skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember: the specific feature of a typical Lisp is that it is written as s-expressions. S-expressions are a notation for data (similar to XML, JSON, ...). This notation is independently useful for all kinds of purposes - like a list of city names: (paris berlin london).

But the specific feature of Lisp is this: code is data and data can be code. Some use the word homocionic -> the program is written in its own data syntax. S-expressions are the data syntax used by Lisp and the programs are written as s-expressions.

> (+ 2 3) means apply the + function with the 2 3 arguments

Depending on the context (a b c) can have different meanings.
As a list it is a list of three items. As a top-level item it is a function call. In (let (a b c) ...) it means a list of variables.

Lisp is based on s-expressions. S-expressions is a simple syntax for data:

an symbolic expression is:

a symbol: foo, bar, 1, 2 paris, +, -, delta, bear, G1345

an empty list: NIL or ()

a non-empty list: ( s-expressionn1 ... s-expression-n)

That's basically it.

Lisp has three functions to work with those: READ, PRINT and EVAL. READ reads a textual s-expression to data, PRINT takes data and prints it as an s-expression, EVAL takes data and evaluates it.

Thus the toplevel of Lisp is something like

(loop (print (eval (read))))

It reads a Lisp expression in form of an s-expression, evaluates it and prints the result.

> AFAIK if you want a list either you use (list a b c) or you use '(a b c) which I find less regular than +(1 2) or (1 2) which is equal to list(1 2)

(a b c) is a list. It's an s-expression. It is valid data. It's only valid Lisp, if A is an operator.

(quote (a b c)) is also a nested list AND a valid Lisp program.

But READ reads all kinds of nested lists, not just Lisp programs. It does that, because S-expressions are a general data syntax.

Compare that with most other programming languages. Their programs are not written on top of a general data-structure notation like nested lists, nested vectors, nested tables, ...
I wonder if some form of regulation is coming to tech. We do not allow people to spread heroin freely or slavery or some other sort of horrible stuff.
Although there's probably reasons in these cases, I'm amazed anyone still uses British Gas; they're consistently the worst energy supplier available and have been for years.
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The history of the c specification is irrelevant to the question of the abstract machine. Other languages developed this way are rust, scheme, and... yep, pretty much every single other language spec in existence.
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> We found out that almost every building has a huge central antenna, called elevator ropes & shaft.

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Anonymous Releases 128GB Data Showing Russia's Illegal Surveillance of Citizens
plus Steam's cut I'd imagine.
Those languages tend to die relatively quickly (zoomed out on a timescale, obviously), languages like CoffeeScript. When it first appeared, it was a god-send, but the good ideas were integrated into the core language, and itself went on to "die".

But then you have languages that have features that you cannot replicate to other languages. You might be able to add arrow functions from CoffeeScript to JavaScript, but you won't be able to tack on homoiconicity from lisps (and macros) to JavaScript, because it simply won't match with how JavaScript is written.

I guess my own conclusion is that languages that don't really invent much can be useful in the short term (like TypeScript), they go on to die when best ideas are integrated, but languages that are really inventive (like lisp-derivatives) end up on a different branch where ideas simply cannot be borrowed to other languages, so they stay around for the long haul.
Come again? The Russian of German decent go back to the days of the Czar...
Actually, most the people he helped were not US and majority of those in need are in countries without significant medical infrastructure.
If you want a dimmable light in a room, you're going to have to buy a light that supports dimming. That's true for a smart bulb or a dumb bulb.
It's about cutting off any free exit ramps (people that use bots to xpost and tools that allow you to find/follow friends on new platforms), same as before.

Then you make people choose: Twitter or "them".
Not going to comment on the “objectively” part of this discussion. But having come to S-exps late in life, I would say they definitely are “simpler” over the whole problem domain of programming computers. Programming has many examples of syntax and constructs that definitely are simpler for grade school level programs, but which make your life a living hell of complexity if you rely on them for building real-world software.
Have randomized controlled trials been held on this point?

I think we can all imagine dozens of confounding factors among the people assigned to community service vs prison if the assignment is done via an element of human judgment.
Is that tweet ripcord related? The original tweet to which discord is responding is deleted.

