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Did you not read the first link? Eric Schmidt is not just "some people at google".

edit: you should watch this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg
I only had time to give your link a quick skim, but I'm impressed that the Rust team is actually thinking about how to pass debug information through from "Rust-front" tools.

The #line directive in C is limited, at best. Debugging flex/lex/yacc/bison, for instance, is sketchy at best. But of course line numbers are only part of the problem. If someone really wants to create Spiffy New Language as a Rust-front, then SNL structures/objects/collections/whoozits will want to pass symbolic information to the debugger so that users can explore their data structures using meaningful names.

And even so, this assumes that with debug symbols on, you can turn optimization off. Debugging optimized code gets wacky very fast because associating line numbers to source is not always possible any more, and gives non-intuitive results due to code motion and inlining even when it is possible. (You haven't lived until you've seen gdb's source line pointer jump around like a weasel on crack due to code re-arrangement.)

At Rust's current level of maturity, I suspect there are bigger fish to fry than passing debug info from Rust-fronts, so rejecting ambitious debug symbol machinery is probably the right strategic decision for the time being.
LLVM doesn't take shortcuts like that. It's designed as a set of reusable libraries for use in all kinds of tooling. In many cases it even has to continue going after detecting errors and recording a representation of them, so that it can still produce useful information. That's an important feature for lots of tooling.
So, you're not a great believer in the scientific method, then?
"moving the most wealthy to technology and lifestyles with lower environmental impact" - that's a strategy that's new to me, and initially sounds smart, as I'd certainly rather that rich people had crazy cool low/zero-environmental-impact toys than gas-guzzling ones! However, isn't the net environmental impact of the 1% actually tiny compared to the activities of the 99%? So surely it's widely penetrating / mass adoption of low/zero-environmental-impact technologies by the 99% that will change the world?

And of course as George Monbiot said...

“(Population is) an important issue…most greens will not discuss. Is this sensitivity or is it cowardice? Perhaps a bit of both.”

“…if we accept the UN’s projection that global population will grow by roughly 50 per cent and then stop. This means it will become 50 per cent harder to stop runaway climate change, 50 per cent harder to feed the world, 50 per cent harder to prevent the overuse of resources.”

“Even if there were no environmental pressures caused by population growth, we should still support the measures required to tackle it: universal sex education, universal access to contraceptives, better schooling and opportunities for poor women. Stabilising or even reducing the human population would ameliorate almost all environmental impacts.”
The entire internet industry and tools saves a lot of money and energy itself. Some of what people used to travel by car or airplane to do, now is done over far more energy and time efficient internet connections. Large amounts of paper has been replaced by far more environmentally friendly digital versions.

The dream hasn't gone %100 yet, but it has replaced a big chunk already. Year by year it replaces more and more paper and in person travelling.

You may think it isn't the case, but I have a story of a friend doing a psychology internship. The small office she works for has her schlep paper testing kits, patient charts and so on back and forth in between offices. And since they are shared they have often have to deliver them back and forth more than multiple copies would let them prevent. The main reason why its still paper is because her boss is in her 60s. But my friend has started to convince her boss to start digitizing. Now with hippa compliant google drive and pdf files replacing testing manuals and patient charts, they will save a ton of gas energy and time alone. It will be huge for them.

And that is one simple example.
Which means that if you're planning to drive already, flying may be a better option. Though ground-based electrified rail would be better still -- even if it has higher net energy consumption, solar-fed electrified rail beats fuel-fed aircraft.

The key is the frivolous word in the GP comment. Aircraft actually are fairly efficient, it's just that the mileage of a single flight is a substantial fraction of most people's total annual driving. That old Jevons paradox again.

As for electric aircraft: think "powered glider" rather than "emissions-free 747". Roughly half an airliner's takeoff weight is fuel, and that's burnt up over the course of the flight. Battery storage densities are on the order of 1/100th to 1/50th of petrol or kerosene (latter is essentially jet fuel). The trend's been slight on improvement, and though there've been some battery-powered aircraft, they're comparable to a very-small-engined aircraft with a tiny fuel tank -- think 20-40hp and less than a gallon of fuel (about 15-30 kW and 2-3 litres, for rational people).
Leonardo's notebooks can now be consulted online with transcriptions
Is it regulation, or vested interests?

When J.J. Hill did his thing, there was no landowners to argue with (comparatively). In Seattle, there must be a thousand landowners to consider in that 6 mile stretch. Each one with their own view of the need and cost/benefit analysis of the 6 mile improvement. Eminent domain is not without legal challenge of course, so this drags out the timeline. Underfunded court systems move slower than desired, adding to delays in the process.

