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Ask HN: What Prices Will Fall over the Next Year?
Saw this question over at Marginal Revolution (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/04/falling-prices-prediction-bleg.html) and thought it would be an interesting discussion to have on HN as well.
zig doesn't switch. It's statically typed, and I think (not 100% sure) it detects if you have called a function with the async keyword and when that happens it triggers compiling a second version of the function with async support, so there are actually two versions of the function floating around in your binary. Since zig is itself a parsimonious compiler, if that's never in a codepath (say it's provided by a library), it doesn't get compiled. The reverse is true, too, if you ONLY call a function with the async keyword, it doesn't compile the non-async version. Again, with the caveat that I think that's what's going on.
But "machine readable" strictly dominates machine learning. And worse yet for the data scientists, as soon as they establish the viability of doing something new with a computer, people will rush to apply metadata to make the process more reliable and explainable. An ounce of markup saves a pound of tensorflow.

The bitter lesson.
It's also having shallow friendships
It's amazing to see how much care and work is put in to efforts like these by people who clearly care about what they're doing.

If corporate America had their way, those records would have had DRM, there'd have been half a dozen different formats, and they'd have stopped working after twenty years.

A silly example, but looking at how records are preserved today, then imagining how media of today might be preserved for a century from now, should be something we think about when we're choosing what to buy, yet most people keep buying from companies that just disable our media whenever it benefits them.
Purely anecdotal, obviously, but I had my first dose of AZ about a month ago. Didn't notice any particular side effects.

(I hope this doesn't mean it was less effective!)

Remains to be seen how my system will deal with the second dose (scheduled for early June)....
If you know where your crops are, everything else is a weed.
Cars are still extremely dangerous and are have caused massive damage to the planet, cars also solved significant and real problems and did so without waiting decades.

Cryptocurrency has had plenty of time to find a legitimate use and has completely failed. It is not a functional currency and it does not solve any real problems for non-criminals.

Not only does it waste energy and computing resources, it has helped fund a significant amount of the digital threats that the average person will encounter.
I agree strongly. I did it, or tried, for months in Minnesota winter.

It was unbelievably terrible. I was actually okay with the biking in 90+ degree heat, but it required more careful planning on water consumption. And, I have a pretty high tolerance for general wet misery. I once spent a weekend lying in puddles in the rain, and it was fine.

But the winter biking, holy hell. The cold and road slush are the real killers for winter biking. The cold can make it physically painful, and the slush makes it both dangerous, and consumes a huge amount of time on maintenance - especially when it's a salt-brine slush. That stuff disintegrates your bike (or at least my bike).
You are 10 years too late for that concern. I often wonder if there are any real people commenting, submitting, or upvoting left on Reddit.
It's amazing how much more successful the strategy in the US for vaccines was (even against rich countries). I assumed the rest of the world was following a Warp Speed style approach (multiple candidates, ramping manufacturing pre approval). Did the rest of the world simply bet that vaccines would be coming 12 months later?
The UNIX System Administration Handbook was the bible when I got started out. A tremendous book with a sizable legacy.
Depends actually,some countries want to monitor their inbound/outbound traffic so it might be restricted in that way in geographies requiring this, they can hardly add monitoring equipment in another country after all.
It's basically YouTube for written content, but with a paywall.
I’m not sure I’d go that far but there might be more to it than you think: they’re directly one of the most common causes of death and lowered quality of life, and indirectly contribute to multiple others (carcinogens, respiratory diseases, everything related to lack of exercise and unhealthy eating, etc. both directly from usage and indirectly from suburbanization), a significant source of financial pressure for many people, and a non-trivial climate change contributor.
The news is misleading. You can still buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies, but you can't use them for payments.

So functionally the same as the rest of the world then.
I had some of the same thoughts reading the article, but I could not articulate them as well as you did.

A good resource for the details about what constitutes a breaking change is Rich Hickey's talk about Clojure's Spec. [1]

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
>I would see the drones being used to help map weed concentration and optimize the route/efficiency of the weed killing robot, not using drones to kill the weeds.

That's a ridiculous solution to a non-existent problem. The robot literally has no rush to go to the weeds. It can crawl along the field by itself 24/7. Throw in a solar panel charging station and you literally have free energy for it to piss away.

Instead you want to add complexity to the setup, increase maintenance costs and potentially shorten the lifespan of the system.
Working with large, data heavy PostgreSQL instances
It might be different now, but prior to ML approaches working for captchas people absolutely paid for outsourced labor to solve captchas all day. And that was an intentionally un-automatable problem.
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No comments to refute what I wrote, but obviously the Cloudflare fanboys are upset. Good!

