skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that most anything that uses S-expressions is called a Lisp. And there are dozens of these languages.

You see a headline “Did amazing thing using Lisp!!” and find that it’s actually more “Did amazing thing with A Lisp”, and, typically, not the Lisp you like to use.

Nobody calls C, Java, C#, C++, Pascal, D, etc. an “Algol” or whatever generic term might apply to this family of languages. “DOOM is written in Algol”. But this happens all the time with Lisps.
As much as many people here will hate this, it’s worth looking at what daily wire does and why it works, they have $200m+ revenue and are profitable.

In a recent interview Ben Shapiro said it was never about building a publication but building an audience who you can sell products to. Which is why they are selling films and other content like lectures too.

Many left wing orgs could do the same, but all they do is news and advertising. That clearly isn’t enough.

So I’d argue the ones that are dying are the ones that haven’t been able to adapt with a new business model.
RHD are rare enough in the USA that you can actually get a “uniqueness” premium.
(2015)

Dan, could you please put years on your submission titles when they're not from the current year? You've been doing a lot of old submissions without the year appended.
They were the very soul of digital journalism apparently. Doubtlessly they will be missed if anyone else notices they are gone.
No matter where you go, hate speech is pretty much defined the same way

Take the UN for example

https://www.un.org/en/hate-speech/understanding-hate-speech/...

It's certainly a concept and as such needs comprehension to understand it.

People failing to grasp the concept write it off as being nonsense in the same way people write off everything else they fail to take the time to understand.

Hate groups which are always built on lies and propaganda seek to confuse the issue. They're kicking up dust. There isn't any actual confusion, only that which they've manufactured.

It's classic fear, uncertainty and doubt.
"Most news will find its way into the public consciousness if it’s important without journalism."

That seems wildly inaccurate. Rumors, misinformation and nonsense fly around faster and more freely than news. Citizen journalism has a place but they'd be nowhere without professional newsrooms with wide reach and deep resources.
I do game jams and you’re right about their benefits.

I’ve done them using TDD as an inexperienced game dev, test free, TDD now that I have more experience, and it’s helped me clarify some of my own thoughts on how automated testing can fit into my workflow.
Common Lisp is a big, general purpose language and implementations like SBCL are fast so you can pretty much write whatever you want in it. Having a fast, high level expressive, dynamic language with a powerful macro system is generally where Lisps excel. And if you like functional programming there's Clojure.
We stood up a failed local newspaper (yes, newsprint and everything). Local news, local color, but also local commentary on national issues. Who would have thought--human scale and decentralized still has an audience?

vashonloop.com if you're curious
I guess for the same reason most of them keep buying from Intel - their market position allows them to pass on the cost to their customers, so it's not worth the distraction.

OpenAI is more of a "one-(very impressive)-trick-pony", so they have a stronger incentive.
There were local publications like this, too. I used to read Toronto Computes! and The Computer Paper mostly for the ads. I loved seeing all the PC parts prices in the ads from local computer shops.

The ads helped me plan my PC builds and upgrades - or, more commonly, they helped me dream about upgrades I wanted but couldn't quite afford!
I've read that and tried it. I hate it.

This recent article has some alternatives https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/05/10/organize-business-logi...

Their main argument against the first piece is:

> One problem with fat models is that unless you are really disciplined in your code hygiene, they can tend towards an assortment of code smells

And I wholeheartedly agree. With the addition that "code hygiene" if not enforced or encouraged, is always one of the first victims under stress. And every (successful) project will see such stress.

With Rails you have to spend extra effort to keep doing "the right thing", whereas is should cost cost less effort to do that, and extra effort to "do the bad thing".
> In other words, how do we (the employer) ensure our employees aren't moonlighting on our team and only giving the minimum level of effort with us?

The tools for properly determining this are no different remote vs in an office at least for IT work. Most dev teams work in sprints and each sprint comes with a commitment from each developer. It is very noticeable even in remote work if a developer is either:

- Not making a reasonably sized commitment.

- consistently failing to complete their work.

- frequently turning in terrible code (don’t worry the reviewers will let you know).

Whether on-site or remote you can end up with the same situation of a high skill employee putting in minimal effort but still being more valuable than multiple other developers.
I don't see any explanation of what the results mean. There is no man page; the help is just a list of options.
Before His Killing, Tech Exec Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs
Apologies for that. I've added some extra micromamba setup commands that I should have included before!

