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1. Macros give you laziness. So if you want to conditionally execute part of what's supplied, with functions the user has to supply closures or functions.

(my-if condition then else)

Would execute each of those before a call to my-if, so keeping it a function you'd need:

(my-if condition (lambda () then) (lambda () else))

(bad example, don't make your own if, but illustrates the idea)

2. You want to capture variables from the calling context, same issue as above. Consider the with-resource pattern:

(let ((foo ...))
(with-resource (lambda (r)
(do-something-with-resource r foo)))

Or the macro-d version:

(let ((foo ...))
(with-resource (r)
(do-something-with-resource r foo)))

3. You want to do something that can be done efficiently in Lisp but uses very low level stuffs (like tagbody and go). Rather than writing that (repeatedly if this is a recurring pattern, like for various state machines) you can present a lispier syntax that compiles (via macros) down to the low level primitives (do a macro expand on some of the do constructs). See [0] for a variation of this idea in Scheme.

4. You want to do something repeatedly and consistently, and want to remove errors. See the definition of defdot in [1]. You could define and register all those functions yourself for each now .<whatever>, or you could let a macro do the heavy lifting.

[0] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-aut... see the linked PDF

[1] http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/MMD/MMD.lisp
A bit fitting you have to say
Okay. I’m still having a hard time understanding how placebo helps them test for side effects.
This reporter chickens out. He does not say that Murray lobbied against those black lung benefits for which he applied for towards the end of his life.
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80% or so is accurate if there was no cross-reactivity and if asymptomatic is included in the case count. It's what was being reported in March or so when we didn't yet have evidence of cross-reactivity.
But must note..
Obama campaigned on ending the carried interest tax break. He didn't do it.

Trump campaigned on ending the carried interest tax break. He didn't do it.

Biden is campaigning on ending the carried interest tax break. TBD.
Boards hesitate to remove CEOs but CEOs don't hesitate to remove employees. Elite culture requires social niceties and soft treatment while everyone else gets scored, disciplined, and underpaid.
They can be free to express and others can be free to be offended.
So can I be banned from a social media platform if it so happens that I am a member of a church that forbids something and it so happens that I am vocal about it?

> But by and large, if you do or say something on my premises that I dislike, I can kick you out.

It cannot be a fuzzy "I dislike what you do", as it is prone to selective enforcement (and I can still discriminate based on what you are, but maintaining plausible deniability).
Just because it should be a protected right for someone do do something, doesn't mean that it is right for them to do it.
For some actions, expressions of verbal disapproval are appropriate, but stronger forms of rebuke might not be.
Critique != suppression of speech
I wonder who this is about
Of course you are, but I agree with the author that programming is singularly pleasurable - there's just something magic about it.

I say this as a hobbyist only - I am not a professional programmer, though I have done some small programming tasks at work when it was useful.
That's not what karma means. Also, everyone dies eventually.
Satire is nice and all but most people will not really engage with satire enough to understand that it is satire.
If it makes you or your partner happier: Cohen (in both films) is a lot harder on real America than fake Kazakhstan.
I talk to my phone instead of using my thumbs quite frequently....but never to do anything serious.
> Nah, sarin has only has a shelf life of a few months.

That it has a shelf life of a few months doesn't mean it's innocuous afterwards. WWI mustard gas ammunitions remain dangerous today.

And if they're anything like explosives, some of those compounds would become more dangerous over time, not less, due to getting less stable. Not to mention the degradation of the delivery system itself.
The JVM does scalar replacement, not stack allocation. The former is much more limited in functionality, and much more finicky. You also have about zero control over it, compared to, say, C# structs.
(Dan Primack). Interesting to see this change the moment presidents step into the WH.
Exactly my thoughts. Hardly anyone from these groups is doing it “for science.” It’s for money.

Thinking otherwise is willful ignorance, and this is clearly exploitation of lower income groups.
Grafana Tempo: High volume, minimal dependency trace storage
But your examples are way harder than they sound.

There are two ways to look at this problem: (1) what is hard and what is easy for our current tech to do, and (2) what are the things that humans actually want to pawn off to assistants?

