skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh look, it's the balanced and measured lisp skeptic.

If you're going to construct commenters taxonomy, you should include yourself in it, because "I really like lisp, but surely we can rationally agree that the world/we/commercial shops/society has moved on to C" balanced and measured meta-commenter has existed since at least usenet comp.lang.lisp lisp days.

oddly enough this kind of meta-commenter primarily appears in lisp threads. possibly because lisp is one of the few languages that started in 1950s and is being used still, to the utter confusion and dismay of the balanced lisp skeptic.

this meta-comment fundamentally has a faulty premise, that the single dominant language development paradigm is the exclusive one. this was not true in the 90s, when it seemed all but inevitable that the computing world is going to standardize on c++ or java, but it's particularly faulty now, when heterogenous stacks are significantly more popular and the overall number of developers, with varied interests and preferences has increased.

the second faulty premise is that the mass of development and corporate preferences somehow matter in viability, particularly in such an individualistic field as computer programming. personally I reach for Common Lisp when I need to solve a problem where I understand neither the problem nor the solution, what's known as explorative programming. having established the parameters of the solution, I can then communicate the architecture to senior programmer team. the solution then will be communicated by people like you as "success story for Java", ignoring the fact that the successful architecture might have not even materialized without a lisp prototype. many lisp success stories are like that.

if you already understand your solution space, then the value of lisp is equivalent to any other dominant language, and things like library support and easy development availability become core differentiator. lisp is not the only language in this space, smalltalk come to mind, Julia, and to a lesser degree mathematica and Matlab.

so we're going to continue to use lisp in our special and mysterious ways to the utter dismay and confusion for people like you "but guys guys we've moved ooon!"
Most Common Lisp implementations have one or more compilers integrated into it. Most of them are written in itself. Thus, when the implementation provides the source for the compiler, you can explore/change the compiler like any other part of the Lisp code.
A side effect is anything not modeled that can affect the computation.

Input is an obvious example, as it's impossible to predict the value of an input.

Output is less obvious, but there is uncertainty like whether the filesystem is full.

The original Haskell style was to have a World object that was an input to every non-pure function.
For me, in this world of ever-present tech, having a human (guitar) teacher is a wonderful breath of fresh air. Not only does he help me learn in way that the Internet never could, it's great to develop a connection with a person in an environment away from the Internet. I'm so glad that I finally reached out to find a teacher.
> YouTube assumes “guilty until proven innocent” because that’s cheaper. It’s cheaper because properly following the chain of what constitutes free speech and whether a claim is legitimate are costly questions.

My impression was that the law itself was fine in this respect -- a claim could be met with a counterclaim (requiring legal commitment from the alleged offender -- signatures, identity, jurisdiction) and YouTube could then restore the media pending actual litigation. In other words, Legal Entity vs Anonymous defaults to a takedown, but Legal Entity vs Legal Entity defaults to keep up. That sounds reasonable to me, and the fact that youtube doesn't work that way is not a consequence of law but rather a corporate choice to put luxurious accommodation of large copyright holders ahead of basic decency towards content creators.

> [Copyright creep is corporate welfare]

Yep. Gross.
Did they require you to enter your email to read? Or did they just ask you for personal information, let you decline with a single click, and let you get to reading the article?

Privacy is about giving people the freedom to choose how their personal information is distributed. Sounds like they are respecting your privacy.
My dad built one of Lancaster's TV Typewriters back in the '70s for a black & white TV studio system. It was a huge improvement in speed and correctibility for static onscreen text overlayed on the video output, when previously it was done with physical hardware and chroma key using white letters on a black background.
It’s literally an intro test question that you can figure out if you know what a linked list is. It’s not that big of a deal.

Now trying to remember a specific algorithm like red-black tree rotation or Djikstra’s is something completely different
I was in an experimental trial for a one-shot medicine and I had an had a fairly severe side effect.

If it had been a normal medicine, the protocal is to stop taking it; and you're fine in a few days. I had the bad side effects for a month, and there was nothing anyone could do.

Just something to think about; things can go wrong, and dosing strategies like this don't always take that into consideration.
> I've no idea who is mentally prepared or adequately trained to pull out a gun and tackle a mass shooter

His name is Elisjsha Dicken. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62217263

There are multiple documented instances of armed civilians stopping mass shooters. I think you’d be surprised indeed. See if you can find the footage from the West Freeway Church shooting in Texas a few years back—multiple members of the congregation were carrying and drew their weapons once the shooting started, but none of them reacted as you suggest.

