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The Chinese financial system is weak, as borrowers come under stress from a lack of business and can't pay and lenders pull back, the government will need to inject more and more liquidity into the system to get everyone to chill.

The direct linkages to the economy aren't the killer, it's that it's hitting at a time when the system's credit (immune) system is already not at it's strongest that worries policymakers.
>Food is not enough. People also want a purpose with their life

Lots of people know what they'd like to do with their lives which would be important for (some) 'other people'. But often, those pursuits are not likely to be highly profitable soon ... if ever. (Many, many famous creatives never got to enjoy their fame.)

Most of them will never be able to afford to (happily, creatively, eagerly) pursue what they'd prefer. Not when they must invest (unhappily, dully, compulsively) most of their energies keeping body-and-soul-together while helping others fulfill their dreams.

We can do better.
There are lots of people who intentionally don’t have children, me included. I don’t have much hope, if we continue treating Mother Earth as garbage.

That said, your parent comment probably meant “our” grand children, just a guess.
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Negative interest rates have other major problems - that are worse than a liquidity shortage.
> This might be similar, but I see zero chance of Xi's power taking a hit

Xi's behavior does not strike me as that of someone who is as confident as you. Consider how he throws a tantrum at the mere suggestion that Taiwan may be an independent country.
So really, how bad is this? Per article less than 400 people have died in the country with over a billion people.
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> apps have mostly settled into a comfortable state of "good enough" mediocrity.

Almost all of the “major” popular apps are mediocre, with simple bugs and missing functionality or bad design for years, despite user complaints and requests. Maps, Translate, Skype, WhatsApp, Instagram, Instagram, Discord, Tinder, OKCupid, and even most of Apple’s own stuff. It’s like they fired all but one developer after they became popular.
I have not listened to the podcast, but the example regarding entity pointers not outliving the frame would be something Rust is really good at.

The borrow checker can make sure that references to entities are strictly contained within the lifetime of a frame container and statically check that aspect.

> Because what’s an entity pointer vs a pointer to something else? The compiler doesn’t know that

Rusts compiler can know the difference and it can check lifetimes around that. Lifetimes can be made part of the type
of the pointer.
No doubt. I'm not questioning the value... even one lane is better than SATA2... just the ability to actually get hands on a part that fits into this adapter.

I think the mod would be much better if there were a way to have it protrude out of the laptop with a 2280 form factor drive, so that more parts would be usable in it.
AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language
For me the fallacy lies in two parts:

- my standard cup of coffee is not 5$. It’s a free perk on the job, coffee I drink at home and buy in bulk so I don’t think in terms of cups, or a 2€ expresso I buy to sit in some warm place waiting for someone or to use the toilets.

In particular for the last instance, it’s a cost I won’t skip because I bought some service online at the same price. I’d pay the 5$ service in top of my coffee.

- coffee I really want to pay for at 5~10€/$ is extremely good and comes from a specialized place that invests a lot in making good coffee and providing a place to enjoy it. It’s of tremendous value and not something I get from random starting services. TBH I’d value it more than a third backup of my photos through dropbox for instance.
I think the scariest part of UBI for me is, that it attempts to have an universal solution that’s acceptable for everyone regardless of social status, productivity, freeloader tendencies, etc and the fact that this is a Pandora’s Box. We don’t know what we are going to get, and we can’t reverse it once it is out.
If you really don’t like subscriptions, then people who are considering how to pitch their SaaS services probably shouldn’t put too much weight on your opinion...

Not to be rude — just pointing out that feedback from someone who is highly unlikely to purchase a type of product is less relevant.

For the record, I also don’t like subscriptions, and I probably put too much weight on my distaste when pricing my startup's products.
CoreBoot port to Rust, started by Ron Minnich.

https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot

Userspace in Go for Core Boot/OreBoot, also started by Ron Minnich.

http://u-root.tk/

Similar effort for the PI,

https://gokrazy.org/

F-Secure Go's bare metal implementation, https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/tamago

For OCaml, there is https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/.

And then all the utilities that come out from MirageOS and Xen projects.
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Quite literally the next line in the exact same paragraph with links and instructions.

> Links to the Intel Microcode update for the supported versions of Windows can be found below:

And then right after the links, suggestions on what you should do ( I guess it's not specific to software developers, but I somehow doubt it matters that much unless you are in HPC)

> While we highly recommend that users install new Microcode updates, it should be noted that previous updates have caused performance issues on older CPUs or system hangs in the past due to how they mitigated vulnerabilities.
Wonderful quote! How do you get more figs in the tree?
As in, how to discover possibilities you haven't thought of, and the tree has only 2-3 figs now, none amazing?
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Why do you think I mentioned New Jersey style implementation?

