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I wouldn't program production code in C if I could avoid it. But sometimes you can't avoid it, and I wouldn't program production code in Pascal, either.
Sweet. How do I connect it to data lake on autoscaling self-healing cluster? Also I would like to lock the app to work on Edge on Windows 10 only, where is a checkbox for it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lpzbzo/were_scientist...
No discussion of Ada is complete without referencing the cost of commercial development licenses. They're expensive. Very expensive.

Any enthusiasm for this language is inevitably quashed upon encountering the $$,$$$ per-seat price of the compilers for the absolute bare-bones x86 version. It's more if you want to target non x86. I pester AdaCore for info every few years and while they've dropped a little bit, they're still out of reach for companies not in the Fortune 500. I'd love to use SPARK, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Yes! Thanks for the correction!
> You think like that everyone can JUST buy assets that is preposterous

Who's "everyone" exactly? My comments are broadly speaking applicable to a US audience as I don't have sufficiently deep first-hand knowledge of other markets. If you don't have money, then you don't have anything to invest and it's not really a problem. If you do have money, you shouldn't have any trouble with services like Robinhood, Acorns, Betterment or Wealthfront.

In lower-income countries, a $20 fee may be as much as 10% of GDP per capita, and therefore totally unsuitable.

Do you challenge that assertion?

> Moreover and in regards to your arguments no the wages of lots of people do not go up with inflation like have you ever talked to anyone that isn’t in the software industry?

This is tracked by the BLS. [1]

> Lots of jobs don’t do that and that set of people want to be saved against inflation if inflation is not a problem for you that is one thing but it sure is for a lot of people

Which is why we need meaningful social policy changes, such as a $15 minimum wage and one that's indexed to inflation. Changing the currency to one that doesn't inflate will simply lead to a flat or reduction year over year in nominal wages. What matters isn't the units, it's how much of what they represent that people get to take home.

You need to make social policy changes, not monetary ones to achieve your goal. Your cause is noble but your target is off.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
Is there somewhere I can subscribe to be notified when Python support is ready?
So only six figures for fridge? Sounds like a good deal.
OoOooOoooh, I need to read up on this. Just found the blog via this pointer, and it's in alignment with some of my thinking... just a bit different.

I believe in the power of good reactive programming as Excel is amazing, and this Power-FX is looking really cool. I'd be concerned about how it fits within the larger engineering world versus the Microsoft universe, but I built a programming language that is reactive from the get-go.

And yes, it's in the context of board games, but I hope it can become more general in the future. Reactive just makes things so... easy: http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/reference-reactive-formulas
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I am missing bullet points regarding what security measures are in place to ensure it is F1 safe, with seat belts and reforced car body in case of a missed curve.
Not a spreadsheet, but Soulver and NoteCalc allow you to label and reference previous calculations in the same way a spreadsheet does.
Your networking equipment example goes to the same point. Why do I care how many bits are transferring per second? I don’t. I want to know bytes, since everything on my computer is measured in bytes.

Regarding media encoding, there I’m less sure. I guess those values were originally in small enough absolute values, and have not continued to climb exponentially, such that measuring in bits maybe continues to make sense.

Anyway, thanks for sharing those examples.
Does anybody knows about something similar ( open hardware/source ) in the fitness watch space ? with a HR sensor + GPS ? I really like my Garmin, but no so found of sending them all this health related data...
Sure, who gets to decide who the "trusted sources" are and what information is mis/disinformation? I have been seeing a growing number of "facts" and "falsehoods" being touted by mainstream media sources which are unverifiable one way or the other.

On another note, if you wish to remain anonymous on a platform such as, say HN, by this open standard, you would be able to be linked to your Facebook/Twitter/IG/Snapchat profile and there is NOTHING you would be able to do about it aside from getting a new device for the exclusive use of a platform.

This kind of fingerprinting is not something I can see being used for any kind of good. The "authorities" are just far too prone to authoritarianism as history has shown us.
> Perhaps this will give rise to coin-hopping, i.e., miners hopping to the cryptocurrency with the largest transaction fee pool.

Similar thing happened during the time Bitcoin Cash used legacy difficulty adjustment mechanism - it was easy to tell when to switch to mine that coin, and when to BTC. But that was coin-hopping for rewards, not tx fees.
In 2001 I worked on spectral analysis of a jet-type flow and realized a PIV software with matlab. Of course images that I used issued from a high speed camera, have nothing to do with the 40 billion frames per second we are talking about here ! It was just fascinating to see the particles moving in milliseconds.

