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Ask HN: SICP Setup in 2024?
3 or 4 years ago, I started SICP on a machine I no longer have. Iirc I was working in Scheme but there was some tricky setup involved. I'd like to start again, but I don't have the free-time to explore the forum-rabbit-holes I did last time to find up-to-date information. The official SICP website links to MIT Scheme, but hasn't been updated since '03 and I've read some bits that there have been compatibility-breaking changes since then.

I've heard of using Dr. Racket, but I'd rather stay as close to the source text as possible.
Why accept oral promises when a contract with the term is definitely available? I guess you didn't record the conversation so why not giving the papers a look?
> And no, can't install newer versions of OpenWRT.

That depends on the model.
During the whole clamping down on password sharing era, I'd be very surprised if some folks haven't had to pay for multiple Netflix subscriptions (for summer houses, or their kids off at college, that sort of thing...)
I don't think there's such a huge gulf between Krita and Photoshop for digital artists. I do work with it professionally all the time, mostly dealing with texture work for CG.
Credit is basically mandatory to survive in the US today. Most live paycheck-to-paycheck, wages have been stagnant for decades, and prices have been increasing. Add in the fact that people are both exhausted from work and that there's fewer domestic "partnerships" that allow division of labor (however that might occur), you have more opportunities for slick marketing and financial jargon to make unappealing terms slide past people.
Okay, so as a thought experiment, let's say we get a superintelligent LLM, capable of somehow connecting the dots and knowing more than us as humans.

How do we avoid interpreting its correct results as bias? I mean, what do we do when it tells us that (fake example) IQ is correlated with height and that people above 6ft are more intelligent?

I'm sure you can think of spicier examples. Will we try to "debias" it by encouraging it to spit out incorrect information or just ignore certain topics?
BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant User
Maybe, but as I get older I find this sort of stuff increasingly unconvincing. I've had a lot of time to get a lot of exposure to a lot of different things now, and I have more faith in my own sense of my preferences than in "well you just haven't done the other stuff enough!" now.

I think people prefer different things because they prefer different things.
Maybe we don't have to capture so much carbon
Modelines weren't that complicated, just rather technical. Also there was a tool helping with that. Still is, but another, called 'cvt', which today still can be useful with strange setups, or to shift frequencies just a little bit, so you don't have coil whine anymore :-)
Analog Photography: The Beginner's Guide to Film Cameras
"You get an idea if the book is worth your time"

when this happens, it signifigantly raises the bar for authors and producers to deliver a desired quality rather than a spiffy promotional campaign for a pulp piece.
Correctly formatted (two spaces preceding each line, one blank line before the first code line, no extra lines needed between code lines):

def loop():
for number in range(10):
fixed_number = number
def inner():
return fixed_number
yield inner

The output:

eagerly = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
lazily = [9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9]

It doesn't work because of the way Python's variables are scoped. Your fixed_number variable is still shared across all instances of inner. Python doesn't have any sort of block scoping like you seem to think it has.
I haven't had the energy to sit down and learn something new in a long time. Its all similar enough and after 10+years of seeing code, I don't imagine any wow moments learning anything.

Maybe you'd be interested in trying to write your own language or something at this point.
Exactly like plumbers, then?
I guess. Revolving credit is expensive for the bank to hold. They have to allocate a lot of capital to back the revolving unsecured debt compared to other secured loans. I think they'd rather just make money on the regular fees and not have to worry about people holding balances. By providing credit they can charge a higher transaction fee than a debit card so that's their value add. Retailers are willing to pay for that access to consumer credit.

That's why credit cards are so popular in America vs other countries. They can charge a transaction fee that actually makes a profit. If they are regulated to a low fee then they can't give cards to anyone but the highest of FICO scores because the debt itself is so risky.
I believe it is Haidt himself who said bringing phones is analogous to a kid in the 90s bringing in a portable TV and putting on a show during class, and no one thinking that it is out of place. Of course it is! As a society we've made the determination that personal TVs and music players are unacceptable in the classroom, but phones, the single most addictive device ever made, is OK?!

My oldest is only 7 right now but I'm also seriously considering middle and high school options for him that severely restrict phone use. We play Minecraft on the weekends, he does MakeCode Arcade coding tutorials, and occasionally gets (heavily supervised) YouTube time. I don't think he's missing out on opportunities to become skilled with computers.
Kris Lane[0] has excellent work on potosi

Potosi - "the first global city" [1]
Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane[2]

I've encountered Kris's work during the pandemic; He released a book "Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis" [3] about the pandemic in 1719 which killed third of the city

Potosi as a silver hotspot had a coin mint, and of course it had a fraud[4]

https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/history/people/faculty-staff-...
https://aeon.co/essays/potosi-the-mountain-of-silver-that-wa...
https://www.amazon.com/Potosi-Changed-California-History-Lib...
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09198-3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Potos%C3%AD_Mint_Fraud_o...
These 2, in this order:

Incredible Victory by Walter Lord[1]. The story of Midway, fairly balanced.

Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully[2]. also about Midway, but more research on Japanese sources. Has updated information about some things that are taken as "truth" about Midway. Amazing book.

EDITED to add:

James Hornfischer has some great books about the Pacific Naval war:

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour[3]. 6 small escort carriers, and a handful of destroyers and destroyer-escorts vs the heavyweights of the Japanese fleet: Battleships and cruisers. Jaw-dropping descriptions of courage under fire. Fantastic book.

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal[4]. Covers several naval battles, but not much on the ground conflict. Really good book too.

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific[5]. The late Pacific war, with the invasion of Saipan, and the naval aircraft battle of the Philippines, leading up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the war.

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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Victory-Battle-Midway-Clas...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Midway/...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553381482

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Inferno-U-S-Navy-Guadalcanal...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Fleet-Flood-Tide-America-1944-1945/dp...
> keeping speakers and microphones working outdoors across many different climates

Pretty common for two humans to have trouble understanding each other through the microphone setups, too.
It's a good deal for you and I.

But half of the population are of below average intelligence.
Also, two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025261
I mean, deadbeats are probably still worth it in the long run. Over a long enough horizon eventually a person who pays off their cards every month runs into an emergency that will put them in a situation where they get stuck in a debit trap, them the banks eat for free.
> Photoshop is perhaps the easiest to replace

I wish
Yes, it's better to spend 15 years to learn Haskell than keep creating messy imperative programs without knowing how to improve.
The article says "100 times greater than TDK’s current battery in mass production" but they are not referring to the current LiIon/LiPo batteries, but the current _solid state_ battery. The capacity per liter of the new solid state battery is less than 2x of the current phone batteries (1000Wh/liter vs 5-700Wh/liter for LiPo). So no, you cannot replace one phone battery with a coin cell with the same battery life.
Companies lie and exaggerate all the time. It's called PR. It makes no difference whether it comes from a company or university, but companies have much more incentive to lie than universities, especially in technical fields, because they don't have to subject their claims to peer review unlike universities.
It just seems like a bit much for not enough.

You are asking each player to carry around this "plinth" and however many cards would be necessary to play the game in question. Do the cards start on the plinth, then go to a common area? Are games played with connected plinths?

You say "MTG meets Yu-gi-oh meets Pokemon meets Tamagotchi" but I don't really see that here. You're putting pictures on plastic cards.

And with no actual game in the two years this has popped up here, you have a real problem. Because it looks like you have a toy rather than a game. And not a great toy either, to be honest. I'd focus less on marketing and articles and more on coming up with at least one proof-of-concept game.

Because the game is what's going to sell the hardware. There's no way you're going to push many units with only the promise of game(s) in the future.
"Costing the bank dearly" = losing $10 million a month, which is trifling for Wells Fargo.

The Bilt card is a no brainer for any renter who qualifies. There is zero opportunity cost to the points earned on rent.
Hmm, maybe... although that wouldn't help with the aggregating multiple nodes issue, or would require a lot of app-side logic.

In this example, I have 200GB of ephemeral storage available on each node, ideally I'd like something like this:

node1: /tmp/data1 (200GB free space)
node2: /tmp/data2 (200GB free space)
node3: /tmp/data3 (200GB free space)
node4: /tmp/data4 (200GB free space)
node5: /tmp/data5 (200GB free space)

...pods could some how mount node{1..5} as a volume, which would have 5 * 200GB ~1TB of space to write to... multiple pods could mount it and read the same data.
As far as basic needs go: affordable clothing, healthy food, clean water, access to annual preventative healthcare and urgent acute care, small but well maintained living space with climate control, basic communication device and internet plan, public transportation/(e)bike, walking distance to grocery stores and parks.

Non-basic needs: car ownership, suburban/rural living, living in areas with extreme temperature or acute water supply issues, luxury clothing/electronics/etc.
High volume single-use drones and DJI drones are almost completely orthogonal in terms of technology, production, and procurement. The only thing they really share is MEMS gyroscopes and brushless motor windings. Making a million FPV bomb drones and making a million consumer camera drones are such dramatically different tasks that there is not a chance this theory holds water.
I wonder what the economic reason for that would be, assuming that such a battery exists.
Kinda what I was thinking -- why not retire or change careers? Being a doctor for many years presumably affords one that option.
> Why do I want to read an intro CS book? I've read those before.

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - TS Eliot.

