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My (probably unpopular) opinion is that 'inline' should never have been added to the C standard, because it breaks the strict separation of interface declaration (in headers) and implementation code (in source files). Inline in C++ is the source of all sorts of problems, the biggest one being slow compilation because the same inline code in headers needs to be parsed over and over again.

Within the same compilation unit, the compiler will inline any suitable function anyway, and 'static' alone is enough to hint the compiler that there's no separate copy of the function needed if it can be inlined at all call sites.

And for inlining across compilation units, there's LTO these days (which admittedly wasn't a realistic option in the late 90's).
Waaay ahead of you. ;-)
The US is leaving the Afghan government without means to defend itself, after spending two decades there de facto in control.

So it's a huge mess, where they've been in control more or less, but they've failed to make the transition into a local civilian state into a stable one.

The offshoot of this is a wave of refugees that will engulf the neighboring countries, decreasing political stability in the Eurasian area.

This is a clear message to all governments - "Washington can no longer be trusted, it's a game of each for his own sovereignty now on".

I'm not saying US should be the guarantor of world piece, but this unmitigated disaster of immediate retreat is causing diminishing of political capital for Washington. It won't be considered as a dependable party from now on.

The situation is even more horrific from PR point of view since US helped to empower Taliban in 1980's to retaliate against Soviet forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
I use Parsec to access my amateur radio shack computer remotely! Good stuff!
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Not having war is more likely than ecological qualms during one.
At that heat, counterintuitively, sitting in front of a fan will only heat you up faster.
> "We have been naive" and "we didn't see it coming"

For context it should be noted that these two famous quotes by the prime minister and staff were not in the context of software or business, but regarding violent crime and the demographic shift away from natives ethnic homogeneity
No guns, no FREEDOM!
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I understand what you mean but I'm just trying to debate the government at the reasoning they imposed.

I agree a vaccine passport isn't necessary in these cases. I can see the benefit for international travel, but imposing it on every aspect of public life is a really invasive and unwarranted measure.

I don't think taking the vaccine is such a big deal, but I understand that others feel differently. I don't want to give up my privacy for their privilege though :)
I'm not sure but there's always been a running joke about nuclear fusion always being 20 years away.
https://bitcoinops.org/. bitcoin is far from stagnant, there's a ton of research and development going on, it's just not being treated as "move fast and break things" kind of project.

it is really sad state of affairs when you only consider something as not stagnant when it's constantly putting people's money at tremendous risk.

at least the market seems to understand it.
No guns, no FREEDOM.
Honestly, that's where the article becomes totally bizarre. ETH is now worth in fiat 3000x more than in 2015, and miner's expenditures are in fiat. So instead of cutting mining rewards by say 95%, it got cut by 25% and that's somehow evil?

Miners don't earn 40% less, they earn 180000% more than back then. Of course not individual miners, but as a "working class".
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I have some ops experience but that was 20 years ago. Nowadays if I need to do something like that I have to do a bunch of research and spend a lot of time on it. Which I would prefer spending, for example, with my son teaching him programming.

I can sympathize with people that don't have technical background -- these are practically defenseless.
I think the biggest issue with Sweden is attracting talent.

Some issues:

Payouts for top talent are not great. Compared to US, you rarely get stock based comp or salaries higher than $80k/y and even then most of it goes to taxes. That is not unique with Sweden though, it's EU in general.

Second. The weather is not for everyone.

IMO that puts a cap in the potential growth as only the top companies can attract and pay the talent (Spotify Klarna, iZettle etc.).
Hands off regulation and overall liberty to pursue both private and business affairs without interference (as long as you pay the massive taxes) was a big surprise for me when I moved to Sweden.
How do they get the requisite backlink or submission to search console to appear in Google I wonder
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> What's your excuse to stay on Freenode?

None whatsoever.

Andy's most recent coke fueled changes have rendered the burning dumpster into a smoldering pile of slag.

It's done. Over. Dead.

In a bit over 2 months, Andy has taken the largest IRC network by user count, by a generous margin (more than TRIPLE the next largest), and reduced it to something that can't even break the top 25.

Even Snoonet breaks the top 10.
> please, don't nitpick, I am aware of wet bulb thermometers

I don’t want to nitpick. Everything you wrote is correct as far as I know. I only want to add to it.

I think understanding what a wet bulb thermometer is crucial to understand the term. And it is a very simple thing: you take a totally normal thermometer, you put it in the shade. So far everything is normal, this is how you measure air temperature since forever. You then put a little sock on the end of the thermometer and make it wet. Super simple. On a traditional mercury thermometer the end is a little glass sphere where the mercury is stored. This glass sphere is called the “bulb”. A wet bulb thermometer is just a thermometer where the bulb is wet. Super simple.

