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Why send the landing mechanism to space when it isn't needed there? Whatever kit you put on a rocket has to be brutally miniaturized to limit how much you eat into the payload mass. Also has to be rugged enough to withstand tremendous vibrations and thermal stresses. That adds cost and more points of failure. You want to move as much of the complexity off the rocket as possible. Then doesn't matter if the catching mechanism on the launch tower is big and heavy. | 2024-10-13T23:48:21 |
> To bacteria, individual humans are "too big to fail" in the same way geography is.<p>...which is why diseases rapidly evolve away from lethality? | 2024-10-13T23:48:09 |
Agreed. Even if it takes a long time for us to be riding rocket ships to visit our grandparents, we'll be benefiting from this technology way faster than that | 2024-10-13T23:48:09 |
No, because there are pay caps for federal employees. Often private companies can hire at a pay equivalent to 1-3 grades higher (or more) than the billets the government has for their equivalent people.<p>GS-12/13 is a common working level for these jobs. Even on the cyber side which gets a 25% or so incentive pay on top, it's not competitive with what industry would pay. And only a handful of truly critical programs might, <i>might</i>, be able to get GS-14/15 billets for their technical staff, that'll still only be for SMEs with years of experience or certain key skillsets. Above GS you start requiring congressional appointments as well, and they aren't going to setup hearings so they can pay people over $200k, it's easier to get a contractor willing to pay that much. | 2024-10-13T23:47:53 |
Why isn't SpaceX doing that then? Why isn't any airline doing that then? Oh look, it's cheaper to use refined natural gas from a well. That's why. In the absence of either properly priced externalities, the market will always choose the cheapest option—Sabatier-generated Methane is not remotely comparable in price to fossil nat gas.<p>Mentioning theoretical solutions doesn't help if they will never be used practically. | 2024-10-13T23:47:50 |
95% is way too high a target! I sometimes want to get supplies at the special Asian food store - there won't be one in my 95% neighborhood - nearly everybody has enough of their own special hobby/interests that they cannot live 95% in their neighborhood. Note that I only counted for me - in the real world most people are in a marriage like relationship, each of the pair has their own interests and different jobs.<p>What we should aim for is everybody is in walking distance of 5 restaurants, 1 grocery store, 1 general goods store, 1 library, 1 elementary school (but not higher level - after about 6th grade students benefit from larger schools where they can take classes different from their neighbors), 2 parks, 3 churches. Then put them in close walking distance of good public transit so they can do other things that they do in life all the time (Note in particular going to work every day is not in the above list for most!). You should of course debate exactly what should be on the list and exact numbers, but the above is a good starting point. | 2024-10-13T23:47:48 |
> You can change the teacher:student ratio and still improve the number of educated. If you think this is false, then anything beyond 1:1 tutors is bad.<p>Anything beyond it isn't bad, per se, but it is less optional. | 2024-10-13T23:47:43 |
Another one<p>"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable" (chrome.com)<p>514 points by freedomben 2 days ago | 441 comments<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698</a> | 2024-10-13T23:47:40 |
They contribute in both plugins, core developers, and conference sponsorships. “Don’t contribute anything” is pure lies from Matt conveniently excluding anything he doesn’t want to count. | 2024-10-13T23:47:39 |
We will have these robots in 2 years /s | 2024-10-13T23:47:27 |
I think I partially fit into the counterculture and have had similar ideas for a persistent Forth OS. I'd love to see your work! | 2024-10-13T23:47:12 |
You can do a lot with basic physics if you understand it well | 2024-10-13T23:46:50 |
"Mountain out of a molehill" is better than lots of other possible approach angles. The core behaviour is grappling with the problem and looking for solutions. | 2024-10-13T23:46:44 |
You need cause to fire a federal employee, and that requires documentation. You often need to put them on a PIP first, giving them a chance to correct and avoid being fired. If they do something that can cause them to lose their clearance you can fast track this a bit, because the ability to maintain a clearance is part of their job requirements.<p>But this also requires supervisors willing to actually supervise. Often these folks just get shuffled around, they know no one wants them, but they know no one will go through the trouble of firing them either. Shameless, worthless people will happily suffer that indignity for years if they're also getting a low six-figure salary and know they'd get $0 outside of government because private companies would fire them with cause and they'd stop getting any salary. | 2024-10-13T23:46:31 |
