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It was written in K&R style C (pre ANSI).
The system is shitting into our well, and you're complaining about someone stealing their toilet paper.
Marriage= slavery
Also, when is HN going to stop shadow banning the truth?
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Rails has a very predictable cadence (once a year) and a published support policy.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html

> RoR has breaking API changes often enough ... magically break that often

According to the support policy, nothing magic about those breaking changes: "Breaking changes are paired with deprecation notices in the previous minor or major release."
I found React to be very nice for interactive HTML mockups. But if it's mostly CRUD, just server side rendering is probably the fastest road to a working product.
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Also - pretty much all ad networks are rounding errors compared to Google and FB, which make up 85% of all new ad spend. The last 15% is mostly Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest.
I've lived in countries with universal healthcare and the quality is sub-par compared to the US/private care.

I don't think anyone argues that a royal palace is not a good enough home, the complaint is that only a very very few can live in a royal palace and if that's the country's main form of housing, a lot of homeless people are unhappy with it. You can pay for private healthcare in the UK as well. Pay as much as you like and get as many specialists as you can afford. The NHS doesn't stop that from existing. The NHS is probably lower quality care than that. What the NHS is, is available to everyone. The NHS was built in the 1940s /after/ it was already possible for wealthy people to pay to visit doctors of their own choice. Somehow that didn't translate into healthcare for everyone back in the day, and I'm not aware of any good argument for why it magically will now if we turn the NHS private.(?)

Your elderly relatives in Canada can afford to travel internationally and pay private prices for health care .. so national health care should be dismantled? What about the millions of Canadians who can't afford that, and a long waiting list is better than nothing?
Examples of prodects created by government run medical R&D?
Ironic that trying to scroll down immediately floods me with a ridiculous full page message that is not the article...
A horribly shitty software package called ALIS is required to operate F-35,this software communicates from ground facilities to Lockheed servers.

Having dealt with the output of the part of Lockheed that makes logistical software, I say run for the hills.
Quarterly goals are not necessarily anti-agile. Extreme Programming has both a weekly and a quarterly cycle.
Kaiser’s system works better than a lot of others, but for me having to drive 40 minutes for a prescription is outrageous when I have 20 other pharmacies in a 15 minute radius.
A net loss of 6.5%-16.5% and the corresponding tax writeoff, considering their net profit margin is 3-4%
What does that have to do with taxpayer funded R&D for medicine?

Presumably, taneq's point was that medicine owned by taxpayers can be sold at the cost to manufacture and distribute it at far lower costs, as opposed to the current system where the owners of the research also needed to be compensated.
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Oh, there were plenty MF viewfinder cameras. Plenty of folding cameras in particular, but also box cameras and some rangefinders. Just none that could feasibly be sent to the moon and be operated with astronaut's gloves.

Really the only one I can think of that could have worked is the Graflex Combat70[1], which is essentially a giant Contax that shoots on 70mm film cartridges. That one was developed for the American Military to be used in the Korean War.

[1] http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Combat_Graphic
Numze App Is the New Disruption in the Security Industry
A new app that is set to officially launch in the fall is causing a huge wave of controversy.

Meet Numze – the new disruption in the security industry that will allow any organization to hire licensed security guards with the touch of a finger.

This “Uber-like” app is innovative and will allow businesses to call on security guards as needed. At the same time, the app will allow licensed security guards to pick-up shifts that suit their schedules.

The developers of this technology are Paul Carson, a well-known security expert based in Toronto, and Ron Hazell, who is also a security expert. Their team at Canadian Protection Services have spent the last year developing the app and have obtained feedback from test audiences: security experts and licensed security personnel, as well as influencers and decision-makers from a large number of industries.

The app is currently in the beta-testing phase in Toronto and in select cities across Southern Ontario. Later this year the app will be launched across Canada and then internationally.

The app, which is a first-of-its-kind globally, hasn’t even officially hit the market and yet it is already turning the security world upside down.

