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> I don't want to discount you, but I'm skeptical. You are new and I'm guessing you got banned.

That's fair, but I'm not actually new. If you really joined in 2017, then you're many years newer than I am. Yes, I've been shadowbanned many times. I've lost count. Maybe thirty times?

Most of the time it's hard to link to the evidence in such a way that you could see it for yourself. I'd like to link you to submissions of mine that got upvotes and had conversations going on, but were then anonymously flagged without justification, but it's not possible to link to them. It's not possible to see from the outside that an account has been shadowbanned without comparing the behavior of logged-in and non-logged-in accounts.

Example of a wrong, unacceptable viewpoint: humanity is not actually on the brink of climate catastrophe due to CO2 emissions. Recently there was a fearmongering article from Nature about climate doom, and I linked to sea level graphs generated by NOAA that showed linear, rather than accelerating change in sea level, and was apparently shadowbanned for that. Obviously, linking to NOAA in support of a climate doom comment would not be a bannable offense.

Edit: oh, and I've apparently already been placed in some kind of slow-play mode. I responded about an hour ago, but you can't see it. Are most people aware stuff like this goes on on HN?
You can. Most professions are not being tested this way. If you have education in the field + a lot of real experience, there is no reason to give someone a programming exercise.
Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships between organisms. A good summary to human evolution is the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolutionary_genetics

> I don't really understand how you can have multiple species that interbreed and then some go "extinct" but then we find "extinct" DNA in living ancestors.

We have sequenced and reconstructed some of the Denisovan DNA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA#Human_aDNA

This helps a lot, when combined with modern humans, and allows us to reconstruct our evolutionary relationship(s).
The chemistry behind that is simple and well known for some time. The novel idea is that Al can be used as a storage for H which is much denser than you could ever achive with compressing H. In the end a car would then be fueled by an Al rod and water. The whole transportation nightmare of H2 (liquidification, cooling, etc) would be gone. Al is made by electrolysis as is H2. So it is a staged process, where first the Al is made and later transformed to H2 by an exothermic reaction which generates additional heat which can be used for heating or cooling (via adsorption coolers).
Their country? Tell that to the Hazars. Honestly, the ignorance is baffling. Taliban is a modern construct, and not only did the stand to gain from a civil war, they have also found a common enemy to unite against and also support from their previous enemies the Pakistani Talibans.
> to force me to revoke the sanctions

How were you forced exactly?
I wonder how weeds and pests will evolve to avoid this technology. Will we end up with laser resistant plants?
Check out modtu.be, the most advanced mod archive player around.

https://modtu.be/
We spoke with some legal counsel, and they told us that K1 wait times have gone through the roof, 8 months to a year just to even get the consulate interview. As far as we understood, we would have to wait until the visa was approved before entering the states and getting married.
Isn’t it a moral hazard to all-but-guarantee visas to everybody?

The current heads of state have no reason to keep Afghanistan together. They’re all going to the US with whatever plunders from they made anyway. No skin in the game.
Strict consistent hierarchical classification is ultimately impossible.

It's used in domains where access is based on physical location (as with libraries), though there are numerous alternatives to subject-based grouping used (especially with closed stacks).

If you ever want to see librarians in a heated discussion, tell them of your plans to develop a consistent hierarchical topical classification scheme.

That said: there are useful classifications. None are perfect, serve all needs, please all parties, or are fully consistent. But most are better than a haphazard mess.
i suppose its different / easier when youre older as many peers dont use it >that much<. Everythings changing and i dont have the insight into the industrie.
The fact that they offer Linux does not mean you have to stick with what they install. It means Linux hardware support is safe.
Yes - I was very close to pulling the trigger and buying one of the new M1 Macs. It seemed like Apple had finally delivered a device worth paying top dollar for. Then this fiasco with iCloud scanning happened.

I don't mind the invasion of privacy so much as the idea that, even after paying so much money, the device is still not really "yours".
If you think that through, you will recognize it makes no sense at all.

Diabetics are uniquely free of risk of insulin spikes. (Except from accidental overdosing.)
> the US has not liberalised drug laws - especially laws around the kind of drugs that result in addiction, death and mass incarceration.

You are effectively allowed to smoke meth in public now in LA and some other cities on the west coast. There are countless videos on social media of people smoking meth on public transit and breathing second-hand meth smoke in other people's faces. Commenters say that the police refuse to do anything about it.

Here's a video of a homeless lady smoking meth in public and telling the person videotaping her that "crystal [meth] is legal now".