The 'regulations' would be about safety, electrical wiring, setback etc, which just define how things should be done for the most part and do not add time. It is dealing with all the vested interests of the property owners involved, and the sheer number of them. I am a property owner myself; if the city came to me a decided that my house was in the way of a new freeway on ramp, you had better believe that I am going to want my day in court to fight it. I have the resources to drag it out as long as possible - with extensions, delays, studies, blah blah blah. It does not take much thought to understand how to slow things down in court. I am sure there is a youtube video for it.

Would you protest if your own house was to be destroyed by the 6 mile change? I assume you live in the Seattle area or you would not know about the statement. So if your own person domicile was to be destroyed, and it was a beloved place with a lifetime of memories for you, would you be complacent about its destruction or would you fight it tooth and claw? (I would fight)

I think the overwhelming majority would fight. And then it takes 25 years to go 6 miles. It is not regulation but property owners. Specifying the diameter of a ground rod in an electrical panel does not slow things down, it speed them up by removing the need to think about it. Just build to code - someone else has figured it out. I don't need to calculate loads of the panels versus the density of the square root of the moon yesterday - I just sink in 2 ground rods 20 feet deep and 40 feet apart and am happy that someone else did the math. Life is an open book test, the printed regulations are the answer key.

TL:DR Money not rules is the delay maker.
Programming is the act of "describing" a computation to a computing machine. In the past people used gears and levers to do that for mechanical computers. The way of describing computation can exist in many forms, like, formulas in excel sheet or using timeline to describe an animation or using C to build a device driver. All these ways have their own particular context to be useful. So, it doesn't make sense that in future we will have "one particular way" of describing computations.
I thought colloquially that's half of a bartender's job -serve drinks and pretend to listen to his punters' troubles.
And you can drive those electric cars for perhaps 10 years after that switch, until the global food supply finally kicks the bucket. On the current course, we are looking at global nuclear war level disruption; the only question is "when." Estimates are between 2035 and 2070.

The problem is: once we stop, were have decades more build up that catches up.

Really, actually reading the science, I'm starting to think the Fermi paradox is solved.

When you say "cheaper," anything we do today is cheaper than massive human death.
You know you keep whining that it is just liberal orthodoxy and that you will be persecuted if you speak the truth but you should observe that you are the only one throwing insults and generalizations around in this conversation. Several people have made reasoned rebuttals to comments like this one and yet only you are saying "ooh poor me, liberal witch trials!".
The Democrat/Hillary thing is non-news in and of itself. I wouldn't bat an eye if a CEO of any other company did the exact same thing (as long as there weren't signs they were somehow exploiting the company's own reach to affect politics; there's no evidence of that for Schmidt).

The actual cause for concern here is Schmidt's strange willingness to effectively act as some kind of sleeper agent for the State Department (per Assange's writings and the interview transcript). Or perhaps an intelligence agency; it seems fairly plausible he was asked to speak to Assange as a way of gathering intelligence.

That's deeply concerning, and suggests Schmidt has a rather special relationship with the government. If he were no longer affiliated with Google/Alphabet, it'd still be shady yet not really violating any standards. But as CEO/chairman, it's a massive conflict of interest and suggests that the government likely was or is trying to exploit Google's leadership in some way.

Not that I blame the government here. If I were the CIA or NSA or State Department, I'd be trying to get my tentacles around massively influential companies, too. I only blame Schmidt for going along with it to such a degree.

After this knowledge is taken into account, Schmidt's involvement with the election seems a little weirder.

There are 3 factors here:

* An influential non-government civilian willing to do the State Department's dirty work, possibly at the behest of an intelligence agency

* An influential non-government civilian willing to devote a lot of time, resources, and technology to getting the State Department head elected President

* The chief executive of one of the world's largest companies

Any combination of 2 of these things isn't that odd. But the fact that someone was 1) acting covertly for a government agency, 2) working hard to get an important person in that agency elected, also attempting to be covert in the process, 3) is the executive chairman of Alphabet...

Even if the government isn't really doing anything malicious here, and Schmidt's involvement in these matters are all coincidental and his own ideas and purely due to his personal patriotism or love of the State Department and Hillary or whatever, it doesn't make it any less irresponsible to do all that while still acting as a powerful corporate executive. And even if that weren't so bad, it seems like something he is trying to really sweep under the rug as much as he can, which itself is very suspicious.

