skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A language is homoiconic if code in that language is written using the syntax of data literals of that language.

In the case of most Lisps, code is written using the syntax of list and symbol literals. (There are other literals too, of course.)

(I (usually) like apples)

is a nested list literal with four symbols. You can think of symbols as "interned strings"; they're written without quotes for convenience. It's not unlike

["I", ["usually"], "like", "apples"]

in Python, except I had to use actual strings instead of symbols because Python doesn't ship with a standard symbol type.

This is also a nested literal list:

(loop for i below n do (print i))

but this happens to be a list literal that can be "run" (or in Lisp parlance, evaluated) as code.
What's corrupt about happy dogs?
If you hit finish early, does it mark the untried ones against you?
They aren't saying that there's no physical differences in dogs' capabilities.

Pits can bite and shake because they have ridiculous jaws and a powerful build. If a miniature poodle tried, it wouldn't have much effect.

The reporting on this is also sketchier than the science; the honest headline "Study of pet dogs shows breed is imperfectly predictive of behavior", which could be confirmed by anyone with multiple dogs of a certain breed.

The study gives 9% predictive, which (if interpreted as the chance that a dog of $breed has $(breed-specific behavior)) doesn't seem too far off base (netted over a wide range of breed-specific behaviors).
You might find the retriangulation of Britain in the 1930s and 40s interesting [1]. A network of ~6,500 triangulation pillars (trig points) were built across the country, each of which were in line of sight of at least two other pillars. The pillars each have a mounting point for a theodolite, to allow their position to be calculated from the relative angle and elevation of other visible trig points.

They are often on the top of hills or mountains and so have a warm place in my heart from signifying the high-point of many a hike.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retriangulation_of_Great_Brita...
You don't put a lot of faith in IQ tests but did the following:

- Let readers know you didn't really try for the last 6 questions

- Took a screenshot of your score to share?!
I think it's a nice gimmick, and the online test results are probably close to your actual measured IQ. These tests tend to only measure certain aspects of your intelligence (in this case: exclusively pattern matching, but no memory testing at all) so the results are often skewed.

Any non-extreme IQ is a useless measurement anyway. If you consistently score around 85 or 145 on these tests then you may want to look into some actual tests or your working environment, but as a personal statistic your IQ says very little of you.

I find it frankly disgusting that there are people and companies out there that rely on these numbers for real, important decisions, especially since the numbers and procedures are usually based on old information. IQ scores have increased over time up to a point in the 90s and what scored 100 points in 1940 is now below average (there was a difference of a whole 14 IQ points between 1942 and 2008! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect)
I'd argue that pattern recognition is basically the brain's most important job. Acquiring new patterns is another (but you'll notice how easy it is when the new patterns mostly fit existing patterns).

That's not to say that the tests actually mean anything. They probably don't.
The thing to remember is that one in fifty people qualifies to be in Mensa, which is not particularly selective or exclusive. This is 2% of the general population, not 2% of, for example, readers of Hacker News. Or 2% of software developers or 2% of people who read more than one book per year.

My experience with Mensa is from 20 years ago with the group in Chicago. I was in my twenties and my guess is that the average age of members was late-fifties. In theory, they were interested in recruiting younger people, in practice they were not interested in changing the activities in a way that would attract younger members, like focusing efforts to solve real-world problems. I felt they were more interested in showcasing depth in various atypical hobbies, or to simply talk about how smart they were. I was never in awe of anyone’s intellect. Pretty much just normal people. I don’t think I came across anyone that was exceptionally accomplished at anything.
The new game isn't 3D, you're right. At least from the trailer I can assume so. But I wouldn't rule it out completely. Let's see when we actually get some gameplay.

But it still feels like a major downgrade to Curse of Monkey Island or the originals.

It looks like every other game, very generic style. It's lost the charm of the original games IMO.

I think Ron has an opportunity to differentiate his game from all the bad sequels we got before it.
Not wanting or wanting to but failing?
Article points to the original which has been forked and is being updated via https://github.com/sorenisanerd/gotty
If GPLv3 had been GPLv2 plus patent stuff and a few other things it'd likely have been very welcomed.

For folks following along, the GPLv3 is more than 2x the length of the GPLv2

"If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with, or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), the Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied by the Installation Information. But this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product"

Give you a feel for the GPLv3 style :)
All uses of this information are bad; there isn’t an exception for alignment with your politics
Interestingly, mensa is spanish is slang for stupid female.
Yeah, those ones. Most of the questions seemed to separate into groups where a conceptual idea was explored, and it feels like I just didn't see/understand the concept those were attempting, so I'm interested in what I was missing.
Diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine in carbonaceous meteorites
I joined a fediverse group but it’s all just random short posts. Kind of like knock-off Twitter to put it bluntly. Also the “home” tab is empty which is a bit confusing.