This is obvious propaganda posted by u/jgrahamc, who is the CTO of Cloudflare.

They refuse to communicate clearly when asked about the spammers and scammers they host, instead replying with form responses which disingenuously say, "We don't host!" and answer whatever question they feel like making up and answering.

They refuse to allow abuse complaints for domains registered through them and/or for which they host DNS.

They're a shitty, evil company that clearly cares more about money than about taking down clear and obvious phishing content. There's plenty of proof out there.
Yep, the problem is specific to Nvidia cards
TFA says "Hey! If you write a comment about this article online, disclose your stake in cryptocurrency."

Otherwise I think we can safely ignore it.

Stake: 0.05 BTC, 1.2 ETH
> One such use case may end up being the "killer" use case for crypto and may make up for the speculative phase we're in now.

If I had a penny for every time someone said "X may be the killer use case for cryptocurrencies"...
> You could never have crypto in an anarchist vacuum.

This seems a little non-obvious to me. Can you expand a bit on why?
Aperture is a HTTP 402 reverse proxy that supports proxying requests for LSAT
Yet, they're not. "Do as I say, not as I do!"
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I have also written some shellscripts in java (i did not smoke anything). If startuptime would be an issue (normally it is not) i would just use graal-vm to compile it. Just do this: "native-image script"
Ah, did not know that - last time I was working on KSP mods that interacted with that part of the code was in 0.19. Really caught me off guard when everything started to fly off into space when I tried to move ships past the end of the space center or so.
Yes, I’m sure I’ll be able to get anything I need with the bitcoins in my head whenever times aren’t good.
> So, what is the problem in the first place?

I don't think there is any problem. Everyone's entitled to as much money as they're able to honestly negotiate.
https://recipe.wtf/

It's not for SEO, it's to demonstrate engagement to the advertisers. Scrolling past the markov fluff they give you to read "while you wait for that to come to a boil" counts as engagement.
>Cryptocurrency is one of the worst inventions of the 21st century.
Clearly this person has never had a problem to get a bank account.
That doesn’t change anything. The probability an important cup gets hit is always equal to the surface integral of the rain’s flux across the important cup openings. Whether there are unimportant cups nearby doesn’t change anything.
Stating what's "understood" in archaeology is just as much an act of interpretation, except you'll be less able to comprehend it as a layperson because it's filled with irrelevant details like "sites 1, and 3, and 9 show tree ring dates of 1210, 1360, and 1297, while sites 1a, 2, and 6 show archaeomagnetic dates of 1500, 1678, and 1349 respectively". Imagine that for dozens of kinds of evidence across thousands of sites. It will still be subject to many of the pitfalls of interpretation in how you recognize a site, label a site, excavate it, date it, and so on, but that's basically the "base level" evidence in archeology.
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I made a basic website that lets you see the current frontpages of different news sites side-by-side. Originally made it for personal use lol but now my friends also use it. What do you guys think?
> Also that link doesn’t work for me - server not found.

Are you using Cloudflare DNS? Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
Telegram devs compete internally.
OSHA didn't change anything?
It’s not a straw man. There is a substantial faction that believes in the dream of replacing traditional trust based society with trustless executable contracts.

Those people discount just how much underlying social stability matters, and how meaningless an executable contract would be in a violent environment.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to come off condescending at all, it was a genuine question! At the end of the day, these are all just tools and people have their preferences. I try not to get too attached to any of them personally.

Also, if it wasn’t clear I was addressing programmers with experience in more than 1 language, not absolute beginners. If someone who is learning Go as their first language, I wholeheartedly endorse learning it! (Although Python would be better :-))
when i was in HS i worked on one of those crews you see mowing highways and state parks (super good money for a teen but man it was hard work). Mowing on a slope with a large tractor can be very dangerous because you can tip over. Automating away the danger to a human may be worth the effort in its own right.
And we're only now addressing the excessively polluting nature of the internal combustion engine.
> So my take away is the State of Illinois is actively dissuading research that could provide more insight to who lived there . . .

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man
You don't think there's value in open-source, decentralized financial infrastructure?

(Disclosure: I hold no cryptocurrencies, nor have any financial stake in the industry)
> While I agree that Skid Row is a disaster. If I were a Californian, I don't think I'd be comfortable with this degree of legislating from the bench.

As a Californian, I’m not comfortable with the degree of active racial and other unlawful discrimination and actively seeking to preserve the harms of that discrimination carried out by the City of Los Angeles with no impediment from the State of California.

