skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought everything was suppose to be like: `(left . (left . right) )`.

Could be, but you don't need the "." (or the list as so-called "cons pairs"). (a b c ...) is enough.

> It seems as if there are actually a ton more special case primitives I need to know

You need to know a handful of special forms like and, cond, let etc (corresponding roughly to keywords in other languages). Everything uses those with the same syntax (nested lists), with an exception:

Normally (a b c) means call function a with arguments b c. If you want to treat it as a list you can use the quote "function":

(quote a b c)

For convenience this can also be written as:

'(a b c)

> (loop for i in '(1 2 3)
when (> i 1)
return i)

Loop is a macro, a user-defined syntax that can evaluate its arguments in a special way. It's not part of the core language, even if it comes with it. Rather it is implemented in Lisp itself.

You can just not use it, it's neither core Lisp, nor essential. If you do want to use it, or have to read the code of someone that does use, it's pretty easy to understand. It was created so people can have their familiar for loop in Lisp too.

> How do I read this as an s-expression?

What do you mean? This is already an s-expression. Or it would be, if you actually write an instance of this, this is just an example with placeholders. An instance would be something like:

(defun double (a) "Doubles a number" (+ a a))

corresponding to the:

defun = special form (similar to "def" or "function" in other languages)

double = name of function we define

(a) = parameter list of a single parameter: a

"Doubles a number" = docstring, similar to the """docstrings" in Python, descriptive metadata string about the function

(+ a a) = add a to a in prefix (operator first) math notation
Detecting Data Differences Using the Sphering Transform
All of the vehicle license plates available in America
"Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012...by three data warehousing experts: Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation... "

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_Inc.#History
I know the official line is that "media types have proven insufficient as a way of discriminating between devices with different styling needs." But as far as I can tell most people really do just want to know if the visitor is viewing on a monitor or a phone. Trying to back that out through media features like viewport resolution and pointer types has been a big mess. I don't think the plan to replace media types with media features is wrong, but so far we haven't been given the right features to do what we want.
Mental stress releases CRP, so I suspect inflammation isn't causing anything here, just a marker.
Manual recounts tend to be full of error opportunities, so that policy is pretty sensible to me. Maybe if you did a large number of manual recounts and took an average or the most common value or something, it might work. A single manual recount is not deserving of any trust whatsoever.

Manual recounts are a safety blanket for people who haven't thought through what it costs and what it actually gets you.
Look at my answer to a sibling comment.
I had no opinion until I read through the patch that Arch uses to remove the notice [0]. The creator comes across as whiny, entitled, and aggressive. They have comments in the source like "You accept to be put in a public hall-of-shame by removing the lines", "YOU will be harming free software by removing the notice", and "That includes you, George and Andreas". The whole thing is pretty unprofessional, and based on the false premise that every tool used during research traditionally gets a citation.

[0] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pa...
It's such a conflict of interest that I can't trust any of the facts written. That said, maybe I'm too paranoid.
It should be noted that not all disabled people or communities like the social model. I despise it, for example. I have MS + visual impairments and society isn't why I'm disabled. I find the social model is adopted more by people for whom accommodations/cures exist and who don't have physical difficulties/pain.
> As for juiced bodybuilders/athletes, don't even consider it. You think you'll get more women (be honest, that's why you do it). But, in fact, the love of your life doesn't care how strong you are or if you are 10% body fat.

Agreed. It also occurred to me while reading your comment that there are a lot of parallels to this in the auto enthusiast world- guys going deep into debt on a depreciating asset, sometimes overtly to look cool for women, when in reality all they end up with is a sausage-fest of guys rubbernecking and coming up to them in parking lots.
not according to jq or firefox

>> JSON.parse("\u0000")
Uncaught SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
<anonymous> debugger eval code:1

at that point "null" looks like a better more compatible option.
Extra files for ML models etc, as it says in my comment.
Sharing someone else's dream is empathy. Wanting people to be treated with dignity is just plain decency.

The issues the parent poster brings up are policy choices. I think it is good to believe people when they say they are suffering, but a better start is to vote for folks who are willing to treat people like people.
Prompting, realized, and unrealized bias in generatvie AI
"ccp-electioncontrol-b490"
The author seems like what Taleb calls an Intellectual Yet Idiot, who is more or less making a similar accusation in the opposite direction- they seem to think people that are “educated” should be above taking risks, trying new activities, and exploring new ideas less they be ridiculed by… the author.

