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> We want a unified good build system for rust, not a ridiculous mess of difference package managers and build systems like in some other language ecosystems. Sometimes, conformity is a better approach, and I would be deeply saddened to see rust go that way.

I would like to disagree on this. I would prefer to see the Rust ecosystem play better with other build systems, instead of requiring all Rust to use Cargo. This becomes important when you are using Rust as part of a larger, multi-language code base. At my day job, we have Rust, Python and Typescript, and we use Bazel for much of the build, getting a bunch of advantages that Bazel brings to the table - remote caching, being able to query the dependency graph, selective testing and so on. These latter are not available in cargo, and would be significant work to re-implement infrastructure based on querying cargo instead of querying bazel.

I think there are 3 different things that Cargo tries to do, which would be better of with strong (and well documented) boundaries between them, so that users could mix and match each of these.

1. Compiling a crate - This is usually one rustc call. I'd venture saying that build.rs files are another layer, but I haven't thought about it enough. It is pretty common in Bazel-land to have build.rs wrapped in a `rust_binary` that is a dependency for the crate itself (usually `rust_library`). This is the easiest to plug into other build systems.
2. Compiling a set of crates/packages - Assuming a system where all the crates are on-disk, Cargo does the job of invoking rustc correctly with the dependencies passed and the right set of features selected. For Bazel, this is what rules_rust implements. The thing is, rules_rust has to figure this out by inspection of Cargo, instead of being able to rely on editions or compiler versions. (FYI, I've never used rules_rust. We have our own internal rules for Rust and we had to figure out things by inspection. Particularly Cargo specific environment variables that are not a part of the Rust language/stdlib, but are assumed to exist by libraries).
3. Package management - i.e. how to get dependencies from the network/someplace else onto disk. I'd suspect this is one place most large orgs would prefer not to rely on Cargo, because it necessarily locks them into some kind of delivery mechanism that is specific to the ecosystem, instead of having a dumb file server. i.e. we would need one for npm/yarn, one for pypi and so on, where each of these frontends know how to go from the "language package name" to the file on disk. I much prefer Bazel here where external dependencies are specified just by HTTP URLs and a sha256 hash to verify contents.

I'm almost _not_ on board with each language building their own compiler driver and package manager, because they end up duplicating so much work - some kind of caching mechanism, some kind of toolchain mechanism, some kind of resolver mechanism and so on...
From other thread: As a former fashion writer, the "fashion industry," reduces to a spectacle for selling perfume and cosmetics. Fashion itself is an expression of beliefs, power, and alignment that people buy clothes to participate in.

In this sense, fashion is to clothing what live music is to alcohol, or what journalism is to advertising. There is an underlying high-margin business that you use a spectacle to attract people into to sell them stuff. The talent for the spectacle exists in a local equilibrium that is largely oblivious to the economics that make it viable. Journalists are a great example of people who thought they were the money maker and remain in denial about the economics of their role of bringing readers to advertisers.

Fashion designers (like Jacobs in the article) appear to have the same conceit, where their role as the spectacle that draws in punters who buy super high margin smelly water, face paint, and snake oil lotions has been displaced. Covid has just been the coup de gras, where the fashion business has been steadily being polarized and dis-intermediated for at least a decade. A business that promised and re-sold proximity to fame was really taken out much earlier by Instagram and its influencer economy, where now everyone is famous for Warhol's 15 minutes, and the returns on investment in fame schemes are now much more diffuse.

The dynamic described in the article about luxury clothing in the end resembles the book and publishing business, where you are in effect consigning product to retailers, who make massive orders for their big box shops, then destroy you with returns. It's like how movies spent almost 100 years in in the popcorn and concessions business, and they've found totally new economics in the streaming game. Fixing fashion is the same class of problem as fixing journalism, publishing, music, movies, and arts in general, where the economics of getting people together to sell them complimentary high margin goods in the moment and place was decimated by social media, and now finished off by covid. These markets aren't dead, but they are now polarized, where the super high end is fine, and the absolute bottom will persist, but the lucrative middle is hollowed out. These fashion design brands made most of their money on middle market goods backed by over leveraged private equity investments and sunk costs in conglomerates, and that's why they're getting killed by this.

Fashion is the business of symbols and signifiers and there is infinite human demand for these (just as there is for stories, conflict/news, spectacle, etc), so future businesses using totally different modalities will pick up the slack to meet it, but reading fashion talent hand wringing about their market is like listening to journalists talk about the economics of publishing, hockey players discussing team ownership, or perhaps even us hackers talking about venture capital. What we think is meaningful and decisive, it's not meaningful and decisive.
Show HN: Spry – Build Ecommerce with Google Sheets
Hi HN, Jay (memset) and Len here. We've built Spry (https://spry.store), a tool that allows you to create an ecommerce site just using Google Sheets and Stripe. We think it's easier to use than the alternatives and priced so you don't spend more than you make on a side-hustle.

