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I don't care about your opinions (or anyone else's, for that matter) but I do care about users dumping flamebait on HN, like how you want to shame women and whatnot. The issue is what sort of thread such comments will lead to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). In this case the answer is: extremely bad.

You've been creating accounts to break HN's rules with for a long time now. Would you please stop doing that?
Right, so that's relevant to a minor incidental comment I made. But what do you think of the main points, which are

(a) If you write the message the way you suggest the printed error message is misleading, and

(b) The Rust community does not encourage using .expect() in the way you suggest; in particular the canonical Rust documentation source instructs us to use it as

foo.expect("A thing I do not expect")
I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot.

This idea will most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the Twitter mob to just tear the other side apart. I don't know.
Angry? That's an odd assessment. I'm angry at the people that make and sell LieCake, and how they've deluded you into thinking that cake is a sweet, tasty treat. The key point for you to take away, is that it's remarkably hard to make an edible cake. It should be clear that you're in the minority (in this thread) of having received something edible when many others have been given burnt tires and glass.
Bit of a tangent but in the userland app space I'm increasingly interested in sidestepping the whole "conditionals" question with finite state machines, eg with a lib like XState.
Since this feels like it's responding to the common wisdom
/advice to "follow your passions" (and the fear that comes from missing out on this), I recommend reading Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You" for an alternative mindset which may provide an antidote to that class of worry.

(Also, consider that the freedom you gained from what is a pretty good career choice might afford you the free time to discover other things which bring you joy.)
ever found that to be particularly effective?
I put a concerted effort into doing that for a week... every advert.

they started returning after a while.
Founding vs. Inheriting
A well-designed MFA system has multiple fall backs available. Google's has options to fall back to sending an SMS (not the highest level of security, but security is always a trade-off), so if you're phone's broken you can move the SIM to another one. Or a phone call to a pre-registered landline that will read out a code to you. As well as the paper/printable emergency codes.

That said, there's always going to be compromises and annoyances - I've been using MFA for 10+ years, and occasionally something glitches out, but other things (e.g. basic password systems) also sometimes glitch out, and having an account compromised is much, much worse than a minute or two of mild annoyance.
> profit, not revenue

No, because profit is substracting all the operating costs of the insurance company, including salaries of hundreds of thousands of paper pushers and multi-million dollar bonuses to their executives. All of this is just overhead that provides no health-care value and can be eliminated.
I’m always dumbfounded when almonds are pointed to as poor water usage. It’s an order of magnitude less egregious than meat and dairy on a per serving basis.
So first, Supply and Demand is not just about 'means', it's about process, risk etc.. Removing a major barrier increases potential.

Second, it's a lot to do with the 'rest of the world' not really the US.

Third, AZ was UK not Europe, J&J was Neterhlands but owned by an American firm, Pfizer/BioNTech was both, Moderna was USA. So I don't see how this is a 'Europe victim' scenario.
> the schools that focus their training on the quest for competitive advantage betray every plausible ideal of academic excellence.

The author does not seem to understand that these are not mutually exclusive. You can receive a fantastic, genuinely excellent education that is also a competitive advantage. Indeed, they go hand in hand - I’d argue it’s harder to give an excellent education that’s somehow not advantageous.

This article is a rant against elite education because it enables elite opportunities. But perhaps there is something to be said for the students of such schools too, that employers are more likely to give them elite opportunities.

There are too many confounding variables to determine the true cause of this “problem”, if it (a merit-based system enabling social mobility) is problematic at all. There are things we can improve, but overall, the emphasis on education is a step in the right direction for humanity.
Five Eyes is a signals intelligence cooperative — they’re not grabbing your laptop at Starbucks.

That brings me to the second part of why this fear mongering is pointless: if the black-bag types are interested in you, they’re going to use the password they recorded you entering when you last turned it on or just hold you until you unlock it. If your threat model includes state-level force, you’re way outside of what consumer electronics can help you with.

For most people, the risk is more along the lines of whether someone who steals your backpack can cash out relatively quickly. Needing a complex exploit chain is not a high risk there - and, again, if you’re carrying something that valuable I’d be thinking more about the odds of them forcing you to unlock it.