Don’t standards of journalism require the author to at least try the 4am ice bath so they can explain from a position of expertise how it is stupid?
It wouldn’t bother me if they were the only ones taking a risk. But that’s not the case, people will have to come bail them out when something goes wrong, risking their own safety because these two couldn’t be bothered to observe safety rules, and whatever boat they would collide into being unable to control theirs would also be impacted (safety, financially for repairs)

I’m all for hacking, experimenting etc. Not when it comes as the expense of others or animals.
Citing tools is maybe not tradition, but it's gaining popularity. R, for example, has 320,000 cites. (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1605575084878280829...)
I use 8.8.8.8 via StarLink with Firefox on Linux and I can never open an archive.* link, they're all issues with no_cypher_overlap or Error 1001.
That doesn't really help. People already know how to paste the URL for a piece of software into a paper. It's more that it doesn't count for anything (because it's a piece of software and not a paper).
My cat is good at killing birds, chipmunks, bunnies, and mice. I doubt she could deal with a rat - probably too big.
I agree ... I am now a little more stupid for just thinking about this ...
It shall not be. It is a notability indication, not endorsement, just take a look at other release names from the time of the war. Or compare to Time's "Person of the year".
Probably more of a general Southern dialect thing than AAVE, but definitely intentional either way. Maybe a reference to Huckleberry Finn but I'm not well-read enough to know.
About to get fired from my first job, how does being fired feel like?
Manager has completely lost trust in me, what next?

It all started to go downhill from here. One week, I took lots of leave; some for genuine reasons, 1 for no reason.

From that day, manager is very negative about me and has been losing trust day by day.

One day, I did a big mistake and told him I wasn't being assigned any work and I feel like I'm doing nothing in office.

Then, it seem to have left an impression of me as "useless fellow" in him.

Today I wrote some cool scripts (sysadmin) and he was meh when I showed the scripts to him. He genuinely believes that I don't know anything about the product that we're working on and tbh he's correct. But he has lost trust in me because of that, which I find hard to cope with.

Except doing my best, what else can I do to regain my manager's trust.

I've not became permanent in this job and I'm wondering if this is the last call for me to get me out of this job?
This is not always true and depends on things like other visas on your passport, how often do you travel abroad and so on. For people who are traveling for the first time outside India compared to those who have other first world country stamps things can be very different. The first time I visited Germany from India (with an invite from a university there), I got an exactly 6 day multiple entry visa which might have landed me in trouble even if my flight was delayed by over 3 hours. The next time when I visited the consulate with a B1 visa for US and a visa for UK, they were apologetic about asking me to come to the consulate and returned the visa fees saying you are our guest and gave a 3 month visa.
True.

But when would you like this holiday from global events while rejigging and would it be English breakfast or earl grey with the breakfast?
I think about this a lot with regard to software accessibility. We easily fall into this trap of thinking that it's only needed for a small minority of people- but all of us will age and lose the dexterity and senses we rely on to use computers and phones, not to mention that capacity to learn quickly.

Not that a selfish motive should be required, but prioritizing accessibility features today is very likely to serve you tomorrow.
Arm’s Revenue Fell Last Year Ahead of IPO, Draft Filing Shows
That's very interesting! Thanks for the link.
About grinding reps, I look to the example of Lasha Talakhadze, arguably the strongest weightlifter ever. Of all the clips I've seen of him training I don't think I've ever once seen him grind a rep. It's always submaximal(though huge by normal standards) weights done at such high speed it looks easy.
Really great, thanks for share.

Appears very much in the spirit of Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface [2000]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface

https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin

As u/chrisweekly alludes to elsethread, Obsidian is a bit like WonderOS.

Could WonderOS be implemented as a "Obsidian as an operating system shell"? That'd be a "leaky abstraction", of course. But there are many precedents.

Sorry, my pre-senile brain isn't quickly recalling the variety of experiments made to run on top of early Windows. Just a list of possibles:

- Norton Commander was ported to Windows, right?

- Assymetrix (Paul Allen's startup focused on actor based programming) did something

- Wasn't there a desktop based on GEM?

Aha. Here's a few more contenders:

List of alternative shells for Windows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...

--

Anyway... WonderOS is terrific. So much work. It's definitely worthy of implementing a prototype.

Please share any future updates. Thanks.
It became “Intent” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Group

There was a reasonable amount of noise about this in the Acorn and Amiga universes of the mid 90s but I have never encountered it actually running despite my later being involved in things like interactive tv and mobile games in the appropriate era.

Honestly this is one where I suspect the core OS was vapourware while the company really only made media player libraries.

Edit: according to quite a lot of other comments it did exist. It sounds like I professionally arrived just as it definitively bit the dust.
Why not drones?

