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There is also a concept of "context" in Perl.

An operation may be evaluated in list or scalar context. For example, if you evaluate an array in list context, you get the members of the array, however, in scalar context, you get the number of elements in the array.

This idea is generalized to discuss different evaluation contexts for scalars. You might hear people discussing how a value behaves in boolean or string context. It's also common to talk about casting as "-ification", for example casting something to boolean context is "boolification".

By default, undefined values convert to empty string and 0. However, this can be made to generate a warning or even a fatal exception by setting the appropriate pragmas.
Apple has a patent on context sensitive app installs/appearances. Come acrosa it some years ago.
> it is not the notorious "write only" language that many troll it to be

I dispute that.

I have worked with many languages, and Perl has always been one of the hardest to remember due to non-standard symbol abuse and a few strange semantics.

There is a reason it has that reputation.

Even writing it isn’t easy. I can describe the Python syntax after years of not using it. Perl? No way I remember it.
I guess RAD tools (now no-code) will never fade away from the market.

I bet you're getting a lot of traction on corporations that need to upgrade/replace internal tools.

I know, internal tools will always suck because:

1) your market changes faster than you can change your apps, so you're always lagging behind.

2) And technology moves faster than you can keep them to date. That's the reason we still have IE as corporate browser in most enterprises.

Also, 3) nowadays it's very hard to do both good frontend AND backend coding. Technologies diverged a lot since, say, Rails 2.0 (which is just 8 years away from now). And the barrier to compete is higher every day.
But... the virus is still here. So people shouldn’t be going back to work.

A few weeks/months after the vaccine (or some other magical eradication), your point will make sense.
Well, having seen enough people who will never ever in their lives be able to understand this:
=Filter(Tasks,"Tasks[Done]<>% ORDER BY Tasks[Due]","Yes"

And I'm 100% sure that no company would let them anywhere near that kind of stuff,even if it's vanilla drag and drop. Those people are good at some jobs and task but definitely not at this. Anything designed for purely non technical people usually is just a bit crappy: I taught myself programming so I won't need to deal with Salesforce Flow...
> Did you miss the if statement?

No, but it's not clear to me what work that 'if' is doing. Is this just a purely hypothetical, or do you just assume the antecedent is always true? Do you perhaps take a middle path and concede the possibility people might be persuaded by "race science" for reasons other than mere "fancy wording"?

> they should indeed to take some time for introspection.

Or they could engage in dialogue with people who disagree with them but exercise good faith, which is exactly what happens on SSC.

> Anyway, according to your comment history you definitely fit the introspection mold. Zero surprises there.

If I aggravated you enough that you feel the need to dig through my comment history, I apologize. But don't presume to know my inner mental states. My tone is definitely hostile, but I consider it an fair response to your rather dismissive (and largely false) characterization a group of people I (and many others here on HN) have come to greatly respect.
2009 Satellite Collision
They are paid too much for the supposed labor they give out, so they have the finances and time to ruin the lives of people they deem to be below them.

Which just happens to be everyone who is paid less than them.

The solution is to gut executive pay several thousand percent so it is back in line with the rest of the world.
This matches my experience raising money and the experience of basically every founder I've met (including ones that had a previous large win under their belt).

Fundraising is messy.
This is not correct; you can see in Google’s documentation and legal documents that the GA service is distinct from DoubleClick and Tag Manager, although these three services are often implemented together (in fact Google recommends this).

GA places both first and third party cookies but only needs first party cookies to do basic reporting.
One overlooked feature of this feature is the Sign in with Apple. You can use the App Clip to make a purchase and at the same time you give the vendor an anonymous email address which they can use to contact you with more information about their service. If you don't want any information, you can cancel that anonymous address.

I don't see how this can be done in a web app.
This is a great summary! The thing I see Google doing that I believe is even worse is that they swoop in early on in an innovative space and get their subsidized free offering on the market first or early. This seems to prevent these tiers from forming entirely, since even if a competitor can beat "free" they have to constantly be looking over their shoulder to make sure Google doesn't give away their killer features, so no one ends up even playing!
To WASM or Not to WASM?
The First Amendment, as you correctly point out, protects freedom of speech in certain cases that are not really relevant here.

However, people might support a higher standard for freedom of speech, and might wish businesses also concur in protecting it.

This is not in the law, but very often people have moral standards that are stricter than the law.

Therefore, I don’t see any contradiction here.

Myself, I full acknowledge that Facebook is not bound to grant freedom of speech to its users by the First Amendment, but I still wish it did so.
A few things ...

When I say that it is a no-brainer, I mean that it is a no-brainer feature ... that is, something that everyone would have a very ready use-case for.

