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> Sometimes I read about the rapidly evolving modern C++ and I wonder if they are moving too fast

Sure there are a lot of small accumulating changes, but they can easily be caught up on by reading the documentation when you actually need those features.

On the other hand, I've been waiting for modules, concepts and networking literally since 2012 - and I only started using C++ in 2011, with around 2 years of experience in C. I don't think anyone is moving too fast in that direction.

Edit: I still remember the graphic from the committee/Herb, which showed 2014 for the networking TS, and 2017 for concepts/modules. The "networking TS" then ended up being like one .pdf file with functions for LE/BE conversion, and well obviously concepts and modules aren't in C++17. (Neither is any actual networking.) And while concepts look to be on a fairly good path for C++20, I'm going to be very surprised (and happy) if they'd manage to get modules in, too.
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Did we do it without GMO food? Isn't a lot of today's food the result of GMO? What exactly is the definition of GMO?
To be fair that same process allowed hackable (malicious or not) devices out into the world

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20190628/fda-recalls-ins...
The title comes from the official announcement [1]. The older technical site is still available [2].

[1] https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2019-m07/0028....

[2] https://unicode.org/main.html
Am I the only one who thought of the college football team first?
I heard somewhere the going rate was like 300/bucks per 10 minutes of solid voyeur film when uploaded to certain websites. Plenty of incentive for the small=time airBnB host to set up sketchy cams.

Sure, cameras happen in hotels too, but there is a gigantic liability machine -- the hotel company -- which has its ass on the line if there is a camera found; plus it makes their brand look like shit and is a hashtag away from trouble. It also means there is an org to go after with grievances if you find something in a hotel.
>driving a car is a walk in the park

In the average situation, not the edge-case. The way you should think about it is, "If I had a black-box oracle that can drive a car exactly like a human, could I use that to simulate an artificial general intelligence?"

The answer is probably yes. For example, in order to "ask" the AGI a yes-or-no question X, you could contrive that the car find itself at a fork in the road with a roadsign that says "If the answer to X is 'yes', then the road to the right is closed. Otherwise, the road to the left is closed."
Heh there is a bit of debate about that actually. Google claims bounce-rate isn't factored in, but most of the search community doesn't believe them.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-bounce-rate-signal-23671...
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> I knew exactly where and how things could fail and where things were failing just by looking at the code

Don't you just mean you knew where fatal exceptions could be raised? That's substantially different from "fail".
I don’t see how it could be, language semantics and homographs are different everywhere. They must have to make adjustments.
Would the Scientist equivalent to EE be related? In a lot of fields the engineering and problem solving aspects are pretty removed from the science driving progress. Even then the term "scientist" just means someone using the scientific method to solve problems, and good engineers involved in research fit that description.
It's not so much that the birth rates go down when the level of poverty goes down, but birth rates go down when the level of education go up and then the standard of living goes up. This seems like a semantic argument, I know but it isn't just birth rates that goes down that goes down but age of conception goes up as well, allowing for more independent and more qualified choices. Not to mention a more egalitarian society for the sexes.

If we focus on education and not poverty, that would seem an easier problem to solve. Unfortunately, there are more societal and cultural boundaries to overcome to educating certain segments of specific populations (women in some societies, homosexuals in others, untouchables in some).
> the only threat it protects against is "the https server is compromised but the package build farm is not"

Looking at an /etc/apt/sources.list, it doesn't look Ubuntu is using HTTPS for package distribution. Since you don't need both package signing and transport security, and I suspect that the list of packages you're downloading is a fairly trivial conversation length analysis anyways, I don't think the setup of signed packages over HTTP is meaningfully less secure than unsigned packages over HTTPS.
> When your stopping distance (including reaction time) exceeds your visibility there's no way to drive safely, but humans do it anyways.

this is bad, but not quite as bad as it sounds. most of the time, you only need to stop as fast as the car in front of you. it's pretty uncommon to encounter a stationary object in the middle of the travel lane. in fact, outside of driving on surface streets in the city, I can't remember the last time I had to avoid a stationary object in my lane.

I'm much more worried by how closely people follow the car in front of them, regardless of visibility. many leave barely enough room to react at all.
I would expect the number of actual jobs or contracts to be pretty low. Maybe better to attend a data science boot camp and make 100k+ that way with a better path to the future.
Well said. Autonomous navigation is still a huge open research problem, in the sense that we don't even know how it _could_ work, there is no AI work capable of integrating all of the necessary pieces. Heck, we don't even know how simple bird or lizard intelligence works, much less be able to replicate human cognition that goes into operating heavy machinery in a busy multi-agent social context.

So promising that it will be not just solved, but productized into a polished consumer gadget, in 5 or so years, was an astonishing, unbelievably foolish promise.

