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Herb Sutter is the WG21 convener. Versions of the C++ programming language are standards from the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee JTC1, sub-committee WG21 often referred to as just "the committee" in this context. The convener is in effect head of the committee. For comparison WG14 is the C language commitee.

Herb has made lots of proposals for changing C++ over the past half a decade or so, a few of them have shipped in newer C++ versions, most didn't go anywhere. At CppCon (a big C++ convention) Herb's keynote was about a transpiler which takes a different syntax, including most of Herb's features that didn't make it and some new features, and turns that into C++. This has been referred to as either "cppfront" or "cpp2".
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/368501a0 ("Dangers of Asteroid Deflection" Carl Sagan & Steven Ostro)

It's a good hypothesis that humanity developing asteroid deflection is more dangerous than not; that the optimal course is to do nothing.

(Fortunately, kinetic impactors like this project are borderline useless/harmless anyway (other than as basic research). Sagan was writing from the more ambitious worldview of the 20th century; a world where, if an asteroid is a problem, you cut a straight line through the problem with nuclear weapons. That's a more hazardous toolset!)
I really think it depends on the complexity of the extension and how much it leverages the background page.

> Background-workers instead of background-pages makes for a more consistent API. IMO background-pages were always weird.

True, but they also did provide developers with a few benefits. For starters having a complete DOM available allows for a lot of handy dandy functionality to be done in the background.

In the same sense it also meant having localstorage available in the backgroud. Which was actually very neat for caching purposes. Specifically if you care about privacy and people using your extension in incognito mode. With `"incognito": "split"` enabled it meant that cached data (so most likely the sort of data you don't want to leak between sessions) would remain seperated. This is no longer possible. You'd hope that the new session storage would work there, but no, for some reason that still ignores the fact that `"incognito": "split"` has been set and just leaks across sessions.

Timers no longer being a thing also makes some operations slightly more complex, even more so because alarms do have some funky behavior.

Ajax no longer being available sort of makes sense, but fetch isn't a drop in replacement as it does require a bit of boilerplate to make it work in a predictable manner. So it does require some effort there.

> Time taken? Roughly one work-day.

Eh, for relatively simple extensions I'd say that is accurate. But having done the conversion recently with an extension that does a bunch more and did rely on various background operations it took substantially more to get to there. It had a general positive impact on the code base in various areas but it was really more work than one workday, even more so when I include all planning and brainstorming.

Given that many extensions are open source projects where maintainers have limited time and where for many extensions there really isn't a benefit I fully understand some of the hate towards being forced to do the conversion.
Democracy always looks broken and dysfunctional because what you see is closer to the truth.

Authoritarian systems can look clean and efficient because they are systematically hiding all their problems all the way up the chain of command. Often the leadership doesn’t even see the true state of things. Recent example: Putin’s lack of awareness of the true dismal state of Russia’s armed forces.
A bit easier to read it unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1571137341997318147
My problem is I have sensitive skin, and don't feel the cuts at all - which happen much more easily when the blade is slightly dull. Shaving against the grain is a sure fire way to have folliculitis for the next couple of days - as it is I really can't clean shave every day if I want to actually look presentable.
> Women see attractive models in advertising, they think "unachievable beauty ideals, I feel pressured".

And they are right.

> I see the same, I think "it exploited my biology to grab my attention, damn it worked again".

And you are right.

> Is it let's make money?

Yes

> Is it misogyny or is it mis-everyone?

It is misoginy, and misoginy is always is mis-everyone - but a tiny elite who benefits from it.

Advertisers for example.

TODO: Add "why-not-both?" meme here.
If you are wondering how it got so far off the rails, then look no further than the fact that they hired, trained, and equipped former Nazi SS officers. Not Wehrmacht grunts. Nor enlisted SS grunts. But SS officers. Less than three years after the Nuremberg trials. The trials where a sitting Supreme Court justice took time off to act as Chief Prosecutor on behalf of the US to condemn their bosses to death. They did it despite plenty of contemporaneous objections to the contrary.

> Some of the newly released documents show that between 1949 and 1955, the CIA organized "stay-behind" networks of German agents to provide intelligence from behind enemy lines, should the Soviet Union invade western Germany.

> One network included at least two former Nazi SS members -- Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman and Lt. Col. Hans Rues -- and one was run by Lt. Col. Walter Kopp, a former German army officer referred to by the CIA as an "unreconstructed Nazi." The network was disbanded in 1953 amid political concerns that some members' neo-Nazi sympathies would be exposed in the West German press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/0...

