skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lisp de-prioritizes legibility at a glance and concision in order to give maximum priority to simplicity in metaprogramming.

I'd need to see a source for this claim to believe that S-exprs are primarily for the benefit of metaprogramming. They have a lot of ancillary benefits in terms of uniformity, simplicity, and scope. Plus, learning paredit gives a lot of power at the keyboard, and you can't build an editing setup without something like S-exprs (or angle bracket equivalents like XML/HTML).
Scan and upload them to archive.org
I know what "continuity" means in the dictionary, I don't know which aspects of the problem at hand should be continuous and why. Continuity of knowledge (and, if yes, theoretical knowledge, tacit knowledge)? Continuity of culture of reading and writing (in general, or when applied to learning and knowledge generally)? Continuity of history (as a specific branch of knowledge)? Continuity of culture? Continuity of whole nations (as carriers of culture and history)?
> You’re projecting what you want it to mean

Maybe true. But then if it's just about development it's a rather
mundane old chestnut about reckless engineering versus good software
engineering etc. Granted, that's a different discussion and we can see
the tide turning now in terms of regulation and mandated software
quality.

Sure, the Post-Office/Fujitsu scandal, Boeing etc, show how bad
software actually ruins lives, but for the most-part the externality
imposed by the reckless software engineer is measured in "hours of
minor inconvenience".

That said.. I wonder if you did a ballpark calculation of how much
harm lies behind the Google Graveyard [0], whether the cost of what is
broken outweighs the benefits of it ever having been made?

[0] https://killedbygoogle.com/
Two questions:

1) How many people do you think are successfully escaping evil regimes via Bitcoin?

2) Energy concerns around Bitcoin/Crypto have been well-known for years. For you, how did it stay in the "laughing off" state until your position changed?

My off-the-cuff answer on energy would be to make it fully illegal to use grid electricity for mining, but that mining operations are free to generate their own electricity (and even sell the excess back to the grid, possibly replacing some set of peaker activities).
Even if it decreases when measuring in weekly or monthly terms, in all likelihood if you're measuring in terms of years and decades, a married person will be doing better than single folks.
It means the right is exclusively granted with them. I.e. no one besides the author gets to control the exclusive rights of a patent. By your logic, they can't even license it because "it's an exclusive right".
So Android is the best thing that happened to the iPhone but the worst thing that happened to developers and users.
> I tried that and gave up. Get ready to spend a lot of moeny, sensors and devices are still very expensive compared to the ZB counterparts.

When you compare apples-to-apples, there's no price penalty — for example, a Leviton Decora smart dimmer is $56 for Zigbee or $50 for Matter. Kasa's Matter dimmer switch is $27, and I see $3 Matter devices on AliExpress. Matter and Thread don't currently match Zigbee in terms of device diversity, but that's just a matter of time.

> Most Matter devices go with Wifi rather than Thread which makes your wifi network implode if you plan on installing a large number of them.

Even hundreds of Matter devices using Wi-Fi would collectively use an insignificant portion of your Wi-Fi network's throughput.
A market where Nvidia chips are all bought out, so what's left?
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Berea College is similar. I met a super smart student from there years ago. Interestingly, they were also early pioneers in being co-ed and racially integrated.

"Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College was the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. It was integrated from as early as 1866 until 1904, and again after 1954... As a work college, Berea has a student work program in which all students work on campus 10 or more hours per week."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berea_College
Your first paragraph is exactly how I feel about nuclear weapons, to put it into context. I don’t think the logical conclusion from that viewpoint is that nuclear weapons aren’t that dangerous so we should just move ahead.
Parens are powerful in lisp(s) because it means the syntax is its own AST and can be manipulated by itself (macros). It's one of those exploding head moments that you (including me) can get totally ensorceled by. But--as with all language features--I think pragmatism demands that we ask "what incredible software has this produced", and I can't think of any standouts.
People don't want to barter so they agree to take money. It's useful because you don't want to take your salary in hens or goats or GPUs or whatever and trade them for things you need. That use provides the value.

History doesn't suggest that trading with papers that can be exchanged with gold works better, is my understanding. The U.S. was on a gold standard during the great depression.
Domain names by a Human as a Service
Hi, So I'm wondering if anyone is having trouble finding a domain name for their startup or project and would like to outsource that headache to me.

I just spent a significant amount of time trying to find the perfect .com name that wasn't already taken and it was a lot of work. And, since I am currently unemployed and need to make some money, I figured someone out there might be willing to pay me a token to find them a domain name.

If you're interested, please contact me at inkadomain[at]gmail.com or via Discord (my username is inkadomain) or simply say so below.

