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Examples of "new tech": common use of deep learning models in many types of applications and services, higher level web based tools for managing data and infrastructure, mobile devices that can do on-device deep learning model inferencing and sometimes even training, etc.

I like and enjoy several programming languages, but I don't consider new languages and frameworks to be paradigm shifting. Still interesting though.

As someone else here mentioned, there are so many new tech niches being created; learn one or two.

Having work life balance is super important, but I find that skipping watching movies or TV a couple evenings a week gives me plenty of off-work time to learn new stuff. My wife accepts that a few evening a week I don't join her in watching a movie after dinner (we sit in the same room, and she puts on earphones).
With FPGAs? It’s been a long time since college but I recall my FPGA experience being very much like programming once you realized all lines of code executed in parallel and “function” calls were just connecting wires. I don’t recall many issues. Maybe some things around synthesizability but I can’t recall anymore if this applied to FPGAs or just ASICs
> Vietnam War took off later.

The war started half a decade prior. The US already had 50,000 soldiers stationed in South Vietnam by the time the Sino-Soviet split reached its point of no return, plus several thousand advisors and other personnel.

> Believe it or not, US strategists in 1950 were capable of planning more than 0-4 years into the future.

I agree. I also think they were a bit more concerned about an arms race with the USSR, and the fact that the Soviets were involved in half a dozen direct geopolitical threats in the 50s and 60s.

Anyway, let’s say that you are right. Supporting and arming the North Vietnamese regime would make China as much as an aggressor as the US. Funnily enough, China also turned against Vietnam and both financed the Khmer Rouge and directly attacked the country after the war ended. But I guess those don’t count as “aggressions” either.
Or the US government is taxing the poor kid who worked at a non-profit more, relative to his wealthy classmate who graduated debt free and landed a job at his dad's hedge fund.
I guess this is just my opinion but NixOS is probably the most esoteric Linux distribution I've used. Anyone who intends to use NixOS comfortably probably isn't apprehensive about configuration and customization, things which are the antithesis of everything GNOME stands for.

I fail to see why GNOME, or any DE for that matter, is something that should be recommended by a distribution like NixOS.
I wonder how much of this is due to the greatly increased alcohol consumption during the pandemic.
I’ll just chip in as someone who has never ever wanted kids, who met a lovely girl who was so thankful to also meet someone who has never ever wanted kids.

So just because you’re ‘able’ doesn’t mean that you should. Just wanted to put this here in case others think they’re weird for really, really not wanting kids. You’re not.
>we haven't died from the so-called "lockdowns,"

To be fair, no one here has died from COVID either.
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How is using a library an operations challenge? Especially in the era of package managers like npm and maven. This seems to me like FB is incompetent and cannot write a good library for bot use.
Ah, he also believes in "Ashkenazi IQ" stuff. And is best friends with Greg Cochran who thinks homosexuality is caught by germs. Very instructive stuff
C compatibility is the showstopper. And since everything was built on unsafe foundations of C compatibility, there could be no coherent language design principles serving safety.
Wait a minute, are you saying the US weapon sales to Taiwan, the US warships near Taiwan, and AUKUS, are not a thing?
I can't find a source, but I heard that Google used to purposely slow down their corporate network on some days to force all teams to dogfood test their software on slow networks. Or maybe they just offered an alternate slow Wi-Fi network to make testing easier, not forcing everyone to use a slow network.

But forcing managers to use a slow network would be an effective way to get them to prioritize performance. If using a slow network is a choice, they wouldn't.
Since going [near] unlimited screen time we have seen a huge change in how our son (8yo) engages with the iPad and computer which has resulted in a much happier and healthier use of technology.

As soon as the iPad/computer was no longer "special" due to time limitations it sort of lost its "power" over him. He was much more open to using it for things other than games and funny videos.

I felt a bit dumb when I realised it was me putting these limits on his use of the iPad and computer that amplified how much "power" they had over his desire to use them.

Obviously there are still some limits but we follow them for ourselves as well (such as no screen time before bed, taking breaks every hour) so they haven't been an issue.

I certainly don't think the devices are the problem but more how we give these devices so much power over kids by holding this magical machine in front of them that can do so damn much then restrict access to them so all they ever want to do is very basic things like game.
That is mostly my point. What conclusion can you actually make about any other society, current or historical, on the basis of "our practical problems being mostly solved by technology"?

I think the danger in this focus on technology now is that it is so easy to dismiss anything at all that ancient Greeks or whomever said as not even simply wrong but even trivial and unworthy of being studied.