The CIA has an uncanny talent for arming and training future and former enemies of the US and most of the world.
Elias Theodorou, Pioneer of Medical Marijuana in Sports, Dies at 34
Americans are famous for not realizing that there's an entire world outside their borders. They think everyone needs to go 80 mph on the highway, sorry _freeway_ for 1-2 hours to get to their job.
700 real range miles? Why are you holding electric cars to a higher standard than most petrol cars? The average car driven realistically (cities, towns, rural roads, and motorways) gets about 300-500 miles from a full tank.

Why do electric cars, which you have specified to have to charge in minutes just like petrol cars, need to have double to 50% extra range?

More broadly, having to go 700 miles is a niche issue, I don't drive a lorry/flatbed etc. I drive for more than 3 hours maybe two to three times a year. The vast majority of people are in this situation, in the US, in Asia, in Europe, everywhere. Getting 300-400 miles range and charging in 20 minutes is what is needed. The blockers are initial price, and charging infrastructure.
Right in the first sentence:"Japan has discarded some 13.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as all of the remaining shots supplied by the British pharmaceutical company have expired"

So no, you just can't ship the expired doses away.
A bit off topic, but I recently bought my first Xbox (series x) after owning every generation of PlayStation since launch. There were 3 reasons I opted for the Xbox: availability, aesthetics of the device itself (in my opinion the new PS5 is hideous), and most importantly Xbox Game Pass.

I am amazed at the number of high quality games on there for a relatively small monthly fee. Buying one new game at full price is the equivalent of around 6 months of game pass. So for the same price I can either have 2 new games a year, or have access to hundreds of games.

Subscription services like that make piracy completely redundant. Game pass is spotify for games, and I haven't bought or pirated music since I started using spotify
Their popularity was because of aggressive marketing and sponsoring from USR, rather than being technically better than the competition. In the 1990s loads of Swedish BBSes had small USR advertisement blurbs on their login screens as thanks for the discounted hardware. The push even made it all the way into the elite boards (invite-only warez BBSes). Source: I ran two BBSes in the 90s and spent a few years co-sysoping a large elite board along with doing a lot of "modem trading" (slinging warez between boards).
I saw this idea some time ago also in HN [0,1], it has also stuck in my brain pretty hard.

The way Paul words it is like this:

> Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. (...). If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. (...)

(...)

> When I ask myself what I've found life is too short for, the word that pops into my head is "bullshit." I realize that answer is somewhat tautological. It's almost the definition of bullshit that it's the stuff that life is too short for. And yet bullshit does have a distinctive character. There's something fake about it. It's the junk food of experience.

> If you ask yourself what you spend your time on that's bullshit, you probably already know the answer. Unnecessary meetings, pointless disputes, bureaucracy, posturing, dealing with other people's mistakes, traffic jams, addictive but unrewarding pastimes.

This reflection in general has transformed not only how I look at time, but also how I look at work. I ask myself, is _my work_ bullshit? Is this _task_ bullshit? Is my way of spending _time_ bullshit?

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16729555
The book "Jellyfish Age Backwards" is very good and covers as well as sorts modern science in anti-aging and health. Definitely recommend this book.
At this point, whenever I see an "electron replacement" I look for discussion of accessibility.

Without fail, the answer is always "Well yes, we haven't done it yet, but we will do it soon, honest!". Weirdly, it never seems to get done.
> Gaming is already one of the cheaper hobbies.

In the West maybe. To keep up with Playstation example, in my country you can buy 6 new PS5 games with the minimum salary.
Along the same lines, this advice from Paul Graham also changed my life:

> If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times.

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
The article says that they were expired. Using expired vaccines sounds very very risky to me.

The article also says that previously a lot of unexpired doses were given to other countries.
> I don't see why so many people are against Mozilla using donations how they see fit. They need to diversify because relying on a single project, a free browser, in a single market segment which is saturated with free browsers, is a massive risk.

It is entirely possible to implement a donation model that does work towards both. Simply allow users to determine what percentage of their donations goes to Firefox but set the max percentage to something like 90%.
You are quite right to be cynical about academics talking their own book and institutional press releases.

There have definitely been breakthroughs that cure people with advanced disease who would be dead otherwise. Anti-PD1 therapy in melanoma is the best example. One step down from there the median survival of seveal advanced cancers has improved dramatically (eg HER2+ breast cancer and prostate cancer).

Still a long way to go, but within the field the progress is considered quite remarkable. And the pipeline has by no means dried up, in the last few years there have still been big advances with radioligands and antibody drug conjugates.
Not if you start from 0 :)
My local Costco has had them for months. You have to buy it in a bundle with an extra controller and a game (and maybe a few other things), but it’s at MSRP for all those things.
Prioritize peace. Avoid stress and anything which stresses you out.

