skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
`with` is still lexically scoped—it just adds another scope to the lexical scope chain. The variables are still scoped to the beginning and end of a particular block of code, and if that code calls out to a function that was defined outside of that block the variables don't follow to that called function (unless explicitly passed as arguments).

From what I can tell, your CL example is truly dynamically scoped (assuming the global is defined with `defvar`)—functions defined outside of that `let` form will still use the version you give in the `let` when they're called inside that call tree.

Where JavaScript does have a bit of dynamic scoping is with `this`. All OOP languages technically use dynamic scope for `this`, but JavaScript even more so since `this` can be rebound arbitrarily.
Yes, it’s so silly to worry about what we’re doing to the planet. Absolutely ridiculous to suggest any solutions that may impact rich people’s hedonism in any way. This may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
>Charging at home is difficult compared to driving to a gas station?

It absolutely could be. Ever lived in an apartment?
Wait, I thought the triangles were the wealthy ones? /s

(Seriously though, was it implied that there was any material difference between the shapes? I thought they just looked different.)
It's all speculation at this point, but apparently they're aiming for a $25k price point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_next-generation_vehicle

And Teslas built overseas are fine, it's Fremont's quality control that sucks. Which is likely exactly why Tesla is planning to built the Model 2s in Mexico, Germany and China, but not the US.
> The most revered/successful societies on earth are the complete opposite of diverse.

And "primitive" societies, which through evolution shaped how our social capacities operate, also have essentially zero diversity in the modern sense. They are almost by definition culturally uniform, and their members are often closely interrelated.
Fine-Tuning Mistral 7B with WhatsApp Chats – A Practical MLX Project
No it’s not. Problem right now is that every WASM files pulls in its own stdlib. Which is a waste once you use more than one.
What Is My Screen Resolution
> Capitalism just isnt set up to punish the Bourgeois.

Please read your own link. There were coverups and censorship galore. The problem was this story eventually got so big it could no longer be swept under the rug like so many things were and still are.
There are multiple versions of mainframe Zork available on GitHub. See https://eblong.com/infocom/#zorkmdl for this and everything else Infocom.
Feeling sad and depressed can be a medical condition rather than a reality issue. There are many numerically things (can't check everything) that are not much worse than 20 years ago (and some even better), but people seem more and more upset. It's like they just spend time online/on TV and WANT to find reasons to feel bad. Or that they expect that because things CAN be good they will be good tomorrow without any effort.
Yeah, I imagine this could be a call to go to the bathroom or part of a security check-in.
>I have a 2021 Chevy Bolt, it is not a luxury car, it was hella cheap.

For an EV, maybe. Still more expensive than a Honda Civic.
Floem: Yet another new Rust native UI library
I'm curious to know what prevents Intel putting 64GB or 128GB on a GPU - is there a technical limitation that makes it impossible to go to 128GB?

There would certainly be an awkward silence in response from Nvidia.

Given that Intel needs some angle to get ahead in the GPU wars I would have thought adding RAM would be an easy way to do that - especially given Nvidia and AMD seem to dish out RAM like its the most precious substance in the universe.
Rockstar North are based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Different places around the world have different cultures around things like swearing at work.
>they'd be bankrupt without NASA

Most companies would be bankrupt without their customers. A $5 billion government contract isn’t something that can be dismissed as the recipient ‘being kept solvent by Uncle Sam.’
Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments on autorefresh?

Because it is “shit” I assumed you would filter to downvotes comments :-)
Mobile Aloha: Housekeeping Robot [video]
Who owns the model? Does google get to reuse them?
The only unique thing that university provides is access to a unique social network. Meanwhile, those with such issues tend to not want such social experiences, either as a direct result of their issue or as their condition leaves them to feel that they are (and maybe actually are) social outcasts. Why would you, in the general case (there are always exceptions), find them in a university? That would be much like finding vegetarians at a steakhouse.
Does it save the returns locally or on their servers?
Higher than that. The data is not accurate. Most cities in the giant corporate I have info, the unemployment is way higher, just that it is being reclassified as something else to keep the number lower. Take a data scientist out of job for 6mths, he can do Dash or being a TikToker. But either he choose not to, or he did, the number not reflected in the government numbers. And it is NOT just data scientist. Plenty of jobs retrenched or in the process of doing so as require at least 3 mths in advance to report to government bureau before actual retrenchment can be performed. Wait you see Apr-May.
Repeated stupidity in some areas.
I hope it performs better than ChatGPT: https://old.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/10ydnbb/i_pla...

Though I will give it to ChatGPT, castling across the bishop was a genius move.
You’re arguing past the GP. Just because it’s never been safer to fly doesn't mean we should relax any part of the rigid and high bar the aviation industry holds itself to. You’re both right…
> There's no reason every child has to have equal opportunity.

