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Except that every synapse is not a dumb weight but a highly complex system connected to an even more complex system (aka neuron) which might each be a (super)computer on its own.

Given how extremely bad we are at computing, there is hope (for ai) that the neurons or their circuits are not _that_ powerful after all.
Neither the client nor the server are what makes discord however.

What makes discord is the community around it, and the fact that 3rd party sites have decided to support it.

Also there's the legal (important for edus, etc) and other support from the Discord people themselves.

Gamers aren't going to leave what they already have -why would they? Edus sure as heck won't -who does that leave, a couple of hackers? Maybe?

A better approach would have been to:

a)Not use Discord's logo in your README.Md FFS

b)Build up infrastructure similar to and competitive with Discord's but FOSS oriented

c)THEN after b is accomplished, work on a client and a server.

Like the many reddit clones that have come and gone (and the slashdot clones before them) this will be a mouse fart into a hurricane
My impression from previous discussions is that people like what they like whether it's remote or in office and there isn't a lot of convincing that we can do to each other.

Given the above, how do companies move forward? Make some % of your employees unhappy because they're either dragged back into the office or forced to work without one? Hybrid models? They seem like the worst of everything and they don't look like a stable solution. Maybe through quitting everyone reorganises themselves into the type of company they want (remote or in-office) and then everyone is happy?

What options do we have here?
> Kind of like the case of police routinely shooting unarmed blacks and getting off scot-free?

That's not quite the same. Murder didn't need precedent, however, establishing some framework for grading police incidents retroactively does. What gets in the way of that is existing laws which protect police officers wholesale. If you're trying overturn an entire existing law for a new framework, that's a bit outside the bounds of precedent because you're not longer talking about interpretation.
I love stories like this. It's so much harder to push our hardware to "the speed of the device" anymore, and hearing stories about others doing that is cool.
Good, if you treat all your employees like garbage don't be surprised when not that many people with actual skill are willing to join
It won't give you any magic wand if that's what you expect but SICP is highly recommended.
To believe that our only, and highest, purpose is to create more humans is misguided and just wrong. We probably need less people (as things currently stand), not more, on this planet if we want to have any hope of continued existence. If you want to get into what's most important: what really matters is stopping climate change so that people have a place to live, not popping out more and more babies. Absolutely no one is saying "no more births" or "no one should have kids" but you are pretending that civilization is going to fall over because people are making informed decisions on if they should/can bring more life into this world, which I find reprehensible.
The Spanish Flu was about three years, but it did end. We're not going to be like this forever.
> The ex-MIT people who started the company were really good at robotics

and Lisp.

Rodney Brooks worked on S1 Lisp and Lucid Common Lisp. He was a co-founder of Lucid, Inc. and wrote the book 'Programming in Common Lisp' (Wiley, 1985).

See for example: "Design of an Optimizing, Dynamically Retargetable Compiler for Common Lisp", 1986. The authors (incl. Rodney Brooks) worked for Lucid, Inc.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221252387_Design_of...
As soon as you're talking about going outside of the CPU core you're in the territory of slow, and going off chip over PCIe is very slow (hundreds of nanoseconds). That's why many apps continue to make heavy use of rdtsc with all of its quirks and foibles.
I didn’t see the headlines ‘people using an anti malaria drug against covid!’ All I saw was ‘people killing themselves using horse dewormer against covid!’.
The return of "boom boxes" is ruining areas of US parks. This is facilitated by some smart phones with loud volumes or attachments to smart phones that turn them into boom boxes. I dont want hear other people loud music at times. P.s. these devices are on bicycles and hikers too.
This is so dishonest, it's unbelievable.

Just over 10 years ago pretty much only way to install latest apps on your "internet communicator" phone was to go to xda-developers, browse the forum and download some random files and trust they won't brick your Windows Mobile device.

Mobile operators controlled the market and software on the phones everywhere.

Apple came in, kicked everyone in the butt and changed the whole mobile and app development industry in every country, worldwide, forever.

Mobile operators can no longer dictate phone's software or hardware.

Apple enforced quality, design (UIKit), added manual reviews, mobiles and software became easy and accessible to consumers. They also gave developers a marketplace with instant access to millions (now over a billion) of users with a connected credit card, making a simple purchase just a tap away.

They also took away any issues of selling software worldwide. If you sell your app in Germany or South Korea, you don't need to worry which VAT to charge or when to file your local German tax reports.

And so many more things, from insane APIs, app discoverability and to all the billions they spent on software and hardware R&D to make apps even better.