We are talking here about 40 Cycles Per Nanosecond !! It's not just fascinating, it's Hilariously crazy !
They're also quite massive, and radiate a lot of waste heat.
It's a failure of tooling. The library, or the compiler, should stop you from interpolating stuff into SQL strings. We've already seen things like this keep happening over and over until it's made impossible.

The whole situation is similar to having a construction scaffolding without safety railings, and calling someone falling off it a rookie mistake.
I think that's a good approximation. The volume of computer parts or used phones isn't significant compared to the total volume of waste produced domestically in these nations. But it's a separate tragedy that companies like Apple can pay partners to "recycle" stuff that ends up in a landfill in Nigeria somewhere, or manually stripped of copper and other parts by people working in unsafe conditions.
Unfortunately it requires one Argentina of power to do the work of a single raspberry pi, and I suggest environmentalists and the government won't look the other way indefinitely. Carbon pricing for instance makes the whole thing topple over.
To be fair, it’s like that everywhere now.
Exciting! Especially I like the named attribute matching [1] and dict matching [2]. Scala does not have that. If you have a case (data) class with 13 parameters, you need to match on all of them, instead of doing `MyClass(param=value)`. Similarly you can not easily pattern match on `Map` (`dict`).

One thing which I am missing though is matching on f-strings. Such a powerful feature in Scala.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#adding-a-ui-matchi...

[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#going-to-the-cloud...
The `sssss` program might have a potential. But let me give you an example: I want my every blog article to also have versions / revisions and I'd like visitors to be able to read the older versions as well as the last version.

I'd also like multilingual article ability (but I think some of the engines out there can do that). The more I think of it, the more I wonder if it should be something like Ghost.org: namely backed by sqlite and not naked files. But who knows.
The Xerox PARC and VMS worlds are a much better option.
I like tofu, despite a soy allergy that causes me unfortunate issues, but tofu isn't anything like meat. A lot of recipes are built around meat and its qualities. It makes sense to offer folks a choice. If people wanted tofu, people would be selling more tofu.
In my experience B2B services are more successful when they are more serious. While I find this website funny, it doesn't give me enough arsenal to sell it to my team/manager/company. The best SaaS products have clear value props and resonate with a problem you're currently having. Sure I'll share this with my teammates bc it's funny but we'll hardly take it seriously.
Well exactly how are you defining latency?

Is it random accesses you want to test? Or TLB thrashing?

The R per RV prange benchmark accesses memory randomly, but in a TLB friendly pattern (TLB thrashing real world workloads aren't particularly common). The M1 gets 30ns, the 5960X is 55ns and still climbing at the max array size.

The 5950X does better on "full" random, although that's unclear if that's a faster TLB, or the testing with a different page size. With Linux for TLB thrashing workloads you can always use HUGE pages, not sure if the M1 hardware supports that though.
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That's not what this is. I didn't impugn the project did I? I criticized the public relations blitz and a falsely descriptive title on the BBC. Don't pretend public outreach isn't part of the plan here.
Is it possible that it was intentional?

I could certainly understand someone working for Gab for a paycheck, and then feeling guilty and "making a mistake".

To be clear, I'm not saying that one should feel that way, just acknowledging the possibility.
Real property is a limited resource. We accept that buying a piece of land often doesn't give you the legal right to do literally anything you want with it. You can't open a store on land zoned for residential use, for example.

From there it's just a matter of deciding what is and isn't allowed. I happen to be viscerally against the idea that a person's basic need -- a stable home -- should be overridden by another's desire to get more money out of an investment.

You seem to be of the opinion that people shouldn't have the right to a stable home if the owner of that home wants more money. I... guess that's ok? Not really big on compassion or empathy, but... it's an opinion, I suppose.

Your focus on "greed" completely lacks nuance. A landlord raising rent 30% just because demand is high (when the costs of being a landlord have not meaningfully increased; the concept of "market rate" is irrelevant here) is greed, absolutely, no question about it. A worker or union fighting for higher wages may or may not be greed, depending on the circumstances; usually it's not, because in general employers have much more power than employees (even when unions are involved), and worker pay has stagnated in recent decades, while executive pay has skyrocketed.
Please this! I'm in the market for a replacement, but I hate the idea of paying a premium for a device that's still tattling on me.
> Google could potentially shut their entire game down any day

SemRush CEO said that Google would rather sponsor them than shut down.