Wait, and the IRS is happy with all that? With an individual using company resources for what would appear to be "personal" activity outside the company? Same with the foundation? | 2024-10-13T23:46:25 |
What is increasingly making sense to me is the description of current AI as an alien intelligence—something potentially powerful but fundamentally different from ours. Viewed that way, LeCun's use of humans—or cats—as the baseline seems misguided. Yes, there are things biological intelligence can do that artificial intelligence cannot, but there are also things AI can do better than us. And the danger might be that, because of their speed, replicability, networkability, and other capabilities that exceed those of biology, AI systems can be intelligent and powerful in ways that we have trouble imagining. | 2024-10-13T23:46:18 |
> Imagine where we could've been<p>Where? | 2024-10-13T23:46:18 |
I did one meal in between. I just make sure to eat a balanced meal (fruit and vegetables, proteins, some healthy carbs, healthy fats).<p>I'm thinking of moving to OMAD (one meal a day). I love eating big meals, and I find it helps my focus to not be thinking about eating during the day. Only challenge is not eating post workout | 2024-10-13T23:45:40 |
> I'm not sure it's still that useful<p>Until you need to boot an old x86 system for some reason | 2024-10-13T23:45:28 |
It doesn't rely too much on further AI progress. Sure, you'd need a really big training cluster, and an inference cluster, and a supercomputer to put the results together and shuffle the large transformer model I/O, and a good team, and a huge budget... | 2024-10-13T23:45:19 |
Oh no, apologies if that was the impression I gave!! I actually perform CFD simulations in HPC clusters, and in fact I'm an admin of the small cluster at my research institute =)<p>These are indeed heavy computations. What I meant is that VoF is one <i>additional</i> equation to be solved besides the N-S equations (either filtered as in LES or Reynolds-averaged as in RANS), the energy equation, your turbulence model equations, and so on. Certainly, not instantaneous at all, but simply an additional "simple" model that we can hook into our current way of doing CFD.<p>So, my point was, sloshing is a problem that we know how to simulate, although certainly you need HPC resources. Though, looking at those 100k NVIDIA H100 Elon has, I guess they have them! :P | 2024-10-13T23:45:12 |
Interesting, i am in the opposite situation. Using the deutsche bahn for long distances is often horrible so I never thought I would miss it but omg I really didn't have a good experience with Uk trains. The ticketing is complicated and the trains were often so unbelievably dirty and run down. Never had this experience in an ICE. Okay there are sometimes issues like the toilet boing out of order or the restaurant closed but the train is usually clean and fairly nice. And while the delay wasn't massive I still had delays. It's also sooo slow, there's no high-speed train. Last time I took the train from southampton to edinburgh and it really took forever and I was soo slow.<p>Even Edinburgh-London is slow! It's a similar distance than munich-berlin, a train I often take. In germany these are sleek, clean trains that take just over 3 hours, with only one or two stops with the sprinter. The train in the UK takes around 5 hours, significantly longer. I can do 3 hours on a friday evening work and arrive not too late to then meet friends for drinks, you can't do that with 5 hours.<p>And not only ICE, it's the same experience with regional trains. I used to live in Baden-Württemberg and took a lot of regional trains. I didn't think I would miss it with the delays from the new central station that they've been building for what feels like forever but now I do.<p>There are many things that the UK does better than Germany but trains they manage to do even worse (or maybe its not that bad?) | 2024-10-13T23:45:02 |
> They aren't giving money to Anduril because Anduril can fire people. They are giving money to Anduril because [...] Anduril is more competent than the people they can afford to hire.<p>Note that this is logically impossible; if they can afford to pay Anduril to hire those people, they can more easily afford to hire the same people themselves. | 2024-10-13T23:44:45 |
Creating an open registry would be nice, or even for developers to be able to host their own repos for others to install plugins from (à la Linux package managers), to avoid such centralisation.<p>Ideally, those repos would be hosted by each party, and then hosting providers would be able to host their own mirrors containing many packages for all the installs, giving a similar experience to what is now offered by Mr. Mullenweg's WP.org. | 2024-10-13T23:44:22 |
