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Thanks! I've had the idea of writing a scientific theory in this format, and having a hard time with how I'd do it. maybe choicescript would be helpful in that regard!
These feel-good statements ignore the fact that ancient COBOL was based entirely around global data and GOTOs. There were no block structures or loops. You kind of had procedures (I think), in which programs can call other programs. But you still ended up with thousand line files, all linked by GOTOs and GOSUB.

All GOTOs. Is GOTO not powerful enough? Good news, we have GOTO DEPENDING ON. The destination of your GOTO is determined by a variable.

Youngsters may not realize just how bad GOTO based code can be. This is where the term spaghetti-code comes from. I still remember as a teenager, trying to understand how a BASIC maze generator program worked. I printed out several hundred lines of source and proceeded to study it. And eventually gave up after an hour.

I'm sure later variants of COBOL introduced blocks, loops and procedures. But that 50+ year old system will be all GOTOs...
According to their link, the error at a human scale is about 1e-6 units on Earth. You need to be doing the math at velocities such that the object's apogee is over 100k feet / meters from the surface to be "off" by more than 1 unit.
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> The Ukraine has no inherent right to join NATO.

This is not what is argued. I agree with you, it's of course up to NATO and EU to decide who they accept as members, and they may include Russian interests in the decision if they want.

Point is that Russia has no say over Ukraine's ambitions. The war started because Ukraine wanted away from Russia and moved towards Western values. This is unquestionably Ukraine's right. And if they don't succeed at joining the EU, then their place may be a non-aligned country with Western values and ambitions. That Russia must simply accept and move on.
> Projects like OpenAI’s DALL-E and DeepMind’s Gato and LaMDA have stirred up many discussions of artificial general intelligence (AGI). These discussions tend not to go anywhere, largely because we don’t really know what intelligence is.

This doesn't make any sense. Any time consciousness or intelligence is discussed someone comes along and says "we don't even have a definition, how can we talk." This is so absurd and ignorant of all the research that came before.

The article then proceeds to provide the worst definition I've ever seen.

> However, to discover intelligent life, we would need a working definition of intelligence. The only useful definition I can imagine is “able to generate signals that can be received off planet and that are indisputably non-natural.” But by that definition, humans have only been intelligent for roughly 100 years,

What? A shitty operational definition? Intelligence is problem solving ability. If you have more you solve harder problems. One day a machine will exist that no one would deny is intelligent. That's it. Imagining, that no, you need to be able to operationalize the assignment to the category intelligent or not intelligent why what the entity is. Why, intelligence is obviously relational. It used to be ok to say AGI is impossible, everyone sees that claim is absurd (even though it always was). Now people quibble about competence in context and generalization. The horse is out the barn. Intelligence is substrate independent.
"Wow, this is hard. Therefore, AI must be the cheaper solution!"
> Having multiple non-orthogonal dimensions of scaling to me always feels like a task ill-suited to humans.

It's ill-suited for anyone unless P=NP with a nice solution.
It seems (to me) less complex to have that as "just a library".

In most of my little projects, I don't use ZIO, I just have a tiny library I wrote years ago that lets me write stuff that works ok whether it's a Future[Seq] or a Seq[Future] or a Future[Seq[Future[Seq]]] underneath.
https://github.com/wbillingsley/handy

If ZIO (or some other choice) were baked into the language, I'd be using their choice of async libnrary for everything whether I want to or not.

And I wouldn't be able to switch to the new-shiny-and-exciting-thing that comes out when I want to explore it because "sorry, X was what the designers chose when the language was written, so X it must be".

In Scala, I can use my little thing I'm familiar with, or I can try out ZIO, or Cats-Effect, or Akka Streams (before the licence change). I get to explore concepts very quickly and very easily without having to shift languages and learn a new set of build tools and syntax at the same time.
Ask HN: What will China's future population decline do to world wide inflation?
For the same reason we write haikus, or 280-character long messages!
The daily intake of DHA+EPA on which I based those numbers was between 1 g and 1.5 g.

However, you may be right, because I have checked the current prices for vegan omega-3 supplements and the prices have fallen more than 3 times since the Q1 of 2021, when I have last checked them. So the price here would be only around $1.50 now, instead of $4.80 in Q1 2021.

It is indeed possible that where you live they are as cheap as you say.
I semi-recently read one of the original series (about UFOs) and a much newer one by a different author (still an official choose-your-own-adventure, "#39: Curse of the Pirate Mist"). The first was much better. Suggests another reason for the decline.
You can look at see what a unregulated us banking system looks like, it's alive and well right now. Crypto is a hot mess of scams and fraud. It wasn't far in the past that rivers caught on fire, either. Regulation isn't perfect but neither is megacorps having free reign to conduct psychological tests on the public at large to see how much stupid shit they can manipulate them into thinking as their whole business model.
I’d say the increase in a desire to eat the fridge is way more serious.
Senior means two things:

- Have experience

- Self learning though above experience.

