skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wolf has and is still persecuted by man, mainly for perceived financial and political reasons today but the negative propaganda and irrational emotion from the middle ages and beyond still lingers in the general population...

https://www.wolfawareness.org/issues

I live in wolf country and in the winter have seen formed packs of 15 or more wolves doing the rounds on my property. If I am out and about walking in that woodlands it is something to be aware of and like any wildlife should be treated with care and respect but moments of brief fear and potential, rare danger is not a reason to eliminate them mercilessly.

This country is also ranching country and yes, every year, ranchers loose cattle to predators such as wolves, cougars and grizzly bear, our neighbors lost 1 cow and had another seriously injured from a wolf pack early this winter. I can appreciate their desire to protect their livelihoods and bovine charges but when it comes to wolves the response to these incidents, many times is motivated with extreme prejudice and their counter measure responses typically far disproportionaly outweigh the losses for a year.
> I'm guessing they are only thinking of raster images

Someone somewhere will come up with a JPG to SVG or CSS converter for images, if it doesn't already exist.
> year by year tangible results

Wow, he didn’t foresee the 21st century - the “agile consultants” who are running these circuses demand day-by-day tangible results (and then can’t fathom why nothing significant is getting done).
Because it's no longer optional. Even if you think you're turning it off, they'll just redefine or outright revert the preference setting whenever they feel like it, typically as part of a forced update.

The user's opinions and desires are not on anybody's radar at MS, except to then extent that they coincide with the company's own desires.
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Even easier you can use the "bang" commands in DDG when you do wish to use Google, e.g. !g.

E.g. "search something !g".

Stopping using Google by default is a big deal if enough people do it.
In this case it won't help, because:

0. We are already in a frame that doesn't take any arguments of the "val" object type; how come that's not good enough?

1. The current stack frame is entered with a bunch of callee-saved registers, some of which contain GC roots.

2. The current stack frame's code saves some of them: those ones that it clobbers locally. It leaves others in their original registers.

3. Thus, if a another stack frame is called, there are still some callee-saved registers, probably containing GC roots, and some of these will go into the area below the locals.

4. You might think that if the save all the necessary registers ourselves into the stack and then make another stack frame, we would be okay. But in fact, no. Because by the time we save registers, the compiler generated function entry has already executed and saved some of those registers into the below-locals save area and clobbered them for its own use! So our snapshot possibly misses GC roots. The compiler generated code always has "first dibs" at the incoming registers, to push them into the below-locals save area, thus kicking the GC roots farther up the stack.
Why the distinction on for-profit? There are plenty of non-profits you shouldn’t trust.

Surely their tax status is orthogonal to their trustability.
Some problems which are harder in Rust:

https://stevedonovan.github.io/rustifications/2018/08/18/rus...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442743
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One thing to keep in mind with iMessage. Even if you back up locally the receiving party is probably using iCloud. So not sure how much it will really help.
Yep, Zig is the one I like, and IMO it's a language that shows an interesting yet very simple model for what systems programming can be. But I'll admit that it's easier to look good before you're put to the test in the field, so I'll wait and see what becomes of it.
Brits never experienced the tangible benefits of EU membership because they actively excluded themselves from both Schengen and the Euro. It's not really surprising that many reject something that is only an abstract macroeconomic set of rules to them.

Contrast this with public opinion in Germany back before the common currency: most German EU supporters were openly afraid that the Euro could seriously endanger their economy, but they considered it well worth the risk just for complementing the convenience of open borders with an end to the hassle of dealing with foreign currencies.

To anyone with a bit of critical thinking ability, macroeconomic decisions are close to a coin toss: both sides have good arguments and nobody has convincing data to back up their claim (if there was there wouldn't be a decision to be made).
Antarctic ice sheets and arctic ice sheets are on different ends of the planet.

This article actually confirms the loss of arctic ice sheets because water levels are still rising despite gains in antarctic ice.
That's a very simplistic view and doesn't at all cover the whole picture. The union benefits all countries in varying ways (eg without the union Italian and Spanish and French banks would long have gone bankrupt). At the same time it also has negative effects. But you have the same issue internally inside any larger country.
> Also missing from US law: parental leave. which just isn't good enough in the rest of the world.

So, I checked, and out of the 193 countries in the world, only 41 mandate parental leave. [1]

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/16/u-s-lacks-m...
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And we're all poorer for it. They have taken a public service and molded into something that makes money for them and only for them. And all the while (maybe gradually) they've masqueraded as some benevolent philanthropy.

