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> For me it's the borrow checker and lack of shared mutable states stopping me from doing dumb things.

AFAIK, the newest SPARK got borrow checking capability. Also, Ada has excellent design by contract capabilities [1] and constrained subtypes [2].

> Add on things like cargo build manager and crates and it's like a delicious roast dinner smothered in gravy.

Ada has now Alire [3] for that.

> I've written in Ada95 back in college and it was great but I'm like a duck in water with Rust.

Ada is nearing the 2022 standard now. It changed a lot since 95.

PS. I have nothing against you liking Rust. Just wanted to clarify few things.

[1] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...

[2] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/stro...

[3] https://alire.ada.dev/
I believe the idea is that it helps researchers understand how better to mitigate negative effects caused by a given virus. It's commonly seen (among virologists) as having at least some merit.
Check the graphic in TFA. The trend is downwards across party lines. There was a bump (from 50s to 70s) for dems when trump was elected but it continued a downtrend from that peak - even while he was in office.

The media industry ironically has a huge image problem - at its roots is the fact that their incentives do not align with their readership - they've actually made that readership a product to be sold to the highest bidder.
No one trusts the media except for all the media they trust.
Beautiful on top of productive and utilitarian : yes.

Beautiful instead of productive and utilitarian : absolutely NOT.
Yeah that kind of stuff is always going to happen. It's super tough to plug every single loophole and stop every single infraction, so we have to accept that that's not the goal. Hell, when you make murder illegal, murders commit their crimes in secret. Still, you accomplish the goal of making it much less common, and that's a win.
You can have your Steam guard in your 2FA app as long as it has support for it. I'm personally using Aegis and have managed to put the Steam TOTP there. [1]

There are other ways to do it that don't require using Python and the Steam API by using Steam's desktop application, but since this is HN I find this the most interesting.

[1]: https://programsareproofs.com/articles/steam_2fa.html
Very different areas of semi. The Economist article is focused on the high end, most advanced nodes and their fabless users like AMD, NVidia.

What you list is either analog of older nodes (~90 to 40nm). It's a very different world, with often different players. TSMC plays in the digital old nodes, but as I understand is not very motivated in investing in much new capacity, and try to push customers toward 22nm ULP (may work for some, but not all). Others are investing, but it takes time.

So you start to see a glut at the high end, but still constraints in the analog / old nodes.
Getting everyone to agree what "gain of function" means is a lost cause.

"The term GOF didn’t have much to do with virology until the past decade. Then, the ferret influenza studies came along. In trying to advise the federal government on the nature of such research, the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) borrowed the term … From that usage, it came to mean any research that improves a pathogen’s abilities to cause disease or spread from host to host."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x

The actual regulations sensibly avoid the term, targeting "enhanced potentially pandemic pathogens".

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/research-involving-potential...
I mean you could pretty easily do a minimum amount plus a percentage. We're just talking about the upper limits here, the maximum fines.
Andes Tech Releases ISO 26262 Compliant Core
I've seen occasional blog posts about X feature from desktop being added to mobile, so definitely didn't launch with feature parity, though they made a big deal about how it was based on the real desktop Photoshop codebase.

But personally I dropped Photoshop when it went subscription (last version I owned was CS5) and I've never tried the iPad version, so no personal experience to compare it.
The US had many beautiful city centers that were walkable and had public transport. It was bulldozed to make room for the car.

They went so far as to invent the concept of jaywalking to get rid of those pesky pedestrians on the road, so that cars could have all the space.
This doesn't describe a lot of office space in San Francisco, especially SOMA. There are a couple of high-rise open plans (like SF Tower), but many offices in SOMA are converted warehouses.

Check out 510 Townsend, one of the properties mentioned in the OP. What do you think about converting buildings like 510 Townsend into live/work lofts?
i once thought the same way, but I've since changed my view. The more crap we see / hear, the more we train ourselves on aggregate to be more skeptical of narratives we're fed
I'm a technical writer in Germany and currently there seem to be about 5 remote job postings in this field (for German software companies). Obviously developers will have more opportunities, but this number is still indicative of how far Germany is behind in remote culture compared to the US. Also generally the remote positions don't seem to be listed as being accessible to all EU citizens, since they are usually looking for someone who speaks German on a native level. So the idea of a supra-national pool of European job postings does not seem to be quite a reality yet, though again it's probably a better situation for developers.
Depends on your standards. CDE is, by modern standards, rather feature poor; if you actually use any significant slice of KDE's features it'll feel very limiting. On the other hand, IME it's also far less buggy than KDE (possibly for similar reasons; your features can't break if they don't exist), and it's stable both in the sense that I don't think I've ever seen it crash, and in the sense that I don't think I've ever seen it noticeably change. Mixed bag, YMMV.
I read headlines but that’s it. I don’t watch media commentary on issues. I listen to a lot of podcasts but I don’t actually like listening to activist types and just prefer conversations for the average Joe/Jane/JXe with comedy woven in vs heated passionate argumentation like the world will end if we don’t do x,y,z.
I have my iPad Pro+Magic Keyboard with me 24/7. I wish I could code on it but that's it. For everything else it's perfect.
> This is complete beermat maths, so don't go citing it, but based on these figures and a 30 day month Roblox would have 1.734 billion users and all those other games combined would be about 400 million.

