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By "problems to solve" do you mean

- programming language problems like making certain language features, paradigms and kinds of abstractions available (or not available)

or

- solving actual problems when building software - how to build a maintainable and performant server, OS, web UI etc.

For the second you're better off staying away from the 'weird' languages especially if you care about being productive.
That thread is gold :).
Is that describing the best spot for the interceptor itself, or the radar guiding the interceptor? (Not necessarily at the same site, and I can imaging reasons why separate sites would be better.)
I guess they don't capture it from the CRT - they capture it from the video signal from the computer.
Generate online Web Admin Panel app with Spring Boot and React for your database
Japan tests a rotary detonation engine in space, big increase in fuel efficiency
Maybe it was all just an elaborate prank played on the luminaries of the military-industrial-media complex. The first time Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, and their ilk experienced any sort of even the mildest of comeuppances.
Clock rollovers can be interesting.

Some time back I did work at a devices startup processing data collected from trial runs. For some reason an earlier developer had chosen to use time-of-day, in seconds, rather than elapsed time, as the index for data recording. I'd registered this as a poor design decision, though it was difficult to articulate why.

That argument became far easier after a field trial spanned midnight, and the data series iterated from 86,400 to 0.

On the other hand, I've never had trouble remembering just how many seconds (or minutes) there are in a day, since.
There was this analogy about programming language proponents.

Language A has features 1, 2, and 3. Language B has features 1, 2, and 4.

Language A user thinks they're superior because they have feature 3, which B lacks. B's feature 4 they don't understand, but they've never needed it so it's useless.

Language B user thinks the opposite, of course.

(this was much better explained in an article that graced HN a while back, and I can't find anymore)
FSD computer is in over a million cars, btw. It’s still hundreds of thousands, but more like one thousand thousand.
Though there are games where the fun has been proven, and it's important to be able to iterate fast without breaking what's already there. There's a great 2016 blog post from Riot on how they test LoL:

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...
Ferdi – a messaging browser combines messaging services into one application
Notice that we might have a different definition of metaprogramming. Including a module, to me, is part of metaprogramming.

A lot of codebases do that, and they create chain of undeclared dependencies between multiple modules being included that make impossible to determine the requirements to use such module in the first place.

The development tend also to slow down to a cripple, as well as being overstaffed to compensate.
… if you back up your device to iCloud. (Of course, almost everyone does.)

Apple was apparently going to close this loophole, but decided not to. They probably received negative feedback from the three letter acronym agencies.
I'm spoiled; I'm disappointed when I go into 3D mode and the structures don't rise above the ground.
> I don't know whether the benefits of GoF research outweighs the risks

It should be obvious now, that all the gain-of-function research done on coronaviruses didn't help at all with this pandemic. Gain-of-function researchers didn't contribute to vaccine development, vaccines were developed by different people.
My first android phone was absolute crap.

Sometimes it takes a generation or three for a technology to be worth it. It just means you may not want to be an early adopter.

For what is worth, smart devices are already ok - just not for all brands. Xiaomi has a smart chip in everything, including something as "dumb" as electric kettles, and it works. Or at least it doesn't break anything.
Why is that logic applied for Iran but wasn't for Israel? Who gets to decide which country is "cool" to have with illegal nukes and why?
And I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse of SCO will pay all of it to their lawyers.

Though there is a slim chance there will be some left over, and will go to the shareholders.
Do you live close to ballard or bitter lake then? That’s the only part of Seattle getting that bad from my understanding.
Is it really the best option, performance-per-$?
For the price of a down payment on a small Silicon Valley home, you too could own a 36-acre missile site!
I read it as "big machined honeycomb panels made out of high strength aluminum alloys"... So no mention of the actual size of a single panel.

Крупногабаритных just means "large/big sized".
The link redirects me to an article titled ‘Pentagon: Two ISIS-K targets killed during Friday strike’
So silly. I like it.
Biggest fraud, yet.
$20k is on the low side for what you're trying to do - good chance it will run out as you're just getting started. On average both of these options work out to basically burning $20k, maybe learning stuff along the way, maybe not. Which could be fine depending on your financial situation and risk tolerance.

But don't do either if that's your only $20k. Certainly don't go into it with the expectations that you'll get a reliable return on the investment.

Since you're asking about other options - you can always invest in stocks and other assets but it's hard to give advice about it without knowing your financial situation and goals.
Back when we were writing alt shells for Windows 95/98/2000 (geoShell, Litestep, etc) uptime plugins/modules were all the rage. Screenshotting and sharing were popular and came with bragging rights.
Not yet. Laser defense systems keep getting better each year.
Solid state 70KW lasers are in test. The consensus is that they start to get militarily useful above 100KW.

