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Ask HN: Why are we still using the same HDL languages from the 80s?
The main HDL languages today are Verilog and VHDL, and both have appeared from the 80s, it's 40 years ago, and we're still using them today !
My main question is why there is less evolution when it comes to HDL languages compared to programming languages ?
Wikidata is very much about the "web of data" or Linked Data as for each real-world entity it collects lots of the identifiers that are used to refer to it on the web and elsewhere. This way, in addition to being a central island it also consists of bridges to the other islands forming the web.

Further, wikibase and Wikibase Cloud will make it easy for people to create their own web databases ("islands") that are published as Linked Data (with RDF and Sparql) in the same way as Wikidata.
Is it really hard to imagine that it's easier to get to the office as an able bodied 22 year old than as a 45 year old wheelchair user? Or a 31 year old single parent?
Synchronizing Time with NTP in MicroPython
Neural network learns object dynamics from video
Anomaly at the Neurochemical Juncture of Psychedelics and Parapsychology (2022)
Tbh if all you want is Kindle that’s less Amazony then Kobo will be right up your street.
I am currently living in Spain and another oddity I noticed is that almost all external doors lock automatically when closed, and require the key to open, even from the inside. Always struck me as a bit odd that in an emergency I might be locked inside my own home without an easy egress method. My house (and most others in the area) have bars on all the windows to prevent thieves from entering, but would also prevent me from just jumping out of a window as well.

I generally just leave the keys in the door at night, just in case, but it's still always in the back of my mind how unsafe it is.
In addition to the fundamental research this facility will produce, there are some very promising efforts to extract medical isotopes from the beam dump. Russia has been the primary source for alot of this material for some time now but that has obviously come to an end.
but all the companies are making people do coding inteviews now. didn't that solve the problem????? apparently not.
Exciting news! Infrastructure Access as a product category is absolutely blowing up recently it seems. Easy to see why Teleport is currently leading the space with their approach to security and ease of access.
1. Profit
2. Shifts blame to the consumer -- if you don't recycle it's you who's bad and destroying the planet
3. Plastic is cheap. Alternatives are more expensive and less convenient. So let's try to fix the symptom instead of the root cause.
What is your point? Even if it is a rare occurrence, from time to time you might want to output an html table using "print", and it will be slightly more comfortable that way. I sometimes find myself editing html by hand. Thanks to the optional and auto-closing tags it is just as easy as markdown, and you don't need an extra conversion step.

The verbose format has no advantage whatsoever, unless you are doing weird xml stuff.
That's a pretty straightforward calculation that leads to unsurprising results. An F150 with just two passengers burns less fuel per person than a Honda Fit carrying one passenger.
If you actually needed performance you couldn't use a garbage collected language.

Golang isn't really faster then any other on the same playing field (compiled and with GC).
I wonder how many marriages have been saved by an open letter.
Rust has compile time checks that avoid one category of bugs out of many. It’s “safe” in a very narrow sense.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications
Adding Apple to the list of companies I'd never work for. White men are just supposed to shut up and take the increasingly open discrimination? This isn't equality. And it won't actually lead to equity either, but we all will end up with less if this continues - except for the more equal animals among us.

Edit: just imagine if the text said "younger, blacker, more female-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied"

Or "younger, more Jewish, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied"
Honestly, at least Apple laid out their intentions. People can leave or stay, but the policy is clear.

At my workplace they keep nodding at "hybrid" without any specifics and the resulting fear due to uncertainty is far worse than a clear policy that some (many) people might not like...
Neither. Program in D - https://dlang.org/
GitHub – CoolerVoid/Spock_slaf: Spock SLAF Is a Shared Library Application Fire
In general, glad to see people advocating for what they see as the most effective environment in which to work. Some of these points are a bit strained, though, especially the "serendipity" [1] point which they choose to lead with - one could just as easily argue that being siloed with a smaller group of people working on similar problems is good for serendipity - that's certainly the way that universities, labs, startups, etc. seem to work well.

[1]: https://appletogether.org/hotnews/thoughts-on-office-bound-w...
How does Hare prevent use-after-free, then? I'd welcome an explanation.
The time theft of traffic, costs of fuel and wear and tear on your car, the cost of lunch if you don't pack a lunch. It all adds up when having to go back to the office. I hate that we had to return to the office because it was like getting a big pay cut. Even the 3 day a week thing, it's like what's the point? We can work from home obviously, what more does going in 3 times a week accomplish other than punish you, showing you how much it sucks to go to the office. All it really feels like is punishment forcing you to be under some managers thumb.
Tools can be ideal without the situation they call for being ideal. Apple isn't pushing for remote work, it just has a good solve for it. Its not hypocritical at all.
IANAL, but AIUI: The current understanding is that such a suit would have to be filed by a copyright owner (so a kernel dev), not the user. There is a current lawsuit (https://wptavern.com/software-freedom-conservancy-takes-on-v...) challenging this, though.
> We don't want the npm/pypi/crates/etc disease to infect Hare

That's a pretty harsh and ignorant statement.

