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No, I probably would use the BTreeMap in std instead, assuming I want a search tree. Which is even better, because the primary reason you use binary trees in C is that they are easy to make intrusive. But if I want a priority queue instead there's also BinaryHeap. If I wanted to store data on the branch nodes I might use intrusive_collections. Or maybe if I was dealing with a more complex graph I'd pull in a library like petgraph. If all that fails I could still arena-allocate the nodes to get around the lifetime issues. If I really absolutely wanted to, which I don't see happening any time soon, personally. I'd need a more concrete example there.
Perhaps more astonishing is that the school wasn’t even shut down - it closed voluntarily.

Frankly, I’ve often wondered if the people involved just reopened under a different name to escape bad press.
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Also. How does someone this stupid get a Top Secret security clearance in the first place. Clearly that process needs a lot of work
I don't. But I think it was something about splitting an archive over multiple tapes and / or modifying such archives.
> something clearly is not working in that process, if we're here

The article talks about credit card networks. I'm referring to banks. Banks are highly regulated, including with respect to account closures. Credit card networks are much less regulated.

If you want a non-court public venue to dispute your bank on something, anything, you have several such venues. Depending on your state, they can be quite toothsome.
Financial engineering and planning is great.

> none of the predictions about QE and inflation have come true, at least not yet

Depends on what counts as inflation. If we exclude stocks, house prices and food, not much inflation.
i’m indifferent to that notion.

if people would like to have children that’s fine. if not, that’s also fine.

is there any reason why homo sapiens must be preserved, just for the sake of it?
Sorry can you please elaborate what is Google doing?
> All the stuff you're saying you can't write in idiomatic rust is stuff that has already been written and battle tested in libraries

It is fine for you to not be able to think of any scenarios where the battle tested standard libraries wouldn't be sufficient. But as someone who wrote low level libraries running in production at Google that doesn't apply to me, for me knowing what it would take to eek out performance in Rust compared to C++ is absolutely necessary and given how hostile people are my guess is that the Rust wouldn't look pretty so there is no reason for me to even try to pick up Rust.

And you can't say that I am not your intended user, if you chase away people like me from the rust ecosystem then there is no way that Rust can replace C++ in any reasonable timeframe.

What I'd like to see is a lot of examples and such showing how to write very complex things using unsafe rust. Because without that there is no way rust can compete, there are already plenty of people who know how to write highly performant code using unsafe C++.
I should have been more elaborate. Your case is of course fine. But I noticed accounts with a very high karma count that submit a huge volume of articles, but hardly any comments. I don’t know exactly what’s going on, but I find it slightly weird.
>Hoards of wholesome dancing grannies fill all of those dark spaces normally occupied by drug addicts and hoodlums in Western countries.

I know (hope?) you are being hyperbolic, but I don't think these two issues are as directly related as you make it seem.
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There's a new frontend for Imgur called IMGIN[0] and it's great for viewing Imgur posts without all the tracking and having to view with JS turned on.

I was thinking: Since Imgur became so popular because of Reddit (and was eventually sold to Medialab later on), that Hackernews should have its own (unofficial fan based) image-sharing service. We could support the project with Patreon or Liberapay if needed.

There's always different services I've seen people use, and we can't seem to agree on which one to use. Many have questionable privacy and are monetized with privacy-invasive ADs to stay afloat.

I think images are sometimes a great way to explain concepts without resorting to words. There's plenty of tech-related memes I have stored up that I'd love to share, but would much rather share on an agreed-upon service that all HN'ers collectively like, instead of sketchy services.

Can we build this, or is that a huge ask?

[0] https://imgin.voidnet.tech/
We've some work on a three point hitch here: https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Three_point_hitches

Hydraulic motors with PTO splined shafts are widely available like this: https://www.surpluscenter.com/Hydraulics/Hydraulic-Motors/Ag...
I think it would be the mother load for a ransomware gang. They would have many extortion opportunities. Pay us to get access back to your servers, pay us or we delete your data, pay us or we leak your internal data, pay us or we delete/leak your customers' data.

I'm sure that AWS has some of the greatest cybersecurity out there. But the potential massive cash opportunities make it such that why not try some easy attacks against them. Spending millions of dollars of labor to research and pull off an attack is likely only for nation states, but ransomware gangs should be walking by and testing the locks all day every day.
I don't play devil's advocate position for fun. I do it because my stance on a lot of issues deviates from the HN's consensus, and I want my point of view to be at least considered.
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It's the annoying banners and all the likely useless business information that sites think worth collecting.
Man I remember reading about this in 2011 or so. I'm glad they're still doing well. It's an interesting project at the intersection of philanthropic eco-hippies and mechanical engineers which doesn't seem very common to me.

