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> As a consequence, code released under GPL version 2 only can't be merged with code released under GPL version 3 only.

So:

1. GPL3 introduced an incompatible, breaking change, knowing there was important GPL2 only code.

2. GPL3 did not include any way to grandfather in existing GPL2 code.

Being idealistic is great, but sometimes it has ugly consequences.
Is your company actually building a platform for developers to build apps? Because that's what Apple is doing and they shifted away from using paradigms like CSS.
Connecting empirical studies to epistemological formulations is not easy, getting unconnected scientist to exchange ideas is not easy. I think that collaborative potential of the internet for the science as a whole is yet to be realized, I sure hope it won't end up like "Elsevierbook" or some shit like that.
But one can't live off the interest any more because we've manipulated the system to close to zero interest rates. To be able to earn 20k, single person survival income, that individual needs $1M in savings.

Times from our grandparents times have changed. The problem is very clear. Higher interest rates boost savers, at the expense of risk takers (some good, some bad). Instead, we've goosed the economy for so long with low interest rates that savers got bit by inflation and speculation has become a way of life.
I started reading the article hoping it would be about a clever alternative implementation for random number generators, but closed the tab after reading the first two paragraphs.
This is the nightmare scenario that we would have if a Carrington-class solar flare hit the earth. Many transformers would be blown out by the induced electricity in power lines. The attached article describes economic losses in the trillions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012
Computer changed the world–and you’ve never heard about it
The homeless are not driven to a few small areas, I already explained that. I’m also not advocating for doing that, please stop insinuating that I am.

The homelessness problem in Seattle is very much something I see in person every day all over the city. You may not understand the nature of Seattle homelessness from New York or from a newspaper article from San Diego.

Housing the homeless is an important step and is something Seattle continues to try and do. The problems we face have more to do with the optional nature of rehabilitation and lack of social services that allow people to become homeless to begin with.
I think if you allow a somewhat close reading your quote supports my point.

>"Half of the people we spoke to ended up rough sleeping because they had nowhere else to turn."

This is a little bit ambiguous, but I think one fair interpretation is that the other half they spoke to had somewhere else to turn. (It is also possible they had no information on half.)

So if half do have a place they could go (possibly with the condition of not using drugs, which is the reason they don't accept the accommodation?) and some number of others had burned bridges "due to drug and/or alcohol misuse", that's already a majority. Again this is a pretty close reading, but what I said is not controversial at all if you dig into some of the data and don't just read press releases which selectively quote the studies, or misleadingly combine statistics about people who have lost a residence (due to foreclosure, health, or other financial hardship) but have shelter with friends or family and people who are sleeping outside without shelter.
I think this crowd has likely heard of it.
I'm curious how long the world will take to normalize all nations. China cannot be the world's factory forever. China seems to be setting Africa up for a similar position as it rises. What happens when we run out of poorer countries to make stuff? Do we bring that home? Prices will surely need to go up in the case of domestic labor. I'm super curious how this will unfold.
At that point, you don't know the encoding, so the only thing available to you is heuristics (including needing to guess the byte order). Either way, I don't think it's accurate to claim that ripgrep doesn't support UTF-16.
Really? Perhaps previous run-ins with police have made me immune to “cop logic”, but my polygraph experience was an over-the-top good cop/bad cop routine. You’re being filmed and “the supervisor” supposedly watching kept making demands to review certain items. For some reason we spent half an hour on a tangent of them trying to get me to admit I was having an affair. From what evidence, who the hell knows? Completely ridiculous.

0/10 never again, very happy to be out of that world

(I’m also convinced that the good cop/bad cop routine is WAY more effective than whatever pseudoscience the polygraph machine possesses.)
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While they will may have temporary problems in places I suspect Siberia will be a long term winner from climate change.

All the people displaced from flooded coastal settlements have to move somewhere after all.
Rationality is relative to your own personal goals.

I don't want to have kids. To many people this isn't considered rational. Some people want to be famous. To me this doesn't seem rational (it is not worth the tradeoffs).

As there are no universally held goals, the notion of rationality (as typically applied) only makes sense within one's own universe, the dimensions of which are mapped by one's own personally held axioms. Using the notion of irrationality as a judgement against others is equivalent to saying "this person should hold the same goals/values as I do." But the thing is, people have wildly different interests, and some people even disagree on the most common goals (such as staying alive). You can judge these people's value systems as being incorrect, but they don't have to listen to you.

