skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bel, a LISP written in itself [1] by Paul Graham.

Arc, a LISP written in Racket LISP [2] by Paul Graham

Several (tiny) LISP and Scheme implementations [5]

Alan Kay wrote and lectured many times about the LISP eval implementation in itself on page 13 of the LISP 1.5 Manual [6] as the "Maxwells equations of software" [3]

There is an derivation of this idea, a Smalltalk eval written in itself, see chapter IV and Smalltalk 71 [4].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

[3a] https://github.com/informatimago/lisp-1-5/blob/master/LISP-1...

[3b] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

[3c] https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equation...

[4] http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

[5] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/

[6] https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Li...
This served as a wake up call more than anything to break my reliance on google. I wont be cancelling the chargeback.
There was a common sentiment that speed was everything in VC over the past several years. Due Diligence only slowed you down and made you miss deals. If you wanted gains, you had to invest first with conviction and trust the founders.

Amazing to see how efficiently some of the biggest grifters exploited this dynamic to funnel money straight from investors and into their own personal net worth, while building businesses that couldn't have possibly been profitable. It didn't matter, though, because they needed the sense of scale and growth to continue grifting investors.

WeWork, Theranos, and FTX are widely known examples. Two of those founders acted criminally and have been arrested. Neumann was shockingly good at perform open-book grifts that benefited himself, but investors looked the other way.

One of my favorite stories from this era is Pipe, a fintech company with a business model that didn't really make sense to anyone familiar with their industry. They raised hundreds of millions at multi-billion dollar valuations, then the entire founding team of 3 people just stepped down: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/22/pipes-founding-team-steppi...

They're trying to spin it as a narrative about being 0-1 builders, but it's hard to take them seriously when 3 people are stepping down simultaneously right after getting a huge bump to their personal wealth. Raising money was their goal, building a perception of a successful business was only useful as far as it supported transfers from investors to their bank accounts. Would be fun to see how much they sold in secondaries.
Not exactly. The official way of substituting the circumflex is with ‘h’, not ‘x’, so it would be written as ‘forghejo’, which might actually guide English speakers to the correct pronunciation.

(There are various systems to type without diacritics in Esperanto. Two of the most widely popular ones are to use the letters ‘h’ and ‘x’, and using either of those would be correct. But if one is to be regarded as the ‘default’ choice, it has to be the one with ‘h’, since that’s been codified in the language’s foundation since its early days.)
No. Screw Elon Musk. How many people with just as much, if not more, potential than he has grow up, live and die in obscurity because they weren't lucky enough to be heirs to a fortune in slave emeralds? How many of his employees deserve just as much praise and respect as he gets, only to go unremarked because we believe that in the Great Man theory of capitalism, only the one on top gets the glory?

If there's a tragedy here, it isn't how far Elon has fallen, it's how far above us the rich are to begin with. That one person commands as much power as Elon Musk does is an insult to human dignity. And people talk about him as if he's a divine being. The smartest man who ever lived. More brilliant than Einstein. More cunning than Jobs. More innovative than Da Vinci. The man in whose hands the very course of technological society and human evolution are held. He, and only he, is responsible for Tesla. He, and only he, is responsible for SpaceX. He literally built his rockets in a cave from a pile of scrap.

But it turns out he's just an asshole with money. The rich don't deserve pity any more than they deserve privilege, and maybe the crumbling of the facade that is Elon Musk will help people see that. Is this the one you called Messiah? Behold the man.
Easier from the perspective of getting a visa. You won the lottery is what I said.

I live in a country where we seem to work hard to keep people from neighbouring countries out. It does nothing for our competitiveness, just allows the current inhabitants who pretty much did nothing except have the right ancestors to get benefits and opportunities that neighbours don’t have.

In your case, Canada benefits greatly from the US having a more restrictive immigration policy. Net positive for Canada. It’s a total failure to have smart people not able to enter your country, because they’ll go somewhere. Quote SamA:
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1554459751353683969

If that doesn’t convince you, consider the case of Russia now, with people leaving daily. If immigration is net negative then surely Russia is winning hand over fist because people are leaving the country in droves. Obviously not. It’s a horror show for them.
This isn’t really a technology problem.

Let’s say such a blockchain did exist. You buy Battlefield or some other game, years pass and EA bans your account. You want to download the game again. How are you going to do that? Sure, the blockchain is public, but EA can just maintain their own list of people to ban.

