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I thought the whole point of them complaining about "rules for thee, not for me" and "the elite" were class complaints, but now the goalposts are moved and so anyone who excels at anything is part of "the elite"?

Yes, I suppose the kulaks were members of the bourgeoisie after all, for they had skills, and skills are capital, and thus they are part of the oppressor class -- the elite.

Indeed, his mother, a nurse, and his father, as an engineer, both possessed intellectual capital and are thus counterrevolutionaries.

Just to be clear: the above is somewhat tongue in cheek and obviously nothing about the boy's background should be relevant in a violent crime case, and his was particularly disgusting.
Ongoing, not completed. However a lot of his less privileged associates were actually convicted.
Primary source: "persons familiar with the matter".
There were many awful stories of parents who'd created email accounts for their children at birth, and filled them with years of memories and photos, only for Google to lock the account without recourse when they later discovered an age inconsistency. When I worked at Google, I asked the product lead for Gmail why we took such a Draconian step, and they expressed regret but said the COPPA law left them with very little room to maneuver.
Impeachment + acquittal and open trials aren't punishment. They are the very opposite - they show how we make a show of justice for the elites, while doing nothing practical. I can promise you that nothing substantial will come of all these trials - he will at the very worse have to pay some small percentage of his huge fortune.
Yet, roblux obsession turned into game making. You as father didn't do it with your Unity dev skills but roblux did it and yet you seem to complain now, while still appreciating the outcome ... strange.

Working for nothing - that used to be a required thing for any job. FOSS people still do it and nobody thinks Github is exploiting. In todays world they call it exploitation but it was considered learning before.
This is really poignant because flipping channels is how most of us experienced it. One of those days that gets burnt into your mind.
Getting some arduino.cc vs arduino.org vibes here.
Inline is probably the keyword with true definition furthest from popular belief. By the way, constexpr implies inline, for function declarations.
No. Fortran is loved by physicist because it has an excellent 'impedance match' for the problems they are trying to solve. It has a multi-decade track record of expressing physics problems so it's the computer lingua franca there. And it has an extensive, high-quality and (perhaps most of all) tested ecosystem they can work in. It's not rocket science (unless, of course, it is); right tool for the job and all that.

FWIW...Fortran has had explicit OOP features since at least the 2003 standard (e.g. "type extends"). You aren't "required" to learn those features to use Fortran, but that's true of any number of ostensibly OOP languages.

Lastly...endless people (virtually always non-physicists who wrote a couple of lines of Fortran-77 in college) are continuously popping into the conversation with "well of course dump musty old Fortran for the NewHotness language because ew Fortran". Hasn't happened yet, and the Fortran folks have evolved from -77 to -90, -95, -2003, -2008 and lately -2018, so why would it?
> The existence of company DNA is a marketing fib.

It isn't - company DNA doesn't always represent positive attributes.

Company culture, incentive structure, priorities and skill-sets are all part of what's given the shorthand "company DNA" (and all are self-reinforcing/self-replicating. Google's DNA makes it exceptional at developing and scaling complex web services, but terrible at product longevity (except for the break-out hits), and terrible at consumer electronics. Apple is mostly the opposite. In spite of all their efforts, both companies struggle to be half as good as the other one in the areas outside of their core competency, because of their respective company DNA.
Want a list of absolutes that started as just examples?

I could write a long, long list of examples that were, in essence if not literally, typos that were missed by code review but bombed when in prod, too.
> it seems legit and it's important to know that `inline`, `virtual`, and `constexpr` are actually just heuristics / suggestions to compilers.

but they are not ?

- inline relaxes ODR which generally changes the linkage of the symbol (weak linkage when inline & exported, strong when not)

- adding virtual will always make your class have a vtable and your method overridable.

- constexpr make it possible to use in e.g. template arguments:

constexpr int foo() { return 123; }
std::array<int, foo()> arr;

that does not mean that the compiler cannot optimize - no matter how complex your program is, if the compiler has sufficiently advanced optimization passes, it should be able to precompute everything that is possible at compile time
nice!

One annoying things is the slow animations. Compared to the most minesweeper clones, which feel nice and responsive, the slowly rotating tiles here just make things slow and a tiny bit frustrating, like trying to walk on the mud or getting a ketchup out of glass bottle.
I'm going to tell you the truth nobody want's to hear in the EU, a lot of EU countries bet very big on renewables and they can't afford to fail so they are doing everything they can to go their way, this includes clever definitions of subsidizing & so-called "green" funds.
It also seems associated with advances in wider adoption and some progression in state of the art of functional package managers and reproducible builds, which has been nice to see.
No one disagrees with that, I'd think? But where is the evidence that it's occurring as hinted in the thread?

