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> Isn't that on the other direction, with Firefox using new features which are only available on the latest stable version of Rust, meaning it "breaks" on old versions of Rust?

No. In openSUSE, we've been blocked for far too long because the latest Firefox releases did not compile with the latest Rust releases. Some enterprising individual went and debugged it and patched Firefox to work with newer Rust and we were finally able to land it, but it took months and we missed out on 1.37, 1.38, and almost 1.39. This happens because openSUSE's build service rebuilds everything dependent on Rust at build-time automatically, and if things fail to build, new Rust can't land in the distro.

This is not the first time it has happened, and I suspect it won't be the last.

So, I meant what I said.
I'm not going to argue the side points because I doubt either of us have evidence

My post is just meant in support of GPs "that ship has sailed". STEM and leadership initiatives affect a tiny portion of the workforce by definition of how few women are in these roles, so it's clearly not bringing us back to the 1950s family unit. If you have another policy suggestion that could revert decades of socioeconomic change let me know
Proportion of total labour income to GDP has stayed fairly same-ish since the 1970s.

See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG
iPhone's user interface is way more visually appealing.

You can also get an iPhone 8 on ebay for $200. So you can get the best of both worlds of price & UI.
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It's trivial, actually.

Google would need to make it a requirement for bundling their services. Since the major distributers are utterly dependent on Google/Android, they'd do it.

Making it a legal requirement would be challenging, but making it a de facto requirement for all major phone vendors is easy.
We tried building NoCode (used to be hosted at noapp.mobi), I think around January 2017. The project has been abandoned since then, you can find the project at -

1. Docs - https://github.com/veris-pr/v3-docs/wiki

2. Core - https://github.com/veris-pr/v3-core

3. Backend - https://github.com/veris-pr/v3-api/tree/develop

4. Mobile App - https://github.com/veris-pr/v3-app/tree/feat-offline

5. Mobile App - https://github.com/veris-pr/v3-client

Quick demo (forced under 2 minutes time, we tried to take this to TechCrunch), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfZT75rduPg

This was a POC project. It was quite suitable for simple business process management based apps.
One of our customer has been using a conference room manager built on this platform, for 3 years now.
I was rubbing my hands together thinking "oh boy, I already know about speeding up with PyPy, I wonder what other tricks I don't know?" The article was sorely disappointing.

> So, let's prove some people wrong and let's see how we can improve performance of our Python programs and make them really fast!

> [sets the stage with a program that takes 11 seconds to run]

> This is more about general ideas and strategies, which when used, can make a huge impact on performance, in some cases up to 30% speed-up.

...that's it? up to 30% speed-up is "blazingly fast"? On a program that takes 11 seconds to run, that still takes 8 seconds... I was expecting speed-ups that took execution to milliseconds or microseconds.
Do not fear large companies. They are inefficient and not necessarily well guided in their decision making processes.
I agree with the article, I have a multiprocess app that works great this way under Windows and Linux. It's nice having less moving parts for my application.
I wonder if someone has done the cost/benefit analysis of prescribing housing. What if it is just cheaper to house these at-risk patients (shelters don't count)?

(n=1) The District of Columbia provided my schizophrenic grandmother a small apartment to get her off the street. Evidently, her health dramatically improved.
I work in a fabrication shop and have done some modeling of some of our processes. I think it's more related to Chaos Theory (the underlying patterns and rhythms aren't truly random because they fall within certain ranges, even if they're unpredictable).

What we are selling on the market as a fabrication shop is our ability to absorb variance and to build things that have never been built before (and will never be built again). Our whole business is built around variance. However, variance is not the same as randomness. If I look at the productivity of one worker, it has a certain rhythm and falls within a certain range, and what makes it chaotic is that no matter what scale I look at (worker, team, dept, shop), the variance is consistent.

Just getting into this line of work and trying to make predictions about it has blown apart a lot of the ways I used to look at the world. The systems I study and work with are beautiful because they're chaotic, and just predictable enough to be relatively stable, but unpredictable enough to stay challenging and interesting.
I would not expect to see articles about that kind of rust on hacker news. That was a nice chuckle.
Remember: Congress always has the ability to change the law.
Plaid is trash. Doesn’t work with 2FA and is super unreliable. It’s crazy that a project with so many faults could be financially successful.
Saw title, came to make a joke about Rust programming language, remembered that HN doesn't appreciate jokes.
Why single out managers? This is a quality of pretty much all people including arrogant tech workers who think they are better than everyone else.
I am really curious to know how rust is a byproduct of biological action, could you elaborate?
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Yes, it was just irony on how these things keep getting reposted.
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Every major player provides the reasonable default when downloading binaries. Every single one. There’s a reason for that.

