skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a number of benefits.

One is that, in the role of the list terminator, nil effectively serves as a symbol. It is unique, and tested for its identity: if the cdr of the cell of a list is the nil object, then that is the last cell. This is how symbols are used. Anything that is exploited for its unique identity should be a symbol.

Nil isn't necessarily implemented the same way as other symbols. It could actually be a null pointer. One way to look at it is that something now known as the GoF Null Object Pattern is at work. All the functions which take a symbolic argument, such as symbol-name, symbol-value, symbol-package, ... are made to work with a nil argument. Just like (car nil) is made work with a nil argument, even though nil isn't a cons.

Being able to pass nil to symbol functions makes some things work that otherwise wouldn't, which can reduce the code. All the special case testing (if necessary) is done in the library already.

Say we have a hash table H which maps keys to symbols.

We can do, say, (symbol-value (gethash K H)). If K is not found in the table, gethash will return nil. Because nil is a symbol, (symbol-value nil) works fine and returns nil. If that's what we want in the not found case, it keeps our code short and sweet.

Whenever some slot or variable defaults to nil, it's not only defaulting to a false value, and empty list, but to a valid symbol object that can be passed to symbol API's.

If the empty list weren't a symbol, it could be notated (), and nothing but that. That notation works grewat when we are dealing with the empty list semantics. It's not so nice when () is denoting false, other than () kind of looking like a zero. When () denotes the bottom type in the type system, things are also not nice; all other types are either symbols or expressions like (or integer string). It's much nicer to have a word like "nil" for all these roles.
Flutter is moving to using Impeller, which is the faster replacement you're talking about: https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/main/impeller
They already got the idea. Look up the "O'Reilly Learning Platform"
I don't think most of the players really care. Watch the body language of France after they lost: second means nothing to them. Some of them ripped their medal off as soon as they got it.
Yeah I can understand both of these points. I do find it odd how it has gained so much traction if there are better alternatives though?
So, what would you suggest as an alternative?

XML fell out of SGML - trust me, you don't want to go there. So did HTML.

Also too: the IDEs I use always form closed tags. No effort needed.
If I had the amount of money he has, the last thing I would be doing would be picking fights on Twitter.
The problem with Messi is that he looks like the is watching the grass grow, or a butterfly or something. And then he makes a goal, sometimes a great goal.

Other players have a more fighting image, and they run here and there, and scream, and look more connected to the game.

The choice a nice fighting image or almost a goal per game.

Edit: YouTube just suggested me https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b6qBbLxP53s
> The nice thing about EV’s is you can have them warmup while plugged in an unheated parking space

Just like people have been doing with ICE cars for literally decades? This has been super common since at least the 80s and probably even earlier, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Standhei...

It's called a block heater, it's normal for most parking spaces in cold countries to have sockets for these.
Given how fast Copilot is (a few seconds), I wouldn't mind waiting 10x. I also wouldn't mind letting it run overnight for some tasks (ie: write documentation, write tests, suggest bug fixes, etc...). Will check on my buddy on the next morning.
A math problem generator
That's maybe not how you would react. But it's a classical response - when under attack, identify enemies, and attack back.

It takes a certain kind of social intellect to understand which actions will actually psychologically affect someone for the better.

Does he consciously tie his actions directly to this? Or is it indirectly, by getting very negative emotions and associations to leftism, which are then turned into this culture war?
Spartans are considered to be top -tier warriors of ancient world, while in the reality their actual military record is, at best, very average among their peers [0]. But they were extremely good with the PR, and have a cerrain cult following.

[0]: https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
This sounds great. Certainly the IP zealots love it because the code never leaves the walled garden, and it’s a super-secure blah blah environment. Consistent tooling, easy onboarding… you get the idea.

All good until you have an outage. Then your development team’s productivity drops to exactly zero while you fix it and your entire production environment is now potentially vulnerable to defects you can’t fix until the development environment is fixed (better hope it stays running). This is when companies realize that the development environment is actually a service and it needs higher SLA targets than production, but it will never get the attention that it needs to achieve those targets (because it’s just dev, right?).
How many Toyota EV's are actually available though?

There's basically only the Prius Prime that was available, and it's at a price point where there are better EV's to get. There's the bZ4X as well but I've never seen one available anywhere. They have a bunch of stuff announced for 2023 though.

Using Toyota as the barometer is only really useful for Toyota. It's not a great reflection of the rest of the market.
He doesn’t know he can’t do it. In his distorted view of reality, he’s doing it perfectly well.

I’m addressing his inability to perceive an alternative.
Btw I must also thank Elon for helping Mastodon so much.

https://cdn.masto.host/bitcoinhackers/media_attachments/file...

