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I don't really get it either. The article says they want to focus on being a more direct replacement for C++ with easier conversions. I don't see that though - take maybe the most important issue, memory safety. As far as I can tell, they either 1. Take the C++ approach of mostly-manual with lots of inevitable mistakes that result, easy conversion, or 2. Rust approach of strict ownership and borrower checker model, which will almost certainly require substantial reworking, just like if they had used actual Rust, or 3. Golang approach, give up and go GC, in which case they won't touch the performance, low level features, and memory footprint of C++.

So which way is this gonna go? Or do they have some other way to do memory management that nobody's thought of yet? If they had that, it'd be much more impressive than anything else they've said so far.
Yes.

Utilities may have been buried 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago or more. Without regard to future access, changes or modifications.
All blog platforms have garbage content
Yes, they are doing exactly that, having a normal electric train which has batteries under the cars (no extra waggon) for 40-200km of not electrified track. It’s for regional trains though with lower energy needs (and because non electrified long distance tracks really make no sense).

Linking German Wikipedia because it has long history of them and current projects,

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkumulatortriebwagen
- The Anakin and Padme picnic scene in Attack of the Clones

No other scene in the history of movies has made me contemplate my life choices and the choices of others to that degree. I believe that is what Lucas was aiming for in the next film, but it really hit right there like a mallet to a rubber chicken launcher.
Exactly. We still think the underlying platform has value, but we have to prove the product first. Then maybe later we can also sell the platform.
Those are edge marks, they let you mark some edges as "definitely a wall" or "definitely a connection". It sometimes helps in harder puzzles).
Great news for Californians. All single family homes are now zoned for up to 4 dwellings. I doubt it'll change much, but we'll see if the missing middle proponents are on to something.
it requires an email address/login so it won't be hit that hard. (no disrespect intended)
People working at big companies are ALWAYS worried about releasing lots of code that they need to fulfill some monthly or quarterly goals. These ideas that they have time to profile, improve, or check results are inconsistent with reality. When you see real code produced at big companies, it is barely good enough to satisfy the requirements, forget about any sense of high quality.
SGDK – A free and open development kit for the Sega Mega Drive
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I wouldn't worry. Lignin (in wood) is a bit more reactive than polyolefins. It was effectively indigestible for eons until fungi figured out how to break it down, and even then, wood only breaks down in certain conditions.
(2013) -- it would be interesting to know what became of those kids and where they are at today.
It is unlikely miraculous new technology alone will solve anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
I mean the US has organized violence too. A couple instances that come to mind are the MOVE bombing where Philadelphia PD bombed 5 children, and Waco where the ATF/FBI employment of dangerous CS canisters appears to have caused 26 children to burn alive. Photos of the aftermath show agents proudly standing over the rubble of the dead children.
But you said “cheaper,” additionally this ignores the input fossil energy of the gasoline, and it’s per joule of thermal energy, not useful mechanical energy. It’s a weird metric that isn’t very enlightening. It’s mixing low-entropy electrical energy with high-entropy thermal “primary energy.” It’s also not what you actually said. The cost of energy (as well as emissions) per mile traveled is far, FAR less in electric vehicles.
Its really incredible the ways in which living in a walkable neighbourhood can improve your life. More activity from walking around, less pollution, better views etc.

One thing I’ve noticed is I tend to see small businesses in walkable areas more often. Not sure why that is, but its another benefit I haven’t seen discussed quite as much.
The Unlicense is the closest that I know of. It attempts to release the software into the public domain. Since not all jurisdictions have the notion of public domain, it also explicitly waives copyright (though it doesn't mention patents).
Launching with broken drivers certainly did not help.

Promising to price their GPUs based on their performance in "Tier 3"* games will certainly help them win a lot of consumer goodwill though, especially with Intel targeting the critically underserved low and midrange gaming GPU market.

* For those OOTL, Intel has grouped all games in to three tiers based on driver optimization and graphics API usage. Tier 1 is DX12/Vulkan titles they have specifically optimized for. Tier 2 includes all other DX12/Vulkan titles. Tier 3 is DX11/OpenGL/older DX. Nvidia and AMD have had a decade+ to optimize their drivers for higher level APIs like DX11, including hundreds of game/engine specific optimizations. The result is ARC GPUs performing notably worse in DX11 titles than equivalent hardware from Nvidia and AMD.

Intel's promised pricing structure means that Your $250 ARC GPU will perform about as well in most Tier 3 games as a $250 RTX or Radeon. Meanwhile, Tier 1 and 2 DX12/Vulkan software will likely outperform competing devices in the same price range.
Will satnav become unusable when leap seconds get abolished?
MSRs are neither new nor miraculous.
Mendel faked his data. Its ironic, I think you intended him as an example in the opposite direction. He is an example where he is famous for having the right idea, but modern analysis statistically proves his data were too good to be true.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27578843/
A sortition-like system for grants would help for sure. The problem is, how many proposals are you permitted to submit? If you flood the process you stack the deck for a random win in your favour.

