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This might be because we are still waiting for a conclusive argument how wide-spread gun ownership would have prevented WW2.

Hint: Hitler was legally voted into power. It's not that the Nazis had guns and the rest of the country was in fear to oppose them.
Reminds me of good old Kerio Personal Firewall on Windows back in the 90s. If the UI gets some more love, I see ebpfsnitch take off like a rocket :)
Hah, reasonable. I'll edit the post.
I'm not familiar at all with the world of high performance scientific computing. Are C++, Rust, Nim, Zig, & co. even remotely considered as potential candidates in the future, or is it really only C and Fortran with no expectation to see much changes? Just curious.
My thought process here was that that is not a useful definition, because all the extra stuff this definition lets in, is not stuff people would usually agree to call “art” / understand your meaning if you referred to it as “art.”

Let me try my analogy again: if you’re the last human alive, and you invent a bunch of words used for thinking to yourself, are those a “language”? Or are they merely a verbal shorthand or formalism or mnemonic for your thought processes?

IMHO, the word “language” only has a meaning/application in the context of two or more agents speaking. It is a protocol to allow agents without exactly the same mind to share thoughts, by putting those thoughts into a standardized schema separate from one’s own internal mental schema. If only you (or you and emulated copies of yourself) are communicating, then you won’t need such a separate model—you can just transmit the internal schema data structures directly.
I'd say OpenCL is a pretty good API, it's just that because it's in C and it allows for quite fine-grain control, it takes a bit of orchestration to get anything off the ground. If you want more convenience, there are a few wrappers for it, in various languages.

It's true that its ecosystem is sadly lacking.
This was where I originally remember reading the information about Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24759929. The linked Information article does discuss the survey but also the objective measures Google uses (like commit volume) that declined.
How does Windows prevent this type of bypass? It seems extremely hard to prevent in an unsandboxed environment.
Thanks for the edit :)
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Unlike computer software, mathematical theorems don't suffer from bit rot.
How is blacklist and whitelist offensive now? It seems that some people have nothing better to do than make trouble for the sake of it.
Or that the languages they use to express more important things that computer programs all date back much longer than that.
Your information on xqemu is dated. xqemu was forked to xemu a while back. Development of xemu is very active now: many games are now playable with accurate graphics and sound with performance up to native framerates. Improvements to speed and accuracy are coming in on a regular basis. xqemu is basically dead, with its discord shut down and the main developer off the project. Now is a good time play around with xbox emulation if it is of interest to you.

https://xemu.app/

https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu/commits/master
"Pushing for religious toleration" in this case would be sort like talking about the Taliban as religiously tolerant because they pushed for toleration of Wahhabism.

(And the choice of comparison here is not carelessly chosen: like the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan for idolatry by the Taliban, Cromwell presided over the destruction of numerous medieval monuments/artwork for the same reason.)
An option not given in the article is to start as root, then step down to an unprivileged user using `gosu`. The official Postgres image does this, so appropriate permissions can be set on the data dir, becoming an unprivileged user for operation.
I believe the point here is they didn’t want to fund companies that had taken any VC money yet, not necessarily that they wouldn’t ever.
Only because all criminals have guns. Because guess what. Guns are legal.

There were many stories during the "firey but mostly peaceful" demonstrations last year of people who were ordinarily liberals trying to buy guns for personal and home defence and discovering to their horror that that actually there is a background check and a waiting period, you can't just buy one on a whim. Nor can a friend legally just lend you one.
It is my dream to some day release an app that garners a review like this
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It happens on open platforms, too. Trademark lawyer sends a cease and desist. Unless you’re flush with cash, you rename the app.
Neither do languages, especially formal ones.
New Which? research shows that in the UK we actually spend less on food than previous generations did, and many popular foods are cheaper now than they were 30 years ago.

In the 1950s we spent a third of our income on food shopping, but in 1974 this had gone down to 24%. By 2016 food shopping accounted for just 10.5% of our income.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2019/11/heres-how-our-food-pric...

So food prices have collapsed, electronics too, what 'basic stuff' is left?
I love that you can see the approach angle in the distortion of the field. It also helps to convey how thin the atmosphere is to see how long it takes for that to square up.
That's how society keeps going downhill. Just raise an eyebrow and keep moving whenever X is introduced, soon enough we'll be paying the price.
Boy, I'm glad my mind doesn't have a highbrow part! It sounds like being more trouble than it's worth.
Well as an owner (model 3) the general understanding is that you watch over the car when it is driving. Basically you back seat driver your high school kid.

