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What track record does GvR have in terms of speeding up CPython? He did not care for 3 decades (which is a defensible position given C extensions) and has been literally called "the boat anchor" by another HN member many times.

Mypy was Jukka Lehtosalo's work, asyncio was fixed and extended by many.

So now he needs a project at Microsoft, he changed his mind (or had it changed under pressure) and this is the project. We'll see, I agree though that the first version will be underwhelming, the following versions will have a max speedup of 50% but will be celebrated at conferences and here.
> Wake up. We're at war.

With whom? And given that nation states have engaged in this sort of thing for years, and that the US/5-eyes/etc also engage in these activities, do you really want to turn a cyber/cold-war into a hot one?

The solution is defense-in-depth, with liability on the providers of software, which will require them to insure, which will raise prices, which will force them to address security as COGS which will force them to reduce their attack surfaces to reduce their insurance premiums.
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Shifting all my savings to ScamStableCoin this evening! To the moon!
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

"As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions."

I experienced time very differently the past year. I thought it was two years already. But I'm sure there was another announcement similar to that earlier.
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In the United States the government is not allowed to get religion. Private Citizens can worship whoever or whatever they want, but the Government isn't supposed to.

Now, you might observe that the country's money says "In God We Trust" on it, its legislature openly prays to the Christian God, its Head of State goes to a Christian church, and its Supreme Court sure seems like they have some very peculiar ideas about how exactly such freedom for "private citizens" manifests...

But in principle the United States does not have an Established Church and is not permitted to establish one. This may be cold comfort de facto if you see Organised Religion with its tendrils deep in the heart of government, but there you are.
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What they probably meant is that both Scala's and Kotlin's improvements pushed Java to improve. Both languages had many different features that back then weren't available in Java but since then got added to the Java language, and that made Java better, too.
A cyclic tree is a graph, fwiw.
Yes, it's true, but persistent inflation requires persistent supply problems. I don't know anything about the gasoline pipeline but if they can't get it to work within a year it is going to cause persistent inflation. If they can get it fixed, gasoline inflation will go away. The Fed is betting that these incidents will resolve themselves, which is why raising rates may not be the best course of action.

It's the same thing with Turkey, Argentina, Zimbabwe etc. They suffered from poor farm yields. Turkey needs more investment into agriculture chemical companies, Argentina suffered a drought in 2018, Zimbabwe had land repossession but financial problems and lack of education prevent the new owners from farming on the land they acquired for free.

If Turkey can do enough investments it can solve its agriculture problems. If Argentina can diversify away from agriculture it will be less prone to droughts. If Zimbabwe supports farmers it can become self sufficient again. These are examples of persistent shortages, something fundamental broke there and the only way this can be fixed is by raising interest rates, crashing hard and then reallocating the economy to the things that are actually important.
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I hope you don't incite any insurrections.
It might be a sad world but it’s reality. Better than pretending your politicians are altruistic.
This explains why certain aircraft have wing tips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_tip
You can implement it as MPC and minimize e.g. the trace of the covariance matrix that describes the state uncertainty. Wrote my thesis on something similar.
I imagine, to use our vernacular, some chancing gobshite is talking his way our of responsibility for their shitty tender as we speak.
>Americans are very patriotic. Singing the national anthem and waving the flag is second nature.

I'm pretty sick of these kind of nation-based generalizations.

They're never as true as the person pretends they are, and they're usually just thinnly-veiled hate speech of various types.

Generalizing other human beings by what country they were given membership to -- usually uncontrolled by birth, by the way -- is about the weakest way to gain an insight into the persona of another person.
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For sure. California is also quite expensive! You are probably better off earning ~$80k in a LCOL area in the US as opposed to ~£90k in London after taxes, expenses etc
Others implement and improve, he gets all the credit. This is why no famous JIT designer would touch CPython.
It's not just Nix lang it replaces, we use Scheme in place of a hodgepodge of languages (shell script, Nix, C and others). Almost all equivalents to C-hardcoded parts of Nix is inspectable and modifiable in Guix. There's code reuse across the stack. Even the systemd substitute is opened up for inspection and modification. Nix glues a lot of black boxes; Guix is a single white box. Both approaches are practical for different reasons.
He can potentially do it, if he puts it on Indiegogo.
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Because the government doesn't have an economic incentive dealing with small fraud.

That's not what decides elections.
If there is too much crime that can be an extra excuse to raise more taxes.

I reported frauds to the police in two cases and they didn't do anything despite having all the evidence and location of the perpetrators (even after arresting one of them in one case).