Those repositories made developer experience much more enjoyable than the mess that is the C/C++ ecosystem.
In my experience procrastination is a sign of uncertainty. Sometimes stuff does get sorted out subconsciously over time with exposure that I stop procrastinating and can write about something. Other times you have to work at, even if you don't feel like it, reducing the uncertainty of the area you're procrastinating. The other kind is that you've (un)consciously decided that you don't like a particular task. Some kind of gamification like a chart of boxes you can X out, etc can make progress on it. Music as mentioned can help with this type.
If you're not a professional (beginner, hobbyist or amateur) kdenlive is probably good enough.
You could still have server-owned accounts with that setup. It just wouldn't be the only option.
> American agriculture is dedicated toward optimizing the productivity of agricultural workers rather than agricultural land

At least with respect to corn, US farms produce 4 tons per hectare more each year than the global average, and have substantially higher yields than the 4 nearest competitors[1].

> the United States has a large amount of relatively unused land and a comparatively tiny population to work it

We've actually increased forrest cover substantially in the last 50 years, which is great.

[1]https://agfax.com/2022/03/07/corn-how-competitive-is-the-u-s...
Your point about GC stands, but I will note that Haskell is a compiled language.
My first impression was the same, but later I came to the conclusion that it was just way more deep.

The first star wars was glorifying rebellious david against goliath setting and fun adventures. A young nobody becomes a hero for the good side. People identified with luke skywalker.

The later was way more about politics, intrigues and corruption of power. Not a bad story, but much more heavy (and depressing). A young nobody becomes a dark lord. Identifying with a dark lord? A bit harder.

(And the disney movies try to be simple again, but are too shallow for my taste, but are well shot)
There is some portion of the population that has an aversion to providing additional metadata about their browser, as it will be incorporated into your "browser fingerprint", increasing the likelihood that your browser can be (effectively) uniquely identified[0].

If there were some way to assure that this data wouldn't be used against me in some way, I would happily embrace simple solutions such as this. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of hackers/companies/governments that will gobble this data up and attempt to extract as much money from it as possible, without even the slightest consideration as to the impact it will have on end-users.

[0]: https://www.amiunique.org/
Where have you read that? It reads to me that he applied for unblocking, but no result as of yet.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust

"use-after-free", "data race", "memory corruption", "out-of-bounds write", "read from uninitialized memory", "execute arbitrary code"...
Burning natural gas to make electricity to run a heat pump isn’t elegant- but it is more efficient.

We need a heat pump that is heat-powered…
I like your comment because it really make the root point here more evident..

Different strategies with different outcomes, it's hard to compare anything against the US which is an outlier, but there are some connections between tech and the cultural industry (especially movies).

And also as your point make more evident, of course that making the movie industry more sustainable and able to attract attention somehow is wanted. But giving there are people that like to eat more sushi than pizza, and giving the movie industry can shape itself while shaping its customers at the same time, i wonder if there's not a good way to mixing both (i mean hollywood could have been more bold in that regards instead of focusing too much in shaping its "milking cow")..

Anyway art is against "useful" or at least should have such a freedom that it doesn't even need to abide to useful.. Movies are a wonderful medium exactly because it's on this thin line between be art and something "useful" somehow..
making it a very sophisticated art form. (James Cameron comes to mind in mixing well both worlds, but guys like Denis Villeneuve are the ones that mix it really well in my point of view, bringing more sophistication to the table of popularity)

Somehow technology in general falls into those same traps. It must be sustainable, but to keep moving forward it also needs not to kill creativity. That's why i've mixed "maximizing the shareholder profit" into the equation to show how despite the fact that capital was paramount for the success of the endeavor in the first place, it can also be the source of its ruin when it makes the endeavors to lost what made them successful in the first place because they are focusing too much in just one vector (it actually kind of works great for industrial endeavors, but its not hard to see that more sophisticated industries like software and cinema, it doesn't live to it's full potential).
Debugging by querying a database of all program state
This is a harsh statement, but not an ignorant one, borne of years of experience with these systems.
Raspberries are a battleground between flies, yeast and fungus
> CEO Tim Cook called in-person collaboration benefits "irreplaceable" and in an email, the executive team talked about the importance of "the serendipity that comes from bumping into colleagues" during in-person work.

