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Programming languages aren't natural languages though, and I don't think they should be forced to look like them.

One thing for the "type before name" camp is that you don't have to use a keyword like "let" or "function" when declaring a function, but on the other hand you're going to introduce a keyword anyways if you add type inference.
Having a CEO-level salary didn’t stop Ghosn from cheating
Why do politicians send their money to offshore havens when they could reduce the tax in their own country?

So that it doesn't affect their source of income? (The taxes we ordinary ppl pay)
Several EU countries (France and UK) have, IIRC, made very clear that fictive debt or fictive licensing fees are fraud an would be judged as such.
FWIW symmetric encryption has been really solid for a long time.

DES, pretty much the first strong civilian encryption algorithm, is crackable due to brute-forcing the 56-bit key space, which has been pointed out as a security problem almost 50 years ago, but in terms of cryptanalysis it's doing ok.

AES will turn 25 soon and the best cryptanalyses today are like a factor four faster than brute-force (but require rather significant memory, which brute force doesn't), which is basically nothing.
>Inflation is theft by central bankers to pay for politician’s desires without openly increasing taxes on the people.

This is weird. Inflation can happen without any central bank activity. Regular banks can lend out money. People can spend their money faster. All of that creates inflation without benefiting the government at all.
As someone already noted; there is a a cognitive bias called The Halo effect, which might explain the initial belief that a person you considered knowledgeable in one area must be an expert in all areas. Possibly what you are describing is a sense of disillusionment upon realizing that this is not the case?
> Focus on the actual crimes.

The broader question and sentiment of this piece is: how exactly have people who supposedly work in Public Service amassed such wealth when these positions are paid so low, and what lengths will they go to do so, especially in developing countries. The subtext being if their are conflicts of interest in their investments which happen to also be tied to offshore havens.

This outrage is warranted, because it underscores how tiered the legal system is World wide (The US is least represented in the Pandora release but 2 Federal Reserve Presidents have just stepped down due to insider trading [0]) for those closest to power, whereas tax evasion is one of the most effective ways to get a criminal indictment for the average citizen in most of the World.

0: https://wgno.com/news/business/dallas-feds-kaplan-to-leave-i...
It’s weird people say this.

I have OK genes (No chronic health conditions or learning disabilities) but far from winning the lottery. Let’s say I had perfect genes, naturally athletic, better mental acuity, and wealthy parents, maybe I would be worse off in life. The fact that I had to overcome challenges and take risks helped me become the person I am.
Windows 10 shows live feeds of traffic cameras in Maps app
These stories always do that as it fulfills a fetish.

But in any case, would your opinion change if the tax resident or provider wrote the tax law that got passed? In Mossack Fonsaco’s case that is what they did in a variety
of island nations.
I loved his "Tatja Grimm's World" for its depiction of a human of "superhuman" intelligence.

There's a bit of dialog where the one character tells the other about information theory in a sentence - and the other groks it like Shannon did.

In the same genre is "Understand" by Ted Chiang.

For me good science fiction (if it's not for the physics or math) is often about the believable alien or superhuman intelligence.
Ah, but if you have a high-paying job for little work, then you get to choose your difficulties - a new challenging hobby, sport, class, etc. Some people may seek wealth in order to avoid challenges, in which case yes the advice might apply to them - find difficult things you also enjoy. All that said, I still feel like the article targeted individuals who don't get to choose their challenges, and therefore may be more likely to avoid them.
This is really hard to answer in a short comment, but I'll try to highlight a few things:

- We use compute/storage separation as in Snowflake and Aurora. This means that data is stored in object storage (for example S3) and computing resources are transient. This is the de facto standard now for new database management systems. Systems that are not designed for object storage are gradually going to be less relevant. The Snowflake papers are a great resource on this ( http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~yxy/cs839-s20/papers/snowflake.pdf ) . It's also a recurring topic in the CMU database talks. Our memory management is based on LeanStore and Umbra.

- The database is entirely versioned with an immutable data structure, so read-only scaling does not require locking: you can provision new compute instances that work on a snapshot of the database that is 100% guaranteed to be consistent. This means that you can run an analytical job on your production database with a 100% guarantee that the performance of your primary system is not impacted. For concurrent writes we aim to use incremental maintenance techniques.

- All our data is indexed so that the WCOJ algorithms can do their job. Indexes maintenance can be expensive, so we have write-optimized data structures for that (B-epsilon trees - http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/BenderFaJa15.pdf ). The performance of those is really good, and they can be compacted in the background. The combination of our graph normal form (narrow relations) and WCOJ addresses the index selection problem in a novel way.

- We use new compiler architecture ideas to make everything live and demand-driven. Our framework for this is Salsa, which is open source ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzrH2Ee494 and https://github.com/RelationalAI-oss/Salsa.jl ).