I want this to succeed, but as a social media site in order to succeed they need people (interesting people who like to post interesting things), and a good feed algorithm. This is where Facebook, Twitter, HN, etc. are worth a lot: many social media sites could easily replace Twitter except they don’t have these.
This marks the end of my over a decade-long 1Password journey. Since version 2 I have purchased license after license, including the iOS Pro app which was later sunset, and used and trusted.

I'm so sad to see them go down this route of, and in short and in rough order of importance to me these are the major reasons.

a. Removing the local vaults.

b. Moving to a subsciption-only model (I had no problem paying a lot for stand-alone licenses, it is not the price, it is the tie-in to eventual loss of service if my economic situation changes).

c. Taking in VC money despite being a profitable company and thereby sacrificing individuals for the enterprise market.

d. Electron.
Fanny packs are sweet, except the part where you're wearing a fanny pack.

Yes, my teenagers were shocked and appalled when they saw it, and made me promise I would only wear it while on the bike.
I got 117, but I didn't skip any. Time ran out at 24-25, can't remember. I'm skeptical at what pattern recognition has to do with intelligence to be honest. I'm 45 and been programming since my teenage years, maybe that has been helpful as most if not all patterns in these tests are basically combinations of bitwise operations. Back in university I did the Swedish version of this (~20 years ago) and scored 140+. I don't think I did any worse now. I've heard the scale is constantly calibrated, so I guess people in general are smarter nowadays :-)

I suck at math BTW.
> Touchscreens call for oversized everything so it's easy to hit things with your finger. Mice are much more precise, enabling you to pack everything more tightly, and capable of hovering, enabling you to add new interactions like revealing things on hover.

If you must make the distinction, it’s a media query away:

@media (any-pointer: coarse) {
/* this is a touch screen or other device which would benefit from larger tap targets */
}

@media (any-pointer: fine) {
/* this is a device with a mouse, trackpad, or other similar high precision pointer input */
}

@media (any-pointer: coarse) and @media (any-pointer: fine) {
/* this is both */
}

Not only will that work for the same markup, it’ll also improve support for other devices like tablets and laptops with touch screens.

> Moreover, phones are mostly vertical and computer screens are mostly horizontal.

These are wild assumptions which also would better be served by a media query (aspect-ratio, min-aspect-ratio, max-aspect ratio, min-height, min-width). This will also better support other devices like tablets, as well as users like me who browse on desktop with a window much taller than it is wide.

> There's much difference between the two interaction paradigms if you want to provide a fitting UX for both.

Of course. But there’s no need to serve different markup to accommodate them. Besides the aforementioned media queries, you can do quite a lot to accommodate different viewport sizes and quite a lot else with eg grid or flexbox. You just have to know which tools to use for your use case, or how to discover them.
Pitbulls have been banned in various places. Any data to suggest this phenomenon has happened anywhere that pitbulls are banned?
My experience has taught me this is just untrue. My various jobs have been 100% remote for the last 6 years, so being comfortable with video and voice calls is essential to that.

Going back to when I was a high schooler, I was closeted and in boarding school, which admittedly had a significant built-in social life (that was of little interest to me), but I was also able to have a long distance close friendship for years thanks to Google Talk. I dare say some of my most important and formative social moments in my high school years were over Google Talk with my small group of friends. Sure we had antics in the dorm at my boarding school etc., but these were minor and fleeting interactions versus the deep and meaningful relationships I had over Google Talk, and anyone I actually cared about at boarding school also interacted with me that way, a good bit.
Same here and got the same message ;/
See also "Why the other line is likely to move faster" [3:42] by Bill Hammock the Engineer Guy https://youtu.be/F5Ri_HhziI0

The very short video touches on Agner Erlang's studies on telephone block queues and how shopper wait times are reduced by having cashiers share a common queue.
I'm inclined to ask what your qualifications for such an opinion are.
Ayy 50th percentile gang
No, the issue is that the reporting on this study represents a general problem in science reporting. This study measured behaviors that for the most part have zero relevance to public policy. Whether a dog likes to eat grass, crosses its front paws, turns in circles before pooping, or enjoys life (Those are all real questions from the survey) are not things that the government or the general public has any conceivable interest in regulating. Nevertheless, this study, or headlines about it, will be trotted out by people to "prove" that a dog's breed has no influence over whether it is willing and able to kill or maim a person.
There is a large component of that, but it's not just that for me.

Minecraft evokes much of that sense of magic and wonder for me and I didn't start playing it until my later 30s.