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZObCSDWPh/

"Law" is not just legislation. It's one part legislation, one part precedent, and one part enforcement.

You may not think it's legal, but I trust the homeless lady smoking meth in public to better know what she's allowed to get away with.
Even legacy BIOS effectively served a similar purpose before the functionality provided ended up being too limited. The name BIOS, Basic Input/Output System, in fact focuses on this functionality of serving the I/O function calls more than initialization/booting the system. Of course these days a modern OS just ignores the BIOS and drives the hardware itself once booted (at least partially due to the fact its design predates protected mode).
If you absolutely don't want these features there are $15 feature phones which do not have them either…

My point is that the price tag on this is way, way too high.
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Exactly. And once you’ve got your tests made to be specific enough to make it impossible for them to be evaded? You don’t have a testing suite anymore, you have a compiler!

Which, honestly, is a great argument for choosing languages with highly specific and derivable type systems: I’d rather deal with compile time errors than with writing runtime tests.
>>If you write a code generator whose input is something like Forth ("operators are separated by spaces") you have written a compiler.

Without a parser, how do you expect to ingest those operators separated by spaces? Let alone verify that the input is valid?

Either you are aware you are writing a parser, or you don't and end up doing very poorly.

More importantly, the whole point of a compiler is not to output a binary. The whole point of a compiler is to allow developers to write code in a higher-level language that allows them to express programming constructs easily, and veridy and validate input to help pinpoint errors. Once you get to a AST then you can even say your work is already done.
Fall of Saigon v2. Although I have to say the speed at which the Taliban took over once the US pulled out is pretty astonishing: it's clear they have a strong level of popular support.
Maybe the failure with google plus did them a favor: so instead of owning another social network they focused on analysing all the private data they already vacuumed up and pushed machine learning into it every corner of the system, maybe this preceived lack of private data forced them to be more thorough at analysing what they already had and forced them to focus on android as source of data.
Then just buy a $15 feature phone which do not have social media apps either, + a $50 4G hotspot if you need one. Same features and same non-feature, still a quarter of the price.
I'd say Saigon but let's be honest the South Vietnamese army did fight pretty hard and clinged on for longer.
The article is about the July 29th incident. (In case you see the title and like myself worry it happened again)
No Jerry, I was asking for citations about kidney failure caused by excess water consumption. Hyponatremia is not kidney failure.
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US government should build large camp in Nebraska, provide anyone who goes there with free potatoes, lentils, water, toilet and any amount of medical grade hard drugs they want. Drug addicts will go there, voluntarily overdose in a month, problem solved.
If you want a lightweight non-intrusive terminal type email client open, there’s always mutt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client)

(It can be configured to use the lynx terminal web browser to render html content nicely as text)
The point that people do die of it may be less important that the point that people do not know that one can die of it.

I have seen very many people in the running cultures that first, have lost contact with the bodily feedback, and/or second, let pieces of information float and influence without getting vetted and grounded.

One of such dictums warns "to drink at least three litres of water per day!" with many exclamation marks: I have seen people suffer the consequence (and one brought one to the hospital, where she was told "lady, break that habit") because, simply, it was not the adequate amount /for them/.

It is not a difficult error to make if some hydrate and do not eat (intake nutrients), and do not know or feel that, as emerged in these posts, the concentration of salts is key.

Anecdotes about people dying for that 6-litres are around and you can find some in the article I linked.
While SF and a few other cites are very progressive towards drug use/crime, the majority of the US is not. It's no surprise the cities with the most progressive attitudes attract drug users.

For some reason SF has an extreme policies on many issues and implements strange policies that are sure to fail when implemented only locally. Unless you want to bear the cost of treating every victim/drug user in the US, you can't be too lenient.

Additionally, SF thinks they have have their cake and eat it. The bay area is one of the most expensive places in the world. Providing housing to the even the most victimized in society doesn't change that. It doesn't address the root issue. (Low income housing is even worse, it let's many people afford renting and a few afford owning via easy loans which in turn pushes prices higher.)

Besides that I agree with the article. Tough love in some form is often needed to break addition. Addiction is by definition when you cannot break the cycle yourself.

Laws need to be more nuanced. Drug use in private and without slowing/quickly killing yourself is not the governments business. Drug use in a public street should be. Addiction should be handled like any medical case which can involve state-backed psych holds.
They just have strong level of petro-dollar support from the Gulf.
The US as a whole might not have liberalised drug laws, but California definitely has.
Here is some data about California drug overdoses (until 2018, after that the trend continues): https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-summari...

