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I've worked at two different Clojure companies now.

My take is that yes, Clojure is strictly better than, say, Python. It is strictly worse than Common Lisp. A lot of stupid BS just goes away when you're not papering over an underlying runtime. Yet, the Common Lisp community has struggled with what I'll genteely call "ergonomics of modern development"; i.e, the language contortions to do some boring normal things, particularly around hashmaps, are a PITA. Clojure addresses that nicely. However, if a serious startup went into Common Lisp, those things would be addressed internally in a few months (hopefully they'd release the library).

The angle where Clojure really wins is access to JVM libraries. Just, no contest.

Clojure as a hiring strategy is strategically problematic. It's niche, a lot of people won't know it, and some really smart people will do some gnarly hacks for your company starting out. The implication is that later on, you have to unwind the hacks, new people have to go through a deconfusion period, and the smart people will move on leaving you with gnarly code to untangle. I do not expect this to be different for Common Lisp companies.

Would I build a team on Common Lisp? Yes, but I would not plan it in such a fashion that I would expect the team to get large, or for the entire company to have to interact with their codebase. I'd apply similar calculus to Clojure, I just don't think its as good as CL.

If I really needed the JVM libraries, I'd be doing the project in Scala.

Too, if I really needed a strong reliable software pipeline, I'd be doing the project in a strongly typed non-dynamic language: Scala, Rust would be my preferred goto languages.
Pronoun.is is useful, you can go to ex. https://pronoun.is/xe and it gives usage examples and permutations of the pronoun.
Japan has the most effective Lost and Found
The US has a relatively weird structure where trusts are one of the best ways to meet the FAA's requirements for ownership while also hiding certain ownership details: https://www.hef.ru.nl/~pfk/aircraftGalleries/organisation-Ai...

Most of the time you see it used is when a lessor has taken an aircraft back from an airline after the lease has ended for some reason, and it becomes a holding structure until the aircraft is leased again to another operator.
The financials of airliner operation make it feasible for most airlines to have a mixed fleet of owned and leased aircraft.

But in this case Wilmington Trust is a fairly large aircraft lessor in its own right: https://library.wilmingtontrust.com/corporate-institutional/... and https://centreforaviation.com/data/profiles/lessors/wilmingt...

For instance here's an Airbus A350 that was used by LATAM, then returned to Wilmington during the COVID-19 drawdown of flying, and is being taken into service by Delta: https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a350-900-n982d...

This is actually a flaw in the tracker's logic though, in that it's probably using an outdated data source that's still showing that intermediary registration holder rather than the current operator.
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No one is taking credit, and surely you’re smart enough to understand that two distinct groups can simultaneously work to achieve similar goals.
> so much discretion in keeping things on the front page or bumping them off the front page

I'm a bit confused—how'd you arrive at that from what I wrote at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070287? That was the false allegation, but the whole point is that it didn't happen.

I'm happy to answer any questions about that case, any other case, or HN in general, but I don't recall that thread containing any point at which moderators intervened in that way.
Spotify has better cross-platform support.

Apple Music's music upload is great for combining a personal/niche library with the cloud subscription library.

Spotify's music "experience" might still be marginally better, but I feel like things haven't improved, and probably have been trending downwards in favor of podcasts.

Apple Music seems like it's been getting gradually better over time.

Both have download to device support which is nice.
Sadly, it's even more complicated than what's described here. There are a lot of undocumented fast paths and nonorthogonalities between features where you can really only learn about them by talking to your friendly neighborhood driver engineer in a backdoor conversation (that only a select few developers have access to). Otherwise, it's easy to miss a lot of spooky action at a distance. Vulkan and DX12 might have been sold as "low-level" APIs but they didn't (and can't) do much to address the fundamental economic issues that push hardware engineers to build patchwork architectures.

I'm half of the opinion that writing an efficient Vulkan or DX12 renderer has not been and cannot be done. If you're not one of the developers shipping a AAA title with enough weight to get attention from the RGBs, you're probably better off going as bindless and gpu-driven as you can. It's not optimal (or entirely possible on some architectures), but it probably has the most consistent behavior across architectures when it's supported.
> found bottle in 2020

> The Norwegian sent a Facebook message for Joanna, but the former Peterhead schoolgirl did not spot it until Monday [January 2022]

This pretty much sums up Facebook/Instagram inboxes.
The problems from Rosalind https://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/ are designed to help you connect bioinformatics knowledge to programming.

