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The difficulty in something like an ISO standard comes from conflicts between stake-holders, not really anything intrinsic to drafting a standard. In C's case, the problem is that many compilers are developed for C at cross-purposes to one-another; GCC and Clang want different things from C than embedded-cross-compiler toolchain authors do; than JIT authors do; than creators of "child" languages like Objective-C or OpenCL C do; etc. The "work" of C standardization is in getting these people to compromise.

Rust doesn't have that problem; there aren't yet any alternative Rust compilers that have any other purpose than to run as a batch-scheduled crate-at-a-time compile step at the command-line.

In such a case, where there's only one real stake-holder, "standardization" becomes less about declaring what should happen; and more about specifying what does happen, in exacting detail, such that someone could build an alternative conforming implementation from the spec without looking at the source of your reference implementation.

I don't feel like the existence of such a descriptive specification would have "strangled Rust" at any point. At most, this would have roughly doubled the work of any fix: writing the code, and then writing the change in the spec. But it wouldn't have actually been double the overall labor overhead, since the increased clarity-of-purpose of modifying the spec to declare a change in intention, would likely have mooted a lot of requesting-clarification and debating at code-review time.

But besides, software-engineering as a discipline now has tools like Behavior-Driven Development to minimize the costs of maintaining a parallel descriptive spec for a project. BDD tests are just regular tests that embed a lot of descriptive strings in them—those strings being words you are already mostly thinking at the time of writing the test. So they're only a little more costly than writing ordinary tests (which the Rust compiler already has), yet can also be compiled out into a descriptive spec. (And then you can diff the generated spec, between versions, and turn that diff into the spec errata for the "minor specification addendum" of that minor release.)
The headline doesn’t accurately capture the substance of the article. The article does say it doesn’t find evidence for “mass hysterectomies”, but it does say that a review of medical records indicated that several women had procedures performed on them without informed consent and without any justification. The most salacious of the allegations might not be true, but it’s clear that the behavior of the medical personnel here is ethically beyond the pale.
Don't forget how ridiculously over-leveraged almost every big company already is. They are saddled with huge debt and many are struggling to pay the interest on the debt, let alone the principal.

So the Fed can force rates to nothing so companies can get more debt to pay down their existing debt, but the point where they are actually profitable gets further and further away. Meanwhile, they get more and more vulnerable to even the slightest increase in rates.

Everyone can close their eyes and keep driving faster off this cliff for a while, but best case is we become Japan with 100 year mortgages and a market that is flat for the next 30 years because it is half owned by the government.

The real problem is the companies that hit the wall first and go bankrupt suddenly, I think Dave and Busters just announced and October is whispered to be full of incoming bankruptcies. Confidence in stocks won't hold when companies keep randomly dropping 20% in a day.

TINA doesn't consider "not losing money" is a very reasonable alternative that people will eventually realize.
Voting doesn't work for the most important issues, where human rights are being severely violated.

It took a civil war for the end of slavery to begin in the US.

It took decades of terrorism for the Irish to stop being as subjugated by the British in Northern Ireland.

And so on.

History indicates that what you really need in the US right now is some violent, direct action against those committing human rights atrocities. Voting isn't going to do shit.
If the subject matter interests you, just head straight for Bataille. If reading is too hard, you can also watch Žižek.

The navel-gazing children of the handset writing about social media in the 21st century are not to be trusted, in my estimation.
Appreciate u tried. Will get there..
Javascript has a standard library... intended for the language's actual use case, which is lightweight scripting and DOM manipulation within the browser. It's not a deficit of the language that some startup decided to pretend JS was the new C++ and that an insane and byzantine ecosystem developed around the attempt to force Javascript to be something it was never intended to be, and make it seem more "enterprise."

Endless dependency graphs and single-function modules and left-pads weren't a problem back in the days of JQuery and sane libraries. None of this madness is necessary. No, not even for front-end frameworks. It's unnecessary in the vast majority of cases.
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Even keeping the bedroom door open helps. I did some tests with a CO2 meter - with the door closed it reached 1100ppm after a nights sleep. With the door cracked open it was around 700ppm.

One thing is that air diffuses out fairly effectively even with the door closed, presumably through gaps in the door frame. Quick calculation (welcome any corrections, numbers pulled from quick online searches):

Resting breathing rate is ~6 liters/minute.

Sleep ~8 hours = ~500 minutes = 3000 liters exhaled.

CO2 exhaled is 5% concentration, so 150 liters of CO2

Room = 30 m^3 = 30000 liters

Expected additional CO2 concentration in morning in perfectly sealed room = 150 / 30000 = 0.5% = 5000ppm

Actual additional CO2 = 700ppm (1100 reading - baseline 400ppm)
I'd be up to chatting. You can email me at <hn username> at Google email service .com
> I used to work in tech recruiting. I guarantee you 100%, no one cares.

