skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my mind Clojure is Lispy, Python is not, nor is Javascript.

In addition to REPL and macros, I think two other Lispy features are essential:

nil is not just the sad path poison value that makes everything explode: lisp is written so that optionals compose well.

Speaking of composing, Lisps tend to be amazing with regard to composability. This is another line that cuts between CL, Scheme and Clojure on one side, with Python and Javascript firmly on the other side in my experience.

Lisps are as dynamic a languages ever go, unapologetically.
MicroPython Playground in WebAssembly Unicorn.js CPU Emulator
Tbh I don't think it's _even_ anti-business; if people were more comfortable with subscriptions, which this should achieve, they would be more willing to enter into them. It's anti-bad-business, granted, but you'd probably expect it to if anything increase commerce in the long run.
The us system is what a free market approach inevitably degrades into when consumers don't have a real option to say no to a service.
Great Story!

I think you could also dispute the charges via your credit card company. The credit card company should reverse the charges.
A problem mentioned is that whilst this cuts off the payment, in law it may not remove the liability to pay, so the company could in future chase you for the payments.
Hope these hackers receive lots of negative reactions from their peers and people around them.
I've been buying the kids versions because in the past, it was the ad-free version and came with a free case, but the new kids version seems to have ads if not used in kid mode:

"Will my kid see ads while using this device?
Kindle Paperwhite Kids is automatically set up for your kid to enjoy an ad-free experience. However,
if you exit Amazon Kids using a passcode, sponsored screensavers will be displayed on the device's lockscreen."
Bring an immediate halt to the fossil-fuel party.
An awning entirely above the window would have to be very large to prevent sunlight from entering the window (see a passive solar eave calculator for details). A flat awning would have to be very sturdy to handle a snow load.
Why Microsoft Excel won't die
It's complex because french is full of exceptions

the classical way to pluralize "–al" words:

un animal → des animaux [en: animal(s)]
un journal → des journaux [en: journal(s)]

with some exceptions:

un carnaval → des carnavals [en: carnival(s)]
un festival → des festivals [en: festival(s)]
un idéal → des idéals (OR des idéaux) [en: ideal(s)]
un val → des vals (OR des vaux) [en: valley(s)]

There is no logic there (as many things in french), it's up to Mistral to choose how the plural can be

EDIT: Format + better examples
Other Hofstadter book titles with wordplay:

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (you have GEB/EGB, and I guarantee you he noticed those notes form a musical triad)

- Metamagical Themas (anagram of Mathematical Games)

- Le Ton beau de Marot (I don't have my copy at hand, but "ton beau" is surely a pun on "tombeau" meaning "tomb")

- The Mind's I (editor) (I = eye)

- That Mad Ache (translation of "La chamade" by Francoise Sagan; "mad ache" is an anagram of "chamade")
It's usually not the same amount. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) explicitly allows health plans to set premiums based on age and smoking status. However, this might not capture the full risk differential for some members.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/mar...

There's a deeper philosophical question here about how we should spread risks and costs across society. Like should some plan members pay more because they have a history of cancer, or because they engage in risky activities like flying light airplanes?
The comparison price for flights should be normalized. Like for example including either a carry on luggage or a checked in bag but not necessarily both, and no reserved seat.

If some even cheaper airline wants to sell tickets without carry on or whatever then they’ll have to list the higher price and offer a pleasant surprise of a lower-than-advertised price when the customer completed the booking.
The book does say "Both orders are commonly used by modern processor types".
I'd say this sentence is quite misleading, since it would lead you to believe two falsehoods:

1. That both byte orders are equally prevalent in the wild, particularly in systems that are expected to run modern C code.

2. That both byte orders are equally likely to be found in "modern" (new or updated) processor design.

It's not entirely incorrect, but a better phrasing could be used to clarify that little-endian is the more modern and common storage order, but you still cannot ignore big-endian.
At least they didn't make you make a phone call and have a rep try to prevent you from doing so for an hour (looking at you NYT).
I find stuck pixels gradually build up and kill kindles for me, after 4-5 years.

I'm on my third device now, and I have a couple of them which just won't clear. Not the end of the world but eventually there will be so many that reading is just a pain.
Nobody claims 100% availability. Doesn't change that nuclear is by far the most reliable electricity generator. The US nuclear fleet has had capacity factors in the 95% range for ages now. And the 5% tend to be planned maintenance/fueling.

Not only are the times of unavailablilty very rare and usually plannable, they are also uncorrelated. Seasons, day/night cycles and even large scale weather patterns are highly correlated.
Looks like it was introduced with Haswell (2013). So it’s safe to use if you’re also compiling with AVX2.
But what's the point of a health care system where only those that don't need it can afford it?
I had a similar issue in my old apartment. You might consider the use of a thermal battery.