As you can see the amount has gone up by 50% since 1998, despite, or maybe because of, the more liberal laws in CF.
I too have seen the. Lassic robot dystopia film Runaway.
America's love and abuse of hard drugs is, like our love of violence, mostly a cultural problem. There are many poor countries where people are much worse off where these problems are far less severe. However I do understand that a relative change in these factors is likely to have contributed in a pretty massive way. I just think these discussions always overlook the biggest factor, which is culture, which is too bad, even if it's partly because we don't know how to fix culture like we know how to fix housing, employment, etc.
Isn't the clue in lisp the speculative idea that the program programs the program in the future?
I too have seen the. Classic robot dystopia film Runaway.
Same with Virgin in the uk.
> The 'cap' in Cap'n Proto is for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

This seems to go completely unmentioned on the home page, other than the word “capability system” in the very first sentence.

What does capability based security mean for a data interchange format? The notion hardly makes any sense to me.

From the homepage: “Think JSON, except binary.”

What would JSON look like with capability-based security?

> You can work with results without actually having the results, e.g. before the results exist

This sounds exactly like promises, or perhaps a functional effect system. What does this have to do with data serialization?
The start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
Thanks for posting that video link.

Lisp was actually developed for research and development of symbolic computation systems. Early on Lisp was applied to mathematics problems like integration and other manipulation of mathematical expressions.

Thus term rewriting systems and similar (-> rule-based systems) have been early on implemented in Lisp, but Lisp itself is based on a functional&imperative expression evaluation.
Feature phones with a classic keypad and bad T9 implementation are not addictive at all, trust me. And they cost a twentieth (~$15) of what the Light Phone costs. If you need the hotspot feature then just buy an additional 4G hotspot for $50 more. You are still spending only a quarter of the Light Phone price to get the same features and non-features.
It goes deeper. I’m talking about younger staff at public interest law firms rebelling against representing organizational clients squarely within the ambit of their public interest mission, because of the client’s positions on unrelated issues. Much to the consternation of stoutly liberal attorneys of the previous generation.

It’s bad. Professionals inserting their personal political views into their jobs is destroying public faith in other professions. We can’t risk the legal profession coming to be seen as yet another way for the liberal elite to tilt the very systems of society in favor of their political ideology.
> The idea is not to automate software development, the idea is to automate the writing of it.

But they seem the same.

> Meaning it is not the logical part you want out of the equation.

The "logical part" is what we call "writing software". The rest of it is window dressing.

> the bad naming conventions

Why do you expect an AI to come up with clearer names than a human can?
Are you sure? Southeast Asia including the Philippines used to be part of Sundaland. Its even taught in the history books of the Philippines - that it was connected with present day Borneo.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland]
Just over a month ago [July 8] the President was actually arguing that the Afghan army would win:

Q Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?

THE PRESIDENT: No, it is not.

Q Why?

THE PRESIDENT: Because you — the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped — as well-equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.

...

I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more re- — more competent in terms of conducting war.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
In India also they build solar vehicle, the students. Most of the material is Chinese, government imposes duties on these things and Indian students are not able to afford the raw material needed to build these as a result.

Weird thing is indian government imposes duties on products that India doesn't even make.
I found Polarsteps as an alternative for a digital travel log for my friends and family. No affiliation. It also has maps integrated, and you can even order a print copy of your pictures and stories.

https://www.polarsteps.com/
As usual, it's the niche communities that survive. I do wish I could find something more general, though. I guess HN is as good as it gets for that.
Yeah. In reality the main reason new audio codecs are developed post-Opus isn't technical, it's so that companies can get their patents into new standards and rake in the licensing royalties. There are better codecs for really low bitrates but that's quite niche these days; even telephony is going wideband and higher bitrate.
I had been a Debian based distro user for ever (ubuntu, sidux, Debian unstable/testing... ) things were breaking all the time. Sure if you stick to stable things only break once every couple of years when you upgrade to the next version. However stable is really not suitable for desktop work, I'd have to install almost all my usual software through other means, that's not what I use a distro for.

I switched to tumbleweed 2 years back and really liked it, but zypper/rpm is awfully slow and I was missing some packages (although OBS is awesome). So I tried endeavorOS 6 month ago (arch with graphical installer) and I have to say I really like it. Not one break so far.

actually the breakage is often in configuration updates. Libreoffice is particularly bad, often it doesn't start without any message after an upgrade, which is fixed by whiping it ~/.config/libreoffice
Low latency was a design goal.
"Work, listen, negotiate".

