skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kind of comments _always_ pop up and are either terribly missing the point or written in bad faith. There are many in this thread but I'm replying to yours as it is the one with the most replies.

Programming languages aren't just for machines to execute. There are for humans to communicate and collaborate. There are technical concerns of course, but these are secondary to social, economical and aesthetic factors or simply luck.

If you don't get why: They are the equivalent of a bunch of linguists discussing about how good and consistent the grammar of a human language is, compared to, say, English, and then someone chiming in with "well if the grammar of that language is so great, how come only a few thousand people in a small country are using it and there are almost no books published in it?"
If access and storage area per floor area is the problem for chest fridges, would a fridge with sliding drawer-style shelves be a good compromise?

The drawer compartments could have holes (for air to circulate) when closed (like current "grill" shelves), and a mechanism that closes them and isolates the drawn-out drawer from the one below and above it.

This way you lose at most one drawer worth of cold air and heat only one drawer worth of products. The mechanism would be quite simple to build (just mechanical, shouldn't need any fancy electronics).

The downside being that you would have rigid fixed compartments (each shelve's size) whereas fridges tend to have adjustable shelves.
Almost every partner I have had (including my wife) where duration of relationship exceeded two months, I met IRL by pure chance.

Online? Pretty much only ever resulted in a couple of dates with the person, or a one and done hookup.

Its anecdotal, and friends have had the opposite experience, so I can't draw much of a conclusion from it besides that I was not suited to online dating.
This doesn't work and it seems like you ignored his entire point. If moderation is being done to reduce the tone of angry conversations, then you have to actually effectively reduce it. If every person out there is running a personal filter list and ignoring your mods' decisions then there is no way to do that and the emotional state is completely uncontrollable.

Which you'll find you won't enjoy. You'll also find you can't keep up with these filters of yours; surely you have better things to do than personally moderate every forum you use?
Eleven Magic Words
Ex-Tweep here. US employees need to really thank the WARN act. Without it everyone would likely be fired on Oct 31 with no severance. Now everyone is kept on the payroll until Jan (NY until Feb!) and then getting one more month of base salary. We'll see what happens with lawsuit if they manage to get their Feb vest and bonus as well. (they deserve the bonus at least prorated to Nov).

BTW, lots of ML people got hit, also some brilliant ones. Cortex org got hit hard. I guess Musk doesn't care about people running experiments in Notebooks on expensive GPUs.

50% layoffs and likely more attrition soon due to mandatory RTO and people who cannot work 996.
Which is the typical wattage of an average fridge compressor.

This means the OP's parents' fridge is probably running 100% of the time and doesn't manage to transport the heat outside anymore faster than it is re-entering. Basically it's broken.
what we have is a mix - some drawers on the bottom (2 layers), and shelves on top (3 layers IIRC). It mixes nicely, since shelves have bigger 'real capacity' in my opinion and its easier to put in non-standard shapes
> "Used today in production" does not mean that it's not dead

I don't think you know what 'dead' means
The /s indicates sarcasm, I myself shoot 35mm and 120 film
> Musk might be good at building and running engineering companies, but Twitter is not that. The social aspect is far more important than the underlying technology, and Musk and his advisors are terrible at that.

Agree
Note - Not an American. Not White.
If you are Downvoting please respond. I would like to know if it's due to your political leanings or because of something I can improve upon and learn.

This would be good reporting by NYT if this was not conflict of interest.

Strong Social Media companies give voice to the people, that runs counter to the power of the media.

We have seen many stories run in the last 5 years of Global importance, that NYT, WaPo, CNN etc decided were not TRUE.

And Social Media reacted to the words of these Guardians of Truth. Banning many accounts and even hurting many careers.

Now we see those stories by Mainstream media were either misguided or plain lies with an agenda.

Do we want even News Media to have this kind of power ?

Who is watching them ?
> Apparently, at Twitter, you don't.

