air gap between primary and secondary (or at least it should) and decent creepage distance. Alternatively they could have added protection devices (e.g. MOVs, diodes) to clamp down the voltages.
Funny, yesterday someone posted an article about an Ada-based X implementation, and I thought “could be fun to write my own X”. I guess I wasn’t the only one!
The types of taxes you're advocating are regressive in nature because they fall disproportionately on lower income groups. By extension, your suggested taxes are also racist not that I imagine many on a predominantly white platform will care. But congrats on being open minded by a 90s definition of the term I guess.
Modern-Unix: A collection of modern alternatives to common Unix commands
Not flippantly, no. But USSR and its authoritarian ilk can be dismissed on the basis that they ended up worsening the conditions of their residents relative to similar countries that didn't try such experiments.

OTOH there's still the libertarian left. But Soviets and other leftist authoriarians were always as hostile to it as they are to anyone right of them.
>A pragmatic Lisp..

As a newbie(with zero social-capital) I couldn't agree more !
I recall using olvwm (http://www.xwinman.org/olvwm.php) on my Linux machine sometime in the mid-late 90'ies (as I had used Sun workstations at a summer job and I liked the look of it). Not sure it's FOSS per the DFSG criteria, but at least it was available with source under a somewhat free to use license.
You may find this is illegal and thus not considered by the broad population
Their competition is also doing sub 20 minute deliveries!

> Foodtech unicorns Zomato and Swiggy have entered this space with 10 minute delivery in select cities. On August 17, Zomato-backed Grofers announced 10-minute deliveries in 10 Indian cities.

> Hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo has also launched its under 19-minute delivery in Bengaluru. Swiggy's Instamart continues to create 'dark (online orders only) stores' with partners in areas of operations to execute more control over their grocery inventory, as it begins 15-to-30-minute deliveries on the platform.

https://archive.is/IL36L

The secret seems to be in leveraging "Kirana stores". There's at least 10 stores in 1km radius from where I am. This is usually the case in most residential centres in urban India. The bigger problem isn't delivery and pricing, it is inventory and scale.

What's working in their favour is that most Kirana store owners use a smartphone already and have access to free/cheap internet. This could be leveraged in an Uber-style just-in-time order fulfillment. Another interesting ripple-effect could be that households turn into warehouses / dark store-fronts: Kind of like Airbnb for Grocery (everyone's a grocerer!). There's already a precedent in India of households taking to social-commerce (where goods are sold online on WhatsApp / Instagram / marketplaces like Meesho to their followers or social circle, without any store front).
You still need to login once before you can do that. By which time I was already completely fed up with the Windows on boarding process.
I think it is the same for most people. Consider a child that is experiencing these ”thoughts” but do not have language for them. Anchoring your thoughts in words is a useful tool in order to prepare yourself to communicate them, possibly to yourself. How much you use that tool is what I believe is the variable here.
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29012675
I had similar experience with Arch around 2018 but it's been amazing after that since ~2019. I've never had any problems again and sometimes I would go away from my desktop for several months, come back and update everything in a single `pacman -Syu` with no problems (sometimes not updating in time _was_ the issue before). I've heard a lot about Arch/Manjaro being not stable and breaking things frequently enough, and it was true but isn't anymore (at least for me) which makes me quite sad because the problems from few years before turned away many excited users who are not willing to try again for obvious reasons.
OMG, this is exactly what I want. GCP burner accounts that are billed to the team's cost center, perhaps with preemptable VMs that sleep dormant when unneeded, and eventually expire unless renewed.
Note that the free market has ultimately punished these companies. On the other hand, the unaccountable councils and politicians are the ones creating the problem due to zoning an supply issues. As such, I think the outrage is a bit misdirected (as it often is).
> tax unoccupied residencies

OK, sounds promising

> ..use that tax to subsidize housing

record needle scratch sound.

Subziding housing drives up the price, because it increases demand for housing. Have we not learned this lesson? After so many years, this basic economic fact is still tripping people up?

