skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to cite supposed VS Code support. I tried it. It's buggy and easy to make crash/spin/not respond/etc. even under casual use. Like... single Lisp file development. This is not to mention the absence of necessities such as correct indentation and paredit-like support. The latter we can get by without, but the former has worked in other editors for 30+ years.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great start, and I hope it gets polished. But as of 3 months ago, it still doesn't work well, so much so I'd never actually recommend it seriously to someone who wants to learn Lisp.

Have you tried using VS Code (or any other editor you mentioned) for any "serious" full-cycle Lisp development before, and do you believe it passes the minimum bar of stable and recommendable to another professional programmer or enthusiastic hobbyist? Do I need to try again?
My favorite class in college was building a raytracer from scratch and slowly adding features and optimizing. I always wanted to keep adding on to the raytracer I made but never found the time.
FYI, you're not saving money.

Printers come with "starter" cartridges that contain only a fraction of the ink of a full cartridge.
I think Swiss. He was born in Basel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
Just as closed as Microsoft and OpenAI is nothing without Microsoft's money.

At this point it is just Microsoft's AI division and is no better than another Google Deepmind.

Stabilty is the true 'Open AI' and at least Meta gives most of their AI research out in the open with papers, code, architecture, etc. Unlike O̶p̶e̶n̶ClosedAI.
I work in DevEx...it's pretty clear the market does not value DevEx as an investment area right now for companies of all kinds. There are higher priorities, but I'm eager to see areas where the counter-factual might exist.

Instead of using metrics like "productivity" I would like to see a more detailed analysis describing ways in which DevEx oriented productivity contributes to impact/outcomes on an idiosyncratic basis and how it might generalize.
My comment was more in the vein of every security bug that gets reported is followed with comments along the lines of "don't they fuzz their software", or languages like Zig that aren't memory safe but claim "debug allocators" and "support for fuzzing" obviate the need for memory safety.

A memory safe language does not need fuzzing to try and prevent memory safety errors from causing security vulnerabilities, as definitionally such errors are not exploitable. Obviously fuzzing is still valuable in such an environment because crashing at runtime is a bad user experience, but it's still superior to "trampling through memory with wanton freedom and continuing to do whatever attackers want".
I agree. restic with it's simple ability to mount (using fusefs) a backup so you can just copy out the file(s) you need, is so wonderful. A single binary that you just download and can SCP around the place to any device etc.

It's fantastic to have so many great open source backup solutions. I investigated many and settled on restic. It still brings me joy to actually use it, it's so simple and hassle free.
It is unreasonable. But it is a broken system.

I mean, in general, there shouldn't be situations that are described as "mistakenly asserting rights". But as you say, the alignment and incentives are opposed, and it's too easy, not better, for companies to choose the path of least resistance, rights be damned.
Dan Wang's 2023 Letter
> Why aren't we all putting Tiffany's like windows and doors?

Simple: it's not the same threat model. Tiffany's protects something extremely valuable that they keep behind those windows. If you had the same stuff behind your windows, you would be advised to get the same security.
I do my best to maintain online anonymity for two primary reasons: one, it lets me actually engage in real conversations with people rather than having to be selective about how and what I can talk with people about. Two, it helps with evading surveillance (particularly marketing surveillance) by keeping a firewall between my online personae and my real life.

There's a third part, too, related to telemetry -- if I know that telemetry is being collected, it changes how I use whatever the thing is because I have to keep in mind that my interactions with the thing will affect iterations of that thing. Let's take YouTube as an example: knowing that my watching habits are being recorded means that there are times when I'll play a video or let it run to the end even when I'm not interested in it at the moment, because I don't want anyone to draw the conclusion that I'm not interested in it overall.
Agree completely... used duplicity many years ago, but switched to Borg and never looked back. Currently doing borg-backups of quite a lot of systems, many every 6 hours, and some, like my main shell-host every 2 hours.