Google and Microsoft are the ones driving that effort, in what concerns C++.

That vapourware is quite welcomed when using DriverKit, Unreal, COM/UWP, Project Treble drivers,..
I seem to recall there was a similar article about psilocybin on HN just a few days ago.

While there certainly might be some therapeutic use for psychedelics, they are a very unpredictable instrument. I think this recently re-emerging trend of attributing them with almost magical cure-all qualities is risky at best.

You might certainly have a blissful, life-altering experience with a prolonged positive afterglow, but you could also end up in a hellish, confused world of angst and terror for what seems like an eternity, and feel excruciatingly hollow for weeks or months afterwards. The latter can of course be devastating to someone suffering from depression, anxiety or other psychological ailments.
Would be probably a physicist, doctor or lawyer
Ask HN: How has automation helped web browsing easier for you?
as an example, whenever you click on a link in Evernote, it opens up a new tab with a message saying "You are leaving Evernote" and you have to manually click "Continue". But this can be easily automated by a TemperMonkey script which clicks on "Continue" automatically.

Or as another example, using CVim has greatly enhanced my web surfing and productivity. I don't know why it's not enabled by default on browsers.

I was wondering, in what ways have you found scripts or automation tasks to help you have a happier web browsing?
2016 was supposed to be the year the bubble crashes. "They" also said their would be a double dip in 2012. I've heard so many doom and gloom predictions in the past - but the one thing they all have in common is a complete lack of specifics.

WHAT is going to cause the crash? Which industry has a fundamental imbalance? It's always just some vague notion that "something" isn't right.
If an owner of the business cannot afford or won't frivolously spend $5/day on a coffee, he or she won't spend money on a SaaS feature that he or she can get for free. Even if he would, to get $500/mo the SaaS would need to find one hundred of such owners.

If SaaS is to price its service at $100/mo, then people for whom extra $5.00/day is a big deal won't be looking at this service at all, won't be contacting the owner about implementing yet another feature, etc. To get to $500/mo revenue, SaaS would need to find 5 owners.
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> Which is not to say that it's not a bad thing, just that it's not in any way unique to China, or even to non-democracies.

You would have a point if the debate was about the relative moral standing of China. It's not, as much as the Communist Party wants to call opponents racist or anti-Chinese which is pure deflection. From an objective point of view, Communist China's authoritarianism is putting the whole world at risk.
About his new book:

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Computational-Explorer-Ste...
The most important thing to remember here is that we have ZERO idea how many people are truly infected in China.

The Chinese gov't is publishing totally unreliable numbers on "confirmed". ...but the fact that confirmed cases are popping up all around the world, there is ZERO chance that the true number of infected people is 15,000 in China.

That just doesn't make sense statistically.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-rumsfeld-says-2-3-...
> Without prefetching, a MODERN processor will NOT "stall" on the load instruction. A modern processor will execute out-of-order, branch predict the next iteration (its an inner loop, so its probably always taken), and then effectively achieve the same throughput anyway.

It's a hash-table insertion. That's usually poorly predictable.

The post explicitly talks about out of order execution, and why it's of limited help here. See the second "Hypothesis" paragraph. And then talks about how to change the code to allow to utilize out of order execution.
Common scenario: I’m somewhere unfamiliar, going home, and I need to be home at a certain time. Once I’m on the freeway I no longer need the navigation, but I still want the en route traffic info and ETA.
I am a vegetarian and I don’t have much idea about how much meat one should have, health wise.

What is very clear is that eating meat has a massive bad influence on the environment.

Majority of crops grown are for animals not humans. These animals then become hamburgers and such. The amount of energy it takes to kill, process, transport, refrigerate etc is mind boggling. Not to mention pollution.

For this reason alone, it would make sense to eat less meat, if not quit.
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ripgrep author here.

When you want to search TBs of data, then you have to ask: what do you need to do? If you only need to search the data set once for a single query, then ripgrep (or similar) is probably your shortest path in terms of end-to-end time to get your results.

If you however want to run many queries against an unchanging or growing data set at this scale, then I think you probably want to find some way to index it before hand. Tools like SOLR or Elasticsearch are fairly standard and shouldn't cost you too much in terms of learning how to use them. You can perhaps go faster than Elasticsearch/SOLR/Lucene if there is something special about your problem that permits you to design a custom indexing strategy. But that requires knowing more about your search goals and also costs more to develop (probably).

