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Assembly is specific to the architecture, potentially in non-trivial ways. They either have to manually write support for each CPU architecture, or they need a higher level abstraction language. C is basically that higher level abstraction language.

The tooling also helps. C compilers do some pretty fancy optimizations. Again, they can either re-implement that inside their tool, or they can just output C and use the existing tools.
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Well, I shouldn’t do that. Suffice to say, it’s simply a fact that China bans VPNs, and pretty much everyone goes along with it. People fear jail.

It’s hard (but not impossible) to imagine Europe and the US doing that. NordVPN is practically a household name, at least on YouTube.
I think the “primitive” skill closest to the kind of mathematical thinking an astrophysicist (or mathematician) employs would be advanced knotwork. Mental geometric/topological/spatial manipulations are key to clever insights and critical to figuring out knots.

(This can be taught to/learned by some chimpanzees, BTW. …but I think there are no such examples in the wild without substantial human contact.)
for me its just the opposite, those reminders during stressfull times make me MORE stressed and i just toss the watch into a box for the rest of the day...
Good point. I imagine there must be ongoing research to define the most relevant (frequent, desirable) "classes" of remote work.

If there's isn't, then large moderated communities like HN and Stackoverflow are in an unique position to survey folks and help define these classes. If the "Who's Hiring" threads here adopted a "remote work classification" catalogue, I think it'd catch on easily
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245206
But how does that have anything to do with being "shielded from repercussions by either minimum wage support reps or automated phone systems"? If you really have a grievance against Chime's CEO or whatever, you can still inflict violence on them. Look up their corporate office address, procure a weapon, wait outside until they leave work, and then do... whatever. There are many reasons why we don't see people inflict violence on "the people who are actually responsible for your problems", but it's not because of "minimum wage support reps or automated phone systems".
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Ah yeah, try to educate millions of end-users about the new name, change the file extensions on 15 years worth of files, update reams of documentation, libraries and applications.

Does that sound even remotely feasible? I think not.

For better or worse, we’re stuck with the name, because trying to change it and failing would just create more compatibility problems and confusion.

Much like the eternal GIF pronunciation controversy or tabs vs. spaces, we’ll all just have to grin and bear it, because Gruber is not likely to change his mind.
> ...has already announced a follow-up regulation to make chat control mandatory for all email and messaging providers. Previously secure end-to-end encrypted messenger services such as Whatsapp or Signal would be forced to install a backdoor.

It's easy to recommend "end-to-end" when you're about to force a backdoor into it.
Forgive me if I don't care about an opinion piece by someone who hates America.

> America is built mostly on immigrant work ethic

Isn't it interesting how many believe the US was solely built by immigrants, slaves, and natives. I wonder what American citizens did during this time?

> the collapse of the european powers

The US was already inventing and building in the 1800s, no collapse needed.

> Not sure america is that special, just lucky - right place, right time.

It's easy to ascribe luck to anything successful. You could say Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc were nothing special, just lucky - right place, right time, but I don't think that's true.
I've seen a similar documentary a while ago, where it became apparent that some MEP's are so busy that lobbyist groups completely wrote their proposal documents and deposited them at their office to have them 'go with the flow' without any scrutiny whatsoever. Though officially all is legal, it strongly reeked of corruption, especially with some MEP's doing that very frequently.
I think there's an underlying assumption that maybe, some people would like to work on a farm, and to buy things which don't come from Walmart or Amazon. The economics of all that, plus the realities of farm work which are not immediately apparent to your average computer programmer, are a separate issue.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The vaccines had extensive human and animal testing.
> Previously secure end-to-end encrypted messenger services such as Whatsapp or Signal would be forced to install a backdoor.

This is surely a fantastic extrapolation of this author. The chance of this happening is zero, which is also the chance of this being explicitly stated in the legal text.

It would be a disaster of course. And extremely controversial. Which is why it doesn’t just get passed under the radar, even as a temporary measure.

Isn’t there a copy of the actual legal text anywhere? Or a sober analysis of that text that isn’t made by a member of the pirate party?

Edit: Here
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_instituti...

It doesn’t mention encryption, back doors, or forcing any entity to do anything. It does mention allowing companies to temporarily continue current monitoring for child abuse under certain conditions.
What exactly is the outrage about?
The Economist can't quite bring itself to say that educated proletarians are more of a political threat to the real elites (their target audience) than uneducated proletarians.
Can't we take the same analysis to drive alternative conclusions instead?

