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IMO Go's biggest issue is its lack of the functional features which have trickled into most languages (although arguably without generics, this is impossible to implement).

I dont particularly want Haskell with semi colons and braces, but a functional style definitely has its place.

Just like Go has a subset of the traditional object oriented style, i think there is a place for a subset of functional.
Fuck jstor
I have always thought the the Culture novels are a bad fit for a TV series. The non-chronological, only-loosely-based-in-the-same-universe style makes the books very thematically and structurally different from one another: the shows that you would get for "The Player of Games" vs "Surface Detail" vs "Use of Weapons" vs "Hydrogen Sonata" would all look very different.

As a result, I am not optimistic that they would translate well to the small screen. I would be more interested in seeing a miniseries based on a single book, though perhaps they could be done as a kind of anthology series.

But this bumps into another potential issue: historically it seems like keeping the quality of an anthology series up across seasons is very difficult (see: American Horror Story, True Detective, etc), with Fargo as a notable exception. That said, a show would bring in a lot of new fans to the series, which is a big positive.
Show HN: Hack your tastebuds to enhance the flavor of alcohol and mellow burn
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In a similar vein, I was really hoping that Ambient Devices would escape their niche market and we'd have a wide range of devices that looked analog but are actually digital.

They were just way, way too early (and on the wrong side of a recession).
The benchmarks are pretty interesting. Why is it that nphysics has such apparent inconsistency in its frame times?
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Heads up, looks like any orders that contain a non-US based address will be cancelled.
With much cheaper launch costs, you can afford to send a couple more robust telescopes.

That's the vicious cycle of space mission costs put in reverse. The missions are expensive today, because launches are expensive, meaning you have one shot at doing your decade-long project, so you need to max out on risk mitigation - increasing your project length, labor costs, and launch mass. Significant drops in launch costs and increases in cadence translate to ability to launch much less robust mission (and launch a replacement if/when it fails), which drops the costs all across the board.

> Big thermal swings, no easy air cooling, no AC outlet to get your power from, no convenient anchoring point for your telescope to push against to point a certain direction, no just bolting several racks full of off-the-shelve electronics to the telescope

While by no means easy, that's still table stakes for space missions, and something there's decades of experience in around the world.

> none of them work in vacuum

Nobody is, nor was, sending the equivalent of a ground telescope installation upwell. You only send the looking part, with a downlink bolted on them. You do control and data processing planetside.

> no possibility to repair or upgrade anything

Cheap launches = you can replace. Even cheaper launches = you can try to repair. We'll need to develop that capability anyway, if we want a cislunar space economy.
Perhaps it's an option that the advertiser can pay more for.
Make sure to either watch the full video (don't skip if skippable) or click the link to the website since skipping at 5 seconds will very likely mean the advertiser spends zero or near zero dollars.
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column-wide map-reduce over large dataframes usually give you a 1000x or so speedup.

With rust you can stream each record and leverage the insane parallelism and async-io libs (rayon, crossbeam, tokio) and a very small memory footprint. sure you have asyncio in python but that’s nowhere near the speed of tokio.
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Yes, I only get secondary results like their status page with no links to site itself.
You need both and windows as well.
A lot of very emotional people scan these threads, try to quickly put people on a 'side', and downvote accordingly.

Great post, don't sweat it.
I guess that it's more likely that someone implement an algorithm in an innovative way for its program than it is for one to publish a paper. But yeah maybe there's no blog anterior to the paper which would be surprising but possible.
Unless you cannot just go buy any phone or tablet you like, this may be considered an insult to all these families who were split by that wall. How on earth do these analogies cross some minds.
Isn't the issue for telescopes, not the naked eye?
Don’t like free service, pay for youtube premium. My family and I share YouTube premium and we love it. my nephews and nieces are shielded from ads on YT. To be honest I would pay money for ad free services.
To me a federal organization is a single point of failure. Once it goes bad, it's all bad.

In my world, the residents of a state should be the ones to keep an eye on this. They'd have a chance to affect it. Changing anything in Washington is rarely humanly possible.
This somehow seems like a variation on Zawinski's Law. "Every UI evolves into something that makes its users confused, hesitant and angry", perhaps.
I would disagree. We have a lot more information about the hazards of inhaling fine particles. When I worked in a lab, we were clearly made aware of the need for protection against fine silica (sand).

We may not be aware of the mesothelioma risk, but I would imagine we’d be aware of the hazard of inhaling asbestos particles and avoid exposure.

