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I'm glad this works for you, but I don't think your case study is sufficient evidence to prove the author's proposed hypothesis as outright wrong. I see another user mentioned this and was flagged for some reason.
> I learned that the issue was in framework code – code written by my boss’s boss. The code was untested, and written extremely poorly, and had rotted, so that it didn’t work at all.

One unaddressed issue in Rust is that this could easily happen with a crate, and how hard diagnosing it could be, especially due to implicit behavior via procedural and attribute macros. Also, just because your code is safe, there could still be an unsafe block at the end of any long safe call chain. I haven't been able to reconcile to myself how this isn't just an illusion of overall safety.
Tell that to folks who bought Nikkei 30 years ago.
If you’re confident that bubble is about to pop, then short positions obviously :^)
> The wealthiest generation in U.S. history (boomers) are exiting the workforce, where will they park their retirement nest egg?

This seems like a demographic argument for a downturn. Standard financial advice is to transition more into bonds as you approach and enter retirement. I suspect most boomers with retirement accounts will do so; either explicitly, because they are in a target date fund, or because their pension fund decides it needs to de-risk. The known downside of inflation is less of a concern than the risk of a loss if you are forced to sell during a downturn.

However, I suspect that will be a relativly minor effect compared with the bigger issue. Workers park their retirement money. Retirees spend it. Demand (and therefore prices) of both stocks and bonds will fall as the boomers switch from buying to selling in order to fund their lifestyle without working.

At a societal level, the idea of retirement savings is little more than an accounting trick. As a generation, the boomers are going to stop working, but continue consuming. Society needs to pay for that (in goods and services) somehow, which means that there will be comparatively less stuff available for everyone else.
Everyone was way more confident about the future of Ada, and with better reasons.

If you imagine the borrow checker does not drive away a large majority of prospective users, you live in a dream world.

If you imagine the still-slow compiler does not drive away users, you live in a dream world.

Wishful thinking is always a poor substitute for corrective action.
Is millions? And what about the millions of others who washed backed up but have become disabled and can’t work?
What happens when your life partner is screaming at you and stabbing the counter with a butcher knife because you dared to ask how she was
doing?

Because that’s one of many instances that led to me getting a divorce.

I took the vow quite seriously, but treating it like a suicide pact is not a good move either.
Newsflash, the C language has conversions. You can assign a long or long long to your int32_t.
Damn, that sucks! No idea they did things like that.
You’re taking C extremely literally, and compilers are not required to do this (for example, if the array is being iterated sequentially, multiple loads may be done at once). Similarly, in Rust a function call is not necessarily going to actually compile to a function call: it is expected that the access compiles down to something very close to what C would do. The syntax is an abstraction, rather than a normative designation to the compiler for how it should generate code.
These kids will eventually grow and their punishment upon our generation will be the stuff of legend.
Getting out on the ice is a true pleasure in the winter. There’s definitely more of a connection knowing that it could go wrong. But a little bit of prep goes a long way.
I might have to try this this weekend. Just checked and the lakes by me (Connecticut) have about 6 inches of ice. Plenty for this sort of fun. Although, wow, the bounces are going to be insane on a lake with no snow on it. Fore!

Other fun sports to try on frozen lakes are ice boating and kite surfing with a snowboard. Lots of fun.
Some people are very good at BSing their way through interviews, even technical ones. Those people also end up being very difficult to fire and are generally poisonous to culture. Asking them to code is a great filter, it’s hard to fool a compiler. It shouldn’t be the only filter, but for coding roles a coding interview is pretty critical.
The fact that people have to resort to header only libraries is a sign of how bad building portable C libraries really is.
You sound like Scrooge McDuck.
Yes, we can see that something is different in the last months of 2021.
So either Omicron, as we now that it affects younger people as well.
Or another cause...
Either way, it is close to the 2018 high. It would be bold to qualify that as a pandemic!
Great comment, especially last sentence - no mental benefits of being sober in a short run. You can even start to think on 3rd month - why I did so if nothing changed? But after 6 months you will feel much, much better, I can confirm this and I heard this opinion few times from quitters.

Some people might expect enlightenment after week of sober life. Never understand why, if alcohol require years to turn you to an alcoholic, how you can back to normal life in a week time?
Thank you. And yes I even printed off some peer-reviewed studies about IPF and Metformin for Dad to take with him to the doctor. The doctor would "look into it" but I suspect that Dad who was not great at anything technical would have agreed with the doctor and not challenged him.

My mother has type 2 diabetes so Metformin was right there in the house. It's infuriating to think Metformin could have made Dad's life better. Maybe not cure him but at least help a tiny bit.