Jay has been selling music notebooks online for over a year. His biggest pain point was the initial toil of researching ecommerce options, comparing pricing and features, and all of the sheer configuration he had to do just to get the notebooks online. We set out to fix this.

Spry is simple:
1) sign in with Google
2) add products to a sheet
3) poof they appear on your site

We see people using it as a way to list personal items, dropship items, or as their first ecommerce site. Let us know what you think!
No matter who you put forth saying what Gates has been saying, they will quickly be tarnished by the same baseless bullshit. Effectively 0% of people knew who Facui or Birx were before the pandemic. Now they're the target of the same kind of controversy.
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That's an interesting perspective. I live in Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan blocks popular VPNs as well. But it blocked Tor many years ago (although I think that you can access it with enough trickery, but you can't just access its website and you can't just run downloaded Tor and bootstrap it) for ordinary users.

May be there're not enough juridical grounds in Russia to block Tor. But I doubt it, they tried to block Telegram when they wanted to... May be opposition does not use Tor, so it's out of sight.
As a person not fluent in processor design, chip design, FPGAs or Verilog, is there some demonstration of actual software running on this implementation? Or is that one or more steps away after synthesising and loading the bitstream in to the FPGA?
Thumbnails are buggy.
Auto complete doesnt work in some cases. No tab reordering, open in new tab order is weird. Home page is worse. No addons... lots of other small annoyances.

And worst of it, no about config. I dont like the direction mozilla is taking. Do they have any reasoning for no abour config.

This is quite a downgrade, I think I am switching to another browser on mobile.
I only recently realised that in Card Captor Sakura the protagonist's friend followed her around all the time with a camera, filming their adventures. I found that super creepy at the time, and yet here we are now. At least she kept the videos to herself instead of making gifs out of them.

Whether the authors saw the writing in the wall before everyone else, whether it was a reflection of something that already existed in Japan at the time, or whether it was simply a coincidence, I couldn't say.
I would be interested to see an example of it ignoring quotes silently because I've heard a lot about it. I use search terms in quotes relatively often and have never noticed that, although it does the 'did you mean without quotes' thing all the time.

In the past for very long tail content, I've found Bing and Yandex to be useful. Yandex image search in particular is often better than Google or Bing, particularly if you are searching for people because it does some facial recognition.
Dorking is not that easy to do, Google is very easy on assuming you are being malicious on certain queries, try one too many and you'll hit their dreaded captcha that is impossible to pass.
Show HN: Screpy reached 500 users in a day
I considered that. It should be fairly simple to find evidence in any particular state, just dig through Google's transparency reports. Would be fascinating to watch.
>Distance between homes and offices is the problem; cars are the worst solution except for all the others.

Cars and their associated infrastructure (roads, parking) cause and/or enable the distance.
But Gates is controversial because of the work he did that make him a qualified source, so it's not unlikely that any reasonable alternative would also have their name "tarnished".
By Section 21, you mean the clause that essentially says: "a landlord can evict a tenant without having any reason", you think that's tenant-centric?

The same one that the current UK Conservative government thinks is a shade too far and is talking about repealing?

Gosh.

I recently moved from a country that had this rule to one that didn't, and I have spent time talking to my therapist about how my life is immeasurably less stressful if only for this one reason.
Amazing to see how few people actually think about this. I badgered my sister in law to not work from a laptop on a folding table months ago. She’s still at it but finally let me order her a full ergonomic setup within her budget (chair/regular desk/monitor/keyboard/mouse/webcam/light)
I guess my problem is that "what makes you happy" .. "is a fancy car" (you can go in debt to get) is a message that is "loud" and unlike a house (arguably the other functional yet status symbol) is within reach of people who it isn't in their best interest to get.

I think it's a nuanced subject because as most things in life it's mixed up in all aspects of human life like financial education and personal responsibility but what I'm saying is that current "car culture" (to sweep away all the nuance) doesn't feel right to me right now and I think causes a lot of harm...

https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/07/Indeed-Prime.html?m=1
I can get quite dehydrated before I get thirsty. So now when I get a headache I drink a lot of water and it usually helps.
That was 20 years ago, they’ve had lots of turnover since. So while they clearly retain some expertise, most appears to be in launch operations, not launch system design. Which is one reason they had to farm out engine design to Blue Origin.

Treating the ULA bid as if it were lower risk than SpaceX appears to be contrary to the facts. The Falcon 9 has been flying for a decade, and has a very good safety record.

The Vulkan is a paper rocket that is years from actual service using an unproven engine, being designed by an effectively new team.
A good way to make something readable to the general public would be to not even write it in math. (But then again, that's not a very useful statement when we need things written out in math.)