The Uvalde cops were cowards who have no business serving in law enforcement. That’s the long and short of it.
Acceleration isn't the biggest problem on such light devices, vibrations are. Those boards are exposed to high frequency vibrations that could detach or crack components because the pcb resonates inflecing rapidly back and forth.
Lost me when argumentation structure turned out to be

1. It's expensive

2. 17 year olds think they don't have a choice

3. This student got a masters just to be a social worker, bad choice

4. If you squint, you can say it is gov't enforced indentured servitude[1]

5. Actually, this is true: just look how the government is rushing to unsuspend suspended student loan payments (?!?!? it's been 3 years!)

From there, it devolves further: it's never been possible to evaluate the credit of a 17 year old, there wasn't some switch off doing credit checks in 2004: I was there.

It makes 0 sense that doing something that is already done would help anyone, and most damningly: it would cause a dystopia the author would take further issue with.

Can you imagine how irate they'd be at a system where a 17 year old needs to commit to a career path in order to even get money to go to college in the first place? With enforcement mechanisms so the bank can force you back on the approved path if you start drifting into other interests?

[1] I get, agree with, and and am sympathetic to the analogy...but it's not indentured servitude in any sense that's useful for making an argument. Let's say college was free. You could use the same argument to say _having a job to sustain yourself_ is indentured servitude.
Seems that they will take the proprietary source available approach instead.

I don't think that is the same thing as "open source".

https://community.anytype.io/t/which-license-would-anytype-c...
Ultimately no, it benefits no one. Obviously some groups benefit admission-wise but that pales in comparison to living in a racist society.

The benefit someone may receive is going to be less than the detriment to society. Even if you were granted all favor based on your race with day of reckoning (nevermind inevitable strife), dont you believe that on some deeper level you are worse off than if you earned from your merit?
bun test will get test coverage. I recently learned about a JSC api that lets you see which functions have been called or not called. There’s a “control flow profiler”. Just need to wire it up.
What you're saying is true in some older industries, but doesn't match what I see in Tech, which prefers youth. And those (Tech) companies seem to be growing at the expense of everything else.

The various forms of collateral you mention (wives, children, mortgages -- the things the Mafia don would ask you about) have a carrying cost which companies would probably rather not pay. And with golden handcuffs (plus restrictive H1-B visas in some cases) the companies may have enough leverage without them.

> Governments want children and immigrants because they need a tax base to stay in power.

I don't think they plan that far ahead, because the electoral cycle is only four years long. It's like issues of national debt: You may have a momentary crisis, but you find some path of low resistance out of it (issue more debt), and keep going. That works because the rest of the world is happy (for some reason) to keep buying up the debt. Demographic issues can be papered over similarly, so long as the money -- the same money, ironically -- provides an incentive to come.

(It's also worth considering that, since Reagan/Thatcher (and arguably Carter, though in many ways he seemed like a good man), the State has lost power to the Corporation, so even if the State does pursue longer-term interests, it may not play a large enough role in day-to-day life to have an effect.)

If you're just following gradients, I think this is the basin you stay in. But it feels like some kind of behavioral sink.
Curious, it appears it’s not as prevalent as I would expected - to see an obvious injustice and cruel atrocity being committed - and feel satisfaction seeing that the victim is getting assistance.
They almost certainly value seeing their grandaughter more than they value having facebook accounts, so you have a lot of leverage over them if you feel strongly about this. Threaten to cancel your future trips to visit with them if they don't knock it off. Explain your reasoning of course, it's not a response you want to take but your daughter's safety and privacy come first.
Spice Lisp was at one point in time just renamed to CMU CL. It was still the same project.
How much of that is owing to anything special about the IC vs manufacturing technology of the day? Legacy chip designs built on older nodes are probably more robust just due to physically bigger wires and components. Wikipedia lists a 1987 node size as 800nm[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabricati...
I’m also amazed how people will take a self-improvement article like this, and take it so personally. Like yes, pg was lucky to have a lot of things work out for them, but that doesn’t mean his advice here (which encompasses more than just “work hard”) is invalid for everyone just because it’s invalid for some people.
For the first time ever, euro paper money in circulation is shrinking
> and men have fallen behind

men have been pushed down by a culture that devalues masculine traits. k-8 is dominated by female teachers who don't know how to deal with male students and exhibit strong favoritism towards female students. Additionally, higher ed strongly favors reserving educational opportunities for female students. The end result is that boys that don't come from families that strongly push for education for them get left behind as the state would rather they be out of the picture entirely.

men haven't fallen behind, Boys are being tripped and corralled into a rigged game and they are dropping out of the system
You know, I see this sort of inequality apologism in every one of these threads, but people sure seem pissed off at the system for some reason or other.
> There is no authoritative body on the definitions of words.

false: there are a few. They aren't always correct, but they're more correct than you personally

> More generally, if genocide can mean...

there is no question what it means, you simply personally disagree with it

and since you definitely aren't an authoritative body on the definition of words, your personal pedantic insistence that the word mean only what the strict etymological roots imply, rather than how people actually use it, is irrelevant

> a negatively-loaded bomb to be lobbed in partisan debates

it's quite telling that you seem to view usage of the term "cultural genocide" to refer to cultural genocide as a bigger issue than actual cultural genocide

don't like people using the correct term to refer to the action? maybe get those perpetrating the action to stop, instead of telling everyone we're using the wrong words to describe it.
> A remote call fails, the error propagates up the call stack, and someone gets an error message.

