skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which shows how short-sighted not investigating "this" crime is. Anyone willing to go to those lengths is probably committing multiple crimes, maybe some worse.
What is generating code at compile time, if not code running at compile time?
If you supply the world's primary energy demand (about 18 TW) with LWRs, the global uranium resource (not reserve) runs out in about five years.
It’s about MWh per sq ft. Renewables have terrible energy production density compared with nuclear. Off shore wind isn’t really a thing and the secondary benefits are irrelevant - nothing is stopping you from using a basic shade structure / solar panels if you really want the power anyway.
All those instances where not everybody - but some - made it out of a plane that caught fire but where the passenger cabin was otherwise intact, physically allowing the evacuation of conscious passengers.

Here's a good example because it has a clear cutoff point: "Less than 90 seconds after touchdown, the interior of the plane flashed over and ignited, killing the remaining 23 passengers on board, who died from smoke inhalation and burns from the flash fire."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797

It seems obvious that a faster evacuation would have saved more people and a slower one less, roughly proportional to speed of evacuation.
Firstly, I think your position is pretty popular given thread.

At your point, I think it's worth considering widespread acceptance of ridiculous ideas that currently exist (amount of people who believe articles from The Onion for example). There's no harm there but when the content is convincing video being used by nefarious actors I think you could make argument potential for harm is real, especially given the media content bubbles on both sides that people have segregated to in social media age.
Radioactive Quackery
Modmapper: Putting every Skyrim mod on a map with Rust
All because they didn't want to completely redesign the landing gear, to give it a higher ride height, which would allow the engines to be put at a normal position under the wing, thereby permitting a normal center of thrust axis. Just to keep the existing faa certification.
No solar panels use rare earth metals. I wish this falsehood would stop being repeated.
Is there a tool to check for byte order marks, zero width spaces and other "weird" Unicode characters?
Nuclear is amazingly safe compared to other options. Pollution from fossil fuels kills millions a year, but only a few dozen have ever died from nuclear power worldwide.
India’s birthdate is under replacement rate as of 2020. Doesn’t that mean the population is no longer growing?
You are not supposed to mess with certificates inside containers.

Security team should have provided you with golden image with hardened config, latest patches installed, and corporate certs installed in certificate store.

If they didnt, they aint doing correct DevSecOps/SecDevOps or whatever the fancy term is for integrating security within development team.

It is a big red flag that any developer can pull whatever image for container running in production, possibly with unpatched vulnerabilities and loose config and ports open, and running with root privileges, etc.

Usually stuff has to be vetted and checked prior to being deployed in production environment
I like to summarise my experience (which resembles yours) as "nix is 95% wonderful, 5% very painful".

> the code replaces my notes entirely.

I think this ends up being one of the key selling points for Nix for developer machines.
I'm also seeing these used to spam people with sales pitches.

Fake profiles seem incredibly easy to avoid because LinkedIn is one of the few "real identity" social networks.

I can only conclude that they don't care.
Can we get Jai compilers yet?

Or is it still for in-house use only?
I'm surprised to see Kotlin in your list. Google has stated they are increasingly moving Android development to a Kotlin-first ideology. New official libraries produced by Google for Android are designed with Kotlin chiefly in mind, so it may provide significant benefits to support, community, and documentation.

Considering the popularity of the Android platform and Google's control over it, I don't think it is a bad idea to develop an Android app in Kotlin. According to Google, their Maps, Home, Play, Drive, and Messages apps are all built in Kotlin, and my personal experience is that Android developers like and prefer Kotlin.
It’s under replacement as of 2020, probably even lower now.
You also seem to just self declare on most applications, so claim whatever race/gender/sexuality you want.

I am gay. Prove me wrong.
We are beginning to realize that many of the events of Catch Me If You Can (2002), despite being based on the memoirs of conman Frank Abagnale, never happened. Abagnale was even a conman about the cons he performed.
40 minutes sounds exceptionally bad, but 5-10 minutes with splunk was totally common when I worked at Apple almost a decade ago, and I could never figure out why because I only ever used it for O(grep on a log file on disk) level operations. I was probably holding it wrong or maybe the infra team had misconfigured it, idk.
This potentially troll comment from the first thread:

> That's It. I am done. Back to Debian Linux full time for me. Anyone want to buy a lightly used MacBook Air M1?

I hope they didn't already sell their M1 MBA!
Yeah at Google’s scale not paying for transit would eventually make it worthwhile (they probably peer most of it but someone is paying something).
We aren’t at the “crisis of the third century” level yet… but certainly looks like we’re headed there…
What matters isn't power density, it's cost, and renewables are handily beating nuclear on that, the relevant metric.
What are the economics of such a cable? Who are the customers? What do they pay and how are the contracts structured?
I stupidly built a product with Svelte and I certainly had a "focused pool of candidates" -- no one at all with experience using Svelte.
In related news:
"Dutch prosecutors plan to seize and sell Pertsev's property at auction, according to Malik. She said his car was seized on the day he was arrested and Pertsev's lawyer told her that prosecutors will sell the vehicle.

