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> It's funny to me because we've been here for many years

Bro it's called Capitalism, and it's been like this since the beginning.

An angry German guy wrote a critique of it years ago and got his name plastered on everything because of it. It's the same discussions, over and over.

Cory Doctorow gave it a fun name with a dirty word in it, but it's been happening for ages.
That is the whole POINT. You don't pick up your house and move it every time you need to go to a grocery store(unless you live in your car, which many do), but that is exactly what you do with a vehicle. This means that the infrastructure needed to support the vehicle is actually massively more extensive than just the vehicle, leaving a footprint that is much bigger than just the car, and impacts almost all facets of day to day life.
Taking a look at some randomly selected roads in Google Street View [1], it looks like it's been built at extremely low density, by most standards.

I mean, if you've building a single-storey home, then putting a double garage on the side, then a gap between properties two cars wide, plus a driveway with parking for two cars, then on-road parking for 3 more cars? Of course you're going to run out of land fast.

I've no idea whether it's a zoning issue, though.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/ZCtDFNsaoe5ePsp16 https://goo.gl/maps/tTRb7vzw5mVHskHHA etc
> They're not expressive enough to implement a monadic async library, as far as I'm aware

AIUI you need GC in order to do that. There's a reason why Rust's async/await support needs compiler magic.

(I'd like to see standard interfaces for "pluggable" garbage-collected arenas in Rust, but this will need to wait until after Allocators/Storages get fully stabilized.)
It's not an error by default and more importantly it's not an error under right circumstances (e.g. lets say number of pops and inserts is supplied via arguments).
Seems like this would be addressable by the government making affordable living facilities.
A bit misleading to say ChatGPT, when GPT-4 according to the metrics there seem to outpeform it?
That's not even remotely true. There are many reasons for a movie (or literally any other project) to not do well and many inflection points among the movie's development process which could have massively changed the impact. Politics in this case also played a big part around the movie's launch, for instance.

It's impossible for you to say with certainty that a single decision caused the movie to flop and it's disingenuous to think so. Especially disingenuous to say it's one person's fault that an entire movie was pitched, greenlit, made, and then flopped. There are literally thousands of people who made decisions along the way, starting from the initial greenlight which would have been given by multiple people.
I know its talked about a lot abstractly or incorrectly, but this is a basic issue with how Capitalism works and the proposed solution of socialism.

Socialism, being a system where the workers collectively own the business, has a lot more credit if they wanted workers to feel invested.

Capitalism, being a system where workers produce the value but see a small portion of it, basically incentivizes dehumanizing the workers. The greater system creates a society where almost every interaction one has in their day to day life is a transaction. Jobs are like renting a space. Why would you make improvements to a space when a landlord can evict you and benefit from your extra effort.

Small businesses are often, in a sense, infantilized. They're not like the big nameless corp, they're your neighbor, they're a smol bean who can't hurt. The reality is small businesses can get away with a lot more BS. IMO I'd be far more alert working at a small business waiting for the CEO to do something dumb or damaging than a large corp.

Unless the small business gives employees a sense of ownership(actual stake, cooperatively owned) why should they feel invested? They're in the same precarious spot as any other employee. The power balance is greatly weighed against them.
Framing it as addiction was a mistake, but the intention is accurate: S-expressions are weird when you're used to C-like languages until they're not. You have to push yourself long enough to get used to them, and most people don't want to do that. Once you do, everything makes sense.

What did it for me is realising that after some time, you don't pay attention to the parentheses. Identation in lisps is semantic, which looks weird when you're used to one level at a time. But try using a sensible formatter (e.g. Clojure's cljfmt, Racket's fixw). They will show you good ways to format your code, making it very readable, parentheses and all.

Then you get used to structural editing with Paredit or vim-sexp, and you're sold on S-expresssions.
I'm trying to relate this comment with the one you're replying to, but I'm not seeing how that led to the assumption that people are giving their CC # to random websites.

You can make a mistake or get scammed using well-established websites, after all.
> all the ones i know go miaow.

The ones I've had/have (five in total) personally, they meow. And loudly at that. But I did also meet cats that trill and "burst purr" to signal they want attention - IIRC, many of 'em were former street cats unlike my other cats who all were "purely" domesticated.
US has 2 billion parking spots. A car also needs room to maneuver into the spot, this makes the space 2 - 3x than just the area required to park a car.
Anything wrong with Mozilla Thunderbird?
> In one instance, the Binance chief compliance officer messaged a colleague that, “[w]e are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro.”

