skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enlightenment doesn't come from actually using LISP, I've concluded, after years of feeling dumb about it. It comes from understanding how LISP is built. Once you understand how LISP is built, you'd never actually use it for a serious project.

My key take aways from learning how LISP is built: 1) Code & data can be unified into the same thing. This isn't particularly deep if you know the concept of an AST. 2) You can bootstrap a language from a simplified version of the language. Repeat this a few times and you get a fancy language. This isn't particularly deep if you've built any compiler, or if you've built LaTeX. 3) You can build beautiful things if you disregard the grittiness of reality. LISP offers an abstraction of physical computers that does not at all resemble a real computer. Some people like this abstraction. Maybe because they don't like how computers actually work.
Don’t let the gatekeepers get you down. Enjoy your ebike.
Every piece of this rings so true to my own experience. My wife suffers clinical depression. It has been no joke the biggest challenge of my entire life.

When it is under control, life is great. When it's not, it's not. We've been through many meds and doctors and therapists.

We're in a decently stable place right now, but there's always a fear in the back of my mind "but for how long". Her previous meds worked for years and then just... Stopped. There was also the "fun" 6 months where she decided she didn't need then anymore - spoilers, she did.

We're currently quarantining because we both caught COVID over Christmas. We've both been sick for a solid week at this point and the cracks are kind of showing.

All this is to say you're not alone, and there are others. Hold in there.

Addendum: I’ve looked for like online support for people in this sort of relationship and come up largely short. I looked at BetterHelp but couldn’t really justify the cost. If anyone has any recommendations, I’d love to hear it.
That's good advice when first starting your savings journey, but once you have a large amount of money invested (>12 months of expenses) you don't really need to keep an "emergency fund" in cash to cover months of expenses.

It's 2022. It's trivially easy to convert investments into cash.
As a big fan of both bold accents and orange on white Im liking the prototype thus far!
> If they pushed me hard enough at the start, I would tell them and then fail them on the algorithms/reasoning component of the interview.

I agreed with you up until this point, which seems unnecessarily harsh to me
The interviewer's goal is to evaluate the interviewee accurately.

The interviewee's goal is to be evaluated inaccurately.

If you really need an example, then look at it this way:

1. The interviewee's goal is to be hired.

2. Assuming there is no conflict of goals, then the interviewer's goal is to hire the interviewee.

3. This immediately implies that the interview is a pure waste of time. You can just make the hire without having the interview.

If you don't believe that interviews are -- in every case -- nothing but a waste of time, then you must reject one of the two premises. You either believe that (1) The interviewee does not wish to be hired, or (2) there is a conflict between the interviewee's goals and the interviewer's goals.

We can make a similar observation purely by knowing that interviewers sometimes reject interviewees.
I think this is on the right track. The best interviews I've been a part of involve the interviewer asking a question they don't fully know the answer to. Then the interview turns into a conversation where both parties are trying to work together to formulate an answer. The candidate should be scored based on how constructive that conversation is.
The reply is pretty tasteless. Especially:

> Suggesting you should have aborted the 20-week fetus based on unusual skull appearance? Suggesting that the meningitis was a result of some malpractice?

Don't ask people sarcastic questions on a subject like this. You wouldn't do it in real life would you? It's a real person who just shared a harrowing experience with a child, not talking about the latest "Rust framework for DeFi Widget Spinning".

Common sense and basic social skills would tell anyone this was someone talking about a related experience with thier child, not a calculated rebuttal meant to talk to some exactly overlapping point presented in the article.

Honestly the exchange captures the core of HN: You can be as nasty as you want as long as you're not direct about it.
I'm curious about the emergence and popularization of a colloquial term from the Wiki entry: "space of time" in place of something like "duration."
Mass vaccination is the standard way to minimize the spread of viral infections. For example, there were routine outbreaks of varicella infections amongst children despite the fact more than 99.5% Of the adult population had natural immunity to it. After the vaccine became part of the standard schedule, outbreaks are virtually unheard of.

The same can happen with COVID-19 if the percentage of the population that's vaccinated is high enough. Of course, if that percentage drops below the herd immunity threshold, then outbreaks may occur. In fact, that happened several years ago with the measles virus because asubset of the population refused vaccination.
He's asking someone for numbers that prove their own hypothesis. Why is that making you sweat so much?
> ...collectively working and reporting bad content-copying websites, etc. would be collectively useful for all.

How would you combat commercial actors weaponizing this reporting to perform takedowns of legitimate competitor websites via distributed bot reporting attack (DRoC, distributed reporting of content attack)?
Narcan is available "behind the counter" in most states. You have to ask for it, but a prescription isn't required.[1]

[1] https://www.cvs.com/content/prescription-drug-abuse/save-a-l...
One of the reasons I don't like asserts.

