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Author here. You know it when you see it. LISP is a tool that people want to use. People write production software using it. For example, this website (Hacker News) was written in LISP. Languages like BrainFuck are usually only called programming languages if the word "esoteric" is attached. There's a real consensus of opinion around this this being a generally held view.

There should ideally be a more compelling explanation of why Brainfuck is an esoteric toy and LISP isn't, than me simply saying "but that's what people believe". I considered going into more depth on this subject. I found a C to Brainfuck compiler written in OCaml and used it to compile a Brainfuck metacircular evaluator into Brainfuck. It ended up being 88,439 bytes of code, and it sadly didn't work, because the compiler isn't very polished.

Let's compare ratios. Brainfuck is 99 bytes, whereas Brainfuck written in Brainfuck is 88439 bytes. That's 893x larger. On the other hand, LISP is 436 bytes of systems code and LISP written in LISP is 1370 bytes of LISP. That's 3.14x larger. It's cool that the ratio between layers of simulation with LISP is pretty close to pi. It helps explain why LISP is viewed by human beings as being such a powerful tool, since it lets you accomplish more impact with less effort, without having the castles you build turn into a leaning tower of pisa. Since after all, the purpose of tools since prometheus has been to give people more power.
They’re not. The Romans built a huge amount and much of their artistic architectural works remaining today were purposely preserved, even if reused for some alternative purpose.

Yes, there are some construction techniques they used that contributed to better survival rates than some other structure types. But mostly we’ve ended up with what was lucky enough to survive. Replay the historical tape again and we might be surprised by what didn’t survive war, fires, other natural disasters on the second go round.
This is not even debateable. Software is eating the world and there's still a lot to eat. Europe won't be selling leather bags for much longer. The fact that it excluded itself from the future of the internet is a crime for the future generations.
Now discuss the marxist groups that took over entire city blocks in Portland, where people were actively being shot.
More like you’re running around with a stack of dollar bills. You can lose it all to a hack, you can put it all in a cookie jar (and accidentally throw it away).
The cost of living doesn't really vary much no matter where you live in California. Rent maybe varies between 2,500 and 4,500 for an apartment, but other costs are still the same.
...sort of. I'm in this role myself, and I think a lot of middle management positions could at least in theory be eliminated. But it would require 'Developer Z' from the above example to have those uncomfortable conversations with management himself. Would that be a stressful distraction from the work he needs to accomplish? Almost certainly. Could it be a net savings for the company? Yes, iff the right processes/culture were in place.

Since taking this position I've started to think of middle managers as human lubrication on the gears of bureaucracy. The better the gears fit together, the fewer of us are needed. Unfortunately, we're not really incentivised to make ourselves useless, so designing better gears isn't something a lot of us spend time on. And I don't know how one could properly incentivise a whole class of mid-seniority people to work themselves out of a job.
I wonder how long carbon fiber rebar, or plastic coated steel rebar would last.
> looking at you, Steam

I really don't believe anyone running Steam on their video computer is worried enough or even serious about reliability to use a dedicated video playback card. Sure it would be nice if everyone used a dedicated card, but it's 100x more important that those people stop running Steam... unless maybe if they're pro game streamers or something.

Also, even Steam requires extra permissions on Mac to display the overlays you mention.
Take it a step further. No need to live on top of one another (unless you like that), no need to live in an unpleasant climate, no need to tolerate local politics you don’t like, etc. An explosion in human freedom.
Surely it should be "why are Rome's monuments..." Or am I mistaken, I'm not actually sure
Few countries explicitly allow slavery in their constitution...Most countries are capable of realising and admitted bad things, and working on making them impossible

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution[0] abolished slavery back in 1789:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/
Kind of battery cache?
One of the reasons why you can't overclock the health system is that medical doctors and nurses are doing insane long shift, like 12 hours or even 24 hours.

The official reason is that they must be used to long shift, so in case of a big emergency they can work long shifts. The problem is that once the big emergency arrives, you don't have spared professionals, because you don't need them because they are overclocked in normal times.

Another reason is that the shift change is dangerous because they have a lot of info in their mind that is not transmitted to the member of the next shift. This can be solved if they log all the data in some common system, but it's difficult to convince the doctors to follow a checklist during surgery. (Pilots following checklist avoid a lot of plane crashes.) (Each time a new doctor arrives, remember to tell him/her all the relevant info, don't assume the last doctor passed the info.)

If you want to be prepared for the next pandemic, make 6 hours shift mandatory. They will have an easy time fpr the next 90 years. Health care will be more expensive. Make a good shift change procedure. Once the next pandemic arrive, you can easily overclock the staff x2, increase the pay x3 to keep them happy, and call the heroes too.
Am I the only one who dislikes S-expressions and prefers XML or JSON or even YAML? The parenthesis are way too confusing when editing manually and the format doesn't have enough semantic information to always correctly parse into common structures in any language besides lisp. I enjoy writing lisp myself but I really think it is a mistake to use them for common formats everywhere that I've seen it tried.
> I can write Rust as quickly as I can write Python, and other people can too. Time-to-market matters,

So one can bring to market a production-ready cross-platform native GUI desktop app in Rust quicker than if it was done in Python?