They used to have an official YouTube channel where the launches were broadcast. Now it's on Twitter. | 2024-10-13T23:44:08 |
Ah, this is a subthread about HTTP specifically - didn't notice. Explains why you focused on the IETF too. Nevertheless, my points I believe still all stand.<p>As for HTTP or any other protocols' definitions go, I'd rather not join in on that back and forth. I'd imagine it's well defined what's expected. Skim reading RFC-2616 now certainly suggests so. | 2024-10-13T23:43:30 |
> go to a boot camp and get hazed by a bunch of jocks<p>Marine Corps recruit training and Air Force BMT are world’s apart. | 2024-10-13T23:43:28 |
Just FYI I just thought as well, if you did do an EE degree and wanted to get straight into Power Systems, you would be starting out right at the bottom of the rung in an EE job when you graduate - something to consider. It’s not a horizontal shift if you’re going into Power Systems, you will be staying almost a brand new career from scratch. Just food for thought, but you actually have a lot of options so don’t let that put you off!<p>If you instead tried to get into embedded programming (C, C++) your programming knowledge can help, but you’d still need to know circuits and electronics etc. But that’s probably your best move if you are deadset on EE. You can maybe even get in without a full degree (maybe).<p>I have ~4YOE in Software. I’m not worried at all about my future career, because even though I don’t have a CS degree, I study and program almost every day. AI doesn’t worry me (I use LLMs every day, I think they are overhyped imo). I know a lot of people do worry though.<p>My job is frontend, I’m Intermediate/Senior doing typical frontend, but I’ve been diving deep into C programming for graphics programming (and eventually electronics) in my spare time and pick up free courses all the time to not just be a “web developer”.<p>Also EE I had 1 ~EE job when I graduated and it was harder than the current stuff I do. TBH I don’t see EE as a fallback option because I’m so out of practice I’ve forgotten a lot of my studies :0<p>Can you tell me what your main worry is? If it’s AI, that’s great news - I’d love to help you think more about it so you don’t worry :) if it’s that you don’t have a degree, can discuss that too :)<p>Mate, I’d be happy to do a zoom call/Google meet if you’d like to discuss things. I’m a young guy under 30, but I can talk you through my experiences with EE and Software and that may help you out some. You can feel free to email me at:<p>hello @ papillon software (dot) dev | 2024-10-13T23:43:25 |
Stoicism explores these ideas. One of the basic premises is that all external events are out of our control and to focus on what is, basically what is in our mind and our actions. Then we should try to discipline our ideas around virtues which are always good instead of outcomes and externals. That summary doesn't do it justice, if interested in exploring further. There are some good books on amazon or check out dailstoic for a quick overview.
<a href="https://dailystoic.com/what-is-stoicism-a-definition-3-stoic-exercises-to-get-you-started/#what-is-stoicism" rel="nofollow">https://dailystoic.com/what-is-stoicism-a-definition-3-stoic...</a> | 2024-10-13T23:43:19 |
Matt did when he posted his vitriolic rant to every WordPress install. | 2024-10-13T23:43:19 |
You clearly don't know what you're talking about. You simply don't argue over customizability of Emacs, nobody does, because they know it's futile. If you think anything else has even some slightly better ergonomics to extend the thing, you just have not seen the bonkers level of extensibility what's possible with Emacs.<p>In Emacs, you can seamlessly integrate a function from a third-party package, say, a command that fetches a url, parses it, performs processing, and displays the results in a browser. Remarkably, you can modify it to send the results to an LLM or another function instead, without altering any other aspects. This level of granular control is complete bananas and only possible in Emacs. For VSCode, you'd likely need to create a new extension, while in Vim, you'd have to rewrite the entire function. Emacs, on the other hand, allows you to precisely specify and override only the desired part of the function. And once again, you don't even have to save a damn file to try it out.<p>So, yeah, I don't have to compare it with nothing. Nothing else comes even close. | 2024-10-13T23:42:47 |
That's not the sense in which we use the term for HN moderation. If you prefer different terms, we could put it this way: please avoid ideological battle and denunciatory rhetoric. | 2024-10-13T23:42:37 |
I've read the new in spanish, it was not just labeled as jewish but as sefardic jewish line (the one particular from spanish jews). Most of them converted to christianity (the called "new christians") and remained in Spain.<p>On the other hand, Jewish were expelled from the whole italic peninsula (including Genoa, etc) after very extreme period of persecution 2 centuries earlier. | 2024-10-13T23:42:36 |