Of course I used to dismiss most earlier writings as well. What could they possibly teach me, after all everything is so advanced now? This kind of attitude being widespread and I think entailed in most modern science talk (as an unspoken and easy conclusion that mostly never becomes explicit) is part of the reason we struggle with the same issues as you say.
Where were all the people saying "I told you so" about viruses getting milder over time when Delta came around?
> Basically, if you took 10k people and dumped 5k of them on one planet and 5k on a planet that was the physical opposite, forbid them to contact anyone, and visited 2000 years later, Generativists say you could find a system in common between the two and cognitive linguists say you probably couldn't, because the systems themselves would have evolved to have different starting points.

Is this not a bit of a false dichotomy (substantially dimensionally compressed representation of the true underlying complexity)? Like sure, one is likely to be able to find substantial commonality, but does cognitive linguistics really unequivocally assert that you will find no commonality whatsoever? If so, that seems a bit crazy.
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What confuses me about this is that no one else found it?

Being somewhat experienced at game networking and writing server code with this type of exploit(e.g. sending a packet to do something at the other end of the map and processing the result) in mind, this would be something I either would have checked for in the first place if performance would have allowed for it, or would have kept in the back of my mind in case I hear about a possible exploit that takes advantage of it.
> Yes ... but Apple has built a mesh network to report the position of people who don't want to be tracked ... and clearly are being tracked.

Sure, but you could say the same thing about the cell network. Same argument applies to the cell GPS trackers I mentioned.

> And it's very possible my own iphone is being used in the service of an evil actor.

You can turn if off if you want. `Settings > Apple ID > Find My > Find My iPhone` and uncheck `Find My network`. I do appreciate that the power of defaults means that you personally disabling it doesn't really do much to the overall situation, though.
Thanks, that makes sense. The only way I can see Apple making this change is if there were external pressure, which means implementing it without support for Apple products at first. Someone has to make the first move, and it won't be Apple.

I did a bit of searching and it looks like this feature has been requested a few times on the LetsEncrypt community site, and this [1] is the best thread I think. Commenters there bring up another potential roadblock: aiui current regulatory requirements mean that there's a bunch of manual paperwork for every issued CA, name constrained or not. If anyone could automate and operationalize that process it would be LetsEncrypt. It would still be a lot of work, on the same scale as their initial (long, arduous) effort to automate issuance of leaf certs. Maybe a solution could be found by leaning on DNSSEC as a stronger validation of domain ownership than dns01. (As a side benefit, it would also be a small step towards eliminating the need for CAs in general.)

[1]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/standardized-tools-for-a...
Fair warning to others, this project has no license, is Windows only and also requires an external closed-source/proprietary binary that is included in the repo.
And now you understand PRC diplomacy - closing an embassy because an unofficial trade office used 'taiwan' instead of 'taipei'.
Get a refund from the guy who sold you that janky ass laptop that won’t boot without a microphone.
> Saying that Rust can't do it now because the C standard doesn't sufficiently specify bitfield semantics isn't a good answer.

I don't think anybody is saying that? Particularly given that Rust is working on precisely that.

The argument is merely that not currently having a good bitfield solution is hardly a showstopper for systems development, given that C is already far more popular in that area than Ada despite its deeply deficient version of bitfields which leads to them being banned in a great many codebases.
There are mechanisms for t-cell testing in reasonably wide use now. from what I understand its not done that much comparatively is because its bloody expensive.

I think one of the mechanisms is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISpothttps://en.wikipedia.or...

However I would take all of this with a pinch of salt. I asked my doctor friend about it, they said "We use t-cell tests for a bunch of things, but its really expensive. I can't remember what thing we were looking for, probably TB, everyone had TB in that ward, so it might be that."
In general, this doesn't work by accident. In practice, whenever calling a function from a different DLL, normally a thunk is inserted (if it isn't marked dllimport), and when referencing a variable that might reside in a different DLL (and be autoimported), its address is read indirectly via a full 64 bit pointer.

When linking to a function "func" in another DLL, the import library normally provides two symbols, "func" which is a thunk which allows it to be called from anywhere, and "__imp_func" which is the IAT entry (containing a full 64 bit address). If the caller called it via a dllimport marked declaration, it's using "__imp_func", otherwise it uses "func" and ends up jumping via a thunk.

In some cases, when mingw-w64 wants to override importing certain functions (by providing a statically linked version of it instead), the functions are marked "DATA" in the def file (which is used for generating the import libraries). Then the thunk is left out and only the "__imp_func" symbol is left. If you hit a situation where you didn't end up linking the intended replacement function, then it's possible to hit this situation where you autoimport something that only works if it's loaded close enough. (In hindsight, it might have been even better to comment out those functions entirely from the import libraries.)