The car is decidedly paranoid when on full autopilot to the point of overly cautious at times. It certainly won't let you have your hands off the wheel nor with a light touch suffice. I tried timing the systems "apply light pressure" warnings interval but its very random and definitely more aggressive when on a curve as its very easy then for it to recognize you aren't holding the wheel.

There are warnings when you use autopilot that flat out say you have to pay attention and demands are constant that you show you are by causing real resistance on the steering wheel.

On anything but freeways it won't even go over five miles over the speed limit. Straight cruise control does not have that limit but once AP is engaged you are restricted to +5. It will slow down automatically for detected speed limit signs with a lower speed but not auto increase for higher limits. It will not go through a green light unless car in front does first without you indicating its safe.

Now interestingly enough Tesla has kicked people out of beta of the newest software for not paying enough attention to the car either through use of the inside camera; the beta uses it; and steering wheel resistance.

So perhaps if you fail enough maybe the car should say you don't pay enough attention to use the feature and must wait 24 to 48 hours before you try again and then be overly strict on driver detection?

It certainly is not perfect, current general availability version, but it is amazing for what it can do especially at night or poor weather.
> is an ideology like conservativism what it claims to outsiders or to what its adherents actually do and say to one another? Professed vs revealed preferences.

We could say the same about "liberalism" when we look at deadly riots, fires started at police stations with people inside, people executed on the street, ideas like "f** x" based largely on x's race or profession.

It's clear that the majority on both sides are relatively moderate. They aren't the loud minority you hear the most of. Why do both sides use this defense, but neither side believes it about the other?
I guess so. But note that I didn't equate them. I just said that you can use an ID index instead. For the particular program of FSMs, they work very well.

If bounds checks prove to be a problem, you can explicitly elide them. Indeed, Rust's regex does just that. :-)
https://www.uyemura.com/pcb-finishes/electroless-copper.html

If you're wanting to do platted through holes idk why you don't just use the same elecroless plating chemical that board shops use. You could call them and ask for samples and would get enough for all your hobby projects.
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A better discussion is about what happened in the late 1980s and lasted until the dotcom bust: empowerment. The empowerment movement was in some sense inspired by Just In Time (JIT) manufacturing. The idea presented simply is to harness the power, or empower, line workers to halt the assembly line when line workers saw a defect. Chains were installed on factory floor assembly lines and line workers would pull the chain when they saw quality defects. This is called total quality control, or TQC. Everyone is empowered to be do quality control and thus TQC. There is a lot more too it but that's the gist. The Harvard professor who invented JIT couldn't get Americans to buy into his idea and had to finally find adoption in Japan. Thus Japan's rise in car and electronic quality and ability to cut costs by having less defects. Empowerment took on many other flavors eventually where Tom Peters of FedEx fame empowered delivery drivers to change schedules and do other things to make delivery times. Empowerment then went into quality of life overall with on campus gyms, on campus day care, bagel fridays etc. The hay day was the 1990s where it seems a new management book every week came out promoting new ways to empower employees and to upgrade management processes with such things as open door policies. But, and here's the but, Americans love tyranny. They always have. The so called captains of industry were never much interested in the power sharing that the word empowerment implies and after the dotcom bust in 2000 the empowerment trend was soon on the defensive. S** rolls downhill, cajoling, and other forms of tyranny are what American management know and love. And that's where things have returned. Management of 2021 has more in common with the late 1970s than the late 1990s. Do as your told reigns king. Know your place. The elephant in the room that this article does not address is that as long as corporate America and the world continues to use an authoritarian, top-down pyramid structure of power then the limits of that structure apply. The empowerment movement has all but been banished and that fundamental, tyrannical space confinement of top-down, micro-management of authoritarianism by threats and intimidation cannot be addressed by any amount of bottom up discussion. Nothing is going to get better until those in power give it up. I actually find it amazing the the empowerment movement ever found fertile ground at all. But to be honest America flirted with power sharing for a time only when it got its azz kicked by Japan in the automobile and electronics industries. America soon abandoned empowerment because the lure of draconian power is ever seductive. Steve Jobs put the final nail in the coffin of the empowerment movement in the tech industry.
In one of my tax classes in law school, the professor recommended an optional book that when more into the theory behind tax. That book brought up an interesting idea to discuss concerning printing money.

Suppose you have a society with a total economy of say 10^9 dollars, and you need to allocate 10% of the to the government for it to operate.

The conventional approach is various taxes. Income taxes, sales taxes, VAT, property taxes, the list goes on and on.

The question the book asked is why not just have the government print the money it needs?

