skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some combination of [0], [1], [2], and [3] is the closest modern equivalent.

[0] https://slime.common-lisp.dev/

[1] https://github.com/joaotavora/sly

[2] https://mcclim.common-lisp.dev/

[3] https://lem-project.github.io/

Also, Portable Genera is still being developed by a former Symbolics employee but unfortunately it is only available for a chosen few, at least for now.
No. They charge you and if you dont pay, they report your debt to credit agencies.
> support for the students using their own computers.

painful but thats how you teach people to fish instead of being consumers.
A glass roof? I personally would have hated it. I don’t want the inside of the Notre Dame to be well lit and airy.
> Dr. Barry Sears

Why would I refer to anecdotes from a medical doctor? If this is a real thing, we should be seeing it by now. The article you linked is nearly 15 years old.

People have been eating fish oil capsules in droves over the last two decades. They are readily accessible to people with TBIs. Where are all the miracles?
> I have a long rant about how open source is wage theft and value extraction by unscrupulous third parties is built in and unavoidable.

How can it be wage theft when people voluntarily contribute to it? If you don't want others to use your software, don't write open source software.
There are leaderboards [1] that can provide a rough estimate of the relative capabilities of different models.

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
My biggest issue with mcmaster's website is that it doesn't provide any sort of navigation hierarchy - if you go into, say, the "rounded head screws" subcategory, there's no option to get back to the general "screws" category besides the browser's navigation buttons.
What does agile have to do with anything? You think waterfall explicitly provided time to test out the UI and "sand" it?

This is a process that generally requires a product manager to choose to prioritize, together with a capable UX engineer and/or designer.

That prioritization can be inserted into any development methodology if you want it.

Agile is irrelevant here.
How do you know that the internet isn't just a bunch of underpaid people churning out content in the guise of AI and "machines"?

Occam's Razor. There would be massive coordination behind any effort to make the internet "dead". It would be such a vastly complex mechanism.

Cheers, M
this is typical HR bs...no explanation, no discussion, 'we have a paper that says so'...i still have to hear from any HR sources about their methodology and science behind it, and in the meantime everybody else is dancing to their tune
According to whom? I’ve developed and run Wordpress sites for nearly 15 years and never enabled revisions on a single one.

This whole line of thinking—one person defining the “core tenet” or whatever—seems directly contrary to the ethos of open source. If Matt doesn’t think people should be able to turn off revisions, he should put that in the license. Otherwise, users can do what they want and open source leaders should celebrate that.
First you have to appreciate that Make isn't as bad as you think it is. If you want to improve on it, then first you will really have to understand it.

That's the pitfall that so many would-be build system authors fall into: _Holy crap, why is it so complicated? Surely something simpler would do the job... [YEARS LATER]... Shit, my build system is so ugly because of all those damn real-world edge cases I've had to fold into it._
It's pretty bizarre to claim that WP Engine is causing confusion here when the real confusion is between WordPress.org and WordPress.com
Jetbrains is pretty ok on this front. I've been enjoying using my beefy computer to do work from my potato laptop.
If you have a large client population, you could try something where you pick e.g. ten clients at random to build-and-upload the same artifact, and if they all come up with exactly the same artifact, and collusion between them is sufficiently implausible, you could decide to trust it.

Apple also has something for iOS called "App Attestation", where you could publish an app to do the building, and then if your server receives an upload from a successfully-signed app instance, you would know that the app code itself was not modified: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/establ...

This is all assuming you can't just do the build yourself to verify what they did. (If you could, why would you need them to upload it?)
Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?
Is there still a lot of stigma around it? Any downsides to using it for solo projects?

Whenever we're discussing tech stacks, whether it's here or on X or on Reddit, the most commonly mentioned frameworks are Next.js/Remix/SvelteKit (for those who really like JS/TS) and Rails/Laravel/Django (for those who want "batteries included" and don't want JS in the backend). Occasionally, it's HTMX+Go (for those who don't like "magic" and also don't like JS). But .NET rarely, if ever, comes up, let alone any Java-based solutions like Spring Boot or Dropwizard. Are these tools particularly bad for non-enterprise projects? From what I've seen, they appear to be nearly identical in most ways that matter. Just like Rails et. al, .NET is "batteries included", cross-platform, MVC-based, favors "convention over configuration", has what appears to be a Turbo equivalent in Blazor, and has decent documentation. Does the runtime environment somehow make it harder or more expensive to deploy? Are the "batteries" included in Rails or Django somehow better?
> the US has been waging wars for almost the entire time it’s existed, and it’s managed to build the worlds largest economy while doing it

Colonial imperialism is a highly effective means of resource extraction.
If you’re not putting the input inside the label then you’re doing it wrong.

