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How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine
> … his original code was n00btastic…

Sorry, but this is at-least the second blog post, in the last week, and previously —

"I've discussed the Rust and Julia versions with experts in those languages (—— I know Rust well enough ——, but very little Julia) and no obvious mistakes were found."

https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/osqgqe/common_lisp_st...

Before that, on finding the output from his Java program was different than the output from Peter Norvig's Lisp program —

"It looks like Norvig's Lisp solution must have a bug: it can't find all valid solutions!"

https://github.com/renatoathaydes/prechelt-phone-number-enco...
> Maybe, maybe not? We’ll see if this goes well as planed. Easier said than done.

My understanding is that China's manufacturing supply chain is so well-developed that companies like Apple don't think they even have a choice except build their stuff there. The only things they're missing are a few things at the very high end. If they lack a commitment to free markets, its conceivable that they could use that advantage to slowly strangle their global competitors (e.g. allow their domestic champions a price/quality/volume advantages, while keeping the value proposition for global companies just good enough that continued dependence makes economic sense). To counter that, the US would also have to take bold steps away from free market dogma, against the interests if its corporate sector, which has relatively more political power, and against its reigning ideologies [1].

> The point is, companies are already doing this. You’ll be surprised how much conglomerates like Samsung has already taken production out of China.

I'd be interested to know how truly disentangled they are. My understanding is that even when companies move production away from China, they're still seriously dependent on China's manufacturing supply chain (e.g. they have to ship all the components from China to Vietnam for final assembly). I'm not aware of any efforts to replicate the range of capabilities elsewhere.

[1] The right would have issues with stepping away from free market economics, and I think the left would be skeptical of the international competition aspect.
Millions in China under lockdown amid Covid outbreak
Very interesting.
I'd definitely like to hear more about your business plan and your plans moving forward. I work for a Japanese bank and help connect startups with the bank's Japanese corporate clients in the US, and Asia (and soon Europe). Many of the bank's clients are looking for solutions like this.
Happy to connect if you're interested.
And will, themselves, lead to a new kind of incompatibility mess...

"Oh, I'm afraid the EasySecureAuth wireguard server doesn't support the AndroidWireClient client when using a Yubikey version 1. Either use version 2 or switch to iOS."
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I think you'll have to use other options for that. I don't see them ever implementing 2FA as that is outside the goals of the project. They want to keep it has slim, performant, and on target as possible.
A short Makefile means you aren't leaning on OS specific quirks and you have a short dependency list. It usually compiles on BSD just fine.

If you aren't including headers from the "linux" directory a BSD system is almost identical to a Linux system as far as C is concerned. Common libraries like OpenSSL, zlib, libpng, and so forth are identical as well. pkg-config exists on modern BSD systems and takes a lot of the guesswork out of dependencies.
First, I'll note that my initial comment was in the context of "when do we get on with our lives", which I took as a different question from "when _should_ we get on with our lives." What I think we _should_ do is not the same as what I think we _will_ do. Plenty of debate to be had around the "should" question of course, but it is a different question.

That noted, and since I did engage in your comment on the risk to children, I am curious about your statement that my response is inconsistent with what we know. As I understand it, we don't actually know why children have been less susceptible to illness so far, do we? I've seen plenty of theorizing, but I haven't seen any reporting indicating these are more than theories so far. If there's some reliable reporting on this topic I missed, I'd definitely be happy to see it!
I agree that procedures to follow, meant as a way to benefit from past experiences are usually well intentioned. However, a common problem usually arises over time as the nature of the work evolves: is the procedure still relevant in the current context, still beneficial despite its overhead? Better have some system that can give an idea of the actual usefulness and current relevance of whatever procedures people have to follow.

AFAIK, most people mainly focus on what they do and deliver, as it's what matters the most, but many fail to consider that how they do it might matter as much. Yet, knowing how every aspect of the environment impacts the efficiency of the work would be priceless. Being able to continuously improve and adapt the work environment so that the work keeps being done in the best possible way? One can dream ;)

The technical debt concept somewhat applies to the organizational field: what may have worked well for the small startup is almost always re-worked once the company grows, and even when the company no longer grows in size, but still in age, frequent maintenance is required for the business to stay relevant in this changing world.