Sure, you could do exactly the same thing with a sniffer app on a normal phone, but drones sell better, at least for this ridiculous grift.
Declutter Your Kitchen [video]
That's the point. We have reliability engineers and QA, but I don't find that they actually prevent or resolve outages. I guess it's funny to poke fun at every outage after the mass layoffs, but in reality I doubt things would have been much better had that not happened.
Radior cosmetics containing radium (1918)
One thing that surprised me was using the browser's Back button after choosing a cookie setting. I've been so trained that this is not how the web works anymore that it was the last thing I expected.
Why bother performing election fraud using an online process? Just discard user inputs, use preloaded historical local voter registration data by age cohort, multiply the curve by some coefficients to make it plausible, and report that as the result. If the coefficients are known, a recount can "independently" be designed to come up with the same numbers. No network access is needed to produce completely controlled results. The network access thing is a red herring. There are more sophisticated ways to generate the numbers the powers that be want without raising eyebrows.
Garbage Collection in a Large Lisp System (1984) [pdf]
I'm assuming 1kW/capita, or about 5 GW for Berlin.

I might be overestimating power lines or people's willingness to have transmission lines near them.

What's the ampacity of a typical high voltage line?
What I find fascinating is the ability our cat has to mimic a crying baby - this really upsets my wife. As I am the main cat servant in our household when our cat wants services (food, cuddle etc.) it complains to my wife who then issues the relevant orders to me.
Isn’t that basically the premise behind the black mirror Christmas special
Alas, I am that partner. Nothing but DEET works for me.
Isn’t that where social media is consumed? It makes sense that this isolation drives us to connect, and in ways that are not as helpful as real meaningful connections.
It's a bit sad that the rendered images later on are posterized to the point of being unreadable.
How dare a vendor come up with an idea, pay people to execute on it, give it away for free to the world, acquire users and soak in all the community contributions from people who thought they were using and contributing to a public good, try and fail to indirectly monetize a hosted version because other people were better at it than them, then rug-pull out from under everyone and use copyright/government-stick to kill their competition because they can't compete on even terms.

Then a group of people who are users of idea and actually making money off it with value-adds step up to maintain it as a community project ensuring that it stays open for everyone -- yeah those guys are the assholes. Terraform would have went nowhere if it wasn't OSS and Terraform would be nothing without its outside contributions that make up far more than the code of Terraform core itself. There's a trail of bodies to prove it.

And you should love this, projects that are stewarded by its own users are incentivized to make it the best it can be instead of rejecting contributions because it competes with their cloud offering [1]

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/9556
Were the joint chiefs replaced because of that?
> What about the chickens that were sent to the slaughter because of their carelessness?

I might be with you on all the other points, but that is kind of the story of almost all chicken's life. In fact what do you think would have happened with the chicken if they are not reckless?
Even that is a bit simplistic since bumblebees like to nest in old rodent burrows.
archive.is is messed up like that for me too, lately. I have no clue how to work around it, but it seems to be tied to my device rather than IP.
I it sounds more pleasant (IMO) to say "this boat don't float" than "this boat doesn't float".

I could easily see someone in the US saying "this boat don't float", and believing they were being witty, or even just thinking it was the right way to say it.
I guess it comes down to what you perceive as crapware. I accepted a long time ago that I'm not the target audience for anything aimed at the mainstream. There were some icons I unpinned for apps and tool installers I didn't need. None of them were actually installed. They just went to the MS store. No biggie. I'd expect a lot of people to appreciate links to install/access very mainstream things like Office or Instagram.

They're trivial to remove and don't affect performance. When I think crapware, I think bloaty nonsense that no one needs or wants like Bonzi Buddy or 900 different browser toolbars. I don't see unpinning a few things on a fresh install as some great burden.
This feels like a pretty weird, "wishful thinking" article to me.

* Are certain poor countries building and operating nuclear reactors and stuff like that by now even with no debts? To me it feels like a focus on wealth-building is needed before a society has the spare economic and technical capacity to focus on clean-energy. You're not going from extreme poverty to high-tech energy directly without a societal path there. Trying to enforce wealthy Western standards on poor and uneducated countries is stupid.

* How many of these countries would get substantial investment ever again if they could wipe their hands of this kind of debt? This isn't a small deal: Venezuela went from doing well to a basket-case partially because of taking steps to limit foreign investment and nationalizing foreign companies. You'd think the least the article could do is even mention that there are potential side effects to anything like cancelling debts.
One of the interesting by products of all of this is that elections are getting less secure instead of more secure. After all these allegations came out and if you dug into how elections are run, they are pretty secure - not perfect of course. Now, you have states opting out of things like the registry that can detect if a voter votes in more than one state. So, it will be harder to catch a person voting in more than one state now. I guess that only applies to presidential elections where that would be illegal but I am sure people have voted in more than one local election too and they should not have.

