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You might already be aware, but there is a DISASSEMBLE function in the CL spec: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_disass.htm

The details are implementation and platform dependent, but on e.g. SBCL someone who understands assembly could use this to dig into what the compiler does and tune their functions.

I was also drawn in on the promise of insight, but I'm not so sure that's what I got out of it. What keeps me hooked is more the ease with which I can study somewhat advanced programming and computer science topics. There has been aha-moments for sure, like when many moons ago it clicked how object and closure can be considered very, very similar and serve pretty much the same purpose in an application. But it's the unhinged amount of power and flexiblity that keeps me interested.

Give me three days and I would most likely fail horribly at inventing a concurrency library in Java even though it's one of the languages that pays my bills, but with Common Lisp or Racket I would probably have something to show. As someone who hasn't spent any time studying these things at uni (my subjects were theology and law) I find these languages and the tooling they provide awesome. It's not uncommon that I prototype in them and then transfer parts of it back to the algolians, which these days usually have somewhat primitive or clumsy implementations of parts of the functional languages.

I think the reason why tail call optimisation crops up in introductory material is because it makes succinct recursive functions viable in practice. Without it the application would explode on sufficiently large inputs, while TCO allows streaming data of unknown, theoretically unlimited, size. Things like while and for are kind of special, somewhat limited, cases of recursion, and getting fluent with recursive functions means you can craft your own looping structures that fit the problem precisely. Though in CL you also have the LOOP macro, which is a small programming language in itself.
I would be surprised if any aren’t hand coded. You have to be extremely economical with shapes with this technique - generally (unless I’m out of date on css art techniques) you have your original element, a before and an after element, and an arbitrary number of box shadows of those elements which you can use to duplicate them in different colours and positions. So you have to pick 3 basic shapes to draw with. In some of these you can see that limited shape palette at play but some of them hide it very well.
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Battery life is a weird way to compare these technologies. It does not matter if you dispatch your draw calls or the retained mode framework does it for you - if you have new data to draw every frame then _somebody_ has to do it.

I do ship an IM GUI application to a small group of users and they will not know or care, as long as it does the job it needs to do. What made me choose this approach: I do not need another language/technology for my UI. Composition of the UI is done like I compose code: using functions/objects. I could see this approach failing on bigger projects or when you would have a dedicated designer doing the UI/UX stuff. As long as only programmers are working on the project I think it's fine and quite easy to understand for others what's going on in the 'UI code'.
A new Acronym, cool.

E,E,V.A,M.O,K,D

I will have to remember that one.
> People implying that the study shows only correlation really don't seem to understand how we establish causality in science.

Or perhaps you don’t fully understand the challenges of establishing causality? Just because an intervention causes an improvement in some bio markers that are associated with lower mortality (unfortunately) does not mean that the intervention will cause lower mortality.

The classic example is vitamin D supplements: Higher vitamin D levels are associated with lower mortality in many medical conditions. Vitamin D supplements increase vitamin D levels. But vitamin D supplements seldom lower mortality.

Why? Probably because vitamin D is produced in the skin when we are in the sun. The more healthy subpopulation of any study will typically spend more time outside, so they will have higher vitamin D levels. But it’s (relative) health that causes higher vitamin D, not the other way around.

The only way to reliably establish causality is really an end-to-end randomized controlled trial (RCT). Stitching together two RCTs is not sufficient.

(Not saying that exercise does not lower mortality BTW, just that it’s complicated, and a study such as this is probably picking up two signals: one causal and one purely correlational.)
Damn that is accurate
The Stabilizer Problem – Norbauer's Presentation at Keycon 2024 [video]
The only plausible result would be something along the lines of a photosynthesis hack to produce synthetic wood at a faster rate than natural processes, which would then have a market value because you could make boxes and couches and houses out of it.

But then you could also use it as a renewable fuel and we'd be calling it biofuels instead of carbon capture.
I recently implemented a compacting garbage collected arena in C, was surprised at how simple it was to make (though I need to still improve some things). I wonder why it's not used more? Just keep the really huge non-temp data buffers in a different datastructure so they don't need to be compacted, otherwise you can go wild with allocations and never have a use-after-free.
It reminded me of that as well. Very clever and very alien.
It's so nice to integrate, compared to most very well known behemoths.
Kudos to the creator ( who I think is relatively young and clearly incredibly smart )
Vector search in SQLite is what's keeping me from switching from Postgres.
Pretty good rant. No tangible actions.

