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There seems to be an abundance of posts about Soros himself getting flagged killed in this thread. Why is that? Are his character and his political ambitions not relevant to a discussion about his demonstrated ability and intent to cause massive financial disturbance in the global economy?
There definitely seems to be motive and opportunity on the housing side though right? Student debt among other things is high and not many 25-35yo people are buying houses but there's a lot of cash chasing returns. These mortgage backed securities are always seen as a reliable way to make a buck but nobody is questioning the market because "It'll never happen the same way twice".
It's the multivariate calculus version of drawing a graph at logarithmic scale?
My goal was to start something and make people know each other around drinks and some interesting stuff like conference videos, latest news (react hooks / suspense at the time, Spring related, Functional Programming, ...).

Really just to start something because teams are isolated and don't speak that much to each others. When something is not working it's always another team fault for example.

I think you're right regarding the hiring process, ours is just "soso", we would definitely need more software veterans. We have some but not so many and even with events/meetings/chapters where we make decisions about code review/best practices and so on, but not enough seniors to actually enforce this in each team and keep an eye on it.
WeWork still on life support, rivals say it must cut costs fast
Against Inevitability
The most promising theory is that the "stealth hawk" used actuated micro flaps on its blades' trailing edges to reduce noise and vibrations. I would put money on this being true. Flapped blades have been studied in academia for over a decade, it's definitely an engineering problem now and has clear benefits.

http://www.helijapan.org/pdf/general/general05/Friedmann/Jap...
so tell me exactly what revelation that scene made you have about yourself or the human condition? or what complex emotion that you have no words to describe did it evoke? these are a few things that film-as-art strives for.

it's ok to like these movies, taste is entirely subjective. but just because you really like something doesn't mean you can declare it to be something that many, many people have been spent decades determining the criteria by which it is judged
I own a smart lock and my Google home device will only lock the door. You can't ask Google to unlock it.
People seem to confuse the workplace with the army, where insubordination is both unacceptable and undesirable. This is kind of army mentality is ofc the normal state of affairs where the workers have neither demand leverage nor an union. To wish to suppress workers opinion when that leverage luckily exists seems just evil to me.
You didn't read my comment at all. I explicitly said that yes, you need to design and plan for disorderly shutdown, but orderly shutdown is an order of magnitude more common and you therefore need to also account for that. We don't design products based on guarantees that we don't have, we design for the problem space.

FWIW, I work at Google on distributed systems.
> Give me a justification for why you think money should be worth more later

My justification is freedom of choice. Or, in other words, the reason is "because I want it to, and I am justified in making my own free decisions".

I believe it is people's right to choose which money system that they want, and you should not have the right to prevent other people's voluntary choice to use a different money system.

I am justifying why people should be allowed to make their own decisions about what money system that they use.

Freedom of choice is a valuable principle in and of itself.

You cannot just dismiss this important concept of freedom of choice. It applies to all parts of society.

The only justification I need, is that I do not want people's freedoms to be infrindged upon.
Queue the ZeroHedge style conspiracy theories and watch the sparks fly. That idea of a dethroned dollar is interesting, any thoughts at was is likely to take over? The Euro?
So if the USD becomes weak, who out there could be in a position to become stronger? I don’t see any candidate. Euro growth is weak. CN bookkeeping’s suspect...
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It doesn't make any strategic sense either: The whole point of being "permissionless" is to increase initial adoption by providing protections against "vendor lock in".

But if you are capable of doing an initial launch on an permissioned ledger and achieve the initial network effects anyway, what's the point of providing such guarantees later on?
>vote against “socialism” and then collect Medicade, social security and disability.

Much like people rally against sprawl, but move the burbs for their kids; or rally against global warming, but don't live minimalist lifestyles.

It is reasonable to optimize your life around the world as it is. And if you use the extra resources this world provides to move things in a direction you consider better, then it isn't even necessarily hypocritical.
all compilers have ways to reinstate them to make porting easier, e.g. /D_HAS_AUTO_PTR_ETC=1 on msvc, -D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_CXX17_REMOVED_FEATURES=1 on clang...
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hint for those as confused as I was: parent means James McGill Buchanan, who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. A recent biography has suggested he had a political influence far in excess of what has been reported in the papers.
The flying car designs I've seen have no true redundancies. They look like they would be dangerously unstable if they tried to run on fewer than all motors.
Largest changes (most from C++11, some from C++14 and C++17) are:

- std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr (your code should not have any new/delete). It's easy to write code with clearly defined ownership semantics, and I've yet to create a memory leak.

- Proper memory model so that multithreading has defined semantics.

