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I don't understand this reaction. Fusion360 continues to be free (as in beer) for personal. Not only that but startups can apply for a free licence each year.
That assumes you're in a position to copy around DLLs and install stuff.

...true for a programmer. Office worker using primarily Excel who the IT team is trying to protect against threats...not so much.

I can't even change the wallpaper...
Since it seems everyone is giving their opinion, I'll leave mine before reading the article: The concept of philosophy predates the concept of art, it also predates science. So, if one is more fundamental than the other(and fundamental TO the other emergence), doesn't this make the question pointless?
At a certain scale, hiring people to do nothing starts to make sense as an investment for an IT company.

Microsoft Research is a classic example - some of the smartest people in the world are being paid big salaries to do nothing much of anything at all. But then imagine what those same people could do had they worked at a startup or doing open source...
exactly you have the right to associate, and in the digital association era this right is being curtailed by private actors. This is a problem, and as an ultimate solution, states should provide social networking/communication services to their citizens.

I don't understand the "right to an audience" argument. Maybe CNN can claim they have own their audience because they literally earned it, but in social media individuals earn their own audience and the companies can't claim ownership. Even though one's social network is not yet protected legally, it should, and people's audience grown in a platform still belongs to people, the same way that private information put on a platform is still owned by people
But Europe isn't just "major cities" either.

I have family living in old WWI Western Front area which, today, is mostly a mix of agriculture and industry. Yearly, tons of ordinance are still dug up by farmers working their lands. Building and road construction is still hampered by discovering un-exploded shells or human remains that require careful handling.

To put things in perspective, in Belgium alone between 1918 and 2014, some 513 shells exploded claiming 896 victims of which 360 died. 150 tons of ordinance are dug up each year and stored awaiting defusing.

I remember my great-uncle stowing shells he found on his land to the side for pickup by the authorities. I've been told countless times by him to not touch anything found by the side of the road whenever we visited them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest

And that's discounting the 35.000 tons of munitions - including chemical weapons such as mustard gas - which were dumped into the sea a few miles of the Belgian coast.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mustard-gas-...

Nobody is arguing for mass defusing, or mass excavations of these sites. I don't argue for them as well for good reason. It's massively dangerous to begin with, and the complexity is enormous and hard to comprehend.

The first thing archaeologists are taught is this: the best place to preserve artefacts for the long term is in situ. Digging means destroying the context: there's only one chance to capture the story as told by what you find. And doing that in a way that respects the site isn't cheap or easy.

The problem here is that a rogue citizen archaeologist decided to start a peeve with national authorities, rather then considering things pragmatically. By turning to the newspapers (Le Monde) they effectively endangered the site. For sure, it's painful to not know what happened to a long lost ancestor in a War, but there's also a lot to be said to leave things as is until there is an opportunity to find out in a respectful manner.
Unbelievable. Is it really worth boiling the oceans? It's critical that we move to text only internet that has a per site cap of 100kb. That would cut the energy usage by 99% with virtually no difference to the experience.
Don’t downvote, it’s a really good question. Naively, I’d also have expected Rust to be faster, given the same algorithm. My guess is that without a GC, the Rust solution can’t delay deallocating all those temporary strings (both variants seem to allocate a string for each word, though I’m not sure if Go doesn’t simply share string slices). GCs free memory in batches, which is often more efficient, and sometimes don’t have to do it all on process exit. The Rust code meticulously deallocates each string individually.
It is usually their shared runners. I experience outages with them a couple times a month. It isn't a big deal since we maintain our own private pool, so I just move jobs to them. (They make you pay for CI minutes so we use them for certain jobs.)
They actively use IMF as a tool and their own trade policies as avenues to force smaller countries to to remove or not implement capital controls although it's disadvantagious to those respective countries. US has policies in trade regulations that restricts/limits dollar clearing in countries that implement some capital restrictions. Ofcourse US has the right to their own trade policies but asking for countries to do this or that which are against their interests is called hypocrisy.
Browsing is one of the most crucial software on one's system, I wouldn't trust Brave's track record with their affiliate linking, url-forwarding and blockchain sheanigans.
Like it or not, fortnightly and “once every two weeks” are your only unambiguous choices.

We actually had a programming interview question using biweekly at a previous job. It was about thorough requirements definition and understanding/agreeing to measurements.
Actually, users, for the most part, don't want to install apps.
The first is a factual statement (is versus ought);

The second semi-factual ("not justified" is a maybe subjective distinction);

The last is purely subjective, both in the "shouldn't" and the somewhat vague definition of "mental disorder".

