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I was a donator to Janet for a little while and then eventually stopped.

I think it would be a great programming language if it arrives 5~10 years earlier. Highlights to me are: green thread, TCO, easy distribution, great interop with C, flexibility of choosing between imperative vs immutable data structures.

However, I just couldn't find a good use case for it. For embedded programming, I would always choose Lua if not using Zig/Rust directly. For low latency backend stuff, I can use Clojure or NodeJS, which are much more performant and mature (Janet's performance is roughly on the same level with Lua without JIT).

For general latency insensitive backend projects, there are just too many choices nowadays and Janet doesn't shine enough.

If it arrives 10 years ago with these feature sets, I would love it!
You have never built a super computer, have you?

You have to connect thousands of cables, have hundreds of nodes, with thousands of components, everything interconnected, and if you connect one wrong, the computer outputs incorrect results. You have to routinely update the software, and if a software upgrade introduces a 20% perf regression (which happens), then your 10 MWh cluster starts burning 2MWh for nothing. Or maybe your cooling system sucks, and after a minute of running at full capacity, you need to throttle your cluster to 0.1% of the peak to keep it cool enough that it runs "something".

That's why all systems in the top500 i've been involved with (15 or so) run these benchmarks as an integration tests on every single cluster maintenance (node updates, servicing, OS updates, etc.).

Submitting these results to the Top500 costs you nothing... if your cluster actually works. When you submit to the Top500, they ask for access so that they can re-run them themselves, which happens typically during / after the next maintenance to avoid impacting any users.

If they haven't submitted, 100% sure their cluster does not deliver what they say it should deliver on paper. Maybe it delivers 1% of it, or 0.01% of it (seen both cases in real life). If they haven't fixed it, then maybe it can't be fixed.

HPL, MLPerf, Spec, Stream, OSU.... these are not "benchmarks for bragging rights", these are tests that show that your system works.
Do you have a source for the half a millisecond part?

Just curious
Never ceases to amaze me how talented people so often fail to understand their worth and put up with this nonsense.
> if you don't analyse something over 10 years, you don't know its effect over 10 years

Yes, that is why long term studies are done. Vaccine as a methodology has been proven effective. Many diseases are non-existent now thanks to it.

My knowledge is limited with respect to COVID vaccines but if they are any thing like the vaccines developed for flu strains then they will not have any adverse impact.

>By using a variety of different vaccines all over the world the expression of humanity is that we are spreading the risk among various vaccine types or contracting COVID itself.

"spreading the risk among various vaccine types" could you elaborate on this?
Obviously they haven't read Taleb's books...
Why are you even looking at altcoins for this?
Nothing is mandatory. You can be “King of the Decisions” or whatever title you want.
Though note that the Fennel repo is now at https://sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel/
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The rents are rising because the building code is ridiculously prohibitive (NIMBY and because the German state loves bureaucracy, everything takes 10x longer).

This is the one and only reason. Everything else is political smokescreen.
The two big advantages here:

> administered with a disposable needle-free injector, which uses a narrow stream of the fluid to penetrate the skin and deliver the jab to the proper tissue.

> They can also be stored at higher temperatures - 2 to 8C. Cadila Healthcare claims that their vaccine had shown "good stability" at 25C for at least three months

No needles means, ideally, less training needed to administer. This can keep medical staff working hospitals, where they are needed. And high temperature storage means easier handling, less spoilage.

Even if efficacy is lower with this vaccine, it's still going to save millions of lives of people who don't live in wealthy cities.
So for the sake of the argument let's make up a utopian scenario "group X is Y, but it is so exclusively because of this clearly identified confounding factor Z".

It obviously doesn't follow that group X isn't Y anymore. It just means group X is Y and Z.

If someone says "let's accomodate group X by accomodating Y-ness", and you go and say that's shallow, X-ist, utter bullshit, then you are in denial that group X is Y.

> But there isn't data.

Is this denial again?

> condescension

Sorry, I acknowledge that I was needlessly being a dick. But don't get on the high horse over it. It was just in response to you needlessly being a dick.
Sure, it does. But it does so in the same sense that MPT requires known mean and variance. In either case, we go with estimations.

In many practical cases, the joint distribution of outcomes is easier to estimate safely than the variance. The joint distribution of outcomes can be approximated by something very close to the actual observed distribution of outcomes. However, the variance has, in a sense, to be derived from a fitted model. This is one step further removed from reality which risks introducing more incorrect assumptions.

Other reasons are that the variance doesn't even exist for some assets (too heavy tailed distributions) and that errors in estimating the joint distribution can be smaller thanks to at least some level of central limit theorem.
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Same as anywhere else. Lack of supply caused by zoning and an interest in keeping property values high by existing owners.
This was discussed deeply at the Mozilla forum for CAs, and the answer is "even if someone wished it, nope", mainly because of dynamic IP address, and even if we removed this type of issuance, the next level is modifying your contact details on the IP block, which is hard because there's isn't a single standard (on modifying, the data format is more-or-less standardised at this point).

