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> many applications just don't need it. Those that do can of course use libraries, but many (say, backend servers) don't really need to process Unicode strings

I can't speak for actual Ocaml users, but I've personally rejected Ocaml for my user-facing webapps because of things like this. Treating unicode as something optional was fine for early 2000s, but it's really not fine today. Most user facing applications need first class support for internationalized strings much more than other stuff like Big_int that's actually implemented in Ocaml stdlib.

I'm guessing the status quo works fine for existing Ocaml users, but that's kinda circular, and would explain Ocaml's limited adoption outside of its traditional niches.
I had mine at about the same age or maybe a little younger - my foot was so swollen, and so sensitive that doctors couldn't believe it was anything other than a break, sprain or some other gross damage. When the X-Ray came back clear, and a blood test showed high Uric Acid they were stunned.

Still, I had no further symptoms for several years. Then I had another, then it became a yearly thing and now I'm on Allopurinol permanently.

My doctors insist that I cut down my drinking (I don't drink), my consumption of red meat (some, but not much) and a variety of other things which mostly don't apply to me.

It's in the family history - everyone on the male side of my family going back generations has had it. A great-something grandfather had attacks so bad that anyone even walking near his bed was threatened with a grisly end. I can certainly sympathise.

Trying to walk with a gouty foot is painful enough, but it's made worse by how inconsiderate so many people are - so many people will walk into you, people on bikes, skateboards, one-wheels, etc ride directly towards you. Which makes you brace, slightly in the event they don't swerve-away, which triggers another burst of pain from the bracing.

An uncle who has to use a walking stick at times complains of the same problem of appearing to be invisible to people on the streets, and of people brushing past and knocking against the walking stick.
With how much they've been struggling with 7nm, doesn't look positive. Zen 3 is already 7nm, a significant leap forward and TSMC and Samsung are already messing around with 3nm.

I mean, 2022 for their first 7nm chips to hit market? That's crazy. Zen 3 hit the market two weeks ago.
> Apple has always been at the forefront of extreme usability (kids using iPads, seniors sending iMessages)

No they haven't, proof: the lack of tactile feedback on the iPhone 7+ is a usability impairments for seniors.
> For Rachel, diving into this pool would be like swimming in potent bleach

I find this choice of analogy really interesting, since diving into the pool is like swimming in bleach for everyone else too.
That is how Elon has always run.

He has said many times the slower-than-ideal ramp for the Model 3 assembly line very nearly bankrupted Tesla (it was within a few months).

When the first two SpaceX launches failed he spent all their remaining money on the next one - if it failed, SpaceX would have too.

He has also said if either Tesla or SpaceX go bankrupt, so does he.

He is literally betting the house with every major decision.
There has been many rounds of talks since 2014 when ASEAN countries proposed this. There must be some exposures during the past 6 years. The agreement now needs each country's domestic approval, so you can still have a say in it. The agreement is not in effect yet.
The goal is usually passing to human scrutiny, not necessarily faithfully replicating ground truth.
In an example of a modern highly rain fade resistant ptp microwave system in the 18GHz band, standard fcc part 101 fdd band plan. The radios might be talking to each other in both H and V polarities, 80MHz wide channel in both, at 2048QAM 5/6 during a normal sunny day. In an extreme rain fade event they may go all the way down to QPSK 1/2 and the link's capacity in Mbps could be as poor as 40Mbps (from what is nominally a 900Mbps+ link), but the end to end latency will remain pretty much the same.

Latency as experienced by users might be much worse, however, if suddenly 300Mbps of traffic is trying to be shoved through a 40-75Mbps link, for a period of several minutes or more.
> I think WordPress as a private company can refuse service to whomever they like

I'm perfectly fine to apply this standard. But I think very few people making that point in this content, are willing to bite the bullet and say the same thing when a redneck, homophobic baker refuses service at a gay wedding.

(And yes, in California, political affiliation is a protected class, just like LGBT status.)
> Maybe the conservatives in the Democratic party will join with the conservatives from the Republican party

And go where? As you've said, the Republican party is openly populist. If anything the Republican conservatives will look to the Democratic party, which seems to have become the conservative option. I consider myself a Libertarian and I'm considering voting straight national ticket Democrat for the next decade due to what the Republican party has become. Putting party above country is simply unforgivable.
This treaty been publicly listed on the under negotiation treaty page on NZ Gov website for years [1] (Internet Archive link as its now obviously moved to a different page). This includes the guiding principles/objectives for NZ, key outcome targets, various status updates and the ability for the public to make submissions regarding the treaty. This is more than enough to understand the context and purpose of the treaty -- the actual text is generally not publicly available until it has been agreed (there would be little point, there are near continuous changes as the negotiations occur).