Snarkiness aside, I do agree that a good number of mathematicians don't know how to write, but that does not mean that mathematical writing is intrinsically bad. We don't judge a random programming language as "bad," just because a random member of the public isn't able to parse it (since a random member of the public likely has not learned any programming, much less that language's syntax), so why would we apply similar statements to math in the same way?
Another failure: IP as it is today allows for all the tax havens
> they've been better about removing the feature flag when the feature is stabilized.

The developers of rustc define the language, while the developers of GHC are trying to be first an implementation of a purportedly independent standard.

I don't raise this as defense or attack on either side, but I think it's an important bit of context in understanding the differences.
For English coverage on Twitter, check Tadeusz Giczan's feed.
Besides being a reductio ad absurdum[0] argument that ads nothing to the discussion, I'll address your comment.

Music, Art, Food, Literature and Architecture generally don't go out of style every 6 months (although companies are trying harder and harder to make it so).

Nor do they have the same toxic effect on the environment (possible exception: food?) and personal self esteem as high fashion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
> If I've reduced the odds of catching COVID19 by even, say, 30%,

Given that the likelihood of catching it from a brief encounter with a random passer by is in fact quite small the idea that a mask could reduce the odds meaningfully in large unconfined spaces seems unlikely. We do not wear masks here in Norway but we do keep our distance (except for usual idiots at parties, etc.).

Recent clusters of infection here have all been traced to people who were in close contact with large numbers of people for hours (wedding parties, cruise ships, etc.). Then perhaps diligent use of masks might have helped but just not holding the party helps more.

> For the most part, easiest thing to do is to not go out in public.

This together with simple measures like making sure one washes ones hands seems to be what is working here.
My point is more that I decide when to participate - and that I’m not beckoned by a “red dot”, a “ding”, or another other sort of notification.
Privacy Focused Analytics from Scratch
The virtual desktop idea is really interesting. How did you implement it/which tools did you use?
When I was young in grade school, and learned about the bomb, and its terrifying aftermath, pictures, scars, I thought that this was clearly a wrong against humanity to have been dropped on anyone. Clearly the visceral kind of "this should never happen" reaction that any average person would have. "How could we put the Enola Gay on a stamp to glorify this?"

Then, in college and especially after, learning about the equal horrors of the Japanese war machine, and maybe actually more the non-horrific but relentless robotic support for the war (or obedience towards the emperor, government, etc) among the people, I realized that it actually did bring an end to the war. Which if it had continued, could have consumed far more lives. (whether it had to be this tool, of course, is certainly worthy of debate)

Now, my 3rd phase of thinking -- beyond any opinion on tactics or reaction or bombs in the moment of a war -- is how do we get people to help themselves get out of the path to war? Each and every one of us, who whether by support or indifference, or tacit approval, or compounded misinformation, or ego, get ourselves into situations that we look back 50 years from now and say, "what happened?".

Surely, we have the tools and desire, don't we? I hope.
Indeed Prime tries to encourage employers to think about such candidates by using coding tests on its platform, aimed toward showing employers than “non-traditional candidates” are even as skilled as children beginning of the halls of academia.

https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/07/Indeed-Prime.html?m=1

Seen helps employers more easily connect with not just some of the toughest to fill tech roles Indeed data shows that the toughest to fill tech role within the US is programmer , where the bulk of job postings lie open for over sixty days.

In addition to serving a broader range of job titles, Seen has many other benefits for those trying to find their perfect match. Such benefits to job seekers include free, personalized career guidance that gives everything from webinars and work style assessments to one-on-one career coaching sessions. Additionally, personalized resume reviews are going to be provided to all or any tech candidates, providing videos unique to every individual with recommendations on the way to boost their resume.
Sure, Jobs was not an inventor, he was a refiner, like a great chef who takes local village recipes and refines the dishes and the presentation into a $300 Michelin star restaurant. He had a great talent for taking something new, packaging it into something people wanted, and then making them want it. I had several “smartphones” before the iPhone and the first time I used an iPhone I knew it was different. I’ve seen my 9 month old baby do basic navigation on my iPhone, while I seen 45 year old colleagues of mine at the time flummoxed by my Nokia N95.
For more fun, have your screenshots sent to a folder, then have a LaunchAgent run pngcrush on new files in that folder...
Only 50-60 minutes a day? That’s still huge, over the course of a weekend you’ve over half a work day! Value that time and keep hold of it.
It still work but some file type never return anything, I have the same problem with epub, pretty sure it's some google's shenanigan about books piracy.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en
What about LoRaWAN?
Yes, culture and trends are a waste, when they are primarily a marketing tool to make people consume your product.