Google actually wants to do this for their Cloud Platform, and owns the whole chain (i.e. has its own CA, https://pki.goog) but it's currently hard in the current state of CA/B baseline requirements.
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"Claims that "they will never work" are predicting the future based mostly on personal biases."

No, there are transport and contruction proffeshionals explaining that economics of the Hyperloop cannot work, it requires more effort to build and has 100x less capacity and worse safety than any bullet train.

The Boring Company doesn't even make sence, how are they making tonnels cheaper? Have they achieved anything at all? There is no 'core of innovation' behind it
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/the-human-ear-detects-half-a-mi...
My perspective:

Plusses of cities:

- can walk to many things, others are available via short drive or mass transit trip

- friends live nearby

- convenience store literally downstairs from where I live. Want a can of Coke at 10:30 pm? Not a problem.

- well-maintained: meaning no major potholes, snow is regularly shoveled from sidewalks etc.

- I can live in an apartment, which means basically almost zero home maintenance work.

Minuses of cities:

- Depending on specific location, can be far from nice green walking areas (and even such area is close by, it can be heavily occupied by others and hence will not help with relaxing as much)

- Noise levels from neighboring apartments, cars, barking dogs, never-ending construction and home improvements going around etc.

- Much more people around. Random inconsiderate strangers (aka assholes who blast music from their cars, park like the whole street belongs to them etc. etc. ) make me angry.
> I can't see the economic reason

The market creates the price: little supply and very high demand. Fürstenfeldbruck is one of the most attractive regions in the country. Generally this is the case for the rest of the metropolitan region of Munich. Fürstenfeldbruck is a small town (< 40k people) near Munich.
If you truly believe that you can wait out a few years without being at reasonable risk of getting COVID, you're logic isn't off. You are ultimately correct, we can't actually really know what the 5+ year side effects are until we actually witness them, though I believe the data at hand indicates that they should be long-term safe.

Pretty much any type of reasoning + data at hand would indicate that any type of "years past" risks that would occur with vaccines would also be present with COVID itself (especially along the inactivated virus and mRNA vaccine routes). And if the magnitude of the risks scale with exposure (they probably do), then getting straight up COVID would still yield higher long-term risk than getting vaccinated (and either successfully not getting infected, or getting infected).

Basically, if you really think your choice is between not getting COVID, and not getting COVID and getting vaccinated, then obviously not getting COVID at all yields the lowest possible risk. I would challenge anyone's risk assessment on thinking they can just... not get COVID over a 10 year window however.

Perhaps one change to your analogy is that the intention of these vaccines doesn't map well to new software into a distributed system. It's more like providing a specifically crafted input to a system. Long-term there is supposed to be no distinct "vaccine" sub-unit that you can point to in the human body, there's only the human bodies persisted long-term memory and response to a vaccine. I dunno if that's meaningfully changes your thinking at all, but maybe worth thinking about.
The difference here is that I can hand off the first code to any random freshly hired CS grad or cheapest outsourced coder and they can grok the code quickly. This is the advantage Go has to all other languages.

The Rust code needs maintenance coders of way higher caliber, not something you'd usually find. It's super fun for the top-tier developers who love to be expressive and concise with their code, but all code is pushed down to maintenance mode eventually when the hotshots move on to the new shiny project.

Go has removed pretty much every footgun by sticking to the basics. You have one way to do a loop, one way to do comparisons etc. There are very few ways to hide non-obvious functionality.

It _is_ possible to create complex programs, that are hard to follow but that's a larger design problem. Not something the language can force on developers.
What surprised when I first learned about it : Germany only has a minimum wage since 2015 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_Germany

The article is about food banks too. I am from NL, and the first food bank here was established in 2000.

Why were there no food banks in the 80s?
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> After proving their eligibility, customers are given an identity card

Eligibility checks, identity cards, someone literally stamping a record card - doesn't seem very Germanic. Are so many people really going to food banks without a good reason that you need to have this authoritarianism to catch them out? If someone turns up asking for food can they not be trusted that they're probably not doing something so embarrassing for fun?
Interestingly when submitting the latest tar.gz to Virustotal, Microsoft claims it contains Wacatac.B!ml

Submitting one file at at time doesn't trigger it.

Even packing up all the binaries and submitting that doesn't trigger is (and neither does packing up the rest of the files abd submitting them.)

So I'm going to ignore MS on this one since no one else found anything suspicious either.
Funny, I almost never have my phone against my ear. At home, I put calls on speaker and in public I typically use headphones
> For example Hyperloop is just a concept that other people are trying to implement with very limited resources.

