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q's functions don't capture the environment, so that's the same as:

a:42
{[a]a+1}[5]

and as in javascript:

a=42;
f=function(a){return a+1}

and when i say they don't capture the environment, i mean this:

f:{[g] {g+x}}

doesn't do anything except generate errors (° there are benefits to this approach!) because the inner function (that we are returning) sees the "global" g and not the one lexically scoped in the function (a better way to say it: no closures).
Thanks, postponed some travel plans to SEAsia today because I don't want to get stuck there again amid lockdowns / travel bans.
“ To many, conservatism is that government and politics screw everything up, so we need less of it.”

Which is a point of view funded by the large corporations actually funding the political screwups and bribing the politicians, particularly the ones who pretend to be conservative. (I.e. Manchin or McConnell)

Rural voters received their messaging primarily through TV and radio, and then go down to the local bar and regurgitate it to each other with lots of “good ole, good ole, ye olde goode ole” and self congratulation.

I’ve noticed this pattern in rural areas around the world. I see the rural urban divide as more fundamental than the national divisions.

Closer to nature? Yeah, but in a frontline of battle antagonistic sort of way, conquer the big scary nature, even the person referencing the above had a human vs nature framing. I’ve been burned out of my house in bushfires, wrestled with solar panels in hurricanes and I’ll still call the most dangerous thing on earth a group of self assured humans doing their job.
If someone has my private keys because they stole my laptop, then a keylogger will do them no good, and the password will be a valuable layer of defense.
Thanks, I have already tried Jitsi, but as I said, the file transfer and the whiteboard are missing, MiroTalk seems the most complete for now.
No idea why this bothers people so much. How often are you manually indexing into an array with numeric literals?
RDP is Ransomware Deployment Protocol. nuff said
Why is the mermaid so huge? The flamingo dancer and running male are smaller. The mermaid is apparently an Amazonian Mermaid, able to hurl the bison next to her to the ground with a flick of her tail.
> you can simply send a proof

My bank doesn't even support OTP 2FA for login. There's no way they'll support this stuff.
This has problem been rolling around in my head and where I’ve landed is that humans are terrible administrators, mainly because we get bored administering something after it’s built.

We see it in software development all the time. People are less interested in maintaining code they’ve inherited and are more interested in building their own.

I don’t think this is a bad thing per se. We’re creative optimistic creatures. We prefer green field because when we’re working on it, we feel great imagining the possibilities. When it’s older, “played out”, and to the point where we feel it’s something that’s to be administered, there’s less possibilities and we get bored. Time to try something else.

Everywhere you look, this pattern is present. We love building stuff. We don’t love administering stuff.
They’re making so much money out of it that your comment makes no sense.
The exact framing was a statement that Google execs had given Cloud a deadline to reach a certain portion of the market, or it might lose funding.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
IMO one thing they failed (and looking over this thread looks so) is that it is not immediately clear what that "Matrix" is here.
Is this a veiled accusation against CR? If so I’d appreciate some specifics. If not, I’ll just mention that AFAIK CR has always foregone all advertising, specifically to avoid such conflicts of interest.
Ahh, so not the chat protocol
> Seems quite balanced with all the other replies here which claim it's the best architecture ever whenever anyone says anything about it.

RISC-V is pretty good. Probably slightly better for some things than ARM, and slightly worse for others. It's open, which is awesome, and the instruction set lends itself to extensions which is nice (but possibly risks the ecosystem fragmenting). Building really high performance RISC-V designs looks like it's going to rely on slightly smarter instruction decoders than we've seen in the past for RISCs, but it doesn't look insurmountable.
I still can't believe that US, where it's been rampant, hasn't been a place to report a new variant of concern for the first time, but UK, India, SA (and other like Peru?) have.
Having anything to do with the death of the creator is madness I think - makes it hard to keep track of it, and is quite arbitrary. It also doesn't make sense for anything released by a company (films etc.) so you have all these pointlessly different spans.

I think the very maximum reasonable copyright term is 50 years from the date of first publication/release. Simple.
Formal Topology
Is there any way to find out the motivation behind this? And who is responsible for this part of the legislation?
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The media makes money, the drug companies make money, and politicians get political benefits if people are afraid.
A major breach capability into Amazon servers
It really is an incentive issue. People are given large amounts of money and promotions and raises are always lurking around. Performance review really incite you to promote your own work and play nice with people instead of acting like a team. It’s quite remarkable I find that companies like that still manage to be productive, but it seems to be working.
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> So 7-instructions to perform 512-bits of bignum addition is 73-bits-per-clock cycle, far superior in speed to the 32-bits-per-clock cycle from add + adc (the 64-bit code with implicit condition codes).