And now you're telling they do nothing except bullying and extortion.

Seriously, it's so unbelievable that people forget what the world was just a few years ago, and suddenly feel so entitled that it's their basic human right to have access to a 1+ billion people marketplace to distribute their software.

If you would tell anyone 15 years ago that they would be able to sell software on a digital shelf where 1 billion people can find and purchase it in under 30 seconds, they wouldn't believe you.

But today, you're saying what Apple made possible after making a huge bet and changing everyones lives, are suddenly bullies and extortionist...
Nothing to do with being picky. It's just about people having different priorities.
The heart of it is that you can manipulate the AST as you use it - the structure of the language is itself data which can be acted upon. It makes for good metaprogramming which some people really like.
I had a little non-recursive JSON parser hanging around. When you have "nested" levels you've really only got two choices: object, or array. That implies that to track nesting, you just need an array of 1b values. In order to shave the yak properly, I built "nesting compressor" that detected runs of array/object and represented them using a 64b RLE; or, it bailed out, and then just used on-the-fly compression with zstd.

Obviously, any sort of JSON file that fit on a disk I can afford can be parsed into memory in a tiny fraction of its on-disk representation. I modified `yes` to just stream `[` out; the JSON parser handled it just fine — it takes a while to roll a 64b counter.
I always enjoyed the after-work drinking events. Lots of people there that I would never call up and ask "hey want to go to the bar?" but still enjoyed hanging out with. I guess it's not work's job to be your social life, and these after-work events exclude people with families or that don't like alcohol from valuable interactions... but ignoring the global effect, I personally enjoyed them. Now that everyone is remote, they don't happen, and you just have to put "fun" events on the team calendar. That's more fair, and almost as good, but I get why people miss that part of office culture.
Where are we at with the "language hierarchy" at the moment? It's been a while since I've seen this game played.

So my move.

1. Common Lisp (well obviously)
2. Racket (gotta make some noise)
3. Haskell (controversial, I know)
4. Rust (trendy and deservedly)
5. APL (terseness)
6. Prolog (made me think differently)
7. Fortran (come a long way)
8. Forth (brevity)
9. Ada (correctness)
10. Lean (I really like Lean)
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. C
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. C++
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. Python
. Perl
. Shell
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. ECMAscript

Is there anyone I haven't offended? Do let me know :)
> I do believe we should have built more nuclear plants 20 or 30 years ago

Would you like to know why we didn't?

Because climate activists told us 20 years ago that

- [a nuclear power plant] takes 30 years or more to build one

- [a nuclear power plant] usually costs twice as planned

- [nuclear power is] way more expensive than renewables

- renewables can be deployed now

Then we (Germany) wasted 20 years building renewables, and now we are nowhere close to fulfilling our Kyoto commitment, and got the most expensive electricity anywhere in the world. Well done, climate activists!
> He even imagines a future in which specialized resorts will arise in locations conducive to brainstorming or strategy formation, where teams will work with the help of professional on-site facilitators.

While this may be the romanticized optimal work setup, regular people have kids in school and local commitments. This arrangement, sometimes, puts unfair disadvantage to women as well. Of course in a ideal world, both parents don’t have to travel to offsite, but disappearing to a resort for days may not work for everyone
My social calendar is almost back to normal. I see friends most nights, I do all of my favorite hobbies again. The only things I don't do that I used to really are going to large events (concerts/sports events) and I travel less frequently on planes.

WFH is still incredibly isolating for me. I feel disconnected from my work and from my peers. I was remote once before the pandemic and felt exactly the same way.

I think most people would describe me as highly extroverted. I just don't get enough/diverse enough person to person contact to be happy when I'm at home working all day.
Co-locating with your coworkers isn't a broken way of working, per se, but the majority of our cities are not designed for work/life balance.

If the office is a 5 minute walk, I have absolutely no problem going in and staying until the usefulness of being together is exhausted for the day. When the commute is an hour plus in traffic, that's gonna be a no from me dawg.

Add on to that the fact that some regions have been major winners the last decade while others are major losers, means that people stuck in "loser" regions may have better remote prospects than local prospects.
I think people like you need a new app, something like Tinder for lunch. I personally have no will to move to a high cost of life area and spend 1+ hour on commune just because my coworkers can’t find friends.
For a cloud-based app, that might literally just be at the application gateway. Beyond that, everything could be whatever protocol.
Why did you flag my comment?

> ignoring our request to stop

What request are you talking about?
Fugue is a translation layer from SQL to underlying runtime: pandas, dask, spark.

