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> I don't think this is really right. He claims that uninitialised memory is not just random bytes, but it is!

No it's not. To describe the behavior of a program involving uninitialized memory (like the example in my post), at no point in time to you need to talk about arbitrarily chosen bytes. The "abstract machine" on which a Rust programs runs (of which your hardware is a fast implementation, but only accurate for UB-free programs) does not "pick random bytes" when you allocate new memory, it just fills it all with `None`.

You should not think in terms of optimizations when thinking about what your program does. The optimizations the compiler performs can change from version to version and are affected by seemingly random changes at the other end of your program.

> It would be perfectly possible to make a language (or even a C++ compiler) that didn't perform that optimisation.

Sure. That would be a different language though, with a different abstract machine. C/C++/Rust behave the way I described (and that behavior is not defined by what any particular compiler does).
> off-topic, but interesting
> interesting, but off-topic

I believe you just said the same thing twice, you only reversed the order (I think the "but" here just is an AND) :-)
TBH if it was me I think I'd prefer it if not every single mention of me in the future brought up what is ultimately a rather personal and unpleasant thing. Yes, it was an appalling thing to have been done to him, but if I were successful I think I'd rather my successes were celebrated standing alone.
Uhh, what did you mean by “having to go anywhere without any weapon (guns are banned) is very scary” ?
Yeah I noticed as well. It seems like what this is really saying is that the Mechanical Turk marketplace is an interesting study in economics. Buyers are offering to buy pieces of information for too high of a price and a select few people have found out how to nab those contracts.

I halfway expected to see a secondary market emerge where you “complete” a top expensive task like “translate this text” by bundling it with five other translation tasks and posting it for three times the price.
> You need raw values for serialization over the wire and to files. And for any kind of compression.

You need to encode as bytes with a particular encoding. That's not the same thing as "getting the raw value".

> And for searching (it's hard to build indexes in Unicode because of uneven symbol widths).

It may be hard but it's important to do it right. If searching for "café" doesn't find "caf◌́e" then you've got a problem.

> You could convert to a different character format but at some point you need raw values. If you want to be able to read text created by something else (text editor, browser, different OS) you have to expose raw access.

Again, no. You need to be able to decode byte sequences that have particular encodings into strings of characters. That doesn't mean you need to expose the internal representation of those strings/characters.
Any web resource datailling that?
Please, using your favorite search engine, search for "Obama regime" and see how often it was used. You will find that it was used a lot more than you remember.
Definitely the two most disturbing quotes from the article. They're admitting that citizens' data has been sold to so many companies that it's going to take 154 hours of research just to figure out which companies it was sold to.
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Except it's not. Most Americans enjoy a very high standard of living and our poor are still much better off still than Brazilian poor.
> I never heard the phrase "Obama regime"; it was always "administration".

Presumably because the Obama administration didn't work quite so hard to subvert the US system of checks and balances. I don't recall Obama sacking the head of the FBI for refusing to give a pledge of personal loayalty, to give one example. I don't. Neither do I remember Obama declaring a national emergency, in order to circumvent Congress's spending powers and get money for a pet project.
“The results of this study suggest that a decrease in prevalence of firearms has the potential to decrease violent crime in the United States.” and it’s including quotes like that the common saying “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” should be amended to “guns don’t kill people, they just make it real easy.”

Also, “In 2008, 67% of all homicides involved the use of a handgun, shotgun, rifle, and other firearms (Vito & Maahs, 2012).” Which is much higher than their normal prevalence among the general population. “Azrael, barnett, and Miller (2004) estimated that about 40% of households in the United States own at least one firearm.” With 67% being much larger than 40%.

In what what does that disagree with what I said?
> "In a press conference last December, he issued a heartfelt plea: if journalists filed positive stories for just six months, [...] would become a great nation. Mostly, [...] journalists obliged."

Hmm.

The story of a novelist being detained by customs and subject to political interrogation to see if the novel is sufficiently patriotic is not unique to Pakistan, either. Even in countries which pride themselves on free speech.
And knowing Pakistanis both are equally possible.
You'll generally see cash machines with fivers in the poorer parts of the UK.
I agree abut the negative connotation, but I also have absolutely heard major news outlets refer to it as the Obama regime. Yes, it's used as an insult, but yes too, Trump's administration is more authoritarian than at least the past handful.
I don't know about the US, but in Germany if you return your car with scratches or dents that haven't been there before they charge you for that, so I wouldn't drive them less carefully than my own.
No worries. After the period of "cashlessness", who knows? There might be some special material that can be a physical representation of digital currency, that can probably be modifiable remotely in value or appearance, which leads to the resurgence.
It gets interesting. Of the three OS vendors - MS, Google, and Apple - only the latter made the effort to choose the privacy path, whereas the other two basically have a contemptuous attitude towards privacy expectations of their users. Times change, though, and we're likely to witness some interesting changes.
Truly a classic... and the whole series is loads of fun.