- Lots of syntactic sugar (auto, range-for, lambdas, structured bindings, if constexpr, etc.).

- More metaprogramming tools/fun.

C++11 alone is a very different world compared to what you are probably used to.
Good question. The main difference is the steps it takes to build a GraphQL backend in ProtoType vs Hasura. In ProtoType, you model your data first then click deploy.
ABIis hard because C++ structures are typically more complex than C structures. While the C documentation could simply include the struct (and the ABI would constrain padding, etc), consider a simple std::string, which may (OK, will) have small string optimization: different runtime libraries might make different tradeoffs as to how to do this. You'd have to constrain the entire standard library for your platform which could forestall improvements down the road. The committee already unwittingly made that mistake with std::map and doesn't want to make that mistake again.
India, still a youngish population compared to China but with 1.4 billion people and still rapidly developing. Also helps they're strong in service industries, deliverable to the world.
No. It is and should be treated like a lottery ticket.

Don't sacrifice salary for equity.

The real benefit of working in a startup is gaining experience/exposure to more responsibilities than you would in a big company.
I'm not sure what to take away from this:

"In the domain of complex disorders, sequencing revealed putatively functional alleles at a gene previously implicated by GWAS of Type 1 diabetes."

Does that mean that the same gene is potentially causal in type 1 diabetes as well as impulsivity?
They may have only done so because they saw Soros betting so much on it.
How much engineering staff do you need to make a search engine?
oddly enough, the first transformers movie was one of two films i've fallen asleep to in the theater
Oh look, slap on the wrist for a bigot.

You’re a fucking shill.
"Chicago-based poke company"

Everything about that seems like a bad idea.
> Fitch says such documentation may offer only partial verification, and these borrowers could have unstable income because, for example, they own small businesses.

This sounds more like "small business owners are underserved by QM products and more risk-tolerant investors are filling the void," much more so than the "it's 2007 all over again" tone of the headline and parts of the piece.
What counts as logging in? Do you check Gmail or drive weekly? Backup and Sync?

Can you set up an API key app that pings an API weekly?
OpenBSD on Google Compute Engine
Ask HN: Curious about RPA? (Robotic Process Automation)
UIPath and Microsoft's Power Automate are creating a lot of buzz around RPA.

What do you want to know about RPA?
Tangent rant.

I'm skimming over some of the code at https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/src/model.py and I can't help but feel frustrated at how unreadable this stuff is.

1. Why is it acceptable to have single-letter variable names everywhere?

2. There's little to almost no documentation in the code itself. It's unclear what the parameters of any given function mean.

3. There are magic constants everywhere.

4. Function names are so terse... ("gelu", "attn")
There have been uninhabited islands that sunk below the waves since the beginning of time.

But how is this "many people will die"? Have people already died? Are they dying by the 100ths? Or the thousands?

I guess not. And they will migrate away.
This is just a game, right? From what I read,this isn't actual stock, options, or leverage except in namesake.

Did I miss something?
Correct. Non-QM volume isn't substantial enough to be systemic.
I agree that cppreference is amazing and is my only c++ link in my browser favourites. Documentation is typically clear and succinct. And its a wiki!

Not a fan of the spongers that scrape it though.
Sorry, can you explain further? I haven't done any mobile development so if you have some resource I can learn more from I would really appreciate it.
Do you have an example of when == would be faster than a comparison?

I can't think of any case that would have any appreciable difference in speed.

Is it mostly around eliminating branching logic?

Wouldn't there be a good chance that might be inlined and optimized away anyways?
I contacted EFF about this yesterday and got this response: “Thanks for reaching out to us at the EFF and for making us aware of this issue. I'll share this with the team that works on trademark issues, but in the event you know or speak with anyone being targeted by backcountry.com, please do have them reach out to us!“
Italy to make climate change study compulsory in schools
Is Malta losing its cache as world's crypto capital?
I'm wondering why it's just now they've become popular. Maybe they just needed a successful initial usecase and found it in Lambda School (unless I'm missing another successful ISA use case before Lambda School).

Regardless, it's great to see Modern Treasury build a solution to make ISAs simpler to implement.
As did I, hence why I commented that it feels like ultracrepidarianism.
>The unique problem of the internet is that it allows bad ideas to infect, fester, and mutate in the minds of others at a speed never seen before, without the natural safeguards that we've always had: peer-review and social acceptance. That leads to a spill-over of bad ideas into the public discourse which, in turn, resets society's definition for what kind of ideas are acceptable. A few rapid cycles of this, and we got our Post Truth World

This is precisely the same logic held by the Church during the Inquisition as they were safeguarding Truth from the Scientific Revolution and the evil of the printing press.
I wish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Store....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colo...
Sounds like a job for an llvm tool. The parse tree is exposed, doing the transform shouldn't be ridiculous? Are you keen enough?
What is "constantly"?

