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You don't need stop-the-world pauses for generational GC. As long as your write barrier ensures that pointers to a young object are entirely local to the TLAB that the object is allocated in, you will never need to stop other threads to sweep the nursery.
Turns out where a country sits on the authority-liberty spectrum is more important than pro-anti intellectualism. Being pro-intellectual doesn't necessarily mean being pro-liberty. America isn't going to send intellectuals to the gulags no matter how anti-intellectual the climate gets (assuming the legal system holds out).

I'll point out what seems obvious to me here - if "pro-intellectualism" means identifying a class of people, labelling them intellectuals and giving them a systemic advantage than that isn't a good idea. That is class warfare. If it means philosophically believing that rationalism and science are the keys to a better future then that was trialed in Soviet and Chinese systems of thought. It wasn't the only thing going on at the time and I agree it didn't work out very well - better to let people do what they want than to enforce that they believe 'good ideas'.
You're viewing the history of journalism through rose-tinted glasses. In the late 19th century, American newspapers conspired to start a war for no good reason. That dwarfs anything they've done recently (although the NYTime's role in starting the so called "war on terror" might come close.)
> Any action taken by an individual or organization with the intent of influencing another individual to execute a commercial transaction.

That definition pretty much boils down to every interaction between businesses and individuals, ever. Any kind of negotiating or sales or communication..
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> I have the Kindle DX, but it's slowness and general lack of flexibility is a significant negative that doesn't really balance out its superior page experience compared to a tablet.

...I find it a bit amusing that its model forms an emoticon that fits your general sense of the device.
Is that the “new” ui you’re speaking of? The old, pre 2019 UI, on MacOS was actually pretty nice and clean but the new webview one is a sad turn in the wrong direction.
> Swift Core ML

Why does he call them Swift Core ML? They are core ml, usable in swift and objective-c.
Theoughout my life, I've ended up on opiate painkillers a handful of times, after broken bones or surgeries or whatnot. I have absolutely no history of addiction and never used them innapropriately but I realized how effective the pain relief was and id save them in case I have a snowboarding or mountain biking accident and don't want to go begging for meds for this exact reason.

So finally I run out over time and then later that summer I severely sprain my ankle rock climbing. I'm in excruciating pain which has to be pretty obvious to the urgent Care I'm at and I'll I'm thinking about is how to act as responsible and non addictey as possible so I can get a few pills and the next week won't be a living nightmare. So I drop the question and the mood instantly changes. I'm treated with suspicion for the rest of the appointment and the conversation is quick to the point of being rude.

And why? Because I didn't have the correct back story for my pain. And then the doctors put on this self righteous paternalistic act like they are taking the only accepted medical action which is in my interest by not listening to my subjective opinion of my own subjective experience.

What an infuriating experience and one of the first tough lessons I learned in my life about not relying too heavily on the medical system.
... yikes.
Yes, true. Still...

The weird thing for me is why people feel this need for the state to legitimate the institution. If your church, and your family, recognize your union as a marriage, that's great. You've made a public pledge to the people that matter in your life.

And if your church and your family doesn't recognize my union as legitimate marriage, perhaps because my previous divorce wasn't legitimated by an authority you recognize, or because its a gay marriage, or an inter-racial one, why should I care? My marriage isn't for you, just as yours isn't for me.

But when its the state, well... then get pretty tricky very fast.

Christians say marriage is a religious institution, holy from time immemorial. My own view is that marriage has been many things in different times and places, but were I to grant Christians the point, the implication should clearly be: the separation between church and state clearly demands that the state stop sticking it nose into religion.
This is a good step.

Stallman has been a liability as a figurehead for a long time, and software freedom deserves better standard-bearers.

I saw Stallman once at a public lecture. He was incredibly rude, but is seemingly oblivious to how obnoxious he is being (he struck me as somebody heavily on the spectrum).

I hate to think how many people have written off the cause of software freedom as a joke because of his conduct.

People around him ought to be telling him in stronger terms that his views and general manner are unacceptable.
They can, and some services offer both. Maintaining two systems is resource and support intensive though, especially for payments. It's rarely worth the hassle if you only get 1 in a million to subscribe directly.

The cable-bundle approach to content might get more traction but there are too many competing bundles adding fatigue (just like video streaming), on top of the fact that people don't value general content the same as music or movies so the rates are inconsequential compared to ads.
There probably already exists, but I would like to see a standardized Docker setup for encrypted DNS and running your own DNS with unbound. I run both Unbound and Nsd locally, but I probably have a lot I could improve upon. I just used what few informative tutorials I was able to find.
Just to be clear: this means useful for developers who need to build programs to run on Windows, but can scarcely imagine developing on it. They treat it as a huge embedded system.