Prerequisites:

1. Maintainer has expertise about the project.

2. Connection with users and knowledge of their needs and of their willingness to pay.

3. Ability to estimate project's demands in terms of effort and expenditure, given a set of objectives. (This is just a part of an expertise really; often overlooked, but crucial here.)

Step 1: Based on the user needs, the estimates, and maintainer's other realistic earning options, calculate financial goals.

Step 2: Run the funding campaign.

Step 3: Refine the prerequisites, repeat the steps.

All abstract and hypothetical here of course.
.. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…
Hey, I'm sitting in Watergraafsmeer, where I happen to know our front door is about 60cm below sea level, so I'd like to give you a shout-out for help keeping my feet dry.

(And also, I agree with what you wrote.)
That was easily not true for the early days of CSS. I still have memories of writing CSS for Netscape Navigator and finding it didn't follow the CSS standards in certain areas IE did. One example that I recall was the text-align property. Even early versions of IE correctly only applied that to text only and not certain other elements. Whereas for quite some time Netscape Navigator would align everything (including tables and the like). The Netscape behavior was exactly the same as what the old <center>...</center> tag did so I have a suspicion that Netscape took the lazy route and just applied the same code for text-align: center as for the <center> tag despite the very different behavior specified by the HTML and CSS standards!

I acknowledge that Netscape did eventually fix this particular bug, although if my memory serves it took them in the order of years to fix. It was stuff like this which held back CSS adoption since CSS was a moving goal-post--browsers were fixing bugs and breaking layouts in the process! IE's incorrect box model big mistake for instance.

I would also point out what may be a surprising fact to young people today: IE for Mac was the first browser to have full support for CSS Level 1 [1]. Opera (which had their own engine back in the day) was also pretty good from what I read.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS#Difficulty_with_adoption
It amazes and saddens me how much harm ideology can justify inflicting on others.

The impact on women and girl’s lives is shameful.

My prayers are with them.
I was reading up a bit on Boeing and it seems that their best days were in the 1960s and 70s.
Just coasting on past successes.

Luckily for them they literally cannot fail because their competitors simply don't have the production capabilities to take over- Airbus has a massive backlog.
Well...

It's a niche language. For number of jobs, obviously no. There are growing, though. Have a look at Elixir Slack channel.

For getting a higher pay check? Possibly. I knew 0 Elixir when I got hired as a contractor and I even asked for more money than ever before.

I think the smaller pool of talent can be in your advantage, but it's hard to say "yes" to your question the way it's phrased.
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Absolutely agree with you. Still suffering from it. Worst and most expensive experience since more than 20 years of ThinkPads. I was buying ThinkPads for the good linux support, the keyboard, the Trackpoint, the excellent repairability and extendability. Last year august ordered the P1 Gen 3 without Nvidia, after being delayed for more than 2 months and I had to go on travel, cancelled it. In hindsight it was good to cancel, the gen 3 apparently has the same heat problems. Maybe the gen 4 will be better, however already now is known that key travel has been shortened. If there would be another brand that fullfils my requirements, would switch in a heartbeat.
I agree, but this also sort of kicks the can down to code review... until that could be automated too.

As opposed to building the code from the ground up, maybe we'd have to sculpt it from an amorphous blob into something more refined.

I guess coding manually would be something people do as a hobby, like solving sudoku.
This sounds like Einstein the mythical quote-originator, rather than the human scientist. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/

All the same it's a good aphorism.

See also:

> "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"

- Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Does this work for the starting phoneme of a word?
Yet, they do, again and again.
Ah, I remember the first time I discussed this with a friend. It was right before graduation, and we were wondering if we'd still have jobs in a few years.

I think that was 1982.

For me, a modern language like Python already removes 90% of the work I was doing in 1982, and templates and my editor do a lot.

It's really not clear there are huge speedups to be found there.
copilot is a game changer. It can and will be automated and get smarter as we use it. If it was able to generate unit tests for the functions it was writing for example to come up with solutions. I don't doubt someone is adding this feature as we speak.
> The actual compilation. Actual programming language design.

Isn't that intimately tied to parsing?

I mean, how do you expect to implement a parser if you have no idea if a specific programming construct can actually be parsed, or what are the implications in compilation time of doing things one way or another?
Basecamp comes to mind. Jason Fried and David HH have been saying for years to have a regular 40 hour schedule.