I met many experienced developers, but most of them failed at step 2. To me, they're still junior.
> News and comments on non-IT subjects are the real gold of the HN.

Because they are fun to read, not because they are true. I do also comment on topics I have very little knowledge about. Just for fun.
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The author subjected themselves to confirmation bias by specifically searching for “despite the name”. Perhaps for every service that outgrew its descriptive name, there were 99 that helped people understand them more easily.

If you were to compare the total time wasted by each category, I’m sure nondescriptive would come out as the most wasteful by far.
Colleges and universities would hold the bag and would be more judicious about the prospects they’re willing to bet on. Right now they know they don’t lose.
Much of this is apparently are coming from EOL devices while also violating GPL. Shameful. Can't someone take action on this? The article references Sick Codes' talk at DEFCON, which was wonderfully done and highlights many serious issues here.
I'd imagine the effect is even more pronounced, where a poor farmer gladly weds his daughter for a goat.
> “Don’t Be Cute

> If names are too clever, they will be memorable only to people who share the author’s sense of humor, and only as long as these people remember the joke. Will they know what the function named HolyHandGrenade is supposed to do? Sure, it’s cute, but maybe in this case DeleteItems might be a better name. Choose clarity over entertainment value. Cuteness in code often appears in the form of colloquialisms or slang. For example, don’t use the name whack() to mean kill(). Don’t tell little culture-dependent jokes like eatMyShorts() to mean abort().

> Say what you mean. Mean what you say.”

~~ Clean code, Uncle Bob
> we software engineers are impatient and we tend to job hop often.

This has been the only way to increase our pay beyond measly 2-5% growth if you stay at the same company.

I would love to not jobhop and become a 'superstar' but making half the pay of your peers is really intolerable.
I would bet good money that whatever form "limit the damage" takes will be indistinguishable from "get their cut of this power to influence the masses" in practice. These are federal politicians, not the board of a nonprofit that runs a summer camp for poor kids. While some of them may have noble goals on specific issues here and there the sum of their actions as a group basically always winds up being to increase their own power.
Pierrot le Fou was the one that clicked with me. I’d already appreciated Breathless, Contempt, and Bande a Part but I didn’t feel a lot of emotional connection to them. Pierrot le Fou delighted me.

Can’t say why, but in part perhaps his use of color and in part I’d been reading a lot on the Algerian War at the time, so there was some resonance there. I think it’s also just lighter in spirit, despite some serious themes.
Do they get TRIM on those MX500s? Lots of the consumer grade disks don't report DRAT/DZAT and some HBAs (ex: LSI) won't TRIM them. I couldn't keep MX500s running in my local, 1 user server. The lifetime remaining SMART values were dropping towards 0% too quickly.

I would like to see endurance testing return to reviews. I bet those tests look different now than they did in the SLC/MLC days.
> there’s a moment of envy that quickly turns into “what can I learn from this person to accomplish that and surpass them”?

Therein lies the rub. Many have not developed this skill, and it isn't taught anywhere. In American culture, when a person verbally relates or otherwise expresses their negative emotions experienced as a result of comparing themselves with others, most other people will respond with some variation of "don't worry about it," whether that's friendly reassurance that their worth lies elsewhere or a bit of patronizing admonishment for immaturely keeping up with the Joneses in the first place. Rarely are people handed a guide to using those feelings constructively.

But yeah, learning to do so can get you quite far in life.
I like the analogy of math proofs. It isn't an account of the discovery process; no reader of a math journal is after an account of the author's inspiration and thought process, save that for your bio. The proof is the finished product of all that work.

Execs only care about the proof. They're not asking out of curiosity.
New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Paris, and many others are all tourist destinations and people seem to love to live there
Firmware isn't as lucrative as other types of software engineering (pay is generally in between electrical engineering and other software engineering) but it certainly isn't CRUD.

There are lots of types of embedded engineers. Some use embedded Linux, some use tiny 8 but processors with 16 kb of flash memory. I've also had a number of recruiters contacting me about designing custom server chips, like for security.

More and more big tech companies are getting into hardware, and it isn't just IoT. Pay at big tech for firmware would match other SWEs so it's a pretty good deal!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23724917
Do you mean “Weekly number of deaths (from all causes)?” If so that is such a junk chart I don’t see how it supports either claim. The X axis label is absolute garbage. It’s completely unclear where the new year begins. A naive reading (counting back from 2022) has the excess deaths starting in 2019!
Precisely. That would be also correct. In the US, the concept 'vaccines' have been made into another extreme polarization topic. Its either/or.

The fact that vaccines are also products and there can be heavily deregulated corporations running roughshod in that industry escapes one side of that spectrum.