Please, stop with the housing subsidies. Why do you want to make housing more expensive?
There’s no physics. You can make everyone’s eye-level a few inches above the place their head is rendered for the rest. So everyone is just a bit taller than everyone else. Simultaneously
Maybe they were saying haha we know where you patrol
It seems like you've already made up your mind. There's no problem and anyone bringing up a problem doesn't make sense and is making frivolous arguments and you're just going to call them names instead of look into any of it. I can't say I think that's the best way to approach it.
Probably everything, except for .tv (Tuvalu) which do have a good agreement. I'm skipping on .io since it's a rabbithole, but .ly and .sh aren't runned by or on behalf of their governments, they instead are being runned by different companies. The most notorious of these is Niue's (.nu), which their government try their best to recover from a Nordic country to no avail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nu) .
This is basically why I ended up writing Runnable Plans, over at https://github.com/vatine/runnable-plans/, the main differences are "you define the plan in YAML" (yeah, horrible, but better than hand-chasing a parser, that MAY come at a later date) instead of "in the script", "the plan has no inherent order" (to allow for future parallel execution), "saves success/failure to allow for later restart", and "can generate a GraphViz graph of the plan dependency ordering".

But, whatever works, works. Start somewhere, get it into a script, plan, whatever. Then, it is easier to identify steps that can be turned to entirely machine-operated.
Since I don't own any properties I must have some loose screws in my head as apparently only 2 options are available. :)

It must be this then that leaks some questions in my thoughts.

What if the money you buy the properties with is a result of your contributions?

Is there a decent and accessible way to have funds to buy such properties while not having to contribute first?

Let's say I've spent 20 years working 12 hours a day contributing about 4x the average productivity - would it be ok to buy properties and continue not contributing or should I be forced to continue contributing?

What is the optimal path to reap rewards of my contributions? Having taxpayers pay that money to me in a form of retirement is one way, but what if I paid 10x more taxes as a result of my contributions should 10 other people pool their taxes to pay my retiremenet to make it fair? Or will I get the same as those who worked half what I did?

I remember my father told me that in communism there were two options as well, you either had to contribute how you were told or else you were a parasite and put to jail. Seemed fair to many.

In 1920s Russia they mostly genocided them - this is not considered fair these days.

I guess the reason it seemed fair to many is that there is truth to the simplistic formulation of your feelings.

The best definition of evil I've ever heard was - "all evil is perverted good, and it is that aspect of the good which it retains that makes it attractive to many people"

Anyway, writing this as someone "without a dog in the race" what about your dogs in the race - you mentioned you were looking at properties right now?
So for someone who knows nothing about this stuff, how is Wayland different?
We Should Write Java Code Differently
Show HN: Properties and Schools
> The very first thing I think of when reading this article is that everyone interviewed except Hopkins is having near-constant auditory hallucinations.

Agreed. The closest I’ve come to this kind of thing is when I take more than 400 mg of caffeine in a single day (I’m genetically sensitive to caffeine). If I do that, then yes, my inner voice will become quite strange.
I’d expect many sharp surfaces too, but it’s probably safer than the fine layer of regolith on the lunar surface. Those are small particles with very rough edges because there’s no erosion from weather. Like any lung irritant it’s quite hazardous to be exposed to.

The idea is not to just go in there though, it’s to put a structure there (inflatable is often proposed). This could be more feasible than building something on the surface where the environment is harsher.

By the way there’s lots of seismic activity on the moon.
Hi there, author here.

This is very much a work in progress - and currently Victoria/Australia only - but from early feedback it seems like an useful tool.

The premise is to combined property information + school information (geo data) + school rankings and provide it all together for people to help them figure out good places to live, raise a family, send their kids to school, etc

As someone who was not born in Australia sometimes we struggle to identify if a suburb is good for families, with good schools etc. I built this to help us figure this out as well as look for new suburbs out in the country side of the state.

Feedback is mostly appreciated.

