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If you work shift work not getting time off is typical. A lot of people can scarcely afford to take a day off without pay to go vote or stand in line at the DMV. Working people are pushed to the limit in this country.
I wish what you are saying is true but from my experience and experiences of others this is not the case.

The state almost always awards primary custody to the wife/mother. There's a deep bias for mothers to raise children in the legal system.

Even great father's are looked at as deadbeats in these systems. It's one area I hope the law progesses in in the future.
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My uncle works in cybercrime for a city PD. He says people in his city are regularly tricked into sending their life savings via bitcoin ATMs to Nigerian scammers.
How is collective punishment the issue? Is cutting off aid for an entire country acceptable because of a few bad actors? If anything, wouldn't cutting off aid just increase the need for wealth transfer? If I'm Nigeria, and I'm scamming to the tune of billions, why do I care about small sums?
We're using cl-containers [1] and cl-graph [2] and to make it very fast lparallel [3] and rtg-math [4] (among many others)

[1] https://github.com/gwkkwg/cl-containers
[2] https://github.com/gwkkwg/cl-graph
[3] https://lparallel.org/
[4] https://github.com/cbaggers/rtg-math/
Do you mind sharing in what space you work on? Just curious about where Common Lisp finds professional usage. It's not something you see every day.

Also, do you have any tips on landing a Common Lisp job for someone who's already in the middle of their career (30s, senior dev)?
I pay for a SaaS that is an awesome finance/savings app. I pay 8 dollars a month, but I never use the app. They send out nice summary emails that are sufficient to what I need and I am comfortable with that. Don't be surprised.
Thats a hard no once heating and cooling are added to the equation. Even with over 100% efficient heat pumps, the usable surface area of the building is not enough in most climates.
Is this a thing people care about? From what I've seen of server-side Java applications (we have several at work) 1.6MB and 700 classes are lost in the noise of the endless list of Maven dependencies. I'm sure you can do it a lot more efficiently without using someone else's thing, but what exactly is being optimised for here?
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> Coffee is a non-essential luxury?

The graphic doesn't state coffee as non-essential luxury, but spending $1,000/year on (buying) coffee.

I find it pretty incredible how much money people spend nowadays on buying coffee, instead of brewing coffee themselves, like past generations did.
China has over a billion people in rapidly improving material conditions. I suspect they will be able to make a complex engine in 20 years.
Not the OP, but personally I don't want other self-driving cars on the road with me risking me and my family. We know how easily, and plentifully, software bugs get introduced every single release, I would imagine developers being the last set of people who are willing to risk their life on software.
One should look at disability adjusted life years. A 30 year old committing suicide objectively costs far more human life than a 95 year old dying of Covid-19. Also, suicide and other deaths of despair are far more socially costly than Covid-19 deaths of people that were going to die soon of something else anyhow.
They'd mostly be used for creating a pure API around any mutability under the hood

But we already had ST for that, so the real advantage of LTs over ST is you can type-safely "freeze" and "thaw" your mutable structure without copying.

The mutable array example in the Linear Haskell paper is a simple comparison to what you're asking for.
Yep, the announcement reads that Blender is basically already popular enough they don't need to put any effort into promoting its use or networking people who use it.
> It was a boondoggle that cost taxpayers ~$50mm.

Given that this cost is of the order of the fraud you think it would have prevented if it had been done "right", maybe they were spending too little.
> so the investors could wring the value out of the company and throw the remains in the dumpster

What does that mean in practice?
I recommend looking at the khash implementation https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/khash.h It's very competitive to optimized implementations like abseil and much, much better than the C++ STL one.
"they should apply to everything."

Well that seems based purely on consistency, and I just disagree with that. I'm all for outlawing (or heavily taxing) newly produced, loud motorcycles, but it's not a hill I want to die on. Internal combustion is a fading technology anyway.

Remember that internal combustion replaced horses, which at one time covered city streets in massive amounts of manure. As new transportation technology arrived, should we have just said "anything that is equal or better than tons of horse crap is A-ok"? Or should we hold new technology to higher standards, while letting the annoying old stuff fade away on its own?

"Drones aren't going to come any more often than delivery trucks do today"

I find that an odd assumption. If the cost gets low enough, as it will, you'll have people ordering drone-delivered trivially small purchases that they want delivered immediately, such as cups of coffee. Meanwhile, the frequency of loud motorcycles will get less and less, as electric vehicles become more common over the next few decades.