No evolutionary reason, that is.

On the other hand, if your descendents are born into such deep disadvantage without hope of redemption, that's another evolutionary black hole. The best hope would be to band together with others of similar circumstances and burn it all down.

It's in everyone's best interest for this not to happen. Which leads me to wonder if there is some optimal equilibrium between advantage and disadvantage.

And interesting corollary is that society has basically trumped evolution. There are so many competing contradictory forces that only the most basic changes have a hope of surviving.

Edit:

In hindsight I somewhat disagree with this. Nearly all post-scarcity fictions depict societies in which all are given equal opportunity to realize their personal ambitions. Status and additional allocation of societal-level resources then depends on the outcomes. So for some definition of opportunity I think it is theoretically possible to afford everyone equal opportunity.
Good luck coming up with karma-points-based explanations for all the pleasure and suffering in the world. What did the caterpillar do to deserve getting paralyzed and eaten alive by wasp larvae?
2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"
Sabine is, uh, somewhat controversial.
Good article in giving a strong case for the problem of evil. Even as a Christian I appreciate an honest baring of how torturous life is. No need to whitewash it. My response, in brief, is that this is the price of creatures truly having free will. God could have created all His creatures to be benign Stepford Wives, but He decided to let us have a choice. The choices effect everyone including the innocent. Secondly, there will come a day when righteousness will reign and death, pain, and sorrow will be no more. Finally, God is not detached -- He took on flesh and suffered the horrors Himself. So He knows. He knows more than us.
Medical Spa - A single place where you can get all preventative stuff done in a single day. Simple physical, blood tests, dental cleaning, eye exam, vaccines, imaging.

Charge a premium but make sure everything is efficient.
> Money is a proxy for user value and it is in Amazon's best interest for the customer to continually act upon these recommendations. If Amazon fails to deliver user value customers will be less willing to continue paying.

You're talking about the same Amazon that will blindly give me recommendations for other products that fill exactly the same niche as the one I just bought.

"Oh, you just bought a generator? You probably need a second one too, right?"
Based on this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca... between 2009 and 2021 there were indeed 2. I think that the point stands, it is very impressive and safe.
I don't know that splitting existing private insurance from employment would be much better

Given how expensive it is, even if wages went up to compensate, you're still directly tied to continued employment to afford paying for it on your own. Subsidies would take a while to kick in and be a bureaucratic nightmare

It would just quite simply be infinitely better if you didn't have to deal with insurance at all and you could just go to the doctor. No need for two decades of a slightly different kind of hell to try to convince us
Well this is indeed stupid.

> if you just got charged the right amount in the first place?

right amount is loaded phrase. There is big range and disagreement over what is right amount.

> And then isn't the role of society ... to simplify the tax code?

It is about as intelligent as saying isn't it role of society that ensure we all live peacefully, then we don't need armies, defense budgets and so on.
Skepticism is welcome on all things government.

But most of the time our government does sketchy things away from the attention and affliction of the selectorate.

If millions of influential people were using a system, the IRS would have an extremely strong incentive to avoid negative PR through chicanery.

And we already have an incentive problem in the current setup, anyway.
A salient detail that seems to be overlooked by most in this thread is that this putative comedian was making direct and personal references to coworkers and/or authorities working for his self-same employer.

So not only was he making bigoted and tasteless jokes, but some of them were revealing private business that should've been kept as internal matters. He betrayed the trust and confidentiality of his employer and his coworkers. That in itself is reprehensible, racism or not. Certainly, any employer who takes action against that sort of betrayal can be justified.
They may be driven by money, but they are not mandated to take any course of action because of it. Case in point -- Zuckerberg is blowing billions of dollars on VR without a path to profitability. No one can make him do anything -- he can tank Facebook/Meta if he wants to, regardless of how many people do or do not buy Quests.

Stop trying to defend the view that corporations are somehow beholden to the public just because the public sometimes buys things some of them sell.
Perhaps people using landscape mode have a quicker grasp of things.
Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands
Ask HN: Is GenAI hype declining or are low-hanging fruits gone?
Post ChatGPT, there were many interesting papers on the properties and features of large language models. The pace of publication was so fast that every week we could see at least 1-2 papers that would make the news.

On the open-source side, we had some low quality models and there was so much experimentation to see what works and what doesn't. Soon we got llama and llama 2 and a plethora of models to play with. So many projects started around them, many got abandoned shortly.

Now that I reflect on what happened in 2023, despite all the progress that was made, I feel like the pace of growth has decreased. In early 2023 I legit thought "this is how singularity feels like; every 2-3 days we'll have something new and exciting".