When asked if Dutch prosecutors can seize an arrested person's assets without charging them officially, Malik said they can "as we see."

"At the moment, only a car, but I think they can come and take something else at any moment. I don't feel safe," she said. Prosecutors will sell "all of our legal property at auction, leaving me with nothing.""

https://www.theblock.co/post/174016/arrested-tornado-cash-de...
Working with Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, switches all the time I still occasionally try to `ipconfig` on non-Windows machines, `ip addr` on BSD and I'm still try to `route print` before remembering it's `netstat -nr`.

`ip` is ugly (especially it's help system or more like lack of it) but works and pretty consistent.
> The previous poster is ranting against a tiny threat, if even that, to wind and solar while the fossil fuel lobby reigns supreme.

The current tirade of nuclear shilling serves the fossil fuel industry. As does directing funding (often including public money) to all the 'fusion' startups like helion with massive, obvious, unpatchable deal breakers in their plans. A billion going to general fusion could fund tens or hundreds of hysatas or natrons, a non-zero proportion of whom are making real progress towards actual solutions.

Vogtle, Hinkley, VC Summer... the list goes on and on. The people wind up paying for decades even if no power is ever produced. There has never been a commercially viable fission reactor even with the free unlimited insurance.

The fission industry has been burning enough public money every few years for decades to have kick started the renewable economy. A large portion of the massive cost reductions we saw in the last ten years have been technologically available for a very long time -- the only thing needed was investment in the engineering. There are still problems and technologies best served by primary research that will help and have a far better chance of paying off than more money down the fission toilet or towards snake oil fusion scams.

The same tired lines get rolled out every time and they're always wrong. Every discussion about the actual solution gets derailed by some combination of fission shilling, fud about variability or 'don't invest in renewables, fusion will save us'.
These are all of the following form:

> Rumor: Bad things can happen.

> Reality: Bad things cannot happen.

> Facts: We made bad things illegal. Therefore they can't happen.

Somehow this fails to be reassuring. A slightly more sophisticated take is that the "bad things" which fill in this template are precisely those things which legislatures thought up as the most likely threats to election integrity. That makes the "we made it illegal" approach that much less sufficient. The only thing on the whole page which is remotely a mitigation is the description of outdoor drop boxes being reinforced against tampering, which is... small potatoes.
I have written a cross platform, stand alone CLI program to inspect a file for BOM8 and BOM16. It also detects if a file uses CRLF or LF. Tab and nul characters are also evaluated. Please see the Examples in my repo:

https://github.com/jftuga/chars
Zeihan would have seen this manufacturing move to Mexico and colombia
Not by much, the age expectancy is 70 vs 76
Java's SubstrateVM was doing arbitrary execution of code at compile-time, including allocating, and preserving the objects to runtime in 2013 or earlier. Zig only came out in 2016.
It really isn't.

First they're openly lying about how they get energy out. Only a tiny fraction will come out via their EM coupling, the rest has to be recycled via a heat engine at massive loss even to keep it running. They tell you this indirectly in their press releases but then go on to say that the EM coupling solves the problem.

Then there is only enough potential He3 prpduction worldwide to provide 10% of primary energy for about a minute per year. The overwhelming majority of this of this is a gas mining byproduct. Lunar mining might be possible, but the sheer volume of equipment needed means it's just really complicated and inefficient methane or oil power.

p + B fusion might not be pure scifi, but noone has demonstrated any compelling evidence.

If any of the options have a real application my money is on the general fusion concept purely because it separates the stuff that has to stay the same shape from the stuff that can melt anything by a blanket of liquid metal. I can't think of what that application might be (maybe surface area limited applications like boats? Seems like it's a massive proliferation risk distributing easy neutron sources though).
Waste of time...you can't compete with Citadel or Renaissance
The ziglings tutorial is pretty good!

And if you go digging, I think you can still find solutions for last year’s advent of code.
See my other comment in this thread about my project:

https://github.com/jftuga/chars
Nuclear is not a solution. You can't power energy-intensive industry with it; you'll be outcompeted by some other country where solar is cheap.
>Is this not someone making an informed judgement about Musk’s motivations?

Not really, I’d call it more an uninformed opinion since I and pretty much everyone else on here was not privy to the inner working of Musk’s brain.
There should be a handy physical switch to turn it on/off then.
I am surprised people haven't brought up Maizzle yet: https://maizzle.com/
Oh great, airlines have taken a page from the Telecom industry and discovered the idea of the MVNO.
Ditto, thanks for making a great point. You nailed it just right, because I get the exact same feeling with people from other industries asking me if I am worried yet that copilot-like assistants and visual programming tools will make my job obsolete, and then giving me that "welp, at least you are optimistic" look. If anything, all those copilot-like assistant tools will only make me more efficient, and visual programming, well, it's been discussed plenty of times already.

In the near future, for all practical intents and purposes, AI will be just a force multiplier. But a really powerful one.
I wrote a cross platform, stand alone cli program to do this.

It determines the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters:

https://github.com/jftuga/chars
Is it the plan that FixedBufferAllocator will never be usable at comptime, or just allocators normally backed by syscalls?
Damn, it'd be such a mess if we "Children of Men" ourselves into not being able to reproduce without significant changes to our supply chains. We have enough issues trying to deal with climate change, we might just go extinct
"...and at least 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid" feels considerably more significant than the "drill bit" in another comment.
It’s probably the most robust democracy on earth. Voter participation is extremely high and voter fraud is shockingly low.
Iran has a very strong Microsoft roots and very serious brain drain problem. Right now, in jobinja.ir there are 84 spring jop openings and 346 .net job openings. I have worked with many of these "enterprise" .net code bases and it's as if they're written by people who keep experiencing their first year college experience every year, not people who have N years of professional experience. Oh and they went to college in the 1970s.

Of the few talents who decided to remain in the country, even fewer want to do boring enterprise work and they prefer staying on the "bleeding edge". Therefore there are very few companies doing java which can compete with foreign firms in payment(and so can keep talent and code quality).
Ah, so it's not macro-expansion but rather some "comptime" DSL?
Excellent. Seems like a fine, fair way forward and I hope the challenge is successful.
> If you have a team of erlang developers do it in erlang (or whatever). Who cares about the market

As an IC, I care about the market. I go to work exclusively to exchange my labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. When it was time to change jobs as your bog standard enterprise dev, it was much easier to throw my resume in the air and get a job offer by being an experienced C# developer than it would have been if I had spent three years writing software in Erlang.

And most job interviews outside of tech companies where most developers work are not going to be language agnostic nor are they going to have you reversing binary trees on the whiteboard while juggling bowling balls and riding a unicycle on a tightrope.

As a reformed former dev lead, why would I hire an Erlang developer when I could throw a rock and hit a good enough C#/Java JavaScript/React developer to push out some CRUD SaaS app or line of business app?
Is there any actual book or article or any sort of source at all that shows that nuclear is an existential funding threat to renewables, rather something that has been politically moribund in the U.S. ever since Chernobyl, if not Three Mile Island?

Given how disadvantageous a position nuclear has been at for all of this time, it's probably trivial for pro-nuclear adherents to turn around and call the anti-nuke lobby shills for the fossil fuel industry. And so round and round the circular firing squad goes.
Roughly the only good use of trigraphs these days is for obfuscated code, for example here:
https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1990_scjones

But trigraphs have gotten old even for IOCCC. In the guidelines for recent years, they specifically mention "We tend to dislike programs that ... obfuscate by excessive use of ANSI tri-graphs":
https://www.ioccc.org/2020/guidelines.txt
Absurd opinion for an absurd time. Local optimas and stagnation is not how we solve the systemic problems on the internet and in the world.

Sure if your value add is content then go ahead and use mature tools within the paradigm, but if you want to cause a so called "paradigm shift" then you'll need to understand where the progress is happening and what kinds of opportunities it creates.

Ocaml for example is looking more and more enticing. Standard meta language is used by academics and programming language theory is developed in it. Meaning that it has a good long term trajectory (along with lisps I suppose).

Of course we are about to grow out of syntax, soon it'll just be another config param in your editor.. but I don't think these "obvious choices" you list will all be as well positioned w.r.t. that change.

Right now it may be harder to agree with me than with you, but that makes me think of a hn thread I was reading recently where people didn't want to admit to being programmers (in public / to strangers) because the perception is starting to be that what we do is immoral. Sufficient mastery of programming will make it a boring thing that everyone knows how to do but lowering the bar to that point won't happen within the web paradigm we currently inhabit. We'll see if wasm brings us closer but I think it will take more than that.

Anyway, I'd say your advice is good but not great. A CTO should be able to assess which tools fit the problem they have for the timescales they're considering. If they're swayed by your comment (or mine for that matter) then they're not fit for the role. The person you are actually talking to is someone who is building a company that suffers tech while the core business is something else or a company that is meant to be sold to some giant.
Seems like in 2022 renewables are getting us there: https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/global-electrici...
Which jurisdictions implement that feature? Prior to advent of modern cryptography it wasn't even possible (well, without giving up the secret ballot, which is how you get vote buying and coercion).
PHP is an insignificant, declining language outside of WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Those three combined are ~90% of all sites running PHP[1].

