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I mostly use Common Lisp, Racket, and periodically like to try the latest versions of Gambit, Chez, and Guile.

I used to have two customers who paid me to use Clojure on their projects, I liked Clojure (donated in the early days) but fast natively compiled tools like SBCL, etc. feel better to me. You have found a good home: Clojure and the JVM ecosystem is good for a wide range of uses.
I didn’t mean any disrespect. My comment was meant to be humorous.
Indeed. You'd be surprised most parents do not put the quality of education at the top when choosing a school. At least not in the market I was working on (private schools in Mexico).
Because you're prioritizing for value. A lot of people prioritize for convenience.
Like, imagine if auto-complete was enabled when writing just regular English. Every time you get half-way through writing a word, a window pops up suggesting that the ending of the word "parli" is probably either "parliament" or "parlimentary". That would be super-annoying, right?

iOS does this and I assume Android does also. In fact, it’s based on what you type frequently. For instance, I use some phrases so often that I get autocomplete suggestions for them as well as company specific acronyms.
Infrastructure operates differently from a good or service where you have a multitude of often interchangeable selections.

The easy availability of roads leads to more people driving since it's the more effective option, which in turn leads to more traffic. Eventually the system reaches equilibrium where it's busy enough that other alternatives are more desirable.

Time and time again predictions of apocalyptic traffic doom have failed to manifest when roads are removed. The traffic just goes away largely because the traffic was an artifact of the roads being there in the first place.

People are highly adaptable. They take the path of least resistance. If that path is a road, they take it. If you make the road bigger, it reduces resistance and becomes busier.
+1 for mentioning Lombok. I used to use it a long time ago.
I think it would depend on what I am trying to make; there are advantages and disadvantages to each. In the case of the JSON parser, I think it is helpful that PostScript has data structures (such as arrays and dictionaries) and arbitrarily typed values like JavaScript and many other scripting languages have. In the case of Z-machine, Forth would probably do as well as PostScript (or probably Forth would do better, actually).

Someone was unsure how useful would be the JSON parser I wrote in PostScript, but if you want to print some diagram based on data in JSON format, then it can be helpful.

(I could implement Z-machine in Forth too if I wanted to do, but I have not done so yet because I have other things to do; I don't know if I might do so in future or not. I could implement Z-machine in any programming language with byte arrays, including assembly language (I started but haven't finished one in 6502).)
> Startpage recently got acquired, and is now (at least partially) owned by an advertising company. As a privacy advocate, I don't trust them. I use DuckDuckGo, I don't use Startpage.

Not following the logic there. How is DuckDuckGo not an (entirely) advertising company? Do they make money off anything else other than ads and injecting affiliate links?
It has the most openings however it's an area where there is more age discrimination. If you're over 30 it might not be the best choice
$70 per hour is incredible, almost too good. It makes me think it's like department store prices though: charge deliberately inflated prices knowing most students will never actually pay the sticker price.
Everything about your argument is just wrong.
There would be strong anisotropy in our observation. Alas things are moving away from us in ALL directions.
Type erasure is not a hack. It's the most common technique in typed languages. It causes what is, at worst, a minor inconvenience in the Java language in exchange for making the Java platform a very attractive and very convenient target for languages. Reification -- and I believe .NET is the only platform with variance that does it -- makes a very inconvenient compilation target for any language not designed around it.
> Which popular languages these days don’t have a dedicated IDE, plug ins for popular IDE’s and/or support for the language server protocol?

Most new languages until someone implements it. Again, this is very dependent on what you like to do. If you like trying bleeding edge stuff then you’ll probably run up against this.

> I wouldn’t work for a company that forced an IDE on me.

Sure, sometimes it’s kind of out of their control (or understandable). For example Xcode at Apple. Or if you work in a dev feature that needs to work with some tool or something. Again, my position is that it’s probably fine for most people.

> Visual Studio Code works with multiple languages as does Visual Studio.

OK, it’s interesting you bring up a fairly new entrant as proof this (at least I’m the Mac). Again, my interest is in trying lots of syntax extensions and stuff that usually just breaks these sorts of things. As I mentioned before, if you’re doing application development on a specific set of established languages for a very long time it’s probably the right move.
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This is a simplistic, incorrect view of biology.
I wish you luck on your app!
I especially agree with your last note. Again, I’m young, but it seems to me that the shortcomings of humans have a largely homogenous distribution through time and space.
First thing to understand is the only evidence we have for the universe expanding is redshift.

Do I believe refraction is at all related to Dark mass/energy? Not all all. Refraction has nothing to do with that. Refraction has to do with redshift being miscalculated.