Then there's this set of three articles in this series:

"Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane": "I’d call for all the chemists who’ve ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio."

"Peroxide Peroxides": "There are a lot of things, unfortunately, that can lead to peroxide decomposition – all sorts of metal contaminants, light, spitting at them (most likely), and it doesn’t take much."

And then, the punch line, where our hexanitro compound above gets some extra oomph: "What This Here Compound Needs is Some Hydrogen Peroxide."
"So I have to congratulate these folks; they’ve managed to combine two of my Things I Won’t Work With entries into the same flippin’ substance."
HN hugged? I get a network error when I click login.
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Peter Thiel is a blithering idiot, film at 11
You are completely right. "regime" has clear bad connotations.

Gizmodo is a left-wing outlet so this kind of snark is to be expected.
In Spain is strange to pay with a bill of more than 50€ in regular places, maybe big super markets would accept them, but no in small shops (or I don't see them at least).
Why read non academic books?
Last time I won a poker tournament :-)
Ah yes, I was very likely wrong when I said it was the last one. It was certainly the last one I saw regularly. I moved to Wallingford after that, and then later to Squire Park, before I left the area entirely.
It's obvious inflammatory hot-button click-bait, and one-sided, targeting the obvious and easy marks, but ignoring other equally culpable elements.

I'm rather liberal and have no time for anti-vaxers, racists, homophobes, and other harassers.

But if the alt-right has ruined the 'open internet', the PC left, the more extreme elements of 'metoo', various mass-outings/persecutions of less-than-sanctioned-attitudes and so on are at least equally to blame.

ie the culture wars are to blame, not any one side.

Perhaps the article was in fact more articulate, balanced and nuanced - as I said, the subtitle was enough for me to parse this as just another article inflaming the whole situation and to dismiss it, and I have not, and will not read it.
Hm, good point about the bitfields. The paper I cite [1] actually talks specifically about bitfields as their precise semantics in the presence of "poison"-style uninitialized memory is not entirely clear yet.

[1]: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/undef-pldi17.pdf
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I read about a project once - maybe anyone here can help me find the name of it again. As I recall:

- popular in Europe, particularly Germany or the Netherlands?

- some kind of mesh routing, but connected to the Internet

- reports of people using it having better connectivity to the Internet at large than just by connecting to their ISP unaugmented. If I recall correctly, this was because the "magic" mesh detected routing problems (such as censor blocks) and routed traffic through other nodes

Did I dream this up or does this ring a bell with anyone?
He appears to like Ron Paul who had no trouble at all using government to help the businesses in his district. He appear to support Libertarian ideas only as long as they don't cost him profit.
His #3 way to spot a 10x engineer is that their "laptop screen background color is typically black".
Interesting indeed! My area has lots of tourists doing short stays, so I would've assumed that shops would be MORE open to accept all sorts of cash, but nope. Most places have notices that say they don't accept the £50 notes due to fear of counterfeits.
Nobody expects cash to vanish in the foreseeable timescale - but who knows what the situation will be in 30-50 years time? Credit cards as we know them today are barely that old.

And with each series of UK banknote in circulation for ~14 years, planning to put someone on a note in 4 series time is pretty forward-looking :)
In Germany, you are required to be registered where you live. The authority collecting this data (Einwohnermeldeamt) is allowed to reveal parts of this data (addresses) to requesting parties for a fee and under some restricting circumstances (you can opt out, see https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bmg/__44.html).
For me, the magic mouse is the best mouse I ever used. I am using BetterTouchTool to configure its touchpad part though. The mouse is very thin, so my hand comfortably rests on the desk and I can do all actions with my fingers. The big win though is, that I have perfect scrolling in y and x direction, something missing by all other mice I know of. I can use the whole back of the mouse for clicking. Especially nice is the ability to switch desktops or activate expose with multi-finger swipes.

I even mange to play StarCraft using the magic mouse.
It would at least get seem more. Last time I saw a £50 note was I think around 1998.
>often lacks deep empathy

Interesting claim. I'd wonder if this is based on measuring their ability at the sensing part of empathy, or the performative part. I'd wager the later, because they're already using "introvert" to mean "low amount of socialization in the context of work."

I enjoy socializing at work way more than I enjoy sitting at desk staring at a computer all day -- especially if I'm banging my head against a wall on an unrewarding task -- but that's not what they pay us for.