As an American, I’m not at all unhappy with the federal courts stepping in this way when a state, or a subdivision thereof, violates the rights secured to the people under the Constitution.
I totally hear you, although for me having a positive human interaction, even if it's just saying hey to the barista, or sharing an idle observation with a stranger while sitting in a park or at a beach somewhere, always brightens my day. It sounds so damn cliche, I know, but it's undeniable.
There is a lot of powerful institutional & corporate money tied up in crypto at this point. Not to mention the politicians themselves holding crypto and crypto related companies.

It's not the government vs. a bunch of fringe individuals at this point.
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Cryptocurrency is the worst form of currency, except for all the others.
Brex raises $425M in a Series D round that values it at over $7.4B
I appreciate the honesty when it comes to the naming of this group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion
This matches my experience as well. You should probably add code size to the graphs. Raw struct probably wins there too.

The only thing I’ve seen that’s competitive to raw struct is writing a C++ template visitor style pattern to walk the struct fields using inline methods. (This can be achieved in some other compiled languages, of course.)

It lets you compress things as you walk the struct, and breaks the dependency on struct layout (which can matter for cross-platform stuff, and for versioned protocols). It’s not quite as fast as a memcpy off the network buffer, but it can be branch and virtual dispatch free (not counting branches in the compression logic).

Also, it can validate as it copies the data into the struct, so now you can auto-generate application-specific validation logic. This is a big deal, since validating the output of a deserializer is almost as hard as hand deserialization!

I really liked the article however. Forcing tail optimization in the c++ template serializer sounds like it will substantially improve the (worst case) generated assembly.
This is the only logical outcome - a sad one, but still.

A lot of people paint AstraZeneca endeavor as something altruistic, and that such action of suing them would prevent other companies from doing this type of deal in the future...

Regarding the altruism: in my eyes, this is a private company that got enough public funding (upfront) to expand their production capacity, and diluted that in the cost of vaccines sold. So they're selling vaccines at "cost", yet that production expansion is factored in that cost. Not to mention they got privileged access to publicly funded IP.

Also, no one pressed them to sell it at cost, they could have sold for profit and pay/raise funding for production expansion, I doubt any country would complain about that.

Regarding the "no company would do this type of deal again": good! We don't need companies that get free expansion and IP with the promises of delivery, just to find out they won't deliver. And the problem is not even the "not delivering", but being elusive about it. In fact, elusive about everything - from contracts they signed knowing they'd be overlapped and would compromise the deliveries of each other, to try move stock out to fulfill other contracts, to their apparent lack of action and communication to try to improve production yields, with no transparency at all.

I mean, the CEO hasn't been seen in EU territory for a long, long time, and they literally ghosted the EU comission. In contrast, Pfizer CEO has been all over the place, reassuring they are trying their best to deliver and improve production.

We were aware that production problems could, and most likely would, occur, but we weren't expecting how this company tried to deal with it. It sure as hell doesn't look like AZ did any "best reasonable effort", but that's for the court to decide.
These are not "normal styli" at least not for the old shellac records. It was very educational to watch this Techmoan video - https://youtu.be/AYn7aZZBMRA - and learn that the original shellac records were harder than the steel styli; these wore down in one or two playings and so were bought in bulk, and the tracking force was on the order of 100 grams.

Why does this matter? Because it probably keeps down the fine high-frequency crackle from very minor dust and surface imperfections. But I can see that you wouldn't subject a precious antique 78 to that kind of playback these days.
Europe might be considered the same geography regulations wise.

Strict regimes would want connections termination locally so they can monitor and implement content blocks/censorships etc. It would not be possible if the ground stations where not in the geographical control.
Loneliness comes from a lack of community and people who you can trust. You will not build a community and find people who you can trust through small talk and involving yourself in groups that are based on transient interests that can be changed in an instant. There is a reason gangs and groups have some sort of hazing and acceptance ceremony.
Crypto works because the internet is ubiquitous and open. Govs (mostly western) guarantee that. With nation-states in conflict, they would close their networks and it wouldn't work
Likely because most public companies are mostly owned by funds of one sort or another which either don't hold the stock long term or own the stock because of indexing. In the former case, the incentive is to select for CEOs who raise the stock price in the short term. In the latter case, there is no incentive for fund managers to influence management at all.
Exactly, the man pages are there so I don't have to remember every command perfectly.
“Sell shit online” is such an inobvious idea. I don’t know how Bezos thought it up! Completely unexpected.
They did this a while back with their Android (and iOS?) apps--they had the core Telegram app, and Telegram X. Both had 90% overlapping features, but some subtle differences. It's long enough ago that it's a bit fuzzy in my head, but I think X had slightly better reply gestures, and maybe chat pinning.

