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The major features are: Python like syntax, Lisp like macro system, potential for C like performance (YMMV of course).

This is my person opinion here:
Nim is part of the "new generation of system programming languages" from the last decade or so. Some other examples in this category include Zig, D lang, Go lang, Swift, Rust, etc...

The whole idea is to provide "modern high level" language features and ergonomics while still producing efficient low level code.

For Pythonistas, The familiar syntax is attractive to Python programmers looking for a more performant language (data science is a prime example.)

Nim is also attractive to lispers looking to move to a more traditional Algol or C like language while still keeping much of power and flexibility that they are used to from macros.
I didn't mean to imply that is was.
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Has anyone heard of any discussion of Microsoft resuming and extending security patches for Windows 7 due to CV19? I know of many individuals and businesses who were in the process of upgrading to Windows 10 early this year but have since put these on hold. While it was probably fairly low risk to run unsupported Windows 7 into February or early March we are reaching the point were it would be unwise to continue without patches. The shutdown has made it difficult to resume the upgrading to Windows 10 so perhaps Microsoft should resume patching temporarily.
Yet it is probably the easiest and most "just works" solution to self host conferencing.

Of course if you don't selfhost anything it's not option for you.
Security: those apps are sandboxed and also cleaner to de/install. Otherwise it’s mostly MS trying hard to make its store relevant.
Given the efforts behind https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor I would say it is the WebAssembly based .NET runtime that counts in the long run.
You seem to be complaining of a double standard while possibly engaging in one.

Many of my progressive friends have complained loudly when companies keep cash. After all, if they can save they can pay workers more or pay more taxes... after all, a company flush with cash must be putting profits ahead of people and damn those greedy capitalists and all that... The truth is many businesses live a pretty thin margins (mine included) and those that can keep large cash reserves (like Apple) are probably best positioned to weather this storm.

Having said that, even though I sympathize with these businesses, I certainly don't believe they should be bailed out either. The fact is there are many incentives to spend cash and not save. This is true for individuals and businesses.
The phrasing you've chosen ("degraded performance") is purposefully vague in order to move the goal posts. Please don't do that.

We're specifically talking about lower CPU clocking. Now, are you claiming to have known that Apple was throttling Phones with aging batteries before the rest of the world? Because well, that's a pretty amazing feat.
I think the logic is that banks can much more rapidly deploy money than can the government (see estimates on the regular stimulus check timeline).

The issue for the banks isn't that the loans will be forgiven, that's fine, they still get an origination fee; the issue is they're liable for validating the info you provide on the application, whereby if there's an issue your loan may in fact not get forgiven, and they're stuck with it.

So you're exactly right, if you already have accounts with the right banks, it's easy enough for them to verify and process the loan. But if you're an outsider, it's much harder.
We could also compare them this way: these days, HN averages 1500 submissions and 10000 comments (or so) per day. Does anyone with Reddit datamining fu know what percentile that would be for a subreddit? How many such subreddits are there? What are some examples?

Of course there are assumptions involved in mapping that to userbase size or whatever, but it would still be interesting.
Oh yeah, the game was amazing in what it did with limited resources, but once you started pushing it, plenty of interesting bugs surfaced.

Another fun one was trains drive 1 pixel of the rails before turning around. So if an opponent has a huge profit making railway station, you place one rail of your own at the end and stop a train just before it turns around. Next time his trains come around, he crashes into yours and boom goes the money maker.

And then there was the fact that a train cant collide with itself. If it is long enough you can push it through itself at a crossing.

There were others, but that's all I remember.
My argument is that restaurant demand was cratering before the government mandates and the businesses were already doomed at that point. Same thing with conferences and the event business. And air travel. Hotels. Etc... The people putting these policies in place are reacting to the disease, but the fault lies with the disease, not the people.

