skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they really can do this at decent performance, the arm chips must be even faster than we'd expect. The reason that worked OK going PPC->Intel was the intel one was mostly a lot faster.
I would say there is an argument to be made on both sides. On one hand rust is only 10 years old with much less corporate backing than Go, but on the other hand you have to be very careful with even small changes if you want the language to be stable in the long run.

I can see why people are worried, and it's valid, but I also trust the devs are making correct choices
Do they have different formulas for different countries? I’ve had coke products in several different countries and they all tasted different to me. The most noticeable was a coke in Germany tasted less sweet compared to US coke.
Yes, the natural experiment is being right now. You have the Western European countries with a social safety net that allows people to stay home for a few months to ride out the plague and the US, where such a thing does not exist.

This has economic repercussions. A good amount of meat processing plants are now idled because the workforce is off sick due to lack of protective equipment and sick leave. We are looking at meat shortages. I hope people make the right connections.
> I would not like to see it get to a point where the language is fine but people aren't really sure what else to do and just make changes for the hell of it.

We never make changes for the hell of it.

But also, all changes are purely additive at this point. The language is stable. It has been for years.
I think the key thing people worry about with regard to "churn" is "OMG, do I have to update my code again?". Explicitly calling out that this release doesn't really have any changes like that is good. I also think that's why the ecosystem change is in fact a big deal. People seem to feel pressured to keep up. Meanwhile I'm still not really sure what the consensus is, if any, on which error handling library we're supposed to use... Anyway, it might also be worth calling out somewhere that no, you don't have to follow the ecosystem and the hip idioms super closely if you just want to get some work done (and to the extent that's not true, making it so).
Why would I want to make my already too large phone even bigger by adding a case?
I think these kinds of offerings are for customers who want to use AWS but aren't skilled enough to use AWS directly. Anthos includes VMs and k8s BTW.
The USAF employs averages in all kinds of interesting ways!

"How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze" (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Undershoot and Love Terminal Detonation Timing)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642280 (2018)
“Some cynics say we planned the whole thing... ...The truth is we are not that dumb and we are not that smart.”
> has there been any antitrust activity in the united states recently?

Yes, lots [1][2]. (I count fourteen cases year to date.)

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/terms/217

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/terms/217
New Coke was much better then old coke!

I find Coca Cola "Classic" undrinkable. Too tart, for my taste.
I guess that doesn't seem counter-intuitive to me.

That's the whole reason behind social distancing right? To reduce the likelihood that you will contract the virus from someone else. It's not so much about keeping from getting other people sick, it's about keeping yourself from getting sick.

As someone with young kids and a more frequent exposure to norovirus and other stomach bugs than I'd like to admit, once that gets into the family, everyone gets it. The way to avoid it is to not go places where your kid is going to pick it up (public library usually), but in general you still go to those places because they are convenient for other reasons.

I understand the focus on handwashing and sanitizing things, but that doesn't do anything for direct exposure. If the stomach bug is near you, you're getting it. I assume coronavirus is going to be much the same.
Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

To your point, though, lower competition is not always bad. I as a consumer very much prefer having to deal with fewer toilet paper suppliers if they are of good enough quality. The toilet paper industry is not one where I expect dramatic innovation brought by competition. I just want the cheapest pack that won't feel like sand paper on my delicate behind.

There are, surprisingly, quite a lot of similar industries where consumer would prefer cheap and fast rather than elaborate and innovative products.
Yes, I also ran a BBS from my Amiga! I wrote it myself in C when I was a teen. The Amiga was amazing for the time, and learning about the OS was so much fun. I still play around with emulators now and then to take me back to that time.
This is a function invocation:

foo(bar)

This is a macro invocation:

foo!(bar)

It's done this way because macros can have much more complex things inside the ()s than functions can. This helps both humans and computers parse such things.
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University of Michigan has a ‘c4cs’

https://c4cs.github.io/archive/w18/
foo(x, y, z) is a function. foo!(x, y, z) is a macro.
We are currently quarantining about 300 million here in the US, so tens of thousands would be a massive improvement.

The way to think about this is: who do we need to test so we can start un-quarantining people.

The goal is not to find out who has it because right now, we are essentially behaving as if the entire US population is infected. The goal is to efficiently determine who is very unlikely to have it so that those people can start incrementally returning to normal life.