Bootstrap changing this in v4 is no excuse to not do it.
It's the bones that make them crunchy
What? You sound like someone who's complaining about all the "pointless" semi-colons in C++ code.

If you can't be bothered to learn the basics of the language, your criticism isn't going to be worth much.
A Guide to Access Control Models
> Companies that depend on FOSS would contribute if the license did not explicitly tell them that they don't have to.

No they won't. They'll only contribute if they're required to, or if doing so will be beneficial to them, and they'll do that regardless of whether the license says they have to or not.

When I've worked at companies that use FOSS, and have needed to modify those sources, I'll contribute back (regardless of license) if I think that change is likely to be accepted upstream, because I'd rather not have to maintain a fork. This would fall under "contribute if doing so will be beneficial to them".

At any rate, no FOSS license (that I'm aware of, or is in wide use) requires users to contribute. At most, they require that changes be made available. There's nothing that says the changes need to be submitted (or accepted) upstream. Often getting a change into a state where it would be accepted upstream is a significant amount of work beyond what the company has already done for their own purposes, so they don't bother.
> the Ukrainian military’s reliance on Starlink, a satellite-based internet provider run by Elon Musk, whose stance on the war is at least Putin-curious.

Ha, "Putin-curious" is an amazing phrase.
Of course not. This is not some rhetorical gotcha you think it is, there’s a huge difference between rules like “don’t use a phone in class” and “don’t drink alcohol ever in your life anywhere”.
X Loses Battle to Protect Genshin Impact Leaker's First Amendment Anonymity
The human brain, the authors argue, in fact uses multiple networks when interpreting and producing language. These include:

- the language network, which delivers formal linguistic competence
- the multiple demand network, which provides reasoning ability
- the default network, which tracks narratives above the clause level
- the theory of mind network, which infers the mental state of another entity

This leads to their argument that a modular structure would lead to enhanced ability for an LLM to be both formally and functionally competent. (While LLMs currently exhibit human-level formal linguistic competence, their functional competence--the ability to navigate the real world through language--has room for improvement.)

Transformer models, they note, have degree of emergent modularity through "allowing different attention heads to attend to different input features."

I was wondering, is it possible to characterize the degree of emergent modularity in current systems?
It's $26 on Mouser, which seems like a reasonable price.
The Rise and Fall of China's local government financing vehicles
(You should probably spoil the surprise, because few of the readers of your comment are going to track down & buy a 16-year-old RPG, and spend the necessary 10 or 40 hours to reach that point and learn what the surprise is and how it illustrates anything of interest about the Fable games.)
Your argument is perhaps unintentionally implying that WP Engine's offering is 10x better. WP Engine is the competitor. It's ridiculous to suggest WordPress.com wouldn't be the default, obvious choice for hosted/managed WordPress.

Put in B2B terms, this is as if AWS only sold managed ElasticSearch and they did it well enough that it forced Elastic to change their licensing (as happened in real life). But of course, WordPress can't change their license because it's too ubiquitous and doing so would be an obvious, massive backfire.

If WordPress.com was truly competitive, this whole issue wouldn't even be a discussion. It's middling and expensive. And Mullenweg is upset that people are willing to pay for essentially Lightsail-but-it's-just-WordPress over his own offering.
A more accurate and even more confusing statement would be “Wordpress is not Wordpress” which is a reality that I’ve had to explain to clients (in a former life) countless times.

“But when I go to Wordpress.com…”

SORRY, forget everything you saw there, that’s not Wordpress. Same logo? Yes. Branding? Yes. Company? Yes. But it’s not Wordpress.

This one setting that WP Engine disables is a shame, but it’s nothing compared to the confusion that Automattic has brought upon themselves
Death is the default (2022)
Those are such wide ranges it’s almost meaningless. I would love to see something more definitive like

1-3 months|4 sets of 10|12 sets per muscle gp per week

3-6 months|5 sets of 8|15 sets per muscle gp per week etc.
> If the Supreme Court says the decision is in accordance with law - and they're the ones with the legal authority to make that assessment, and the Congress has done nothing to reprimand the Supreme Court and overrule their assessment, then the judge's decision, by definition, is in accordance with law.

That's completely false and not how the law works in Brazil.

> The problem as I see it is you disagree with that assessment.

Because it's just plain false.

> Appealing to a vigilante like Musk to settle your internal disagreements is not a wise move, my friend.

Nobody is appealing for Musk, he's just one, of several people affected by that and reacting.
> when sufficient energy is crammed into a sufficiently small space, particles that were not previously present can sometimes be created out of that energy

Huh, could say the same about particle physicists and multibillion-dollar collider proposals.