"I refuse to let you physically abuse your wife, Jim" implies something.
Ask HN: Going from CS to Financial Banking?
Has anyone gone from CS (software engineer) to financial field? How did you do it? What area did you go into?
C99. You don't need classes to create objects and cast them to lower types, for example: https://github.com/redgpu/framework/blob/master/redgpu_f.h
In terms of how to run a tech foundation, no (former) employee of Mozilla has any standing to talk. Mozilla has watched Firefox market share evaporate, laid off core tech teams, all the while increasing the pay of their leadership.

I am completely willing to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt, and let them be involved in the Rust foundation as they see fit.

The great thing about open source, is that the code is open source. If enough developers don't like the way stuff is being handled, they are free to fork.
It's not necessarily wrong, it's just unknown. There is no firm scientific consensus on that point.
Eh, mostly.

For CoPilot, you need a language model, where the current best one is made by OpenAI, which doesn't like to share its stuff.

This is the same OpenAI, which got $1B from Microsoft, and gave commercial licenses to Microsoft to use GPT-3.

Which is the company which also owns GitHub, and also has a platform like Azure, so it can just "lend" GPT-3 and some servers to train the said model on some code, which GitHub clearly has possession of.

So, while they're different, and it's casually owned by the other, this ownership allows them to put one's code and other's GPT-3 access into "good" use.

At the end of the day, public code is public, so license doesn't matter, eh?*

*: CoPilot is trained on all public code containing GPL, AGPL and similar licenses which doesn't allow proprietary use, so it's another ball of hair.
That's kind of the problem: the "legacy" media are unreliable, but people seem to take that as license to transfer total trust to some completely random media organisation that has god-knows-what agenda. Because it's very difficult to operate in an environment of total paranoia about every statement.
,,I've tried to get this message across in private. They just don't care.''

,,they've also taken steps to marginalize the core team. and some other dirty shit I won't say rn.''

Maybe Steve (and other Rust team members) should adopt openness and stop making deals in private. That's not how open communities are built.
> wrote a fluff article about how Rust aligns well with Amazon principles.

Wrote a fluff article about how Rust principles originated with Amazon, which is rank nonsense.
Seems to be related to this post: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps//blog/2021/09/08/ru...
What [redacted] is saying, while containing a bit too many Winnie the Pooh pictures, is technically accurate. [redacted] has many connections, mainly through her family, with Chinese intelligence agencies. Yes other countries such as Israel and Saudi Arabia have a sizeable number of agents embedded in Facebook and their contractors such as Accenture and TaskUs, but talking about the People's Republic of China angle has been seriously undocumented.

Since the above statement is my anecdote and doesn't rise to tge proof level of HN (though anecdotes are valuable), let me give some empirical evidence. if you check all the domains and subdomains Facebook's WHOIS records point too, you'll find a little over 2k currently running in Tencent's ASN. FB has tried to run it very quietly, but they've had an accelerator in Tencent's HQ office since 2018. Not clear the purpose, although maybe someone else can chime in.
I believe COVID came out of a Chinese virus lab, but I also think that the leak of the virus was done out of incompetence, not malice.
Yes, that would be technically possible. But it will not happen because of how the incentives are set up. If Uber now has to bear the cost of being an employer, it will need to exercise its power over the employee drivers and force them to work.
Ah, true. He used quotidianum in Matthew and supersubstantialem in Luke. If you ask me, he was hedging his bets between church and god.

But, "give us this day our supernatural bread"... just doesn't have the same ring to it, you know?
> I think it’s valid because it’s an example of a system not working for a small minority while still working well for others.

That's not what the article mentioned, which is why people are saying you don't seem to understand. The article mentioned there is a system, which does work for a small minority of people, not that it doesn't work for them. It's as if you unintentionally have blinders on and can't see the issue.
How about an interface like GitHub issues? Do you feel that strikes a balance between consumers/producers for this kind of discussions?

Edit: I think you updated your comment while I replied (or maybe I just hit reply without seing the last part of your comment). I see now that you've mentioned GitHub issues, which is a kind of interface that I've seen get a better balance, but I'm not sure how it stands from a producor pov against a mailing list (decentralization is obviously lacking on them).
I'm not sure what you're point really is. You keep harping on Zuckerberg not being able to log in on new devices but dismiss the entirety of the report and the internal review as "Yeah, well, at scale there's nothing you can do." If that's the case, shut it off. We wouldn't accept that from a manufacturer of a physical product.
The announcement blog post at https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps//blog/2021/09/08/ru... says the initial version was "quite closely modeled on AWS tenets".
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I think newer versions of config.sys (relatively speaking) had a menu system that greatly simplified that. It would set some environment variable to let autoexec.bat jump to the correct section too, I believe.