It's quick, tiny and easy... and restores are the easiest, just mount the backup, browse the snapshot, and copy files where needed.
At least, after Xi, the last vestiges of Mao will be just history (the next Gen X Chinese leader will have been born after Mao died, or at least just a very little kid). This is why Xi becoming president for life was such a disappointment for me, I expect that the next generation of Chinese leadership will be much more modern (and Xi is the first monolingual/career politician leader modern China has had, hopefully that doesn't continue into the next generation).
I spend 8 months a year on my narrowboat moving around the canals as I hunt for pubs, relaxation and peace. In winter I hibernate in my house, pining for the canals and freedom.

Also, I work full-time from the boat.
'90s Video Game Doom now on Dogecoin
@dang. This is a 2020 publication and should be indicated in the title.
HP has been the household name for printing for like 30 years. It's going to take a VERY long time for them to lose that status.

Think about how many people still idolize Bose when you can get better quality sound for the same price or even cheaper.
No, actually, it's Fantasia Archive
You've chosen to let the Russians spy on your web browser?
Awful. One of the best things about Stewart is that (I thought) he was smart enough to step out when he was done. Now it’s going to be an old tired man making out of touch japes about two even older tired men.
That may depend on what you're trying to do. If you are figuring out something tricky, then lots of quiet head down time is what you need. Every interruption hurts when you are concentrating.

However, a lot of the time is just figuring out how to glue together multiple systems. Being able to pull in various people to interface little bits is priceless. There is no flow here, only collaboration.
If you're using Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) as your upstream DNS or Firefox's DoH (which defaults to Cloudflare as its resolver) then archive.is links won't work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 for context.
Way too condescending and hyperbolic in turn, the general excuse being you believe the other post was hyperbolic. Even if the every assertion was 100% correct...D-. Revise and edit and please come see me after class.
Hence Ray Tracing in One Weekend by raytracing royalty prof. Shirley himself https://raytracing.github.io/
https://archive.ph/QtCWM
Turn on the AOA sensor error idiot light
I suspect this is a result of schedule pressure. The legacy AE firms were falling way behind SpaceX and I'm guessing they felt the need to play catch-up and didn't want to "waste" time on testing.
Excellent.
A big reason I use Sublime is because it's cross platform (Mac at work, Linux at home).
Out of touch?
Show me the silk, not a piece of plastic.
Are they still trying to appear this way and is anyone still fooled? I don't get that impression.
Ceramic is a wrapper around simple commands and while I wished it worked, it's broken and unmaintained. One can get to a working state with a couple npm commands (npm init electron-app@latest my-app ; … ; npm run make)
Uses tree-sitter, which you'll need to learn about. https://github.com/JoranHonig/tree-sitter-solidity
Looking for collaborative editors in particular. Two people editing at once, on different computers. Each person has their own copy of the file, on disk.
As long as the US it's bound to suburbia and basically living around a car, no.

Also, stop using damn Ozempic for aesthetics, there is lots of ill people with hearth issues and lots of drug stores are having shortages.
My 0.02p, it cost about £6000/yr to do it cheap. Goes up to £10k/yr with a full time mooring in a marina and outsourced services.

Boat pricing comes in a spectrum that very roughly looks like this:

3. £20-£40K Narrowboats are thirty or more years old, or are under 50ft. They have had many owners each of which will have done something to the boat. The engine fittings will be old eg. coolant hoses , the radiators might not work, the fireplace might need replacing, there is rust in important places needing welding and so on. There may be overplating on the hull to repair holes. In general, you can expect to perform regular/constant maintenance and repairs to maintain and keep them in working order. (some people enjoy this, you may not)

4. In the 40-60K range expect the boat to be about 20 years old. Generally modern and most things will be working but it might not have a good electrical system for modern lifestyles. It will have 20 years of wear and tear, and the interior might feel old and outdated.

5. In the £100k-£120 range you should see 5-10 year old boats. It probably will have a modern toilet/shower, modern electrical maybe a solar panel, a nicer kitchen and modern diesel engine/gearbox and propeller.

