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>Well, so far this hasn't deterred anything nor apparently slowed Russia down but it has had massively negative consequences for Europe.

This a ridiculous absurd assumption. Russia has massive supply issues for just about everything, including defense related industries.

>In general, basic self-interest in geopolitics means to always to something only with a clear upside for yourselves (duh)

[Citation needed]. If the downsides for your enemy are massive it makes sense to take a hit your self. In fact Putin did count on the west to continue it's cynical way of doing business like it did after all the previous Russian wars (Chechnya 1/2, Georgia, Syria, Crimea, Donbass). I'm sure, if the EU could have made the threat of doing what it did later, this would have deterred the invasion. It just didn't have any credibility due to past decisions. But now future threats should be take more seriously. This might stabilize the world as a hole.

>I don't see how "being firm against Putin" or "Ukraine" justify it.

The next winter is going to suck and most people might not have realized that. But speaking of humanitarian disasters, this is our best bet to avoid a way, way bigger humanitarian disaster in the baltics.
Thanks. Not only is the original link paywalled it is also not accessible from EU because GDPR and they think it is easier to block us than to not have so much third party cookies or such :sad:
If my memory serves the government never brought that as a charge at trial. In part, I think, because they wanted to not discuss that the agent Ross tried to buy the hit(s) from wound up stealing money from the Silk Road.
Essential move for any nation which still has ambition to maintain strategic independence. Whatever you think of Modi, he is certainly an India nationalist, and not prepared to see his country turn into a vassal for any other state.

The weaponisation of dollar system accelerates its decline - predictable and inevitable.
I wish there was a way to crowdfund lawsuits in situations like this, with the stipulation that the legal strategy is optimized for setting legal precedent. E.g., settling out of court is not an acceptable solution.
I've noticed this recently too...the lagging after scrolling.
Once you get to some point on the page, it even starts jumping back and forth between images as they load.

That doesn't even bring up the fact that I cannot select a volume for some videos while watching from my PC. It's either muted or fully on. Not only should there be a volume - but the volume you previously selected should be automatically selected when you start the next video (reddit, youtube do this).
Is the vote before/after supposed to be a way to determine the winner?
Yeah, naming conflict. Haven't tried the web-oriented-lisp but Arne's Wisp is awesome.
Very very old compilers like in the early 70's, given that PL.8 and Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit are two well known approaches to this design.
Fair point, but I do think that given the "traffic-light" connotation, green indicating a "logged-in state" makes sense.
Klarna’s valuation crashes to under $7bn in tough funding round
We kind of have AGI today, or its equivalent. It's called Mechanical Turk. It's a crowdsourcing marketplace where you can pay people from all over the world to do simple tasks that would stump many state-of-the-art AIs today. Or you have other marketplaces like Fivr. I guess AGI would be cheaper (or maybe not!). But I don't think there's anything you can do with AGI that you can't do with cheap labor.

What you can't do with AGI or cheap labor is tell someone "make me a billion dollar business", or "create an app with product market fit". Overall I think people are over-optimistic what AGI can do once its here.

https://www.mturk.com/
No, they're keeping the two systems in place. Opening up the country would destroy that.
FWIW, it does appear that at least for now, the project is targeting a version of Rust that is substantially behind the current stable version:

> For some context, my current project plan brings us to November 2022
> where we (unexpected events permitting) should be able to support
> valid Rust code targeting Rustc version ~1.40 and reuse libcore,

(current stable rustc is 1.62, 1.40 is from Dec. 19, 2019)

Which is in line with what you're saying about gcc likely being behind initially, of course.

I bet it's easier to go from version 1.40 to 1.6x than from version nil to 1.40, though - you have to start somewhere, and the later you start, the longer till you have a viable alternative.
We've been doing this manually for some time now. Will have to give this a look.
Yeah, that’s their job, the hard part. You don’t get a free return on equity. Orchestrate power across a distributed system of load, generators, and storage or let someone competent do it and earn that margin.
Aw thank you both <3
Probably because relatively minor economic pain now is better than a dictator with imperial ambitions starting another European war. I mean, how much is Lithuania or Poland worth? Or if he keeps rolling West, how much do the Germans want to sacrifice now to make it less likely Berlin ends up under Russian control.
Ask HN: Any alternative to Java (OOP) which has the same ecosystem?
I've professionally programmed in Java, Python, Haskell and JavaScript.

Of these, I've found Java to be easiest when dealing with large code bases ( > 100,000 LOC ). It is complied, has a strong type system, very good standard library, good & mature build systems, and excellent tooling with IDEs like IntelliJ.

However, I am not a fan to object oriented programming. I suppose I am looking for a C / Python / Haskell like language with the same ecosystem / popularity as Java.

