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Have you heard of https://crystal-lang.org/ ? I've never used it personally, but it seems to be "statically compiled Ruby syntax"
That seems to be the consensus that I've read online.

Still, the reason I want to do it online is specifically because I want an excuse to really understand low-level hardware. I (and probably a majority of people on HN who do software) really only have "real" experience with "Java or Higher" with maybe hitting C if I have the rare occasion of having to worry about saving a few milliseconds. An emulator would force me understand low level hardware, or at least I think it would.
I ran into this recently and solved the problem via Enums. Not sure of the performance impact.
This is an incredibly detailed set of recommendations! Thank you for this :-)
Ultimately, the government attempts to crush inflation will amount to feeding excess dollars to the foreign markets. What happens when the capacity of these markets to absorb the newly created dollars is saturated, will play out quite soon.
It would be a red flag for me if they are younger/early career, but if you are older and have a good resume and/or portfolio website I wouldn’t care.
The BLS doesn’t hide its methodology and it calculates more than one measure of inflation. Their attempt is to measure it in a meaningful way that is useful for policymakers and others. They don’t claim to know the “exact” value. You can read about the various measures and methodologies here:

https://www.bls.gov/bls/inflation.htm
Not just "in the state" but in minutes distance from first cases. Plenty of reason to look into, it's not like every urban centre has virology labs studying the titular disease.
Python has been at it for most of my career.
It's funny to read all the apple support here. I would guess most of these people have iphones and think apple just made a better product than google. That's not the issue nor the truth. Android messages works great for Android to Android, just like iMessage, because it does the same thing: routes messages through Google servers if it can, and falls back to sms when it can't. So the issue is that Android to Apple (and vice versa) messaging sucks and Google is looking to fix that. Yes, it's in their business interest, but it's also in all consumers' interest. Though, making it better is certainly not in Apple's interest. They control this "cool-kid" narrative that has all apple users looking down upon anyone who doesn't use apple and thinking apple is just a better product.
That's not a job for stdlib. Language needs to be flexible, with a small core.
Rust is already hard to learn, even the language itself is packed with features.

Add the stdlib and you have plenty of confused faces who after some time fail to see the point.
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>one sr front end dev who started doing $10 mn ARR [...] all by his lonesome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
That’s all reasonable, I just feel like there’s a bit of a critical mass needed to really enter the mainstream as a “de facto standard” and I don’t know if the activation energy on Rust is too high to reach that critical mass

Rust to me is starting to feel like how Haskell was a decade ago, where it seemed like everybody was talking about it but serious adoption was always just on the horizon.

But maybe my expectations are just too high. It seemed quite exciting at first to see everything being rewritten in Rust but I guess that’s not how the software world really works. Old projects are entrenched because they take many years of dev time to mature
First, the point was very vague; if you want to convert it into a specific one, that’s a different argument. I was responding to the differential standard of evidence being imposed for the different possible responses. The tax only works if it changes people’s behavior and so it’s inconsistent to claim that it’s a big enough burden for behavior responses you like but any others are ridiculous and not worth considering at all.

Second, if the point was that driving further can’t save money, it’s flat out wrong because the cost of the driving is largely independent of the tax savings. Eg a single trip to stockpile.
Proprietary solution never cost "only" money. You generally have to negotiate licensing, then you have to renegotiate licensing when you need to make a change (or when you current terms expire). You have to invest effort into understanding your license (Open Source licenses are usually at least somewhat standardized and usually a lot short than proprietary licenses). Finally, the big kicker is vendor lock-in. If the vendor doesn't want to or can't support you business anymore, you have no choice but to replace their software. If the vendor want to change their terms, you can't find some one else to support you. If a vendor changes the product, you can't fork it to continue using it the way you need to.

I have never seen a proprietary software product that "only" cost money.
It's not totally unprecedented.

It's hard to count HUMINT assets too, and yet it is the subject of negotiations.

Biological weapons have been similar and are perhaps most analogous. Though, you can offer tours of your facilities and it's harder to hide large fermenters and the like. But it's much harder to identify offensive weapons research than it is offensive production.
I'm confused, are you saying that because only a certain subset of society is at risk of death that everyone else should just go about their days, even though going about their days WILL put that subset of people at further risk?
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Don't support "truthy" or "falsey" values. Any if/while/etc conditions must only have boolean type, causing an error if the value is any other type.
This sort of jaded cynicism with no knowledge of the people is precisely what causes so much of these problems in the first place
Aye, not on iOS, you can only use Apple's Messages as the default messenger for SMS.
Judging by the number of times I've read something similar, A lot of people lately seem to be imagining a civil war is imminent, but it actually takes more than angry people who hate each other. The overwhelming majority of people screaming at each other online would not actually put their life on the line for this rage. As bad as things may seem to them, they're still far too comfortable. The events of January 6, that are laughably called an "insurrection" represent the level that the small minority of people even willing to leave their homes to do anything are at, and it's nowhere near what's needed for war. There are small pockets of people capable of organized violence that can do small events of organized violence. They exist. Some are desperate and ready to die, but that number is vanishingly small. A civil war, even in just one city is completely impossible under current conditions.
>"It's to prevent all the C++ people from whining "