So the claim "10X devs exists, are introvert and often lacks deep empathy" just sounds like valley-speak for "10x devs exist, and are good at focusing on their job while at work."
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A Swiss friend of mine (who granted is a little old fashioned) said he would use them to pay bills for his business and would often use 10x 1000CHF notes for a monthly bill.

Another interesting point around the money laundering aspects, he was talking with one of the central bankers and it was now considered unpalatable to introduce any bigger sized notes. My friend's point was that when the 1000CHF note was introduced in the early 1900s, adjusting for inflation it was worth a lot lot more.
Thanks, I have added a link to that LLVM document to the post!
You don't need to hold the non-clicking fingers over the mouse for longer time, just lift them slightly when clicking, so a click becomes one finger pressing down, the others slightly moving back in parallel.
It's probably because President Obama and Angela Merkel don't/didn't generally do things we associate with regimes. President Obama on numerous occasions at the start of his first term attempted to work cross party. I think it's generally used more when talking about a dictatorial style of government. President Trump, regardless of whether you like him or not, is not a consensus builder. His style is that of directions from the top, no compromises, everyone is either with him or they are potential enemies. I think this is why you would see it used more. I don't know that it demoted a bad or good government more than any other word, nor would I read into it that way. It's quite possible that it was intended to be read exactly the way you're describing.
Is that Slavoj Zizek? I thought it was Johari.
Agree with a lot of this except the claim that professionals dwell only on certain shores.
Attempts to make web page building (a whole lot) more accessible.
Pakistani novelist visits Bangladesh. Shortly after his return, he is subject to a visit and interrogation by Pakistani security services. They demand a detailed explanation of the plot, which he embellishes to make as patriotic as possible and hide the subplot about disappeared activists in Pakistan. He talks about his other, first novel:

> My first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, grew out of my frustrated attempts to investigate the plane crash that killed General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan’s military dictator, and half a dozen top generals, along with the US ambassador to Pakistan.

> A Case of Exploding Mangoes had to be printed in India; the publishers in Pakistan found it a bit over the top and disrespectful to the establishment. To the surprise of everyone, nothing bad happened to me when it came out: no lawsuits, no ban.
You can buy Google Play credits, iTunes cards, Netflix cards in convenience stores in Norway. With cash.
Hi!

Think Freifunk[1] is what you're looking for, it's rather cool in anycase!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk
The article states that "In 2015, a total of 30,000 people nominated 590 famous visual artists for the £20 note, before JMW Turner was selected with the help of focus groups." so this doesn't appear to be the first time the public is involved.
Just sheer blindness to Google's eagerness to kill products.
The University of Minnesota also uses it in their very first CS course.
Very messy and full of factual error. To be avoided no matter what's your level of competence.
I am going to have to agree with this, the other notes look professionally engraved and what we have here looks like it is rushed and a airbrushed photoshop crop for us to see.
Here in Germany they are cropping up too in many cities. Mine is ~200k in size and their specially marked parking spots pop up everywhere.

We even got bike sharing now which I'm still skeptical of, seeing how it failed in many European cities so far either due to reckless vandalism or by people parking them in the most idiotic ways. The ones here at least have fixed spots where you have to pick up or return them so that should at least solve the second problem, but it also makes things a lot less flexible.
It's funny you should mention google maps, as that's recently regressed to semi-unusable in firefox.
>should exclude such synthetic fuel from the tax since it's carbon neutral when it's burned

I hope not. Let the plants remove the CO2 from the air instead. That would be much better than burning it again. How can your process be called neutral if nature has a "more neutral" solution than yours? Let the biomass do its job and just stop burning oil.
Ironic considering some countries have already transitioned to mostly digital payments.
I think there's value to not sweeping these things under the rug. In the shockingly recent past we've committed atrocious things, and there's nothing stopping us from doing it again apart from us learning from our past.

As for a society honouring it's heroes, it rings a bit hollow when it through persecution killed said heroes. Being honoured when you're dead does you very little good.
Those seem to be categories of action, rather than knowledge. Many of the examples of both types depend on tacit knowledge, and are distinguished by type 2 requiring some explicit mental intervention to initiate or sustain (e.g. sustain a higher than normal walking rate.)
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There's multiple levels of data transfer at play:

1. Melderegisterauskunft: everyone can ask at the local city government for the current address of a specific person. This isn't free though, it costs (I believe) something about 10-20€ per request.

2. Political parties can get information on electorate: https://www.service-bw.de/leistung/-/sbw/Melderegisterauskun...

3. The GEZ (funding administrators for public television) automatically get all data of persons whenever they move

4. Military gets personal data automatically (we don't have compulsory service anymore, though)
AFAIK in Ada, deallocating memory is unsafe. So I'd say it has some catching-up to do when compared with safe Rust in that regard. And Rust of course has a two-element type, it is called `bool`.