I tried Go, but it looks like Go is built to programmed on internet connected devices only.
With Java, dependencies can even be downloaded and put as Jars.
Did he?

I would appreciate being reminded as to the facts of that. I’ve always felt skeptical of that claim, but I haven’t spent the time to research it.

It just felt like that would be the exact thing an organization would pin on him if they wanted to destroy his life.

It’s entirely possible he did, but I remind you that in an era where Epstein probably didn’t kill himself, it’s really hard to just take things at face value.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057717 is a pretty good overview.
My time at Microsoft was learning a craft from old guys who were there in "the beginning". I'm so grateful for the hours spent on a whiteboard with a patient sage explaining to me how things work. My code reviews were 10 iterations until I learned to do a better job. Very high bar. Even comments had to be full English sentences. I miss it.

AWS is the opposite.
There are starting capacitors and running capacitors; the start ones do provide "storage" for initial energizing of the compressor. Yes, the starting one does disengage after start.

But, if we're arguing the semantics of HVAC, we should also argue the semantics of car chargers. They don't jump straight to fast charging on plug-in. They negotiate with the car, checking battery levels, first cooling the battery pack, then, chooses between fast charge and slow charge based on state of the batteries (and optional user input), it also checks with your utility rate plan to see if it's optimal to charge.
This is nonsense. The code quality is determined by the author, just like today.

> Nowadays, we have linter

I was using a C linter in 1986. The tooling is better now but it still comes down to the author.
Good idea, it seems that I can start a 301 redirecting before I die, If all goes well, search engines have a 10-year window to navigate to the new free hosting site.
Not nearly great at this either.

When he started coming to South Florida and acting flamboyant, the relatively small & exclusive local business & golfing community soon recognized him as just another fake millionaire. Which is really a low-class approach for a well-dressed person, but fake millionaires have always been a dime a dozen so that was nothing new.

Within only a few weeks his two major defining characteristics were confirmed; he cheated at golf and couldn't be trusted in a real estate deal.

That's all anybody needed to know.

Old money would never have let people like him & Epstein purchase property on Palm Beach, it took until they were all dead and gone, and there goes the neighborhood.

You should have read the local gossip tabloid over the years as he built his first empire, which some thought was fake to begin with, then not surprisingly went bankrupt at great cost to anyone who trusted him.

I wonder where the archives for the National Enquirer could be found nowadays.
If the entity doesn't exist, wouldn't it violate the FK and therefore no need for the nullable constraint?
Yes, mixing invisible characters will solve all our problems.
On one hand, that makes sense if we think of him as just the person who built the computer platform, but on the other this is the logic the courts used to justify his sentence:

"Using the online moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts,” or “DPR,” ULBRICHT controlled and oversaw every aspect of Silk Road, and managed a staff of paid, online administrators and computer programmers who assisted with the day-to-day operation of the site. Through his ownership and operation of Silk Road, ULBRICHT reaped commissions worth more than $13 million generated from the illicit sales conducted through the site. ULBRICHT also demonstrated a willingness to use violence to protect his criminal enterprise and the anonymity of its users, soliciting six murders-for-hire in connection with operating the site, although there is no evidence that these murders were actually carried out."

Should a drug kingpin who built a global network that facilitated the transfer of illegal substances who was willing to kill people to protect that enterprise only get 10 years?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for drugs to be decriminalized in the US, but where the line is crossed for me is that this person was willing to KILL others in service of making money.
Unless one keeps it stable, like Apple did for watchOS.

However they apparently don't want to keep fixing upstream changes and is now deprecated going forward.
What do you mean by “3D model of the earth”? A cube is a (crude) 3D model of the earth, a sphere a slightly better one, but you probably want more detail.

What details? Maybe you want global height maps, or you don’t care about height, and just want population density, or you don’t care about that, and want buildings and roads, or maybe you’re not interested in things humans built, but want geology down to a few km, or maybe, you want a model for plate tectonics, or one that models the earth’s core, or maybe, you want ocean depths. The possibilities are endless.
Just about anything. Go to Project Gutenberg, pick a book of plays, or short stories, and just start reading. Be forewarned, though. Chekov doesn't do endings (for the most part) and he made no apologies for his lack of endings. You'll find out with a minimal investment of time whether or not you like his style. I do, despite the paucity of endings.

Endings are hard. I suspect one of the things that has enhanced Tom Hanks' acting career is making sure most of the stuff he did had a good solid ending, not a quick fade -- consider Saving Private Ryan, and Castaway. Killer endings. Tolstoy, unlike Chekov, does great endings.
Weird there's no mention of LXD or libvirt.
It’s fairly normal for customers to try to negotiate schedule and price. Don’t feel disrespected. A good buyer will take whatever you are ready to give them. No boundaries are being crossed.