If you do hit this issue again (or if you remember exactly how to reproduce it), then plese do file a bug somewhere so we can look into it.

But in general, mingw-w64 linked binaries, even including ones using the autoimport facility and runtime pseudo relocations, should work even if they are loaded far apart from each other.
I think the problem you're missing is that these are two different groups. Mortality is decreased, sure, and people get social problems, sure, but the people getting the increased social problems are not the ones getting the lowered mortality.
Nice thanks for the info.
But the point of a soup kitchen is to give without expecting any RoI, not even non-monetary return.

If I want to build a community of people who upstream patches for a project, copyleft does it better than saying patches are not required.

MIT is like a soup kitchen because soup kitchens are like MIT. I don't want to work in a soup kitchen.
Sorry. I read another article on here on the same topic where the person did and conflated the two.

...and actually checking again the person said they "verged on" a panic attack, which is clearly less bad

https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/ccpa-scam-2021-12/
Ask HN: Can someone explain the recent AWS outages to a layperson?
Seems like a pretty big deal. Can anyone ELI5 why they happened? What do we think will change (if anything) about companies' reliance on AWS?
This only allows you to specify a preferred resolution, but doesn't return the resolution actually available. Any device info is returned in the MediaDeviceInfo object [1] on enumeration (which doesn't include resolution or similar data).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...
Are they made in PRC though?
FTA: But as Earth’s rising temperatures trigger a cascade of calamitous effects, and as humans pump more greenhouse gases into the air, a prominent group of scientists is urging the world to seriously consider the stratospheric option.

That's "we don't believe people will change, we don't want to ask them to change" propaganda. Think about it: now you put the damn thing in the stratosphere. Temperature falls down, great. Meanwhile, people don't learn to change. 50 years later, stratosphere dusts comes down, temperature rises again. People have still not learned. Then we need a bigger geoengineering. Rinse, repeat.
>Africans do have Neanderthal DNA, up to 0.3%.

That ancestry comes from later interactions with West Eurasians and is at trace levels compared to the substantial 2-3% in non-Africans. This does not change the point that non-Africans received input from Neanderthals just before expansion outwards.

>The post tries very hard to make it look like 'Out of Africa' is wrong and not the mainstream accepted by the majority of scientists. Admixture doesn't change that.

You've misread the article if you believe that. The point is that the total replacement model of out of Africa imagining a small band of hunter gatherers expanding out of an East Africa giving rise to all of humanity popular in the 2000s was proven wrong. The point was that single locus markers like mtDNA and Y-DNA can create biases that allowed for such a consensus that was changed by the whole genome of the Neanderthal. The ancient DNA we have now suggests a multi-regional model for modern human evolution within Africa.

The remainder of the post (other than the first nitpick) is non-substantive ideological claims that appears to be largely because Razib's politics lean conservative. Interest in human populations and such phenotypic differences does not imply scientific racism once you realize the basic scientific principle that humans are animals and consider how animals exist in populations with phenotypic differences.
Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI
Haskell has a decent web ecosystem at this point. However, if you really want to avoid boilerplate when writing a CRUD app, your best choice is one of the big, boring popular web frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Django, etc.) 90% of boilerplate avoidance has less to do with fancy language features than it does with someone else already having done the work for you. (And dynamic languages like Ruby and Python do allow all kinds of fancy abstractions anyway - just without the security of compile time typing.)
I haven't listened to this specific podcast, but Ezra Klein went on paternity leave a couple months ago. He didn't host this episode, per the description.

Seems like he's prioritizing something other than career at the moment?
> Low latency trading is so crucial to the economy that the market mostly shuts down at 4pm every day and takes weekends and holidays, adding 2^47 nanosecond delays every week without much outcry.

To this I would say: grocery stores (which serve as a sort of middleman to a whole host of necessary goods and are clearly crucial to the economy) close overnight without much outcry.

(To be clear, I think grocery stores are far more important to the economy/society than HFTs, but I think your argument for why is poor)
I don't have friends. This is probably why I've struggled to maintain mental health and happiness for several years now.

I just don't have any intention to fix it, because the fixes look difficult.
Two questions I have:

1) What makes it a Shelby?

2) How can it be legal? (as it appears to be designed to decapitate in case of accident)
What is this person talking about? Who is celebrating incompetence?
Once upon a time, children, people made websites with no ads, and no paywalls. Sure, there weren't as many websites; and sure, they didn't have as many sliding panels and other gimmicks.

And for sure, I appreciate being able to buy stuff online. But I seem to be able to do that without viewing ads! Amazing!
Thanks, this actually matches my initial intuition about the matter. It's been awhile since I've looked up info in this area, partly due to the fact that a lot of IQ test proponents I spoke to seemed to have a great deal of personal identity staked in its significance.
No one size fits all solution. You have to reverse engineer the way the script fetches and processes chunks and write a downloader or a plugin that instruments the running code and spits out the video data.