Here’s what you can do:
- Delete all social media. All of it. Now. (Hacker news is ok)
- Install Adblockers
- Install librewolf of mullvad browsers
- Pay for proton mail, proton pass, proton vpn
- Cancel all streaming services and Spotify
- Delete all food ordering apps
- Stop drinking alcohol
- Own your own car and stop taking Ubers
- Don’t discuss politics
- Don’t read the news
- Only give time to family
- Figure out who your friends are, this will become very easy once you delete social media.
- Live within your means.
- Be charitable
- Enjoy the simple things

It’s just a start, but I’m living it.
It takes the opponent out of the next battle which in a long campaign might improve your chances of getting home alive
I would much rather spend another 900+ years with my loved ones (or however long I want) rather than being forced to die so ridiculously early.

Put another way: if you knew for a fact that you would get murdered 40 years from now, would you choose end it all via peaceful lethal injection today? I very much doubt it.

For every person dying "peacefully" on their deathbed, truly happy to succumb to death, there are 1000 more people that would do anything in their final moments to physically reset to the age of 20.

Also, think bigger - if technology continues to progress, we won't be biological a few hundred years from now. We'll be digitized, each consciousness likely spanning multiple redundant nodes throughout the planet or solar system. So these freak accidents are not relevant - nothing short of a cosmic event would kill you. It's highly unlikely that you'll die before whenever you choose to die - our lives would be indefinite for all practical purposes.

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Edit because of the ridiculous HN rate limit:

> The "short" life span is one reason we take risks.

No, it's why you take risks. I'm happy to take risks - the fact that I'll die one day has no bearing on, say, my decision to go paragliding this weekend, or to push hard for a promo.

Risk does not necessarily arise out of the certainty of death, it can arise out of any number of other factors.

> I bet we would get a dystopia with long living dicators and short living peasants.

People have said this about most therapies historically but this has never come to pass.

Anyways, why throw up your hands and give up immediately? That attitude never got our species anywhere.

> Altered Carbon style, eh? Cool, sign me up for a cortical stack.

A bit more clever than that :) Individual consciousnesses could be distributed to avoid death from a single cortical stack being crushed.
i love the idea, simple but effective!
> The platform lock-in is a real problem we already see. Even password managers that sync the private key most of the times do not allow to export the key material.

I'm struggling a little bit with the use case here. Yubikeys and other HSMs also don't allow you to export the key material, and sites should have account recovery flows for people who lose access to their devices / HSMs / password manager databases.

Is it merely a convenience thing, or is there an actual problem that can only be solved by allowing key material export?
What is the significance of a single div? What is the meaning, what is the method? Without an about page, I'm left to speculation.
I'm a little bit concerned about Jesus crashing the fishing industry by dumping product onto the market at prices that are too low for anybody else to compete with. It would be especially bad if it triggers some kind of broader trade war. It would be better if there was some way to quantify the risk involved.
This is absolutely bonkers.
I wouldn't be surprised. Deviation from established norms indicates that the person is either oblivious to the norms, or intentionally breaking them. Both are risky.
Snowflake AI with University of Waterloo to Evolve RAG and Retrieval Benchmarks
This appears to be an artefact of the "async call stacks" feature.

To turn it off in Firefox, go to about:config and set "javascript.options.asyncstack" to false.

In Chrome, in Devtools enter ctrl+shift+p and search for "async stack traces".
Also, Google currently doesn't really have a presence in China (and, despite some to-and-fro, currently doesn't intend to reenter the market either), so it's probably not that important to them to fix these issues. I wonder if they actively update the map or if it's stuck at some point in the past?

This isn't the first time they have done something like this, Germany was stuck with Street View imagery from 2008 (and limited to larger cities) until some time last year when they decided to finally start updating it again. This was due to some privacy hubbub back when StreetView was introduced that resulted in a law allowing building owners and/or inhabitants to request that their building be blurred on StreetView. Mind you, this law didn't forbid StreetView, but it looks like Google just lost interest, or decided to wait it out...
I stopped and uninstalled. It is very simply an overreach just to play a game.
Well it was developed initially by ChatGPT. First file I open I see repeated comments.

