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I am sorry to tell this but the C programming language doesn't need anymore
the ISO committee since it introduced non de facto standard features such
as VLA.

For reference I still use The C Programming Language by KERNIGHAN/RITCHIE
and The Standard C Library by PLAUGER.

In my view what programmers need the most is good practices rather than any
syntactic sugar.

I prefer C rather than any other programming language for its conciseness.

There is opportunities for any new programming language to replace C if it
is at least backward compatible with K&R C SE (aka ISO C90) and provides a
portable access to de facto standard hardware acceleration such as SIMD
instructions for vector computing.

For now we have to write in assembly language SIMD optimized libraries in
order to get the full calculation power of modern processors.

For programmers who expect C to bring them a hot drink, I would recommend
them to stick with the bloated C++ framework which sometimes enlarges your
p*s. :-P
It’s a default specifically when you have no evidence to replace the existing theory. Flat earth fails on evidence, radiation threshold fails for lack of evidence to support it over an older theory. It’s a very different situation.

It’s known that it takes multiple mutations to get cancer, but people are constantly getting cancer thus there must exist people that have almost gotten cancer and will get it from a single unlucky photon in a specific location. And other people who will get every other mutation eventually.

Thus from all known evidence we have the minimum threshold for extra radiation causing cancer and everything else being equal is exactly one photon. Calculating specific odds is much more difficult, but any theory that has some radiation level as absolutely safe is wrong.

That’s not to say it’s a pure linear relationship, but the slope can’t be zero.

Note, I am not saying a linear model is accurate and I doubt it is. But the threshold has both massive theoretical issues and zero direct support. Putting it next to string theory as an interesting theory, but completely untested science.
Oh yeah... they probably don't have one of those.
Seems to be heavily...Russian? Ukrainian? Not that I mind, but I wish there was a universal language for code comments :-)
32 bits is plenty to effectively break ASLR or significantly weaken a cryptographic key.
That’s because worldometer data is community reported. This data comes from the states (mostly):

https://covidtracking.com/
I know next to no one who ever uses "Stocks" to pay for everyday costs of raising a family or just getting by. I am aware that, yes, retirees stand to lose a lot; which is tragic, and also why I downright disagree with the idea of privatized retirement accounts based on held and sold equity based on the assumption that growth will always occur. In fact, the architecture of such a system is the driving force in the propagation of cross-generational fiscal inequality, and will inevitably result in a slow inexorable trickle up without an active mechanism in place to ensure that wages grow by the same factor that technology obviate the need to have someone do a job. In a crisis, someone is inevitably left with the empty bag as things spiral.

That said; the economy taking a dive is preferential to the population doing the same. There will always be work to be done as long as we wake up every day; and the trick is figuring out how to adapt to new circumstances to get that done.

For instance, now would be a fantastic time to train additional medical personnel or build additional infrastructure for them. Research efforts into mitigating the pandemic are also highly desirable. Logistics solutions to enable financial compensation and product dispatch from community kitchens restauraunts, etc without necessitating physical congregation are sure bets, and just about anything that isn't dependent on getting a bunch of people all in the same place at the same time is also good.

The economy is perfectly fine if you don't assume there is an implicit guarantee that the same endeavors that were profitable yesterday must remain so always. What we're experiencing is an economic record scratch and pivot.

Perhaps for a while most actual economic transactions will be centered on "because it needed to be done, and the government is subsidizing everything until we can find a way to get private enterprise running freely again." Who cares? Life'll have to keep going. If a Jubilee has to happen to reset things... Oh well. It'll suck; but no one asked for this.

The type of work to have people thrown at it is what has changed, and the acceptable methods of execution have been altered. I doubt we'll see a wholesale collapse of civilization by a long shot. What'll be far more interesting to see is if we'll weather the transition to less globalised work smoothly or not. The predictability of life just took a hit; that's all. Time to show how to change. No?
Isn’t CA under lockdown? Only supposed to leave your apartment for groceries right?
How is this better behavior?
Yes, unfortunately, as all UN parts, the WHO is a consensus organ, at the barycenter of individual countries' participating scientists... meanwhile, in countries or cities better connected with their experts, or just with better experts, the reaction is better and faster.

The exact quote was: "We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test."
San Miguel county in Colorado has found 0.5% of their population has confirmed antibodies after doing 1600+ tests (out of 8,000 people in the county).

As another data point, the theory of this thing being widespread in the population seems far fetched to me.
Specifically just looking for a brief explanation of this line:

>For example, his "emulation cones" are a new name for a very old and extremely well-studied idea. The term "rulial space", similarly, is a new name for an idea that's well-developed in programming language theory.'

