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This has been posted five times in HN, strangely never had any comments. So I will add one here...

1) Its a great presentation by Nicolai Josuttis
https://www.josuttis.com/

2) It should be essential view for the many that
have to or want to work with C++ code bases.

3) In C++ here is an enormous amount of work that happens
behind the scenes. In working groups, committees
and conferences but still, I admire Nicolai Josuttis
willingness to constantly stick his neck out
and propose improvements to what is a
nightmarish ecosystem. Another example is this
presentation where he tries to fix std::thread:

"std::jthread - I Told You Concurrency Is Tricky - Nico Josuttis [ ACCU 2021 ]"

https://youtu.be/ln5ERAVXEMY

4) I normally watch this any time I dabble with the idea
of doing any more C++... Then I come to my senses and
go back to C and Rust :-)
53% of the area of 9 western states is in extreme or exceptional drought
Well, I bought a Klein bottle and knitted Klein hat after seeing that talk many years ago, so it wasn't entirely useless :-)

I still have the hat. I no longer have the bottle as I moved to the other side of the world a number of years ago, and after inquiring with some mathematician friends it turned out that four-dimensional glass bottles are not compatible with three-dimensional backpacks :-/

When I got the package it was covered in hand-written notes; gosh, I don't remember what it said exactly, but it was hilarious; somehow you even managed to put some joke in Dutch on it. I wanted to email something back but I was shy and didn't know what to say. So, about a decade too late, thanks! Not only was I very happy with the bottle, the packaging absolutely made my day all those years ago.
Every static caravan I've been in has been a horrible building. The walls are paper thin, the whole thing shakes when you walk around, it's poorly insulated, the furnishings are cheap.

I'm not sure how much of that requirement comes from weight limits due to road transportation vs cost cutting vs target market, but those things are just horrible to spend time in. Houses need to feel solid.
+1. I had to go through this when I switched from BIOS to UEFI. Windows 11 needs to be criticized for mandating TPM but not for this.
It depends a lot on the level of information you are aiming to encode in your type system. It is quite obvious that some basic types reduce cognitive overhead significantly, by helping you remember the exact data structures that you are encoding.

But once you start adding lots of details, such as trying to specify the exact type of a stable sort operation, the overhead starts increasing dramatically. Another example I really love in this area is trying to code a type-safe MxN matrix multiplication that keeps track and validates measurement units for each element in each matrix (that is, it allows a cell in the result matrix to be 0.3m^2*s, but not 0.3m^2 + 0.1m). You'll find that few libraries, even in Haskell or F#, attempt such a thing, just because the types become infuriating and obscure the linear algebra.
> mRNA can only be used to make the body make proteins that, well, the body can make.

That's an important point we need to keep in mind: mRNA can be used to fix the body where it is broken/or not producing specific proteins when it would be needed. But it doesn't give us superpowers or change us into other beings than what we are.
“Apple product is incompatible with Microsoft service”
Joking aside about black holes, notes being created in plain markup languages and being confusing. There has to be something mentioned about microsoft notepad and their directions. You save files and you hope the desktop isnt filled up (talking the 800x600 days). I mean they also have other notes but really Apple Notes as you say is on level with other notes at the end of the day.
What confuses me here is that this isn’t “The Ohio state government will not offer municipal broadband”; it’s “cities like Fairlawn are no longer allowed to run broadband.” To me, that sounds like the state restricting rights of the citizens in a given township or municipality.
This is sort of happening in the U.K.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/13/maverick...
“But what if we just use encryption?” – Practical GDPR for CTOs
Yeah, in retrospect I agree it is good advice but I did not understand that immediately. Still, it helped me to see that teaching or giving talks should not be a "performance" but a honest act of communication.
IntelliJ and Docker are nice productivity tools, but I am not sure they are the best tools from an educational standpoint. If I had to learn Java (and probably J2EE or Spring), I would start from the bottom:
- bare-bone, locally installed JDK
- lightweight IDE
- central build server
- central deployment server configured for multiple projects.

Why do you need docker locally?
I lived off my savings for 3 years and put 120% of my income in the company, nailed $7m deal (and other big ones were to come) when my partner scammed and screwed everything and everyone. needles to say he got sued for not nearly enough.
the deal dropped and "luckily" we didn't get the money yet, otherwise I'd be in bigger trouble.
It's being critical of a source. You look at their actions and words, not at if they deny to be something bad.
So how often does it get the first line right?

This must be easy to measure, over the entire open source corpus.

How about two lines?
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About as many as can are decamping for less oppressive climes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/27/uk-receives-34...