The other problem severely ill people who have been sick for years give up before they even know it. I saw it in Dad but I couldn't see the effects of anxiety which was also there until it was too late. Anxiety is what eventually killed him more than his disease.
It's a bit early in the research space, but yes, the partial equilibria studied thus far show overall improvement.

A reasonable overview: https://econreview.berkeley.edu/unboxing-universal-basic-inc...
Everyone gets sick, you can't really stop that. Restricting your life from normal activities from fear of being infected with low risk cold viruses, is the very definition of hypochondria
There is something wrong with division of labour in creative projects... the story of the service industry seems to be how this is relearnt over-and-over. A "silo" is incomprehsible in a factory: the pin-machinist isnt silo'd.

Knowledge, skills, vision, creative engagement... these are silo'd. And this follows from misconceiving creative work as a form of goods-producing labour.
> which is why Ireland can consider it with their much higher rate of over 92% versus the U.S. 63%

Source? I think you are mis aggregating data.

92% [1] of Ireland Adult population has received it-least 1 dose vs 85% [2] of the US Adult population has received it-least 1 dose.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58522792
[2] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/12/who-are-the-a...
I mean, this is true, but it doesn't really change a lot of what i said.
It was always something :)

If your ecosystem is stopped in its tracks because someone acquired a small company, it is not a particularly robust ecosystem.

From what i was told (and i was very young and inexperienced when i worked at IBM, so take it with a grain of salt), the baseline issue was always the same on the IBM side - the chip groups controlled most of the budget for the chips, and didn't see any way that spending hundreds of millions to make developer-friendly hardware would have positive ROI.
Most of their revenue was not derived from the customers they thought this might ever attract.

It's similar to why they told Apple to go pound sand repeatedly until Apple switched to Intel - Apple did not make up a really meaningful part of the business of Power chips from where they sat, so they didn't really care about giving Apple what it wanted.

The software folks involved thought this was mostly insane
Yes in the provice of Ontario common-law spouses have the same rights to spousal support as married couples if they have been living together for at least three years, or if they have a child together and have been living together in a relationship of some permanence.
> What your local politicians and public health authorities misunderstood from that is their problem.

AND also my problem.
I have no idea whether we’re in a massive bubble (or whether everything is simply more expensive because of inflation or both), but I have learned you should never blindly trust the advice of someone who uses terms like “two sigma” and “three sigma” without showing any of the math/statistics about what the mean is and why we are multiple standard deviations from it.
http://archive.today/A442l
There are something like 1200 rights that get conferred onto you when you get married. Most you can take care of with signing a power of attorney affidavit. Health insurance is a tricky one but the cost of adding a spouse vs getting two single plans is typically not that different.
If economists can't make reliable predictions any better than randos on HN, then aren't they all essentially frauds? I don't care ehat school they went to; the occupation of "economist" seems rather worthless in 2022. It's one of those fields where no one's feet is held to the fire, there's no accountability, and they can make up all sorts of specious predictions.
I agree that "inevitable" is clearly too strong a statement. Furthermore, the odds of getting it depend on whether any of you are vaccinated and/or have previously had COVID (knowingly or otherwise).
Yes million dollars from daddy is not a real loan so i would call that free money or an investment which can be lost without conseiqences. A real loan from a bank with personal guarantee on one he other hand is very different.
> No, you're conflating two separate things to try to make a weak case appear stronger.

Like using Polio for making the case for mandatory SARS-CoV-2 vaccines look stronger?
Not if they don’t expose it to you via their API. Very few libraries will do this.
Show HN: A Wordle for the command line (Spanish and English)
Millions out of what? Big scary number without context says nothing whatsoever.
Little late to the party but there is a law firm that is investigating a class action lawsuit if it's interesting to anybody else https://chimicles.com/google-legacy-g-suite-class-action-inv...
Most of these covid discussions are generally stupid at this point. The situations are high localized and can change rapidly over the course of a few weeks. Ireland's current situation and their reaction applies solely to them.

For much of January they've had 0.4-0.5% of their population test positive per day, with 40-50% test positivity, meaning the real infections could have been 1-2% of their population per day. Very high rates of vaccines, very high rates of booster and absurdly high rates of infections means that there may not be anything left for the virus to do.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Long vol, as always. It might be a bit too late tho.
The more I look at the parent's list of "student" activities, the more I realize I am a "student" in every way, despite my "lead engineer" title!
Like a sibling comment I’d also like to know what was bad about the SDK. It seems.. alright? That alone is good enough for me considering its implementation is autogenerated from something else.

