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To me Zig seems to be an in-between between C and Rust. It feels a lot more modern and pleasant to use than C without the rather large complexity of Rust. Of course, nothing comes free, so it's also less safe than Rust.

I personally really enjoy Rust's commitment to safety and I do find that the difficulty of writing Rust code that will pass the borrow checker and its stricter type system is well worth it but I know that some people find it frustrating and not very pragmatic. If you fall in this camp then Zig might well be worth a try.

Basically coming from C if you think that Rust goes too far, try Zig. If you think that Zig doesn't go far enough, try Rust.
The governments of each country in the EU, elected democratically, are the people who choose the specific law-writers (council of ministers) who you are critical of for proposing this law in this story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Organs_of_the_European_Un...

To the extent that conspiracies of “deep state” or “lobbyist” are involved, the only reason the EU is different to the member states themselves is that it’s a single big target instead of a lot of small ones.
And indeed it would be. Conversely, if you only used a gun to defend your self it would be a defensive technology. Seems like classifying technology as either offensive or defensive is a fool's errand. Perhaps you should try a different argument.
You accrue the benefit of owning capital which is rents on capital in the form of dividends.
If they're fishing in the Gulf of California, they might be able to get guns from some Mexican cartel, but they'd better not try to get them back to China.

Though I'm not sure whether that's really happening, since a search for "chinese fishing boats fired" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chinese+fishing+boats+fired exclusively returns results where coast guards of other nations fired at Chinese boats. If Chinese boats had guns, you'd think they'd use them and we'd get to hear about it.
Nothing here supports the argument that minorities don’t have voting rights, and I think the fact that you’re trying to stretch this to include non-citizens says a lot about how honest the original comment was.
Why is E2E encryption scary?

This is a genuine question because it's a counterintuitive notion to me since I find the lack of E2E encryption scary.
Yes. Perhaps the endgame here is that when "old school" voice/text shrinks, so does that avenue for eavesdropping, and once it's almost zero, then allowing any e2e doesn't mean a loss of ability anyway.

Also, so long as metadata is available from cell towers, you can still use the most useful piece of data: that someone's phone was at a crime scene, even if the communication itself was encrypted. That will always be the case (unfortunately also in authoritarian regimes).
Hah! I don't wonder. They will probably just find a way to make this not work.
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Maybe generalize that further, a right to privacy.
Walkability isn't the issue in major cities, nor is proximity to other classes of people. In Baltimore (to stick with my original example), your likelihood of being a crime victim varies block to block, with one block being safe and the next being an open air drug market. That's not unusual for major cities in the US.
Have you never owned a hdd larger than 25GB? Surely you know from personal experience how it turned out.
They use allright it when it's for their own benefit.
Different authors, different articles but essentially the same paragraph
Two Reuters articles are written by different authors, but they have the exact same paragraph (minus some obvious tweaks). Too similar to be coincidence in my opinion.

Why is that? I’d expect there to be a common author. Or are the authors cross-pollinating so much that they all write the same way? Who (or is it an AI) is ACTUALLY writing (or generating) the articles at Reuters?

Below are the paragraphs. Links to articles are in comments below.

Article 1

“Republican President Donald Trump has filed a raft of lawsuits to challenge the results, but electoral officials in states across the country say there has been no evidence of significant fraud, and legal experts say Trump’s efforts are unlikely to succeed.”

Article 2

“Trump has filed a raft of lawsuits to challenge the results, but elections officials in states across the country say there has been no evidence of significant fraud, and legal experts say Trump’s efforts are unlikely to succeed.”
I don’t know if I should be happy to know I personally can afford to buy access to UK politicians, or embarrassed that they are so cheap, but either way that is a very interesting anecdote.
It's easy for people to lose sight of this with all the bad news we're seeing in 2020, but the present is the safest time in history when zoomed out to a scale of decades. The decline in violence since the 1900s to today is essentially global and scales from bar fights to wars.
>there is not one single tribe that is objectively correct when it comes to matter of policy when, in fact, there are correct ways of deciding on policy.

There are objectively correct matters of policy when your goals, values, and assumptions have been specified. But it is these goals, values, and assumptions that separate the population into different factions. It is not simply a matter of we're right and they're wrong when it comes to settling these foundational issues.

> I simply in some kind of "spell" and am I not, objectively speaking, correct, because my opinion on those matters are backed by science?