And worst of all, yes, it came from people who should have known better.

And as a quick aside: there's much talk about "ethical AI", but here's a more common AI ethics failure: taking money from funders, shareholders, and customers, with promises of imminent deliverables, while knowing full well that the AI advances required for that haven't happened yet, and there's no evidence for when they will, if at all.
Are you saying that humanity is living within it's means?

It's like a 20yo with $500K in the bank simply giving up on everything and not working anymore thinking they'll be fine. As far as they are concerned "life is better than ever" at age 25. Just because you can't measure a debt certainly doesn't mean it's non-existent.
I spent some time in India. One social aspect that I noticed right away is that lines aren't really a thing. If someone is ordering food at a cart, and you stand behind them, other people will assume you don't want to order and they'll just go around you.

I imagine that living in a place with such high population density causes behavior that seems rude and pushy to us in America.
You know what is GOOD salt.. Costco himalayan pink salt. HOLY crap you will never go back after that. Unfortunately they dropped their tellicherry pepper. I'm still trying to find a replacement for it. But, I'm sure Cargill has its hands on Costco somehow too.
If the track is decompressed by the game, played and then recompressed by the streamer, you can’t just subtract it because that will leave a garbled mix of all the things thrown away by the lossy compression. It might be possible to determine what parts of the reencoded stream are the the copyrighted track though and drop these. If you were able to do this perfectly you would still lose quality but not that much.
Guess Peter Thiel scared 'em straight.
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In Python (Pandas) you pass the type specification like this when calling read_csv()

---

dtype : Type name or dict of column -> type, optional

Data type for data or columns. E.g. {‘a’: np.float64, ‘b’: np.int32, ‘c’: ‘Int64’}

--- https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...

You could of course parse every column as a string and then cast to an appropriate type at run time interactively. For timestamps and such pandas can look at the data to figure out the exact datetime format. Not sure what one loses in OCaml especially if one is working at the repl.
I wonder if they will they put this on killedbygoogle.com?
> And somehow, we did that without GMO.

I think you're confused. You probably eat genetically modified food on a daily basis. It's everywhere.

The question isn't "should we genetically modified food?" because we already are and have been doing it for centuries.

The question is "which GMO techniques should we use?"
>This is one of the reasons I don't stay in airbnbs - the system breaks the social contract.

But it doesn't. People are breaking the social contract by not respecting the area. If I invite friends from out of town over for the weekend, is that breaking the social contract? If I'm going away for 2 weeks, and I have friends house sit for the duration, is that breaking the social contract? Tourists and visitors existing in a space (unless it's too many) isn't inherently violating the social contract. Their selfish behavior is the issue.

I understand what you mean. I have neighbors down the road who throw a massive family gathering once per year that I'm certain breaks noise, traffic and safety ordinances[0] due to the sound system still going at 10PM and parked cars littering both sides of the streets. That's not due to Airbnb or any other hospitality broker.

If you have an issue with visitors, talk to them. It's possible that they don't even know they're being a nuisance. I have had cops called on me for a noise complaint. It would have been a better use of everyone's time to knock and let us know.

[0]: As far as I know, no one reports the reunion/gathering. I like to think that since we're all very respectful of each other's property and space, breaking the rules for a special event once in a while is no big deal.
At some point I switched from Tri-X to HP5 and used it for about 3 year before I got out of doing B&W darkroom work. I was also a big fan of Ilford Gallerie paper for any special prints during that period.
Don't we've climate change breathing down our neck which can potentially evade our agricultural output over night?
> Isn't one of the key ranking factors time users spend on the page?

In the original PageRank? No.

These days, who knows? But Google only knows how long people stay on the page using Google Analytics and many sites (mine, for instance) don't use it.

I am a quick reader and are very good at quickly skimming articles. I hope Google doesn't rank pages based on time spent, since Google would be optimizing their search away from my preferences.
For backups, I would recommend Restic. The author mentions Tarsnap, and if you don't want to back up five terabytes that is probably great, but after a few gigabytes it's just not economical for private persons. If you're on hacker news (i.e. the 'engineer' the author was talking about), odds are that storing a hard drive connected to a raspberry pi at your parents' and using Restic as client is an extremely cheap way of backing up many terabytes securely.
I've been researching some SEO blogs recently as I'm about to promote web design project I've been up to recently, this one is about social media posting schedule https://promorepublic.com/en/smart-posting.php.
Dang, I'm 30 yo and I sit on meetings all day. I'm amazed people are 40+ and coding.
In my head this sounds pretty bad. this sounds like kids won't be aspiring to be in a career that naturally involves some degree of curiosity and wonder and general coolness (astronaut), but rather some rando on YouTube with a pop filter and fast editing that already thinks he knows everything. And calls out people, and talks trash, and shows off and constantly tells people to buy them stuff on Amazon and support his content on Patreon or whatever.