It also has tree-shakeable imports which v2 doesn’t have, and a very extensible looking middleware architecture which I’ve yet to need but good to know that it’s there if I do. The auto-generated docs leave something to be desired, but are passable, with a few extra clicks here and there.
I can't wait for the housing prices to go down, but there is no sign they will in France. They kept going up, even during the covid crisis.
I wish that governments didn’t do so much to try to force people to get married. I can’t bring my foreign partner to my home country unless we’re married, I pay more taxes if we’re not married, healthcare in the US is more complicated if we’re not married. People should be able to pick and choose how they want to live their lives, and marriage is a pretty much one size fits all solution.
I don’t know about you, but if I have two or three drinks in an evening I definitely experience the pleasant effects of alcohol and have roughly zero chance of a hangover unless I was drinking something awful.

People in here are acting like the only thing enjoyable about alcohol are the effects of binge drinking.
Which is the jump off point for portfolio management theory and risk tolerance approximation.

The problem with the future though is wide systemic problems vastly unlike seen previously. The US population will get smaller as the baby boomer generation is larger than its successive generations. That’s almost the definition of negative market growth and in some cases (health care) it is. That also looks like what Japan has undergone for the last several decades.

Climate change is a whole other bag of large systemic change likely to increasingly play out the younger the investor is.

My point here is the future 50 years will not be as rosey as the last 50 years. And the last 50 years haven’t been exactly rosey.

Edit-my proscription would be: people, not just investors, need to be willing to put in a lot of work and potentially ever increasing work into anticipating and acclimating to the world that’s headed our way. Study up on macroeconomics, micro, portfolio theory, some climate and migration patterns, and how your governments and institutions work. Maybe then you have a chance at survival. Also look for ways to make not just your life better but the conditions for life better for your neighbors, family, and future generations. Resist “tearing down the wall keeping the century-high tide away for the sake of a few pennies a brick.” Resist tearing down “the other” because while it might feel viscerally satisfying it actually creates an environment of prosecution and suffering that you will eventually suffer. Embrace the struggle of survival because it’s what we the living must do.
Real estate is the safe harbor. It has intrinsic value. Low mortgage interest rates means cash flow can be manageable even if real asset prices drop. Population trends are predictable, so the future demand is basically a known factor.

Downsize is that it’s much less liquid than the average asset class.
In my mind more likely a bit in reverse for the first part, a pre-existing list of 3rd party dependencies in use (which already includes open source dependencies from the get go) is acquired by someone auditing risk and the rest is the same from there. Not only one less step but one less opportunity for anyone to catch on or explain that these dependencies are special.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30036588
In case you weren't aware, the targeting tools provided by Google and Facebook have actually rebalanced the advertising market back towards smaller businesses.

I kinda agree on the consumerism thing, but that's more a reflection of our society than evil genius advertisers.
This is a still secret for me - how to enjoy alcohol-free beer. Even its sizes - 0.33ml - told what you might not need more.

Are there any advice on particular brand to try? Alcohol free Moretti is nice for my taste, but all other lager non-alco is frustrating.
Absolutely, I’m just starting out with Elm and wanting to avoid the JavaScript tooling made Elm stand out. The code quality and helpful compiler is what makes me want to continue to use Elm.
Higher prices lead to higher wages. That’s been fairly well established (I thought).

The silver lining is that debt becomes cheaper and easier to service in an inflationary environment.
Unfortunately, you still can't trust someone who's been correct every single time. Considering that there's thousands of people giving predictions, there's likely going to be one person "winning" the coinflips.
If an economy is not growing then the value of productive capital in that economy will not grow either. That's the root of the problem in Japan, and it has little to do with temporary downturns like a stock bubble popping.

To be clear, I don't assert that maintaining relative wealth is the sole concern of an investor. There are others. But I think it's the most important aspect of sudden downturns provided that you still believe in the long term real growth of the productive capacity of the economy you're invested in. Also, if you don't believe in that, then the only practical alternative I'm aware of is to invest in an economy you believe in more, or to invest in a slice of the overall economy you think is more likely to grow. Failing that, there simply aren't any good options.
I don’t think it’s so much an illusion as it is just not quite as absolute as one might initially think. If you get a segfault in a rust program you know where to look.
I have two beers and I get a hangover the next day. I'm approaching 40 though.
Yeah, it's a mistake to only consider deaths.

And it's a mistake to evaluate the vaccines in terms of what was said about them over time versus the impact they currently have. They currently confer lots of protection to people that have received them.

Like the fact that the officials and manufacturers failed to properly communicate that it's a dynamic, changing situation doesn't actually undermine the very real value that the vaccines still provide.
I'm going to challenge you on a specific point:

If it required a Herculean effort to prevent the health care system collapsing, why didn't Sweden's healthcare system collapse? Why didn't Florida's health care system collapse? There's this certainty that these policies that were more restrictive were absolutely necessary, but nobody wants to acknowledge that locations on the planet that did not have strict policies seem to have done just as well over two years. I welcome you to look at the Swedish data and compare it to the rest of the EU or the United States. Sweden did very well compared to other nations with large global cities. It did not do great compared to Finland, but that's like comparing Colorado to Nebraska. They are neighboring but nothing alike.