I've also added the git clone command, thank you for the feedback
It bothers me that I do not trust any main-stream news source to give me accurate news without molding it into a specific narrative. It's sad that the institutions I should trust the most i tend to trust the least.
Frappuccinos infiltrate Rome’s coffee culture
The internet went nuts over this scene in Raleigh NC about 9 years ago, where vehicles caught fire after their drivers over-revved them trying to get up a hill.

https://www.wral.com/nc-s-winter-storm-in-gifs/13390141/

To be fair, it's not entirely their fault. There just isn't much snow-clearing equipment in southern states - but that's because there's only a "major" (for the area) snowfall every 2-3 years. So there's no point in the state paying for that equipment, and there's no point in people owning winter tires (and needing a place to store them in the summer). And when severe weather does happen, often it's ice not snow. Everyone is going to have a bad day driving on ice.

I do think the point from other posters about modern safety & stability systems making people get complacent is a good one.

Anecdotal data: A former boss kept a count of ditched vehicles on his way to the office one time: 12. Of which 11 were Ford Explorers. They're not bad vehicles, just that that the fact they were driving an SUV caused the drivers to become overconfident.
The Gen Z chart I think is particularly misleading. My kids are (young) Gen Z. When plotted on that chart, their likely inheritance is $0, because the later of the date of death of my wife and I is very likely be after 2045. So, it looks like they're screwed, but it's because the peak of the Gen Z chart is cut off on the right.
Reminds me of “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again.”

Different areas react to wealth in different ways, some flaunt it and burn it, others plod along doing what they’ve always done.
1. wikipedia was banned from turkey for 3 years, in that time it did no good for anyone in turkey who needed it and couldn't understand how to use a VPN.

2. you can still use twitter to share information in turkey, this will inevitably help people elect who they want to elect

3. twitter is not the only website to have received this request but they are the only site to publicize it.

4. musk is releasing the request that no one else is willing to even tell you about

5. wikipedia is filled with political censorship that vilifies people for their beliefs, views, and opinions. who is the real monster here?
Facebook, Twitter, Elon etc have said external links rank more poorly in the algorithm.

That is why facebook is rampant with people stealing others videos and reposting it on the platform.
Detailed performance numbers and Q&A for llama.cpp GPU acceleration
That’s what David Boggs said about Ethernet at an early (contentious) standards meeting.
He's said in a Twitter spaces that he's reduced the expenditures down to basically the interest payment and another billion and a half on top of that. A large part of the reduction was shutting down a lot of the unused servers.

So 2.5 billion in expenses. In 2021 Twitter had Revenue of 5 Billion. So obviously they have lost a lot of revenue, as Elon himself has admitted. But between the cuts they are close to breakeven.

Now with a new CEO who is much more advertiser friendly they are going to get a lot more advertisers back. She will be the new face of the company. Then, likely they will start paying down that debt. Each time they do their burden will be less.

Tesla is the most profitable car company per car. Musk isn't going to have a problem making Twitter profitable, though he put himself behind the 8 ball.
I read it, it just doesn't make sense. There's nothing harmful or disruptive about having lots of links tucked away at the bottom of the page, out of the way. Hiding those links in a hamburger menu doesn't fix the problem, because there's no problem to fix. But it does introduce several other, more significant problems, which are described in the article.
Just because I can come up with something completely new does not mean it is a good idea.
IKEA bomb shelter furnishings catalog by Midjourney
Probably diverting portions of future planned investnents into the portfolio.
People in the middle class don’t have 20 million, or 10 million.
Excellent! We are fortunate the current owner of that domain is as others mention chaotic good.

Side note: Dungeons and Dragons role play is a meaningful part of our culture in ways I am sometimes amazed by. I think back in wonder to campaigns run on my bed, music playing in the background on my home assembled and built, custom for my room, sound system; people imagining, sharing, interacting with a quiet fire in their eyes, all of us holding onto a shared fantasy state for all it is worth.

Who knew?

I am sure some did, but I didn't. It was counter culture back then. And it was amazing! Text adventure games hold a little of the feel and at that time were kind of a bridge between normies and our scene with magic, fantastical creatures, artifacts, stories of love, evil, conquest, treasure, discovery and all of it intoxicating.

Hell yeah!
In Russia, if you are born in Moscow and inherit a granny's flat¥, it gives you an enormous boost. You are free to choose any occupation and dabble in any kind of weird lifestyles or rent it out and live abroad with very modest effort.

Meanwhile, if you did not inherit one and don't work in IT, expect to work hard and spend the majority of earnings on rent/mortgage.

This applies nontheless even if all of your ancestors were lower middle or working class.

¥ Which she got from the state basically just for being there.
The book looks absolutely beautiful
Said differently, it doesn't count as income because it's not income.

I borrowed just shy of a million dollars to buy my house. That money sure wasn't income...
If you are in the US, your state bar association has a referral service.

You could probably contact an out of state bar as well if you live in a small state, but I am not totally sure.

But, to ME:

I intend to trailblaze a path toward professional liability in our industry.

makes zero business sense (again to ME).

For starters, clients want contracts that look like other contracts because it makes things easy.