Remember, having asbestos in your home is not a risk as long as it’s encapsulated. It’s really the mining and manipulation of asbestos that’s the risk.
I'm currently using both Nitrokeys and YubiHSMs on a client project. Both work pretty nicely, but some notes:

1. Nitrokeys can't do Ed25519. If you want to do ECC, you're stuck with NSA Suite B (which may be fine, depending on your purposes). This was a bummer for me, though, in the context of a greenfield project. YubiHSMs can do Ed25519...but they can't generate attestation certificates for Ed25519 keypairs. This isn't well documented anywhere; I had to lean on a friend who knew a Yubico engineer.

2. Nitrokeys can do attestation against a baked in certificate. However, they can't export those attestations via PKCS#11 -- you have to use some custom shell provided by the underlying hardware vendor (CardContact). The baked in cert (and its public roots) are also RSA2048, which is a bit of a bummer. Oh, and everything's in a weird container format[1] that isn't x509. It's still ASN.1 + DER, at least.

[1]: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/TechnicalGuidelines/...
French, yes. Pronounced according to academie rules, no.
Fascinating coincidence! It was probably the LLVM upgrade (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/73526) landing, probably before the comment was even posted (but the nightly would only show up with the upgraded LLVM the next day).
Two interesting things here; first of all, as noted, these ads get special treatment, being treated as basically a video, but also, the algorithm is... not very good, if it’s repeatedly spamming people who are annoyed enough by it to complain, and thus, will presumably not be voting for him anyway.

Wonder how much this pointless advertising is costing.

Edit: Also, I’m very glad to live in a country where political advertising is highly restricted. Election season in the US seems to be an endless barrage of annoyance.
Based on one of your twitter the calculated IF of Distill is 23. So if you're journal is reaching so many people, wouldn't moving towards more robust and professional editorial staff be beneficial for the large audience? Or do you think there's a benefit too having volunteers?
My guess is that the list of restricted things just means that you should talk to them first.
The importance isn’t that the rules aren’t enforced evenly / fairly, but that the rules are only enforced against small companies. Enforcing the rules against Facebook and Amazon would be competitive. Enforcing the rules only against companies that are too small to compete with Apple is anti-competitive. We don’t see a suit from Facebook/Amazon, because they are also beneficiaries of Apple’s illegal conduct. I wasn’t convinced until I saw this, but this is strong evidence for Epic’s case.
For a while (for me) YouTube removed the “stop seeing this ad” option, though it is back now. Perhaps I clicked it too much.

These days I get the same very broadly targeted ads every time which I guess means YouTube doesn’t know much about me, which is good
Missiles are advancing so quickly that their names need to change
> Solar and wind today doesn't deliver more than 1% of the world energy consumption.

That's an interesting statistic, but the topic of the article is electricity in the UK not energy use in the world. A more useful statistic would be this:

"The government’s official data has revealed that renewable energy made up 47% of the UK’s electricity generation in the first three months of the year, smashing the previous quarterly record of 39% set last year."[0]

It's true that doesn't include the energy used by gas heating systems or fuel used by vehicles, for example, but to bring those into consideration it would be helpful to know how quickly heating systems and vehicles are being replaced by electric equivalents (increasing the load on the grid, although per capita energy consumption in the UK has been decreasing for decades).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/25/renewable-e...
It doesn't seem to have cycling directions in Munich, that's a pity, lots of nice spots there you can't very well get to by car or public transport
The issue isn’t that they can’t be skipped, the issue is that you can’t say “don’t show me this again”.
Does it support two-page display? Given how you can take notes, I’d love to be able to read on one side and take notes on the other.
They're spending a ton of Facebook. I wanted to buy one until the 500th ad that was presented to me. I think 1/2 the price of the device is marketing spend.
Yes! I hate that they wield this as a weapon against us developers.
Ooo those hidden/slim scrollbars are annoying. It's as bad as an auto-hiding taskbar.