Cool the space at night (when it's cooler already) as much as possible. Then during the heat of the day, use thermal curtains to both block the heat out and to trap the cool in.

On days where that is simply not enough, cross breeze is underrated.

Get one of those magnetic mosquito door net things and set it up on your front door. Open the windows and the doors when it's too hot for the AC to help and get some air movement with a fan if necessary to push air from the shady side to the hot side.
Power-over-Skin
> I hope you enjoyed Hofstadter's idiosyncratic tour of Lisp. You can find more like this re-printed in his book Metamagical Themas.

This seems like an interesting book.
Appreciate the feedback and rousing discussion

Some responses that I'll probably also update in the post:

a/ Why not start with people you know or friends?-- This is 100% the best way and I tried it first. Timing is hard and there's only like 7 people I'd want to start companies with. They all had good reasons not to embark on starting a company at this moment.

b/ Vibes is super vague-- I found it really important to get along with a cofounder as friends-- I met my CF's wife early on, we did thanksgiving together, we spent a lot of time together outside of work. We've had actual fun building so far. For some that's important, for others not. It's a great point, I'll clarify.

c/ OP is a non-technical ideas guy looking for his coding ninja-- Nope, sorry. I've never had an eng job but learned to code early in college building random iphone apps. Been building nights and weekends for the past 10 years (including while cofounder searching).

d/ Start building instead of just CF searching- great point. Building out ideas, talking to customers, etc makes your cofounder conversations waaaay more interesting because people can see you get excited about something real. Early on I had too many high-level conversations about "the space" or "starting something" that led nowhere.

e/ These "modes" are total bs-- Totally agree but gotta keep the title interesting : )
RISC-V is not going anywhere as it is not a single player. If it disappears, it will be because it has been replaced by a better alternative.

ARM is not going anywhere for a while. It dominates the mobile and embedded markets and is making in-roads in others. If it eventually gets displanted, it will be by RIsC-V or its successor.

X86 is vulnerable, more vulnerable than the other two. Taking it down is going to take a lot though. I would not bet against it. The biggest problem is that it is master of an ever shrinking empire. Even if they never lose it, they may matter less over time.
There has been a bunch of failed C killers, and C++ has massively shat the bed, so I understand that people are jaded.

However, this pessimistic tradeoff is just not true in case of Rust — it has been focused from the start on preventing footguns, and actually does a great job of it. You don't trade one kind of failure for another, you replace them with compilation errors, and they've even invested a lot of effort into making these errors clear and useful.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that TDD is only as good as your system is testable.

This means that the time of writing your first test is too late. It’s part of the core business logic architecture – the whiteboard stage.

If you can make it testable, TDD isn’t just good practice – it’s what you want to do because it’s so natural. Similar to how unit tests are already natural when you write hermetic code (like say a string formatter).

If, OTOH, your business logic is inseparable from prod databases, files, networking, current time & time zone, etc, then TDD and tests in general are both cumbersome to write and simultaneously delivers much less value (as in finding errors) per test-case. Controversially, I think that for a spaghetti code application tests are quite useless and are largely ritualistic.

The only way I know how to design such testable systems (or subsystems) is through the “functional core - imperative shell” pattern. Not necessarily religious adherence to “no side effects”, but isolation is a must.
Virtual machine changes since CP67/CMS?
Arch specific similarity functions in SIMD, with bindings in Python and other languages:

https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD
> Would you prefer diletantic government intervention in this area instead?

No, I would like a competent government intervention. Those happen, even if some would rather believe otherwise.
that will never happen. no one is going to be able to seed the amount of data that IA has. The only thing they can hope for is that a company like Google or CF provides another data center for them.
My Voyager (https://www.zsa.io/voyager), which this is a closer competitor of, starts at $365. Voyager is premium, but Ergonomic keyboards are on the expensive side, generally.
The BIOS on an IBM PC was cloned by Compaq iirc. Back in the day it was normal for software (including OS kernels) to call into BIOS ROMs because storage was limited.

This was in a different era where most PCs weren't networked.

x86_64 has moved to UEFI and SecureBoot since, but is still mostly expected to boot any live distro you'd like. Replacing x86 could drastically reduce the chances of replacing non-free vendor software with free software.
This is great. However, I'd rather Zerodha just award the FOSS projects they use instead of having random projects apply. I hope many more companies do this especially the big companies. I'm guessing there are also tax incentives at play here.
Mistral is essentially never in plural form because it is the name of a specific wind.