It’s therefore the role of the salesperson/whoever is in charge of the client at this point to set clear boundaries. It doesn’t have to be extremely adversarial. You have to understand why your customers is trying to push there in case there is something to address - for example if they think you are underdelivering that needs to be worked on - then explain what can move to find a solution - typically reducing scope or raising the budget to go faster - and stand firm on what can’t.

If you can’t emotionally deal with this process which is a job in and of itself you need to put someone who can in between you and your customer.
maybe the status page is therefore also down, misleadingly showing its last pre-down state
They don't hate you, they want to make money off you. It's not a fuck you, it's a series of A/B test results.

You, and for the record I, are not the target market for this money making angle anymore. They don't hate us though, they nothing us.

We can still bypass all of the A/B testing with old/api methods so it still works. Why use Reddit? Because it's user generated content not Reddit generated content. It's not much deeper than that.

Tildes is like that now, they'll probably be doing the same or shut down given a long enough timeline. Imgur for an easy example here. Built because all the image hosting sites of the era sucked. Now it's worse than they were.
It would be Streisand if someone desperately tries to cover something by preventing public awarenes and then public awarenes kicks in.

I would rather call it "there is no such thing bad publicity".
Sure, GitHub's AI-assisted Copilot writes code, but is it legal? ethical?
He might be relying on people's grasp of history being terrible and that they have far more desire to be warm than concerned about naked aggression. Which is probably true, although frustrating after all of the examples Europe provided itself in the 1800's and 1900's.
asserting wrongness isn't persuasive in the face of ambiguity
those who don't have GPT3 access and use GitHub Copilot, if you install copilot labs beta in VS code, you can get code explanation inside the editor itself, also bonus it offers language translation to other programming languages
Funny you would mention days being a constant for a space telescope on an orbit around the sun, where days definitely do not mean the same thing as they do on earth :)
When I was a kid I "won" a Stratego game with a non-move that my friend claimed was against the rules. So he claimed the win. Could I get an umpire's call here?

The issue is that when considering my next move, I picked up the bomb piece, thought for a few moments, put it back down, and moved another piece. My friend then, assuming that I had just given away that it was not a bomb, attempted to capture it, and lost the attacker.

He claimed that it was illegal to pick up that piece and put it down again, although he had no objection until he learned that I'd tricked him. We had never previously announced or enforced a touch-it-move-it rule.

So did I win that game or did he? That's not a question machine learning could answer.
I've worked with DBs for 20+ years as well. This is a quality of life type of improvement. If you've worked mainly with DBs that don't make this easy it's hard to know what you're missing. Do a search for column reordering for PG and you'll get a ton of hits.
Yea if I was cooking for someone I would feel better about harvesting food from this device than "hold on a second while I get this bucket out of my cupboard."
What is your beef with OO?
I disagree with you. It's still "about the craft" for probably just as many people as it was back then... But of course now there are way more people and it's much simpler to enter the field. Now, you don't need a college degree to get a job in this business. However, just as many people as back then still do get that.
If a comment is downvoted sufficiently, it becomes "dead" and is no longer shown by default.

You can reveal it by going to your user settings and changing "showdead" to "yes".
Perhaps we should be counting computers, rather than people, in the "computer world". Although I am not saying you'd come to a different conclusion.
I completely agree. I tried to explain basically the same thing as you, but it seems there is some ambiguity in my example I didn't intend.

Comparing two nullable/option values when both are in a "null state" will return true in most languages. Which, to me, is the most logical result as they have the same state. So, if you want to check if two people actually live on the same street, it's not enough to check p1.street == p2.street, but you need to also check that at least one of the streets is not null. Two nulls would return true, but if equality returns true and we know that one of the streets isn't null, we know we are comparing actual street values (not null states). Sadly, in SQL, NULL=NULL result is not true, but NULL.
What’s wrong with someone coming to HN for the comments? The headline allows for commenting about that subject.

For all you or I know, this story has most of its upvotes by people who want to talk about or read comments about Costco, not the story of the article.
Yeah I personally hated blockbuster because they sent me to collections over like $9 in late fees I didn’t know I had. People have fond memories but I have nearly none of video rentals. Long lines, poor selection, and over priced… along with bullshit “late fees,” I can say I am happy they failed. Truly video rental stores were not great, and I dunno why people remember them like they were.
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DRM that has been broken for, like, a decade now with software easily available for the task. As for torrenting, no reason you can't torrent first and buy later if that's what you want to do. Or heck, torrent while owning the original disc if you feel morally OK with that. They are plenty a real alternative for most people.