...Fuck, our kids are gonna be assholes.
You're both off. France has about 1% of the world's population and emits about 1% of the world's CO2.

That's using some rounding, but it's reasonably close for discussion purposes.
Money is more fluid and impartial than political club camaraderie. It crosses and fills the moats dug up by the ruling class better than the occasional "working class", "diverse" guest-candidate could ever hope to.

I'm not saying the USA is a Democracy, just making the point that the average USA citizen may have slightly more hard (=concrete, realistic) agency over their rulers than French citizens do.
I don't know nor have I heard of a single couple factoring the environmental impact of having a child into their decision.
Because all cultures have sex discrepancies and a tolerance to infanticide so that would be the outcome everywhere on earth ?

And how can it be a problem only in poverty ? Doesnt the average American consume like ten fold what the average Indian does ?
So do you want to have a creative carrier where you are your own boss, and you'll touch the lives of other people directly.

Or do you want to train you whole life to sit in LEO half a summer to push buttons.

Makes sense to me.
Which would obviously not work if the rental is using VLAN/Guest network feature to isolate the main network.

Most decent consumer routers do this.
Is that really true? Electric cars should theoretically be able to handle rapid acceleration more efficiently than ICE vehicles, and regenerative breaking makes deceleration less wasteful as well. How much energy would really be wasted by pushing the vehicle to its limits?
Just Waymo was driving over 1 million miles a month in 2018. How many people have they killed? The fact that an autonomous vehicle or Tesla "autopilot" fatality makes national news is telling. It's not commonplace.
There's always a reason behind every addiction, we should deal with the root I guess.

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/128742
On older machines, I agree. On recent installs, it just worked.

Getting it to work with my phone is slightly dumber. But still not super hard.
No, Google also tracks backwards navigation back to the results pages.
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I could imagine that perhaps they want the program to work on architectures other than the ones they can provide and test assembly code for.
I don't know exactly what you would bring to the table. What would you be able to do that others could not? I'm interested to know.
By flooding the Qattara depression in Egypt, you could get plenty of hydro power and rain clouds over large parts of the Sahara.

All it would take is a long canal, nothing outside our capabilities.
Honestly? We don’t even have to try. It’s a tragedy of the commons thing: life forms will reproduce and spread until they die off. Smear some bacteria in a Petri dish and the same thing happens. A lot of it has to do with reproductive healthcare (the lack thereof) in developing nations. Basically, people keep having unprotected sex. Biological reproduction is so fundamental that even if every nation in the world had a stable government, I’m not sure there’s anything we could do that isn’t super dictatorship-y. And even then..

It’s pessimistic, yeah, but we don’t have to even try to have babies. People will keep making that individual choice until we run out of food or energy or something and lots of people, most likely the poor, die.
I find it weird we worry about a “Malthusian” catastrophe still. The theory being proposed in 1798. What is the Information Age version? That deals with, “when do we kill the earth by our attempts to get everyone a cellphone?”
I don't understand why independent full automated self-driving is the goal. This just leads to competing "standards" so to speak. I think auto manufacturers should be working with governments to create smarter roadways and define an automated driving standard. You'd have smarter cars that would be able to link up in trains on the roadways. They'd be more efficient aerodynamically. It would be safer. You'd have "road ranger" style e-vehicles that could link up and charge you without ever stopping. And you could help fund it all using tax payer money.
The thing I'm most excited about right now is WASI. It provides abstractions for system calls like fs, sockets, graphics, etc. But the best part is that the entire API is being designed with security and capabilities in mind. WASM binaries have to explicitly declare resources they want access to, or risk not being allowed to access them. (The application could also choose to further prompt the user, but i think in most cases they will just be denied). Once resources are acquired, we use unforgable handles to refer to them. It is a super cool and declarative way to make sure people know exactly what a wasm bin will try to access before it's even run.
a child can appear instantly on any street. they can even run into the highway if their parent pulls onto the shoulder for a bathroom break or something.

of course, it's much more likely to happen in a neighborhood than on the highway, so we drive slower in the neighborhood. but anything that can happen eventually will, so there ought to be some policy.

that said, I think there is a certain segment of the population that gets overly excited about mapping the trolley problem onto autonomous driving. I expect that little will change other than the liable party (the car driver vs the company) and it will mostly work out.
Ok, you have electricity, and then what?

How do you get constant massive quantities of nutrients, water, and other farming supplies? This would require lots of energy.

