skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i get downvoted by the lisp crowd every time i bring up that the repl isn't a differentiating feature anymore

I’d suggest it has more to do with tone than content.
Yup technically its free if they spend 1k...they get all the value from the 1k worth of ads plus the gold checkmark
Maybe they'd strike for that to not happen.

Actors will be involved in 99.9% of productions, and people will always be involved. Are they in union with those actors?
It's shocking how fast Pix got inside of Brazillian culture, everyone have it. It's easy to set (you need a bank account), it's easy to use (believe me, even the banks who are known for having terrible UX did a good job with the interface) e just takes a second complete a transaction! With no charges!
Yeah, good work. I wonder if we can train an LLM to translate corp-speak into real English. I think it might be akin to the difficulty of translating Darmok's language.
if there were cars entering the intersection crossing the car would have detected that and hit breaks also, it detects cross traffic as well, which overrides a "green" light intersection from a confused tilt of the light
Ah yes, John Gruber, the famous mind reader and person not generally motivated by political or personal animus. This does not belong on HN.
Quicklisp doesn’t use TLS or signatures? How have I not heard this before?

That would be unbelievably irresponsible. Has this really not been addressed by the CL community?

Edit: here’s the issue: https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/167

Thanks for bringing this up!
I think you should learn more about the extensive history of Visa banning business verticals from its payment network. They are extremely conservative. I won’t provide a specific source in this case because the phenomenon is so widespread that I don’t want to pre-bias your learning adventure.
Awesome, I didn't know this!

"In 2004 the Amiga version of the Video Toaster® went "Open Source", thanks to NewTek, DiscreetFX, Bill Evans, Aaron Ruchetta and a few others. "
It's amusing and all, but does an article consisting of 100% snark really belong on HN?
Thanks for the comment. I've done these things in certain classes - cloud computing, networks, etc, but always disregarded them as not worth highlighting. It's after all just reading documentation carefully, implementing parts of a system and debugging. Although I'd love to do more of these, it seems hard without being part of a software team.
TikTok is quickly becoming the dominant social media for youths in parts of Asia.

Meta products are optimized for showing off. So is LinkedIn. You peacock an exaggerated version of yourself. People on these apps are okay with it, it's just how it is. Those who aren't don't use it.

TikTok is more like a community. It started with dancing. Dancing seems similar to showing off in parts of the world, but TikTok was about dancing together, scaling to a million individuals. It's why they used the phrase creators, it's about your audience, not you.

Then people figured you can share everything. Talks about health with doctors and nurses. AMA with religious leaders. There's a lot of things you wouldn't ask a monk irl, but the anonymity helps. My wife uses it for interior design. I like the recipes.

From that, it's becoming the dominant ecommerce app. Lazada sucks hard. Shopee sucks hard. Alibaba is still B2B. Amazon doesn't bother. So you TikTok went in. People were sneaking in infomercials, now they prepare a platform for it.

I didn't see the resume thing yet, but it seems a natural evolution.
not anywhere i've lived in the US
Show HN: Building a URL Shortener Using Spring Boot, Postgres, and FL0
Maybe worth pointing out the original interview (it is in a follow up tweet as well) and the blog posts that lead to it. There are so many more details.

I especially love the improvements that Vignesh and his team made to pgBouncer. Being able to modify the number of connections dynamically is super useful. And I still hope that Vignesh and team will implement the auto-tuning idea he shared at the end of the blog.

Video: https://youtu.be/DvblO-f2bqQ

The blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/performance-isolation-in-a-multi...

The Scale presentation: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/chall...
Auto Scaling a distributed SQL database
> Sounds like the best step forward is to reach out to a local property owner for permission.

That's the point of the law. The property owners won't give permission because they would rather the homeless not be fed and go elsewhere. There are already locations where meals are given to the homeless; this is to discourage bringing the food to wherever the homeless may be in the event that they're not wanted there.
Ask HN: WEI is reviled, but kernel-anticheats are lauded?
It seems that people are generally receptive to intrusive anticheats as a necessary evil for participation, and even lauded with Valorant being the shining beacon of cheater-free utopia, that there are just no other way to attest the integrity of the players.

However, similar arguments are put forward by WEI proponents that it will, in a broad stroke, end DDoS botnets, that there is just no other way but to include this necessary evil. Yet, the counter argument besides the obvious ethical angle is also that the onus is on the server to make do with what information they can infer from available datapoints. Would the same argument not also apply to anticheat measures, though? That the onus is on the developer to intelligently discern illegitimate parties.

