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General trend towards what's considered easier casual readability. Shorter sentences. Shorter paragraphs. More and shorter posts. Smaller words.

At one online publication I write for sometimes, the tool I use to enter my articles is always whining at me to drop the reading level down.

I don't usually go as far as single sentence paragraphs but I've generally learned to shift most of what I write towards easier consumption.
Dictation is (or was) used in Italy in primary school, but it becomes trivial very quickly - because pronounciation is very, very regular in that language.
You’re missing one of the major points in the post: making release cycles take a long time means that small features aren’t finalized for that long period either.

You seem to be thinking that the compiler devs wait until a release is done to start implementing a release, which is not what happens. Part of the big benefit of releasing every three years is that it makes continuous development actually possible: compiler devs have a better idea of how stable things are, and so which things aren’t going to need to be completely reimplement in another 3 years.

I do not understand where you get a “catch their breath” mentality - none of the modern c++ compilers have a three year cadence, most run with approximately annual major releases.
App is short for application. Web pages with scripting existed for years before anyone called anything an app.

Maybe it's just semantics. But it comes off, to me, as pretentious.
If your goal is to help improve C++, sure, a shorter cycle time is better. If your goal is to use the language as a communication mechanism... having it change constantly underneath you isn't helpful in my experience. And it's not necessary to release a new standard to let people try things out; you can let people play around with new features without iterating on them as formal standards.
Should have fined them damages in excess of 1 trillion dollars to the open source community.
Exactly, they do stuff like fn yet make it longer than necessary otherwise.
> where every sentence is a new paragraph?

Probably because of blog software. Word Press does this by default.

https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-editor/
Not sure how long this will last since there are a limited number of exit nodes. Many networks throw up CAPTCHA for such nodes.
> How, after so many years, could Burning Man throw an event of such chaos, and yet leave the desert without a trace?

Pretty simple answer actually, they don't. And a lot of the trash they do take with them they illegally dump in Reno. "Leave no Trace" is just a marketing slogan.

https://www.apnews.com/ab70872567d94e2585d744e676c976f5

https://m.sfgate.com/travel/burningman/article/Burning-Man-g...
Not sure how this is original enough to warrant a cross areas post to hn of all places let alone get up voted.

Every soccer fan on every corner ever has a theory as to why his fav player is the best ever.
I had this idea the other day that we should top this of with a type of “democratic” investment fund. Think pension funds, but structured to ensure a democratic representation of the public as owners, one share per citizen.

The idea being to allocate to each citizen an equal share, for equal voting power, and equal right to dividends.
'This doesn't "recognize" anything. It's just a complex waveguide. You can see it in their ray path diagrams.'

Which is how classifiers work. Which is also how our brains work. The only real difference is the medium. Recognition is a reliable ability to convolute a large form into a very small amount of information, distinguishable between forms. When I look at a hand drawn "8", I don't store all the curves I see as the number 8, I have an abstraction of the number in my head, and I signal recognition by activating that abstraction, very similarly to how this glass computer functions. How else does one recognize something?
“But multiple Republican lawmakers and groups have raised concerns that the JEDI contract was built specifically with AWS in mind, raising concerns over market competition and unfair treatment. “

I am from east Europe. I know corruption when i see it. Suddenly if Oracle is left out of the game, up they pop with unfairness and other smoke grenades for the unaware.

Also as a technical person, integration at this scale between two providers can be a PITA exercise. Best to chose one.
If 80% of your readers are only going to pay attention to the pull quotes and tl;dr’s, why go to the trouble of writing anything else?
Sometimes I wonder if the editing world is arbitrarily building barriers in order to justify its continuous existence.
Correction: you do not need to publish in closed access journals to get a PhD. However, getting a tenure-track faculty position in the life sciences at a major US university is almost impossible without publishing in Science, Nature, or Cell (an Elsevier journal), none of which is open-access (without paying an exorbitant fee).
> the added features can not remove complexity, they can just add to it

There are countless examples of the so-called modern C++ features reducing complexity in code.

For example, it is now considered a code smell to ever write "new" or "delete" in your code. Imagine that, never using these words to manually allocate and delete memory in C++! But it's true, unique_ptr in particular makes so much simpler and safer.

Type inference with auto doesn't just save typing, it improves performance in many cases and reduces a lot of complexity, while also avoiding uninitialized variables.