The only plural form people will probably know is from the song Mistral Gagnant where the lyrics include les mistrals gagnants but that refers to sweets!

Not sure why anyone would think "les mistraux"... ;)
Found the google employee, lol.

If only there was some middleground between "no remote code execution" and "breaking the entire paradigm of adblockers".

The statement that they could be "rewritten" to anywhere near the same effectiveness is straight up disinformation. There are years and years of coverage of this issue that contradict you. The debate has nothing to do with the level of effort for rewrites. This is a hostile decision by a company with a directly adversarial relationship to adblockers.
It’s not the renewable cloud trying to redefine a term go back to 2005 on Wikipedia and you’ll see: “A base load power plant is one that provides a steady flow of power reguardless of total power demand by the grid. Typically, nuclear power plants and most coal fired power plants are considered base load because it is more efficient or safer to run at a set output instead of trying to precisely match power consumption demands.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Base_load&oldid=1...

You can find that definition used regularly in older books dating well before renewables where a thing.

01 April 1967: “This paper states some of the basic principles concerning daily and annual load factor on power systems, and the use of load duration curves in coordinating the type and operating pattern of generating plant. Operating procedure is explained, and the types of plant in use or under construction in New Zealand are described. Overseas plant is divided into the categories of base load, medium load factor, and peaking, with an outline of the desirable characteristics in each case.”

Also, time of day pricing shifts users to periods of low demand so it doesn’t represent the minimum need, just the observed demand under specific pricing schemes. If daytime rates fall well below nighttime rates continually the actual usage at 3AM would fall dramatically.
Doesn't seem like there's an official announcement since any news articles about it describe it as a "quietly discontinuing" [0]

I'm in the U.S. and a search for "oasis" has nothing but eye drops in its top results. You have to scroll down to find a listing for the "International Version — Kindle Oasis", selling at just $135 [1], but which Amazon refuses to ship if your address is in the U.S.

[0] https://www.thestreet.com/retail/amazon-quietly-discontinues...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Oasis-now-with-adjustable-warm...
One problem is that the code tool is usually a one-time code export. After the export, you'll probably want to change the code--add some business logic, event handers, etc. After a while, when the Figma design is changed, there's no way to update the presentational code only without redoing the changes.

Plasmic is working on solving this problem! The designs you make in Plasmic are architected for continuous iteration. Disclaimer: I work at Plasmic!
1. It is pretty clear that it does apply to me, so agree to disagree.

2. I linked why both Israel and Lebanon are both bound? Not sure why it would matter whether it's international or not, but it crossed borders, so to me it seems clear.

3. I agree, it was an amazing feat, and minimal casualties considering the impact. Also, due to suspected/impending exposure of pager operation, there was no time to delay without exposing the operation for no impact. It was a massive military/intel win for Israel, and I can't think of a more deserving target. I don't take any joy in the civilian casualties, but I'm not sure that was even a factor due to the potential imminent exposure to the operation, and they already decided to put the operation in motion. At that point, no real compelling reason not to follow through.

I agree with you that it was entirely unsurprising that something would happen involving disrupting continued strikes. I'm more surprised that we found out as much as we have in the original post than I am surprised that it happened.
Failovers with PostgreSQL 17 no longer means rebuilding logical replicas
Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
I mean they’ve made a product decision that they’re going to limit new Siri to their new chips and 16GB of ram.

Regardless of how justified that decision is, or how truthful the marketing about their old chip was, they need an iPad mini that fits their stated requirements.
How does that work: you just tell them you renounce Jesus Christ?
Is your link working or maybe am I blocked on my network ?

If it's not working, then maybe maybe python the backend wasn't the best idea in the end?
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043

They've been working on it for a while so they can get rust into the linux kernel
There are some completely new and wacky fee structures though. I recently flew Avelo airlines - baggage fees were a function of when I paid - rising as I got closer to the flight date.
PayPal is not great at it. I assume you mean the settings->payments->automatic payments (https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/autopay/) feature.

Last year I had a company (DomainsPricedRight/OwnMyDomain aka GoDaddy) that I last did business (a one time purchase) with 18 years prior (2005), bill me under a new "subscription" with no input on my part.

PayPal sort of allows you to prevent that but it seems only with companies you have recently done business with.

PayPal did do a good job of email notification of the automatic payment and cancelling the "subscription" but there is no easy way to reverse the fraudulent payment, so in the end the consumer still gets burned for profit (it was only $1 but how many people had $1 stolen?)
It's working for me, and I see lots of traffic coming to it, so it's probably blocked for you. Most likely because it has "youtube" in the url!
> meh, it is just an executive regulation that will go away the next time the party in power changes if it isn't shot down in court first.