Ah, Wikipedia says it's since MS-DOS 6.
I don't know about Australia, but Canada also has a much stronger refugee program than America that bypasses the whole points system. The US refugee system got worse under Trump & I suspect it'll be a constant pendulum swing now whenever the GOP gets into power. You can't have one without the other.

The other challenge for America is that it gets drastically more applications than Canada does (not to mention that IIRC Canada does have a bottleneck). I think putting region restrictions/incentives for immigration might be better, so that you give preference to residency outside of already populated areas/less populated states.
In India most of the startups are using Java (springboot) and typescript.

I am actually finiding it difficult to get good paying jobs in Ruby and thinking of moving to Typescript.
You don't see as much bad python code as you see bad PHP code. PHP has no entry barrier. You can just start typing and things start working.

Compare that with deploying a hello word website in python, java or elixir.
I’m sure you’ve read the old fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Facebook has made voluntary decisions at the highest levels, reported over the course of the past decade, to shield certain people from its content rules that apply to the general public. So if it was a bug this time (and I have no reason to believe that it wasn’t), I’m sure you can understand people’s skepticism about it.

Moreover, I assume this bug was reported internally, probably pretty quickly. How long did it take to get fixed? If the fix wasn’t prioritized and corrected within, say, a day (along with a regression test to ensure it never happens again!), then that would be pretty damning of the company’s culture and priorities as well.
I also liked 4. I remember this being a trick question on a calc exam right after we learned differentiation under the integral.
As long as we are going there, backing a traditional nuclear power plant with a reservoir for pumped storage would work as well. But the land needed for such is immense and limited (though great for recreation opportunities). Nuclear could also be coupled with a desalinization plant that would use excess energy to produce clean water for later use (but there are other challenges there).

If liquid hydrogen fuel was ever useful, it could produce that with excess capacity also (but again, other issues).
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Honest question: are you (or is s/he) concerned about missing out on the media culture and media literacy that their friends most likely share? Homosocial bonding is often done via shared knowledge of culture, whether from the Internet, computer games, or TV. This will likely be true even among the friends who share interests (e.g. book club members).

Is there any chance that such an approach, extended too long, may result in addictive behavior when confronted with the huge effect of instant access to media and online discussion?
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There are pop-up churches giving religious exceptions to the covid vaccine. People are clearly using using religious exemptions as a loophole for "but I don't wanna."
I could imagine using a Fortran Web framework when the goal is to build a monitoring console or API into a large Fortran project.

In situations like that, the effort to make it so that you can build the Web-facing parts in a more Web-friendly language is often far greater than the effort to just build the bits you need in the main language.
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Wikipedia is correct to say it's widely believed that plaques cause Alzheimer's, because the new evidence is still encountering resistance. The hallmark of science is falsification. We now have many drugs that remove amyloid plaques with few side effects. Removing plaques does not improve symptoms or halt progression [1, 2].

Furthermore, 60% people over 80 have these plaques but only 10% develop dementia [3].

Ergo, the hypothesis that plaques cause of Alzheimer's is pretty much falsified. More than likely they may be a biomarker of some kind that may be associated with cognitive decline of some sort.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30273552/

[2] https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/02/12/alzheimer...

[3] https://nutritionreview.org/2021/07/amyloid-plaques-are-cons...
Too early to say how transient the effect is, it's very possible my symptoms return after a few weeks. There are conditions that HBOT can out right 'cure', the bends and carbon monoxide poisoning are the first to come to mind. So I don't think it's out of the question that it's effects can be permanent.

One of the causes of my symptoms will be straight up organ damage, and there's plenty of evidence HBOT speeds up the healing of tissue damage. So any progress in this area should be permanent.
"making deals" is the wrong characterization. "Bring my concerns to the people I have concerns with in private before having to talk about it in public" is just the right way to talk to people about problems.
ColdFusion is java, so those numbers should be added to the java line instead of broken out.
Shut what off, exactly?
But the quick startup time / ability for small startups to compete was likely due to being able to hire contractors vs "employing" the drivers.
Pretty sure this is standard practice in England. All of my estate agents have done it too. I assumed the purpose was to prove to the landlord that they actually checked for damage in each room?
The Wi-Fi upgrade story linked in the beginning is also a slightly weird solution. Rather than buy an mPCIe to m.2 adapter and 1st party Intel (or any modern) card he bought a half mini adapter and rebranded half mini Intel card for twice the price.

Not to say there is anything wrong with a stream of consciousness blog about what one has had fun doing doing lately rather a heads up since this is being shared these fixes are just that, not high effort recommendations or whatnot normally posted on HN.
I think that having a few prickly characters who have an extreme mistrust of large corporations is health and useful for a community that wants to keep its autonomy.

