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That you don't deref pointers in Go is not what fixes this issue.

What fixes this issue is that, like most other languages which are not C, Go understands that "is a pointer" is a property of the type, not the name / value.

So even if it used C-style declaration, Go would say

*int p

or, using a more verbose syntax

Pointer[int] p
i am skeptical about these growth projections.
extrapolating the whole next year of growth after a single month of acceleration is optimistic.

consider that the growth is coming after the cost for creating a new planet has been drastically lowered. so this growth it is not necessarily a sign of a general rise in popularity but more likely it means that now those people who already wanted a planet but did not want to spend the high cost used the opportunity to get one.

i expect that after the initial excitement about the lower cost growth will go back to previous rates, or perhaps a bit more.
Turns out unfettered immutability isn't the holy grail it was made out to be
What good does this work of Cage bring the world?

Most people think it is uninteresting and a total waste of time.

I can also understand the aggression a lot of Cage's work got in the past. It's very destructive for people to listen a long time to a man who is only speaking letters. Almost like torture.

Is a waste of time art?
He just annoys me as well. Somehow, I don't seem to get any real insights from his writings, just maximalist claims with little reasoning.
An opportunity to improve fire stations across the world to handle battery fires. Also pretty sad that beta adopters of new tech like this get hit with shit like this. I wonder if batteries are going to get demonized like nuclear energy.
I think that author is simply saying why they don't want to work on this problem any more, not necessarily that nobody else shouldn't be working on it anymore. Einstein did what he wanted for his own good reasons, he was right and extremely insightful on most occasions and wasn't driven to 'put his name in the history books' but because he was working on interesting problems. Once the problems no longer seem that interesting it's time to move on.
That's what I thought too. If they expand as they swallow matter, doesn't that easily explain that it's still in there?
Namespaces address a real concern that inevitably comes up in protocols dealing with complex data and combining syntax from different standards or sources. That being said it is very easy to make half-assed solutions to the problem of namespaces, and the full-assed solution for namespaces is always a little complex and brittle, so it isn't surprising to me that most people end up going the half-assed route.
I do not like the feeling that free speech, free software, free markets, and entrepreneurial business are under existential threat, but I think it is ignorant to think otherwise.
> Does OpenAI cede copyright to works created by Dall-E?

Yes.
The Spectrum was probably the last computer I truly understood. Not at a hardware level (too young for that, plus the Spectrum squeezes so much functionality out of the cheapest chips available at the time that it's not trivial to reverse-engineer what was going on even today), but just the software bit.

16 Kilobytes of ROM, which (with, I think, a whole KB to spare!) implemented a pretty functional BASIC environment. This was good, but still had significant limitations, especially when looking at all the cool stuff other people were doing.

At age 12 or so, I became absolute fascinated with a pretty simple thing: Spectrum programs included a 'loading screen' most of the time, which, while being loaded from tape at a leisurely 100bps or so, populated the screen top-to-bottom, left-to-right, pixels first, then (color) attributes, as per the layout of the video RAM. However, some games loaded the screen in reverse, or did not incrementally show the screen content while loading at all!

The latter problem was the easiest to solve: instead of loading directly from tape (the header of which included the base address) into video RAM, those programs would use an alternate base address, plus a small program to copy the contents afterwards. The former was way, way more tricky, and required the realization that you did not need to use the actual ROM code to load from tape, but you could disassemble/change that code, include it in your own program, and make it do whatever you want!

This realization enabled me to implement my own 'speed loader' (bumping tape I/O speeds from 100bps to, like, 111!), in addition to the usual fare of removing copy protection from programs and cheating at games by adding extra lives, removing barriers, or just fixing broken levels (waves at Jet Set Willy).

Is a Spectrum a useful computing device today? Absolutely not, and it hasn't been for over two decades or so. But that's not the point of all this nostalgia: it's the fact that it instilled a "Hackers mindset" in me and many, many others.
pewdiepie isn't a platform. It's also a major business with plenty of turnover and the ability to obey the laws of the juristiction the company operates in.
A dying empire turns violent.
Yanis was talking about the government central bank, under a time of stress.

Without force, will the government have enough credit?

This is what allows the big re-armaments before / during a war, btw. See for instance Hjalmar Schacht's mefo bills in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_rearmament

In this case stealth rather than force but same principle. It's also a lot harder to do stealth with a non-inflating currency that has proof of reserves.
These kinds of vehicles are completely banned on the London public transport network (TFL) because of the danger of battery fires and explosions.
Ikea lack tables can double as a rack.
I think there's an important distinction here. Monetizing metalwork or woodwork (which I do, and have done) doesn't seem to ruin the fun for me. The hobby is about output, and more time spent equals more practice equals more skill. So, with some hobbies, it really benefits to get commercial.

