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Heh, I guarantee you that Harriers in the Falklands used "viffing"... as an administrative maneuver. The Harrier family has a whole menagerie of weird and wonderful TVC party tricks that are notoriously difficult to pull off, need a bunch of excess altitude as a backstop for when things inevitably go wrong, and generally aren't applicable to air-to-air combat.

All that said, I agree with you that it's wild how the idea of "slamming on the brakes" in air-to-air combat continues to survive as a perennial meme. Supermaneuverability has certainly expanded the envelope of potential post-stall maneuvers (and, more importantly, dramatically reduced pilot workload in those regimes) far beyond what the Harrier is capable of, but outside of the airshow circuit it continues to remain a solution in search of a problem.

"Fighter pilots HATE him! Learn this one weird trick that the bandits don't want you to know about and win 100% of your BFM engagements!" If only it were that easy...
a terse comment isn't necessarily unsubstantive. the obvious subtext is that they are proposing authoritarianism

goodbye
It's simple, you are not stuck with a vendor.

A practical example that happened to my employer recently : we migrated to Microsoft Azure when they opened two datacenters in our country. We didn't have to change any code because we don't use vendor locked solutions.
That's a rather fallacious argument. 6.9bn people never existing != killing 6.9bn people.

And the hosting of those 7bn people has caused irreperable damage to ecosystems. Why are you so happy for the extinction of entire species, but not for 6.9bn people not existing?
Confluence is trash. It's slow, buggy, has a terrible UI which is always being messed with (or in Atlassian speak: "improved") and is constantly finding new ways to be unhelpful. Example: if you're trying open a template you don't have access to there's no way of requesting access to it. Confluence instead tells you to ask the person who created it to grant you access. Who?
We are of course not obligated, but it's a good bet that those who are currently idle will become productive if we enable them to do so, and we all stand to benefit. Teach a man to fish, and all that.
> Our kids can visit their friends and have rich social connections instead of helping with the corn harvest.

The reason our kids don't help with the corn harvest and have "rich social connections" (?) is that we hire immigrants do it, paying them as little as possible and denying them basic rights.
52 bits is the size of the mantissa in an IEEE 754 double precision floating point
I think hosting files in a S3 bucket with a CDN in front is easy to replace. You can do the same with two Docker containers or host it the same way in many other clouds.
> Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc

This is my impression too. What should we do or even think about it ? I tend to go slightly radical and cut socnet while allowing a few IRC and a bit of reddit.

I think our understanding of 'social' is incomplete, as if social bonds without simple and clear goals (important tasks to be done, or sharing moments with people we have deep bonds with) leads to degenerate noise tsunamis like we're seeing.
Depends what you value more I guess. These lives or the many more lives that could live in the future?
I say gbs because (not checked recently) they were cached so your nvidia driver folder would be 10s of GB in size. For a driver!
> It’s important to realize that Amazon isn’t violating any rules, nor even (on the surface) societal norms. Waste is bad, efficiency is good, right? They’re doing what’s taught in every business school; maximizing efficiency is one of the greatest gifts of the free market. Amazon is really extremely good at it.

It's important to realize that tycoons cornering the market in days gone by weren't violating any rules or societal norms. They were just maximizing efficiency. Same goes for industrial revolution era business owners demanding 16+ hour work shifts and tossing the broken people aside. You didn't need much skill to feed the machines; just functional hands.

Eventually, society steps in and changes the rules to favour the downtrodden, and those who stand to lose from the change fight and complain bitterly about interference and the unfairness of making their efficiency harder to achieve, and then it gets pushed through regardless and life goes on.

We may not be able to prescribe remedies against future abuse in many cases (and probably shouldn't in some), but we can at least recognize it when it's there, and do something about it. That's what a free society is about.
Same here tbh.
Nobody would die since they wouldn‘t even exist in the first place.

And what about the negative experiences? Especially for the vast majority of poor people?

I agree that in the end the industrial revolution was a wonderful thing. But not because of the number of people.
That is a very clear answer to the question! So the health promise is simply transactional.
> You can see the phenomenon I'm talking about happen right now, in every HN thread where we push against the ocean trying to keep Electron from being a thing. What's going to happen first: Electron's runtime will become clever enough that its performance is tolerable even to nerds, or most Electron applications being rewritten in a language that forces programmers to manually manage memory?

Browsers already have an immense amount of effort poured into making them fast. They will get faster, but not by much.