Last I heard, the maintainer of MinGW was one of those: never booted Windows, and tested only on Wine. (That was 20 years ago.) Someday Microsoft will be among their august number.
You're correct. I read deposition and made the incorrect connection.
https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/master/stl/inc/regex#L... is the code. Looks pretty simple, check if it matches the backreferences and error/continue.

The handling of repetition is more revealing, it doesn't appear to have "states" at all but rather is just the usual backtracking:
https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/master/stl/inc/regex#L...

So the "NFA" is really an AST for the regex rather than an automaton based on Thompson's algorithm or similar.
You are much braver than me. I do not dare read a contract (or the explanation of one) as tongue in cheek.
Still cheaper than AWS!
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Heads up to anyone who might decide to comment in this thread. Its a great way to end your career if something gets read differently than you intended.
>Stallman was not a paid employee of MIT, certainly not a professor or anything. He had an office because, I believe, Gerry Sussman thought he should have an office.

I will tell my descendants true stories about Richard Stallman, and none of them will believe me.
Thanks, let's hope so, making it in Ubuntu 20.04 will be a huge success since Ubuntu LTS versions are used heavily and supported by all major cloud vendors
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989696
Ah, right, I was misremembering how FIFOs work. You can't even write to it until a reader opens it. I was thinking that you could just dump data on it and the operating system would buffer it until someone came along to read it.
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The previous thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989696.
Before jumping to criticize Stallman, be aware: there is a big difference between what today's round of headlines claim Stallman wrote, and what he actually wrote. Given the relatively clear-cut nature of the lies the press has told about him, I think he ought to be suing for libel.
Total non starter. IBM won’t license the software for use on an emulator.
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Many of those software developers are in developing or middle income countries and can't afford a Mac. Just because software developers have a higher rate of buying Macs it does not follow that 1/4 of Macs are bought by software developers.
Sure. I know people "on the spectrum," I know people with various forms of PTSD, I know people with bipolar, I know people with ADHD, I know plural folks, etc., and none of them act like RMS. I know very friendly, conscientious, and kind neuroatypical folks. I know brusque and tactless neuroatypical folks with whom it's draining to interact in certain ways. They still don't act like RMS.

So the (implicit) argument "This is just what you expect with neuroatypical people" / "If we want to be welcoming of neuroatypical people, we have to be welcoming of people who act like RMS" is even less true because of how diverse the category is. We know RMS isn't being excluded because of his (hypothetical) neuroatypicality because there are so many neuroatypical people who aren't and wouldn't be excluded.

If you want to argue that the problem with RMS is he is in the narrow category of people who act like RMS (and I would say that not even Linus Torvalds is in this category), that's a fine argument to make, but it's a bit circular to defend his inclusion on such grounds. Is this category the sort of category, like race or class or neurological makeup, that is beyond (or mostly beyond) one's control and has little correlation with whether you can do good work? Or is this a category like "asshole"?
You mean the island that Epstein regularly invited numerous people to in order to discuss assorted legitimate things, like supporting their charities or their research?

Epstein's island wasn't some stereotypical villain lair where anyone who steps foot on it must be up to no good. It was a place that he conducted the normal business that any entirely legitimate billionaire would conduct, in addition to the villain stuff.

Based on the girl's deposition, it looks like she was there on the record to provide massages to guests, and off the record was forced to make those erotic massages including sex. It is not clear which, if any, recipients of those massages plus sex knew that the sex was something she was forced into. There are no details given on her sex with Minsky other than it happened.
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They need to do more about Stallman. They really need to consider a criminal investigation into his conduct to see if any laws have been violated. I really hope the DA gets involved so he can be held accountable. They should impound his electronics and search them for child porn.
I've always heard the person who brings a company to a turning point might not be the one to make the turn. Maybe it's the same for movements. Open source went a long way with his poor behavior, but now it's likely to become a liability as open source spreads further into a world of collapsed context and diverse experiences.
As some one who’s learning to code in my spare time, this is fantastic.
This kind of promotion structure basically just launders a manager's intuition through a veil of objectivity. The committee studiously evaluates, with careful argumentation, checks & balances, neutral parties, and appeals, whether the candidate has been doing L + 1 work. But the decision to assign the candidate an L + 1 scope/impact project is made unilaterally by her manager.
That’s why I said the 20th century, the “yellow press” I mentioned was the 19th century papers you’re talking about.