But more deeply, if in the face of a real problem people are pointing at contract clauses, the relationship is fucked and that's always a bigger problem than the technical problem.

Stable business relationships allow for humans being human because that's how we understand each other.

Finally, the last thing your clients want is to have to involve lawyers and insurance because that all costs more than the amount of your contract. Complicated non-standard contracts are a red flag.

Collecting on insurance is pennies on dollars.

Good luck.
If you know the topic at hand you can somewhat believe you're good at finding the Expert.

If you don't know jack about topic X, you'll end up trusting another newbie, or a charlatan.

Or, you can go around talking to lots of people, go search professors and professionals and ask them.
Here you are, welcome to Journalism.

Oh and the same works for photographers (my 24yo son is one of them).
I don't think you can reason like this. As far as I understodod, standard quantum mechanics does not make any statement about how the measuring process and the collapse of the wavefunvtion happens. So while the waveform evolves deterministically, you can only ever apply this model when you are in the position of performing measurements on some quantum mechanical system. As I understand, Quantum mechanics is not meant to also model you together with the experiment as a wavefunction, because the act of you performing a measurement does not have a definition in the form of the wavefunction interacting with itself somehow. So without extensions to QM, you should not reason with universal deterministic waveforms.
its not transparent when they don't tell you the individual pages and people whose pages are constantly edited with lies
It was a technique of studying in a book, not the content, In "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" Sipser precedes every proof with a "proof idea" basically examining meaning of each statement before the "pencil pushing". You wouldn't miss the forest while watching the trees like this.
5 bucks that at least the conclusion was written by ChatGPT.
>I can't tell from the Gist alone

Literally the second line: "llama is a text prediction model similar to GPT-2, and the version of GPT-3 that has not been fine tuned yet"
How does having "rockstar" experts broadcasting "their message" help unveil the stories of the unfortunate in their daily lives so that society can understand what ails it?

Journalism is not just the repeating of "expert opinions," it's supposed to be about investigation and collecting evidence and taking to normal, not expert people, about the current events affecting their lives.

Truly if we have lost that and it is replaced by "rockstars" with their own message it will be a huge loss to society.
esr or rms or someone had a good essay on why “use for good not evil” license clauses (banning use by militaries was a favorite) werent a great idea for free software.
>Is it really quicker to ask here than just browse content for a bit, skimming some text or even using Google for one minute?

I don't know if it's quicker but I trust human assessment a lot more than any machine generated explanations. You're right I could have asked ChatGPT or even Googled but a small bit of context goes a long way and I'm clearly out of the loop here -- it's possible others arrive on HN might appreciate such an explanation or we're better off having lots of people making duplicated efforts to understand what they're looking at.
It’s a matter of costs.
Publishing long form online is cheap and can generate more revenue (a good article can generate a ton of engagement). Publishing long form in print is very expensive and maybe serves as marketing for a daily.
Serious investigative work was always expensive. Only large papers could afford to do it and mostly did it for honor/prestige.
That's a pretty awful take IMO. A lot of journalism is bad and always has been. But a lot of it is absolutely necessary. There's plenty of terrific newsrooms that produce a lot more light than heat. And all the independent media on substack or running a YT channel or whatever would be nowhere without mainstream news. Few if any have the resources to do much original reporting. I read a few and they are extremely dependent on interpreting the reporting they received from other sources that they are digesting and repackaging for their audience. Frequently an audience that is expecting a particular spin on everything.
Pb stands for pasteboard and not for lead. :D

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/...
>"private sector is more efficient than government" only applies when there are market incentives for efficiency

OTOH, depending on the government and the tax rate, the incentive for inefficiency in government itself can overwhelm any existing efficiency or incentive for that kind of thing elsewhere.
Google I/O and the State of Big Tech AI in 2023
I’m still using one from 2011. It runs just fine.
Color Django shell by development environment
I'm sorry! I added this improvement based on that persons question!
Does anyone happen to know of a very lightweight and simple script that can log into Twitter via cron, post a random entry from Fortune [1] as a status update and log out?

fortune -s
Please, won't somebody tell me what diddie-wa-diddie means?

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fortune
It’s an unreliable tool worldwide because (I assume) it uses Apple’s servers/CDNs, which do not reliably max out my bandwidth (400MB/s in France). Verify the results with another tool if you don’t live in the US.
it means you have been downvoted a number of times
You could try that definition during the 16 - 22 time period and experience the backlash on HN and Twitter.

It is also interesting most of these zealotry were gone by the time Fed raises Interest rate and Tech companies started laying off or delaying bonuses.
There are two major advantages though - you can retrain them, and they're not on the guardrails that the commercial models have.
Maybe it just doesn't work as often.