I've been using ripcord for half a year now, and my account hasn't been disabled so far. If they actually choose to terminate my account because I'm using a more efficient client, I'm going to be really upset.
Nobody here around who has read Jasper Fforde? (Plock, plock)
> There would be a stream of Russian soldiers going back in body bags and likely atrocities that would strengthen and broaden the sanctions.

We're already past both those points - estimates are tricky but it seems likely that over 100,000 have already been killed and the Ukranians are already excavating mass graves in retaken areas. I don't think there's much headroom to increase sanctions? What's left unsanctioned?

(by comparison, I see figures for the US lost about 60,000 KIA in Vietnam and 7,000 in Iraq, across the whole duration of those wars)
Question is if Common Lisp got the idea from Erlang, or vice-versa. Common Lisp first appeared in 1984 while Erlang appeared in 1986. If so, the original point of "None of the other programming languages seem to have learned much of anything from Erlang" might remain accurate.
I think it’s funny in the same way it’d be funny to watch your kids try to act out their own scene from Seinfeld. It’s not the punchlines that we enjoy, it’s the uncanny proximity to the real thing. Sometimes humor comes from expecting something you’re used to and being served something just ridiculous instead.
I’m a huge Seinfeld fan and I find this incredibly dull
You do see the difference between a thought, shared with no one and visible to no one, and an image on a computer, which can be uploaded to the internet, right? This isn't about stopping sexual desire, it's about not distributing images of someone's naked body without their permission. That it's not a guaranteed accurate representation is sort of beside the point. It's good enough if you've never seen them naked before. Some people have gone on record saying they don't like it when it happens to them. Why, do you think?
In Portugal and Switzerland, you can do that (with some restrictions; you need to register as a drug user, only on-site consumption is allowed, and you’ll get psychological and paramedical help). But yes, technically, you can buy pharmaceutical-grade heroine here from the government, not some street weirdo.

And you know, it works. No shady drug dealers on the streets (can’t compete with the government), less and less drug consumers each year (because it is totally uncool, and there are people helping you quit).

I don’t understand why Swiss/Portuguese model is not adopted everywhere immediately. It works great.
They are smart which is why they are spending their lives working on something they love instead of worrying about tax optimization nonsense.
My new Macbook is ungrounded, my old one was grounded. I experience these shocks anywhere I plug in, not just in one home/office, although some places are worse than others.
Regarding the downvotes and the second comment on the linked page:

I guess the non-sensical argument "it's not the <insert technology> that <insert and thing>, but the person using the <technology>" will never die out.

If you don't have <the technology>, it's much harder to <do the bad thing>, has to be done hands-on from a very close distance with much higher risk for the perpetrator.
Is this a serious comment? If you imagine she had a lot of money, you’d be wrong. All the drug sales proceeds went to fund the drug addiction.
If it happens even once those “lives saved” gains will be wiped away. If the stock market is rising for a hundred years then literally goes to zero, you’ve still lost the long game, buying short term gains at the expense of the long term.

If our children all die in a nuclear holocaust, it doesn’t really matter how many lives we saved, does it?
I'm not going to have an argument on HN with someone who is going to draw any kind of equivalence between Trump and Biden.

"Conservatives" right now are not anything like the conservatives who wrote the Constitution - they are actively (and explicitly if you listen to Trump) trying to throw out any part of the Constitution they don't like, including the part about separating church and state.

Personally, I'll take my AI with a healthy dose of liberalism (yes, the same kind that built the miracle we're communicating over right now) and I don't need it wasting any tokens and cycles struggling to justify why the Bible should taken any more seriously than the Illiad.

I believe you're either extremely deluded or operating in bad faith, but please feel free to continue this discussion with someone else.
Well, they did say deserves, not "is treated with". He's basically admitting guilt, saying that respect is part of their business and any failure to deliver that is a failure of the business. Relative to quotes like "don't do evil" or "privacy is a human right", I'd say O'Shea's response is pretty balanced here.
On the contrary, if luck decided everything, why shouldn't the luckier reap the rewards of their luck? Pagan religions put a great deal of emphasis on fortune and very little on one's own moral choices. They believed that the fortunate have a moral obligation to rule the unlucky. That's why new emperors were hailed with "Felicior Augusto".

Does someone deserve a position of responsibility, say a military command, just because life has been unfair to them? What if you give him a command and his bad luck continues? It would doom not only him, but his soldiers as well.