Higher powered chemical lasers have been built, but were too bulky, fragile, and difficult to operate. The high point of this was MIRACL, a big fixed-installation megawatt chemical laser.[1] Israel tried a US-made chemical laser about a decade ago, and it worked against small rockets and artillery shells, but it took several semitrailers of support equipment. A newer one built in Israel is less bulky and solid state, and will probably go into service.

These are all systems with ranges of tens of kilometers at maximum. ICBMs remain out of reach for now.

The USAF is already testing lasers against drone swarms.[2] That's not as hard. 30KW can take out a drone, and the laser can be re-positioned fast. Truck-mounted versions of that will probably surround US air bases in hostile territory within a very few years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRACL

[2] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a29727696...
This case is wildly embarrassing to a huge number of elites including some of the largest funders in the VC world: Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, former secretary of defense Jim Mattis, the most important democratic power broker David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner (who almost certainly has criminal liability that was ignored) and on and on.

This case wouldn't be prosecuted at all if not for the public scrutiny. The question left largely unanswered was what favors did elizabeth exchange with these old powerful men to get them to first invest and then to become unnindicted coconspirators in her schemes.
If it takes 1 unit of effort to ask a question, it takes 10 to answer if you know the answer and the audience knows the prereqs. It takes 100 units to answer if the audience needs a quick refresher and 1000 units to answer if the audience is missing fundamentals. Likewise, it takes 1000 units to do the research if you don't know the answer and 1,000,000 units if nobody knows the answer and it needs to be discovered. Your epistemology must take these ratios into account or it is trivial for a bad actor to fabricate truths by "just asking questions," creating unreasonable expectations of a quick and easy answer, and then inviting you to infer the truth of their malicious narrative from the absence of a quick and easy answer to the question they just posed.
https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor
I can't say anything about the number of featurea, that's entirely business driven, but of course you shouldn't be writing macros in Elixir on a standard application.

But it's not abnormal for a rails codebase to have a Concern (rails module) that provides a class method that does something, specific to the application. Which is equivalent to a macro.
Even disabled, if the other party has them enabled Apple still have access to that content.
Or, as discussed there, if the person you're talking to backs up iMessage to iCloud. Both parties need to be willing to forego that convenience, and AFAIK, it can not be done on a per-message basis.
Rust’s ownership model (which is more than just the borrow checker, it’s the whole concept of one location actually owning data, and aliasing XOR mutability, and the pervading effects of this design on the language and its libraries) is a really big deal, even if it doesn’t look like it would be at a casual glance. It changes how you approach programming and reason about systems, and truly is (or should be used as) a fundamentally different approach to data flow and what’s possible, a smidgeon like Prolog in that way of being different, though not as much. I miss it very frequently when working in other languages (which is mostly JavaScript these days), because there are plenty of things that just become impossible to express reliably without it. Working in another language you can adopt conventions of writing in this style, but you can’t verify it without representing it in the type system, so the result will be riddled with holes in other languages.

(It is, however, difficult to disentangle some features that Rust’s ownership model requires but which aren’t necessarily a part of that ownership model: for example, algebraic data types are essential and expression orientation extremely desirable, but there are other languages which have those features without the rest of the ownership model.)

People often think memory safety without garbage collection is Rust’s shtick, but it’s actually the ownership model that’s Rust’s defining feature, underpinning everything and making that possible.
It's easier to argue about programming languages than it is to argue about things that actually matter[0]. You start to realize that programming languages matter very little the more experience you get programming. Some languages are better suited for one task over another, but there is no objective "best" language.

This isn't to say that the choice of language doesn't matter -- it does. If your team knows C then you probably shouldn't try to start a new project in Java without some ramp-up/learning time. If you're working in JavaScript then you better set aside a lot of time before writing production code in Haskell. These are issues that are more related to people than they are to programming.

The best language is the one that you/your team knows. The second best is the one that suits the task.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Mental model examples: How to use them – Elon Musk
Julian Shapiro inspires me with his visuals (the design of his website is beautiful) and words. I like the notion of "Challenging our Defaults", and to counter that with learning about "Good Enough" as a mental model to avoid analysis-paralysis. I like this quote by Channing Allen that Julian added: "When you view the world as a series of outputs, you form opinions. But when you view the world as a series of systems, you form strategies." -- This can help you deal with complicated situations at work and in life. Look at the incentives the system created that led people acting in a certain way.
Waymo is unbearably slow.

It’s basically Uber, but the driver is your grandma that is fine waiting several minutes to make a left turn “just to be safe.”
So, When Will You Be Able to Get a PS5?
>a bad hand is still a bad hand, and can only let you do so much.

