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> FP doesn't mirror how the actual machine instructions work, whereas imperative languages do.

Can you explain what FP concepts don't "mirror how the actual machine instructions work"? Arithmetic maps to arithmetic instructions. Calls map to calls or jumps, which are well-supported by hardware. If statements map to conditional jumps. Pattern matching maps to something like switch statements (plus extra jumps), which are not hardware features, but they aren't hardware features in imperative languages either. What else? Oh, you don't write "malloc" or "new" to allocate memory (which, again, don't map directly to individual machine instructions). That's about it, I think. What am I missing?
Oh...and India is running of water.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl...

You don't know scary until 1.3 billion people all decide they have to leave India at once or they'll die of thirst.

And India has nuclear weapons.
What about kotlin-native?
I have a slightly similar experience - I got off all social media, felt good but not life-changing. My guess is this is due to not being an extremely addicted user in the first place.
At my previous job, I simply went out with the smokers sometimes, to get some, uh, 'fresh air'. Didn't really get any fresh air that way, but I did socialize with them just fine and it wasn't as weird as it might sound.
Whatever it is, it's changing operating system settings, so not just certificate expiry:

https://twitter.com/MarcusPun/status/1176369954255331328/pho...
i, as an app developer, have to reboot my mac atleast two times the week to get xcode back into a working state. not to sound like a jerk, but if you dont have to powercycle you prob not pushing your machine far enough
> There is no reason for any math course at any level to ever need a calculator, period.

Numerical methods courses need calculators for questions about practice rather than theory. Basic (non-graphing) cheap ones are usually sufficient, though.

I think slide rules are thoroughly obsolete in almost every context. There's no point in wasting students' time when better tools are available.
Sound like someone messed up a removal routine, equivalent to "rm $base_dir/$temp_dir -rf".
Developing Enterprise software? keep these points in mind
I wonder if the endless edit-compile-run and "see if it works" cycle is as addictive and harmful as social media. At least with social media I'm interacting with other people.
Sounds great. Again, how many mols are that? ;-)
JavaScript compilers are about the most powerful ones out there.
Now taken offline ~8hrs after the articles release https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1176228660791189506
I've tried watching the video, but this video in itself is so biased. In reality, it attempts to do the same, what Israel is doing in that very video.
The main problem with audio is that in many cases 100ms of latency is unacceptable. Having a large queue is a fine solution when latency isn't a big problem, but in a lot of cases for audio you want to get as close to no latency as possible.
To add to that, it's not just media production.

In the medical field, almost all software for performing and analyzing EKGs, X-rays, MRIs etc. comes by default with some sort of dongle-based protection. Apparently, it's not enough that you need the biggest dongle in the world (i.e. the machine itself!) to use the software. Some vendors do offer alternatives if you fight them hard enough but the default still is a trip to dongle town.
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> People will pay for what they value. The value of media has been utterly destroyed by ads

... because people won't pay for media. is it because they don't value them?
Release Charset Normalizer 1.1.1 Python Chardet
All that does is allow these groups to draw up enemies lists, and then go after the family, livelihood, and reputations of people who support views they disagree with.
Fixing the issue with blunt closures in order to close off neighborhoods is frequently bad for everyone: it increases load at the remaining ingress. The neighborhood gets saved the through traffic, but congestion is increased outside of it.

Is that something you think is actually preferable to simply avoiding sending large amounts of through traffic on roads which were not designed nor are able to handle the traffic?

That seems like a cutting off ones nose to spite one's face. I don't live in LA, nor do I personally suffer from waze traffic (in fact, I have the good fortune of having been able to select my location so that such things will never be a problem for me) ... but I've lived in Florida where it's the norm for communities to be constructed with single outlets, and its clearly a bad design that leads to more roadway congestion. Yes, it keeps neighborhoods free from being speedways, but it makes driving and the community less enjoyable for everyone else.
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Nim compiles to C, so you can use any existing C toolchain to generate a native executable for whatever platform you care about.

That's a big advantage over Rust, D, OCaml, and similar languages without this feature.
Problem is, for those of us that don't buy into the incessant 'Orange Man Bad!' narrative it's becoming like The Boy That Cried Wolf trying to determine the signal from the noise as regards Trump. And the fact you responded to point out 'no, this one is actually true' suggests it's a genuine problem.
Supersonic commercial flight is one of the most interesting. I think two strange things happened. First we got the internet - and mobile phones and video conferences and this has eroded the value of rapid physical presence. Second, and I think this is more important, people have become more willing to sacrifice their time for their career/money/firm/dream vs. family/happiness/now.