That said, the furore around TS seems to be as much about enforcing terminology that appears to muddy-the-waters wrt biology i.e. what "woman" means, or should mean.
Your car, meat, house, and toys are destroying the planet far more than bitcoin:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-51906530
By default WhatsApp backs up everything to Google Drive in plaintext. You might turn that feature off, but the vast majority of a person's contacts likely won't.
After a year it’s not reasonable to call the restrictions temporary.
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He's being inflammatory by trying to imply that temporary pandemic restrictions are permanent laws banning those things. Everything isn't becoming illegal, society has just decided the lives of our at-risk citizens are more important than a temporary halt to social life.
Telegram has incredible and large cryptocurrency scene. I honestly think this would fly, if they would accept cryptocurrency as payment as well.
The legal term for this is "severability clause": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability ("salvatorische Klausel" in German)
I have to assume the bean counters aren't happy with Firefox's user numbers, and they're throwing any strategy they can think of towards getting those numbers up, even at the risk of the current user base.

I want more people using Firefox, that'd be awesome, but Mozilla could really do with more compelling arguments for changes like these, and while they're at it a better approach to engaging with the community.
The elephant in the room seems to be the cost and difficulty of redeeming these for fiat currency.
A paid telegram would be crippled from large part userbase. I would not be able to convince anyone from friends and family to use it if it were paid - they can't see the value before installing.

Without them I would not pay for it as well.
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I don't know if people are oblivious - it's just that there are a lot of perceived benefits for the user of the 'tracking device'. Tracking people is a byproduct of all the services a modern phone offers (due to technical or monetization reasons).
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The concern is about having an unhappy medium, where people think Amazon has “all the books”, but the company is silently putting their thumb on the scales. If you went to anyone outside the context of the current discussion, and told them that Amazon’s selection is curated to remove books Amazon doesn’t think you ought to read, I don’t think they’d believe you.
Are you happy with services that have ads, but give the option to remove them for a subscription fee?
> You are still free to propagate your ideas.

I m actually talking about the case where you are not. Private actors cancelling people is exactly that, taking away their freedom to propagate them. They can say "build your own twitteR", but we don't say that about other fundamental needs like, nobody says "build your own electric grid". We live in era of digital communication, and just like in the past the state built roads to connnect people, it needs to build basic infrastructure for communication and social networking. Association is a fundamental human right and that includes digital association (esp. in a time of pandemic and lockdowns)
> That will deter 99% of the potential users from ever trying it out.

Nah, we had this kind of ban on western fiat currencies in communist Poland. And guess what, illegal p2p trading of USD worked just fine.
Gold and silver is suppressed and manipulated with fractional reserve banking, Btc is immune to this.. so far at least now.
Even with batteries it’s cheaper than coal.
The ruling party has all the necessary votes in the legislature to do whatever they want. There isn't much friction within the party about small potatoes issues like this.
"Instead, the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate, after which penalties will be levied, said the official, who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public. " - Its better to wait for an official statement than these speculative journalism
The cartels likely already see these as "automated", given that, like you said, the mules are very low value to them. Maybe not automated, but definitely 'autonomous'.
Google App Engine can get you up and running in hours

Building a Python 3 App on App Engine

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/bui...

When you are ready to scale, check out Codelabs and Qwiklabs for mastery. Best of Luck ;)

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A compression algorithm knows which data was lost and can optimize the discarded data for a good lost data/saved space ratio. Data "lost" by a low resolution sensor most definitely does not fit this description. Imagine saving a FullHD png instead of a 4k jpg - the former is most likely far worse.

It's not too dissimilar, I agree, but there are differences.
You’re a legion of a few millions, good for you, but the world is 8bn+ people.
Strings are just slices of bytes in Rust too. Both languages use UTF-8 as their internal representation. The difference is that Rust requires its strings to be valid UTF-8. Go does not. Either choice is reasonable. The downside of requiring valid UTF-8 is that in order to read bytes from a file, you have to do a validation check on them to ensure they are UTF-8 before returning a string back. This is an additional cost.

But this is not the only additional cost in the Rust program. I outlined a few others.

> Isn't it possible to do the same with Rust for this benchmark?