There is this joke that goes: "A surgeon calls a plumber to unclog his toilet, the plumber arrives and 30 minutes later it's all back up and running. He tells the surgeon 'That will be $500'. And the surgeon replies, 'Hey I'm a surgeon and even I don't make $500 for 30 minutes work!', and the plumber replies, 'I get it, I didn't make that much when I was doing surgery either!'" :-)<p>But the heart of this is that somehow we brainwashed kids into thinking that they had to be "scientists" or "executives" if they wanted a fulfilling life and a comfortable salary and that just isn't true. If you're unable to find a 'tech job' consider learning how to hang drywall or wire up an outlet and overhead light. There is both work that can be done right now that needs those skills and it can be <i>more</i> rewarding than writing some dark pattern web site that helps a schmuck trick seniors out their money. /endrant | 2024-10-13T23:42:07 |
Spain still working on the national identity while not reconciling that its two most famous sailors were a portuguese and a genovese. You can see it in claims like these or the internal reframing of the magellan voyage as the "magellan-elcano expedition ". | 2024-10-13T23:42:06 |
> <i>Now, when he's already failed to bring the community on board with his attacks, he decides that his next move is to make a big show of stealing something that had he done nothing many people would not have realized was a WP Engine property, with the net effect of reminding people that WP Engine has been responsible for maintaining what is widely considered to be the most essential plugin in the ecosystem.</i><p>> <i>But that doesn't count as giving back because... reasons.</i><p>I haven't used WordPress in years, but I've seen recent comments saying that WP Engine has been using ACF to market their hosting packages, even giving customers a "4 month trial" — not something a hosting provider really wants to see. | 2024-10-13T23:42:03 |
Check out The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. He talks about his discovery of and relationship with his inner voice / consciousness. He's also the tech founder of a public EMR startup. Super interesting read. | 2024-10-13T23:41:59 |
Well for one when someone’s AC is out during the summer, heat is out during the winter, their water doesn’t work, or worse yet is flooding, then that person has a pretty poor negotiating position. Plumbers and HVAC can basically name their price for emergency work. | 2024-10-13T23:41:53 |
And that's before considering things like the probably higher-than-usual rate of neurodiverse workers in software, for whom military cultural issues would often go from merely unpleasant all the way up to fundamentally incompatible. | 2024-10-13T23:41:24 |
You're interpreting it <i>okay</i>. | 2024-10-13T23:41:13 |
Yes. Do you believe otherwise? Why should someone be exempt from following laws based on their stock value? | 2024-10-13T23:41:11 |
The new name isn't great (too many vowels in the same place, you couldn't spell it if you heard it) but at least it's original and doesn't sound like it's a knockoff test implementation of minecraft anymore.<p>Minetest is kind of a unique experiment in how modular a voxel game can be with mods. It's pretty cool. You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. You have dependencies and stuff so not every mod has to reinvent the wheel. Much better experience than minecraft modding.<p>Minetest should lean into this and make the core gamemode more different than minecraft. Change up the artstyle, and make the physics feel better. | 2024-10-13T23:41:00 |
>I'd say yea and you can only fly an AH-64 in the military...."<p>Nice argument when you are single... | 2024-10-13T23:40:47 |
People are prone to either giving Musk too much credit or too little.<p>Musk isn't Tony Stark, single-handedly building everything. But then again, that's not how most innovations work.<p>Engineers who worked directly with Musk, such as Tom Mueller, have spoken about Musk's technical acumen and involvement in managing projects.<p>There have been many rocket programs, both public and private, that have accomplished less with more money. Bezos's Blue Origin, for example, started earlier than SpaceX and had a much richer backer for most of its existence, but is only now hoping to launch its first orbital rocket (and I hope they succeed).<p>There's more to it than just writing a check. | 2024-10-13T23:40:22 |
There are over 50 tibetic languages, which one do you choose? | 2024-10-13T23:40:21 |
What do you mean by independent switches? Like it’s vertically integrated manufacturing, or are you saying there’s a mechanical / engineering difference in how the components fit together in the board? | 2024-10-13T23:40:17 |