What is the distinction between the two just no other way arguments that made the likes of Valorant so readily accepted and applauded, while WEI is immediately reviled?
She takes care of everything except the Mars program. Falcon is well established at this point and very few engineering iterations remain. It’s a “done” product and the cash cow of the company. Elon runs the Mars program out of Boca Chica but the day to day operations, (ie the boring stuff), including Falcon, is all Gwynne.
It was reported, but... it was the 80s. Essentially, nothing was on-demand. If something was reported but you didn't catch the news that day... you missed it.
Lisp helped debug a $100M Spacecraft 100M miles away
https://polymarket.com/event/is-the-room-temp-superconductor... graphs the sentiment over time.
I’ll take a look, thanks! My biggest concern with Scheme is that each implementation seems to have its own ecosystem due to subtle incompatibilities.

From an outsider’s perspective it seems a lot more fragmented than CL. Not necessarily a big deal if you have the libraries you want, but it gives me pause.
I don't use products or support companies that work with or provide LLM's. It's a personal boycott.
Well, that’s exactly what I’m talking about - new unproven tech that created more problems that it solved. It didn’t “solve” art since that is meaningless without a human artist. Instead, it stole popular concepts and is regurgitating it without any originality or thought put into it, and then used “instead” of real artistical works by those who don’t really understand art, but just need “content”.

In other words, merely copying/reproducing something is emphatically not art.

The same thing happened with traditional (painting) art and photography - the latter didn’t really replace it but just supplanted it in the areas where one wasn’t really looking for art but for mere reproduction of reality. And then over time, photography itself has evolved into art, since people have learned how to channel their inner self through it, and aimed at quality instead of “quantity” (and unlike the former, the latter by itself became trivial). I don’t see the same happening with generative models quite yet (heck, they didn’t really replace photography either!)
Thanks, this is useful information (and also fairly overwhelming). I have a basic idea of some of these because of having taken CS courses but no hardcore experience in any of them. Even though I'd like to work on these, it does sound like I need to get into a tech company that does this in the first place. Having had a life revolve around university for a while, looks like I have a hill to climb.
You're lucky, I wish my current employer would bar their use instead of forcing them on us.
MythForce, Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights and more in this bundle
>I'm in favor of retaining (both legally as well as culturally) cash as a medium of exchange, as well as maintaining and restoring a high-trust, cohesive society where most private transactions don't require showing one's papers.

America has *never* been a high-trust, cohesive society, and it never will. Just ask any black person. Maybe decades ago, in some isolated small towns with zero diversity, there was a high-trust situation since everyone knew everyone, but it's never been high-trust nationwide.
Whites move in = gentrification
Whites move out = white flight
What was your rank? How many SAPs were you read into?
Design is the easy bit. It's getting engineers to do the boring stuff like making sure it doesn't burn your house down in the middle of the night.
Yet here we are…
Badly designed apps can break in all sorts of fun ways without docker

- Check for processes called "sleep", exit if such process exist (or try to kill it).

- Reset $PATH to default value then expect to find a _very_ specific ancient version of system utilities there.

- Create files in /tmp with fixed names. Fail if they already exist. Forget to delete them on failure.

- Walk entire filesystem searching for something. Crash on broken symlinks.

- Enumerate network interfaces. Crash if more than 7 are present.

- Hardcode _both_ specific user name and associated UID.

- Put temp files all over place, including into application directory

- Ignore $HOME and use homedir from /etc/passwd, then create lock/config file under homedir. And you want to run two instance of this app in parallel.
They may not be impossible to make, but they don't get made. And I guess you think Microsoft has been putting bugs in Windows for the last few decades just for something to do, or was that also the influence of alien gods?
It's basically the gish gallop applies to morality.

It takes far more energy to debunk bullshit than create it.
> 1. The first few paragraphs define the term by example

I guess I didn't manage to understand what they defined it as, so I couldn't even see what they were saying the problem was.

All I got was, nowadays, you are only free to do what you can afford, and less and less people can afford much, so freedom is lost.

I totally agree with that, but I couldn't see what the author implies we were told would make us free but didn't?
It is not true that TED got replaced or killed. In fact, it is still the leading transfer method considering the transaction volume, and by a good amount. Pix leads considering the sheer quantity of transactions. According to Central Bank data[0], in the last quarter, 2.09 trillion USD was settled via TED vs 720 billion USD via Pix.

Pix is great as a payment method for the average person, you use it to split a check and pay for your Uber, but big money still flows mostly via TED and other means.

[0] https://www.bcb.gov.br/estatisticas/spbadendos
I think the issue is worse than not implementing USB-PD, it won't charge at all when plugged into a usb-c port, thus not complying with the usb-c spec while having a usb-c port.
I'm no lawyer but the author says it's illegal in some jurisdictions.

In your declaration of conformity you have to list which standards you conform to, and IEC 62680-1-3 would be one of them. I suppose if you found to be lying on your declaration there would be consequences.
Another decade or two and perhaps the Unix community will finally reinvent the .exe or .app
We could give up, or we could step it up.