Obviously, how to design how good work is done is no silver bullet, but as someone said: “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” Like the not-to-be-further-questioned answer I once got: "Look, that's just how things are done around here." ;)
I’m getting a smartwatch with watch only runs, it has tracking, Bluetooth for headphones and can preload Spotify playlists.

It has WiFi but no cell phone. Really looking forward to just being out for runs, with no possibility of contact or checking notifications etc.
I still don’t understand how someone looked at that clause and did anything but giggle. I am always genuinely surprised when I encounter adults who think evil is well-defined enough for these purposes. Genuinely, I think this is a serious gap in my ability to empathize with other engineers and I am not sure what to do about it.
It’s easy to quit, but how did you manage to fill empty time that you’ve suddenly gotten?
Thats a good point I have started investing a small amount in Vietnam and other frontier countries.

BFRI and VIEL for anyone whos interested.
I think that's because of different vaccine uptake by age cohort. People 65+ have always been most likely to require intervention and they are also the most vaccinated age cohort - ~80% vaccinated in the US. [0]

[0]: https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...
Interestingly, you can get multiple-wave dynamics even when very far from population-level herd immunity, and even without taking into account changes in behavior (for example, [1]). That's because of stochasticity in the process due to the fact that (1) most people infect no one, but some people infect many ("overdispersion") and (2) the population is not well mixed.

In practice, of course, people respond to news about Covid waves and that contributes to the wave-like dynamics. Furthermore, new variants of the virus will be able to reach people that were "cautious enough" for a previous variant. That alone would also give you wave-like dynamics, basically every new variant would affect increasingly harder to reach people.

Anyway, the point is, seeing these waves is super natural and expected and we can't deduce anything about population-level immunity from them without looking really really closely.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526984/
> Realize a successful 51% attack is just the beginning of the war, not the end of it.

I think you're right; the war will go on for awhile. But I'm convinced by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028542 that in the end, if anything bests fiat, it will be gold.

Barring some new technological breakthrough, it seems to me that bitcoin has no value in a fiat world, and no value proposition in a sound money world. It's a noble dead end.
I think i may have given the impression that it’s 10% by pure chance which it most def isn’t. There’s certainly some randomness in the system but if someone is in the bottom 50% by skill they can probably apply like 100 times and still fail every single one.
Have you been to a college campus in the last two or three years?

There is a serious smartphone addiction problem. It is seriously worrying to see so many of my peers craning their necks, starting at their phone for hours on end. On the bus, in class, while hanging out, it is an observable fact that everyone is almost always on their phone.

I personally believe we are in a watershed moment for human civilization. The harms of this smartphone addicted world will snowball down into later generations who have never known a life without every need catered for and every boring moment seized by entertainment.
We humans have only our definition of life form. These are limited by physics and our logic.
However, we can't even see the whole universe, with no scientific break through, we never will.
We don't exactly know the full story of the big bang, we can't explain the very beginning.
We don't know what happens in black holes, our logic rules literally breaks down there.
I could well be that there are life forms which we couldn't even imagine, which are not limited by our known physics.
We know a little bit about space time and gravity and the elements.
Dark matter still unexplained, no universal formula for everything in sight, i have seen DNA mentioned, maybe some creatures do not need any DNA.
Too many factors are unresolved, we don't know whether there have been, are or will be totally different species.
Imagine, at one point in history, earth didn't even exist, before animals, there were only bacteria.
Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things. Humans are a more intelligent version of very common mammals.
With a couple more things gone wrong, like a flu or smarter predator animal in the past, humans might have never come to be.
I greatly appreciate scientists and people discovering and accumulating the knowledge, and I understand the scientific methods have to be followed accurately, else we diverge into pure speculation.
But limiting possible alien life to earth like planets might not be all there is.
Honey Crisp are my favourite when they don't taste like dirt.
The bold claim is the journalist in this article who said that vaccines are the reason we should see a 90% reduction in mortality. That is an optimistic projection, not a fact-based statement. That's all. Christ, people think I'm anti-vaccine just for being pedantic about science reporting...
I have lost count of statements from epidemiologists who have grossly overestimated infection rates.