A civil case didn't work as well because they owned nothing on paper.

The only way to get justice is to pay someone to break their knees or steal what they stole from you from them.
Have a look at NodeRed and VVVV
Don’t get me wrong. The vaccines are great at preventing severe disease. But they won’t prevent an outbreak of 20-30% of your population is unvaccinated.

Data seem to point at keeping some level of restrictions until everyone who is vulnerable has an opportunity to get the vaccine. Otherwise you’ll be dealing with outbreaks - smaller in scale, but outbreaks none the less.
There is even an explicit section 1.6 "Overview & Contributions", but it's still difficult to discern what specific, scientific contributions were made in this dissertation. The most fruitful place to find clues is in the last paragraph on page 21 which mentions the previous publications “Parsing Expression Grammars Made Practical”, “Taming Context-sensitive Languages with Principled Stateful Parsing” and "Procedural Shift-Reduce Parsing”. So we would probably have to read these papers as well to find out what contribution is supposed to have been made here.
Yeah layover is one case where you might still have to connect somewhere. It's amazing some airports still don't guarantee this basic infrastructure.

That said I don't earn SV salary, but still paying $5 a day for daily roaming is OK for the utility you get. Of course there's tons of places where same would buy something like 20gb for a whole month so definitely utilise that. Finally if you're in EU then you sort of get it for "free" - it's really included in your plan, but it's still cheap.

All I'm saying it's not like 10 years ago where you'd actively have to look for wifi network to get you basic life together.
Hacker Ethos is mot to find the bug in the bank's system and transfer a billion dollar, but to find the issue and report it and get it fixed. The hacker Ethos is to improve things.
On one hand I'm excited about all the good things that e-health can enable for us, but then again, I'm super scared to leave a trail of my health history in IT systems.
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The real ones don't make it look like you're on the official site. They clearly lay out what they're doing and why they charge what they charge.

It's not a scam if the customer is properly informed of the situation.
I grinned a bit looking at that blog post and seeing how the highlighting of contributor names is completely messed up, presumably because of a bad regex.

Feels ironic, since Scala has a very advanced type system that would prevent such bugs, but the page contains the most classic issue of not handling non-ascii characters properly :)
> This is called ferrofluid. It is a material developed by NASA in the 1960s. It was used as both spacecraft fuel and sealing material.

I'm a bit curious how ferrofluid was used as a fuel.
What kinda scummy scrote you have to be to attack health services during a pandemic. This is a new low.
The first electric vehicle was developed in 1832, 24 years before Nikola Tesla was born, 139 years before Elon Musk was born.

https://www.energy.gov/timeline/timeline-history-electric-ca...
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You are assuming the paper backing the coin is proper
I can't find this anywhere, maybe someone could help answer:

1. How much better is the performance? (In terms of compilation speed, and runtime)

2. Compatibility with Graal Native?
That’s the most suicidal perspective I’ve ever heard.

If we sit on our hands and do nothing then life on earth is doomed to extinction and we will be directly responsible. Our duty as rational beings is to preserve and spread life. If you really want to be anti suffering then figure out a way to improve things so nothing needs to suffer. We’re already on a trajectory for doing that for humans so there’s no reason to think we couldn’t do it for all life.

Even if the odds are slim it’s cowardly to not even try.
Ransomware: Another great "feature" of non-backdoored encryption.

See how silly you sound?
It’s just business. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Unvaccinated should wear mask, because they are more likely to spread it. Vaccinated dont have to wear mask, because they are less likely to spread it.

Making masks into that big punishment and unfairness definitely killed my trust into whole lot of people and groups of people.
COVID largely impacted only the geriatric and obese. If the airplane were full of women and children then your analogy would be more poignant.

Edit: interesting note … if you were to take the number of deaths in the Second World War that would amount to 86 fully loaded 747 aircraft flying into the side of a mountain per day for six years.
Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty
I expect at least 10,000 hours out of an electric car, and maybe up to 30,000. They should be more reliable than an ICE.
The fact that Zulip is threaded (and this threading is enforced) is what makes it so valuable, at least to me.

Your proposals would get rid of its main feature and go completely against one of its core ideas.
One must evaluate the consequences of not following a particular piece of advice.

If masks work, and you don’t wear one, you are potentially killing people and worsening the pandemic.