That kind of analytics increases Google's sales, but Google cannot run such a product without conflicts of interest (providing one ad-buyers information on what doing their competitors).
Why is this such a big issue? Can't you install any ARM Linux distro from a flash drive? Does that not work? I get that device drivers may not be perfect for any new laptop, but it should mostly work.
I’ve found I have to brown it, or it has a weird aftertaste that lasts for hours.

After browning, that’s replaced with a nice nutty cashew flavor. This is especially true of the patties.
Honestly you have to go pretty hard against the grain to do SQL attacks.

However, I believe in blameless postmortems, even for CTOs. I'd feel awful to see this in the press.
I think this is the first probe ever to have a microscope on board.

Seemed kinda dumb to be looking for evidence of life without one. But there was a time when it was a big uphill battle even to get a camera on board: "no scientific value". That mistake was not repeated. Pictures always have surprises.
You bring up two viable points of view.

Compliance is hard to get around. There are products that have done this by sheer force of their cyber security budgets such as large cloud providers which are HIPAA compliant. As a result, companies that require thorough compliance measures are simply not our target audience.

Your second point about performance is critical to almost all of our target audience. First of all, there are self-hosted versions of this such as Facebook’s FAISS (has GPU acceleration), Spotify’s ANNOY, Elastic search KNN search and Milvus. We plan to optimize performance using the latest ANN algorithms, caching, being as close to the wire (Non-REST) transmission of vectors, dimensionally reduction e.t.c. At the end of the day, our stack will probably not be as fast as a self-hosted version but it’ll confer other advantages that we hope ML engineers will find useful similarly to AWS RDS or DynamoDB.
It is still trivial in VB.NET.

In fact what I have learned doing a couple of consulting projects for a life sciences companies, is how many of Excel VBA powerusers eventually get IT to give them VB.NET and carry on from there.

They don't think twice about adding the DLL/COM libraries required to access the laboratory data readers for accessing cell data values.
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These anecdotes are always sad, but you have no way of confirming whether they took a normal sized dose of actual LSD, or whether they took a shitload of some unknown research chemical. Also, as you wrote, set and setting are important and those are not described.
Hold the company responsible and let its stakeholders and internal processes figure out how to course correct. Maybe the CEO or CTO or whatever screwed up and need to go, or maybe it was a rare accident that is only human; given the right incentives & punishments, companies will work to identify and fix whatever is causing it to be punished as part of its profit maximization goals. All orgs of that kind of size operate as complex systems, inviting uninformed mob pitchforks into the process is counterproductive.

No, I don't think people at the top get paid to be a voodoo doll of responsibility. They get paid a lot because good executives are hard to find and can produce huge benefits, so the market values them very highly. It can feel good to throw around moral judgement like "that still does not absolve them individually" but if a set of incentives/environments consistently produce bad outcomes, the people involved are not responsible. It would be unproductive to punish the people involved when their replacement would do the same (especially considering that punishment is notoriously less effective at deterring human behavior). I personally think it is also morally wrong to do so, similar to punishing a thief for stealing food in a system that consistently deprives him of the ability to acquire food legitimately.
i don't find it particularly compassionate or empathetic to subsidize someone's apartment just because they were living in it when a rent control bill was passed. yes, that person has a claim to some kind of housing, but why should they have a claim to the exact same kind of housing in perpetuity?
Sounds like its based on a flawed assumption:

"Now, immediately after a block is found, there will be no
more transactions in the network to be claimed by a miner
making the next block"

The fact is there is usually a large backlog of transactions.
Looking at closeups of the Rover, I cannot help but think: are those screws, nuts and bolts? And if so, why? Why carry the weight or decreased stiffness of or by the notches, slits, threads etc. that makes screws be screwable. To a place where no-one ever will unscrew them?
The lack of a real Number type (just IEEE 64-bit floats here) is a real disappointment considering all the talk about business logic in the documentation. Something with Excel heritage aimed at businesses should be able to at least handle 64-bit integers, instead of silently dropping precision on your revenue calculations. .NET had "Decimal" (high precision base 10 floating point) from the very beginning because of this.

I worry that a year or two down the road there will be production Power Fx applications hitting all sorts of problems that would have been prevented if there was a proper numeric type from the beginning. Computers are fast now, the average application can handle burning a few extra cycles on addition operations when updating a textfield if the alternative is a customer's account balance getting miscomputed.
Is there no date on this paper?

It seems to be from 2016, or thereabouts.
So would you advocate that there be no zoning/building regulations? The article you linked has a slightly misleading title; it would be more accurate to say: "with today's zoning laws, 40% of the buildings in Manhattan would have been replaced by slightly smaller buildings which allow more light to reach the street." I already find Manhattan overly dense, and I can imagine those regulations were put in place for good reason.