What's the old well-studied idea, and the well-developed programming theory idea? A one sentence reply is fine.
Yes, I've started doing personal projects as a therapeutic exercise.

My personal projects used to be about the end goal: making something that I want to make but don't get to at work.

Lately they've been more about the exercise: the sheer pleasure of writing code that's my own, that will always be my own, that works well and all lives in my head, even if what it actually does isn't especially new or interesting. It's like a digital zen garden.
Whoa! I love it, thank you for sharing this. It seems like it's a free API for personal use with some rate limitations.
> why hospitalizations keep going up in this roadmap when every country that has put strict social distancing measures in effect starts to see a leveling-off and decrease in hospitalization after around the 3 week mark

Because that's not a safe assumption. Hospitalizations are still going up in areas across the US, even in areas of US that are now on week 4 or 5 of lockdown.

Michigan, for example, is on week 4 and while the growth of the curve is slowing, hospitalizations still continue to rise every single day - https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/04/13/mich...
What can go wrong when one misuses open source licenses?
> The US has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases of any nation.

Your statement isn't very useful. It's the per capita death rate that matters the most of any metric. It's non-sense to compare the US to countries with 5% or 20% of the population using absolute numbers.

In terms of density, it's the NYC region that overwhelmingly accounts for the problem in the US. NY + NJ = majority of US deaths. The NYC region is the most dense on population in the US, which dramatically magnified its outbreak.

Approximately 44 of 50 states have lower per capita death rates than Sweden. Most US states are doing extraordinarily well in fact.

Half of US states are seeing no serious outbreak at all.

Arizona has 7.3 million people and only 131 deaths.

Belgium has 11.4 million people and 4,000 deaths. Sweden is considered a relatively good outcome in Europe so far, they have 10 million people and 1,000 deaths. Texas has three times the population of Sweden with 1/3 the deaths.

Some more examples:

Utah 19. Oregon 55. Arkansas 30. Washington DC 67. Delaware 41. Hawaii 9. Idaho 33. Iowa 49. Kansas 69. Maine 20. Minnesota 79. Nebraska 18. New Hampshire 23. New Mexico 31. North Dakota 9. South Dakota 6. Montana 7. Vermont 29. West Virginia 9. Wyoming 1. Puerto Rico 45.

Lower population density helps a lot in most cases. However San Francisco is also one of the most dense cities in the US and only has ~15 deaths or so. That's thanks largely to climate, which impedes transmission heavily. The same reason the entire San Diego County only has 53 deaths.
Passwords and email addresses for Zoom accounts are for sale on the dark web
Fair enough. That is noteworthy than. Id only disputed a few travel related charges myself and had the stereotypical positive experience.
The idea of inalienable rights is antithetical to this outlook. No matter how noble the authorities’ intentions may be, certain essential rights are allegedly sacrosanct.
Thanks for chiming in. As I said in another thread I think at least this is the kind of framework for a discussion. Want to add more columns? Great. Want to double a number or halve a number, great.

I personally think there is zero downside to publishing the numeric targets. Of you get more data in to change them, just change them (it's at least better than now where they have dates that they just keep changing). I don't see how having a date that you keep changing is locking political leaders more than metrics that you change.
> Compiler writers tend to assume the processor is a dumb machine.

A lot of C developers tend to assume the compiler is a dumb program ;) There are significant hoisting and vectorization optimizations that signed overflow can unlock, but they can't always be applied.
After searching on WHO site, it seems that they do surveys of each countries health system, and pushing them to develop steady healthcare systems, and to adapt their practices to available medical knowledge. The pushing of WHO to develop healthcare available including to the poorest may have been what Trump disliked, after all.

The WHO seems to compensate partly for the absence of universal healthcare in the poorest countries, by direct investment.

I suspect that it is also directed towards communication and information. Like teaching the developping world the known techniques to mitigate malaria, the primary hygienic gestures's importance (like using soap to wash hands), etc. And of course the importance to have protected sex to fend off AIDS, etc. (which is an upstream battle given the religious and traditions resistance to many of these advises)
"It's not a hard domain."

Are you really arguing that deploying and managing infrastructure is not a hard domain? Please. The very existence of tools trying to solve these problems speaks to this difficulty.

I'm going to drop it at this point because it's starting to feel like you're either trolling or have never run a substantial application in production before.
Dude you pay a company to install a kernel module in your PV that got sued for running a bitcoin miner on peoples systems. I have to say some people just deserve what is coming to them. Bad luck to you.
Motorized standing desk, with half a solid-core door for a desk top. Variable-terrain anti-fatigue foot mat, 32" 4K Dell monitor mounted to a VESA adjustable monitor arm.