add+adc should still be 64 bits per cycle. adc doesn't just add the carry bit, it's an add instruction which includes the usual operands, plus the carry bit from the previous add or adc.
Two years conditioning from the media also "taking it seriously" is tribe and class affiliation signaling.
The above article was written in 2014, just FYI.
“Only boring people get bored.” - Ruth Burke
And then there’s companies like Coinbase that buck the trend with astounding success. I think this has to do more with individuals than “organizations”. Simply put, everybody in the organization has nothing to gain and a lot to lose by doing anything different. I would conjecture that the phenomenon might be a barometer of innovation for the same reason.
Wasm supports multiple value returns.
I prefer living in the burbs and working remote. I do think that zoning should be much more lenient for housing in urban areas though. Not everything has to be one size fits all. NIMBYs definitely need to go though.
How's our track record at preventing influenza or the common cold, both of which are transmitted as airborne viruses?

The problem is that most of the things that governments around the world have been doing to try to combat corona are completely useless, and carry a huge cost for society. We're killing people with lockdowns and school closures and by limiting medical procedures. Suicides among children and teenagers are up. Deaths of despair are up. Cancer screenings are down. The future healthcare debt is just piling up. If our strategy is killing more people than we're saving, we should stop and re-think the strategy!

The hubris is enormous. Countries think they can eradicate sars-cov-2, and every single attempt has been an abysmal failure. Omicron has been detected in Australia. How? They have incredibly strict border controls, quarantine camps, vaccine requirements and testing requirements for travelers, and yet the virus slipped through.

OP isn't saying we should throw our hands in the air and just ignore the virus, but we also shouldn't double down on useless measures that do more harm than good, and we shouldn't succumb to wishful thinking that the virus can be magically erased if only everyone did X.
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And how brick-and-mortar banks operate.
My understanding is that the potential for long lasting Covid symptoms is not insignificant, vaccinated or not, and from what I’ve read of long covid, it should be avoided.

The idea of facing issues with exhaustion and worsened mental health for months on end sounds like a nightmare.
Yes, much better if instead they keep in their own lane and use their own chat networks / protocols.

..right?
Two "independent researchers" with zero academic affiliations, neither of which seems to have any other recent publications, publishing in a poorly regarded journal with questionable standards don't exactly inspire a great deal of confidence in their results.

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In addition I see one of the authors's Twitter promoting other discredited research and retracted/removed papers over the past year, such as the now infamous "Dr. Mercola".

https://mobile.twitter.com/bernd_glauner/status/127549493530...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/technology/joseph-mercola...

I don't see any reason to think this author is capable of actually conducting a review of this topic, given that they are clearly easily misled by misinformation on the topic (to be charitable).
It's not really too unusual of a vantage point. SH was clean in some ways, but delay slots are annoying for anything that speculatively executes (which sets a bit of a performance ceiling without a lot of complexity), and more registers are generally better.
If you allow such units to be built, you can't leave out that little factoid. It's not all about cars.
If Norway would publish the number of attendees at the party and the proportion of people at this party that were doubly vaccinated, 50 people would provide a reasonable number of cases to calculate a vaccine efficacy. Assuming reasonable mixing and homogeneity of exposure. Has anyone seen these numbers?
Because Softbank made some really bad investments and needs money. (It made 12 billion loss with a 57 billion revenue last year)

I guess the other option is to list it on some stock exchange.
and this at the other end:

https://emojipedia.org/microbe/
It depends on the customer. Apple and Nvidia indeed license just the ISA and build their own CPU implementation from scratch. At the other extreme, you can make a complete chip just from ARM IP - they have way more than CPU and GPU IP, they can sell you pretty much everything else, too. At the middle are chip makers taking eg ARM CPU IP but no other ARM IP and making other IP themselves or licensing from other vendors.
> there's empirical evidence to suggest that that results in increased productivity

Can you share this evidence?

The thing is that one can only focus on a single monitor at a time. So productivity IME really depends on your windows manager. If I can quickly jump from code to documentation while looking at the same pixels without moving my neck or eyes, that seems like it would be more productive than changing focus to another screen and back.