I'm not from NZ, but once the treaty text has been concluded the ratification process looks similar to Australia and involves fairly extensive public review (NZ process detailed [2]). You're welcome to read the couple hundred pages national interest analysis, economic analysis and cabinet papers on the treaty as well [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200122083058/https://www.mfat....
[2] https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/About-us-Corporate/Treaties-...
[3] https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/trade/free-trade-agreements/free...
That statement is completely true as backed by many mortality numbers around the world. Just as an example, here's official mortality numbers for Germany: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Querschnitt/Corona/_Grafik...
Look, I’m a very staunch supporter of free speech on the Internet, but this particular site appears to be primarily focused on advocating for a coup. I checked their first 3 pages, and nearly every post is about throwing out the results of the most recent US election. I find it really hard to judge a hosting service for deciding that’s a step too far.
Someone asked Elon on Twitter if they can use Starlink on their yacht while crossing the Pacific and Elon said that is a great use-case because there won't be many other connections to the same sat.

He has also said a few times it will work perfectly well on things like moving trains.

So I have to think the geofence will go away, though I assume there will be country restrictions due to legalities.
How would TPP help the US long-term?
Sure , I am from India.

The diary sector in India is largely unorganized , these are managed as daily livelihood for poor income families who have at best a few cows that provide them with livelihood.
The co-operative sector in India mentioned how imports from NZ will wreck the system , for example the largest co-operative AMUL in India was against RCEP and imports from NZ (https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/rcep-amul-warns-mo...)

The exact trade rules and local content are in many cases impossible to vet and verify and are in many cases not transparent. And given the sentiment in India , no one will take chances with China
I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that "lack of rice" (and lack of clean water) is going to be a major issue whether we build out nuclear or not. I think humanity is in for a dark couple hundred years. The window hasn't closed, but we are hard pressed dealing with all the wrong fights and time is losing.

The less "1000 year tail of disaster" opportunities we can have available when things start to unravel the better. I am less afraid of us killing each other over rice and water than I am of us forcing those that come in the aftermath to deal with our effluence for 50+ generations.
Is the content untruthful and promoting harmful conspiracy theories?
The protocol in use is OCSP. The OCSP endpoint is part of the certificate. If I had to guess, I would say that they just relied on certificate validation features of the library they are using, not necessarily aware of all of the consequences.

Checking OCSP is a standard feature of many SSL libraries.

Doing what you suggest is an implementation outside of what standard libraries would provide and was probably completely out of scope until now when stuff started burning.

Don't call relying on standard features of an underlying library "batshit implementation". For the vast majority of cases going with what's already there is the way better solution than NIHing your custom thing
That's such a broad definition of both "force" and "associate", I'm inclined to call this a bad faith argument. No reasonable definition of "forced to associate" in the context of governmental power has anything to do with happening to live in the same country as someone you dislike.
> The principle here is good (check if the developer’s certificate is revoked)

How is that remotely good ? It makes it easy to bully / blackmail developer to abide to every Apple will and revoke a certificate in pure retaliation, cf. the Epic debacle. A central authority can't be trusted.
> In this case, as with the iPod, the tech enables a dramatically better user experience.

The whole reason CowboyNeal was attacking the iPod was that technically it was a step backwards. It couldn't do anything that a Nomad couldn't. The part that it did well (and that he missed the importance of) was the usability and polish.

> Compared to existing satellite ISPs you get dramatically better latency and dramatically faster/easier setup (no professional installation required, plug and play in 5 minutes). It's also likely to be far cheaper if you actually transfer a decent amount of data, and early tests seem to show better reliability in poor weather as well.

All true, but can you see HN caring about any of that if SpaceX wasn't involved? The HN userbase is overwhelmingly city folk; I suspect only a tiny proportion of us have ever used satellite internet before.
The word "retirement" doesn't appear in this document.
> And mao doesn't meet nixon without hundred or thousands of sino-american meetings behind the scenes. Do you think Mao just decided on a whim one day to meet nixon?

Interestingly it started with a table tennis player

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong_diplomacy
For years I had this concept in mind of deploying a fleet of supercars across hospitals around the mid-atlantic as rapid organ shuttles, but quick research made it clear that the idea would probably only be practical in a limited spread of circumstances, more limited than would make sense to justify the service.

Still, if there's a job I'd love to do, it'd probably be this.
> It’s a pretty solid use of a supercar, although folks on Twitter have wondered why Italian officials didn’t just use a helicopter to transport the kidney. A Google Maps view of the Policlinico Universitario in Padua, the starting hospital, doesn’t seem to show a helipad or an easily accessible flat area nearby, so a Lamborghini likely made the most sense here.

It's in the article.
Right, because markets where there is competition work so well?