They did anything to sell a headline - in the 20th century, ethical standards for media were better for a while, although of course they have always been susceptible to influence by the government as you mention (whether Iraq, Vietnam, or more justifiable wars).
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I was genuinely surprised myself. I've heard many of the same stories, but he was completely patient with me as I gushed my appreciation to him as he got off of a train and treated me with the utmost respect. I am not able to pick up on social cues easily myself but have worked very hard to become good at it. This is why I know it's possible to learn this skill of one puts in the effort.
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The SE is also durable. I don't use cases and have dropped it many many times over the last few years. Many scratches but no smashes.

Maybe it's been luck, but every other iPhone I've had before this has needed at least one screen replacement.
If all he did was damage improper or illegal NSA domestic programs, why do think Obama didn't pardon him. The House Intel Committee report, which was unanimously approved by Democrats and Republicans says there was damage to foreign intelligence gathering.
To be fair, lack of cable connectivity between Macbooks and iPhones isn't a particularly big issue, everything can be done wirelessly for most users, they never need to plug their phone into their laptop.

I use Android phones, rather than iPhones, but regardless I can't remember the last time I actually plugged a phone into a computer. If I need to get files between my phone and my computer, I usually just put them on my Google Drive.
Semi related but Blue Apron will forever be my favorite IPO.

5 stock splits and 3 CEOs later, day one investors will receive roughly 2 pennies back for every dollar invested just 2 years ago.

Only people who won were those who dumped free shares on the market (insiders), and maybe consumers for getting subsidized food of questionable quality.

Once valued at 2 billion USD, a paltry 150 million will get the job done now.
What's stopping it exactly?
A good comparison by another poster today here between RMS’ statements on the mailing list and the lies the news media published about them https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990426

I wonder what this means for the influence of the FSF in general. And will RMS stop working on emacs and other software?
> What morality is there in saying that you cannot pass a vehicle in a tight lane?"

Any system of morality in which it's morally wrong to endanger the lives of other motorists is a system of morality in which a justification for traffic laws can be constructed.

(Also, I find your juxtaposition of atheism and morality very alien. I say that as an atheist with strong opinions on what is or is not moral.)
They mean the entire C++ standard library. There's plenty of non-header code in there.
That is near the top of the list of things to replace when we can break ABI next. It's... not amazing.

We regularly recommend customers use Boost if you need an API compatible version, or something like RE2 if you just need a fast regex engine.
The Internet doesn't forget, so everyone can be branded mysogynist/mysandry/pedophile/etc.. just by making mistakes or having taken quotes out of context. People have limited attention and the media profits on showing the ugliness of others. This is not how it should be but I don't know how to fix that...
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Thank you for bringing the FSF into the world, Richard.

Whatever comes out of this and whatever comes next, your philosophy on software freedom has influenced us in innumerable ways.
> candidates with (R) next to their name that don't suck

California used to have a bunch of those, but they are all gone, long gone.
> Specifically the sections about value-oriented programming are exactly that: Go allows the developer to avoid a lot of allocation by embedding structs, passing interior pointers, etc.

To elaborate, for example, indirect calls cause parameters to those calls to be judged escaping and unconditionally allocated on the heap. Go style encourages frequent use of interfaces such as io.Reader. So in order to interoperate with common Go code, such as that of the standard library, you will be allocating a lot.

> Compared to Java or C#, it can have a much smaller number of allocations as a result.

C# also allows you to embed structs within other structs and pass interior pointers. Java HotSpot has escape analysis as well, though it's less important for that JVM (and other JVMs), since HotSpot has a generational GC with fast bump allocation in the nursery.

> https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

As I've mentioned before, I also have a problem with the conclusion of this talk: that generational garbage collection isn't the right thing for Go. The problem is that nobody has tested generational GC with the biggest practical benefit of it: bump allocation in the nursery. I'm not surprised that generational GC is a loss without that benefit.
I have to say that I'm pretty much 100% in agreement here. I kind of understand where Stallman is coming from. The morality of the situation is completely separate from the legality of it. Things that are illegal are not necessarily immoral. Things that are immoral are not necessarily illegal. Especially saying that because you travelled from one country to another, it suddenly became immoral is a pretty ridiculous statement to make (which is what he said).

I'm also pretty much 100% in agreement that Minsky ought to have known that what he was doing was wrong. However, I know literally nothing of the situation. It was stupid of Stallman to give a "for instance" because it's always going to be construed as him advocating a really bad situation. But later he literally asks people for copies of the deposition (that he can read with free software) so that he can find out what actually happened. He also had no idea what actually happened and was basically saying that he's not willing to condemn someone without understanding the circumstances. There may be mitigating details that we know nothing about. There may not.

