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> How can you say C has no real value in a professional setting?

Fairly easily.
My professional career has been mainly in maintenance and, as such, I get to see the gritty back-end of things, the end-result of all the technical-debt... and being more correctness and security-minded than most, I often note how a good design could help prevent problems, both on the language being used to implement and on the project itself.

From that perspective, most defenses of C as productive or useful fall flat on their faces, especially in recent years as security becomes more and more important a concern — about the only place that C makes any sense anymore is micro-controllers because "all the micro-controllers have a C compiler." — But let's not make the mistake thinking that "having a C compiler" means that C is a good (or even appropriate) language for the task.

Forth, Assembly, and Ada all exceed C's capabilities in many of what have been traditionally claimed as C's strong suits:
* Ada: much, MUCH, better as a systems-language. Any project of medium or large size should seriously consider Ada instead of C.
* Assembly: very fine control, especially important for the severely-constrained controllers.
* Forth: Very fast, very low-level; would recommend for small/medium-small projects on small controllers. (Doesn't have calling-conventions, doesn't manipulate stack-frames; this makes it faster than C.)

> Look at the amount of C code in any Linux distribution, even ignoring the kernel itself.

And?
That says NOTHING about having value in a professional setting, only that it (a) was chosen by a project that got big, and (b) enjoys popularity.

Nearly EVERYTHING that C is claimed to be [very] good about is done much better by some other language. C is particularly bad at large-systems, given the complete lack of modules, and entirely unsuitable for many things that it's commonly used for like multithreaded applications (honestly, take a look at Ada's TASK construct and consider how that might be used in [e.g.] a game-engine).
The IFS does appear to be a right wing group. That said -- have you noticed this trend elsewhere?

From my not-terribly-informed position, it looks more to me like this is part of the ongoing power struggle in the conservative movement. They recently had fairly poor election results, and this looks more to me like an attempt by this group to reverse their looming demographic challenges by at least trying to reach out to immigrant groups.
(disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team)

There's no difference between CanvasKit and HTML as far as interactions are concerned. The differences are in pixels and performance. If there are issues with interactions, we'd like to hear about them. Please file issues on Github.
I disagree that it's nonsensical for it to work this way since that unemployment benefit is being granted after your parents are claiming that they are supporting you - so essentially they're getting a big tax deduction on their income for your costs but then the unemployment benefit is being claimed to make sure for a lack of them covering costs - in a simple world one might make the other ineligible but that could result in some folks being put through unreasonable financial hardships due to poor planned or ill-intended returns from their parents so this allows that benefit to be given while also recognizing that something going on here is double dipping.

If you are financially independent then you should make sure your parents aren't claiming you as a dependent, if you aren't then you should be receiving those covering funds from your parents since that's the sort of dependency the dependent class is all about.
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So does rendering to Canvas imply browser extensions can't work with Flutter apps?
Rather embarrassing to see such a piece of propaganda posted on HN :/
This will be the reason they will start letting people bring shotguns to national parks.
How does the Ministry of Justice go about deciding whether a conviction is relevant to the job or not? Is that process transparent?
It seems like audio applications like to use old parts: how do germanium transistors compare with tubes?
You can easily remove cards, top sites, adblock counts, and advertisements from the Brave home page. It's customizable.
>I despise the idea of differentiating between immigrants and natives. All people are equal.

You seem to be confusing the words equal and same. Nothing in the article says immigrants aren't equal, it says their family dynamics are DIFFERENT. With statistics to back it up. It's no different than me saying that statistically: the average black family from alabama living in zip code 35033 consumes a different variety of food than the average hispanic family from south dakota living in zip code 57620.

Nothing about that says they aren't EQUAL, but they are absolutely DIFFERENT.

Calling that "racism" is a pretty blatant abuse of the term.
Actually IMHO, the difficulty with any of these things are tracking the right metrics. Particularly for "hobby" style businesses. You find out at the end of the year trying to avoid paying a bunch of taxes on something that didn't really make any money, that you mixed up or failed to compute your vehicle mileage correctly (or whatever).