Printing 10^8 dollars would not quite do it because of the inflation that would cause, but if it printed 1.11 x 10^8 dollars then the government would have enough to buy 10% of the inflated economy.

So why not replace taxes with printing money to fund the government?

It has a couple of clear advantages. First, no more need for everyone to file tax returns, employers to withhold tax payments, and all that jazz, and no need for the government to have a giant tax collecting apparatus or a giant tax code. Second, it makes tax evasion a lot harder.

There are some downsides too. First, it would take away a large part of the usefulness of taxation as a way to change behavior. Deductions, credits, progressive rate structure--all gone. Deductions and credits could be replaced with government subsidies, but if you aren't careful you will end up recreating much of the complexity and bureaucracy that the old tax system had.

Second, the inflation would be significant enough that it wouldn't take many years before even small things involve large numbers of dollars. This could probably be addressed by going to an almost all electronic money system so you could just periodically re-scale the whole thing.

Third, inflation from printing money doesn't affect all assets equally, so this would encourage people to try to hold more of the wealth in assets that are less affected. People lean toward that anyway to deal with normal inflation, but with the current system if there is too much off that the government can use tax incentives to nudge things in the other direction.

I remember this leading to some interesting discussion in class. Even if it is not practical, thinking about it is interesting. It can get you to really think about what money really is.
What about the alternative, hackers.txt?
“If someone were to rent you home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly[...]'

That’s a very poor proxy for housing cost."

Agreed. Rental data is publicly available. Why bother asking only to get a worse answer?
A top-level security.txt sounds like a better idea than hiding it under .well-known. I wouldn’t want anyone without access to
the web server’s root to be telling me what the security policy is, anyway.

Having it at top level makes it a sibling / analogous to robots.txt so there is some consistency to the pattern.
I don't see any port-based firewalling options in the firejail documentation from a quick look. So I'm not sure if firejail helps the same use case as EBPFSnitch.
What about debt is relevant? Sure, if you’re in debt then a sense you “owe less”, in that the units you owe are now worth less. But practically speaking, if you’re an hourly or salaried employee that’s too poor to own significant securities or real estate assets and your wages don’t keep pace with inflation (wtfhappenedin1971.com), that’s a totally meaningless ivory tower economics point. You’re just further priced out of those assets, are paying more for the consumer goods you need to live that are now inflated, and you’re still paying the same dollar amount on your debt.
Ask HN: What is the best firewall software for Mac?
What firewall software are you using today? I've come across both Lulu and Little Snitch which seem to be the most popular today. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
That’s true, but it wasn’t the enslaving itself they took issue with. It was his provocations of a historical foe, the breach of treaties, and the dictatorial power he accumulated by doing so.

His critics like Cato weren’t abolitionists, if it was to him, the plebeians might have been slaves too (exaggeration).
The point is that people do not view it as poor language, they understand that it's a protocol for communication and as such it evolves/shifts across time and particularly across generations (Emojis are a great example of this), and view people that look down upon others for relatively benign infractions upon the timeless holy grail that is The Way The English Language Should Be Used as rather pedantic idiots who often bring more disruption to a conversation than clarity.

There is no race to the top or the bottom. There is no race at all. Looking down on someone for their preferred set of words and the way they use them will only make you look bad and at the end of the day prevents you from communicating effectively with other members of your species.

You should work on that.
> - I've never seen xrdb used outside of terminal configuration

Terminal and Emacs are the two I'm using it for.
One recommendation I have (although I'm not sure if it fits the bill here) is Stephen Owen's Anthology of Chinese Literature. Owen is a total genius (speaking of the Taiping Guangji, I remember sitting in a seminar with him where he'd ad-lib these incredible translations of similar stories from a slightly earlier collection that I'd struggled with for hours), and it's not often that so magnificent a scholar will write a relatively introductory work. The book is a lot broader than the one you mentioned, so the explanatory material and annotations are necessarily a little bit briefer, but I find that Owen does a good job of putting each of the works in context and pointing out particularly notable points of poetry or prose. If you do have a more specific period interest I'd be happy to provide a more accurate recommendation (although I know very little about scholarship on anything written in the last millennium or so, ha!)
word count was over 5000 had to bring it down to 2000
Misinformation is a flood by a million raindrops, and as courts are severely overtaxed, I shudder in asking for a magnitude more volume in a bunch of low severity cases.

People will debate more or less police funding, but massively more judicial funding is on nobody’s radar.

