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Massive Streisand effect here. The Zig project should just completely ignore this. There is no way this Zen thing is going to go anywhere. Nobody in their right mind would pay for anything of the sort in the year 2020.

Come on, "a licensing model for the Zen compiler that requires software developers to buy a yearly subscription to distribute compiled releases of their code". That has to be a joke?
There is a reason that "FizzBuzz" is a meme! I love the expression, "Job candidates who can't seem to program their way out of a wet paper bag."

It's too true. A quick search found the source article that I read years ago here[0]. :)

0: http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest
Apple announces Apple Watch Series 6 with ability to measure blood oxygen levels
> For the hobbyist I don;'t see any reason why you'd really want to have an mdadm array

The "don't even dare to use ZFS without dedicating 8-16 GB of memory to it" warnings all over the ZFS documentation online has served as a very, very good reason for me to not use ZFS for anything at all.

I'll stick with tooling that lets my homelab actually have enough RAM to run the applications I want to run.
Samsung is a massive company ... the division that handles screens is managed independently from the one that makes smartphones.

It must be probably weird for Apple technical staff to communicate so closely with one division of Samsung while fighting for market share with another division of the same company.
Apple Watch Series 6
Spoken like someone who has never actually rented to Section 8 tenants.
When is the next LTS release? I'm stuck on 11 until then.
According to the website, V seems to have two backends: C and x86 - so it's not just a frontend to GCC. Unless I'm mistaken?
> 1b) `DateTime` should probably be split into two separate things, one of which is aware of time zones.

due to daylight saving timezones depend on the date, which makes it hard to separate date and time
I'm sorry but free software it's just a very big tree that is rooted at 0 dollars. That means that nothing can grow under that tree, no cheap alternatives will be feasible. So free software just makes everything expensive. I have yet to see a casual user crazy about any free application yet.
Yep. Predictions are obviously hard, but there's no wind to blow the smoke away, so I don't know why it is routinely predicted to do so 48 hours in the future. There is enough smoke piled up over the ocean (at least to judge from the satellite pictures) that it would take several days of steady winds to clear everything out. Any wind strong enough to theoretically clear the smoke quickly would probably spark new fires instead. And yet even with multiple fires nowhere near containment, the Spare The Air forecast still says "moderate" air in two days. I'll believe it when I breathe it.

The "incident meteorologist" for the North Complex fire was quoted yesterday as saying there was no system predicted that would cause a notable improvement in air quality for the next two weeks. Again, assuming no new fires, which is a stretch given that we're right in the middle of the traditional fire season.

The only forecast I rely on is the National Weather Service. Their site is painfully dated but the accuracy is unmatched.
Will they buy micron or another major memory company?
At the string literal level doesn't do anything, but the standard library adds an extension method to string called `stripMargin`. This has some nice examples https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/scala-cookbook/97814493...
So this is Hasura for Cassandra?
This looks awesome... Have you had issues with it breaking across magit updates?
I hope for the day there's no more "they were doing this X time ago!" comparisons.
And the URLs haven't changed; I run an extension to automatically redirect me to old.reddit.com
Why hall of shame? 2 and 4 are top mates.
Interesting! I wonder if he tracked outcomes so we can see what the result is of all this. He seems pretty happy with how his charitable "investments" have done.

That data could reveal which things are the most effective things to operate charitably in terms of increasing human happiness.

That's something I really like about Jack Dorsey's approach. I get to follow along and see what works.
Yes, but owning the IP that runs Amazon CPUs gives them a clear advantage?
That sounds exactly like what I just accused you of: criticizing the use of credit checks as racist simply because they can be used that way. At the very least, you're really overstating it as being "not at all" what you said, considering the very similar argument you repeated in the next sentence.

Also:

>The companies aren't just "not perfect", they are considerably worse than that.

The difference between "not perfect" vs "much worse" doesn't seem relevant here. As long as they're not perfect, they can be used exactly the way you describe, so it doesn't seem like a good argument to use to throw (vague) shade at credit checks.

Would you mind concretely spelling out how you think landlords should operate, so I know I'm not mischaracterizing what you're criticizing? It's easy to say "X has downsides", but a substantive discussion involves weighing the pros and cons.
> Parser generators look promising until you actually start building anything of moderate complexity

I've done both, by hand and with parser generators (flex/bison and antlr) and getting the machine to do the boring work is total fuckload[0] faster and more productive.

Edit: and unless you know what you're doing, you will screw up when hand-writing a parser. I know of a commercial reporting tool that couldn't reliably parse good input (their embedded language).

[0] 3.14159 shedloads in metric
Using public helm chart repository is helps me a lot. The communities keep maintaining the charts.

But, it also hard to find the changes log for each chart. It really hard for me to check the commits on the repo to know the changes.