Finally, the article you linked is talking about a jail break exploit: notably neither checkm8 or checkra1n will help you if you don’t already know the device password.
You do what you generally do with performance challenges: you profile and improve the hot-spots. Rewrite those parts if necessary.

Rewriting everything for performance reasons is silly. If you decide to rewrite everything, it would be for other reasons (e.g. maintainability, long-term viability, etc.)
I bet this is built using.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
Worked with Jeff ages ago. I promise you you've got the wrong read on him
IPA has tone markings, obviously.

What's with the constant barrage of people on HN who are proud of being ignorant?
Michael Bronstein aims to unite the deep learning community
This is a prototype of an idea that I had for a long time – a real-time log monitoring in your browser (primarily) for local development.

I work a lot with CLI programs, and I am often overwhelmed with the amount of logs that I need to comb through. The goal with this tool is to provide a zero-setup tool for analyzing logs.

As a user, you don't even need to create the account, you just generate a random room and start dumping the logs there using @roarr/cli (https://github.com/gajus/roarr-cli).

As an example, I made this room where I am just dumping random log messages every second.

https://roarr.io/?room=a2ae2afa-bd52-42c7-ba51-157419457990
Maybe it's dull and uninteresting but unless you keep it in mind at every layer of abstraction, you run the risk of drawing incorrect conclusions. People tend to recognize this fundamental lack of control in only the most obvious cases like familial wealth, race, nationality, iq etc.. but completely ignore it in the more subtle and important distinctions between people like early childhood experiences, stress in the household, metabolism, serotonin levels, emotional tendencies and intellectual influences. The sheer complexity involved in all of these factors causes them to be treated differently and unfairly reduced to "idk some people just get ahead in life because they work harder."
I keep Authy installed on my tablet for exactly this reason, in case I lose my phone I still have a backup device for 2FA. Won't help for the SMS 2FA for the sites I'm forced to use that on, but at least Authy lets me get to the important ones.
There are a few "Tetris is life" essays out there. One I enjoyed: https://zachsnyderproductions.medium.com/8-life-lessons-ive-...
No. Not no reason. Science: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130912092731.h...
A portion may well survive.
I don't know if the comment has been edited (I doubt it), but I don't see where GP said they quit out of disgust. In fact, this line really does seem to be giving traditional advertisers a pass:

> I used to work in more trad advertising, so my question wasn't so much an objection to working in advertising itself...

(Not commenting on whether they should be given a pass, just noting that GP really did seem to be doing so.)
>Sometimes people mean sell your eyeballs, in that they gather data and then use it to sell your attention

Does Google collect information about what websites you visit (via Chrome / Google Analytics / Google account cookies) and what search queries you make and what search results you click on and provide or sell that information to advertisers in some shape or form? (Where advertisers includes not just third parties but also Google / Google subsidiaries themselves.)

If so, that's definitely "harvesting and selling you", IMO. I'm not sure what other form of "harvesting and selling you" would be possible, even?

>A natural reading of these two things ("reading your messages" and "selling to the highest bidder") aren't true. There are lots of things you could mean (reading messages could mean reading emails, reading comments on Youtube, reading hangouts messages, and harvesting that data to sell ads) So I'm curious what things Google does that you mean by that.

I assume one of the things they mean is reading Gmail email messages and showing you ads based on the contents of those email messages. My understanding is that Google indeed isn't doing this - but that they did do exactly that up until 2017, which wasn't that long ago.
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At best his work is annoying to a lot of peoole. At worst, he profits (a great deal, I might add) from a industry that exploits, manipulates, and coerces.

It's not really my or anyone elses job to convince him.
I'm a bit flummoxed that you would say that, since your post is a textbook example of partisan flamewar. That leads to extremely low-quality discussion, inevitably evoking worse from others. Please don't.
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> and there's no sign of stopping

Actually, there's every sign of stopping. Look at population growth rates from the 1970s to now: in general, the wealthier you make a population, the less kids they have.
You may not be in school any more, but you can still study whatever you want. I went the other direction: studied humanities in school, taught myself programming once I was working as a professional because I found it intriguing, and now I do this for a living. You have a whole lifetime. If you want to learn something, you can do it. Even Einstein got started in his spare time.
Not even using the blessed HolyC anymore. Glowies are written all over this.
This is also poor logic. Nuts are not a calorie crop, they are a relatively high-cost garnish/flavouring.