Twitter is itching to shed people any way they can, so the problem lies elsewhere.
>That's a standard feature of many Lisp implementations since the dawn of time.

Yes, of course. I mean this from the point of view of someone who doesn't know any other lisp. Not as an advantage of "guile over lisp" . Guile is a lisp after all.
You could buy a million copies of Microsoft Office, I think that would help.
https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow
Exactly. There are better examples.

Take for instance booking.com. They unceremoniously dumped lots of their employees at the beginning of the pandemic despite being flush with cash. Then they tried hiring people back. Guess what, lots of people didnt want to even hear how much they are offering. There are other such companies.

But yes, there are people who would not, for instance, work for AWS due to their, shall we say, internal culture.
>successful companies from ground up in fields no one was even looking into.

NASA, ESA, and all the other space agencies might disagree with you here.
In civilized countries, you don’t loose your healthcare when your loose your job.
It’s tie to your human status, not to a contract
with a random corporation.

Also, civilized societies have come up a long time ago with appropriate social nets that mitigate the hurdle of unemployment.

And our food is vastly superior.
> at serving ads in a relevant and effective way.

Anyone ever seen a relevant Twitter ad?

Just seems very dumb location based placement. Nowhere near the level of IG.
I am amazed that Twitter uses Google to manage internal email.
So private individuals would not be allowed to register domains?

It sounds a bit like you just want WHOIS, which in practice turned out to be a bit useless.
I had a really, really hard time finding a decent smart watch when my Pebble drowned. Two years and five(!!!) Ticwatches later (first was too slow, the other 4 were drowning in different ways when I was swimming)... I felt in love with the Samsung Watch 4 classic.

Not that expensive, slick UI, full of features, great Android integration and a wonderful dial/crown which is well used in a couple of apps to make it all easier - you can use it to answer/cancel calls or finish/repeat alarms/timers.

AND THEN Samsung launches Watch 5 and DROPS THE FREAKING CROWN! Back to 1.5 buttons - because the second one, as the Apple Watch, is stuck to Samsung Pay (can't even set it to Google Pay) and recent apps, no app uses.

WHY? WHYYYY?
The crown is amazing for scrolling through screens when I'm biking (shaky) or swimming (touch disabled). It's WAY better for scrolling in that tiny screen. It's awesome as interaction aid. WHY REMOVE IT??

I do miss the long battery and buttons, but I must mention that a touch screen gives you many more UI possibilities.
The only notable thing about the Biden laptop story is that normally cynical people believe all of it; they should be able to recognize an intelligence op when they see one.

(Some of the emails are validated through DKIM. This does not actually prove anything in general.)

Also, they should be happy reading a story that he took bribes and then didn't do the thing he was bribed for. That means the criminals have less money now! It's clearly a virtuous action.
OP's statement is more precisely framed that jobs are on-net removed, not that jobs are only removed, which is a little harder to argue against.

But not much. What I think would be an economically sound case is an argument that Ricardian comparative advantage breaks down at the extremes. A robot that can do everything twice as good as you will still benefit from trade; a robot that can do everything a thousand times as good as you might just view you as atoms it could use better in a different configuration.
Toy CPU: Simulation of a Minimal Instruction Set Computer
I think people from actual third world countries would love to be in the US where the government gives you stimulus cheques, instead of back home.

Trust me, the unemployed life in third world countries, and even in second world countries, is far more brutal than the unemployed life in the US, especially for unemployed big-tech workers who can find a new job anytime.
The first thing I look for in any productivity tool is keyboard shortcuts.

I see a lot of mouse clicking and dragging in the demo video. A truly productivity-focused tool should be heavily keyboard-shortcut based. Just my opinion :)
Or are there Kb shortcuts that I am missing?
Freezers can be vertical as you don't require easy access multiple times a day, don't require shelves as solid frozen food can be stacked without getting squished, you don't put pots, plates, etc in them, don't require drawers as you don't want multiple temperature and humidity zones, and on and on and on.