Every time he suspends a high profile Twitter account for posting Mastodon links (or, as he did recently, changes the T&Cs to explicitly "prohibit sharing Mastodon links"), we get a new spike of users and content on the Fediverse.

He's doing more to bring people to the Fediverse than years of enthusiasts trying to explain normal folks what an instance and an ActivityPub inbox are.
> It's not like fossil fuels where it is plausible that there are limited amounts. Elements are created by the same processes that formed the universe.

This is a non sequitur. There is a limited amount of anything on Earth. The pertinent question is: can we get enough of these minerals economically to use them as storage by 2050. If it is not economical, it won't happen.

If you think extracting more than 4x the known global reserves of lithium is going to be economical, I don't know what to tell you.
Not necessarily if the technology (both development and hardware cost) to replace the drivers costs enough. I don't doubt it will get there someday but Waymo certainly isn't making money off current riders.
Hey guys, congratulation on the launch!

This look promising, I have a few questions:
1. How is this different from Firestore?
2. How is the data stored? Will I have a first request that will download the whole store for each user?
3. What's your roadmap?
All things have a time. XML was succesful in its. That it was eventually taken over by competitors doesn't really detract from it being hugely succesful in its time.
Oh, right. I understood something else. Need more sleep :)
You know, we should introduce woke battles: they are a mix of public debates and rap battles. Participants take turns to berate each other and demonstrate wokeness. The jury watch the debate closely and try to get offended.
Pets are an amazing part of peoples lives and absolutely should not just be a privilege for those wealthy enough to pay for expensive medicine and frequent vet visits.
https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave
I don't really think that's the case. We can see the dynamic in action on the Fediverse, a space where anyone can make their own server and moderate it according to their wishes. There are right-wing servers that have created their own walled gardens (Gab, Truth Social), but at the same time the left-wing servers have created server blacklists that include most of the "free speech" servers. Given the option, a lot of people across the political spectrum apparently want hugboxes.
Oh I just meant you actually start getting value at a team size of 3, not that once 3 people touch a repo it's unmanageable lol
Also because they get blocked by clouds. If you're not getting 24/7 power, you might as well put your solar panels on the ground.
Any externally visible docs on it? Google's is documented at https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
Do you still feel this way after they suspended PG?
If you're worried that HTML is too verbose and therefore inefficient, that's not really an issue since it's going to be compressed in transit anyways. So then the question is, assuming that the compressed representation has the maximum information density, "what format should the decompressed web page be in". I think HTML is a pretty logical format to view the structure of the page.

There are definitely plugins for auto-closing your HTML tags that will make your life easier, though.
This reminds me of the old joke, "What do you call the guy who graduated last in his medical school class?" "Doctor."

I went to school with many people who went on to become doctors. I can say with confidence not one of them is inherently better at researching, learning about, and coming to understand something than I am.

I didn't choose to go to medical school. They did. But if I'm going to dump thousands of hours into researching what's going on in my own body, I will know more about my body than they do. The fact that I found another subject more interesting for my graduate degree doesn't mean I'm incapable of learning what they did, from first principles if necessary.

I get why they're tired of having to address everything someone says they found on the internet, but we're not all idiots out here.
I voted “no”.
What’s left of the bird needs to crash and burn quickly so we can get over it and build something better.
Huh, I'm one of several mods for a Sub-Reddit. Works fine. Only things that changed are a) my own comment quality standard is higher and b) the way I read other comments. Now, I scan comments for rule infractions, which lessens my reading enjoyment a bit.

Also never observed a problem between mods and other users in other Sub-Reddits. Maybe because mods on Reddit are not that visible?
What percentage of Americans hold a passport? I'd guess it's similar.
I’m thousands of miles away from her local courthouse.
I think the idea of Japanese being avid travellers was something from the 80's when their economy was booming (article also mentions 70's). Recently/until Covid hit, if you saw a large group of East Asian tourists, they'd most likely be Chinese.
I've often thought that the price of the house should include the first thirty years of projected energy use. You then get a monthly rebate to pay for energy use (or to cover taxes in escrow). This would strongly incentivize energy efficient homes because it would show up in the sticker price (and included in a mortgage).