Compression waves are the culprit and the field that propagates those waves for dark garbage. baryonic acoustic waves give direct evidence as the perp.
What is it being built for, if not globally available (as in, actually anywhere in the globe), high-speed, low latency, low cost internet?

It's built for whoever gets utility out of it and will pay for it, those "noble cases" included. It's not for them, but it enables them.

The internet can tell you how to build a better stove, farm better, raise animals better, discourage you from barbaric rituals that don't actually have the effect you believe them to have, etc. Arguably the poorest, most ignorant of the world are the same people that need the knowledge the internet can provide the most.
Wow, I don't think I've seen a comment quite this long on HN that failed 100% to provide anything substantive to the conversation. Kudos.
> This begs an obvious question: why are people choosing to do this if it pays $0/hr?

The obvious answer is that it actually pays more.
Ask HN: Focus on one project or diversify your time?
There seems to be good reasons to do one or the other
Alt+SysRq+k

(read linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst before you try this)
I hardly think that customers are going to want to wait even n+5 minutes while DoorDash lets drivers bid on jobs.
Totally. The hell of security issues is what makes IE a terrible product.
Adaptive optics have zero issues if you’re looking to make a cool picture, but they do introduce bias which is an issue for scientific instruments. That’s largely offset by more and larger telescopes for the same price, but it is very much a tradeoff based in launch costs which are falling.

IMO, over the next 30 years space based telescopes are going to play an ever larger role.
True. But I'd rather but sad and wealthy.
The bad externalities of cars are numerous and extend well beyond those things you list, but primarily they create an astoundingly expensive barrier to being part of society and not someone who's left behind.

There aren't enough tunnels in the world to dig your way out of traffic problems. The more roads you make the more traffic you get.

Toll roads just increase the already staggering cost of owning a car, marginalizing even more people.

What about not doing that and instead investing in alternatives?
The US's ruling class four out of four catastrophic fuckups in the middle east and Central Asia doesn't bode very well for their ability to effectively rule the United States either.
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
So there are a lot of comments here about it, but going to give one of my own -

I've had back pain for the past year. Still trying to figure out the right treatment. But what ALWAYS helps, is a Lagree fitness class (and by extension I'd say pilates would too). Some of hte moves help more than others, but I can go with my back hurting, and I quickly get to where I don't even notice it in the class (because everything is engaging muscles and taking pressure off my back), and by the end of the class I feel great. Two days later it will be back, but, that's also when I take the next class. Still trying to figure out what to do on off days to keep it from returning, and so hopefully able to heal, but, yes. Find something that will keep your back protected, but still work it (and the rest of you).
https://www.sydneymetro.info/tunnelling needs a better PR firm to make it onto the front page
They are currently building their first prototype. It seems correct that you would build a few tunnels using conventional equipment to gain experience before setting your sights on improving the state of the art, or is there something I'm missing?
>Programming language theory does not study "advantages;" it's simply not a question it asks, let alone answers. The theory is concerned with what properties certain formal systems have. It cannot, nor does it attempt, to assign those properties a value, just as mathematics does not ask or answer whether prime numbers are better than composite numbers.

I think we can go deeper than this. There are properties of well designed programs that can be measured to be numerically higher or lower than poorly designed programs. Under this mentality "better" is simply a word with no meaning that is describing a number. It is the human that has the opinion that the higher (or lower) number is a "good design."

The question is what is that number and how do you measure it? For example one number off the top of my head: lines of text. Another better number is the amount of functions. Both of these numbers have flaws so maybe a better number is given a (high level language) and a (program written in assembly language); what is the largest number of high level language primitives you can use to recompose an identical program?

(high level language primitives)/(low level language primitives)

As the ratio approaches 1 we are achieving maximum flexibility as the high level language is injective to the low level primitives. As the ratio approaches zero we are reducing complexity at the cost of flexibility (we reason about less primitives). If the ratio exceeds one then we are creating excess primitives.

Maybe the better designed language/paradigm can has primitives that can used to drive that ratio back and forth from 0 to 1. A poorly designed language is one with a ratio of 4.5 or 0.0001.

So something more advanced but along the lines of this rudimentary and rough outline is certainly possible in my mind.

>But maybe not. I find it very dubious that significant differences are not measurable in an environment with such strong selective pressures for two reasons: 1. it doesn't make sense from a theoretical perspective -- adaptive traits should be detected in a selective environment, and 2. it doesn't fit with observed reality. We observe that technologies that truly provide an adaptive benefit are adopted at a pace commensurate with their relative adaptability; often practically overnight. The simplest explanation from both theory and practice to why a technology does not show a high adoption rate is that its adaptive benefit is small at best.