For example, why not remove or weaken the reasons why people want to be part of the elite in the first place, perhaps by eliminating it.
Whatever this law or proposal is, it sounds bad and I don't like it. The only one good thing would be if the ones who draft, pass and implement it are not exempt and equally subject to the invasive tentacles of the buerocrats.

I can kinda understand how and why crime happens, but I never understood the motives or way of thought of the people who want this kind of stuff implemented.uch less the ones who vote for it.
Any law that the EU can apply to Facebook to scan messages readable by Facebook that transit Facebook's service, the EU can apply to Apple to scan messages readable by Apple that transit Apple's service.
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> It is clear, at least to me, that emitting large quantities of CO2 into the air, and heated waste water into a lake, for the sole purpose of enriching oneself

i agree, but that would make bitcoin mining merely the most recent addition to a very, very long list of immoral endeavours undertaken for the sole purpose of enriching oneself.
Think you're glossing over the distinction between compelling material (by warrant, subpoena, &c.) -- what the Fourth Amendment covers -- and private entities voluntarily giving the government material that third parties have entrusted them. Nothing regulates the latter: that's the third-party doctrine.
> they didn't produce an a new elite, only "elitists," who never quite arrive. The resentment from people who became middle class after graduating from debt funded college is the result of how all that work didn't deliver on the promise of upper-middle security. The Gen-X cliche of baristas with masters degrees has simmered for a couple of decades, and it has metastisized into a deep loathing for the working people Gen-X grads haven't been able to differentiate themselves from

What were they expecting going into fields with no growth or market?

> The coders and general contractors who didn't go to university who out earn and out-succeed grads is a real cultural factor

Our industry was built by drop-outs, so there's a certain legend and expectation that the next Gates or Jobs will be one of them, but they are rare to encounter in real life.
Sorry, but finding your arguments a little silly.

> The point that I am making is that there isn't any particular reason (besides an incessant demand for shareholder value in dollars) that the raw materials and skilled labor hours must be allocated in the caste-method that we currently use in modern society.

Maybe, but you don't have any strategy for changing the current system, or what kind of system should replace it, or how to demonstrate that system will be better than the one we have now.
> They're talking about an event such as being put on the terrorism no banking list, or being abused with lawsuits that you can't win and having your money stolen via those lawsuits.

That's not the impression I got. I was thinking of your account being closed by mistake because of fraud/AML system false positives, not because the legal system was invoked against you.
After working too long with stateless API:s on the backend and one state container to rule them all react-redux kind of architectures on the front end the OOP code style kind of makes my skin crawl. When I try to learn Unity I find it so hard not to turn my code into spaghetti.

Hearing about ECS gives me hope.
Well it may not be for the British, they're not going to get less mass surveillance due to Brexit. However for some countries that could choose to leave the EU due to totalitarian laws like this, it may be a benefit, if they choose to pursue a privacy-focused path.

Which are the most privacy-focused nations in the EU that might leave over a law like this?
I work for Platform One and many of us are continually amazed that Disney hasn't dinged us for this yet. I'm pretty sure there have been plans for a while now to get a new logo that isn't such a blatant rip off but I have no idea where they're going.

I mentioned in another comment that George Lucas tried to sue over people calling the SDI "Star Wars" back in 1985. I can't find any evidence now, but I believe he once sued either the Air Force or NRO (can't remember which) over a mission patch with an x-wing on it.
> as Uranus was formed around the same time as Neptune

[citation needed]

There is clearly an unexplained anomaly vis-a-vis Uranus and the other giant planets. But the closer you look at them, the more weird Uranus appears. It would be amazing if it turned out to be a much older planet captured by our solar system. (That would certainly explain the weirdo rotation...)
Regulations are still tight in many areas due to ITAR , the concerns to prevent basaltic missile tech from potentially being leaked to countries without it have not changed.

To an extent NASA's Commercial Crew program and other commercial engagement vision worked in triggering commercial industry

I think it more that technology has changing a lot making it less expensive to attempt building a vehicle. Today, for example Terran is considering building a lot of their rocket with 3D printing, Rocket Labs does that already for their rocket parts. Talent availability with the right skills has become easier in the recent years probably helps.
WebAssembly alone is not enough, you need access to the canvas and WebGL JavaScript APIs in order to actually perform the rendering. WASI may change this in the future, but for now, it means that integration with the emscripten toolchain is a must.
> I think any decent developer would be put off by C to some extent.