If it were up to me, drone deliveries would just have to pay an annoyance tax, to compensate. This would create an economic incentive to develop other alternatives, such as robotic deliveries that roll on the ground.... which to me makes far more sense anyway, since they aren't spending most of their energy simply keeping themselves airborne as drones do.
It's a religion: "the right side of history," and all that
That makes sense, but wouldn’t work from a product POV as your transactions are real time with Uber vs EBay. Uber was found a nice loophole, where they get all the benefits of a contracted workforce while putting guardrails similar to an employee. But since it benefits consumers a lot, governments have struggled to regulate it and their recent victory in California puts them on a much solid footing
I was worried my parents would end up trapped on a 'plague ship' when this all started, they were on a cruise, but thankfully made it home OK with no infections on the ship.

Being stuck in a tiny cabin, quite possibly with no internet access and minimal entertainment, must be awfully grim. We allow violent prisoners more freedom (social contact at meal times, exercise time, and visits), and even prison cells may be more spacious compared to some cruise ship cabins.

Makes me thankful for my relatively comfortable lockdown time - alone in a relatively small apartment, but with plenty of home comforts and able to go outdoors for exercise.
We absolutely don’t know enough to make generalizations about those countries.

I know many Vietnamese living in Vietnam. Beyond the much larger spread of previous coronaviruses, different genetics, climate and more, they tell me that their culture keeps these things quiet. The government plays a large role in this suppression.

There are whole years of investigation that need to take place before anyone can even potentially make positive statements about what happened.

I’m shocked on all sides about how everyone seems to “know” the truth. We have some ok leads, we’re far from answers.
The only option I have is to enter my email, which I'm not doing without seeing some examples of usage, pricing, etc. May I suggest putting together a standard one-page brochure-type landing page?
Perhaps this doesn’t exactly apply to you, but it’s always curious to me how the “I don’t live in fear” crowd is focused entirely on self-risk.

The more difficult part of the equation is that you could be a carrier of the virus to someone the vaccine did not protect.
It would be easier to divide the country if it were truly at the state level. If you look at the voting map by county though, it would not be feasible to really divide the nation by based on political ideology. I don't see how a civil war would really result in an undivided end-state.
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I disagree. Canada did it along with many others. We have to convince people that healthcare is a basic human right, and it is. I (metaphorically) should not go broke because I need surgery or any other health service. We need to see the divorce between medicine and profit.
That's a distinction without a difference. An addict who says they prefer to abstain but doesn't, doesn't actually prefer to abstain.

Where preferences come from is irrelevant. De gustibus non disputandum est.
That library is included in Pottery's benchmarks! :) It's another of the very few C libraries that use the #include template style.

Pottery's intro_sort has comparable or better performance to swenson's quick_sort but with a lot more features. You can supply a move or swap expression to Pottery to swap non-bitwise-movable types, you can supply array access expressions to sort non-contiguous arrays, and it has the heapsort fallback to guarantee O(nlogn) performance.

I don't have a Timsort yet though. For that, swenson's implementation is surely the best.
People will try anyway. All that responsibility and yet no accountability. The fact that the pandemic is a rare event is not an excuse in my opinion. If anything, it's a reason to hold them accountable.
How would I include the definitions without the implementations?
Pro lockdown people I’ve known in my life typically were already retired, or have safe and comfortable jobs in a corporation doing the same or better during this situation. Many I’ve known are making even more money AND working from home, which has been a huge win, win for them. Any extension of this situation is a huge boost for them economically and lifestyle wise.

Most of my personal circle though is small business owners, and starting with the laughable PPP mess and joke loan offerings, and just screwed up situation economically and shifted consumer habits, many are looking for the exits and running for the hills.

Only a couple in my group are doing really well in all of this, but they cater to the luxury end of the scale and the rich have gotten significantly richer in all of this. One of them does very high end custom pools and he is booked into 2022 with jobs because of all the California money flowing into Arizona.

My main concern is we have green lit tyranny to the governments around the world. For a virus that is arguably no worse than anything else we’ve experienced in the last 60-80 years we have flipped human rights and liberties on it’s head and completely perverted it. We are now in the process of normalizing this situation and behavior long term. The consequences of this are going to be felt for years after this, if not decades. We likely won’t even remember the virus in 5-7 years, but we’ll still be living under the system it ushered in.
What costs do individuals have to pay when their government is very good at identifying them?

When you have a piece of data available, it tends to get used. How could that be a bad thing when enhancing identifiably is the topic?
When the country in question isn’t taking action against this widespread issue then I’d say it’s acceptable. It’s not just a few bad actors. People are regularly being scammed out of their life savings.
Here in Washington state, I assure you while you might be able to demand, there are still rules on the books that make a 50/50 split not automatic. Especially if you happen to live in the eastern, more conservative part of the state, the judges here are more sympathetic to "traditional" family values and so are still very much aware of those guidelines. I am not a lawyer, consult a lawyer, but having been through this myself within the past few years, I know very much that even something that should be as obvious as a 50/50 split is not obvious in the eyes of the law.