Okay, so maybe we pass a law that says that if you have a record on that blockchain companies must let you access your digital goods. You take EA to court for banning you despite having purchased the game. What’s the advantage over a database run by the government? The court trusts the government database, since they are the government, and you and EA have no choice but to listen to the court — they’re the ultimate trusted third party.
So when do we get a live feed on the positions of you and your family?
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Are you sure you're not thinking of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? That book is extremely long.

I haven't heard of the book "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" but it might be this one from 2015: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25686327-the-rise-and-fa...
True.

Being a developer in addition to being a writer helped tremendously.

That way, I was able to really try out more than just basic stuff and then write about it.
I've got a red MAGA hat right here, that was randomly sent to my address.

It's got an American flag on the side, but no tag saying "made in ..." anywhere. You'd think if it were made in the US, it would prominently state that. Of course there's no way to know if it's an "authentic" MAGA hat personally sold by Trump himself (lol), but it seems to be a representative sample.

I'd been holding on to it hoping to think of something intelligent to do with it, but that became a lot harder after Trump doubled down on the ignorant pandemic denial and trashed the economy.
> but not allow him any power

Agree, but I mean, how do you do that?
There are some seriously long delays and gaps in wastewater reporting, though. They only do it in my local area very 6 weeks or so.
You have your thinking backwards because you're ignoring the need for a counterparty. In order for your sale to happen the market must first find a buyer to match it with (otherwise how could you trade?). There's no need to mathematically prove there isn't some other buyer as the whole point is to match the two.

Limit orders at the same price are filled in FIFO order, and it can be the case that that some limit orders fill while others do not simply because someone was only willing to buy 100 shares at that price and there were 200 available for sale - some sales won't happen.
I’ve got around 30 different gmail accounts for various non nefarious projects, i wonder if they think that’s bad?
When that ratio turns negative, it literally means that there has been negative excess deaths when compared to the average. You can claim that the average is abnormally high, but that's quite a wild claim.

Negative excess deaths through the pandemics were pretty common and very well explained.

Anyway, such concepts like "non-COVID excess" doesn't even start to make sense. Either you are determining the death causes, or you are doing statistical analysis over unknown causes.
I think many of these articles are overestimating how things will change.

Like, is the current mess going to hurt Twitter? Definitely. Does it mean that Twitter will become completely marginalized and in 2-5 years nobody will ever user it? Seems unlikely to me.

Unless some other competitor kills it, I don't think Musk alone can completely take it the company underwater (though not for a lack of trying!). I suspect we can expect a slow decay, not a sudden self-destruction.
Not sure how it represents text, but if it's using UTF-16 (I'm on Windows), then that's 900MB just there given the ASCII input file.

Not gonna say it's lightweight, but not excessive in my book.
Correct.

I want very much for the rclone/Gmail integration to work well but it’s very complicated and fussy.

You are better off doing a takeout and downloading in your browser.
This is a strawman, and plainly untrue. Many countries have mandatory id. I have personally lived in Argentina and Spain, both of them have it, for close to a century (89 years in Spain, 54 years in Argentina, but it replaced a pre-exisitng system). The Spanish DNI has RFID.

In neither place, nor any country with mandatory ID as far as I know, you get "no access to anything". The worst thing that can happen is that if the police choose to stop you, not carrying your ID can lead to you being taken to a police station temporarily. Which is not great, but not anywhere near close to what you are suggesting is inevitable. And police can detain you arbitrarily in places without state-mandated IDs, this is just a cute excuse that they can add to their repertoire.
what about Fedora workstation for the old-lady use case? I'm about to give my 12 year old non-technical daughter a linux laptop, and wondering on distro. I'm thinking Fedora but open to be convinced otherwise?
(for whatever it's worth, im not sure why you are downvoted in reply to me; I had upvoted you.)
Between texting and FaceTime is pretty much the entire functionality of a modern smart phone.
It does just work for most users. They don’t get online and post 2000 word blog entries about their successfully completing their work for the day with no hiccups.
The limitations page for the Google Photos backend [1] is something to behold. I can't imagine very many people would view this as a viable alternative to Takeout with the current limitations. This bolded one seems like it would be a dealbreaker for most people with photos:

> The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on "Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use rclone to redownload original images. You could use 'google takeout' to recover the original photos as a last resort

[1] https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations
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these have been fine in my experience; you're unlikely to find cans outside of regions that make maple syrup anyway
I believe there's a notice on the site for the cards saying the money goes directly to Trump and not to his campaign. I would double check but I already saw the video once and I'm still trying to detox.
These fads always remind me of this Ali G skit.

https://youtu.be/xx5t5ps-bwc
In what way is the Republican party progressive? They're so categorically anti-progressive, they use the term as a pejorative.
Looks like the link is wrong and points to 2019 rather than 2022
Not the case with an on-chain game! See Dark Forest.