There are people who believe that there can be no mitigating details. They may very well be correct (again, I literally don't know), however, I hate the witch hunt against people who do not wish to pillory others without understanding the situation first.

Having said that, like I said, it was stupid of Stallman to wade into this. He's got a big target on his back and there are people who will take every opportunity to lob something at him.
>> I am a creative professional - which, historically, was a very important part of Apple’s user base; and the reason I still use their products.

The keyword there is historically. It's pretty clear that Apple has shifted its market focus away from the creative space. It's made some efforts to win them back with the latest Mac Pro, but they are a minority.

This isn't even a criticism of Apple (clearly that decision is making money for them), it's just the reality of the situation.
I've seen some online cheering Stallman's resignation from MIT. I suspect they'll also be cheering about this resignation as well.

But this is nothing to cheer about.

Regardless of what low regard the man might be held as a person, he's being persecuted for having expressing ideas, demanding proof of claims, advocating for objective standards, and asking questions. These are all hallmarks of scientific inquiry.

It sets a precedent that will absolutely lead to self-censorship on a topic that really requires the disinfecting power of sunshine.

This strengthens the power of those who have no use for scientific inquiry and are more interested in inquisition.
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Trying to divorce publishing from advertising is like trying to divorce brewing from yeast. The only people who don't understand this are people who have never been in the publishing business.
you know, i saw Stallman at a conference once and the nice people at FSF were also there. FSF as a whole is doing important work and liked the talks they gave and how they were talking about some of the issues ivolved.

Stallman on the other side came across as a nutjob. And it wasn’t because of his principles (which if you think about it are great and something to actually aspire to - at least in connection to software) but because of his behavior. Being antisocial or making a claim without paying attention to the social context or the setting the way he managed to do leads me to believe that he may have some sort of mental health issues. again: all respect for his work and principles when it comes to software dissolved by anti-social behavior.
Wepocalypse.....
Yeah - I used to only buy phones with an unlockable bootloader. But I found that I didn't actually ever install open source firmware (I have, but I don't trust the security).

Aside: the Android 9 security update feature is Project Treble. However apparently it doesn't make that much difference for many brands/networks because Google doesn't control the updates directly: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3306443/what-is-projec...

However, my Nokia has been getting security updates quickly enough for me. And I love dual SIM when travelling.
That's an astute observation, however I doubt it's valid. Not paying a monthly subscription wouldn't indicate poverty. It might just be these people are subscription averse... or they are used to ad supported free content and don't want to pay...
What is the counter argument for what Stallman wrote? I've seen that the "press is going too hard on him", but, honestly, I think they were justified. What is the "big difference" to you? If someone, personally, said to me that that someone be absolved of a crime, because the other, coerced, party was "willing" at that moment, I'd seriously question their morals.
Julia actually has a pretty high bus factor in comparison to most other Github projects. This was demonstrated during Heather Miller's (of Scala Fame) talk at JuliaCon 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_743P8XuvA
It is public those are Apple’s IPs. It is not public they are downloading data from this S3 bucket, never mind how much.
Well, right, that's what I would have assumed. But parent said the reason consumers like the idea of wireless is that you don't need a modem or router, that's what I found confusing about it.
Would that somehow absolve Minsky? A "willing" obviously young girl seems to want to have sex with somebody she doesnt know.

If Minsky suddenly find himself in the plot to a porno, and just went along with it, then trying to defend his moral culpability is probably a lot out of the bounds of acceptability.
Chris Lattner also wrote a compiler and gave it away, all without defending rape. Spare me.
Can't find a better way to contact you: little typo, grammatical issue really. Article says:

> In Pilotwings' case, a fix to one algorithm resulted in the attract sequence showing a plane landing to fail, and the plane to infamously crash.

That's easy to misread. I'd suggest:

> In Pilotwings' case, one of these algorithms failed, so that a part of the attract sequence a plane infamously crashed rather than landing as intended.

Or similar. As originally written it's easy to misunderstand what is failing.
That's only for regular languages. Backreferences aren't regular.
The full thread is public, so folks can read it for themselves: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne8b47/two-researchers-re...

Scroll down to the inline doc reader widget. Background: https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
The sources for debugging are included with the product; these sources are more or less the same as in $/VC/Tools/MSVC/ (version) /crt/src/stl
The part that I find the loneliest is making all the core technical and business decisions by myself. I really miss being able to bounce ideas of a partner.

Sure, you can do it with friends etc. But at some point you just become menace asking them to think about your stuff so much.
You're right, he was a "visiting scientist", whatever that means.