"Oh, representative of mega-corp, we can't do that . I agree it's a great idea and I would love to do it, but the zealots would revolt."
5 session of 90 minutes, then a 2 day break. Rinse and repeat. It's a navy diving protocol.
Afaik R&D spending really only means actual science - at least that's how R&D spending is defined for tax break purposes, so I'd imagine the stats are using the same definition.
For some journalists, idealism trumps integrity.
The nudge unit tactics that were used are some of the least insidious nudges I can imagine. Texting me that I’m due to pay a bill, and before it becomes an offence? Thank you! Advertising is never this good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
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If "send key to all members of channel x" is enabled it would be good if that would work.

You can set it to "only other clients and people I have personally verified" but that is quite cumbersome for big channels that just don't want clear text.
This is the reality of our new modern world that spans far beyond Facebook.

It is the popular, chosen, and paying that succeed on a dramatically increasing level, bolstered online by code and algorithms. This is how ideological and sales monopoly is bolstered and protected with promotion, paywalls, and glass ceilings.

It is no wonder why wealth inequality is surging worldwide as it's becoming more impossible to find wealth for everyone but those chosen and those in control...

The very minute Facebook and Twitter changed timelines to non-linear formats, and when Reddit began to hide downvotes, the ruse began... I subconsciously doubt that we can really trust analytics properly anymore to be honest, because there now always seems to be a hidden agenda in IT now to suit a specific purpose like profit, messaging, promotion, or subversion.

I'm no crusader, but the ideal that anyone can find success on their own merits and hard work is a lie in the digital world especially now, and a lot of the people that look like successful business minds are in reality just wealthy starters that are losing money they started out with while "portraying themselves" as successful and self made...

The few platform providers/controllers are the only ones making new money, this is why they have so much disposable cash that they spend on wasteful things like flying penis shaped objects outside of the atmosphere, and on failed ideas like triangular shaped pick up trucks...

Talent, wisdom, track-record, and accomplishment are being overlooked for Sensationalism, wealth, and popularity at an all time high in my opinion... This unreasonable and harmful hypocrisy is a critically bad trend that is being promoted, made popular, and deceptively normalized by social media sites as engineered hype.

No wonder why it's driving people to do bad things to hop onto the popularity train... :/
" In absence of a secondary differentiation criteria,"

I was addressing the concern of the PP who mentioned immigration being dominated by a few populous countries in absence of country caps. Ideally the immigration system should be revamped bottom up to include a point based system which gives points to educational qualifications as well as familial ties.

The current political climate leaves that option out of the window. Hence at least removing country caps from employment based immigration (which is 14% of the total annual quota) is a reasonable common sense fix.
The US immigration system is already strongly weighted by merit but the lack of family immigration causes a lot of folks who marry internationally to just emigrate (like me!) - the issue with attracting "good" immigrants isn't going to be solved by making it more merit based - it'll be solved by making it more fair and predictable. Families can spend decades partially locked into green-cards that can be revoked without warning forcing them to relocate their lives. This isn't an attractive option for most people looking for a new home.
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So many hours spent playing C&C over our local network at home!
> How does this work in practice with it's "rolling release" nature? Can you designate specific package versions for all your dependencies? Like having a very new openssl and an older zlib version?

NixOS (the distribution) is not actually rolling: it has stable channels that are released twice a year, and an "unstable" channel that normally updates every few days (depends when all tests passed). You could call the latter "rolling", but it's a bit different compared to actually rolling distributions like Arch Linux.

> Can you designate specific package versions for all your dependencies? Like having a very new openssl and an older zlib version?

Normally only the last version is packaged, but you can change the version of the package and install multiple versions of the same library without conflicts.
Some big libraries have multiple branches for backward compatibility (eg. boost175, boost174, openssl_1_1), for the others you have to override the package (it's pretty easy, but you'll likely lose the binary cache).

> With complex software, just grabbing the latest version of every dependency will lead to broken builds (or ones that only work on x64 but are broken on other platforms)

If you really need that kind of stability, a common solution is to pin the version of the whole Nixpkgs. Something a little less drastic is simply using the stable channel, which only receives security updates.

> Last I looked at GUIX (which I guess is similar) you are tied to a release "version" of the package-manager with whatever package version it comes with. But maybe I misunderstood

I'm not familiar with Guix, but I think you can do what I described above with it too.
Oh, interesting. Maybe I was thinking of the C `restrict` keyword, rather than a compiler flag. This is an instruction to the compiler, used in a pointer declaration, that there is promised to be no aliasing. It's supposed to allow C to get Fortran speeds in functions where it's used.
But... doesn't Rust have a Foundation that controls resources and can be financially backed? It seems like now you are saying that employees of large corporations also should not have serious roles in such Foundations.
Arguably, so is scala.