Regular users are not technical and if you ask them to make a choice based on technical matters (Windows, MAC, Linux, Apple AppStore, Android AppStore, Chrone WebStore, whatever), where you instead could have had -1 clear choice- already presented by default in a big nice button, you will lose conversions or increase tech-support costs.

The evidence for this is so overwhelming that knowingly trying to ignore that makes it look like you have an agenda or horse to grind.
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The typical factory design was always a two-story-high room, large and open, with the manager's office on the second floor and having large windows looking out over the factory floor. Manager can see you, but because of the angle, you can't see him. Open-plan people haven't cued into that yet, I suppose because of typical office buildings that only have 9 or 10 foot ceilings. But advances in camera technology should allow a single ceiling camera to be positioned over each cubical looking straight down without a lot of additional expense.
This looks interesting. I assume that this is very us-centric though? Have you gotten any international reactions/feedback during writing? I guess it's har to say but how applicable would this be in other parts of the engineering world? I've only worked in tech in Sweden and I sometimes feel like that "it's pretty much the same" but other times: "us tech scene is aliens on another planet".
Curious, how are the wheels on the Muji luggage? The wheels on the Away cases are the best of any luggage I've owned.
Even the theory's advocate acknowledges in this interview that it's untestable. There is no way to observe that the world would behave differently whether or not the theory is true. If that's so, I can't think what point there is discussing it, except as a mental exercise. If you can't test a theory, that means it can't affect anything. I.e. it has no practical use, except as a form of entertainment.

I would almost argue that it doesn't make sense to talk about something being true or untrue if it cannot be tested nor used to make any predictions. The whole concept of truth, for me, reflects the extent to which reality conforms to belief. So if there isn't and will never be a way to test a belief, then it's neither true nor false.

IMO, this is the type of thinking that gives philosophers a bad rap.
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Personal responsibility and accountability are still there. I don’t know where the assumption comes from that people make tons of vain debt-ridden purchase decisions en masse.

It’s like we are assuming that most people act like reality television stars on My Super Sweet 16.

It doesn’t really line up with the data, which tells us that younger people spend less on things like cars and homes. I’d argue that depictions of “influential” lifestyles are not taken so seriously, they’re usually forms of entertainment. Watching a YouTuber unbox a $10,000 Mac Pro doesn’t mean the typical viewer will go into debt to buy one.
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Construction and trades get paid ridiculous money because no one wants to do those jobs? Bollocks they do. Have you actually spent any time doing any of these things?

Most of the jobs that nobody wants are outsourced to illegal immigrant labor -- the housing boom of the 2000's was built on their backs and their hard word.

Most of the tradies are pulling $50-80k USD, and that's a lot of hard work. That's good money if you're 20 year old, but a Network Engineer with a CCNA, some kinda degree, and 5 years experience will pull $105k USD in a big US city, all while at an air-conditioned desk. And those are the well paid tradesworkers; basic labor and less in demand trades often pays like shit, and doesn't provide benefits.

I ain't saying you can't make good money doing it -- I knew a carpenter who was like #1 ranked on Angie's List and pulled well north of 6 figures -- but those are the exceptions.
This seems elitist for no reason. I wouldn't classify the knowledge of the functionality of a dry dock as "reading skills". Personally, I knew what a dry dock was in a general sense, but appreciated the visual to refresh/corroborate my understanding of the exact function.
How we tend to overvalue and overinvest in reason and undervalue and underinvest in intuition.

Intuition is powerful, mysterious, and a pleasure to wield. But developing and then trusting intuition is anathema to our metric-fixated process-consultant-ridden professional world, so we keep doing things the ugly hard way.
+1. From the letter: https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/larry-fink-ceo-lette...

> The money we manage is not our own. It belongs to people in dozens of countries trying to finance long-term goals like retirement. And we have a deep responsibility to these institutions and individuals – who are shareholders in your company and thousands of others – to promote long-term value.

> Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects. Last September, when millions of people took to the streets to demand action on climate change, many of them emphasized the significant and lasting impact that it will have on economic growth and prosperity – a risk that markets to date have been slower to reflect. But awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.