Predicting the future is hard and if you're obviously not good at it, you should stop doing it.

The bit about vaccinated being eight times less likely to get infected, should make those who are still unsure think again.

And on the other hand it should give pause to those thinking about enforcing vaccine mandates.
I'd say pre-internet, not pre-smartphone. Wide availability of free porn has been there since the start of the internet. It precedes smartphones by more than a decade.

Or so I've been told.
Nah. Think of fish - and the assertion "There's no such thing as a fish." That refers to the similar evolution of many branches of life that ended up "looking like a fish" but are otherwise unrelated.

They had a common ancestor of a coral-like sea squirt (If I remember right). That looked nothing like a fish.
A recent Johns Hopkins study found a COVID-19 mortality rate of 0 for children without serious co-morbid conditions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccin...
Except FreeBSD which is used for pfSense - a popular firewall. They're working on it though. There was a bit of drama about it a few months ago when a shoddy implementation was merged.
I'm not a dba, and I admit having years of experience on Sql Server and only few recent months with postgres, and I know it's not a popular opinion, but so far, generally speaking, including admin stuff, I found Sql Server to be superior. It has its problems, of course, but with Sql Server I found better tooling and OOTB experience, easier maintenance, more features easier to use. E.g. do something like sp_help or sp_helptext exists in postgres? Real and simple case insensitive search, even just on a single comparison in a query? Real collations? Page and row data compression (in Sql Server you can obtain good perf improvement enabling compression thanks to fewer IO ops)? Column encryption? Query store, with the possibility to choose a plan? Graphical exec plan? A true sql language with, e.g., variable declaration in a statement (DO postgres is a hack, not a solution) outside of function or stores procedure? Manual Vacuum, really? Never heard of in sql server (shrink is different, vacuum equivalent is an automatic background job). Sql Server is quite predictable, or maybe it's me that I know it much more than postgres.

However, there are many postgres feature really missing in Sql Server, or added only in recent versions (consider that many clients are still using Sql Server 2012, a few even 2008R2!), idempotent DDL is much easier on postgres than Sql Server older than v2016, json support is waaaay better, many more useful data type...

I know nothing about replicas, clusters, failover etc, those have always been managed by proper DBAs.
The new NN-512 release (version 35) changes the build instructions to suppress GCC's warnings while building the generated code (-w switch):

// To build an object file:
// gcc -c -w -std=c99 -pthread -Ofast -mavx512f Example1.c

Thanks for your feedback.
Yes. The 5 year plans contain a lot of verbiage, and sound like political speeches in part. But you look in there and find specific goals. Sometimes very specific: "We will accelerate the large-scale deployment of 5G networks, increase the user penetration rate to 56% ... comprehensively promote the commercial deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)."

There's identification of very specific technologies that currently need to be imported: "high-purity electronic materials such as photoresists for ICs."
There's realism rather than hype: "Promote the demonstration operation of the
C919 large passenger aircraft and the serialized development of the ARJ2I regional
passenger aircraft." The C919 project, to build an airliner comparable to the Airbus A320, hasn't been going well, although prototypes are flying. So the goal for this plan is merely "demonstration operation". The ARJ2I is a 90-seat or so regional airliner now in early production. So those goals should be met. "Dominate world aircraft industry" might be nice, but that's not in the 5 year plan.

There's a longer range 2035 goals document, in which one goal is to get GDP per capita up into the middle of the developed country range.
I don’t see the continuous probing of a defense as “doing nothing”.

A boxer will feint a zillion attacks, too, before going for the real one. That’s not “doing nothing”.

It only becomes sterile if the team in possession of the ball plays the ball around without doing real probing.