Later I think they absorbed the X features into the core app.

I can't decide if I think it's an awesome strategy to launch a self-competing project, or if it just leads to terrible internal issues. I'm leaning more towards the former--I'm a huge believer in the instructive power of contrast, and it's a lot "safer" to contrast against another one of your own products than a competitor. You control much more of the "experiment", and you don't run the risk of cannibalizing your own users.

Plus, from an engineering standpoint, it forces you to have portable technologies and configs, and probably gives your team opportunities to learn from greenfield stuff that can then encourage refactors or other paying-down-tech-debt activities.

It's also just dang impressive that they're able to spin up multiple versions of the same app, and deploy them, and maintain them. That speaks volumes to me about their internal systems, build systems, resource allocation, etc.
Only 43% of Drivers Say They Would Report Car Accidents to Insurance
Apple outsources nearly all of its manufacturing, I can't see that changing any time soon.
Given the number of takes I've seen that are "but you haven't included the cost of aircraft carriers for fiat" (when you talk about Bitcoin's energy consumption problem), it isn't all that much of a stretch.
I was born in August 1986. In northern Poland.

I was born in the 26 pregnancy week. 40 is the avg.

Even if it was not near Chernobyl there were more miscarriage then usual.

So yes looking at the children that survived is not the correct way looking at it.

I also know that getting legit data for that is nearly impossible.
Roku May Lose YouTube TV Due to Google's Anticompetitive Demands
I mean I kind of understand what he is saying (altho in an inappropriate way). It is likely for your own good to minimize screentime. However most people are still using their phone when bored. So you're either annoying people "glued to their screen" or you are the only one without doing it which yields you not much.

It's a bit boring, but I think both points are valid. If you are not looking up you probably miss the opportunity, but opportunities are still very slim.
It sounds like a slow process but plant life cycles are yearly compared to 20+ years for human generations to spawn, it will happen faster than you think. There are already round up resistant weeds and it's only been 50 years.
The thing is that "improvements in engineering, materials, process, or design" should make it cheaper, not more expensive. That's how it works in other industries.

Although I don't think it's fair to put all the blame on the Fed. The same thing has happened in the UK and many other places.
The US restricted exports to the rest of the world. And most of the rest of the world has no production. They left their continental allies / neighbours high and dry and relying on Europe for exports, and Europe trying to behave nicely and share. The full bore of the US's pharma manufacturing industry was dedicated 100% to its own population. So yeah. Successful.

After 30 years of continental economic integration, free trade agreements, and abandonment of local economic planning, selling off of Canadian pharma manufacturing, Reagan and Mulroney singing "Irish Eyes Are Smiling", etc. Canada could not rely on the US to buy exports of vaccines.
>So my take away is the State of Illinois is actively dissuading research that could provide more insight to who lived there and what actually became of them and anyone who tries to prove otherwise is booted out of the conversation.

That's literally what they do, though. They employ a shit-load of experts there to figure out who lived there, what they did, and why they left/what happened to them. STL NPR just ran an interview with the scientist identified in this article about this literal thing.

I guess, what I'm saying is that if they're trying to engage in a cover-up, they're doing a terrible job.

Also, if a random tourist can put together the pieces, what are the chances that scientists haven't evaluated it? Maybe, if they say no, it is just because there was no substantive connection? Why does everything have to be a conspiracy?
I imagine too the narrative, not despite, but because of the "holes" gives researchers new areas to focus their investigation. Then either buttress the narrative by filling in the holes or to challenge it.

A friend was reading a paperback in the 70's that suggested dinosaurs were warm-blooded. I thought it was an insane premise (because I was maybe 12 years old) but there does seem to have been a tidal shift in how dinosaurs are perceived vs. how I was taught as a child. No doubt it was someone with a theory or narrative that gave pause to some of the researchers in the field, kindled the imagination of some young researchers....
it’s simply money. the u. s. government paid for local vaccine companies to create it so u. s. gets first shot at supply and rights to buy more. there is no vaccine developed within the EU. UK made a vaccine and are doing well. the EU are 2nd tier customers compared to UK/US
No, and they don't have plans to enable it. One of the reasons is technical: It's pretty hard to use E2E and support multiple devices.
This is very good news. I would love to see pro-capitalist policies enacted to bolster this. Things like repealing labor laws that grant unions with extra-contractual privileges that come from suppressing employers' rights - like being able prevent companies from replacing them when they strike - in order to restore contract liberty and re-institute a national free market in labor, scaling back and streamlining EPA regulations, and totally abolishing the OSHA, would do wonders for inviting more manufacturers to return to the US, and create strong network effects in supply chains.