There's a reason why toolkits like Electron (JS/TS), and Flutter (Dart) are there for this use case when it comes to quick 'Time-to-market' production grade GUI apps. Rust (and its toolkits) still doesn't cut it, despite what the Rust hype squad thinks.

EDIT: So it has been admitted. There is still no mature cross-platform GUI library for Rust then. So much for unconvincing 'Time-to-market' claims which the Rust hype-squad have to result into flagging this post because they don't have an answer for this.

Oh dear.
Speaking from short, few months experience, cubicles are actually quite nice compared to open office plans.

- You get plenty of personal space

- My cubicle got both a whiteboard and a bulletin board, a locker, two trash bins, and enough desk space to comfortably fit a co-worker for short sessions of working together

- high walls discourage conversations, so it is actually quiet

The biggest disadvantage is artificial lighting - my cubicle was quite removed from the windows.
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The difference is typical digital cameras have a bayer filter in front of the sensor to allow taking a single color picture vs. here it sounds like multiple captures with individual filters (e.g. 1 blue, 1 red, 1 green, 1 monochrome) that are later combined into a color picture.
I am not telling you how to run your business, I am just demanding you do in fact run it well. Nor am I complaining about the variety of jobs. The point is the aggregate demand for labor, not a lack of strip malls to choose between.

Lets continue to raise the productivity floor so if you can't figure out how to make your business efficient, you fail.

Right now, we have some efficient large business, and a bunch of sad pathetic small businesses that thrive on cheap labor. The more efficient the big industry get, the more you little exurb car dealership or coffee shop can exploit people that have few other options.

These small business are receiving a huge handout in cheap labor, and it sickens me. We must depend dependency culture where any chucklefuck that bought a house a few decades can run a reverse mortgage and start a little service company, having broke has potential employees clamoring to sign up. This ingrates don't deserve the cheap labor or home appreciation and need to learn to work for living.

There, hows your rhetoric sound right back at you?
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We need an awesome-vaxxers repo to keep a list of companies that required injections for their customers or employees. Because I'd like to avoid them going forward.
I visited the USAF Museum earlier this year. It's breathtaking just how large the B-2 Spirit is. You can know the plane's dimensions going in and it'll still blow you away standing next to one.
Isn't the idea that one takes the bottles when you go to the store anyway? At least that's what we do. We've cut down on bottle use also, but even so there's a load from time to time, and I've started buying joghurt that comes in reusable glass jars so whenever I get new ones I return the old ones.
I agree, but that's still not an excuse for GNOME developers to make their apps un-themable. If they want to target a specific stylesheet or design language, they're more than welcome to do so; but their efforts to kneecap everyone else who wants native-looking apps is frankly immature.
>showstopper

That’s a funny word for “extremely minor visual artifact.”
I dramatically prefer (open, loud, busy) offices and they have always been more productive in my experience.

I go to a WeWork alone just to simulate the ecosystem.

Among people who I bucket into the top 15% of people I have worked with wfh preference has been right down the middle.

Among the bottom 15% it’s been exclusively wfh preference.
What would you personally feel like doing with those sed Republicans? Should we round them up?
Well, you also have to run the Kubernetes cluster, ELK stack, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger to monitor the application and scale elastically between 0 and 20 packets.
Homomorphic encryption, if perfected would revolutionize cloud computing. Imagine if you didn't have to trust the nodes, people could sell spare clock cycles from their personal machines.
Marvel movies are the top of the line financially, but they are all the same basic formula, and they're effectively film versions of old comic storylines.

When was the last time you saw actually original (as in, not based on last year's surprisingly successful novel), creative, non-"mainstream" movies at your city's cinema? Interstellar or (to a certain extent, given that the plot was more or less copied from Pocahontas) Avatar, likely.

Anything else is moved off to niche/arthouse cinema or straight to DVD/Netflix.

With games, it's the same. Innovation has been sorely lacking in many genres from racing to shooters - it's all remasters, microtransactions, free to play and advertising bullshit these days or the atrocity that Rockstar made out of GTA 3/VC/SA. Last actually innovative game in the shooter genre probably was Borderlands.
XML is bad because it bloats the size by roughly 3x (compared to other text formats like s-exprs), is difficult to implement properly. HTML is bad too, we're just more stuck with it so it's less useful to complain.
Do you have any source? I couldn't find data that would show it by the age group.