An acquaintance flew Concorde a lot in the 80's, the reason - "I could get to Heathrow in the morning, fly to New York, do a meeting, fly back and get home the next morning". Another friend is a exec at a bank now and goes on month long odysseys to the USA, Asia and Australia. The contrast in perspective and commitment is striking, I don't think that Concorde would matter at all to these folks.
> Social media is like smoking. It takes a while to get addicted. You do it because everyone is doing it

I would add: Besides, it tastes awful when you start, but you do it anyway until you get familiar with it.

Just like the first days when discovering a social media without understanding it and doing dumb things such as posting the wrong stuff etc.
Science : welcome!
I think the whole training and such AI was just bad designed. Aren't all first impression judgements prejudices as much as all racist bias are?
If I say a person is attractive, inspires me just based on their looking it is a positive judgement, a bias based on the looks and a few traits I subconsciously perceive and perhaps I cannot even explain, and the same with the negative ones, and I guess for some people this association happens also to race and looks. Basically an AI was trained to map the prejudices of their inputs, and that means to create a snapshot of the subconscious average of whoever behind the mechanical turk is, everyone has prejudices of all sorts which usually are not manifested externally but in a process of classification such as the one of the mechnical turk might arise much more.
Which apparently yields a boiled egg with not too tough whites that has a relatively easy shell to peel.
Well, this might actually be very good for the environment. Like the environmentalist keep repeating, the expectation of eternal economic growth is having a big toll on the environment and India was set to almost double their (already quite hight) CO2 emissions by 2030.

This might actually be a blessing for the environment.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/india/
This is hardly a new phenomenon.

India has for the past few hundred years been run by an elite linguistic minority - the so called Macaulay's children. It's hardly a wonder that the deep state in India both despises and organizes self-righteous protests against local linguistic communities, all while simultaneously ensuring that education, the bureaucracy and employment remain isolated to English speakers. Little wonder that most of India's bright minds leave for the US right after (or even before) graduation.

It's astonishing that Social 'Scientists' have paid such little attention to such glaring structural disparities (compared to say China), while they go on wrecking what's left of Indian society using theories entirely developed by foreigners. Education has definitely gone downhill as a result over the past few decades - while my parents tell us stories of great education in Public schools (run, quite sensibly, in the local languages), I can see the abysmal state of these today. The state has tried to offload its duties (while imposing one of the highest tax rates in the world) by emburdening Hindu-run schools (somehow this is 'secular') using RTE, but the competition and the fees at some of the better schools has become quite absurd of late, costing people close to ~$3000 annually, and an additional one time 'donation' which will help cut the long queues for these schools.

Considering that this kind of colonial social structures are absent in most countries, it is to be expected that the Indian economy can't really outgrow its ~100 million elite, while the underclass remains bound in a sub-saharan level educational and cognitive achievements (that is if they're even literate).

It is very interesting that the self-labelled "Left" in India is at the helm of further pushing these colonial policies, while the supposed "right", in their bombastic arrogance, are happy to implement them (see Shiv Sena, BJP etc., and also the DMKs in Tamil Nadu). It's very unlikely that India will ever achieve parity with China in our lifetimes, considering its self-destructive tendencies.
Consumers will pay. The funding of newspapers is a major factor of why current journalism isn’t worth paying for: clickbait headlines, access journalism, slideshow content, listicles, opinion sections. There’s plenty of ad-independent journalism out there if you look that successfully funds itself through donations or memberships.
Because Poland has a long and complicated history with the Catholic church. For a lot of people, the Catholic Church represented the only oasis of freedom during the communist rule after WW2 and before 1989, and can be credited with accelerating the end of communism in Poland, especially with a Polish pope being elected merely a decade earlier.

Nowadays though I would call it what it is - it's cancer growing unchecked on the Polish state. And I don't mean the religion - I mean the Catholic Church of Poland is constantly meddling in Politics, influencing new policies, Polish bishops are almost celebrities with a huge amount of wealth, the church does not pay taxes, they are one of the largest land owners in Poland....it's a frightening insitution that only seems to be growing in strength, you'd think young people would turn away from it, but with the current right-wing government literally saying that those who don't defend the church are not real Poles it's quite obvious what the party line is - either you are with the church or you are not welcome.
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I have partially removed all my social networks except Twitter. I want to find out about things in real time, and from various sources, therefore Twitter is still a valid medium for this purpose. Although I interact little in the discussions.

Leaving Facebook, Instagram, Google+ and other networks gave me automatic anxiety relief. I no longer care what anyone close to me thinks and I don't get into discussions with close relatives.

My life as a conservative is much better without social networks where they censor me non-stop, just Twitter and being very careful with what I write and how I write it I can more or less start conversations. Sooner or later I will leave Twitter too, it is a matter of finding another social network, free and open and nurtured by people.
Whatever you do though don't be discouraged.