Source: https://twitter.com/JohnReedStark/status/1665748594421297152

Is there any player in this space that plays by the rules? CZ going the way of SBF. Tether next?
The best way to counter this is by asking a few questions, and seeing how they rate things across the board.

If you see a perfect 5 stars for Location, Convenience, Value, Cleanliness, and Customer Service, you’ll know that the experience was pretty average and the person is just being nice.

1 star for everything, somebody is just cranky. You should still find out why, but that doesn’t mean that your customer service rep should have their job on the line.

3-4 stars for everything, but customer service gets 1 star or 5 stars? You know you either got a problem, or a rockstar, on your hands.
"Most people like to open the door" is a beautiful line.
There are some near end-of-life Xbox 360 models that are less prone to RROD's, but i'm not sure if you could still install linux/modchips on the newer ones. I think they put more security on those.
Just getting two that are the same kitten age (~12weeks) will have many of the same litter qualities... but if you get the runt, they will always be the runt (I think they do better as lone cats).
Manufacturers have absolutely legally prevented people from helping others repair their property.
I’ve seen the programmer battles over programming paradigms in years past. They’ll pick inferior tech simply because it’s what they know.

I’d argue that alternatives to C/C++ exist, but they aren’t so C-Like, so nobody wanted to try them.

Unlike communism, Lisp has been successful at pretty much every place it’s been tried until someone showed up and demanded everyone change to their preferred language.

Ironically, WASM is the least usable “lisp” ever created because of its stack design.
> with investor dollars pouring in being the primary source of income until the music stops.

ya see there's your problem.
Or, compile with -fsanitize=undefined...
At this point a lot of people use "ChatGPT" to refer to the ChatGPT model with the GPT-3.5 backend
Good to see Arthur and RISCOS there, running on ARM. Back in the day, it was silly how much more performant it was than everything else available (especially PCs [1]). It's just a shame there was no market penetration in the US where the biggest sales would have been.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0x
If by "offhand" you mean the former head of the CFTC giving a lecture in the class he teaches on the subject at MIT while at the same time the SEC is also not taking any actions against crypto exchanges.

There isn't a "no backsies" rule, but then you will have to tell me what changed about crypto between 2018 and now that made it pass the Howey test then and fail it now if you want me to believe that the government is acting in good faith.
Some cats have a high level of social interest in other cats, but that frequently means aggression when they meet a new cat which could lead to a cat being driven away. (I have indoor/outdoor house cats and a tack room/outdoor barn cat and won’t apologize because I live on a farm with an 1/8 mile driveway.).
Pet raccoons are more common than one would think. They were kept as a pet in the White House once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(raccoon)
That is because DuckDuckGo started relying almost entirely on Bing for their regular search results after first Yahoo gave up maintaining its own index then Yandex became part of a natio non grata leaving them to choose between partnering with Bing and partnering with Google or creating their own index https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
There's quite a difference among cats in how they vocalize with humans.

There's less variation in how cats vocalise with one another.

Vaccinations, neutering, checkups in the first 18 months ran $900 in vet bills. That's $1800 for two kittens.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197353, which was posted earlier
Thanks for the feedback! Answers below:
- Target customer is small to medium sized companies - we see the best fit with companies that have 2->30 engineers
- we definitely have similarities but I think we have a better developer experience + we're much much cheaper than their managed version
- we're working on releasing support for over this in the next 1-2 months
- we're SOC 2 type 1 certified right now, and will be getting our SOC 2 Type 2 in 1 month. We have a few partnerships that we're working on but they're not ready to completely announce just yet.
And still further: the function can be piecewise decomposed into separate polynomials, which is what the pervasive SunPro code in everyone's libc does. There's one "mostly parabolic" function to handle the curvy top, and another "mostly linear" one to handle the zero crossing region.
Warez, and porn. Neither of which are easy to defend when an ISP is looking to address the costs of a Usenet feed. Towards the end, we had close to 100 Mbps full time just for the feed, as I recall. Then we outsourced it to cut that cost. But then management decided none of our customers needed alt.binaries and we dropped it altogether. The effect on churn was negligible.
And the alternate universe version of this clickbait: "America has paid a steep price in time for devoting too little space to storing cars," or "Our transportation choices have boxed Americans into living in sardine cans. We need new personal transportation infrastructure."
Nuclear Power May Become Crucial in Decarbonization Efforts
That's true. I guess I'll just abandon that account. But it doesn't respond to comment replies anyways so those responses to it are pointless.
Actually, Solid being the better clone and Liquid being inferior is unreliable narration on Liquid’s part. He was led to believe so, but Revolver Ocelot contradicts him later on.