Very true. I had realized this during and after graduation some 15 years back. Exposed to the internet I saw people doing amazing things on open source and wanted to do the same but simply didn't have the infrastructure in my country to do it. I spent all my life struggling to be the best but my environment simply isn't conducive enough to recognize my effort. Now I think it was just a waste of time and I should have just lived and enjoyed the moment. There was also a talk by Linus Torvalds who said he is incredibly lucky to get to do what he is doing which really started the questioning process as I was always told to put hardwork when I was young and achieve things discounting the support for it.

>And no, the people who made it where you failed didn't do so because they just pushed through that same hardship, generally it just wasn't as hard for them to find the motivation to push through.

This sentence makes a lot of sense. Thanks! I have been exposed to a lot of wrong signals saying "I have done the hard work to achieve it and you should be doing it too or you are just lazy" without them not acknowledging the circumstances.
You truly expect every IP in the SoC to require GPU level complexity? That's a far out assumption imo. The speed of progress made on getting Linux to run is extremely high and once the GPU runs they will focus on power management. I think you are over way over estimating the impossibility of this task.
Surely they don't believe the odds of GOF research producing a much more lethal pandemic than the one we're dealing with are 0%. At the same time, nobody ever showed that GOF research has benefits commensurate with the risks.

It would appear the virologists are not trustworthy.
the shortages are not just in cutting edge chips, it’s ics in general. even mundane things like smart lamps are sold out
> Apple not only won't be any help, but will be actively hindering these efforts.

They won't hinder anything, because they make money from the hardware.
A shame, indeed.
Data Engineering.

Honestly I don’t like the name because gathering information, transforming, storing, and making it available for other uses is core to general software engineering, but I digress.

Many large companies in non-tech spaces are investing HEAVILY in their data engineering and automation teams. Many setting up Chief Data Officer positions and lots of roles reporting into them that have very good compensation and great work life balance.

You have to be ok that your area of work isn’t the full focus of the business and learn to work very well with other functions like finance, sales, etc. But if you can do that, it’s a great time to look into these kinds of jobs.
We offer more than just sending. Wise actually charges fees too, that make lower transfer values more expensive. But beyond transfers, Wise doesn't allow it's users to hold NGN, KES, GHS, for example, nor do they allow users to send from Africa into NA/EUROPE.
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> I think your view of Haskell's use in industry is skewed by HN

It’s really funny you say that, I view HN as being frequently anti-FP. I guess when you split the difference everyone is a bit unhappy. In my case I’ve been programming for over 30 years and only on HN for a few months, so I don’t feel like it’s swayed me much, you never know. I’ve read Graham for years and he certainly has been an influence.

Overall Haskell alone isn’t that big in industry, but it most clearly illustrates many FP concepts and is the originating point (or an early adopter) of new tech that makes it into other languages.

If you look at all the jobs in Scala, Haskell, Clojure, F#, OCaml, Elm, Erlang, and PureScript. Then you throw in all the jobs in multi-paradigm languages Python, JS, etc. with managers or coding standards that dictate functional techniques, then subtract the particularly awful soul crushing dead-end jobs (that regardless of paradigm or language) probably none of us want, I think you may be underestimating the representation of FP.

Ultimately when I hire someone with a 4 year degree from a research university, I’m not expecting them to have 100% vocational training, they should be literate in at least a couple languages, but I’m much more interested in knowledge of concepts and adaptability.

The best Python programmer I’ve worked with described his junior year as being almost entirely Standard ML. I think he was better for it.
I'm sure some do use it as a source of revenue. They should be allowed to conceive of and levy local taxes of all kinds instead, really. Councils' lack of financial flexibility makes politicians of all stripes unable to deliver on even basic pledges.
Agree, fossil fuels have the energy density and are just sitting there, waiting to be consumed.

The only thing really that can overcome this massive temptation that fossil fuels pose right now (until renewables become abundant enough), is strict worldwide regulation to limit and ultimately prohibit their use.

The problem is a political one. As long as there's no worldwide regulation and as long as renewable technology isn't competitive in comparison to fossil fuels every single person is incentivized to use fossil fuels, because deep down modern life is based upon manipulation stuff at will through the use of energy. The more energy is available to the individual, the more options they've got. Let's not fools ourselves by pretending, renewables are already able to replace fossil fuels so that every single person on the planet can just switch and continue enjoying the convenience of using massive amounts of energy in their daily life and only use renewable energy instead. Renewables are not competitive yet.

But the technology exists. The infrastructure just hasn't been built yet.