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/7f577a60...
This is great. we used Qdrant vector DB for an end to end automation for our AI RAG app at https://github.com/rnadigital/agentcloud, but very excited to see you are making a successor. any ETA when it would be ready to use and any quickstart guide? Maybe I can help in writing a blog as well.
Yes, but it is marginal.
Interestingly enough, the century XX saw a tremendous shift of agriculture from northern, wet lands to southern, sunny land. You could drain your aquifer but you could not add extra sun up north.

I wonder if the trends reverses as aquifers are done with, and agriculture in places like US's original 13 colonies or middle Russian lands or Prussia or northern France becomes trendy again.
Altered Carbon style, eh? Cool, sign me up for a cortical stack.
But how does that stop this sort of man in the middle attack, the other scamer on the other call just asks the real bank for the number?
Keep in mind, a presentation (text, or otherwise) is an art. Culture, background, experiences and ideologies influences art.

... and to address your tone, did you know, you can give feedback with empathy?
Lol, typical Chinese propaganda speech I'd say. But just to be fair,

> he led his team to fight for a thousand years

The page you linked to actually said "more than a thousand days and nights", not years.
The other upside is that you can store them in either HSMs or software-backed stores (password managers) or hybrids (like your phone). It's trade-offs all the way down!
People usually believes union has only positives. And that is why CEOs try to squashed it. Everything has pros and cons. Unfortunately if the crowd is predominantly pro-union, minority like yours will be construe as hostile and suspected as management disguised to spread lies. I usually told my unionized colleagues just upgrade yourself constantly and change jobs often. More than 20 of my ex-collegues did this and fare incredibly well compare to those stuck to union protection mentality.
Being good at tactics can win battles. Being good at strategy can win a war. Being good at economy allows you to win war after war.
Nature is red in tooth and claw, it doesn't care about us.

I also find it curious how many people continue to appeal to nature, while tapping a finger against a sheet of synthetic sapphire or glass that protects a delicate sheet of semiconductors, themselves made to glow by minerals taken from all over the world refined in complex chemical processes, and that glow guided by an unnaturally pure crystal of silicon cut and marked in ways too small to be perceived with any natural vision, in order to create a set of glyphs which silently convey meaning to others worldwide via a network of similar devices intermediated by space lasers and a planet spanning grid of cables laid at the bottom of the world's oceans.

Nature gave us our lifespan for the same reason it gave wolves a decade, the same reason it has elephants starve to death when their final set of teeth fail, and the same reason it made octopods go into a self destructive death spiral as soon as the eggs have been laid.
> Some elaborate technical trade barrier? I think that is giving them too much credit.

One-way knowledge flows is an ubiquitous and consistent facet of china's commercial policies.
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Can you give an example where causality is established then?

It sounds like I can hit you a 1,000 times, you feel pain a 1,000 times and you still don't believe there's a causality.
The "Dial" is very misleading.

I was expecting an MRI scan with a photo of a watch face secretly hiding in someones brain.
The "about" page is a comment in the HTML source:

> This is a CSS drawing experiment to see what's possible with a single div.
To learn more about this project:
GitHub: https://github.com/lynnandtonic/a-single-div
Mozilla Hacks: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/single-div-drawings-with-c...
Talk from CSSDay: https://lynnandtonic.com/thoughts/entries/talk-illustration-...
Codepen: https://codepen.io/lynnandtonic
Mastodon: @lynnandtonic@front-end.social
Twitter: @lynnandtonic
Yes, most of experienced runners' running is at a conversational pace, often literally (this is why running groups are popular).

To explain why harder isn't better: improvement in running comes only a little from muscular strength, so that mental model is bad.

Improvement is primarily based on aerobic development of the cardiovascular system. This is your body's ability to burn mostly-fat with oxygen, deliver the energy (ATP molecules) to muscles, and remove waste products. So you develop more capillaries, your heart gets literally stronger, and this fat-burning pathway gets more efficient.

Going too hard pushes into the anaerobic zone (burning sugar without oxygen). This is good training in some ways, but it can be counterproductive to aerobic development and, most important, it's too hard to do very much volume so the amount of stimulus is limited. By keeping it easy, you can do a higher volume of purely aerobic stimulus.
While what you suggest is true, the incentive for the developer here is to try out all kinds of CSS properties in tandem and rely as much on CSS as possible.