I think random reviews from professionals outside of a field might be possible as well, at least reviewing to what extent the data supports a hypothesis. For instance, say you had a random set of statisticians review the datasets and accompanying hypotheses for 2 or 3 competing theories in biology and cast their votes on what hypothesis seems most plausible given their assessment of the data. They wouldn't be familiar enough with the field to recognize the "leaders" that might be influencing a field politically rather than empirically. Not a perfect system for sure, so maybe someone has a better idea.
Frankly, I want to continue living in the middle of nowhere without people moving here to "escape the city".

It's already started and I hate it.
The list is long but if I wanted anybody to take one thing from it is that complexity is the real killer.

The job of the most experienced person in the software development organisation should be to spot unnecessary complexities and find ways to eliminate them.

The issue is, most experienced people tend to be engaged in activities for political reasons like adding new technology -- which tends to be perceived as more valuable than removing it.

I might be biased (by selection). I am called upon to join and help projects that face significant problems (emergencies all the time, no time to breathe, way behind schedules, unable to deliver anything, etc.) But every time I join a project like that, the repairing process tends to start with removing stuff rather than adding. And if stuff needs to be added this is usually so that it makes possible to remove much, much more of complexity somewhere.

As an example, we have stabilised at least 3 projects by removing "microservices" and rolling everything to a single monolithic application. Not saying microservices is a wrong idea, but saying it might be wrong for a particular project without strong automation culture, tooling and without large enough problem to solve. Somehow this always starts with strong opposition and ends with happy people that can code and not spend significant portion of their time dealing with complex, flaky infrastructure.

My rule as I present it to the team is "I want at most one of anything unless we understand exactly why we need more than one." So one programming language (unless you need one for backend and one for frontend, then we need two), one application (unless you have multiple teams and then one per team might be better to make them independent), one repository, one cloud infrastructure provider (AWS tries to be on parity with GCP, why do you need something from GCP just for it being incrementally better?), one place to store all documentation and procedures, one database tech (do you really need half of the application use MongoDB and another half use Postgres?), etc.

The rule might sound childish, but it is simple and helps people make better decisions on their own which is essentially what you as a tech lead want.
BSD license?
Counterproposal: Facebook turns off their servers during the next leap second.
This is great. The flip side of this is NYC Mesh, which is a group of fed up volunteers building a giant mesh WiFi, along with public access points. It's pretty impressive: https://www.nycmesh.net/map
> I'm not sure in what sense these are the "big" sources, but it's not by mass. An ICE car emits like 30kg of carbon per 100 miles while an entire car tire weighs only 12kg.

Big in impact. Carbon in the form of carbon dioxide is naturally occurring within human's lungs and is well tolerated in relatively large amounts. You emit a kilogram of your own carbon dioxide through your lungs this way every day. A kilogram of tire material in your lungs would be a much larger impact on your health.

Carbon dioxide is likewise, by weight, not a very bad pollutant compared to some of the other gasses that were released by cars before catalysts. CO2 is not great to emit, for sure, but it's quite mild compared to NOx, CO, raw hydrocarbons, etc.
Feedback if someone from sequencing.com sees this: import from 23andme.com doesn't appear to work if you use Sign In with Apple for 23andme. Regardless, I love the broker functionality to pull data from other sequencing providers. Kudos!
If iPad had ability to act like a screen for RPI that would awesome - portable, battery powered, versatile, etc.
Exactly what sourcehut does
And put where? Are they recycling it for new products?
> Does that mean if flight traffic blocks the light on your property for a few minutes a day that it's not allowed? How many minutes is allowed?

Even if you had a 24/7 stream of airplanes, as close together as the FAA allows them to fly, wouldn't that still only cast a shadow on your property for a miniscule fraction of the time?
See moltex
I need some brain bleach.
No. Astronomers deal with the problem leap seconds pretend to do with their own, more precise methods.

If the actual leap seconds do not benefit astronomers, and do not benefit anyone else, they are purely a tax on us all.

Abandon leap seconds in UTC, and literally everybody is better off. Even astronomers, who would go from managing 3 time systems to just two.
the time of the rustaceans is upon us
It ain't happening, folks. Better start the mass migration now before it's too late (assuming insane water use policies continue as they have).
I'm curious which was the biggest factor in the decline of Clubhouse: "everyone's now invited" effect (especially globally); "pandemic boost now over + clubhouse fatigue"; or Twitter Spaces creating something just as good but on top of an existing social network.