The professional class in Hong Kong is steadily dwindling with families going where they can or methodically planning to. Canada is most desired, then the UK, and Australia.

It takes time to find employment, a place to live, and schooling for your kids.

But the biggest factor is Covid. Politics aside, Hong Kong has been a great place to ride out the pandemic while the UK handled it abysmally. After the Delta variant and Covid as a whole subsides expect emigration to pick up.

Curiously the job market in Hong Kong is booming and I've seen an uptick in western expats arriving, so there's an appeal if you stay apolitical. Which is easy enough when it's not your home getting wiped out.
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A matter that depends on the distribution on the Linux side, and which Windows version on the other.
A lot of criticism for Vista was because of its poor performance, it was too heavy for the hardware of the time. That won't be the case for Windows 11 - it will mostly be run and benchmarked on new hardware. All Microsoft needs to do to convince users to upgrade is to market new features like DirectStorsge well.
Very much so.

It’s an amazing retail space. They have this awesome overhead rail system for delivering goods, and their checkout resembles customs at an airport (a bit disconcerting).
English isn't an official language in France. That probably isn't an issue for large companies, but it is a non-starter for small companies.
Still, Pop!_OS doesn't even have it's own package manager. It's just a Debian derivative like so many other distros out there. I agree that calling it a separate OS is pushing it.

At least distros like NixOS have fundamentally different architectures.
Would this be available as plugin for other IDEs? E.g. IntelliJ?
When the alternative is a set of statically generated HTML pages that can be uploaded anywhere, yes.
What is ironic is that there is an annual Award given to an AWS employee called the Cliff Stoll Award: For those individuals who see something suspicious, not working as expected, show ownership and drive it to resolution. As Cliff did to find a KGB spy, and documented in "The Cuckoo's Egg".

I wonder what would happen if someone at Amazon pulled on this thread and not only solved Cliff's problem but also the root cause that enables this kind of product hijacking.
I had a small tech business in Southern France and without the help of a native french speaker it would have been impossible to navigate the Kafkaesque french bureaucracy.
Looks like Kyle dropped out of the open company initiative at some point, or let that one blog post drop off the site?

http://web.archive.org/web/20160310015118/https://blog.neoci...

> Our (rough) budget for 2015

(...)

> We have upgraded a lot of our infrastructure to provide for faster, more reliable service with more features, space, and bandwidth capabilities, which has pushed our operating bill to around $300/month (...) To prevent unexpected costs, we have made agreements with our providers to make this a fixed rate, so a sudden flood of traffic shouldn't change this dramatically.

(...)

> In order to become self sustaining with the current system, we will require approximately $3600 in annual recurring revenue. I think this is an achievable goal with our new site (we're almost 1/3 of the way there), and we have plenty of runway incase this takes longer than expected. We also have the ability to scale back on some of our expenses, as I believe I can shave off at least $100-150 from our monthly recurring expenses should we need to without too many problems.

> (...) We can scale a lot (~500k+ sites) with what we have now, and the scaling options we have are simple, predictable and affordable.
I was going to ask about this too -- my suspicious nature immediately thinks they're improperly taking advantage of Cliff's name to promote their product. But maybe there's a genuine collaboration and it's all above board?
Wait, what? What do they need it for?
Is there a rule for banning users that sell their account for this type of comment ? If not there should be
It seems to me you are saying the same thing but from different places. Do you have a neutral source that shows that "the middle lump of the bell curve" is "excessively violent" HK police? Because that lump is shown differently in different countries and even in different media.
The basics are the same as they've been for a long time. You can easily build a working front end app using html/css/js in a single file. Build a few projects so you can familiarize yourself with modern apis without the burden of tooling.

Once you've built a few small projects, hopefully you'll have a sense of the pain points modern frameworks fix. Most people use global variables for state or even store their state in their html and then use JS to update the html. Modern frameworks do it differently, asking you to manage state and then creating a view as a function of that state.

If you do go the react route don't confuse yourself by using redux. People associate them so heavily they even refer to it as "learning react/redux". I've never seen a great use case for redux in the wild and believe it to be an antipattern. I've never written a redux reducer, but I've removed hundreds of lines of redux code, always to the betterment and simplification of the app.