As a general rule, it is _way harder_ to make things worse than to make things better, politically, especially where it is clear to the average person that you are making things worse, and this is something that most normal people will regard as making things better.

Now, you could argue that net neutrality was also one of these, but net neutrality is, to the layperson, fairly obscure, and easy for a government who wants to get rid of it to lie about. This rule isn't at all obscure, most people have personal experience of the problem it solves, and it would be virtually impossible to spin revoking it as a good thing.

> it doesn't help my skepticism that these sort of people/consumer first policies don't come out of these administrations until it is election time.

This is, more or less, just a problem with the American system of government; so much of the civil service is appointees that every four to eight years there is a period where everyone at the top of the organisation changes, causing everything to grind to a halt for a while.
They can't since Meta can spend billions on models that they give away and never need to get a direct ROI on it. But don't expect Meta's largess to persist much beyond wiping out the competition. Then their models will probably start to look about as open as Android does today. (either through licensing restrictions or more 'advanced' capabilities being paywalled and/or API-only)
I'm super appreciative of what we have, but there's absolutely issues.

CAN-SPAM specifies that the link must be clearly marked and suggests using CSS to do so, but the link is still always going to be at the bottom of the email in the smallest font used. It only matters for those of us who know to look for it; many people just have to live with the spam because they don't know it's easy to unsubscribe.

Sometimes it's not even going to be underlined or distinguished at all (that may be a violation actually but I'm not going to take them to court over it).

There's other dark patterns too, like certain unsubscribe pages requiring you to type/paste your email in to actually complete the process. That is 100% intentional friction, like github making you type the name of a repo into the deletion form. It should also be illegal for unsubscribing.
I don't think any free market capitalist outside of the most extreme libertarians think that markets should be completely unregulated. It is well known that free markets have areas where they are market failures or can never be Pareto efficient. Basically any "tragedy of the commons" type scenario is such a case. Unfortunately governments like to get their grubby fingers into everything and try to regulate their way out of problems.
Perhaps because this wouldn't make sense in contexts where you're discussing what distinguishes the Boeing 747 from other planes. If you're comparing to, say, velocipedes, it makes a lot more sense.
The first airplanes are an earlier form of the airplane. The 747 is a later form of the airplane. That doesn't make the earlier airplanes an early form of the 747.

In the same way, cats are a smaller form of a mammal, and giraffes are a larger form of a mammal. That doesn't make cats a smaller form of a giraffe.
Most people are between poor and rich, he said not rich not that the poor could do it.
can it send txt messages to a phone ?
> Is this a real problem? I don't have one subscription service that I can't "click to cancel".

After 16,000 public comments, and 70 consumer complaints per day on average, up from 42 per day in 2021, the idea is that FTC made the rule for an imaginary problem?
Services like this are the reason I prefer to pay thru google play. It is much easier to just cancel it
> I do regular one-on-ones and wish that more of these things came out during those conversations.

1-on-1s are extremely unlikely to surface these sorts of things, because saying these sorts of things is very risky for people who want to continue working at the place. You're rarely going to get actually frank and honest feedback in that sort of situation unless the employee is very happy or feels very secure.

I'm not sure how much better exit interviews are, though. As an exiting employee, I've only been asked to take part in one once, and I declined because it seemed like a lot of risk for no benefit (to me).
Thats terrible. User doesn't say how they got the machine. Maybe a bankruptcy liquidation auction.

Sidenote: As a personal mental quirk, does anyone else ever accidentally read "Redbox" as "Roblox" and then have to double-check?
I don’t have to deal with any one private company except the ones that have a “natural monopoly” like utilities and they are already regulated and should be.

It can even be argued that smart phones should be calculated since they are necessary in today’s world and are a duopoly.

A powerful government can physically take away your freedoms.
> Is there any actual evidence of this?

Great question.

Some starting ideas to look for datasets: look at quality of innovation coming out of YC (short form that can be completed in < 10 minutes) versus many government agencies such as NIH (long, horrible application process that require attending training sessions).
Thanks for this little flashback to when I had to write XSLT for apache cocoon as my student job
[ ] Tick if you don't not unapprove of getting a free Prime trial when you purchase goods without checking the above box for not being completed. /s
What surprises me is that I don’t see any comments here from people lamenting that their business will be negatively affected by this. Surely there are founders or engineers on HN involved with companies that will lose profit if they allow their customers to cancel their services.
Wanted to see if it finally included taxes on price tags… but instead this law explicitly excludes taxes. So close.