- WCOJ are our work horse join algorithm. We have different query evaluation techniques, including JIT compilation and vectorization. For queries that do not require worst-case optimal joins the plans are similar to more conventional systems due to optimizations applied to the plan (talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_mBEq_o4HE )

Graph workloads have a few interesting properties: 1) Analytical queries are often recursive. Systems like Neo4J do not really address this in general because the query language does not support general recursion. Instead, it offers bindings to algorithms implemented in Java. 2) Queries often do joins across many relations. 3) There is lots of skew.

(2) and (3) are handled by WCOJ. For (1) we use algorithms similar differential dataflow. Differential Dataflow already has great proof points for graph analytical queries (mainly created by Frank McSherry)

In the end, of course all that matters are the actual benchmarks. We are developed those for standard relational workloads (like TPC-H) and graph workloads (for example LDBC SNB, graph analytical workloads). It's a little too early for us to claim results at scale, but we have isolated proof points that the design works.
Where do you live though? The social security makes my anecdotal poor friends have an enjoyable life while not feeling like a cog because they do not choose to work like that. It does not buy you sports cars but the social security net pays for everything so they only need money 'to live', with or without a family. This seems not at all what you are talking about; so maybe anecdotal, not US should have been more complete?
Side question: is there a good rule of thumb for when an application can start benefitting from using a database? I'm working on a project whose internal data structures are starting to resemble a database, and I've been considering moving from just using language-native data structures to an in-memory sqlite instance, but I'm not sure what the tradeoffs are.
I was referring to Fortran, which distinguished between two types: floats and integers.

> The first people that had a stab at it were logicians

Yes, I know. The original article pointed that out.

> it's just that this work didn't exist when scientists set about to solve this problem.

Yes, I know that too. But it exists today and so today there isn't any reason not to avail onesself of that knowledge when engaging in pedagogy.

I have no idea what we are actually arguing about here. All my original comment was intended as was to echo the sentiment expressed in the first sentence of the original article, that's all.
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_do_you_need_to_fast_for...

Says 2-4 days.
No? By law both in EU and US if a manufacturer wants to deny warranty cover, they have to prove that whatever you did to the car has caused the issue. So in this case Volvo would need to prove that their own official part broke the car purely because it wasn't bought from them. You are allowed to work on your car yourself and it doesn't affect warranty, a lot of the things that the "right to repair" movement has been fighting for in electronics have been enshrined in law with cars for a very long time.

Another example - Volvo(and pretty much every manufacturer) says in their warranty terms that the warranty is only valid if the car is serviced annually at an authorized Volvo garage. They can say that, but the law in EU clearly states that you can have the annual service done at any vat-registered garage, and as long as "equivalent" parts are used, the manufacturer cannot deny you a warranty claim based on having the service done outside of their own approved dealership. Their own terms and conditions do not and cannot override the law.
Donald Knuth on Machine Learning and the Meaning of Life
Ecotone Renewables: Repurposing your food waste
Household appliance is not the same thing.

A Juniper firewall is an appliance.

A NetApp SAN is an appliance.

An Ooma VOIP phone system is an appliance.

A Kindle is an appliance.

A Nest thermostat is an appliance.

These things are not general purpose computers. They are custom fabbed hardware with vendor supported software and are not user repairable. They do one job and they do it well. At the end of their service life you replace them.

My iPhone is an appliance and I prefer it that way.
The subtitle speaks of prolonged overnight fasting.
Yeah, and as far as we can tell those first states massively sucked for almost everyone, too.
Might wanna disable JIT, MathML, SVG, Graphite font rendering, asm.js, webgl, webgpu, hyperlink auditing, and native regexp while you're at it. Here's what torbutton disables, for reference: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git/tree/modules/sec...

Note that this will make you quite fingerprintable on sites with JS enabled. I'd rather split browsing across three browsers: one heavily neutered FF with the above prefs and my own personal customizations, one chromium (built properly with all mitigations, i.e. using is_official_build and not a distro package) for secure JS-enabled browsing (jitless and with all telemetry disabled/blocked, of course), and the Tor browser for anonymous browsing. Avoid ungoogled-chromium; its patches significantly weaken the browser's security by disabling component updates, and you'll have to build it yourself if you want all the exploit migigations included (since none of the available builds are built properly).

I'd avoid extensions if at all possible since they very heavily weaken the browser security model. Chromium lets you enable extensions on a per-site basis, which I find helpful. Extensions that inject content also make fingerprinting quite trivial: without any JS I can uniquely identify, e.g., a Canvas Fingerprinting Defender user by eyeballing a CSP report log against an access log, no JS needed.
Not exact related, but is there a modern, widely used object oriented c++ wrapper for OpenGL? Why does OpenGL persist with a C style API instead of a more expressive one?
Ask HN: Need Career Advice, where to go from Senior Fullstack engineer?
Obviously I could always join FAANGxyz? But in general sense where do you go from sr fullstack developer. It seems in general market you hit a ceiling at 160k-200k. What are parallel roles you could jump into or some specializations which would considerably improve your chances.....