IMO most companies under $1B in top 5 population countries treat head of international division just the same with their head of regional.<p>So 35-40 years old leaders are common. | 2024-10-13T23:40:11 |
The recent advance of reasoning in o1 preview seems to have not been widely understood by the media and even LeCun in this case. o1 preview represents a new training paradigm using reinforcement learning on the reasoning steps applied to the solution. This step allows for reasoning to be developed just like AlphaZero is able to ‘reason’ and come up with unique solutions. The reinforcement learning in o1preview means that the ‘repeating facts learned’ arguments no longer apply. Instead the AI is free to come up with its own reasoning steps that lead to correct answers and these reasoning steps are refined over time. It can continue to train and get better by repeatedly answering the same questions, the same way alphazero can play the same game multiple times. | 2024-10-13T23:39:55 |
"Luanti"—a nice name! | 2024-10-13T23:39:52 |
Without Musk there would not be the breathtaking booster catching happening today, according to his biography:<p><i>"Why don't we try to use the tower to catch it?" he [ELON] asked. He was referring to the tower that holds the rocket on the launchpad. Musk had already come up with the idea of using that tower to stack the rocket; it had a set of arms that could pick up the first-stage booster, place it on the launch mount, then pick up the second-stage spacecraft, and place it atop the booster. Now he was suggesting that these arms could also be used to catch the booster when it returned to Earth.<p>It was a wild idea, and there was a lot of consternation in the room. "If the booster comes back down to the tower and crashes into it, you can't launch the next rocket for a long time," Bill Riley says. "But we agreed to study different ways to do it."<p>A few weeks later, just after Christmas 2020, the team gathered to brainstorm. Most engineers argued against trying to use the tower to catch the booster. The stacking arms were already dangerously complex. After more than an hour of argument, a consensus was forming to stick with the old idea of putting landing legs on the booster. But Stephen Harlow, the vehicle engineering director, kept arguing for the more audacious approach. "We have this tower, so why not try to use it?"
After another hour of debate, Musk stepped in. "Harlow, you're on board with this plan," he said. "So why don't you be in charge of it?"</i><p><a href="https://x.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1844870018351169942/photo/1" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1844870018351169942/phot...</a> | 2024-10-13T23:39:50 |
The thing that I don't get about the silly Tesla robots is that we literally had the same in the 2000s. It was funnily enough also made by a car manufacturer. It was the Honda ASIMO. Optimus is at best a slightly better ASIMO.<p>What makes it better enough to make it exciting when ASIMO stalled? | 2024-10-13T23:39:46 |
Have they added any method of setting a tool style before drawing, rather than adjusting style after drawing? | 2024-10-13T23:39:38 |
> To date Tesla have solved the same problems that others have already solved.<p>So, everybody was making electric vehicles before Tesla? This is not how I remember it. | 2024-10-13T23:39:36 |
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Set/show rules can modify the state of the top level file, which may as well be global state. | 2024-10-13T23:39:19 |
Comments moved thither. Thanks! | 2024-10-13T23:39:19 |
people will move to drupal | 2024-10-13T23:39:07 |
Different designs for different preferences. HHKB is quite classic, it’s been around since the 90s and is just refining and refining the original design.<p>I can’t go back to staggered or flat keyboards since switching to Kinesis Advantage 10 years ago. These days I’m rocking a Glove80 since the Advantage360 Bluetooth version is so buggy.<p>Still I wish there were options in my preferred form factor that are as nicely built as the HHKB. So I like to appreciate the aesthetics and craft even if I’d never use it personally. | 2024-10-13T23:39:06 |
> Cars don't scale infinitely but are also way more flexible than rail lines could ever be<p>I'm not convinced this is true. Because a train enables more density, it enables more places you can reach once on it. A car enables more geographical area, but there is a lot less things to do in that area, and those things to do are what matters. If you want to go camping miles from anyone else than a car will get you there, but if you want to do a city activity (restaurant, movies, live music, show, work) a train can get you to a much greater variety of those things.<p>Note that with both the real question is the network. A car where there are not roads won't get you anywhere. A car where there is one road doesn't get you far. Same for a train - I live in a city without a train and so obviously I can't get anywhere on it. I've been in cities with trains and I was able to get places on it - enough that I didn't need to have a car. | 2024-10-13T23:38:55 |