When I first saw it the first thing I did was to find a way to get rid of it. In Windows it's: Settings > Ease of Access > "Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows" > Off
Thanks for the link. I can't find the link to the WWDC presentation, but it was about the introduction of the same multi touch system he talked about in the talk you mentioned.
I always cringe when people proclaim that they need to "get shit done". It often pays to be mindful of what is getting done as a result.
here we go again. these corporations take no responsibility for any of their actions, are not held to even a modicum of responsibility, and do not care about anything other than money. they’re allowing objectively false ads to run rampant on their platform and force feeding them to people.

i hate trump with every bone in my body, view him as a traitor of the U.S., and hide all political videos and ads on youtube, and yet even i am seeing these ads. that tells me basically everyone is likely being force fed these ads. it’s scary.
To get a real feel I think you need to go and see it for your self. There is as huge range of seafood culture from cheap fish and chips to high dining or freshly caught off the boat.
Apart from going there, I guess I advise to look at guidebooks for seafood and looking at the picture and websites of the places you find interesting. A chain restaurant which tries to capitalise in its Scottish seafood is loch fyne https://www.lochfyneseafoodandgrill.co.uk/blog take a look at that for a starting point.
It would be hard to pretend that resources named "pornhub" is not porn and just happened to host a lot of porn...
Somewhat related: carbon nanotubes have been shown to cause mesothelioma, just like asbestos
Well I guess no one is naming their kid "Karen" for a while...
Yep, you might as well just learn to read music the traditional way. It's very common for musicians to be reading the sheet music a long way ahead of the actual music being played, especially while playing fast and complex pieces.

Having said that, an e-ink reader that could read visual cues would be awesome, but I feel it could be very frustrating unless it was incredibly smart. Maybe some kind of blink gestures might be useful.
I've been chasing that dragon for years. Just look at the video hosted http://davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm and imagine a terminal app that was actually optimized around eInk (and using an external keyboard). I remain convinced that it could be completely usable for non GUI work.
I wouldn't take either Rufo's or Peterson's word at face value.

After this, Sandia has very little option but firing him. Did anyone ask how minority employees feel about these policies? I doubt they'd be enacted without reason.
Agree. There was no reason to think the $1M would have been paid, and every reason to expect not. The $11k figure was a tell. Doubling from $1/2M to $1M was another.

It is always easy to increase an offer that you don't plan to make good on.

Reminds me of the Pascal's wager variant: "Lend me a $1000, I will give you $1M in a month. Don't trust me? Make it $100M. However small you think the probability that I will make good, just take the reciprocal and multiply that in, and that's what I promise."
> I think a lot of people wrongly assume that GitHub is so "easy" that you don't actually have to spend any time to learn how to use it.

For a lot of people, probably the large majority of people, GitHub's (or GitLab's) UI is simpler to work with than a terminal. The overwhelming success and popularity of GitHub has demonstrated the value of it's UI. I just don't see how you could convince the Atom/VSCode generation of developers to go back to mailing lists.

> so, when you work for any company that's not just a startup, you likely have to learn yet another set of tools. And again if you switch the company.

As far as I am concerned, the email workflow is just "another set of tools" too. Except no company I've worked with or worked for has used it.
In the early 20th century there were similar demonstrations done by asbestos manufacturers, and at least some of those were recorded on film. Fire resistance was basically the main selling point of asbestos, so they certainly marketed that heavily. I recall watching a video on YouTube of one long ago, but can't find it at the moment.
For the record, Biden (I mean anti-Trump) ads are just as insane. They probably know which candidate each person leans toward and target the opposite candidates ads. No sense preaching to the choir right? I get both and it sucks.
The channel list can be collapsed by clicking the icon to the left of the topic. The user list can be collapsed by clicking the icon in the top right corner. There is also an area in the settings to add your own CSS rules. Just wanted to point those things out because they probably aren't immediately visible from the linked page and the screenshot.
Interesting choice of name. It isn't particularly descriptive of a physics engine. (Compare to something like Box2D or PhysX which immediate conjures a mental image of what it does.)

At first, I actually got it mixed up with the SABRE engine. Swords are so widely used they sorta lose meaning as names. The same with Greek or Roman gods. (How many projects are named Apollo, Artemis, etc.)

I understand the other commenters who feel it's an awkward choice from a rapey-er (ie, more "rapey" which is a word I've heard English speakers use to describe dudes that were creepy). I don't think it's going to be the first thing people think of, but I think that they could pick a name that doesn't have that possible interpretation.

Edit: Also, there's a whole world of swords out there, and Rapier is used in so many contexts already. Why this weapon, specifically? It's just not memorable.
Can you give me a citation about the Trump Covid response? That does not match the reality I experienced.
Couldn't they have un-squished the images for the PDF? It just looks it rendered wrong.
If asbestos was discovered today we'd likely use the hell out of it because we'd know it causes cancer ahead of time and we'd take precautions (like not building it into things likely to release dust) the same way we do with all sorts of crazy molecules that get used in modern chemicals. It would be in your Ove Glove, not in your floor tiles. Tons of people wouldn't get cancer (because we wouldn't release the dust everywhere) and it would never be able to become a BadThing(TM) in the public's mind. It would just be another boring industrial compound nobody knows about. Same goes for lead paint.