Of course, being older and wiser now I'm less excited about the fantasy of using my brains and grit to rebuild society after the coming apocalypse. And if you are a villager of some description trying to use machinery to improve your prospects you're probably better off buying something old and used, or cheap and Chinese. Over the last 10 years the number of (mostly Chinese) companies making okay-quality cheap industrial equipment of all types has grown massively, and I've seen this equipment being used more and more in the developing world. Cheap is relative, of course, and many places do not make it easy to buy anything due to payment infrastructure, shipping, and customs costs.

So on the one hand it's a bit silly for some guy in Missouri to even consider designing his own bakery oven when you can get them on Alibaba for $500. On the other, it's very cool and interesting, there's a lot to learn from the attempt, and there's a lot of actually useful designs already for certain situations. I wonder how much success they've had getting this information out to people who it could actually help?
Well either one of two things are going to happen in a “shrinking pool” global economic environment: governments will go hard populist left (likely to communism, which actually makes sense in a world where long-term degrowth or stagflation is likely), or a handful of mega corporations become the de-facto world government which allows them to continue productivity growth at all costs (read: the death of billions of poor people from lack of water / food).

Either way, the second half of this century is going to be bleak. That’s the other reason young people aren’t having kids: why bring them into a world that’s likely to be pretty awful?
The article makes a point that contemporary hunter gatherers are not living the life like their ancestors. "Modern" cultures displaced them into much less favorable environments.
Well, maybe it's a really good porn movie. Could be worth it
> XML wasn't intended as a data exchange format but as simplified SGML subset for use as delivery format on the web

You cannot deliver web content without... exchanging data.

And you cannot trust servers not to attack browsers.
Yes, sometimes.

I'd recommend that any man thinking about taking these for ANY REASON (including transitioning) have his T levels measured first - Low T is more likely to cause adverse behaviors and mental issues than high T (contrary to the "roid rage" hypothesis of "male toxicity" BS).

Roid rage can be a thing but it's more complex than simply having too much T - it's a dynamical system so it's very much like getting a sugar high and then insulin shock afterwards: you will rebound from high T intake to very low intake and that better explains most of roid rage.
> but i think this is actually kind of smart

Claiming you're right because you have more expensive things is a trope associated with assholes for a reason. It's at best an "appeal to authority" fallacy, and at worst it's the lashing out of internal insecurities, but it's never designed to convince someone you're right. It's designed to bully and shame them into obsequiousness.

> the fact is that steve and everyone he's in the room
> with are there because they worship money. that's the
> social contract with every job

I can confidently say I'm not doing any job because I "worship money", and probably very few people in those rooms do, not that I'd know personally.

I'm lucky in that I no longer work because if I don't my family won't eat, but that was once why I worked, and it's why most folks hold jobs.

Even the folks in that room probably cared about their career/power/influence/personal mythology more than they did about their bank account balance -- and yes, those two things are related but distinct.
Too late. Many people won’t read the retraction. It won’t have the same level of promotion.

The seed has been planted in people’s minds.
Every tank crewman gets a copy of the TM for their vehicles, at least in the US Army. I doubt this is actually classified, unless for some reason the UK is vastly different. You can at least view the entry for the M1A2 TM for the US Army here: https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?P...

You can't actually view it on the Internet, because as it notes, it has a dissemination restriction to US government agencies and contractors only, but it is unclassified and the soldiers on the crew are employees of a US government agency and entitled to read these. Reading paper is fine. In fact, when you're actually on a tank, it's your only option. You're not usually going to have a ruggedized computer that can access the Internet with you, if there's even a network at all serving wherever you happen to be. Information needs to be available in the absence of connectivity.
A friend's insurance would not continue to cover their preferred 'as needed' migraine medication until they tried Ajovy. Both doctor and patient were unhappy with the requirement, but damn if that shot didn't remove the existence of migraines from their life completely.
OK. Interesting. I'm 53, so yes, we're close.

But I _strongly_ disagree. In fact I think I could reasonably say that I couldn't disagree more.

I thought it was a huge win when DOS and console-mode apps adopted the general Windows-like UI.

I worked in support back then. I had to learn many dozens of apps to support them.

For instance...

In word processors, on DOS alone I worked with MS Word, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, MultiMate, WordStar (classic, 1512 (i.e. Express), & 2000 — all different), Samna Executive, PC-Write, VolksWriter, XyWrite, Protext, PFS:Write, and also LocoScript (from the Amstrad PCW, later on DOS). Probably others.

Spreadsheets: Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Symphony, AsEasyAs, SuperCalc, Quattro, MS Multiplan. Probably more.

I had to learn all of them, all separately, either at least the basics (I think Samna is the only one that defeated me there), or in multiple cases, pretty much inside-out.