So, having an accountant handling all the details, in the en puts the information at your fingertips that otherwise you have to scrape out of the box of receipts/etc. The tax filing parts are easy.
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I'm actually fairly shocked that $10K is the median income tax liability given that a substantial percentage of households pay no net federal income tax.
Indeed, looks like it's got 989 days remaining. http://stadiacountdown.com/
Yes, but those children that move away also move towards Western norms of sub-replacement fertility; while the children that don't, don't.

I wouldn't say the best way to think about this is "these crazies are baby-making machines!" (Strawmanning your argument a little there.) There is some craziness in e.g. Quiverfull protestantism or Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, sure. Nevertheless, if culture X is set to survive into the future on current trends, and culture Y is not, then maybe culture X isn't completely stupid.
Django 3.2 has only been released as a beta 1. Title is a bit click-baity and feature set can still evolve.
I don't agree. Payment data are just as easily sold off as you seem to think advertisement data is. The incentives are the same, except one is pseudo-anonymous and the other is directly linked to your bank account.
Hi Andy,

We do have lots of unlabelled data, and we're also labeling a large portion of it. We do transfer learn for all of the models we're training, and the first backbone we use is partially self-supervised. Seems to help in overall performance, but it's not a huge effect in our experience.

Maybe once we get a lot of models we can release the backbone weights for nuclear segmentation or at least a competition set of some data we've labeled. Some IP issues here though.

What kind of alternative are you looking for? Specifically one for cells, or just for biologics in general? I'm guessing you're trying to have a better base of weights to transfer off so you can train your own model?

I would say we have medium diversity in terms of images - I think unless you have a similar application right now, you'd be better off transferring off of Imagenet just due to the amount of labeled data.
And replaces it with what exactly? A trusted source of truth? Meaning Google? Haha.
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In this case, I disagree. LWN is always well worth reading.
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If you do business, you will study the market, those are results of the study.
If you ignore mobile games and games published prior to 2015 or so, that list is pretty pathetic. If your goal is to play those games from 2015 or older you can just buy a $300 pc off Ebay.
Refusing to answer curious students questions isn't helpful. Giving them a hint and telling them you'll get back to it works fine. They're smart enough to understand they aren't having to wait because they're incapable of understanding, but because other things need teaching first. I know I did. The good teachers were encouraging of the curiosity while back-burnering something, others responded less patiently with things like "we're not there yet!", which made them seem like bad teachers to me, even back to elementary.
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>The real struggle in the USA is if you're between the 25th and 50th percentile.

I would say 20th to 80th percentile. You're phased out of benefits, but you're not earning enough to build wealth, especially in higher cost of living areas where the 60th+ percentile earnings are.
I'm a developer who uses Flutter and the thing I love the most about Flutter is the Dart language.

It's such an easy language to pick up, and if you know TypeScript/Java/JavaScript, it feels immediately "home", you just know how to do things.

Regarding Swift and Kotlin, yes, they have more features, but that makes those languages also harder to learn and more difficult to master. I think Go demonstrated that more simplicity is also important and more features does not automatically mean you'll be more productive (that's not to say that Swift or Kotlin is bad, I just want to express that Dart feels great).

Extensions, null-safety are already here, and data classes are being worked on, so I think the Dart teams listens to the feedback from the community and prioritizes well.
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The petrodollar is basically a conspiracy theory - you can use dollars to buy oil priced in Euros the same way you can use Bitcoin to buy drugs priced in dollars. Iraq pricing oil in Euros would just mean they sold most of it to countries using the Euro.

The importance of the role of the dollar as a reserve currency is also just an urban myth:

https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/the-reserve-currency-myth-t...
Whenever I see Flutter news I can't help but feel bitter about the death of Flash.

Tomato, tomato
HN might be sleeping on a fundamental world changing piece of software here. Interestingly enough, despite not having released the last pieces yet, a surprising amount of future value is already priced in.

