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> Most PL research is done with Racket

A lot of PL research is done with Racket, but I doubt it is even close to being most, or even more than 1 or 2%.

As for Rascal vs Racket, they really are going after different language engineering niches.
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There are LED 'dumb' TV's.
Artificial selection versus natural selection. New facial muscles emerging without design or intent is quite different from two separate groups of people trying to see how big/small they can breed a dog to be.

Selective breeding works incredibly fast on evolutionary timescales. You can get a selected population to no overlap with the parent population on your variable of interest in seven generations quite easily.
Regardless, imho from many years working with their platform

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

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> The 'The Average American' does face 'adversity', because most people are barely getting by.

> ...

> It means no car trip to Myrtle Beach

were you trying to make the point that people concoct adversity where it doesn't exist? because i think you're doing good work on that front. keep it up.
I wouldn't be surprised if humans haven't changed too since dogs befriended them. I imagine it's really a symbiotic relationship in the wild.

Both are social animals. Dogs have the speed and the teeth. Humans have the brain power, stone throwing and cooking. Dogs can mind the human young to a large extent and humans can feed the baby dogs cooked food. It's win win and a fearsome combination.
>Which begs the bigger question of why not just fly the plane straight down into the ocean?

Probably pilot intended plane never to be found and blame never assigned to him. So it could be intentionally unfalsifiable.
Just wanted to chime in since you specifically mentioned the "65" LG OLED", which is the same TV I have (specifically the OLED65B6P). When plugged into the internet it has all of the usual unfeatures (including ads displayed over hdmi input), however if you leave it unplugged from the internet it works great and boots up almost instantly to the last input selected without any fuss. Furthermore, the HDMI CEC commands work as expected (in both directions--control of the tv from the computer and control of the computer from the TV with all of the expected buttons on the remote being passed through). The set is also quite good about supporting legacy S/PDIF (optical) passthrough so I haven't needed to replace my receiver.

So far the only feature I have been unsatisfied is that for some reason the set does not auto-shutoff when the hdmi input is not active. For example, I had it hooked up to a computer which was set to turn the monitor off after 15 minutes and instead of the TV shutting off it displayed an 'input disconnected' screen. As a stopgap solution I set the computer to have a 'screensaver' that is all black instead of turning the monitor off--which works pretty OK since the OLED is completely 'off' when displaying a blank screen. The only downside is that the the electronics in the TV stay running, so the power consumption in this state is about 20w.
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This is in line with what I hear but there are a whole host of lowered costs as well that are often overlooked in these types of breakdowns. Most notably, equipment costs, benefits, and space reuse. Especially for places that are not fully established I would have thought such trade-offs would be very enticing.
Efficiency is a “bad deal” in a place with a very low floor of benefits / lifestyle. In economies with very high minimums, efficiency is not too bad! Would you prefer a dynamic market with winners and losers or a stable market that’s kinda ok for a lot of people? This trade off seems pretty easy but over long periods of time the stable market starts to look like a stagnant market that may not allow new entrants to new industries, creating a permanent lagging behind the dynamic/higher-outcome-variance market. So you want some turmoil / “creative destruction”. This is why imho barriers to firing people is bad. I’d rather have the gov’t be the social safety net than the employer.
Hell, go back to the early jailbreaking days - Clippy before apple had cut & paste, SwirlyMMS for picture messaging. Apple's been stealing idea for ages.
What would happen if subsidized loans were simply capped at a much lower maximum? You'd expect enrollment to drop at first, but would universities adapt by lowering tuition? Or would the enrollment rates just stay low? Or would students take more expensive loans?
"solving big national problems for mutual benefit"

"the environment for individuals to achieve their dreams of an independent and secure home life"

"Levittown served two or three generations very well"

Each of these statements are simply not true. The benefit, the individuals, the generations- they were all white, by law (whites-only requirements were written into the covenants.you had to sign to buy a place). Sure, not everyone could take advantage, but everyone who could was white. This article is misrepresenting the history: this was for white benefit, white individuals, and white generations.
Limit humanity to 500 Million people?

* Doesn't that seems a bit arbitrary?

* What about when we stretch out through the solar system and beyond?

* What about advancements in technology and behavior changes?
And bone structure, just forget it. Mammals have mostly the same sets of bones attached the same way--a bat's wings are just gigantic hands with webbed fingers in skeletal terms.
How about we separate the phone network from the Internet. I see no reason why VoIP should exist to be honest.
That's part of it but mostly it's due to rent seeking on the part of degree granting institutions.
Depends, are they custom or off the shelf? Are they environmentally sealed or open? How many cycles do they need to last for? What sort of conditioning circuitry do they need?