I've found that commercial work as a craftsman has pushed me to learn much more than my own designs are. I think this is akin to learning other people's songs when you learn an instrument; if you don't, its much too easy to get stuck in a rut of your own ideas.
That's correct for general relativity alone, but GR isn't enough on its own.

Hawking showed that the information is lost in the process of black hole evaporation as the black hole decays into anonymous radiation, and so once a black hole is gone so too is any trace of the matter it absorbed in its lifetime.

It's this bit that isn't okay in quantum mechanics, and that's problematic because quantum mechanics certainly seems to be bang on the money for a great deal of other phenomena.

One would have a hard time saying that QM was wrong. That's not to say that it is a complete theory, but QM has made many, highly accurate predictions that have served to edify the framework.

I don't know how certain it is that black holes evaporate. It may seem tempting to think that perhaps it is this notion of evaporation that could be overturned, but then you have black holes which simply exist forever, which would be rather problematic as well.
I'm impressed you can still type after reaching so hard.
Marxist exploitation occurs in the labour relation - it isn't really about consumers. The thing he was referring to was the price mechanism, for which Marxists have entertained quite a few alternatives based on the use value, labour costs to produce (labour value) etc.

Re CBDC, he's referring to current accounts. There is a big debate at the Bank of England about how to offer these accounts via intermediaries, the idea being that they will add value in some way. The idea of the bank offering basic (read: deliberately rubbish) accounts vs not offering then at all is a key part of that debate. Underwriting for loans is different, but it is a fair thing to say that most banks don't bother investing in SMEs or the real economy more broadly. The fact is, banks lend to virtually risk free borrowers in the form of mortgages - the risks being mitigated by persistent property price inflation. As such, why charge above the base rate?

It doesn't seem as though he is advocating replacing the lending function of banks, though in the broad sense I'd guess he would prefer savings and loan cooperatives like building societies and credit unions.
That seems perfectly readable to me, sans the part in the parentheses.
Thanks! Looks like it's just been submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134121

I'm glad you liked it, the whole project was a labour of love and a huge amount of fun to put together. Particularly the whole "running unit tests through an emulated zx printer" thing!
5P;1R – Ethereum's Modified Merkle Patricia Trie
This is why I stay at a job where I'm not working at my optimum, isn't the best, isn't the worst, but also isn't me looking for another job in my 50's.
I found You search, especially quick fact app, is an amazing thing for that usecase. No ads, rich content (web results, facts, videos, etc.) and super compact.

https://you.com/search?q=cat%20NSAIDs%20side%20effect&fromSe...

https://you.com/search?q=steroids%20side%20effects%20on%20ca...
You could still have judges looking at the context. The blockchain would only be for the written statutes and code.

Judges can also be incompetent. Just look at how magistrates don't even need a law degree nor pass the Bar.
The hard part is finding an agent who will not try to convince you to do things to increase profits.

But yes, some artists have famously gone through intermediaries such that there isn’t a feedback loop possible.
The error is that, simply because, even if true, that an experiment can't be done for the next 10000 years, this doesn't mean that someone else could think of a different experiment that could fulfill the initial prerequisites and provide a workable outcome/answer

I think the writer is being too fatalistic on that simply because he/she can't come up with a workable experiment, then no one else can. I think that simply because of all the nonlinearities of "life", we are bound to have someone else come up with maybe a different experiment which answers the question, just picture that there are several, several ways to prove General Relativity with experiments not just "the one"
Right. On the same day this was also posted to the HN:

https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracki...
ok, here’s a free app that replicates it https://slack.com/apps/A022BL4HJLD-onlythreads
Power beam energy test paves way to deliver energy to troops from space
Covered in the video/article.

I'll post the relevant paragraphs, all quoted directly (verbatim) from the blog post:

Physicists knew about this puzzle since the 1960s or so, but initially they didn’t take it seriously. At this time, they just said, well, it’s only when we look at the black hole from the outside that we don’t know how reverse this process. Maybe the missing information is inside. And we don’t really know what’s inside a black hole because Einstein’s theory breaks down there. So maybe not a problem after all.

But then along came Stephen Hawking. Hawking showed in the early 1970s that actually black holes don’t just sit there forever. They emit radiation, which is now called Hawking radiation. This radiation is thermal which means it’s random except for its temperature, and the temperature is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole.

