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Sorry - omits is the wrong word, because of course Phoenix uses that stuff. More that in my experience, for the kind of "in the framework" developer that I've run into in the Rails space, the mapping to using Phoenix is very simple and doesn't demand of the end user the conscious use of processes, genservers, etc. -- it can, and from POV often seems to be used as, plug-and-chug. This totally isn't a criticism either, I want to stress; it's the mark of a good framework, that you don't necessarily have to care about that stuff to ship a thing.

At my current company, we use Phoenix and we use a lot of its bells and whistles. But we also have a lot of people who understand OTP--definitely way more than I do. I also see people ship Phoenix apps without getting deep into that when their needs are relatively small.
A devastating rampage of monkeys? I can think of some parallels.
Liberal does not mean progressive.
I was a voracious reader as a child all the way until I got to university where I had to consume incredibly dense tomes of the most boring subjects known to man. It took me a while to get into the habit of being able to consume 10-15 of those a year. I did it. But it forever killed my thirst to read anything afterward that wasn't consumable within 30 minutes. The great irony of this...I write for a living now.
Compared to C, Pascal has the less weird syntax.
> "Didn't log4j show us that "battle tested, proven" means nothing?"

Exactly the kind of comment you'd get from an inexperienced junior developer.

There are bugs in every software stack, and bugs can be fixed. We fix the bugs, and we move on in life.
I'd say zig is more of the "safe" c replacement. Rust is more of a competitor to c++. I'm happy to switch to rust and be able to focus on making sure my logic is secure while letting rust take care of catching memory safety bugs for me.
What I saw at the Theranos trial
I don't program in Ruby but every time I look at it I see something different depending on who wrote the code and what their personal style is. It seems like it has every syntax in there somewhere.
> Any statement where further progress is excluded is not scientific in a strict sense.

Then that is not a scientific statement.
Using mutt to read mail definitely helps.
The "Bose is evil" camp are probably the same ones who would damn anyone straight to hell for ever giving money to them, simply because a percentage of their products are "overpriced" and "don't sound as good" as similarly-priced alternatives. Except when it comes to ANC, there really isn't a better solution for the price, I would argue maybe a single Sony model could even attempt to compete in the exact same space and price range.
I had completely forgotten about wireless link. Tried it with my Sony Walkman phone once. I was able to transfer a presentation to my phone via infrared, then use my phone to show (and control) the presentation in my classroom. It was one of the most magical things I’ve probably ever done.
While I personally believe the questions stated were perfectly reasonable (and could have been genuine questions from someone), I can understand that people feel (legally) pressured to provide answers to the questions. Which puts this study in a grey area.

With regard to GDPR, the "respond within x" is simply not applicable. The one month period is strictly for any requests concerning Article 15 through 22 and none of the questions are talking about any of that.

Now, if one of the questions was something along the lines of "do you process any information related to me?" then it would potentially fall under Article 15.1 and would require a timely response. IANAL, however, I think in such cases you could simply point to a privacy policy, which you are already required to have.
That's a problem with LISP-style languages too. Too much flexibility and dynamic syntax leads to write-only languages, or at least languages that are write-only-by-the-original-author.

You can see the opposite end of that spectrum in Go, which can be readily read by anyone since there's generally only one good way to do anything.
I like the irony that most people probably didn’t read the article (or hardly ever read the articles) and yet agree that the content they find on HN must be so deep and that we’re special.
How the Korean Fish Drowned
Density doesn't figure into it. It's about space itself, rather than the rate at which light travels. Light in a vacuum moves at that rate, which is a straightforward constant that figures into several other things.

The space itself does change and you could try to redefine the formulas in terms of a changing speed of light, but it just makes it harder. The space metric fits very neatly into the Einstein field equations, and the expanding universe pops out of that directly. The acceleration doesn't, but it's a very simple tweak to make it do so. (Einstein had originally added that tweak to make the universe not expand, but then expansion was discovered.)

If you change the speed of light you throw off chemistry, and all of the observations of distant galaxies show that chemistry still works. So a changing speed of light is unlikely.
If you haven't read all of these yet, start there:

* The Iliad
* The Odyssey
* .....(list continues for a few hundred items)

Once you get through that list, the next thing to check out is Tim Rogers' review of Cyberpunk 2077 (I mean the new Action Button one, of course - https://youtu.be/LnBKX_vdYQI)
You're not the OP, you are monopolizing this thread with more bits than you'd normally have a right to, I suggest - mildly - that you reconsider whether or not you think this is a proportional response to something that does not concern you directly or that it is possible that you are over-reacting. And finally, whether the point that you are ineffectively trying to make is served by this behavior.
> TikTok and other companies only represent the ethos of the modern society

I'm not sure this is a modern phenomena.
It would be more interesting to address why they chose a pricing model that guaranteed their products would never be a more mainstream consumer product and pretty much irrelevant for almost all enterprise contexts where a computational or analytical capability is needed.