It's not worth testing symptomatic people: they've already "failed" one test in that we at least know they have symptoms. Simply continue to treat them as infected.
Which constitutional requirements do you think are being violated? And if you're going to say first amendment, be sure to explain precisely why they wouldn't survive strict scrutiny. (And if you're not aware of the legal meaning of "strict scrutiny," then you are probably ignorant of what the Constitution has actually been held to mean by the authority that has the power to interpret it.)
I believe that this only works for literal type inference, i.e.:

let a: f32 = 0.0;
let b: f64 = 0.0;

let this_works: f32 = &0.0 + 0.0;
let this_doesnt: f32 = &a + b;

And that's a good thing IMO, implicit promotion rules in C are one of my least favourite features of the language. It makes it so easy to write seemingly innocuous code that's completely broken.
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Not OP, I think they mean the exclamation mark (!)
> On one hand rust is only 10 years old

Periodization is hard; it's been five years since Rust 1.0. The project is much older, but the language as we know it today has only been around half that time.
I've done consulting for small business distributing into major stories.

Other stores are very very UPFRONT on what they will do. Many make the small mfg sign an agreement that not only will the store have all the data, but the mfg will need to pay the STORE if they want the data.

The difference here is that a) it is all upfront and b) the mfg can make an informed decision - is this worth it.

If you need store / day detail on sales because you are running promos and in-store marketing vs just being a low cost volume seller - all affect your view of this.

Finally, in grocery retail - once you have the order and deliver, you DO get paid regardless of whether product sells. This is an important positive even selling through Target in some cases especially with more perishable goods. Amazon as a seller you can't plan as well - their alog or someone else paying for promo could cut your demand in half overnight.

Additionally retail stores actually drive demand / discover ability when they purchase your product in a way amazon often does not.
> Another promising pathway is to pool many tests and run them together. If a pooled sample tests negative, everyone in the pool is negative. If it is positive, the members of the pool can be tested individually.

Well, it took a global pandemic, but we finally found a use for bloom filters!
What do they do to treat that, short of a ventilator? Oxygen?
odroid boards use a modular eMMC design. You can buy the size you want and swap them out if one fails. You can even see that in their picture (label M).

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4/

They sell their eMMC chips here

https://www.hardkernel.com/product-category/memories/
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In that case I think keeping up very small additive changes is good, thanks for clearing up
The Fed is not focused on the stock market. When they improve the status of the economy through monetary policy, they indirectly improve the value of publically listed companies. This makes sense, because companies are the central entities in the economy. I don't know how the Fed could improve the state of the economy without affecting the prices of shares.
>The Aero Medical Laboratory hired Daniels because he had majored in physical anthropology, a field that specialized in the anatomy of humans, as an undergraduate at Harvard. During the first half of the 20th century, this field focused heavily on trying to classify the personalities of groups of people according to their average body shapes — a practice known as “typing.” For example, many physical anthropologists believed a short and heavy body was indicative of a merry and fun-loving personality, while receding hairlines and fleshy lips reflected a “criminal type.”

Can anyone point me in the direction of more information on this? Curious to learn more but my searches didn't turn up anything related.
Exclamation mark. e.g.

println!("hello, world");

or

todo!();

are macro invocations.
… in fact, you can easily compute up to f(10^8) in a couple of seconds using this code (not shown, because the result takes far longer to print than to compute).

Is this actually this fast or did the author get fooled by lazy evaluation or something along that line? For the fun of it I tried to come up with an algorithm in C# that works more or less like the matrix exponentiation one but without explicitly using matrix exponentiation. When finished it failed to terminate for large numbers and I eventually estimated that it would take about six hours to find the 100 millionth Fibonacci number with this code on my laptop. I don't see why this would be so much slower than a straight forward implementation of the matrix exponentiation algorithm, where is the big difference if any? Or is the .NET big integer implementation that slow? Or did the author get fooled after all?

private static BigInteger Fibonacci(UInt32 n)
{
if (n == 0)
{
return BigInteger.Zero;
}
else
{
var (a, b) = (BigInteger.Zero, BigInteger.One);

var mask = 1u << (Int32)Math.Floor(Math.Log(n, 2));

while ((mask >>= 1) != 0)
{
var s = a + b;

var (a2, b2, s2) = (a * a, b * b, s * s);

(a, b) = ((n & mask) == 0) ? (a2 + b2, s2 - a2) : (s2 - a2, s2 + b2);
}

return b;
}
}
I hate these corporate brand management exercises masquerading as real technical insight. We get it, it's important to your company to be viewed as a thought leader in order to attract talent and customers. The way you do that is by doing things, not half-arsing a blog post. If you have nothing meaningful to say, don't say it.
>more than I trust the website itself and their 83 different unpatched WordPress plugins.

While cloudflare may be protecting the WordPress instance from some attacks, your traffic is still flowing back to the host eventually. It's not like Cloudflare is keeping some of the data from the website. Whereas PayPal, Apple Pay et all actually do keep some of your information from the final party by assigning one time use payment info vs handing over a credit card number.
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Thanks, it's technically not an ASCII table, it's from the Unicode (single line) style of https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
Farsi (Iranian) is another one that lasted a long time without too many mutations as far as I know.