In Berlin, we have had laws on the books forever which prevent tall buildings and excess density, and I'm glad because if developers had their way, they would build high-rises where all the parks currently are, and this would not be a city I would want to live in.

In general I'm not a fan of over-regulation or excess government intervention, but when it comes to housing, I think it does make more sense to treat it as a public good. Government is not perfect, but people should have some voice in how their community develops, and this will not be the case if housing development is left only to private interests.
>Why are we now conflating business viability with technical or security chops?

Technical ability has helped many startups leapfrog others in a similar space and time. It's the lore which HN is based upon. In a scenario where lots of actors are trying to censor your site, having great tech chops can help with resilience. Technical ability unlocks new revenue streams and optimizes existing ones.

Viability starts to approach zero if the business faces security issues. Its as if the hull of a ship is breached. The safety of everybody on board now is at risk. People literally get murdered when the wrong DMs or photos leak. Exposing your users digital life to grifters and governments a huge risk to them and your business as a result, let alone the hard cost of managing a data breach. Companies recognize these risks and put checks and balances in to ensure that these things get caught. Some even have a fiduciary responsibility to do so. That said, when a CTO decides to push code, they generally have the ability to override any of those safety systems.

I think you're spot-on that extremist companies can't grow very large and struggle for talent.

It's entirely possible to generate lots of wealth while advocating for wealth to be distributed more broadly. One can argue and support reforming how Trusts are taxed, and may make a bigger dent in the problem than they could by holding up a sign on a street corner. I don't see entrepreneurial success as antithetical to progressive causes. Using the position of power that your success affords to change the rules of society to benefit you and yours... that there is conservative, commonplace, and where leftist opposition should be laser-focused.
Others have posted links to the Reddit thread overall, but I think this is the specific question being referred to:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lpzbzo/were_scientist...

EDIT: Apparently the rover has an antenna that can directly communicate with Earth at 10 bits per second! That's obviously not useful for pictures or anything, but it's an amazing capability for emergency comms.
No, inflation doesn’t hurt the poor the most! Have you even given this a minimal amount of thought?

Compare someone with a billion dollars and someone with 0 dollars today. Then huge inflation comes... who lost more purchasing power? Not the person with zero dollars, that’s for sure!

You really need to take a step back and start thinking because there are multiple people here spending their time and energy trying to explain something basic to you from first principles.
Have some self doubt about your worldview. You are dismissing sound logic based on what? Most of the things you reply don’t even make sense.
Really? I just looked on immowelt and the prices are higher than here where I live (Stuttgart, DE) which is already incredibly high.
To add to the other posts: nuclear weapons proliferation
I would argue that code that is sensitive to scope is bad code no matter which language it's written in, since now you're constantly asking "When does a variable leave scope." If I change the scope of a variable, it causes a subtle change that breaks the closure.

In that case I would prefer to be explicit that the closure "wraps" a new instance of the variable rather than relying upon implicit language behavior to guarantee the scope is correct.

As python says in "import this": "Explicit is better than implicit."
That that has anything to do with rent control is an absolute myth. Two counter examples are Sydney and Melbourne, both don't have rent control, Australia has big incentives for investing in housing (tax reductions if you don't live in the house). Both cities have seen an explosion of rents (10% year on year is not uncommon) and a building boom of cheap apartments that are only rented out via Airbnb. I can tell from experience that landlords do the absolute minimum they are legally required (mostly even less) and tenants are afraid to complain because they need the references when moving.
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Perhaps the WAMI (the category of device) is better? At least it sounds whimsical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery
Slightly dated L3Harris version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSeU-OnI8E
I predict that the chances of someone ever unscrewing them are higher than not. Just not super soon.

Plus during development its useful, and why would you change the platform you test when deploying to live?
There’s a lot of proprietary hardware inside the MacBook M1s. The only reason device drivers exist is thanks to reverse engineering efforts. For this reason, no you can’t just install any vanilla ARM distro and expect things to work.
I come to HN because yes, people are really asking and really answering. It’s currently the best forum on the internet for this reason.
The thing is, psychedelics act on neurotransmitter systems that are very sensitive; a few micrograms change in dosage can be a VERY different experience.
All you need is "x=x" to make a copy:

list = []
for x in iterator:
list.append(lambda y, x=x: some_code_that_closes_over(x))

That way the closure is explicit and much clearer when you look at it later.

("list" is a builtin, so not a good variable name.)
Looks like Yaml based programing language.