I joined in August 2020 and it was already declining at. that point; really hit the inflection point into the ground in late Q3/early Q4 2020.
You 100% need to figure that out, because this is _really_ good and there’s money to be made here. Make sure you’re the one who makes it.
ROM BIOS for COMPAQ DeskPro 386-16 (2015)
All puzzles on the site have a unique solution At least my solver thinks so)).
Configurations with multiple solutions are possible, but I weeded those out when generating.
Write all that as bullet points on the website itself
Ask HN: How do I force network failures during development against remote APIs?
I am working on a gateway product and would like to start focusing on reliability and handling intermediate networking errors. What are some techniques and tools I can use to force them so that I can write code that gracefully handles them? I am thinking stuff like certificate errors, DNS lookup failures, socket disconnected errors, timeouts, invalid data returned over the socket when expecting HTTP.

Thanks.
Portugal. DM if you want to discuss.
Jsonnet is the language that maps to YAML 1:1. The output happens to look like JSON, but JSON is a subset of YAML.

I've used Jsonnet for non-k8s stuff (envoy bootstrap configs), and it is really great. For example, this: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/blob/master/etc/gener... generates this: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/blob/master/etc/helm/...
They do not provide any.

Unless it is "programmers' employment assurance".
Love it!

I first played the version of this with squares on a Palm Pilot and that was a long time ago. I was even looking for that version for my iPhone the other day but was drowning in other random games (and little network tools) until I gave up.

It shouldn’t take much effort to turn it into a PWA, so then people can use it just like an app. I already saved it to my Home Screen and would certainly play this as a daily puzzle, just like Wordle. Keep up the great work.
E-commerce isn't just about websites.

If I buy a charging cord from a factory owner, how long before I have it in my hand? And how much will shipping cost?

The fact that I can order a charging cord (or 10 different ones from 10 different manufacturers) and have them delivered tomorrow is innovation.
From an outsider's perspective (I never got into Clubhouse), it really seemed like its success was getting the right people on the platform (like you mentioned), plus the fact that the pandemic put a temporary stop on in-person meetups and talks. I'm sure this was partially due to the hard work of the people at Clubhouse, but to me it seems also like being in the right place at the right time.

What I don't get about articles like this, is that the growth is just taken for granted as if it's easily replicated. It's all about hard-fought learnings about product/ops/GTM, and none of that is relevant if you don't come up with an initially compelling product. How can you nurture growth if there is no growth in the first place? Maybe I'm a dumbass who just doesn't "get it," but it seems to me like a premature victory lap to celebrate these learnings before proving that they are fundamental to repeatable success.
> If this precluded the ability to eg install a program via curl or brew, or even just a .dmg you download from your browser

I expect that governments will offer a "compromise" which is that you can run these "unapproved" apps, but they must be signed by a developer key which is tied to a domain name, and that domain name must be checked (by the OS) against a blacklist of banned applications/developers/websites.

That should be enough to block any encrypted messaging apps without backdoors, or apps like Tor, or bittorrent clients.

There could be a cat-and-mouse game as developers try to rename their apps, generate new keys, and register new domains, but when governments notice that their ability to censor is at stake, they will spare no expense on whichever intelligence agency or defence contractor is tasked with keeping the blacklists updated faster than any banned applications can reach mass adoption.

In parallel to this, governments will require that ISPs only let devices access the internet if they pass a "secure boot" check, which confirms that the device is running an operating system which enforces this blacklist.

We're probably less than 5 years away from some G7/EU country mandating this system, with the timeline only limited by the rate of adoption of technology like Windows 11 and Pluton. Older devices (and those running "unapproved" OSes) will be limited to specific ports and IP ranges, for "cyber-security" reasons.
I used to enjoy visiting Manhattan because when I did, I would always have these giant juicy boogers to pick out at the end of the day. Didn't dwell too much on the health effects...
Funnily enough, this sort of behavior is not tolerated in the actual Valley, where things were actually started. You don't see it happening in Mountain View and Cupertino.
So there's it's #2. I've seen it on another list at #1. I think top 5 or even top 10 is all the same, within that range the particular ranking just subjective.
Huh, I was unaware that one could be predisposed to the idea of royalty at birth, much less that there's a biological/psychological basis for this feeling you have. It's almost worth arguing that this isn't an apt comparison, but then Hacker News would miss out on the chance to peddle their incredibly nuanced opinions on sex and gender. In any case, I think you're going to have a hard time being taken seriously in any qualified discussion on the topic; the DSM-5 already did this dog-and-pony show a decade ago, and they established a research-based definition of dysphoria.
I'm beginning to address these questions as I'm noticing my parents becoming old. Both of them are able to take care of themselves at present and I'm asking around to understand if there are things I can be prepared for.

> Effective assistance will be more expensive in time and money than you currently envision.

Yea
I agree. Here are a little bit users (developers) and they are waiting for a usable application. The project is in the top 100 in Europe in the Pioneer.app tournament and people like it both online and offline, developers or non-coders (9 of 10). I think it's easy to organically join 30,000 developers when people can use the app. But a few bugs need to be fixed. So I'm looking a way how to find an angel who is tech, can invest and wants to make x10 or more.
i recommend an option to convert to / from text.