6. At £160K-180K you can get a new but simple/basic boat fitout probably no solar, no dinette, few cupboards. Or it’s a five year old custom build that has been fully fitted with many extras e.g washing machines, quality inverter/batteries

7. At £200K+ it a brand new boat, built to your specification. An all electric boutique boat is £220K-240K. I’ve heard of narrowboats up to £280K. Luxury wide beams over £350K do exist.
One of the SBCL developers wrote a McCLIM backend that generated HTML, had been meaning to ask what state it was in.
We did a 3000km trip 4 times with an EV as a family. We basically alternated between 20 minute charging stops and 40-60 minute stops. If you have a family, it takes about 20 minutes to bathroom, buy a coffee and pull a game or something out of the back for the kids. 40-60 minutes is a sit down meal & bathroom break.
You can try setting `export PYTHONWARNINGS="ignore"` to suppress warnings.
Rafa e Luiz
Other examples would include selling items in garage sales. How will the government automatically account for selling of a rare watch or vehicle sales? What about crypto sales and airdrops?
Microsoft is now a $3T company
Well, yes, if there's no withholding and if withholding is not an option someone sort of needs to be aware of that fact and even be paying estimated quarterly taxes. It shouldn't be a surprise and there may even be a penalty past some point.
If you support civilian lives then the very last people in the entire world you want to get behind are Ansar Allah. You have to be careful about campism. It's pernicious.
There's also the component of "there are millions of lines of existing C and C++ that continue to exist and the majority of new 'safe' languages are not designed to support gradual adoption/replacement". So you get gradual improvements to C++ that ostensibly make correct code easier (lets ignore string_view, etc) but no real path to actual safety without just rewriting everything all at once, which is an approach with a long and illustrious history of failure and major regressions even in "successful" attempts.
Data is being restored, very little data will be lost once complete – sorry for the trouble
Reminds me of what the Church of Scientology did to USENET's alt.religion.scientology newsgroup[0].

More generally, I think the Internet is unusually useful for this kind of attack. The netheads that built it had a very specific political view - namely, that censorship is network interference with a political motive. "The Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it", and all that. Ergo, all we have to do to have free speech is build better networks.

Censorship by free speech - i.e. flooding / sporgery / etc - is the "GPL judo move" of dictators. You want unimpeded network traffic? Heheh, sure. Fine. We can have 'free speech'. Free speech for me and my twenty billion alts all saying the same thing, too!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporgery
Can't wait to go caving with 100m of rope that weighs only 2kg.
If you use the CIDER debugger then this doesn't appear to be a big issue. Try step debugging the following function. I get an IFn related exception right as the call to (list name) is made.

(defn f [name list]
#dbg
(concat list (list name)))

(f 'alice '(bob))
> These are the type of failures you wouldn't see 20 years ago

I've been wondering about this. Is there an increase in failure rate or are we just reporting on issues that were not reported on before because this plane model is under extra scrutiny? When did Boeing have those battery issues? That was quite a few years ago and seemed to get forgotten about pretty quickly.
Restic also works like this, and has the following benefits over Borg: multiple hosts can back up to the same repo, and it supports "dumb" remote file hosts that aren't running Borg like S3 or plain SFTP servers.
Because the difference is that statistical models are by definition somewhat stochastic. Some incorrect answers are to be expected, even if you do everything right.

In software engineering you have test code. 100% of your tests should pass. If one doesn’t you can debug it until it does.
I think the distinction is not as hard and fast as you make it out. I found "Tools for thinking about censorship"[1] to be extremely thought-provoking. There are many nuanced arguments, but a central one is that governments often leverage self-censorship in order to effect their control over the flow of information.

[1]: https://www.exurbe.com/tools-for-thinking-about-censorship/
It would be fun to see a set of frames rendered out and stitched together to make an animated sequence. 17 hours per frame. It'll be like Pixar where you'd need a render farm of Speccy's to knock it out.
What really impressed me is how fast it changes the theme colours.

