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> Scala is bloated with lots of paradigms and lots of features. It's pretty hard to know what to use.

It's a flexible language, but I wouldn't say bloated - there actually aren't so many language-level features, but the features there are are very general. Some parts are simpler, e.g. in Python I struggle to remember which method you have to define to overload the * operator, whereas in Scala you just define a method called * . But I'd agree that there are a bunch of overcomplicated frameworks that can be pretty confusing - it's not always an easy language to get started with. But I stand by the statement that you can write Python-like code in it, at least once you know what you're doing.

> Python in most ML frameworks is just a frontend, other beefy stuff gets processed by c++ or c

Right, and that introduces a bunch of overhead and possibilities for weird errors - e.g. when you hit a bug in a library you pretty much have to learn how to debug C. In Python the benefits are worth it, but there's undeniably an overhead - if you could use the same language top-to-bottom but still have all the nice things Python gives you, that would be a much nicer way to work.
> how do they find volunteers for such a trial?

They pay them. Being a construction worker is another example of young, healthy people doing something dangerous and being compensated.
Nota Bene is another text-based word processor from that era. It defaults to showing embedded formatting commands. The primary means of operation is via an integrated DOS-like command prompt.
My Ubuntu LTS man page says:

> This function was added to POSIX.1-2008. Before that, it was not part of the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems. It first appeared at least as early as 1986, in the Lattice C AmigaDOS compiler, then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in 1989, and in the GNU C library by 1992. It is also present on the BSDs.

(See also https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/stpcpy.3.html)

OpenBSD didn't adopt stpcpy until 5.1, circa 2012 (https://man.openbsd.org/stpcpy) and NetBSD until 6.0, also circa 2012 (https://man.netbsd.org/stpcpy.3). In that time frame there was a flurry of activity in both projects regarding POSIX compliance.

My experience with the others was similar, though not uniformly. Support on OpenBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and AIX typically post dated their addition to POSIX. Whether they would have been added independent of POSIX I can't say, but there are plenty of GNU extensions that remain unsupported, and some, like strerror_r (specifically the return type and behavior on error), that likely will never be.

While not specifically on point, I think it's noteworthy that the proposal to add stpcpy to C2X was made by Martin Sebor, a Red Hat employee: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2352.htm Red Hat doesn't share the seemingly pervasive cynicism regarding standardization. Precisely what motivates that, I'm hesitant to speculate. Like most things I'm sure there are mixed motives.
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The illusion of control. It is the same reason people doomscroll on twitter hoping more information will somehow how change the result. Our brains, all human brains, are not rational but instead are their own thing.
Let’s not pretend that explaining what your app does is a huge burden that only few can overcome.

Let's not pretend that convenient nonsensical seeming rejections, which contradict common sense, and seem to imply a hostile demand of censorship are really an acceptable way of communicating in business.
> Most HN readers time is far more valuable than a plumber or carpenter.

Are you sure about that? A good plumber, here in Seattle, can cost $300/hour.
It's ableist, 'just a figure of speech' or not

Imagine you're blind.

Now Imagine a sighted person tells you that they've just seen something so ugly they wish they were blind. You might be a bit upset at that notion no?
These were more like auto-renewing subscription dark patterns if I remember it correctly. You'd get a bunch of books or cd's for $1, but based on the fine print you were really signing up for a subscription where they'd send you one a month from then on at full price. They also of course made it tricky to cancel like any good (read: bad) subscription service does.
I use an app called iCatcher which seems to have a directory of podcasts and will also let you enter rss/urls to download from host sites directly if the podcast creators distribute that way.

Been using it for years because it gives pretty fine grain controls over streaming vs downloading the entries, how many entries to maintain, how often to check, etc.
roughly in the same boat you are, and I actually find it difficult to believe that this is anything more than an imagined problem.

I can't imagine there's that many people that don't understand children are important and children need to be taken care of. I certainly have never gotten angry at not getting the tax breaks those with more dependents get, and I can't imagine there's that many other people who do.