You are under a spell that maximizing lives saved from the virus is the obviously correct goal, which is why its never even stated out loud. But your policy choices given that goal are objectively correct. The issue is whether maximizing lives saved from the virus is the correct goal. Lockdowns have a cost which is mostly borne by those who do not have the means to go for weeks or months without work or cannot work from home. There's also the mental health costs of extended social distancing. These questions are not answered by simply referencing the science behind controlling pandemics. There are very contentious foundational issues that that must be settled before we can make factual determinations about policy.
Chinese fishing boats that are illegally harvesting in other countries' maritime regions spend a great deal of time outside Chinese territory, where Chinese law is not enforced.

And that's ignoring the possibility of collaborating with the Chinese state.

Not that this is happening, but I don't see any large barriers to it.
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Dutch government pilots technology to cut e-bike road deaths
They aren’t directly elected, but the minister is from the government of each country, which is elected (at least as most understand the term)

Parliament is directly elected
Thanks, this confirms what I said. Also, it was written in 2018, and it has continued to decline as of the most recent data, which further undermines the latency hypothesis.

Maybe you have another metric that you think is important, but this data says that his record is on this one is objectively not terrible.
Seems separate from their UV systems, but they're very vague on it: https://www.bigassfans.com/faq/whats-an-ion/

Based on the standards they have approval for, yes, it's electrostatic disinfection:

https://standardscatalog.ul.com/ProductDetail.aspx?productId...
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If you want to evaluate quality of a sample, that's an entirely different issue. You may want to look up different sampling methods.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election/biden-wins-u...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-mexico-amlo/...
Because it has become a democrat vs republican kind of choice in all practicality.
Perhaps, but see Article 8 which is cited in your sibling comment. It already contains a right to privacy.

But the term privacy is not very rigid. It can be taken and interpreted in various ways. It's certainly a good thing to mention it, but encryption needs to be mentioned explicitly, spelled out even.

There cannot be any room for interpretation: citizens have a right to encrypt their communication, end-to-end with their intended party.
What's your opinion of the ANR system in your Jeep? Was it effective?
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Thanks—we've changed the URL from https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/. Submissions to HN need to be in English—we have great respect for other languages, including German, but HN is an English language site. Happily in this case, following the site guideline that calls for original sources solves this problem as well.

(I've taken the title from the new URL, btw, which uses the rather strong preposition "against"—I suppose this is a matter of interpretation since the document itself seems to fall over itself insisting on the opposite.)
I have traditionally used ansible and I hate it and am slowly converting to nix tooling.

With ansible, I feel like everything is poorly solved and you need to weigh decisions about when to use various hashicorp products. Worse still if you use their plugins instead of just script substitutions you get stupid behavior like not being able to fix your configuration because it is broken, or turning off the supposed advantage of these plugins such that they are almost as good as sed again.
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Apple keeps adding restrictions to what free developers can do, which makes this less and less viable. They also made a major change to their authentication mechanism for these free developer accounts last year, which (to avoid a lot of reverse engineering of highly obfuscated--and notably "well" obfuscated--Apple code) required a pretty obtuse workaround from AltStore on macOS where it injects into Mail.app as a plug-in... I am shocked Apple hasn't figured out some way to restrict this yet (it could be that it didn't occur to them there is still work to be done upping the ante here?).
They push a button on a screen, which is publicly recorded as a vote for, against, abstain or not present.

Nowhere near superior systems like the U.K. where members leave te room, spend a couple of hours queuing to go into one of two rooms, and then see the result later in the day.
Yeah - it is goddamn tiring can't the professional emotional manipulators that call themselves politicians play on any other emotion than fear to get elected?
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Yep, also scandals like the one in neighboring Austria where senior government officials were caught on candid camera making deals with fake oligarchs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza_affair
This world sounds like East Germany in the '70s, where everyone was so afraid to speak their true opinion for fear of being informed on that it appears everyone agrees when in fact they don't.
I mean there are jokes in the space program ('Burn Baby Burn', 'NOTE: BLACK SIDE DOWN', I'm sure there's more), so I don't know if expense is a limiting factor.