Why would you do this? Obviously this “wet bulb” thermometer will measure a lower temperature than the dry one. This is because evaporation of the water takes away energy from the thermometer. The faster the water can evaporate bigger the difference you will see between the dry and the wet thermometers. If the air is saturated with water vapor then the two measurements will be the same. If the air is dry you will have lots of evaporation and the wet bulb will be way colder than the dry one. So if all you have is two thermometers a sock and a bucket of water you can measure the relative humidity in this indirect way by comparing the two temperatures.

An other way to think about a wet bulb thermometer is that it is a very crude modell of a sweating human. You keep the sock wet and that simulates the thermometer sweating. The temperature the termometer reaches is the limit of temperature you can cool yourself down using evaporative cooling.
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> you could use the swarm to focus sunlight on a certain part of the Earth

Whenever I see a proposal like this (e.g. orbiting solar power stations beaming microwaves down to terrestrial receivers) I think "super-weapon." I can't see why country A would ever allow disliked country B to implement such a scheme.
>> and Tor is a technology actually developed by "the man" with military purposes, and still funded by the US government

> How does it matter if it's open-source?

You (and many other respondents) are responding to "Tor is supplied by the government, and therefore is an evil trap". What the OP seems to be saying is "Tor is an anarchist stand against the man, it's actually funded by the man".
Glad that it works for you, but there many many news reports about the situation that sounds serious.

Here is an example about shootings:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/fatal-shooting...

The thing is you can't just get the good migrants and those that are bad voids the whole idea.

At least until sufficient harsh laws can curb the problem.
sure. however, i don't want to consume wholesome media where people are nice to each other but the writing or directing is absolutely terrible and uninspired, ruining the niceness - and having been exposed to christian young adult fiction, i found that it was awful low quality rubbish, in the vast majority of cases, sadly. it turns out that reality includes awful people, and well written books will tend to be written realistically and therefore end up containing these people or situations, and are generally better, due to contrasts and complexities thus created, etc...
If I had a dime for every time someone wrote "X is the new Silicon Valley"...

Silicon Valley is a place of innovation therefore by saying a place is Silicon Valley 2 you are automatically aknowledging that the new place is a sequel and not an innovation.

Stop trying to copy innovation, to be innovative you have to "Sing your own special song".

The team of Skype and Kazaa did incredible work, they did P2P early and still P2P has not really been used widely in mainstream software nowadays.

It's likely in 5 years no-one will even remember Klarna, don't compare it to Skype or Spotify.
Last weeks Square bought Afterpay. This article is clearly just a marketing stunt to hype Klarna IPO.

I despise both Afterpay and Klarna.
They allow people to buy things they don't need.
This is just US credit card debt in a new package 2.0

Don't waste money on brand expensive clothes especially if you can't pay them all at once.
I have been wearing the same model running shoes from Decathlon that cost 20$ for the past 6 years (buying a new one where the previous one tears down).
>But what is really connecting?

Status updates, text, photos, videos etc.
> If you only do it to prove you were right, stop doing that, it's not a good look.

It seems fine to me if someone makes an error in recollection to correct them (if it's about something material). I mean there are more and less nice ways to do it, and you don't necessarily want to do it about everything, but it seems like a very odd rule of thumb to me to say "it's not a good look". Maybe you have a particular personality archetype/pathological behaviour in mind that I'm not familiar with?

Is it about the awkward relational-imbalance that might be created between people who check records and people who can't be bothered? (the former able to use their spare time to reduce the status of the other party within the relationship, who lack the time/stamina/desire to reciprocate).

I know some super-pedantic people, who might engage in such correction pathologically. With those friends I actively resist ever making any distinction/categorisation that might be used against me in the future. It's a real arms race!
I guess you can also add it to a botnet?
gold is law (as in, overwhelmingly subject to physics laws) and it has survived for millenia. Whatever social problems caused people to move away from it, after some time they kept going back
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>2021: Gang violence increases in Europe, swing pendulum to mass surveillance.

Many Western Europeans on HN and reddit will deny this problem even though it is an actual problem and unfortunately our governments are already using it as an excuse for mass surveillance.