There will always be the cost of additional wiring harness and copper wire at some cost per foot. Some additional testing time when the consoles are assembled to verify the switches are all working Etc. Time has a cost associated with it during assembly as well.
Personally a big fan of my Samsung smart TV. Although the Twitch app was recently removed which is a tad annoying.
How about we make phone calls a whitelist-driven system with cryptographic tokens and use software to give your phone number to others. When this exchange happens, it comes with a token, and your phone does not ring if the token is not included.

So when someone calls you and you expect it to be bob, but it is steve the scammer, you can revoke bob's token and text him with WTF bob? How much did steve pay you?
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How do they get away with such an obvious trademarked name? Or is Excel considered generic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20049900
> A 2018 Gallup poll found that only 25% of Americans thought there was too little government regulation. Another 33% thought we had the right amount, and 39% thought there was too much.

The question of "Is there enough regulation" is the wrong question. The right question is "Is there enough _enforcement_ of regulation?". I suspect that answer is very different.
Main issue with recycling is sorting. Perhaps there are ways to solve this using technology.
Creepy. Makes me envision a dystopia with Bond villain super rich dudes with lots of AI driven robots ruling over ~500,000,000 slaves after they bioweapon a few billion into early graves to make way for giant nature preserves.
Network effect is more than none, but less than all.

Lyft is also around, and it seems that there is very little friction for both drivers and riders to choose/arbitrage.
Really? As much as I like the comfort of the rear radars for big vehicles, I’ve always found the camera a bit useless
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Either (or both of) roper grounding or a residual current detector would have made that day of mine a lot less exciting. I'm still happy using metal-cased mains powered devices, but I'm somewhat more careful about checking those two things before I hang on to them tightly these days...
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It’s fairly obvious about what is going on with tuition costs. The burden has shifted from the tax payers to students, due to budget cuts. If you simply put the funding levels back to 90s a lot of this would go away.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-lost-de...
No. Teardrop.
I'd be very surprised if Chihuahuas and Great Danes literally have all the same bits. Canines are the most morphologically diverse animal, surpassing even humans. If there aren’t dog breeds that all have or lack a particular muscle, type of hair or bone I’ll be very surprised. Poodles have webbed feet for one, or just consider how some breeds have floppy and others pointed ears.

It’s reasonably likely the muscles that are universal among dogs existed among wolves at very low frequency and just exploded in frequency once they started hanging around humans. These kinds of hard sweeps happen when there’s either a very useful de novo mutation or a new environment makes a previously irrelevant or disadvantageous allele or trait beneficial. In humans think lactase persistence which was pretty much nonexistent 5,000 years ago or the Tibetan altitude adaptations which derive from the Denisovans who were living on the Tibetan plateau over a million years ago.
Isn't this better described as selective breeding, rather than evolution? Maybe we haven't consciously bred the trait into dogs, but we might have selected such dogs for breeding, over litter mates that never made eye contact.
Here is some anecdotal historical context. Recently my parents were reminiscing at a family event about mid 20th century small town American life. The local telephone exchange operator (always a woman) could freely listen in on any telephone conversation going through the switchboard. It was not unusual for a teenage girl to substitute for the regular operator. Everyone in town was at least vaguely aware. No one cared.
"orders of magnitude" is obviously an exaggeration, but I do agree with everything else. Plus Google or equivalent is going to be a relatively stable low-stress 9-5 job, whereas a smaller company is going to expect you to work longer and wear multiple hats.
It might be hard to understand if you've not grown up in America, but homeownership is considered a part of adult life, of demonstrating you're seriousness and a gateway to adult life. This is sort of changing recently, but only because many millennials are straddled with student debt and jobs that won't pay enough to afford the down payment.

But every single American friend I have either has a home, or dreams of home ownership in the suburbs. And it makes sense, if I grew up in a home with a yard, I would probably want something similar for my children too. That kind of emotional connection is hard to overcome.
Body on frame trucks don't rust out like cars and are more than serviceable after 6 years of depreciation.
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Better than Christian country with cutthroat competition (Occidental countries are better)
We know how to make very large nuclear powered ships. You could fit an astonishing amount of waste on something the size of the Nimitz, especially if it didn't need to make task group speeds.
Algol 68 and Fortran both had . In fact, COBOL 60 even supported so not sure why anyone would not expect it as builtin for C.
I would mostly disable my inbound calling capability altogether if I could. There is just ever so slightly more than zero benefit to receiving voice phone calls.
I try to use eshell for whatever I can (some things still work better in a standard terminal), so I wrote Equake, a drop-down console (with tabs) in Emacs Lisp for eshell (though it can also open term or shell tabs as well):

https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake (link include animated gifs of Equake in action)
many factors.
I'm not sure that it's particularly more difficult to eliminate bad remote hires than it is to eliminate bad in-office hires. Hiring in general is hard, and some number of poor employees always make it through. Some people come well-credentialed and interview well but then don't perform well, by a variety of metrics. Maybe their work is technically great but they're lazy, or reckless, or argumentative, or any number of other problems. I don't think any of this differs much from on-site workers vs remote workers.