I've been working on a single 1080p laptop display for years now, running Linux with bspwm. I've tried hooking up external displays to this setup, but I haven't found it increased my productivity. Sure, the extra real estate was nice, but shifting focus between monitors detracted from the experience enough that I always went back to a single screen. The comfort of having a portable setup and being able to work from anywhere is also a plus.
Not an expert but think it through (for US law): only prosecutors have the discretion to decide whether to bring charges and the severity of the charges they will bring. A LEO who says to you that they'll get you a better deal if you talk now is lying to you - which not only are they allowed to do, it's in their training to do so (specifically, investigators are trained to tell you what you need to hear to get you to cooperate). They don't have the authority to waive the rights and privileges of the prosecutor's discretion.
It seemed very strange. Many big partners, but social media accounts less than a year old.
Turns out, it is the evolution/opensourcing of AWS Lumberyard. Wikipedia cites <https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/06/amazons-lumberyard-become...>
and they loose the job they were just hired for.

because the more likely situation is that the newly hired expert on X is the only one realizing that X is wrong for this case.
Two charged with stealing $20M in elaborate YouTube music royalty scam
the emoji is usually depicted as a saguaro, which can easily be that tall!
The lab leak was a conspiracy theory back then, not anymore is my understanding based on scientific consensus, just a less probable explanation. Regardless, punitive measures are punitive and demands for culling freedom of press are not aligned with respecting the culture of other countries. What that has to do with reopening or Trump’s positions is not clear. Apparently inspectors did eventually go with a lighter treatment and rights and they did not end up with any results. Would they get results if inspections were carried out earlier with more powers? Don’t know, maybe yes maybe no. Not a fan of Morrison’s approach of punching above his weight, but that does not make it an excuse especially in the context of the argument I am responding to, which was that people should not be targeting the Chinese population for the sins of their leadership. I agree with the statement itself, it is hypocritical though unless you also disagree with China’s foreign policy decisions, which the GP did not as per his closing statement.
>Plenty of pandemics have come and gone

Honest question, how does this one go away on the timescale of a few years to a decade (or, worst case in what truly interests us, a generation)? Couldn't seem to find an answer on pubmed or scholar when I looked, I'm jabbed and have been mindful this whole time but my logic tells me that is not happening. We'd have to get it's R0 low enough that it disappears before mutating a variant that escapes immunity (if that is even necessary given the likelihood of impermanent immunity, at least partial). Is that possible barring a new type of vaccine that entirely prevents infection and reinfection for which we'd have to get full planetary coverage of in time?
Pardon the pessimism, but no. No, we can't. Some other species in some other reality might have been able to. But we can't.
> To solve some of these challenges, we introduced the Lumberyard game engine in 2016. Lumberyard provided a completely free (no royalties or seat licenses), source-available, real-time 3D development engine that made it possible to build, deploy, and scale quickly with cloud integrations. Over the past 5 years, we continued evolving the product for our customers.

> ...That’s why the Linux Foundation has announced the Open 3D Foundation, with AWS seeding the foundation with the Open 3D Engine (O3DE). O3DE is a AAA-capable, cross-platform open source game engine. As part of an open source community, O3DE can expand 3D development for games and simulations by providing all the tools that developers need to bring their real-time 3D environments to life.

ie. This is lumberyard, which is "Amazon Lumberyard is a now superseded freeware cross-platform game engine developed by Amazon and based on CryEngine (initially released in 2002), ..."

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/open-3d-engine/

...but, love it or not, the source is Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/o3de/o3de), so there's sure to be some stuff you can grab there to use in other things.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.
alas: https://github.com/javierbyte/emoji-to-scale/commit/b7b54d7e...
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I’m hoping to run macOS with QEMU/KVM with a project like this or another - does anyone know though if it is possible to pass through an intel integrated gpu (in a CPU only machine) to use for hardware acceleration?
> What’s our end-game here?

Get to >90% population immunity. For now, it seems that's around the level that hospitalizations and deaths are manageable.
>how bad the Google <-> kayak relationship is

How come? Is it related to SEO?
Look, I'm a fan of this, and thanks for sharing - hadn't heard of this project until today.

However claiming it's not associated with ethereum in any way, really? There's mention of an erc-20 token on the home page. Come on, man.
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Yes, but I can't pass around an .exe nor am I willing to allow open builds from source, so maybe.....a YouTube video? Seems HN would downvote a Yt link, favoring interactivity. What do?
I'm worried about being in a traffic accident and not getting timely treatment because all nearby ICUs are already filled beyond capacity with Covid patients.
People should check out Wardley mapping. It's a good tool to have conversations in a company/group about what you are doing that is commodity and what is custom and crucially if this is a good idea or not.

( Of course, management have to be open to these conversations and this alone won't save you from the terrible politics Rachel describes. )
The mandatory interlock for alcohol could be used for the same purpose. Sure don't want citizens moving around the country without their permission, they might get ideas of freedom and liberty and forget about the benefits of having a big brother to check up on you.
So this justifies treating teenagers the same way as 60 year olds who are not willing to get vaccinated and actually have a high risk on ending in the ICU? Even worse, a pensioner can live quite well with the new restrictions while the teenager's family is not even allowed to meet other families anymore. You can twist it all you want, this is absurdly inhumane (and in stark contrast to the federal vaccination commission's recommendation).
A doctor that hasn't heard of the flu?
> Yes, and it is clearly describing the possibility it shows up

No. It is clearly describing the opposite: the possibility that the underlying situation shows an actually weaker, non-existent, or even inverse correlation.