If any of the people who disagree would like to share why that would be great.
> I agree it would help for individuals to have emergency kits and some training.

You have it reversed. FEMA is the help. You and your neighbors are the first line of response in any real emergency.

In the event of a tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest, it's expected that many communities may be unreachable for a week or longer.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

"In the Pacific Northwest, the area of impact will cover some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people. When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America, outside of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed upward of a hundred thousand people. By comparison, roughly three thousand people died in San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake. Almost two thousand died in Hurricane Katrina. Almost three hundred died in Hurricane Sandy. fema projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million displaced people, and food and water for another two and a half million."

No federal response will ever be capable of effectively responding to such a disaster without serious local support.
Asbestos is amazing and has undoubtedly saved many lives.

But thanks to technology we can do even better, we don't live like Kings, we live better than Kings. (Those of us in the 1%, aka West)
I'm curious, what did the poster do to cause 4chan/trols to focus on her?

I know she pointed out some stuff in her article (she's a woman, mixed asian background, lists her pronouns on her page), but, usually, there's some sort of inciting incident that causes people to dogpile.

To ward off any non-constructive replies, I'll point out from the beggining that I'm not blaming her of anything, and the trolls are _obviously_ in the wrong here.
What does a "moderate" position look like when it comes to white supremacy?
If it had an SD/microSD reader, the openness would make me what to pre-order one. I can just imagine the 8GB internal storage quickly running out with all the extra stuff I'd want to do to it.
Whose whole point was a sustainable funding source for SpaceX R&D. In this sense, it's fair for SpaceX employees to consider it "filler payload", given that they have their sights set on Mars. And everyone else, astronomers included, will benefit from drastically cheaper access to space.
Can You “Nationalize” Open Source?
I appreciate the arguments on both sides of this, but it's hard for me to get past the point that the satellites are temporary infrastructure, whereas Earth-based fixed wireless or fiber/wire lines are fairly permanent. It's hard for me to understand why the solution here is the temporary one.

A decade ago I think my opinion would have been different, because technology didn't make offering gigabit bandwidth via wire/fiber and fixed wireless pretty straightforward. So, back then you could have argued everything was temporary. Nowadays, I suspect gigabit fiber/fixed wireless will last a very, very long time before being outmoded (if it ever is).

So, I'm asking myself whether it isn't just more sensible to put up the fixed investment to connect remote areas using existing technologies rather than blasting off satellites again and again to do it.
I think the best UI would just be a page change foot pedal. Not particularly difficult to implement and very reliable.
> That problem could have been solved politically with regulation plus (in the countryside) ground based radio, or (in cities) with regulation of cable infrastructure such that it was separated from packet-routing and customer-service.

My hope is that these constellations put pressure on the ground based incumbents to fix their shit. The result might be that we get cheap enough internet on the ground that the constellations become unprofitable and shut down. Might be a win-win without politics and regulation.
Valgrind on C is the closest thing I've worked with in terms of what Zig offers.

My experience is that Rust's approach is definitely better in terms of correctness than using valgrind during testing.

My intuition is that the advantages Zig brings to the table will not tip the balance.

That being said, the choice Zig makes is absolutely the right one. Rust fills the niche of a better and more correct C++ without fixing the issues of slow compilation and language complexity.

Zig fixes so much of what's wrong with C without abandoning the advantages of language simplicity and locality of reasoning. I love Zig, but need a medium sized non-work project for it.
Sorry guys, I made a serious mistake and linked the wrong Benjamin (I was wanting to link to Sargon's lawsuits that threatened to sink the company). Even so, I'm a free speech absolutist and even though people say terrible things I disagree with, I would defend that right unironically.
You can ask that question up and down the yak shaving continuum and get an infinite number of answers. Is it worth it to me? No. How many people would answer yes? That's the 50 billion dollar question.
> Uranus

Ignoring that it's usually pronounced Uran-us rather than Ur-anus, really? I spend a lot of time around physicists and astrophysicists and I think you can probably guess how much of an issue this is (or for any adults)
Accidental Leadership in Open Source
Are you sure? https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/new/operator_new#Gl...

You don't need to do this if you're using allocators.
FYI bypass is for coronary arteries. Calcification of the aortic valve and root is something quite different