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Congratulations on the great effort!

Is there any documents or comparatives that can help me selling this language to managers to use this language in a professional setting?
They're probably hoping you'll just have to do that once in your lifetime, then as they aquire or embrace, extend and extinguish all competitors you're forever logged in to everything you'll ever need to be.
The less the better.

Didn't we get over that as a measure of ability yet?
Every major discord server (if you are not just strictly in DM with friends or make your own with friends) requires phone verification with virtually no exceptions.

Using any form of datacentre IP or anonymiser requires phone verification randomly within a few minutes or hours of starting interaction [regardless of server].

You get a different error message and cannot use discord at all: https://i.imgur.com/T57xcff.png
The other 1/3 are bot clicks ads.
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> Our Engineering, Security, and Compliance/Privacy teams—as well as other staff—are continuing to investigate the cause and working on steps to help ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Silo the sales and marketing department away from the real products like the person in that other thread was saying. Sales people can't be trusted with private data.
Just started reading Neuromancer. Glad to know this.
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You are somewhat right that the basic principle applies in general, as you combine pieces together or break a composite system apart you are always dealing with some form of binding energy, whether it is gravitational, electromagnetic or nuclear. But what makes all the difference are the forces involved - chemical reactions mainly involve the electromagnetic force, fission and fusion mainly involves the strong nuclear force. This is all well understood and the properties of the involved force dictate the length and energy scales of the phenomena.
The problem is there are too many standards and they are all clutered on too many websites. I mean there should be a website listing the standard in an easy way.
We already have that. It's called the Olympics.
> Our highways are free because they're a public good (in the economics sense) and prone to monopoly pricing due to geographic constraints on competition.

And homes are not? Certainly not at the same scale, but we are seeing the same problems with landlords that we see with monopolists.

Landlords are able to charge extremely high rents and there is not enough available/affordable land to build competition, especially in cities experiencing NIMBYism and gentrification.

> You'd be solving a non-problem (or, to the extent that there is a problem, it's one that's easily addressed by simply increasing private housing stock)

It's clearly a problem. That's why we're here talking about it in the first place. It's also clearly not "easily addressed", or that would have happened already. Sure, we need to remove barriers to increasing housing stock, but that isn't likely to be enough; especially in the short term.
Or your manager arbitrarily decides they don't like you (particularly in startup-like environments with limited process). It shouldn't happen, but it does.
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What is the compilation speed like?

EDIT: also forgot to ask if Crystal has a "killer app" yet? Ruby had Rails, Python had scipy/pandas(several others), Rust had servo etc.
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously

> a new Facebook campaign was created that started firing a Facebook advertising pixel

I think they actually don't give any figment of a shit of their customers data if they are adding to the Facebook hoover of personal information.
Too cheap!
There is more to experience than "likability".

If I go to a techno club, I would soooo love to see what an AI can do to make me move my feet more.

But if I listen to some mellow song with lyrics maybe I want to feel the touch of a human artist and his emotions.

I would also love to listen to AI generated music with lyrics, but it would generate different emotions (not worse, just different).

AI generated art will just open another type of experiences, but it will never replace human art.
I thought they collect a lot of data with desktop clients, including what apps you use and when.
Do they update the weights? There is an article about NFTs, and I dont think NFTs were a thing when GPT-3 came out...
Related: Marsh's 1994 thesis that introduced zero trust:

https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2010/1/Formalising%...
(OP) I agree with the point you are making. Smaller tools that can be chained together to obtain new functionality is better (in my opinion also) than "bulky" feature-rich tools (which can never be truly feature complete).

But! If you look at it from the perspective of someone who is a non-software developer (e.g. scientist, accountant, graphic designer, etc.) who just wants to do a specific task, it makes more sense to have dedicated tools for the job. Even if those tools, under the hood, are a combination of smaller tools, the end user should not be concerned with anything other than his/her field of expertise.

With my question I was trying to get some insight into people's (who are not necessarily software devs) workflows and how we can improve those workflows (if we can).

The question applies to software development as well: someone who is specialized, say in compilers (broadly speaking), for example, can help the workflow of many who don't have the time / resources to do it themselves. It comes to mind a feature that someone posted above: "List what packages have functions that can get called when I call function X".
Email is portable. If you use your own domain, you can switch providers without changing your address.