Thanks for reading!
It’s Been 10 Years Since Apple Shut Down iWeb, Why Haven’t They Tried Again?
The Guardian : AI needs regulating before it’s too late
Thing is that at short term much easier to shoot rival drug dealer, than build robust logistic system. Same kinda thing happens at legit business where it is much easier and cheaper just bullying rivals out of market(lobby/sue etc) than build actual moat. Things of course change when competitor comes back and has actual moat and nearly unlimited resources.
1 Abrash wasnt the first person to discover modeX.

2 All Commander Keen game were EGA, with some having additional CGA mode.

3 Carmack didnt improve modeX, he hired Abrash to help with optimizing Doom. As a result Doom ended up with the stupid modeY (variation of modeX) which was a wash performance wise on slow 486, while tanking performance on faster processors. https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom switching original Doom sourcecode back to mode 13h (or even better VESA 320x200) results in substantial to huge performance improvements.
I ended up landing on "runnable plan".
For what it's worth, one of the QEMU (the open source emulator and virtualizer) maintainers, Paolo Bonzini, recently gave a talk about this topic. Here's an extended summary of that on LWN:

"A QEMU case study in grappling with software complexity" — https://lwn.net/Articles/872321/

Although the article uses QEMU as an example, the lessons discussed in it are equally applicable to many other projects.

(If you're short on time, read the intro, "Sources of complexity", "Ways to fight back", and the short conclusion. The QEMU command-line case study section might be interesting for those who use a lot of QEMU, or to those devs who use QEMU to write higher level tools.)
“He can easily while away an hour without having a single thought.” No! It is “not a single _verbalized_ thought”! To write such an article one should have some understanding that thoughts exists outside mental verbalization
I can't even picture my close friends very well, never mind some stranger I saw yesterday. I'll recognize people visually but their voice, their habits and their facial expressions help a lot if available, especially people new to me.

I have a quite good memory and will easily recall events but the image is not very precise. I might not remember how you were dressed just 10 minutes ago; hard to build precise pictures with such a visual memory.

Relatedly, if you tell me a story, I'll probably not have a precise picture of it in my mind. I noticed some people do have pictures very quickly and may take advantage of it when speaking to have some fun.

I still picture things in my mind. And I don't need to close my eyes. If you tell me about some event I'll probably locate it in my (not very precise) representation of the month / the year if you said when it happened / will happen. I will have some visual representation of what you are telling me or what I am reading, but do not ask me what colors are things or how people are dressed.

If you wonder how I manage to picture things without being able to tell the color they have, well, I can't figure it out neither.
#define FIRST_BIT (uint32_t)(0x00001)
least_significant_bit = random_value & FIRST_BIT;
if (least_significant_bit) {

how is that more readable?
Plenty of openings out there. Not worth suffering to get a 2% raise rather than 1%. If they won't let you fix something once a month it's time to get moving.

Learned helplessness, indeed.
As someone forced to use them on a daily basis, they are at least open to being used in an overly restrictive corporate environment and insultingly easy to use. But yes.
Does Google record video or audio or keep transcriptions or anything of what's said?
I've always felt like a differentiating factor is privacy, not just comparing free / easy / quality etc.
Huh, how are they racist? Seems to me you're the racist one assuming those "trades" are done by non-whites. But well I guess I won't get any answers from a throwaway account made presumably to come from "Taxes bad!" and associate them with racism...

Society failing minority groups is a different topic of discussion, but legalising those trades would at least mean less of them end up entering the world of crime.
I actually didn't know about the pejorative nature of 'rent seeking', so genuine thanks for the link! IMO I didn't need to either, knowing the commonalty doesn't change the intent I was going for. Even if you're seeking rent above the break even point. I'd still say that's amoral at it it's worse ethically speaking. I mean to expose the hyperbole of the assertion that wanting to wake profit in of itself doesn't make you a leach. Manipulating the market, coercing a negative sum game (accepting a loss to force out competition because you can expend the resources). These are the immoral things people do. Pretending that, just owning property and having them gall to dare to not rent it at or below cost is what's immoral or unethical is harmful to persuading anyone currently undecided, that there are real harms with allowing malicious parties to abuse their capital to prevent others from even playing the game. Which is where the majority of the harms originate from. You dont win hearts and minds by lying about how the game is unfair, and anyone who dares to play is immoral. That's obviously untrue. The people that are cheating, or abusing the rules are what's unfair. And without the majority consensus we'll never be able to fix the defects in the rules.
Yes, it's a good idea, but I have a wife so we could pretent to occupy both actual place of residence and the now-vacant rent out apartment.
Thanks for writing this fantastic book. I think it is a must read for any software PM or engineer looking to "disrupt" healthcare. That chapter about paper-based workflows was really eye opening for me as someone who has never worked in that kind of environment.