- Get an MBA from TOP 10 schools and go into management of some sort

- Wait and become an engineering manager

- Get PHD in machine learning

- Try jumping into consulting, product management, or something else?

- Start some business?
That's like saying murder should be legal as it is impossible to totally prevent it.
There will be no return to ‘normal’
That still makes them part of the 1%

I think a lot of people get confused about the 1% and the .1% where the billionaires live.
>> Not too sad, though, because I feel like the exact opposite has happened with TV, where the rise of streaming services has ushered in a "Cambrian Explosion" of sorts with all types of varied topics and interesting content.

I am worried that soon they will also optimize the hell out of them - platforms like Netflix have all the data: what scene makes you pause and re-watch, what makes you stop watching, God only knows what else they are measuring.

It leaves me wondering to what extent those metrics overlap with the artistic side (whatever that is, but in this context I mean trying to express something genuine, not to please the audience).
Drepper's scheme obviously works tolerably well with glibc, in particular, even if he didn't know what he was talking about.

If you don't have symbol versioning, and you want to statically link something with parts that depend on incompatible versions of a library, you're obviously stuffed.
It also seems a foregone conclussion that if you are wealthy, you don't deserve privacy. Admittedly, some of that gets fuzzy if you run for a public office, but that isn't really the underlying notion being put forward here.
In Canada, shell companies -- run by the owner's lawyers -- can hold property and there is no way to trace the property back to the original owners. The courts have found that the lawyers cannot be compelled to divulge the property ownership under lawyer-client confidentiality.

It is kind of insane that this is even allowed. How do you plan to tackle money laundering, corruption, and transparency when you cannot even figure out who owns the property in the first place?
How can you say what is fictive and what not? Licensing fees and loans exist on market anyway.
Yeah @dang could we have a title edit please? This headline is grossly misleading.
> That both depends on how immediate "immediate" is and how the US will react.

Broadly speaking if countries are able to feed their population, keep the lights on, and protect their borders, regardless of access to global markets then they have relatively few existential worries. The USA is one of a few in this category.

> but it will most definitely crush any belief in The American Dream or that the US is some kind of world leader.

The US is currently re-industrializing as globalism is crumbling, so the long term forecast for the American dream is bright. Globalism is crumbling greatly due to the bipartisan sentiment in the USA being not wanting to police, “lead,” the world any longer. The global population will crash in the coming decades, secessionist movements will rise up in many countries, famine, and resource wars will ensue, and the graphs of global development will go south very quickly. All except in the USA and a relatively few other countries which will feel pain but be able to recover relatively easily. The USA has been artificially propping up vast regions of the globe by making global shipping the safest it has ever been in history; that is ending and no one is going to like the result.
Pretty much and a counter against Chinese Hypersonic glide vehicles.
It is time to cut down the tax havens from international financial circuits.
New logos unveiled for 60W and 240W USB-C products
It's impressive how well they can find lack of evidence when they look hard for it.

The fact that there is a strong correlation is undeniable. Here are 3 links with charts that show the connection strongly.

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-deaths-among-older...

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/soaring-covid-rates-i...

And, one of the most striking to me, vaccination vs cases of counties in California:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/briefing/gavin-newsom-rec...

That said, epidemiology is complex, and an attempt to reduce it to one factor is not valid.

ETA: Carl Bergstrom weighs on with additional insight into why this paper is bullshit: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1444732537792708608
SaaS growth hacks that ended up eating shit
I am not very familiar with this but on the surface what you describes sounds like corruption to me so yes very much against that.
> […] or you have designated Oscar-type fare, which as of late means something extremely depressing that says how bad humans are.

In the 2020/2021 season, the nominations included The Father about a man suffering dementia (from his perspective) and Sound of Metal about a drummer going deaf.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd_Academy_Awards

For 2019, we had the best picture nominations include Ford v Ferrari, Little Women, and 1917:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92nd_Academy_Awards

Previous to that, Bohemian Rhapsody:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_Academy_Awards

Going back one more year, Dunkirk and Lady Bird:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Academy_Awards

Lastly for this discussion, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, and La La Land:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th_Academy_Awards

I think these are good counter-examples to your claim that only two types of movies being made.
USSR was spending majority of it's GDP on mil., hard to imagine it was not a major factor.
The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation”
> This is ridiculous. I most definitely do NOT want to rebuild literally EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE on my system the moment they fix a typo in libz.

I understand. You don't. I do.

What my post is arguing for is not one or the other, but giving the user the choice.