Some amount of advertising is expected in a free app.
Seems to be deliberately cherry picking data for the purpose of contraversey.

>median earnings for those 18 to 34 are lower

This is to be expected since people are spending more of that time in school rather than working full time. Better would be to compare them after they've completed school... Which they do, but...

>The average millennial’s wealth in 2016 (ages 23 to 38) was 41% less than those who were at a similar age in 1989

Now they've deliberately switched from "earnings" to "wealth". And that's to be expected if someone has spent the last 4-6 years in school rather than working.

The article is going out of their way to avoid an apples-to-apples comparison.
> demonstrated [...] intent to cause massive financial disturbance in the global economy

it's not clear to me that this was his intent. the intent seems to be making a lot of money.
Thank you.

Well said and paints a clear lack of understanding from OP on the value this provides.
I have seen comments that suggest you can write cross-platform applications (or at least shared business logic) in c++.

Is that the case? If so, how would you recommend someone go about learning c++?
I don't think this is demonstrating the effect in the linked article.
Why 'basic_fixed_string'? Is it really so basic that it has to be mentioned in the name? Is it just in case there might be a 'fixed_string' that isn't quite as basic, in the future?
As a frequent user in Albuquerque, my personal experience with GrubHub search is that it returns very strange results, and categorizations are unreliable. For example a restaurant whose name contains my query (for a query like "Chinese" or "Thai") may not even appear in the results for that query, and relevant results will be buried beneath completely irrelevant results (like a taco place and an ice cream joint might appear above a Thai restaurant in the above example).

Further restaurants will be miscategorized or eg have the word "sushi" in the name, and yet not appear in the sushi category (not sure if there's actually a sushi category in the app, just using that as an example).
That is standard moderation practice, no different from many warnings we've given you over the years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21140529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21139071

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618865

Generally we try to persuade people before banning them, especially if there's evidence that they're otherwise using HN in good faith.

Speaking of which, why not follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? It's in your interests for at least three reasons. First, those rules are what keep HN interesting and prevent it from burning to a crisp. Scorched earth is no good for anyone. Second, I realize that you have reasons to be angry about things some other commenters say, but if you just blast everybody with a flamethrower, it only discredits your positions. Keeping your cool, staying neutral, and explaining your point of view in a positive way would be more effective and have more dignity. Third, following HN's rules takes discipline and self-control, two classical virtues which we all profit from cultivating.
You're moving the goalposts. Are we comparing BTC to currency or investments?

People invest in things, generally understanding the risk. Risk is not all equal. BTC is far riskier (more volatile) than virtually all publicly traded stocks or commodities. See again the very recent 85% drop in 1 year.

And let's be clear: BTC is not comparable to a stock. Company stock is valuable because it gives you ownership (and therefore a stake in) the company's profits. Gold is a much more reasonable comparison, but even that has real practical value (e.g., use in electronics, jewelry, dental work, etc.) And funny enough, Gold is worth less today than it was in 1979. So... it's not a great investment. It's just volatile, and "investment" in it is basically a 0-sum game. Just like Bitcoin.
Well... in almost all cases, the wealthy lifestyle produces more carbon than a less-wealthy lifestyle in the same country.

The thing is, though, that the wealthy lifestyle isn't that common. Are we talking about the 1%? Well, only 1% of the people can live that lifestyle. Are they responsible for 2% of carbon emissions? 5%? 10%? That still leaves 90% of carbon emissions.

So, yeah. The quoted statement seems to be far more political than it is based on objective evidence.
I see these Googler's point of view, but if Google refuses to have contracts with big oil, won't these companies just find another tech company to provide services for them? How is that going to help fight climate change? Wouldn't it be more effective for Google to still have deals with them but pledge that all net profits from those deals will go towards Alphabet's renewable energy projects?
C++ also insists on inlining code extensively across the provider/client boundary, so if the offset of any data element changes the binary library is no longer backwards compatible.

This is exacerbated by the lack of usability in compilation toolchains that promotes header-only libraries just for build simplicity and for which the data structures often won't be compatible across .so boundaries.
Why can big corps pay and get free? Its often happens, company x made crime y, pays government z and gets free.
Here is a proposal (from CppCon 2019) to create C++ epochs to drop support for old misfeatures in new code (inspired by Rust's epochs). Code written in the new epoch would still be fully backwards-compatible with older C++ versions and compilers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdKFoQxRqM
Generally good things, but I get triggered when I hear people call metaprogramming "fun." Such is the beginning of all sorts of woes.
If directly synthesized in to desired forms, absent an antifungicidal treatment, storage for months to decades is well within reason. Particularly for direct thermal use.