Or said another way - even if he has the legal right, that doesn't mean he necessarily has the budget to fight it. Unfortunately, I found that Might Makes Right is a real thing in family law.
The past two decades coincide with the increase in violent military action overseas. It's too bad that those who have made these horrible decisions don't face the consequences of their greed. They leave that to the enlisted.
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I would love to read something about the connection between linear types, linear logic, and linear algebra. This seems like a deep and important connection, considering that modern ML is looking more and more like applied linear algebra.
"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Half of adults play video games and about half of those play violent video games

The outrage was mostly about children and permanent damage to their brains caused by games. Almost all children play games, and certainly more than half of all games (weighted by popularity) are violent.

> very high, say 1 out of 1,000

That seems the opposite of high. High would be 1 in 2 or 1 in 5.

If the effect of everyone playing video games is 1 additional crime per 100 000 people I don't see the problem TBH.
EU data protections wouldn’t apply here since it’s aggregated - not sure where the EU opt out is though
Agreed.

People think policy takes place in a vacuum or that those that write policy are so wise and fair that they have thought everything out.

Never the case.
This like the case of Amazon antitrust

current Tech giants are need to be replaced
Why they use Java like code in Python? "MessageToJson" doesn't look idiomatic.
We want people to get vaccinated. We know people may be harmed. We created funds to pay those people so they don't need to sue a multi-billion dollar multinational company to get compensation.

The article alleges that people don't get paid by these programmes, but fails to account for cases that are settled before they get to adjudication.

I'm struggling to understand the article's figures, especially compared to these: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data/index.html

> According to the CDC, from 2006 to 2018 over 3.7 billion doses of covered vaccines were distributed in the U.S. For petitions filed in this time period, 7,565 petitions were adjudicated by the Court, and of those 5,297 were compensated. This means for every 1 million doses of vaccine that were distributed,approximately 1 individual was compensated.

See also the UK scheme: https://www.gov.uk/vaccine-damage-payment
Might want to retool it for self-storage businesses. There are a ton of independent self-storage locations (at least in the US) and they predominantly use hotelier software/SAAS. But what makes yours different is that it's modern and looks good. This is a HUGE plus for client-facing services, especially bill paying.

Yes, they're cheapskates. And there's a ton of them, so initial sell is high touch. But there's been a lot of modernization among them, yet their client-facing web presence really isn't being served. So once you've got them, I'd expect to be able to hold on to them--low-touch--for a very, very long time.

Just an idea...
It’s a good idea, but unlikely to move the needle very much. According to the article Nigerians are taking in ~$18B in unemployment scams. This dwarfs the money coming from foreign aid. In a country with rampant corruption the scammers will simply bribe the authorities and continue as normal. The government will respond to international pressure by making a few high profile arrests for publicity, without taking serious measures to stem the problem. Meanwhile the vulnerable systems of state governments will still be vulnerable. Better to just pay the cost of
a software upgrade for the first time in 40 years.
Covid-19: Israel vaccinates 500k people in just nine days
When the take is 36 Billion, threatening to suspend 793 Million may not really make that big of an impression.
> I try to make eye contact

That's a really good point. I forget how often when I'm walking, running, or biking I will try to make eye contact with a car to make sure we're aware of each other.

Now how do I do that with an AI?

More things we need to start thinking about!
> Nothing is happening to blender.

I would add that a couple of weeks ago it was announced that AWS joined the Blender Development Fund

https://www.blender.org/press/aws-joins-the-blender-developm...

So yeah, it seems that Blender is healthy.
Sad to hear the political-ization of the virus pushing healthcare workers out of rural areas. I've seen family lose friendships, at least in the short term, because of it. I'm trying to keep an open mind and assume the best. Yet for health reasons we really can't risk not distancing and using masks.
> Science is just a label and when anything turns out to be wrong, we just say, "well that's part of the scientific process".

No, we don’t just say that. Recognizing that “knowledge” about the universe is always tentative and contingent and that an understanding of the universe is to be replaced when one with strictly better at predicting observations is identified is the scientific process. And it's a pretty big change from the approaches taken prior to it's adoption.

> In this way science can never be really wrong, because it is always open to being proved wrong

“Science” is almost entirely a combination of openness to being proven wrong and a particular understanding of what it means for something to be proven wrong. Since it is an epistemology, it cannot be “really wrong” if it is consistent, except in terms of a different epistemology.

> I think it's rather that we have had a bunch of great curious people who worked on interesting stuff and found out a lot about nature.