I will admit, though, I don't know what I'm talking about - so if you do I'm happy to take your word for it.
While it may work out that many roles would require a $200k salary, this is just not how the new rules work. The changes proposed are this:

"H1B applicants will need to be earning a salary equivalent to the 45th percentile of their profession's salary if they're an entry-level worker, rising to 95th percentile for higher-skilled workers. In the past, the boundaries were set at the 17th and 67th percentiles respectively."

Does anyone feel it was the right thing to do to bring foreign laborer into the domestic market at the 17 percentile? In my opinion, that is exploitative and clearly not fair to the international worker nor any domestic worker potentially displaced.
Another way of determining whether these proposals past the "smell test" is to ask how politicians treat legitimate requests for access to their communications (carried out as part of their jobs, which we pay them for) in response to Freedom Of Information requests.

An example[0] from 2012 in a (then) EU member state is very informative in that regard, as indeed is the name of the special adviser behind the controversial policy.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17235168
> Why does the US have to plunder other countries? Instigate wars in other countries? If anything we should send to refugees to the US because they're to blame for it all.

It's not just the US, you said it yourself - France, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the EU (agricultural subsidies make it impossible for local African farmers to compete with cheap, subsidised surpluses from the EU), Germany (weapon deals), China, and many others depending on region.

It's easy to point the finger to just the US, but in reality it's been European colonialism that started most of the mess in the first place. Just compare the borders in Africa and the Middle East to the borders in Europe and you might get an idea why peace and prosperity might be a long ways away.

> Most criminals are criminals because of the circumstances. Circumstances can be improved but they'd rather spend 5.5 billion (the one after the million) € on Eurofighters than make away with poverty.

The EU alone has a population of 440M. 5.5Bn is just 12.5€/person. Say 1 in 1000 people within the EU can be considered poor, that's still just 12500€ per poor person. That might be great for a year in many places, but then you'd have the same problem again next year. And the year after that, and the year after that...

Circumstances can be improved, but it doesn't start with money. The first step needs to be the disbandment of ghettos - way too many migrant families are segregated into their own streets, city blocks and quarters. Their children are stigmatised from birth and discrimination starts at an early age.

These people don't need money - they need a perspective, a fair chance, and acceptance. As long as football fans throw racial slurs even at their own players and as long as your country of birth, ethnic- and social background determines your future more than your skills, personality and hard work, being a terrorist or criminal has more appeal than being a productive part of society.
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I think it’s more likely that Apple users are self selected to prefer the Apple App Store model, similar to the way Android users are self selected. The mere existence of those two markets doesn’t really tell us conclusively what users prefer. You would need to control for other factors, such as user income, demographics, etc etc.
7. People in group 6 will be subject to increased abuse by authorities simply because they fall into this category regardless of whether other evidence suggests that they're a likely privacy advocate, political activist, or actual terrorist.

8. Privacy activists will leave group 6 by attrition, further reinforcing justification by authorities for 7.
Wouldn't an attacker that is able to edit the registry (to "initialize" the exploit) already have the privileges that the exploit would give them?
Your view of reality is that of a severely coddled person. In reality, you cannot have rich without poor, unless you suggest literal communism. Even in Scandinavian utopias, people rape, steal and murder.

Please wake up from the fairy tale that all bad things have a just cause that can be fixed. No. Some people would rather steal your stuff than go to the trouble of getting their own legitimately.
The most successful British politician in the last 100 years never got elected - he was defeated 7 times, once by a dolphin.

On a more recent example a footballer has managed to affect meaningful change and government u turns time and time again.

Charisma and making the population care about your cause is how you do it.
And then china is at war with all of NATO
The current HN link points to a page written in what looks like the German language to me. I do not understand German. The German language could be and has historically been used to spread hatred resulting in the deaths of millions of people. It is clearly risky to allow people to run around using languages I don't understand. Especially scary languages like German. And that includes Dutch.

Please ban all speech that is not understandable by me. If you are that concerned about privacy, you can use Pig Latin.
Same here. I run Termux on my Pixel, but I also have an iPad and was really excited to when I installed iSH. I hoped their initial approval of iSH meant that Apple was becoming more liberal.

Hell, I was even wondering if this would make it conceivable for me to switch back to an iPhone at some point if I became unhappy with Android.

Of course, deep down I knew it could not last.

Seriously, f* Apple, and f* the App Store.
> After all, in a normal decade the majority political party changes at least once

Ya, but that's because the majority of who votes changes over time, or changes who they vote for over time.