Similarly, why should a fortunate man share his wealth with the less fortunate? If life is just one big casino, would you share your chips with someone in the middle of a losing streak?

It's interesting how most modern attempts to redefine morality, in order to supposedly screw it in the favor of the poor, so often end up resurrecting the ethical systems of times and places, where the poor would fight to the death for the entertainment of the rich.
Here in Switzerland, you can pay taxes with crypto (at least in the cantons of Zug and Ticino). Money is money.
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> In the UK at any rate, the top 1% of earners pay 33% of all income tax.

that statistic is disingenuous without also stating how much of the national income the top 1% earn. i.e. Its obvious that the top 1% pay the most tax because they earn the most.
I'm wondering why they don't put more effort into such release notes. There was so much effort during the implementation and then they come up with this half-assed page what should be better now. This makes the work invisible. A few screen shots here and there would make the release notes much more appealing. JetBrains makes a good job in this regard: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/
The US lacks a national police inspectorate, or similar body that could reliably investigate crimes committed by police from the outside. Police are left to police themselves.
As a follow on from Sustaianble Energy he also drove the original version of the my2050 game, which communicates the tradeoffs we need to make in decarbonizing to the general public very well. More recent update here https://my2050.beis.gov.uk/?levers=433233211331111

I've taken this as inspiration for my own transport models, though I have a model with some sliders to drag around I don't have a flashy game yet!
No one has to, there are 1000s of alternatives but some people chose to. Don't ask me why.
This assumes that there is no morality. That there is no merit in not doing something evil even if others will do it in your place.
Timing is all. You may dislike the analogy - sorry I don't mean to antagonise.

At the start of the pandemic, and in the middle and towards the end there were always voices arguing for "herd immunity now! Let the inevitable happen, as it must".

For me, those voices were too early, until other things had fallen into place. Then they were eventually right.
The “Slicing Problem” For Computational Theories Of Consciousness
Django/htmx
Thanks. But what do you use it for? What promises do you want your components to be involved with and in what way?
That’s, loosely, what “Reorder bytes + Delta” does, isn’t it? It groups together the first bytes of floats, delta encodes them and then compresses them, and repeats that for the second, third, and fourth bytes.

The first byte of a IEEE float has 7/8 of the exponent. If these are successive measurements, chances are they have lots of series of identical values, and the delta-encoded stream will have lots of zeroes.
If JavaScript is disabled, most of the offending cookies are not loaded. Session cookies are usually fine wrt GDPR.
I think you were looking at the count of rows within a single category, rather than the column that sums up the values of the rows.
On streams with high view counts I firmly believe they've never been majority human. They're not even AI, just dumb bots that spam whatever the other bots are spamming
Exactly. It's entirely employer's responsibility to provide tools and equipment for the work, except perhaps stuff that you can keep, like tables, chairs and screens for home office. Only freelancers/entrepreneurs should pay for something like ChatGPT with their own money.
The same for any other form of money.
Literally everything he listed can cause him a big, expensive, stressful hassle if some jerk decides to run with it at their discretion.
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> The suspension follows an undercover investigation by the Times whose reporter went with agents working for Arvato Financial Solutions - a company used by British Gas to pursue debts - to the home of a single father with three children.

Why am I not surprised to see the name "Arvato" in there. For those OOTL: they have been under fire in Germany for using outdated datasets for credit scores [1], lacked identification requirements for obtaining credit reports [2], cooperated with Deutsche Bahn to use data of fare dodgers for credit scoring [3], and most recently for exploitative labor conditions in their Facebook moderation team [4].

[1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bericht-Infoscore-nu...

[2] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/NDR-Mangelhafter-Dat...

[3] https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2016-05/bahn-kundend...

[4] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Verdi-kritisiert-pre...
Be the biggest hypocrite possible seems to be his motto
Yes but in the end it’s all about choice. It’s not some creation of chaotic coincidences and circumstances. It’s not some accidental discovery. It’s an active choice by whoever decides to make it for whoever purpose.

The argument isn’t matter of should it be made, but that the only reason it’s being made is because of people actual choices to do so. It’s not randomly spawning Into existence of its own free will.
It's dubious to guarantee that they'll fall, but it's understandable why people who don't rent would think that because from an economic theory perspective, the reality doesn't really make sense.