I think you would be okay with making the choice of not rebuilding everything, and I would make the opposite choice.

I want to live in a world where we can both choose.
oo! thank you for this. I updated my comment.
>This means whoever writes (or wrote) the software controls the policy.

1. there are multiple competing implementations

2. it's ultimately up to the users/merchants/miners what software they run. A commit making into the bitcoin core repo doesn't mean it's going to be adopted by the network.
An edible color palette (2011)
I'm pretty sure barf is a joke?
Get off your high horse. Smart people suffer Dunning-Kreuger too. I've delved quite deep into a specialty, to the point that anybody capable of even understanding what I'm talking about will have some intuition about what should work. They're usually very wrong. Does that make them stupid? No. Their ideas are simply lines of thought that I've plumbed deeply in years' past. There are highly non-obvious reasons that the idea doesn't work out. But, sometimes I get surprised by a good idea from left field.

The above doesn't stop me from making guesses about other fields. Does that make me an idiot? No. I do try to be upfront about my naivety, but, I suffer Dunning-Kruger like everybody else, and sometimes I grossly overestimate my confidence. It happens. And that's how we learn.

If you want to talk to somebody smart, look for their expertise. If you want to feel smarter than everybody, only pay attention to your expertise, but remember, you're "not smart" too.

The funny thing about "Gell-Mann Amnesia" is that people make a career out of doing their best to understand 10 years of research in 10 hours, and repackage that for people to understand in 10 minutes. Recalibrate your expectations.
> I see what you did there.

It's not a play on words, "breaking the fast" is where the word comes from :).
Firsr corporations were basically groups of people killing, torturing and exploiting less advanced civilizations overseas. Over the time capitalism has developed towards more peaceful culture, not the other way around as people often imply.
You mentioned all the not idle things in replying to a comment warning against idleness. I didn’t hear “I sat on the couch and ate ice cream for days and it was great”.

For me, the key to enjoying extended slack time is planning and putting in some effort. So basically not remaining idle for long.
And now you are comparing tax evasion to murder! I would say there’s a difference. Otherwise we need to give the IRS execution abilities(?)
Reminds me of Dorodango, the Japanese art of making mud balls. https://www.laurenceking.com/blog/2019/09/26/dorodango-blog/
The existence of valid licensing fees does not mean all licensing fees are valid. Surgeons are allowed to legally cut people, that doesn't mean we can't figure out when someone was illegally stabbed.

Let's not give up without even trying.
> In Go you have to do this or your line/branch coverage will be abysmal.

If reliability is critical, having explicit error handling and coverage tools which expose error conditions which haven't been tested is very helpful.
The VOC was established by the government because it didn’t like that there were many competing merchant companies. It wasn’t the first company, it was sort of the first public company.
I just think it's that much easier to be well off with these conditions; less likely to be worse off; and easier to get back on your feet if you mess up. I think a lot of studies show this; here's a whole article on it [1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-people-make-more-m...
I see what you mean. I wonder if while cutting CEO pay if we're cutting into meritocracy as a path to financial success and just further enlarging the slice of the pie for existing holders of capital. Right? I understand that wages are obscene but at least they're wages paid to people actively working. Holders of capital have a job to play as well as they seek the best place to invest it, but I feel like capitalism isn't stretching well to the 21st century canvas.
It doesn't matter if it is a crypto scheme or pyramid scheme. The token itself is not a product, the central distributor sells you tokens in a presale and then you have to recruit new members through marketing the token and sell them your tokens. The point is that there is no end goal. The last person to buy the token didn't get chocolate coins that he can eat.
You seemed to have given positive answers to those 3 question yourself. It seems that Boom just had to pick the right topic.

Theranos undoubtedly convinced VC all 3 questions. I wonder how much VC had brought that onto themselves.
Vernor Vinge did write True Names, which is often considered a foundational cyberpunk text (even predating Gibson).
Correct me if I am wrong but OpenBSD introduced the constraint that syscalls must come from a specific section of memory, that assigned to their libc.

In a case like that static linking is not only unstable, as in Windows or macOS, but also impossible.

And since that has security benefits we will probably see it being migrated to other platforms in the near future.
No need for the AUR. It’s in extra in the official repos.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Installation

I’ve had zero issues.
We do apply it. There are educational advertising programs to influence dietary and drug choices, there are taxes applied to discourage use and offset costs, there are treatment programs, safe injection programs—the government uses all sorts of tools to reduce healthcare costs.

Again, it’s not protecting people from themselves, it’s protecting the government from skyrocketing costs. We used to round up lepers and the tuberculosis-inflicted because they were too damn expensive to keep around.

Also, whatever whatever is irrelevant to the claims made in GP: basic elementary school math tells you to get vaccinated, mandates or not.