Running a Dell XPS 13 so it's all via a single USB-C cable from the laptop to the monitor. AmazonBasics drafting chair for when my heels get tired.

Oh, and some LED bias lighting behind the monitor for when it gets darker in the room in the evening.

This setup is a dream realized for me. This year I finally got a fully remote dream job and decided to go all-out on workspace ergonomics.

https://imgur.com/a/ZkAmcfZ
malloc is a required part of ISO C, though.
Blanket noises ordancenes. If I'm not a nightclub but I blast loud music am I okay? If I want to build a nightclub with good sound insulation so you can't hear why should you care?
We'll see how Sweden fares since they aren doing very minimal shutdowns (public events over 500 people are canceled).
Let’s say the unemployment jumps to 30%, which is conceivable, but awful.

That would mean 200-300k people die from increased unemployment. Terrible.

The new virus’s worst case is more along the lines of 2-3 million, and at that point we’re probably in health care meltdown which would make it much worse than even those staggering numbers.

So yes, we don’t want to shut down the economy for 6 months, but it’s critical that we don’t swerve too far out of control. We can pay people to stay alive. We can’t wave a financial wand and solve the virus.
If we're to keep it real, my understanding is that, if you have COVID-19 and need ventilation but can't get it, you're all but guaranteed to die. So, assuming a real ventilator is not available, then avoiding makeshift measures due to worries about barotrauma seems to me to be somewhat akin to saying that people shouldn't administer CPR because it's likely to break ribs.
It's so weird to me that software's complexity is such a force of nature.

My instinct is that no implementation of a piece of software should ever need to be more complex than the idea of it is (fully and precisely articulated, of course). Yet the code is usually orders of magnitude more complex than that. I don't understand why we can't solve this problem.
And at least in Michigan, they're not taking the time to open up low risk businesses now - instead they're filling in even more of the gaps that allowed life to continue. No golf courses, even without any staff contact. No landscaping. No landscaping supplies. No motorboats or jet skis. No travel between two residences you own.

But at least you can still buy lottery tickets!
Yeah, most developers speak Russian.
US Politicians Want to Ban End-to-End Encryption
Chinese characters represent the Chinese words or parts thereof, Japanese ones represent Japanese words and parts thereof. That is a semantic difference.
I can see this being used in hft houses
It seems like both the perception of and response to this pandemic are not reflective of reality. What am I getting wrong here?

- Around 200 million Americans will eventually get it, barring extraordinary events (like a vaccine arriving in 6 months). We cannot change this.

- Around 0.5% will die, overwhelmingly those who had a low remaining life expectancy to begin with. This is a much larger body count than most people seem able to accept, but also much less dangerous to the average American than many believe.

- All we can do is alter the timetable to keep the hospitals functioning, which has been done successfully in many places throughout the world albeit at great cost.

There's both good news and terrible news in those facts but none of it really seems to be in the consciousness of the public or of leaders, whereas "oh no you can maybe get it 8 hours after a guy sneezed in a lobby" is everywhere. Along with "everyone who stays at home is a hero" as we set ourselves up for a second Depression.
I think your star operator there is making the compiler cast your array to pointer implicitly.
Nice article. People sometimes dismiss Django but it’s been around for a while and is certainly the fastest framework for building out new ideas that I’ve seen. It’s my goto framework for prototyping.

I find too many teams are so focused on using the latest fancy frameworks that they spend way more effort to build something using “new stuff” that could have been done in half or a quarter of the time with something like Django. For most projects, simple that’s built and works beats fancy that’s still being built.
Not sarcastic.

McDonald USA app alone has 10,000,000 - 50,000,000 downloads.

Why would you think it's ok to be ignorant on the basic way 100 of millions order their food?

I assume you are not in IT, since these apps are the cutting edge being in such large markets, but even as being a part of society it's important.

Would you be proud of never having been to one opera or never having watched one sport game?
. . . Sergey Saveliev, Roscosmos' deputy director-general on international cooperation:
"Attempts to expropriate outer space and aggressive plans to actually seize territories of other planets hardly set the countries (on course for) fruitful cooperation. There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its interest—everyone remembers what came of it."
Indeed, Sergey, look no farther than Crimea.
Actually, I am eagerly anticipating Russian Space Pirate ships, seizing the bootie from asteroid miners just as they come back within range of Earth fully loaded . . .
> It's the per capita death rate that matters the most of any metric.

The US has the 15th highest per capita death rate. It's on track to go up in that ranking:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Why do you want it in C? What are your use cases?