If you have any suggestions or think this is a completely stupid idea, please let me know; it would be extremely helpful.
I legit can't tell if this is satire - hats off if this was your intent
He does mostly woodwork.
My wedding was the only time in my entire life I had every person I love together in the same room. Worth ten thousand dollars or more.
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco
Yeah, it's a misguided and naive way of thinking. Deciding whether a technological development is good (and for whom, and to what extent, and with what trade-offs, and on what time horizons) is a really difficult task. So some folks will replace it with a much easier question: "Is this new?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution
It would be nice to develop an open iPhone compatible.
And how would you feel if you were to find out that the funeral director tried to gamify the funeral by having seat fillers? That's even more insulting that someone tried to pull one over, and feeds directly into the stereotype that funerals try to gouge the families.
That's fair. Dictionary literals aren't really any more concise than a-lists.

A-list:

(("the" . 50) ("be" . 25))

Dictionary literal:

{"the": 50, "be": 25 }
Beff is a late-stage capitalism incarnation of the useful idiot, sucking off the landed technogentry in hopes of securing a life raft in the economic apocalypse e/acc is attempting to usher in. When 89% of US stock equity is owned by the top 10%, you know that e/acc is a sclerotic and thinly veiled “fuck the poors” ideology being perpetrated by precisely that well-insulated 10%, who have little to nothing to fear from a world where labor value goes asymptotically towards zero.
Can you provide some recent examples of where patents likely played a positive role in innovation?
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Rock Climbing Is the New Golf
Your post inspired me to finally write about my FOSDEM experience this year. In summary, it was a little hard connecting to people without already knowing someone there but I still had a nice time in general and learned about some nice stuff like Open Food Facts, PassBolt, and Vale.sh. Looking forward to going again next year. If I'm lucky maybe even give a talk about something, I've really been enjoying coolify this year and maybe the creator would welcome a guest speaker sharing it :)

https://blog.rayberger.org/fosdem-2024
The only two good suggestions I saw were radio buttons as well as toggles with labels on the left & right (so basically two merged radio buttons).

I think the play/pause button in media apps is an acceptable exception simply because it's obvious whether it's playing or not - you could even use it without recognizing the symbol, if music is playing you know a click will pause it.
CUDA dropped Tesla (from 2006!) only as of 7.0, which seems to have released around 2015. Fermi support lasted from 2010 until 2017, giving it a solid 7 years still. Kepler support was dropped around 2020, and the first cards were released in 2012.

As such Fermi seems to be the shortest supported architecture, and it was around for 7 years. GCN4 (Polaris) was introduced in 2016, and seems to have been officially dropped around 2021, just 5 years in. While you could still get it working with various workarounds, I don't see the evidence of Nvidia being even remotely as hasty as AMD with removing support, even for early architectures like Tesla and Fermi.
Why is it newsworthy? HN is for people who build things, so this seems like it’d be more appropriate for a trading forum.
FWIW I also defaulted to 1900 and think mentioning the millennium is far less ambiguous than the century.
In fact, side loading leading to scams is that much of a real-world security problem that Android is also trialling restrictions on side loading. Android users constantly get scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars via side loading, while iOS users don’t. Apple are being honest when they say it’s a serious security risk. From Google:

> Based on our analysis of major fraud malware families that exploit these sensitive runtime permissions, we found that over 95 per cent of installations came from internet-sideloading sources

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/google-android-dev...
I, and many other people, can execute a sale for very low rates and have a wire transfer hit my bank account in <24h.

Even coinbase is pretty fast these days and will give $50k/day wire limits to anyone with a pulse.
An open iPhone compatible is probably the answer here.
For me it's astonishing to witness these kinds of researchers to develop. Science must serve humanity
The word trusted doesn't change meanings when you move to a sales context unless you're a salesman.
https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/life-satisfaction...

people one average rate their list satisfaction from 5-7. thats a far cry from "most people are miserable."
None of this discussion is productive. Nobody is going to change their mind about having kids because of a thread on HN.

I guess because having/not having kids is such a monumental decision, people feel the need to justify that their choice is the right one.
And, crucially, you'd generally be around to help fix the website.
And if they had just used an RPN CAS like Erable... ;]

10 [ENTER] foo [STO]

« foo 32 + » bar [STO]

foo bar *
There are millions of “whole wikipedia pages” for things most poeple will never hear of in their life…
Is a top 500 super computer list a good way of measuring relevancy in the future?
Over 60%[1] of these couples have sex more than once a month, and 46% at least weekly. So, hmmm, where are you getting your data from? I guess if you compare to when you first meet vs. 20 years of marriage, the amount "has gone down" (daily vs. weekly now), but that's probably more than I'd get being single at this age.