Otherwise, if you're willing to pay, then spin up a bunch of machines with lots of RAM and partition the data set such that each partition fits in memory of a single machine. Then parallelize your search. (This is probably a middle ground between grepping the whole thing on a single machine and using something like fulltext indexing.)
Reminds me a conversation I had few days ago with a conspiracy theorist talking about who China government developed this virus and released it accidentally...I was telling that theorist about the economical disaster that China would be faced could actually lead them to hardcore scenarios. Here's the first major hits that busted every conspiracy theory. China is actually bleeding right now.
That works through the menu system, so any app that uses the standard menubar can have shortcuts reassigned. It works well, but it comes with the downside that the shortcuts are not global.
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You have other uses for hydrogen than using it to produce electricity: You can use it as the reducing gas in steel making. Right now coal is used.
They've also got the prototype ERNIE mark 1 at the National Museum of Computing[0], next to the Colossus[1] (the first programmable digital computer) given it was designed by some of the same team very shortly afterwards.

[0] https://www.tnmoc.org/notes-from-the-museum/2019/4/18/honour...

[1] https://www.tnmoc.org/colossus
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China is currently fighting 7 wars

1.) internal political war between xi jing ping of the old guards and the moderates. Check sinoinsider if you wish to know more.

2.) internal provincial wars with Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong.

3.) conflicts with immediate neighbors over the south sea and other illegitimate claims, including Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Philippines.

4.) trade wars with South Korea, japan, US, and Europe. More and more factories are shutting down in China in favor of other countries

5.) debt war to derisk 400 percent Debt to GDP in consumer, corporate and government debts. This economic shutdown will at a minimum take 3% off of China’s proclaimed 6% gdp growth

6.) globalism vs populism as Americans realized they have lost 1.6 million jobs to China since 1990.

7.) health wars with the recent pig flu, Wuhan flu and now bird flu

One must realize that China is losing ALL of these wars currently. The finances, social fabrics, and public anger (check Chinese netizens fight over Wuhan) are stretched to the limit. It’s only a matter of time
From what I read Mozilla fired one or more Rust developers related to the JIT or the interpreter and IMO the JIT should have been the first thing rewritten in Rust since that is one of the components that run arbitrary code. I really hope they can finish the port and I can't wait to see how many zero days will it have.
Cloudfare wants me to solve a capcha to access the site (firefox). Amazingly, if I turn off ublock origin, the capcha solves itself.
I really like this idea. I’ve been messing around with the z3 theorem prover, and while I don’t think there’s an easy way to integrate it to do compile-time checks, I made a little wrapper class that lets you add assertions which are checked for satisfiability at the end of a function’s scope. But it’s all at runtime, so it’s more like a more advanced assert() than anything like Jai or Rust has.

I think SMT solvers are criminally under used and have a lot of potential to help solve some of the issues in a way that still allows rapid iteration at first and then incremental safety checks to be added on later.
Thanks, TIL. For those like me who paused at R₀ (r-naught), quote from wiki[1]:

> R-naught is the average number of people infected from one other person, for example, Ebola has an r-naught of two, so on average, a person who has Ebola will pass it on to two other people.

See “Limitations of R₀” too: when solely derived from math models, “values [of R₀] should be used with caution” and “this severely limits its usefulness.”.

As I understand, take it for what it is: model not gospel.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
I definitely relate to the anxiety, but like I said, I've learned over time to control it. Much like stage fright (which I definitely have), I guess it's a situation where you can learn to operate. They are similar in that, other participants want you to succeed and are not judging you as much as you judge yourself. I think what I have learned is that, the less I judge others (on stage, or on the road) and the more empathetic and understanding I am, the less I am worried about others judging me.
Indeed, knowing what it is that is important to you may be the most important feature of your philosophy of life, and discerning this is difficult. But all we can do is try our best to figure it out and realize that time is not wasted if it is spent purposefully.
I greatly prefer the longer lasting psychedelics — a six hour mushroom trip feels a bit rushed for me. I have a theory that a large part of the benefit of psychedelics is taking some time, attention, and intention into the health of your own psyche. This isn’t to say that a psychedelic can be replaced with a placebo, but to say that you can also obtain many of the same benefits from many all day mental self care activities. The combined effects of the drug, time, intention and attention are really powerful.

I’m also concerned with the commercialization of psychedelics, and that we may lose something important as it becomes a common commodity. Shorter trips feels like something more easily commercialized with higher user turnover.

YMMV and all effects vary between individuals.
I'm not saying static analysis is a complete solution, just that Annex K doesn't actually function without it. I.e., any criticism you want to leverage at static analysis also applies to Annex K.

(The compiler is one form of static analysis that users can't really get away from, though. Users can turn all the warnings off, but only the extremely novice or foolhardy do so.)

I agree letting Annex K hang out optionally in the standard isn't especially useful; in its current form it should be removed. It isn't clear how it would be "fixed" without being something completely different from Annex K. Unfortunately, C hasn't had an actual language update since C11; C18 was just a clarification and errata incorporation update. The C2x committee is in progress but hasn't yet made any binding decisions on formal language changes, AFAIK.