Most providers offer email export and import. So you can also move emails between providers.
> employee mental health has plunged

I can only speak for myself, but not being to work out at the gym or do anything outside of my home is the problem, not the god damn office.
Some of the debunking relied on the analysis showing that it wasn't the result of Gain of Function research. Whereas an accident could certainly be a release of a natural sample they were originally working on.
Ask HN: Do you create Architecture Diagrams? If so, which tool do you use?
I have to draw architecture Diagrams from time to time but I am in this weird position that I never learned how to do it properly, so I will just wing it mostly using a mix of draw.io or Powerpoint.

How do you do it? What is the best way to draw these diagrams in 2021? I know there is Enterprise Architect, but I don't feel like learning an ancient tool that creates ugly diagrams.
> COVID merely accelerated this trend, as it did with a lot of pre-existing social and industrial changes.

My perspective is quite different. Perhaps for more innovative companies this is true that it accelerated the trend, but there are plenty of stuck-in-the-mud companies where COVID-19 forced their hand to move to remote quickly, and they would've never done this without COVID. That's was I saw (outside the FAANG, outside the US) in a traditional industry.

There was a telling survey posted some months back (can't find it unfortunately) "What accelerated digital transformation in your company?" and the answers were management or COVID, the response was overwhelmingly COVID.
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Luddites fought against automatization of human work. There is no equivalent in the rocket industry, certainly not what this boss is doing. Production of a single launcher per year would absolutely be uneconomical.

Where the boss is going astray is in his inability to conceive of a robust private demand for launches. SpaceX has a huge private manifest, including their own project, Starlink.

But this is Europe and European Space Agency and the Franco-German spirit shows. Government is what matters first and foremost, everything else is uncertain and thus better ignored.

(Yeah, I know. Not everywhere in Europe is the same. Estonians would probably have a vibrant private launch industry, if they were as numerous as the French. But they are only a million.)
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You may want to follow the C++ subreddit, people are actually writing quite a lot about modern C++, it's just difficult to find out articles because the C++ community is completely decentralized and has no official (or even semi-official) forum. People write on their own blog and it requires some work to discover and aggregate all that content.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/

I also really enjoy listening to the CppCast podcast by Rob Irving and Jason Turner, it's a nice way to follow what is happening with the language: https://cppcast.com/.
I'm using the beta version and the changes are actually useful and, relatively, plenty.

The one thing I'm currently looking forward the most is multi-process support, planned for Thunderbird 91, IIRC; It should relieve the hangs I sometimes get (having >50 GiB mails locally has its tolls, but oh well LKML, QEMU, ... archives and such are just nice to have around for me).
In any case, the original statement is silly in light of the fact that the origin of the much smaller SARS epidemic was still diligently researched and traced for 15+ years until it was finally found, in 2018: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9
Gabriel Gambetta's book Computer Graphics from Scratch is available freely online and was discussed here just the other day:

https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/

Another link I found interesting is this one:
https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki
Though it's unlikely multiple state actors are actively targeting your computer, that doesn't mean they aren't fighting over breaching it or that you shouldn't assume a breach has occurred.
Actually now I have a setup where I don't care about what the main branch is called, so now I'm back to not caring about the name change.
The EU shat the bed by not banning all exports just like the US did. It's insane to me that the EU allowed 41 million vaccine doses produced INSIDE the EU to be exported to other countries while Europeans are dying and in lockdown.
There is some weak reasoning with Dual_EC_DRBG ... ignoring the possibility of power/timing/etc. side-channels, Dual_EC_DRBG is as provably difficult to break as Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman and at least as strong as ECDSA using the same curve.

If your system is already broken if the attacker can compute discrete logs over that particular elliptic curve, and you trust that the NSA didn't generate the two constants in Dual_EC_DRBG such that they know the scalar to multiply the one by to get the other... then using Dual_EC_DRBG doesn't introduce extra attack surface, while using another PRNG does introduce extra attack surface.

Now, that's weak reasoning, particularly since they only dropped 16 bits when outputting values where it seems much safer to drop half the bits when outputting a value. However, there is a narrow set of circumstances where Dual_EC_DRBG makes sense.