My opinion is that this is just another journalist trying to drum up drama for clicks.
I guess you're advocating that parents get lower performance ratings during the pandemic if their responsibility to their family has caused them to do lower quality work for their employer. I think that's sort of absurd (for all the reasons jdm2212 has pointed out), but, as a parent of two grade-school children myself, I'd take that deal of it made all the childless people feel they were being treated fairly. I am concerned that performance reviews are generally about communicating paths for development and progress against some goal. I'm not sure how valuable that feedback will be for parents who suffer low performance because of child-rearing responsibilities. I wouldn't suddenly work more hours to improve my performance at the expense of my children's education during this period. It's a poor trade for everyone involved, except perhaps my employer, and even then, it's likely only beneficial for them in the short-term.
Sounds very interesting! Any chance this is open source? If not, can you give a bit of additional information on how you did this (including project structure, some insight in the lua code, etc)?
> If the paradox applied to the internet, then what you'd be seeing is that if pages loaded twice as fast, people would visit twice as many pages.

It is in fact a similar phenomenon. The cars are the bytes that developers are stuffing into what they build. It's not people visiting twice as many pages, it's developers continuously expanding the size of what they can stuff into sites to fill the capabilities of servers, end user systems and bandwidth today.

Some of it is unnecessary byte expansion because they can get away with it. The Web was very slow when everyone was on a 56k modem as well. The network pipes were smaller, the servers were drastically weaker, the consumer systems were weaker, everything was obnoxiously slow. It sucked to wait five to ten seconds or more to load a very simple website in 1996. It sucked to watch little real media files and wait a long time to load a couple mb file.

Developers are expanding their byte footprint to fill the available limits of patience, and often going over that line, exactly as they always will.
John Deere has vigorously asserted that the software in their tractors is copyrighted, and anyone who modifies them is violating the DMCA: https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/drm-eschatology.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-f...
If anyone's interested in Microsoft Word for DOS 5.5, there's a free download from Microsoft. (Microsoft released this as freeware some years ago)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/...

To install: C:\> Wd55_ben.exe - d

(note the spaces; or just use unzip on Linux)

I just installed it on DOSBox. Works great! (brings back memories of Doogie Howser typing on a blue-screen on his PS/2)
That might be possible with tomatoes, that you buy in stores. Frustratingly it's basically impossible with everything bought online these days. Trying to figure out whether, say, a hdmi cord sold on Amazon came from Taiwan or China is practically impossible.
I guess that means one could make portable programs by targeting the "dos-vm".
Can life not be better for us or our children than for our parents? This kind of thinking keeps everyone down.
Well that's a bummer. Any way to defeat it?
If you’re capable of resolving production issues, performing technical support, and have at least some proficiency with software development, I would recommend exploring SRE or software engineering roles to capture more compensation (based on the skill level you’ve communicated in thread).
I remember it being loved by lawyers. The Mac version for the old System OSes was pretty damn nice, especially compared to the crappy versions of Word.

I get the feeling that someone looking at the post for [1] might not do badly by cloning WP or more probably WordStar for the terminal.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412687
I remember when Word for Windows came out for win 3.1 and being deeply unimpressed with its features compared to wordperfect 5.1 for dos.
And Lotus Agenda!
That extra cost might make tomato exporting to the US unprofitable.

> I’m going to tell you a secret

It is not a secret, and people working in US government agencies are not stupid, they know about this scheme and a thousand others.
I do like the part about a VC)) The first problem is how to manage the scammers?
Thanks. This is the quality content I keep coming back for :D
Don't do it for a petty code problem. Suck it up and deal with it if he likes a different approach than you do.

I meant it only for something big enough that it's threatening or damaging to the organization as a whole. That is, it's not just causing problems for you. It may not be right or wrong, but it's definitely better or worse, and not just for you. People above the Ego Monster care if the Ego Monster makes it harder for the team to deliver.

And why would it make it harder for the team to deliver? Because the Ego Monster doesn't listen, and isn't omniscient. That leads to the Ego Monster making dumb decisions - decisions that don't actually work in the real world.
US also has forced labor camps. Well, we call them "correctional facilities".
> every single cell has to carry the entirety of the instruction.

I think it's more impressive that it doesn't. Quite a bit is emergent from stochasticity; the encoded parts are just how to guide the stochasticity correctly.

A analogy is building a sierpinski triangle from die rolls and one instruction.
It looks like this FAQ answer in meant to point to a blog post, but I don't see a link:

https://terminusdb.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions#why-n...
surviving with quadriplegia would be recovery but I believe an SAE
> You need 2.1 kids per person for society to continue existing.

I don't understand this statement. Is it 2.1 kids per person or per family/couple? Has society collapsed in countries where the average is below the 2.1 figure you are quoting?

If you are talking about the extinction of the human race and not societal collapse, then I don't buy for a second the argument that someone choosing whether to have children or not is making the choice based on the "human race extinction" factor. When making choices, most humans could care less for their 2-days-in-the-future-self, nevermind caring for the human race.
That's completely inaccurate!