> The evidence on climate risk is compelling investors to reassess core assumptions about modern finance. Research from a wide range of organizations – including the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the BlackRock Investment Institute, and many others, including new studies from McKinsey on the socioeconomic implications of physical climate risk – is deepening our understanding of how climate risk will impact both our physical world and the global system that finances economic growth.

Environmental, social and corporate governance > Responsible investment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social_and_corp...

Corporate social responsibility:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibilit...

UN-supported PRI: Principles for Responsible Investment (2,350 signatories (2019-04)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_for_Responsible_Inv...
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To be fair, the HN guidelines [1] allow/require that clickbaity titles be de-baited, regardless of the source.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
IMO Brave should remove this API, then.

- It's not likely to work anytime soon

- "The property doesn't exist or throws an exception or does something else that Chrom{e,ium} doesn't do" provides the necessary fingerprinting

- Adding the feature back later can just be chalked up to "growing pains", it doesn't really set especially unique precedent
Reading HN has nothing to do with being a hacker.

Based on who posts, this site seems to mostly be used by 'non-technical founders' (i.e., borderline scam artists & naifs who have not yet had their first serious collision with the realities of global capital). But, there are also some regulars who have serious technical chops & are part of actual hacker culture.
You have to set it in something. People (and I imagine businesses) usually rush to convert it to some other more stable store of value. Today they'd probably rush for US dollars if they had access(1).

I remember reading up on how in the immediate period of postwar Germany the Reichsmark was obviously inflated to nothing. People horded physical goods, any goods they could get their hands on. The result was shortages of everything. If you needed to buy anything, you'd exchange your goods for American cigarettes or bottles of booze that you'd then exchange for what you're actually looking for.

You see similar "economies" in prisons.

In the case of countries with active hyperinflation, if you use the currency at all it would be for a daily transaction. You'd hope to not hold any of it by the end. I do recall a story of how in Zimbabwe (before the hyperinflation got absolutely ridiculous), people still used they inflating currency, but the de-fact spread on the buy/sell was so large that traders could make a profit even if they ended up with worthless currency at the end. So markets find a way, but it's hugely inefficient.

(1)Holding too much foreign currency can present it's own issues. Storing it is difficult/risky and putting it in a dollar-account in a bank can be just as problematic. During the Argentinian default of the early 2000s, if you had money in a US-dollar account, the governnment confiscated it, converted your account Argentine pesos which was then promptly devalued.
Cool. My friend's mom was a huge Red Dwarf fan (tv show) but I didn't realize there was a novel. I'll have to check it out.
>If you don't fix a system, few will. Most people are reactive to it and try to live with it as background noise.

I'd add: If you want to know why a system remains broken, look to who profits by its brokenness.
It's an interesting little piece on how something as common as rust, can be such a big and expensive problem for a certain industry. This article would probably interest people the same way a show like Dirty Jobs would.
What does “time contracting” mean?
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#examples
This can have a huge impact.

- Server log analytics will not be able to provide OS/Browser stats.

- Default download pages (Detect OS automatically and redirect to the platform-specific download pages) would not work.

- "m." Sites: there are still some sites that sniff the UA string and redirect users to mobile site. It's looking for patterns like "/mobile/" in UA, and don't require a lot of updates as the post argues.
I don't think it's dead. You are right on the other points. I think that Julia could have its day, it's having a lot of trouble getting traction. I mean I remember 20 years ago being laughed at for using Python for a web app, but now look at python.
What about the person responsible for firing people calling herself "Head of Belonging"?
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> It changes the passive fingerprinting vector to an active one

You say this as though the ad industry cares.

> So, while UA hints could potentially supply more information than the current UA string - each item needs to be explicitly requested by the site meaning the browser can make a choice on what to return.

Let me introduce you to useragent switchers.

The replacement is strictly worse. Simply freezing the user agent solves things well.
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In the same sense as quantum mechanics is, perhaps. It's more math than physical law, but the laws sit on top of it.
I'm surprised they still scrape Bank of America. A few months back (maybe a year), when they really pushed their API integration over scraping, a bunch of services (QuickBooks, Mint, Privacy) required me to reauth on my BofA accounts.

I assumed this was because they were switching over to their API, and that was the only way to pull data now. I could be wrong, it just seems weird that 3 different sites made me reauthenticate within a month or so.
Optimizing for the 99% use-case is fairly normal and reasonable.

iOS users will almost always install apps via the AppStore. Most Windows-users are probably not interested in a DMG. Are you really going to argue against that?