Also, if you're using ECDH for encryption, you're almost certainly using AES in counter mode or ChaCha20. In that case, you're best off using a PRNG based on AES in counter mode or ChaCha20, using an entropy-gathering seeding algorithm that gracefully recovers from state compromise (such as Fortuna).
Very rejection-heavy is saying it lightly.
Don't forget that playing a musical instrument or watching crowds move to your beat is an incredible experience that is not going to be enjoyed by artificial systems, at least anytime soon.
You can't even compare it anymore, as the web is dramatically different now than it was a decade or so. Just the amount of blogspam that has accumulated in those ten years, all caused by Google's ad-meddling is enough to drown out the minuscule amount of "unique" or "good" content that existed back then or is being currently created.
How do you validate a strategic AI? You can’t trust it to be superior over humans because it beats humans in your simulator because, as you say, it may exploit bugs no one even knew existed, and some of those may not get recognized as bugs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_simulation#Problems_o...:

One notorious example was the US Air Force's Advanced Penetration Model, which due to a programming error made US bombers invulnerable to enemy air defences by inadvertently altering their latitude or longitude when checking their location for a missile impact. This had the effect of 'teleporting' the bomber, at the instant of impact, hundreds or even thousands of miles away, causing the missile to miss. Furthermore, this error went unnoticed for a number of years. Other unrealistic models have had battleships consistently steaming at seventy knots (twice their top speed), an entire tank army halted by a border police detachment, and attrition levels 50% higher than the numbers each force began with.

If you can’t validate it, do you dare trust it above humans?

With tactics, validation still is hard, but you can do (expensive) real-life experiments.
You've said elsewhere that you think it's reasonable to to suppose they have unpublished samples that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, indeed that's your central claim. So why do you trust this statement about their sampling results but not the one about not having anything closer than RaTG13 [18.5, p6]?
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The analogy wasn't really about that though, I was trying to explore whether or not the third party is considered a willing participant or not, which changes the implications of the data collection.

A stranger in a restaurant can't help that they heard you talk about something private, but it was entirely the fault of the person sent to intentionally record a conversation so you could say they willingly participated in the ordeal.

Backing out of the analogy, Facebook willingly collected the data, it was entirely their intention to collect the data. So the responsibility of that data collection is theirs, and they were an active participant. I think it's important to set that precedent, because we all know the technology was entirely indifferent to what it was collecting, but we can't use the inadequacies of a technology and process as a way to excuse companies from responsibility. Holding them accountable would force them to get better processes and improve the technology so it doesn't happen again.
The next best thing IMO - Element - takes a few seconds to send and deliver a message and up to 10 seconds to initiate a voice call. Has no voice sub-rooms with auto voice detection, either.
The Politico article is extremely dishonest. Josh Rogin has been claiming for a year now that US diplomats raised red flags about the WIV's safety. He wrote an article to this effect a year ago, based on diplomatic cables he had seen. Then the Washington Post obtained the full cables, and it turned out that Rogin had seriously mischaracterized them. They do not claim that the WIV has unsafe practices - only that its newest lab is still (2 years before officially opening) training personnel and can't yet run at full capacity. It asks the US government to continue its training program for WIV scientists. Yet Rogin continues to misrepresent the cables.
The ions thermalise very quickly even in a fusor; if they fused on the first collision rather than bouncing this whole thing would be much easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor#Thermalization_of_the_io...

I do like how incredibly simple and easy fusors are compared to the other types of fusion reactor, but sadly they are still very very hot where it counts.
My friend who has wider experiences changing jobs than me also said the same thing as your comment and its parent. Workplace politics is a real thing.
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The concept of information marketing is what works best on the on the internet as your potential customers are not able to see your products on display publicly as you would find in a conventional store. To sell to customers on the internet, you would have to build a bond with them for them to trust you and like you before you are able to recommend a solution or product/service to them for consideration. This concept is termed as permission based marketing
Congratulations on this release :) A big achievement!

I played around with crystal two years ago and really liked the approach. To me it's a nice statically typed Ruby with a simpler "meta"-programming through macros.

Decent multi-core support is the next milestone for the project and I'm looking forward to it :)

Anyone knows how good the tooling around crystal is nowadays? When I used it for a pet project there was no decent language server and it felt as I was using a notepad.
How is https://github.com/elbywan/crystalline or https://github.com/crystal-lang-tools/scry nowadays?

Would be cool if every language provided their own language server as part of the base release, I guess.
People worked together in meatspace because that was the only way. It simply wasn't possible to work from home even 20 years ago for the vast majority of office workers.

If you think internal combustion engines are going away, you're betting against decades of history. And if you thought horses were going away you were also betting against decades of history.

Things do change. Many people who can work from home now will. And many others will invest in home offices and join them. Some people can't work from home, but amongst office workers that number is very small.
what I'm saying is that until the closest relative to SARS-CoV-2 is known to be exactly the same virus that was researched in Wuhan institute of virology, it's obvious that lab leak should be number 1 hypothesis. That wouldn't be so, if covid started in Beijing or Nanjing. Or if Wuhan wouldn't be home to one of the two BSL–4 labs in China. And the only lab to my mind that investigated SARS-CoV-2 closest known relative before the outbreak. But since all those facts are true, I really have a hard time considering other hypotheses.
> I think the issue is that the article is inflammatory click-bait because it makes it seems like rich people are getting a break while poor people are getting shafted.