A snack size serving of almonds is around 20 of them, representing about 20 gallons. A side dish of lettuce is probably about half of one, 8 gallons.

That said, California's water is probably best used in high value add industries like semiconductor manufacturing.
I used to think like you, but now I think it's 5D chess. Marketing is like air, so ever present you can't even see it. If you don't buy anything and live off your homesteading, then marketing probably doesn't have any effect on you. If you live a life anything like the average westerner, you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on things you had to be taught to desire. It's in your TV shows, your news articles, your Instagram feed, your word of mouth, your everything unless you are in the forest (but not looking at anyone else's hiking gear brands). Our economy is based on you consuming many many times more goods and services than your great grandparents, and it wasn't cheap to train you to do that.
Tetrinet. I haven’t played it in 20 years or have any idea if the code is maintained, but that’s what you’re looking for.
It turns out that security was the domain where Coinbase needed expertise.

Selling something and taking a commission is not exactly the nosebleed seats of high finance. Lots of people with expertise in setting up a web site, and enough finance to run a business, could have become Bitcoin markets.

Indeed, a lot of them did. Most of them got hacked, sooner or later, because protecting billions of dollars of value from adversarial forces is very, very difficult.

Coinbase didn't. Security is the hard part.
I just started at a health insurance startup that is doing exactly what the article recommends: simplifying billing. Patients pay for procedures "in cash", using a card debiting the insurance company's account. Because doctors charge less for people paying in cash, the insurance is cheaper than traditional insurance.

We're already operating in a few markets. It'll be interesting to see how the traditional insurance companies react once we start significantly encroaching on their market share.
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So people with perfect pitch often complain about headaches when, say, a choir starts to lose pitch. This is because they can hear how the pitches sung by the choir have drifted away from the pitches notated on in the part they are reading from. That knowledge can apparently be quite distracting.

However, I have never heard a student with perfect pitch complain or even inquire about internal inconsistencies in tuning that would lead to comma drift. E.g., "Hey, I was practicing singing C-G-D-A-E-C and I ended up slightly off from the C I started with. What gives?" I've never heard of a student stumbling upon anything like this independent of reading a text about the problems of tuning systems.
Well, FWIW, I think one of the straightforward but mind-blowing implications of Levin et. al.'s work is that living organisms are designed, by them themselves.

Cells think.

There's no a prior reason (I can see) to disallow that humans and other multicellular life forms are the "art" of microbes. (We are Solaris) It seems to me that we are the products of intelligent design, not (necessarily) of the intelligence of God, but of the intelligence of the biosphere itself.
Economically speaking it is not necessarily a fact that more people will drive the living standard lower. That is basically a disproved 19th century theory. In fact, more people makes a healthy economy richer overall. Because in a healthy economy, each added person contributes more than their economic cost. This creates net wealth for the society.

Some of the problem we're seeing with costs is coming from the opposite of a decrease in footprint but from an increase. A small apartment seems cheaper and compared to a modern house it is. But a modern small apartment has many more requirements than even a mansion from 1890. The safety, environmental and equipment demands of a modern home of any kind are much greater.

On the other hand there has been a concerted effort to hold wages flat for the people at the bottom half of the income ladder. These two things taken together largely account for the perceived decline in quality of life for most people.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm sure you didn't mean to start a political flamewar but it was predictable from this that we'd get one, and we did.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066262.
Exploiting abstraction while writing rails controllers
Once spaceX start launching from pads at sea I wouldn't be surprised if this was an option... load a rocket with really nasty stuff and fire it at the sun.