The problem with the really old stuff is that the synthesis process was a bit slipshod and the Designer(s) failed to anticipate the strict quality controls required of present consumers.
> That is completely understandable because where are they going to store all of this data.

AT&T doesn’t store the contents of your data usage; The NSA might, though...

But seriously, an unlimited data plan should be exactly that: unlimited. No throttling. If you’re gonna include throttling over a certain limit: say that; Don’t hide it in the fine print that no one but lawyers read. That’s deceptive advertising, and is illegal. The FTC should go after them for that.
It's a project aimed at increasing children's interest in engineering the UK. It's not designed to evolve into a commercial product.
Clearly not, gains of the stock market are much higher than interest
It seems a lot of people “suffer” from the problem of wanting to live in a nice rural area without a lot of people or hassles but then want most of the same amenities of large cities.

And by working remotely and exploiting the situation it never occurs to them to open up their own business/ grocery store.

I’m sure other people that live in those areas would love to have a well stocked grocery store as well.
I don't think your experience is very common.

Deploying Windows 10 to users from Windows 7 has been a lot less hassle than XP to 7 in my environments, and I haven't heard different stories from other admins.
I wanted to reply and add on to this, but you're already getting downvoted. Utah is a very strange place to do business, I'd almost argue it as sort of isolationist with a love for lawyers, so this makes complete sense.
One of these days the gold bugs will be right. This might be the one...
Because it's been done to death. It adds nothing new, and has nothing to do with this specific conversation.

There is a time and a place for everything. This is not the place in my and many other's opinion.
> "corporatecoin"

Call it like it is: Company scrip.
What do you even mean when you say quality? The access to information, experts, knowledge today is absolutely unprecedented and curriculum's are much more science based and people are exposed to so many different ideas.

I would argue education has never been better.
Sorry. Not trying to fan flames. Admonishment taken.
> Mill's main reason for conceding an exception to the freedom of speech wasn't the falsehood of the speech,

I didn’t say it was his main concern?

Mill’s reasoning ultimately rests on what principles he believes would result in the best outcome, from a utilitarian perspective. The point I’m making is that he wasn’t some free speech absolutist, but that an assessment of harm/utility undergirds his thinking, and that the different media environment would be something Mill would have to grapple with. And it could lead to an exception.

> I disagree? That's a difficult criticism to respond to given it's vagueness: like trying to put fog in a box. You could criticize Ben for his lack of originality, but I think there is value in reiterating a truth, even an obvious truth, in a clear and persuasive manner.

> As for his thoughtfulness, are you perhaps just nonplussed that he sounds more certain of his convictions than you think he should be? Outside specific criticisms of his arguments, I'd have to say his position seems well thought out. I'd say that even if I thought he was wrong.

You seem more concerned with defending Ben than thinking through what needs to be considered in this issue. Which is fine, I guess, but whether Ben has done an admirable job or not isn’t really what I care about.
At that price it can have 2 dead pixels and I'd still buy it.
> Just enough of a flood of short 1-3 sentence pro/con comments on a forum can drastically affect the perceived public opinion of an issue.

Even more than public opinion, it can affect the result of sentiment analysis algorithms about a topic. Those algorithms run on all the comments or tweets and output and overall sentiment score, which is then used as "insight" to make actual decisions for human deciders (journalists, analysts, marketers) and/or is used as input for other algorithms.
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There has to be some form of throttling at some point. Otherwise one person can consume all the bandwidth.
> people on HN are always complaining about Linux and trackpads.

On my machines, regardless of OS, I turn the trackpad off. I prefer a mouse set to max sensitivity, so that my hand doesn't move, just my fingers, and barely at that. And then I try to use keystrokes as much as practical.

People who sit at my laptop get dizzy and fall off the edge.
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> No, std::string definitely changed between c++11 and c++14. It could be an implementation detail between different libstdc++ versions for the g++ version that supported c++14, but the incompatibility was definitely there.

that is a problem with your distribution (and the reason why using distro packages sucks for development), not with C++.

The ABI only changes if you change the value of _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI with libstdc++

See : https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/QLbjjo
I read Stroustrup's "tour of C++" then looked specifically for blogs that talked about C++ 17. And wrote a lot of code with all warnings enabled.

Yes you can write cross platform applications though perhaps only the engine, not UI.