I was very pro mask in the beginning until I realized that it was quickly turning into a cultish religion with no regard for actual efficacy. People didn't care that you were wearing a bandana on your mouth that was absolutely not effective, they just wanted you to signal to them that you agreed with their beliefs. My kids being forced to wear masks while playing sports outside on a field was utterly absurd and I have deep resentment towards public health authorities and the cultists who allowed their fear to hijack their brains and their common sense.

Your statement shows a confidence in your own prior beliefs with a muted acceptance of the new reality with omicron. But you just assume that countries that did not have policies as strict as yours had health care system collapses and the data shows they did not.
"Pure data" has a very specific meaning there. "Bytemuck" uses the trait called "Pod", for "plain old data". What they mean is a structure for which all bit combinations are valid. This includes u8, u16, etc., and the floating point types, but excludes all reference types. "bool" is excluded (because it takes up 8 bits but only 2 of 256 values are valid), as are strings and chars, because they have to follow Unicode rules. And there must be no padding bytes in the structure.

For types with such attributes, coercions are safe. C++ could potentially have something like "reinterpret_cast" which worked only on such types. This would make the risky form of reinterpret_cast less necessary, and some projects might disallow it.

It's always hard to retrofit safety to a code base. You get a lot of pushback.
There is also a great deal of randomness.

I'd hestitate to draw conclusions by comparing countries, there is not enough data.

If we could compare different local areas that had different policies, we might be able to get somewhere. Even then, it's not easy. The locales who are happy to lockdown are probably also composed of people happy to wear a mask and happy to vaccinate. There is also an ugly reverse causality thing going on where lockdowns are a response to growing community spread, which makes it look like they don't work when maybe they actually do.

It's not an easy question to answer empirically. I'm happy to do the finger in the air approach of assuming they work based on common sense. That doesn't mean that they should be implemented, which is a related but different question.
You may be interested in this:

https://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-...
After watching my skepticism moved to up a few notches to complete distrust of this entire field.
> This article has a core point which is good: “in Rust the default is safe, and you have to opt-in to unsafety, but in C++ the default is unsafe, and you have to opt-in to safety”.

On the subject of safe defaults, just to correct that Rust does not in fact have as much default memory safety with regards to buffer bleeds (e.g. variants of OpenSSL's Heartbleed) as it could [1], because it has unchecked arithmetic (integer wraparound) as the default for performance, with checked arithmetic only as an opt-in for safety.

In other words, if an attacker can get some bounds merely to underflow (as opposed to overflow) then they can still read the sensitive memory of a Rust program, even without a UAF or buffer overflow.

Bleed vulnerabilities like these are also low-hanging fruit and significantly easier to exploit.

In other words, bounds checking only ensures you are within the buffer, but checked arithmetic is still needed to ensure that your index was correctly calculated in the first place.

I believe that Rust would be much safer against memory bleeds, if it had checked arithmetic enabled by default for safety, with an opt-out at the block scope level for performance, like Zig has.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29991439
I use yandex.com with custom domains for a few years.
Light use but it does the job.
You have to invest in something the herd isn't investing in. But since the herd currently is investing in index funds it means that basically everything will get hit once the herd changes their mind.
> Eventually C++ gets std::string and std::wstring but, nothing of value about these strings is defined, so they're both pretty useless and of course dangerous. In C++ 17 it gets std::string_view which finally expresses one of the things you probably first wanted

Such as what? std::string_view represents exactly one thing, and that’s a slice into a string with a lifetime longer than it. That’s basically it. There aren’t really and other additional feature to it, so I feel like you may be confused as to what it does.
You very evidently did not read what I wrote.

And, if you imagine Rust has already succeeded, or that its future is assured, you have not been paying attention elsewhere, either. Failure is absolutely the norm for programming languages.
That's my posting that was linked to.

Of course, Java doesn't have dispatch. And it's also true that Gosling's team originally considered, then rejected, C++ in favor of building Oak. But Oak borrowed an awful lot directly from Obj-C, and only later underwent a lot of syntactical surgery (turning into Java) in order to "look" like C++ specifically to attract C++ programmers, even though it didn't feel like C++ at all. This is pretty well documented.
Three statements of fact were presented.

It is another fact that excess mortality has been shown, clearly and repeatedly.

It is also a fact that there is a theory in psychology that anger stems from fear.
> All of us will be exposed by mid February

This is misinformation.
All of those booting on one machine?
Gitlab 14.7 Released
Be my guest, but don't force all of society to be your hypochondria buddies.