On the other hand, some probing may be so subtle that it takes an expert to see it.
I see you haven't taken the time to read Apple's privacy policy, as well as their law enforcement documentation outlining what they are able to provide even with a court order.
A Conversation Between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram
Octopi have all the things you mentioned (except hands). Their eyes are even better than human eyes. No one would describe them as "humanoid".
You can always rethink your life :P

Sometimes it's good to sit down 15min and rethink stuff
Yep, and that point has been brought up ad-nauseum internally. Also Jeff did comment how he would probably not be hired by his own company. I personally saw the business pushing the scales to the point of 'just get them in the door, oh my god we are growing too fast and don't have time for your bickering'. Depending on the business unit and how hungry the hiring manager is that issue of raises the bar can just be a hand wave and 'get em` in'. For some technical positions you have a 'bar raiser' interview you who is often an IC who was promoted to Management ranks and has to serve penance by being the one to conduct countless BR interviews. 99% of them were pretty chill on the Clark/Fufillment side of the business. Cant speak to the Jassy/AWS side of the house. Their concept of BR may be more concrete. We rarely kept people out just because they did not 'raise the bar' since that is subjective as hell and personally I like qualified metrics.

I never interviewed for the AWS side of the house since I knew I wanted free time, and a life.
> A double-blind randomized trial for an mRNA vaccine

Sorry, what is the relevance of this trial to the parent story about the UK?

The vast majority of the UK's elderly and at-risk people got the first vaccines available there - the AstraZeneca jab, which is not a mRNA vaccine.
Not in the experience of Harrods and Burberry in the UK
This kind of scale would require establishing factories all over the world. Every feasible region in every developed country.
It might actually have the opposite effect. Working for a highly bureaucratic government run firm might not appeal to many entrepreneurs and engineers. The CCP is not exactly known for ideological flexibility or just outsider thinking in general. Imagine working for the government, and that's the main engineering opportunities you have. Imagine your only opportunities being huge multi year hard engineering projects.

There are many people who enjoy working in fast paced environments or building cutting edge experiences and products.

You could see the US brain drain top Chinese technical talent because the US has diversity of opportunity. There's Space X and Tesla, but also Uber and Google.
Elon appears to be building a large ground-locked monument to demonstrate his argument in this tweet:

Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure.

Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars. -- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354862567680847876

The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket. The FAA is standing athwart the most effective effort to move in that direction, yelling Stop. The more fragile our environment is, the more protection it needs, the more important it is for them to get out of the way of projects like this.
> But remember, never willingly. It never wants to die.

In what context does an animal die when it wants to die? When do animals want to die? And how would you know what an animal wants?

Btw, I remember your username. The last time I communicated with your account, a person behind it threatened me with violence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534682

I will give your account the benefit of the doubt that this will not be repeated.
It's like we're reaching the times when we should again start thinking more for ourselves, given the information at hand: make assumptions, try to prove them, try a reductio ad absurdum etc.

But unfortunately people's brains are fried because of the constant social media bombardment.
Agreed, Barcelona between 2008-2012 had several of the greatest players on the planet at the time, and almost all had come through their own academy. Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Puyol and Busquets. Plus in Guardiola, one of the greatest managers of all time.
I'm also not sure how much the usa experience applies to other countries. They seem to have not liked lockdowns and masks very much.
As I said, this can all be accomplished through tariffs, taxes, or straight up bans, without engaging some Rube Goldberg contraption of playing whack-a-mole with payment systems and processors.

A sovereign nation resorting to this to ban an undesirable category of business from its borders is swatting flies with a hockeystick. Possible? Yes. But why would it bother, when there are purpose-made flyswatters.

If the government wants to shut your business down, it can trivially do so, by revoking your business license, or banning your category of business outright. It doesn't need to get into this nonsense with payment processing - which has a number of workarounds.
Still out there. Just ask us about the Brooks Brothers riot[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
I have received video pitches like this, as cold emails in my inbox, from people I don't know, with a thumbnail to a video that I just had to click to see wtf was going on. The guy in the video said my name and where I work while giving his pitch for some random product irrelevant to my life or my work.

It was completely unnerving and creepy af.

The fact that this startup wants to automate this creepy invasive behavior tells me that the founders need to do some serious soul-searching about why they want to create the world they're working to create.