So, I try to help myself by building a web app that can help me to inspect each chart version. It was also able to compare the changes between the two chart versions. Another feature enabling you to render the kubernetes manifest on the web. You also will get an URL that you can you use to create your kubernetes object.

It still a very bare app. Need more feedback and suggestion to make it a better app.
What is the problem with the "still reachable" memory report in Valgrind? That's not a leak, that is just skipping an unnecessary free() that will happen anyway when the process exits
Are you counting WSL?
How would your approach differ from something like RMarkdown or similar? Still trying to nail down the differentiation.
Just to note, that University and the reality from the schools today under COVID-19, where teachers have to come-up with a solution fast are totally different. I see Countries adapting Google Classroom suite with much more success than the State trying to come up with their own custom and limited solution. My Wife is elementary teacher in Germany and we compared the tool that we have here, with Google Classroom and it's just embarrassing how they are using our taxpayer money in name of a privacy issue that really doesn't exist.
Is it that bad not knowing the specifics of your day job?

Filling gaps can be interesting too, you get to see a lot of different things, and some companies actually try to put you on jobs you find interesting.

On the opposite side, some interviewers have a model job story to tell candidates, and it may actually be your job for a month, until they shut it down and have you join the ranks of turd polishers.

I'd say an even redder flag than not knowing what you will work on is getting what looks like the only interesting job in the company.
Where are you getting 16% state income tax from? In your median income example of 108k, the top rate for single filer is 9.3%, but that payers effective rate is only 6.6% (summed over all bracket). This is not much higher than Utah's flat 4.95%

Even a single filer making $500k/year will only hit a top rate of 11.3%, and effective rate of 9.4%. For surcharges to kick in requires > $1M/year, and only affects the amount over that.
> This is the moderation fallacy.

Yeah? Go on...

Without elaboration it sounds like the fallacy fallacy.
Similarly, if you get stuck trying to traverse a hallway or an intersection due to another person who keeps deciding to go at the same time as you, breaking eye contact is the quickest way to end the standoff.
> Where did $8 billion go: health, science, education, and social action

Other than science, those are some very bloated and inefficient causes. $1 billion to Cornell? Aren't most of the prestigious universities already swimming in billions of dollars of endowments? He can do what he wants of course, but it would have been nicer if the money was targeted to long shot bets--that only a super rich person could fund--rather than normal things are already well funded through taxes.
I'd love to know what Feeney thinks of Gates in 2020
PhD in molecular biophysics here (did virology rotation in grad school also). There's not enough time to go into how bad the "science" is in this paper. Evidence is cherry-picked, and circumstantial at best. Lots of non-sequitors presented that are unconnected to the actual science. I've read earlier claims that are similar to this and basically they see low alignment similarity to commercially available vectors and claim "AHA it must be engineered". But anyone who has studied molecular biology knows that vectors are almost always derived from natural viruses. Also, while viral linkages are normally linear, crossover between viri in hosts is well documented and does occur "rarely". That's say it's rare compared to normal genetic drift, but common enough that it's not particularly surprising to see genetic material from another "vector" in the wild. It does not have to be lab derived to see the mutations observed. Once you call into question this fundamental premise, everything else looks like the scientific trash that it is.
The comments about edge, and combining Nvidia / graphics tech with Arm makes a lot of sense to me. I suspect that's where most of the value of this merger will come from. When it comes to Arm in the datacenter, my question is: How do they actually plan to extract money from ARM displacing x86?

AWS has been deploying at least one ARM chip (Annapurna/Nitro) on every single EC2 server for 5+ years. Surely they would have made sure their license ensures future rights to keep using ARM at a reasonable price. Their Graviton instances are effectively just one more ARM chip, so an Intel instance has 2 Arm chips (1 for EBS, 1 for networking) while a Graviton/Arm instance has 3 (EBS, networking, CPU).

Unless the Arm license reads something like "If you make a really big multi-core chip we get to charge you more"... how does the x86 -> Arm transition actually move the needle for Arm Holdings / Nvidia?
It's actually a fairly intriguing paper. I'm still running down the citations in terms of BS testing before I dedicate any appreciable responding to it.
Basically none of the technology Apple showed off in the original iPhone release was 100% brand new that no one else had, they just put it all together in a way that had never been done before.

Garmin has that, but does it integrate the same way?
They are absolutely counterfeit. They don't need UL brand standards but are represented as such.
When I tried researching it online, I could not find a policy that covered intentional damage / vandalism. Either be it a policy owned by the landlord or the renter. I'm guessing insurance companies are expecting your to get your money via a civil suit in that case. Would love know if there is one.
> there are things you can't properly implement by compiling to C

Very interesting claim, any examples?
They came up with a new Apple Watch (Series 6) that measures blood oxygen content! If that actually works as advertised, this feels like enough of a reason to upgrade.