You can form your own opinions later, but I really recommend learning to build react apps without global state, learning the basics like props, hooks, event bubbling, etc. Then if you ever need safe, immutable global state you can learn redux.
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6 failed startups in a row!! Sounds like recipe for burnout and depression. You may well have shown much resilience to not end up in a mental hospital after that. Which could be a good sign in terms of recovering from all this? (It may take time though) Why do people do this to themselves I wonder? Must've been super hard work, and for what? I guess, the hope of making it big? To achieve 'FU money'? Well, going forward from here, there are less stressful tech jobs... They don't pay as much, but... a not-very-well-paid software job is still overall a not badly paid job. As for ageism which you allude to in other post, can be a problem if all one's colleagues are much younger, depends on the environment of course. I'm a similar age to you, seems like if one has good (i:e in-demand, and of long-term value) skills, people generally don't mind one's age. My coping strategy with age (less energy and tiring responsibilities outside work) is look after your productivity super-powers e:g command-line, vim, which take years even decades to learn. Sometimes us oldies are more efficient than the younger ones even if they can put in more hours.
> I guess it's also a study to understand the dynamics of living in a small space

How out of touch must one be to even consider this? News flash: the vast majority of mankind lives in what a North American would consider "small places" [0].

Same goes for population density - North American and Australian urban sprawl is largely unknown in most areas of the world. If you want to "study the dynamics" of living closely together in tightly packed spaces, just move to Hong Kong or Singapore for a year.

[0] https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5e7b2a43103...
It matters because you could sue a domestic seller for trademark infringement. It's much harder to do so if the seller is under jurisdiction where US trademark law does not apply.
Except their natural habitats are disappearing quickly so guerilla biohackers better hurry up or they're gonna be left sitting with moas in their basements.
This kind of logic, while compelling, really pisses me off. It seems like industry has the following strategy time and again: make a giant public mess, then blame it on the distributed actions of individuals, then continue making the mess. This is the case with public health, climate change, recycling, etc.

To solve these problems we need to solve them upstream at the regulatory level. There is no way we are going to solve climate change by trying to get everyone to use their bikes for short trips. But if we had pushed fleet wide efficiency standards harder we would be in a much better position. The solution will only begin to be obtained by nudging everyone in the right direction by only giving the “right” option.
> - Too much of today's Internet is dependent upon a handful of tech companies.

> - Most of "FAANG": Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google

"Most of" - not sure what Facebook/Apple/Netflix are doing in that list here. Even Microsoft has a bigger role there.
I honestly struggle to understand what can be a « small » type error. I would be happy to read an example.

By definition, this can only happen if you use the wrong type in the wrong place : it can only be a huge bug or there is some dark magic I don’t understand.

I know a lot of langages manage to let you use strings as numbers and vice versa but I don’t see another case where you would voluntarily pass a wrong type. And this is not incompatible with string typing as long as the langage provides auto-casting.
This uncaring attitude is directly a result of lack of competition. Amazon won. (Sure, there are some other big names in the game, but the online retail market is in a pathological state. As in case of other "natural monopolies" the network effect is very large, thus barriers to entry is absurdly high, hence no real competition. The incumbents are optimizing and diversifying, participating in meta-games - eg. lobbying, regulatory capture, PR, etc. Not to mention the endless cross-financing between services that muddies the waters. Eg. just as Google Search funds Chrome development, AWS finances the Amazon expansion.)

Basically one oneline retail market participant optimized out almost all competition.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Adding a bit of extra memory and an average SSD drive will be more than enough, and an ok compromise with your manager.
Corruption maybe, the prisoners allegation is most likely to be false. I know some people working in similar projects through photography hobby (a group of amateur photographers, I am mostly interested in landscapes). There are benefits working abroad, such as tax breaks, allowances and so on, it makes no economy sense to have prisoners. And I don't question their compensation as well, most of them work to support their families, that's the only reason they work.
Your crown jewels backup/restore will always work. You can easily/always spin up a new db copy.
Hey Lukas (and Benas and Tomas) congratulations on the launch! Always cool to see stuff happening in this space - from your comment it seems self paced but the website shows a cohort starting soon. How does that work exactly? For pricing, it looks like it's 9,000 euro total (with an ISA) or 5k upfront, is that right and are ISAs available globally or just in Europe)? How are you coming in so much cheaper than lambda school? Will you ever sell the ISAs?
I imagine you could, and that it might not even be that exciting...

Since a Klein bottle is just a cylinder with its ends glued together a particular way, I think one way to sweep out a Klein bottle through time would be to have a rubber band split into two, then have each band travel along a trajectory that brings them back together with the correct orientation. The self intersection is easily avoided by having one of the bands travel faster than the other.
I had the Astra zeneca and am glad I did. I know some people are resistant to the idea and i just say I don't understand it.

When I was younger I needed a bunch of vaccinations to travel to certain countries and I, and I and many like me, took them without hesitation. I had vaccinations at school when I was younger and my children had vaccinations for childhood diseases. I really don't understand why people think this vaccination is any different to the many others that have been developed and used in my lifetime.

