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> Based on hearsay, the JVM often competes in language performance closer to C++, and has probably the best garbage collectors in the world as well as the best developer and operational tooling. How much do other platform developers leave on the table by ignoring the JVM these days?

I am mostly a Java developer, but have had the opportunity to play with Common Lisp and many other languages.

While it's true the JVM is very performant, its performance actually comes at a cost: it has a JIT, Garbage Collector, a whole lot of machinery for Threads/VirtualThreads, JMX etc. all of which comes at a cost... thanks to multicore processors and lots and lots of RAM being available, this translates in really fast performance for Java applications... so that cost may be advantageous to you.

Common Lisp applications are much lighter than Java applications from what I've actually measured given its simpler model... it basically compiles Lisp code to machine code directly and then runs that (Java runs bytecode, and then at runtime the JIT selects which code to optimise, which continues to happen for the lifetime of the application). I would bet money on any application written in Common Lisp being significantly lighter, and hence "greener", than the equivalent Java application, while still running at nearly the same speed, or even faster.

For short running programs, Common Lisp is incredibly fast at starting up and getting stuff done - it competes with C and Rust in that regard, not with Java.

> How much do other platform developers leave on the table by ignoring the JVM these days?

Common Lisp tooling is integrated into the language itself. You can inspect the machine code it generates, ask it to instrument every function so you can profile, and so on without even needing any external tools - it's all built-in... but of course, using it from SLIME or SLY (in emacs) makes it a lot more pleasant. If you think Java tools are better, I believe you may not know Common Lisp very well.
> I'm saying that I see the risk that MY car will do something actually harmful

Sure, but that's completely ignoring the consequences of everybody doing that, too. Just like for privacy. "If I share MY data, it's okay" -> sure, but when everyone does, it becomes a different matter. If all the vehicles are connected, and someday all the vehicles stop working (maybe due to a collateral effect like NotPetya, maybe due to some voluntary attack), then that is a problem.

My point, in the beginning, was that we should not connect everything. Not because everybody is individually the target of a serious threat actor, but because connecting everything in mass with bad security is dangerous. We should stop putting mics and cameras and Internet access into everything just for some marketing benefit. That's all I was saying.
I didn't read your comment. I skimmed over it. I was expecting there to be ice cream... Disappointing.
> In 1999, just days before the conclusion of a contract to sell his invention, Sloot died suddenly of a heart attack. The source code was never recovered, and the technique and claim have never been reproduced or verified.

What rotten luck, for everyone.
Also git is not good with binary and sort of bolts on git-lfs as a workaround
I don't think that's why. TVs without 3D are just cheaper, the early 3D tech just wasn't very good and took awhile to mature thus souring the market, 3D content was more expensive (or an extra expense, eg. buy the 3D and non-3D versions of a movie) and so people just went for the cheaper options overall. I've had an active 3D TV for 10+ years, and the 3D has not itself been a problem when I've watched with others.

The only time it's a problem is if someone currently experience a migraine is trying to watch, then they can get serious vertigo, but that's an issue caused by the migraine itself (visual auras and vertigo generally).
You don't have access because you aren't supposed to. Nothing about the founding, laws or customs of the US suggest that you (nor the government itself) have access to information about other people/companies any time you/they feel like "finding out what's happening behind the scenes".

As for "too important to privatize"... practically all the important work in the world is done by private companies. It wasn't the government who just created vaccines for Covid. It isn't the government producing weapons for defense. It's not Joe B producing houses or electricity or cars or planes. That's not to say the government doesn't do anything but the idea that the dividing line for government work is "super important work" is wildly wrong and it's much closer to the inverse.
bite mark analysis stuff is essentially made up too.
Love the UI. Good educational tool for founders.

If only building the company and going through all those funding rounds was as easy!
A lot of people wrote it off as unnecessary gimmick, I'd add that to list of reasons. VR 3D blows it out of water but then requires more effort to use.
I think common lispers should just accept that they are lone wolf programmers and get on with our lonely lives. Jokes asside, I dont think energy should be spent on editor support. Too much work and little to gain. Instead what needs to be done is to study the so many great libraries and writing the damn documentation (and make it fun). Documentation problem is THE low hanging fruit toward improving the cl ecosystem and attracting new loners. I think once people get the confidence to read and write lisp codebases are much easier to digest than other languages. Which I think is partly responsible for the crap doc situation. But if you think about it this also makes lisp in some sense the perfect open source language.

Kudos to things like the cookbook tho !
Avoiding human friendship is a large cause of the division and unsafety in our modern world.
The point of the device is to enable the owner to see who's at the door. Any other ability (seeing far outside of the zone right at your door) seems to me to not be the purpose of the device, but a side effect that's therefore not legitimate.
I loved Fred Rogers as a kid, and I am still in awe of everything he did.