Other key components are:

* A world that is interactive enough to feel like a place where you are and not just imagery that you're skimming over.

* Art that is detailed enough to be evocative but not so detailed that it reaches the uncanny valley of looking real-ish but not actually real.

Minecraft does both in spades.
To be frank, this "study" is absurd & invalid, and there is 100% an association between breed and behavior (we literally breed dogs for certain behavioral traits!).

On that topic, I realize it's controversial but think pitbulls should be banned outright - they are responsible for the majority of fatal dog-related attacks and there is a wealth of evidence indicating that they are not a desirable breed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/
You can. All the answers are in your childhood, but you may discover things that you won't be able to forget
As much as I do like the layout of that keyboard (which my T420 I believe has as well) I wonder if they made other layouts but still with the nicer switches of the T420 style? Will have to look into it. I know there are firms in China making custom mobos to fit into I believe the X201 or something similar to make them more modern
What source would one cite for this that's not just anecdotes?
> Cain and Abel didn’t have DNA evidence, security cameras, digital forensics, etc. It’s right to reevaluate in light of the modern world.

you are hopelessly naive if you think the court system could operate only on technology the way you are suggesting. Nowhere did I even hint we should not use physical evidence.
What I find fascinating about discussions about IQ (tests) is how they trigger a whole class of people. It's like there are smart people who are confident about their intelligence, less than bright who are conscious about their shortcomings on the matter, and in-between a whole bunch of midwits who can't accept that smarter people than them exist and thus declare IQ (tests) measure nothing.
[Sequoia Arc] - Accelerator/Catalyst Application Etiquette
Sequoia promised to 'distribute final decisions' by April 30th for its inaugural cohort (Europe for now) of its catalyst program: ARC.

Many applicants have not received a decision yet as of May 3rd, and we were wondering whether it is normal for accelerators to not even send a standard rejection email?
The only way to get Apple to change is to have mass resignations of software developers across the company.
Niche groups? Have you seen how huge and heterogeneous mastodon.social and the likes are? They're even bigger than that ;-)

Even the "niche" instances have sufficient numbers that there are enough niches for many people to see something of interest there, and most of them freely allow off-topic chatter, nay welcome it.

One of the benefits of the Fediverse is that even if you're on an instance that's for talking about movies, you can a) almost always talk about anything and b) talk to your followers about whatever you please.

The Fediverse isn't about brands or influencers using them for PR or commentary, although there's nothing to stop that. It's kinda against the fundamental ethos: that it's about people not brands. And in that, it enjoys the fact that it's already succeeded, but it inherently doesn't want to "succeed" in the commercial or capitalistic sense. All it needs to do is continue to exist.
Should paywalls come down for election coverage? (2016)
Oh you absolutely can train for an IQ test. It's not just pattern matching but also measures one's ability to abstract, and working memory and stuff.

The question is to what degree would IQ-test-specific training help you? I'd guess that it would, and it would be measurable and statistically significant, but not that impressive.
Markdown is suggesting using a generator for writing, but you were saying it was unlikely that someone would be reading a table in source.

I'd also much rather write an HTML table by hand than a markdown one.
Foundation Models and the Future of Multi-Modal AI
Well, if you have the giant brain then we will just have to trust your reasoning.
just transitioned a client off mailgun due to repeated deliverability issues caused by other mailgun customers on a shared IP. The client doesn't have enough email volume to justify a dedicated IP, so there didn't seem to be anything else we could do while sticking with mailgun.

wouldn't you know it, we transferred them to postmark...
Game devs can engage and have a back-and-forth, without incorporating anything into the game. It's socializing and information-sharing to grow an audience, not a collaborative effort.
Won't people please think of the poor managers making ten times our income, come on guys, just because I will literally fire you when some VP demands it, were all on the same side. Here, have a cookie and forget this whole thing.
Well, you see, I don't think that I'm all that smart.
<< Exceptional management is nearly invisible, which is great for companies, bad for careers.

The more I think about it, the more it aligns with my experiences so far.

<< Most deadlines literally don't matter.

What?! Are you insane? What are we going to tell blue ribbon initiative committee?

<< Managers will make noise and a lot of it.

Yup.
I had to go through these things with a psychologist when i was in school and beeing suspended.
My focus is very fragile, but these kinds of test actually satisfy so much that I am not paying any attention to the clock ticking.
These tasks stimulate the mind, imo.
Anyways, I am only scoring the average, nowadays.
Now i know, that there are things I can excel at, but at others I dont.

These kind of tests were complemented with a few other days, where I had to answer questions, recall stories, talk about things fascinating me, myself and my opinions, picture interpretations, sequences of digits, multiple choices and other things I cant recall.
At the start of the following week, these test were rated for multiple sections of knowledge. Then, the average IQ was estimated.