I mean, as an example, I didn't consider myself a guru, but I interviewed for https://www.newtonim.com/ in about 1992 and I got a record-best score (about 98%) in their test of my WordPerfect and 1-2-3 skills. Neither was even my favourite program of its type!

It was a massive pain.

I mean, yes, you're right, some of them were highly efficient interfaces. I didn't hate 1-2-3 or MS Word for their idiosyncratic 2-line menus. You had to memorize them to be fast and efficient, but it wasn't that hard and once you had, it was as you say very quick.

Unlike, say, WordPerfect with its wretched Ctrl-F3, Alt-F6, Shift-F2, Alt-Shift-F8 workflow. Horrible and basically impossible to discover. If you didn't have that little cardboard keyboard template, you were doomed.

But I didn't have the luxury of picking 1 app of each type and using only those. At work I used PCs with PC DOS, at home I used CP/M and Locoscript, later Acorn RISC OS, later still OS/2 2. I did charts and DTP on classic MacOS.

All totally different, and my job meant knowing _all_ of the leading contenders in all categories.

Sure it was possible to write attractive, efficient, DOS menuing systems. Novell's DOS menuing system on Netware clients and on the server itself was fast, easy, efficient, and attractive.

So was 3Com 3+Share -- probably last seen by most people in the config tool for the classic 3C509 NIC.

But they were totally different from one another.

So if you only used MS Word, good for you. I envy you the simplicity that may have lent.

But for those of us who changed apps considerably more than every day -- more like ever hour of every day -- no, the profusion of DOS UIs was a complete pain in the neck and made my job 10× more difficult.

So when they all went away, replaced by a text-only version of the Windows/CUA guidelines, I celebrated. It made my life so very much easier.

Which is why now, 3 decades later, I absolutely refuse to learn the horrid 1970s BS UIs of Emacs or Vim. I don't care how powerful they are. I'm not interested. I gave that rubbish up in about 1990-1991 and for me all those proprietary UIs died once the next-gen ones came along.

Comply with the standards, or FOAD.
Check and check, now all we need is the “Idiocracy was a documentary“ comment to complete the “well, I can’t come right out and say that I think eugenics makes sense” veiled discussion. I’m sure all the people that agree with you are lockstep in thoughts an ideology with their parents, right?
> Bitcoin was launched 12 years ago, reached $1'000'000'000'000 monetization this year (>1.5x larger than IMF), exploded interest and funding for cryptography and p2p networking over the past 6-8 years, and is marching towards reaching monetization of gold ($11T).

12 years to get to 8% is not really "marching towards".

And then your flippant "everyone uses energy to do things" dismissal doesn't help. Yes, they do. But people don't buy power plants just to run payment processors. But they do buy them to mine Bitcoin.
Or they are working the system and making an ATM withdrawal look like a debit from the consumer's point of view.
Sure, West carves state of exception to interdict Westphalian system with liberal international order to justify intervening in others sovereignty but never the less the core scaffold underpinning current global system at UN is based off Westphalia. Which both PRC and Russia and others who wants west to mind their own business is vocal about maintaining. And really if you think LIO can carve exception for intervening in domestic affairs of others, than PRC can carve exception to rationalize intervene in TW (and SCS) anyway. PRC diplomacy and military modernization has been very thorough in preserving full justification to protect her interests under both systems, rule of law or rule of might, which really is how the world works anyway.
The article mentions that us-east-1 is the largest region. That's not the only reason why its failure would be so catastrophic. It is the original AWS region and a snowflake among regions. That in itself doesn't have a clear direct consequence--what does is that AWS itself depends on many services specifically in us-east-1. Losing us-east-1 could mean failure of many services outside of us-east-1 as well.

If you were planning a multdatacenter strategy, it should also minimize the number of AWS offerings used or expand it to be multi-cloud.
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Single point of failure can be software written by said disgruntled employee.
Yeah, there are services that give you a range of IPs for a certain time.
Never once I said it's the _only_ reason this happened (obviously). But between "it's the only reason" and "it has nothing to do with it" there's a lot of ground to cover, don't ya think?

I don't think it's far fetched to assert that the US and Germany in the 20s were extremely connected, financially speaking. How much this impacted the subsequent events can be debated.

But believing in no impact at all is just intellectually dishonest. It's a plain fact that '29 and investment dry-up in Europe caused incredible hardship on Germans (and their voting preferences in the '33 elections).
Human trafficking isn't happening on Patreon or OnlyFans, though.
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Well, the same you do with Credit Cards or other forms of electronic transfer of debts.

In most banks you must first authenticate your smartphone app by going to an ATM where you use your card and some sort of biometrics to authenticate along with your pin. The app can only be used after this first "machine" authentication.