Log the error and act accordingly, instead of believing this kind of issue only happens during development
The logic used by most mathematicians is uses exclusive or, law of the excluded middle, and is first order logic. There are some mathematicians that don’t use all of these and there are branches of math that don’t use all of them. So when someone claims math is an intrinsic part of the universe without addressing these nuance it gives the impression of an opinion without a good foundation. Assuming a finite universe (and the observable universe is finite) then math is much bigger. At most, one should say a subset of math is intrinsic to the universe.
> Bikeshedding is arguing about stuff that doesn't matter

Well in many jurisdictions the size of this thing (a shed) wouldn't matter, so yes it is bikeshedding. And this thing looks like it's built well enough to be a shed you can go and sit in with a laptop, a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. The overreaction here by HN to this ancient project perhaps explains why we end up with maddeningly overly complex systems to just stick a bloody simple webpage in a website.
Fuck man, me too. I've heard that this is just a phase that passes, but some days I think that I'm never going to be able to go back to being able to focus for 12+ hours a day.
If you could stay 50% ahead of Moore's law in general, that would be worth tens of billions of dollars per year, increasing as Moore's law slows. Your returns don't become marginal until an iteration is so fast that it might as well be instant, and there's no benefit in doing more iterations per second. The kernel isn't in that range.
Not GP, but when you really WANT to believe something and are aware of that fact, it can be hard to separate out whether that thing is actually true or if you've just subconsciously convinced yourself it is.
Passwords specifically are easy there’s a built in import/export in every modern browser. This takes a few minutes of searching.

Probably the easiest “big bang” way to wean yourself off of Google would be to outfit yourself in Apple kit. Apple has this whole ecosystem that’s parallel to Google they even went to pains to get their own mapping software going.

If your goal is to get away from big tech in general you’ve got a long road ahead of you.
> but facebook and google have very hard leetcode interviews and are known for the best software

...are they? whenever I go on facebook, I always have a slow, unresponsive, buggy experience just using the website, and that's on firefox with 32gb ram on a 10th gen core i7
I'm an internet stranger. I know nothing of their life but what they have said here and me patting them on the head is unlikely to be of any help.

But sometimes reflecting back to someone what they just said about their own life is helpful for them.

Perhaps not in this case, given the downvotes and pile on of replies.

Anytime you try to help, it risks going sideways. I'm prone to trying anyway.

Chalk it up to longstanding bad habit (insert wry smile).
Why stop there? It can be a challenge to have a kid who is ADHD, or is susceptible to depression or mental illness, or a different sexual orientation, etc. It’s not wrong to abort those children either, right?
https://ramp.network/buy/?defaultAsset=ETH
Consumer Reports 5-Year Index does not contain the word "moving":
https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...
I’d bomb this interview.
Why not have the drone bring the nozzle of an ultra puissant shopvac, to the nest...
> I have been trying to get an interview at dropbox but I think my resume is being filtered out by some automated system.

I feel you, having the same issue with AirBnB myself. I got invited for an interview with them my senior year of college, but I had already signed another offer at that time, so I politely declined. It's been over 5 years since then, and I am yet to be able to get a single interview there, despite applying every year.
But how? I'm genuinely curious. Don't viruses reproduce by getting cells to make copies of them? Is the immune system really capable of removing all of the affected cells?
>we’d be much better off if the average person got their news from the NYT, WSJ, Economist, etc.

Man I don't know about that. In some ways, yes I agree with you. But in other ways I can't.

None of the major entities produces news and commentary from the labor point of view, for example. It's hard to get them to talk about media consolidation, news for profit, and a whole pile of other issues too, and it all boils down to a couple things:

1) AD driven models favor those who can buy the products and services pitched in the ADS

2) Conflicts of interest abound! The massive media consolidation we saw after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 really did a number on one of the basic dynamics we depend on, and that is many owners, many models, competition all tended to work as checks and balances. A small, indie house could run a labor story, or talk about Net Neutrality without having a conflict rooted in a big corporation not wanting to publish news and commentary that would impact it's bottom line in a negative way. Just one example.

Today, we've got investigative journalism relegated to niche players who are doing good, often quite expensive work that isn't being seen due to suppression and a misinformation problem that is not easy or cheap to solve.

Your point isn't invalid. I am saying it's more complicated than that.
I mean, the prize is really bad :(.
> I can get hired as a software engineer wherever, but I’m only mediocre at doing the job.

I feel exactly the same.

Mind if I ask how you deal with this?

I recently left software (not sure if temporary or permanent yet) and I'm pursuing tutoring in an unrelated field. So far I'm liking it more because I feel better than mediocre.
This is not constructive advice. It is a heck of a lot more complicated than this is making it out to be. You wouldn't leave your loved one with a broken leg until the "found their own way" to the doctor.
I don’t understand why the question needed to be asked in the first place.