You aren't a curious person who studies things for their own sake and finds wonder in exploring ideas. That's fine, this book is clearly not for you so why concern yourself with it? Most of my friends who are obsessed with their field count many intro books as their favorites and frequent re-reads.

> condescending promises of enlightenment.

It sounds like you're more upset that other people enjoy and therefore recommend this book. You're the one asking for proof that it's worth your time. It's clearly not. People who are curious and like to explore ideas in computing recommend this book frequently to other like minded people.

If you don't like sushi, why question somebody's recommendation for their favorite omakase place?
We've always liked crappy stuff. Try reading 1930s pulp. (Sci-fi, Westerns, adventure stories, detective novels, what have you.) It's almost all garbage, even if you can set aside the chauvinism of the age. The difference I see between then and now is that the dominant media outlets are elevating garbage as their premier product, where in the past they occasionally produced prestige works that went for highbrow appeal. It's not that the median has shifted down; if anything, it's slightly better garbage than it used to be. It's that there's doesn't seem to be anything at the top anymore.
It seems to me the only way to fix this problem, aside from some sort of large regulatory changes by the government, is for doctors to start unionizing or striking to force better conditions. What would happen if doctors simply refused to do more then 60 hours a week? Is there really enough supply of new doctors coming in that the hospital can just fire them all and replace them with doctors willing to burn themselves out? Or would it mean the hospital would have no choice but to hire additional doctors so that each one would only have to work a sustainable number of hours?
even for the most hardcore capitalist these practices are short sighted and will result in bad financial outcomes long term.
Plus these would be coin sized, but 100X more dense as I understand.
If affinity would just get their act together and release their suite for linux we could all get over adobe real quick.
https://archive.is/h0hTX
I had similar issues with OVH. Got an annual contract, didn't like their service, went to cancel but it had already renewed into second year and I had to cancel 30 days before that. So I missed my small window. Now stuck with another year because to cancel means just pay out the rest of the contract. Grrr.
That's a fair point about books. But even then, I simply can't relate to a life that revolves around consuming media. There's a lot of great movies and TV shows as well, but I don't know how you can spend so much time watching TV (or even reading books) that you run out of stuff to watch (or read), and still manage to lead a rewarding life.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you basically just described good logging practices, yea?
They have already done optogenetics on non-human primates.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2023.1193...

However, I think those methods of triggering opsins are rather invasive (implants). I don't think it would be hard to design light activated opsins to recieve frequencies in the optical window of skin/bone. If I remember correctly the human body is somewhat resistant genetic transfection, so we have that going for us, which is great.

There is an optical window for skin in the near infrared band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_window_in_biolog...

Bone optical windows are being explored though that has some interference with water.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016SPIE.9689E..4JS/abstra...

Better watch what you put in your body /s
Color me shocked that customers who float their monthly rent on a credit card are not the solid foundation that one can build a banking business on top of.

"We will make up for it in volume!"
Bilt is shit. My apartment complex megacorp changed to them about 2 months ago.

On signup, the have an opt-out credit card application where they try to force a credit card on you, they failed to disclose they charged a 3% fee for paying with a credit card until after signup is completed. They send unsolicited ads for random products and services as push notifications with no opt-out.

I'm also not renewing my lease, and this is one of my reasons.
Even worse, in my opinion, is the proliferation of the buy now pay later schemes even apple are embracing

At least with layaway plans, you had delayed gratification.
next month you'll be complaining that there are no doctors in your area willing to see you inside of a month?
Yeah I was using dogear as a way of signalling "prefer this page"
My integration tests expect the db to run. If I need fixture data, those are sql and read in at the start of the suite. Each test uses its own temp db/tables and/or clears potentially old data before running.
Then how do you separate what is defined and can't change to what can be changed? If everything is defined then nothing can change.
I'm not sure they really can leave whenever they want. I think once you're far down the education track you will probably feel like you're trapped into continuing even if you decide you don't want to do it anymore, because the education loans will kill you and you need the big income on the other end to fix this. That probably contributes to the creation of a lot of miserable and crappy doctors.
The regulations generally have required businesses to respond to written requests.

While GPDR and others vary, at least with CCPA two data points are enough to get a release of data.

What's done is if general info on you has leaked (say email address / date of birth / social etc) then someone can use that to go to Apple and now request a full dump of everything they have on you.

So you can leverage one dump / leak, and now go after lots of players that have to comply with a data export request to get everything you want to know about someone.

Google / Microsoft / Apple / etc can have a surprising amount of sensitive data (every photo you have taken or that's been shared with you) and even though you've been hit by one data leak, you may not want those folks to be able to leverage that for more leaks.

https://dataprivacy.foxrothschild.com/2019/02/articles/europ...