So then we're balancing "the economy is quite fucked anyway, so might as well try to save as many lives as possible" against "some people are going to die anyway, might as well try to save as much of the economy as possible."
Or hiring people solely based on Leetcoding interviews. Seriously, every interview I've had in the last decade focused on algorithms/data structures but it was very rare to get any questions on security. This applies to startups and larger enterprise companies alike.
I tried and i don't think its easily possible.
So, i'm not sure why this is needed... is it a workaround for some limitation with MSIX? Is it only for windows store/UWP/whatever-it-is-called-nowadays apps? Or it is usable by a regular Win32 desktop .exe (so, can i for example use it via Lazarus/Free Pascal by loading some API from a DLL?) and if so in what scenario?

From the description it sounds like this is for something like, e.g., some Java application appearing as something else than javaw.exe in task manager.

Let's say i'm making some sort of scripting language (which sounds like what is being described there) that is distributed from my web site as an installer made with -e.g.- InnoSetup or NSIS that registers .mylang to be launched with mylangparser.exe (or whatever)... how am i supposed to use this (especially if the parser isn't written in C or C++ but in Free Pascal or D or Rust or any other language that isn't C or C++ but still has the ability to call C calls via DLLs) and for what reason? Or am i not supposed to use this?
With what banks will you start in Colombia? How will the flow be for users that need to login with a token[0]? (6 digit code that changes every 60 secs). Others banks ask you to recognized an image you selected before.

[0] https://static.iris.net.co/dinero/upload/images/2009/10/1/84...
Installing one's own server seems horribly complicated on non-Debian-based distributions.
Empathy is precisely what Amazon and people arguing in favor of Amazon are lacking.
I think this is great. Thanks! I'm new to jitsi, so is this audio only or can you get a video to work as well? Lots of interesting things. Great work.
....so your argument us to hope an adversary only sees part of your video and not all of it?
No, I haven't thought about it, but it makes sense to also provide a video. I'll probably do that tomorrow and link the video in the README.

The engine comes with a tiny demo, mainly showing off reflection and refraction. At this point we don't have any binaries available online as most people interested in this project are typically developers. Building it is comparatively easy, just follow the guide referenced in the README.
Y’all do realize that private equity portfolio companies include every single YC and venture-backed startup, right?
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"the understanding" ought to be that the incident review isn't done.
Unless you are a user who wants to snapshot the screen or copy/paste between different applications :-P.

(though i guess you were sarcastic :-P)
>if you are shifting to a consumption tax, you would not have a loss.

Isn't that just a matter of accounting? If you're going to give people free money, then tax them on it, it's equivalent to simply giving them less free money. In the end you're still taxing the working people.
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Ooof never before have I instantly lost 3 hours from one HN link. Awesome blast from the past!
I wish anyone would listen :-(
You should target a different elite for "not helping the average family feed itself" than gates. Actually, he's more altruistic than that. He helps out the dirt poor African farmers who are far more screwed than Americans are.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/...

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/...

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844632,00...

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/uk-aid-partners-gates-fou...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/gates-fund...
Haven't seen them yet. Please point me to the valid points worth considering. Thanks in advance
Sure, and I'm with you as far as that goes. But if that's what you meant it's a very strange response to the original comment. It's true that government bailouts wouldn't happen if the government were still run by a landed aristocracy that distrusts merchants, but I don't know if that's tremendously relevant to an analysis of actions in 2020.
Title of news article has since been changed to: "Bank of America says 85,000 small businesses have asked for $22.2 billion in loans since 9 a.m."
How did you find Promare? There were a few shots that I found a little jarring but I thought they did a good job of liberally making the frames more sparse.
We can’t act on that possibility without data.
Only if you ignore that the Uber app, its customer base, its billing system, and everything else attached to the Uber system is owned by... Uber and its investors.

Are you saying because they (maybe barely, if at all) own the car, they are capitalists?

Anyways, Marx isn't scripture. Just a dude with some interesting writing some of us find cogent still. Marx himself would have bristled at being treated as some sort of biblical style authority. Of course it needs adaptations. But maybe not the ones you are suggesting.
>> What if there are some things where scientific objectivity and scientific method breaks down, and is incapable of exploring?

> Then that's a thing you can demonstrate.

Then you are more clever than I am. I have no idea how to test some of this stuff, let alone do it with double-blind study.