There are also customer-customizable limits, the usual anti-fraud controls. Of course, there is a lot of scams involving people with less instruction, but it is not substantially different from the levels in other types of transfer/payment.
> low-cost, high-value regions, but transitioning to either a government-subsidised, or operated mode under expansion or as the market matures

As you point out, the government's power is used to stamp out competition, or it subsidizes alternatives which drive the companies out of business.

> Serving high-need areas though wih little revenue potential

That's, by definition, not a high need. It's why our public transit is so expensive and such a small fraction of commute miles: because we don't have a focus on useful aka what people are willing to pay for. We let bums make it unsafe and dirty. We build it next to expensive, wide roads then wonder why people continue to drive when it doesn't actually go directly to where you want to go.
This erodes the quality over time, as the platform becomes less useful to regulars and long-time members, and thus dis-incentives investment and care. Every open platform without rules devolves into a porn distributor, so strictly going by „what’s popular“ is problematic.
I am not the person you responded to, but in the context of that reply, my answer would be because I played no part in other people’s decision to have children. Note that this is not about no empathy overall, but in the context of empathy due to effects of declining population.
Can I really trust the NY Times to correctly report on this?

They have every interest to see Facebook, which increasingly acts as a gatekeeper to traditional new sites, to look and be as bad as possible.

Edit: This isn't a value judgement on whether the NYTimes is better than Facebook or anything similar.
If your scraping a popular website Google Trends should be a pretty good proxy
You can easily spoof the UA
How could I downvote this?
> the pressure the US government puts on this industry

Sure. But OP mentioned the U.S. government "currently blocking transactions" from cannabis businesses.
> you end up finding your own reasons why to maintain a ban on a different vice.

From my understanding, based on that 2018 rule, the executives at CC processors are personally liable if they process money for sex work. Like "you are an accomplice to human trafficking" guilty.
Does your boss still know how things are going below. Most higher ranks I've seen live in a disconnected reality. Any time they had to enact their own orders they failed to carry threw. While the middle managers were constantly forcing people to follow orders.

That's why I said it's mostly emotional buffering. They know shit will happen one way or another, shielded by intermediate layers of authority (relying on the fact that rent is not free so lower classes aren't free to talk much.)

That said, lower layers aren't perfect. Lots of bad apples, liars, cons. But I believe all it would take is more honest, close to the ground interactions to solve this bad game theory setup.
This is probably the coolest project I've seen in the two and a half years I've been compulsively reading every thread on this site
I suspect one of the reasons that JSON has been so successful is precisely this fuzziness, though. Every language can do something a little slightly different and it'll work at first when you send it to somebody else. You get up and off the ground really quickly, and can fix up issues as you go.

I agree. Sort of how xhtml never really caught on because it was too strict. I never understood the desire to make things break when it's often less effort to make them work.

Though I think the biggest benefit of JSON is that it is so simple, at least compared to XML. It makes it harder to just dump your internal data structures as is. Which forced people to actually serialize their data. Though with time people have overcomplicated it with objects that have "type" and "value" fields, basically designing their own standard.

* There's a lot of programmers who will send a string, or a null, or maybe a float, or maybe it's always an integer, and deeply don't understand why you care what it's getting serialized as.*

As far as changing the type depending on the situation, I kind of wish that was more common. I like the idea of conveying meaning based on type, but for it to work well it would need more standard types, plus anyone using a static language would be mad at you.
Power corrupts, and corruption empowers.
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I said binary tree, not "Map interface implemented using an ordered binary tree". They are not the same thing.
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>Even in places that don't get cold, elderly are not going to be walking to the grocery store. I don't think we are going to dial back this reality short of a world-war that decimates society everywhere and/or some event that sends us back to the stone age.

This comment is outlandish. In vast swathes of the non-American developed world (Europe, Japan, etc) walking, cycling, and public transport are perfectly normal ways of getting around that many, if not a majority, of elderly people use on a daily basis without any difficulty whatsoever. And indeed these people are widely considered to be thriving - in no small part because they remain physically active and engaged in their community, which is another convenient upside of avoiding car culture.

Not exactly the stone age, as your comment mentions. Like the parent comment says, the majority of the potential negatives associated with avoiding car culture are in themselves a consequence of car culture in the first place.
OP clearly would have been willing to negotiate a better price and even Craig was trying to hold the deal together. This fell through because Steve was offended at being bluffed, not for any objective evaluation of business merit.

What I consider soft is lashing out over the smallest emotional slight, which Steve was famous for. I wish we would all stop pretending that the platonic ideal of a leader is having the emotional maturity of a toddler.
I stumbled across a 2018 article from seed Solana investor Chris McCann.

Even though the space has changed a lot and the metrics we look at for growth have changed, I thought this was an incredible look into the past.
I wish he would have said this in his original chain. Big detail to leave out.