I don't know that 3rd party binary dependencies are heavily used in corporate environments. I find that a little difficult to believe. I work in an enterprise environment with a huge codebase and we have no 3rd party binary libraries. We have a number of 3rd party open source or NDA source libraries, but we can and do use static analysis on them. It would be impossible to get to the kind of reliability numbers essential to our business with unauditable, unfixable 3rd party code in our product.

WG 14 don't view bounded string copying as some core part of the language, I think. The C standard is about providing a minimal definition of a portable abstract machine; this leaves implementors or more concrete standards, like POSIX, free to provide their own safe abstractions. Quite a lot of the C standard library is sort of legacy accidents that might not be put in the standard language again if reinvented today. But there is obviously a lot of motivation to retain backwards compatibility.
It might well be cheaper when starting from scratch, but it’s also useful to be able to keep using existing equipment that has been built to burn gases. I don’t know how useful — it’s certainly possible it’s better to build batteries than to e.g. make hydrogen, turn that hydrogen into methane, and use that methane in existing gas plants, but I can also believe the hydrogen route might scale up faster than batteries and therefore be a decent stop-gap measure while we build enough battery-building factories.

Plus it’s always a good strategic idea to not have a single point of failure in the event of e.g. an export ban of some important input to the battery manufacture from some country you have a trade dispute with.
> I'm not saying the Chinese government doesn't have problems, nor am I saying free speech is bad, but I have no idea how you could come to this conclusion that free speech would somehow limit the spread of this disease.

In this particular instance, early warning would have gained precious days if not weeks to study and respond to the disease. In an emergency, every second counts, but the saving face mentality of the Communist Party cost weeks.

> We have free speech in the US and that's literally led to the rise of anti inoculation advocacy.

Even if you were right, that would have absolutely no bearing on the situation at hand.
Nuclear power is too expensive compared to solar and wind power these days.
Exactly ! If the problem is Climate Change (and thus CO_2 production), why would you, in your sane mind, shut down nuclear power ? It's the best method to produce electricity with the less grams of CO2 per kwh..
In fact the levees were designed to survive a Katrina-sized storm, but of course never had to prove they could, until they failed. What's also funny is for a bunch of engineers and software developers to expect the govt to enact a system that is impossible to really test, and just have it work smoothly when needed.

Rich cities in california were also a dysfunctional mess dealing with fires. It was only when the same problem happened in the same places in subsequent years that they had a reasonably solid plan together and working.
This is super interesting, reading the comments you can easily see the sentiment steadily getting less hostile to Poetterings ideas.

I guess the only thing you need is total control of all major distros to change sentiment.
This website provides daily updates on the spread of the virus: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
The absurdity of an “essential price”... essential to what, class?
This is a pretty cool hack. I can see neighborhood watch groups using it to keep Waze from routing people down their streets during rush hour.

It is also a nice demonstration of how people who understand automation can "work the system" in ways that people who don't understand automation cannot.
The cup-of-coffee pricing does make sense. It's not for everyone, there are folks who drink coffee at least 5x a week by paying for it. Those sort of statements are targeted to them. However the fundamental flaw is that in that thinking is with software, someone might just show up and offer free software, we don't see the same with coffee. What makes B2C software hard to sell today is the free apps. Consumer's are now price sensitive to useful apps and most companies think they can make it with ads.
> Are there any government whose narrative you trust?

I can only speak for my country (France), but the precedent of the AIDS epidemic and particularly that of contaminated blood transfusion makes it pretty clear that any government official caught having lied in such a situation would be in deep trouble. And I'm pretty sure they're all keenly aware of that.
Of course, troubleshooting without a schematic is also an important skill. It is often done for laptops (which often don't have schematics, and the only ones available are leaks) as well as other consumer electronics.

The idea that it somehow stops competitors from copying the product is very weak; it's easy enough to reverse-engineer a design, and there are entire companies whose existence is solely to provide such services.
Yep, of course!

TIC-80 is very well done, but it's a more constrained system (intentionally so).

DOME was meant to be the foundation for larger projects :)
I've seen file_id.diz before, but any insight as to what 'DIZ' is? I can figure out what, e.g. an .nfo file is, but I'm having trouble with .diz.
I’m specifically talking about when it was obvious that state and local authorities had failed/were overwhelmed, the days and days and weeks before a useful federal response came. I’m imagining how it would go down if not one city but dozens to hundreds were affected by an asteroid or nuclear attack. I imagine total chaos.
>being run by the same people

Not true. They're gone as of a year or two ago. Ironically, they're at Intel.