It isn't as if science is incomprehensible to me. I understand and apply the scientific method, have run experiments. I also know its limits.

Part of it is that the most reliable instrument for this stuff is the consciousness itself. What is under observation changes when it is observed, and more troublesome (from the perspective of trying explore this scientifically), is that the observer is also changed by the observed.

Some of the phenomena won't happen if there is too much disbelief in it.

Do you have any ideas on how to experiment with stuff like this?

About the only time that gets interesting is when a life-long skeptic have some parts of their consciousness wake up, and now they are trying to figure out what is wrong with them. They were not looking for this stuff -- far from it. And here they are, finding themselves with these phenomena, inducing a lot of cognitive dissonance. When I have encountered someone like that, I point out resources for them to read. They are free to test and verify it for themselves. It works for them because they are capable of verifying it for themselves.

Everyone else have to start from scratch with things like meditation and yoga. And that is going to depend upon the teacher, quality of teaching, the transmission, and how you practice.

A good example is the standing meditation from Taoist traditions. One of the early stages of the phenomena are spontaneous movements in the bowels, or spontaneous movements of the limbs triggered from the early stages of movement of subtle energy. It tends to freak people out, because it is not something that is so easily attributable to internal experience.

The problem is that reliably being able to get to that point to experience for yourself requires dedicated training. A lot of groups might think 1 hr standing meditation is a kind of holy grail of practice ... but I know of one group that drops beginners into 6 hr sessions. It is a huge investment of time, for both student and teacher. Complicating that even further is that there is quite a bit of fraud and abuse aimed at conning people.
I know that you know this is a stupid point that can only be reached by reading Marx in the most obtuse way possible.
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In the absence of information there is abundant speculation.

I remember Trump’s “parade of CEOs” speech, and how it was a glaring attempt to goose the market at the end of the week. Nothing of substance was announced, but the market shot up 10%. Pure speculation.

The music will stop playing when Q1 earnings are released and then we’ll see a stampede for the exits.
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How does KCP compare to QUIC?
A lot of businesses are very low margin and that’s ok.
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While I would agree that most people don't think this way, the relatively few people that occupy executive level positions certainly do. Haven't you ever wondered why sociopaths are over-represented in positions of power and authority?
I'm baffled that, even with the horrible rep Facebook has, they somehow decided to put "from Facebook" splash screens into both WhatsApp and Instagram. Why? What possible benefit could it have? Most people already know who owns the services but now anybody who opens the app is faced with it. If anything, it should just make people reluctant to use the apps, surely.
It is easier for Zoom to apologize and fix than for zoom to have no customers but a solid stack.
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Then this is all pointless because it will take years to retrofit everything with that level of testing and tracing and make it useful in some way as well as enforcing isolation. We might as well open up and suffer the consequences until we have herd immunity even if that means a lot of deaths.
The companies they are now are not the same they were in 2017. They have a lot more knowledge, capital, etc.

i.e. Would you say Tesla is more or less capable of building cars today than they were in 2017?
I work for a company currently hiring a data engineer (100% remote):

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First, RoR doesn't have anything to do with engagement or even difficulty of the game. Second, Picketty's argument is not even close to "RoR increases with money", it's that return on capital outpaces economic growth, that's it.

If that were to be manifested in a game, there would be no "management phase" at all. You would just buy stocks and collect returns from them faster than other players could get money from actual business ventures.
> extend financing seems like it'd be very related to a company's capital structure and leverage

This seems intuitively appealing, but is misleading. The Nobel-prize winning work of the Modigliani-Miller Theorem[1] that a firm's capital or leverage ratio does not prima facie have any impact on its weighted-average cost of capital.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani–Miller_theorem
I believe that it has been important to HN's evolution that the (full-time) moderators and programmers have always been the same people, and that we should preserve that invariant.
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Frankly, Cisco can post whatever they like I will not give them any more money. You are certainly right that I was disingenuous and I do not care what they do with Webex. My link was cherry picked from their press release for encryption in Webex that I though it was funny that that link would 404.