Revolver Ocelot: "Yes. The inferior one was the winner after all. ...That's right. Until the very end, Liquid thought he was the inferior one."
I presumed it was spam. It was a system designed for maybe 1 million non-commercial users The presence of large numbers of users and commercial users were unmanageable. I used it quite extensive in 1992-6, but after that it was a mostly inferior, and the surviving groups I followed became closed mailing lists.
If he’s already in China there is no risk of extradition for him.
> in the middle the vegetation depends on the height of the mountains

So you might say that the parts in the middle at high altitudes (i.e. the interior highlands) have little vegetation?
The administrators still maintain that racism can only be by an oppressor group to an oppressed group. That is, they ignore reports of racism against white people. Last year I saw a user get a temporary ban for reporting racism against white people. The rot is from the top down.
Yeah, very much unlike your comment. Strange, that.
I agree with you that 9'x18' is smaller than ideal. I just meant it's on the large side of what we actually have today.
Your punishment will be the cat going into heat.
Bitcoin is working. Ethereum is working.

In what world do you think that "Bitcoin working" implies all centralized bad actors are washed out? All middleman are toast? This stuff takes time, and the existence of middlemen doesn't negate the premise that blocks keep being mined without censorship.
I had a significant (to me) amount of EFT fraud that happened because of Stripe. Using Stripe Connect, I had a health-related marketplace application, and purported sellers would set up their bank account for EFT transfers -- and the bank accounts were CashApp accounts (technically the Cash App banking partner but still controlled by CashApp.) They then used stolen credit cards to "buy" services from themselves. Then the funds from the stolen cards would be transferred via EFT to the CashApp accounts. Then the charges would be challenged and reversed and the CashApp accounts were long-since emptied. Leaving me to personally pay for the fraud reversals (and charge back fees for each of the credit card transactions.) To the tune of over $27k.

Contacting Stripe about this (this was about 2 years ago) -- apparently this was all my fault -- despite CashApp "bank" accounts being bastions of fraud, and the credit card transactions all being from a single IP address. And I was given the run around since it wasn't my bank account used for the EFTs, so I didn't have a "fraud" claim and the stolen credit cards weren't mine either. But I was left holding the bag. Stripe took the negative balance out of my bank account.

Basically fraud is my problem even though their systems enabled it (for real, a simple check of an account routing number shows that it's the holding bank for CashApp, yet they allowed the EFTs without even the most cursory hold) -- but Stripe for years had no problem getting my more than 3% in credit card fees. Also the transaction size was far different than the typical transaction size that occurred for multiple years. But yeah, I get it, it's all my fault.

I contacted law enforcement with extremely detailed logs, even the geographic area where the transactions happened (down to the block of a neighborhood in Florida.) I contacted Stripe, I contacted CashApp. And nobody gave a shit because it wasn't their money.

If Stripe were on the hook for the fraud, I'd bet their systems would get really good in a hurry. As it is they not only didn't have any liability, they also made money from me on the chargeback fees. And CashApp doesn't care because it isn't their money either.

I'm working on a new startup project now and Stripe is not on my list of payment processors. I will never use anything Square-related ever again either. I realize that the others probably aren't any better, but that there was no empathy (and for weeks after, attempted fraud with Cash App banks accounts continued to be attempted, but I had manually blocked transfers to that specific routing number in my application code -- so I saw the fraud attempts continue long after.)
I found your comment really stimulating.

I think the difference between highly educated and not-so-highly educated is often that the highly educated had coaches. There were people in their lives that corrected them.

I coached my son at soccer. He resists any coaching from me, because I'm his dad. I can tell the same thing to another kid and they will often listen and improve. Those kids keep me going as a coach. My son gets better coaching from his peers just by seeing other kids thwart his attempt to score; that's better coaching than I could ever give anyway.

But, my point is that AI can be a coach to all. AI isn't going to care if you are hurt by it telling you: "Here is how I am breaking your sentence up, and it does not make sense and I'll show you how I interpret that." A tutor might say that in a denigrating way but hopefully a kid won't hear that from the AI in the same way.

AI could be an incredible coach to so many people who wouldn't have parents who could afford it otherwise.
There are some other explanations given in sibling comments. They may be right, but there's another point that may also explain some of this sentiment.

In Common Lisp and its antecedents, a "list" is a chain of cons cells, as mentioned by some of the sibling comments, but that's not all. Another important point is that in Common Lisp and its antecedents, source code is not made of text strings; it's made of Lisp data structures--atoms and chains of cons cells.