As most people probably know by now, a rather small proportion of the world's desert land could suffice to generate enough electricity to supply the whole world with energy.
If this energy were stored in the form of let's say Methanol, it could be transported relatively easily by ship all over the world (I don't see a worldwide electrical power grid ever being powerful and fail safe enough to transfer all the energy where it's needed).

The technology is all there but it's a political challenge to make the transition.

> plastic crap

Yep, agree ... there's sooo much plastic crap.

But I guess buildings are a bigger issue compared to that. Concrete. There needs to be a cultural/architectural shift towards either concrete buildings that last much longer or don't get torn down and rebuilt because the aesthetics aren't favoured anymore or buildings made from wood.

Buildings shouldn't be built to last and enable comfortable living for like 40 but rather 250 years.

To enable people to make the decision to actually build in this way would require to politics to set the incentives right. To require architectural designs to be assesed from a long term sustainability perspective with the long term cost being included in the price.
If wood is too costly in comparison to concrete, people will simply continue building with concrete.
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I grew up literally next door to one about 20 miles west of Philadelphia. Most of the Nike sites are just ruins at this point like the one on Angel Island but there's one just over the Golden Gate from SF that's the most fully restored site in the US and gives tours. https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm

They initially had conventional warheads as I recall and they were primarily intended as bomber defense. They'd explode a warhead above a flight of bombers so they'd be hit by a massive shock wave.
Using the `async fn` syntax, this whole wrapper becomes:

async fn time_future<Fut: Future>(fut: Fut) -> (Fut::Output, Duration) {
let start = Instant::now();
let result = fut.await;
(result, start.elapsed())
}
Reading Bad Blood, the grift was definitely aided by that Stanford branding and the associated connections.
I can't help but feel that you missed the point of my comment. New users should be encouraged to make those changes themselves if they feel the need to. If that's not something they're interested in, why use Emacs?

Anyone can publish a config and distribute it. For instance, the author of this article could create a 'new user friendly' config and distribute it just like doom, spacemacs, etc. If it's popular enough it will see a lot of use, but my guess is it would most likely wallow.

Making those changes default would require existing users to update their configs, not necessarily a big deal, but for what? So a new user can download Emacs, play with it for a minute, and still conclude that Emacs is a dusty relic because they don't understand the philosophy?

The whole idea of chasing new Emacs users is kind of silly, Emacs is more popular than it has ever been, and if a new user doesn't come to Emacs for what Emacs offers they were never going to stay.

Out of the box solutions already exist, Emacs is in a different category, and need not compete in that arena - especially at the expense of current users.

Appreciate the reply, cheers.
Similar discussion 9 days ago on the thread Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233200

Perhaps we need a new term, other than E2E encrypted, to close the door on 'loopholes' such as the provider managing your keys.
I simply disagree. "Intent" without any positive step toward realizing that intent, much less carry it out to completion, means little in comparison to a real action.

I don't claim that words mean nothing, but we seem to be weighting them much too highly. Especially when we have actual actions to compare it to.
The lack of security at the time of purchase isn't really the issue... it's the lack of security & best practices at the time of recovery that is the issue. Anyone getting >=10,000x returns on crypto basically had to have either forgotten or temporarily lost their crypto because 99.99% of people would sell after getting 1000x gains.

I think the main issue in this vulnerability was only fixed in early 2019 so it is super recent compared to the value & state of cryptocurrenty. Even I would expect any crypt wallet software from 2018 to be secure because crypto was no longer a niche interest at that point. Sure regular security & bug fixes are a norm for modern software but having such an egregious issue as recent as late 2018 is unacceptable.
This looks super awesome. I got excited until I saw it was a Kickstarter and not delivering until December. I guess I'll wait until they actually start shipping in case there's something better by then ...

If they could ship one in a week I'd totally buy one now.
Agreed - I think it would be better to just compare an overall diet of someone eating more plants vs less plants, then sum up their water usage.

I’d have a hard time believing that overall eating fewer animals resulted in higher water usage (since those animals had to eat plants to grow), but would be interesting to see data on it.
An article from March?
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No support for your contention in the wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707#Government_funding...

The funding was cut because it was uneconomic and environmentally damaging.
Would Ada++ be considered weird xD?

http://www.adapplang.com/tutorial.html
Yes, it was a silicon valley thing. Their first and chief investment was from Tim Draper who all but invented silicon valley venture capital. Were it not for that investment Theranos would not have happened at all.
How far we have come.

Nowadays I usually let my notebook hibernate (not sleep) for the night and when I return the next morning, I often discover that I forgot to stop my debugger and it is still attached to my running program. Not even a hiccup when resuming.