Also not really the case with on-chain NFTs or those hosted by IPFS (where as long as 1 user has the file on disk it can be recovered and re-seeded).
I don't think that distinction holds anymore in the american political context, assuming it ever did.

Several projects of the conservative movement would cause sweeping or dramatic changes to the status quo, or are otherwise destabilizing. Trying to reinstate a social or political circumstance that existed 70 or 150 years ago is revanchism and will be just as disruptive as the changes themselves were. Someone who highly valued stability for its own sake would not pursue those projects.

And through that lens a lot of "progressive" positions are conservative: environmentalism, labor relations, regulation on growth of certain industries. A lot of these boil down to "let's just not" or not so much, not so fast or we don't need it; inherently conservative stances.

Literal conservatism is the branding and justification of the political movement but in fact both sides of this are accepting of change in some situations and resistive of it in others. They differ in what values they use to decide what changes to support or oppose. And the model of simple openness to change is completely inadequate to explain which, or why.
More accurate comparison: you return a purchase to Walmart for a refund - which, unlike shoplifting, is entirely legal - and they then seize all your previous Walmart purchases and ban you from the premises.

After all, disputing a charge on your credit card isn't some shady underhanded process; it's a right you have under law [1]. The real issue here is that, under digital distribution models, you have no real ownership of things you've purchased; in some sense, you're just renting or licensing them.

Merchant wants to ban your account for issuing a chargeback? Fine, but they should be required to preserve your access to purchased digital goods, or to otherwise compensate you for those goods. Consumer protection laws need to catch up to reality, and fast.

[1] https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/using-credit-cards-disputi...
That was the sensible decision, as he was too close to the material. He would bear more responsibility than he already did, yes, but it would also look partial and one-sided. Investigative journalists know how to handle this kind of material and have training and experience. Snowden very much did not.
Fixed now. Thanks! Our software uses canonical URLs when it finds them and in this case the canonical URL was https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019. I imagine someone making the new page by copy-pasting the old one for... perhaps about 3 years now.
This is amazing! This is a fantastic concept generator. The verisimilitude with specific composers and techniques is more than a little uncanny. A few thoughts after exploring today…

- My strongest suggestion is finding some strategy for smoothing over the sometimes harsh-sounding edge of the sample window
- Perhaps it could be filling in/passing over segments of what is sounded to user as a larger loop? Both giving it a larger window to articulate things but maybe also showcasing the interpolation more clearly…
- Tone control may seem challenging but I do wonder if you couldn’t “tune” the output of the model as a whole somehow (given the spectrogram format it could be a translation/scale knob potentially?)
The article mentions it directly.
It is not a well-picked name.
I've definitely been drawn into the mysterious gravitational pull of geodesic domes. never built one, but as soon as I have a place to build one, I plan on it. I've looked at a lot of different ways to build one.

the trillium domes that someone shared is definitely the 'nicest' version
I've also seen loads of other 'hub' designs.
personally I think zip tie domes are really interesting, seem the cheapest: https://www.ziptiedomes.com/geodesic-dome-hub-kits/index.htm

but seeing this just gave me an idea for a really simple hub design that would potentially be more sturdy than these single screw attached, plastic socket hubs.

what if the hub was simply a pentagonal puck of wood, and the spokes are attached with hinges? the complicated part of building domes is getting the angles right and using hinges mean you really only have to get the distribution of spokes around the hub right and the hinge will naturally fall into the correct angle? anyone got any land I can try to build this on?
I used a flip-phone from 2011-2018 after standing in line day-one to buy an iPhone. Those were very productive years of my life.
Ask HN: Front End Development 2022
I've been happy working as a back end developer my whole career, but now I want to learn front end development. It's a little daunting since the space is so large and things change so fast.

I have 2 questions:

1. If you were to start a new product and had complete control of the front end stack, which tech would you choose and why?