I can't think of an insurance company in the US that'd cover this. Can you?
In that case I think 88 would be closer to 1:30 - it's only two seconds off rather than nine seconds off. But it might be better to be nine seconds overcooked than two seconds undercooked.
I think if you follow John Carmack's finger files and his Twitter account you can form your own opinion as to how it works.

That guy is clearly a top 10 engineer and he hides little about his thought process. His appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience was great too.
And yet when I tried Nexus tablets with all my elders and hangouts or skype whatever video call app was around then, they couldn’t figure it out.

As soon as I gave them all iPad mini and iPhone, they all found it easier to FaceTime.

Although, the chat issue was solved by WhatsApp in my opinion, by requiring phone numbers thereby reducing the need for passwords and reducing spam, greatly simplifying chat for the non tech and English literate in my family.
Your assessment doesn't hold any water. It's a bunch of Americans virtue signalling about how good they are, talking about a problem they don't know. Hence my inquiry about that. Because as a European, I know that the things said in this thread are objectively not true.
I can't find the HN post, but I believe this was the tweet thread that it referenced:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html
FWIW, I used 3G wireless in fairly remote parts of the Congo and it was fast.
Is this not a strawman argument? The hosting layer should be agnostic (like, say, https://nearlyfreespeech.net), but the site admins can do what they'd like with their site (including removing spam).
i don't get the point of showing me something I searched for on Amazon or Vitacost about an hour later. It's almost like they're just doing that to check a feature box in some advertiser list of features they're selling to someone but it's not actually even useful. If I'm about to buy an intex raft I'm going to do it when I was looking at them, not 3 weeks later.

Further, there's really no intelligence in ads yet. If I'm looking at intex rafts it probably makes sense to sell me fishing gear, yet none of that happens. Also I hate fishing. I just like floating on a raft.
> There is no clear evidence as to which side initiated that conflict.

I believe my government in this respect. So that is enough evidence.

> There were casualties on both sides.

I should hope so! China should not be able to get away with illegal encroachment and murder without any cost.
I have done this too, partially. The problem with bluetooth on windows is that it doesn't work in duplex mode. You can't use speaker and mic together on bluetooth. If you disable the module for mic(don't remember what it's called) then the speaker function works perfectly.

All the support posts that I read told me that bluetooth is the problem, not windows. But I call BS on that as the bluetooth duplexing works perfectly fine on Linux as well as macos.
Seriously, why do they have to collect ANYTHING without opt-in? People pay them for hardware, their revenue stream has a different source than facebook or google.

I think it's fear (useful telemetry) or greed (valuable telemetry) or vanity (look how many people launch x).

Really, just do it. So some customers shoot themselves in the foot. That is how they learn. Others who are perfectly capable of managing things will also be happy with actual privacy. That is how trust is built up, and with trust comes unfettered trade.

Right now power users are alienated, regular customers feel deceived and apple could just do better.
IIRC education is Australia's 3rd largest export.
I wish there was a paywall warning on posts...
I've had similar experiences on Windows and Mac. Computers are finicky and they break sometimes, especially during upgrades.
I'd argue that the difference was that in music there were enough DRM-free options from many artists that the industry couldn't disallow them.

It's a lot easier (though not actually easy) to be a non-label independent musician than it is to be an independent filmmaker. There were some respectable efforts like the show Pioneer One, but there weren't ever enough high production value projects to make a dent in viewership.
Anticheat is a rootkit, right? That's almost complaining Windows viruses does not run in Wine.
or some people always looking for a reason to be offended or feel like someone doesn't like them.

There are plenty of people in a self righteous bubble who think they are enlightened and those in the red states are mouth breathers who spend their day looking to hate people.

Meanwhile you see people in the Bay Area with BLM signs in their yard yet no actual black lives live in their neighborhood.
That would depend on whether the Falcon 9 has enough delta-V to do a plane change maneuver like the Soyuz does. Otherwise, launch windows would be months apart.
How would you feel about Wordpress deleting all the blogs of a specific religion, based on the fact that there is no evidence for God?

Because we're not talking about fringe conspiracy theories here. At least 30% of Americans holds opinions similar to CTH. You may disagree with them, but Wordpress is unilaterally claiming the ability to silence a huge chunk of the American political spectrum. I don't really see how that's any different than them deciding to unilaterally discriminate against, say all Catholics.
Why wouldn't it be affordable? As long as there's enough bandwidth couldn't SpaceX just offer its ISP services at marginal cost? In any case it's not like people who can't afford it are made worse off by it being theoretically available to them
Humans are amazing in our ability to adapt to the new normal. I was of the same mind of how the heck could you do this, however my body learned when I was in the military to sleep whenever it could under circumstances that I would have never consider possible until it became the new normal. Years latter I had the pleasure of teaching my wife to sky dive. On the ride up to altitude I would close my eyes and nap she was a bundle of nervous energy. She said it freaked her out, I just smiled. The average humans ability to adapt is key to our success as a species. In the end, I did nothing special, I just adapted to survive.
In 50 years of programming I've worked with a few. One characteristic is a deep understanding and command of all that they touch.