There’s no reason to assume such support based on the “flaming liberal” designation, so asking the question can only be interpreted as some form of accusation or implication that such a relationship does exist.
Dido wrote the song "Quiet Times" about this topic..

"Now I miss you,

Now I want you,

But I can't have you,

Even when you're here"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOd-rz8lDXQ&list=PLhMrEC5L8T...
> Why would I want a powerful language?

You clearly don't, since your aim is to write boring and forgettable code. I don't think there is anything wrong with that -- you can write boring code to solve interesting and worthwhile problems, and overall the tendency is probably to err on the side of getting distracted by hip or shiny tech. But some people enjoy writing interesting code, and sometimes interesting code is needed to solve interesting problems and a powerful language can make certain types of interesting code much less painful to write. Auto-differentiation might be a good example.
Temperature and vibration sensors
Denard scaling has been dead my entire career. Moore's law was never about speed.
Cooks Illustrated is the name of the magazine, and I recommend it to anyone who ever spends time in a kitchen.

Some of the purchases I have made with their guidance have been (trivially) life-changing.
Furthermore the pigment sepia, a beautiful brown color used historically in inks and paint, is derived by removing the ink sac from the cuttlefish (it shoots ink like a squid).

Although it has largely been replaced by synthetic alternatives, you can still obtain traditional sepia from places like Kremer's Pigments - which is a supplier of historic pigments, mediums, and recipes (used by conservationists and artists who like to make their own paint).

I find the brown color of the traditional sepia to be extremely beautiful, the dried pigment has an extremely pungent odor, quite similar to the dried squid you
might find at your local Asian fish market.
Don't assume we're all girdled by (presumably) US building codes.
So I'm not a part of this world at all and I'm super fascinated by this perspective. I hear your point entirely. How do you counter the issue with pre-structured interviews where the questions get distributed and you end up with candidates who learn how to answer your exact question (but lack the skills to actually be dynamic in their job, or even do their job)?
(Not to mention that that internship might be gate-kept for reasons outside of expertise, to boot)
The world is also full of people who are not passionate about what they get paid to do, and they do it because it is high-paying and offers security.
> Modern mtbs use a 1x11 or 1x12 drivetrain (no front derailleur at all, never mind 3x).

... which creates much more chain wear from chain crossing ...

> More moving parts, super unreliable, always low quality.

I have a 35 year old Shimano Deore XT front derailleur. I raced the bike hard in the 80s during "the prehistory of UK mountain bike racing". I then rode it for another 8 years, doing several multi-thousand mile tours on it (before the name "gravel bike" had come along). Then I used it as a city commuter for another 5 years.

The derailleur has never failed me, has always been reliable and is built better than most contemporary equivalents.

The fad for 1x setups illuminates some of the pros, but because it's largely a fad, fails to shine a similar light on the cons. For crazy downhill racing, 1x is an obvious choice. For ultra-distance events, long distance off-road touring and general gravel duty, the choice is not quite so obvious.
Roughly 40 Trillion since the late 70's.
There is some good points in here, but the advice about not trying to drag someone out of the tunnel is off.

Ive been very depressed and had very depressed friends. Getting then outside, on walks, with friends, and doing the things they like again is very useful. Even it it doesn't do anything that day going through the motions is useful. Depressed people don't feel like doing anything they'll have to do things they don't want to or they'll never leave the bed.
Do those countries have drug epidemics?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...

Blaming life expectancy drop on "undetected" covid without any evidence is not very scientific. I can say it's undetected drug overdoses too.

Maybe either root the logic in facts, or don't write off alternative possibilities.
What caveat? Over the last two years there have been about 40k covid deaths for people under 50. So that is 2 years 40k vs 1 year 64k.
> have some side effects that have effected us.

I assume part of this is the typical effect that she now has almost no libido
The average employment length at a faang is 2 years or less. A job in a single top law firm is an endurance battle that can span your career. Switching firms is looked at differently a lot of times negatively.

Once you land that job in finance or as a lawyer you are on track to be set for life. At a faang after a few years you'll get pushed into management or pushed out.

It's not the same.
I'm rather surprised the test suite for a product like Exchange wouldn't include setting date types to ($TODAY..$FAR_FUTURE).
It is surprising, and counterintuitive. In the "hot," high price to rent ratio cities (NYC, BOS, DC, LA, SF, SEA, etc) landlords don't make money in their capacity as landlords, but as speculators.

Rent is just a little bit of gravy to partly offset the cost of owning those appreciating assets. It's not the point.
In my area, community colleges have trades programs for such things. I've gotten overrides for pre-reqs when I've audited classes for hobby rather than for the certificate/degree, allowing me to take the few core courses that cover most of what I'll get into in my projects.