Arabic is divided into "proper, classical" Arabic which is used for religious purpose (and maybe some other "official" things), a bit like Latin in the middle ages; and various mostly unintelligible dialects used day to day.

If I remember correctly, modern Hebrew is pretty much the same as old Hebrew, with various additions to fit the current world. It's somewhat artificial in that it wasn't really spoken before, and was the chosen as the official language in the early 20th century.
It's like if someone decided nowadays to use Latin as the official language.
Apple generates way more revenue than Intel so they have a lot of money to go hire people. They also don't need to invent the manufacturing process. Basically they need to come up with a good architecture and then use Eda tools to build out the chip.
Heading it put this way gives me the sinking feeling they were planning this upgrade path all along so that they could say “improved battery life” with each new product update.
Are there any good macbook laptop stands that act as a heatsink as well? My current stand has rubber grips so while there's plenty of airflow under it the heat isn't being drawn away very well. I don't want to add a fan since that would add noise.
I like the diagram that has "Google's Dawn" and "Apple's something" side by side. :)

Thanks for all your hard work on gfx-rs! I've been following its progress for a few years now, and despite the major architecture redesign, the project appears to be stronger than ever now. Bravo. Your work is much appreciated.
If you are like me, and stick to Rust lang for about a year or so, you will have a hard time going back to low level languages such as C. When you have your errors caught at compile time - it's simply beautiful! Forget about explicit memory freeing - and don't worry about memory management, it is really predictable. Code will always have the same precise meaning across all platforms. Hell yeah!
This is not a new thing in medical testing. They do it for donated blood already.
When your customers say that their product is too niche, they're probably right in a lot of cases. The argument that Amazon can enter every niche and cater to every consumer want is essentially saying that planned economies can actually function. But they can't. Amazon is skimming the highest volume product categories and that's it. They couldn't manage the complexity of branching out into every single long tail product.
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I was reading just yesterday that clotting was showing up in several places, not just the lungs. Covid seems to do something to make blood more clot-prone, and they were looking at using blood thinners to help that aspect of the problem. So it may not be the fault of the ventilators being set too high.
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println!("something")

that's a macro
Thanks :)

The current error handling consensus seems to be "anyhow for applications, either no crate or thiserror for libraries." Obviously this is not uniform, but the discussion + download counts point to this, imho.
Not sure why I used tee (did this a long time ago). Maybe I was having some trouble with >> or maybe thought tee read more cleanly. Don't remember.
The “worst” of that set includes names like Zuckerberg, Thiel and even Sam Altman, among many others.[0]

I’d be willing to bet that a pretty significant percentage of the tech elite have taken serious steps like this, this clearly isn’t a small set of obscure players.

0: https://www.inquisitr.com/3950643/billionaires-are-building-...
Major retailers buy and sell their product line data from neilson and others. I worked on a project with one of them so I know first hand. So the idea that they don't use seller data to market their own products has to be false.
no, not really. You can't get over the motion sickness thing for many people. And VR games will always need to mitigate that, which means they are going to be limited in significant ways compared to normal games.
Or that a monoid is merely a category with exactly one object.
Comparison of C++17, Go, and Java for a next-generation sequencing tool
We can debate and dispute this, but I'd rather propose: take a closer look at how this is handled in COBOL, and you'll re-evaluate.

In shortest words: variable declaration is also used as I/O format specification. Pretty much all of IO is just reading into a buffer, and the values are automatically mapped for your use. Sure you can use the same method in pretty much every general-purpose language (mapping C structs etc), but here it comes just natural.
Yes, it is only for literals.
How do you want to do server provisioning with 100 times the users you have currently? Just curious because it seems like a lot of effort to setup every server manually.
They only keep certain parts secret so market actors don’t make decisions based on what the Fed is thinking about doing. Obviously if people knew the Fed was thinking about raising interest rates, for example, it would affect their decisions (and the market as a whole) negatively. This is something any business or economics undergrad learns in an introductory banking class; since you are evidently unfamiliar with the Fed’s system (as opposed to the Swedish one), you may find it helpful to consult an American money and banking textbook.

From your own link, verbatim:

"Items considered in closed session include primarily

- Bank and bank holding company supervisory matters, discussions of which generally disclose information from bank examination reports or commercial and financial information obtained in confidence by the Board
- Monetary policy and other matters whose premature release could be used in financial speculation
- Personnel matters."

Not very nebulous, eh?
That happened before the "New Coke" debacle.
> Can you imagine a Windows based PC lasting half of that time?