Locate the little arrow in the top right, click it and then select "Theme".

Now use your arrow keys to change the theme and see for yourself. :)
Treat Your Spouse as an Investor
I lost :-D
> Selection of those people calls for serious gatekeeping.

It's quite the opposite. You should have to convince all of them, and so the jury should include everyone. The aristocrats and the finger painters.

> Say, would it be aristocratic/elitist to refuse to fly in an airliner staffed by people pulled off the street for pilot duty?

What if the staff are overseen by a pilot and in order to crash the plane you need to convince all 12 randos and the pilot to crash the plane?

Would've prevented 9/11.
correction: W-2 software engineers that don’t do anything else are pretty screwed

1099 software engineers have some of the best tax deductions, and that earnings range is the sweet spot

one of my favorite things to do is contribute $66,000 to a 401k for that tax deduction (thats how high the employer match limit really is), immediately borrow $50,000 from the 401k and donate that same money to a donor advised fund for a charitable donation. $116,000 tax deduction before looking at actual expenses. its not advice, its one of my favorite things to do, you have to pay back the 401k over time

off $265,000 in earnings (number chosen because thats the minimum to max out a self directed 401k) the AGI would be $199,000 and the MAGI would be $149,000. keep going and get it as low as possible. I would typically try to do a FMV charitable deduction from my existing portfolio. Combined cash+asset charitable deductions can lower that year’s earnings by 60%. if you achieve that the government is only looking for taxes on $106,000 and again this is before you look for expenses. But if there are pre-existing externalities like a mortgage and home depreciation, then you’re pushing your AGI (and subsequently MAGI) down further and further.

you can get to Warren Buffett %’s pretty easily even without having long term capital gains tax treatment.
Just bought a dash cam that does this for my Camaro - works wonders!
I presume this would not really apply to "mature" hardware markets with a large number of companies already present and selling?
WebGPU and WASM are last on my list of things that are missing from PWAs on iOS. Native integration into the rest of the OS both on a UX and functionality level is much more important to me personally.

This includes things like background data pre-fetching (e.g. for a read-it-later-like app, I want all my articles to sync so that I can read them on the subway without network coverage), offline/local notifications (e.g. for a to-do list), proper backup support (all my PWAs get their local state wiped whenever I switch iPhones!), access to the local file APIs (both as a provider for things like Dropbox and as a consumer for things like document editors) and much more.

There are many apps that already don't need any of these, though. Most airline, ticketing, hotel, shopping etc. apps should really just be PWAs at this point.
Summary

1. Treat your spouse as an investor and board member from the beginning.

2. Lay out a plan and hold yourself accountable on a periodic schedule.

3. Come to an agreement on an overall plan that includes timeframes and limits on financial obligations you will incur.

4. Distinguish between asking for money, asking for emotional support, and asking for advice.

5. Schedule time and expense for the mistakes necessary to learn how to thrive as an entrepreneur.

6. Plan for iteration and refinement.

7. Commitments to customers and cofounders are important, but family commitments are more important.

8. Establish some simple practices to maintain financial transparency from the start.

9. Maintain a list of critical risks and review monthly.

10. Financial outcomes are essential, but new learning enables you to define and meet goals.
Orwell wrote about subtle censorship in a preface to Animal Farm[1] -- the book itself is about totalitarian censorship in the Soviet Union, the preface is about a more subtle censorship in britain that made it hard to publish the book.

[1]: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
great, my browser history is going to be full of secrets now
I wouldn't necessarily say the utility is diminished — it's more like a tradeoff. If you want to repeatedly transport people in bulk, you need to follow a predetermined path. Even buses tend to follow fixed routes, despite not operating on rails. Commuters would be disoriented if the E train in NYC took a different path each day for example.