I live in Illinois and I don't know if it is free or not but you can get a sate ID here that is not a drivers license and use that to register to vote.

A national version could make sense. Since the more voters there are only helps one party, we'll never see anything like that on a national level no matter how much sense it makes.
One day you're going to look back at this comment and it will feel about as comfortable as Gate's yapping about 640k being enough for anyone.
These dummies think a wifi scanner will pick up anything useful and that they can somehow keep drones floating over concrete buildings where wireless signals are highly attenuated, voting takes place and afterwards, around 24-36 hours, and what if there is a cellular modem inside? It won't be picked up by some wifi SSID sniffer. And SSIDs don't have to be broadcast by APs. Total fools.
Or shrink everything to unreadable sizes with "Desktop site".
I was doing 3d graphics contract work for Acorn in the mid nineties, for their RiscPC. I was given an early version of Taos to try - it was so early in development as to be essentially unusable, but it definitely existed!
Health insurance is the example that comes to mind.
Well this is the perfect example of the infuriatingly arcane crap that I have to deal with on Linux. Every time I need to do something on Linux, I have to look it up and then when I do - it is some crazy long explanation of hoops I need to jump through to make it happen. I try to keep track of these notes, but it all takes so much time.

I am hoping someone comes up with a fully dis-arcaned distro. Especially ditch (or remap) goofy command line relics into the obvious and easily remembered. Why do we still use CP instead of Copy? Legacy stuff that greybeards would freak if it were changed. Let them use a greybeard distro and make one that is for joe user.

Yes, I use Mint and it is still full of arcane crap.
They didn't. This is from Chaos Communication Camp, which takes place every fourth summer. It's the annual Conference that happens in December. The dates for this Camp was announced prior to Defcon dates.

If the conflict is actually intentional after all, I'd also be curious around the history of that.
Hah, I had a super easy one in front of the National Gallery in London - 6.3 m off :)

Amazingly, though I got the year correct as well (1973) - total guess!
The real question is: what sanctions are available if it’s shown that the cops broke the law, either by providing false information for the warrant or by breaking some other law?

Without penalties ‘accountability’ becomes harder. At least the sheriff can’t say “I thought they had a gun.”
Payment Processor Checkout.com Drops Binance
> Have you ever participated in a research community?

Yes. A little bit. Though not in CS.

> You’re going to be at a severe disadvantage compared to peers in the US

> ...

> if you want to have a scientific career

What does having a scientific career mean to you? Are there universities outside of the global North? Do people hold positions in those universities? Is there any research work happening there? Can someone get a place there without travelling around the world? If the answer to these questions is yes, then how is it not a scientific career?

(I am not trying to compare the salary of a professor in a US university with one from a university in global South. I am simply curious about the blank statements "How about just give up and quit your job" or "if you want to have a scientific career").
Making open source, transparent, auditable, voting machines that can be trusted to be secure and are more efficient than physical counting is a very interesting challenge.

A challenge that I am sure politicians are not very interested in solving.

Why spending so much to gain the trust of your citizens if most people know nothing about cryptography anyway?
Galileo / Turbo Nutter / RiscPC II (1994) [pdf]
I bet both of duos users will be bummed to hear about this outage.
As far as I can tell, CBT is the gold standard for psychotherapy in much the same way that agile is the gold standard for software development. There's compelling evidence that some implementations can be remarkably effective at least some of the time, and a vague consensus that it's good and proven. However, there's also widespread disagreement and confusion about what it means to actually do it, how to evaluate whether it's a poor fit as opposed to the practitioner or client "doing it wrong", and the extent to which it meaningfully outperforms other approaches across a variety of real-world situations.
"It was different when I read it", wut?

I had a good laugh, thanks for that.

Interestingly, the title on HN seems to match the title of the page, they probably changed it here as well amirite? :^)
Ask HN: Who is working on defence sector startups?
Hey HN!

Asking around, would be really interesting to talk to some other founders working in the defence innovation space. Especially regarding fundraising, the NATO Investment Fund and the DIANA initiative (a NATO version of DARPA).

On my personal experience in the market I'm currently fundraising for a seed round in an and we're finding it very hard to get any VCs to commit to being lead investors. VCs are super excited/optimistic about our company and willing to immediately jump on board as soon as a term sheet is signed by a lead investor.

Trouble is that absolutely everyone is taking that position - leaving us in quite a pickle. I've gone through fundraising cycles before and never encountered something like this before, hearing the same from a bunch of other companies as well. I understand that the macroeconomic situation has made many more cautions, but this is just odd.

Would really appreciate insight from both defence sector VCs and/or other founders currently raising.
I know you specifically asked about rats but domestic cats are killing machines.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23360987/

We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4-3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually.