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The format attribute takes the argument positions of the format string and the first variadic argument. You can pass the types as a separate array (compound literal array) as any argument before the beginning of the variadic portion, just as you would if passing in the number of variadic arguments (which one should also do to ensure the number of format specifiers matches the number of passed arguments). The magic for detecting types (e.g. _Generic) would all be the same, but there'd be a little more duplication for the variable argument macro magic. I've implemented this both ways and I don't recall there being any significant difference, but it's been awhile.
Stay that way long enough and the population becomes immunologically naive and religion spreads again.
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polluted with Platonism, the more Aristotelian thinkers were driven to science.

Could you clarify this? Plato & Aristotle have both gone in & out of fashion within different communities of thought over the centuries, sometimes in with one group and out with another at the same time. Humanism and Platonism came together around the 14th century in a push back against pure Aristotelian thought, and that seems like it would be much earlier than the shift you have observed. Further down the road, Leibniz described himself as closer to Plato than Aristotle but was part of the natural philosophy tradition that evolved into modern science. More recently both, Bertrand Russel and Kurt Godel were both platonists of some flavor. =

Is the shift more recent, the past half-century or so? Or a specific aspect of platonism that has taken hold?
… what?

Science changes course as more data comes in.

At first there wasn’t evidence that masks worked, once that had been accrued science was pro-mask.

The reason people questioning the effectiveness of masks is called a science denier is because there have been innumerable studies on the effectiveness of masks, and every one that has stood up to scrutiny has come out in favor of masks.

Calling scientific consensus that is backed but huge amounts of direct evidence “dogma” is nonsense.

Dogma is an absolute opinion on something in the absence of (or indeed denied by) evidence.
I like making stuff. I haven’t yet been able to figure out what web3 is actually useful for right now outside of making money off of speculation. I’m trying to.

But BTC seems extraordinarily inefficient (~$200 “spent” securing the chain per transaction, and what happens once mining dries up?). ETH seems extraordinarily inefficient (run the same code everywhere, burn a shitload of money/gas doing it). I don’t know enough about the others, so maybe the usefulness is elsewhere.

I do like the fact that all these chains seem like effectively open apis for everything, though. It gives me hope for a more interoperable future. I just wish there was some obvious fundamental underpinning to the value.
> And despite your misgivings, businesses in every industry have now been on AWS for years without the doom predicted in every thread.

Well the doom does sometimes happen, perhaps not well publicized. I've been in one startup that ran out of money where the astounding AWS bill was part of the demise. And in another startup where the AWS bill hindered growth since it took such a large slice of the funding.
Looking out of your league is an universal human right; no one should be arbitrarily punished because they asked out someone who was offended by the attention of an unattractive person.

This is common sense social interaction, the state and society should be involved if someone is victimized, for example if the advances continue even after a clear and unambiguous rejection.
I think your parent meant "just over" in the opposite direction, e.g. just outside his property.
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> Force everyone to solve the problem entirely by reducing CO2 emissions.

I know it's not the point of the post but that's not the only other option. We can also keep CO2 emissions high, or even increase them. We just need to recapture them later. This is already being worked on, supported mostly by companies like Stripe and Microsoft. If we just invested more into this, we wouldn't have such a rough choice.
Wow, the spelling errors on your landing page don't exactly inspire confidence in this asset. Neither does your blatant disrespect of the HN posting policy, but I gotta hand it to you, I've never seen someone make an alt account so fast.
Both?

Take the topic of abortion. Catholics have always been against it. Southern Baptists and evangelicals were largely either indifferent or in favor of it being rare but legal until the mid 1970s when the Heritage Foundation lumped it in with a group of other things they sold as "moral issues" in an attempt to sway religious groups on economic issues.

Now, given that we're talking about the South here, what issue do you think would be considered a moral issue by a majority white Southern population of that era?

If you guessed segregation, give yourself a pat on the back. While the fight for segregation has largely been lost by conservatives, they took that emotional energy and kept it going with abortion and laissez-faire capitalism, basically creating an entire ideological framework from the ground up and "discovering" Biblical support for their positions.

Today, evangelicals and southern baptists are steadfast in their opposition to abortion. But Roe was a Southern Baptist, and so was her lawyer, and as the article below shows (with two articles from the era of Roe embedded),

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/baptist-...

that was anything but "biblically settled" doctrine at the time. Funny how we went 1900+ years and abortion only became an issue in an attempt to exclude a group.
I don’t trust unitologists, they’re always up to something
Because inflation’s effects are uneven.

On the plus-ish side:

-Optically better revenue and profits for companies (albeit fundamentally similar or worse because of increased supplier prices),
-better fixed income returns (again though, relative; and bond prices themselves decline), and

-(historically) equity appreciation.

On the negative-ish side:
-wage increases tend to lag and underperform inflation, so people who earn their income primarily via wages suffer, at least in the near term.
-capital gets a lot more expensive if the fed raises rates. While equities generally increase during times of inflation, there can be huge downdrafts as valuation models adjust to the increased cost of capital. Given where the market is trading right now on a virtually any valuation basis vs previous fed hike cycles, things could get really ugly for a while.

(*none of above is investment advice. Good chance it’s all proven totally wrong, actually, given how unprecedented market and economic behavior has been over the past decade)
>Have you never known conservatives wanting to lower taxes, deregulate the economy, and decentralize decision making?

I know its not conservative or liberal, it depends how you look at it. Deregulation of markets was seen as liberal at one time, devolution is pretty well supported except by some that support strong central government control, and lower taxes is often seen as American conservative, instead of offering services that they skim, or taxing you and giving you back more money (lol) they just won't take it in the first place. Milton Friedman's negative income tax is a beautiful way to help the poor without sudden cutoffs for when they try to become wealthier too.

I would say that these labels aren't as useful as top down control (big government, tell people what to do) or bottom up control (power to the people, let them do as they want to). Both can be useful for different reasons. The ozone hole and banning freon was top down but the tragedy of the common would mean it would never get fixed. The federal government also shouldn't raid dispensaries and prevent weed smoking.
I spend time north of there and as long as you’re on the ocean summers are awesome. Walking on the beach is just about always great on a hot day since you get sea breeze and can cool off in the water. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but it sure is mine!
> how much money should be in the economy? How should it be created or destroyed?

Great questions.

Money is created when money is loaned out against collateral. Money is destroyed when the loan is repaid and the collateral returned. It's a natural process. The pressure on it is to have the supply of money match the value in the collateral.

> whoever has lisense to print money

Under a free banking system, anyone can print money. Of course, anyone printing money has to convince others that it has value. Did you know that anyone can print money today? We call them "IOUs", "checks", and more recently, "credit cards". We're all familiar with having to convince others that our IOUs, checks, and credit cards will be honored.

I'm not aware of any that managed to rule the world or collapse the economy.

> no answer

I just gave you one! I can only surmise you've been talking to the wrong people. May I suggest Milton Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States". It's tough sledding, but worth it if you really want to know.

> Is using a physical valuable substance as money, let's say gold, free market?

Of course. Are you familiar with the commodities marketplace? It's the same thing, but would you call that mercantilism? Shipping gold around to settle debts, however, is clumsy, expensive, and dangerous, hence the rise of trading receipts for the gold instead, and later those receipts turning into bank notes, and even later became electronic entries in a ledger.

> Do you want to have gold standard and fractional reserve banking?

That's how free banking worked in the United States. It's free market.

> they used to collapse all the time.

Not all the time, but banks did fail from time to time.

> That's why we invented central banks.

That was the public reason. The real reason was to inflate the money. As for collapse, now we have fewer bank failures, but when they do fail, it's a doozy (Great Depression, 2008, etc.). Also, did you notice that as of this month 9% of the money you had last year disappeared? You can thank our fiat money system for that.

I grew up in the Carter stagflation years, and learned to never keep more than pocket money around. It's all in things that aren't inflated into worthlessness by the central bank.

P.S. How do I know all this stuff? My dad spent the last years of his career as head of the finance department at a college. We had many long and happy conversations about how banks worked. It isn't an easy subject, but I wish more people could have such an experience.
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As a layman in ML, I thought PyTorch is more(or only) geared towards researchers while Tensorflow has its problems it is the _only_ one that provides a commercial solutions that you can deploy, is this still true?

JAX is totally new to me, is this Google's new Tensorflow in the future?
It's a huge bottleneck for iOS/MacOS devs. I work on a fairly large app. Clean builds are 45 minutes on my 2019 Intel i7, and incrementals can be 5 - 10 min (which is still insane to test small changes). The M1 guys are seeing 33% - 50% reductions in build time.

We have a lot of tooling that only exists to try to stay productive while running builds. Anything to speed up the build times is instant productivity gained.
> Is it legal for the government to setup surveillance cameras on someone's land, to monitor their land?

No, a warrant is needed for a permanent camera.

The exception is if the camera was on public land and the private area observed was easily visible from street-level, for example.

They can use surveillance aircraft with infrared imaging to identify grow operations though.

(There was an HN post around a year ago about police using a streetlamp to peer over a fence into a private residence, so check that out.)

Unfortunately US police across all jurisdictions are so lazy that they keep trying this, all the way up to FISA courts.
If you were able to launch and rendezvous in orbit, I wonder how much cheaper something like the JWST gets if it could be built up piecemeal? The unfurling mechanism itself exists because of payload width limits. How much cost is bound up in "we can't just keep launching rockets because rockets are expensive" and how much is bound up in "precision technology for precision observations"?
The anti-discrimation/harassment industry sees big corporations as honey pots.

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/wokeness-as-saddam-sta...

Much of the massive judgments the industry wins against US corporations go into the coffers of law firms.
That's really fascinating, thanks so much! I like the sound of your two cycle pitch approach -- kind of putting 'measure twice, cut once' into practice. And I admire your ability to wrangle a larger betting table & bring others into the pitching process!
Can someone tell me if these vector search things have anything in common with postgres's text search vectors, which have been implemented in postgres for quite a while now?
there are "assessments" happening, but I'd expect months or a year before this is all patched, so hopefully the infiltrators will patch the systems for us like u mentioned :)
Probably because a some churches will put a disproportionate amount of political rallying around banning something that Numbers 5:11-31 requires in some cases, but absolutely never mention marching or voting to feed the poor, help children, or other things.

Some undeniably do care about abortion. Some have financial ties to politics and abortion is the easiest wedge issue that they can claim to religiously justify.
>>>Homicides (a small portion) are up, but all over the place, not cities in particular.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homi...

Cities are hitting RECORD homicides though. Does the data show that suburbia is suffering anywhere near as bad of a spike? I dunno....I haven't picked through the data to compare [these 12 cities] vs [America ex-these 12 cities].

https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/cri...
That is an unintended vulnerability which can be exploited. While also bad it's not evidence of a malicious hardware installed before leaving the factory.
No, AMD, i have a Radeon RX 5700 XT with the open source drivers. One of the sure-fire ways to crash the entire server seems to be trying to run Wizardry 6 from GOG via Wine, which essentially runs DOSBox for Windows. Somewhere when it tries to change video mode it crashes. Note that this doesn't happen if i use Gamescope under X (which essentially runs Wine under XWayland under its own Wayland compositor that runs in an X window).

Of course since this is a DOS game i can simply run it with native DOSBox, but this is just a way to replicate the issue.

Since i've found workarounds for these issues i didn't bother much, but i might try and see why it crashes at some point.

Also FWIW i do not really consider "gaming on Linux" when i have to use a Windows VM. Besides Wine (well, Wine staging) nowadays works perfectly fine. And if i wanted to use Windows, i'd just be using Windows :-P.
You do you. For me, that editor is not 80 USD better than... well, there are a lot of great alternatives. It's not even like Sublime is flawless, and I am not sure I would use it, if it was FOSS (tho, then it may become flawless over time).

Also, apparently it's $100 USD now. C'mon, 100 bucks for a basic text editor?!
How much of this is because in America the loudest religious voices:

* deny science

* attack the basic rights of other people

* aggressively push for laws based on their own religious beliefs at the expense of everyone else

Etc

Given that most studies have shown younger people are more likely to accept science, other people, etc this could simply be reflective of people not wanting to be associated with the loud people.
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This reminds me of the 737 MAX.
>>We're gonna replace inequality in the system with hyper-inequality as all crypto does is remove all the damn rules and laws that kept the 1% of the 1% in check.

The rules are the very thing that allows elites to take over. Crypto to the extent that it nullifies the rules that violate individual liberty, nullifies gatekeeping and expands opportunities.

What is unbelievably naive is thinking that rules that limit contract rights, and that are crafted and enforced by elite dominated state organs, "kept the 1% of the 1% in check".
SpaceX dropping launch costs with Falcon 9 already did that. The IXPE mission launched last week went up in a gigantic, barely filled fairing, because SpaceX bid below what the previous "cheap" launch was going to be.
> Facebook and Twitter represented Social Networking 1.0

No... bulletin boards, usenet, IRC, webrings, livejournals, etc. represented social networking 1.0

The difference is only nerds used those services, whereas FB and TWTR are inclusive to normal people.
This is valuable for a learning language and for learning in general. But it’s the kind of concept that ought to be abstracted away, in my opinion.
Does anyone have any good data sources that identify the problems everyone is complaining about?

Every source I browse finds that crime is at an all time low. I keep hearing anecdotes about robberies and break
-ins, but nobody every has the data. The cynic in me believes people are just using perceived crime as an excuse to leave when in reality, they're just being priced out of the city.
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The institutions are the clergy. To a small extent this can include credentialed scientists, peer-reviewed journals, etc., but really it's the government institutions (e.g. WHO, CDC, FDA, Surgeon General) and media institutions (e.g. newspapers, cable news, and social media platforms) that constitute the clergy.

The "Science" dogma that the general public is induced to adhere to gets filtered through these institutions.
This is not all "science's" fault. This whole thing has been political from the beginning, both in that those in power during the initial outbreak tried to downplay the dangers, and those opposing them tried to overcompensate to distance themselves.

Besides, it is perfectly scientific to change your beliefs and guidance based on new evidence, especially when it comes to novel diseases and a generation-defining pandemic.
Obviously not OP,

If we look at the history of the Varna, particularly the Brahmin, if I'm not mistaken... From my fragmented recollection, the Brahmins created increasingly sophisticated and esoteric rituals which began to jointly increase in expense. They were eventually castigated [EDIT: the Vedic religion was actually challenged by a variety of religions, this period, ≈700BCE, gave rise to Buddhism and Jainism.] for this — I'd say science draws a pretty close parallel.

It's increasingly opaque, expensive, esoteric, and despite all that it's informing opinion, debate, and policy. It's also a closed circle that is arbitrarily delimited, and given high autonomy and authority in society. Not to mention most people have a poor grasp of the fact that science isn't the truth. It also does little to inform us in the way of morality, yet it appears the "rationalists" (pardon, I've no better term) in usurping religion, have little in the way of an answer for this. Yet the constituent mass that composes it is one of the most trusted groups[1]. Which is easily exploitable if you factor all this together, not unlike religion. And it has been leveraged for maligned purposes, before and will continue to be.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/08/02/trust-and-mis...
Can you please explain this like I'm 5. I am still learning and I would like to understand how to do upgrades in a better way.
I contacted you a bunch of years ago - and actually I was the maintainer of the script/instructions for building on Ubuntu in the 14.04/16.04 era until plaurent took it over.

Everybody is very nice, but I believe more than just themes is needed. We need a wholesale UI redesign. A discussion happened a bunch of months ago, and it was clear there was no desire to do that.

(And yes I do run the Rik theme :) )
Well, thanks for making everything calm. 178 were the amount of individual actions in the deploy sequence but that number of SPoF makes it, just fine.
I don't think this particular issue was viewed through the lens of science for many. It's been a confusing two years and Americans got a lot of mixed messaging from elites in general, and definitely from the FDA. This was seen as institutional failure though, not scientific failure. JTBC, I'm not arguing what it _was_, but how it was perceived.

Your portrayal of the recent scientific dogma as being discriminatory of people who don't wear masks does not match mine, however. As far as I know, the current dogma is "get vaccinated and no one really cares if you have a mask on or not, maybe wear one when your grandma comes over though and consider getting a booster if your regional leaders are advising you to".

Anyway. The culture war is still firmly between the un/vaccinated, not the vaccinated but unmasked.

edit: Maybe try leaving the bay area if you disagree.
The descriptions in the article are roughly correct for companies that have modeled themselves on Google, which is most companies headquartered in the Bay Area.

Microsoft's Principal Engineer is much more junior than at these companies. It's more like Senior/Staff Engineer. Amazon (headquartered in Seattle like Microsoft), also has a Principal Staff Engineer role which is less senior than Principal at Google and most other Bay Area companies, roughly equivalent to Senior Staff at those companies.
This is awful news.

Inflation hurts people living on fixed income and people with low income. (If you can't afford to fix your car for $500, you surely can't afford to fix it for $1200.)

People with some money can invest in equities. Corporations can often pass the costs on down the line. So the shareholders keep up, somewhat.

We need some plays from the early 80s playbook. Fast.
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Why don't you start by making the Open Group change their POSIX specification to stop using "master" and "slave" in pseudo terminals first?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/functions/gr...
For example, angular, react, vue, etc. You can follow these tools as their popularity comes and go, but at the end of the day they exist on top of HTML/CSS/JS. So while these 3 basic blocks are there to stay forever, the tools on top are a game of musical chairs.

I'm not saying that they are bad. I've been using them at works for years. I'm saying that some people chose to focus on "old" tech and produce web pages and webapps without much tools. The advantage of this approach is that your environment is stable so you can actually learn and master the tools. You can even find crazy tricks and "abuse" some of the features as you become really good at those.

It can be liberating to stop changing tools every year, but instead learn the intricacies of the basic tools that will never change.
All those are pretty easy in Rust.
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