I can also understand how someone could find the direct, intense way he communicated with the camera uncomfortably intimate and offputting (even though it was an important part of his success). That's OK.
I don't disagree that attribution would be polite (in fact I think a lack of attribution is impolite), but I don't believe mathematical problems are generally copyrightable.
Just pull down the extensions from the source repo and source them in your zshrc.
I'm 6ish years into my RA diagnosis. The first 2 years were very rough both physically but more so mentally. I manage the mental aspect better now, and my symptoms have stabilized which certainly helps the former. However it's easy to dip into despair when you know what the long term prospects are for life quality and expectancy.
Aliens Are Among Us
https://archive.ph/hS2eE
I have now: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6440
An important point that you're both missing:

Flash did things "web technologies" didn't. There was no module system, no React, no custom elements. JavaScript was a bit like bash: usable for simple things, but only masochists would use it for anything complex.

The early Google web properties - Maps and Gmail - were the vanguard of the web as an interactive platform. As I recall, they were actually written in Java and translated to JavaScript (by GWT) in part because of how limited JS was as a platform at the time.

To this day, there are things that's were easy in Flash that are borderline impossible on the web. The dual paradigm of drawing when drawing is easiest and coding when it isn't was really powerful, and the modern web still misses that.

I was thinking the other day of making a button that transitions into a throbber when you click it. Would have been a fun afternoon project in Flash. Would be a couple weeks of math homework in JS.
Beat That Flight - https://beatthatflight.com.au/ - been my side hustle for nearly 6 years now. White labeled flight & hotel search engine, and I share deals for Aussies (and now Kiwis as well) via FB/email subscription. Not huge income but it means the wife doesn't need to go back to work yet after having kids :)
> The problem with liability here is that software as a discipline is so subjective anything can be argued from any expert just out of a boot camp.

I'm really not sure this is case. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would have argued medical practice is more of an art, than a science, before the introduction of strong med mal regimes. Everyone tends to think their field is special!
Nonsense, manufacturing learning curves[1] were identified by Theodore Wright in World War II airplane manufacturing, and apply to many types of production:

> Wright found that every time total aircraft production doubled, the required labor time for a new aircraft fell by 20%. This has become known as "Wright's law". Studies in other industries have yielded different percentage values (ranging from only a couple of percent up to 30%), but in most cases, the value in each industry was a constant percentage and did not vary at different scales of operation. The learning curve model posits that for each doubling of the total quantity of items produced, costs decrease by a fixed proportion. Generally, the production of any good or service shows the learning curve or experience curve effect. Each time cumulative volume doubles, value-added costs (including administration, marketing, distribution, and manufacturing) fall by a constant percentage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
Ask HN: What's Your Vegetable Setup?
How many vegetables do you eat per day? Which ones? Do you normally have them with a full meal or seperate? How do you prepare them? Where do you get them from? etc..
Are you seriously trying to state that killing 100,000 people through a coordinated clandestine bombing campaign in another country is even comparable to the difficulty of just spending a few million dollars to develop that same remote capability via a software attack?

It is estimated that a few hundred thousand have died in the Russo-Ukrainian War and that has cost billions and required open warfare. It literally costs 1,000x as much to cause such casualties using traditional techniques. Conflating them makes about as much sense as claiming that Usain Bolt is neck-and-neck with a Atlas V rocket or that Earth is basically the same size as Jupiter.
interesting that you say this. have you also tried out Franz Lisp? it is another commercial one.
Deepfake deluge expected from AI image generation breakthrough (so long, LoRA?)
Our modern American framework of rules around various types of incorporated entities are the wrong tool for the job of enabling a credible organization to achieve OpenAI's purported mission.

What's needed is closer to a government agency like NASA, with multiple independent inspectors like IAEA empowered by law to establish guardrails, report to congress, and pump the brakes if needed. Think Gibson's "Turing Agency."

They could mandate open sourcing the technology that is developed, maintain feedback channels with private and public enterprises, and provide the basis for sensible use of narrow AI while we collectively fund sensible safety, cognition, consciousness, and AGI research.

If we woke up tomorrow to aliens visiting us from a distant galaxy, and one alien was 100 times more intelligent and capable than the average human, we would be confronted with something terrifying.

Stuart Russell likens AI to such an alien giving us a heads up that it's on the way, and we may be looking at several years to several decades before the alien/AI arrives. We have a chance to get our shit together sufficient to meet the challenges we may face - whether or not you believe AI could pose an existential threat, or that it could destabilize civilization in horrible ways, it's probably unarguably rational to establish institutions and frank discussions now, well before any potential crisis.