Prioritize sleep. Allow as much sleep as your body demands today, today.

Intermittent fasting, cold showers, reasonable exercise.

Take good care of all your constituents, including your microbiome.

Practice intentional gratitude and positive thinking.

Remember mental and emotional health as well. Invest time and effort into personal relationships and experiences which bring you joy.

Think for yourself and err on the side of caution. Imagine, for a moment, living in the 1950s and 1960s. You may have heard that cigarettes are unsafe, but then there are other opinions who say that's nonsense. Do you smoke cigarettes because it's the thing to do? There are all sorts of newfangled food technologies that your ancestors have never experienced. Are they as safe as their creators say they are? Do you drive a car, even though it makes you go faster than your ancestors have ever gone, and one split-second lapse in attention can ruin you for the rest of your life? Now, transpose this mental exercise onto today's world. Is there something you may be testing in production, so to speak, that you may later regret?
Thanks. Those studies are interesting, although after reading What Does Stropping Do? I feel like I still don't have a clear answer on whether it does any good to strop before shaving. The photo evidence seems really ambiguous.
Still, with emacs, it's open source and runs almost anywhere. If you happen to LIKE that grove, you can be confident that you can bring it along wherever you go.
I love the internet because every day it teaches me that there is a whole world of stuff out there, a planet-load of humanity struggling to overcome stuff and deal with stuff and celebrate stuff just like I/family/friends/neighbourhood do.

Yesterday I learned about a terrible football stadium incident in Indonesia; I know more about regular expressions than I do about Indonesia (or football) but now I know a little more about both. I learned that Ukraine forces have retaken a city called Lyman, which has given the people of Ukraine some hope that the war forced on them may, possibly, be winnable. I remember the joy I experienced when I asked some work colleagues in Jaipur why they were having a holiday and got to learn all about Holi - including the part where they get to throw paint over each other!

I am so grateful that the days of reading a "Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off"[1] headline in the newspapers are dead and buried for good!

[1] - https://www.quora.com/Is-the-famous-headline-Fog-in-Channel-...
Hydrogen is a totally different beast than LPG or NG, needing much different fuel lines and engines.
> Is it misogyny or is it mis-everyone

The word you might want here is misanthropy "a dislike of humankind".
Isn't Mastodon/Matrix basically what Jack is envisioning here?
With awareness of having zero context, I'd believe your 82 year old disabled dad, and the general public, would be safer if he was not allowed to drive a car in the inner city.
... The issue here is that the AZ vaccine is, in general, less effective than the MRNA ones, so once MRNA supplies are sufficient, AZ is generally abandoned. Japan is behind the curve here; most developed countries stopped using AZ in mid to late 2021 (except in cases where people are allergic to an ingredient common to both MRNA vaccines).

Anyone getting a vaccine in Japan today is probably getting a booster, and AZ can't be used for that anyway.

There's no crime, against humanity or otherwise, here; AZ works less well, so has largely become obsolete.
Interesting, but would you lay down some brief explanation of what graphs are?
For us peones, please? :)
Credit Suisse Turmoil Deepens with Record Stock, CDs Levels
Chrome + NoScript (win10). No ads.

But, from word of mouth, UBlock Origin is more consistent.
Why don't you use the PS5 in the meantime, or wait with buying until later?
yeah, and Deutsche Bank is in similar shape. CS is just the canary in the coal mine.
Another article along those lines that I think was on HN previous is "Life Is Not Short"

I found it quite eye opening: https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short
It's standard practice not to connect a jailbroken console to the internet.
Absolutely more worried about the "nobodies". I'm boring to big scary organizations. But individuals have a wide potential for varying levels of instability and vengeance. Especially online.
Singapore is one of the richest countries in the world. Our minimum salary buys you exactly 0 PS5 games.

I'm not sure that says much either way.
Where in the world do people drive long distances in a car, but don't have electricity? And do many people actually live there? For example the desert might not have power lines, but it doesn't have many people either.
The standardized compression is called v.42Bis, but it was in fact a feature present only on few of USR's models while most of the other brands provided it with consistency. It worked well on plain-text content - I remember hitting 90 KB/sec download speeds when testing large text files on a 28k8 connection - and it made a noticable improvement when bouncing between menus and reading messages and such, but very limited use for actual file transfers since practically everything was already lha/lzh/lzx/dms-compressed.
I don't think Flutter is dying at all. I see it's adoption growing day by day. Also Google Trends indicates that Flutter has almost twice the search share compared to RN: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN&q=%2Fg%2F11h...
I feel your pain, I think I get a reliable 1-2 shaves from a new blade before wanting to change it. My neck pays the price if I don't.
> corporations are mostly authoritarian

There is a pretty big difference to an authoritarian state: Companies have to obey local laws that other people make, and they have to treat their employees good enough that they don't quit.