My wife has Series 3 and I have Series 5, but I haven't seen a major difference between the two. Series 5 is slightly sleeker and smaller, but the updates didn't feel important enough for her to upgrade.
Thanks, I try.

The last article had to be edited down because as it was written initially (see the git history of https://github.com/Xe/site) it made the V cult come after me. This among other things is why I do not plan to write about V in the future.
One day we'll make custom watch faces...
If you have to sit down and deeply think about a question like fizzbuzz then as an interviewer I'd be a bit concerned - this is a quick check to make sure you're basically competent, not architecture of a critical piece of infrastructure.

If you just don't like hand writing and prefer typing, then that's cool with me and you can just do that during the interview (the content of interview is important, not the medium you write with).

If you're mentoring a 25 year old you'll have to prove yourself to them every day.
This is a perfect illustration of how news and social media propagate false news while technically still being correct. The gender reveal party contributed to 8,600 acres on fire. However, >1 million acres were started by lightning[0], but get a lot less coverage unless you're in the affected areas. But the party gets more attention, because it's more interesting/easier to be outraged over that.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_wildfires#List...
I believe it was a failure by USB-IF to not require that USB-C ports and cables be labeled or color-coded as to what standard(s) they support. As a consumer you are lucky if the manufacturer provides accurate speed or wattage specifications to allow you to decode this information on your own.
I'm curious how they can get an accurate blood oxygen reading while not having a sensor on the bottom of the wrist.

If I recall correctly a finger pulse oximeter requires a sensor below the finger which records the absorption of infrared light.
> I'm no fan of Apple

This suggests that as a consumer, you haven't benefited from this.
Living in a nice neighborhood isn't a human right.

If they want to pay lower rent, they can do so, but usually in a lower quality neighborhood.
Doesn't this just encourage more plastic dumping into waterways? Now you can write it off because "it wont harm fish anymore"

Lets create systems where we don't need to dump plastic in waterways at all.
Check out PineTime instead, the open-source watch.
>Sure, because it's MIT license, you can relicense, but is replacing the original copyright notice OK? Even if it's OK, why did they do that?

The file headers don't matter to the MIT/Expat license, what matters is that the original copy of the license is included in the redistribution, which it is (it's at the bottom of lib/zen/std/LICENSE). Replacing the file headers makes sense in this context because the derivative work is now (correctly) copyrighted by connectFree. Zen looks to be in total compliance with the original Zig MIT/Expat licensing terms.
Aside from annotating, Preview can crop, reorder, rotate, delete, and insert pages in a PDF.

But at its core, it does not "non-destructively" edit the dictionaries and object graph of the original PDF. Instead, it replays the original PDF into a new PDF context.
Not sure I follow. Are you saying that by trademarking the fingerprint you can prevent SEO abuse?

The problem with any SEO mitigation is that the 128 bit string is intended for SEO. If you make a cool new thing then I blog about it I want to use your 128 bit string and you want me to use it too! So how do you prevent someone else from putting it on a linkfarm? I don't think trademark helps there.
I had hoped your second sentence was going to be about Hershey ripping off Wilbur Buds!
Seems rather expensive, didn't you have another laptop laying around? I have so many that I don't think I'll ever see the point to them, especially with thinkpads for cheap or free
What if your tasks use blocking IO, and the number you tasks you have exceed a reasonable number of threads?

Your answer might be to use async, event-driven IO instead, but the central thesis behind virtual threads is that this is a terrible programming model, and there's no reason the programming language can't help you write your code top to bottom, but still get the desired performance.
You're right to question it, but this is also why testing is so prevalent apart from the deluge of unqualified/barely qualified applicants. It's possible for a single person to spend an hour (perhaps over lunch) with prospective candidates and better evaluate them, with a corresponding better evaluation of the company by the candidate, without needing to do the multi-stage multi-test multi-people rigamarole big companies are addicted to. Similarly such people can usually detect resume BS better and whittle a list of 50 down to a shortlist of a few to spend that hour on each and come away with more than one good fit. But the skills needed to do that aren't widespread or taught or in many cases even acknowledged as existing. Hence tests, where when followed as a script can be given and scored by even the most disinterested programmer who'd rather be programming instead of doing their manager's job. Now you don't even need someone ok at resume BS detection to narrow the list, you can parallelize that 50 hours.

Of course the tests are proxies and often aren't even scored objectively. And most tests aren't very good at proxying anything general (hence companies' tendencies to have several). There's a lot of problems that remain, our industry doesn't take hiring seriously. But testing and trying to test as early as possible have come to dominate for not totally unreasonable reasons, and persist at the large companies despite the well-known negative trade-offs. It's a startup's/small company's advantage to not copy bigco's interview processes.
Because the government has such a great track record of collecting tax revenue and then investing it where it is appropriate?

