qop's comments

It's not making much money because it's not that conducive to writing real lisp code with. Nobody thinks about sexprs the way parinfer does unless that's their first encounter with them. If you went and taught parinfer users how to use paredit, they'd wonder why paredit is so much easier and feels more w useful to them.

Additionally, it's a niche market in the first place. People aren't exactly clambering for more lisp dev tools except in recessed corners of the academic universe and places where clojure is used. Aside from those users, there's little demand for a tool like this, and that market is like I said, further eroded by significantly higher quality tooling that's already available.

Not every piece of code someone writes is worthy of being paid for. Not every piece of code written deserves to have been written in the first place, unfortunately.

As long as Amazon doesn't get it, I'll be pleased.

I'm not so familiar with the academic side of things as much as I am finance and corp side of things.

Academic roles probably benefit a lot more from the more rigorously designed language/platfrom R offers. Not to mention the maturity of the ecosystem.

Julias big draw is performance, in my eyes. Ease of use is good too, Python syntax + types + macros is great, but the speed is absolutely killer once you get it tuned up.

Time will tell, but I see some very strong threats as Julia already has packages for xlsx, and a good Quant community forming up.

For finance, I will be shocked if Julia isn't a household name 2-3 yrs from now. It's what the financial world has been waiting for.

Python won't be killed for a while. It's just too ubiquitous. But it poses no major threat to any major firm who needs decent performance, and there will be more and more turmoil in python chore community as time goes on. I think it will get much worse, not better.

Do you have citations or further reading on this? I am not trying to nitpick you, I want to read more about this but I googled megastructure and I get back a bunch ofnonsense. I find it interesting what architecture experts have thought about the extreme end of human structure.

All you need is a megastructure 50 miles tall!

For the uninformed: concerns don't mean vulnerabilities, necessarily

At least there's no proof so far

Yeah, talking about partisan politics, while not fun, it is necessary occasionally, is impossible on HN.

Talking about certain people and their decisions in tech is not possible also.

I don't think downvotes are useful inputs, personally. It's far too easy to farm votes and use the accounts for essentially manipulation, it doesn't actually contribute to the dialogue, even when they're down voting something like an overly obvious question or dumb comment, a down vote doesn't really change anything.

I think accounts under 5000 karma shouldn't have dowvoting capability at all. Additionally, once a down vote has been cast on a comment, that post's score should be hidden to discourage multiple downvotes.

Unless someone is spamming or posting something actually harmful or illegal, ie not just an opinion, there's no benefit in discouraging that person from contributing in the site.

These are my thoughts. I've seen HN go from a bastion of intelligent hackers and scholars mature enough to discuss nearly anything to a collection of mostly childish people bickering about nothing. Over the years and different accounts and seeing the wrong people rewarded and the wrong people blasted out for minor errors. It's crazy.

Downvotes are just one angle, but I agree that it needs attention.

Edit: this post now serves to prove the point I'm making.

F# gets used a lot in finance. If you're in the NY area with F# experience you could easily find a contract or maybe a position.

When Julia 1.0 drops, there will be some shifting around as the industry begins the Matlab exodus. But not a lot of prospects right now. It has a really cool type system with multiple dispatch, but it's dynamically typed. Depends on your taste. Takes practice in my experience organizing code by dispatch. Didn't click in my brain at first. Also, there are macros ala Lisp, good performance, etc.

Not sure about Ada, hoping to find out more.

If a person wanted to write ada outside of a government agency, what are the options?

What's wrong with any of this?

People who are using and selling drugs are criminals like any other type of criminal.

Civil forfeiture is fucked, sure, but the rest of the consequences sound pretty fair. Break the law, you pay the price. If you rob a small bank instead of Deutsche, should you get a smaller penalty? Just because it's a small quantity of drugs doesn't mean anything, it's still the same crime.

Minikanren, ckanren studying, game development, my own ssh client, my own DHT implementation

All sorts of shit. There's so little time for anything anymore. I'm considering retiring a few years early to get some hacking done.

I remember hearing netbsd had support for using Lua to write network drivers and then never heard anything else.

Is that still a thing? I've had netbsd on my weekend to-do list for years but just have never found enough time or motivation.

What's so great about netbsd?

This is correct, thanks for fighting the disinformation!

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I already addressed it.

Without censorship, decentralized products can thrive. And they currently are.

HN's response was "but they're not very big!!!1!"

There's plenty of kiddie porn on facebook, instagram, twitter. They hide it other images or scramble the images themselves to fool filters.

Or did you think that magically goes away because it's centralized?

GS instances have ways to block content instance-wide. So spam and porn filters can catch items and prevent all users on the instance from seeing it.

I don't know if ActivityPub specifies things like that in the spec yet, but moderation is of course a huge factor in the success of the fediverse. Lots of work is devoted to it.

Incredibly, nobody needs to be censored. The offending poster can be reported to authorities and handled from there without ever having to tell a user what they can and cannot post.

People made this argument about cars when they were still riding horseback.

Let's not defend the worse thing here.

I think very strict moderation will come into auto taxis. If I'm paying a lease on a car, or better yet if I'm lending time in my own autonomous car, I'm going to exercise extremely judicious moderation. If it's not clean after UserABC rides, he never rides again. Simple.

IRC, gnusocial, xmpp, sms to some degree, ham radio, etc.

The absence of censorship I think will prove to be tangible enough to make products like peertube successful.

This isn't true across the board. There's a lot of primitive shitheads out there but there are still civilized humans also.

You think typing a mean comment online is worse behavior than outright lying to your own customers?

Objective conversation should specifically reject externality. That's a fifth wave myth anyways.

Stealing and lying is definitely worse than being mean online.