Now, the notion of rational/irrational does make some degree of sense when someone is blocking their own goals through their own actions. Even then, people often have multiple competing goals which may disagree with one another, so what appears to be "irrationality" is merely different internal processes competing with one another to accomplish their respective goals. (This is the basis of the Internal Family Systems branch of psychology if you are interested.)
Have they? OpenGL was really the only option on most platforms for years. Even Windows has always supported OpenGL even if driver support from various vendors wasn't always good and official Microsoft support lapsed. Consoles have always used propiertary APIs, and before someone brings up PS3 and PS4 OpenGL implementations they are wrappers over low level APIs, so if they count then MacOS and iOS do support Vulkan via MoltenVK (there is even an official SDK on LunarG). If anything we've seen more fragmentation in the last 5-6 years due to the brief introduction of Mantle, followed by Metal and Vulkan. Some of this was necessary because OpenGL and DirectX development had stagnanted.
I did wonder.

That said the engineering on a nuclear warhead is still exquisite (if such a word is accurate for such a horrible device), requiring insane tolerances and timings to ensure everything works properly.

So it’s a different kind of complexity I guess.
haproxys config format is concise and approachable. I like the cbonte single-page html doc page where ctrl+f to elaborate explanations can go a long way clearing up (mis)understandings.
I could see the 2047 date being extended. Hong Kong, as a percentage of China's total GDP, is just 2%, whereas back in 1997 it was about a quarter. Hong Kong isn't as economically relevant to China as it once was. So, let it be as-is under "One Country, Two Systems" to keep the peace with trade partners.
English has less exception than say French but far more than Esperanto. It is a question of reference frame.
Australia is over 90% Caucasian, and almost all of that is English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Due to Australia’s strict immigration controls, the large proportion of foreign born is disproportionately of European ancestry compared to the foreign born in the US. Likewise, because the US has a longer history of immigration, many people who aren’t immigrants nonetheless are members of a visible minority group. Thus, while Sydney has more than 40% of its population born abroad, versus under 20% for Chicago, to American eyes Sydney looks very white and homogenous by comparison to Chicago.
China has a 99.9% conviction rate in court. So either they are almost infallible or trust in the justice system is not warranted at all.
>People should be talking about forcing English speakers to work in their non native language, not just about the woes of a single common language for science.

There are thousands of languages in use worldwide. If English weren't the modern lingua franca, what would stop people from having these same complaints about any other "universal" language?

> It ironically has arrived just as the automated translation renders the interlinguistic literature gap irrelevant.

>It is precisely at this moment that we have the ability to gain from cultural diversity without losing intelligibility

Modern translators have come a long way, but they're far from able to translate scientific texts into intelligible English, especially without losing meaning, particularly from languages which have vastly different grammatical and conceptual styles, like Chinese, for example.

I think it's just en Vogue right now to complain about the Anglo-Saxon hegemony; these problems are not caused by English per se, and the rate of progress is substantially better with this current standard than the alternative you propose of keeping international research effectively siloed by language.
Do you have a public email address? I used a form on your personal website to send you a message.

Let me know if that worked.
Dennis
As I cautioned in another comment

> (or did, last time I checked)

Do implementations of .NET JITs now do speculative optimisations or dynamic compilation? They didn't see the need for it for about 15 years.
I honestly hadn't realised that Newsblur offered that - and it's the RSS reader I've been using since Google Reader died. Thanks!
No one thinks Chinese is easy even the chinese themselves. One almost as easy language to learn would be Spanish, or even Hindi for goodness sake.
> There are different implementations for it doing different things.

And are they now speculative? They weren't for the first 15 years or so.
I agree with you in that the Literal translations may not be the accurate translation. (E.g. the phrase "to sleep with someone" taken literally means something different in regular use).

But there does appear to be extants after AD 57 as noted in the following link, though they offer little to help in the translation.

http://canyonwalkerconnections.com/1-corinthians-1-timothy-s...

"The closest meaning of arsenokoitai over five hundred years of translation was men who took the active role non­procreative sex. Arsenokoitai did not define what we would call the sexual orientation of a person; it indicated the role played in the sexual act."

He goes on to argue that "homosexual" first appeared in the bible in the RSV version in 1946. This, he argues, changed the intrinsic meaning of arsenokoitai from the act of sleeping with men to a label describing men who sleep with men.

In his view, it was the act, not the person, that God was condemning, and this appeared to be subtly changed in the 1946 RSV version.

Further correspondence was found with the publishers of RSV where one of the authors admitted it as an error:

http://canyonwalkerconnections.com/forging-a-sacred-weapon-h...

