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1) More time. Rust is what, 6ish years old now? And in those years its continued to evovle and grow.

2) More software. Particularly older software, watching Rust code bases evolve over time.

3) Most topical to this thread, watching how other approaches to safer programming shake out. Its hard to have confidence in a solution to a generic problem when you can only evaluate a single solution. For example I find Zig to be a potentially much better solution since it has a far smaller surface area.

Somebody on HN said: Rust is what you get when C++ programmers try and fix memory safety, Zig is what you get when a C programmer tries to do it, and based on the Rust and Zig code I've seen this really rings true.

Rust is on a great track, but it seems way way too early to declare victory and start claiming that everybody exploring the same safe programming space is functioning as an unethical professional.

EDIT: As an aside I enjoyed your blog post on learning Ada, stream of consciousness and all. You ask what the bar is, the bar is Ada. Decades in the market, formal standard, multiple implementations. I wish somebody would dig into why we need Rust, Zig, or something else when Ada exists. Is it just because Ada syntax is unfamilar to todays programmers or is there something fundamentally unsound about Ada?
And there are a ton of other type errors that you cannot catch. For example take a method that wants a string in a particular format, you pass a string in another format and it breaks. A method that wants an integer in a range. An array of maximum N elements. And we can go on forever.

So what you do? I find code that uses excessive type checks too verbose, you end up doing things only to make the compiler happy, even if you know that a particular condition will never happen (e.g. a variable that can be null but given a particular condition you know that it cannot be because it was initialized earlier, but the compiler is not smart enough to know).

So to me using static types makes sense where types are used by the compiler to produce faster code (embedded contexts, basically, of course I don't use Python on a microcontroller) and as a linting of the code (Python type annotations or Typescript).
You’ve ignored your critique and answered only the more obvious anecdotes.

So I’ll repeat:

What’s Feb 28th + 1 month?

Does the human expect the last day of March? Or the 28th day of March?

The API doesn’t make that clear - I think you could reasonably argue for either.
It is going to be good being able to pass props to these LiveView's. I remember that wasn't possible and I needed all sorts of workarounds.
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The fastest thunderbolt to ethernet adapter I could find is 25 Gbps and it's $1500. 10 Gbps ones are in the $200+ range as well.
probably, but thunderbolt would cost 5x less for equivalent 40Gbps NIC
Bizarrely, a town of less than four thousand people actually has an assassins' guild, with roughly ten members. Do they take turns, each assassinating one person a year?

The charitable interpretation might be that, in addition to being responsible for assassinations in the town, the guild is also responsible for assassinations in the surrounding countryside; in medieval times the rural population significantly outnumbered the urban population. (Also, a world with Raise Dead might be able to sustain a greater rate of assassinations per capital per year...)

But yes, plausibility gets distorted in favour of playability.
What I want to do for a funsies project is have a bunch of Pi4 CMs plugged into a PCIE switch and a multi-host 10gige adapter.

I don't think this is possible though, I think I read somewhere that the Pi4 PCIE Root doesn't support host<->host comms.

If anyone knows different, speak up!
Right. And those are bad too.
It might be a reach to ascribe malice to OP in this case. But the pattern persists, and the fact he’s known more as Aleksandr than Alex is more the result of agenda pushing in the “reliable sources” than of a common policy to use full names. I’m sure you will find many instances of the same sources using nicknames for people they like.

It’s the same reason Fox News says “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” instead of the more common “AOC.”
I found the same to be the case on the official Pi 4 PoE+ HAT (the new 2021 version)[1].

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/review-raspberry-pis-...
Even 18th century pre-revolutionary France did this sort of thing. The great chemist Lavoisier was executed by revolutionaries, not because he was a chemist, but because he was also an administrator of the ferme générale, the privatized tax system of the time.
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Eggs could easily be replaced with salt. Consuming too much salt (more than 2g a day) is heavily discouraged by some because it is said to increase the risks of cardiovascular diseases as well as increase blood pressure to a dangerous level, but others repudiate these claims and assert they are untrue, and that salt has positive health benefits above this limit.

Even if we take a group of people, put them in a closed place and strictly control what they eat, it is extremely difficult to say if a certain food has had a particular impact on X or not. There are some many elements which are unrelated to nutrition at play that X could decrease or increase for any reason other than what one ate: stress, tiredness, physical activity, mood...

Now, I reckon the wisest thing to do is to follow what the author concludes with: eat moderately and have a balanced nutrition. I doubt we'll ever get concrete and truthful research on nutrition soon enough. We first need to learn more about the extremely complex system that is the human body.
It's not just you. I stopped using amazon and other big corps completely when they locked us down.
> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.

For now...
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Talking to strangers is a dangerous prospect, especially opposite sexes. It’s so, so hard to tell if someone is being polite or if they really want to talk to you.