In short, regardless of the motives or conspiracies or lack thereof, all of these revelations make Schmidt seem very untrustworthy. It doesn't necessarily make Google as a whole less trustworthy, but it absolutely could if more leaks come out, and it also casts suspicion on other Google execs.
I actually made a mistake. Stanley was the winning entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Junior was the 2nd place winner in the 2007 Urban Challenge.
When 90% of the global population (including many North Americans) are starving to death, what will your "retirement" really be like?
And doctors are never ever wrong in their diagnosis. Or don't they? But you still go to doctors instead of diagnose yourself?
No one is saying that but at least, unlike you, scientists have attempted to make a case (as have several other people on this thread). I'm inclined to go with the people who've studied this subject, made arguments, were peer reviewed at least by each other, even with the reality of their human failings and biases.
Sorry, I am lost: why is this a big deal? I use std::array and it's fine.
Gelfand and Fomin’s 1963 book also seems pretty highly recommended: http://amzn.com/0486414485/
Humble Bundle uses Coinbase, but maybe they don't convert it to USD.
IMO the biggest problem with terminals is poor input handling. Many useful key combinations are impossible to type. Paul Evans has a proposal for fixing this, but it seems to be mostly ignored:

http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms/
We could turn ourselves around, and then literally nuke those who chose not to. It is technically possible -- we have all the tech, power, and people to do it.
Meanwhile: The political focus is on building walls.
They all look interesting. Many years ago, netflix did the same. It recommended me a bunch of movies that seemed really interesting and I liked a ton of them, but these days netflix is a low bar. I'd bet they could do a great job, but have a more limited movie selection. Either that or the algo has actually declined.
When climate wasn't changing?

The deepest and oldest problem of human species is their over-confident rush to interfere and "fix" vastly complex self-regulating ecosystems they do not fully understand.
These guys are trying hard to hide their identity. No business name or address. No SSL cert. Anonymously registered domain in Panama. Hosted by a telecom in Sweden. Nothing in Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

The "Privacy" page gives a hint. It gives a contact address of "contact@ymal.io". "ymal.io" just redirects back to "taste.io". But WHOIS gives some info for "ymal.io". It's registered to [redacted].

That location is a 5-story building, but the most likely location is Spark Labs, which is a co-working space.[1] $550 a month for a desk. And, yes, "ymal.io" is listed as a member of Spark Labs.[2] So, if you need to find them, that's where to look.

[1] http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1045-spark-labs
[2] http://spark-labs.co/members/
Are you saying the ozone hole would be preferable?
Reject consumerism, and use your extra resources for personal fulfillment, health, and fixing the world.

It doesn't require everyone to cooperate, just us and those like us. Especially if we can capture the imagination of other similar people around us.

Local examples of living well and doing good have more impact than we think. This requires a change in popular culture right? How does that happen? It's not with polarizing media campaigns. People are influenced by people around them that they admire. Live well, save the world, and be noisy about it. People will notice.

https://whatiseffectivealtruism.com/

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com
Hall sounded like a Mormon nutcase. ....ahh how we describe accute mercury poisoning.
As a long-time Rust guy, this article makes little sense to me. It is surely possible for any language to target Rust, but unless the semantics of that language are an unusually close match to Rust's then you're going to have to pull off some gymnastics. LLVM IR is actually designed to be a decent compilation target for a wider variety of languages (though I wish there was more documentation on what is and is not UB), but even LLVM IR is going to start looking like a poor choice of a target the farther your language is from C++.
We already have the more efficient technologies; the main resistance is those benefiting from the status quo, who have the most money/power.
> I realized Pokemon Go was just a "background activity" for hanging out with friends... and I'd rather focus on the people.

I wouldn't underestimate the value of a game mechanic for getting people to hang out. Many board games are basically just background activities, but there an excuse to get together.

That said, if it is a background activity, it should be a background-able app -- i.e. notify me when certain Pokemon are close but otherwise leave me alone. I find it much less exhausting to have an app that requires my attention for only 15 minutes a day.
You think the mainstream news avoids people making dire predictions?

Dire events and predictions are their entire business model (along with identity politics squabbles and celebrity sex gossip).
Cattle can be used to restore grasslands [1].

[1] https://psmag.com/conservation-in-the-age-of-climate-change-...

Milk cows are the most efficient means of converting a rocky hillside into human-consumable proteins.
Doesn't web assembly put most responsibility for optimizations on the thing emitting it? That's a big difference from LLVM.
A shell with a great auto-complete and rich input would be killer. I've been using black screen and really like it. Although they use too much whitespace for my liking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH3iwybkE-I
I remember the times when we were in danger because the earth could get hit by a meteor. I am still working om my giant laser which will save the earth while you waste your time caring about the climate change. Are you worried about climate in 2100 and raising see level? There won't be any sees 2100! We all get vaporised if I can't finish my giant laser on time. I hear the pigbearman coming.
You seem to have it backwards, predictions that have been made have consistently overestimated climate change. Typically the real temperature change is at or below the bottom of their ranges.

This is the "global warming pause" that they didn't predict and rushed to explain as unimportant.