These are just a few of at least a dozen examples that come to mind about reducing code complexity with more modern C++ features.
At least one party...
The point of copyleft is more ideological; it prevents others from using your software to restrict user freedoms, thereby limiting the spread of harmful, nonfree software. Copyleft is primarily intended to protect users.
This basically describes Nadal as a pusher, which is a wild overstatement relative to his creativity and shotmaking.
Okay, let's call it a tax expenditure instead. What public interest is this expenditure advancing and how efficiently is it advancing that interest as compared to alternative expenditures?
Agree. With a dedicated keyword, you can find a function definition using just grep.
Colore in Italian. Adding random "u"s to Latin words is a very French thing.
I don't think it should be designed to save keystrokes at the cost of readability.
In an age of click bait, HN’s title moderation is really fantastic and measured. Thank you.
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A window to type stuff that can be read as stdin. Honestly I didn't built it to compete with IDLE or other similar editors.
No. A patent is like a nuclear missile. It’s useless until it is not. That said, you have to be very wealthy to fire those missiles, generally wealthier than your target.
They haven't changed. Some government agencies excel at basic research (NIH, DOE, NASA, etc.), but for a multitude of reasons, they don't do product development. (And having worked at one of these agencies for several years, I think it would be a terrible mistake to change this - even though I personally have very mixed feelings about how Bayh-Dole has worked out.)
Wordpress most definitely does not do this by default. Typing a period, a space, and then a capital letter to begin the next Steven ever does not start a new paragraph.

You can even see in the screenshots on the link you provided that new sentences do not become new paragraphs.
Knowledge ends with the experimenter's life.

The end of all particles are those that arc off the wire and cut your heart out based on your genome alone.

All atoms are only different versions of graphene.

Without humanity, there is only death. Whimper, and cower at your pettiness. You've lived in paradise all this time. Your self-righteousness lobotomizes you to an effective evil wicked being.

All cosmic censors drops. State secrets, a police sting operation, to fool idle children from poisoning us. You have no choice to face your terrifying immortality, as all your faults and misdeeds lay open to the world. It's either that, or I UWB you all into Micro Plumb Island, a living breathing walking medicinal coma to contain your stupidity from murdering us all.

We are at the mercy of wicked and evil men and women. They make sure the insiders stay in and the outsiders stay out.

Our only option is to scare them, and scare them good. They do indeed have the keys to the kingdom. They won't open the doors just because they are nice. It's not like anyone hasn't died speaking Christ's name before.

We need to let them know death is no escape. We keep you alive, no matter if we have to rip your genome out of the noise of the Cosmos itself, poisoning everything out there that is non-human.

And all just to prove a point. Such is the stubbornness of such fraudulent and violent treacherous fools!
With all respect, this attitude from the researchers side is exactly what maintains the system and what Elsevier and co take advantage of. Signed: a professor who never published with Elsevier.
Have you ever watched a nature documentary where birds trying to attract mates have esquisite display of amazingly useless feathers? (what's the feather equivalent of foliage, hmm..)
This is one of the most trivial points I've ever heard for liking or disliking a programming language.
I agree, the prioritization of humor over clarity creates a wall of distraction and frustration for me.

If you have something important to say, say it as clearly as you can. Use humor sparingly and only when it emphasizes a real point that naturally contains some humor or irony, not as the main ingredient.

The rare exception is when someone has an absolutely wickedly clever sense of humor that is so funny and enlightening you can't help reading, no matter how random the exposition. But that is high art.
The five year clock starts when you early exercise and file an 83b with a vesting schedule, or would the clock start only once the stock has vested?

I think it's the former, when you early exercise, but the language seems a bit confusing.
Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range
We don't have AI as we know it either; this would be a truly earth shattering discovery if it were. But they have created a functional, reproduceable way to build unpowered glass classifiers, which is ridiculously cool, and opens up quite a few new scientific doors.
While this is intellectually interesting, I'm troubled by the fact that the author seems not to have given the slightest thought that he's breaking the site's T&C, or of how much this abuse costs the service.

I'm particularly sensitive to this because I'm constantly dealing with scraper bots from competitors that are trying to monitor our pricing. Without our ongoing policing, and a fair amount of developer time going into it, the traffic coming from these bots - and hence the amount it costs us to operate the site - is significantly larger than that of actual customers. Let me say that again: scraper bots account for more traffic on our sites than do legitimate customers.
> If all the world is six degrees or less from everybody else, then we could perhaps say people have an average of 45 or so first degree connections to other people (45^6 == population of the world, approximately.) So at two degrees, there 45^2 = 2,025 people. That passes my sanity check.

45 is probably much too low.

Your model there doesn't take into account any clustering which is really important.