[1]: https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-to-know-how-oft...
That seems to me irrelevant to the point being made.
That's awful for protecting innovation. You don't know the market value of each individual invention with that level of granularity.

Companies and researchers should be free to patent to protect themselves, but patent trolls with no clear technological development (no lab, no product, no licensing+developing) should be stopped.

It seems easy to me to draw a bounding box around these behaviors with a simple test. Perhaps like a Howey test [1], but for patent trolling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co.
The Goths were not seeking conquest, and were mostly unarmed; the Romans invited them in happily, the political leaders thinking they'd be able to exploit the migrants to their benefit. And both sides actually got along quite well for a while. The problem is that the Romans took in more refugees than the State could sustain, and when Rome found itself unable to continue supplying the Goths, conflict began. Wiki has a summary, at least somewhat reasonable, here. [1]

But you know, I'm not sure this line of discussion is even meaningful. If I convince you the Goths were nothing even remotely like like ISIS, is that going to change your mind on anything? Obviously not. So why bother? What I am curious is what would change your mind.

So if you look at this from my perspective, you're talking about a scenario where a government of a country would be basically endeavoring to replace its own domestic population, with a foreign one, all while somehow presumably trying to maintain some of the value that makes people want to migrate to the country in the first place. I think we could both agree that there's no historic precedent for this, immigration on a far smaller scale has shown a tendency to result in problems, and so on. Yet you seem confident enough in assuming that it might work, to simply assume it. This, to me, is pretty weird!

What, if anything, could ever possibly convince you that such a scenario might not be particularly likely to succeed in anything like a desirable fashion? And, vice versa, how could you sell somebody like me, who is skeptical of such, on it? I'm more than open to the concept, but you'd need a pretty solid argument.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_War_(376%E2%80%93382)#B...
OpenAI want to build the best developer product
Would you like to call them "TREEPs"?
I'm 50+ and happily married, but my opinion on dating sites is that they should allow more filtering based on more verifiable information. Besides credit scores I'd recommend SAT/ACT scores. Some people already filter on having a college degree and the school attended. Depending on why one is filtering based on college degree and school, SAT/ACT scores may be a less noisy measure.
Tell me you have never rented out without telling me you have never rented out something.

People refuse to pay rent all the time unless you start to threaten legal action over it. We call that late payment, but they would never pay unless you went after them, just like these companies.

> This isnt "being late with payments"

"Being late with payments" doesn't mean they are late, it means they haven't paid you yet. That is equivalent to wage theft, we just call it "late" to make it seem like a lesser evil, and "theft" when corporations do it to make it seem worse than it is.

Of course some companies will never pay and will take you to court over it, but I don't see why you should lump all of that into a giant number alongside the very benign cases.
I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like 'what was the last book you read' to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job.

The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a 'great book on management' and wanted to 'try this out'. I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare/whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.

I ended up choosing the job that had no whiteboard interview or personality test. It was just a simple conversation with the tech lead about my previous experience and if I had the experience to work on their current system.

It was the best job I ever had and they are still my client almost 5 years later.
To be fair to AMD, they've been trying to solve ML workload portability at more fundamental levels with the acquisition of Nod.ai and de-facto incorporation of Google's IREE compiler project + MLIR.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003966
Are they accepting women now?
It probably wouldn't have been cheaper. The settlement would likely look like a fixed fee for previous use + yearly fee for X years before renegotiation, renegotiated y times before the patent expired.

It's likely that over the lifetime of the patent, the total cost would have been more than the cost to fight it, and as the a sibling pointed out, settling begets more suits + settlements. It adds up fast.

This isn't Cloudflare being "good," it's in their best interest to fight frivolous suits.
Process Goals > Outcome-Based Goals
I agree, all these moves to open iOS are from some of the biggest pushers of enshittification. The walled garden is great for me, and all sideloading will do is open up new attack vectors for me (and more importantly, the tech ignorant people i care about).

I understand the corporate actors pushing for this out of self interest, but all of the bystanders cheering this on annoy me. You already have android, linux phones, etc. etc. Can't you just leave us alone in our walled garden and stick with android or linux or whatever?
Apart from this issue, which is certainly important, almost anyone can end up without friends at the end of their lives if they outlive their friends and have no opportunities to make new ones as they get older.
Very interesting example, and solid motivation for a regulatory framework. It makes sense for doctors and patients to be able to communicate through apps, and it makes sense for some aspects (even payments) to be conducted through them.