“The security guard industry has remained stale for so many years – nothing really much has changed,” says Carson, who has over 30 years of experience in the industry. “Numze is now a big disruption simply because it will dramatically alter how organizations hire security guards, and it will also offer licensed security guards the freedom and flexibility to work when they want.”
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Yeah I was quoted 3500usd cash price recently and that was with the "generous" cash pay/uninsured discount of 10% and a lower income community hospital. Needless to say I did not get the scan. That's how it goes here. I only paid about 150usd in a Central European nation for a more advanced 3d version, and that was in the PRIVATE for-profit system there. American healthcare is a tragedy that I don't see changing sadly since so many people fight any positive change.
I know Scott meant nothing derogatory by it. "Dark matter developers" refers to the developers you don't see. If someone is offended by that, I think it's a sign that they desperately wish they could be at the leading edge, but aren't allowed to. There's a ton of developers in the industry who have a different set of values than that.
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That's funny, I regularly say please give me a discount or credit, politely, in person, emails or on phone. For the last four times I can remember, the CS rep was always nice and on top of that, does it.
Oil is both terms (e.g., crude oil).
Does anyone know the technical details of how this happened? Did someone just run a spider on the e3expo.com site and find the publicly accessible URL that way, or did they do something more advanced?
If you have to reverse-engineer the undocumented Go calling sequence to call Rust, you probably shouldn't be using that for security-critical crypto functions. The next time somebody changes something, there will be trouble.

This is especially an issue in a garbage collected language. If the only reference to something was passed from Go to Rust, will Go's GC marker find it? If it doesn't, everything will work just fine, until someday a garbage collection happens at the wrong moment.

In security critical code, that's probably exploitable if you can force a GC from another thread.
Like many memes, it's vivid for no good reason. The only relationship in common is that A depends on B. Everything else about it is misleading.

Data is not fuel, let alone a fossil fuel. It doesn't provide energy and doesn't get used up.
Canadian here. We also have decision makers that decide what gets covered or not.

It's stupid not to. We shouldn't plunder health care funds on $1m per year of life saved interventions when you can spend that on 100 interventions costing $10k per year of life saved.

It works pretty well (something like 15th longest life expectancy).

Of course, you're always free to pony up your own cash to pay for a treatment that isn't covered by your insurance, so the individual is always their own final death panel.
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Tofacitinib is one that I am familiar with. I am sure there are many more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofacitinib

Also, I think it's a valid question that doesn't deserve downvotes.
And I feel sick...probably because of something I ate.
I would speculate that this philosophy is so far removed from the customer that it's the reason they deliver so many consumer-facing duds and exhibit a completely schizophrenic product roadmap in so many verticals.

Amazon is relentlessly customer focussed and is now a veritable hit factory And mostly in industries that were already seen as mature.
Which town? (I'm in Houston)
NASA alone has plenty of good examples. Enriched baby food, CAT scans, heart replacement devices, better thermometers and imaging, and other minor advancements for specific procedures: better fiber optic devices for baby delivery, better lighting for brain cancer operations, improved cooling devices for certain symptoms. And again that's just specifically medical products that accidentally fell out of a space program.
If you mean the Federal Reserve System it would cut out the middleman from finance which maybe results eventually in a more even distribution of wealth.
It works very well until even kernel hackers hit the very problem we are talking about -- which is precisely the same class of problem that classic GNU/Linux userspace is having when trying to use it -- and then it does not work very well anymore.

So maybe in they are some contexts where it kind of work (until it doesn't, like here), but another model which works in more cases would be more useful...
I am surprised that this hasn't started a class action lawsuit yet. The insurer through delays is causing harm. I'm guessing it's a contract thing though. One thing to do is if your plan is regulated by the state then immediately start an appeal with your state's department of insurance. There are also advocates at some hospitals and insurance companies. The other thing to do is go to a very large academic cancer center... presumably a tier 1 research hospital. Outcomes are also better. They usually have staff that know their way through each insurance company and PBM.
I keep up with modern tech. I regularly learn new languages and frameworks. I lead agile dev teams. I work as a consultant modernizing devops and moving to cloud deployments. I write real software for real businesses doing real things.

I don't blog. I don't go to conferences. I don't go to hackathons. I don't have any meaningful presence on GitHub. Hacker News is about the only place I have even the slightest footprint, and most of what I talk about here has nothing to do with my career as a software engineer.