Any decent developer would be put off by any language to some extent.

Personally, I'm more put off by Rust than C (they put me off for different reasons). Currently, the one puts me off the least is Zig, but it still has many details that I don't like.
... or to domains that use gmail.

Possible to find out using dig but not as simple as avoiding gmail addresses.
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Just adding onto this. Someone else already talked about the hardware level, where the bits for a byte arrive simultaneously over a bus.

Generally this question is asked primarily by software people. It's worth noting that there's no way to access a bit in memory. The "atomic" level in modern computers is the byte. You can read a byte from memory, you can write a byte to memory. You cannot read or write a single bit.

That is to say that it doesn't matter what endian-ness the bit order is. There's no way for the CPU to ever peek inside the RAM to see how the bits are arranged in the byte. The memory could store it in completely random order, with each block of memory shuffling the bits differently from every other block -- as long as it send the data to the CPU in the expected fashion.
The Economist really misrepresents Turchin's theory by framing it as an issue of there being too many "brainy" people. Turchin's theory has more to do with overproduction of university degree holders, not with overproduction of smart people. Those are two different things. As far as I know, Turchin is not advocating for maintaining some sort of exploited underclass. More than 30% of U.S. adults have at least a bachelor's degree - about double the fraction that had one 40 years ago - which means that a bachelor's degree has limited value as a badge for gaining entrance to the higher strata of society. Note that this is independent of the question of whether it is good or bad for university degrees to be badges for entrance to the higher strata of society. In any case, the relative social value of a university education has massively dropped over the years.
Are you sure these are the right names? These are the people who voted against it or abstained, right?

Document: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-9-2021-07-0... (page 5)
Careful it doesn't get flagged like the prediction of the Juneteenth holiday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzttSUC0Pzw
Do you also oppose people having more than 2 children? At what point does "immigration" become "mass immigration"?
Lots of comments here on the causal side of elite production, but just to float an alternate possibility:

This could just as easily be suggesting that "overproduction" of elites is due to, some two decades prior, a creeping sense among the populace of nascent but growing inequality and increased stratification? Or put differently, "Grandpa worked in the plant and made a good life for himself, and I work in the plant and make a good life for my family too, but I see the writing on the all and am going to make certain that my son or daughter becomes a [lawyer/banker/software person/etc]". And the instability today is just that initial rising inequality reaching fruition.

Something like that seems much more likely to me, that creeping change exists that is palpable at the individual level, and expressed through the emphasis given to the next generation.
Turns out vehicles are pretty important when you live in rural communities and don't have access to public transportation.
This is true.. not much to be done with the major providers are all in bed with the Feds. I mean, the telcos literally allow the Feds to port mirror all their traffic. End to end encryption on your own encrypted storage perhaps.
> It's pretty sad how much they are getting attacked (which this is in response to) given that they haven't suddenly done anything to deserve it.

What? How is that relevant? If I’m a career criminal, does that make it any better just because I’ve always been bad? Would you advocate not prosecuting someone just because they’ve gotten away with something for some period of time?
No matter which chat service you use, any recipient could potentially upload the unencrypted data to a cloud backup service. If you don't trust the intended recipients with the data then you shouldn't share it with them in the first place.
> may actually be the strongest evidence for it.

That, plus the fact that a novel bat coronavirus originated blocks away from a facility...that studied novel bat coronaviruses.

How much of a coincidence is even possible?

Humor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8
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Interesting Things to Do with Mail(1)
I have some general questions about mail(1).
But what I really would like to know is what do you use it for?
What are advanced flags and use cases for it?
Any stories about using mail(1) you can share?

My general questions are, there is any possible configuration or hack for it to stop being received as Junk/Spam?
There is any configuration or hack we could do to be able to reach/reply to a non-local machine?

Some manuals like of FreeBSD says that there are flags hidden from manual:

"There are some flags that are not documented here.
Most are not useful to the general user."

Which commands are those? Or what other useful purposes could main(1) achieve or for what/how do you use mail(1) for?

I'm often pipelining commands into mail(1) to have an easy and fast log or backup about something.
`history | mail -s 'history' example@yahoo.com`
It is a really inexpensive way to get a good degree. The one caveat is that they already have determined the classes and the courses you just choose what order you go through them in. For example I am currently getting my masters, and someone has posted how they managed to knock out the entire degree (8 semesters) in 2 months. (The disclaimer was he had worked in the field for close to 10 years in various positions, so everything in the degree was second nature)

I got my degree in 18 months, plus one semester of a local college prior. But yes if you've got the discipline and motivation you can get your entire degree in 6 months for about 4 grand.