This benchmark has two programs for each language. The "simple" and "optimized" variant. The "simple" version is supposed to be written in an idiomatic style for that language. Taking extra steps to make tweaks and optimize the code is, I think, against the spirit of the challenge. Obviously, this is a very fuzzy concept, and everyone can make up their own mind on the extent to which this framing is useful. (I think it is, personally, especially when you also allow for a second submission that tries to make the program fast.)
How much do you think they could charge, and what percentage of their users do you think would pay that?
If I remember well, they used DigitalOcean as provider? Was it just for frontend servers? When Russia banned it, they just blanked banned (almost) all of the DO's range.
But that's really a problem with academia, not philosophy per se? I'm not sure e.g. academic engineers working in materials science are ready to just take the place of an engineer in a construction site.

(Then, people like Norvig are a counter-example to this claim. But positions created in MAGFA for top academics like Norvig, Varian, etc. will always have a tailor-made character and defer to celebrity status.)
Who's to say it hasn't?

Surely for criminal enterprises exposure has a negative correlation to success. In other words, we are only getting to see the attempts that failed to be stealthy enough, there must be more impressive designs that we may never see... unless the assumption is that they eventually all get caught?
Woah, philosophy and art are two massive subjects. Historically, both have been treated as separate subjects for good reasons.

However there is some overlap, such as something which is beautiful to the senses.

But the distinction between the two is that philosophy is usually a set of distinct thought-experiment(s) and art is an observer's perspective into the mind of an artist(s).

Largely, scientists scoff at philosophy due to the intrinsic nature that most of it relies in the realm of "thought experiments." Which may be hard for some people, but I've never had an issue with wild imaginations.

Yet, I would argue the Philosopher's Stone is one of the most mythological thing known to human history. And I'm sure 99.999% of people couldn't distinguish the Philosopher's Stone from a generic looking lake rock. Right?
Guns, Covid, spilling hot coffee...The government is there and ready to think for us to keep us safe!
Intel and NVIDIA have a patent cross-licensing agreement at the time, which is still ongoing for all patents filed on or prior to March 31, 2017.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000119312511...

Patents here are used for mutual destruction in case one tries to sue the other, NVIDIA won't use them against AMD (and the reverse is true too) when regarding GPUs.

Intel and AMD would however enforce their patents if NVIDIA tries to enter the x86 CPU market.
They have a very clear vision: drive as many users to other browsers.
Good points as well!

> it never hurts to do the math for your particular situation

I think we can agree on that :)
Exactly; I can't see how someone can say you can't refute philosophy, as though it's not based on argumentation and premises that lead to a conclusion. When you demonstrate that a premise is wrong (e.g. philosophically, mathematically, empirically, etc.) then the philosophy (or rather, that argument for the philosophy) is 'refuted'.
Agreed - I've seen a lot of popular HN blogs on passing on passions for gaming, programming, media creation. It's obviously great to pass on skills to our children (I have a daughter myself), but I know that the best memories I have of my childhood are all non-computer based. eg. fishing with my father, playing soccer with friends, playing music in the pub.

There will be plenty (too much) of time for screens in their adulthood. Teach them the joys of play while they are young.
Sure but Matthew 6:19-20 clearly indicates that Rust is too powerful for man and can only be used after ascending to live amongst the angels:

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.“
I would not mind them monetizing large public channels or selling sticker packs. If I ever see ads in my 1:1 or small groups, though, that's the end.
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The people that hold assets and resources have things their way and face less consequences than those that don't. Always was the case, always will be..
My theory is that most people who write on HN about waking up at sunrise (it's a common theme) live in the US, much of which is substantially closer to the equator than Northern and Central Europe.

Nice mild weather with sane sunrise/sunset times all year round is definitely on the list of things I envy about the SF Bay Area.
That's is true, but as I said the fully open source compilers are good, so even if the code was not legally open source de jure - you could still audit it, is what I meant.
It means that we don't force it based on political activism. Case in point.

Solar power although an unreliable source is great for house owners who want to pay for it on their roof for various uses. It's not great as part of our baseload.
it's quite "easy" to solve that problem - you as the person who wants to convince others to use, would pay up front for the app for them.

To the family member, it's free (of course, you do tell them you're paying). But when they find that it's good, they would also pay to recommend it to their friends.
This is basically why Facebook doesn't offer a free option either, they make hardly anything from third world countries per user, but prob $50+ per year from USA users.

So - third world countries can't pay a subscription, and for USA its just not worth it because hardly anyone would pay $50+ a year to use Facebook.

Catch 22.
> Defusing mostly concern unexploded ordinance from WW2 and there is at most one major event a year in Europe as a whole. It is certainly not "constantly blocking business for days in major cities".