The blanket dismissal of all cryptocompute/cryptocontracts, because people only see it as a currency, is going to leave a lot of people behind. This is more like the emergence of virtualization or time sharing or c++. Cardano is multiple different development platforms and languages and an entire ecosystem. It's a backbone, the kind of underlying infrastructure that will go unseen by the masses, but be underneath a many things.
As a user I don't want the developer to need to anticipate which text ought to be selectable as they will inevitably fail to consider some use cases it ought to be the default.
Let's not forget how the divorce system in the US HEAVILY favors women - perhaps more men would marry if the consequences of a bad marriage weren't so devastating.
Reverse engineering seems like a good skillset for the DoD to nurture, anyway. Yes, the US is going to be at the cutting edge of weapons design at least through the medium term, but the leadership isn't arrogant enough to think that all engineering innovations will come domestically. If the US acquired a next-generation Chinese fighter, wouldn't it be handy if someone had the expertise to tell you exactly how its parts were made and machine replicas if needed?

So, the tinfoil hat interpretation of this story would be, of course the Pentagon has the original blueprints in quintuplicate, but it's identified reverse engineering as a key strategic advantage China has over the US (pretty reasonable so far, right?) and has announced this as a way to shuffle some money into building up domestic RE expertise in the defence industry.
Show HN: LitiHolo launches desktop 3D hologram printer that makes true holograms
It seems to me that "Flutter (2) for Web" is still mostly "rendering widgets/elements to a canvas", and therefore lacking native HTML/CSS, etc, making it pointless in many ways. Am I missing something or did they change this?
Readable addresses means you can go to some site for the first time and be sure it's the address you wanted. It's not a SHA256 checksum, but it's human-doable in some seconds.
Flutter for mobile apps, cross-platform across Android and iOS is pretty amazing. I do not like what they are doing with Flutter Web, but that doesn't change that it is a pretty amazing framework for cross-platform mobile development.

Also, it isn't FE web devs driving Flutter. I know a lot of mobile cetric devs who really love it.
I found the "How it works" section somewhat confusing. I don't know what is meant by "your search term is encrypted using the Search Provider’s public key". Does this mean that the search provider has some simple encryption interface other than TLS?
Desktop support is still in beta:

https://flutter.dev/desktop
The B-2 is ancient, doesn't seem very surprising.
I'm not sure if "stable" is the correct word here.

Story time. I'm 27, immigrant living in the U.S. for the past 12+ years. We moved here from Iran when I was in highschool and now I'm a PhD student in computer science. I have been in the school since we moved in here. I have a brother and a sister who are 12 and 15 years older than me. They were not able to move here because they were over 21 years old. I work 2 jobs (senior software engineer and teaching at university), own a house and support my family in Iran. Iranian currency has been devalued by x20 times at least since we moved in so economy is messed up over there. I wouldn't call it a stable life. It's more like a survival.

I'm not alone. I see international students (or couples) who work extremely hard to be able to get a job after graduation. Immigration is rewarding but not an easy path.

I haven't been able to go to back to Iran and visit my friends and family members but I am scared being detained and used for the purpose of "hostage diplomacy" by the Iranian government.
> the EU benefits from buying things from and selling things to the UK

English economist David Ricardo made a similar statement in the early 19th century. The example he used was Portuguese wine being traded for English cloth. He said both countries benefited from their specializations - England producing cloth, Portugal producing wine. Ricardo's work is a foundation for a modern view of comparative advantage and free trade.

English economist Joan Robinson revisited this example over a century later. She asked what the results over the past century were for the economies of England and Portugal in pursuing this course - one country industrializing to build textile mills, one country remaining more agricultural with much less industrialization. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what she found in that investigation, the answer is obvious.
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Education can be really expensive. However, there are many great state schools, and there is also a lot of financial aid. Many people get a great education and are not saddled with debt.

Housing is impossibly expensive in metro areas where people make a lot of money. The US is a large country and there is a lot of variability to housing costs throughout the US.

A single hospital bill could be thousands of dollars or 0 if it's covered by your insurance. If you are really poor then you get insurance from the State. If you have a good job, then you get insurance through your work.