It cost me a $200,000 investment to learn this lesson - the longer you spend building something without convincing someone to open their wallet the more risk that you could be building something nobody wants.

Once I emotionally recovered from that failure, my next project started with a very tiny goal: earn $150 within two weeks on a new idea to afford motorcycle Insurance.

My approach meant that I spent literally all my time on marketing, and developed the product I was selling specifically for my first customer. That also means the scope was super small.

The experiment was a big success, and over the next two years I had trained 5 contractors to keep the machine running while I focused on finding people who wanted to pay someone to solve their problem.

I couldn't have been comfortable trying to sell the absolute bare minimum product as fast as possible without being very familiar with the pain of spending years on a product that nobody wanted.

Either you start getting excited about learning how to sell it, or you start looking for one of those people.
Heyo hacker news.

Was scrolling about and realized we had never shown our project here before. Thought it might be interesting to see what this community thinks.

We are currently working on API and improving dataset for Twitch streamers.

New to the HN ecosystem so thanks for having us and your feedback + critique! :)
> I don't know why, but Polish people are the most religious community I know here.

Historical reasons basically.

For the most part of the past 200 years, Poles lacked their own independent country (first it was partitioned in 1795 by Russia, Prussia and Austria, then it gained indepenence in 1918 only to be again conquered by Soviet Union in 1945). During that time, Church and faith were one of the primary allowed (or at least tolerated by the occupants) expression of one's identity as a Pole - people were singing partiotic songs during masses, priests were leaders of the nationalist opposition (and frequently murdered for that) etc. Hence, historically Catholic Church means much more to Poles than to most other nations.
What is the right approach in that situation? My intuition would be humour, trying to dedramatise, make the person feel the absurdity of the act. But I have no idea of whether that would make things worse.
Unfortunately .Net Native doesn't support a lot of project types at the moment.

Serverless is all built around fully automated and managed containers, right? So it abstracts the whole runtime environment for webserver code. You use it if you don't have the skills/capability to run your own deployment/scaling pipeline.

The technology is a great 80/20 style leveler; I would highly recommend it to new developers and to people coming from a less technical background (such as design, marketing etc).
> ... something unique I like about Nim, using `func` to declare pure functions (and `proc` for others)

FORTRAN has this distinction since the beginning.
2% less effort to ride is fine and all, but how easy is it to maintain? I'd pay extra for a bike that never needs maintenance – does not need to be oiled regularly, does not need replacement gears or chains etc.
I think pigs would eat most of the things used to feed the insects, so this step seems rather unnecessary.
> Yes, by default Nim has a garbage collector,

Does the standard library and all other user libraries work with the garbage collector turned off, or do I have to use a different ecosystem for those applications?
What do think of this type Buyer/seller protection?
How the app will work.

And seller and buyer must have agreed to deal.

1. A seller sends a payment invite to a buyer to sign up or login to an e-wallet app to pay OR a buyer sends a payment option to a seller to sign up to an e-wallet app to receive payment.

2. A seller sends product description, price and time of delivery for buyer to confirm OR a buyer request for product description, price and time of delivery for review and to confirm.

3. After a buyer must have confirm product description,price and time of delivery. Buyer sends payment directly to seller's e-wallet which wont be accessible by the seller.

4. A code for the seller to withdraw the exact amount of payment sent to his e-wallet is sent to the buyer via text or email.

5. After physical review of the product and buyer is ok. Buyer sends the withdrawing code to seller in order to access his payment.

6. If buyer is not ok after physical review of the product, buyer states his reason and the company decides which side the money goes base on the confirmation and other evidences.

7. If buyer lost the withdraw code or refuse to release the code to the seller. Seller can report the case to the our company and a time bound automatic withdraw of payment can be initiated whereby both parties will be notified of the action.
Yes sorry, it's tough!
Rms is an extreme proponent of freedom, the GNU software aspect is part of his larger beliefs. While not a follower most of what I hear is him talking from a freedom angle.
Censorship limits his freedom

I can’t comment on the rest of your point because again you talk about the horror of the crime and it’s not clear what of what he said or did you find abhorrent
With the advent and spread of AI based call response systems, would negotiation be the final frontier that a General AI would have to break to prove its efficacy and the replaceability of humans.

I guess, negotiation happens at a very human level. Taking SOS calls, asking the right questions and making the right decisions is a subtle art.
There is also the difference in licenses, and as in users voting with their feet, I chose the BSD licensed alternative to terminal muxing.
I have my iPhone in my backpack for regular tasks and taking photos. Next to that I have one of those rugged Android phones from China on my handlebars for navigation.