Back in the early 90's when being a millionaire meant something, I believe it was the NYT that ran a piece about how there were a disproportionate amount of plumbers and electricians in that class. Essentially they outlined how it wasn't a huge leap to grow your own small business in that industry and retire well. As long as you didn't snort/drink/gamble your earnings away. | 2024-10-13T23:38:51 |
The purpose was to convert most of population to christianity to achieve cultural unity, and the ones who wouldn't convert had to leave. Usually it is explained only as an expulsion of the jews.<p>P.D: there are many theories around Gibraltar, specially since it was during succession war and the country was in a civil war. | 2024-10-13T23:38:49 |
It's notoriously difficult for the government to fire an employee. It can also be difficult to fire an employee in a defense contractor. From what I know of Anduril, part of their business model is that they've found a way to handle government procurement differently where they are not as constrained? They may well be able to fire people more easily, but I think they might also do a better job of hiring and retaining talent.<p>The government outsources things to contractors because they have no idea how to manage those projects. Do you want your mayor as the foreman for the crew paving your roads?<p>As with most businesses, the government has the money but not the know-how so they need to outsource or contract. | 2024-10-13T23:38:33 |
When I consider to purchase a car, I investigate the cost of spare parts and repairs. Also are their spare parts available from other than the original manufacturer? | 2024-10-13T23:38:27 |
I'm not trying to be obtuse but I am actually confused how a modern machine correctly interprets CRLF based on the description in this post.<p>If a modern machine interprets LF as a newline, and the cursor is moved to the left of the current row before the newline is issued, wouldn't that add a newline _before_ the current line, i.e. a newline before the left most character of the current line? Obviously this isn't how it works but I don't understand why not. | 2024-10-13T23:38:18 |
I have noticed that CrewAI burns too much token for anything significant | 2024-10-13T23:38:15 |
Jim Woolsey, a hippie and early-ish computer hacker from New Hope, Pennsylvania, was an important and early force in the digitization of the Tibetan language. This interview[0] with him from 1993 is a fascinating time capsule, and interesting in its own right. He was a family friend and I always admired his singular commitment to this important and underappreciated work.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.mcall.com/1993/10/08/new-hope-man-computer-guru-to-tibetans/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mcall.com/1993/10/08/new-hope-man-computer-guru-...</a> | 2024-10-13T23:38:15 |
I am not in the mood to do the proper base rate computations but I think it's considerably less likely that this would be indirectly due to a kidney stone rather than simply any of the well known psychiatric and neurologic condition you can have at the age of ~50. | 2024-10-13T23:38:13 |
And turn planet earth to barren mars in the process.. | 2024-10-13T23:38:05 |
Yeah, they were cool in the 2000s too when ASIMO was shown off. What ever happened to that?<p>Honda is now valued higher than Tesla, right? Oh wait... no they are not. | 2024-10-13T23:37:56 |
Tanks could be rolling up Pennsylvania Ave and HNers would still flag the story to death. Heads in the sand. | 2024-10-13T23:37:37 |
WP Engine modified their own WordPress installations.<p>WordPress.org modified third party WordPress installations. | 2024-10-13T23:37:26 |
> What would be the benefit<p>Easy - being able to use a plain text protocol as a human being without having to worry if my terminal sends the right end of line terminator. Using netcat to debug SMTP issues is actually something I do often enough. | 2024-10-13T23:37:20 |
This is what made me finally accept soccer as a viable sport. Even though there isn’t a defined set of moves you can execute well that will lead to a goal regularly, their is a wave of probability of scoring that the better team capitalizes on… I still don’t appreciate all the soccer in my TikTok feed. but oh well… | 2024-10-13T23:36:58 |