The problem is that those are two very different answers. I don't think I agree with the grandparent comment that some of those things should be easy, but I do think that comment contains good examples of the level of sophistication that would make an AI assistant more than just a curiosity for the couple times each day you prefer not to hit the button yourself (or if you listen to the radio while you shower).
Nassim Taleb has been railing against SBC and described Borat as "nearly the most racist movie in history, overtly degrading the people of Kazakhstan" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1319976057693503490
> Great line of thinking. But I think the idea of earning income from a creative work throughout one's life also has value.

I agree with you, at least in parts. I was addressing only the issue of copyright with digital copies, where people watch. play or listen free of charge after a given period.

But still after the artist, crew, studio or company cashed from their success, they could still make copyright grants to people that want to reproduce their content.

For instance, the free extension would only cover private listening, viewing or playing. But if you want to play the movie in your theater and make some bucks out of it, them you would have to pay for the copyright with the 'extended period rule'.

If you are musician and want to sing the song in your show, you would have to pay for copyright.

The logic here goes to anyone that might sell others people labor while getting it for free. This should be protected by the copyright law, more or less the way it is now.

But for private consumption, just giving enough time that would not be reasonable to just "wait for when its free" for people that otherwise would be buying is enough.

If your kids want to watch the new Avengers movies that cost just 10 bucks, who would wait 3 years for such a small value?

The problem is the whole industry is still stuck in the 20th century where products were all physical goods.

The digital realm and copies are here to stay, they are fighting against the tide, and one day they will wake up that its a lost battle.

> A compromise is to retain the existing copyright periods (after which works go to the public domain),but after 5-10 years of creation, works would become free for non commercial distribution. So Netflix would still have to pay for movies in their catalog. But me torrenting it from people freely sharing it and playing it on VLC would be legal.

Yes, that's basically it. But 10 years is too much and unnecessary. Within 3 to 4 years anything stop being fresh. People that buy things when they are fresh are no longer interested, and its enough time to make it if your piece had a bad first launch, but by virtue started to catch-up and make some bucks to the creators.

The key is to define a period of time where the piece might stop trending until very few people pay for them. Analitics might help to get a reasonable period for each media.
What season do you think we are in?
Conflating trainings derived from theory based on research and evidence with religion is also strange.
Reddit has a pretty decent API. PRAW is the most commonly used library for it (in Python), but there's https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/snoowrap if you're set on JS too.
Unix is what you get by usually applying the "worse is better" philosophy.
>We are currently on path to surpass 4-5C increases globally by 2100. And it's an exponential growth; who knows when it might taper off. I certainly don't expect it will just stop increasing when we hit that, although maybe it will.

Happy to tell you that we aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P...

The 4-5celcius number you provide comes from the IPCC RCP8.5. Though would be more accurately represented at 2.5-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P...

As you can read there. This is a grossly overestimated projection that's worse than worse case scenario.

With all current actions taken by humans on Earth to reduce emissions. We are currently on the RCP4.5 path. So more like an average of 1.8celcius increase. Which is great news, very little impact to our society.

>Also, 50 million years ago the temperature was that warm but it also happens to be around the time when an impact of a large asteroid caused one of the greatest extinction events in the history of the planet[1]. Not sure if that's relevant to the temperature aspect or not. Just throwing it out there.

Here's the graph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian#/media/File:All_palaeot...

As you can see there's quite the variation over the last 500 million years. For about 200 million years the Earth was 2-10 celcius warmer until that asteroid.

Long story short, the climate change issue is far less problematic than you believe.
isn't true HFT purely latency driven? ie: if you see a sell order for $0.10 and a buy order for $0.11 before anyone else, it is like free money.
This is kind of a moot point if the portion of Congress which disagrees with this doesn't have control of both houses. Which is how Congress is supposed to work (it's not supposed to be very fast) but I don't think the founders had Congress delegating rulemaking powers to executive authorities in mind.
Twitter launches warnings on election misinformation and delays
My first experience with conversational tech was using IBM's via voice 98. I still speak with these modern assistants in the same spaced pace.

I was surprised by google meet transcription system, which to me, it's the most accurate I've used so far. Same with the google docs dictation.
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I've just recently been on a journey to understand transformers in and out, here are the resources I've found managed to drill it into my head:

1. Chapters 7, 9, 10

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

This was really useful to really build up to the concepts of attention (although the actual attention section is still brief).