There won't be much visualisation required in those problems explicitly, but you should reach for something like matplotlib when you need it and follow the most relevant examples you cna find for what you're visualising.
I worked for a company that did this. It was (and still is) a complete disaster. They've been around for 5 years and still haven't released a product. If you're going to do this, you'd better have an enormous pile of tasks that can be independently handled and programmatically verified. And just assume that communication between your US team and foreign teams will be nonexistent, it's best to set expectations low instead of trying to embed people into existing teams.
IMO, the problem is that many of those tools are really not that reliable in the sense that they may go away soon.

It all takes a company to be acquired by M$, GOOG etc and then taken offline.
For example, I lived through Google Appmaker (absolutely fantastic!) which was retired with 6 months notice.

It's really risky to build larger app on no-code platforms that you don't fully control via self-hosting. And I don't know great open-source/open-core low/no-code stacks that are easy to use and expressive enough. It would be great to get pointers.

I guess a the height of hypercard, that really wasn't really on people's radar.
The writing on the message isn't cursive.
Calling Rust "a C/C++ replacement" is, I think, slightly underselling what it's supposed to do. As I understand it, the goal of Rust is more "take all these things that were historically hard to do safely and make them easier to do safely" than "replace C/C++ 1 for 1".
https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_importers/tree/m...

https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import

https://beancount.github.io/docs/importing_external_data.htm...

Support for OFX is generally great, CSV is also great. There are some proof of concept things floating around too for PDF.
How the hell do you get the notion that the ECB bailed out Greece? Don't you know the "bailout" money went straight to the German and French banks, the only thing Greece got was more loans at worst conditions, more prostitutes in the streets, more suicides, more brain drain.
I started anew, just because after having using ledger I wanted to change some accounts, categories, and generally change the way I was doing things before.

But I don't see why I'd be an issue to convert ledger to beancount.
Thank you! So far, I haven't even earned a coffee, but it would be great if I could compensate the hosting costs in the long run. :-)
I was lent a copy of K&R by an English teacher¹ in my high school (this was 1984ish). I still remember the smell of coffee and nicotine that was imbued in its pages and any time I deal with C code, the sense memory comes back to me.

For a while, under the influence of K&R and The TeXbook, I contemplated going to Stanford to study computer science and then working at Bell Labs. I did neither.

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1. About ten years ago, I decided to try to reach out to him and thank him and comment about how out paths kind of were the inverse of each other—he had a degree in computer science but ended up teaching high school English, I had a degree in English and ended up programming computers—and I discovered that he had died a few months previous. Whenever possible, get in touch with those who influenced you earlier if just to say hi and thanks.
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Is Godot efficient enough? They are preparing to release their Vulkan based version.

Vulkan drivers for AMD and Intel are also open source (at least for Linux), so developers can look into how things are implemented without asking for some special attention. Plus driver developers are pretty open to questions.
I think that was the least-accurate part of a mostly decent answer. VCs, like most people, are trend chasers who live in a fairly constrained bubble, no matter how much they want to portray themselves as enlightened Renaissance thinkers who span across human experience and thus can offer useful insight anywhere. Sure, if you're in a trendy space (and in the Valley or one of a handful of other locations) and you refuse investment, they might throw that money at a competitor. But there's a tremendous amount of money sloshing around the world in so many more un-trendy industries and un-trendy places than anyone really realizes, and it's honestly not that hard to tap into those money flows and make an extremely comfortable life for yourself. It's just that most of the people doing that don't talk about it constantly, and they're living comfortably well, rather than making a billion dollars and buying islands.
You are correct that private jets are often owned by organizations including trusts in order to obscure their true ownership, but many of the jets on this site that are labeled as being owned by 'something something Trustee' are in fact commercial airliners owned and operated by major airlines, which seems to be pretty common. Here are some that I found in just a few seconds of clicking planes in the air over my own state on ADS-B Exchange:

https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N338DN

https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N330DX

https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N356FR

https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N324DX
Why stop there? Don't forget that the Aztec empire was just that, an empire. They conquered land, sacrificed their enemies to their gods and were an altogether unpleasant bunch which explains why the Spanish conquistadores got help from natives in bringing down the empire. Before the Aztecs came the Chichimeca who conquered their predecessors, the Toltecs. Before the Toltecs came the Otomi, etcetera. Nahuatl, Itza’, Mixtec, Zapotec, Totonac, Otomi, Pame, Purépecha are all colonialist languages - and that covers only the last few thousands of years of history in meso-America.
another datum in the "why you should never customise your environment" argument.
Anecdata but in my experience it's definitely true in Africa, I did a project for a Cameroonian tech company recently and they couldn't afford to compete with major tech co's with remote roles which is where anyone decent and semi-senior went. They ended up with a mishmash tech team in Algeria and Ukraine mostly although they would have much preferred to hire local. I heard this story many times in the tech community there and in Kenya.
The grifters were just making sure they didn't miss out on a recent rebranding effort.
> This left other OSs out in the cold but the number of actual legit users installing something else was a rounding error.