You want to think of a higher number of first degree connections (higher average node degree), but where there's a large overlap in the second degree connections each first degree connection provides (so you can't just do N^6).
Actually that’s a great idea.
(It’s debatable that 90% of our user base is C++ programmers; in 2016, the last time we collected this data, it was 40%, and there’s no reason to believe it’s shifted THAT much since then.)
SO basically, if you adjust your behavior to match the car, it will, eventually, get you where you're going. And if you really want to enjoy lunch and sightseeing at such beautiful places as the Supercharger station in Kettleman City. Not everyone is willing to make these tradeoffs, especially for a car that costs twice as much as a comparable ICE one.
Was looking into building a new computer today, after 5 years with my current one... Saw that even the ram sticks comes with leds. I don't want a single light anywhere but that's not going to happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Authoritarian Capitalism
Why would the verifier change the clock?

If 'you' here is the key holder, changing clock isn't going to help.
#GAMER aesthestic requires loud designs and RGB RAINBOW all the things

its gross
Why do you care? Those lights are inside case. If you don't get case with glass, you won't ever see it.
Myelin's function is to speed up signal conduction along the axon, not crosstalk between axon fibers.
Complete absence of humanities education ensures software engineers can justify damn near anything to themselves as long as they benefit from it.

Very useful trait to have, in a workforce.
Sounds like cable TV.
Why couldn’t that be easily circumvented by taking a snapshot of a screen? Even if the operating system disallowed screen shots of protected content, you could always take a picture of the screen.
I'm guessing you are not a parent. I have a toddler and a one month old. It is rewarding in many ways, but it is also crushingly boring, repetitive work. It's also overwhelmingly placed on women; men simply don't do as much child care by a factor of probably ten. I'm pretty sure no woman is trying to have her cake here, and every single one would choose to have help so they could do anything else on occasion.
Imagine a VC that demanded ownership of 100% of all code you developed and user data you collected in return for accepting any investment from them. Would any good startup take the money? Without Bayh-Dole, the government would be in the same position as that hypothetical VC.

Innovation is about money, not ideals. More money flowing into research universities is a good thing.
The data is pretty difficult to obtain, but there's some great analysis on Nadal done by Craig O'Shannessy. Craig O' Shannessy is Djokovic's strategy coach and I think a pioneer to the game. He has plenty of posts about Nadal, here is just to get you started, some of the articles are members only, but there are plenty of great ones that aren't..

https://www.braingametennis.com/?s=nadal
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It already does that elsewhere, yet strange backwards type definitions are much less readable by default to most programmers. It's like making us learn French when we could have learned British English, assuming American English as a starting point.
That's what C-extensions are for :P

Python is a great high-level wrapper around low-level programs (c.f. SciPy)
Noah Webster was (among other things) a spelling reformer, he didn't "invent" all of his spellings but he researched and deliberately chose them based on his ideas about language and politics and advocated for their use.

It was a deliberate effort, not something that just happened.
But that header is valid per client that is using sunshine.social, isn't that so? That means that every client that looks at my profile will fetch the image at least once.

The images is fetched from IP address 104.131.188.4, and it is that host – not the client – that should cache the image and only download a new copy if If-Modified-Since or eTag indicates that the image has been changed.
>we must struggle to agree on a useful definition of intelligence, therefore it is a social construct.

This makes everything a social construct, which negates any usefulness of the distinction. Having to agree to definitions cannot be a realistic definition of social construct, because it's a basic part of using language.
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> When immutable values (whether it's the number 5 or a record, or whatever) are used with a pure function then the returned value can be essentially a direct replacement for the function invocation, making the operation essentially take zero time (i.e. there aren't intermediate mutation states, locks, or any other coordination).

The same can be said of any variable in Rust that is passed to a function via immutable reference. Borrow checking guarantees (at compile time, with no runtime overhead) that even if a user passes something that supports mutation (such as a BTree or an array) to a function, that that function may not mutate unless it has permission to.

This means that if you have an immutable reference to something, it can be treated as a value. For example: a Vec or BTreeMap (structures that supports mutation) can safely and easily be used as Map keys in Rust, because borrow checking guarantees that once the Map has taken ownership of the structure, it "is a value": ie, is immutable.
I don't know of any tournament offering shot-by-shot data in their live scores (it's usually just the last hit in a point that's tracked by statistics, which I don't think says enough).

If anyone knows of shot-by-shot data for just a single tournament, that'd be great to see and explore :)
It's a waste of metal, plastic, and electricity. Useless on every single aspect you can think of, except for the hardcore gamer pandering bullshit.
You sound like you're upset about something; I'll pray for you.
Efficient in what sense?