The effect shows up when there's actually a negative correlation. It shows up when there's no correlation. It shows up when the actual correlation is a positive one.

So long as there's a trade-off of perceived positive qualities in a competitive market, it always shows up.
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I was expecting that people don't oversell WebAssbemly as some kind of magic pixie dust of security, anyone that knows a bit about security spots those flaws.

You know what is also sandboxed? An OS process.

Ah, but an OS process has a wider syscalls surface, well lets than bring WASI or JavaScript bindings into the picture.
Imagine the coverage if NSO and the intricately close relationship it had with the government was say Russia or China. The headlines would be like “Putin kills Saudi journalist Kashoggi” or “Xi kills dissidents and human rights activists” instead of the current ones ascribing all agency and blame to just NSO.
Does this statement

“dedicated Google “20% time” volunteers”

strike anyone as a bit “army intelligence” like?

Maybe I don’t understand, these are Google employees, right? Why are they volunteers too? Google gives employees a day long sabbatical once a week, thus 20%. Aren’t they paid to work then? What’s so dedicated about their offsets?

Wouldn’t it be better to say something like

“A subset of Google employees chose to use their weekly sabbatical time to retire technical debt for Matrix”?
Here is a relevant repository: https://github.com/deepmind/mathematics_conjectures

Extremely excited about this. I am wildly creative and talented from a mathematical standpoint. It's probably the best language I speak along with being the one that I am most proficient in. Mathematics basically comes to me as common sense.

The only thing that might throw me off is notation, which I have developed cheat sheets for. Using the cheat sheets, I verbalize the expression as plain English syntax in sequential order, linearizing it. This always clears up the confusion.
This cannot be upvoted enough.
This is 50 years of Gutenberg project.

But as an example Stephen King released "Riding the Bullet" exclusively as an eBook in 2000.

It failed.

One reason given at the time was bandwidth. They couldn't afford it. The idea was people shared the DRMed eBook and bought just the license. But people didn't share it.

How true the story told at the time was, not sure. But it was difficult back then.

https://www.wired.com/2000/03/e-books-king-stephen-the-first
These two remarks don't line up...

They're a builder, all right, as long as you want them to build X. Perhaps they have been building X at some other company, and now your company has hired them to come and do that same job over here instead.

Just imagine what companies would look like if their hiring processes filtered out this kind of charlatan

The company specifically filtered them in to build the X product they're renowned for building at other companies. The hiring process is working perfectly if the company decides they want X, hires a famous X builder, and that person then builds X in their role.

I think the point Rachel is alluding to is that the person should have realised X is inappropriate and said so, but if your world is X then it can be hard to see the broader picture. We've all tried to leverage the tools we know best to do jobs they're not perfect for rather than start from zero with something more appropriate, especially when there's a looming deadline or a lot of pressure from higher ups. To call someone a charlatan for doing that seems grossly unfair.
It's not that hard to see why a scientist working for a Pharma company would recommend that, considering Pharma companies make money selling cures for ailments...
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ICU nurses would strongly disagree with it being "kinda over already", at least where I live.
Ah basecamp, I can collaborate with my team using music :p
Maybe next time some people oppose an enormous omnibus they won't be called anti-progress. Maybe.
That's true. We missed our chance to contain it early on, thanks to those that tried to spare the economy at the cost of 'a few lives' which has now harmed our economy for a much longer period than an initial effort at containment would have caused, not to mention that at that time we didn't know exactly how bad it would get (it could have been a lot worse than it was).

But reducing the amount of active infections does have a beneficial effect because even though everyone will likely be exposed that doesn't necessarily mean that everybody will also get the disease (even the the worst diseases viral do not necessarily spread to 100% of the population), and there some chance that later strains may become milder. And if fewer people are ill at the same time that should increase the level of care available.

But it's a rearguard action at this point.
When you're in love, you don't need to ask yourself the question, "am I in love?" - you just know intuitively. And if you work in tech right now, you can absolutely afford to change jobs until you're doing the one you love every single day, without doubt.
> Why, when a technical one suffices?

Because if you're programming then the imposed limitation forcing you to constantly switch between windows almost certainly reduces your productivity. Do you never find yourself jumping back and forth between two or three documentation pages (library API, manpage, language spec, whatever), one or more pieces of example code, and one or more files with code that you're editing? Plus a window for build tooling? I find having that all visible at once in dedicated locations to be incredibly convenient, much more like working on a physical bench top.