I think what is needed and what this article doesn’t touch on enough, is a catalyst. We’re in our phones a lot and media had made talking to strangers only something crazy people do. What we need is more opportunities to talk about something other than ourselves, to break the ice, then I think we’ll find better connections with strangers.

Also, this was interesting:

Today, Nic has a name for these types of conversations: “Greyhound Therapy.” As she uses it, the term literally refers to talking with your seatmate on a long-haul bus but can apply to talking with strangers anywhere—at a restaurant, at a bus stop, in a grocery store.

Those are called single-serving friends. :-)
I didn't expect this comment to get this much discussion, I should have been clearer.

In the context of automation, the "robotic revolution" has already happened between the 4 industrial revolutions - basically, robots exist en masse already, we just don't call them robots. The majority of manufacturing and processing is already hyper optimized to only needing a few overseers to make sure the machines are running smoothly.

When talking about the automation revolution, I think it's important to make the distinction between robotic tooling and autonomous robotic systems, even though they evolve from each other. The difference is when humans interface and at what abstraction humans can operate it on. Generally, tooling is constrained to an individual's output. Robotic augmentation is in it's own category as well (human activities being enhanced by machinery).

Tooling is extremely useful, still has a lot of future potential and I don't mean to undermine work on new tooling. Just - usually when we look at robots, especially with the buzz around deep learning, we set the bar for problem solving at the level of autonomous construction because we assume, sometimes incorrectly, that optimizing our current tooling yields little efficiency benefits relative to the former.
When it comes to policies from frustrating departments, people tend to find workarounds, especially if there is no easy way to enforce the rules.

At a prior company, one of the only reasons we adopted anything SaaS was that IT didn't have to know it existed.
Local storage and Networked storage always have their places. Local solid state storage almost always gets you better performance because you negate the overhead of network. Unless, you’re talking fancy arrays connected to saturate 100G NICs.

Local storage falls apart the moment you need that storage accessible from another machine…
Saas pass has a similar offering for developers for over 5 years. We need more such initiatives like yours to help raise awareness that there are passwordless options out there.
> Nearly anyone who is capable to go to a bar can easily go get vaccinated.

It’s too risky to themselves and others for unvaccinated people to drive to a bar to drink alcohol. Ha. Similar to swabbing the injection site for lethal injections to avoid infections.
I'm having deja vu. We had a top story on HN recently where either the article or the consensus of the comments was "you pretty much cannot believe any studies about food or nutrition."
Most “science” that denies the reality of studying complex systems is broken. The concept of studying strength of correlations, even applied in the context of randomized controlled trials is only really effective in low dimensional spaces and linear dependences (I’m being very loose here, for brevity). But complex systems break all those assumptions.

To steal a quote, researchers use data/statistics like a drunkard uses a lamp post — for support, rather than illumination.

This applies to nutrition, medicine, ecology, economics, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if their experimental arms run largely on confirmation bias.
A Wall Street Dressing Down: Always. Be. Casual
A=432Hz, the math, the myth, the legend (2019)
Here's an example: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1452348/senior-devops-archit...

Granted there are going to be RSU's but frankly being locked in for years to wait for stocks to vest, and fluctuate has never really been that appealing to me. 100k worth of stock over 4 years at that base pay rate isn't that exciting.
Six months ago, I was routinely told that my fears of vaccine passports were "conspiracy theory", and the same arguments about the slippery slope were invoked.

At some point, you just have to look down and notice that the slope of the ground is negative, and everything is greasy.
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> outside of unsafe blocks, you know your code is safe

Only for some common memory mistakes. And ony if the compiler doesn't have a bug. This sounds like a nitpic, but let's be clear that Rust is not "safe" as if it was some global quality that covered all of the language.
Elon's MO is that his supervision and continual input is vital to the success of his companies as they try to execute on his vision. His companies may only exist because of his sheer force of will and his willingness to sacrifice health, wealth and relationships to succeed.
> This is no different from Miami printing dollars no? How is this legal?

Is there a prohibition on states printing money?
Sounds plausible. Musk’s target price is essentially a rounding error compared to the budgets of Gravity or The Martian.
I think it's good test of lang features
> The goal is to avoid overloading the hospital system

If that's the goal we need to decide what things are ok to go to the hospital for and what aren't. A lot of hospital visits could be prevented if we took the obesity epidemic seriously - I imagine the CFR of covid would be way down if America was not so obese.

And if we're ok with mandating vaccines, we should definitely be ok with mandating a healthy bodyfat %. The health gains from the latter would dwarf that of the former.
So you're saying there's no such thing as asymptomatic spread of COVID-19? Isn't asymptomatic spread a primary reason for the unprecedented restrictions and mass testing?