Look at history and you find plenty of examples how cultures and trends emerged and spread within parts of societies, then got dragged into the spotlight by people wanting to maximize profit of off it, selling soulless disposable shells of the originals.
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Today’s cheap and high cadence commercial launch systems should make the extra weight needed for horizontal assembly a non-factor.
Less Screens, More Dirt: Douglas Rushkoff Interview
I find going up from the basement to be easiest. Dirt rocks and spider webs beats heat, grime and ceiling creatures.

I think it depends on what creatures you have in your area.

In my location, I'll take ceiling creatures (bats, owls) over basement creatures (multiple poisonous arachnids, poisonous snakes, poisonous lizards, etc...)
I used to work for a telcom, and the thing I'm most excited for is the benefits dense urban areas may see with 5G-based internet service. If it weren't for caps, it would significantly drive down the cost and bureaucracy of installing/updating infrastructure while increasing the speeds in a lot of areas.
What will happen when people get burned out and they can't escape work to recover because they live at work now?
There are technologies belonging to the 5G family that target specifically IoT. They can coexist with “normal” 5G /4G in the same base station. These technologies have way more robust transmission schemes that make them operational even with 20db (100 times) worse SNR than normal mobile communications technologies like LTE. The flagship technology in this space proposed by 3GPP is NB-IoT.
>Sounds ripe for general havoc

More than humans and their flakey attention span & slow reactions?

I mean yeah any complex system has potential for abuse & steps should be taken to mitigate that seems like a solvable problem in the bigger picture.
Looks like this was supported by Oracle's Zurich team, and they probably decided to stop working on this project back then (they were responsible of the vast majority of the contributions before then)
My anecdote data. I'm living in Kazakhstan and there's an interesting observation. We used to have lots of cockroaches in houses, especially when houses were not very clean. It was, I think, before 1995. It seems the same with our post-USSR neighbour countries (Russia, and so on). I used to live in such a flat, where lots of cockroaches were running in the kitchen at night. I remember as a child that we tried different chemicals to fight them, but with little success. And it was similar for many other people.

And at some point they were just gone. From everyone's house. It was not just one day, but we just understood that there are no cockroaches around.

It's still possible to find them somewhere, I guess, but that's a rare event. Something's changed.

Some people think that's because chemicals finally became effective and eradicated them. And some people think that's because of cellular networks which appeared everywhere around that time. I never found definitive answer, just speculations.
How SHRDLU got its name (2003)
The one and only thing I own that sometimes gets remarked upon (other than various T-shirts) is a pair of custom-made hiking boots I own that are fairly distinctive and not at all common. (Also very comfortable and they've been repaired and resoled.)
> And although the current US government is pretty bad, Microsoft should buy their own social media platform which is being otherwise kneecapped for political reasons.

As I read it, he explicitly said that he didn't think that MS should buy TikTok.
Prediction: Using the methods of "dorking", this is the only page on the internet among 10 million+ results that is calling this "dorking".
Oriented electric fields as future smart reagents in chemistry [pdf]
"The figures include 6,000 people who did not attend A&E at the height of lockdown because of fears they might catch the virus and the feeling they should remain at home because of the "Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives" message."

This seems like two distinctly separate categories to me - if someone didn't go to the hospital because they feared the virus and later died, that person's death was completely unrelated to the lockdown (and if anything, a stronger lockdown could have saved some of those lives by ending the risk that drove them to stay home). If they didn't go to the hospital because of the advice to stay home rather than their own caution, I think that's a reasonable death to include in the numbers.
My wife and I created a game as a save the date for our wedding, with 8-bit avatars of ourselves that guests could play to "save the date". A number of guests played it multiple times in an attempt to be on the high scores board - we even gave out prizes to the top three scores!

We got a lot of feedback that other people would want to be able to have a similar game, so we rebuilt a customizable version where people can create their own avatars, dialogue, and other game aspects. Obviously this is a rough year for save the dates, but we're still pretty pleased with how it has turned out so far.

https://www.pleasesavethedate.com
Let’s implement a Bloom Filter
Good grief. The contention here is that in 1977 the Russians were culturing samples of an existing strain of H1N1 that was known to researchers from an outbreak 26 years previous, but which had dropped out of circulation. And they oopsed, and it got out. That seems not totally improbable, and I'll believe the sequencing results.

I don't know how you get from there to (sigh) "Covid is human-engineered", at all. Can you explain how this is relevant at all, except in the way both hypotheses invoke evil foreign laboratories in totalitarian states?
Could a $10 Covid Test Allow Us to Reopen the Economy?
Which had extended breakage: they ran it "hot" and remediation was expensive.
Ask HN: Is it still unsafe/insecure to use a baby camera?
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

With the fashion industry 'pushing the unseen and unsold 2020 collections into 2021', Oscar Wilde's quote may no longer be true!