Also, when applying for a home-owner permit, my city requires you pass a short test showing you know the basics of the code (not nearly as in-depth as certification exams).
> Skin: Causes skin irritation. May be fatal if absorbed through the skin.

I’m sure the actual users read these things thoroughly, and the second point is called out above, but that ___really___ buries the lede.
A big part of the best wire cutter reviews are the “why you should trust me” introduction. Some of their reviewers really know their stuff, others obviously less so. You can calibrate your expectations accordingly.
> My job turned from amazing with coding every day to maintaining broken things last year (mostly black boxes others left behind).

You generally have more control over your job description than anyone will acknowledge to your face. If you’re miserable maintaining broken black boxes, then stop doing that. Figure out what you’d be more productive doing, tell your boss, and start doing it.

You may have some uncomfortable conversations. Stand up for yourself. There’s a huge gap between what your boss will complain about vs what they’ll fire you for. In most cases it’s incredibly difficult to fire someone who is doing something (almost anything) valuable.

Another thing you might consider is to pick one of those black boxes and dive into it. Tell people this thing is broken and you need to fix it and they need to cover the rest while you do so. If the company doesn’t have the resources to do so, that’s the company’s problem. Then focus on it until it’s not broken and not a black box (at least to you) anymore. Now you have job security as the person who understands the thing, and it’s a nice job to have because you made the thing nice.
Amazon has a horrible review scam policy. It's okay by Amazon policy for sellers to pay people to remove their bad reviews.

Being highly rated on Amazon is so valuable, that there are whole industries on making sure your reviews are high, including all sorts of malicious review hijacking.

Amazon the company does not seem to care.
I don’t disagree that there’s a lot to improve. I was just thinking from the very minimal perspective of how often they knowingly run outright propaganda. None have a perfect track record (Iraq & Judith Miller come to mind) but then I look at the outright fabrications people share on Facebook and that stuff is always free.

This is an easy way to get depressed wondering whether we can successfully navigate a global news environment.
Ironically, V programming language has 2-3x the amount of github stars (decent measure of popularity) to zig/nim, yet has been the brunt of general hate here on HN from day one.

(Mostly, as I can tell, due to some single individual blog Christine something?;that everyone has taken as gospel).
This has been my fave story of 2021 because it was clear to me very early on that she was a Fraud using psychological methods to manipulate older men.

If you haven't been following the trial, this series at business insider has been quite good.

The Elizabeth Holmes trial

Start with the Sep 9, 2021, 11:29 AM posting.

https://www.businessinsider.com/category/elizabeth-holmes-tr...
Why not just throw out the questions. They seem useless, easy to cheat, and as commenters are suggesting there's a "pay to win" component. What are you really getting from these questions? Why is software engineering so different to other industries when it comes to interviews? Is there really a positive to this type of interviewing? Why not do what everyone else does and look at previous work (which in software we have a lot more considering GithHub), ask some questions relevant to the job, and see if the person has a personality match. Most jobs don't need the best of the best.

I'm not convinced the coding interviews have improved upon the standard interview style in any meaningful way.
Long Covid sufferer here - does going to the grocery store count as exercise?
I know, and feel for you. The level of overreaction here is beyond comical. Given this is HN in the San Fran startup zone I have to say that for a culture of break all the rules this lot are hilariously conservative just because you built a shed.

I like your shed.
also mortgage interest subsidies and below market rates for low income mortgages are balanced by local property taxes and stricter building requirements in the usa. Most other countries don’t have the same local property taxes.
Thats not really my issue with them. its site like all recipes is always in the top, or the same few websites always dominate results and that low quality recipes are in the top because they seem to game the system by doing that. the 1st result for me for pad thai recipes is a recipe that includes bell peppers and peanut butter.
Fair. I like Polyani so I shall put a Polyani quote here which I feel goes to your point: Mathematics as a purely formal system of symbols without a human being possessing the know-how for dealing with the symbols is impossible (1969) the wiki page I found it on is the Brouwer-Hilbert controversy (constructivism vs formalism, which seems a reasonable laymans take on a component of your point) and says: Despite the last-half-twentieth century's continued abstraction of mathematics, the issue has not entirely gone away. which is I feel, what I first said. It's a continuing difference, and as a non mathematician I take heart in that. All of these observations stem from looking at the law of the excluded Middle btw. There was a causal chain of weblinks to get there, I didn't just grab at random.
Can we stay in full control of our personal computers and privacy?
Exactly this. New Lispers sometimes overuse macros because they're so powerful, but macro overuse can make your code impossible to debug or maintain.

At the same time, when you really need a macro, you really, really need a macro because it can do things a function cannot like controlling when or if its arguments are evaluated.

There are multiple reasons to use a macro rather than a function. I won't describe them here* but suffice it to say that the statement "macros are no longer useful in modern programming" is completely false.

*See pg's _On Lisp_ for an in-depth discussion of macros.