One that I found

Norway

Total vaccinated with mRNA vaccine = 3.765.354

Total myocarditis + pericarditis = 274 (0.0073%)

One case in 13,743

Not published yet https://youtu.be/YdVymGK3OzM?t=1095
If the election isn't certified, they could have pushed on states more to have some pretense of not counting the electors. Without 270 electors for Biden, it goes to the House for a one-vote-per-state vote.
It's even sadder that we can't have this discussion in a european forum. Are there any, really?
One workaround would be making a new account whenever you get enough hacker news points to unlock downvoting.
slow reader:

2hrs per days.
a ~600-page nonfiction book a week.
Look at the gallery, most screenshots use a flat theme: https://reactos.org/gallery/
I’m the opposite. Even though I’m an extrovert and love people, I so excited to never have to meet a colleague in person again.
> Engineering First Organizations

> Like Google or Facebook these are organizations where engineering trumps everything else. If you’re not in engineering, your pathway to promotion is limited.

Just browsing Facebook's board...

MZ-dropout
SS-MBA Mckinsey etc
PA-Accounting and Business studies
NK- economics & management, Mckinsey again
RK - lawyer
PT- lawyer

Not being engineers sure held them back!

https://investor.fb.com/leadership-and-governance/default.as...
Why bring up the US government as a whole? History repeatedly shows that "US" intervention in South America need not involve the entire governmental edifice; in fact, the most famous and effective examples involve only three-letter agencies (eg, the CIA) and their financial hegemonic counterparts (eg, the IMF).

If ideological differences threaten international resource extraction -- and Boric's stance against Kast's plan of "empowering the security forces to more forcefully crack down on Indigenous challenges to land rights in the south of the country" certainly suggests such a threat to me -- then Something Will Happen, mark my words.
>I wonder if there's a good flick that shows how powerful a forensic accountant can be.

"The Accountant" starring Ben Affleck has it as a plot element.
What about people's spouses or significant others?
Cherry-picking one area where $LANG_A isn't as convenient as $LANG_B does not a convincing argument make.
I wondered how it compares to the same subset of SWF, which is another vector format designed with a huge emphasis on size and decode efficiency. The example tiger.svg is 96719, and tiger.tvg is 27522, but I have a tiger.swf which is 21381 and tiger.pdf 77377. It seems to be a little worse than SWF, but much better than SVG and PDF. I agree with the author that SVG is bloated, but not sure making another format is the answer, especially when there's already very good prior art.

(I have written SWF rendering and conversion code before, so I might be biased in saying that it's an example of a very well-designed vector format; too bad Adobe has been trying to kill it off.)
But europeans are generally familiar with remote work, why would that be a problem?
Python might be a bad comparison, I've not found making GUIs in python very easy. I also hate it in Rust -- I wish Rust had high quality Electron bindings.
> How is everyone moving and also moving somewhere better?

Several of us exited a toxic company semi-recently.

For what it's worth, it was common for people to take minor cuts to total compensation. The old, toxic company had evolved to pay well because it was the only way they could retain people (however briefly) through the obvious toxicity. We just didn't talk about it publicly much.

But it didn't matter. Huge quality of life improvement and I don't really miss the extra money.
I'm pretty sure that Haskell supports cyclic data structures and that GHC garbage collection is more complicated than that. See for example the presentation by Ben Gamari over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqBpVRA3wU. Haskell GC is a generational copying design. Optionally you can enable the low-latency GC in newer runtimes, which is still generational and copying for the youngest generation but uses a parallel mark-and-sweep algorithm for the later generations.
Congratulations on your newfound wealth!

If you wouldn't mind my asking, what APIs are your trading bots using? Or did you cook them up yourself?

Onto the more pressing topic, have you considered moving to a low tax state that doesn't tax dividends or capital gains? You also might want to look for remote work offerings either from your current employer or elsewhere.

As far as wealth management is concerned, unless it's retirement or child-related, I don't think anyone can give you any advice. If there's something you want to do with your money after you debts and living expenses are cleared, plan it out and go do it.
This is pretty much what I'm hearing even at a rather remote-friendly company. Most people have not up and moved away from where they were working--though I know a few who have. And pretty much every survey I've seen suggests that the most common behavior is going to be people coming into an office two or three days a week.

Personally I've gone fully remote but that's what I was effectively (though not officially) pre-pandemic. I just never bothered to request a status change in the system.
Please edit swipes out of your posts to HN. We're trying to avoid that kind of thing here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Campus is fun when you’re 19, but when you hit 35 and want to be more choosey about who you spend your time with, this no longer works. You’d have to multiply my salary by ten to get me to move to that hell.
seriously, it shouldn't be so hard to write a parser that compiles your favorite text format to TVG, or even to the lispy text format.
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Ask HN
What are math or physic functions that have the most number of magic constants like E,PI,h etc?
All cryptocurrencies that emit the majority of coins in just the first few years suffer from concentration of wealth. In particular ones starting with a large premine or as Proof of Stake (which amounts to a 100% premine).