If they aren’t needed, and you do wear one anyways, no harm has been done.
> Could a stack of greenbacks ever be "blacklisted"

Deposit a whole stack from a bank robbery and find out.
Probiotics take over your gut flora, probably best to talk to a good nutritionist or health practitioner to come up with a plan
It's commonly suspended in Kerosene, so maybe that's what they meant? Bit of a long stretch though.
Hi there, looks like something I could use. However just a heads up I clicked through on the main CTA and then I landed here got an email but I was expecting a follow through and or next steps. You my want to direct users to look at the documentation or something to follow on. https://imgur.com/ieP6Trh

All the best
Luckily, these commits came in before the bump to 3.0.0! The second one, at least, seems to have been in preparation for the stable release.
Overall air quality is an issue. We "consume" more air than anything else. Every day. All day. Day after day. Pathogens are a concern. But conditions and elements that have negative impact on the lungs - and help prime such tissue for invaders and disease - should be addressed as well.
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Not really suprising given that during most of the pandemic, track and trace was done through pen and paper and not through the computer system.
I am excited about Scala 3. Scala is a powerful tool that can make teams hyperproductive. Here are the tooling shifts that can broaden the Scala 3 userbase:

* Community switching from SBT to Mill

* Community agreeing on automated code formatting and everyone using the same scalafmt settings. After using automated code formatting tools like black for Python and gofmt, programmers really don't want to talk about whitespace formatting on every PR. Scala has a lot of syntax, so this is more important than you might imagine. They need to change from this detailed style guide (https://docs.scala-lang.org/style/) to "use these scalafmt settings and don't talk about code formatting anymore"

* Make it clear what libraries are recommended for certain tasks. If you search for "scala json libraries" you'll arrive at these 16 options: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14442630. Devs don't want to do an extensive research project to figure out what JSON lib to use.

* Shift from Scalatest to utest / munit for the reasons outlined here: https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/utest#why-utest

* Fill in "obvious library gaps" with good solutions. Scala needs a graph library that's usable like networkx for example. Li's libs are so popular cause he exposes beautiful Python-like interfaces (with crazy, performant Scala implementations under the hood).

* Embracing devs that want to use Scala as a "better Python" rather than giving them the message "if you use Scala, you need to do it the Scala-way". Scala is a multi-paradigm language and using the language in different ways should be encouraged.

* Getting the community to use the Principle of Least power is perhaps the hardest: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePrincipleofL.... I find the doc to be cut-and-dry, but have found it less useful than I originally thought for resolving technical disputes.

The hard work has been done to build Mill, utest/munit, scalafmt, metals, etc. Scala just needs to make some opinionated choices so the ecosystem is appealing to ppl that aren't as into programming.

It'll be interesting to see if Spark is able to upgrade to Scala 3 or if they get stuck on Scala 2.13.
Technically it is backed by guns, guns that convince other nations to trade in USD and guns that convince US citizens to pay taxes so that the guns are pointed at those who don't pay them.

The other factor is that the US has adopted the USD. The actual reason (e.g. guns) doesn't matter, it only matters that the decision has been made. You can buy things in the US with USD. Therefore the value of the USD is tied to how much stuff a dollar buys you.

The size of the Bitcoin economy is quite small. There are not many things whose price is denominated in Bitcoin, most shops just convert from the dollar price to Bitcoin, which means there is barely any price stickiness that keeps the value of Bitcoin stable. If anything it supports the instability of the exchange rate.
Yes, that's the confusing bit.

In February, the CDC said that those with the vaccine can have asymptomatic infections (https://web.archive.org/web/20210209162120/https://www.cdc.g...). The NY Times used the term "silent spreaders".

Then in March the CDC's guidance was to continue wearing a mask after vaccination, except in situations where transmission risk was minimal (such as when everyone present has been vaccinated). They said we should do this while we're still learning about how vaccines affect the spread of the virus (https://web.archive.org/web/20210308164227/https://www.cdc.g...).

Now the CDC is saying fully vaccinated individuals do not need to wear a mask (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac...), but no reason has been given for the change on that page. Were they wrong on asymptomatic infections in fully vaccinated individuals, or has the risk of spread simply been lowered because of the number of individuals who have received a vaccine?

Without knowing the reason behind the change in guidance (I'm sure there is one), I find it easy to be cynical and distrusting.
The Rust project uses Zulip and I love it.