For example, I worked with Bill Schelter (GNU Common Lisp). In 1980, prior to the Internet, we were working on a problem (tail recursion). He was using the emacs editor and he found a bug.

Bill stopped what he was doing, fetched the sources for emacs (using ftp), found the source of the bug, fixed it, and sent off a patch. After that he restarted emacs and continued right where he left off. It was a virtuoso performance. It was like watching Victor Borga (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeqaDSjy98).

I know a guy who plays guitar. He can listen to a performance and repeat it as easily as I can type what I read. He can transpose keys, add riffs, change tuning "on the fly", and even play thru with a broken string, adjusting chords to the new "5 string" form. He also knows guitar characteristics, pedal effects, etc., basically "all things guitar".

Great software engineers I've known seem to have complete command of all of the ideas, tools, and techniques. They understand their tools "all the way down to the metal" and all the way "up to the esthetics". You can see great people in all crafts (like woodworking).

They also write beautiful "crafted" code. I'm keyboarding a FORTRAN punched card deck (for an historical museum). You can see from the code that the author wrote clean, careful, and clear code. You can almost feel how good he was.

Greatness isn't about "team player", "hard working", "good at time estimation", or anything "social". Greatness is a property of the person, a deep love of the craft, and a focus on "doing it right".
> Basically everything uses an ARM CPU these days, not just tablets and phones, but microwaves, TVs, projectors, refrigerators, ovens, 3D printers...

Most of these things are not on bleeding edge 5nm or 7nm process, though. Most microcontrollers are more like 90nm (e.g. STM32 up to F7 is 90nm; STM32H7 is 40nm... many smaller micros of the M0 variety are even 180nm...)

Basically, if you're not video processing, or a real computing device, or something power sensitive, 90nm is still a pretty sweet place to be-- ~$300k for a mask set, easy to have 5V tolerant I/O if that's something you need, high likelihood of common I/O and core voltage, &c.
> why can't we replace all our complaining factory workers and their wages/healthcare/retirement plans with these "creatures" and only pay them peanuts and banana's.

Automation would probably be cheaper, more consistent, and more effective.

Biology wasn't designed for production line work. Humans are really bad at it. Engineered primates might be better at it because they'd be engineered not to get bored or frustrated, but they'd still be a fraction of a % as efficient as a machine with 100 arms and conveyor belts.
>The point here is that implementing new features will be impossible, because this relies on an existing implementation that is not in python.

Isn't that the opposite? Implementing new features will be easier, because it uses the C backend a helper library (for parsing, eventing), so all the business logic is Python which is easier to extend.

This is also why people use embedded Python/Luc/etc in games, 3D programs, and so on.
> Everyone should be worried about the power wielded by private cooperation nowadays, they are able to challenge a totalitarian government. Image what they can do in a democratic country...

Historically, major merchants won battles with the Chinese imperial government. Being "able to challenge" the communist party and lose is a step down.
my epipen isn't even covered in the united states, competitors won't make a difference :)
Ofcourse there are - we have private insurance marketin UK, few people need them, many employers provide one.
"Has tech industry" is not the same as "new Silicon Valley." As defined by an insatiable need for new programmer blood. Phoenix is laughably far from having that. Seattle (mostly Amazon) and Austin in the last decade have come closest to that, and are still a far cry.
The last thing most higher-ups care about are infrastructure costs and optimizations.

And in many cases you're the higher up, and startup founders take decisions to use slower but more flexible technologies every day...
Name the insurance companies in the US that cover this situation and what they cost per month. I’ll wait.
I hope they'll release Rosetta 2 as open source project
What I personally am is not really relevant. The point is that liberals like you are like a religious cult. People who don’t agree with you are not just of a different opinion, they are lesser people. Wrong and evil. You illustrate this again and again.

It makes sense that you want to exclude them from social media and public discourse in general, since they don’t have the one true faith.
Hence, the "millennial whoop"
"Forced to associate" in this case means requiring a private company to host content it doesn't agree with.
> Imo great engineers produce a lot of good to great quality work fast

Sounds awfully like the Myth of the 10x Engineer.
Elon Musk unveils SpaceX Starship for round-trips to Moon and Mars (2019)
Yes, I struggle with what the right response is when very large numbers of people believe things that are obviously both false and damaging. You're proposing complete relativism and the inability for anyone to know anything; if anti-semitism were a popular belief among 30% of the population, you'd defend it and being equal to any other belief?