I see two large sticking points with the idea: 1. it would obviously drive up the price of new housing. 2. I don't know how easy it would be to game an energy audit (which would have to locale specific).
I don't mind so much, I remember multi-hundred (or more) version upgrades, so it's better in some ways. I was just thinking about how I wish I had some way to manage all subscriptions in one place, it's so hard to keep track of.
> unionized public sector workers

As one of them: Ha ha! I wish!
I love Leo and have been a fan since TechTV days. His inability to remove political opinions from his netcasts, primarily the loathing echo chamber that he fosters, make it very difficult to listen to TWIT regularly. But I still power through it occasionally because it's a good show and his guests are very informed.
Getting off topic now but Oregon does allow self-serve gas in some places now. I've pumped my own gas at the Chevron on Tomahawk Island, Portland.
Great that it's windier closer to the poles and windier during the winter.

Unless you're talking about north of the arctic circle, then sure. You can fill that niche of a couple of hundred thousand people living in the global north and not within striking distance of massive hydro reserves.

https://globalwindatlas.info/en

Or like this study a while back finding building SMRs in the Canadian north close to a laughable proposition given the power requirements, costs and tiny niche market.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
> The interesting thing is my professor kinda knew we do this, he just acknowledged it as part of the dance of their system.

Professor's diary: It's so tiring coming up with broken experiments that still have some possible merit, but the system works, and my role is clear. If only the benefits of working under constraints weren't so clear with regard to innovation, they they are what they are and this farce continues for all of us. Maybe I'll finally feel like the private sector is the way to go next yet. Probably not, but who knows.

Also, this sounds like I've heard the military described at times, expecially in war, where the upper echelons come out with wile ideas that make no sense on the ground and mid-level officers pull wild solutions out of their asses and whatever works ends up being copied.

I could see something like this possibly developing as a natural solution when all you look at is the output and not the process, and provide a rigid framework within which different behavior can be iterated until it stabilizes on something that works. That, unsurprisingly to me, has similarities in how ML works, given given these are basically institutions that act as machines.
I've rented a Prius a couple of times. It's a little small for me but that car was much more zippy than I expected. I know a few people that own one and they've been happy with it for many years. I don't think it would work well here in the snow but if Toyota built a plug-in hybrid AWD Tacoma Crew Cab I would seriously consider it, especially if there is no telemetry junk in it.
The former is somewhat reasonable for having pi denote 3.14159... and such.

It brings in its own difficulties. If nil is a variable/constant which evaluates to some nil object, then to talk about nil itself, we have to quote it.

The object which it denotes doesn't print as nil; it has its own printed rep like () and we will end up seeing that printed rep and using it. So then we have two nil representations to deal with: the nil variable which we can use in evaluated contexts, and the literal nil like () that we use elsewhere.

If () isn't self-evaluating (like the criminally stupid design in Scheme), we have to quote it: '().

If we have additional semantic roles for () like it being Boolean false and the bottom of the type spindle, those uses are not nicely served by the () notation, from an esthetic point of view.

The list terminator is de facto a symbol because it's exploited for its identity: we care whether the cdr of a cons is or is not nil, and that's all. That's a symbolic behavior; we might as well complete things so that the symbol functions work with nil; it can have a property list, name and so on.
> Most FE devs consider this a dark pattern and refuse to implement it.

How common is it for FE devs to refuse to implement features that their employers tell them to implement?
I like that take.
> You won't be able to find a single american software engineer in Accenture, because of work conditions and wages, all engineers are foreigners on visas.

That is false.

You do know that legally Accenture has to go above market wages in that locale for H1B workers?
"She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour 9:00 a.m.
And I'm gonna be high
As a kite by then
...
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I'm a rocket man

Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them
If you did"
Elon has personal loans made using Tesla stock as collateral.

If he is asked to post more collateral on those loans, and the only way he can meet those calls is to sell even more huge amounts of Tesla stock (which is a significant “if”), then he’s going to drive the price of TSLA down non-trivially. (This, by the way, already happened once earlier this week.)

Which could spur more margin calls on other loans, as his collateral (more Tesla stock) has devalued.

It could spiral in a very nasty way, depending on how his personal finances and loans are structured, and how harshly the market views his fire-sale of TSLA.
Elon is to free speech what SBF is to decentralization.
I disagree that hybrids are the future. Hybrids are the present. They are very mature technology that is better than traditional ICE cars in every way but up-front price, and only by a small margin.
I like the concept but agree with your point (2). Building codes are already strict and yet often the tract houses are still shoddily built.
Based on his recent company, Jared Kushner. If he can bring peace to the Middle East then fixing Twitter should be a breeze.
I can scarcely believe you are holding up Murdoch as a paragon of impartiality. His newspapers are notoriously biased and scurrilous, and actively try to influence political outcomes. He doesn’t have to intervene much because he makes sure to hire people who will enact his will.
That's what it always was. Just instead of what's bothering Musk, it was what's bothering Yoel, Vijaya and San Francisco Liberals