But then, JavaScript was never the problem with Electron in the first place. Or at least, not the fact that UI code is written in JavaScript. After all, a lot of the people complaining about Electron (me included) are Mac users pining specifically for native Cocoa apps. Which, up until recently, were all written in Objective-C – a language which is much slower than JavaScript! Even Swift is not necessarily faster.

Rather, from a performance perspective, I think the biggest problems are (1) the DOM being a terrible abstraction to design user interfaces on top of, and (2) the web forcing you to use JavaScript for everything rather than letting you drop down to native code for performance-critical bits (other than what is implemented by the browser itself).
Couldn't disagree with you more. The architecture of Vienna is designed to pack people on top of each other, giving each domicile the bare minimum air and light required. It is truly oppressive to experience, year after year. The Viennese live in caves.
Jim Keller had an interesting talk recently [1] about ways of doing parallel processing to better us the billions of transistors we have - assuming the task is parallelizable. There's the scalar core (i.e the basic CPU) which is easy to program realtively. Then a scalar core with vector instructions - difficult to program efficiently. Then there are arrays of scalar cores, i.e. GPUs, so relatively easy to program again, and now a lot of startups with arrays of scalar cores each with vector engines, so expected to be most difficult to program. He didn't go into why vector instructions are hard to use efficiently, and hard for compiler writers, but I'd be interested if anyone here could explain that.

1. https://youtu.be/8eT1jaHmlx8
"Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want"

The only place I heard it is Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture"
rust doesn't look like it has a steep learning curve. not to me at least. the discouraging thing is the "weird" syntax. i feel like rust is the result of diverging ways of looking at things.

not saying it's a bad. just wish some effort were put into making a consistent syntax.

seems weird to me that whoever decided on the function keyword "fn" would write the "Option" type. they would have written "Opt". but no, it's "Option".

consistency is very underrated. and these things just look odd to me but the rust community think it's okay, so, oh well...
Shows how little experience you have with asking people why they disagree with these changes, if you shrug off rationalism as racism.
The funny thing is, I considered that option before the Apple announcement. I was basically decided, but the big thing was: I couldn't find a good offering for a really good Ryzen laptop, especially when considering running Linux (I would still be interested in getting a recommendation).
But so far I find the Apple announcements so exciting, that going Ryzen has been put back into being plan B.
Native Rust macros are generally preferred, because they prevent a few classes of error that can happen with the purely textual macros cpp and m4 use. In particular, they prevent unpaired delimiters from appearing in the macro expansion and name collisions between the macro implementation and the callsite.
> No, if you don't work you don't have healthcare, only emergency care that I think it's similar to the one in US.

No, really, you do. I'm speaking for Germany here, if you're unemployed and on long term welfare, the state pays for your health insurance (and it's at a subsidized rate), you have the exact same health insurance as any normal employee that is using the public health insurance (which is the super majority, only a few industries, the self-employed and high-salary employees can opt for private insurance instead).
Note that I wouldn't expect a beginner to Rust to care about writing macros at all. Macros are something that you might introduce to a project eventually in order to abstract over some project-specific boilerplate (and only as a last resort; there are usually better abstractions to reach for first).

I say this because someone coming from a functional language might be betrayed by their instincts here: it is relatively rare for Rust users to write macros themselves, and macro-heavy Rust code would generally be regarded as peculiar/unidiomatic.
You're not wrong, but at the same time, our western lives have lead to the exploitation of both the people and the resources of less economically developed nations.

It seems our geographic removal from that exploitation leads to an emotional removal from it in a lot of people too
Sometimes I just lie down and look at the roof. I enjoy these times, but all sense of enjoyment would be lost the moment you develop a metric to track my contemplatative moments
I'm all for helping people be productive. It's a shame to waste human potential. But if you have the ability to be productive and choose to be idle instead, nobody is under any obligation to feed, house, or clothe you. If you want things made by other people and you're able to work, you must work. Anything else is incompatible with basic tenets of fairness. And even ignoring fairness and descending to the level of crude practicality, when you take from the productive and give to the unproductive, the size of the former group shrinks and the latter one grows. Eventually, there's not enough productivity to go around and the whole thing collapses.
how can anybody believe such bullshit?

Put your money where your mouth is: you can still live without industrialization. Find some wood, build your hut, and go for it.

Come back in five years and tell us how much you hate industrialization. If you haven't "efficiently died", that is.
The "tap hour, then minute" UI is for setting an alarm. But for timers ("please beep in 5 minutes and 30 seconds") the app still has the old stupid scroll interface.
Effective Habits for Effective Study
I don't get the finance mindset, you don't have access to any of the information or actions that make the squiggly line of price go up or down. Deriving models from natural phenomenon and applying them in a completely unrelated field looks to be a gamble no matter how you cut it.