But now things are more settled. We still get new models every day and Mixtral is still amazing. But something seems off. No company (not even Google) was able to make something better than GPT-4. So many Chat UI and wrapper projects are abandoned (Github can be a scary place...), and we're not much further in our way to understand what the heck happens in these models than we were a year ago. In addition, it's become clear that GPT-4-level intelligence might be the best we can extract from the current LLM technology, and no one takes AGI seriously anymore.

Edit: I should add that Langchain, LlamaIndex and so many other "frameworks" built around LLMs that used to be all the rage now are evidently useless in production. RAG is still RAG, and no matter the tricks you play to make it "smarter", it's still just RAG. Langchain and similar frameworks cause more problems than they solve, and the tech debt is horrible. Vector databases are the same. Most are fighting for that sweet VC money, and their features are essentially the same. So many startups suddenly went out of business after OpenAI's first DevDay; so many more will perish after the second DevDay. It's unclear how $$$ VC will be allocated in 2024 given that the safest bet to make money off of AI was and still is OpenAI, not Google, not these third-party frameworks and libraries, not some wrapper around OpenAI's API with a nice UI and shiny website.

What do you think about all this?
> "parents are involved"

The most fundamental way in which parents are involved in the life of their children is through their gametes. Unsurprisingly smart kids almost always have smart parents, which is a double advantage.
Those that are worth listening to often are.
Do caterpillars have free will? What free choices resulted in them being paralyzed and eaten alive by wasps?
I think it was a very minor contribution ... they wrote a pseudo-Algol program as a form of documentation of their network protocol and were concerned about checking the grammar/syntax of the program (people actually cared about the quality of documentation back then), and I wrote a syntax checker for it in Meta V, as it was on hand because it was written at UCLA (I don't know whether it was Dewey (Val) who designed and implemented Meta V or someone else) and was used by people in the Comp Sci Dept. to design programming languages. But the dept was shifting to networking at the time (the IMP had just arrived) under the direction of Leonard Kleinrock and through the efforts of pioneers Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf, and Jon Postel (all of whom had attended Taft High School together) ... this is why the authors of that network protocol were visiting UCLA. I got involved because I worked for Crocker, under the direct management of Charley Kline, who was the fellow who made the first ever networked login.
I hate this kind of unfounded anti-scientism. If it's so obviously wrong, it should be simple to design a study that demonstrates the opposite, why don't you try?
> I had my naïveté taken advantage of.

If it's any consolation, that happens to everybody.
Apparently there is a boring approach to "quantum gravity" based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_safety_in_quantum_g...

A prediction for the weight of Higgs boson particle using this, and it came true.
I feel you.

My new record company has the same problem. We sell Taylor Swift songs but it turns out we don't have the rights to them. Not sure what to do.
I heard the power bill for this AI stuff is pretty ridiculous too though.
That text to speech is terrible.
Drop a contact email or something in your bio!

Wellness is way too broad for all of us to have applied familiarity in everything.

No promises, but I'll do my best to help try and identify some unusual stuff that may be going on, turn over some new rocks.

I've helped pull my partner, myself, and others out of some pretty deep holes, that a list of doctors could not.
So, which toys are not gender neutral?
An ex worked in luxury travel. She said you could always tell rich-rich from newly rich immediately. The first group would shop for value and look for experiences. Money was like water for them, plentiful but unexceptional. The latter would just hit everything with the biggest number next to it.
Addressing what happened directly and providing the concrete steps taken towards rectification is not corp speak.

Deflecting and talking about values and abstract things to avoid directly addressing the issue is however and is what should be condemned on HN.

Your point still stands though as the emotional petulant rant in this case was even worse than a spineless corp speak response.
No. Creation groans. The innocent suffer the effects. The Innocent One suffered.
What do you mean by "doesn't support huge capacities"? You can always add more channels in parallel.
They might be happy that they don’t have to deal with you either.
Thanks!!! Yes it was MGS - the deal was with our studio to do the port from PSX -> PC and since Microsoft was the publisher, part of the deal was for Konami to port Age Of Empires (1? 2?) to PSX.
I have multiple apps which require a login in the Store, and have never had a rejection for this reason. Either a reviewer made a mistake (it happens, and honestly, DHH's language here implies a conspiracy where a cockup is more likely), or they screwed up the submission.

One thing I have found that matters – your app's launch screen had better be as vanilla as possible. If you even hint at conversion, sales, sign-up, etc, you're going to get dinged.

Either way, this has a "smell" to it.
I'd love to have a low-cost, low-end phone that can just handle basic communication requirements. However, life has changed so much over the past two decades that I believe it's no longer possible to live our lives without a smartphone and without serious compromises.

There are just too many basic necessities that require a smartphone these days, starting with multi-factor authentication apps, cab booking and navigation. In my country, government services, banking and financial services can work to some extent without an app, but it is becoming increasingly impractical to hold out.