Yeah I agree. Additionally we're not dealing with the real world here with billions of variables. This isn't a computer vision problem. Assembly language, FP and OOP have a countable amount of primitives. It is amenable to theory and measurement.
What is knowing about the CMBR useful for?
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Also I would like to add that galaxies have been observed to contain non dark whatever. So baryonic acoustic waves still fit that model.
How well do you vet your IT staff? I was once the recipient of an inside job: http://boston.conman.org/2004/09/19.1
So where are we on this particular rendition of the Laffer curve? Are we already fortunate enough to be at "peak road," right here and now? That seems unlikely, but I suppose it's possible. Or would it be best to either remove more lanes, or add new ones?

Would traffic flow become infinitely fast if we removed them all?

Conversely, would it become infinitely slow if we paved every square inch of land in sight?

It's almost as if such simplistic models are worse than useless, huh.
I think you missed the actual point of my comment? Refraction was kind of irrelevant to it, I was trying to say something about the consistency of different observations and the strength of the evidence behind them. You could replace "refraction" with "squirrels" and it wouldn't really change what I was trying to explain.
For example Xcode at Apple. Or if you work in a dev feature that needs to work with some tool or something.

Now you’re giving me flashbacks. I worked for a company where the founder wrote his own VB like IDE/Compiler/VM for Windows CE. I hated every minute of that job until I got the chance to work on the actual compiler written in C++/MFC.
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I bet that the next title in the series will be Surrounded by Fat People, and it will sell 100 million copies.
>47+53=107???

>Haha, okay I get it, it was a slip.

Yikes that's embarrassing. Yeah 47 + 3 to 54 - 3 obviously. Of course I brainfart exactly there. Should note that you messed up too: I said 47 + 54, not 47 + 53. :D

> At best they should be supplementary skills, and shouldn't be taught as the primary techniques

Absolutely 100% agree.
There wouldn't be 30 constants. The math is being made to fit something without explaining it.
We did not discover nuclear fusion from the stars, we realized the possibility of nuclear fusion and subsequently realized that this is what must power the sun (and every other star).

Ditto for everything else on that list. We made discoveries by looking at things and performing experiments here on earth and then realized that these things must be what is causing X and Y out in the cosmos.
Toronto can't build a subway stop for under 1 billion. I would imagine someone like Elon could could dig a complete line with a dozen stops for 1 billion.

It's amazing how he creates companies and solutions on a whim that revolutionize complete industries.
I've started using Clojure a few years ago as my primary language of choice. I switched multiple jobs since then. I never had a problem with finding one. I worked once for a big fin-tech company. We never said that knowing Clojure was a requirement, but we admitted that the preference would be given to people at least interested in Clojure. And you know what? It helped us to build an incredibly strong team. Even though not everyone used Clojure. Some teams used languages like Ruby, Go, and Javascript.

If I were given a choice to either hire five Javascript/Python/Go programmers and pay them each 100K/Y or hire only three Lispers and pay them each 200K/Y, I would go for the latter. ROI, in that case, would be much, much higher.

And Clojure is a very, very practical tool. Just watch Rich Hickey talks, you will see that the pragmatism of the language is paramount for everyone who uses it.
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I'd be interested to read this link, but the link takes me to this page.
That assumption is not necessary to make it a huge net negative.
I am in no position to give advice, but I hope you find a way forward. I think professional help can still help you, don't give up.

I do develop CRUDs for a living and I like it very much.

I call myself a professional software developer without a degree and I am proud that I was able to change careers and become a developer, even if I am no "Google material" nor I will ever use sophisticated algorithms in my work. Just saying that to encourage you to be proud of your skills too.

Contractor jobs might be a way to accommodate your needs and avoid the obstacles that depression and anxiety create on getting a regular job.

If professional development is a way you do see as a path to make your life "go somewhere", I would encourage you to create a profile on Upwork and spend time applying to jobs (with your experience you will have a lot of options to apply there). Directing your effort to succeed on Upwork might be beneficial beyond the financial reward.

I would also encourage you to extend this request for advice to some of your close friends and family.

Again, all this is just trying to offer support and encouragement and I sincerely hope you find your way.

If you think any of the above advice is valid, feel free to send me an email (on my profile) and we can talk more.