Once companies start making their own laws (by bribing officials) or when they treat employees like shit (because they don't have other options), then they are just as problematic as other autocracies.

Good, healthy corporations work together with the society, and while decisions are made top down, they are not made in a vacuum -- no corporation can decide that their employees need to work 7 days a week, when the local laws prevent that.
No need to call them mentally ill. It's fun to create a large amount of attention to the thing you're a fan of.

I'm from a smaller country and around 2010-2012 smaller bands did this as well. It was hilariously easy to create a 'trending topic' in a country back then, so it happened quite a lot.

It's just fun to create attention for the thing you love. The same way people on Hacker News like to share certain (open source) projects and upvote it.
> Sounds like he's calling them out on an internet forum that they are also free to ignore. Doesn't sound like he's the problem.

Well, I don't go around pointing out how random groups, formed by like-minded people voluntarily, are doing collaboration "wrong".

If I did, on some random internet forum, complain that the local Street Rod Enthusiasts Club[1] doesn't do proper agendas for their meetings, or that a book-reading club[1] that I know off isn't properly structured, or that the volunteer SPCA group is using the wrong IM/Chat software to communicate .. well, then I'm the problem.

[1] That I have no intention of joining
Or mostly vaccine that's 2 weeks to expiry.
Helion Energy Polaris: Electricity by 2024 [video]
It's mostly worthless but the recursive search via aliases can give some interesting insights. I ran it on my GitHub username and while the result ended up linking me to countries I have never been to (probably via a yandex account as the username is very common and a lot of the profiles were of other people) it did include my full name and cities I've lived in. It seems the most "dangerous" link in my case was Gravatar.

Interestingly, searching by e-mail gave the most garbage results, likely because most services don't expose the e-mail address directly. I guess it's an advantage that neither my usernames nor my legal name are particularly unique.
Ouch!

I'm going exactly through the same thing right now. Trying to start a business and my cofounder will take absolutely everything that you give him and then demand more.

We had several yelling competitions in the last days. Setting boundaries post factum is extremely hard and that is putting it mildly.

Indeed, let's call it like it is -- I wasn't being nice; I was being a doormat.

Very fresh and painful lessons that are even now still boiling and developing in my brain.

Thank you for the advice. Trust me, it hit exactly where you meant it to. With 100% precision.
> content with being a protectorate of the US and not a soverign state with its own destiny

Why are you bringing the US into this?
Israel's friends in DC are worried so why won't they speak out?
The problem is that they're logging primary forests specifically to make the pellets. If it'd been made from recently planted energy forests, using pellets wouldn't have been an issue.
Vietnam's transport stats are skewed by insane import and luxury taxes.
> "What kind of rational system would ever incentivize spending rather than results (aka sales?). Sounds like the marketing equivalent of being paid by the line of code."

OP works for an advertising company. They get paid by clients to run advertising campaigns. Employees of the advertising company get bonuses for closing high-profile deals with clients. The employees are incentivized to continue bringing in more revenue streams and continue closing more high-profile deals.

The deals couldn't have been made in the first place without some form of trust between the parties. As long as the clients are seeing results (aka return-on-investment, ROI), the trust is maintained, and the deals are renewed. Different clients have different budgets, and have different ways of measuring their ROI (sales are one parameter, but there can be more). No one would be buying those advertising services if they wouldn't be seeing ROI.

It is generally acknowledged that "advertising works". In reality though, there are lots of factors at play.
I thought their primary business model was seeking user data?
At least Kardashians are still around.

I think. Are they still around?
> I proposed a simple solution to ad fraud on our platform - assume any UA coming from an IP range owned by a cloud provider was a bot

Ad fraud is an adversarial game, and you can't 'solve' it with simple things like this. You'll temporarily cause a lot of pain for the bot operators (yay!) but then they'll adjust and start sending the traffic from botnets (hacked consumer devices). Which is already what they do when trying to defraud advertisers on networks that take fraud seriously (which it sounds like your company didn't).

(Disclosure: I used to work on ads at Google)
It embrittles mostly everything. But ammonia might be viable. But we certainly don't need even cheaper fertilizer; Haber-Bosch process has been a disaster for the human race.
Some people are speed-runners, and some people are completionists, but most people are just "filthy casuals," and we're fine with that. :)
I've started doing this too. I use DuckDuckGo's email forwarder and they provide random email addresses to hide your real one. Every service I sign up with now has a random email address and what ever the email address is that becomes my username. Couple this with a password manager it works well. If I ever lose access to the password manager I am screwed.