It could be or it could be not very much depending on the factors described regarding hospital visits.

Unpaid, effectively mandatory overtime applies to salaried people with well paying jobs. It's a bad situation, but if this applies to you, then the other issues aren't as bad.

Many poor people work more than one job. Working class people need to get paid more. Maybe the minimum wage will be raised at the Federal level, but probably not. Minimum wage is also location dependent, so it's already higher than $15 in some locales.

People with good jobs get PTO. Working class people in bad jobs do not get paid vacation.

States provide some benefit for maternal and paternal leave. It's not 100% of your wages though.

I don't think Paternal leave is taboo or strange. I don't think that's part of the culture.

Maternal leave depends on the State and the company that they work for. If you have a good job, then you will get more Maternal leave.

I'm sure there were a lot of rugged individuals in 1930s Poland.
Hello again HN! 11 months ago I told you LitiHolo (I’m the founder) was working to create a 3D Hologram Printer, and asked for your input. It’s now live on Kickstarter!

These are true laser-recorded holograms, and we are starting small and simple to get things off the ground (think Makerbot for holograms). Would love your feedback on how we can continue to make hologram technology like this more accessible, as well as ideas for possible killer apps and use cases.
Immigration is a tough survival filter for relationships.
that's disingenuous at best. AI systems are already deployed in the judicial system, surveillance systems, healthcare, and who knows how many other domains that effect people's lives - with many instances to suggest that a large % of systems treat people differently along undesirable features like race or gender due to encoding negative biases or whatever the cause may be
Can you share any example of Flutter Web that isn't a extremely basic Todo app, doesn't completely break regular browser UX and works without being slow as molasses?

I haven't seen one.

I like Flutter, but I don't think the Flutter Web design is very viable for production apps. It renders everything in canvas. Dart is already sluggish on native, and cross compiled to JS it's usually unusable.

I think Flutter will be a good choice for mobile and Desktop soon-ish, but for web ... maybe in a few years. Maybe.
Hi from what you wrote (didn’t watch the video) it sounds a lot like keys.casa and I think it’s good to have more competition in this space.

I think it’s very useful to have solutions like this especially if there is a security scale based on if you are storing 100, 10000 or 1M+ dollars. Personal and corporate requirement might be different but I am guessing you’d focus on personal.

For larger amounts people want to think about if their possibly less technical relatives inheriting their estate can access the funds after their death.
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Ah yes, mea culpa, I misread your example as

lambda x: x = x; do_thing(x)

Rather than the:

lambda x, x = x: do_thing(x)

And yes, your example works, and is functionally similar to my initial solution of using that function scope does exist by simply creating a function for no other reason than to call it to create a new scope.

That doesn't stop that both examples are ugly hacks needed to solve a problem with the language that most languages do not have. And despite your calling it idiomatic, I have never seen your example in the wild and it is, frankly, simply a hack that few programmers that haven't been explicitly taught this trick would quickly see the intend behind.
> you cannot copy the text anymore.

Isn't this a feature? Having text easy to copy and paste is a copyright problem for many sites. Same with being able to save full-resolution images. It's pretty common to see a copy/paste in forum comments to get around a paywall.

IMO either this or some other webassembly view is the future, simply because it's great DRM. Sure, you can circumvent it, but most people cannot.
Hey! Super cool. Will shoot you a message. Would love to chat and see what things we could talk about. Seems like you guys have built out some valuable assay analyses that we've heard people asking for, so congrats.
have you heard of greed? Do you think they care about loosing customers in that scenario? Where will they go? Dont be soo naive... they might start with honest and clean intentions but that will most likely change, or the pople running the company will change, people are soo easily corupted, especialy in a world filled with vice
Great question.

If you review the javascript, NaCl is used to encrypted the search query before giving it to private.sh. Thus, private.sh is unable to decrypt your search. The search provider uses NaCl to decrypt the search query and then encrypts the results before passing it back. The results are then only able to be decrypted by the browser, client side.