Nobody ever said you had the right to just conveniently watch any movie you like, however you like, and never pay a dime if there is a reasonable way to pay but less convenient.
Nobody is spelling the key point out: in prison, you are typically required to pay for basic essentials (everything from soap and shampoo to menstrual products[0]). Phone calls are run through a private company that has a monopoly and charges exorbitant rates. Entertainment (books, etc.) are heavily restricted and cost money - either directly or via secondhand trade.

Prisoners work jobs that are exempt from minimum wage and can pay as little as 25¢/hour.

Having your wages garnished while in prison is a huge deal because it limits your ability to take care of yourself (both literally, but also your ability to trade items with others for protection).

If you don't have access to money in prison, you're screwed. Unless you have some other valuable asset (such as connections on the outside that you can leverage), you are likely to be a target for other inmates, and you're going to be a filthy, starving wreck.

The exact details vary depending on the type of prison, the location, and other factors, but in general: having the debt wiped out would almost certainly be a huge deal for his quality of life in prison, and would literally extend his expected lifespan.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/25/prison-pe...
I thought it was my phone or vpn, I restarted it many times. Where would I be without HN :-)
No worries, it will keep releavant, now that Apple and Google apparently took out their support from clang, and most other vendors that benefit from MIT aren't that keen into pushing C++ changes upstream, clang is getting a nice third place in C++20 support.
> a party that wins 35% of the vote gets 35% of the seats

At the last general election to the UK parliament (2019), the Tories won 44% of the votes, and ended up with 56% of the seats - first past the post strikes again!
Would you be able to comment on a debate that is “archived”? Let’s say if you had an opinion?
Here's something novel, then: I've lived all over the world, but I wouldn't step foot in post-Brexit, xenophobic Britain if you paid me. I'm reading this gleefully thinking of ways to flout whatever implementation is settled upon, while homegrown British companies rot. I am, in fact, rooting for your economy to utterly collapse.
I've had something like this idea for a long time and I have a feeling it's one of those ideas in the idea-o-sphere that lots of people have that is either impossible to implement or get traction on(I have a feeling the latter). Maybe it's because people don't want to see someone win an argument, they just want to vocalize their opinions as loudly as possible?

Anyways, what is your strategic advantage? How do you imagine debatable progressing? Could it ever be as big as one of the social media networks, or at least a well known niche? Are there competitors who've done something similar?
Piracy in the 90s was a reaction to overpriced and over restricted content, same as is happening now.
What can we do to make India, Africa, Asia, and South/Central America filled with high trust societies like Europe, North America, and Australia?

And keep these current high trust societies trust from continuing to be eroded? On the front page of HN at the same time this article is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32050417
How “let it fail” leads to simpler code
Funny thing is... they used to be.

https://segaretro.org/Lockheed_Martin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real3D
but `+` is polymorphic in the inputs as is `print`

just because `print` does one thing doesn't really mean `+` is constrained in the same way
A quick search suggests the UK digital market was nearly $50 billion on 2021.[1]

1. https://www.statista.com/topics/7208/digital-economy-in-the-...
International Trade Settlement in Indian Rupees (INR)
The article kind of dances around the cause. It suggests that the war might have something to do with it. Then it pivots to the ECB being "behind the curve" on raising interest rates in the face of sky-high inflation. The higher bond yields in the US must be drawing capital out of the euro and into the dollar. Maybe there's some safe haven buying.

Unfortunately, this article is representative of the kind of aimless search for an answer to the simple question of how the US dollar can be surging like this at a time of domestic inflation the likes of which haven't been seen in four decades and gargantuan budget deficits.

What the article does not mention is US dollar-denominated debt taken out by foreign entities. As the dollar rises, these entities must scramble to find the dollars to service the debt, driving the dollar still higher and so on. This seems like a strange thing to do (borrow in someone else's currency, specifically US dollars), but it is very, very common.

If this dynamic sounds familiar, it's because it's called a "short squeeze." Those foreign borrowers have shorted the US dollar by borrowing and then immediately spending the proceeds. If the dollar falls, the borrowers make out like bandits (sell high, buy low). But when the dollar rises, they come under pressure and must cough up assets to sell to buy... more US dollars (sell low, buy high).

In today's world dollar strength is a sign of a distressed world economy. Selling assets to buy US currency to service debts is not sustainable. So the long-term picture for the US is not rosy, even less so for the rest of the world. A lot of debts will be defaulted on because the squeeze squashes borrowers like bugs. In the intermediate term, however, the dynamic of a rising dollar and distressed world economy can work very much to the benefit of the US. The stock and bond markets can soar as capital floods into US markets, driven by the far higher return potential compared to the rest of the world. This in turn can severely distort the economic picture, causing catastrophic policy mistakes and private mis-readings of the economic picture.