"The exchange between the young seminarian and Dr. Weigle indeed proves the decision to use the word “homosexuals” was an error. Dr. Weigle even admitted so in one of his letters. He responded that he understood David’s insights and concerns and that there was likely a better word or expression choice than “homosexuals.” "

It's an interesting story, if factual.
While that's cool, you can do it with way more functionality by loading comma or tab-separated data into sqlite.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc-clan... :

"On the AMD side, the Clang vs. GCC performance has reached the stage that in many instances they now deliver similar performance... But in select instances, GCC still was faster: GCC was about 2% faster on the FX-8370E system and just a hair faster on the Threadripper 2990WX but with Clang 8.0 and GCC 9.0 coming just shy of their stable predecessors. These new compiler releases didn't offer any breakthrough performance changes overall for the AMD Bulldozer to Zen processors benchmarked.

On the Intel side, the Core i5 2500K interestingly had slightly better performance on Clang over GCC. With Haswell and Ivy Bridge era systems the GCC vs. Clang performance was the same. With the newer Intel CPUs like the Xeon Silver 4108, Core i7 8700K, and Core i9 7980XE, these newer Intel CPUs were siding with the GCC 8/9 compilers over Clang for a few percent better performance."
Yeah, sorry, what I'm trying to say doesn't translate unless you are from Maine or maybe northern NH or Vermont. If you say French there, it is understood as Quebecois, not European French. And Quebecois are very distinctive, almost stereotypical.
> I read it as "the AGPL requires sharing back whether you distribute your work or not"

That's true, insofar as providing as a service isn't "distributing", or in (A)GPLv3-speak, "conveying". See section 13 of AGPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html#section13

Compare how the Open Software License handles network services: by requiring they be treated as "distribution". https://zoo.kemitchell.com/OSL-3.0#5

> Are there licenses that say if you run an altered copy, you have to contribute back sources, no matter who interacts with it?

For an older license of this type, have a look at RPL-1.5. For a newer one, which I led, have a look at Parity.
> separate the Japanese people we see nowadays from the wartime Japan under militarism

Yes, this is the sane choice. Unfortunately we both know that bad news draw more attention from the general public. Just like many mainlanders still remember vividly that (a small fraction of) HKers called them as locusts, when some Japanese say something bad about China, it gets spread much much faster than other news and stays in the memory for a long time. I was merely stating the fact that it is not a good idea to praise Japan in a conversation in general unless necessary, given the current state of our media. But still, their officials need to stop visiting the Shrine, or the names of the war criminals need to be removed.

> "riot" charge by the government

Usual CCP bs. My stand on this is that: HK is the best candidate for advocating changes to the CCP, if you can succeed before 2047 then we really own you a big favor. But HK should also remember that this is our internal affair, no foreign organization should interfere. The West can be used as extra pairs of eyes to keep the CCP checked so it doesn't repeat the disaster happened in Tiananmen square, but that's it. I hope you can understand why we don't trust the West, after we have witnessed the events happened elsewhere.
This is the ToC I found:

https://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/preface/0/1/3/4/01348...
I like that several companies are competing to do this, so nobody will have monopoly power for long. Probably SpaceX will have lower operating costs, but Musk wants to siphon off ROI for his Mars, er, project.

Probably the other players will be better capitalized, but have more pressure to get to break-even. Differences in peering arrangements could have big effects on usefulness, as will bandwidth capacity, which seems likely to be limited in SpaceX's first system. They will probably sell it, as the video suggests, on latency for low bandwidth traffic, meaning it is likely not to be cost-effective for video streaming. It is hard to guess whether any on-board cache would turn out to be useful.

The first to deploy will be a dancing bear: it will matter less how good it is than that it works at all. But the first will also get the first hard experience needed for their second system.
> At that point, you don't know the encoding, so the only thing available to you is heuristics (including needing to guess the byte order).

That's emphatically not the case though. I explained how you could handle it here without requiring BOM or byte order knowledge or heuristics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20198208

> Either way, I don't think it's accurate to claim that ripgrep doesn't support UTF-16.

Having UTF-16 text in a file doesn't imply the file has have a BOM, and when I tried it rga didn't work on UTF-16 that didn't have a BOM. If that's still "ripgrep supports UTF-16" in your view then I'm not sure how else to word it, but the wording is hardly my concern. At the end of the day I was just trying to convey a particular fact, not argue over its wording.
Gonna run out that clock when there’s no more natural world to exploit ruthlessly
While that would eliminate jobs within your organisation, it would clearly create development work in your suppliers.

On balance I would guess you would create work overall rather than reduce it.
Eh the hard parts of English arise because it likes to mug languages in dark alleys and pick their pockets for spare grammar and vocabulary.

This makes it difficult to form a unified theory of the language. The more elegant your rules, the more exceptions there are.

But it’s also a super power. It makes the language feel more familiar to just about anyone who speaks an Indo-European language. There’s something homely and welcoming in english for anyone.

And the readiness with which english adopts foreign vocabulary when practical is simply inspiring. You can introduce basically any word from any language and make it stick.