I'd wager that most of the remaining PHP sites are wikis and legacy applications that are too painful to port.

1. https://kinsta.com/php-market-share/
I can’t promise any specific advice, but as someone who runs a number of self-hosted services for mostly ideological purposes (see https://compose.seedno.de/ for a subset) and works professionally in networking, I’m always happy to chat about my own experiences and suggestions!

Feel free to email me at lab (at) seedno.de to chat!
Like an expense account?
A tanker is a good fit for a blended wing body. Fuel efficiency is important for that mission, fuel tanks can be easily adapted to the odd shape (compared to cargo), and fuel doesn't care about the bobbing up and down in turns that comes from the wide hull shape (compared to passengers who don't like about that).

Reconnaissance would work too.
Algorithmically generated content by itself might not be a bad thing for users' search experience IMO, as long as the engine can differentiate between "right" and "gibberish" content.

Linking to verified sources (research papers, official websites, verified social media accounts) when writing about these topics might make this easier. LLMs will then be able to understand if one if misrepresenting what was stated in the linked sources or not.
Is there a valid reason why Google Meet doesn't support 1080p?
> Google has stated they are increasingly moving Android development to a Kotlin-first ideology

Wow if Google is behind it, where do I sign up? It’s definitely going to take off and not be abandoned.

I probably could even write some games I could release on Stadia.

I thought they were fully committed to Dart or was that last week?
What is Helion's showstopper? I mean, they're a longshot, but as far as I know there's nothing that guarantees their effort doesn't work.
There are some potential down sides to fusion power. One is that it may make huge energy releases possible. Think releases of heat that physically warm the planet (instead of messing with the atmosphere and causing heating indirectly). Another is that it may enable some machines to run for a very long time, particularly if it becomes well understand enough to make small fusion reactors. Like a robot that remains powered for years, or a tank that runs for years, or a plane that can fly for years (and aircraft carriers, and chemical plants, etc.) Right now it would be very difficult to make a machine that could slowly destroy the world, perhaps by mining and releasing poisons or turning the air into ozone. A fusion powered machine could toil away for a decade with no need for fuel. These are not near term risks, but they are risks none-the-less.
LinkedIn is creating an excuse to purge people, not fake profiles. Like most of the corporate social media sites, it is heavily censoring people who speak out on subjects they are experts on. Covid and Ukraine being high on the list, but even disparaging Queen Elizabeth will get your account restricted.
Words of wisdom, indeed.
It's like C++ constexpr but you can do a million times more things. Not everything though, this isn't Scopes or Jai or whatever.
FBA was usable last time I tried zig, but I don't count it because if you knew ahead of time how much you needed to allocate, well then you didn't need an allocator at all. I.e. I define "allocator" to mean "dynamic allocator". Note that the buffer provided to FBA would have to be provided at the very top.

Fixed-size allocators are not composable. You cannot write any kind of comptime routine which calls further routines which need to do allocation, and how much allocation they do is based on arguments to your routine - except by forcing your caller to calculate how much allocation needs to be done. But that leaks your implementation details to your caller, largely invalidating the point of making some kind of comptime routine in the first place. Therefore comptime can be used as a toy, or in C-style language-enforced NIH mode (where you [re]write every single routine you need yourself, or at least know the intimate implementation details of all of them), but not in a serious programming stance.
It taught me way more about sales and adoption than anything else.

As a former Erlang developer it never ceases to amaze me that an entire language, standard library, toolchain, and runtime that's entirely dedicated to and on-paper perfectly technically suited for the most pervasive "backend" development challenges of our time somehow managed to effectively blow a 20-year technological headstart and failed to leverage the notoriety that should have come from several super high-profile "trendy" commercial use cases in the 2006-2013'ish era. Such that it's still relegated to general obscurity and is seeing its core competencies taken over by a hodgepodge of other languages and technologies that started much later but became rapidly more popular while also still arguably doing a worse job at those things than Erlang did.
The lawsuit is linked in the post. I didn’t read the whole thing, but skimming, the smoking gun seems to be that an implementation of Splunk’s S2S protocol was posted to his personal GitHub while he was still an employee. They claim that the header files just had the Splunk copyright notices removed, but just being a re-implementation of the objects wouldn’t surprise me. Depending on the jurisdiction that might matter.

There are also various copyright claims on things in manuals, plus claims that they infringed numerous patents.

All in all, it sounds pretty bad, but lawsuits almost always do. I would wait to read the responses before coming to any conclusions.
McCarthy made lisp in 1960.