Yes, everyone noticed.
Let's be real, life is too short to read every article on the internet before deciding if it's worth your time.
> But the thing that I missed most was the feel of pencil on paper.

Has anyone tried Paperlike? I'm interested in the "feel" and how it affects display quality.

https://paperlike.com/
Please don't blindly trust those answer boxes. One example of an answer that looks simple and definitive but was actually way off: https://youtu.be/TbHBHhZOglw?t=58
Those aren't economists lmao
Feel free to name a few
Just write readable code. 95% of the time it's more than fast enough. If it's not, then make sure you understand why it's not fast enough before you start making changes. It's very likely that the performance issues have more to do with what you're doing than how you're doing it. Never, ever optimize before measuring.
Ah, cool. I think it still holds up. I put some heart into it, anyway.

Of my free games, the most personal and artsy is probably Standard Bits. It premiered at Gamma 256 in Montreal next to Jason Rohrer's Passage, and people have said some nice things about it over the years: https://doomlaser.itch.io/standardbits It takes place on a 100x54 pixel field, blown up to full screen, and you control a single pixel on a journey. Named after the low-level pixel blitter in the original Macintosh toolbox API..
got nauseated. still funny.
I would say a significant amount, I don’t have the article link on hand but U-Haul prices out of California are 10 - 40x the price the opposite direction. I was hit by this since we had planned to move out of state prior to what is going on (roughly a year ago) and needed to price it out. We’re still moving, just getting the trailer instead of the full truck and I’ll haul the stuff while my girlfriend and son fly out instead.
"the arena" is a sports talk show that happened to be on in the background after watching the lakers game (in which lebron and his crew won). it's relatively unique in that it's anchored by a black woman (cari champion), but it's squarely a sports opinion show, and incidentally political, for instance, due to the intertwining issue of black folks being disproportionately targeted by police and the legal system.

it's not meant to be fact-rich/low-opinion news, and they make that obvious by not mimicking a news format, unlike many other "news"-like shows, which is entirely acceptable. there is room for a few opinion shows in the mix. but it's the opinion shows disguised as news shows that are insidiously problematic, and that's increasingly all of them.

we're entirely in agreement that the profit motive drives news and news-like organizations in a race to the bottom toward attention-grabbing infotainment rather than staid factual news.

it's almost as if we need to break off high-value, low-engagement news organizations into fully independent non-profits that are funded by a pool of income from the infotainment industry for the right to continue delivering low-value, high-engagement infotainment, rather than intermixing the two.
I don't think so. Maybe for the active users, but maybe not even then. Most twitter users are inactive and so you wouldn't want to fan that kind of data out so widely. You'd either have to pay enormous gc costs or enormous storage costs for someone like Donald Trump (0.5 GB per tweet assuming 64 bit tweet IDs). But I think I would just have a sharded in memory cache of recent tweets for the big dogs and if someone loads their feed you would do lookups into the sharded db for each subscription. You'd then cache the feed for the user so you don't have to do that lookup very often.

If you were going to write, you'd write into the cache, rather than persisting anything to disk. That's my guess at least.
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So, we're burning fossil fuels, increasing CO2 output, don't have an idea which will reliably improve the situation and are getting stupider by the day, decreasing our chance to ever getting one. Yay...
>This isn't even about social categories “Black” and “White”, it is literally about the direct correlates of skin colour.
To expand upon this according to an ONS study "Blacks" in England and whales had a 1.9 times higher rate of dying compared to "Whites" after socioeconomic controls, while Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups were 1.6 times more likely.[1] This makes sense if you figure lighter skin was a evolved trait for those in latitudes that got less sun. [2]

[1]
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

[2]https://www.pnas.org/content/107/Supplement_2/8962
> It’s not as though there is a pattern of unarmed killings.

There's at least one a month that makes international news? And several thousand demonstrators in the streets for hundreds of days that think they're not justified? And it turns out that the police lie about events unless there's footage, and sometimes even then?

Here's the latest one: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/police-shooting...
People are shaped by the tools that they use. There are significant physical changes in the brain when writing is learned for the first time compared to someone who never has learned writing.

It’s possible this aspect can atrophy if physical writing is not practiced for long enough. And it’s probable relearning it will ‘reactivate’ so to speak those pathways.

As a bonus handwriting on paper is an excellent archival medium, if stored properly.

Hard real-time access and retrieval with guaranteed future and backwards compatibility. No power or maintenance requirements. Guaranteed versioning is possible, immutability, and no licensing or region issues.
Also operable in extreme cold.