The onboarding cost is real, it takes ~5 min for someone to learn the tool which is far above the expectations of most users that expect it to just be "a chat".
Just a little note: if you are using clojure then you’ll need your machine set up with Java. That’s the important consideration here; it’s not relevant whether you’re using javascript or not because that’s all sent to the client’s web browser (doesn’t run on your server)
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What wears out first in an electric car is the battery, I would assume.
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We're talking engineering here not physics. It doesn't have to be a radical new concept for it to be interesting and useful. Across many fields, new applications of existing concepts have proven revolutionary and disruptive.
The not-China origin idea is fringe at the moment.
I think companies who are legitimately about making the process easier can avoid can make that clear in their naming and marketing - "Foobar traffic appeals service - We make fighting tickets easier, 80% success rate" is hard to mistake for the government, while "Traffic Appeals Service, file your traffic appeal here" is a lot harder to notice that you're using a third party
That’s what miners do as well.
For those concerned about privacy violations, this should be rammed home as an argument against centralized collection of medical health data.
this comment was dead so I vouched for it because it's the truth.
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This is something that actually really frustrated me about the Brexit referendum. I remember reading an opinion piece in the NZ herald from a women who explained why she was voting in favour of Brexit. What it basically boiled down to was that she was jealous that EU citizens had freedom of movement with the UK and she didn't.

But conversely during the time that she was allowed to be in the UK, she had the right to vote while EU citizens didn't.

Like you I don't think commonwealth citizens who voted for Brexit were being racist, I do think it was sometimes vindictive though which doesn't really make it much better.
They know about that quite well actually. But there's also Keycloak X in the works which is based on Quarkus. It's not mature enough yet but I hope they tackle a lot of the bad things.
It sounds like you want something easy (PaaS). I’m using render.com. A similar one is heroku.
Insurance might not cover some vaccinations for an adult. I know for certain this is the case for HPV; it may also be true for others.
You should read medical studies about people born with or who acquired a lessened sense of pain. It’s quite horrific. I’m not saying all pain is necessary but any pain that indicates damage is. It would be wiser to engineer biology to be more robust and to recover from damage more completely so that chronic pain is not a thing.
Do you mean ANSI vs ISO? I am under the impression that once you produce an ISO keyboard (e.g. with big enter key) any layout just means different key cap prints and telling the software about it. If they don’t even support ISO in the first place, there is no path for international layouts afaik.
So 2 weeks ago i published the first version of https://ideasfilter.com and it went pretty well. I did improve the page since then also added some more sources. There were some requests to show the data (also to make it open source, but i wont do that). So now you can play with the data if you like, maybe someone will have a good idea what todo with it.
The funny thing here is: The key caps are opaque, so you won’t see all that much of the actual key print anyways.
this is the best DIY project I've seen, looks amazing
It's also the sort of stuff that renewables and EVs and batteries (EVs = mobile batteries) replace.

Nuclear is fine for baseload, but no good for anything else, costs a fortune, has huge externalized waste processing costs, and is inherently not fail-safe using actual deployed designs.
The reason astronomers use “metallicity” this way is largely historical: (chemical) metals are not as prevalent in stars as non-metallic elements like carbon and nitrogen, but they are much easier to detect in spectral analysis. So historically the “metallicity” of a star really did refer to the heavy metal content (generally Fe), and considering the physical processes involved it’s not unreasonable to extend this to all non-H/He elements in the star.

I think it would be “absurd” for astronomers to change this because people who aren’t scientists get confused.
Fauci had said the reason they made a misspeak about masks is because they were afraid there would not be enough for first responders
Said the medieval King:

Ransom: Another great "feature" of difficult-to-trace personal gold coinage

What you're actually saying is:

Bad thing: Another great "feature" of any kind of positive development in personal sovereignty

Or

Bad thing: Another great "feature" of any kind of progress

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Progress comes with pitfalls. Sharp knives prepare food and also kill people.

You argument effectively reduces to: never innovate.
What is the reason you don't want a vaccine?
I'm honestly just curious
and this is one of the most backwarded response one can give in my opinion. "Don't hate the player, hate the game" doesn't justify the player's actions. This is not a video game.

I really hate the fact that people will do anything under the name of business. It's more like we're moving towards uncivilized in that regard.
You'd have to think that sooner or later they are going to get into one of the big cloud providers and cause havoc.
Here's a quote from Reynolds, one of the creators of Spark:

> The primary issue I can think of comes from the lack of pattern matching. Kotlin’s language designer left out pattern matching intentionally because it is a complex feature whose use case is primarily for building compilers. However, modern Spark (post Catalyst / Tungsten) look a lot like compilers and as a result the internals would become more verbose if built using a language that doesn't support pattern matching.

Source: https://www.quora.com/profile/Reynold-Xin
They finally released it? Been waiting for this! Gonna hook it up to one of my VPSes.
For aerosols, cloth masks are an order of magnitude less effective than dipole charged N95 (which attract sub micron scale particles with a built-in electric charge in the fibers, it’s a high-tech process.)
The market creates the "truth".