The liability is usually very high if the companies DON'T release data - so the bias moves to releasing data (there are folks who go around putting requests in and complaining if the data dump is not easy to get).
they can always join or open their own practice.
The Q is obviously custom (Q for "Quake") the question is where the starting point for the font was. I agree about the cherry picking, but the font is going to have been modified for the game (as evidenced by the "Q".)
Last gas for 100 miles is a safety issue in remote areas, it doesn’t drive significant gas sales, the signs are generally put up by the state not the gas stations, so that’s not an example of FOMO advertising. Neither is “part of a balanced breakfast”. That’s advertising, absolutely, but not a FOMO strategy.

McDonald’s is using it sometimes, you’re right. I was originally thinking of basic items, burger and fries, but they do have seasonal items and limited time specials, so I’ll grant you that one and stand corrected.
Health Update – I Lost Everything
I recently used Privacy card to purchase a monthly subscription to Adobe Acrobat for a one-time need. They've been failing to charge me $30 for weeks now. Sad that I have to resort to this kind of stuff to protect myself from businesses.
Presumably Adobe will have to stop these practices to settle the case.
Similarly for sanitization, if you want to really reduce the subset of allowed tags, and to normalize input it's a pretty good intermediate format. Did this for a classified ads site, that included listings from external companies... it was easy enough to shift H1-H3 to H4-H6, keep basic formatting elements and eliminate the rest.

Markdown in the database is also easier to look at, reason with and takes up a lot less space. Especially if the content was pasted from say MS-Word to a Content-Editable field... omg the level of chaos there.
This whole deal is very confusing.

What exactly was Bilt Technologies providing? My expectation is they would used AI/BigData/TheForce to identity which renters are likely to be balance carriers. How did they not hold any risk for the leads/users they generated?

So Wells eats the HUGE interchange fee from the rent, and then divides the piddling remaining fees with BILT and pays them $200 for each customers?

The use case, is give landlord this card alone, set for auto pay, and earn “points” but then do all other spending on a higher reward card it seems like? What were the points? Cards are routinely paying 2% cash back…
Quixotic features like functions and variables.

Edit: Sorry, was cranky from being hungry. I take issue with “useless in the real world.” The first chapters introduce variables, functions, recursion, and lambdas, and not much more than that. That’s the beauty of the book. Flexible ideas that are immensely useful and form a great foundation for learning computing. It’s not the best total beginner book, I’ll admit, but it’s a great beginner-intermediate book for those who seek mastery.
Scientific Linux 7 End of Life June 30 2024
No, the Android community adopted Kotlin before Google added any support for it from their side.
Cookie consent only apply to non-necessary cookies.

The laws are great because every cookie consent form is essentially saying, "we as a company want you to accept a cookie that is unnecessary."

If you don't install unnecessary cookies, you don't need to have a consent form.
Horses were domesticated thousands of years prior to the development of agriculture.
Aren't they building new coal(!!!) power plants recently?
Does this just ban importing DJI products (bad enough) or does it also ban owning and/or flying a DJI drone you already own? (really bad if that's the case, but also would be difficult to enforce)
This is a strawman.

"Rich" people don't want socialized healthcare because of perceived or real disadvantages of that system. Not because "the poors might get it".

Also the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" is another strawman, used by those who dislike capitalism. People can and do support a variety of causes and policies without they themselves benefitting from them.
there is already a massive medical provider shortage
A lot of it is the privatization and therefore optimization of healthcare. Why does the hospital only employ one doctor? Yes, maybe they have the headcount and it's an actual shortage of doctors, but I'd guess that the admins have reduced headcount and are trying to be cost-efficient. (This is why nurses are perpetually understaffed; either they're actively trying to keep headcount down, or they're underpaying so the headcount stays open.) Why do they need tonsillectomies to take 14 minutes? Again, trying to "optimize" healthcare.
It's a lesson we all have to learn at some point, that was mine.

Recording calls is always tricky because of party consent rules, although telling people you're recording probably puts some guardrails on behavior.
You can ask the LLM "now describe it with breathless enthusiasm", if that's what you want. There's been no shortage of training examples out there.
Let's take a look at Oracle's love/hate relationship with open source software
Interact with Nvidia's 340B Model
"to" not "of"

Though if you have $400/hour to spend, you can get an u7in-32tb.224xlarge in AWS us-east-1 region.
> It’s basically universally the wrong tool for any given job but that really doesn’t stop people.

I find mocks useful for testing conditions that are on the periphery and would be a decent amount of trouble to set up. For instance, if I have a REST controller that has a catch all for exceptions that maps everything to a 500 response, I want a test that will cause the DAO layer to throw an exception and test that the rest of the "real stack" will do the translation correctly. A mock is the easiest way to accomplish that.