To limit wealth concentration to that of fiat (the best you can hope for), an emission should be ultra slow, such as having a fixed emission rate [1]. Keeping the yearly supply inflation high for several decades helps deter speculators and focusses on use as currency.

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
I just want to applaud the author for being direct, and not couching their opinions in a bunch of caveats^1. Sometimes a little bit of directness (in good spirits) helps move discussions, and people's understanding forward.

^1: Except for the caveats in the footnotes :p
I'm going to go ahead and presume that anyone intending to release a malicious app or compromised update to a non-malicious application has access to a similarly configured system.

They are thereby incentivized to attack via a method that is successful on their test systems. In particular applications set their own initial permissions (can they also update themselves and acquire greater permissions without user input?) and often contain old outdated and potentially insecure known insecure versions of software already patched or updated in distro repos.

If you put up $1000 and offered to install any malicious app on a current fedora gnome default install VM and see if someone could pwn it your money would be gone in a few hours. You could do this once a month between now and 2025 and I would be surprised if you were ever able to retain your money.
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This is what weekends are for though. I've been remote pretty much my entire life, and still socialize a ton.
> Oh? Then what is anyone being charged with and convicted for exactly?

Importantly, there are very few being charged with anything. Not everyone, but a very few people.

Also note the presence of undercover FBI on premises as members of alt-right groups [0].

[0] https://republicandaily.com/2021/07/confirmed-undercover-age... <-- The editorial is left to the end of the summary of news events. I really, really wish we could go back to a world of just reporting and not editorializing.
Mesh gradients might make and impressive feature!
> pots that tell you when they are hot.

Tell you how? Send you a text? Yeah, no. Do not need.

Tell you verbally (because they expect that you're within earshot of the kitchen)? Maybe.

> bikes that say their tires are flat.

Useful, even if they do it by text.

> weights that track how many reps you did.

Marginally useful. I can count fairly well.

> shoes that tell you: stop landing on your heels so hard.

Useful, but most people won't want them.

> pillboxes that shove pills down your throat.

Pillboxes that remind you to take your pills are useful for those who are forgetful.

"Shove"? Not my pills. I presume that was sarcasm, but if it wasn't, I own a sledgehammer.

And that's my answer to most of the rest of your list. I won't buy it; if I can't buy something without it, I'll disable it if at all possible.
I'm curious to see if this really pans out. Seems like its a little pie-in-the-sky for "light trucks," whatever that means (anything smaller than an 18 wheeler? Or only small like a Chevy S10?). From my very cursory research several months ago, there's been almost no improvement in mileage in trucks in at least a decade. My 2008 Tacoma is no less efficient than the 2022 model (20-25 mpg). From what I've seen, the only trucks that come close to meeting the 40 mpg requirement are the fully electric and the Ford Maverick hybrid.
Wouldn't that be the 3D distance between the shadow and the plane?

https://i.imgur.com/HWA1iZu.png

Edit: nope you're totally right. Brain fart. It's toa, not soa.
one very impressive feat is the Pont du Gard, this thing has been in disuse for 1500 years, and lots of stones have been looted over the centuries. And its aspect ratio is somewhat thin.
I know as many non-engineers as engineers at Google right now.

The idea that non-engineers are sidelined is wrong.
now i m curious why it is written like that
What percentage of those coins are lost? Never moved, forgotten keys, long forgotten etc?
Interesting idea, but carbon fiber would need to be really cheap. Would work well until a critter of some sort evolves that eats plastic
If language were a major barrier; then, how does one explain the US doing well in the EU?

I get that home markets may not be big and provide a springboard perhaps to other markets but even the big countries there don’t seem to dominate the small countries in terms of Software.
If you take a look at the spec you will find:

12 Multimedia, 13 Interactivity, 14 Linking, 15 Scripting, 16 Animation, 17 Fonts

That does not sound very tiny to me.
>"If I were running a software company, I'd calculate all these savings and pass it on to my employees and retain talent.

I guess the only people who don't like remote is middle management, their career depends on dumb meetings and other such meaningless things. At home, at least we can mute ourselves and do something useful. "

This is the height of foolishness; to dismiss all those experienced managers out of hand. If someone far more experienced than you has taken a position, you should try to understand why a smart person could think that way, before calling them 'dumb'.
IMO that defeats the purpose of using this format if you have to write things to compile to it. If you do that you might as well just compile to the binary format since you won't be editing your canonical representation anyway. I'd imagine with image formats you'd want to pick a format that is the easiest possible thing to parse and consume while not harming it's "editableness" and I don't think S-expressions fit that bill.
Went back to office for a half day recently. Hated it. It feels barbaric .
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Board directors are not usually employees.