Banks have replaced physical 2FA tokens with new features in their banking apps. The financial services I use require me to authenticate via faceID on my phone for specific transactions. Our government services use a biometric authentication scheme - not mandatory but it is terribly inconvenient to get your work done if you don't have a smart phone.

It's reached a point where I cannot function normally beyond a week or so, without a smart phone and relevant financial, government, and other apps.
Android 101 [pdf]
scudo requires 64-bit atomics which make libc hookup on 32-bit systems a bit of a pain but nothing that cannot be overcome

it can only use the primary32 allocator on 32-bit systems, which is fine, chimera uses primary32 universally because it uses less virtual memory while performing more or less the same in practice

it's significantly and visibly faster than mallocng in most things user-facing, effectively anything that allocates and is multi-threaded (e.g. builds - LTO linking times take a third the time, web browsers are snappier, java is snappier, etc)
Many that are worth listening to are controversial. But many that are controversial are not worth listening to. Which is which is a hard question to answer :)
They also say

> will cause the CPU to pause the guest hypervisor, and let the host hypervisor running at EL2 decide whether and how to proceed. That is a big part in enabling nested virtualisation. There are other details, for example related to memory and interrupt management.

And they don’t elaborate on whether these "further details" were implemented or not; I would guess they’re not implemented, or else Apple would have mentioned it at a WWDC workshop. I might be wrong here though.
Guess what I wrote in the thread yesterday can't be wrong either way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38888060

Sure is starting to look like they cooked their own goose. How can the CEO state with a straight face that "it's a separate company" but they can "self-approve" (he doesn't even know?? Why would you even agree to hop on a call with a customer without knowing. Come on.) to breakglass access everyone's cap table?

They're fucked.

Not looking forward to all the email threads I'm going to see on Monday. Didn't have this one inked on the Q1 plan.

Now we're all wondering what other shenanigans they're likely pulling.
did Nvidia drop the quadro moniker?
What a sad world we live in...
> They allow competing browsers but they have to use the OS-provided JavaScript engine

Which is in essence forbidding competing browsers. If if quacks like a duck and etc. I.e. if it's using Apple's JavaScript engine, it's Apple's browser.
Anybody who has moved from the UK to the US has found this out. Hopefully without HR also finding out.
> I believe I have Aspergers

Don't self diagnose, really please just get a proper assessment by a good neuropsychologist. I had a suspicion that I had ASD, and I found out I had ADHD instead which surprised me. And part of ADHD is ignoring social cues subconsciously. If you end up having ADHD, OCD and anxiety for example, there are medications for that can change your life.

Even if the diagnosis ends up being some sort of ASD, ASD is a diverse condition with many subparts, so understanding how the machine of you works will be helpful. You also get an IQ test so you know what kind of gifted you are and there are books and therapy programs that can help you manage all of the diagnoses. Instead of giving up on the world and going full NEET, understand yourself first.
It’s not key comparison issue:

const idx = [1,2]
const m = new Map
m.set(idx,"hi!")
console.log(m.get(idx)) // outputs "hi!"

console.log(m.get([1,2]) // outputs undefined

That last line has created a new array object, and Map is made to be fast so checks equality by reference. Ah, which is what you to be able to change. I guess you would want to pass a new map a comparator function, so that it does a deep equal. That would be faster than what you would have to do now:

const idx2 = String([1,2])
m.set(idx2, "yo")
console.log(m.get(idx2)) // yo
console.log(m.get(String([1,2])) // yo
I'm Just going to plug myself here:

https://github.com/KillingSpark/rustysd

Rustysd is a reimplantation of the core features of the systemd service manager with a deliberate focus on less features so it can work on more platforms (e.g. BSD)

It's been a while since I actively progressed on the project but it works and would probably be a good starting point for anyone wanting to do further work in this direction.
You can consider translating this library to Rust. As long as you can't or don't have the time commitment, we take this one over some fable or cool new library somewhere. This one has 13 years proven battlefield use. Any big bugs already iron out or at least not so obvious. Rust may have safe memory coding built-in, it doesnt guarantee the coding to be 100% bug free or fully secure from zero day attacks. This is even worst off when the library say written in Rust just come out less than a couple years or even 6 mths.
You could still shoot someone if they have a really good coat on...
She is a physicist who is not into string theory or dark matter, which is definitely more controversial of a position within the physics community than outside.
Karma does not require suffering from sin. Karma does not require future lives either. Karmas base is much simpler - what you do has effects. It may be good, it may not be. We don't get to know, but we hope that we do good karma and avoid bad karma.
Legal loophole in California has benefited car burglars. That could soon change
If they drop the price 2x that will make it very attractive.
> common sense

How do you think we would judge someone using common sense to work out a problem in computing? Because saying the FAA is existentially deferential to Boeing is a "series of tubes" analog.