If a corporation like Glaxo Smith Klein can knowingly kill 150,000 Americans with their drug Avandia, and even starts to suppress evidence before releasing the drug and GETS AWAY with it, one can easily conclude that any other US corporation in health sector would be doing similar things. At the time of the Avandia drug scandal, there were THREE other massive corporations like GSK who did precisely the same.
option 3: work part time for yourself and part time for others

(sounds like your definition of "work for yourself" is already compatible with this option but mixing or time-slicing both angles in a more conscious way can be very rewarding.)
A common person isn't able to do what the author did, meaning they'll have to reach for the app store. Conveniently, Apple gets a cut of sales on the app store. The conflicts of interest are clear.
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The medium I miss the most are Mini-Discs — They really were the sweet-spot in combining digital (albeit lossy-ish) with a tactile, analog experience. The pinnacle of mixtapes.
And what's wrong with stop-gap measures to prevent an energy crisis?
Can you give an example of a failure at step 2?
Honestly Java is lately the best it's ever been, at least for backend services. So much power in the frameworks (ok Spring Boot) with so many powerful libraries and tools and available apis.

You really feel like you can do anything with it lately.
What you say is untrue.

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I recall a few on my c64, back in the early 80s for sure.
+1 for Timescale. Used it for a few RNN projects and it's been great.
Yeah, good point. So another point would also be listing ability to replenish the reserves (availability of LNG terminals and other negotiated supply solutions).
"Trust, but verify"

If the executive is consistently reaching across the organization that's a bad thing. If they do it once in a while to ensure they have made good staffing decisions, that's a good thing.
You can get dysautonomia from either the covid virus or the covid vaccine. The vast majority of people don't yet know what dysautonomia is let alone how to diagnose it or treat it. And from my experience most doctors as well. It's easily observed and the fact that doctors and medical researchers can't get that right diminishes my trust for them being able to get less easily observed phenomena right as well. Everyone should learn about dysautonomia as we're entering an epidemic of it and we're all going to encounter it one way or another over the next few years.
I think parent refers to the fact that if you insert a floppy disk and reformat it without running anything on it, it's safe.

This is not true for USB drives, as USB controllers can be programmed to re-insert a virus or fry the system at any time in the future.
It is useless because it is nitpicking. But still, descriptive rules for a language can still be pretty specific and complicated, so even if we toss out all prescriptivism that won't free us from corrections I think.
Explain, please, why? Preferably with some evidence like that study I linked to and the one which started this thread. Explain why:

- it is abject nonsense to state that cell lines will be created which carry DNA originating from mRNA reverse transcription as is shown in the Swedish study

- it is abject nonsense to state that this DNA is expressed as is implied in the study to which this thread is linked

- it is abject nonsense that cells which express DNA to produce spike proteins will be around even when SARS2 has disappeared or mutated so that its version of the spike protein no longer is analogous to the one produced by cells which carry DNA from reverse transcribed mRNA

- it is abject nonsense for such cells to be found outside of the shoulder muscle mass into which the vaccines were meant to be delivered but from where it has been proven they escape into the bloodstream

- it is abject nonsense for such cells to cause inflammatory reactions when it is known the spike protein does just that

If you sit on knowledge we do not have I suggest you share it.
> Those who skipped the vaccine and had only had a mild case

What about the ones that died lol?

Not everyone who gets measels gets SSPE. Not everyone who gets EBV gets MS.

We know vaccination made COVID less dangerous. Maybe those with no immunity when they caught it will all die of cancer in 5 years time?

No one knows what will happen in the future. We just have to pick out poison (where we are lucky enough to have a choice).
I read a bit of it and just thought "okay I guess she wasn't prepared for 9/11, just like everyone else." Is it supposed to be funny that this single person who didn't work in that kind of journalism was somehow not ready to walk to ground zero?
A 10 years Java/PHP developer doesn't know how to use Golang on the job in 3 days.
And the Germans had fun naming their software "Nero Burning ROM."
Deploying 4x is better, but not every team can do it without sacrificing quality.

That essay was written based on 3 three pre Series A companies, which didn't have right processes in place and was struggling to ship fast enough. Weekly deploys is a first step. It's difficult to impossible to deploy more often if you don't have good tests coverage.
certainly something off...

was busy before, but manageable, this is taking it to next level, removed all the extra space : )

Some elements are growing on me, but still...
What you are describing is "consensus" among those with the power to veto or edit articles.
He did claim "reformat", which tends to delete these viruses. Albeit to clarify you'd also need to clear the boot record, which is not something all DOS format tools would do.