2. What are some good resources (books, tutorials, etc.) to learn front end development in general (patterns, best practices, etc.) or the tech in particular.
I've been a huge fan of https://clockify.me/ for general time keeping of tasks. Mostly for personal reference and motiviation. I'm not a consultant but use it to track things from my various software side projects and even chores.
Possibly, yeah. Although Codeberg was already sort of similar, they had patches on top of Gitea, so assuming it doesn't change too drastically it may stay feasible for quite a while.
Each nym you establish should have its own, unique, 2FA mule.

Voice and sms only SIM card is only $6/mo from tello…
VS Code is massively inferior to Visual Studio. It’s a gloried text editor. Nobody writes large software projects on VSCode
According to that video, 37F is cold? Now I am curious what that truck and the soon to be EV UPS trucks will be doing in my neck of the woods. It was 5F this morning and is now 18.1F at 11:47 AM Mountain Time. It can get down to -25F on some days but that is the extreme. Usually it does not get below -10F during the winter.

[Edit] Corrected temp. Sun as hitting the board the sensor is mounted on.
well chocolate is high in calories and much more so when you buy a product that adds a bunch of sugar. this is relevant because people who eat a lot of chocolate have bad health but still probably dont have any lead problems aside from subtle, low dose related ones, which will be hard to distinguish from having unhealthy calory intake
"Conservatives" weren't getting banned. People that consistently lied, expressed hate in vile ways, and other things that easily justified banning were getting banned. They just happened to mostly identify as "conservative". Now people speaking truth to power, seek equality for all people, and other things most of the civilized world already knows is good for society are getting banned. They just happen to mostly identify as "not conservative".
Old doesn't necessarily mean bad
The illusion of objectivity is strong. We have an official interviewing process. It has a big survey that turns into "metrics". We have a debrief where we talk about the "metrics" as though it was an "evidence based" process. Then you'll hear someone say "Well, he found a solution for the balanced tree problem, but he just didn't seem all that confident doing it, you know?"
The original title is a TIFU post and I don't think those are allowed on HN.

The title is not misleading since most companies will ban you if you do a chargeback. The thing to note here is that a chargeback was done against the Google Store and the Gmail account was banned.

My goal wasn't to editorialize, I just wanted to let people know that their Gmail account was at risk if they did a chargeback against any of Google's services. This was new information to me and a lot of people on this thread.
Do you feel like Musk is living up to promises he made or is that not important to you? Seems like to many, owning the libs is more important than being principled.
How is wholesale rejection of the shitty companies and websites that prey on your attention span to sell adverts in favour of good literature and genuine connection a “fad”?

I’ve deleted social media from my phone and it’s been…amazing. I don’t know what to do and end up staring into space instead of giving into my cravings for fresh content. You start to pay attention to your surroundings and think. It’s wonderful.
Not to be confused with the AI code generation tool from Replit of the same name:

https://replit.com/site/ghostwriter
"People have the right to know where he is and what he is up to, that comes with his position, if he doesn't like it he can start offloading his billions to the less fortunate."

Total rubbish.

What right? And where is that right enumerated? I've read the federalist papers twice, the USC countless times, and know my way around the US Code. Nowhere is it defined that YOU have a fundamental right to keep track of people ...ostensibly because they are more successful than you?

Why can't we track losers, too? Make sure they are going to work or school and not just draining the retirement accounts of their parents?

You have no fundamental right to anyone's privacy. Full stop.
Heh and I think you voided the support contract for those winches you fixed to boot.
In the article says: "It only had a simple landing page and a Readme on our GitHub repo". So they started getting pull requests without any product (is what I gather). So they are advocating for the classic MVP experiments before building the actual product (No idea why they renamed it to "MV Positioning", when MV Product is exactly the same thing).
I think that's a weird bar to set, especially for one of the richest and most powerful people on the planet. Sorry I don't have any urinalysis results to cite, if I did I would!

When the king goes mad from drinking too much lead, the right response isn't for the populace to finger wag people suggesting it might be lead poisoning.
Incorrect. Elon still controls everything he puts on his foundation, and when he's gone he will appoint people to control it. That is a fact. He can still sell those shares (without paying taxes) and diversify his holdings if necessary. He can invest in other companies using that money to help him achieve his goals. It is just a bunch of money that he can control in several ways. You just don't have great imagination, but Elon and his lawyers know what is possible.
The location data for a plane with a PIA is still public. The fact that it was Elon's plane was deduced from other data. And now he has more or less publicly admitted it is his plane.
An introduction to StarRocks project
I'm not a big fan of VSCode, but this is objectively untrue.
The companies will block you usually by deactivating your license key - which you always have to check online with their licensing server.