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> C is how your language interacts with the OS if you use the OS's C library. But not all languages do. Go doesn't.

...on Linux. Pretty much everywhere else, libc is the way to interact with the kernel; even Go goes through libc on ex. Darwin and OpenBSD, because Linux presenting a stable kernel ABI is actually pretty unusual.
but it makes function calls, it's not neglectable as it's called as many time as the bytes the file has
Ford will start shipping Explorers without all the parts – and add them later
IIRC Buffer in Node has been a wrapper around Uint8Array for a long while, which is in the box in both, and the browser.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Just to be clear, I'm saying the object may be producing the IR as a countermeasure, I'm not suggesting that the countermeasure produces the rotation captured in the video -- the linked article suggests the rotation is an artifact of the tracking system. From the submitted article:

> what is being seen in the video is actually infrared glare that hides a hot object behind it and only rotates in the way it does because the camera rotates when tracking the target from left to right
Measuring code review coverage in dependency updates [pdf]
You misunderstood - I saw them in codebases that were new back when .NET 2.0 was new.

To be more precise, it was when .NET 3.5 was new (2008). That brought a lot of visibility to Nullable<T> because it was featured prominently in LINQ. But ?. didn't come until C# 6 (2014). I was wrong about ??, though - that one was added along with Nullable itself.
Maybe change title to Tell HN, that's what these normally are, I think.
Alert doesn't lock your browser. The developer can spend a lot of time and effort to make an even more intrusive and annoying custom alert.

Why should I as a user have to endure instagram and twitter blocking content with a delayed login prompt that cannot be canceled? Because they can. Browser APIs or not malicious developers will be malicious.
the domain name itself is in bad faith.. it’s more like registering wemakemicrosoftwindows.com
Tweet this as well, somebody will catch it and hopefully tag somebody that can help.
> I wonder if the court considered all this past evidence.

Sorry, the guy very much appears to be an asshole - but how does any of that count as "evidence" in the matter of whether or not his domain infringes on Red Hat's trademark?
That just means there aren’t 4K times as many file read ops.

The read() calls (which most of the time just increment the index into the buffer and returns what’s there) are still made.

The usual way of doing what he’s trying to do will look exactly the same in C# as in his php version, with explicit buffering.
Ukraine joins European grid, ending dependence on Russia
What is true show? Our business will be destroyed soon and I want to show what is going on to Hacker news
This is how Japanese time used to work. The hours would be longer in the summer and shorter in the winter. Good for roughly arranging local schedules when you only have relatively basic timekeeping.
There’s a difference between making (valid) complaints about the state of things and presuming that you (or anyone!) could fix them single-handedly
That was the point, but on closer inspection, it turns out Oahu is right about where it ought to be, and the pieces sticking out into the next logical time zone are mostly uninhabited. So my anger was in fact irrational.
> Do you think that is the way that a professional should act towards others in their profession?

No, but if something is bad, it doesn't follow that it is every kind and degree of bad thing. Something can be impolite without being immoral, something can be immoral without being violence, something can be violence without being murder.

Personally in this case I would say it's disrespectful, and it's against my own moral code, but I know how people like this think. For the most part they're not evil or trying to hurt. They are taking principled stands at great personal risk. They have their own moral compass and it's not the same as yours or mine.

If it were up to me, I would stop interactions between the two, then do my best to educate and persuade the offending party, and professional sanction would be a last resort.

Why are we being pushed to flatten all moral distinctions? I don't understand. Flattening all distinctions makes our thoughts crude and unwieldy. Who thinks this is a good idea and why?

Could it be that redefining our moral vocabulary dissolves the signposts of our moral world, and allows illiberal, extreme positions to masquerade as liberalism?
> Given the huge benefits of a Dyson Swarm and the fact that it seems to require no exotic materials and no more physics it looks increasingly likely that we are very alone in the Milky Way and even if we aren’t it requires an awful lot of hubris to suggest a species would spend the considerable effort and tens of thousands of years to come here and hide.

Robin Hanson has the most plausible ET hypothesis to explain these UFO observations. Basically it goes:

1) Life only evolved once in the galaxy.

2) However it spread to one or more stars its system of origin through the process of panspermia.

3) This sister planet that shares a common life origin with us evolved an advanced civilization that predates ours by 10-100 million years.

4) However at some point between the tech to travel between stars and full Dyson spheres, this sister civilization developed a highly anti-growth world government.

5) They've sent local probes or outposts to study us because we're interesting as a sister branch in the tree of life, and also concerning as a fast growing civilization that contravenes their anti-growth norms.

This explains why we have spacefaring ETs poking around but no resource gobbling Dyson spheres expanding through the light clone. If civilizations were widespread, then almost certainly one would be gobbling resources. But if there are only two civilizations, ours and theirs, it's quite believable that the earlier of the two fell into an anti-growth world government.
"delusions of grandeur" can mean many things. Someone who thinks they’re a genius and wins a popularity contest is not now provably a genius.