This is the problem of having core global communications infrastructure be centralized
Just need to disincentivise using housing for investment. For example a tax penalty for 2nd home, with higher penalties for subsequent home. Have federal level zoning control to disallow nimbyism. Penalize airbnb in areas that have housing shortages with higher taxes.
Because at $250k/yr they'd have no trouble attracting engineers willing to learn COBOL. There isn't a current "emergency" a la Y2K to spike the demand of experienced COBOL programmers; they have time to hire anyone with a CS background and let them learn the language on-the-job so they can do low-priority legacy maintenance.
You can run it not in cloud. Uber uses its own DCs (although not sure they do that for dev). It’ll probably be more expensive because you can’t scale everything down for the night (unless you have dev teams spread globally).
There's plenty of work and opportunities right now in the world, not even a war between a top 30 economies following a virus wave has changed this.

People have been brainwashed that you need money, lots of it, to live a great life, socials magnify those sick ideas.
> I don't believe SaaS is moral

> I basically pirate everything that requires a subscription now or us a FOSS alternative… and now when I can afford to pay for subscriptions but the situation with lack of control over SaaS is so fucking untenable that I just can't.

Imagine stealing peoples work you admit you can afford, and claiming their business model is immoral!
Also better make sure your device doesn't receive a software update that wipes out access in the future based on some arbitrary licensing decision.
I always found circular polarisation with its "natural" complexity one of the most fascinating aspects of generally available optics. Really happy about this practical use case and application of its properties.

Might sound a bit odd, but sometimes there is some kind of beauty in a certain design or basic approach.
It's not so much whether or not someone you like Paul Graham or not. I don't follow him. I don't know him. I'm sure he's a fine person.

But if you really, truly believe in free speech and having a platform for sharing interesting ideas, then you want someone like Mr. Graham on the platform.
These days my job is writing treatment planning software for radiation treatment. Your post makes it more real from the patient’s perspective. The hope and goal is to move the probability needle of range of outcomes in a good direction. I hope your cancer treatment works out well for you.
Mosh doesn't work with SSH bastions (kind of obviously, but admittedly a bummer indeed), which Uber's blog post shows they use (as do many other similarly-sized companies).
Buying a legit copy doesn't make it legal to download a pirated/illegal copy, any more than buying a band's CD makes it legal to sneak into their concert without a ticket.
Correct, numbers, strings, and arrays of each of those would have been more accurate.
> If you want to own an actual copy of a TV show or movie, buy the physical disc.

For the vast majority of new TV shows, that option simply doesn’t exist anymore. It’s been that way for a couple of years now. You can only hope to find a torrent in good enough quality.
They can also come up with the right conclusion but publicly promote the opposite conclusion.

They wouldn't say, "Oh yeah, EV's are awesome! Go get EVs" when they don't have one that people want to buy.
A panel in geostationary gets five times as much energy as a panel on the ground. It's like noontime sun around the clock, plus none of the light is blocked in the atmosphere. And the biggest advantage isn't that 5X, it's eliminating the need for overcapacity and storage.

https://illumin.usc.edu/space-based-solar-power-a-new-path-t...
The paid upgrade model creates some perverse incentives and support headacches. It encourages a company to declare something a major (and thus paid) upgrade0 Years ago, Adobe used to do this with supporting new RAW formats that came out. it would only add them to the newest Photoshop version when there was absolutely no reason they couldn't add it to the RAW plugin for all versions.

This fragments the user base and creates support headaches. If a user has a problem, is it a KP with that version? They won't pay for an upgrade. Are you going to backporta a fix? It might be a little used version. This leads you to having policies that EOL software. Nobody really understands that. The customer gets mad because they paid for the software in 1987 and it should still work.

Subscriptions solve these problems. It can create problems too eg:

1. The Adobe dark pattern model of having to subscribe for a year and hiding the auto-renewal and how to cancel;

2. Once again, the Adobe model of setting the subscription price of basically the sticker price you once paid divided by 12; and

3. Requiring you to be online to monitor your subscription status meaning software that should work offline doesn't.

The gold standard for a good subscription model is Jetbrains.
>Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned.

Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over : https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-...

[1 hour ago - 4 comments] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34046074

This does Not bode well;

links to Mastodon, including your Mastodon account in your profile or even the mere mention of Mastodon.

Is this action for the actual bleed? - Or paranoia at the current projected losses? - Competition?
Plenty of alternatives for you to use:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

And so on...

Upon further consideration, maybe just closing the <div> tags isn't so bad after all...
more than a million people obviously