Military SIGINT planes flying over Copenhagen in 2017 to stop gang shootings should have triggered global outrage about mass surveillance:

https://www.berlingske.dk/samfund/politiet-tager-nye-vaaben-...
Other cool ancient tech in Persia are the ice houses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l and the underground canals
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat that can be thousands of meters long.
Oh god, it's already spreading! /s
I always thought about London / Zurich of tech cities of EU
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The US needs to be leading on this issue. They're the largest economy and have benefited the most out of everyone (on a per-capita basis) from the carbon pollution that they're causing, leaving the poorer and hotter countries in the global south to bear the brunt of the downside a century later.
> What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.
Sorry this refers to the capital region only. I’m so used to seeing “Stockholm is the SV of Europe” that I didn’t notice this headline being “Sweden”. The population of the Greater Stockholm area is around 2M
Sure, it "gets rid of people" by isolating them into bubbles and makes sure people who don't want to see it, well, won't see it. Is it "representation" if it's only seen by people who want to see it?

I think it's a big question, and one that applies to most social media, even if TikTok is one of the most extreme examples. Is it ethically/morally/socially good to de facto isolate niche groups of like-minded people into closed spaces? It feels bad to me, but I've also considered that people are "hard wired" for much smaller groups. Maybe the best way to deal with the scale of social media is to condense it down to small, isolated communities, although I personally prefer to actively choose them myself, rather than being herded by an algorithm into some unlabeled cluster with similar viewing habits.
> The real question should be is altavista still working?

It redirects to: https://search.yahoo.com/?fr=altavista
Indeed, in the places that lacked decoration it's nice to see them added.

A bit of a problem however is when original detailing gets removed on n the estates that did have it, often replaced with cheap pastel Styrofoam insulation.
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> in the entire EU there have been _only_ 800, let's say 1k such violations?

No, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Not all violations with fines/punishment are made public, and a vast majority of non-egregious violations will not result in a fine/punishment in the first place because the competent DPA will send a letter outlining what's wrong, how to fix it, and what the consequences will be if it's not fixed.

Those transgressors will simply very quickly come into compliance to avoid the trouble and the affair will not be made public.
"No, the real problem is not idiots hurting themselves, but rather them hurting tools'

Thats cold, and peak Havkernews. People here are by definition not proffeshional. I made quite a few mistakes and was lucky to get away unscathed.
Yes, I got the vaccine, as soon as I could.

All reports are that it is safe and effective. You mention blood clots -- remember that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was paused after six reported cases of blood clotting. Six. Compare this to the 4,000,000+ reported deaths from Covid-19 (worldwide), the ~1,000,000 traffic fatalities, or the ~2,000 people killed by lightning strikes. And this is comparing deaths to cases of blood clots.

Although more cases of blood clotting have been reported, the risk is still within a rounding error of zero.

The idea that the vaccine has been rushed seems a bit strange to me; millions have died of the virus, millions of more have suffered debilitating side effects, and the virus has had a crippling effect on the economy. Under such circumstances, shouldn't we want a vaccine absolutely as soon as possible? The FDA still hasn't given full approval yet; my impression is that they are being extremely cautious.

If you wanted to "wait and see", then I get that, but at this point 4,540,000,000 vaccine doses have been administered. That's four and a half billion pieces of evidence that serious side effects are very rare.

The final reason to get the vaccine is that it's common to have the virus with no symptoms and still spread it. Even if you're willing to bear the risks of infection yourself, are you willing to make this choice for others? (Or else self-quarantine?) With "breakthrough cases" becoming more common, the vaccinated can't be assured of safety unless everyone else gets the vaccine too.

Please get the vaccine. It is the fastest way for all of us to emerge from this hell.
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Yes, but how is that linked to a review?
strange how the BBC remains completely radio silent regarding the Turkish mercenaries there, and the recent request from the Libyan Foreign Minister, for Turkish mercenaries to withdraw
Well, maybe it is time to think about whether currency is really the killer usecase for crypto. I used to but not anymore. ETH is much more useful as a global, standardized back-end technology for finance, so I'm kinda sad the "ultrasound money" trope is catching on, IMO that's what BTC should try to be.

Oh, and BTW, it's called "Ethereum". Not "Etherium".
> it was time for a change… it helps to change up user interfaces now and then

Why? I mean if users are used to the interface, can use without any friction and there's no real need to, why change it just for the heck of it?
"Processed" and "ultra-processed" are two different things: the latter goes beyond the former.

Grape Nuts might could as processed, and Frosted Flakes as ultra-processed.
It’s almost like reading software patents.

> counterfeit consciousness

That’s the proof right there that the AI field is full of closeted Marxists.
Also notice the date on which this law was passed. Everybody in Europe was distracted as "we" were in the mid-finals of UEFA EURO 2020.