This means two things. First, there’s no new information which comes out in the Hawking radiation. And second, as the black hole radiates, its mass shrinks because E=mc^2 and energy is conserved, and that means the black hole temperature increases as it evaporates. As a consequence, the evaporation of a black hole speeds up. Eventually the black hole is gone. All you have left is this thermal radiation which contains no information.
Yeah that’s fair, if a few govts default who knows how that’ll shake things up. Thank you for the thoughtful response!
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
The only time something is not political is when there are excess resources.

As long as there are limited resources relative to demand, the distribution of those resources is politics.

It can be spending money in a household, sharing TV time with your siblings if you only have 1 TV, and it can be copyright and patent law, which gets into how the limited resource of a society’s adjudication system should be used, which can touch on using it for enforcing laws on banned plants, etc and etc.

Land use, public schools, clean air and water, and the most direct political subject of all: income/wealth distribution.

And since income/wealth gap has rapidly increased, far quicker than resources per person in the world has increased, there will be more conflict. Which manifests as politics (before physical violence).
Waiting for some Aussie to come in and say “look, if you’re not so far out that the only way to get anywhere is by plane, you’re just larping.”
> Musk is eccentric sure, but at the end of the day the two companies are building emmission-free vehicles and trying to make humanity an interplanetary species. Both of these are pretty worth-while goals, imho.

This is like hearing people talking about how it's worth-while to give money to the church in the hope to secure themselves heaven.

Tesla and SpaceX are not young companies, they have been around for 20 years now. Quality of life provided to the American consumer in this timeframe? Zero, zip, none.

In the same timeframe Google became ubiquitous, Microsoft put a PC on every desk and Amazon became the way we shop.

The stark contrast between the presence of Tesla and Musk in the financial press (or every press he can summon really) and the absence of products in the real world is all an educated person needs to characterize this individual and the scheme he engineered.
I turned my love of computer hobby into a business and have been running it for many years. I don't regret it, I still like computers but no longer have that young love for it where I would learn all about another cool programming language. Part of that may be I am older, part is certainly dealing with customers. It is now a job so I sometimes say I lost my hobby by doing what I loved. I at least like my job but need a new hobby.
Someone else posted a great link explaining why you probably don't want tclsh or wish as your login shell.

Today zsh or fish is the better bash, really.

Here's another dead end unexplored though - dtksh!
https://www.brendangregg.com/dtkshdemos.html
Why not solve 100% of the problem? And since pointer syntax is really so rare, you wouldn't even see the suffix operator.
Top line:
> Fleet is the blazing fast build tool

My primate pattern-matching brain says this is functionality-poor compared to its alternatives, or the alternatives it compares to are poor examples.
Only if you can’t sell the excess power.
A bunch on my RSS feed, the two most prominent ones are: (1) TechCrunch (2) FinSMEs
I read that more as someone called the school and said something like: “hi, I’m calling from vendor X you usually pay into our bank account ABC, but due to some reason, we’ve needed to close that account. Can you please update that account to DEF and make all future payments there?”
> cities are an inevitable migration towards efficiency and that rural life is increasingly an unsustainable welfare state

Was what the whole thread started with.
Sabine’s niche seems to be a confident cynicism or learned skepticism and is a much appreciated addition to the space.

I like Sabine’s personality and the fact she stands in defiance of the status quo of scientific outreach, namely my two least favorite tropes: “science is fun” and “let me explain something using terrible metaphors because I fail to understand the math myself”.

Sabine, if you’re reading this… please create more technical content.

Maybe a companion video to your more general takes.

One that shows the numerical side of things. Your experience and personality already lend itself to this effort.

You say “the math is insufficient” show us the math! Show us how it’s insufficient using numerical examples.

Scientific outreach has a real “draw the rest of the owl” problem and I think Sabine is perfectly poised to fill the gap.

There’s a George Carlin quote I’ll paraphrase ~“never talk down to your audience, they’ll catch up eventually.”
This seems wasteful and pointless. I have a compiling machine with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6GHz 8-Core, the AMD cooler, an M.2 SSD, a relatively efficient PS, and a very simple video card. Draws a silent 25W total when idle; hums quietly at 125W when compiling on all sixteen threads.

Switch this system back to water-cooled; what would it draw while idle? While fully loaded?
Care to explain how or point to some documentation please?
I'd suggest you take a look at gtk composite widgets. Also, take the care to use it with a modern language. Be warned that there are no good, well maintained, mature RAD IDE right now.
4-5 years is nothing for the law. You have murders from 15 years ago still in process in courts. But eventually things settle. It just takes time. It's a bit like ents
And then you want to get your own receiver and antenna!
why would you knowingly fragment information when you have the option not to?
“Everyone keeps reporting about how this bank keeps getting robbed every day but no one is reporting about how their ATM sometimes works okay.”
Imagine a liquid deuterium cooled Mill CPU running Half Life 4!
> CLAP was not made by U-he, but by someone who works for Bitwig and maintains VST2 builds of U-he synths for Linux.