Most landlords will simply never charge less than the maximum they've charged for a building, no matter what. That's why you see inner city areas of most major US metropolitan areas have a ton of shuddered store fronts. I think the main reason this happens is because these landlord groups aren't really trying to maximize revenue, but are trying to validate that their "investment" was a good idea. Because it's a psychological/systemic hangup and not an economic one, we see urban areas become endlessly more expensive and simultaneously less occupied
...and NFT item store with prices in dwarfcoins?
I don’t think any specific technology is good or bad, but I do think you could attempt to quantify its impact better by measuring how often it’s used for “good” versus “bad”.

It’s not going to end the argument though, not least because you’ll then have to assign a relative value to abstract things like “personal freedom” or “artistic expression”.

Even if you could quantify the losses to crypto scams, you can’t put an objective value on some of its more ideological benefits.
I'd like a UI that does not cover the video while paused. Watching tutorials on Youtube can be frustrating when you can't see the content on pause.
Well we’re all humans, and we’re all alive at the same time, so we’ve got a perfectly level playing field there. And no, I wasn’t born in a rich country.
I've never had any issues with Teams other than latency can be too high. I've heard people say that it is a resource hog - maybe but I don't notice it on my basic 8GB laptop (and certainly don't notice it on my workstation).
You really think the government sponsored projects are subject to bans on downloading stuff from GitHub?
Google's OSS-Fuzz expands fuzz-reward program
And what if you can't?
I am being sincere, yes.

> If you imagine she had a lot of money, you’d be wrong.

And that’s not what I meant.
I make the point in your last paragraph often. There is a quote I recall reading somewhere, that contrasts with “I think, therefore I am”. Rather: “the thought chooses the thinker”.
Hidden at the bottom of the US policing problem is indeed a set of beliefs by the electorate that are in favor of police brutality. It's like gun deaths: the voters want it that way and will not countenance thinking that it might be different.
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God damn this is fucking insane.

Our society is broken
I wouldn't mind getting fired if I worked for a corporation that can't even provide proper screens for employees. Not getting equipment from employer is only acceptable for startups low on cash.
Conclusions and Relevance:

Study results suggest that estimates of long-term exposure to multiple air pollutants was associated with increased risk of depression and anxiety. [...]
Thank you! The previous Dart backend attempts were predating Flutter, so the conditions are very different now. Serverpod is also a funded company, and not a side or hobby project like earlier Dart servers.
Afghanistan has been an ethnically and culturally divided country long before the invasions, Ukraine hasn't. It's highly unlikely that Ukraine will have a civil war when Russia is pushed back. Ukraine isn't going to become a theocracy running on ancient ideas.
This is true. I became a dual German citizen 15 years ago and paid no tax or social security contributions. I only started paying those once I moved to Germany and started working here a few years ago
Surprisingly, whenever there's a civil war or government collapse, we don't see any mass migration of these ACAB-types to these cop-free utopias.
Is that earners by PAYE or including dividends and capital gains.

Because if it's just top PAYE owners you're missing out all the truly rich people who're tax efficient.
> We may need to find a way back to a world where there is one main shared narrative that we can all more or less trust. Where the custodians of the institutions that provide the narrative understand the need to maintain the trust and the risks involved in undermining the trust for personal gain, and where there are checks and balances that removes bad actors from such positions.

When was such time in history? I'm trying to think of one and I can't. Misinformation has spread in the past too, albeit slowly. The checks and balances did nothing to stop the custodians of the institutions from dismissing heliocentrism, the germ theory, or the continental drift. And for a modern example, the checks and balances failed when the authorities shared a narrative about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

All of that was possible without today's technology.
I'm reminded of the Viz[1] mug celebrating the old Gas Board (the precursor of the current privatised utilities):

Old Ladies, If You Don’t Pay Your Gas Bill This Winter You’re Going To Prison

The Gas Board: We'll get our fucking bit - don't you worry

That sentiment is supposed to be comically brutal but seeing British Gas break into people's homes and effectively force them to pay a higher price for energy... right now living in the UK is odd.

1. For those outside the UK, Viz is an adult satirical comic and great British institution.

https://www.moretvicar.com/products/the-gas-board-mug
I wonder if they had a different agreement than standard or Steam just cashed out something north of $3 million from this alone.

It's true what they say: Valve used to make games, now they make money.