Another extroverted MBA who doesn't understand why many engineers need big, unbroken chunks of silence & concentration to do great work.
Google even lower cases emails when they are used for calendars, so you need to assume case insensitivity for that api to make sense.
> For a long time, Microsoft Research also significantly supported the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) by employing Simon Peyton Jones to work on it.

What other companies have the equivalent of Microsoft Research in terms of funding and in terms of research output?

Does Google come even close? And where is Apple on the list?
Basically you have e-mail, which is a protocol (actually a set of protocols, but ignore for now). Thus you can e-mail a protonmail user from your gmail/corporate account without any issues. However Twitter and Facebook are proprietary black box services and beyond using a Facebook-provided identity to create a Twitter account, there is no way to 'friend' a Twitter user on your FB account or interact with content in any way.

Then there comes a protocol called ActivityPub[1], which "e-mailifies" social networking. So far Mastodon and their goodreads clone are harvesting modest success.

I am a great fan of the goal, but not of the top-down approach W3C have taken with ActivityPub. For example LBRY solves this problem in a different way and is way more successful than all of Fediverse in total.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
With a working gcc, you should be able to compile all that is needed to build Chromium and Firefox.

There are a few programming languages that cannot be bootstrapped from a C or C++ compiler, so you need a binary executable of a previous compiler version for that language, but I do not think that Chromium uses any of those.

The bootstrapping of Rust is complex, but AFAIK it is possible using mrustc. Then you should be able to also compile Firefox.
I've learned to like Rust.

1. You don't need to engage with the community to use a programming language
2. The guys "ruining" conversations are a (loud) minority, most of the people I've talked with are light years away from proselytism
Hare does not prevent use-after-free, but it does prevent many other kinds of bugs which are common in C. I will go into greater detail in another blog post.
I just came here to make the banal remark that RDF/OWL/Sparql etc are great to work with in certain problem spaces and not great in others.

My experience working in Semantic Web was much on the same as my experience with Lisp/Scheme. Great fun, hugely educational, glad I know about it, and its great to spot the related concepts/borrowings when they turn up elsewhere.
Object Lessons
> The key thing is for how long soil will be able to keep that production rate up

We're basically going hydroponics with sterile soil as a substrate. The limiting factors are fertilizer and water. This may not be ideal, but it frees up a lot of land for things other than wheat/soy/corn.

> we have eradicated a lot of the predators and their feed species that kept ecosystems intact, and replaced it by artificial means

The US and Europe are re-wilding substantial amounts of land, precisely because less is now needed to grow food.
What is the coupon? Its $349 right now for me
> There are numerous chains with sub one-cent transaction fees which have tokens pegged to the dollar.

Alright, so we agree - most chains are useless for monetary protection, and require you to use a "pegged to the dollar" token which implies centralization, links with the financial system, and more, such that the claim "[n]o governments or regulators need to give me the go ahead" is true for your particular transactions but in no way true of the overall chain which is susceptible to real-world enforcement. Cool, you've admitted 99% of blockchains are useless, it's a start

> It seems as though you're arguing that, if crypto existed during WWII, refugees should be forced to give up all their assets and life savings in order to save their own life. Why?

You'll really have to walk me thru this line of reasoning step by step LOL, you've lost the plot
Qutuz (Slave Who Ruled Egypt, Defeated Mongols)
It's a bit ironic that he says he was not really a fan of Day of the Tentacle's "Chuck Jones" art style, when the screenshots for his upcoming Return to Monkey Island are all very specifically that 90's-infused Chuck Jones style - multiple skewed perspective lines in a scene, extreme avoidance of curves (rendered instead as polygonal outlines, so to speak).

The art style for his new game is rather ironically nostalgia-laden in probably an unintentional way: it's deep nineties pop art, ala "Xtreme", etc.

<edit>
This interview article has a number of screenshots that demo this:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/14/23021974/return-to-monkey...
FWIW, Go's fmt package does the same: https://pkg.go.dev/fmt
Stanley Farlow's "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers" is a great introduction to partial differential equations. That book was at exactly the right level for me when I was 19 to be introduced to a wide variety of things in differential equations in general.
I heard SHACL helps with specifying structure (shape), and more so than OWL which is more about meaning (and where it may be acceptable to have an incomplete but "open" specification).