I’m assuming we all have some about of disposable income when I say this, but we could plan lobby trips to DC. With airfare plus hotel, it would cost each person about $1,500 for a visit to congressional offices and a night stay. We could go to congressional offices as teams and have at least one of us from each district show up. It would send the message that, not only do tech people care about data privacy, but that we’re getting increasingly organized. Politicians will take notice and consider more carefully about bills they support.
I wonder if or how it's different from e.g. OnlyFans models delegating their chats to cheap labor in third world countries.
"These patterns cannot be fully explained by racial animus, housing prices, or correlations with Black/Hispanic arrivals. Parental fears of academic competition may play a role."

This is utterly insane. As if the average white family are completely and utterly mobile and financially robust enough to whimsically change their kids schooling over fear of "competition" from Asians.

This is so outrageously reductionist it has to be agenda driven.
All right.

Honestly I could see it both ways depending on the needs of the developer. The language model could step through autonomously or with the developer.

Thinking of how this could look like abstractly through a UI. Picture sequential timeline which consists each step the developer or the model has made through the code. A timeline that the developer could fast forward or rewind which has some implications for the LLM.

There are three main areas the developer could give LLM inputs.

1. Before debugging

The user could give input (Trace back, a question, ingested context (URL) before initializing debugging, instruction steps, autonomously or guided.

Autonomously given the context of before debugging, it could even optionally set its own breakpoints.

2. At any step during debugging

LLM might influence how the developers steps through the code.

3. Post debugging

Now imagine each step through the debugger being logged to which the user could ask questions within the context of the history of the debugger. LLM could have different scoped contexts relative to the timeline of the steps of interest.

Imagine the developer steps through 15 points in the code. Developer could ask about step 7 or a range of steps post debugging. LLM could be limited scope to only the previous steps including 7 or a range. Alternatively it could have knowledge of the entire step history. The underline assumption there is limiting context in some cases improves output of LLM.
Dragon 2 is _not_ an iteration on Dragon 1. It’s a completely different vehicle and it was risky for SpaceX to go the route of developing a completely new vehicle. Yet they got it done, cheaper and faster.
Background Readings on Organizational Wokeness
I think that the gov absolutely should do it but I also believe that it should allow people to configure their @something.gov email addresses as redirects so as to minimize the amount of information stored on gov servers.
Everything you wrote was addressed in the hearing today. There are many, many incidents and we would not be flying these things in training areas that jeopardize flight safety of our own pilots, for one.
They have ways of bundling already, not all of them use it, also hes not talking about POST, he's talking about GET requests after a share is made, i'd imagine it's to cache the page or get info or something, when somethings shared. It's not the activitypub posting or something like that.
Same here. It's worth it for the bundled YouTube Music, which is much better than Spotify.
Fosta/Sesta 'accomplished' its goal, which was to kill a bunch of websites and further tighten speech on the internet.
Presumably, the study is not referring to average white families. In the summary, it says

> high-socioeconomic-status Californian school districts
Justin (our then intern) is the sole author of the feature. He also has pit together a doc on how to do development on PgBouncer. Happy to share those too if there is an interest.
I mean hes also complaining when it has 50 requests...
It still is, and I hope it remains that way for future generations too.

The first-time experience of hearing "voices from thin air" is unforgettable.
Yeah, that's why I always laugh when I see people use cars instead of walking 100 miles. It's an inspiring story for people to do marathons, and cars devalue that.
>What mythical country are you from where this doesn't go on?

Japan. This kind of inconsiderate BS almost never happens here. The rare times you do see horribly inconsiderate behavior, it's almost always a foreigner.
Water is also neurotoxic in large quantities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
If you're a Simple Minds fan, Sinead sang a very moving verse or two with Jim Kerr in a rendition of Belfast Child at the Night of the Proms (Antwerp, Belgium, 2008):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAe0HCHJTDA

Interestingly, Belfast Child was based on She Moved Through the Fair which Sinead sang here 11 years prior [to the aforementioned Night of the Proms]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWIaP0NnEOQ
The reason for this is quite simple: portability. Quicklisp also uses plain TAR files to distribute dists. Why? Because quicklisp has a built-in TAR extractor written in 100% standard/portable CL. This allows Quicklisp to run on just about everything, from your computer to real LispMs and operating systems like Mezzano.

TLS comes up every time someone discusses Quicklisp, but nobody bothers to go ahead and actually implement it portably (and even if they did, have fun with performance and side channel attacks, both of which require you to break portability to implement well for every platform you want to target).