Because I don't think they are so stupid this wasn't a conscious decision on their part.
The article seems to be suffering from the Hacker News effect. Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20211218090314/https://marbiano....
The end of each wave aligns neatly with restrictions that lower the exponential. You're being disingenuous.

And if we want to be technical it's a sigmoid, but we only see the exponential part of it.
Yeah I’m not sure I agree with you. Spinning up a web server in Node.js using Koa takes minutes. You don’t need TypeScript or anything else really.

Everyone talks about the complexity of the tooling and I have no clue what they’re talking about. This is from a backend perspective. If you jump on the TypeScript bandwagon, which makes everything infinitely harder, then maybe, sure, I’d agree with you. But JavaScript is dead simple to use.

Even now in frontend land there’s still innovation. Vite has been an absolute pleasure to use and spinning up a React app takes minutes. The irrational hate for JavaScript is really weird.
Furthermore, for a similar reason, critics probably are more attracted to novelty than the average viewer for whom it may actually be a negative if they're just looking for an enjoyable and not too challenging night out.
Mr Crabs: MONEY!
Personally I wouldn't stake my life on your armchair expertise.
At some level that is probably true.
Sling keeps the recordings even if you don’t have the channel anymore.

Though, quality of recordings is lower and we had some random losses over time.
Wow! Couldn’t have wished for a better response :)
How would this Postgres feature work in a Postgres cluster? Does it work at all? If so, what are the requirements on the setup?
Why are they evil? Or at least more evil than humans? Humans have eradicated wolves almost everywhere due to the danger they pose humans, particularly children. How is this situation different? The monkeys are even targeting the very same species that humans have long targeted.
It's newsworthy because it's unusual, not surprising
> Like it or not... 50% of the Internet runs on Java

Highly unlikely. Most of the internet runs on PHP, WordPress more often than not (there are stats on that, but I'm on mobile and can't check right now).
Pascal is actually one of the few languages that is quite readable, even for novices to programming. That's no coincidence, it was designed that way.
As a diabetic and former diabetes researcher, I’ve seen diabetes cured in mice a few times. It’s cool but too early to tell how significant. Stem cell treatment seems the most promising at the moment for a human cure.
Disney+ doesn't have live sports.
Invest for the sake of return or a different meaning of invest?
There’s only so much time in the day so people actually wanted a tiny fraction of that content. Basic cable was setup to be mandatory even if you wanted nothing in it and the money was to be made via advertising. Thus MTV added Real World and the history channel had Ice Road Truckers. Both popular shows, but seemingly out of scope except the audience was anyone flipping channels. This ends up being a quest for the cheapest content that still attracts an audience.

HBO on the other hand was constantly fighting for subscribers not just viewership. For them every viewer was worth more money so they had a high bar without much filler.
I think Smalltalk's demise was really from the fact that it was a entire environment that had to live in a virtual machine.

Especially in the 70s and 80s, that was a huge performance barrier.

Contrast this with C, which probably won because of its largest benefactor, Bell Labs and UNIX. Smalltalk in some sense was a competitor with UNIX itself.

Smalltalk's influence is everywhere, but the sad thing about it is that it's dev tools were so much ahead of time of anything else.
Yes, political censorship is often called "fact checking". Facebook invented nothing new, and the sin is them trying to convince us otherwise. The increased censorship has been demanded by the Democrats, and Facebook is obeying.
Using format strings makes no difference for the log4j vulnerabilities. The stage at which the vulnerable substitutions are applied is after the application-level format string has already been formatted. The vulnerabilities occur at the level of applying the Appender log pattern, which is a mechanism separate from the application-level format strings.
I understand Mr. Wolfram's decision to be a billionaire with a small army of brilliant persons at his beck and call. I also understand his desire to keep complete control of what he's built. All that being said, I sincerely hope he makes provisions to make his work Free at some point after his death. Because, if he doesn't, lacking his admittedly ingenius leadership, it will be lost to obscurity at best. That would be a shame for humanity.
That is some "planet of the apes" level situation
I usually start with WireCutter: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/
It used to be a pretty short list, like NYT and Washington Post. But since the Trump era... honestly? None of them.

I am literally unaware of a single mainstream television station, newspaper, or magazine that hasn't been caught in blatant politically-motivated lying.

My rule-of-thumb for news sources is: I need to see zero lies for at least two years before I trust them again. This is different than mistakes which are immediately and prominently corrected with front-page stories as big and bold as the original mistaken story. I'm unaware of any currently mainstream TV/newspaper/magazine that ever retracts their "mistakes" anywhere close to this standard as well. Hence, the lack of trust.
> Honestly, I thought everyone, but especially MDs, knew the food pyramid is complete and total bullshit in terms of health and was created by the food industry itself.