Each of the runtimes, supported by Fugue, can be compared to Ray, but Fugue is a tool of a different kind.
>Also TSMC is one of the few thing that keep Taiwan protected.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830921

>New Chip plant in Japan
Then I’m unsure what problem the project is trying to solve.

We have a real problem today with affordability and right to repair. My wife’s family are rice farmers from rural Thailand. My father in law had tears in his eyes when I bought him a $25k basic Kubota tractor; his individual productivity went through the roof while the amount of backbreaking work he had to do fell. Small time agriculture does not pay enough for such folks to make such a purchase on their own, and a major repair could still be out of reach. I thought this project was trying to address these problems. I don’t see such people as having to tooling or time to build their own tractor.

As for “post apocalyptic”- I will band with others with guns and tractors and use our guns to protect our tractors; I’m not interested in building a road warrior tractor; I’m interested in easy to repair.
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TSMC is a better defense than owning nuclear weapons. But also way more expensive to develop (so not really a good option for North Korea or Iran...).
But for Taiwan it is vital to keep the smallest proccess on their land.
Wow that sounds too good to be true! Will definitely support this project!
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Well, their output is measured differently too, so I'd expect their work actions and locations to be different. If the ceo was expected to produce output that was suited to working in a cubicle, they would do that, but that's not how their output is measured.
Is WFH the acronym of the year already?
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'Goes right along with' as in it's the same work, this submission is just blog author's write up of a presentation of it (or whatever) at Def Con 29.

The researcher's write-up from April: https://sick.codes/leaky-john-deere-apis-serious-food-supply... (submitted thrice but not discussed.)
This. While in the office we communicated almost entirely over Slack or Discord. Now after being remote 1.5 years, we've never been this productive or happy. If we need to collaborate, it's a million times better to do a Discord video call and screen share, rather than hovering over them at their desk trying to read their screen while they lean away trying to avoid your coffee breath.
It's the same in North America as well. If you get scheduled during lunch time, you will get the opportunity to go outside at least :)

All that is moot now because of covid.
I had a remote gig about a year before the pandemic. In some regards it was easier. But I always found remote work isolating and cross-team collaboration lacking. The isolation was semi-fixable with a WeWork. But there’s not really a good solution a line-level worker can do to improve collaboration if other folks don’t also want it.

EDIT: I suppose the lack of collaboration could’ve also been company culture. Be cautious when the sample size is small.
> Peter Norvig here. I came to Python not because I thought it was a better/acceptable/pragmatic Lisp, but because it was better pseudocode.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815
i got paid by the Chinese communist party yes, and so what? that's what the western society is all about? making profit, no matter how, it's called an advertisement campaign :)

/s

also your comment is against hackernews rules, let's see if they are enforced, or only when it goes against their political beliefs
A lot of Americans have no frame of reference for what you're describing because they've never lived somewhere where "dangerous parts" of the city dont make up a large part of it. My experience in Beijing/Shanghai was that some parts are ultra modern and other parts are run down, but even the run down parts don't feel dangerous and don't put you on alert for getting mugged/robbed. People in the US believe that it's all a strict mathematics/economics function where poverty=danger and nothing can be done about it, they've given up on the culture part of it and just enable the epidemic of junkie and needles and sketchy people take up large swathes of public space, especially on the west coast.
According to this page, the problem of nuclear waste disposal was solved over 20 years ago. It is based on a design where the "waste fuel" is used again by the reactor until it is depleted.

The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) project - http://skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifr.htm
You've never written a bug that wasn't discovered until production? I certainly have, and given that I still haven't found the secret to never doing so again, I also build systems that are updatable with as little friction as possible.

I don't see how the parent failed to take responsibility. They were responsible for the bug. Apple was responsible for the delay in the fix.
The workplace is a social hub for many people, although it seems many on HN don't care to socialize at work much.
I think you're correct, but one thing that is really missing nowadays, especially with phones and the internet, is active communities that exist in real life outside of work. Stuff like the elks lodge, rotary, bowling leagues, etc are just not as common anymore as I believe they used to be. Certainly there are many things that exist, but in a way societally it seems like they don't have very much cache, even as far as for people to opine "only very lonely people go to those".

I tend to think its a good thing for people to have a bit more distance from work, but if we don't figure out ways to fill in that social need, societally, people will find themselves feeling even more isolated than they have been.
While I understand the sentiment, I find I lose nothing and have only to gain, from sharing my ideas with others. Of course, I wouldn't share business secrets that way, but those are rare exceptions.