Don't get me wrong. I think we underspend by an order of magnitude on basic research. But the $17bn the Future Circular Collider is proposed to cost [1] (which comes to $30bn if we assume similar overages to the LHC [2]) could be spent better. That's like, six Europa missions [3]? Three James Webb telescopes [4]? Like fifty gravity wave detectors [5]? Thirty years of Moderna's R&D budget [6]?

[1] https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-colli...

[2] https://en.as.com/latest_news/how-much-money-did-cerns-large...

[3] https://www.space.com/europa-clipper-mission-explained

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/james-webb-space-teles...

[5] https://www.wired.com/2015/09/long-search-elusive-ripples-sp...

[6] https://www.biospace.com/business/moderna-slashes-r-d-budget...
This is cool and very polished, but my advice (which may not resonate with you) is that you should channel this attitude into some user-facing app instead of letting it basically go to waste on a personal website most people won't see or won't use for more than a second or two.
Why would you say that? I believe the GP is correct. Unless something drastically changes, why would we expect companies to start getting generous, spending money they don't have to? Especially in the context of donations! If we're talking about a licensing shift that requires companies to pay, then sure. But for donations? I doubt it.
I assume by python-esque they meant monty python-esque (comedy-esque, versus python the programming language-esque), so remember to context switch, especially if you went to read the article from HN!
Good tip! Never realized this could be done.
jevons effect
> A fact of life: Nearly always people with money, power, and optimization problems don't understand optimization, fear and resent those who do, and choose just to avoid the subject.

Worth considering this hard question: who optimized their life better? Them or us?
The developer is giving the game away for free.
Only if you avoid common plugins that need some server-side interaction, for instance Gravity Forms.

(Probably _unless_ you use some custom rewrite rules, but then you're walking on less-trodden paths)
This drives me insane.

PC Part Picker, DDR5-8400 48 GB (2x24GB) is... $340 right now.

For $680 you can get 96 GB of very fast RAM.

How about someone make an NVidia GPU with 96 GB of RAM at a reasonable price?
Please?
That's only if they agree with your description. I really don't see that happening. I just see the simple, factual retort: "we're not deadbeats, and if you wanted us to pay, you should have sold it to us instead of giving it to us for free."

Which is absolutely correct!

As an open-source author and maintainer, I have no desire or motivation to call any of my users "deadbeats", especially when I license my software under terms that specifically do not require any kind of payment. That would be pretty hypocritical, as I've used lots of open source software (both personally and professionally) without paying for it.
Your assumption is quite wrong.

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-wo...
I was in Delhi then. I saw one of the photos in my memories the other days. Even now it felt otherworldly. All my other memories there had hazy skies. It was even more eerie because the Diwali before had aqi > 1,000 and even indoors was so hazy you couldn’t see the other side of the room clearly (well my flat wasn’t sealed great but still)
look forward to confusing my sysadmins when I present them with a MLKEM pub key :)

Probably will use this on my homelab though.
A lot of software development choices are driven by fashion. Much of the time the decision making is based on thinking like "this is something cool I have heard of and it will make me feel cool to use it".
I'm sure you could do it with modern dotnet. I just have a gut feeling that most people who go solo do it partly to escape their old corporate stack to try something different. So usually it means ditching Java/Dotnet. At least that was the case a decade or two ago. These days every corporate stack is javascript based and as a reaction people go HTMX+Go to escape React.
Even free games have an opportunity cost, or do you have unlimited time and energy to spend on playing games? Not that I'm saying Moonring isn't worth it, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's free of critique or evaluation of quality.
A quick search does bring up this page, which mentions an observational study where people who drank more diet soda gained more weight. https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-sodas-and-weight-ga...

But, again, "diet soda causes weight gain" doesn't explain how drinking more diet soda would lead to weight gain. Whereas "people who drank more diet soda also ate more (than those who drank less diet soda)" seems both plausible, and would explain the result.
My Lisp is rusty and was never that great to begin with, but:

Why is mcd a macro? And isn’t it missing a gensym?
> if it stops being maintained and the lack of updates makes it fatally insecure or something, it can become effectively obsolete.

Sure, but that won't happen immediately when the maintainer abandons it. It might not happen at all. There's usually going to be plenty of time for a company to switch to an alternative, or even take on maintainership themselves.
Any recommended AI companions?
In general they can't. They would only know if the IMEI came up as stolen in their database if it was reported.
I’d like to see a video of this working as it seems improbable. Techs are legal geniuses but seems like they’d have a script that boils down to “so sue us.”
> Particle accelerators are pinging the deepest layers of reality that we can possibly reach

Technically, yes. But imagine our focus is Earth science. The name of the game is drill the deepest borehold. Now, the Kola Superdeep team could rightfully claim they are digging into the deepest layers of our terrestrial reality that humans, heretofore, have ever reached.