Heck, it's not like we hold our governments to account for spending at the scale of NASA - even a few tens of billions is a drop in the bucket, and it could also be a federal jobs program, incentivizing careers and research in a crucial technology sector.

Allowing self-regulated private sector corporations operating in the tech market to be the fundamental drivers of AI is probably a recipe for dystopian abuses. This will, regardless of intetions, lead to further corrosion of individual rights to free expression, privacy, intellectual property, and so on. Even if a majority of the negative impact isn't regulatory or "official" in nature, allowing these companies to impose cultural shifts on us is a terrible thing.

Companies and corporations should be subject to humans, not infringe on human agency. Right now we have companies that are effectively outside the control of any individual human, even the most principled and respectable CEOs, because the legal rules we operate them by are not aligned with the well-being of society at large, but the group of people who have invested time and/or money in the legal construct. It's worked pretty well, but at the speed and scale of the modern Tech industry, it's very clear that our governmental and social institutions are not equipped to mitigate the harms.

NASA and the space race are probably the most recent and successful analogy to the quest for AGI, so maybe that's a solution worth trying again.
Authoring Latex documents. I want a non-browser alternative to Overleaf. When the paper is close to done, me and my colleague are on voice call, editing the same file. But we both want to be able to compile it to PDF, to be able to see the figures.
> The electricity gains to be had are likely very small. Minuscule, even.

That's just wrong. Electricity used by data centers today add up to the whole consumption of a largish country.

If you can save even just 5% of that, it's an enormous difference. Companies like Google and Netflix spend millions to save much less than that in computing.
This is actually an interesting problem if people gave it a minute. Here's the initial conditions: We don't lock up mentally ill people anymore in California because "patient rights" including the right to non-neurotypical. This results in mentally ill people wandering the streets. They are too sick to respectfully use commerical establishment bathrooms, so they rely on public bathrooms. Since there is a shortage of those, they end up using the street. So SF wants to build an indesctructible public toilet for them so they don't use the street, which turns out to be hard because the mentally ill are often clever and find ways to make it a nightmare for everyone, so it ends up costing 1.7 million dollars and take a long time. What would you do?
You never built a product if this is your honest take.

You should have a focus when you first build a product. You shouldn't be holding up your product progress because you don't support every platform.

This is the reason why you see a lot of apps support iOS before they release an Android app.

It better to build a good working app for one platform than to not build one at all because you are spending all your time supporting as many platform as possible.
What’s the best way to track research, RSS-style, rather than manually doing searches and hoping you see follow ups?
How do you make those style visualizations?
Similar naming pattern, like North Korea calls itself “ Democratic People's Republic of Korea” … it cannot be further from being democratic.
Is it? Wouldn't enemy intelligence see these contractors be the prime targets for infiltration?
Killed by a time traveller. That technology led to an apocalyptic period
Agreed. Adding the employee point of view would make this tool an excellent education piece. It’s always a struggle to explain.
Yes. I am not going to buy into the doom and gloom news cycle. If there are actual fatal issues with the planes, oh well. I’ll be scared for a few seconds to a few minutes and then it won’t matter because I will no longer exist. But the likelihood of that happening is low enough that I am not worried.
That's pretty impressive. The main difficulty with reflections in the ZX Spectrum is not so much the limited color palette, which can be dealt with, but the 2-color limit per 8x8 block. It's already a big issue with just lights and shadows as it is :-/
Am I the only one who doesn’t like it?
Again, I don’t think it’s special. I think it lacks objectivity. I wish the field had more objectivity.

If we go down this path then we need proper licensing, certifications, and changes should be as well tested as the fda process. Aka releasing software is as rigorous as releasing a new drug.
Kharkiv Citizens Reacting to 24 Hours of Bombing [video]
Should organizations have a first principles policy?
Started out as a thought experiment, would appreciate some external contribution to this. But would we benefit from organizations or even indie developers and platforms being transparent about the first principle assumptions they make about the world? Especially in 2024. I am sure there's a lot of overlap, but I also think there's a lot of variance especially today. This could be added as another standard next to TOS and Privacy.
The thing about the Zed workflow that I don't understand is local servers. Say I were to develop a full-stack web app using some frontend meta-framework (e.g., Next.js) and a backend running locally for development (e.g., Supabase). How would that workflow work with Zed? I need that live preview/reload available to be productive. Some sort of feedback loop.
This makes a few of the classic mistakes that makes it, at best an extreme upper limit on the storage required.

They admit that they know that in the conclusion, but not in the title.