Makes it the title of his article.

This guy journalism’s.
I just heard an interview on ABC Radio with The Guardian journalist Anne Davies about safety issues during the construction of the Sydney Metro rail system here in Australia. Amongst other things a 30 tonne train carriage transporting equipment travelled 1.5km uncontrolled in a half built tunnel and an escalator being installed at an underground station fell 4 floors. Unfortunately accidents happen in all industries despite combined effort of regulators, companies and employees. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/18/out-o...
> Stability AI has a cluster of more than 4,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs running in AWS, which it uses to train AI systems, including Stable Diffusion. It’s quite costly to maintain — Business Insider reports that Stability AI’s operations and cloud expenditures exceeded $50 million.

Directly from the article.
"Ukraine has been winning the war with Russia for about 9 months now, according to the media."

What media?

In the beginning most reporting was that it would be over in a week. Then Russia had that little blunder with their first offensive. Then again most reporting was that the russian artillery steamroller would squash the Ukrainians. Now most media favor the Ukrainians due to their recent successes. Also goals and frames of reference changed. In the beginning winning for Ukraine was not letting Russia roflstomping them. Now it is throwing all russian military out of their country.
They don't wear helmets because they aren't zooming around like Lance Armstrong. The risk of accidents with head injuries a helmet would help against is limited. Same thing why you don't wear a helmet when you go by car although an occupants risk of head injuries in a typical accident is comparable.
It's possible to both trust OSHA's findings and disagree with the article's assertion that the space industry in general is unsafe.
Not that I agree with the argument, but this is relevant:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...
Heh yeah, when I read the headline my first reaction was "that would not be special in the Netherlands", before realising that, of course, Assen is a Dutch city.

Edit: see also this fun video comparison of school drop-off somewhere in the US and somewhere in the Netherlands: https://www.reddit.com/r/kutautos/comments/uau4rw/als_alle_s...
No IRC?!

At my last production plant, we used internal IRC server for the factory floor (export controlled) to cut/paste between test stations, cant use most cloud chat for export controlled data.

Also another internal IRC for the NOC and systems admins, mostly since its been up for a decade+.

But mostly teams.
You have it backward: I found the fic through other means entirely and eventually dropped it. When I encountered it again on AO3 (it was a cross-post), I said "Oh, look at those horrible tags." It was notable in the fact that I said "I need to keep this one handy the next time I end up having yet another conversation with someone about how much tagging sucks on AO3." Because this isn't the first time someone has brought it up to me.

They just crap up the results if I am searching for "regeneration" or "limbs." If something is used more than one way, yes, it does affect my personal use because it means "more stuff I have to filter through." When you search, what you do not want is extraneous results. That's the whole point of searching! And I guess my library experience is showing, but AO3 just reeks of amateur hour shenanigans. I predict that at some point there will be a movement to clean up that kind of junk.
I've shared my perspective in response to the other comment.
I sure hope we don't have mass-reproducing space mosquitos in our future.
As mentioned in that interview, Brave's biggest reason for switching away from Gecko was that they couldn't support Netflix DRM. Gecko-based browsers can support it today because Widevine works (see Librewolf).
I think the answer is more boring than most people think.

- most of us have never had exposure to it first-hand

- most of us don't even know anyone that works in defense, so nothing second-hand either

- most of us had zero exposure to it anytime in our education

- seemingly very few technologists in the space are prolific bloggers or podcasters so glimpses into that world is not something we'd normally stumble across.

So it's like a reverse Bike Shed dynamic. It's hard to have rigorous conversation or opinions on something we have so little insights to.

"Why is Hacker News not interested in Ethiopian mating ceremonies?" might be a good comparison.
Enjoy repeating the step we went through back in the 1980s, where you discover that an unmoderated platform fills up crap: spam, illegal pornography, and bits of ranting squeezed in between them.
Texas woman gored by bison lives to share video on TikTok
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Important caveats to your point:

1. Most US cities predate the automobile, and nearly every city freeway involved bulldozing existing homes and neighborhoods.

2. Places like the Netherlands also went car-heavy as they rebuilt after the world wars. Instead, more recent policies have made redevelopment to bicycle and people friendly streets possible.