But if you only dig boreholes, you're not reaching our planet's iron core. At least not for, at the very least, centuries for materials science to catch up with science fiction. Instead, the secrets will be unveiled through seismology.

Similarly, it's fair to ask whether building bigger and bigger synchrotrons is akin to trying to discover the secrets of Earth's interior by drilling deeper and deeper boreholes. (Disclaimer: I have zero background in particle physics.)
Yea I agree. One of the things I value in social interaction is knowing that I'm being heard by another human being. There's no possible way for that to happen with an AI, so the interaction is significantly diminished. So talking to an AI with that intention/need would cause me to lose my mind.

That other response chain to your comment is one big facepalm.
I believe Odoo does this. They tag transactions and even if you have a chart of accounts for your reports, the tags allow these kind of customizations IIRC
Should've called it Oreutils.
The Frankish were famously good sword smiths. Even the Vikings preferred Frankish swords to their own.
This would be unbelievably inefficient, game engines will be running hundreds of millions of functions per second. And if the code runs 10x slower with the trace active, then it's no longer sensible.

We use sampling for the cases where this level of detail is needed as it has lower overhead.

What use case did you find this useful for?
The performance bottleneck with regards to revisions is on write, rather than on read.
That's absurd. The source code being open and redistributable is the key point.

No open source maintainer is obligated to run a public issue tracker or listen to users at all if they don't want to.
They're essentially extending credit lines to people they know nothing about. Sounds like they should just stop doing that. Their "lock down the phone" solution should be illegal.
I chose Ibuprofen for the analogy because it requires no prescription and there’s often no doctor involved.

The reality is that most use of these tools will involve no medical professionals, and the people using them will often be the most vulnerable to their effects, for better or worse. It seems like a potentially slippery/dangerous path for the people who need the most help if there isn’t some kind of structure and guidance from a real human and some deliberate pathway to real human interaction.

And for the people who don’t need this degree of help but decide to use these bots out of convenience, it seems like the erosion of social habits will only happen faster.
Whenever I get my cholesterol tested I have low good cholesterol and high bad cholesterol, is that hyperlipidemia? Any recommendations on how to get high long chain omega 3 and low omega 6 in my diet? Any supplements or brands I should take? Any books that you recommend I read?
The point of the post is that in my long experience there was not much about optimization that in any significant practical career sense was "applied", i.e., no jobs even to keep one from living on the streets, far from a career to buy a house and support a family.

The point about my Ph.D. with a lot in optimization is that I was quite well qualified in the field, but even with all those qualifications "applied" was not real, i.e., there just was nothing like a career in optimization applications.

Can suspect that, yes, "Ph.D." did seriously damage all career prospects, optimization, math, even computing.

The successes I did have were in computing. At the time the math was a small aid.

Did get paid for some work in applied optimization on some military problems. Looking back, there was some stranger in the office eager to discuss the weather, etc. with me. Maybe I said the wrong things about some of the US foreign wars, and then the stranger was gone. Might have been some high end military job interview that needed only gung ho attitudes toward foreign policy.

Delicate political situation, and I was oblivious about politics. Like, "stick to two subjects, the weather and everyone's health" and avoid "sex, politics, and religion".

Early on while I was in a grad program teaching math, some recruiters came from DC desperate for anyone with some math/physics education. I interviewed: Got a offer and took a job right away. Soon bought a new car and got married.

In those days, around DC, to get a job, just look in the WaPo, apply, go on the interview, show some knowledge of some of computing, get an offer, compare a few offers, with, say, a 15% raise, and accept one -- worked great. For a while, at GE time sharing national HQ, was the main guy for the applied math library, e.g., the FFT, regression analysis. Later a good background in "applied" optimization, worthless.
It's saying that it could be either +/-50 ppm from the actual reading, or +/-5% from the actual reading, whichever is worse.
I just have a hard time reconciling how one could describe a game as "decent" but also hold the opinion that it isn't worth the time spent playing it, but I guess we just use that word differently.
Yep, this is indeed annoying but infrequently pointed out.
Chicken chaser, do you chase chickens?
Is there a term for this sort of linguistic conversion? On one hand, it's part of what makes natural languages so powerful--we can use the word language to mean English, Haskell and pheromones. On the other hand, it leads to confusion when we're overly parsimonious with fun words, e.g. plasma.