I agree that taking away options based on OS-detection is a seriously nasty UX anti-pattern though.
No, crypt32 runs in user mode too.
A small example: A company develops a software product for a client. The company tests the product, and tests pass! No crashes! It just works.

It works for years with no problems. Then you get a flurry of tickets in a pretty short window: the software is crashing! What happened? It passed tests, it worked for years! What changed in the environment? Are disks failing or filling up? No. Is the network failing? No. Is another program hogging resources? No. Is it a database maintenance window? No.

Well the patch window changed, but smoke tests pass after patching, so it's not patches...

Hmm, the patch window went from 2 weeks to 4 weeks.

Ok, when did the software actually crash? About 25 days after patching. Is that consistent across sites? ... Yes it is.

What happens 25 days after patching??? [Insert scramble to figure out what happens 25 days after patching]

Is there anything special about 25 days? Well 2^31/86,400,000 is 24.85 ... Aka Signed Integer/Number of milliseconds in a day

So all along there's been 24.85 day fuse in the code, but before the extension of the patch window we just happened to defuse the bomb every time. The supplier never had any reason to run a test for more than a week, so they never saw the crash either.

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So, yes, software doesn't work. It happens to work right now, on this computer, with this hard drive, with these network settings, with these dependencies, with this database .... etc etc etc.
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"Everybody is a little bit right"

I was taught it by a former colleague but it was probably coined by someone else. We often think that if two views do not agree, one must be right and the other wrong when in most cases, every idea is a trade-off and everyone is therefore a little bit right. We might be able to find a middle-ground solution or just accept that our idea isn't always chosen.
I'd like to petition 9to5google.com to not make me have to hit back 5 times to exit the page I just loaded on mobile.
Well it only takes 4 or so downvotes to hide the comment, it doesn't mean everyone is stuck up :)
I think non-duality / advaita makes much more sense than panpsychism, as it requires less assumptions while remaining compatible with our experience.

Panpsychism seems like a bandaid to solve the hard problem of consciousness, which non-duality does not suffer from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-oxidizing_bacteria

It may a different thing for people with municipal water; out here in the sticks everyone is on wells and this stuff keeps our white laundry brown and leaves lovely patterns on the insides of pipes.
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It's an idea as old as time. Or 8 years, at the very least: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

In expectation, a k-digit sequence will require a k-digit number to encode its offset, so there's no compression there.

Then again, there's this gem 762 decimal places in: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FeynmanPoint.html
And look at all the planes that don't fall out of the sky and all the financial products that don't cause crisis.

The "even rare failures are unacceptable" line of reasoning is simply too conservative to permit our modern society to exist. The resources we would have to dedicate to preventing these kinds of things (don't forget the 90/10 rule) in every case would be astronomical. Imagine if every bit of software had to be written the way NASA rights their software for human carrying vehicles and if every financial transaction had to be strictly scrutinized. Software would be so expensive that it would be used far less than it is today and all the good that brings would not exist. Credit would be far, far less accessible to just about everyone you could fill a library with books that have been written about why that is bad. And those are just two industries(!!!!).

It's really east to say "But the MAX" or "but the mortgage crisis" but occasional failures like that are simply the price of a reality where normal everyday people can travel thousands of miles in a day and have access to credit.
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Just because the observable world is testable doesn't mean that subjectivity doesn't hold any value.
This is textbook God of the Gaps

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

It adds nothing to our understanding of the universe, but it gives some people a warm and fuzzy feeling.
The problem with that is you wouldn't get 100 million.

This is a merry-go-round of printed money and the game is to get yours before the ride stops.
Absolutely. I would add: remember that we can all be right. That problem or dysfunction may have 3 root causes, not just 1, and that engineer, lawyer, and BA can stop debating about who diagnosed it right - they all did.
The fact is, doing good hard work feels good. Some people get addicted to that and carry it too far.

Too much relaxing and doing nothing wears on you too.

The old saying, "too much of a good thing" can apply to both.
well it's good what libcurl and the curl developer did.
libcurl is so widespread that it's sometimes not easy to figure out that the library your using does use libcurl.

I mean who checks every library (even core libraries) if it uses an mit licensed product.
most people probably do not. btw. .net core uses libcurl on linux which means that every product deployed to linux with dotnet needs to acknowledge it.
Yes because the NSA snooping in everyone's data turned out to be a conspiracy...
sorry, does 5g magically give other people access to all the phone audio in an area?