Isn't that the whole point? They forced the OEMs to drop other OSs by abusing their monopoly position. If this is not dirty I don't know what is. But yes, MS has plenty of other dirty moves in their past. I don't trust them one bit, even with their new clothes on.
Dunno if you’re being sarcastic but I agree. A person very close to me suffers forced-childhood-haircut trauma
..among many other things. And they didn’t say they didn’t want therapy as advice, they specifically did ask for advice beyond therapy but that doesn’t mean they are going to be offended by someone saying “but also, if you aren’t in therapy, try it.” And calling this “paternalistic” when someone is saying they hate their life and is asking for advice is completely uncalled for. Your overly-strong anti-therapy stance is noted but it doesn’t really have anything to do with the OP and the commenter you are responding to.
At some point you just bite the bullet and learn to use CMake+conan
Hugo/Jekyll were thoroughly overkill for my little blog, so I went looking at the absolute simplest static site generators I could find (with a minor preference for something written in rust). I landed on Zola, and hand-coded myself a set of templates. It has been working out pretty well.
The OP did not claim to be a social scientist so I assume they are a layperson and not a trained scientist.
Not my point. Tax income for small towns no long match infrastructure support costs. Never mind who's buying what where.

It's the small town buckling to the WalGetCo corporate negotiators, giving them tax breaks and new roads and water and sewer expansion. With just one business served by the new infrastructure: the big box store.

Sure the taxable property goes up, city income goes up; but the density is way less than the old downtown, the new income doesn't come close to paying for the new outflows, and the old downtown businesses find themselves subsidizing their competition on the edge of town.
It does not have to be like this. What Americans need to see is not bigger or smaller government but more 'effective' government. Is the government using the resources it does have effectively. Obviously the answer is no. But hoe have other countries managed to solve this problem? It seems like its down to historical chances where events that played out in the country's history dictated how the government ended up behaving and the values of the people that run it.

For example: If you consider the massive losses after WW2 and the effort it took to rebuild after the war, it seems like the aftermath resulted in many of those countries in Europe establishing programs with the idea that the society stands together as one and should help each other out. This mentality affects many European government behaviors to this day.
"You sound like a person...", followed by pejoratives, is crossing into personal attack. So is using canned personal lines like "get over yourself". So, arguably, is "you're your own worst enemy". So is "you'll still be the same ineffective blocked off 'you'". So, arguably, is "Work on yourself more".

I realize that you meant well but repeatedly putting someone down like this is not the way to help them on the internet. Maybe if you were talking in person and had already established a good personal connection, it would be robust enough to withstand that sort of language. On the internet, though (and maybe not only on the internet), that's not the case.

People using 'tough love' language generally feel that it's justified because their intentions are good, but you can't know that unless you have a lot of information about how it's landing with the other person, and by default, it probably isn't going to land well at all.
What makes you think any source is "unbiased"? What criteria do you use to evaluate them?
Private landlords are basically lenders. The houses are there for anyone to buy. The landlords-to-be have the cash, or credit rating and scope for risk taking, to buy these houses and rent them out.

I’m not saying they are some kind of godsend, rather that they are present precisely because renters wouldn’t buy the houses they live in, for whatever reason. If you take away the private landlords, you’d need to find that capital elsewhere, and it seems poor people don’t have it.

State-owned housing? Mutual housing? Promoting good transport so people can live further out? Lots of solutions I think, but not sure adding friction to the current set up will do anything.
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I just looked into this story, and there was more to it than we usually hear.
Inner city schools can be bad but they usually have more opportunities than rural ones. Rural ones literally have nothing to offer. I’ve talked to enough people who went to inner city schools - they had way more opportunity than I could’ve ever imagined. School might’ve had disruptions but opportunity was very much available.

My school was so poor they went to a four day week and cut all electives. No one went to a target college and people struggled when they did go to college (many changing their major from a hard one to an easy one). I think I went to the most prestigious college out of the entire group (not even that good) and I certainly was not prepared. The average student at my university was infinitely smarter and harder working than people at my HS. It was the first time in my life I had to actually work at schooling.