So what? The implication in this article is that if you're not out there trying to be visible, you must be some crusty old COBOL developer locked in the basement.

In my experience, the people who are the loudest are rarely the people who are doing the most. If you spend all your time trying to prove to strangers that you're hip to the latest trends, just how much time are you spending doing anything of actual value? Not everyone who has a big public presence is actually doing anything. Most of the discussions online and presentations at conferences are nothing new. Most of it is self-promotion. When I see people get all excited about tech, it's usually because it's new to them, not because it's a new idea.
Because they are not really "code". Just like I don't consider someone making cookies from ready cookie dough a baker.
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> All of my elderly relatives live in Canada and come over the border for any major surgery. This is mostly because the wait times are sometimes in the years..when they can just get private care in the US and get it done in a matter of weeks.

Unsure of how popular this is. If it were, we'd see a lot more Us insurers offering plans to Canadians, but as far I know, they're non-existent.

Anywho, all this proves is that you can have a public system and a private system a 100km drive away if you have a problem with it.
I've used it. Julia's ccall is so nice to work with once you have wrapped it in other functions. The hardest part was creating, finding, downloading and using the right library with it's dependencies during Julia's build step for a package.
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I'm not saying Norway doesn't have technical or defense capabilities. I'm merely noting that Norway doesn't have the budget to develop state of the art fighter jets solely to provide the Norweigan government. In the case that it did develop one, it would still need to sell the plane to other countries like the US, and then the original OP's question comes back into play of why would the US do that given it has the leverage? International trade can help breed specialization alongside monetary and strategic alliances. I gather Norway would rather have the state of the art weaponry to defend itself from Russia and the US would want that as well.
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> Well if it’s on a publicly available blockchain, the difference is that the information on how much money is in circulation, how much is being created, is all open to the public and verifiable.

This information is available to the public about the USD supply as well: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/24

> The information on how much banks are holding onto in fractional reserves should therefore be available and make cooking the books more difficult and allowing audits to be more accurate and hopefully regulations could exist to keep banks better in check.

You should look into just how much regulation there is in banking, and the history of banking itself. All publicly traded banks are audited yearly, and yes I am aware of Enron/Arthur Andersen and the GFC of 07/08, among others.

No system is infallible, but investors trust US audited
company statements 100x more than chinese audited companies, for instance.
You never just write a story on the spot for a feature. It has to come out of completed design work that takes as long as it takes and ideally is funnelled through the same pipeline as you use for development.
> It makes me despondent that we can ever get to a place where our politicians can make rational, informed decisions about complex issues requiring multiple trade-offs.

It is OK if our politicians can't do this; it just means that, as the information age marches forward, we don't need politicians (or at least, that we don't need the state making these sorts of decisions).
You are getting backlash because it seems mean to wish suffering on anyway, and never funny, but honestly I have learned this is the only way most people acquire empathy, though personal suffering. Even then a large number still find a way to blame others.
Well if you come across it the ansi scene as a whole would consider that some found gold. I would even donate to a Patreon to fund finding it or restoring it from a floppy.
I live in a country with public healthcare and getting a second opinion from another doctor is by no means unusual.
I think the solution is probably to make having children more attractive with government subsidies and labor laws. E.g. free daycare, affordable education (including college), health care, a minimum amount of paid time off per year, etc.

Nobody should be forced to get married or have children if they don’t want to. But if we can alleviate some of the risks/down sides to having children, I think we will see more people choosing to start families and also having more children per family.
Ask HN: Will ablocker wars force ad-tech to start serving pages as canvas?
I see a constant game of cat and mouse between client side adblockers and ad publishers. Does this mean that eventually all webpages will start to be served on a canvas? Or maybe something like flash based pages where the ads can't be blocked at all?
I was a big fan of Rust at first. Then they went off into a weirdo approach to functional programming. That sent Rust to the niche in which Haskell lives.
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This class of problem for seccomp has been known for ages. This makes it quasi-unusable IMO (or reserved for full-contained binaries, maybe in some JIT scenario but probably not a lot else), and even quasi in self-contradiction with the kernel non-regression rules (because by design seccomp can not achieve that in the general case -- at least when you consider the bigger picture that is a classic userspace design and ecosystem, like in a mainstream standard distro). To detail more: under this "standard" model the applications do not often do syscalls themselves, but use intermediate libraries (ex: glibc) that provide (quasi)-Posix and reserve some of the syscalls or even provide syscall like functions that actually use others -- or just start to use new syscalls in new versions to provide higher levels of abstraction. But they do not provide another abstraction to obtain a seccomp-like services suitable for this model. So seccomp is basically unusable in this context, which is one of the most important.