Why? Do you seriously think that is untrue? Go talk to some poor people. Hell, just talk to someone who is 18-29: there is a 52% chance they are stuck living with their parents[1]. We're definitely getting shafted over here.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
To me another simple explanation is that the disease was first identified near the labs because it is a lab that deals with viruses. I may be mistaken, but I recall it as one of the top ones in the world that virologists from around the world go to.

Also waste water samples from Spain and Italy show COVID-19 much earlier than reported in Wuhan.

Spain, March 2019, 1 sample
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

Italy, 18. December 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N2DW1YK
They were legally mandated to make these guides for other departments, that's why they're standard IT guides.
People lie.

Drug addicts claim to spent 1000s a day on their habit. They don't, but it makes their loss and frowned upon habit seem less so, "I'd be a rich, upstanding citizen if it weren't for this one thing!", with perhaps the added causality chain of -> "this isn't a big hurdle to overcome" and -> "I can stop whenever I want to".

Same with work. Working is likely a negative experience for a lot of people, so anything that frames it to be less so, is memed. "Well this was exhausting, but I was so productive! I worked like what 80? 90? hours this week?", when in reality much of that time was typing long winded comments like this one.

The real magic of the "4 hour workweek" and similar books isn't finding the one idea that makes it possible, but to make working enjoyable. That seems to happen automatically with a shorter workweek (Kelloggs, Microsoft Japan) but you can get there with a regular job and being honest about productivity and I say that as somebody who thought it was impossible with a 40 hour workweek. I now do that and have a lot of energy to spare in the evenings.
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Aren't polls like these usually anonymous?
Security in services is all about liability and risk rather than an absolute guarantee.

I've seen so much anger over this issue that it's left me confused. Questions like how they can ever be trusted now. They could never be trusted. If the information is really that important, then it should be encrypted before being passed to any other service. Companies will screw up, the question is how are you going to be on the hook for it. The great thing about services is that you can pass the blame the service than if you had dealt with it in-house.

That said, this has been an embarrassing display for Backblaze and I hope they redouble their efforts on infosecurity. But mistakes happen. If there's a pattern, then that's a different story.
The reason for that is that no professional Content company has made content for "can cats eat asparagus" yet. If this ever pops up on SEMRush or SEOMoz people will start making pages for it, and the results that don't get clicked will be driven to the second or third page.
At that point, you're not really "writing Python", though. You're really using Python to orchestrate a bunch of native transformations.
The loyalties of a country's government should absolutely be with its constituents. That loyalty does not necessarily mean that the health of its inhabitants only should be the government's concern.

I can perfectly imagine a healthy 40 years old UK constituent supporting the idea that a 80 years old EU constituent should get priority over him. Or the other way round obviously, should that situation ever occur. Governments could take that into account, but we don't even have to go down that contentious rabbit hole to find points of consensus.

I just happen to think that an opportunity to reach a Pareto optimum was missed in negotiations, particularly between the UK and the EU.

Would an agreement on proportionality in vaccine distribution really have been so difficult between the EU and the UK for example? That would have produced real advantages for both sides.

Both governments can harm each other's vaccine supplies, and it's increasingly looking like that could also become reality. That's lose-lose instead of win-win.
I've run a Mumble server for my friends group for a while. It worked fine and had a couple of nice features, e.g. that anyone could create a temporary channel and move there with some people and when they all quit the channel would be removed again. This way everyone could organize as they see fit.

But the audio setup and tweaking was a nightmare. It was the biggest problem for every participant to tune and tweak their levels in a way that would work good, it was very, very frustrating.

The chat was also super barebones and of course no way to stream video.
> The alternative theory is [...]

So there are only two alternatives, and we just need to compare which sounds more likely? Or could it be that you exclude about a million other alternatives here, while also ignoring that just a little bit more information about context often makes unlikely scenarios more likely and vice versa?

Not arguing any of the theories here, just looking at the approach. The first task might not be to make assumptions, but to understand the situation better.
This is really neat! I've been putting off learning regex's for some time now, guess I need to add it to my tool belt.
It’s a free beer carbon copy of Slack except it uses single account for all instances. And they have the voice channel feature, but that’s kind of an aside.