Mind you - I chose one of the most rigorous and difficult majors. So, it was hard even for the kids who did come from good schools. Anyone else from my school would’ve dropped out - I had unparalleled grit and that was the only reason I was able to continue.
I can remember writing a large Pascal program in the 80s and really wishing I had function pointers available so I could pass in a reference to a function. I look back on that as an autodidact programmer and realize that I had some vague instinctual notion of stuff that would become commonplace as OO and functional paradigms took over.
I think US salaries are more to do with it than anything else. It's just not sustainable anymore for most tech companies. So they hire where talent is cheaper. It was obvious it will happen with remote work.
The discussion isn’t about the initial flagging, it’s about the review.

That might be as simple as checking for the existence of legal documents claiming copyright infringement, or as reading a web page stating “we already removed X other copies of this file”.

Neither is a fail-safe way of doing such a review, but doing a thorough review might be expensive even for Google. Does anybody know how many such reviews they do each day?

It might also be a bug on their tooling to assist human reviewers.
See also the book The Spirit Level, which shows that inequality also negatively affects those who are well-off - they become stressed about their social standing too.

This is why naive explanations of inequality that blame the poor or the envious are false.
Both of you are making valid points, I don't get why either is seen as an argument. Your original comment was one with a strong sense of anger at the rich, and it is not misplaced. People and corporations hide their wealth with many different instruments, and one step to achieving equity would be to put all of this in the open.
A lot of people in this thread are correctly pointing out the Neil Young is within his rights to only allow his music to be played on censorious platforms. What's missing is anyone saying that he isn't.

A racist is within their rights to publically discuss their views. I will happily argue that that is the way it should be until the heat death of the universe. But, importantly, you will never catch me saying the they're a decent person or they're doing the right thing. Young can be against basic human rights without exceeding the bounds of his own, but being authoritarian is still morally abhorrent.
It does affect them indirectly. More importantly, it affects the company.

Engineer's lose motivation and put less effort in. The company has to spend more budget on operations. Emergencies come up. Projects fail to deliver on-time.

These things are the tech debt and the interest being paid.

He had a point in some cases. There are products that aren't used or aren't under active development.

He was lumping all of the tech debt together. He was saying to everyone in the organization that he viewed all tech debt this way.
Would you go vegan to reduce your CO2 output, and does it make you a sociopath if you dont?
(Not OP) Cable services like Reuters, AFP and RND are usually unbiased by design because they license to both sides of the political spectrum.

Some criteria are use of language, funding and factchecking track record.

Simple example:

"Biden SLAMMED over xyz after OUTRAGEOUS xyz" is not an unbiased title.
Yes I think so, because the way these apps typically do notifications is with an Android service that polls or keeps a long running socket. If you don't turn off battery optimization specifically for that app then the OS will kill your service.
Yeah wtf this article. Who exactly are vaccine mandates hurting? pretty sure Manhattan is mostly vaxxed, for what is worth most people are more comfortable dining out with the vax mandates.

Also NYC was averaging >30000 cases a day. Not saying covid is deadly anymore, but personally I really didn't feel like getting sick for 2 weeks for what... eating overpriced food?

Not judging people who go out and live lives though, I know at this point it's not really about "stopping the spread" at all costs. But give me a break, I'm not going to feel bad about not going to restaurants, especially since most of them happily reverted to "no delivery/no take out" pretentious ways.
True and fair point! I have been trying to change that mindset for a while. One major thing I believe is the uncertainty of contracting - they never know when they may not be needed again. However, if an EE dev can align himself with the company and has a senior dev / manager above him who can help him make that transition - I think they'd make a great team.
People (myself included) usually overestimate their ability to ship more readable code that has bug-for-bug parity with complex existing codebase.
> This becomes an even bigger problem when dealing with other cultures.

I have worked with many in Latin America (Costa Rica and Mexico in particular) and cultural differences (with respect to work) have never come up. They seem extremely "Americanized", or perhaps the differences aren't there in their own native cultures either. It's like talking to an American with a slight accent.

> And you might find that other cultures don't value diversity and inclusion as much as n American corporate culture and really look down on the way others do things and see there way as the right way.

Unless they have a proclivity for wearing red hats or being out of the house Sunday mornings [0]. U.S. diversity & inclusion amounts to parading around people with different skin colors that think exactly like a West Coast White Liberal.

[0] Tongue-in-cheek reference: Silicon Valley, Season 5, Episode 4
The amount of people who "need" to rent for whatever reason is at least an order of magnitude smaller than the amount of people who are forced to rent because all available housing is for rent instead of for sale.

For example, there are a lot of people buying cars, and a lot less people renting cars, and for similars reason you stated above. If the housing market was balanced (as in not "completely cornered by landlords"), i'd expect a similar ratio of housing rental vs ownership, even taking into account the depreciating nature of cars.