Compare that to USB devices, which contain data that survives to all host-initiated methods of erasure and which may in fact not be storage devices at all; i.e. fake keyboard/mouse presses et al.
My In laws coerced me into getting vaccinated and honestly I regret it. We ended up with COVID more than my unvaxxed family. It's hard to forgive them or the government.
Floppy disks (or diskettes, as they are called in Spanish) were very important for my formation when I was a kid. I had a computer but I hadn't internet access at home (very expensive for my family), so I was going to the computer café two blocks away and I downloaded files into the diskette that then I was able to check at home. That's how I downloaded tutoriales (File > Save page as...) and a lot of stuff.

Things became better when I had 2 or 3 diskettes and I was able to download bigger files using Hacha, a free software to split large files. Of course, nothing was worse than arriving home and one of them failing.

As someone said in another comment, I miss the sound and the "physicality" of them. It reminds me of a time when you were offline by default, and you had to go online. Now it is, sadly, the other way around.
You can put a label on a USB drive. Amazon also has holders to sell you. Contemplating doing something like that for my Steam collection. Would also like an actual dedicated Windows USB stick.
Almost every single biomedical paper includes a line that says "more research is needed" because one of the main goals of research is to figure out what research to do next.
Show HN: Jsonnet Training
Hi HN!
I'm usually a lurker, but I thought I'd share the first video of an online Jsonnet training I'm working on to get your feedback. It is the introduction to the training showing why Jsonnet is interesting and why you should probably have it in your toolbox.
The link of this Show HN is a blog post embedding the video. If the blog is down, you can access the video directly on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8kFrUOpO7s

I plan to make the whole training available on Udemy, but if you have advices regarding this, I'm also interested.

Thanks in advance for your constructive feedback as it is my first foray in online training and even online content production. For the curious, I created the content with OBS and edited it with Kdenlive.
By the time the vaccine was available we knew this.
I'm pretty sure of my reading: if your GitLab repo is a fork of an existing repo, you only pay for the difference.

It may well be that your repo currently isn't a fork of something like https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/linux then you can fork it, add the fork as your origin, and push the result.
Which specific subsidies and country are you talking about?

Offshore wind (which is more expensive than onshore or solar PV) is now built subsidy free:

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2022/08/02/subsidy-free-offshor...

UK offshore is currently paying a negative subsidy, a little bit earlier than this was predicted to happen:

https://renews.biz/62009/uk-offshore-wind-to-cross-negative-...
That's a matter of opinion. Many, me included, very much like the current, very explicit, approach.

I understand why people who like monadic constructs don't like it though.
Also some would say MPC is a great improvement over VLC even though no one really thought they needed one at the time
You need to stop your bot altogether, then you wait a few weeks, then maybe they will remove the shadow ban in your account.

Having a Twitter bot is hard due to that exact reason: Even if you are using the API in the way Twitter intended, they will shadow ban your account if you are tweeting a lot of tweets with similar content.

That was my experience with developing bots for Twitter, however my main account didn't get shadow banned, only the bot's account.
Sure! It just isn't a core business need, unlike in the case of a mall.
Is this really possible? I've heard of this option, but I don't see a lot of demand for part-time workers.
I kind of like all of the computers in my car. The computer control of fuel injection, for instance, has boosted mileage and dramatically reduced pollution. There are dozens of smart chips that are saving lives and cleaning the environment. So, you can demonize it by invoking the patent office or software IP, but if that's part of the trade off, well, I'm generally willing to make it.
Virgil has a family of completely well-defined (i.e. no UB) fixed-size integer types with some hard-fought rules that I eventually got around to documenting here:

https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/master/doc/tutorial/Fi...

One of the key things is that values are never silently truncated (other than 2's-complement wrap-around that is built-in to arithmetic) or values changed; only promotions. The only sane semantics for over-shifts (shifts larger than the size of the type) is to shift the bits out, like a window.

The upshot of all that is that Virgil has a pretty sane semantics for fixed-size integers, IMHO. Particularly comparisons. Comparing signed and unsigned ints is not UB and cannot silently give the wrong answer; integers are always compared on the same number line. It takes only a maximum of one extra comparison to achieve this. AFAICT this is what achieved by the std::cmp* referenced in the article.
> In Vancouver, a western property market generally considered as overheated and overpriced, the house price to income ratio is 7.8
> In China's major cities, the price-to-income-ratio is around 40 or 50.

None of these are applicable: In any megapolis that people flock to, property prices skyrocket. This is not something unnatural or artificial. It would be inflated, yes, but it wouldnt be like what the US banking and investment sector did with subprime mortgages. It was an outright scam, and the real scam was not in the subprime lending - it was in the derivatives that were created based on those shaky assets.

There is no such situation in either China, in San Francisco, in Tokyo or any such place. People are cramming into various cities and regions, and causing prices to skyrocket.

> These are figures considered inconceiveable in Western countries

Of course. One 'tier 3' city in China is 10 million people. In the US, that would be a megapolis. In China its just tier 3. The scale is too different.