Good job discrediting my post though. It's not like Cisco basically told everybody in a KB that if you want to use the same features Zoom provides (or a Linux client, or desktop sharing or breakout rooms or audio transcription or waiting rooms or...) you would have to give up every encryption feature Webex provides. But I assume you are a seasoned Webex admin and can provide us some insight into why you are using webex in contrast any other solution. Or you are trolling, whatever.
Everything is available, but not necessarily economically available to the poor. It has definitely changed in the past 50years — notably the buying power has gone down massively because wages have not kept up with rent/healthcare/education.

You need to save somewhere. If you don’t pay rent you become homeless so you focus on less acute cuts — like substituting bread and cereals for salad, etc.

Eating is easy in the US, eating nutritiously is harder if you are on a limited budget.
That’s a clever folksy outlook but the real world doesn’t work like that. Businesses take inputs and produce outputs. They’re not in the business of having 6 months of savings.
Have you been able to disprove that mind is fundemental?
I cannot reproduce this on 10.15.3
Interesting to see Nvidia willingly working on what for a while seemed like an open source platform that was really only being pushed for by AMD.
Sure, but its not free. In the best of cases that means that everyone elses capital/income is diminished in this grand-national subsidy from A to B.

If you give income to a coffee shop that sells no coffee anymore you are spending your coffee money without getting coffee.
"Roll your own" is such a oversimplification.

Usually it is: I can spend all this time making things right, or bob here knows how to do this other simple way that is good enough in a week.
It seems really weird to me that this post doesn't address what aspects of real-time multiplayer gaming need a reliable transport. The idea of a low-latency reliable transport might seem interesting, but client-server communication generally doesn't require a reliable transport because there's no point in delivering outdated data. From what I can tell, it's because SpatialOS is supposed to support server-side simulation and support splitting that work across multiple game servers. Quite niche IMO.
It's closer to a macOS bundle than a single script with '#!'. It's at a higher level of abstraction than linking a single script file to an executable.

It would let you build, say, a Ruby interpreter which declares itself as a host, and then package a Ruby application that makes use of the interpreter, including its libraries, native code extensions, and all the related assets.

The Ruby application would behave like a native application, with its own identity in the Start Menu/Task Manager and its own sandbox/entitlements. The Ruby interpreter and the packaged applications would appear separately in the uninstaller list in Settings, and presumably could be distributed via the Microsoft Store walled garden.

The whole 'Windows app model' concept is about bringing something close to the "one icon = one app" experience from mobile to Windows, instead of depending on heuristics or uninstallers to figure out which set of files/processes are part of a single "app" from the user's point of view. This is an extension to that model.
Better than JavaScript.
I am enjoying the comment section here just as much as the article. Not many here will pull more comments than points. I cant see the word "Reiki" without hearing "URAMESHI!"

To me, most new-age medicine is an exercise in low grade mental programming. By forming and guiding behavior under close supervision, positive reinforcement helps to remake harmful neural short-circuits. By giving your treatment a name, a method, and a history, you are creating a corrective program that is then delicately implanted in the patient, then activated in the physical sessions. If coercive brainwashing and mind-control is black magic, what these people and other similar healers do can best be called white magic. Braincleaning.
In the article, they especially note that these treatments are effective on problems that cannot be fixed with surgery or medicine, thus are almost totally in the mind. There is such a thing as psychosomatic illness, and the nervous system doesnt end at the spinal cord. Your muscles have a simple, low-level form of memory in the patterns of nerves and motor neurons, and this extends throughout the body. Sometimes these systems get badly imbalanced, and the body's failsafe mechanisms, the sympathetic, parasympathetic, lymphatic and immune systems cannot correct it. Rolfing, chiropractice, and massage techniques act physically on this system to reset muscles and nerves, putting them back into line. By combining a physical regime with psychological correction, you can clear the nervous system of stubborn low-grade problems.

True, in a double-blind experimental setup, it may be difficult or impossible to reproduce the results. This is because the results hinge on a relationship between patient and practitioner, the experimental setup tends to nullify the methods that this relationship advances on. Its programming, brainwashing, but to benefit the person; not just turning them into a cultist.