Someone who believes themselves to be the fastest athlete is not so when their opponent falls down and they win the race.
No they’re not. IBM has left Red Hat alone.
I'd probably pay good money for this. Mail.app is "good enough" that I haven't bothered switching to another client, especially as the ones I'd otherwise consider have security issues I'm uncomfortable with. I'm certainly open to it, though.
Isn't that always the case? Someone says 'you can't say X anymore', which by definition means saying X.

Nothing here concerns 'that which can't be said'. If something truly can't be said, it's utterance is physically impossible, therefore being concerned about suppressing such or such being suppressed is a moot point. We are discussing things that can very much me stated, but which carry consequences of a certain nature.

Passion and dispassion are indicative of neither factualness, nor truthfulness, nor sensibility. This is a matter of form. A call for the death of a minority can be delivered with utter dispassion and pure reason and a plea for such a minority's salvation from such can be delivered with utter passion and vice versa.

'Making sense' depends on assuming my knowledge to be the horizon of that which is knowable. Something might not make sense, but it might not make sense because I lack some knowledge. (Is it a language I do not understand, or is it gibberish?) However, such might also make no sense because it never 'had sense to begin with' (a concept which could be considered dubious, but which I will go with for the moment). I, in this scenario, however, lack the knowledge to know that by definition. So does such not make sense because of a property inherent in its being, or does it not make sense because of my ignorance? While all that I can do is 'make sense' of things through my understanding, if I allow myself to conceptualize, or act on the assumption of such a conceptualization, that my knowledge is a totality of knowledge, I potentially commit an error which endangers me. (Though, conversely, there are those who would argue that anything less than absolute surety in oneself will lead to hesitation and destruction.) Secondly, this assumes that what 'makes sense' does so because of its inherent truthfulness. However, a sensible statement and a truth statement do not necessarily have to be synonymous. It would make sense, for example, why someone should not be allowed to insult God's representative on Earth. Sensibility always necessarily carries from certain assumptions which eventually cannot be evidenced.

I would even be tempted to say that the gamut of credibility is, besides possibly being wide bordering on infinity, probably shaped like a Klein bottle.

> old hipster

Well, that's not such a nice thing to say to someone as they're coming up on a birthday.
This is a common sentiment and credit supply is probably a contributing factor to the run up in housing prices.

However the value of the asset you’re buying is highly sensitive to interest rates in both directions. It is a bet on decade-long uncontrollable monetary inflation that will also push wages up so you can actually sell or rent the house to someone at the end of it all.
> Window management, I/O, graphics, everything has a C interface.

You say that like it's a bad thing. The situation has gotten much worse for third-party languages these days, with frameworks being written Javascript, Swift, etc., which are hard to bind to without fundamental impacts on your language design.
What was their reason for doing this?
If you are paying attention, and on a trip of that magnitude I think you would be, you would notice the halo of gamma rays as the antimatter supercluster interacts with normal matter around it.

That said, the Larry Niven short story “Flatlander” is pretty funny. You should read it.
Interesting. But won't that require the connection user be privileged enough to do that? And therefore you're still one SQL injection away from someone taking on another role for escalation or impersonation?
There's a thread on the reddit frontpage right now about a guy who sells tie dyed shirts for around $500. They can take around 20hrs to make and are sold via auction on instagram.

https://www.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/tfiwqd/this_guy_...

https://www.instagram.com/dyes_n_goodvibes/
They said this: "unauthorized charges" it is a template they send. But in reality we have no charges at all as a platform
Except that C defines the way nearly everything everywhere passes function parameters over registers. Not C's fault, but still a thing affecting everyone that doesn't write C, as C doesn't even try to be a good ABI, because it wasn't meant to be.
Any claim about the future needs backing. That’s the only thing separating a thesis from a magic 8-ball.

> Blockchain is cold fusion for tech bros.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
Is there a solid coffeescript type thing for deno?
n=1378
> in addition to 100 megaton nuclear torpedoes that travel at 120mph (which Russia has)

If you use nuclear weapons on another nuclear power, carriers are going to be the least of your concerns.
A market consisting of the Fed and The Fed
Some YouTube channels have great breakdown on prices, one of the channels I follow is Blacktail studio, https://youtu.be/bq-8yHgjqv0, this video is for a 13,500$ epoxy table. When you see the cost of the initial slab, 2.5K, they the meticulous attention to detail, the skill involved and other external costs like planing and making the steel frame it starts to seem reasonable.
"Show HN" is for demos, I've seen Tell HN before
That’s the api provided, and part of the point. The other option is to read the buffer directly, but it isn’t exposed to the programmer.
diff-so-fancy[0] is lovely in a terminal. Still, it's nice having a competent Git client inside an editor so you can get a quick visual indicator of what's changed. For example, Magit inside Emacs is freaking amazing.