The efficiency increase is also greatly exaggerated in the article. For one see the comment by avian in here. Secondly that converted freezer has a lot more insulation than a fridge because of its thicker walls (which take more space) and also the lack of ventilation for moisture than any modern fridge has. And thirdly we have no real comparison with the same usage, as far as I know that person might open it every 2 days.

If we ignore all those problems we might as well weld a box shut and be happy with perfect efficiency at zero usability.
> These kind of comments _always_ pop up and are either terribly missing the point or written in bad faith.

As someone who loves coding in Lisp myself I assure you my comment is not written in bad faith. And I am not sure what point I am missing. I read the entire TFA from top to bottom and I liked it!

I genuinely want to see a list of projects (preferably open source) written in Lisp. That would help me to support my other arguments when I talk about Lisp with others who do not use Lisp. Thanks to the HN crowd, we have already received a good list of links and examples in the comments of this thread.

I am not sure why I need to be attacked personally for a genuine question.
With a regular fridge/freezer the steady-state relative humidity should be quite low because the cooling coils will condense out a lot of the water vapour, and drain it out a hole in the back to evaporate outside the enclosure. The cooling coil is always going to be the coldest surface within the enclosure, therefore that's where the water vapour would tend to condense.

Don't chest fridges have a similar mechanism? Perhaps the problem is things being too closely-packed, so the air can't circulate - so that when the lid is opened and water vapour let in from outside, it condenses on the food etc - but this isn't then removed by the mechanism above.
> a different biological sex than what their DNA and gene expression shows

Sex characteristics are expressed primarily via hormones. That is why, for example, a person with an XY chromosome karyotype and complete androgen insensitivity syndrome will appear fully "female" externally.

Hormones are affected by DNA and genes, but can be overridden to alter secondary sex characteristics. Ideally (in most cases), this would be done pre-puberty, but even later in life it is possible to induce a "second puberty" which results in major changes. Further changes, including to primary sex characteristics, can be achieved surgically.

These changes do not need to follow a standard "male" or "female" template. Characteristics can be mixed, matched and/or rejected. Current medical technology has limits, but they are beyond what you might expect.

> I thought trans was about changing gender, not changing sex.

This is a matter of perspective and how one defines things.

An alternative view is that it is about affecting external change to match what the internal state was all along.

More poetically, one could describe it as "the realization that one needn't continue wearing the disguise that society seemed to demand".

Or, if one wants to be shitposty about coming out after having established a career, "New Game+".
The company is a distinct entity.

It's capital and assets are held apart from the investors for the traditional reasons.

Are share buybacks always in the best interest of the company?

I'd argue that they're nearly always in the best interest of investors only, especially when accomplished via selling assets, selling assets and then leasing them back, or just straight out taking on debt, that they harm the company, and accordingly, the employees of the company.
Not sure why you went with Gerbil/Gambit - Gambit is usually marked as a hard-core Scheme, and you usually go with it if you need an excellent optimizing Scheme compiler without too much dance around it (it has a minimal interface). For Guile, you usually rely on OS package management to get modules or go with Guix.

But if you want a "download, unpack it, run" Scheme, you go with Racket [1]. Tons of documentation, a good-enough JIT compiler, and usually everything works. You get an amazing IDE with it (DrRacket) with many advanced features yet to be found in modern IDEs for popular languages.

> Oh and it uses square brackets for parameters

Most modern Scheme implementations make square brackets and parenthesis equivalent. E.g.

(let ((a 1)
(b 2)) ...)

;; is the same as
(let ([a 1]
[b 2]) ...)

[1] https://racket-lang.org/
Absolutely you can. And that's what mu-metal is designed for.
What did this person say that was wrong ?

These type of comments are sadly immediately downvoted by the HN hivemind.
No credible response is given.

Sad.
Notice period is different from redundancy. Redundancy can mean you leave the day you’re made redundant. But they must give 30 days notice that redundancies are going to occur.