I bet Elon would do a massive discount for that.
Here’s the opinion of probably THE most important ARM engineer of the 1990s and 2000s, Dave Jaggar who developed the ARM7TDMI, Thumb, Thumb2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sh097Dk5k

Check at 51:30 where he says (bringing up the topic of RISC-V himself) “I would Google RISC-V and find out all about it. They’ve done a fine instruction set, a fine job […] it’s the state of the art now for 32-bit general purpose instruction sets. And it’s got the 16-bit compressed stuff. So, yeah, learning about that, you’re learning from the best.”
Exactly. Ad hoc work is excels true value in my opinion. And the network effect of having so many people at least casually exposed to it. Because nothing is ever done, it’s never as simple as do “this”, it’s do “this” first then let’s discuss changes to “that” then get so and so’s thoughts and revise “it” which probably has a file name ending with “Final V4” by the time the intended actually received it.
I think that sci-fi really doesn't get enough credit for inspiring the future. The ideas permeate other fictional universes years and years later, and they seep through to reality though scientists, many of whom are fans of the genre.

Amazing.
I linked transaction count, not block size.

You said that Bitcoin Cash was cheap because "no one uses it" which is not true. It is 1/1000th the cost per transaction while still having more transactions than btc.

> I don't see how Ethereum relates to the dearth of real-world traction BCH has versus Bitcoin.

You said transactions on "chains no one uses are cheap". Ethereum has multiple times the transactions of bitcoin and still has slightly cheaper transactions.

> so size and quantity measurement comparisons are apples to oranges.

No they aren't. More transactions, not more expensive.

> Suffice it to say that both Bitcoin and Ethereum's transaction capacities are maxed out (signaling high demand), whereas this is not the case for BCH.

Bitcoin Cash is not maxed out because they expanded their maximum block size to 32MB instead of leaving it crippled like bitcoin. That's like saying there is no demand for ford fusions because they don't have a waiting list like tesla. It makes zero sense at all. It is baffling that you would say something like that.

The things you are saying are not true. It is clear that you aren't trying to find out what is true, you have something you want to convince other people or yourself of. You don't get on a subway car and see an empty seat and say there is no demand because you saw a full rickshaw. This isn't just a stretch, it is a ridiculous nonsense argument and makes me believe you are emotionally invested enough to say thing contradicted by basic logic.
Some Detroit skyscrapers sat abandoned for 50-60 years with no heat or electricity. Sure some were falling apart and became a hazard with chunks of brick or concrete hitting the unwary pedestrian but the majority held up fairly well.

When the billionaire Dan Gilbert bought them to rehabilitate he few major structural problems. So I think if major cities are abandoned their skyline may look somewhat familiar centuries from now.
Do Privacy Notices Spook Users or Increase Sign-Ups?
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I missed it and I did a find for the word encrypted so not sure how that happened

If this is what they think and write them damn what a lie! I don’t want some packet sniffer be that a hacker or mosey government employee reading my emails thanks government!
This argument actually makes a lot of sense.
You need an inflationary supply, otherwise why spend it?
This will end up being a problem for Bitcoin.
> Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run?

Yep.

> But when I thought about it more: should it be improved?

Nope.

If you are an average programmer, you should write your code first to be legible and maintainable.

If you are a smart programmer, you should add performance tests to your test suite (since you need to do performance testing anyway for any production-critical code) and run your app on the appropriate-sized machine.

If you are a very smart programmer, you should rely on performance hacks when your application no longer meets performance requirements under heavy load.

If you are a freaking genius, you should think about optimizing your code.
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That hasn't been a thing for a decade.
Wonder if / how this will change people's sharing behavior. A common scenario like:

People like to do X for free (status, virtual points) but if a way to get paid while doing so is introduced, the dynamics change. People that don't get paid much (overall, or relatively compared to their peers) feel bitter even though the outcome is exactly the same as before but they get discouraged, stop sharing, stop doing it for free etc.
The forces are balanced when turning on a motorcycle, just like turning in an airplane. The phone’s gyroscope could notice the roll, but the accelerometer will just read slightly higher g forces in the “down” direction.

That said, you can differentiate between car vs motorcycle. Cars don’t tilt so turning causes lateral acceleration.
The question was most definitely asked with intent to make you consider why any comparison is somehow inappropriate.
Interesting that it has `auto` decades before C/C++
This seems extreme. You are consenting to be deluded, knowing everything that will come afterwards. And the consenting during as well