3. A nice boulevard with space for trams, bicyclists, pedestrians, and cars is not narrow.

My overall point is that specific development policies cause the biggest differences between North America and, say, Europe. Not the specific geography and existing layout of the cities. (Though it certainly makes a difference, there are plenty of old European cities that aren’t nearly as people-friendly as Amsterdam because of their car-friendly policies)
Sure, we sometimes do.

In my my experience it is a trade off. I find most full time remote employees not to be very productive. I would rather pay more to hire local in office.

In some instances it is so bad that I would rather pay more to hire a local novice and train to the role.
Huge amounts of our current tech industry have yet to prove they can even make a profit. I'm pretty sure than in a few more months we'll find out they can't.

I work for a fairly large, fairly successful company and I'm having to explain to my team how to quantify the business value of a product, like showing that the value provided to customer in terms of dollars is greater than the cost of the service we provide. It's an uphill battle, because we've lived in a bubble so long people don't even remember this basic fundamental of business.

The tech industry exploded because of cheap money, but by and large has completely failed to extract actual value from the technology.

Even when I list out the "tech" products I do use frequently (Uber, Door Dash and the like) I realize that the products they offer are basically investor charity since they cannot be sustained indefinitely at the price point they're offered (and they don't make sense if they charge more).

Of the actual technology I use, the vast majority has barely changed in a decade. The most impressive thing I've purchased in years is finally getting an RTX 3070 and that is just "neat!". Anyone who remembers the release of the original iPhone will instantly recognize that despite the trillions spend in the tech industry, nothing quite as game changing as that has come out since. Google search was also better back then.
This is a narrative that has been pushed by the pro-meat lobby. Check. The relationship between the “center for consumer freedom” org and Richard Berman. Who is this man?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berman_(lawyer)

https://www.desmog.com/2014/10/31/richard-berman-tobacco-to-...
Probably not earth-shattering for most readers here, but if you're building embedded systems that touch humans or nuclear power plants, this might be in your wheel-house. It's also interesting 'cause its //another// RISC-V from Andes. I wasn't really paying attention to their product line and suddenly they have a bunch of cores. Doesn't look like they'll have parity w/ ARM for at least a few years, but dang, they are definitely growing their catalog.
I'm not crazy about the way the author is using "speed" here. The word is not only doing a lot of heavy-lifting, it is ambiguous because rockets can't be slow. "Rushing" or "hurrying" would be less ambiguous yet not as peremptory. I think using "haste" would be unambiguous yet still transmit some imperativeness.
They are all very niche, I have the domains and in some cases popular people to make them attract users, but I'd like to be the first to fill those niches, sorry.
Which is why old timers eventually learn to just deliver with boring technology.
Last time congress happened, I didn't speak German at all. I just meant the translation; that I've only ever heard it called flu (from what I remember). Things being lost in translation isn't new though, so of course I trust that the German word can mean that :)
This is exactly where those lofty Mission + Values statements come into play and why they're important when they're both written and lived well (as opposed to just some bland generic screed made from corporate buzzword bingo terms that everyone ignores).

The Mission is what you're trying to achieve (the profit motive, in some form), and the Values are the guardrails. They say explicitly what things you won't sacrifice (like human rights and lives) in service of the mission.

Having this stuff laid out clearly from the top down helps a lot with getting efforts to create and enforce those lower level processes taken seriously.
No - but it's closer than ever, yet still probably years away.
The next paragraph they state:

We looked at and compared several languages - Go, Java, C++, and Rust. We knew that C++ was harder to scale and maintain high quality as you build a dev team; that Java doesn’t provide the flexibility and systems programming language we needed; and that Go is also a garbage collected language. This left us with Rust. With Rust, the pros around performance, memory management, and ease of use outweighed the cons of it not yet being a very established language.

In other words, they wanted to unify the programming languages and evaluated several. Rust won out of those for performance reasons.

The article is a short recap of a 40 minute video. The video has more context and explains the intentions much better than the web page.

They show a graph of performance over time as the rewrite progressed. There were some small optimisations and problems, a few big regressions, and then a huge improvement that was maintained. Looks like the rewrite process made the database perform significantly better. There's nothing on how much this was caused by the language switch itself, but that's functionally impossible: nobody is rewriting their application twice to see what rewrite is better.
Is the non-laminated display really an issue when 90+ % of users are going to slap a screen protector on this Day 1.