To put this all in perspective, imagine developers doing this between 2012 and 2015, where many websites were still designed by using photoshop built & sliced images as backgrounds and applied on divs to achieve glorious designs. (while still needing to load all the pictures needed to achieve such designs. Then come new fascinating CSS properties that can do away with needing static images to make those same designs. Back then, such creations brought aww to fellow developers as it was out of the ordinary.

Most often the main concern wasn't performance and efficiency.
I wouldn't be surprised if Region Blekinge were using something much worse and much more expensive than Whisper for their transcription.

I've been transcribing A LOT of SR (Swedish Radio) shows as part of https://nyheter.sh/, and Whisper (self-hosted) has been very accurate.
You joke, but sure, why not.
I'm a cyclist, 100km without much effort, but a year ago I started running and it was super hard. The muscles are used differently, the body get impacted with every step and it takes some learning to find the right speed to reach whatever your target is. Pain kills the fun, the only way to succeed is to start slow and on short distances.

My goal was strengthening hip (one side has a three plates and a few screws in it) and knee mobility, with losing weight being an extra that I only reach this spring due to diet changes. I did find my Zone 2, where I can chat with a running buddy, and slowly extended the distances I run: Now 5km at 5:40m/km are the norm and 10km is just as possible. Injury-free so far and no ambition for a Marathon. The thing I now have to work at is the cadence which I (at 193cm) had trouble with on the bike as well, but shorter strides at a higher cadence are important to prevent knee injuries.

Whatever you do, I think sticking to it at least three times a week so you look forward for the next run, feel well during it and keep healthy. This is more important than beating records or running insane distances. Those goals are for those with the right genetics.
My desktop is Debian Bookworm with 3 LCDs. 4 core i5 with 32GB RAM - faster than my speed of thought.

Small servers, old x86 & RPi use Alpine no X11.
nice to know but when you say "challenging real-world tasks" any use cases?

are you automating the end to end RAG pipeline?
I think this risks creating a perverse incentive where actually creating a cure is hard but looking like you maybe, sometimes, if you squint just right, cure the illness is easy. So companies start to ignore those hard cures in favour of sugar pills with warning labels on.
> why not make Electron a shared part of the OS instead of so many apps bundling it

You're describing a system webview, which is a thing on Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS.
Please do not assume your experience is universal. You simply cannot know how it feels for other people to be hungry, it might be a completely different feeling than what you get.
I’m currently building a browser extension that automates LLM interaction. Will post when it’s done
Biking in Amsterdam is leagues safer then biking in most places in the US, though. The risks are different. Helmets aren't as important if most of your crashes are going to be with another low-speed, mostly-soft bodied cyclist. Traffic and pedestrians are pretty separated and you have your own lanes to cycle in. I'm also pretty sure that a lot of biking is convenient: The local grocery store is just a short bike ride but it'd take 15 minutes by car.

Most biking in the US is biking shared with cars. You probably won't have a bike lane. Most likely, you aren't commuting or going to the grocery store - the grocery store might take 15 minutes of driving but 30 minutes of biking - if you can even go the most direct route legally. Longer biking sessions generally means more risk. I'll take the helmet in places that I must defend myself against automobiles on an unsafe path.
Why should a AGI save billions of lives?
> Its what nature intends

A better question is if it is a fitness advantage to die. And it is. If you have two species and the first dies when something happens and the second doesn't the first will "win". The first species will have its old die out and so the young will be able to evolve faster without having to compete with everyone else that is alive, only the current generation.

We have this "kill switch" in our brains already. It is the PVN. Very much oversimplifying, but as bad things build up "inflammation", it kicks of production of cortisol to deal with it. The cortisol reduces neurogenesis and little by little our brain dies. The PVN also controls LH levels so sex hormones so rising cortisol downregulate CRH and the PVN. Puberty and menopause are just the speed changing of GnRH to match. Pain, wounds, immune system reaction, they all go through this. Imagine, at one time there was a species that wouldn't die of natural causes when it was in constant pain.

Vertebrates have the PVN, invertebrates don't. Vertebrates (nearly always) die, invertebrates generally don't.

There is a reason why all the stuff to increase life span is (generally) about healing or reducing inflammation.

I am skipping over a lot of details, but you get the point. Dieing is an evolutionary advantage, not to you, but to the species.
Its about time Judges concentrated on what they are good at "The law".

How on earth do you actually get the US and googly into a toaster.

My one only takes 4 slices of bread.
I would hope that would be the case but a conservative safety culture is unfortunately built on piles of dead people.