Good luck
We'd live in the Diamond Age. The molecular nanotechnology vision of the world would be true. Eg. we could create any material with the characteristics we wanted. Uncertainty wouldn't matter because there would be no compound uncertainty / decoherence. If some sub-process step in mnt fabrication failed because of inherent uncertainty, it could simply be repeated until it worked. We'd also understand how to build the tools to do this.
What is worse is that most of the advanced queries aren't working anymore
> Though if they really dug that much tunnel under a city in such a short time, maybe there's an actual innovation in a better way to make subway tunnels?

Or maybe tunneling speed simply isn't the bottleneck so no one ever tried going faster. If it takes 3 months to dig out the tunnel but 6 months to fit it out then you've gained nothing.
Well you misunderstood that I was referring to refraction as being the reason for dark matter predictions. I was trying to imply that it can explain why the universe is expanding. Instead of the theory of dark matter.

I already gave you my reasoning for dark matter calculation, baryonic waves. Which you so happened to ignore?
Hot take: Because Starlink is a shitty answer to ISPs being run by shitty people.
TIL that "gybe" is an alternate spelling for "gibe," but only in the sailing context ("to shift your sail from one side of the vessel to the other"). "Gibe" also means to heckle. "Jive" has to do with music. The word your parent wanted is "jibe."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-tribu-words-wor...
My brother works for Uber Eats while between gigs in LA TV; he's actively working towards a full-time job.

In certain cities, I'd be willing to bet much of the demographic who takes this kind of job are in similar positions. That is, they're looking for full-time work while wanting to make a little income on the side. In my brother's case, he makes minimum wage or better.
Edit: sorry for being needlessly combative.

> Very small kids have diapers. Planes have bathrooms.

I have a 5 and 9 year old and fly regularly. I don't know if you've considered the amount of time that can elapse from seat belt sign on for landing to deplaning. Nevermind a turbulent flight.

And trying to use the bathroom at the rear of a plane that just arrived isn't really going to smooth the deplaning process.

But like I said, my family is not slowing anyone down, we're usually faster because we're ready and the adults organized the kids while we waited for our turn.
I like that a lot. And we are just two random people with random ideas. Just imagine the variety of ways people are already secretly communicating right now right in the open and none of us are any wiser.
Related video from YouTuber Tom Scott on the design of the UK plug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
Why and how we build a Chaos Engineering platform on Kubernetes
I was also a bit confused as to why the title was "DarkMode Made Easy", especially since your example just showed adjusting CSS variables. I would assume anyone who's working with CSS variables, also knows about media queries, so it's far easier to just do it all in CSS.

Where I could see this being useful is that you have a callback that you can use, so when dark mode is enabled, you can make some other adjustments when needed.
But those are estimates and not the final prices displayed after you pick the date. If you specifically want the cheapest date, the grid is barely useful. ITA matrix usually does a better job.
Well, but then, you also get noise from CCD readout, so it's not like you can just take 18000 100ms exposures and stack them to get the same result as a 30 minute exposure minus the "broken frames". Stacking frames is a workaround for disturbances, but it comes at a cost in the form of readout noise. The shorter you make the exposures, the more disturbances you can filter out without wasting observing time, but the more readout noise you get. So, if you have more disturbances, you either need more telescope time so that you still have enough frames left to see your signal after you have thrown out all the bad frames, or you need to reduce exposure times so you can throw out frames as higher granularity, but then you have to accept more readout noise, which makes it harder to see the signal.
> 1. "Quality" of each source is a historical rating for each site ("cited" third site"). This varies as sites write higher or lower scoring articles over time.

So an average of the score of all articles you're previously processed, that cite that third site as a reference?

I can certainly think of plenty of sites where this would be non-problematic, but some sites I could see having very high variance. Do you account for this in any way?

> 2. Factual tone is a set of NLP algorithms evaluating the degree and extent of emotional words used as a percentage of the total text. There are also other indicators like how many first person statements are present, unnecessary adverbs etc. Not perfect but directionally accurate and useful as part of the overall rubric.

My intuition tells me a skilled writer may score ok on this, whereas a human reviewer might catch things.

> 3. Author expertise does not have subjectivity. Articles are classified into one of several subject areas and we look at how often the author's prior work falls in the same subject area and how well those prior articles rated.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a big deal, but there are some obvious shortcomings.

Overall, this seems like the type of tool that is sorely needed, so I hope you find success. I'm particularly interested in it for how contentious of an issue it is.

It would be cool (and good for credibility I'd think, as well as potentially providing you some free labor if you allowed feedback) if you had a public accessible page on your website where people could manually submit links and see how your engine ranks each of the 4 attributes. Any chance you might do such a thing?
Any good?