It really is the way of the future in my mind.
Blackkklansman was a relatively big budged film starring popular actors and made by an established director back in 2018, Spike Lee, and oh boy did he take risks. Despite being a historic drama/comedy the movie ends with the horrors of the Trump presidency. Just like Mel Brooks, the message is pretty obvious. Despite these risks this movie was aired in most big cinemas throughout the USA for several weeks (just like any other big budged drama/comedy would).

Casting: I don’t remember a time when casting didn’t cause the hate mobs to go haywire. When Noma Dumezweni was cast as Hermione Granger people went nuts. Some historians raised issue with the fact that Xerxes II was acted by a black man in the movie 300 despite being Persian. And I’m sure casting a black man as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar was equally controversial. Now in the era of people realizing how much representation matters, of course it is going to cause controversy if you hire an actor to play a role of a underrepresented group while the actor does not belong to said group. This didn’t used to be the case, but it is today. However this has such an obvious solution that I doubt it has hindered the production of a single movie.

> "It’s been a decade since any comedy launched a blockbuster franchise."

The times change. At one point hiring a white actor to play a black role did not stir a huge controversy, now it does. Franchises come into fashion, people get tired of them, creators move on. Just because comedy franchises aren’t big today, it doesn’t mean they are not possible. More likely is that people have seen enough sequels in other genres that they don’t want to see Baby Driver 2 no more then they like to see Dump and Dumber 5. And I think for a reason, comedy sequels tend to be pretty shitty (and I guess it makes sense, how often can you tell the same joke before it stops being funny).

I think you are over-reading into the twitter mobs. I don’t think they have as much power as you give them credit for. I think the biggest achievement of the twitter mob in the film industry was to give Sonic the Hedgehog a makeover. I don’t know of a single example where a comedy was cancelled because twitter didn’t like it. And I think comedies get made today just like they did yesteryear. And I think producers of comedies had to be careful about the subject matter before just like today. And I think they stirred controversies before, and they will continue to do so, irregardless of the political climate.
Those are great. Thanks for posting a very clear summary of two important points.
It seems to be very hard to find and define on your own.
Too bad they didn't make the same thing for credit card transactions, which are almost, and becoming more so, part of our anatomy.
(Will the rules change if they are (injected chips, for instance.)
Interesting! Is there any game engine or open source engine or library that would support those kinds of code styles?
This isn't about Mark Cuban's losses per se, I also have no issue with him (an accredited investor) getting bilked for some change between the couch cushions - the issue is even if an incredibly sophisticated investor like Mark could fall for such a rug-pull/failure then how can we possibly expect unsophisticated investors not to get bamboozled? Remember, those who wash out of trading end up beneficiaries of the state bankruptcy and welfare programs, so the state very much has an interest in this.

Crypto now is like trading stocks was before and leading up to the great depression: a bunch of hucksters, shills, snake-oil salesmen and unrestricted margin. And a few well-intentioned people. Before the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, Regulation T and the SEC.

The great finance speed-run has reached mid-1929.

[edit] Seriously if the Fed has to cough up $60 billion dollars to bail out Tether, I'm going to be incredibly pissed off.
My wife currently works as the test lead for the NRO's next iteration of the Sentient/ECO program and they named the new program Cyberdyne. No relation to the actual Terminator program.

Her last program held a voting pool to pick a name and ended up with "Totally Not a Laser Death Ray Facility" unfortunately coming in 2nd place.
Well, I don't assume either really but I guess GP does. I find it unlikely to the extreme that Google would ever want to scan this content or even less so that they would go to lengths to decrypt it first. But saying that all is lost if the files can't be protected by encryption is a strawman as the data is unreachable by Google if hosted elsewhere.
The largest independent non-profit anti-corruption organization in Russia [0] has been recently classified as "extremist" by the government, and some people who simply donated money to them were fired. Many members and some of their family were arrested. I am sure that new Facebook feature would quickly become favorite for duchebags in Kremlin to find more supporters to prosecute.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Corruption_Foundation
OP hasn't watched any real cinema (European/South East Asian), just few commercial movies which are mostly based on a set formula. OP needs to improve his taste.