We are all going into the unknown all the time, predicting the future is not a solvable problem, but you can train yourself to aim better from past attempts.
> The idea that buildings in Venice are layered, with newer ones built on top of older ones when they succumbed to the water seems to be mythological.

It is pure invention. (Source: architect living near Venice).

Probably originated from Hollywood movies, where Venice features underground tombs, sewers and tunnels; and palaces can be sunk like ships hit by a torpedo.
> A half-dozen HN articles a day.

Time to block it.
A professional shouldn't be "married" to a platform, but most professionals have a clear understanding which platform gives them the best productivity and the environment they like to work in. There are quite a few things which keep me going with the Mac over a Windows machine, though WSL makes the latter more interesting than it had been in the past.
AMD is doing well in the CPU market today _because_ they reversed course from the Bulldozer-based architectures.
Unless there is a robust social safety net, it doesn't take much to go from "fire everyone skilled" to serious effects on the most vulnerable: children, elderly dependents, etc. often reaching far beyond the employee.

Maybe the previous owner should've known better, but they made a conscious decision after evaluating the situation. Maybe the new owner should've acted more responsibly, but they made a conscious decision after evaluating the situation.

Can you say the same for the people who are told they're fired? They made no conscious decision but are the ones who will have to pick up the slack (until such time that a new company arises, if ever). And, funnily enough, the people who are all for private ownership tend not to be the same people advocating for better social safety nets.

If the company was in decline before the purchase, then the end effect could end up being the same. But willfully creating the situation is hardly fuzzy morally.

There is almost no way to affect another person's life by what you choose to do with an apple.
No not at all. All I wanted was to watch the movie in its native language (or a language I could understand at least).

Getting my money back from google is impossible, according to google. Since they could not offer a solution to the language issue, they told me 4 times to complain at apple and try to get my money back from them.

Again: that was not my issue at al. The time it took to dialog with google support was 10 times as expensive as the rent for the movie anyway. I wanted my expectations to be met, was told that it's impossible, so I adjusted my exceptions when being offered to buy / rent from YT to zero.
Really, you should rarely be using raw memory barriers even in C, IMO. The C11/C++11 atomics model (which Rust also uses) is substantially nicer. Though, unfortunately, still extremely tricky to get right.
Can you mention what are the tools that you use as alternatives to compose?
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> Are you protecting against an actor with goals and capabilities, or are you trying to make yourself feel better?

It is difficult to protect against state actors.

But a lot of attackers are not state actors. They are private actors (whether lone individuals or groups) going after the low-hanging fruit. Protecting against this threat is a lot easier.

And for a lot of enterprises, the second category is a bigger threat than the first. Even if the NSA steals all your data, they are unlikely to release it to the general public or use it for extortion. The later group are much more likely to do things like that. If the NSA hacks you, you quite possibly will never know they've done it. If the later group hacks you, they'll make sure you know they've done it by the pain they'll cause.

(Of course, I realise how for companies in certain sensitive industries, such as defence, aerospace, semiconductor fabrication, etc, the threat of state-sponsored cyber-espionage from competing international powers is a real threat – however, I think in those cases one's own country's three-letter agencies are often keen to be helpful.)
> Most people are not Feynman. Most engineers today think they have the capability of being Feynman one day - of course, statistics dictates that most will not be.

But Feynman, at least in his written works, was more a reverse engineer than an actual engineer.
Number of poor people has gone down thanks to industrialization - even while at the same time total population numbers have exploded.

https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=508
Or Cloudflare workers KV. https://workers.cloudflare.com/
Except for dishwasher factory workers. Progress is inevitable, I'm questioning whether progress actually increases happiness.
It does scale of course. The one example you mention is couples. Perhaps men prefer one candidate over women and pressure their wives to vote a certain way. How is that not scaling?

Another example is unions. Perhaps the union and many colleagues prefer one candidate - if you sneak off to the voting booth you risk ostracization.
> Why are you so happy for the extinction of entire species, but not for 6.9bn people not existing?

Why should I care about "entire species"?

I'm happy that we made smallpox extinct. Likewise, I'd be ecstatic if we decided to drive the mosquito out of existence. I'm all for caring about nature, but towards the end of improving human welfare. Where saving some random species conflicts with saving people, choosing anything but the latter is just monstrous. Sentient creatures (only humans, currently) have moral worth. Non-sentient creatures, none.
Quite. Much of the cult status of Feynman was created by the man himself. He had several books written espousing his genius. As for his charm - salesmen are charming, psychopaths are charming. Charm is a 5 letter word for manipulative, as many of his colleagues wives discovered.
I never thought I’d be spending the afternoon watching a YouTube video of a macbook “mooing” but here we are
Just think how much more efficient porn is than the real thing.
Complete bullshit. Do a job that is actually in demand, then nobody can force you to work more than you want.