What the modern age calls for is the ability to easily enjoin a class of defendants and sue them all for $5, with adjudication taking 1 minute. Now your mom just lost $5 because she retweeted a MLM health scare scam 2 minutes ago.
Could you elaborate why that's critical to have?
OK so we’re finally at the actual core of the matter: the technical arguments aren’t actually valid, it’s that you don’t think it’s worth the minimal effort because you don’t personally know of anyone that is offended by the master/slave connotation of “master” branches. That’s always the actual core of the complaint yet everyone dances around it.
Well, it does seem to me fair to say that "it is trivial primary school arithmetic". But I guess the truth of whether it is or it isn't trivial, isn't really something that can be scientifically tested – it rests on how exactly you define "trivial", what you count as the involved operations etc. Well, we could go further into it if we wanted (e.g. What are these "lots of algebraic techniques" involved in these 2 little steps?!) but having asserted our rivals claims without much evidence feels like a good place to stop – this time. :-)

Edit: Or I suppose "tabooing"[0] the word trivial would have helped – it was the trouble-maker.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBdvyyHLdxZSAMmoz/taboo-your...
That's a counterfactual argument. It is by definition unprovable. I said that Europe shouldn't be considered a gun control success, not that if there were guns, WW2 would have been prevented.

During the Weimar era and the Nazi era, gun control laws were put into place. That is a historical fact.

Also, hint: saying that Hitler was voted into power as if it were an average democratic vote deeply misunderstands the situation. I suggest reading more about the era, specifically Ian Kershaw's book.
Interesting... iOS will autocorrect to “FORTRAN”
Again, what does that have to do with the original question?

And are you sure that increased crime rates against Asians are coming from that same source?

I don't think you understand this situation very well.
I wasn't able to test much on iOS unfortunately. I know on Windows 10 if one browser is already using the camera it will say camera unavailable when launching a different browser. I am not sure if it is related to this?
The link: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foudil-securitytxt returns 404.
Well, a minimum distance of 1 seems reasonable. As the article notes, these are the same words in Katakana, and the punny time was clearly intended to ride on Clubhouse's coattails.
tell that to HN char count limit, it was painful to get 5k characters count under 2k
> When there's a steep inflation, be it anything from Turkey level to Venezuela level inflation, your salary gets adjusted to sustain your lifestyle

Only at the lowest levels, where it has no relation to economics anyway: most governments will work to ensure that poor who have nothing to lose will not be pushed into long-term hunger; if they do, they revolt. So either the costs of the food and barebones medical care (broken bones, etc.) will be subsidized for them or the money will be bumped up.

There is a second group where this adjustment is likely to happen: Army and government workers. If you starve those, you quickly feel it. Everyone else gets to fend for themselves and is usually much, much worse off. I have also lived in a country going through hyperinflation and unless one is in a select group (likely linked to organized crime) one definitely does not get salary adjusted to sustain the lifestyle. In fact, the lifestyle one had usually crumbles. My 2c.
I get this: "Sorry, we ran out of budget for the MapBox Geocoding API... :-("
> Also, hint: saying that Hitler was voted into power as if it were an average democratic vote deeply misunderstands the situation.

This is correct.

Richard Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich is excellent too.
That's a common misconception of how money creation works. If you want to learn more, this Bank of England article is a good introduction (pdf): https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Doesn’t for me.
If you're interested in this, you may be interested in this as well: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

It has a GUI interface as well.
I was using the monthly cost of a 30 year mortgage. Monthly for 30 years a 500K mortgage at 6% is roughly 3K. Monthly for 30 years a 1000K mortgage at 2% is about 3.7K.

So a 100% increase in sticker price with -4% interest change yields an actual cost increase of 25%.
I'm not an expert in Fortran, but my understanding is that Fortran 90 is basically the equivalent of C++11--it added a slew of major features (such as free format code and array notation) that makes it a pretty different language from pre-90 code. Even if newer language revisions add some more useful features, it's the core set from Fortran 90 that's worth differentiating, much as I might describe modern C++ code as C++11 even if the project requires C++14 or C++17.
You can make a CNC router pretty easily with an arduino, cnc shield and either furniture boards or aluminium profiles.

You you can also make a simple probe for autoleveling and mill the pcb too, but imo it takes too much time. Etching has way better quality too.
i wish i could too, working on it.. but in mean time i need to level up
I don't think it would look different. There is a big difference between Fortran 77 and Fortran 90, but less between Fortran 90 and Fortran 2018, at least for this example.
No, and that would make a great empirical study. (Maybe there has been one! I should check ISMM over the past decade, someone may have done it already.)

From first principles, the biggest difference is that manual memory allocation can't move live objects around. But manual memory managers do still have the ability to be smart on deallocation, to the point that calling free will sometimes cause things to happen that would be similar in a garbage collector.