There's also Seattle, a wet place filled with radio psychiatrists.

And the place down the bottom where they make meth in big underground factories.

That's about it though.

(Being serious, I think it's probably a bit less of a thing nowadays, but when I was a kid my impression of the US was very much that it was ~three cities plus a scary bit in the south somewhere).
Why stocks are going up:

Interest rates are insanely low, which means putting your money in the bank, or in bonds, has a near-zero return. There are tons of massive funds (vanguard, etc) that have promised a return to their investors, and they're moving money from interest-based investments to other investments. This has caused a ton of money to be put into the stock market, which drives multiples up.

Why gold is going up:

The government is printing a ton of money to deal with the pandemic. This causes USD's value to drop compared to other currencies. There's a small (but real) possibility that the US dollar stops being the world's reserve currency. This causes people to seek value stores other than USD. This includes gold, bitcoin, euro, yen, renminbi, which are all up vs USD since the pandemic started.

These two things happening at the same time doesn't necessarily mean the stock market will crash.
> But parents actually have to change those diapers.

Parents actually have to have kids to be in a position of caring for a dependent.
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I don’t disagree that having someone to hold hands is a good idea. That doesn’t make YouTube the worst way to learn. It’s better than a Haynes manual because there is an experienced person showing how it’s done. In the case of brakes, it might even be a Park Tool factory mechanic.

For VW’s I think model years and features vary by region.
Yep and I'm not even single and I feel worse for single people than I do for parents.
When the troops are gone, the private military contractors come. To advise, and guide, allegedly. Off the books, out of mind, a very special kind.

Anyways, a lazy list of links:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48032/private-armies-...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/03/14/who-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_military_contr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_contractor_dea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/04/pentagon-...
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The definition of "success" has been very narrowly construed, if it has measured against mere tangibles.
If memory serves, the policy mandating the removal of the appendix before travel to Antarctica was born after the sole physician living there had no other choice than to perform an appendectomy on himself.

Wikipedia: The operation started at 02:00 local time on 1 May with the help of a driver and meteorologist, who provided instruments and held a mirror so Rogozov could observe areas not directly visible. Rogozov lay in a semi-reclining position, half-turned to his left side. A solution of 0.5% novocaine was used for local anesthesia of the abdominal wall. Rogozov made a 10–12 cm incision of the abdominal wall, but while opening the peritoneum he accidentally cut the cecum and had to suture it. Then he exposed the appendix. According to his report, the appendix was found to have a dark stain at its base, and Rogozov estimated it would have burst within a day. The appendix was resected and antibiotics were applied directly into the peritoneal cavity. General weakness and nausea developed about 30–40 minutes after the start of the operation so that short pauses for rest were repeatedly needed after that. By about 04:00 the operation was complete.
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Tomatoes are definitely fungible, but they're unlikely to be trans-shipped as you describe. The strategy you described was used to 'launder' metals through Canada, and the USA caught on, then applied tariffs against Canada.
Don't dismiss the introverts locked in with extroverted partners/roommates :P

Rorschach put it quite eloquently: "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me".
When it comes to food, China import food from other countries, just because they have a lot people and not enough food.

https://defensepoliticsasia.com/why-china-import-soybeans-fr...
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Let’s keep HN a place where we assume the best of each other, accept each other at their word, and treat each other with dignity and respect.
> You don't just get to cover the Secretary of State's trade visit to Southeast Asia after graduating high school and working for the local paper, do you?

Hmm, there's an idea... A recurring meme is local stringers and journalists resenting high-profile journalists who "parachute" in for an event, and spin something shallow and misleading that misses the real story, the context, all nuance, and a clue.

A high-school student say visiting family in Southeast Asia, with a local paper affiliation for press credentials, and with very different constraints and incentives than US national journalists, might actually do some exceptionally nice work.

Admittedly, when US national journalism struggles to even mention say the role of pharma's insistence on imposing US regulatory-captured industrial policy on China in kicking off the trade war, it's not a very high bar.

What's missing however, is socio-technical infrastructure to reward that student. And all the local or domain-expert journalists who might also contribute better content. The contrast in quality between say "popular tech press" arstechnica journalism by Eric Berger on rockets, and the front page of NYT convering the same stories is... not a happy thing. Hmm... now what community might be able to focus on creating such infrastructure...?
Cool! I tried to find some information on what versioning is like. I'm not very familiar with OWL and RDF, but I'm trying to get a sense whether the diff between two ontologies is like the set difference between the set of RDF triples, or if there is additional structure on top of that, so that the diffs are more "semantic".
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This is not legal advice.