Second, I think we're all well aware of the vast gulf between email service and the mobile phone network. That's the point of a service like Twilio: they have both systems (email and SMS) terminating inside of their own cloud environment. This means that "forwarding" an SMS to an email address, which would be rocket science for me, is easy for them.

In fact, it's so easy that we can readily describe exactly how to implement it: just give us an email verb in twiml.
If you are trying to get enterprise customers, do you really want to be known as the company that drops features at the drop of dime?

AWS has a number of services that have been deprecated for years but it still supports like SimpleDB and running an EC2 instance outside of a VPC. Heck they still support transferring files from S3 over BitTorrent in older regions.
Yeah I get your point. But I guess for this model you can kinda have a concept of the "ideal" training set, where all high frequency features appear at the same rate as in real world.
I love unix for what it was. But it made a lot of concessions for 70s hardware that we're stuck with.

It is rather unfortunate for us that everything that's come afterwards has been in some way even worse.
Actually I find that if I'm acclimated to 90-degree temperatures it doesn't take very long for me to cool down in 75-degree temperatures at all. That's how acclimatization works, after all. You get used to the temperature and your body doesn't perceive it as hot or cold anymore.
as a side note : I hate this ferries thing, just write a good old comment. what's wrong with comments?
Well, obviously, if Google was going to have to take an actual phone call from somebody when things went pear-shaped, that was never going to work out.
They are very similar actually, but permaculture is about more than just agriculture, agriculture is one of the sides of permaculture. For me syntropic agriculture is that side, some people also call it agroforestry but this term is used for other kinds of agriculture, which builds forests but differently. On syntropic the main difference is very high density of plants and extensively pruning. The video I posted in the first comment you see a few people doing research on automating this processes, there's also some people Swiss investing into this, sure with less biodiverse but its being working great for them, so yes, can be automated, also lots of machines used on fruits crops can be used on this system, specially to speed up pruning bigger trees. And usually on syntropic its not common to find "key" shapes beds and stuff that we see from permaculture, its usually straight rows, which helps a lot with automation I guess.
I spent much of my career working primarily in Perl. Now I use it when messing around with older codebases, but not for new work. However, I still use it pretty often for one-liners because of these neat features. For instance:

perl -E 'say for grep {/o/} @ARGV' one two three
At the end of the day you have to translate requirements into software. Whether that is through a GUI or textual. Textual just happens to be an extremely effective method to do so.

Every application in existence is a CRUD app. Software is just data processing after all, reading and writing bits.
There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science. That is not a sound basis for criticizing the field. You'll have to do better than that.
I'm sorry if this offends. But a complete laypersons* perspective from someone who hasn't been keeping up on the current perl ecosystem is this: perl6 failed to the degree that perl 5 became perl 7, while all the perl programmers switched to ruby or python. Am I wrong?

*ok, not completely layperson, I used perl a lot a decade ago an have spent a week playing with raku at one point, but nothing in my professional life even has a slight smell of perl anymore, which is strange seeing as 90% of our company codebase was perl 15 years ago.
Perceived barriers are just that though. This doesn’t remove them - someone still has to learn this system, and you’ve got to pay them to work on it. With a system like this, you’ll quickly come to the cases that business people love to create anyway: you can’t do X with Honeycode but you need to make it happen anyway. And then you’ll wish you’d just done the whole thing in Python.
If you feel worse enough to be less productive, have you actually acclimatized?

I grew up in a house with air conditioning on all the time during the summer and thought that there was no way I could ever handle indoor temperatures of, say, 75. Then I spent a couple years in Arizona and wanted to save on AC costs in the summer, it took a while to get used to, but now an indoor temperature of 70 in the summer feels very cold to me.
As a DBA, I would not use a database product without 5 years of reported production success. Additionally, most companies don't need yet another product to do training and support on.
Residents vowed to avoid the police to protect people of color
I keep my windows cracked in the winter despite having control (and payment responsibility, mind) of our heating. It's worth being able to think clearly all winter: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/07/indoor-co2-du...
Your view of the world is hurting your product
* you don't need the TPM for Windows Hello to act as your security key. I can't enable BitLocker because there's no TPM yet I have Hello enrolled as a key for GH.
That's nice. I hope you're right. Our company says the same things you are about business results and transparency, but they don't follow it behind closed doors.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a CS and Biz Ops lead to scale mobility tech
This is why it makes no sense to question how cold or warm other people like their home. I'm probably most comfortable around 25 degrees C (except perhaps when I'm exercising) - this is both during the summer and during the winter (and also during the day and night).
Realistically, it probably should.
> How have consumers been harmed by the Instagram acquisition? Facebook didn't shut them down, substantially change the product, or force users to use their other products.

Consumers have been fairly directly harmed, actually. Facebook operates a walled garden, without interoperability. You can post from Facebook to Instagram, or Instagram to Facebook, but not Instagram to Snapchat.