I’ve always thought that idiomatic C for constexpr would be to write the code you want to be executed at compile-time in a separate file(s), build it, execute and then #include the result in your program before building the final executable, adding a build step but keeping overall complexity minimal.

This is different from C++ approach, where everything and the kitchen sink is added to the standard and then you have to issue errata for errata for the standard and hope that the compiler you have to use for your current platform is keeping up for the last changes.
> It looks a lot like Apple under Tim Cook, except add another decade since there was innovative leadership (Andy Grove)

Ehh this is debatable. Apple has put out a few products that have completely changed the market under Cook's tenure. AirPods have introduced a new head phone paradigm. Apple Watch is waaaay ahead of the competition. The iPhone X made full screen phones mainstream and introduced UI gestures that were copied by Android.

Sure there have been some missteps cough butterfly keyboard cough but I’d say overall, they are still producing interesting products that define a large part of the consumer tech market
How is what’s mentioned here, not just the old idea of determinism demonstrated or shown from a different perspective?

I always thought science was biased toward the assumption that the universe follows basic deterministic rules, and the purpose of doing science was to find the nature of those rules. What I mean by this, is that when we do science, we are trying to determine the nature behind things - are we not? Therefore, determining things, or determinism, is at the heart of doing science. Assuming otherwise, seems like a disservice to practicing science, but maybe that's just me?

Granted, I know nothing is settled yet, but I have a hard time seeing anything new here. Just old ideas communicated in an analogous new perspective…
Eh. There are documented dogfights out there that are dramatic, they even made a show about it with the actual pilots:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfights_(TV_series)

That said, there are countless stories about US pilots locking up a bandit who has a RWR system that scares them into turning around (they'd see/hear that they were receiving high PRF - being locked on). That happened a lot more in the 70s and after as US air to air radar got better (look down shoot down radar didn't exist until the 70s too).
> There are differences as well as similarities. I'm no expert, but shouldn't, say, U+4ECA still translate to 'now' no matter if you draw a particular line horizontally or diagonally?

No, since "now" is an English word, not a Japanese or Chinese one.

> There are also some mandatory[1] ligatures in Fraktur unavailable in Unicode.

Unicode doesn't encode ligatures except for backwards compatibility.
Just because they don’t call it zoning doesn’t mean they don’t have zoning.

> Festa also rattles off a list of other policies that bolster his case that Houston effectively has zoning.

> Deed restrictions: In Houston, developers create rules to prevent things like corner stores within residential neighborhoods. Those rules are called deed restrictions. Houston is unique in that it will represent residents when they try to enforce those covenants.

> Density: Historically, the area within the confines of the 610 Loop have been permitted to have higher levels of density than the rest of the city. But recent changes to city policies extend the higher density levels all the way to Beltway 8. “Those are rules that tell you what you can and can’t do, based on where you are on a map,” Festa said.

> Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones: The controversial tool allows certain areas within distinct boundaries to retain property tax revenue for uses within their borders. The word “zone” is right in the name.

> Airports: The Houston area has three major airports, and under federal rules, the communities around them are subject to zoning requirements. “It’s a good chunk of metropolitan Houston, and it’s flat out zoning,” Festa said.

> Buffering ordinance: New rules restrict tall buildings to “major activity centers” by limiting their height, set back requirements and construction styles.

> Historic preservation: Residents can ensure many types of building restrictions within their communities if they get enough votes to create a historic district.

> Lot sizes: City rules restrict lot sizes, but neighborhoods can petition for even tighter restrictions if they get the votes.

https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...
AskHN: How do you deal with grumpy forum members?
I have a forum with a couple hundred members. Mostly they are nice. There are two members that are very active that are generally grumpy. I have lost really good members of my community because one or both of the grumps have pissed them off.

One is a hard worker and adds so much value to a different part of the site that it is difficult to envision asking them to leave. The other is like that grumpy uncle that shows up to all of the family reunions. They are going to die in a couple of years but allowing them to stay comes at a cost.

I'm a little bit Asperger's in real life and I am very much not in tune with the pain that the grumps cause. I am only aware when people complain which always surprises me.

I am open to any suggestions!
A few religious leaders seem intent on making those large gatherings happen, regardless of prevailing medical and legal advice.
I didn't find LaTeX simpler for creating a book with code comments. It's a whole load of stuff to learn, akin to a "Just Learn Kubernetes" level of brain load, which seems OTT when you just want to experiment and create a book.
That's a pretty sweet looking tool set you've put together. That looks like something small businesses would love have someone onboard that knows how to use it.

I'm not a spreadsheet power user. I've not really done much at all with them, but I'd love to tinker with Mintdata!
Quite ironic to name an AI that can only paint white people with a Japanese word.