Virgin Hyperloop raised $160 million from investors and all they can show after 7 years is a successful trip through the massively downscaled 500m test track, at a fraction of the advertised speed.

So far nobody could show that it can compete with standard high-speed trains, how those by far largest vaccum chambers are supposed to be maintained and protected, or how the metal tube's massive temperature-dependent expansions are going to be handled. Those are huge engineering challenges and all they seemed to focus on so far are some public partnerships and interior designs.

Musk was wise to get off that train.
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> If I’m going to spend around a third of my life working, I want to do it with a group of people I like and care about.

I strongly agree with this sentiment. Above a certain wage-threshold, this is much more important to me than additional remuneration. I do some of my best work when I'm working with a good team with a high degree of trust, which is much easier to come by when I like the people on the team. The current state of semi-permanent WFH has had a negative impact on this.
Simpler version: _accuracy_ is how close the mean of your measurements is to the true value, _precision_ is the variance of your measurements.
Did you know that Wernher von Braun wrote a novel called "Project Mars: A Technical Tale" [0] in which the title for the leader of the Martians was "Elon"?

So when you read something like "Elon for Elon" somewhere, you can rather understand it as "Elon for [martian] president" than just as a gag (even though most people would just not know, so maybe it has already turned into only a gag by now).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale
I know someone who wants to rebuild his one level apartments into a four level apartment block. Good district in Hamburg. Exactly the kind of thing the city needs. More apartments, increased density, private investment.

He's trying to get the allowance to do so for up to two years by now. Every plan his architect makes gets denied for different, petty reasons. Once he manages to fulfill all requirements of the bureaucracy, the true battle will begin.

Residents in the area have already said they will do everything in their power to stop this rebuilding from happening. No matter the outcome of this legal battle, that'll add another couple of years until this apartment building becomes reality.

Germany has a problem. It's becoming impossible to execute in physical space.
Racket is also just 1 download away and even comes with an IDE.
Three issues here.

One, "like a family" is a process, not an atomic label. It's not something you can just stick anywhere. Families are dynamic and a lot of work, frankly. Humans are messy.

Two, even if the label meant something, it doesn't mean the same thing to each person that uses it. Sounds like some of these folks are jerks. This might be because of an idea of what family means that's much darker than other people's. Also there are a lot of jerks in the world. The writer doesn't seem to like a lot of people they work with either. That's all fine and well. Families choose many times to disengage and only be together during certain special events. The question is whether or not these kinds of families are what the slogan means. Who knows? Sounds more like a crutch used by management than a real concept that everybody can grok.

Three, the author is playing right along. It looks to me like they're doing this passive-aggressive thing where the actively don't want to be like whatever this "family" label means to others at work and they also don't want to spend time with those folks. That's what they should say, to others. You just don't flip around a vague slogan and get something more useful. By translating it into the already vague "family" moniker, they're cheating themselves out of the opportunity to grow. "I don't like you people. You make me work too much, you're a bunch of assholes and I'm leaving." is a painful thing to say, and I'd wait until I have another job to say it, but rephrasing it as "I don't want to be like a family..." is just couching it in the same bullshit everybody is using. If you want to be that way, fine, just realize that you're doing the same thing as you feel is being done to you, i.e. using vague language to dodge difficult conversations.
Does 10% cover the cost of building and maintaining the housing? If not, who's paying for it instead?
I am pretty sure this is not meant for an average consumer but for pharma companies and other life sciences based companies.
The time you’ll spend building it yourself is worth less than 37 USD?
While germany as a country might be rich, a lot of people are far from it. 20%+ of working people are in low-wage jobs. 5,6% are unemployed. The Medium net household income is ~23000€. High taxes, high cost of energy, high cost of gas. The state pension scheme is basically doomed to fail in the next years when the boomer generation retires.
Again, I’m not claiming they don’t work, the parent is.

I’m simply stating that if they don’t work, the CDC shouldn’t claim that they do.

I’m basically saying that either the parent is wrong, or the CDC is wrong.
At least that's what he told his wife
You can just license full CPUs and major IP blocks for stuff like IO from companies such as a ARM.

The machine-learning parts are custom but the rest are probably similar to what you would find in a smartphone chip.
It is amazing how experimental treatments keep getting approved. And traditional proven and effective vaccine like Novavax keeps getting pushed behind
I thought session cookies are tied to a specific browser/is/ip/etc. combo
I live here and have a well, the aquifer water is pretty much rotten eggs.
> run these benchmarks as an integration tests on every single cluster maintenance

Why run someone else's benchmark and not your own application to test performance? And what's the point of submitting to Top500? Why do you care how your system ranks? What's the business or technical purpose in that?
afaik there are no state run food banks. In germany those are mostly non-profit ngos. One of them is 'Tafel Deutschland e. V.' that is operation since 1993. https://www.tafel.de/english-information/

edit: replaced "official" with "state run"
In NL it is no different, you actually need to prove you have insufficient income.