A text file containing "Common Lisp source code" does not actually contain Common Lisp source code. It contains a text serialization of Common Lisp source code (one of many possible text serializations, actually). It isn't actually Common Lisp source code until the reader gets done with it.

This might sound like a trivial pedantic point, but it isn't. Because Common Lisp source code is made up of standard Common Lisp data types, its standard library provides everything you need to walk arbitrary source code, deconstruct it, transform it, construct it, and compile it. Those features are all built into the language in a way that they are not in most languages.

For those of us who are accustomed to using those features regularly, working with a language that lacks them is such an impoverished experience that I can understand folks objecting that "that's not a proper Lisp." I don't tend to make that objection myself, but I do understand it.

If your Lisp does not represent its source code in this way, or if it doesn't even have the data structures that source code is made of in Common Lisp and its antecedents, then there is a nontrivial sense in which it's not a Lisp--or at least not the kind of Lisp that those older ones are.
Building a programming language in twenty-four hours
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That's a really nice overview of Remez, thanks for sharing!
I don't doubt that quite a few politicians were being all warm and fuzzy with various FTX people pre-collapse, but SBF is currently awaiting a long list of expected charges and I don't think anyone doubts that he's headed for jail (excluding some dramatic escape funded by hidden monies). Justice may not have been served, but it's most definitely in progress. Biden's SEC seems to be doing its job in both cases and without prejudice, albeit belatedly.
I had the opposite issue -- something like 90% of genuine payments on my account are rejected by the fraud detector on the first try and have to be retried daily for several days before going through. I exchanged over a hundred emails with support in which they read the card testing script to me, tried to upsell me on "better" fraud management tools, disregarded any details I provided to show that the activity was non-fraudulent, gave me no insights into how the fraud detector worked or why it might be giving false positives, and refused to escalate my ticket anywhere. I had to beg to be put through to an engineer who knew anything about it, and still I couldn't get past front line support. Long gone are the days where you can talk to a Stripe engineer on IRC. Really badly soured me on Stripe and I started working on plans to move away from the platform entirely.
> Biden's SEC is doing it merely because of his South Asian origin

Zhao is a “Chinese-born Canadian” [1]. Not South Asian [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changpeng_Zhao

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
Interesting strategy because it implies coordination for 2 and 1. How do you know everyone hates the manager for example?
Transaction Enrichment with LLMs and SLMs
Return either value or an EMPTY placeholder. Look Java did it. It returns a nullable value or Optional.
If Justin Sun didn’t loot all the funds from Polo and Huobi I would be extremely surprised
I wonder if you calculated area for sidewalks, corridors in offices and public spaces, maybe public parks. How much wasted space is there dedicated to people to walk or stand in?
Don't get why you got downvoted, because IMO it is based on a historical truth - cats have served as pest control for literally millennia of human history and did such a good job at it that they have managed to get humans to take cats with them while migrating towards new areas.
I haven't really looked into the plugins but surely if they can find the "accept tracking" button, they could also find the "no thanks" button instead
Am I the only one who works at a place where things don't make it into production unless at least one other person on the team fully understands the code during review?
You of course know this but for others reading: split infinitives are a feature of the English language, not a grammatical error! In this case it lets you cleanly state the solution is “to not use…”

Forcing the construction “not to use”, in contrast, ends up creating a garden-path sentence as the reader awaits what the solution actually IS (anticipating “the solution is not to use… but rather…”)

Split infinitives get a bad rap because they have no equivalent in Latin, and 19th century grammarians got fussy about things like that. Use them freely!
I use the Reactionary [1] style on my Linux KDE desktop. Paired with the Windows95 widget style, it gives a very nice effect!

[1] https://store.kde.org/p/1253201/
When you're giving stars there's no such thing as intervals or bounds. You have 5 discrete options from 1 to 5.

Perhaps the confusion here is on whether it's possible to give 0 stars. If you're rating from 0 to 5 then you could consider the midpoint to be 2.5 rather than 3. But generally things like Uber and Amazon have a minimum of 1 star, so the average is not 2.5, but 3.
Global warming affects all countries (although some more than others depending on the net costs of warming), but efforts to reduce emissions in a country are paid for by the residents of that country. So the government of a a country, especially a small country, is arguably not acting in the interests of its residents if it is taking the strongest actions against global warming. The same logic applies when states and even cities of the U.S. take steps against global warming.

Will countries like China and India reduce emissions just because other countries have set an example? I think they will pursue their interests more narrowly.
Large language models as tool makers