WRT receiving stolen property... typical remedy is to either simply return the item of pay for replacement value.

So, in a worst case, you could probably hold on to it for at least 2 years [1].

[1] - I am not a lawyer. Just someone who has done a lot of legal docs that had to get approved and longtime hobbyist. Anyway, 2 years is the cut off for most civil tort claims but one may want to look into and consider the statute of limitations for conversion as a criminal act.

The 'give and then ask for payment' thing is nothing new. I've had musicians attempt to do so in parking lots in the past, back when CDs were a thing people burned.

Anyway, back to original point... Previous contact could matter THEORETICALLY if it comes to acting in good faith. I.e. if you have a prior relationship with a company, and get an invoice with product and don't even ask the company WTF is up... that COULD be used against you. Would a company do so? IDK. Probably wouldn't be good for PR. Shitty analogy but even the worst Porn Billers do for fraudulent (i.e. customer legitimately paid but balked after) charge backs is typically deny the charge back and blacklist the CC and/or customer.
That's all awfully speculative, especially the part about Al Qaeda being just a reading group.
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I don't envy it at all either - but it's also because theirs is so much more complicated that even if you consider it broadly the same principle, far more Americans fall into the needing to self-assess (as we call it) category since, for example, they have 'a whole bunch of deductibles'.
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There's no one model. How your immune cells pick their targets, or how your cells know which side is left or right during development. Neither is anything like how neurons work, or blood ion homeostasis is acieved. There are also (I believe) transistor like elements in metalloproteins that gate voltages in elecroactive systems like nitrogen fixation or photosynthesis (though that process is markedly dumber than the immune system).

Evolution is opportunistic and will reach for whatever computational method might be available and easy to fall into.
The software that runs on the car, without which the car cannot function, is copyrighted.
To compare a prison in the US to "labor camps" in China is intellectually dishonest.
The same thing happens when a coworker gets sick or goes on vacation.
yeah just realized it s the ChAdOx vaccine. Perhaps a more systematic naming scheme would be appropriate here, as people do watch these studies. There are a lot of adenoviruses studies going on in russia, china etc, and they are somewhat related.
I think you've drunk too much Free Market kool aid and have begun to mistake a mere means for an end to itself. We're not trying to make the market set prices efficiently, we're trying to make the Network better, an efficient market is exciting for prophets of the dismal science, a Network that works better is good for all the actual people.
Still the same. We regularly compress stuff before sending it out and make programs work in multiple different environments, it could choose to install part of it on this machine and then another part because of some env variables, work almost the same way.

But human is one SINGLE program, running in distributed fashion in about 30 TRILLION cell, that make us operate functionally as one single entity. That is what's impressive. What's more organization of those cell is also handled by the program.

Of course, the debugging process has not been a nice one.
If everyone on HN did this it wouldn't be but a drop in the ocean.
This is a tangent and I'm not trying to belittle your position: but the bit about can't waking up and decide to take a day off reminded me of a country song about how soldiers can't call in sick on Monday, work straight through the holidays.
The lawyers we consulted for liked it because they had to deal with 8.3 DOS file names.

DOS WordPerfect let them view the next file with a key press. Click click click found it.

The Windows version required them to go to File, Open, choose the file...
I'd rephrase a bit: the goal of most people __who call themselves journalist__ is to become...
I have very fond memories of WP5.1.... I still have some Model-M keyboards, so I could really recreate the "glory days" if I wanted. I could print out the little F-key cheat sheet for the keyboard as well.

But...

What about Unicode? Lack of Unicode seems like a dealbreaker for a lot of use cases. Even if you're not using Unicode, seems like you'd eventually want to work with Unicode text.

As an engineer, a lot of the "word processing" I do involves cutting and pasting text from other sources (citations, code samples, names, etc) that tend to be chock full of non-ASCII characters.

Or has this been solved somehow? I see that there are various hacks involved in getting support for the Euro symbol. What about a general purposes solution? I know that WP5.1 had support for international character sets. Perhaps somebody's cooked up an emulation layer that translates Unicode into whatever it is that WP needs.
Raise you Automotive. Store sites are the worst. The industry reason: it's all about tracking conversions and answering the question of how much did it cost me to sell this.