[0] https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
Not all on the left share that belief, there's plenty of us gender critical leftists around, who still understand the material reality of who are the women and who are the men.

It boggles my mind how this has become the cause célèbre amongst certain other factions of the left in recent years. Particularly given how it relies on misogynistic stereotypes and is effectively erasing homosexuality.
If this is true, why is the ruble relatively stable at 100 rubles to 1 usd, versus where it was a week ago at 140?

(Serious question, I'm not trying to be snarky. Does anyone understand currency trading here?)
You do you: it's your website and you can do whatever you want. But this strategy comes across as overly paternalistic or patronizing to me. I'd be very offput as a customer even though I agree with your idea on sleep.
I do not think it is technically impossible if you specifically design for interoperability which NFTs seem like a reasonable first iteration of that idea but it might not be financially reasonable. Even if it is, then it would just be boring if not immersion breaking to play the same character in every game, at least to me.
If the tombstones are barren enough there may not any/enough relations or metadata for that. And ideally even the tombstones get removed once related records and 3P copies have been wiped.
But that shouldn't be an excuse to sink to their level.
It's a good essay/post/article, by the way. It's good to see stuff like this really laid out like this.
This is more "Tell HN". "Show HN" is for showing something you made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> that would truly be "good enough".

I think 99% of the population could agree on a "good enough" font, if reading comprehension is the goal. In fact, I think 99% of the population just reads the words. Our brains necessarily learn to ignore the fonts. Our brains necessarily learn to ignore even the characters themselves [1].

> There are a bajillion fonts that are perfectly legible and for those of us who care, they make a difference.

I think this demonstrates that the goal is not reading comprehension, which makes agreeing on some "good enough" difficult/impossible.

1: https://www.livescience.com/18392-reading-jumbled-words.html
>> Do you really think that Unix and C are the absolute pinnacle that our field has to offer, we shouldn't bother trying anything else?

Unix and C are not the pinnacle of ease of use, but rather the survivors of the past 50 years of programming language and operating system evolution. So many of their parents, relatives, competitors, and even children have died and yet they remain.

That means that they are the most adaptive and the most successful in a Darwinian sense, but not necessarily the most ergonomic or user-friendly.
Except they will fritter their time on fb and tiktok and the other countless distractions online.
I understand your frustration, that sucks.

On a side note: Is this kind of business relation the result of unequal partners where one-sided benefits are incentiviced? Is building a product the new product?
Oh I didn't know. I was thinking I can show Hackernews what is going on and they might help
To err is human, but the solution in that case is to replace human judgment with technology

> Federal officials subsequently issued new rules for nighttime landings and control-tower staffing. Now, when an adjacent runway is shut down at night, air traffic controllers will no longer let pilots make so-called visual approaches to land. Instead, they must use instrument landing systems or satellite-based systems to line up for the correct runway.

Not sure this supports that "unambiguous language" is the problem. To me it sounds like the problem is "humans being expected to perfectly perform routine tasks" - and the solution is to move as much of the task away from the humans as possible. I imagine there are parallels in the medical system (but am not expert).
Young people just want someone to blame their own lack of success on.
> I always encourage people who are "learning computers" to actually write a compiler

Does the Rust compiler count? The author has been a long time contributor.

> I kind of think of this as the "I like computers but don't really understand computation" fallacy.

You couldn't be more wrong about the author
At 2am...
National market rents are up ~20% https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data

Miami is up something absurd like 40% https://theshaderoom.com/major-u-s-cities-experience-drastic...

CPI only shows 5%, due to the lag induced by their rent counting methodology. So inflation as measured by CPI is understated if anything, not overstated.

Using the same formula as was used in the 70s would produce double digit numbers.
No. It failed because JVC saturated the market with incompatible and inferior VHS before Beta could get there.
You just need to do File.OpenRead instead of OpenText to get a FileStream, then you can read the buffer
There is one way to disable pull requests on GitHub: enabling "interaction limits" on the repository. The gotchas are that it disables all interactions, not just pull requests, and it can only be enabled for 6 months at a time.
> Most software engineers I know who have a background in EE love C, simply because it maps very well to what a processor actually does during execution.

I agree with this. One thing to note though: C maps onto small CPUs pretty well. It doesn't map directly onto the x86_64 execution model at all.