Specifically: No curtailment, on the specific day they know the delta between production and demand will be greatest, and then assuming an inflexible lower bound for non-renewable generation that must run.
Voltron Data acquires Claypot to unlock real-time AI with modular data systems
Isn't it kind of hard to tell if a house has one without actually going near it in the first place?
The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery (1889)
what's next, ~~don't~~ be evil?
BLIS is a different library from BLAS, with a better API. For example when you pass an array, you can pass independent strides for all axes, and you can give independent transpose/conjugate flags. It does have a BLAS compatibility interface.

The interface isn't perfect though. For example they didn't commit to supporting zero strides. That used to work anyway, but it's broken now for some archs.
This is a great start. I really enjoyed the UI. Definitely needs the educational hints for people who are newbies, but that is obvious and you probably already have it on your roadmap.

All-in-all quite cool.
given how many things can lower AGI from actual gross, this is splitting hairs simply over the word “most”. you can have negative AGI, this kind of adjusted gross is nowhere near actual gross.
This was not an extraordinary toilet. It wasn't a pilot for a super duper new kind of public toilet. It wasn't an art project. It was just a toilet. This isn't an extreme case, it's normal. It just got attention because of our scatological fetish.
The C# with seems bit more restricted though because it uses object initializer syntax while Java has full-blown code block, so in Java you can put arbitrary statements in. Also in Java you get the original values in the with statement, which I don't see in C#.
Yeah that's my point -- most people don't watch movies at home that way. They are just background distractions, even movies.
Clear Shadows (Kumanaki kage, 1867)
Inspired by but according to him definitely about the Soviet union; from the preface to the Ukrainian edition of 1947

> I have never visited Russia and my knowledge of it consists only of what can be learned by reading books and newspapers.

[…]

But on the other hand it was of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was.

[…]

On my return from Spain I thought of exposing the Soviet myth in a story that could be easily understood by almost anyone and which could be easily translated into other languages.
I like CLAs. If there's an open source project that I love/depend on, I will most likely want to be able to contribute to it for my own personal reasons at some point (e.g. fix a bug that bothers me or add a feature I want).

I am a Sublime Text addict, but hate how slow development is and how resistant they are to adding more dev-focused features. I would happily sign a CLA if it meant I could modify the code myself, even if I end up paying to use my own code.

Giving the owner permission to sell my contribution (which is likely very minor compared to the rest of the project) gives me added peace of mind since I know that the project is (or can be) sustainable.

A rug pull is always bad, but it's not fair to assume that that's what will happen (unless you know something we don't).

And besides, even if it does happen, that's what forks are for. This project is licensed with GPL and AGPL.
> I'd suggest that the people who make "full use" of vsc-over-ssh are satisfied with vscode, so it would be unwise to target the full featureset.

Remote SSH + Dev Containers and their seamless integration (even stacking one on the other) are the only features that keep me using VS Code. I would love to see the full implementation of these in an editor as fast and light weight as Zed.
The elephant in the room:

If software becomes a product does that mean it's no longer speech? How do you have liability for something that is copyright? What about the first amendment in the us?
I think it's visually ok but kind of hard to follow other than in the abstract. Mousing over players names is basically a crapshoot.

But, it gives the overall sense of the data. It's a bit more style over substance.

As to how it's made, looks like a simple canvas animation.
Tesla misses 4th qtr estimates on weak auto sales and warns of lower growth
You're right when I search google for "palestinian mole kingdom rape tunnels" I only see articles written from the israeli perspective, decrying mole kingdom rape tunnels.
Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden
Wasn't most of the patriot act left to expire by the trump administration back in 2020? Were those parts ever renewed since?
Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.is work for me anymore?
OT

DAE have problems with archive.is (or the alt CC TLDs) links? They have been unusable for me for months. I get stuck doing captchas.

Safari and Chrome, "standard" and incognito windows, all 4 have the same problem. I have multiple ISP to choose from, plus my cell data, all of them fail. The badges on my various blocker exts all show no content blocked.

def not a problem with my "network" or other hosts on my network, as the captcha page claims -- i have a static IP on all my connections (except cell).

but it does work perfectly from mobile safari on the same network.
All of those reasons certainly contributed, but the reality is that most people don't watch movies at home the way they watch in a theater, where they dedicate 2+ hours to the experience with no distractions.

I do that, but I have to wait for everyone to go to bed first and then turn off my cell phone. Most people aren't willing to do that.
I do agree it's very zen using zed.

As you say the interface is elegant and distraction free by default, no twiddling required to get a happy place.

So far I've only used it for my personal projects and don't yet have full muscle memory, but weirdly even the keyboard shortcuts seem more intuitive.
No I wasn’t saying (or at least didn’t mean) the compiler shouldn’t optimize automatically. I meant that ensuring certain paths are optimizable could be important when you need it. And also that language constructs would be a good way to achieve that.
As a fan of both of these, any others you'd recommend?