That means for any given elections, if you don't vote, you're voting for whoever the majority of voters will vote for.

This is still a clear choice in some sense. Just imagine a scenario, I'm going to order pizza and ask you what toppings you want, you say: "I'll have whatever you'll have." This is you casting your support for my choice of toppings, even though you do not know what toppings you're supporting. I can make it more complicated too, imagine there's two other persons and you say: "I'll have whatever you three decide to have." Now you're supporting whatever means me and the other two persons have for deciding, if that's a majority's vote, then that will be what you're siding with.

So not voting is the act of siding with the winner of the vote, in the sense it isn't a neutral position. Sure not voting does not actually require any physical action, like you don't have to deregister yourself or anything, you could just stay still until it's done. But it is an act in the sense of having it influence the outcome of the elections.

The only way to be neutral would be to vote, but pick at random the choice. That would still impact a given election, but over the aggregate of elections over time it should approximate neutrality.
>marine ecosystem more important than the one on land

Yes it is, it's the biggest oxygen producer, but every ecosystem is important even that in our guts.

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/worlds-biggest-oxygen-pr...
Also note a lot of luxury performance cars have the opposite - the engine noise is amplified by the stereo system. It makes sense as sounds is so dampened now but you want to hear that sweet engine note when you hit the gas.
Not at all! reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. These links to past threads are just for readers who like to read past threads.
„PC guys are not just going to walk in“ etc.
Same question here. I guess it was used up. But: There was a hype, why didn't more money come in? Was this a flopped startup?
Zig's C integration story is pretty compelling - https://ziglang.org/#Integration-with-C-libraries-without-FF...

You can call C code from Rust as well but it's not as tightly integrated into the language (and probably can't be, since C code is inherently unsafe).
I think you missed the part where law enforcement has problems putting criminals behind bars because there is too little evidence. This happens all the time.
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How does Apple expect the iPad to replace personal computers when it sabotages attempts to bring powerful dev tools to iOS again and again?
What a wonderful restoration!
They really are lovely keyboards.

I am sure many people already know, but just in case-

There is also a dedicated enthusiast who has worked to painstakingly reproduce the model F keyboard, and make them available for sale at https://www.modelfkeyboards.com
No, it's because audiophiles know that bluetooth is terrible.
Social status is as much important and significant in the West as in other societies. Designer clothes, fancy cars, fancy watches are all used to signal that you belong (or you pretend to belong) to a certain social class, just like the way you talk or the way you behave.

As to why some people who clearly cannot afford these would buy counterfeit goods or (more frequently in the West, accumulate excessive debts to pay them), I assume there is the desire to belong (or appear to belong) to said social class, coupled with the fact that appearance very much matters in our society and people are judged every day based on their appearance rather than their skills or their characters. That judgment can result in better job, promotions, better sexual partner, better social accceptance.

Now, multiply that tenfold for poorer countries.
that's the short story.

The long story is that encrypted files alone are no use to anyone, so the courts have no more right to it than anyone else. The decrypted text is a different matter. It's supposed to be protected. So you are saying, eventually, if I may interpret it that way, that speech which is protected from the authorities including the courts is not in fact protected from the courts.

Oh, ok, that's not even illogic, just paradox.

Problematicly, if you consider the abstract danger of a key cypher pair a threat, the same goes for the legislatator court partnership. The courts aren't a threat as long as there's no legislation that opens them up to it. So, clearly, the legislation is key to the infringement. This means that legislation has to act in accordance with legislation, which is as difficult to understand for regular joe as function pointer semantics in C++. So it appears to say, simply, that legislation has to act...

That's you and me. Actually though, the law is accordingly a huge tower of abstraction. The moment you try to dereference "the law" it blows up into your face, a group of skilled experts has to drop into debugging mode and, eventually, has to decide if they want to have their access limited even in debugging mode. Well, the system was designed for the hypervisor kernel to access all areas, this seems to be a problem of the virtual OS handling the capabilities for userspace incorrectly.

Bug closed: won't fix.
I’d love to see Apple support an Xcode on iOS devices - and have it provide the runtime things like iSH could rely upon. In one fell swoop they could control the code people can run while also making the systems that much more replacements for traditional devices.
It is might makes right essentially - if treason doth prospor none dare call it treason. If there is absolutely no hope of any effort to revert it succeeding it is just.
Entropy always wins in the end.