And then there’s Slavic languages where at least in mine, every verb or pronoun can come in one of 20 or so different forms. Nouns have 20+ different forms too.

Not expecting Slovenian to become lingua franca of anything any time soon. It’s just too hard.
Last time I heard about my country in OECD ranking (or was it the PISA ranking ?) it was mentioned that 1 out of 4 students out of high school was almost illiterate. They can (barely) read but they don't understand the meaning behind the words.

Either it's a consequence of not teaching critical thinking or a reason we don't teach it is up to debate but the results remain.
>An interesting read is On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies by Copernicus, even if you just read the introduction. It’s an appeal to the Pope regarding the scientific nature of his conclusions. Regardless, they still excommunicated him years later for going against what was thought the authority of scripture.

This... is completely false. Copernicus never faced adversity for his heliocentric model.
> Correct ones would look the exact same.

Unlikely. Official lyrics (printed in CD inserts, for example) often have punctuation mistakes, or they have no punctuation at all.

Unofficial lyrics can have the same words while still differing in punctuation, line breaks, capitalization, or spelling (since most languages have multiple ways to spell the same word -- color/colour, for example).

All the tiny variations could easily create a distinct fingerprint for each source of lyrics.
It doesn't have to be about respecting the rights of the prisoners if you think it's bad enough to have the real culprit run free because you got the wrong person and thought you were done.
> “I might add that if this ever happens to you, which it could, don’t say the following to the arresting officer: ‘Don’t open that, it’s really pure.’”

Good advice.
GPL vs MIT/BSD

Code is free vs orgs that make use of code in their products are free
I am not well-informed, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning :

>If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish.
If people don't like English being the lingua franca of science, they should encourage translation of foreign language articles. Unfortunately scientific translation seems to have declined significantly since the 1950s and 1960s. I wrote a Stack Exchange post about locating translations of scientific articles and few of the sources I mention are currently active:

https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/93209/31143

The rise of English as the lingua franca of science certainly would lead to less translations being produced, but I don't think it should reduce to near zero as it seems to have. Today there's still valuable research that's not published in English.

During my PhD I published several translations (all produced via Google Translate and manual editing) and consistently people thought this was some weird quirk of mine. But I enjoyed it and learned quite a few things I would not have known otherwise.
> Attacking me isn’t doing anything to help.

Responding to just this: you're the one who sees people sleeping in the streets and decided to make it about you. Highlighting the incredible disparity between your problems and homeless people's problems isn't intended as an attack on you (although it is also that), it's an attack on your argument.
Post about random number generators, meh, post about TempleOS while stirring the pot... Top HN. But yeah, historically mental illness was closely linked to divine inspiration. Before modern times it is very likely Terry would have been some sort of oracle in a temple. To a schizophrenic benign things start having meaning and they focus on those things and build a whole narrative around them, in this case a whole technology is built around it. How is that not different from any religion. A whole system of meaning and narrative is built around things that to an outsider seem silly or insane and yet they utilize some common ideas that have a lot of resonance to all of humanity.

Schizophrenia is a spectrum disorder, (meaning there are high functioning schizophrenics that can go about routinely in their lives), of unknown origin, maybe it's a way for some sort of virus or bacteria to control all of human society. Maybe it's a normal part of human behavior and society and has been for a long time.
1. SkyTrain (driverless monorail) in Vancouver ran under OS/2

Yep. It runs Alcatel/Thales' SelTrac software. Basically the same system that SF's Muni and London's DLR use.
they don't really clearly list the differece between the CE and the EE version

what is "Improved performance and smaller footprint"? If i use the CE, does it produce worse code somehow?
Nope, haven't tried it. I just saw that ripgrep is using appveyor for windows instead, so I assumed it doesn't work on travis. I was actually just trying to add appveyor to this [1], but I'm getting a weird error.

[1]: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/phiresky/ripgrep-all/builds/...
We are accelerating away from the center of the universe though.
Academic settings like discussion panel in professional conference? No.

Private gathering during professional conference? Yes.
Can the police lie in Sweden?

Afaik they aren't allowed to in Denmark... Sure, you can tell a man ready to jump off a ledge anything.

But in an interrogation, the police can't lie, or try to extract a confession.

There are so many differences.
Thanks! This simplifies opening of compressed log files: I've been using zless but lesspipe makes it redundant.
Don't know what you mean buddy. But have a look at Jupyter Notebooks
How lazy writers and Wikipedia create and spread fake “facts”
I meant garrisons in Hong Kong, facepalm.
I'm flattered to be in such company!
Yeah you're looking at the wrong book. That's copyrighted 2019, not 2004. And not sure what "7e" means (doesn't seem to be the same as "7th edition") but it's Campbell Essential Biology, not Campbell Biology.