So if you're following the same path every day, you probably don't need a complicated steering system, rubber tires that constantly wear out, and a large expensive battery. It's simpler to just have the vehicle operate on rails, and supply power through the third rail. Otherwise you end up with a bizarre situation like the "Vegas Loop", where you have cars driving back and forth along a predetermined path, lugging heavy batteries around with them.
Scan with random app, send with any of the various pdf-to-fax services?

As for the why... faxes operate over the legacy network using an acoustically coupled modem.
Leading a highly productive remote team and hearing great stories of competitors wasting cycles and churn creating their own problems trying to force RTO. Just treat adults like... adults?
It's also pretty unreliable on Mac too...

It's more reliable then on linux though, and windows has been doing "auto HDR" for videos for years, so kinda hard to tell when something is HDR or not there.
> Why are people surprised that openAI is closed

The surprise is more at the (EDIT: brazen) pathological lying.
This is a very unkind description of what Stephen Colbert has become.
Different means to the same goal. The Houthis have no access to the ICJ, however they have access to disrupt the maritime trade through the Red Sea, so this is how they act. There is also reasons to believe that even if the ICJ rules in favor of South Africa on Friday, and orders Israel to stop any military activity and let in humanitarian aid, that they will simply not follow it, and there is reasons to believe that USA will excuse this behavior. Disrupting maritime traffic in the Red Sea may proof to be an invaluable action in addition to the ICJ case for stopping the horrors in Gaza.
The text version: https://hitregbroke.com/anime/

TL;DR: Anime is a $25B industry but the cartoonists earn $5/hour.
Inverters with battery can provide "virtual" inertia and can be grid forming too.

The real question is which tool or set of tools will be the cheapest to maintain grid stability.
IDK, but it seems super wasteful:
Why not compute RDX and RDX*RDX outside the inner loop?
Why not precompute COX, COY, COZ and EQC once per scene?
history.replaceState (instead of history.pushState) is your friend.
Usenet was useful for this kind of attack, the internet allows you to create moderated forums that can withstand it.
your just proving my point
It's interesting that this take on Russian propaganda is itself a becoming a little outdated - flooding makes sense externally given you have external channels for it and internally, where the channels might be a given but the regime does not want to appear overly coercive.

Russia now has fewer external channels than it did in 2016 (your link) and 2021 (posted link). It's more coercive internally and a more coercive (but reasonably rational) regime needs more consistent internal messaging so that people know where the line of trouble is - defining the limits of public behaviour and expression becomes a more important part of the propaganda. There's still 'flooding' but it isn't sufficient.
This is purely an indictment of modern mathematics education. Anyone doing ordinary high school math should have had their ears full of Euler's contributions for at least a couple of years towards the end. Math teachers who don't mention Euler need to be put onto a mock Königsberg and forced to search for a solution.
> Such people can really benefit from VC oversight and business acumen.

Would it not be financially more prudent to hire/consult experts, particularly if you can get access to a startup/accelerator program? Even without easy access, there is no dilution of ownership.
>One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine.

This is a great point and kinda stings given my situation... I've got a 5 year old iMac that is still a beast by its specs, but is ancient by Mac standards. No OS updates anymore, so functionally obsolete for anyone who wants to use it as a Mac. Wondering if I should install linux and give it a second life.
SQLite Db Admin in the Browser
hallelujah! so happy to see him back
I think you are taking security upside down. You seem to be saying "prove that my system is vulnerable, and only then I will accept that it may be vulnerable". The thing is, once it's proven vulnerable, it's too late.

The question, really, is "how likely is it to be vulnerable, what are the consequences if it is, and why would I accept that risk?". In your case, you are saying that you are ready to accept the risks coming from a security breach in a self-driving car if in return it gives you the comfort of not sitting in a cold car.

That's fine, you are allowed to not care about security. But I don't think it's reasonable to say "there are no security issues and there will never be any".
ShutAI
Wow they must want my shower curtain rings and dental floss so bad