That's some very thoughtful and noble goal. Maybe people who use C++ (and bunch of other languages) are not the ones whining.
It matters to package developers. If you can develop packages in Julia rather than in C++ you can move much faster. Also in Julia users of a package can much more easily contribute. A Python programmer cannot easily jump in an fix or add things to a package mostly written in C++.

Also writing packages in C++ creates a fair amount of friction. Combining packages becomes easier. The ML world in Julia allows a lot more code sharing while in Python PyTorch and TensorFlow are large monoliths. E.g. different ML packages in Julia can use the same library of activation functions. Each ML library is not a completely different island of functionality.
I'd like that. One of the problems here is seeing the words at all - this stuff has only come out after over a year of freedom of information requests.
I sat next to an active Julia dev from MIT for a semester, not long ago. He was a lot of what you would expect - accurate, on-time results, tending towards overwork, but on track. I like the Julia project. In this guy's defense, the environment is competitive by design. Some people do get grants and rewards for "dull" work but you know they always get those high marks for solving known domain problem, for real. "Docs lag behind" is fair to observe, but the forge that creates this correct, disciplined work makes the results, too. Other "soft" academically-rooted projects ultimately did produce docs, there is no reason to believe that Julia is different there.

Personally, I think you do need to pay some living stipend to translators and core authors, within the context of their physical lives. The "libre" movement is real, and has to mature too.
You casually mention C++ along with C but you can't really put them in the same bucket. C++ is terribly, mindbogglingly, utterly, complex, its main selling points being zero-cost abstractions and compatibility with C. Perhaps we have different experiences but I don't see Rust as complex to learn with respect to C++. In C++, coming from C, the syntax is deceptively similar but you have to track in your head where the memory is, and seemingly simple operators like "=" or "()" can mean a whole lot of different stuff. Not to mention the craziness of the more advanced features.

Rust is first a system programming language with zero-cost abstractions with the least possible pain, then it is a safe language, way safer than C++.

In any case I am following the community and I have a hard time finding people saying C++ is nice for them. There are few people who have been coding C++ for 20+ years and "love" it but they are far and between. Almost nobody tried both Rust and C++ and continued using C++ for new projects.

So I predict Rust won't replace C, they have different use cases, but it will make a dent in C++.
I believe what we're seeing here is the left-media machine beginning to try to change the narrative about covid for the run up to the mid-terms elections in the US. They've hung their hat on the authoritarian approach until now and utterly failed to actually do anything, and seem to want to avoid being punished for it. There are too many of these about-face articles appearing at once to seem organic and not an attempt to manufacture consent, so to speak.
…sigh

Feel free to use the search engine of your choice to search “US PPE Stockpile” & read any of the multiple credible articles that come up as the first results of the search. As it was known nearly immediately after COVID started, the stockpiles were mostly depleted - and what wasn’t depleted was mostly expired. This is why you saw pictures and videos of nurses demonstrating their supplied smocks disintegrating into dust as they put them on.

The 45th administration had the responsibility to refresh the stockpiles, and they purposely chose not to. If you’re unaware of this, your snark is a bit funny as you appear to be the one suckered.

Secondly: As for what the government bought after they remembered the stockpile is screwed, also for the small bit of it that was still useable.

“The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use,” - Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, 45th Admin

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/4/3/21207140/jared-kus...

So much to the point that at least one state had to buy shipments of PPE in secrecy & then guard the distribution of said shipments with their National Guard. Everything not done in secrecy or guarded was being “appropriated” by the Feds, for reasons not hard to imagine given the statement of the aforementioned advisor.

There’s a lot more to it, but I digress.

Somebody here is indeed a sucker - but I do not believe it is I.
I have my LI profile locked down and don’t use it. I do have a personal site with my portfolio of projects, talks, and links to code I’ve written.

I haven’t had any problems interviewing with any of your who’s who companies in the tech industry.

Best of luck.
To be fair, the rest of the world should be using Silicon Valley the same way. Were I a medium sized city, I would have a group of people looking at things like scooters and private busses that start in the bay area and start thinking about legislation to how to harness the benefits without the chaos.
What exactly virtualenv adds to table that justifies it?