Really a great solution if you need any of those features.
We all agree that people in general act in their economic self interest. We also agree that people prefer to donate money to specific causes they support rather than pay extra in taxes - I think this is a fair statement. Redistribution as a concept has widespread support, but the mechanism to do so has wide disagreement, so each person tends to prefer selecting their own mechanism of redistribution through donations to non-profits rather than pay extra to the government.

Therefore, any solution proposed through the (long, compromised, imperfect, special-interest ridden, full-of-holes) government legislative process will be relatively easy to bypass by motivated rich people with the means to pay professionals to structure their assets accordingly, as has been the case for centuries. And the rich won't necessarily do it with sinister intent - they may still give a huge amount of money to causes they support, but simply disagree with giving it to the government as a blank check. Or maybe the rich are just greedy and self-interested. But either way, the government will be unable to take this money.

I don't think any redistribution mechanism implemented by the government can attack the rich long-term. They may get snagged initially, then quickly reorganize their assets to avoid such issues. The true people who get snagged are the middle class, who actually do pay taxes (while the poor often have negative-taxes and receive the redistribution), but do not have the means to restructure themselves to avoid the taxes.

So we are left with 2 options - the first are broad, universal tax increases (which no one advocated for in the US election except Bernie Sanders) rather than (inevitably-failing) soak-the-rich taxes, and the second being to restructure society to provide the same or more services to people using less taxes.

I prefer the latter - we should be adding efficiency to the state, while giving people more choice on how to help each other. I don't want to delve into the details in this comment. But my overall point is that taxes targeting the rich and super-rich will fail, as they always have and always will, so we need some other solution if we desire to reduce inequality.
Open a window. Those grow lamps use energy and might contribute to the problem, depending on where you live.
Because if there is a bubble it can go on for a decade, you'll eventually lose faith in your strategy and go all in at even worse valuations.
Like someone said above, who has time to wade through all the verbal feces before deciding that an article is worth the time?

In this day and age, you need to decide quickly, or you'll be wasting a lot of your time.

Now I don't know about you, but my time is valuable.
I always thought that "you can't prove it" was a very good defence? Isn't the burden of proof generally on the accuser?

I'm not a lawyer, so I'm unfamiliar with the nitty-gritty of legalities.
For an in-house recruiter, yes. They generally say that because they want you to interview again in the future. I don’t think they would waste their time if it wasn’t close.

Head hunters on the other hand will generally say anything to get you to keep interviewing.
Take care of your body.

People matter. Learn how to interact well with them. Yes, it matters that you be yourself, and that you hold to what is true, but don't use either of those as an excuse to be clumsy (or worse, brutal) with people.

Even things like clothes matter, because they're part of how we interact with people.
Over half. 52%, actually.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
Young people generally have this idea that their name allows them to live forever if it is somehow preserved by repetition. It doesn’t. I had a dialectic materialist for a history teacher one term, and these notions are greatly muted when individual stories cease to be the center of all historical narratives.

Cue Fight Club: “you are not special...”
Doesn't most platforms have a reasonably stable interface for functions that are supposed to be reached from userspace? When does it actually matter if that border coincide with where execution privileges are raised?
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Cursorily examining this company's web page:

https://www.ns8.com/en-us

It seems to me like this company's base value proposition, that is, for any company's monetary transactions with customers, give that transaction a risk assessment score based on whatever data about the customer is available.

That, in its simplest, most elemenatary, most basic form, is a good value proposition.

Companies would find value in software which could deliver that proposition (a related idea that comes to mind is if PayPal decoupled their fraud prevention software, and sold that software to businesses separately, then that software would deliver an equivalent value).

So the base value proposition of this company (assuming their software actually works) -- is a valid one.

What seems to have done this company in, however, (if the article is to be believed) is accounting fraud, which may have been preceeded by lack of customers, lack of revenue or expected revenue.

It's always an interesting question to me (correlation vs. causation-wise) if lack of sales triggers accounting fraud, or if accounting fraud just sort of happens on its own...

You know, here's an idea for the FBI or other related investigative agencies -- you could, based on previous cases, create a list of "risk factors", each of which would count towards an overall "risk score" -- of something being seriously wrong at a company.

Such factors would include, but not be limited to: How much debt a company has to investors, how much revenue is it making relative to that debt, what is its growth rate, what is the age of the CEO, what industry is it in, etc., etc.

Grab all of that data, from all companies, run it through a machine learning algorithm, get a "risk score" for each and every company, then if you have nothing better to do (free time between other investigations), start investigating the companies with the highest "risk scores". <g>

You know, you might call it "Cyber Fraud Detection Software" -- for large companies... <g>

Then if that works well in the U.S. -- give the software (for free!) to all other countries!

Also, the same set of ideas and Machine Learning -- could be used to track wasteful government spending (foreign and domestic), or wasteful spending of so-called charitable organizations...