What I want to say is: This is only part of the actual estimation. It is the first test, who actually reminded me of these tests.

I did not suceed in school. I did start consume drugs on purpose, getting rejected from my school and only did the necessarities.
After a few years working, I did start wondering about knowledge and started to pursue studies.

If there is a topic that facinates you, such test would complement one.
In the end we are all median overall.

:)
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Did you know people often use Jack as a shorthand for John? JFK was often, famously, referred to as Jack Kennedy when he was alive...
half of a questions was basically "maybe another xor? yes, that's a xor"
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At some point in the later 20's it's about ORing, ANDing and XORing the shapes, depending on the question. In the 30's it's about something I wasn't able to grasp.
I probably would need to play with that facility in CL to really get a sense of the difference.

In Clojure, you can debug at the REPL, but it doesn't drop you in the debugger by default. You'd need to eval the function as debug first, then it will drop you into the debugger next time the function is called.

And there's no restart system by default, so for example you probably wouldn't retry by choosing restart test from the exception debugger, you'd just re-evaluate the test yourself to have it rerun.

There's a condition restart library, and I played a bit with it, but not enough, I was confused about how to go about choosing options to handle the condition or how to define them.

So the typical flow in Clojure would be:

1. Error thrown
2. Go to line of code that threw error
3. Fix code
4. Eval fixed code
5. Eval the thing that threw the error again (seeing everything pass)

And if you want to observe the state at the place of the error thrown you'd add between 2 and 3:

2.1 Eval function as debug
2.2 Re-eval thing that threw error
2.3 When in debugger inspect all locals and state, find the problem

And then go to 3.

I never really looked into if there was a way to make eval as debug default with break on error, then I guess you'd get a very similar flow, except for missing the restart options.

> There's also the typical class change: in CL you can alter a class definition and the existing objects are (lazily) updated

Since Clojure isn't OO, this isn't a 1:1 comparison. But the closest thing to OO is polymorphic facilities, except they don't have state. Anyways, you can update the implementation of the polymorphic methods and it gets picked up for existing types or data that were polymorphic over them.

You can also add more polymorphic methods and those get picked up automatically.

There is a construct that has fields on it, but it's almost never used, so I actually don't remember if it would let you update fields on existing instances, I believe not. In CL can you add/remove fields on the class and the existing instances get updated? What happens to new fields how are they initialized in that case?

> you can't install a Clojure library from the Clojure REPL, right?

Well, you can, but let's say that it's something that easily breaks, so let's call it a "beta" feature. Some people use it effectively and don't seem to have issues, but others seem to always have it not work as expected, so a lot of people restart the REPL most likely when they want to add a lib.

Also, it's not a standard feature of Clojure, instead it's a feature of your build tool, either Leiningen or Tools.deps, and both have a different way to do it. Though tools.deps is the default dependency manager that comes with Clojure now, and its add-lib feature should one day get out of beta and become permanent, probably once they iron out the quirks.

https://practical.li/clojure-staging/alternative-tools/cloju...
Yeah, it would be a reasonable design for fmt to contain no direct dependency on io, just on the stream interface. And that would enable you to put print and println (as opposed to fprintf) in io rather than fmt without creating a circular dependency between modules. And it might be a convenient way to remove unneeded dependencies on embedded targets (though I don't think they're targeting those). But it would be a significant departure from the Golang interface.

I don't remember if Golang "stdio" has built-in locks. Hare doesn't seem to have threads or locks, o that may be a non-issue.
The test claims to measure IQs between 85 and 145. That means the test probably scored you below 85 or above 145.

I don't know what that means for your actual IQ but I have a feeling you might just score very well on an official IQ test if you're into that kind of thing.
... No. Many people suffer from partial or full paralysis of facial muscles, neurological conditions that limit expression, and numerous other conditions that will forever and permanently limit their ability to engage in expressive body language.
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>I'm not sure what you mean, what's the "that", what do you think led to the situation where email is hard to self-host?

I was referring to spam filtering, where all the big hosts know to allow each other through, but make it very difficult for smaller hosts to participate by being tight lipped about their filtering criteria and making others have to jump through lots of hoops to not be treated as spam. Which, when considering the high cost of being spam filtered (eg. if you're a business) ends up making it very hard to practically self-host.

Similarly, I wouldn't think fediverse would have succeeded in the goals of federation with large centralized hosting providers. Since upon reaching critical mass, they could easily enact similar policies in the name of preventing spam or for 'safety'. The content would be going through their network and would be stored on their hardware, so they would use the same logic current social media uses to justify their right to moderate without oversight.