Programming with these structures (triple/quad with shape constraints) would be interesting, general-purpose programs could not easily take advantage in the form of static type-checking. This is roughly the same type of problem as the "object-relational impedance mismatch." I believe some kind of type-checking (shape-checking?) for SPARQL queries might be possible, but don't know if any such thing is implemented.
This is a good example of why a big name doesn't guarantee adoption. Look at failed Microsoft development stacks too, and hell JavaFX had potential but I have seen zero effort from Oracle in terms of UI libraries. It's a shame, if Java could produce a serious UI solution I would of crawled back long ago. I can only hope Maui runs on Linux eventually.
People still do pair trading though, right?
Hong Kong plunges to 148th in world press freedom rankings: RWB
im always chuffed and fascinated when tech companies cloister themselves in the robes of moral arbiter. Twitter does this now, albeit it seems like a cheap excuse to pump user numbers by forcing authentication.

Why 18? why not 21? or 23? What qualifies as explicitly "adult" content? violence perhaps could disqualify most military recruiting sites from my vodaphone. Alcohol? its certainly a moral vice in the UAE but in germany even a fourteen year old can order a bier with their parents. Sex? its a sensitive subject for even the most conservative among us until we touch upon religious texts, which seem to enjoy free reign.

what i wonder most is...what is the altruistic moral source of truth used as litmus by Voda and others? or is it driven largely by a small but vocal minority or is the board pushing this as some sort of nineteenth century neo-victorian purity charge.
ah yes, it runs on a lot of mobile phones, and app developers cannot get consistent performance out of all those different phones, thanks to java and the Shit OS that runs on them, which shall remain unnamed.

i worked for a startup once that put a java based GUI on top of some C code and used the JNI. the endless issues with java bankrupted the company as the clients who were supposed to adopt the solution refused to deal with the sub par performance and reliability.
> Hence the growing popularity of Go as a C replacement.

Fun fact: I've seen more Python projects being rewritten in Go than C projects being rewritten in Go.

Is Go a Python replacement?
Some companies Apple poached engineers from now have fully remote working arrangements and are hiring. Just saying.
I haven't dived into the specs, but how does solid solve bad actors getting access to your pod?

Usually today your data is fragmented across platforms (so damage is reduced) which have centralized authorities who can step in and fix bad actor issues.
Theft? Lol. Never get tired of hearing people making multiple 6 figures complain about their horrible life
Because patriarchy?
China must rethink its reliance on centralised control to solve every problem
That doesn't make any sense anyway. You're asking what are the highest and lowest correlations of the market against the market itself.

You cannot compare the same or roughly the same basket of assets against itself.
Worth noting that you can replace evil-mode's insert-state with its emacs-state, thereby getting conventional Emacs keybindings when you're typing.

That's how I have it configured.
There is no confusion here. I just have a problem with the blanket assumption that the majority is always right and therefore the majority should impose its will. The majority might be right in some cases, and sometimes not in others. Frankly when the majority is not right…its generally VERY very wrong.
Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit
Isn't it somehow related to series being more and more popular in the last 20 years? Maybe people just like being in a comfortable place, seing the same stuff?
Oh absolutely, and that makes sense if the language is being pitched to individuals. But as soon as you want to convince your boss to let you use it for a project, that executive summary level info is essential. They (rightfully) do not have the time to infer it or "play around", they need a clear "it's X but better because Y, Z."
That is a stupid analogy. I'm talking about a machine. You are not in control unless you build the machine yourself. Even if you were provided schematics, you cannot be sure they are accurate. The point is free software does not minimize risk. It's a false sense of security.

For things you actually care about, such a surveillance, what if I told you there is a hardware backdoor in your CPU allowing the government to spy on you? Do you realize that is already known? What about the fingerprint scanner. How can you be sure the same is not true of the hardware storing that information?
I know next nothing about option trading, but doesn't betting against a stock have infinite loses?
I've been playing the Mass Effect trilogy again and man...I really do appreciate how cinematic the game is while also having very satisfying/dynamic combat. Especially ME3.
I think the point is - using options you can limit your risk to a specific amount of money. Buy a put to go short, buy a call to go long.
This is the best commentary I've seen about the Twitter situation, from someone who worked there for four years at a senior level (but isn't there now so is free to share their thoughts): https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2022/04/anchors-away

The short version: Twitter's challenges are not hard technology problems, they're hard social and community problems. These are not areas Elon has shown any interest in understanding or respecting.
Random question: Would it be illegal to use insider information to trade on the result of a correlated stock that you suspect will be affected by the actual company you have information about? (I mean I get that it probably is since you're using insider information but wouldn't it be really hard to prove.) Just curious, I'm not intending on doing it myself.
Nope. These reactors can be placed anywhere. They used air cooled condensers, which is only possible whe nyou have higher temperature heat than conventional light water reactors in use today. It's 350 degrees C versus 600 degrees C. So you can stick these in the desert no problem.