I think another big area here is that regulations concerning medical software (such as the design controls needed for FDA Software-as-a-medical-device) are simply outdated and do not reflect software development best practices. Instead of things like testing, fast deploys, monitoring, redundancy, scalability, etc the regulations strongly push people to emphasize up-front specification and documentation, which takes an incredible amount of time and energy out of a project.
You always do backup (another hard drive), GitHub (these days free private repro), Dropbox, iCloud, … etc. Totslly rely upon a hard disk … a big lesson to learn.
this is the country that is under the most stress in the world for job creation, yet they's still ahead in automation technologies
> I am surprised we don’t see economic arguments to rationalize the status quo of societal norms against cannabis and prostitution on hackernews.

> Prostitution lowers the price of sex with women. One of the biggest motivators of employment and productivity among men is the high price of marriage, monogamous sex with women.

Perhaps we don’t see more economic arguments for the status quo because they sound stilted and weird. Good lord, “the price of sex with women” is the most joyless thing I’ve ever read here. If someone seriously made that argument to me I’d be more distracted by how weird that sounds more than anything else.

(By the by I also think it’s a bad argument. It fails to understand why people get married, whether or not impressing a partner is actually economically important in aggregate, the differences between low attachment sex and marital sex, engage with the differences in marital rates before and after prostitution was made illegal, the impact of social expectations and norms on marriage, and the economic output of women among other issues).
Talk about timing, I took my first plunge into writing code for X just a week or so ago and this was some really good reading. If someone is interested in digging into a non-toy, C codebase I can highly recommended dwm [1,2]. Yes, it is a very opinionated WM, but the code is clean, brief, and hackable – even for someone like me that has not hacked C for anything serious for over a decade – for something that can be used as a daily driver. It only took me about an hour or two to develop two patches that changed the layout to my liking. Plus, I have found the people in #suckless over at the OFTC IRC network to be very kind and helpful.

[1]: https://dwm.suckless.org

[2]: https://git.suckless.org/dwm/files.html
1. People stopped going to the hospital. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-29/coronavi...

2. Untrained nurses were operating the ventilators, resulting in deaths.

3. Massive unemployment

4. Very unheathly eating/drinking/no exercise habits of lockdown. Weight gain stress.

I could add more, but #1 is probably the biggest contributor. Surgeries were canceled, preventative care and diagnostic tests were drastically reduced during the "fearful" times. It is really sad.
All platforms give special treatment to people who are already famous and likely to draw a big audience just by coming. An extremely famous writer isn’t a good litmus test.
I think pessimism is a professional deformation of programmers. We have to be pessimists in order to build good software. We have to think of the edge cases and everything that might go wrong with the implementation. And this pessimism spills over to personal life.

I'm not sure of the best way to fix this, as I'm working on it myself, but one of the things that helped is realizing that negative thinking comes from a voice in my head that interprets everything in a negative way. Just noticing and registering that negative voice has helped me be more positive.
If it is so, your data will go. Backup backup backup. Otherwise unencrypted data cannot save you.
If this were the case, you'd see at least some people/orgs doing better and spending less than the current "best practice". I don't think it's reasonable to say software developers are just fooling everyone.
Yes, and citroen used those same splines like boat builders, but they developed mathematical models based on those physical splines so that computers could draw and execute accurate physical items. That's what grandparent comment is about.
I don't think that's correct. Unless you publish it, you don't have to release anything. Otherwise it would be madness.

Also my question was more about why that specific concern about the license - why did you pick AGPL instead of GPL and why do you care so much about that specific case?