In the end, the problems are the same regardless of where they might work. You've still got to filter and vet the people you're going to interview. It's not uncommon to remotely interview people even for on-site jobs; in fact there's almost always a phone screen and one or more phone/video interviews before people are brought on-site, if they're brought on-site before the hire at all.

Remote work has specific challenges to be sure; you need people who can communicate well. They need to operate with less information. It's hard to have effective meetings; you can't replace the value of a few people standing around a whiteboard, despite the excruciatingly-slow advances in technology for sharing this kind of data.

They also need to be motivated self-starters, because for all you know they're simply watching TV and taking bonghits all day. You'll need to make sure you're effectively evaluating their productivity. I don't mean to say that remote people are more inclined to slack off, or that it's hard to slack off at the office, but there's no getting around the psychological aspects of this, especially if your team is primarily on-site and only some of them are remote. I've seen the resentment that can build up, where people are far more critical of the remote workers; if you don't see someone working as hard as you, it's easy to assume they're not.

The single best way to eliminate bad remote hires is to find people with a proven track record of remote work. Try to ask specific questions about remote work challenges and solutions to help gauge whether or not they can handle it.
I jokingly call this MBA disease as a nod to Dutch Elm disease; the parasite sucks all the nutrients it can out of the host, killing it and then moves on. It’s the reason I don’t expect to enjoy Whataburger for much longer now that it’s been purchased by a Chicago investment house.

For instance Whataburger uses fresh eggs and scrambles them on site. That’ll go by the wayside in favor of McDonald’s-style pre-made and pre-packaged eggs generating waste and lowering quality. But it’ll make the food easier to replicate nation wide creating shot term profits from growth until consumers have the predictable “I don’t see what all the hype is about” reaction, damaging or possibly destroying the brand.
Hmm, fair point.
Thanks, that's a really great example. It definitely feels non trivial to come up with an example.
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quad core, dual cpu. so 8 cores total.
multi-core performance is great!

we use it as a Unity build box and it functions great since we're normally doing multiple builds at a time, and image compression & shader compilation are multi-threaded. but it's definitely slower if you are just doing 1 build at a time.

sucks that in 2 years when Apple starts requiring the latest Xcode for iOS build submissions we will have to retire this guy =(
I've always loved this joke and basically quote it verbatim in my head when I encounter a broken-down escalator, but there's actually a whole chain of silliness that prevents most escalators from being used as stairs when they're not running. You see, the management will usually block them off for "safety reasons", which always seemed kind of silly to me, but eventually I ran across a facilities person who was able to explain it to me: stairs have a standard riser height per step, and everyone is used to walking up and down stairs of that height. Escalators, for whatever reason, are different. The stairs are taller. And people tend to trip when using them as stairs. So they minimize risk by just saying "go use the elevator or regular stairs." It's still kind of silly, but I kind of get it. What I don't get is why the escalator manufacturers don't make the risers the same height as normal stairs. I also don't really get why we apparently don't trip when walking up or down a running escalator, but it's possible the answer is that it doesn't really matter, because if you can't handle the step height on the escalator, you just stand still. :shrug:
> If something goes totally off the rails they can provide oversight.

Historically, that's not true at all. I was going to give a list of cases of egregious actions by the CIA, but quickly realized I'd be sitting here all night if I really wanted to put together any halfway complete list. The sheer number of coups, assassinations, drug-running operations, weapons smuggling operations, etc. that the CIA has run is just mind-boggling. The list of countries that haven't had a CIA-backed coup or insurgency might be shorter than the list of countries that have. Things "go off the rails" so often with the CIA that going off the rails seems to be the plan.
I think the problem is that you can't tell what people's internal state is from their external acts on certain points.

I may _want_ to be nice to you, but am bad at expressing myself, so end up saying something mean to you. You can then interpret that as me not wanting to be nice to you. But that is in a sense "double counting" the final result of me saying something mean.