I really don't know what the right solution is overall, but I am sure that having large numbers of one-off negotiations is not the right way to solve it.
I don't know how developers manage to make simple toggle switches confusing and it makes me scared of their code but sometimes I think it's done on purpose as a dark pattern (when you unsubscribe to spam for example)
"long term oriented thinking" is an emphasis of the education software I've been building. If anyone wants to encourage or accel its dev contact me and toss cash at me/us
There's also the "get married on top of Half-Dome trick" (13km hike one way, 1.6km elevation gain for non-Californians) - keeps the wedding party small and fit!

I didn't do it, but did see one ;)
There are plenty of reasons for someone to stay home, but the comment I'm replying to is specifically talking about the financial reason(s).
You have to admit. Left-wing San Francisco isn't working.
And should the sides switch in right-to-left scripts? :)
From what I understand, the US Dollar is backed by: The IRS requires taxes be paid in dollars. It's a federal offense to refuse payment in dollars for purchases under US jurisdiction. The US has negotiated other countries to require payment in dollars for oil and maybe other goods. The world generally has confidence in the dollar as a fairly stable currency that is unlikely to collapse.

What did I miss?

My understanding of what backs Bitcoin is: By mining Bitcoin, you are provably putting yourself into a financial loss and therefore are provably motivated to turn that around into a profit. Buying Bitcoin is also equivalent to mining in this regard. That means around the world, millions of people are motivated to the tune of nearly a trillion dollars to ensure that the system continues to not only keep working, but grow more valuable.
Nihon Falcom's Original 'Ys' RPG Arrives on Switch This Week
Make magazine has a great magazine on getting into robotics via the Battle Bots type of robots.

I think it was an issue from 2022 or 2023 (not enough energy currently to track down the issue in their catalog)

Here's an article on their site about the topic:

https://makezine.com/tag/battlebots/
K Isn't Lisp (2004)
There is an irony that capitalism is claimed by the anarcho-libertarian lot. As capitalism is the most collectivised system in human history (consider, only, the scale of Microsoft) -- and also the most anti-capitalist system (ie., it forces capitalists to compete and hence dramatically diminishes their power relative to other systems).

Perhaps one day we might see capitalism as an "iterated socialism" (ie., socialism as thought about if you include time in your imagination).

And communism, libertarianism, anarchism, etc. as all products of a time-free form of reasoning where you can just pause the world and imagine that all people will "run the same program".
> Lisp is easy for a computer to parse, not great for humans.

Which is why "best of both worlds" approaches work best in my opinion, no matter if it's "just" automatic indentation and paren-counting that leaves actual editing to humans, or more intrusive approaches like Parinfer (mentioned in the article) that automatically infer parenthesisation from code indentation and edit the code as appropriate.

Properly indented Lisp is easy to read (for me), and badly indented code can be misread even in languages like C++.
Just to clarify for everyone (because I totally misread this the first time):

Executor - A person officially appointed to carry out your will after you have passed

Executioner - A person officially appointed to carry out your passing
You might also ask what is the underlying value of gold. You can do nice stuff with it and has some industrial applications, but it held value historically because of its scarcity. That's why countries changed it, because they realized their economies were more valuable that their gold stash (and it gave much more economic policy freedom)

An economist might give you a more intricate answer, but basically the underlying value of the (fiat) money today is basically the power of the issuing country's economy and government (who is the one guaranteeing the fiat validity)
To be fair, it's not quite as simple as that - people have varied sex drives. In my own marriage, we've both definitely experienced ebbs and flows when it comes to that. Some of it is external reasons, and some of it is biological - stress can kill a sex drive, and welcoming a baby to the house almost always results in celibacy for months, if not longer, for multiple reasons.

But in general, yeah, this is good advice (for both partners, of any gender.) As my grandfather-in-law said, "Happy wife, happy life."
If your values and actions align with the religious community, and you're okay being around people who are religious/spiritual, I believe it can be mutually beneficial.

If your values and actions don't align with the religious community, then you should still be accepted, but if you don't have belief, then it's unlikely you'll stay for long.

^ note: by "should" I mean that, at least in my view, a "real" Christian should be accepting and not judge others. In practice nobody lives up to this, but it can at least inform how you should feel, e.g. if you feel judged it's saying more about others than it says about you.

^ double note: "real" Christian is incredibly hard to define. The Bible can be interpreted any way you want. Ultimately what guides me is trying to do what I think is right, using the Bible as one source of information.
Is this really a theory? If so my $8 AMD stock from, 2015? is currently worth $176 so they should make more shell companies they're doing great.

I guess that might answer my "Why would AMD find that having a CUDA competitor isn't a business case unless they couldn't do it or the cards underperformed significantly."