Oh, you said cheap people.. Sure :)
Interesting idea. Every two months seems like it could be prohibitively expensive, though, depending on the org. My company has a yearly event that's mandatory for every employee throughout the country, and a common complaint is just how much it costs to put on. Granted, you could make it cheaper by getting rid of the c-list celebrity MC and free drinks, but renting a space for 1500 people, paying for travel, getting hotel rooms, etc, is all costly.

It's been all virtual for the past two years, and I genuinely wonder how much they've saved that way. It's also much more bearable for this introvert ... I despise that stupid event and resent having to attend. :P
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Well, I think one shouldn’t compare the sudden curfew/lockdown situation determined by COVID with the mores of a finely tuned social machine such as the office.

Given enough time, people would start developing routines and habits around diffused WFH, invest and fine-tune in facilities and services to cater for such a customer base.

Right now we have a lot of stakeholders that just held their breath hoping for a quick return to “normality”.

Indeed, a different organization of our urban spaces would drastic reduce CO2 emissions and land consumption. We should think of it in terms of a sudden opportunity to overcome a local minimum we were stuck in, and search for a new optimum.
Right, Taiwan is a de facto but not de jure country. That fact is what the person upthread was objecting to in the first place.
As much trouble firefox has because of the Mozilla board of directors, it is still the most reliable and secure. As an alternative in some cases you can use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/

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When Reddit replaced Digg, it was because Reddit was trailing Digg closely in the shadows. Specifically, Reddit was already successfully grown, well featured, reasonably scalable, merely ranked #2 in public perception and numbers. Digg made multiple critical mistakes, and Reddit was ready to accept the thrown.

Reddit has made some critical mistakes, also has had a small number of long outages, but there is no powerful force lurking in the shadows.

The forces in the shadow of Reddit today usually have several terminal weaknesses. They won't be able to handle a 100x traffic surprise, both culturally and their servers, when a true exodus will probably be at least 1000x. They often exist for a single topic, which is frequently bigotry.

Best of luck to anyone trying.
I was downtown this weekend and it was much busier than I expected. I rode the light rail from the new Northgate station, and the train was (relatively) full after the university stations. I hope the two are related.
Yes, something tells me Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t spend much time in his cubicle. He also has the peace of mind of knowing that whenever he feels like it, he can have any of a number of places on campus all to himself. So going to work in a cubicle/public space isn’t nearly the same psychological experience for him that it is for regular workers there.
does clojure count?

if so, nubank (brazilian fintech) would be one of the biggest one.

they even bought cognitect https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nu...
My son, nine years old at the time, said "If you think the whole world is messed up, then you are messed up."
Eh, surely you'd just build a brainfuck transpiler in lisp and coast
Yes! I've been wondering if people prefer to work from home. Now I can finally read all your comments to find out!!
The flip side is that many feel an intense pressure to do whatever it takes to get the most lucrative job they can find because the US has much less of a social safety net than many European countries.
I was in Lancaster, and it was livable, yes.

Plus being cheap meant my management were pretty open to "I don't know how to do that -yet-, but I think I have an idea what I'd need, can I have a few days to research it and get back to you?" which was -very- helpful to my learning process.

Looking back, I don't regret the choice at all.
At most let it run once on the next boot cycle. Why every time after that?
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zip bomb is a perfectly valid file.

I can set up a broken service, that outputs a gajillion lines of same errors to syslog, creating terrabytes of logs, zip all that into few megabytes, and that'd be a valid zip, that'd fill up most modern laptops and servers.

A surveillance camera video, with a very high frame rate when motion is detected and a very low frame rate when not (high framerate -> timelapse), can be a perfectly valid video, taking a few gigabytes in this format, and a few terrabytes when converted to fixed 60fps.
Found this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21150046

Apparently, it's controversial.
Isn't meetup.com a thing worldwide?

Also, the dating app Bumble has an option for friendships, and in a pinch tinder itself works if you're super clear about your goals
I'm not sure what would be left in Taiwan after an invasion but I'm sure it doesn't include the hyper-sensitive latest-node semiconductor factory.
Odd that AutoDesk isn't on here, since I got into programming Lisp when trying to automate AutoCAD.
Thanks!

I always wanted to demonstrate that I'm a whole human. Not just sexual or chaste. Sex is a healthy part of my life, and I like to demonstrate it thusly.
Right. China's position is that a declaration of independence from Taiwan constitutes an act of war against China by what is essentially a US/NATO proxy. So the US/NATO would have to trade something to China for Taiwan and it's not clear to me that they have anything to offer that matters to China.