Condolences on finally opening an HN account. I greatly appreciate your work even though I disagree with much of it. DuskOS in particular seems excellent.<p>I hadn't looked at comp/lisp before. It definitely looks like a real Lisp to me. In <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/mem/cons.fs#L19" rel="nofollow">https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/mem/co...</a> I see that you have dynamic typing, implemented in assembly, and from <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/mem/cons.fs#L25" rel="nofollow">https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/mem/co...</a> to line 70 you have a garbage collector. From <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/comp/lisp/compile.fs#L100" rel="nofollow">https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/comp/l...</a> I see you have closures, but I'm not sure how memory allocation for their captured variables works; from <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/comp/lisp/env.fs" rel="nofollow">https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/comp/l...</a> I infer that you are just using dynamic scoping, thus ruling out both upward funargs and tail-call elimination?<p>What's the most interesting program you've written in comp/lisp? | 2024-10-13T23:36:55 |
In the Reddit megathread on the recent drama, someone posted a summary of the IRS responses to inurement by the Board of Directors of a non-profit. It isn't pretty! [1]<p>If there is insider inurement, the IRS fine is directed to the Board of Directors (each one of them, however many) for 25% of the value of the benefit. If they do not pay in a timely manner, the bill is 200% of the inurement. Matt is the ultimate insider, "giving" the valuable trademarks to the foundation and then getting to use them for free, while leaning on other companies to pay millions. So the insider inurement is in the millions of dollars, per year, for years. Those two unknown board members of the WordPress Foundation? I hope they have great tax lawyers!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.mercadien.com/resource/steep-penalties-for-excess-benefit-transactions/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mercadien.com/resource/steep-penalties-for-exces...</a> | 2024-10-13T23:36:45 |
Our vet graduated before I was born, and I'm really old. He still charges 1978 prices. Hoping he hangs on until our last batch of cats goes on to coyote heaven. | 2024-10-13T23:36:42 |
> Stop using "linefeed" as the name for the U+000a code point.<p>stop reinventing terms. it's literally standardized with the name "LF" / "line feed" in Unicode. | 2024-10-13T23:36:36 |
discussion in 2021: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025020">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025020</a> | 2024-10-13T23:36:19 |
>"if you are a poor shmuck"<p>Sounds like you are really proud of your military. Well it might reflect how the things really work anyways. They should put it on their recruitment offices: "if you are a poor shmuck - come to us" | 2024-10-13T23:36:13 |
> They’re not creating new information<p>Most of this "knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms" is NOT creative activity. It's endless questions about the same issues everyone is having except the system developers themselves. Much of this is just displacing search platforms. | 2024-10-13T23:36:12 |
Not even a mammal. Even having the articulations in the wrong place (as the Boston dynamics dog) creates a lot of discomfort in the potential customers | 2024-10-13T23:35:53 |
you know you don't need tell everyone how you have palter's vlm to look at rel-8-5's sysdcl which has been leaked and hosted on public sites since forever. for example <a href="https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/symbolics/sys.sct/sys/sysdcl.lisp.~1059~" rel="nofollow">https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/symbolics/sys.sct/sys/sy...</a> rel9's sysdcl is not substantially different anyway, the list of module components is the same.<p>ams's hyperbolic perhaps point is that genera is significantly SYSTEM, that symbolics contribution is a kind of obvious extension of the grand vision that was already there in its totality and potential in the MIT's work. I think it's a valid argument, which I don't think can be resolved just by listing names of subsystems.<p>for example you can't just say "oh they replaced tv and window with dynamic windows", because dw uses both tv and legacy, for lack of better term, window. if you look at the flavor definition of basic dynamic-window it uses tv:stream-mixin tv:graphics-mixin and tv:minimum-window. and tv minimum-window is a venerable SYSTEM flavor. not to mention that other systems (like zwei) still use tv window directly. how thick a layer dynamic-window is on top of tv? answering that question require systems level knowledge and investigation.<p>other symbolics extensions are of similar nature. | 2024-10-13T23:35:22 |
Well, it says right there, the 2741 <i>replaced</i> Teletypes. It wasn't a Teletype. (Not sure I'd call this a "major gaffe", though!) | 2024-10-13T23:35:15 |
Nope, died fifteen years ago. | 2024-10-13T23:35:12 |
The launching of Starlink will absolutely improve the quality of internet to underserved countries and rural areas. Quality internet is a game changer. | 2024-10-13T23:34:39 |