Edit: Down voters, I would appreciate an explanation for the down votes. Am I missing something simple or is OP mistaken?
Industrial egg production is bad for the chickens, especially male chicks. I consume egg alternatives such as Just Egg and use alternatives (e.g. tapioca starch) for baking and no one notices.
> Also, your iPad is now a Windows machine

Until Apple decides they're not comfortable with that and bans it.
The concept of sticking to one particular form of eating has always bothered me. It's always felt like an attempt to find a panacea that doesn't require much analysis by the person of what they input to their bodies. Realistic eating is a lifelong responsibility of paying attention to what you're eating and the effects it has on your body. Perhaps what we need is a faster feedback loop of what the current state of your body is so you can make an adjustment.

There are definitely some foods that are better than others, but choosing a diet because it'll solve all your problems is the wrong way to address health.
Github link

https://github.com/ManzDev/script-type
I saw the same connection, moral judgment passed on a citizen's personal, perfectly legal choices, by the government that leads to the restriction of that person's right to engage in society. This is to say nothing of the Orwellian tracking by the (soon to be I'm sure) required NYC or State pass on your phone.
What sort of things will health checks be used for in the future? Once Covid is gone, I don't think people will really care about your health information beyond entities that already care (health insurance providers denying coverage because of preexisting conditions, etc.) Certainly, The Mets won't care if you got your flu shot this year, and your local bar probably won't care that you didn't get your annual physical. If unrelated companies start caring about your health information after the pandemic, we should tell them to fuck off.

Covid is a public health crisis -- the single most dangerous existential threat we as a society are currently facing -- and we have great tools to kill it dead. Letting it spread right now is just stupid, because we can end this plague once and for all. While we're working on it, I think it's totally fair to let someone check your vaccination status before you pack yourself into close quarters with them. It's not a matter of the government or the corporate overlords wanting your health information. As the person standing next to you in a crowded bar, I don't want you there if you're not vaccinated. If indoor businesses won't check customers, then I won't go to those indoor businesses, and if enough people think like me, those businesses are gone forever.

Get vaccinated or stay home. You have a choice!

(The real threat during crises like these is things like "we shouldn't have a free press, because nutjobs are spreading misinformation". That is an exceedingly dangerous line of thinking and we should push back against that hard, because the cure is worse than the disease. That's not the case with Covid -- the cure is much better than the disease.)
Besides major companies and politicians calling for mandatory vaccinations?
No. It isn't. VAERS just dumps people who have any medical condition at the time of vaccination. Neither correlation nor causation can be inferred from the data. The data has no reporting standards, no verifiability. It is not a study on vaccine side-effects (of which there have been many).

Using VAERS as proof of anything is a literal demonstration that the person in question has no idea what he's talking about.
"Dr. Mehmet Oz even touted it on his television show." Yeah, no.
I want to drive a car without the tyranny of speed limits, I’m not putting anyone in danger except those who choose to be endangered (driving a car, walking a street). I oppose discrimination. I know how to drive a car, where is my driver’s license?
That's not the only reasons people wouldn't want to take the vaccine. For instance lots of people already had covid (particularly in NYC), and developed a natural immunity, which from the low reinfection rate, seems to be rock solid. It doesn't make a lot of sense to require that population to take a vaccine.

As for the vaccine being more or less dangerous than the virus, I think for any population over 40 or in poor health, the trade off is clearly in favour of the vaccine. But if you are 20 and in good health, I am not sure it is that obvious.

I am not overly concerned about the vaccine myself, and I got vaccinated even though I had covid (mostly to be able to travel), but I have some sympathy for people who decline to be vaccinated, particularly when all the population at risk had a chance to get vaccinated. At this point this is them managing their own risk. Their life, their decision.
"Nearly 72% of volunteers treated with ivermectin tested negative for the virus by day six. In contrast, only 50% of those who received the placebo tested negative.

IN ADDITION, the study looked at culture viability, meaning how infectious the patients were, and found that only 13% of ivermectin patients were infectious after six days, compared with 50% of the placebo group – almost four times as many."

It calls for a bigger study.
Or it could be also that we the web devs have no clue why some engineer that needs to know to read plans and maps is always needed when some guys need to dig. Mistakes happen with this engineers supervising (cables and pipes get cut or damaged) I imagine without them there will always be more problems.
Most of these products are able to be built by hobbyists (in fact, almost all of them are produced by hobbyists). The reason most fail to launch to production is not only the extreme difficulty of scaling from prototype to manufactured production quantities of product, but also from 2020 onwards, the chip shortages.

For each product I've been able to actually touch, there are ten more I've heard about and wanted to see happen, but they just couldn't be made because certain specialty ICs are just not available to small-time hobbyists/makers.