Don't you remember back 10-12 years ago when the ice caps were supposed to be almost gone by now? Haven't you noticed that no cities have actually been affected by any sea level change - that nothing has actually happened?
There's s lot more options in Python for data viz other than matplotlib. Pandas has several built ins as well, so in many cases simple plots on existing data frames can be a one liner.
UB as in undefined behavior?
Have you read the linked research? Do you have a better explanation for the data? By all means, let us know!
Very cool. I like this kind of stuff.

One of the links there is about Dirac's notation. When I was doing Quantum Computing in school, professor started us with matrices and vectors. We were familiar with those and we could multiply them and do basic operations.

Then one homework they assigned us a more complex quantum circuit to solve. And it was quite painful because matrices had gotten bigger. However there was a method to his madness, because after they introduced Dirac notation. The power of a better notation because obvious to us. It is like programming in C doing some text procecessing or some command line scripts, then someone showing you Python.

Programming is notation in a way. So knowing different paradigms and frameworks is important as some might allow for a very concise representation of the problem.

There was a link here on HN about using Prolog to represent and work with a type system, and it was just very elegant how it worked.

Object oriented design, (which we like to hate today it seems), was seen as a powerful way to represent entities so it became useful. Then design patterns came about, that is also a notation ("Wow there Jim, looks like you've go a singleton, wrapping a factory with an observer flyweight..."). I joke, but it did (still does?) help talk about architecture.

Functional programming is the same way -- learning it teaches you to think in a different way. When state is mutated it is not just s.add_foo(foo) but looks like new_s = add_foo(s, foo). That seems trivial and silly, but it changes how you think about data and state. Or I remember when closured "clicked" for me and I realized how similar they are to class instances when they capture their environment.

Or say thinking how your language approaches concurrency -- is it based on actors and messages, threads, callbacks (maybe with a reactor loop), promises, transactional memory, and so on. Those are notations to solve "concurrent things" in a way. Some might be a lot more efficient at representing the problem than others. But if you never know about it or used it before, it will be hard to convince yourself of it usefullness.
If you're not dying at least once or twice every time you play a game it's too easy. Resident Evil demonstrated this to me (the early games). One of the most perfectly balanced games between challenging thoughtful puzzles and survival combat skills. Especially for kids/youth.
So, first, it's "toe the line," and second, toeing the line means stretching outside the defined limit. You may want to edit your post to make a coherent statement.
Geocities is gone. Your old MySpace profile, photos and wall. All your digg comments and submissions if you ever used that.

I host all my own stuff, but unless I get my shit together and create a set of docs for someone I trust, once I die, my domain, e-mail and all my blogs will disappear and accounts expire and credit card payments fail -- except for whatever wayback might tag important enough to index.

The great libraries of Greece, the technology used to build the Pyramids of Giza, the process the Romans used to make concrete ... all lost. Sure we can reconstruct and examine, but so much is filling in the gaps with guess world. If some alien race found our hard drives and CDs long after we had gone extinct, where would you even begin to decode the data without a rosetta stone?
Not only that but the Privacy Policy is a straight up lie. No https yet:

"In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information."

I really like the service, but it's free to get https setup and takes just about 0 effort thanks to letsencrypt.
Does there exist, in your mind, any data that would make you think global warming is real and imminent?

If so, what would that data look like?
Still true re: Sasktel, as far as I know. I've had a lot of family and friends leave the province, but try to keep their 306 number for as long as possible, to stay locked into their existing Telus or Bell contracts while living in another province.

For reference, I pay $90/mo for 13GB of data, unlimited talk including long distance, unlimited SMS. Could it be cheaper? Sure. My old plan was "unlimited" (throttled after 10GB), but was only around $65. Had to change plans when I broke my old phone.
Basic income and small government can coexist IMO. As can a healthy legal system and charter of rights. The level of government involvment in everyone's day to day life has risen astronomically since the 1950s. That doesn't mean we have to sacrifice all social safety nets and human rights in order to have a healthy functional government.

Running a non-megacorp business and surviving without a job has not been made easier at all since the 50-60s. It's actually harder than ever as a result of government intervention and wasteful resource consumption for very little benefit to society. It makes you wonder who the government has been busy serving all of those years.

(Hint: the kind of business who wouldn't think twice about running a sweatshop via trade deals that never seem to involve clauses to require following the laws of the parent country) .
Nah, it's just that people generally don't like to work with someone who claims "Scientists are wrong," and when asked how he/she knows it, answers "Well, they've been wrong before!"

Because who wants to argue with such a person in a design meeting?
I think you have grossly mis-compared the relative strengths of the claims.

Does there exist any data that would make you sit up and say "actually, we should probably deal with this now?"

If so, what would that data look like?