It would be nice if social networks were more open, in the spirit of the web. But they're not, and by they're nature, network effects are everything. No one wants to be on a social network that none of their friends use.

Meanwhile, Facebook has been among the most aggressive data collectors, collecting all manner of data on users, and then selling and monetizing that data.

Beyond that, Facebook also controls an extremely large amount of speech in the world, including political speech. All of this is directly harmful to consumers.

If there were several large social networks, both of these might be mitigated, or resolved.
As a Christian I am happy to see a non-religious person agree with me that the strident left does constitute a religion. But unlike the Christianity of the last hundred years or so, there is no opting out of this religion.
What about goats with earphones, trained to stimuli?

I'm not actually "rural", but I have chickens. (One of which is 10 years old!) There is such a thing as a "judas goat"; or "judas chicken". I've been through three generations of chickens now. The first generation ended up a quarter mile away on Pete's garden (he wasn't that upset). It doesn't happen any more.
I thought this was going to be one of those "learn X in Y minutes" articles. It's not, unfortunately, but this is: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/wasm/
That's the theory, but don't forget the time you spend upgrading Python because some dependency needs it, but some other part isn't compatible with the new version so you spend an hour on Google trying to sort that out.

Or the time you spend trying to debug some basic functionality you've written 20 times before because it isn't quite working with everything else for some reason...
1. My link stated that in certain areas, such as Connecticut, traffic fatalities went up.

2. My overall point is that a certain number of excess deaths are atrributable to the lockdown itself, rather than Covid. IIRC, the total number of reported deaths in NYC from heart disease, heart attacks, cancer, and a whole bunch of other diseases went down drastically; either Covid-19 magically cures all these other ailments, or a bunch of deaths are being mislabelled as Covid-related.
Yes, and for this reason (IIRC) GDP/capita scales linearly with MWH/capita.
> If store releases and load aquires were very cheap already why make them distinct from normal one anyway?

Perhaps if the ARM ISA was designed today, they would, I'm not sure.

My impression is that ARM added them when (a) it became obvious the way the wind was blowing with respect to modern memory models, like Java (sort of), C and C++, where acquire and release are the dominant paradigm (and I doubt any other langue will stray very far), and (b) they could see that these operations implementations can be implemented at a relatively low complexity cost and reasonable performance, compared to the existing barrier approach.

That said, there is a lot of room between "very cheap" and "too expensive", and it is probably hardware dependent. On some simple microcontroller-like design that doesn't want to do any extra work to support these, they might be very expensive, just relying on something like a full barrier which they have to support anyways.

However, on bigger designs, it is not necessarily very expensive to implement efficient release stores. They will still be slower than plain stores, but may not all that much slower. It's nothing like sequentially consistent stores, or barrier types that require a full store buffer drain.

Mostly all you need to need is to ensure that the stores drain in order. Actually the requirement is even weaker: you can't let release stores pass older stores. So it depends on your store buffer design and prevents some optimizations like merging and out-of-order commit to L1D, but those are far from critical optimizations (and you can still do them for plain stores at the cost of a bit more complexity).

If you are designing a core where release stores only occur in concurrent code, e.g,. as a result of a release store in C++, or as a lock release or whatever, you don't need to make them that fast. If they are 10x slower than regular stores, it's probably OK.

However, if you are designing a chip where you know you are going to be running a lot of emulated x86 code where every store is a store release, then yeah you are doing to do a bit more work to make these fast.

What are the other options? (1) and (2) in the GPs list seem very unlikely to me. (1) would almost certainly be much worse than release stores for multithreaded apps and destroy performance in popular creator apps.

(3) is certainly plausible and one variant of what I'm suggesting here: it means making plain stores and release stores the same thing (and I guess for loads). Definitely possible but seems less likely to me than (4).

Another possibility is a TSO mode, as you suggest. Perhaps this is somewhat easier than dynamically handling release stores, I'm not sure.
This reminds me of the Tandy 100, which was widely used by news reporters even into the early 80s.
If it was back-end website code it probably used Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm module which was used everywhere though it was a bit of a beast with frequent security updates. I later progressed to CGI::Application for an app which ran a business for 12 years before I converted it to Rails. I always thought Mojolicious was a great Perl web framework but unfortunately it landed just as Rails was picking-up steam.
Technology has it's benefit's but do you think we should rely on it to completely control crime? There are bias's (including ones we are unaware of) built into these systems by their developers.
Until Company B gets bought out...
Not really a problem for me - I keep a set of six CTAP2 keys registered on everything with careful labelling etc.