Today's fast CPUs are very different than the abstract machine that C represents. They run all kinds of things out-of-order, do speculative execution, run instructions in parallel, engage in branch prediction, etc. If anything the C execution model is almost a like a little VM that gets mapped onto the core that's running it.
Criminal because of violating Wikipedia TOS. Seems about right. /s
Ask HN: Is RHCP Californication video a glimpse of the metaverse?
I was just watching the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication music video, which sort of reminds me of Grand Theft Auto, but then I got to thinking that the graphics are about on par with what I've seen in metaverse ads.

Am I entirely off base?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk&list=RDEMf5I_WGknwqULRz9t7aGnjw&start_radio=1
Ok, so, perhaps a silly question (forget about environmental advantage/disadvantage): is gas a problem if I turn on a very strong exhaust fan right above my stove?
Literally all actors are doing whatever they like, today.

Most particularly, they are dissolving gigatons of CO2 into surface water, acidifying it.

Besides that, a few are trying to control overfishing in coastal waters they have asserted a day over, with varying levels of success, both externally and domestically, subject to politics.
I find definitions similar to that tweet extremely dumb. It implies a lack of agency and strict boundaries for competencies.

What if someone is awesome at finding the right problems to solve, but isn't amazing at building the solutions? Or they're great at designing a solution but not amazing at building it?

There is no room for those people in these level definitions. If you're good at higher level competencies but don't have much experience, too bad, you're a dumb junior.
I've already almost forgotten about this film, doubt it will be known in 5 centuries.
> you know what you're doing for the next year

You think you know.
shouldn't it be FLOPs? As in, plural of FLOP and not "per second"
Extraordinary is subjective though, no?

If I were working at a dot-com company at the turn of century, it would have been extraordinary to me that there were people that didn't believe in the internet and still used white/yellow pages.

Soon after, with the crash, I would have been very wrong. And a few years after that, I would have been very right again.

As soon as any discussion becomes the 'other side' needing to prove something, it's likely already terminal.
I was homeschooled and did less than one hour of "study" per day until a was 14yo. 20mn seems quite likely.

I confirm that I found school very slow when I first went there, although I am happy I did since being at home with my mom all day long was becoming seriously boring (she decided to stay home when I was 1yo).

Getting used to middle school sure was a challenge but the academic part was fine. I did end up with a master in engineering.

The social side was more uncertain although, thinking back about it, I cannot decide whether I really was a weirdo or if that was just puberty kicking in. I certainly wasn't the most popular but I did have friends. I did sports and played music in a rock band (crappy but fun!), so...

Now, if I have a kid I am not sure I would homeschool her. Kids are hardwired to learn by they do need to be around an adult to learn by mimicking. It would require a serious lifestyle change.

I'd certainly be very interested in alternative schooling such as Montessori and the like though.

Don't misunderstand me: public school is great. It brings affordable education to everyone. It takes children off the streets. It makes society better.

But to be available to everyone, it is designed to be cheap and "industrial". Same content to everyone on the same rhythm, with very little variation. It is not difficult to understand that it cannot be optimum to every child.
I’m not exactly 50-50 on this, but fairly close. It depends! People talk about ‘premature abstraction’ as if spending any time abstracting up front is premature; others talk about abstractions they find generally useful in such an abstract way that it’s easy to mistake those general findings for rules.

There’s a distinct set of skills and instincts involved in recognizing a generalization of a problem, and a narrower one in recognizing matching solutions which are actually suited to the specific problem. It’s not a skill/instinct everyone has, but it’s not one that should be immediately dismissed either. And one’s recognition of both can grow and be refined over time.

I also think this kind of balanced flexibility should be something we demand as a baseline assumption of the craft:

- We’re going to have instincts no matter what, and we should be encouraged to explore them

- Some of those instincts will prove right, some wrong; often “wrong” will be grey and murky and temporally separated from trying

- When we’ve recognized the error, we should allocate time to correct it with what we’ve learned

- As this process recurses, we should assess whether our predictive senses are getting closer to reality, and adjust our risk impulse accordingly
We read cuneiform tablets from 5000yr ago and conclude that people were swindlers back then too.

In 5000yr archeologists will read Elon's tweets and conclude that politicians have always sucked.
It sucks for everyone involved, really, including HN.
>If the federal US government is borrowing in a currency they control, I do not see why US leaders would choose to go bankrupt over simply issuing new money to meet debt obligations?

To be clear I do not expect a bankruptcy to be a likely outcome. I just consider it a non-impossible possibility. The only scenario I can think of is if some event moves so quickly that the government cannot respond in time before its too late. Even then, I still feel they probably have options.

>And Social Security and other government benefits/services are continuously cut, at least where I live as far as I am concerned since they never keep up with price increases for the things I buy.

Yes they are being devalued and thats the constant battle that is being fought. While the US continues to print money to give to the rich, they sneak things in such as small cuts here and there as well as further taxes on the poor (ie. You now have to pay an additional tax on more than 600$ worth of ebay sales. This was snuck into the relief bill.)