The possibilities are truly endless!
>And I want to stress that broad framing: iron was made into more things than just swords (although swords are cool).

I honestly can't comprehend this line of thought. Why the hell would you care about stupid swords? If I was the first blacksmith on the planet I would try to replace bronze axes. Bronze is an extremely awful material choice for cutting down trees.
The problem with the smartphone is that the UX is designed in such a way that helpful rituals are hard to develop. If you want access to something at all it has to be right in your face.
He explicitly wrote: "Furthermore the law doesn't interfere with what's private nor is it allowed to breach the individual's privacy. Someone who doesn't wilfully disrupt the social order should have no problems in that regard."

You seem to have wilfully ignored that part, since neither you nor the article you linked addressed or opposed that part.
> The difficulty in something like an ISO standard comes from conflicts between stake-holders, not really anything intrinsic to drafting a standard.

Sort of, ISO has some rules that are antithetical to Rust's ethos, like requiring that conversations not be recorded. Rust's development chooses when to be public and when to be private where it makes sense.

I don't actually know if the "meet in person" aspect is a formal ISO rule or a peculiarity of the C and C++ committees, but that would be another vast difference that matters a lot. Especially at this historical moment.

> Rust doesn't have that problem;

We do have this problem, it's just not driven by compiler authors, but by the relevant stakeholders directly. The language team and the compiler team, while sharing some people, are separate.

> less about declaring what should happen; and more about specifying what does happen

This is not how the process plays out in Rust, though you're right that it could, if the compiler team wanted to act in bad faith.
Someone who isn’t ignorant has time to do it. I don’t pass over reading just because I can disprove a single portion. I value my time, but also my ability to digest and understand all viewpoints regardless of my actual views on them. I suggest you try and do the same.
i see why though, as it wasnt the intent to kill, but happened, like with negligence
Isn't it they retell and embellish them to the point they sound believable, like GPT-3?
I'd argue that not being able to program in C marks someone as not serious about programming, but that's mostly because I know and like C.
I absolutely love science fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s. In my spare time, I try reading "Galaxy science fiction" from archive.org. It is a pleasure to read classics like "The Fireman" by Ray Bradbury, which eventually became Fahrenheit 411, in their original versions. One, now largely forgotten, novel I enjoyed from that period is "Day of the Triffids".
The RISC-V core in question is the VexRISCV core[0]. It comes in two flavours depending on the kind of FPGA[1]:

- 100 MHz VexRISC-V, RV32IMAC + MMU, 4k L1 I/D cache on the Xilinx FPGA

- 8 MHz VexRISC-V, RV32I, no cache on the Lattice iCE40UP5K FPGA

0. https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv
1. https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
Building rustc may be a bit of a pain (big pain? It’s more than five years since I last built rustc from source, but I don’t recall having any particular difficulty with it), but I was speaking specifically of the bootstrapping part, which I don’t feel is at all terrible. Specifically targeting version n − 1 means that you can adopt new language features, which you couldn’t if you were targeting version 1.0 forever, or writing it in another language. That’s what I was meaning by prioritising their own ergonomics—allowing them to use new features. With that clarification, I’m interested in whether you agree or disagree. You’ve been a lot closer to the action than I have.
> How many younger people, precisely, have moved back home?

It appears like quite a few. I can see into a lot of different apartments from where I live in SF and many, many more are empty. This might also be due to AirBnBs.

The real estate rental prices have fallen, but they're still pretty sticky - I predict they are going to fall more.
Remember Clapping for the NHS?
> The article below contains a long list of cases where courts determined peoples sexualities and punished them

Can you cite one from your linked article that fits your classification and contradicts his argument? I couldn't find one fitting in your classification.
Thank you for the recommendation! I can also recommend "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield.

https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Steven-Pressfield-ebook/dp/B0...
The article appears to conflate notetaking by hand versus notetaking on a keyboard with summarised notes versus verbatim notes.

There is a paradox here though, and I'm experiencing it myself as I review 10yrs of note books filled during the course of my PhD. I was hoping to find lots of forgotten treasures but I'm discovering more and more that anything I wrote down was also retained (more or less), of course anything not written down was lost to time. It's as if I may as well have been writing onto a ceramic tile with a drinking straw.
Self-hosting is a kind of right of passage for programming languages. Another reason to aim for self-hosting is that it means it's now viable to only use that language, for instance in targeting a new hardware platform, via cross-compilation initially and then self-hosting after. If you don't have a self-hosting language, you either always cross-compile or you port two languages.

That is: CRust (a hypothetical C-based Rust compiler) can be made to target XX99 hardware, but in order to run CRust on that hardware you also have to make the C compiler support it. Achieving self-hosting, especially for a language that's targeting low-level capabilities like Rust is, is rather important.
That does not say that over half have moved back home since Covid. Read critically.