But for normal people, we do need to get more of the balance into the usability side I think. The thing with iCloud Keychain is it can comfortably be recovered without breaking the end-to-end encryption with only a single remaining device, and many Apple users have as many as 3-4 devices in the circle of trust

It seems ideally some kind of "roaming platform" additional option would be good in the webauthn standard
...and by the way, have you not noticed that your Google search results are peppered with paid results, and search terms that went "missing"?
Sounds interesting, I'll take a look. If you want to email me (grab from my website) so I can ask some questions about the data (if you have expertise here) that would be helpful.
Bob, in this case, is a proper noun.
It, in the other case, is a personal pronoun.

Generally, nouns can go from the nominative (subjective) case to the independent genitive (possessive) case by adding an apostrophe. If a word ends in "s", then the apostrophe goes after that "s". If the word does not end in "s", then you add an apostrophe, followed by an "s" after the end of the word.

A pronoun is treated differently than a proper or common noun when being used in its genitive case. Pronouns have declension (inflection) that can change their endings so they become different words.

For example, we can decline the pronouns to show possession using any of these cases:

Accusative (objective) case / Possessive Adjective case / Genitive (possessive) case

me / my / mine

you / your / yours

it / its / its

her / her / hers

him / his / his

us / our / ours

them / their / theirs

Case 1.* "The dog belongs to _"

Case 2. "This is _ dog".

Case 3. "That dog is _".

In all of these cases, a pronoun does not take an apostrophe, unlike you would see with common/proper nouns.

Note that this can apply to more than just the noun, in the case of "The Queen of England's dress", where Queen does not take the
So you can't grow potatoes vertically? Can you elaborate? Is it a function of physiology, i.e. calorie dense vegetables need far more leaves and supporting stems than can be practically stacked vertically?
Correct, and this has been the story with every piece of technology or tool we've ever given to police. We give them body cameras and they're turned off or used to create FPS-style snuff films of gunned down citizens. Give them rubber bullets and they're aimed at protesters eyeballs. Give them tasers and they're used as an excuse to shoot someone when the suspect "resists." Give them flashbangs and they'll throw them into an infant's crib. Give them mace and it's used out of car windows to punish journalists for standing on the sidewalks.

The mistake is to treat any police department as a good-faith participant in the goal of reducing police violence. Any tool you give them will be used to brutalize. The only solution is to give them less.
The Dangers of Blockchain-Enabled “Immunity Passports” for Covid-19
> ...a global constant would go in the TEXT section of the binary...

Wouldn't it go into the .rodata section, not .text?
Are you arguing that it is cheaper to just kill or beat people than to comfort them?
That's what I use! It's pretty minimal by modern standards but might still be too full-featured for AlphaSmart simulation.
I don’t think you need to conclude it’s a fake product in order to contact the AG so long as you have a reasonable suspicion. The AG, if they decide to pursue the case, will contact the manufacturer and/or have the contents of the tube tested by a lab.
You're comparing a 900lbs Gorilla to a 300lbs Gorilla and sort of overlooking that they're both Gorillas.
We had these at my school in the 90s too. We used them for writing assignments and to learn to type, but several kids with bad handwriting got to use them for everything. I was always a bit jealous. :)
Funny you should mention Haskell as it was used to bootstrap one of the early versions of Perl 6 if I remember.
>On the other hand, I absolutely loathe every single UI that has ever come out of AWS, and there is absolutely no chance I give the editor they've built here a shot without hearing lots of positive reactions first.

I agree so much with this. I hate the AWS console UI so, so much and It blows my mind that such a large company can't seem to even get on the same page about what color scheme or menu bar position they want to use.

But actually, I'm messing around with Honeycode right now and although I haven't gotten a chance to really dig deep and test the long-term usability of it, I have to say that so far it is gorgeous and intuitive. If the UI team that worked on this just completely took over the AWS console, I wouldn't complain.
The article isn’t analyzing net advertisers, it doesn’t matter if 10 new ones join that’s not relevant to the statement that the number leaving is increasing.

“carefully avoids investigating” give me a break
That makes sense but it kind of falls into my "brain has a better architecture" possible explanation. What's interesting is that the thrust of the GPT approaches is "architecture doesn't matter while we can just keep building bigger models".

It would be surprising to me if AGI is achievable via two such different pathways. I don't know this area so I'm willing to be surprised.
It's not that they are difficult or something but usually the decision makers,who could make Excel,as a local database,backup system and CRM platform on Annie's PC go,have no concept of what's better or worse or that sending hundreds of Excel files back and forth is not a great idea. There are people out there running thousands people divisions and having no clue that they could probably get rid of 20% of them just if they would have some centralised system.

Why build an app if Excel+Email works?

Of course it does.There are people on YouTube making houses with swimming pools by carving soil with some primitive tools but does that mean it's the best way to go?