The day "don't be evil" came off their motto is the day they conceded they are evil. At least as evil as any publicly trading company has to be.
For data, see Figures 3a and 3b of http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/10/

The long term trend is decrease of 12.9% per decade. The steepest decline over 13 years is 1999 to 2012. There has been little decline over the 13 years 2007 to 2019.
The biggest advantage for me in using C is that the syntax never changes.

When I go look at a C code, I don't have to look up some annotation or new syntax that got introduced behind some abstraction that gets compiled in automatically after the library is pulled from the internet by whatever build system the project uses.
If this was reddit, I'd award gold for that comment. Only thing I can add is that one should only value paid experience, i.e. the person working a day job doing a banking app and a personal job of adding high quality code to a complex OSS project, well hell, they only know a banking app
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In my opinion, unless you need high speed backups, I would not worry about SSD. Rather, I would get several external USB3 drives and label them by day or week. Then alternate external drives to back up to. To keep multiple versions of files, you could use rsnapshot which is just a perl script that does some fancy linking of identical vs changed files to save space. [1] All drives fail, no matter how expensive they are. If you have multiple drives and multiple backups, then you can even store one offsite somewhere, just in case. There are plenty of free tools for each OS to do disk encryption on the USB3 drives.

[1] - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot
Gee, what was different about 1992 in Germany? Could it be ... absorbing East Germany?

He may not be an economist, but he excels at economic imbecility.
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No there was a time that Google was genuinely not evil and repeatedly limited their potential profit to act in what they felt was an appropriate manner. Granted that was many years ago now, but I can remember distinctly that change over because that's when I started to move away from them.
I get that, it's just the core human emotions behind it. Fighting against the thing your trying to help feels odd. "why should I care" is something I often think nowadays. And often you end up not caring about improvement but about the pleasure of being the winner for a while and stashing profits.
Agree, ads seem clearer than ever to me, the big bold "Ad" is more distinct to me than the previous treatment.
I used to use google search regularly to search for new websites with the types of things I am looking for. Now I hardly bother going to new websites unless somebody mentions it personally and I navigate to it directly.

I still do lots of image searches. I wonder if those are also heavily influenced by ads now.
Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s most ridiculously drawn mysteries

Seems like quite a snotty article tbh.

WikiHow's art has always reminded me of "How it Works" style children's books, it seems functional and clearly has made an impression in some quarters.

By all means shed some light on it if that's interesting; I don't see the need for the condescending attitude though.
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Apple and Google are competing over your health records–a $38B market
Whether there is anyone "responsible" is really rather irrelevant; fact of the matter is that just like how any invasive species can literally bring a thriving and divers ecosystem to a full collapse, so too will the very thing that drives the whole world's engine no longer be able to drive the whole world's engine if it is choked off.

I am actually way more interested in the insanity that leads to people simply not being able to comprehend basic things like cause and effect like this, than I am in the invariable outcomes it will have. It is purely magical and adolescent thinking, akin to the literal magical thinking that is well documented in various forms where some blessing or shamanic "force field" convinces people that somehow the laws of physics and reality will be negated and, e.g., bullets or enemies or diseases will not be able to bring harm. It's a kind of suicidal mania, regardless of even whether it is produced or some abnormality, let alone who produced it.

When you are trying to, e.g., cure cancer with the last ditch effort in hopes of a kind of pyrrhic victory through chemotherapy, what does it matter whether that cancer is from some 30 year old contact with asbestos or from getting a single sun burn last summer. Fact of the matter is that the cancer is real and it will kill you if you don't treat it and that means death, the end, snuffed out… only as it relates to this topic, it means the end for civilized humanity, civilizational collapse on the scale of the eastern Mediterranean bronze age civilization that was lost to history for thousands of years until rather recently.
I disconnect from my phone after 6pm or so and if while doing my crossword puzzle I need trivia answered or something spelled out I can ask my Nest Mini and get no bullshit answers most of the time without ads.
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I think you're asking rhetorically, but just in case:

1. Rust-the-language doesn't know anything about allocations, so strictly speaking, it cannot. Furthermore, without a GC, it's unclear how it could in the first place, given that a compaction would invalidate all pointers to that memory.

2. Certainly not to the same degree as the JVM, given that there's nothing inherently to inspect, like there is in languages with a runtime. You can instrument your own application, but that does mean doing the work yourself, and you only get as good of results as you put in in the first place.
Pretty much this. It's a bit of a PITA, but an easy work around.

Of course then you have a local backup on a hard drive which is itself subject to seizure and I believe even encrypted backups can be cracked.
It... doesn't really work
It's been observed that the German word for austerity - Sparpolitik - is quite a euphemism, and does a lot of work convincing people that it's a good idea to "save" money like this.
I don't necessarily think there's an agenda to most of these laws. It's Germans doing what they do best, overengineer in this case, laws.
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Honorary mention of Taco Bell Programming. (fits this genre).

http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...