Uh-huh, but did the message actually get through? Can they safely just retry? These are very uncommon failure modes on local systems but very common on networked systems. Without a proper stateful abstraction beyond just "procedure call", like a promise, you can't address these failure modes properly.

> In the rare case you need to harden a particular call, you add caching or retries or whatever other logic fits your use case

Which now makes your system nondeterministic like I said.

> Even javascript added await because it's better to pretend that async code looks synchronous

Yes, linear code is easier to read. I don't see what this has to do with anything. The use of promises and await indicates a possibility of failure semantics that would otherwise not be apparent in the program's control-flow.

Yes, you can superficially make this look like synchronous code, but it's not synchronous code.
ugh, if everything is top priority then nothing is top priority.
At first glance, it seems like supporting the schools could reduce the funding gap between in- and out-of-state students. Right now the schools are forced to scramble for money by whatever means possible.
HFT is war but the system as a whole isn’t. My impression of our interactions on HN is you have a valuable insight that perhaps I can even agree with. However unfortunately I don’t know what it is yet as you haven’t explained properly what your hypothesis of negative effects or externalities HFT operators have.

HN isn’t the best forum for this type of ongoing discussion. Engage me on reddit if you like. u/alchemist1e9
It's not HR that decides that, it's management. HR just enforces it.
Show HN: Easy Next13 TypeScript Template, Highly Customisable, SEO – PWA
Introducing the Easy TypeScript Template for your Next.js 13 (App Router) projects. Say goodbye to tedious setups and hello to effortless creation. Just one-line command: npx create-easy-next13-template-ts Tailor your project with TailwindCSS, ESLint and more, with SEO & PWA effortlessly configured for you! Additional options for you to customise the project according to your needs. Check out the package here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-easy-next13-template-ts Project is open-source, so any feedbacks and issues and PRs are welcomed! #Next13Template #DeveloperTools #ProductivityBoost
I posted a short clip of my son dancing on Tik tok. It went viral very unexpectedly (I don’t make content about my personal life). With over 1 million views, I was riding high on that dopamine hit. However, someone reached out to me about the topic of not only my son’s privacy (he was only 2 at the time) and even worse, the fact that predators anywhere could now see the video.

I don’t care if the next one would have gotten 10 million views. I deleted that video and immediately made a follow up explaining the situation to the thousands of people that had followed me from that one video. Your child’s safety and right to future privacy should always be the forefront, and I’m ashamed to say I even slipped up one time. Don’t post that stuff. Send it to your family and move on.
And you can know 100% of the technologies they use; open the repo and still say,

“what the hell were they thinking using X like Y!”

“Why didn’t they use Y here”

“Oh man, this looks like monkey patched code from 2 full versions ago, the right way to handle this now would be 1/3 the code, but oh they can’t update it because they’re mutating the data structure in order to Z… Fuck…”

Edit: Eventually, you'll come to an understanding of why it's that way, but it takes time and often experimentation.
Hey just to be clear, I picked the 25k setup but this is not included in the cost because it is required startup capital, not expenses. So it does still require 25k. Actually there's a way to do it with 12500€ but that's with more complicated financial tricks.
This definitely rings true to me. We give an interview that’s basically a simple parser, and ask candidates to do it recursively(in Elixir) using function head instead of Enumerable. We link to the relevant docs and it’s a paired exercise with tests built in. It’s generally been a good predictor of candidates ability to work in our code base and collaborate. The whole thing can be done in 50loc and is not meant to be terribly hard.
Public transportation is obviously WIB: one solution "fits" all, monolithic, logistically complex, not amenable to rapid & piecemeal innovation, good enough for basic function but doesn't & can't offer excellent function either in UX or non-core use cases. Advocating for the superiority of public transport in the same comment as you're espousing the virtues of bespoke software is cognitively dissonant.
Way ahead of you! Sadly I've already played out how that argument will go in my head a few times.
The New York Times puzzles require a subscription, and that link is just a direct one to the PDF on the Times site.
> “why weren’t you prepared for every contingency at all times?”