And the 8 hour work day was supposedly introduced by Ford, not by Unions.
Layers containing an existing video (rather than just static images) would be the most practically important feature to add: people who want to make a music video tend to have existing videp footage to use, not only images, and it cannot be easily integrated.
Says person who wrote this on his computing device connected to the internet, powered by electricity.
Happens on iOS safari. When I go to your website, and then try to go back to my previous page with a swipe from the left, it will force me back to your site.
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Coinbase is selling blockchain analytics software to the US Secret Service
What I found the biggest turn of in Ham, versus the communication medium I choose at the time, was the fact that everything was already close to perfect and people in the community knew close to everything and where very conservative.

"The internet" (datanet 1 in my case, growing up in Holland) was a complete different beast: everyone was scrambling to figure stuff out, there where no limits, no hierarchy, no unwritten rules, just an endless space to figure out and to share experiences and hypotheses.

Never lost interest in the airwaves since they are my first love, but never spend more then some after-hours on it. The ham people I've met over the years that I found to do interesting stuff, seem to border legal experiments (with a new found interest for pretty powerful (mobile) shortwave radios since recently).
Yeah, it breaks if you've got bugs in your org.
Ubisoft sexual harassment investigation claims three more executives
I keep meaning to do a full audit of their contributors list. I have suspicion that there's likely saboteurs from adobe doing some kind of open source espionage.

I would certainly do this if I was adobe.
Quoting the Unabomber's manifesto is an interesting choice.
> In practice, interest rates stay low, governments can borrow more or less for free, and all sorts of crazily doomed shit is getting investment funding.

Please continue this while I find something to get VC funding
Yes almost anything to do with Industrial Ethernet type standards are all over the place. 1588 PTP mixes with IETF TICTOC workgroup output. Synchronous data also gets used in Psuedowire backhaul for low level circuit emulation signaling like from SCADA or GSM towers etc. And that's without going into IECxxxxx's for powerplant comms.

Certifiable Precision Timeing over anything is not trivial.
Thanks. The Little Green Viper site just underwent a server upgrade. I don’t expect issues, but it’s possible there may have been some (it’s fine, now). The Rift Valley site had a couple of issues yesterday, and I suspect that HN may have been responsible. It seems fine, now.
https://splitter.ai/ does the same thing without any downloads or charges
Are you saying hormones don’t affect behaviors?
Testing Netlify server-side analytics
How companies became addicted to debt
— How often does the train go by?

— So often you won’t even notice it.

Jake & Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers, 1980
> Sure, not 100% of the games will work / some gestures may be wonky

That probably includes the vast majority of games that you would want to play on a desktop system: the ones with perceived console quality.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Apple Arcade. It has cross platform games. About none of them have any appeal for a desktop gamer. Non-ported mobile games? They will have even less appeal.

Except some casual games like Monument Valley.

> there are some unique iOS games that were never ported to a Mac

Once again, the vast majority of those will most likely be very foreign on a desktop OS.
> I do think it's an example, though, of how certain topics are "off limits" because a small group does not want them to be discussed.

> For me, it exacerbates my long standing worries that abuse of flagging (or the counter-reaction thereto) may be the eventual downfall of HN.

It doesn't really worry me, but topics that I may have wanted to discuss on HN long ago and try to today on some posts, I usually spend more time elsewhere discussing them now and less time on HN doing so because they usually have a very short shelf because of the above and that's fine for me, but maybe not HN.
Your cynicism is off the charts.

Paying attention to people, listening to them carefully, answering questions and explaining things clearly, talking to them as equals instead of patronizing, etc. is not inherently “manipulative” or “psychopathic”.
I cannot express, how much I hate it. I mean, I don't really see how the last line of your comment is relevant, since it was never up to me what the company I work in would choose as the internal tool for communication, and I was pretty vocal about my disdain for it from the day 1, but that software is just trash.

And I don't even see the need to delve into all that "philosophy of communication" and "culture" you are talking about, the chat itself is just the most inferior one of all I've seen since early 2000's, and I have to use it for daily communication, it's maddening. It lacks the most basic functionality you could expect from a messenger in 2020.
The CS 1.6 community could be pretty toxic circa 2007. At least in France.
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