Now the kernel itself made the mistake, proving that the whole idea was not practical; it breaks too easily, and it breaks even when used in most restricted ways or when the whole (non-kernel provided) userspace has been designed for it (which was not a practical condition at all, to begin with).

IMO seccomp should be phased out entirely and eventually replaced by something else. Trying to "fix" it will yield nowhere: it is broken by design, since forever.
UTF-8 has good space behavior for English but as you get higher in the space you end up with 24 bits per character for languages that could expect 16 bits per character with another encoding.

That said, UTF-8 + gzip on the wire isn’t a bad solution.
That's correct. Most people I knew really thought Whatsapp was free.
Appreciate this a lot. Cousin is disabled and can’t speak enough for voice software nor use the computer but is a smart guy. Would open so many doors if this works.
The problem with that is tree coverage drastically goes up again when you hit "broken washing machine on lawn" levels of poverty due to just the general amount of old growth in rural poor areas
For dark matter developers, there is no "gatekeeper" since there's no gate they want to cross: those developers aren't posting, and they don't value the visibility that it sounds like you do.

You should listen to Scott's podcast: he has a wide array of guests, in many diverse topics (even topics that could be seen at odds with his employer, Microsoft). Most of them are people I've never heard of. If there are gatekeepers, Scott isn't one of them.
There are no unrelated people if that is the ask of the government. What would "usually" require a warrant?
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The UK is already in early stages of design for a potential replacement to Eurofighter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Tempest

We will be working with Sweden on it as well.
This is a common problem in India. WhatsApp limited the number of forwards to 7 per day, after some WhatsApp rumors led to murders. This sounds like a good solution for receivers. Question is, how do you stop people from forwarding?
Just out of curiosity: What exactly would you need this for?

Is it just about learning how to design a CPU? Is it about solving a specific task a soft core on an FPGA can do better? What kind of use cases are there where an FPGA with a RISC core is better suited than some kind of microprocessor?
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Could you point to some of the sane configuration for docker? We are planning to run some of these in production.
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The accepted method is convert projects to .NET standard and/or multi-target project itself. I haven't run into any issues but most of what I do is web projects, I wouldn't know if it was something like WPF.
My company insists each ticket in Jira have a time logged on it now. This is on top of story points. Everyone I know has pushed back on it, but I hope this isn't becoming a standard elsewhere.
Recommending papers I have read:

- Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme (experience report). A very applied and very readable report on an impressive project to re-target a significant existing compiler. Especially recommended if you normally don't like reading academic papers, since this reads more like a very good technical report.

- Efficient differentiable programming in a functional array-processing language. A cool technique for applying automatic differentiation to a small functional language. Surprising how well it seems to work in practice. Easy to read. Also, it's the first paper I have seen that actually contains an empirical comparison against Futhark (albeit only sequential code)!

- Selective applicative functors. A really cool technique for working with asynchronous effects. The kind of thing that is obvious (and obviously a good idea) in retrospect, but nobody put together the pieces before. Probably requires good Haskell knowledge to understand.

Papers I have not read yet but which look interesting:

- Lambda Calculus with Algebraic Simplification for Reduction Parallelization by Equational Reasoning. Writing parallel reductions with nontrivial operators has so far mostly been a case of thinking really hard, and then maybe proving associativity and commutativity by hand. I'm curious whether this paper can provide a more systematic approach.

- Demystifying differentiable programming: shift/reset the penultimate backpropagator. Automatic differentiation from a functional perspective is usually interesting.
Anecdotes are great and all, but we still don't know if the textbook treatment would have worked better or not.

Certainly those that failed with the exotic treatment plans won't be around to complain about it.