I am disappointed in the lack of 2nd gen pencil support though.
Moon is below escape velocity, so it's not leaving. In fact when 1 day = 1 lunar month the movement away will stop, and reverse. It will continue to get closer to earth until it hits the Roche limit and becomes a ring.
Very relatable to what happened in my previous job. Thing is... you try and try to do your best to grow so that you fit in. Every evening thinking, man it was hard, what can i change, how can i be more efficient, how can i pick up that skill faster, learn faster such that they will be content. Until you finally realize, this job/boss is not for me. Search/find another one. MUCH happier.
JSON APIs are usable beyond the browser and using htmx feels like using Django+jQuery 14 years ago. I'd rather not go back to that.
That's an outstanding explanation!
I have to wonder though, how many of those Republicans count Fox News as "the media"? Somehow despite being the biggest media of all they have somehow managed to define the media as everyone else.
I and I suspect many like me realise that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Do I use security-by-obscurity? Of course! I know that my server is going to get hammered with attempts to steal info, and I can see /path/to/webroot/.git/config getting requested several times an hour, so I don't put important stuff in places where it might be accessed. Even giving it a silly name won't help, it has to be simply not something that's there at all. That kind of security-by-obscurity is asking for trouble.

Sure as hell though, if I move ssh off of port 22 then the number of folk trying to guess passwords drops to *zero*, instantly.
Internally they definitely should.
Thats kind of a poor argument that just self fulfils itself. If we mask things like the filesystem and the actual shell, then of course no one will really need to use it. If we unmask these things, maybe paradigms will shift and they will themselves use these things.

IMO so few people know how to code because we have been abstracting it for years, not because its tough to do or anything like that. Plenty of things people do are just as challenging as coding. You just need exposure to coding is all, its easy to write bash or python. Anyone could do it in a week. Hard to get that exposure when a company decides it won't be possible for you, and its a slap in the face considering these features are there in the device but you have to jailbreak the damn thing and violate your warranty to get at them.
Sounds a lot like how the assassination of the heir appearant of the Austro-Hungarian Empire led to the UK declaring war on Germany for marching through Belgium.

No one wanted the war, many knew it would be horrible, and yet it led to the most nightmarish collective human experience in human history.
Awair dropping support for Glow and Awair v1 devices
Awair[1] sent this email out today, announcing a formal end-of-life for their Glow, Glow C, and Awair v1 air quality devices. The app had been on something less than life-support for years, but it's even more frustrating that they won't even work come November.

I used to recommend this company and have a number of their devices, one of which I only bought a few years ago.

Full email:

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Dear Users,

Thank you for your long-term support of Awair devices! We wanted to update you with information on the future of our device support.

Awair has made it possible for you to know what’s in your air since 2013. Some of our oldest devices (Glow/Glow-C/Awair V1) are no longer able to update firmware, and so we will be sunsetting these oldest devices starting on November 30, 2022. What is sunsetting? In short, your device will lose app support and the ability to connect to Awair's Cloud services. It will still continue to measure air quality, provided it is onboarded before this date and is not factory reset. The air data will only be accessible via the device's front screen (if it has one). Additionally, the Hobbyist API will no longer be serving any requests.

In appreciation for your support over the years, we’re working on a new upgrade program that allows our legacy device users to purchase a brand new Awair Element at a discounted price to keep you up to date with your environment. The Element contains upgraded sensors and, unlike the Glow devices, includes PM2.5 and CO2. If this is something you’d be interested in, please let us know at the link below and we’ll send you information once this program is finalized:

Legacy Device Upgrade Program Interest

Awair is experiencing healthy growth that puts an additional workload and cost on our platform. In order to scale our core functionality cost-effectively, we are prioritizing our resources into scaling our core services that are supporting the functionality. Regrettably, we are currently unable to put our resources into fixing the following features of the Awair Home App, so we will be temporarily removing them until a new version of the app is available for release:

Logging into app using Google Sign-In
Push notifications system
Integrations with IFTTT, Google Home, Ecobee, Sensi, and SmartThings
Amazon Alexa in-app controls (can still be controlled through Alexa device itself)

If you have any questions on the future support of your device or have any trouble accessing the Upgrade Program Interest form, please reach us at https://go.getawair.com/e/968753/2022-10-18/337cd/92328830?h=7zeUSUku18SP6vKHTwjE6u4uubkTPuVFczVZlNvjZ-Q so we can work with you from there!

Breathe easy knowing that you’re tracking the invisible.

The AWAIR team
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[1] https://getawair.com
This feels like stereotyping people associated with an idea. There are people trying to build something useful in crypto, and other people just trying to get rich, and maybe some doing both. You can have two things happening at once, and can also choose what part of it you pay attention to.
Yes, but it will take a long time. Then very slowly the moon will slow down, decrease it's orbit, until it hits the Roche limit and becomes a ring.
Affinity products are like if Adobe never got huge and bloated and instead just kept working on keeping Photoshop/Illustrator/etc modern and usable
They bike very slowly tho. Almost painfully slowly to me. The low speed keeps them safe, even in accidents.