Questions can be raised about some of his specific donations, but when someone gives away $8B of his wealth, spending nearly none on himself, does it globally, influences other billionaires to do the same, picking at any one of his specific donations seems counter productive.

Yes Cornell is an Ivy League school, but it is where he went to school, he probably has very strong ties to that school, perhaps met his wife there, or his business partner, if he chooses to give back to that school that is also good.

Plus there was a tremendous amount he gifted to "education" so without knowing all of the details, hard to imagine that he didn't provide some sort investment in to under represented communities. If he helped Vietnam with their healthcare he obviously wasn't just US centric but helped where he though his donation could have an outsized return.

By the way he gifted a large amount of money to the Obamacare campaign, so by proxy, he was providing healthcare to his workers, and more likely than not.
Make School Culture Deck
"Some other company that wanted to differentiate from our market-leading product developed a useful feature before we prioritized it so better never add it to our product because they did it first. No user wants a feature that they could find in another product!"
IntelliJ shows you exactly where the block starts, so if you have a line with less indentation (causing the entire block to start at that column), it is easy to spot.
Why is this obviously false conspiracy theory being spammed so hard on HN today?
My unpopular opinion: I would rather see content disappear than ever see an ad of any kind. I used to be tolerant of ads but I'm never going back, ads of any kind are repulsive. I even think that billboards on the highway should be banned, they're eyesores.
It is. K8s is an incredible tool but the expertise and time commitment to leverage it are too costly for many indie hackers, startups, and small businesses. You can reap the benefits without having to touch it. You can set up your Dev, Staging, and Production in a few minutes - pull your image from Dockerhub and then docker push all your updates directly into your cloud environment.
Actually ordinarily today we do DH first and there is no step where the Pre Master Secret is actually sent at all - unlike this comic. Magic! DH allows them to agree a random secret and since we wanted a random secret anyway that's fine.

The server ends up with no assurance as to who the client is in typical day-to-day HTTPS. You could be anybody, which is why web servers use technologies like passwords. TLS can be used in a mutually authenticated mode where both sides present certificates, but that's not how HTTPS is ordinarily done.

So why is this any help? Well after DH neither side knows who the other is but whoever they both are they now have a secret in common. This is enough to send messages back and forth that nobody else can eavesdrop or tamper with. Now the server can use this secure channel to show a certificate for its identity and present a proof bound to this session, in the form of a signature over the transcript of the handshake so far. The client examines the certificate, the certificate should be satisfactory (e.g. for https://www.google.com/ the certificate with SAN dnsName www.google.com issued by a CA you trust seems satisfactory) and then the transcript signature can be verified with the public key listed in the certificate. So now the client is satisfied that this is, in fact, www.google.com it is talking to.
The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
Sigh, I love hackernews.
The low code platforms give raise the so-called citizen developers for biz analies, PM alike. There are so much value because they don't need to squat additional IT resource for simple internal apps to boost dept productivities, when they grow beyond Excel.
You don't need to "become extremely rich" for charitable giving to be quite worthwhile. Even donating trivial amounts of money to high-impact charity can easily come with a factor of 1000× in value created, compared to just spending the same amount of money on your own private consumption. (Of course this assumes that you're choosing the right causes, generally involving very poor countries and the like; not just "donating" to your local art gallery, or for that matter your local college with a billion-dollar endowment.)
Isn't that what a personal liability policy covers? Some apartments I have been in required you to have one.
This is like making people with cancer do an Ironman triathalon.

People about to enter hospice and pass on in a few weeks are gonna be way less able to complete it than someone who has months left to live.

But all you've done is stratify your patients.

The triathalon doesn't make anyone live longer.
Something unrelated to product quality and entirely appearance in an Apple thread, color me surprised.
Gotta love immutables after that...
> While many wealthy philanthropists enlist an army of publicists to trumpet their donations, Feeney went to great lengths to keep his gifts secret.

Crazy respect for this. Many times billionaire charitable foundations are just tax preferred ways of building your image or amassing influence. Bill Gates has done a lot of good, but his charitable work also served to redeem his image from that of the ruthless businessman crushing competitors that he had in the 1990’s. In addition, it has also given him a lot of soft power. I bet there are dozens of heads of state, especially in Africa and Asia, that he could personally get on the phone within 30 minutes if he really wanted to.
Data: Navy releases videos of UFO’s that defy our understanding of physics along with numerous highly credible eyewitness accounts

Science: must be drones or swamp gas or something

Data: Phosphine on Venus

Science: we have found life off of Earth!

This is why nobody trusts ya’ll anymore.
See the top-level comment from a Japanese developer. Language barriers and arbitrage are real things.