2. https://jalammar.github.io/visualizing-neural-machine-transl...

This was great for visualization and understanding that attention wasn't exclusively for transformers and actually was for RNNs first.

3. https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

Getting to understand how transformers actually work visually.

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27pHKBEp30

This lecture by Leo Dirac was extremely helpful to finish off with, not only because it actually includes some pseudocode but it also revisits some key topics and covers why transformers are needed.

One of the big confusion points for me was that the concept of ATTENTION and SELF-ATTENTION are not the same thing.

Hope this helps.
Data on adverse reactions is captured by the CDC/FDA/HHS throughout the lifecycle of the vaccine, from all the phases of clinical trials to its use in the general population. Its required by law.
The article suggests that the VC is in an infallible position and the CEO maybe the one who is failing at his job. A common trope is founders getting fired, stepping aside for some socially acceptable reason, which brings their fantastic journey to an end.

Here's a fun thought exercise: When is the VC the problem and not the founders? How do you even go about firing a VC? Have you ever read VC's "fantastic journey" blog post?
Congress has the power of the purse. Failure to appear: no paycheck. Multiple failure to appear: automatic departmental budget cut, ultimately to zero. The executive may choose to illegally shuffle money around but that doesn't work for long.

Ironically the legislation that created DHS (a big mistake made opportunistically at the time) also included a GOP wish that made it not subject to the same set of employee rules the rest of the civil service is.* So DHS is the easiest to do this with.

* It is still partially unionized, though the GOP tried to eliminate this when forming the department as well.
Are they?

Yes. You can download, install and use Windows 10 for free (zero cost) from Microsoft's web site. The only issue is you can't customize the user interface and there is a watermark telling you to "Activate Windows"

Why would they give that up?

Competition from "free software".

And because the "huge advantage" you speak of is non-existent. Azure has more Linux instances running than Windows.

OS licensing to individual users is no longer a significant profit source.
Molecular water detected on the sunlit Moon by SOFIA
It will be interesting to see if public opinion on coal finally passes with him, or whether he will become its patron saint. I suspect both will happen, depending on who and where.
Wasn't this already confirmed previously by the Chandrayaan mission among others?
Plan vs. Reality's
Congress can't really know if they are or are not without being able to subpoena personnel and documents.
This article is talking about Iranians being able to use AWS to host services. We are talking about services I host on AWS being accessible in Iran without a VPN.
I believe the fact some people perceive it to be is the root of, perhaps, quite a bit of consternation on the issue.

But I see it is the same as forcing people to stay in an unpleasant class until they understand type theory. We teach people things they need to know so that they know them, because knowledge is useful. We're certainly not calling the question of "having education seminars" into question, are we?
> (in 2020 you can buy a server with 56 cores at 5.6 GHz and 1 TB RAM)

Does anyone which currently available CPUs are able to run at stably at 5.6GHz? (Presumably with 14 cores each)
I think that goes for a lot of languages that are now often considered "odd". There is something about how an elegant and simple paradigm can help you think about a problem!

The first "higer" language I ever learned was Forth, and I never quite got to terms with infix notation, so I might be biassed ;)
I mean, you can spin it the way the author does. But those maximised supply chains are also really good at killing small business, and historically, small business has been a lot more important to free western societies than major companies with perfect supply chains.

So you could also spin it as corporate slavery for all the people living paycheck to paycheck that are unable to ever break that cycle because it’s impossible to build something that would compete with Amazon.

You can really spin the Amazon story whichever way you want. Over all, monopolies tend to be a net negative for society though.
This is very similar to how I "came to lisp". I was attempting to come up with a more uniform smalltalk/ruby syntax and slowly talked my way into s-expressions. I had tried emacs lisp and scheme so I was aware OF the syntax but the pedagogical experience of WHY the syntax was a lot more profound. After that reading ANSI common lisp, let over lambda, etc. cemented my love for macros and I've never looked back. Actually given that I settled on clojure which still lacks the self-hosted qualities of common lisp I DO look back but only at common lisp.
cheering for the death of others. very stunning and brave.
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The stereotype is tired because xenophobia is tiring. By taking on that stereotype to a ridiculous extreme it shows the difference between people who are willing and able to discern a prank when it fits their xenophobic worldviews and those who are not (or do not have xenophobic worldviews). It’s a direct attack against prejudiced people by making an example of them in a Hollywood movie.
PayPal is undeniably a money transmitter, a type of money service business that is required to required to register as such and perform certain minimum levels of compliance work.