In australia you cannot hire for a redundant role for I believe 9 months? If you do you must rehire the people made redundant or face big fines.
Hence "I accept there's probably some discussion about how recent immigrants count"

The big question is when do people become native. You can't go back 200 years for obvious reasons, if you're born in America you're and American, just because your grandfather was born in Belfast it doesn't make you Irish. If you moved to Belfast when you were 10 and have lived there for 30 years though, then you clearly are.

Northern Cyprus is what it is now. Yes there were issues 50 years ago when it was partitioned, but life moves on. On the other hand if the US had invaded Basra, displaced the population, put in 2 million of its own citizens, and then claimed independence 2 months later based on overwhelming support, that wouldn't be reasonable. 100 years later, then sure.

Sometimes people lose out. It's sad, and shouldn't have happened, but after some time (that might be 10 years, it might be 100) you have just as much right to your voice as everyone else living there.
For anyone else wondering/interested, apparently it's in Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Fair enough. I wouldn't go quite that far — at absolute most I would accept since the first prototype of a neural cell — but the estimates I've seen for what data/training AGI would need if it requires a simulated re-run of modern human evolution to be trained is more than current (or at least recent) AI.
I think you do a good job on HN and I appreciate, as someone who moderated a similarly large forum for a long time, how candid you are in your communications on and off site. You're also a very quick email responder!

> I try to use depersonalized language for this reason. Instead of saying "you" did this (yeah that's right, YOU), I'll tell someone that their account is doing something, or that their comment is a certain way. This creates distance between their account or their comment and them, which leaves them freer to be receptive and to change.

My sense is that this is a worthy thing to do (first of all because it's intellectually correct to blame actions rather than people, and second of all because if you're right about the effect it's all upside). But I suspect this will produce very little introspection, maybe a tiny but on the margins.

It's pretty normal in an argument between two people IRL that one will say something like "That was a stupid comment" or "Stop acting like an asshole" -- both uses of distancing language -- and the other person will respond "Don't call me stupid" or "Don't call me an asshole". I think most people who are on the receiving end of even polite correction are going to elide the distancing step.

On the social psych side, I have no idea whether there's any validated way to encourage someone to be more introspective, take a breath, try to switch down into type-II processing, etc.
They only had $154m in cash equivalent, the rest of their assets was in illiquid crap.
I think we have different views about what ‘investigative journalism’ is and different expectations for the competencies of journalists. I also assign a lot of importance to editorial decisions: they are a lot of the selection that leads to selection bias in everyone else. Perhaps you assign less importance to those decisions.

An example totally unrelated to tech is that if some politician spaffs tens of millions of dollars up the wall or tens of billions of dollars, the stories can look roughly the same to readers despite 1000x the money being spaffed in one than they other. I think it leads to people assigning badly wrong importances to the different spaffings.
But that is the thing, I dont think you are right. You picked up companies with good reputation as examples ... they pay well and have good reputation, of course people want to work there.

There are companies with actually bad reputation and they either have problem to find staff or have to pay a lot more while still having issues.
Or to change it. In Europe at least 0.20-0.40€ per kWh is not that strange, so you can be wasting ~150€/year just by using a 2kWh/day fridge versus a 1kWh/day.
That depends on which aspects of Twitter you focus on. It has added a ton of value for niche interest areas, open source intelligence and reporting, news from underserved areas or issues, and so many others.

The value isn't in the loudest and most active accounts, but the long tail of expertise that was previously either not widely visible or connected in the way Twitter enabled.

All that will be lost.
Average Joe (or median Joe) has it significantly better in the US. Poor Joe would probably do better in EU.
The US safety net, in terms of spending, is as expansive or more expansive than the rest of the world. For example, the U.S. spends $748 billion on Medicaid, health care for the poor, which is matched by state governments. Obamacare subsidies are another $160 billion a year. The fact is the terrible U.S. government administration of these programs and the regulatory capture of the health care system by doctors, pharma, and hospitals are the core issues, but liberals whistle past these real issues and wonder why we don't have European comforts and outcomes per dollar.
Strangely, it resonates to me in the context of finding "The Best Note Taking App" buzz. Whoa, X has backlinks! Yay, but Y is open source!
At the end of the day we all open the default system notepad.
AMD is well behind nvidia on Linux.