At least in Germany it is a common pattern to pass controversial laws when big sporting events are happening...
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That would not be the right approach. What’s a maybe, or perhaps which maybe are you referring to, since there are several possible ones. (Suggest you include a sarcasm indicator if you’re being sarcastic.)

Just pointing out that since people are involved, it’s very reasonable to think that there are going to be bad actors acting badly along with any benefit that might come from this. In response to words that said bad actors are gone from the scene. Do you disagree?
> What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

It depends on what country they are, right now.

Age of consent in both France and Denmark is 15.
> That's why it's a bit hypocritical on their part.

How is that hypocritical. We allow the state to have organized groups with automatic weapons and tanks, and don't allow private individuals or corporations to.
If you watch Robert C. ("Uncle Bob") Martin's talks, he spends a lot of time talking about how the first generation of programmers didn't need agile because they were already professionals from other fields. The agile methodologies were created because the industry decided to hire younger, less experienced, and less diligent, staff.
I feel like they're just gonna keep pushing for this relentlessly and eventually the public will be too tired to fight back and then they'll win.
Thank you for pointing this out, I will have a look at it now!
> What phenomenon is driving this?

Read Davidson/Rees-Mogg: Sovereign Individual (1999)

Basic thesis: violence's utility declines in the information age. The institutions that are built on it, like nation states, go through a phase of decline and decay, during which they make rather more arbitrary use of force in a desperate attempt to resist obsolescence.
Where can you find historical wet bulb temperatures for a specific locality?
Reminds me of the kinder egg VS AR15 ownership thing in the US
ER for identity graphs is a great use case! We see teams do this a lot and with not-great tools. (Ex: users/IPs in splunk/elastic, which are better for simpler matches.)

For one Graphistry project, we run a single node neo4j with 0.5b nodes/edges, so something in the description isn't adding up for me here wrt perf. Maybe an open benchmark would help?

I do agree indexing matters, as that was night/day for our use cases. For ML workloads, we are looking at vector indexes, which graph DBs do not currently support. The ones in this article are on text and take > 100ms, so I'm curious..
This has made me genuinely very irritated. They take up so much space now! Why the f- do Mozilla insist upon making these fundamental but completely pointless changes? I have this software staring me in the face ALL the time, I don't need tab functionality being so large and distinct.

I've not been bothered by a lot of UI changes as each update has allowed them to be reverted quite easily.

It seems that every update has me swearing for 15 minutes until someone on HN helpfully points to a solution, but not this time. GRR.
Why is a paywalled article highlighted on HN?
>A number of European countries have near 100% English literacy and allow for document workflow and accounting in English.

Like he said, there are places with tax rates below Ireland (eg. Hungary, Bulgaria). Taxes are a significant aspect but it's a combination of things.
Doesn't necessarily sound like a bad estimate just based on approximate frequency of other extinction events. What they're describing doesn't necessarily sound like the end of life on Earth, only the end of life as we know it.

I'm not following what the mechanism is supposed to be though.
wow! thanks for this
You could argues it is probably quite useful for their overseas intel activities too. A channel that is only used by spooks is a tad conspicuous.
I agree that in an ideal world function boundaries would be primarily for readability and at most a minor hint to compilers. But I also think youthat give compilers way too much credit. Compilers are still generally applying one relatively simple rule after another. Often that will get good results, but it sometimes fails in surprising ways because the compiler will not be able to predict the effect of one optimization on later ones. This is where hints such as "always inline" are useful, and that doesn't even have to do anything with the target platform.

And as for PGO, yes that's useful, but it's also not a silver bullet: a) mentioned above, thresholds for local optimizations (which is what PGO affects) are not always enough and b) getting a representative profile is not trivial and also needs to be kept up to date.
> What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

Yes.

When I was 15, I had nudes of a 17 year old. Age of consent is 16 in the UK but sexual images of people under 18 is illegal.

Having that content was illegal; and I have the criminal record to prove it.
I don't think the purpose is to make a different shaped image, but to get the same image with smaller optics. If you wanted it distorted, you could just post-process the image from a flat sensor.
If I understand it correctly, the recent CJEU ruling on GDPR [0] should improve the Irish DPC limitations by allowing enforcement in other member states where violations have occurred (under certain specific conditions).

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/top-eu-court-says-natio...
The weather is definitely not for everyone. For the whole package to be attractive I think you need to weigh in the whole package with long holidays, parental leave, walkable cities, good work-life balance, cheap childcare and so on. It’s definitely not the place to go to work 3 years then buy a sports car. It’s a good place to go if you feel ready to switch a pay cut for a different style of life if you just had a couple of young kids perhaps.
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