If you mean “constantly” in the sense of “every day” the yes, it’s not constantly. It’s however, constant enough to be reminded constantly - multiple times every year in Berlin alone. Last one I can recall was Feb 24th this year in Spandau. In 1994 one exploded when it was excavated https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/explosion-...

In 2019 a major shipping channel in the region was closed for at least 2 month https://m.maz-online.de/Lokales/Oberhavel/Oranienburg/Oranie...

It’s so common here that it’s not big news unless the bomb is exceptionally large.
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> if the Python solution were unable to leverage its rich and well optimised standard-library

collections.Counter is a very straightforward collection backed by dict. The code isn't specially optimized, you can write the same code yourself with dict and even avoid (probably a negligible amount of) overhead.

Now, dict is optimized, but that's a builtin type. You don't need PSL.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2fe408497e6838b6fb761...
What fraction of the global "energy throughput" is this?
Did you read the article? Better yet, did you read the comments at the bottom of The Inquirer's articles? You know things are bad when a media organization realizes that online discussions about sports _in Philadelphia_ are the least toxic ones on their site.

This was a good decision. Nothing of value was lost. The 2% of productive commenters can go back to writing letters to the editor. The 98% can go back to the chans.
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Intel and AMD also did the exact same thing with x86.

But yet, people still use it. (and Arm also has its fair share of patents, but is a licensable architecture by others)
This is what happens when you rename master to main.
Would love to see this for Common Lisp.
Don't worry, Bitcoin miners are trying to make it into reality.
I don't see that as being a hurdle. You make the first year free which, IIRC, is what whatsapp did.
Brave seems like a scam with their coins and ads.
Hi, what could be improved in GitLab's code base in your opinion? :)
Yup! Lazy work gets lazy solutions!
I didn't realize all 4 trillion of our budget went to paying for social safety nets!

That's news to me thanks for making me aware!

People on this website are so smart!
PWAs, Compact Density, what's the next useful feature they'll remove?
Every drug mule is a potential informant, and one more possible leak of the to/from information about the trade.

With an autonomous step in the chain, there is no human who knows where the craft is going to drive to. If anyone picks it out of the water it can be programmed to erase information about where it's headed towards.
The chihuahua flies at noon.
Given Telegram's user base I can see these premium stickers being copied and made public very quickly. I'm not sure how you prevent this.
> I cannot imagine this will be tolerated.

LeoCAD & LDraw follows LEGO's Fair Play[0] policy, so all is OK here.

See LeoCAD's License > Disclaimer.[1]

FTR, Studs logo by default is turned off in LeoCAD, but user may turn in on in the preferences.

[0] https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-p...

[1] https://www.leocad.org/docs/license.html
This is starting to sound like https://xkcd.com/378/
I can't really wrap my head around these types of question.

Surely the correct answer is "use some established third party library that does this exact task well". Probably faster, better battle tested against weird input, localised etc etc than anything you can come up with by yourself.

Though obviously that is then useless if the interview is actually for someone who can actually write something like this for some super secret internal thing that is nothing like the problem solved by the standard solutions available. But is that really the case? I have doubts.

If I was hiring though, I'd be more worried about hiring people who would write standard elements from scratch (mostly because that's more fun) than re-use standard building blocks to get a task done correctly.

e.g. for this specific question I'd be most impressed with someone who could talk about Spacy or some other standard library that can do a lot of things in this area very quickly but also be repurposed to do interesting new things. Do I need someone who can write Spacy from scratch or someone who can use Spacy?

Immediately optimising by ignoring non-ASCII and punctuation seems mor elike a red flag than a positive.
Whatever definition you're using is generalizing, and is incorrect.

You're assuming you know what I think or feel, and you're wrong.
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Those are cool. Thank you!
That might be it. gcc 10 with lto only, not clang. I also saw a lot if weird rust exception like functions brought into it.
"Kids these days" don't care about video games in that way. For them it's a fact of life, and not a glamorous one either; only a quick, addictive and not very healthy way to waste an hour or two (or four). Similar to cigarettes or beer in that respect, though we allow kids access to video games.

Most of them play online mobile games because that gets the rush quicker and easier.

Trying to sell an overly complex, bulky, expensive and high-investment video game system to the coming generations will be a very uphill battle.

(We saw this with TV; for the boomer generation TV was high technology, and getting on TV was the highest aspiration in life. Who even watches broadcast TV now?)
Is it confusing? Presumably most C++ programmers have an intuition at very least between gcc and clang?

Given my role at the foundation I need more data on this so I'm not being facetious