Yes? I built a ~$1500 PC in 2013 and still use it for non-work purposes. I did put Elementary OS on it though instead of Windows 10, and it's starting to show its age running some newer games but it works just fine.
This comment is based on a misreading of the very testimony you're referencing. As quoted in this CNBC article.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt...

"Nate Sutton, associate general counsel at Amazon, told lawmakers the company doesn’t tap data from individual third-party merchants to determine what new products to create."

Of course they don't use data from individuals, they use all of the data, in aggregate, from everyone including themselves.
FYI Whole Foods is wholly owned by amazon.
> Wow, lots of comments stating that it was common knowledge, but some fact doesn't become common knowledge simply because everyone knows it.

Common knowledge: something that many or most people know.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20knowledg...
Executives are regularly incentivized to focus on short term profits over long term company survival. I call this process “bonuses today, layoffs tomorrow”.
Amazon is nowhere near having a monopoly on retail.
Not a chance. There are two main issues: technical and financial.

Technically, Rust is way too complex and therefore expensive to hire for. Same reason why other languages like C++ that compile to Wasm won't succeed either.

Financially, Google and Apple won't allow their digital stores lose market.

But even if those reasons weren’t a thing, Wasm is not as fast as native code and it would be a huge waste of bandwidth downloading every time game resources (measured in gigabytes these days!), even if you cache and allow huge offline storage.

In the end, you end up with a pseudo operating system, but just worse.
I believe the reasoning is that aerosol would have ultimately spread everywhere, including on the AC itself, while ballistics can be heavily influenced by airflow, but are still limited in range.
You might want to explain this reference for those who don't know about Quillette's support for eugenics.
Or possibly New Coke was a huge boost, through the attention that the controversy aroused. After the New Coke fiasco wrapped up, Coca Cola sales soared.
Ad targeting still allows you to fly under the radar of someone who could investigate by only targeting the ad to the idiots that would swallow it whole and not ask questions while everyone else is completely oblivious to the ad's existence.

In fact I'm pretty sure this is happening already regardless of these changes. I recently saw on Reddit that YouTube is promoting ads for very obvious gift card scams, even though I've personally never seen any of those in the few times my ad blocker let me down. Presumably this is because those ads are only targeted to a certain subset of people to both maximise ROI as well as avoid being shown to someone smart enough to identify it as a scam and potentially report it and blow up the whole operation.

A good start (besides banning the cancer that is advertising) would be to have all advertising platforms publish a searchable archive of every ad, who paid for it and the targeting criteria. This means people can at least look behind the curtain and see which ads are out there that they wouldn't normally see due to the targeting criteria not matching them.
I know, that was my point.
Early in my career, I wanted "root" on every system I could possibly have it on, and often bristled if I didn't get it.

Late in my career, when someone asks me if I want "root", I often decline. There's a lot to be said for limiting one's exposure to those risks and having solid plausible deniability if someone hoses some crucial system. (Not to mention being "unable" to access a lot of systems at 3am to help fix messes someone else made.)
So, this is just RaaS? (Redis as a Service)
Yeah. My dad would want us to try the ventilator. My mom wouldn't. I'm leaning toward "no ventilator" for myself, if it comes to that.
Sellers at walmart

a) actually sell their product to walmart, even the branded product is owned, priced and managed by WALMART. So there is much less SELLER specific data to datamine.

b) sellers to walmart AGREE that the data on products priced, sold, and promoted by walmart (even branded one) belongs to walmart, and in many cases the seller has to pay extra if they want day/store level detail on sales. So in most cases it is a very upfront relationship, and walmart takes a lot more risk in pricing, promoting etc.

Here Amazon has enticed sellers by reassuring them that in CONTRAST to target, Amazon will NOT use the data they provide amazon to market against them AND sellers give amazon a lot more "seller" data because the sellers are often doing their own price management etc etc.
yes, in the US anyways corn syrup is used in place of sugar cane which is used in say Mexico
> You can, but in my experience, most people don't.

The same argument can be said of all languages.

It's true with PHP because the language is popular.

It's true with Java, because the language is pop^Wthe holy grail of entreprise software language.

Having seen both worlds in small and large corporate settings (and others, in Ruby, Python, C, Perl), I somehow prefer PHP, because at least, it does not pretend to be "the right thing" for enterprise software.
Oh, bad timing. Just a few months ago I was on the fence about Protonmail vs Fastmail (vs all others) and ended jumping to Fastmail: the privacy pro didn't seem to outweigh the cons. Now with open sourcing stuff the pros do get somewhat better... But reevaluating and switching would be troublesome.... Maybe in a few years I'll revisit it :)
At least they aren't renaming old standards like the USB-IF does.