So you really believe the richest man on the planet would go to jail? | 2024-10-13T23:34:37 |
Jewishness by matrilineal descent was a later Rabbinic innovation, probably around the third century. In Paul’s day it was still patrilineal. Even today your tribe is patrilineal. | 2024-10-13T23:34:25 |
I am not. I am saying this is a hypothesis to consider. This is not at all the same thing and I would agree with you that diagnosing bipolar on a few press articles makes no sense. The goldwater rule is a good rule imo. | 2024-10-13T23:34:24 |
Because we can convert all produced carbon dioxide from a Starship back into methane using the Sabatier process [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction</a> | 2024-10-13T23:34:06 |
Yup. Conclusion: It's not about trademarks.<p>It's about ego.<p>It's about money. | 2024-10-13T23:34:05 |
The cost of something is not related to what it is worth to life. In any case the real measure is what someone is willing to pay. I'm driving a 25 year old car because I choose to buy a more expensive house, and put my kids in various activities - as a result I don't have enough money left over to pay for a new car. I do have enough money to pay for a used car when the current one breaks and is unfixable, but I have choosen to spend elsewhere - those used cars provide exactly as much value to me as a new car and save me money. (I save even more money by riding my bike where possible so I rarely drive) | 2024-10-13T23:34:00 |
I assume you are pointing this out because it is the first reference in the paper and getting the recognition it deserves and you are simply providing this link for convenience to those who do not go to the references. | 2024-10-13T23:33:45 |
I will interpret this as a joke | 2024-10-13T23:33:40 |
<a href="http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/</a><p>or<p><a href="https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/" rel="nofollow">https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/</a><p>if you're feeling venturous.<p>>You are wrong that sometimes there is no tl;dr In the absence of someone putting in the work to make content accessible the emphasis merely falls upon the dr of tl;dr.<p>On a technical level I agree.<p>>But how does one begin? It is not with grand declarations or bold, sweeping changes. That would miss the point entirely. Rather, it is with a gentle attention to the present, a deliberate shift in the way we move through the world.<p>That's a pretty good TLDR right there.<p>But on a cosmic level, I see nothing more ironic than asking for a TL;DR on how to take back your attention. Showing you have some interest in a topic but not enough to fully read it without shifting to yet another topic your brain runs you to. Thus failing the "gentle attention to the present". | 2024-10-13T23:33:39 |
A is for Array:<p>A is for array, some things in a list<p>B is for byte, how computers exist<p>C is for character, one letter in a word<p>D is for destination, where results are stored<p>E is for event, interaction in the DOM<p>F is for file, sometimes written to ROM<p>G is for graph, some edges and nodes<p>H is for handle, it references loads<p>I is for index, add 1 as time flies<p>J is for index, but different from i's<p>K is for key, in associative arrays<p>L is for length, as in how many j?<p>M is for mode, and not like ice cream<p>N is for count, like sheep in a dream<p>O is for object, some data and code<p>P is for part, to share out the load<p>Q is for queue, process one at a time<p>R is for reader, I can't think of a rhyme<p>S is for source, and you're doing great<p>T is for time, 429 makes you wait<p>U is for user, like you'll be one day<p>V is for value, associated to k<p>W is for word, collections of c<p>X is for x-component when doing 3D<p>Y is for y-component like x is again<p>Z is for z-component, we got to the end!<p>[note, i am not sure what is meant by P = part, and I know some of these are kind of lame and got worse as I got impatient to finish]<p>[i wrote this myself, it is not ai-written] | 2024-10-13T23:33:19 |
> If you produce less value than the <i>[minimum wage]</i>, companies that employ you still have to pay you<p>True enough, I suppose, but … <i>if one produces less than one costs, a company will not employ one</i>. Why would a company employ someone who produces less than he costs? | 2024-10-13T23:33:16 |
The pro one isn't pro though. | 2024-10-13T23:33:15 |
They gave up because those types of robots are mostly pointless.<p>You're better off with job specific designs like what Boston Dynamics does. | 2024-10-13T23:33:13 |
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufbxvRo2rnY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufbxvRo2rnY</a> | 2024-10-13T23:32:59 |
It should be a Murphy Law about complex system having a perverse way of developing if you take them out of balance, or at least of the way they used to be by their own. | 2024-10-13T23:32:56 |
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