Someone ought to write - Zen and the art of Unix tools usage.
He says, if the rate from 2007 holds up, the melt will happen faster than others predicted. He is not predicting that it will hold up or saying outright that the ice will melt by 2012. The rate from 2007 didn't hold up, which invalidates the rest of the comment.

Either way, you still manage to ignore the phrase "could be nearly ice-free", as that discredits your entire assumption that he predicted it would be ice-free in 2012.
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Ah, the eternal argument over what qualifies as "low-level". I think we can all agree it's not Javascript, but beyond that opinions vary greatly and it's mainly a semantic issue.
This is what Basecamp has been complaining about for a while now too [1]. They even testified in front of Congress about it [2].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/google-paid-search-ads-shake...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/technology/antitrust-hear...
You are misrepresenting the original (now unviewable) post. That is disgraceful
Japan is very successful if you look at their trade statistics and their products are often held in high esteem in regards to quality.

But the currency obviously helps Germany. Still, there are a lot of niche products where companies with around 300 employees can call themselves global market leaders. It is not just cars, although it is the largest industry and there are quite a few manufacturers.
The day before he died my father told a visitor "I just want to go".

I've no idea whether I'd feel like that or not, but consider that your guess as to how you'd feel is quite possibly only a guess.
Everybody defending Microsoft's actions is using some variation of "it's only a small ad for Office" but their Stockholm Syndrome is causing them to ignore that the word "ad" these days is a loaded term that also implies Microsoft is shipping your (WordPad) activity back to Microsoft to "improve user experience" and not just to tell you that Microsoft also happens to make software called Office, too. Get real.
All major* platforms.
0.02: I really didn't mind the change, I assumed it was meant to allow users to more easily identify "well-known" sites in the results: noticing a familiar icon is a lot easier than noticing a familiar URL. This seems potentially good for both users and sites? I guess it's bad for sites that are currently trying to build up their credibility and aren't yet "well-known"?

In retrospect, I'm sure blurring the lines between ads and search results was probably part of the motivation. But if they modified ads a bit more to further distinguish them and kept the favicons, I don't think I'd mind.
Lovely. This kind of article always ignites some obscure desire to become a professional writer, even though I would probably be crap at it :)
The studies are CO2 in the 500/1000/1500 and 600/1500/2500 ppm ranges, or 0.05-0.25 percent:

https://escholarship.org/content/qt6gm6t5zc/qt6gm6t5zc.pdf?t...

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037
Indeed AOO is not super-active, but in comparison to Wordpad development AOO is Tokyo.
Well, in writing terms, it seems to have worked for Ray Bradbury:

> The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.

From: https://lithub.com/ray-bradburys-greatest-writing-advice/

... incidentally, also Neil Gaiman's advice in the Masterclass lectures.

The reason it works so well for writing is, as Neil Gaiman points out, that if you work for a year on one story, you've probably practised starting a story 52 times. But you've still only practised finishing a story once. And getting into the habit of finishing things is one of the most important habits to get into.
First, I'm not saying this would've helped you (I don't know), it's just a story and perhaps someone who is like me gets inspiration from it :)

If I hadn't created three excellent mix tapes (that I still use to this day!) when I started running 10y ago, I might have ended up in your boat. I didn't care much for the running, but having a burn out meant I shouldn't be on the computer as much, and I didn't know what to do with the time. In the beginning I was having fun with how far into the mix I could get before running out of breath (I didn't sprint or anything, just no physical condition to speak of), and adding to the mix as I got further. At some point I decided perhaps I needed another mix with alternating running and walking parts[0]. I adjusted the BPM to my natural running gait. Added a little intro for when I leave the house to when I'm on the street. Everything was chosen with the idea that I wouldn't get bored during running, so it was a sequence of the "best", most uplifting, powerful parts of each track, each lasting about a minute (or 128 beats maybe). Between runs I kept optimizing the mixes for a while, improving the splice points and crossovers etc. Unfortunately I lost the original Ableton project files to a fire. Thankfully I had shared the mixes to friends, who could at least provide me with the mp3 renders.

One day I'm going to add a fourth mix :) But I don't use pirated software any more, and not being a professional musician I can't really justify the cost of buying Ableton (or Bitwig, which at least runs on Linux). Unfortunately I've found no other free (or cheap) software that comes close to the ease with which you can simply splice and beat-match audio clips. Or just navigating and zooming a large audio file. Audacity is there when you really need something done, but it's hardly a smooth workflow.