Nvidia has powerful video capture and encoding functionality fully supported on Linux.

AMDs Linux support for anything except it’s core driver is crappy.
I disagree. Absolutely relevant to the details
> We see what they have done with GitHub, for a start.

Provide free hosting for countless FOSS projects?
I don't think that either the direct or remote methods presented in the film were humane. Certainly not what I meant. I do think though, that checking your e-mail at 9AM to see if you're fired is considerably worse.
What's a $250k payroll worth if that's also what you have to pay for the average hospital visit? I'd stick to my €100k and not have my life ruined just because I broke my leg or my kid is born with a heart disease.
Plan 9: Part 1 (2016)
The majority of people who earn more spend more.
Yes, I did. Unfortunately it appears to just return a hardcoded number on Android. So I can't do much with this without knowing some vulkan API I could use. Perhaps if this becomes a real issue I'll spend more time on it and I'll find one.

The ml framework I use (ncnn) uses vulkan beneath.
Yep, crypto (currency) has a MUCH better gender and diversity balance than most of the rest of tech.

Which is deeply funny, because a lot of the "rest of tech" likes to slam it as a "white dudes only" club.
Emacs and its extensions (magit, org-mode) are often on HN. Whether these counts as proper Lisp project I'll leave it to you.
Isn’t this because a training set usually consists 99% of implied things? Afaik, these never provide a full description like “…, also two hands, two legs, three fingers, arms not bent, adequately long limbs, leg asymmetry, cartoon physics, …”, and also never feed examples of a wrong geometry/biology/etc.

I’m no NN guy, but to me all it seems as basically underconstrained and unrelated to “understanding”. It’s like these e.g. woodwork, magic trick, dancing, guitar, etc teachers who fail to message a way to do something and can only tell “look”, then just do it, ask you to repeat, and get annoyed when you fail again.
Yes, it would, because at the start no one would be supporting it so no one would be able to connect. So it would have broken the entire internets ability to connect to you. And remember, as a user, you don’t just use one DNS server that you need to upgrade, you use multiple and they all need to support it and a typical user is not in a position to upgrade it.

If you don’t believe that, believe this: if it were as simple as you claim, just add in UTF8, the world wouldn’t have settled on punycode. They didn’t, because it is not actually that simple. It’s so hard, it’s actually simpler to settle for punycode.
That's really interesting to me. Do you have a blog? I'd be quite interested to read any highlights or takeaways you may have from your tinkering.

I spent a weekend playing with Alpine at some point. I really appreciate Alpine's documentation wiki[0] and apk is a delightful package manager. Plus, as you say, the disk footprint stays significantly smaller than an otherwise equivalent setup on Ubuntu (my main point of comparison).

But, something I rely on turned out to have compatibility problems with musl (can't recall what right now), so it ended up not being a good fit for me.

That said, I like your suggestion of using it specifically on old/slow hardware. Might revisit it at some point.

[0] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Main_Page
you shouldn't be attacked. i think its just that these type of questions do get asked a lot of time just to troll. i personally also think its a bad question because someone can give you a valid answer and you might not find the answer interesting. instead maybe it's better to ask something like:

Q: is there an interesting 3D graphics software being developed in Lisp?
A: https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

Q: is there an interesting GUI project being developed in Lisp?
A: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

Q: is there an interesting HPC project being developed in Lisp?
A: https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp

Q: is there an interesting cryptography library being developed in Lisp?
A: https://github.com/sharplispers/ironclad

see how different these domains are? its unlikely someone will find more than one of these projects interesting