If Masterbucks is "like PayPal" from that perspective, subject to certain de minimis thresholds, then they too are likely to require registration.

Frankly, if this is the case, and the Epik people are complaining that PayPal's due-diligence questions on these topics are "absolutely absurd, and well outside of any knowledge or experience [they] have as a domain registrar" then perhaps they oughtn't to be running that kind of a business?
Yeah but that makes Wine sound simpler than it is. The bulk of what makes ReactOS tick is from Wine.

Wine is a syscall layer plus a reimplementation of all user mode DLLs in a Windows installation.
Scalar replacement has several requirements, and escape analysis is only part of the story. One of the restrictions with scalar replacement for arrays is that indexing has to be constant at JIT time, which your example clearly isn't.
Since we're posting frivolous comments on this particular story, I'll add mine: "Nature is healing".
Looks like it wasn't a fluke
It blows my mind a little bit that spectrosocopy is a thing that just happens to be afforded us by physics, and how much less we'd know about the universe if it didn't exist. "Oh, every element has a totally unique signature and all you need to do is look at it to tell what it is, no matter how many miles or light-years away." It's the kind of thing where if it only existed in a sci-fi novel, it would be considered a far-too-convenient plot point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_spectrum
So, it's not a slippery soap because it's already happened. I wrote this back in 2017 about the case of CloudFlair, DreamHost and others:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

The example in this article is a little different because Epik was cut off because their cryptocurrency operation didn't make any attempt to be right with the SEC.

As far as Canada goes, Mike Ward was fined $80,000 for making a joke. Mark Meechan was fined £800 in the UK for a comedy routine where he taught his dog to make a Hitler salute. I have personally know many Germans who have told me there are things they cannot criticize or say because they are German (referring to the Israeli/Palestine conflict).

I wrote some more on the freedom to speak here:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer...
I used Tcl (I didn't really used Tk), and I really liked how the language had no statements and everything was a function/procedure. I remember that in the past (I think currently not needed since now it is built in), you could implement yourself try-catch-finally and would work like rest of the language without feeling like it was hacked through use of macros.

Edit: Here it is: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/68396-try-catch-finally... not needed now since latest version has it built in.
There's initial results that indicate that its likely - you wont get hard data for another decade plus - but take it from me you don't want to get CKD or similar organ damage.
The problem with this is that he is using a real country with a real culture and real existing issues as his foil for this purpose. And so it ends up being seen as profoundly insensitive and disrespectful by many, even if the intent is satire.
Banks are paying record low interest and charging record high fees
How has this so-called culture war invaded your family life?
The problem is increasing the reward makes the people “who need the money” much more willing to engage in trials with much worse possible side effects. As long as the pay isn’t life altering money for anyone, nobody will volunteer to do something with a high probability of life altering side effects.
Digging around just a little, these all seem to be secret-information games (where one person/some subset are one thing, the rest are something else).

Oh, and drawing games.

Anything else? I guess the secret-info ones are easy to code?
This feeds into some of my less charitable interpretations of SBC - he delights in dunking on the hated and powerless to amuse the powerful, but folds instantly at the slightest indication of real danger.
Not over bit-torrent but this exists: https://syncthing.net/
The OP implied that such a law doesn't exist, but there's nothing inherently unconstitutional about a new legislative act to enforce the concept.

> That will never stand up in court.

What's your point or objection to a hypothetical future?
> And what's to stop whichever company is hosting me from dropping hosting at the first whiff of a Twitter mob?

Money that you pay them for the service. This is almost always enough since that's all any of these companies actually care about. There are very rare exceptions where high-profile nazi groups have had their service contracts rescinded, but this isn't a real problem in practice. Nobody is having their service contract rescinded because their website is made up of conservatives, which is usually the implied subtext in these discussions.

> So you are saying free speech on the internet is incompatible with a capitalist economy?

No. I'm asking you how you envision people owning their own websites without any private companies involved, in an economy built around the concepts of corporate ownership.
AAPL. With iPad, iPhone and Mac, they still are way ahead of the competition IMHO.