I actually wonder where it would be more relaxed.
No way. Ask HN "new generation" to tell you, Apple and Microsoft are taking care of you to feel safe and protecting the children at the same time.
Linux desktop sucks. It is broken.
I found out that this "brokenness" is what I expect to have.
To modify and optimize my UX.
Right. After having Covid in April 2020 I developed what appears to be a hypersensitivity to Covid, where I get an allergic reaction when exposed within about 20-30 minutes. It's not pleasant, but I guess you could say I'm a human detector similar to what dogs have been trained for. I can assert that surgical, N-95, and KN95 are not completely effective in my experiences. P-100 masks however have been basically full proof so far. They have been a goto despite being expensive. They can be covered with cloth If you think they look dorky. Another antictode is that there are a lot of weak viral shedders with little or no symptoms out there. During some of the bad months I've inferred it must be around 1/5 to 1/10 people.
Ask HN: How to manage multiple interviews alongside a full-time job
I am based in Pakistan and currently working remotely full-time as a frontend developer. I want to move abroad, so from the past few months I have been actively started applying for companies in Germany in hopes to get hired.

I feel that interviewing is a very had process. First I have to put a lot of time to find an appropriate position, do research on the company and their culture and then apply for the position. After applying, I found the response rate to be very low. Around 5%-10% companies decide to start a screening call.

Next week, I have technical interviews with two German companies and I have to prepare for that alongside putting 8-10 hours everyday for my full-time job. I usually don't find the energy or will for interview preparation during weekdays and if an interview comes, I make sure it is scheduled in the next week so that I can prepare on weekends.

Those who have been through the same experience, how many jobs interviews do you think one should have in the pipeline at the same time so to not get overwhelmed?
What is the difference between an official food bank and a NGO?

AFAIK, all food banks in NL are NGOs.

edit: I wonder if the Tafel date of 1993 has anything to do with the reunification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_McFarlan_Moore
By "reason" I mean I don't see how it's justified. The government could work on both the supply and demand side of equation, and increase the quality of life of residents, by allowing a way larger chunk of income stay in their hands.
I find it interesting to see a blog post about 'the tyranny of the minimum viable user' when the website itself doesn't work without Javascript. The irony is, the article text is almost entirely contained inside the description meta.
‘Devastating career event’: scientists caught out by change to ARC fine print
Requires people licensed to transport liquid oxygen as well as tanker trucks designed for it; with so much unplanned for demand, it's hard to balance the needs of medical and industrial oxygen quickly.
In the UK I think you just turn up and say you need food and they trust you.

I'm very skeptical of the idea that rich people are putting themselves through the humiliation of saying that they aren't able to support themselves in order to get free grocery basics.
Better yet, couldn’t you use electricity to break up some water molecules, so sulfide oxidation happens in situ? As an extra bonus, hydrogen fuel.
It's a similar thing with work-life balance. It amazes me how many devs are unwilling to set boundaries and work ridiculous hours.

Also, people dealing with shitty compensation for years or staying at the same job, because they are afraid that no one else will want them or that they aren't worth 3x the compensation they have today.

Also, people asking for meager raises instead of big ones.

Recognizing your worth as a developer/individual is Step 1 to a better career and life.
Its only complicated if your HTML is modified HTML.
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Do you think anyone has checked if it's cheaper to have the bureaucracy/administration rather than just not check people?
I'll add this from experience. Prescription drugs, and alcohol, can cause Sleep Apnea too.
> Unfortunately it looks like reflection can’t look up functions in a module at all, which is surprisingly broken.

The more time passes the more I think ubiquitous reflection in statically typed languages is what's broken (and a reflection (heh) of deep limitations of the language).

So while I could understand having issues with generics breaking existing reflection code (which doesn't seem to be the case), I'm not going to be sad over reflection having never supported toplevel functions in the first place.
Major chunks of Tesla and SpaceX are already profitable businesses selling competitive products. They don't need hype to be profitable.

The fact that they're still investing in future products doesn't seem like much of a criticism.
It's more than window dressing. A year ago I added correct generics to about 50 000 lines of Java, an old module in a bigger program. The change was mostly mechanical, removing casts and adding signatures.

I found a few places where refactoring had left behind a wrong type cast. Production logs demonstrated actual crashes corresponding to these cast. There were bugs in the issue tracker, marked unresolvable.
hm yeah i misread. sorry. i meant "official" in the sense of provided by the german state.