I have used c#, and javascript. And not felt any issues by lack of virtualenv.

I know python need it because otherwise it does not support project level modules. But that is a python only problem
I thought I sucked at math for a long time, reinforced because my math teachers in school believed it too.

Turns out I suck at spatial thinking. I can’t manipulate things like plots and curves in my head and they don’t help me understand mathematical principles. Algebra and logic though come easy to me. So learning math became an exercise in translation.

That is to say, please don’t think you suck at math and definitely look at different ways to learn the same concepts if something is not clicking.
That's based on UWB (Ultra Wideband), which is also present in some iPhones.

https://staceyoniot.com/two-companies-show-where-our-uwb-fut...

> Outside of fine-grained location tracking, UWB is also used for radar sensing. Google is using UWB for its Soli radar, which is embedded in the most recent Nest Hub display to track respiration during sleep ... Novelda, argues that UWB sensing is more effective than the traditional motion sensors that hotels have historically deployed because they can sense a person even when they are still by “seeing” micromovements made by the person’s breathing. Lenovo embedded the Novelda chip into its laptops as a way to keep the screen on only when a person is in front of it, which helps save on battery power.
I'm just saying, that if your claims have obvious solutions, then the community has no need for your patent. The patent has to solve something that is not obvious.

For the community, it is only worth granting a patent if the community gets something back in return. And that is, solving a problem we don't know how to solve. Obviously, that can be with efficiency parameters. If the simple solution is 50% efficient and the patent claims 90%. That may be worth the patent. And everybody else can keep using the 50% efficient solution.

In your example, if you now come up with a patent that solves death, then no expert will be able to find a solution in reasonable period.

If you can then show a working version that solves death, even if it is completely obvious in retrospect, it is worth a patent.
> A significant portion of consumer inflation is still being driven by pandemic-driven mismatches between demand and supply.

Or maybe printing 40% more dollars is the main driver here? This feels like a very dishonest take.
When your entire argument is “you’re wrong because this pattern-matches to what shills say”, then yes, you are accusing the OP of shilling and it would be better to say what specifically is wrong with the arguments.
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https://dos.zone/

Link for nostalgia lovers like me
I think this has been more or less understood all along, but it's good to repeat it since I'm sure there are still people who haven't gotten the message. If you're looking to protect yourself, wear an N95. They're also now easily available in hardware stores again.
Painting with a brush stroke set to galaxy levels.

I'm not saying there isn't creepy anime, or even creepy motifs in excellent anime. But that stuff sells over there.
I've noticed that too. It's as if they all skipped the first month of high school science class.
I cant see through walls with a lightbulb. I can with wifi.

This standard makes my wifi router into an internet connected, closed source blob, light bulb and camera that is impossible to obscure (without killing my internet connection).

Sure, I can wire my whole house for ethernet. And, while I’m behind the drywall, I might as well rip off all the drywall put a layer of Al.

Here’s a business idea - drywall with aluminum fibers embedded in. For those of us who don't want our sexy times recorded by our router.

EDIT: made wifi’s ability to see through walls explicit per _jal’s comment.
Cryptocurrency startups!

Many of the company founders in this sector are skeptical of the current system of financial regulation. Tell them about your conviction up front. I’d bet many of them would be fascinated to hear your story.
They will be unproductive. Yeah, it's fun to micro-obsess over some hand-rolled code. Save that for side projects, or maybe you can do it if you're dev cog N+1, N > 20.
Same here, I don't care about numbers and statistics any more.

I want my life back NOW

I've had more than enough with 8 quarantines, and all of us already had COVID, we are vaccinated, and we are FED UP with rules and restrictions

It is pointless to be alive and well if you are not allowed to enjoy life
In 2018, domain fronting was a thing. Since then, it became more difficult, as the cloud providers prohibited it.

However, to compensate, there's now encrypted SNI, so the situation is returning back to the 2018 one.
I'm not telling that SMS is secure. S stands for short, not secure. But given how easy it is to fake and forge SMS, at least one can have a plausible deniability if their SMS got intercepted and read.
I believe this is what Crystal [0] is trying to achieve. Though I’ve hardly used Ruby or Crystal, so can’t say how well it’s fairing on that goal.

[0] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
Sure. For example, healthcare is included in CPI. Let's say a new surgical technique is invented that reduces the chance of dying during a kidney transplant by 20%, and is adopted as a standard practice. The price of kidney transplant surgery does not change. By how much has the price of a kidney transplant deflated, since you are now getting better bang for your buck?
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Yes, the flu, we deal with it, it raises our mortality rates and costs billions of dollars a year, but we deal. COVID just raises our mortality rate more and costs even more money to keep in check. Society isn’t going to collapse, but of course, it can’t ignore the problem, either.