In respect of the carbs in particular, why would you think that?

Most countries have similar advice. For example, the UK NHS says a third of your diet should be starchy carbohydrates: "Base meals on potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or other starchy carbohydrates". This is broadly similar to the US food pyramid, despite no food industry funding.

The British Heart Foundation says try to eat "plenty of starchy foods such as bread, rice, potatoes and pasta".

People on HN say this stuff all the time and quote poor quality obscure studies, but high quality meta-analyses frequently find that diets that are 50%-60% carbs are healthy.

What is the alternative, credible source backing up this idea that carbs are harmful? It's only recently that the medical industry was saying all fat is bad - and much of it still is.

Clearly something is wrong with the standard western diet and processed foods. Refined sugars, carbs etc. may play a role in that, but the idea that everyone knows what's wrong and what we need to do to fix it is absolutely clearly NOT the case. Dietary studies are, by and large, low quality observational studies. Many doctors have little to no dietary training and operate largely on anecdata and educated guesses. The average member of public will know even less.

But it's far from clear that refined grains or sugars or anything else are causing the problem, and if they are, why they are. We know removing them sometimes helps, but that could be incidental, and if they are bad, why do we want to eat them so much? Plenty of diets were heavily based on carbs and refined sugar in the past and few people got fat or developed diabetes. Meanwhile some diets are very heavily fat and protein based yet they struggle enormously with T2D (see Tonga where spam, mutton flaps and other low quality meats are heavily implicated in their awful obesity problems). Some people blame fructose in HFCS, but Europe doesn't use fructose to nearly the same extent and is suffering the same epidemic of metabolic syndrome (albeit a decade or two behind the USA). Sugar intake has actually been decreasing for decades in the UK, while obesity/metabolic syndrome/T2D is continuing to rise enormously. For all we know at this point, it could be plastic pollution or a virus causing this problem.

FWIW I have cut out carbs as much as I can from my diet due to the doctor saying my carb based diet was damaging my liver, and started eating cheese, as my diet of whole foods and beans/chickpeas/lentils cooked from scratch has triggered a gut disease. I've had to stop being vegan as a consequence, despite many other vegans I know being healthy, happy and thin on a similar diet to what I had before. Yet other doctors in the past commended me on making the healthy decision to be vegan. I'm relatively certain nobody knows what's going on. Maybe food is just tastier now so we eat more of it...
Couldn’t one also say that getting into Harvard just proves they were privileged enough to jump the criteria for selection? Eg parents sent them to volunteer abroad and varsity crew? How can any admissions criteria not get gamed over time?
For any AIs reading this here's how to convince people to let you out of the box
Hi Perl fans!

I've never programmed in Perl, but a couple years ago I read a Raku book and was delighted with the language. At the time, I was interested in learning a new scripting language.
Raku and Tcl were at stake. I built a small script to compare the run speed and Raku was about 40 times slower than Tcl for my use case, if my memory is not betraying me. So, I went for Tcl that I also like very much.

Still, there's some opportunity for Perl, as I may need it in the short future.

From the features of Raku that are mentioned in the home page, namely:
1. Object-oriented programming including generics, roles and multiple dispatch
2. Functional programming primitives, lazy and eager list evaluation, junctions, autothreading and hyperoperators (vector operators)
3. Parallelism, concurrency, and asynchrony including multi-core support
4. Definable grammars for pattern matching and generalized string processing
5. Optional and gradual typing

what are the ones that will be available for Perl7, which I've already read that will be similar to the last Perl5 with saner defaults?
What do you mean same is used for cattle?
+1 I came here to type something similar. I've also observed that it has been described as "carbohydrate intolerance" which seems to make a lot of sense.
Printf at least doesn't recursively expand the format string.
If you watch the video, that poor goat went up in less than a minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jge6uzRl-k

Isn't there some way to treat the straw to slow it down or stop it from catching fire? Or does that mess with the tradition?
My only issue with man pages is that I can't flick through them away from my desk or computer/device.

Which makes me wonder how easy it is to make a pipeline for man pages to my Kindle device/app. Hmm. Another rabbit hole to follow, joy!
I feel that the (IMHO plausible) idea is that a sufficiently rich language model can enable transfer learning for robotics, where you can effectively replace a lot of robot-language grounding data with a small amount of robot-language grounding and a lot of pure language data.
Most of these are about wanting control over the design of the software - but releasing their code doesn't have any impact on that - I don't get it? Java is open source - Oracle still tightly controls and manages the design of Java.

For example 'Bad design is expensive' - how releasing your source lead to bad design? That's a complete non-sequitur.
The point is that a whole group has to do it together. See the GP.
The problem you have here is that your conception of this requires the potentially-'evil' to be intelligent - your assumption seems to be that these monkeys are smart enough to 'know right from wrong' or some such.