That said, Ada certainly got many things right. it was an important milestone. But even Ada has "unchecked" operations (such as deallocation), which is exactly what unsafe Rust is, and then you have all the same problems about undefined behavior and having to describe an abstract machine to specify what exactly is (not) undefined behavior and so on.
Similarly but yet completely different I always positon the mouse cursor away from the text I'm reading, since I find the cursor distracting. Nowadays that sometimes has an annoying side effect: some news sites have video thumbnails in side columns. If the mouse cursors hovers over one of them for a few seconds, the browser opens the page with the full video. Gone is the article I was reading.

I don't understand what problem the developers were trying to solve with that feature/bug.
A lot. But isn't that big of a concern (but being curious is a great thing overall). There always going to be things are obscure, irrelevant or hidden. But that isn't what people are missing these days. Almost everything that you would need is available in one form or the other.

What you should be concerned about is the things hidden in plain sight. Things that are there but you can't appreciate because you don't understand the context, it challenges an already held view or is something you can't practice.

There countless comment on hacker news over at least the last five years trying to explain why less things are happening in the west and more things are happening in China. So no one should be surprised that there are things going in China that we don't appreciate. Still it is usually met with disbelief.

...

On a more practical note, just translate it. I might not work out, but poking things often gives you more information than you had before. Or it may at least can actively confirm what you were thinking in the first place. That is sort of the original hacker mindset.
This is super cool! I spent like 30 minutes whatching it
They'd probably keep it for old times sake and history even if it isn't used much.
Understanding his fate allows him to be an icon for disenfranchised minorities as well.
I see plenty of opinions on HN from both sides on both typical Google concerns and on this one specifically, so I don't agree that the HN community had some kind of politically hypocritical bias. It's also likely that any given person could want Google more regulated in some way, but disagree with Thiel's hateful, politicized ramblings here, where he suggests much more extreme tactics.
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Newly produced Lithium-Ion batteries last longer than the average car life expectancy. They are also fully recyclable.
In Germany, I see “Merkel’s regime” used predominantly by the media that are associated with far-* ideas.
I’m not sure about Florida, but many states also make it illegal to not put your actual, honest, this-is-where-I-sleep-every-night residence address on your DL/ID card, too, making this doubly bad, as they then publicize data that is directly relevant to the physical safety of yourself and your family.

Avoiding it is illegal.
I like the version where Churchill listens to the communications of Adolf and Berlin.
You're not wrong about "regime" - it's used to belittle governments that someone doesn't agree with. It doesn't even apply just for dictatorships, i.e the previous Iraqi administration was (and still is by The Economist) referred to as an "authoritarian regime" by some even though it is a multi-party representative democracy with almost full autonomy in the North with peaceful transitions of power across all areas of government.

If someone were to call the current American government a regime then they're likely dog whistling[0] and it reflects the editorial slant of the writer and/or the publication. But it's worth keeping in mind that Gizmodo is just another tech blog and, having worked for one before, I can say that the focus is on churning out more clickbait crap rather than producing anything with substance. The person who wrote it probably has no real understanding of journalism and doesn't understand the implications of the words chosen - they got the job just because they have some half-decent level of grammar. And the editor who approved it probably focused more on the title than the content. So don't think too much about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
> And I don't think it's the media who has a leftward bias

Leftward bias has been repeatedly demonstrated in the literature.

Your belief that there is no media bias may in fact be evidence of your own biases. This too is supported in the literature. I.e., there is evidence that media which confirms our beliefs is viewed as higher quality than that which disconfirms.
It's not that hard. I required my kids to grow up with Libreoffice (and Openoffice before that). There where hassles but they where manageable. I made sure to explain why this restriction was in place. I also was willing to fight any battle with school authorities over this issue should the need arise. Fortunately that was not necessary.
Same here, and I'll add ask questions (to yourself or whoever you can). Lots of questions. When there is something you don't understand, find out first.

This is not limited to IT. You can also apply that to other domains.
One minute in and I saw a video that appeared to show an older guy secretly recording a girl playing hopscotch.

The concept is great. It's real, and that's amazing, but it's also a reminder of how terrible people can be.
+1 for Vonnegut
Use it as fuel.
Are you going to use the dictionary to defend other words with clearly socially negative connotations?

I always love when the Authoritarian Left attempts to use the dictionary to defend themselves, it clearly proves you have lost the narrative
Many German schools already use Libreoffice — the Gymnasium Kronshagen, when I was there until 2014, already used OpenOffice at the time (although some computers also had MS office installed).