Maybe it’s true that younger children are better at understanding blocks than text, but i believe young children are able to learn how to program in text. Plus, your environment makes the relationship between text and blocks very easy to grasp. Once children do learn how to type their code instead of using blocks they’ll be able to code faster, and it will prepare them for real languages like Python.
It hasn't been ruled out, but as Derek Lowe mentions, there is a good amount of genetic evidence that increased cleaving of APP and thus more amyloid-beta leads to earlier, faster and more severe Alzheimer's.

And certain mutations in the amyloid-beta producing APP-cleavage machinery leads to familial dominant
Alzheimer's, where the carriers will almost certainly develop early Alzheimer's.

So there is not many ways around APP/amyloid-beta having some role in Alzheimer's pathology.
> by banning books from libraries

Does anyone genuinely believe this is a threat to free speech though? I only see this projected onto people who argue for free speech, like you are doing. But people who argue for free speech don't also argue that we should push all information on children. Sex, how to murder someone, curse words, etc. It's not that they are hypocrites, its that you're oversimplifying someone else's perspective until it appears to be a contradiction.
Just to put this in context Australia had an election eight weeks ago in which the government was changed. There's any number of reasons for the outcome of the election but this suggests that the governments in Australia are not free to do whatever they want.
Was unaware. There's also Thorcon. They have a test plant in Indonesia (under construction last I knew).
Which is that?
Apple should try to get Frog Design back on board – they created some of the most iconic machines of the 1980s and 90s, such as machines based on the Apple "snow white" design language, Apple //c, Mac SE and Mac II series, as well as the NeXT Cube and also the early Sun SPARC machines.
Even a landfill would be preferable to floating loose in the ocean.
Dealing with inheritance is pretty complex!
It really depends on the argument.

The bandwagon fallacy is if just because someone else is doing something does not make it moral. It seems like the parent post was saying that the moral rules only apply to humans.

It seems they are claiming that all animals are people, that killing animals is as bad as killing humans, and humans deserve to hunted for killing animals.

This naturally raises the question of the morality of other sentient animals killing animals, and what they deserve.

Perhaps all predators are evil and should be exterminated
I had an 80's era Vanagon with an insane turning angle. Lots of room in the front wheel wells. Could U turn that thing on most residential streets with cars parked on one side.
Stop the weed and try somthing really new like going to a muay thai gym
I struggle to understand how come Dutch people allow such levels of drug production in ther soil.
For real. The total global CO2 discussed here is less than 2% of the CO2 from the light vehicle fleet of the U.S.A. alone. Slap a price on carbon and let us choose whether we'd rather spend our carbon budget on IOPS or car rides.
A Python "trick" I like which is a compact one-liner if-statement.

var = (False, True)[predicate]

This is equivalent to:

var = True if predicate else False

Since we are doing item getting, we can do CASE statements.

var = (case0, case1, case2)[item]

Which is equivalent to:

if item == 0:
var = case0
elif item == 1:
var = case1
elif item == 2:
var = case2
One example (scroll down to 'Code fingerprint') - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A86_(software)
I'd suggest taking a look at some of the writing from Ray Dalio.

Pain + Reflection = Progress.

https://www.principles.com/principles/4a903526-2db6-4a0a-9b7...

Valid but painful criticism is an opportunity to grow.
Can't speak for their intentions, but it's data, it's cool, and maybe they didn't see it before (I didn't)
Academic institutions are the most overfed middlemen. They've insinuated themselves into the ability to have a job in many fields.

Has there ever been a winter that affects academic institutions? Ever been a need to cut back? Tighten the belt? They are like an overgrown jungle.

They often peddle shoddy goods (degrees that will never pay off), to unsophisticated consumers (18 year olds and their parents). Any other industry would have laws and regulations attempting to protect the unwary, but somehow, only angels work in adademic institutions.

They have choruses of shills (guidance councilers and others) telling anyone who will listen that if you don't go to college, your life will be ruined. See how indispensible they are?

Can't afford it? Get a subsidized loan for which the institution has no skin in the game. Can't pay it off after? Not their fault!

Institution needs more money? Just raise the rent.
How does this relate to pt-tools ? percona mysql toolkit ?
What the article says might be true. However, I didn’t see a discussion of the bad effects the sanctions are having on our economy. Not a balanced article.

Also, I think Foreign Policy magazine might be a shill for profiting from the war industry - but I don’t red it so that is a guess on my part.
It seems plausible that informal power structures may be easier to disrupt with better data than formal power structures.
Twitter launches probe after miscreants claims to have swiped 5.4m users details
Then it was for nobody. Astronomers find UTC leap seconds as much a nuisance as everybody else.