If you would like a more stereotypical package manager, consider using CLPM. Though one of the big reasons to use CLPM is not encryption IMO, but versioning. ASDF supports locking versions of dependencies, but Quicklisp doesnt ever use this and instead constantly pushes latest of everything from git repositories. This IMO sucks a lot more than using plain HTTP given that this actually breaks code, whereas some MITM from plain HTTP connection to Quicklisp would require so much coordination (and specificity of target) that it's just not in my threat model at all.
How it works:

1 - you register your keys with your Bank, and it communicates the Central Bank. It can be your "ssn", your phone number, your email or some random id.

2 - to pay somebody, just provide the key. Your institution will look up in the Central Bank database who'll be paid with that key (the destination: Bank, account number)

3 - your Bank withdraw the funds from your account, the destination Bank deposits it (there's a tight time limit), the Central Bank does the compensation among banks.

4 - there's no disput: once you authorized it in your Bank, it's done.

If your Bank provides you with credit, it's a commercial relation between you and your Bank. Pix is just a transfer from your balance, it doesn't involve credit lines and so on.

So, in the end it's simple: money transfer with tight rules made by a Central Bank and obligatory adoption from all Banks.

The keys are the most relevant aspect to the clients: your phone number, your "ssn" ( In Brazil it's called CPF and it's public, it's not a secret number). Just like WhatsApp made it easy by using phone number instead of some login.
I don't think many languages other than rust and c++ use monomorphization extremely heavily.

Pretty much everything in rust is going to be using traits and c++ uses templates for most things as well.

Every time you use a trait or a template, the code is expanded for the specific instance, and this gives a lot of opportunity for inlining stuff.

A lot of other languages would not have the same opportunity to inline code when doing polymorphism stuff because they rely on dynamic dispatch or something similar that can't be inlined very well or at all.

So I'm not disagreeing with you at all but I think rust and c++ get to inline stuff a little more aggressively, but this is just my theory and may be incorrect!
i have no idea what subtle or nuanced distinction you're trying to strike so what exactly do you imagine is the difference between a lisp repl and a python repl?

Edit: people that aren't familiar with python (or how interpreters work in general) don't seem to understand that being able to poke and prod the runtime is entirely a function of the runtime, not the language. In cpython you can absolutely do anything you want to the program state, all the way up to, and including, manually push/pop from the interpreter's value stack (to say nothing of moving up and down the frame stack), mutating owned data, redefining functions, classes, modules, etc. You can even, again at runtime, parse, to AST, and compile source to get macro-like functionally. It's not as clean as in lisp but it 100% gets the job done.
I don't think there is consensus there. For example, I refuse to play Valorant for exactly that reason: their kernel rootkit. I neither accept, nor applaud it.
A Crystal Radio Receiver, also called a Crystal Set : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
Yes but two things about this:

1) you can apt-get a specific version

2) even if you don't apt-get a specific version, if two developers build and then run the container (within some time frame), they will get the same version. It would be rare to get a different one on the same day.

And 3) You can still apt-get a specific version

And 4) That's still far and a way greater chance two developers will have the same version when using docker in this way than if they're both using two crazy different versions of Ubuntu locally on their desktop.

Also most developers that are working on the same codebase will push to their branch and circleCI will make it so there's only one docker image, that's tested and moves along to prod eventually.
Besides what others have mentioned - I've always gotten an high quality response on the official forum by JetBrains representative within hours/days. Also their monthly to perpetual license is a great deal. I am currently using my personal license on my job.

The only issue I have their product is their feature parity. There is usually no timeline on when features from other product will be available on your product via an official plugin. For example, DataSpell has remote Jupyter notebooks feature before PyCharm Pro.
Kitty performs better and renders font more beautifully than Alacritty, and Alacritty's devs are openly hostile to macOS users, so I've stuck with Kitty. I really want a native Rust terminal emulator to be good, though.
" the author has a decent idea of what they want to do in reality and are specifically avoiding it to avoid some painful emotion that goes with whatever potential negative consequence could come from their action."

Food for thought indeed. Any ideas how to break out of that?
The article didn't seem to mention the 2nd gen Toaster Flyer / Here's a bit more history [0]. (as a kid my neighbour had an amiga, I remember playing Falcon, and the say? text to speech thingy.

"In 1993 NewTek released the Video Toaster 4000, an updated version that made use of the new AGA graphics hardware available with the Amiga 4000. In addition, the company released the Video Toaster Flyer, an add-on product that turned the Toaster into a full non-linear editing system similar to the Avid Media Composer that was taking the professional editing world by storm."

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/a-history-of-the-ami...
Lisp used to specialize in offering extravagantly expensive features, maybe time travel debugging would be a good addition.
So disingenuous. SpaceX’s “craters”, whatever that means, are not from mission failures but from working on booster landing and reusability, _after_ successfully delivering their mission payloads.
If you presume it’s possible to create technology that can self replicate and harm all life it reaches near some approximate of c, then depending on your beliefs about how common life is, you should expect an intervention system.