This is the first widespread pandemic in most of our lifetimes, but definitely not the first one. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1920 was much worse and disruptive than this.
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Huh? Multiple-dispatch is what makes the language really shine. I miss it in pretty much every other language I use. I am utterly puzzled by how you can see this killer feature as a downsides.

Single dispatch is an arbitrary restriction which should not exist. It only exists in most languages as a performance optimization because until Julia came along nobody could do multiple dispatch fast.
Isn't that an accurate description of how life used to work pre-2020?
You don’t have to, but it doesn’t hurt. They actually have a pretty good jobs platform built in.

The advice I got when I started in tech 5 years ago was: you don’t have to like using linked-in, but you should use it.
My goal was to encourage those enthusiastic about NFTs to focus some of their energy on solving actual problems.

I certainly didn't evaluate whether the trade-offs between an NFT-based counterfeit-resistant ticketing solution would make it better than a centralized one, but it's at least conceivable that making use of a public-access transaction processing network that also maintains state about current ownership could make the overall costs lower than a solution built upon more traditional payment rails and state-management applications.
> You (literally) can land up in jail for verbalising certain things.

Go to the US, go to a police officer, and just tell them you want to kill the President.

Watch what happens.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech, even in the US.
That was more or less my experience. I got the original Game Boy working well, and quite a few Game Boy Color games, but it eventually devolved into debugging CPU timing issues and edge cases with sprite bugs. At some point I realized that I had gained all of the knowledge I had wished to learn and since my own emulator was never really going to do anything that hundreds of others weren't already doing better I moved on. I will say it was a good learning experience however. Chip-8 is a good start, but there are lots of concepts that emulating a Game Boy will require that Chip-8 does not.
I thought tikv was supposed to be this, but perhaps I misunderstand.
Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within 20 minutes in air
HTTPS took off when Let’s Encrypt (and to some degree Caddy) made it easy to be secure. Rust is more like, I dunno, openssl: easier than doing everything yourself by hand, but not even remotely easy.
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Compiled Common Lisp is fast enough for me.
Not sure what to make of your "if facts were different, then things would be different" - I still think the analogy holds up ok.

You could say that things have changed as users have become more aware of the difference over the years, but honestly, if your initial expectation was the default message application on my phone does what I have known as texting (which is/was SMS/MMS) which is a part of my phone plan that I pay my provider for and then you start doing something wholly different with that communication, I would consider that some sort of hijacking. You have seized my action and intention and redirected it to serve your own purpose.

Optimally? Switch over to an RCS implementation. If existing rollouts of RCS don't support enough of a feature set to please you (looking at E2EE), push to get that done. Don't go the Google route and end up choosing "collaborating is hard, so let's just not do it".

If Apple won't do that, drop SMS from iMessages and open the protocol or at least force users to choose or acknowledge the choice. Auto-negotiating a protocol choice makes sense when you are going from one open standards-based protocol that any vendor could and should implement to a newer version of that protocol with the same expectation of general availability (think the path through the versions of SSL and TLS). It's disingenuous to automatically shift traffic and offer enhanced features through a proprietary protocol when communicating with clients that only implement and can only implement the open protocol. It makes it seem like the other clients are intentionally inferior or otherwise making user-hostile choices. It's good for business though.

With respect to Android, that's its own slew of problems and mistakes that shouldn't be the bar Apple needs to clear. iMessage and Facetime are easily better than any communications implementation Google has produced in the last 10 years. Hangouts and its various precursors were better when they were based on XMPP or had functioning XMPP gateways. XMPP wasn't an standard intended to replace or progress SMS, so that doesn't really meet my criteria either. RCS is the way forward, but there's little demand for it or business reason for it in the Apple camp. Maybe if carriers declared that they are going to start taking RCS seriously and start removing SMS from plans and charging more for it.
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> There is a lot of good theory AND empirical work for anyone interested in applying these techniques.

In relation to tech (and software in particular), can you point to some resources that would be useful to explore some of these concepts?
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This really shouldn’t be news to you. This country is on the downtrend for exactly this reason.
Not being familiar with LINQ, does it solve SQL's composability problems?

I love SQL for what it can do, but I am constantly annoyed at how inconsistent it is and how terrible it is for generating queries via software. It feels ripe for a replacement that is semantically similar but syntactically different.
Vinyl outsold CDs in the US for the first time in decades