I don't tend to review these boards because I want people to go out and buy them. I review them because I am inspired to try out new ideas and try my hand at new things (circuit designs, PCB design, etc.), and I figure maybe some other people can get inspired to try too.

I try to feature as much open source hardware as possible, because it actually is possible for people to get custom PCBs and put together their own versions of them.
> By going out unvaccinated, I'm not putting anyone in danger

Yes, you are.

* while a vaccinated person can spread the virus as well, current understanding is that it does so less than for an unvaccinated person.

* vaccinated people can get sick, even if there's a much lower chance

* vaccinated people can still have children who are not vaccinated

None of this is absolute. It's a matter of percentages, chances and what not.

Your claim is an absolute, and it's absolutely wrong.
> Literally not true. Kids under 12 are not able to be vaccinated, which puts a limit on the activities they and their families can do. If they're able to know that everyone inside a restaurant is vaccinated they'll be more likely to visit.

This policy is also hysterical, and not based in science. Kids should not be under any restrictions due to SARS-CoV2.

Please see my comment from yesterday as to why I believe this is true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28041775

(Aside: I generally feel that the FDA is on the right side of history by being exceptionally careful with approval of the vaccine for children, but arguments like the parent's -- I hear this a lot in different contexts -- do sometimes make me wish that they'd just make an extremely limited approval so that the most fearful 5% of people can force it upon their children and stop holding the rest of the world hostage.)
I don't really see what the problem would be with vaccinating every six months in case it turns out to be necessary to keep up immunity; in fact even vaccinating every month would be fine to avoid the risk of severe COVID.

Indications though seems to be for only needing 2 or 3 doses or needing boosters multiple years apart.
Of course, another way to read this is that these studios weren't viable if they had to play by the rules. So they broke the rules and violated the rights of their staff.

Once the law showed up and made them play by the rules, they closed.

The film industry didn't die that day - just some bad studios.
The bitter reality is that nothing happens for a business until sales contracts get signed. Sales can be intimidating although there are some brain hack tricks to it. For instance, if you believe your product can help solve a problem and can talk about that, and see the angle of how it helps make a human’s life easier, and can (with conviction) help someone understand this, that’s sales. Also, the high you get from succeeding in sales is what keeps a lot of salespeople in it. It’s like crack. So you may not like the idea of smoking crack from where you’re sitting now, but try some and then tell me how you feel. /s

That said, hire a salesperson. Even with the above, you are not a career salesperson and will likely struggle for years to learn and build basic skills that you should just pay for. Career salespeople have industry relationships, a personality that makes people want to engage with them, usually a lot of resources for schmoozing. The best is to find a semi-retired one that still wants to get those highs and keep a foot in an industry but has left full time corporate employment. Think about a DINK in their 50’s that maybe is also a property owner or has sources of passive income. They can be had on a 1099 and often you can work out creative comp plans (commission, etc). You’ll outgrow them hopefully at some point and need to think about an W2 sales strategy guy down the road, but a 1099’r can be a good option to deliver vital operating cash while growing.
“the study tracked participants’ health outcomes over periods ranging from 13 to more than 30 years, and participants were queried about their diet only once, at the beginning of the study. Can we assume that the participants gave a reliable depiction of their diet at the outset, and then that they maintained that same diet for the years — in many cases, decades — that followed?”

That seems like an awful way to design an experiment.
It's like we've gone full circle and returned back to timesharing / terminals. Except now we don't have to pay for the mainframe up front lol
The vulnerable populations aren't vaccinated. The vaccination rate in Brooklyn for people 65+ is just a bit over 50% (51% white/54% African American).

If cases keep rising I don't see any reason why hospitalizations and deaths won't follow. Unless the delta variant is less dangerous or treatments have improved tremendously.

So, the options are 1)Stop indoor dining 2)Accept the public health implications or 3) Require vaccinations for high risk activities. I feel like option 3 imposes the least harm.
The CDC doesn't care about cases, they care about hospitalizations, and 99% of hospitalizations are unvaccinated people. If everyone is vaccinated and the virus is passing freely, the CDC couldn't care less because very few people would be going to the hospital. Just like how we don't mandate masks for the common cold, since that doesn't overload our hospital system like COVID has.
I eat 3 eggs a day - I hadn't heard of that study that more than 2 would kill me!

In general I aim for lots of protein, a good bit of fat and less carbs.. with a specific aim to avoid carbs from bread, fries, cakes, chips/crisps
If one succeeds in a CS program, then "programming" should be straightforward. I have a CS degree. We never learned any computer languages in college; you were expected to 'pick up' them well-enough to succeed in the course. (These languages were APL, Maclisp, and PL/I). A CS degree can be a proxy for 'this person proved they can learn computer-related stuff'.
Oh I misunderstood a previous comment then. thanks