Lower cost? That doesn't seem likely in a city like San Francisco, where the cost of real-estate, construction, labor is sky high and the housing supply is extremely limited.

Helping more people? In that sense, efficiency is meaningless if it's not efficacious. And all evidence suggests that social services in places like San Francisco and Seattle are not working well, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spend each year.

As we've also seen, housing addicts in neighborhoods where open drug use and drug dealing is tolerated is not efficient. Yet that's exactly what happens in the Tenderloin today.

It's almost too stupid to be believed.
One option is to offer to be a mentor for a startup accelerator like MassChallenge.
Your issue makes sense when talking about intra-cortical communication between neurons. It is a reasonable thing to speculate, given the right definition, for signal transmission in the peripheral nervous systems -- i.e. what is the bandwidth of the nerve bundle that transmit signals received by the motor neurons that stimulate your hand muscles to contract
Agreed.

To add to this, with my new 3DS I have a non-subscription Virtual Console library of NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GB/GBC, GBA, TG16 as well as the existing DS, 3DS, and new 3DS games. That's a huge unique library of games that are on my backlog I want to play still going all the way back.

If you hack it, you can even re-package ROM files into the Virtual Console game wrappers and play ROM hacks from places like romhacking.net. There are some really crazy fun improvements. Such an example is Super Mario Land DX [0].

I would like a Switch, but it's not portable like the 3DS is portable and my backlog is huge. It's more like tablet or small laptop like portable and with a huge backlog I want to play, it's hard to justify. That said, I'll probably cave just to for Link's Awakening, I'm weak.

[0] https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4477/
If you share a google doc to public, it does the same thing. This is at best a case of user confusion, but is hardly insecure. Photos aren't even mutable, so having continued access after you see it once isn't relevant.
I’ve read the peer-reviewed literature. There are mild problems in rats given enormous doses, and maybe it raises your blood pressure a bit. No worse than caffeine overall.
There is an analog of free will that works even in a cellular automaton. For that you need two things:

1. the part of cellular automata describing a thinking entity can be separated from the rest of the world: that is changing states of cells anywhere outside of it doesn't change the state of the entity itself.

2. it is not possible to replace the computation describing this entity with anything simpler.

2 means that any method of predicting what this thinking entity choses is completely equivalent to that entity living and making the choice it wants by itself. And 1 means that the part of network is indeed a separate entity.

With superdeterminism 1 can not be true, and a spin change of a single particle far away triggers very complex change in behavior of all thinking entities that were close to that particle in the past.
Paraphrasing a comment I read years ago: if your hypothetical economic system depends on everyone in the society behaving in a way that humans have never behaved in all of recorded history, it's pure fantasy. Eliminating the daily struggle for survival via something like UBI is not intrinsically a bad idea IMHO. Eliminating profit incentives altogether is effectively impossible - given the chance, most people will always act out of self-interest without even pausing to think about it. Or do you think socialist countries are magically free from corruption and greed?
Well, when you have read the image once to get the info then you already have the file and can “output it”. To fetch it again is just a waste of resources.
In general, it’s a thing more newer languages are moving to, because it’s regarded as superior for a few different reasons. Mostly, it keeps the syntax more regular when you have type inference. See Kotlin as another recent example.

In rust, we have additional reasons, and that’s because it’s not

let name: type = expression;

It’s

let pattern: type = expression;

Patterns offer more power than simple variable declarations. The names may not correspond 1-1 with the type, because you can create multiple names by destructuring more complex types
This article is nearly 2 decades old and gives very bad advice for multithreaded c++ programming. To a first approximation, volatile should never be used for multithreading safety.
How to save thousands of dollars every year producing electricity?
3D Genome
But that has little to do with this. You are paying market rate in an area with a lot of high paying jobs where housing is expensive because it is valuable. Of course everyone would like to pay less, but that is a different problem. That is about opportunities, fairness or equality. It has little to do with housing as such, which is what the article is pointing out.
you can get all the things without leds, and/or don’t plug the rgb cables in.
>Our definition of intelligence continues to refine itself to be a highly generalizable aptitude for certain abstract skills.

This is exactly what social construction is: reifying a set of observations into an abstract notion. Intelligence is a social construction.
> a feature that 99% of humans don't care about, and would confuse that same 99% of people.

This is precisely the kind of condescending bullshit I'm talking about.

> People are used to what Microsoft and Apple imposed on them.

A convenient fantasy for Linux Desktop evangelists to soothe their egos.
“Change constantly” is too broad; there are different kinds of changes. Stability is paramount.
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