[0] it's as if psytrance and psydub were made for this, one is exactly half the BPM of the other!
"Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after release of 'National Treasure 2', starring Nicholas Cage"
This. I stopped reading when the author claimed the UK was the biggest exporter in 1993 and now it's not - well, duh: this country doesn't export low-margin widgets anymore, because it makes more money into high-margin services. A lot of those services are sold to... Germany.
> As someone who never much got into systems programming, Rust is a breath of fresh air.

I think that's part of the problem :) Because Rust looks high level it appeals to people used to high-level programming. But once you get into systems programming, the issues are different from high-level programming, and you're less happy to pay for features that solve other problems. What I'm saying is, obviously, a matter of taste, and some people doing low-level programming do prefer C++'s high-level feel, which is also found in Rust. I hope it goes without saying that just programming in Rust -- or C++ -- doesn't mean you're doing systems programming unless you're, say, writing a device driver, a kernel, a GC, a game framework etc.
> That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.

Self admittedly, I don't fly as frequently as I used to, but do they still put the model of plane you're flying on anywhere on the ticket?

How can someone go about making sure you're not flying on this specific model?
I assume the CEO will be on the first commercial 737 flight after its re-certified /s
> It is wrong to expect web backend programmers to deal with ownership, stack-vs-heap and all.

I am a web backend programmer. I respectfully disagree. I would much rather deal with ownerhip and related issues than deal with dynamic typing fallout. Unfortunately, I am stuck in Python land for some foreseeable future.

> But there's whole lot of java code and libraries out there.

That is true about every other popular language. Rust might not have the ecosystem, being a lot younger, but why would anyone pick Java out of all the other options?

As far as I can tell, the only two reasons people continue coding in Java are "We have an existing Java ecosystem, it is easier to continue doing what we have been doing than to switch" and "Java is what we know best and it is easier to use Java than to learn new technology stack".
Do you have a region set? I got an answer on the right from stackoverflow (don't know if it's the correct answer.)
Can you imagine trying to deal with that crap in an actual hot war when things are happening?
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Interesting that the labor culture in Germany relative to the rest of the EU is not mentioned at all. Germany is one of the strongest nations to be an industrial worker and has various laws that are pretty unique to the nation, such as co-determination, I believe this has acted as a defense vs. outsourcing (and when they do outsource, they go to high cost places such as the US) and has kept it's manufacturing base strong.
Because you often don't need anything else to deal with a surprisingly large class of tasks in IT.
It's a shame, but I don't see how this is a knock against Apple. They offer a basic service to backup your device on their infrastructure. If you want better/more you have to provide the infrastructure yourself, and they support several common permutations of suitable infrastructure. I think that's reasonable.
A company does care about things in that it has objectives.
I’m all for DIY, but this looks horribly underpowered to do anything against major pollution.

I’ve got a Honeywell that’s $150 and it must have 20-40x the throughput of this little thing.

https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/honeywell-1700...
If you have a computer available that can run iTunes, sure.
Google is not optimizing for the fewest number of ads. They are optimizing for profit from ads.
Releasing hundreds of open-source tools and donating protocols to standards bodies is really not what I would consider evil. The web is a thousand times better now than it was ten years ago.

And despite the frequent misinformation, "Don't be evil" has never once left their code of conduct.
Which is still dwarfed by everyone else's contribution to the web.
NEXP is nondeterministic exponential time, right? In that case we know that P /= EXPTIME by the time hierarchy theorem and EXPTIME is contained in NEXP. We also have a direct result that NP /= NEXP (reference given in https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo:N#nexp).
And his banking app was written in Java, so he's clearly unable to learn Scala or Groovy.
I like everything I see and read about rust but I'm unsure where I'd fit it into my work. Does rust have a future in areas like backend web development or mobile?
One of the things about training is that you shouldn't push yourself if you're under the weather or have other stuff going on.

It might be better for your narrative to be that you're only gonna walk and see how you feel.
2600 has an essay, "The Mysteries of the Hidden Internet", on this phenomenon in their autumn 2019 quarterly. It was quite a fun read! Check it out at Barnes and Noble. Or buy a copy (https://store.2600.com/products/autumn-2019).
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I used to use WordPress's PressThis plugin to bookmark anything interesting, I would add categories or tags but I ran into same issue as you.

But I haven't found anything better. I don't want to use a 3rd party closed-source apps, so it limits my options.
Firefox did very well for themselves when they made millions switch to Google. But it wasn't considered a big deal. Now doing the opposite is a big deal.