We had a lot of that without the scientific method, too. What the scientific method did is to provide a framework in which the work of great (and not so great) curious people could be effectively aggregated so that they built-in each other, whereas pre-scientific approaches did that notably less well in terms of building an ever-better understanding of the physict universe, because work was judged by standards other than predictive power.

> But we can't equate that with institutional credentialed authoritative "Science".

Science is exactly about authority having little to do with institutional credentials.
The lockdown fallout will emerge in the coming years, and I suspect the cure will have been worse than the disease.
> because "top photography vlogger" presumably pays better than 99% of all other work that involves photography.

Just to be clear though (I work in a field that relies heavily on niche-specifc YouTubers for marketing) - the reason that being a "top niche blogger" pays so well is because companies pay them a lot to encourage favorable opinions of their product lines.

I've seen amounts that are several multiples of my annual salary for fairly small market segment channels - and it's not explicit like "We are hiring you to post positive reviews of our products" because that would need to be disclosed. It's more along the lines of "We are nominally hiring you as a brand ambassador, you will visit our HQ and make a collaboration video". But of course, YouTubers aren't stupid, they're not going to post negative content about brands that are paying them even if it's theoretically for something else.

This is the same problem that PC hardware review magazines had back in the day - companies that purchased a lot of advertising from the parent company just happened to never get negative coverage in review articles. You can't bite the hand that feeds you.
What you are describing is not democracy.
Can you imagine how bad everything would have been without the initial lockdown? Fucking hell, think of a city like New York if NOTHING WAS DONE.

Subsequent lockdowns would NOT have been needed if people would have listened to basic fucking things like: wear a mask, try not to go out unless you really need to, and keep some distance. But no, people are just selfish as hell and it's making it worst for the rest of us. Doesn't help that you have some certain politicians who actively made people resist doing basic things to help out.
Been working on https://tryquilt.com, a production service that creates a 1hr polished video interview about a loved ones' life, for about a year now. We did user research, figured out ops and how to tell the stories in a way that folks end up happy with-- with small launches on a few subreddits and a few partnership attempts. Total cost has been in the low $1,000s (mostly test production folks and interviewers + software) with no returns yet. Big sink timewise, on and off between breaks for the day-job. Might use a full CMS (probs Wordpress) from the get-go and maybe something like Webflow or Shopify for faster market testing next time. Also a lot to be done to make the production process leaner (it's been good learning tho!).

Will probably push more, just after the holiday window, then expand to an adjacent market where there are more clear triggers for purchase.
Blockchains have no utility here, national ID cards with cryptographic primitive support and robust IRL trust anchors do.
Heh was going to post this but you beat me to it! Maybe we have the cause and effect backwards or maybe there is a third confounding variable.
I don't think Nigeria, or many African countries, have the capabilities to enforce justice properly. Both technologically, institutionally and political will. Governments over there are not like governments here. You ask the Nigerian government to round up "internet scammers" and innocent people get targeted, political enemies end up in jail, a few high profile arrests and little happens.

You have a very high opinion of African governments if you think we can send them a list of suspects.
I used the NYT calculator and eventually came to the conclusion that renting beat buying in a MCOL area (Kansas City.)

I live in the city center with my SO, rent is $2100 split 2 ways for a 1500sqft 2/2 in a nice building with a rooftop pool. There simply aren’t comps that can compete in terms of location, size, and amenities that don’t also have a $1200/month HOA and $900+/month taxes, interest, and insurance. In 5 years rent has gone up $50, meanwhile my 401k and other investments have maintained 10% year over year returns and I could now afford to outright buy houses and condos I was interested in 5 years ago. Or I could move out to the ‘burbs on a $600-900/month mortgage.

Now, if only I could work somewhere that I felt like I was changing the world in ways I’m more interested in (high tech vs automotive), I would feel less pull to uproot in my mid-30’s for a place where Google or Amazon are hiring.
In 2006/2007 I built HTMLButcher, a C++ desktop application to slice PSD/image website designs made by designers to HTML.
In these years sites where made with tables, so for slicing a design I had to cut the images and fit then into borderless HTML tables.
I took 2 years to build it, and in this timeframe people started building sematic websites with CSS, and abandoning table-based designs.
I managed to sell 100 copies, for some reason 90% to India.
After some years without selling nothing, I open sourced it: https://github.com/RangelReale/htmlbutcher.
The good thing is that I REALLY learned C++ with this project, and this knowledge was the basis for my current company where I made a digitalsignage application in C++ that runs in some of the largest DOOH places in Brazil, in Windows, Linux and MAC (targets of HTMLButcher). So in the end it was a good investment!
TIL: Escher got the visual paradox in "Ascending and Descending" from Penrose.