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Its general purpose. For now I'm trying to build out all the basic language features. Once its built I'll use it as my daily driver for whatever I'm coding.

It's a lisp so it can be used for anything since macros have been implemented. You can create your own syntax using macros.

I'm working on a Lisp dialect which is far from done and changing every day but I thought I would share it: https://github.com/lodenrogue/hith

It uses python for the interpreter.

Is it just HN or is Europe really a surveillance state? Seems every article posted on here is about how different governments in Europe are passing more laws to spy on their citizens.

If it truly is like this how are you Europeans ok with this? Do you really trust your politicians to have your best interest at heart?

Books have a built in fast-forward feature.

There seems to be a smear campaign against Anthropic ever since the DoD incident.

> Respecting the user’s OS setting is straightforward: use the prefers-color-scheme media query in CSS.

Funny that this website does not respect the user's OS settings at all.

The Mahasi method is quite different. You don't try to calm or control your mind. You observe and note your experiences as they're happening. Over time the calmness comes (and goes) but its not the goal. The goal is to see reality clearly. This clear seeing (which is where the word Vipassana comes from) leads to a change in the habit patterns that cause our stress and suffering.

For anyone interested in Vipasanna mediation in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw: https://sirimangalo.org/text/how-to-meditate/

Exactly

> Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true.

This subtitle really bothers me. Science isn't about finding out what is true. Science is about finding out what is false and building models to explain the rest. We can never confidently say we know something to be true because that closes the door for future science to disprove our beliefs and that's exactly the purpose of science.

The best we can do is come up with increasingly more useful models accepting that in the end all models are wrong but different models are useful for different purposes.

We Americans are used to overeating. In Asia 1 piece of chicken and a small side (kids size) is enough for 1 person.

It's always hard to predict the next big leap in technology but it seems that companies will soon have a surplus of GPUs and RAM as their AI experiments come to an end. This will create some interesting opportunities for machine learning and, especially, robotics.

I think a major push we'll see soon is in the autonomous robots space. Things like self-driving cars, factory automation, and, more interestingly, home automation robots. There are a few efforts like Figure and Memo by Sunday to make general purpose humanoid robots. In the next 5 years I suspect we'll see a ramp-up in these efforts.

We've been dreaming of these bots since, at least, Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots play from 1920. The idea that one could have a machine do the cleaning and cooking has captivated the imagination of every generation. I feel we're very close to making this a reality.

Of course, as with all technology, dark patterns will emerge. Humans will become attached to these machines and anthropomorphize them. Imagine the prospect of having your emotional and physical needs taken care of by a thing that looks like an attractive 20 something year old who never ages, never argues with you, and never says no. Many countries are already experiencing negative population growth and if people start having romantic relationships with their bots this could become an epidemic.

Because the smaller players can't afford to implement the new regulations they lose their marketshare and it now becomes available for the bigger competitors to absorb.

Regulations create monopolies. Even when regulations are aimed at curbing the control of giants, smaller players usually can't afford them and lose market share. This is actually taught as a competitive advantage strategy in business school. Corporations lobby the government to implement laws that seem to hurt them but in actuality create an uneven playing field where marketshare becomes available due to the higher implementation cost.

They never use data to make decisions. I used to ask my managers for ROI analysis on new features they wanted to work on and they would stare blankly at me like I was speaking a foreign language. These people do things by "instincts" and for optics not because they've done any kind of analysis. Its easy for departments to be inefficient if your company is making billions of dollars per year. The million dollar losses go unnoticed.

I understand that but we're getting a lot of non-tech related political posts lately.

Yeah, thats a good observation. I wanted to keep the Python types like True, False, and None since its built for Python. That made more sense to me so that users could easily embed it into their Python scripts.

I started working on a Lisp interpreter in Python a few days ago so its really nice to see your implementation.

If you're interested here's my repo: https://github.com/lodenrogue/hith

Its very early stages and missing a lot of key features but its been a lot of fun figuring stuff out. Will definitely study your source code to learn more.

One interesting counter data point is that 70% of billionaires are self made. No small loan of a million dollars from daddy for them.

You mean the video games?

Ah ok. I understand now. The website isn't making an additional request to the government to verify that the credentials you gave are real. The authenticity is built into the signature.

The government still gets to know what you're doing online. How is that privacy?

Reminds me of Google banning first time small business owners with no explanation and basically forcing them to shut down their businesses over night because without Google they couldn't find any customers. Happens way more often than people realize. Usually, the cause is something dumb like not having a link to a privacy policy clearly shown on the main page of their website but Google never explains this.

This is pretty normal for tech stocks. Most have a big pop on the first few days of IPO and then they drop. After 180 days, insiders can start selling shares so there's another drop around that time due to a higher supply for shares on the sell side.

Parents want to relive their childhood and experience things they never had the opportunity to through their kids. They also want their children to have similar positive experiences they once had. We all watched Disney movies on replay and were glued to the TV whenever Mickey Mouse came on, parents today allow their kids to do the same. Disney capitalizes on this and bets on it being a recurring, generational, funnel for producing future customers.

I 100% agree that this is terrible, they're doing it for personal gain, and its treason against humanity. All I'm saying is there are underlying causes that drive people to do these things. If we can understand them maybe we can change those causes so it doesn't happen again in the future. I think any sensible person would agree that a future with less of these kinds of experiences is better for everyone.

We take comfort in fantasizing about a black and white world and condemn others without trying to understand what drove them to act this way. If, perhaps, we could understand the underlying causes we could remove them and prevent as much evil from arising in the future. But we first have to admit that cause and effect is real and applies to human behavior.

I imagine at some point, after earnestly trying to help the American people with real science, these people get tired of working thankless jobs where they're up against monstrous bureaucracy and just want to do something that benefits themselves and their families. Sadly, and in part because our society rarely rewards beneficial work the way it does exploitation, these people find the path of least resistance to be this kind of journey.

Beware the creator of this language doesn't want your contributions. He'll just take some of the code you wrote and pass it off as his own so no one else gets their name on the project.

> This is a detailed study performed by experts. Do you believe they would overlook such obvious explanation?

Yes, they could have possibly overlooked things that appear to be obvious in retrospect. Happens all the time because it may or not have been the focus of the paper, or the time constraints may have not permitted this level of research. This is why we usually have multiple papers, each building on each other over time, on the same data sets/topics.