Don't forget that you'd need greenhouses that can withstand pretty extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. Manufacturing and transporting those also requires lots of energy.

Finally, people would have to live there, no? I could be wrong, but I don't think a small city in the desert, far away from everything and under extreme weather/temps, would be very sustainable.
I thought they conducted background checks, quite interesting!

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/128741
I mean if the space industry/tourism takes off in the next couple decades like it's poised to, kids in this generation will have a better chance of getting to space as a private citizen than by becoming an astronaut.

The title of astronaut will likely start to change in meaning as well. Perhaps in the future it will just be a catch-all term for those who work directly in outer space as opposed to tourists or onboard staff.
And even if you are not, the animals you eat most probably do.

But yeah parent comment underlines all the pathetically common misconceptions and broad ignorance about GMOs.
Believe me I'm not saying the FDA is some perfect organization that can do no wrong but they do exist for a reason. There definitely needs to be more scrutiny as tech (read:computers/AI) start making their way into therapeutic devices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=603826
This is simply an example not a suggestion. It’s kind of the worst case example as irritating land with more rainfall takes less water.

Anyway, Corn would be a bad though not completely irrational crop. Going for a 2 acre feet of water high yield variety would cost 2k per acre. Now yields vary but 200 bu/acre makes it simple 10$ per bushel of corn. A bushel is 56 pounds so we are talking 18 cents per pound of corn. Not that big a deal.
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Ignoring the topic of global warming, one of the things happening is the northern places like northern canada and russia are melting for the first time in 30,000 years. There's significantly more growing space.

We also have grow lights, vertical farming, and urban farming. Which will greatly improve food yields.

Flipside, how many people have heard about gluten sensitivity 10 years ago? Why are so many people trying crazy diets like vegan, keto, carnivore? Virtually all of these diets have 1 thing in common, eliminating sugar from the diet.

Where do we get our sugar? Oh right, pretty much 100% of sugar beets are genetically modified.

I'm not trying to beat up GMO, but there seems to be something bad in our diet and perhaps it's these GMO plants.
I really want to get a job writing COBOL. However, nobody will give me a chance at it. I recently applied for a few jobs in my area but they wanted 10+ years of COBOL so I was turned down. I learned in college (however would need to re-learn) and I really enjoyed it. I also enjoy financials and data.

If anyone has any thoughts I'd appreciate it. I'm currently writing c++ software for making robots work, plus I have financial industry experience.
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Selective breeding and GMO are different things, and will continue to be different things, until you can convince a squid to screw a cucumber. Please don't make that crap argument.

That being said, I pointedly did not say "GMO BAD". I said that the article is making a bad argument for its necessity.
Are you still technically an astronaut if you make it into the space program but don't actualyl get to go to space?
Accident rates in the US on the highway are on the order of one per million miles. And in a million miles of driving you will encounter quite a few stationary or otherwise unexpected objects in the middle of the travel lane.
That's like saying "lungs are the root of a smog problem."

A growing population isn't a problem. How that population behaves is the concern.

There are plenty of resources on this planet to sustain more people. How the population uses and shares those resources is what needs to be addressed.
I am accepting bets on when the project will be terminated again in the future.

Bitcoin only. Tether only in high amounts.
Arduino can process USB now? I remember back then atmega chips could not handle a usb driver due to clock speed.
Another anecdote: a friend recently had a stroke and was unable to use his phone or computer for many months. I'm sure his grieving, caregiving family members were not thinking about the ToS specifics of his social media accounts to make sure he didn't lose his memories and identity online.

I think it'd be helpful to have a better definition of "inactive." If the user hasn't posted anything ever, and they don't respond, then sure, that's hard to defend. I think that's fair. But if the user has posted content/code/whatever, it's unfair at best and ethically reprehensible at worst, especially in cases where there isn't a memorialized option, to take over their account just because they don't respond to an email within the window of the ToS. There are lots of things that are technically allowed by law or policy that don't make one that takes advantage of them any less of a subjectively terrible person.

If you had approached this from a perspective of "look what can happen to your account" as a security research experiment, that would have been received better than "look at all the people, including those deceased/incapacitated people whose loved ones may be heartbroken, that lost their accounts to me so that I can have a vanity username."
Or it'll just become like "pilot"
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I dont think that these cities are going about this in the right way - they arent going to become biotech hubs just by transplanting a few scientists. That's a pretty zero sum way of thinking, let's just steal enough bnb people from boston until we are new boston. The people in the article themselves had a hint of what I think is the tight idea - make the city check off the things on Amazon's HQ2 list. Make the city walkable, invest in transport and education. Attract bars and yoga studios, put in bike lanes. Actually make the city attractive so people will gravitate there naturally instead of being lured there by other promises.