When wasm released I speculated that it will make this much more widespread and harder to reverse engineer due having more performace to waste on de-obfuscating at runtime. Feels nice to be wrong in this case.
You know, I did a google scholar search for this "fact" and in 2005 a research paper shows that self-discipline outperforms IQ by a factor of 2.
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I'm UK based. Just took a fully remote job at Couchbase. Left the BBC, which is attempting to reintroduce office based working, same role/title, 66% salary increase. Very possible, could even say easy.
it is referenced in the first paragraph

>In texts, both fictional and non-fictional and in English and Spanish, thinking words relating to technology and social organization (experiment, gravity, weigh, cost, contract) become more common between 1850 and approximately 1977 (beginning of the great stagnation) but since then thinking words have declined markedly and feeling words relating to belief, spirituality, sapience, and intuition (e.g. forgiveness, heal, feel) have become more common.

the deliberate inclusion of such an unrelated reference (in the context of the paragraph) makes me believe the author is trying to emphasis a possible negative correlation / outcome to the discussed phenomena

his off handed remarks on how "femininity" may be the cause the discussed phenomena would then also be a cause of the referenced outcome mentioned above, if the aforementioned assumptions hold true

on a side note, I would comment by saying that the author including his speculative commentary in a discussion of a scientific paper is the height of "thinking over feeling"
If something of value is being lost, let them that see that value pay for it.

It is a bit unfair to go to a teenager, set them up with debts in exchange for something that doesn't measurably impact their earnings and turn them loose. The reason they are even in education is because their brain isn't fully formed yet and they have no practical experience. Relying on their judgement of what is a good long-term idea is a bad move.
Ok, I've replaced "interest rates are high" with "interest rates are low" in your GP comment. I hope that's what you meant!
For those following - these treatments are 40 pill treatments. For the 50M odd cases we've had we'd need 40*50M pills (2 billion pills).

Assume a daily global rate of around 600K cases per day we'd need 24M pills per day.

USA alone is perhaps 100K cases, so 4M pills per day. Do they really have this volume ready to go?

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I'm not aware of a single study showing that for vaccinated folks the pills do anything. Not saying they don't, but it would be helpful to have ONE study.

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As to why the FDA has not approved, they are reasonably clear. One issue is that COVID, and particularly omicron variant which dominates, is just not that lethal.

EDIT: This part is incorrect below

These pills work in interesting ways, ie, generating MORE mutations.

β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Through Lethal Mutagenesis But Is Also Mutagenic To Mammalian Cells https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33961695/

So before you jam 2 billion doses into folks there is going to be a bit of an evaluation.

If Omicron turns out to have high fatality rates then I suspect things like these therapies will be fast tracked a bit more.
Because the owner of the car would need to have an iPhone?
good to see some other civcraft alumni on HN. What an experience...
Interesting, you must not know far.
Nah, just recognize that the tech already was out there, for a lower cost, in a form factor that won't notify you you're being tailed

This isn't a new thing and Apple takes steps that, for example, Tile doesn't to prevent their products from being used for nefarious purposes
> historical reasons

Of course, mission critical business software still needs to be deployed long after fashions change.
I have no skin in the game; didn't even read the article. "You're just being contrarian so you're wrong" is a weak and lazy retort. I did appreciate that op provided a counter-perspective though; that's rare.
Did you see this one? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.368...
> If you're caught placing an AirTag on someone's car it's easier to pretend you dropped it and are looking for it.

That doesn't make any sense. If someone catches me placing an AirTag in the undercarriage of a car, it's pretty difficult to pretend that I dropped it there.
Correction - we're still running this experiment. That was rather my point.
> Your parents had you instead of a toy or a dog, you owe them nothing, you are their entertainment.

As cringy as this may be, it's depressing how many people I can name off the top of my head who had children because they wanted a pet. Subsequently they figured out that having a kid is hard and instead of facing the consequences, they resorted to buying expensive toys in order to keep them quiet and not have to deal with them. Needless to say it didn't end well for the kids.
Okay, people can enjoy being in debt then. I'm not going to agree with you, I think your take especially for an undergraduate degree is ridiculous and poorly weighted.

You should check with your friend how much debt they're in. I'd imagine it's 0 and if that's the case they made a good call.

You'll benefit no one with your education while scraping by under the thumb of a corp because you can't afford to stop working as a debt slave. That's the reality most people face which is something you seem to ignore.
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I fixed it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29617675). I hope that's ok.