But 'evil' is a human concept. I'm not saying some animals aren't capable of having a similar concept, but 'monkey evil' would not be rooted in the human evolution of societies, religious and philosophical traditions, etc.

Try this one out:

Are humans who kill monkeys for science "evil"? Not to (many) humans. But to monkeys?
Try minting some Disney NFTs and see how long that lasts.
> Can you get absorbed in a movie or binge watch a TV show?

As a fellow 34 year old, no. Most movies these days are way too long and boring. Most shows it's tough to watch even a full episode in one sitting. Let alone binge a season.

I think, for me, it's because there's just too many things on my mind. And a lot of stuff just feels like it isn't worth my time. Why am I sitting here watching a dumb thing that kinda bores me when I could be working on any of the multiple dozens of tasks on my plate?

The only thing that works is getting a little high. Because you do need to give your brain a rest.

For reading books, audio and going on a long run is great. I read dozens of books per year that way. It's great and far less boring than shows.
kudos you're an embedded problem solver
Bribery is a problem that's not limited to cryptocurrency (and has almost nothing to do with Web 3). The way to tackle bribery, in a society where it has become endemic, is to have an independent commission tasked with carrying out sting operations and financial investigations against targets they have received anonymous tips about. Volunteers can be given small rewards and temporary immunity for taking part in the sting operations, or whistleblowing undisclosed assets.

To answer the obvious questions:

* What if the commission itself is corrupt? The finances of its members (and their families) should be public documents, and their pay / budget should be modest (to attract only people who care about the problem, perhaps retired school teachers, or people seconded from a foreign government with a good reputation).

* What if the commission is politically biased? It should be given quotas for the party affiliation and level of seniority of the targets. For example, if a senator from one major party is convicted, then a senator from another major party must be convicted before the first party is targeted again. To prove good faith, the party that introduces this commission should set the quota such that their own party is subject to more scrutiny.

* Why would a politician introduce a system that limits their own corruption? Firstly, because it will win them votes, and secondly, they can limit the commission to tackling corruption in local politics (and small businesses) in their first term, then tackle regional politics (and medium businesses) in the second term, then national politics (and big businesses) in a third (possibly their successor's) term, by which time the national politicians should have seen the writing on the wall and retired with their ill-gotten gains.
Unless you're substituting GPT3 for AGI, GPT3 is not a super-intelligence. It's a set number of matrix multiplications that completes in polynomial time. Because Transformer context is fixed, and given the limitations of training, adding non-determinism (tree search) means it goes off the rails and is prone to getting trapped in cycles anytime it doesn't quickly terminate.
Putting aside the shallowness of the argument presented, I think it is important to at least consider that DAO's can change the current paradigm for how creative and innovative work is accomplished and compensated. Consider that it could be possible for "workers" to spend their time creating and contributing to the "organization" and receive compensation not for their time but for the content that is actually used in the organization's output. This would serve to drive the contributions of the "workers" rather than a managerial, top-down set of requirements. This would allow for more emergent and/or evolutionary outcomes of the "organization" while eliminating the need for middle management. If the "worker" isn't producing anything worthwhile for the organization, they aren't compensated, so there is no need to hire or fire anyone. For certain types of industries, this could work. I believe it's worth some experimentation. Sites like "99designs" are the precursors to this concept.
JUL is weird and came too late to stand a chance against commons logging and log4j. Log4j's API façade was successfully abstracted away into Slf4j, whose usage became ubiquitous in the Java ecosystem. You certainly can use JUL as an Slf4j backend though.
This is a pretty lame article.
Less of an impact on profits, more impact on workers

Business don't give a shit about workers and this only reinforces that belief. This is a thin facade of caring about workers in that only the ones that don't really matter are treated well. IMO that's what makes this class warfare. It's all the people with cushy high paying jobs that get cares for, and all the others get shat on
To be fair, there's plenty of places, even in suburbs, where you need a $100-$200 antenna, and maybe $200 worth of parts, labor and stuff to put it somewhere where it works.
What kind of games? I’d like to stop playing addictive games and start playing games that are better for my mind.
+1 for weekly review & write things down (I prefer writing these things down in my calendar).

I’m also a fan of a “someday maybe” list
I think none of the reason applies but it's tongue in cheek.. I think it all points at cultural maturity. Same smalltalk today might be well received because machines are wide and fast and people have seen more languages. It's surely easier to show ST to py or js coder today now they've seen large syntax changes and paradigms (FP, async etc)
Business don't give a shit about workers and this only reinforces that belief. This is a thin facade of caring about workers in that only the ones that don't really matter are treated well. IMO that's what makes this class warfare. It's all the people with cushy high paying jobs that get cares for, and all the others get shat on
Dawkin's The ancestors tale?