And when you are: “wow the MIC is leeching the country dry!”
I've been telling people for over a decade that my reason for not wanting my photo taken is because a piece of your soul gets taken away into that photograph and if it's uploaded to the internet, it's lost in a virtual world forever. Yeah, it's a joke, but it seriously gets more acceptance and understanding, and less scoffing than telling people I really don't like my face in the corporate surveillance panopticon as much as I can avoid it. There just isn't any point in feeding that nonsense, on the other hand people are very quick to dismiss anything that sounds like paranoia from anyone. The logical solution I've found here is somewhere in the middle because apparently nobody dismisses people's spiritual beliefs. The result is that people respect my wishes to not be in photos.
Calling the AWS donation API in the background now fulfills that requirement without degrading your app's performance.
I mean, if it comes with a tax break, I'm down to try it. It would also be an amusing conversation with my parents, so I consider that a bonus too.
Deciphering Vladimir Putin's many appearances since mutiny
Men Going Their Own Way? The internet ideology of people that have been redpilled to realize that society has been made toxic for men (by feminist women who use sex as a way to control men), and that men should reject rampant gynocentrism and avoid engaging with women, or even with society at large? That MGTOW?
The proportion of dysfunctional miserable households I encountered as a kid during that phase where kids network a lot and visit homes/sleepovers was shocking.

In one extreme instance the parents had divvied up the house with dad ending up in a quasi-finished basement like an unwanted old dog. If they ever crossed paths it was an instant war.

Fortunately divorce has become much more acceptable since those days (this was in the 80s). Back then people would stay trapped in an unhealthy marriage 'til death do us part'.
Is Your Twitter Down?
I haven't been able to load tweets nor any content for a couple hours now. Hardly seeing that many complaints around me. Is it a partial outage?
The biggest challenge I see is the qualification process. If you want drop-in replacement electronics how do you guarantee that the functionality at the pin is an exact replacement for the original electronics?
For some reason, your skepticism looks a lot like dogmatism…
The Midjourney outputs look fantastic! Are those the prompts used in the gallery? Was post-processing involved? Usually there's a very distinctive look to Midjourney images, but these look very believable.
My own perspective of rough thought, which I doubt is responsible for the overall societal trend, but perhaps points to a dynamic that is part of it:

Marriage collapses two separate legal entities into a single entity, putting you even more at the mercy of the increasingly extractive financial/legal system. In a committed relationship, how does it make sense to throw away the flexibility of having independent legal entities for each of you, especially when creating new solid legal entities is quite expensive ?

With everything being increasingly financialized (eg the medical billing industry cancer), there are many sources of extreme liability these days. Long tail events that can stick you with some insane amount of debt that will drastically alter the course of your life. If we're married, any debts pinned on my partner automatically end up being my responsibility, meaning our entire life is completely at risk.

Whereas if we're not married, then each one of us is effectively holding half of our wealth in an informal trust for both of us. And for solidifying and committing to that arrangement, it would seem these trusts could be formalized in a way the courts would have to respect. Rather than defaulting to the expected traditional legal transaction, becoming a singular entity, and then having to grasp at sketchy asset protection methods and the like.
Man designs ChatGPT bot subscription service to annoy, waste telemarketers' time
While I don't much care about the yachts and find the fact that the behaviour is spreading fascinating, my fear out of all this is people will start hurting the whales to try to get them to stop.
Axiom 2a of the web emphasizes this,

> a URI will repeatably refer to "the same" thing

And further,

> the significance of identity for a given URI is determined by the person who owns the URI, who first determined what it points to.

Which explicitly goes on to say ownership is not well defined because different schemes can have different behaviors.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#same

The trick is to actually have clients know & understand where instead to link people. If a server shuts down how does that alt-location get persisted & spread?

Effort has faced headwind, but I also really dig Signed Exchanges, which let's servers sign the content it sends & then bundle it together (WebBundles) so other servers can serve it in a trusted way. But the browser will only trust the content for 7 days, because as per this article, the dns owner might change & thats the security compromise. But an app could still parse & use that content, which makes extra sense now that we have Certificate Transparency expectations.
Alao, in case of the stinger, ypu talk about compatability issies woth a myriad of other systems, oldy really old and new. After all, it can be fired as aanpad, from air vehicles, ground vehicles and from sea. The existing design is guaranteed to work with all platforms it can currently be fired from. Changing the design means loosing that guarantee, and would require a tremendous amount of testing.

So, there is a kernel of truth in saying it will expensive to recreate production tech to build current spec stingers. Also true that this kernel of truth is great opportunity to get more funding.
Static variable sure but there are many other examples, like returning a C fixed-size array from a function. I had this question asked and they specifically insisted on being compliant with the standards and not using an out-argument. This is a ridiculous question.