Ah, TIL -- thanks!
I think the decline of xmpp can be traced to the rise of text messaging and phone messaging in non-open protocols. One factor that made non-open protocols more palatable on the phone than on the desktop is the easier and relatively more secure nature of phone apps (I don't think phone apps are that secure, but I think they are more secure than installing random exe's on your computer). If you're willing to install all of the apps, yeah having everything in one place would be convenient, but there's only two or three apps you care about so it's not a huge thing. Moreover most of the phone apps liked to keep things closed. That's just my thinking.
Yeah 5GB is tiny. You could keep your whole database in RAM for fast queries.

I've worked on a system that generates a few hundred GB of data per day that goes into sharded MySQL databases.

Personally, my side business database is a trivial size of less than 1GB. Although I do produce event logs that go into Timescale which is Postgres. That Timescale database is getting up to 100GB but I don't have to manage that myself.
All that text and still not a single, solid, real world application. Idealistic waffle.
Once hacks (not hackers) get hold of a term, it seems fair game to change its meaning. Like "hacking".
Is it a need to make every news item "dangerous" to the recipient?
Comment was about amateur radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio) and more particularly about contests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contesting). The WebSDR receiver posted by the OP allows reception on 0-30 MHz range, which includes a number of amateur radio bands.
First of all, congrats on finishing the novels. That's a huge accomplishment in itself!

Writing sits comfortably in the territory of hobbies which require neither money nor storage space to perform, so I can totally understand how someone would choose to forgo money completely in order to not have to deal with the unpleasant aspects of self-publishing. Speaking of which, I assume you've already decided against traditional publishing?
> what matters is how much do all the banking and credit card systems in the world consume by comparison. I would bet it's less than that.

Thing is, with bitcoin the energy consumption is easily quantifiable and it's a single number. The banking system also uses a lot of energy to heat/cool the employees, builds lots of office buildings, and does many things which could be considered wasteful. It really is a little tricky to compare.

The banking system employs a lot of people. Depending on your point of view, this can be a bad thing (they could be doing something more productive instead!) or a good thing (the people are getting jobs, employment is good!).
Throughout history — until even today in fact - the majority of marriages have been arranged.

“According to a 2012 study by Statistic Brain, 53.25% of marriages are arranged worldwide. The global divorce rate for arranged marriages was 6.3%”

http://www.statisticbrain.com/arranged-marriage-statistics/
How's managed (not self-hosted) Element/Matrix for E2E these days? I want to give it a shot but i regularly use Signal for secure communication (financial stuff/etc), so the E2E impl has to be on-par with Signal. Thoughts?
I disagree. The author is very pointedly saying that research on this problem is worthless and a waste of time. See the last paragraph, for example.
Well, they did specify hosting. Maybe they meant boring from the perspective of big hardware or the latest massively scalable cloud tech.
Some variant of this kind of disaster with smart contracts seems to do the rounds on Twitter every couple of days. Why does this keep happening?

Since software will always have bugs, how do developers of smart contracts intend to fix this kind of problem? Does anyone actually have a solution to this?
There is no meaningful political discussion possible here.
In tech, truth matters (a practitioners can share something meaningful). In politics, the truth is essentially irrelevant especially when one side has vastly more resources than any other (the best practitioners are the best liars). Discussions are full of the rehearsal of talking points and astroturfing -- it is boring or give rise to unnecessary emotions.
osTicket? Open-source and both self-hosted and cloud versions available.
You've convinced me. Here's a sensible compromise I can imagine:

1. Make a panel of concerned parents to review abuses by recommendation engines and to stop tracking abuses. Think of the children!

2. Give law enforcement the tools they need to deanonymize the abusers and criminals who are trafficking our kids. We don't want them to go dark-- think of the children!

What do you think? I sure hope you're the type of person who really cares about the children, and not the kind of opportunist who would reflexively argue against #2.

And, scene.

If you've got legitimate concerns about the children with well-documented evidence, let's hear it. Otherwise you're going to be out of your league.
Internet Explorer 5 bug sheet
Why is that one thing particularly important? The point is that general relativity had immediately testable predictions. It wasn't just math.
Yes: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/yes-it-seems-amazon-did...
Reddit was never built on Rails - it was Lisp and then Python. Aaron Swartz wrote web.py for Reddit. But your core point is probably true!
Everything old is news to some significant part of the audience.