I do not think they should be made mandatory, but people should expect that some things will require them to have them and not being vaccinated will limit them from undertaking some activities. If they are happy with that then by all means remain unvaccinated but don't assume you are being oppressed because you can't go on holiday or attend a sports event that requires it.
Looking at the articles from that seller, I don't even think they attach the articles for the reviews directly. It seems like they attach them to articles with many reviews, so that they can add their own fake reviews without being detected.

If they made a new article, which immediately gets a lot of 5 star reviews, that'd be suspicious and Amazon would probably detect it.

But if they attach it to an already established article, they can happily add their fake reviews and then detach them again, making it look legit.

Just a theory though.
That sucks. I was looking forward to using DocC, but the not working with GH Pages is a showstopper.

I hope that Jazzy keeps going.

I suspect that GH will end up integrating DocC output into GH Pages.
And now what is the likelihood of everyone doing this and if you somehow achieved 100% adoption what impact would this have on climate change?

We need to solve these problems upstream.
Economic imperialism is how much of the western world has built empires and influence without military action. Those wishing to control, and who have the economic means to do so, offer the other party something that looks to be of mutual benefit - a new road, a Venezuelan oil refinery, a new port, etc in return for loan repayments and project sovereignty. So, the big econony offers the finance, runs the projects, goes out to tender, uses one of their own big employers so that taxes come back to them, and build something for the smaller economy that saddles them with debt that is barely able to be repayed. A failure to repay the debt will tank that countries ability to secure finance on the global market. You can offer them reduced repayments, demand extra investment opportunities, or take cuts of other income streams as a method of payment.

The US has been doing this for a long time. Its one of the reasons why many South American and African nations have issues with the US. Chinas Belt and Road initiative is no different. Its economic imperialism dressed up with lipstick. The question is, what will they eventually demand in return? I suspect the most likely answer is "land".
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>multiple computers

SyncThing is one of the most underrated programs out there.

>Sharing

There's a billion ways to share a text file with someone

>Collaborative editing

That's a fair point. Although, I've never had the need to collaboratively edit a text file. But it does look like there's stuff out there e.g. EtherPad, Gobby, HackMD.
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Actually this has existed since forever, back in 2000 that would either be a Java Applet or DHTML.
Yeah, EU investing money - good, China investing money - bad.

- Why it's bad?

- Because they get influence over government.

- But EU also gets even more influence when they invest money and finance myriads of NGOs?

- Yeah, but that's different - we are the good guys and they are bad (even when we're doing same thing).
One should always assume the encryption is compromised.

See the success the Allies had in cracking the German and Japanese codes, and how devastating that was to the Axis, who couldn't believe their codes were broken.
another fun fact: only the UK, EU and Russia have "database rights". No other country has anything similar. And I'm guessing a good reason why no one else has this has to do with free use and research.
Basically, in the EU, UK and Russia I can't even reconstruct your database piece by piece.
I assume "make less than" means turnover rather than profit, it is not clear from the article.
Because by focusing on individual action it has the impact of absolving corporations of their moral duties. It is the same with public health.
Every baby boomer I know is in full "pandemic is over" mode. Same with older millennials that don't have kids. The only people I know that seem to realize it's still going on are parents with young children.

I have been saying all along that we will be dealing with covid forever. Maybe in the US it becomes an occasional hassle like the flu (more than a hassle if it kills you), but it's never going away.

This last year was one of the worst for me. Working and being fulltime with small kids during the pandemic was really challenging. What's the rush to eat in restaurants and not wear masks?
To a boy with a hammer everything looks like a nail, I guess.
If it really were about shifting energy usage from fossil fuels to a "renewable" power grid, there would be an equal enthsiasm for electrifying all home and hot water heating.

There isn't, for two main reasons:

1. Making resistive elements in a box will not enrich any mineral companies, perputrate planned obselecence, nor maintain R+D departments.

2. It would be very easy and cheap to do, and when the resulting droves of people convert to electric heating, it would very quickly become apparent that our grid just cannot handle the extra load.
I think this is a fantastic discussion, one of the best I ever read on HN. :) Its a provocative article, for sure! Very good for people to ask whether they should work hard, why they should work hard, and at what. A good recent example I feel of someone who works extremely hard and its 100% worth it, is Prof Sarah Gilbert, the person behind the Oxford-Astra-Zeneca covid vaccine, which BTW has a Malaria vaccine on the heels of it which would be amazing.
The classic Klein bottle is a 2D surface. It doesn't embed in R^3 regardless of whether you give it a little thickness so you can make it out of matter.
You can swap out CCP/China in your comment with pretty much any government/country though.