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github.com 3y ago

LLRL – Lisp in Rust

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github.com 6y ago

Covid19 Open Datasets

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observablehq.com 6y ago

Show HN: Covid Chart with Observablehq

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

[video] Nick Szabo on Blockchains and Smart Contracts

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twitter.com 12y ago

Youtube censors Bitcoin speech

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: new cryptocurrency?

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bitcointalk.org 12y ago

870,000 Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox

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www.ccc.de 12y ago

Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: how do blackhats meet?

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www.plosone.org 12y ago

Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults

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newgtlds.icann.org 12y ago

New Top-Level Domains

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: new top level domains?

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www.icann.org 12y ago

ICANN: Resolution for Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

tl;dr = tl;dr

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newgtlds.icann.org 12y ago

ICANN: rights protection mechanism published for new gTLDs

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Personal Computing: Historic Beginnings (Alan Kay) [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: killer JS framework for RIA

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the best agent framework in my opinion is Pi. Pi avoids MCP thats a good thing. why assume that the planet will migrate from HTTP to MCP? no, instead lets assume we have client code we can call. we already have a rich ecosystem of HTTP services and packages. and if we assume a rewrite for agents we probably wouldn't come up with MCP but something more powerful.

Open Social 10 months ago

DNS is much more foundational and overlooked here. how does the world agree that "x.com" resolves the way it does?

yes, you can think of Lisp almost as an intermediate language. Lisp probably lends itself well to machine code generation but I haven't done enough assembly to really know that. its not designed for that, its just a side effect of the language primitives being very very short. you can write a basic Lisp interpreter in a few hours yourself https://norvig.com/lispy.html. Creating a decent compiled language takes a lot longer than that. Lisp only requires 5 or so primitives and it doesn't have a grammar.

it is a bit ackward for humans but machines can process it better because it has less structure. for example what I thought is that Lisp could potentially be a great choice to interop with Large Language Models with, because its potentially shorter code. Good clojure code can be 5-10x shorter than python code. With LLMs size of code matters a lot.

Code thats written in Lisp is using AST differently. It makes the process of generating machine code much easier. This in turn enables macros which is meta programming not available in non Lisp languages. However on the other hand I tried this avenue and since most modern computing is not Lisp based it severely limits its potential. I'm hoping for a Rust based Clojure or variant. Clojure has the problem its based on the java ecosystem which has severe downsides. A lisp thats based on python doesnt make much sense to me personally python isnt a good language to write other languages in. I think Zig and Rust would be the interesting choices. One attempt: https://github.com/clojure-rs/ClojureRS

See also: https://paulgraham.com/avg.html

Zig 0.11 3 years ago

seriously?

"The National Security Agency (NSA) has recommended only using 'memory safe' languages, like C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift, in order to avoid exploitable memory-based vulnerabilities."

check nomadlist.com. nomad style would be travel to all the ones you fancy and spend a few weeks there, then you'll know. one of the most favourite nomad places worldwide is thailand and bali. if you factor in costs work from home/paradise very likely gives a lot higher payoff than locating at tech hubs in terms of price/value. e.g. Chiang mai, Thailand frequently ranks #1 on nomadlist. living cost there is shown at 1000$/month (versus 4400$ in London or 6000$ in SF, 3600$ in Brisbane).

makes sense. would you consider supporting a longevity DAO effort? mechanisms like onchain treasury to fund projects and voting on those. who knows what the barriers for newlimit will be, but surely one challenge is the traditional legal process.

richard, do you think a DAO would be better for this than traditional non-for profit organisation? notably newlimit is a for-profit. given the aubrey de grey was ousted from sens in suspicious way after the capital injection, its time to rethink traditional legal entities for this kind of work?

Oh, it is a great work of art, this financial engineering. Anyone who has put in money is down 90% already and will never see that price again. I'm not surprised at all - Cryptographers without knowledge (pun intended) of economics shouldn't be designing these systems. Zooko and everyone involved made a great fool of himself.

Launches are happening everyday. Best performing Altcoin is Ethereum. It went to 1,000,000,000$ this year very quickly. On average investing in Altcoins will likely lose money.

Great job - the currency is down 97-99% since launch 2 weeks ago (depending on what prices one takes from the first day of public trading). I've been following Altcoin launches since 2013, and this was the most ill-advised and corrupted so far.

true. I'm looking for something where I can potentially build the whole IaaS myself on baremetal at some point. Vultr looks great - thanks!