Similarly, people might use these services despite the privacy qualms. It _could_ be that most people don't care. It could be that people care but are accepting the tradeoff. And it could be that people are _forced_ to accept the tradeoff to participate in civil society (or at least that's their impression of things).

I feel for this interpretation because I used to not really care about privacy w/r/t Google in particular, and enjoying services from putting my data in their platforms. I still use some of them but over time the privacy thing (or more specifically the advertising thing) has made me feel more and more frustrated. I still use GMail! But I kinda hate that I ahve to at this point (because I _really need_ emails to be delivered and received consistently).

Similarly I used FB despite privacy up to a point, and only fairly recently finally got almost all my messenger usage down by going to different platforms. But the day before I did it, I still didn't like the privacy tradeoff! But I liked "being able to talk to friends"
But levels.fyi is reporting annual stock. Facebook E5 is listed at $146,000 in stock annually not 4-5 years total.
Floppy ears are just pointed ears that failed to rise - perhaps because they became too big. A German Shepherd pup has floppy ears and they eventually start to stick up, after going through a phase where they can't decide.

There is something impressive that a Chihuahua can instantly somehow recognise the Great Dane or Pekingese as of type dog, even at great distance upwind. Yet can react differently to cat, sheep, fox or squirrel at similar range.
> objectively cuter

For sure.
> kills any possible paid service in the domains they operate.

I can think of paid services that compete in the domains google operates in. Fastmail is an easy one.
There's more and more of if it every day thanks to ice melt.
Right which is free for the first 10GB each month and then is $0.01 per GB after that for standard retrieval.
But by joining the collective you don't die, you mind becomes part of the hive mind. It's not gone, it still has a (minuscule) influence on the behavior of the whole swarm.
I think people would care more see if they could see how much data on them companies have, where it goes and what it's used for. I think they don't really understand the extent of the data collection and selling.
They have given up, they’re starting to roll out CarPlay across Lexus and Toyota
If someone says they don't have anything to hide, my reply is "then why do you lock the bathroom door"?
>Learning a programming language is usually not the hard part

The syntax and semantics can indeed be picked up in a day or more. It's working within the ecosystem and circumventing all of the non-obvious pitfalls, knowing the shortcuts (and knowing what can't be shortcut), knowing where all the important information is located that all requires years of experience.

I've worked with developers who have switched languages and they often port across bad habits and quirks and try to make the new language more like their "home" language. Sometimes years later they're still trying to do things in a non-optimal way.

I also think that most people are more productive in their favored language (or languages) and you're unlikely to get as good quality work if you pull them away from it.

There's also a cultural element to programming languages that I think is underrated. I don't expect java programmers to have the same kind of outlook or approach to python programmers.
The US uses split phase 240VAC for residential. 240VAC is really two 120VAC 'hots' 180 degrees out of phase. So 240V between phases, but 120V to ground/neutral.

Industrial 240 usually is single or 3phase.
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You must've never seen slow elevators!
This would be a ridiculous trap, but some people do find titles to be important, so I guess its fine if they're attracted to jobs that can't pay enough but make up for it with inflated levels.

I get the impulse behind trying to level employees but it always seemed ridiculous to me. Either you care about it enough to game it (which is pretty easy to do) or you don't an you just do what you think is important to you and your team and it works out... so you level up by accident.

This is actually a huge reason I don't like bigger companies. There is so much emphasis on Seniority, Levels etc. Its complete bullshit. You see people game the system, rise to the top, get all kinds of bullshit honors for doing bullshit things. Meanwhile the grunts doing all the actual work and innovating like crazy are just happy to make the higher ups look good in front of _their_ peers and don't really give a shit about the product or the market.... its a vicious, self-sustaining and self-dealing beast.
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Why does a figure caption mention “pre-crypto internet”
Posting political flamewar comments isn't ok here. Would you please review and follow the site guidelines so we don't have to ban you again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ve had the exact thoughts. And in fact all domesticated animals change and we change with them as well. Im not only thinking about pets but the all animals that live in (an unfair) symbiosis with humans.
You're forgetting that just in time means a much lower barrier between desire and realization. This can lead to a significant increase in overall consumption.
But people out of poverty and into middle class around the world has.
<raises hand>
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You can do whatever you want with your non-public phone system.
No partisan flamebait here please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> ...I don't really know what I'm allowed to do, or not, with the project, and that just makes me uncomfortable.

If your interests weren't somehow commercially aligned--be it directly or indirectly--why would it really matter? Perhaps I'm the real radical here who still parades around with a false sense of hacker ethos.