The iPhone has my regular SIM-card, the Android phone has a local SIM-card and acts as a WiFi hotspot for the iPhone. Both phones have offline map data in various apps (TomTom, OsmAnd, Google Maps).

This way I will always have a device to call 911/112, find a hotel or a gas station.
The just have to stell themselves better.

Living in a monasteries is strongly coupled with a long and healthy life.

Most nuns look at least 10 years younger than they are.
You are right, but I’d see a tipping point where the money is better used by bringing better maps to services people actually use, effectively improving their life.

It would be no different from straight paying Google so they map the streets for instance.

It could be argued its a pragmatic choice to have the most impact on people’s life.
There are many other benchmarks around where Nim is usually quite close to C. Perhaps Nim was not compiled in release mode.
Well duh linking to software with an illegal use is not the same as linking to a site that sells freezer cabinets to super markets and comer stores.
Some people scroll social media, some watch the Khardashians, Some play World of Warcraft, and some smoke cigarettes

Most of the people are addicted to something and it might not be the worst thing in the world if you somehow keep it balanced
50% of All Bitcoins Are Subjected to Wash Trading, Report Suggests
I mostly use social media to follow artists and DJs I like. It's my prime source of finding new music and almost everything I see is relevant. I can never relate to these posts and I feel like I'm in total minority.
If your Big Mac comes with sliced tomatoes and/or french fries you actually do have to intake some nicotine if you want to eat the whole thing. ;)

I agree with the parent, banning nicotine outright because of its perceived risk/benefit ratio while still allowing Coca Cola to advertise and sell bottled diabetes and tooth decay is a blatant double standard, and the fact that drinking water is essential for survival doesn't change that.

Not that I'm in favor of banning (so called) unhealthy life choices, I think that every adult individual should be given enough information to be able to decide themselves whether the rewards outweighs the risks in each case. I see no reason why drug dealers of any kind should be allowed to run ad campaigns though, so I'm fine with banning that.
> but few experts believe there are hard barriers to number of qubits or minimal cost.

both of them are very flexible, but also definitively non independent.
dragged him*

I guess
I'm not going to watch 38 minutes of video. Say what you have to say in a paragraph.
Hm, I'm not using any AVID software, but I had to re-install from Time Machine after trying the 10.14.6 update on my Mac Mini 2018 last week.
Asynchronous Routines for C
Don't you consider HN social media?
Sounds like the case when EvE Online removed some Windows boot files: https://www.eveonline.com/article/about-the-boot.ini-issue
As a French the amount of (bad) news regarding China on American websites I browse (hn, reddit, newspapers websites...) is really disturbing compared to home. I try to think rationally but the coincidence with the trade war is hard to ignore. As an outsider it looks like nothing has changed (China is a communist country, fresh news!) but suddenly the media is all over it.

The media pattern now is so obvious every time there are geopolitical tensions to justify a conflict that it's hard to ignore (please remember Irak).

I'm not a geopolitical expert, I really like Americans (obviously, otherwise I would not be on this site), but I don't understand how nobody notice this pattern, especially here.
There would be no difference other than acting it out on a physical board (as well).
Yes, Nim can run on all sorts of architectures including AVR microcontrollers, MIPS, RISC-V.
I left Twitter (where I was very, very active since ~2008) and FB (which didn't use much anyway) 2.5 years ago. For me, the typical listed benefits are mostly true. I have a lot more time to spend mainly on side projects and books, I stopped caring about futile arguments (-> less anxiety) and also realized how little real connections most of us have. Overall, it made me focus on the important stuff and never looked back.

Granted I do have other distractions and I'm not aiming to be a perfect productive robot but social networks do affect us in at least some negative ways.

Nevertheless there are cases where balanced usage is possible and you can reap many benefits while experiencing fewer drawbacks. I couldn't use it in a smart way though.
>>> It's very unlikely that India will ever achieve parity with China in our lifetimes, considering its self-destructive tendencies.

And to add to that, we don't really exist in the most peaceful part of the world with at least two of our neighbors ( Ch, Pk ) having fought wars with us in the last fifty years.
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While very impressive, I'm not sure about their goal:

> Modeling genes at the atomistic level is the first step toward creating a complete explanation of how DNA expands and contracts, which controls genetic on/off switching.

That does not work in isolation like this: McGuffee and Elcock did some fantastic work in 2010 where they showed that protein stability is quite dependent on that the cytoplasm is insanely densely packed. The same is also true for the nucleus of a cell. You can't make any serious claims of a bottom-up explanation of gene regulation and expression unless you can model the entire nucleus, which is out of our reach for years and years to come.

And that is before I start on whether this is an actually useful way to research gene expression in general, which I'd very much argue against.