My mobile setup is damn near as good as my desktop is. I got that all too familiar fill intro to groove we love to loathe same as it always was intended.
youtubers nowadays would do anything for a sponsorship
Very interesting how different the approach is. Many European countries mandate Winter tyres for a period each year, even if they do not get much snow - https://www.uniroyal-tyres.com/car/tyre-guide/winter-care/wi.... The mindset is more that if there could be snow, drivers must use Winter tyres, even when road clean-up and salting are used.

Many countries here that do not mandate Winter tyres for the whole season still mandate tyres appropriate for driving conditions, which reads a lot like a requirement to use Winter, studded, or chained tyres in snow. Most countries like that also recommend Winter tyres.

It's a very different approach from having many people not use Winter tyres in snow. I think this explains the fear of driving in snow to me. I would be very concerned if I had to drive in snow with Summer tyres as well.
It's both, there are definitely organisations where there is blaming.

But it's also very hard for individuals to not feel blamed when given feedback meant for improving the process.
Those fines are laughable. How is no one of the organisers of this fraud is in jail?
Cry more.
What principles?
And then auction off the most popular handles.
Maybe it depends. Let's say some thought have gone into writing the prompt, and the image (and image text?) then explains how something works or helps one understand the article better.

Or if the prompt to generate the image, doesn't include anything interesting that isn't in the article already. (F.ex. "generate a nature photo related to this article"?)
A great, timeless Harvard lecture on scalability concepts by Prof. David Malan
YouTube is a lot of different things for different people, and serves niches that would simply go unserved without them. Comparing them to Vice - well maybe that is valid for some clickbait “news” channel but I like to watch - as one example - instructive chess videos that pretty much wouldn’t exist on any other platforms.
It should still be possible to find out if there was a problem with the engine before the crash.
My reasoning holds.
In most cases, these things would work, but not here. Tried everything, nothing works except using a pre-modules-compiler.

In general, golang seems to work best with golang-only projects. As soon as there are other languages in the mix, like C++ here, things get very ugly very fast.
How does downvote work? I only see a 'up' arrow?
Is picking a newbie or a charlatan that much worse than listening to a journalist who interviews a newbie or a charlatan? Or one who doesn’t understand the subject (as is usually the case) and totally mangles what they get from an actual expert?

I’d rather at least take my chances at picking an actual expert.

You can see how bad journalism is when you read a popular article on something you do understand deeply. Now consider that it’s probably about that bad on every subject.

The problem is that you must understand something deeply to report on it well or describe it well. Only a programmer can be a good journalist on software. Only a former military person can do good war reporting. Etc. If you don’t know what you are talking about you can’t talk about it well.
even if something isn't an ideal, is there not reason to say it isn't the most free? and would that not be the best place for people who want to strive for the ideal?
> Rust isn't some silver bullet

Rust codebases extend in size and scale to larger teams fundamentally better than C++ / C. Rust offers more leverage in building ambitious system software.

Since you mention Qt, imagine writing all of Qt in x86 assembly, vs. C++. "There's not particular reason this isn't doable." C++ to Rust is a similar jump. No silver bullets; just leverage.

Cross-platform toolkits — especially those aiming to abstract over native UI/UX patterns — are an ambitious, if not Sisyphean domain. Qt was about the best we could do in the C++ era, but a new era has dawned.
Whenever anyone correctly observed that buzzfeed has made the internet worse, someone always comes galloping in on their white horse with the meme “but buzzfeed news is a real serious outlet!”

This has always been its purpose. It exists for the same reason the BP and Exxon have nominal investments in “clean energy”. The same reason that Koch industries donates to the arts.

They’re paying for indulgences and the HN well-akchually crowd buys it hook line and sinker.

If you don’t want to take my word for it you can take Peretti’s and the words of the Washington post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/23/buzzfeed-sta...

“I don’t think they ever gave news a real chance to make money,” she said. BuzzFeed chief executive Jonah Peretti long touted the news team’s burnishing effect on the company’s overall reputation“

They never intended for it to be a self sustaining business. It existed for reputation enhancement of the parent brand.
That's one of those Wikipedia pages that I find very difficult to get anything out of. The math has little explanation, the pseudo-code lacks definitions (where did s_z_j come from?) and while actual code helps with implementation (except Talk page mentions it's not correct), it can be quite difficult to grasp what the essence of the algorithm.

I found this[1] video to give me a much better overview of the algorithm, and this[2] follow-up video looks promising in terms of practical application. edit: [2] is actually the prequel, he made [1] to go into the details.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxpBHCkypS4 Viterbi Algorithm Explained with an Example

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJE94FhyygM Decoding Convolutional Codes: The Viterbi Algorithm Explained
Cool, thanks for sharing.

I'm not using any hierarchy in the tags. It is just a many-to-many relationship between stories and tags.