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That one is a tough calculation imo. My worthless opinion is that Ukraine and the west should’ve negotiated right at the beginning by guaranteeing no NATO membership. Even if Ukraine wins in the end, the country has become a smoldering pile of rubble.

There was even such a deal on the table in the early stages that the west pretty much killed…

At this point though idk what diplomatic solution exists. Deescalation should be everyone’s #1 goal atm.
"Free healthcare" lmao.

Who do you think pays for it? TAXPAYERS! It's not free!

And usually in those kind of "free healthcare" systems the private clinics get looked down upon or are even restricted/blocked via laws in order to "preserve the 'free' healthcare system".

Thus the people have even less choice. There are many countries with this kind of a "free healthcare" system.

I'm living in one of them.

Want to go to a specialist? Sorry bro, that's gonna be 6 months of waiting time...

So anyone who is not piss poor will go into a private clinic.
I'm not even going to say which is worse, they both suck equally in my view. The problem with articles like this, as they (purposefully, perhaps) make no mention of such employer tactics. So, I guarantee most readers are saying or thinking "greedy union workers."
I love when French words are borrowed and repronounced so you end up with Grand Prix being "Grand Pricks" instead of "Gran pree".
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I still find it hard to grasp that the concept of "sick days" even exists in the US. Especially since you get so few vacation days in the US as well.

There is no equivalent here in Germany, if you're sick you're sick and you do get paid (long-term illnesses are handled differently, but that's almost an entirely separate topic). This is really a subject that should be regulated from the top, and not something everyone has to fight for over and over again.
I think so. I wonder if they essentially go crazy being cooped up. Dogs and cats are generally accustomed to it, but even they can become extremely depressed.

Come to think of it, I get depressed from being indoors too much.
This is the same industry that pooh-poohed 2-person crew minimums. There is nothing that would convince them to look out for their workers, or actually be above board on safety considerations.

https://www.railwayage.com/news/fra-issues-crew-size-nprm-aa...
Just pop in the Encarta CD and search
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. IMO society in the developed regions of the world would collapse without automation.
>A great example of this phenomenon is the white response to

In picking an example, you're forced to be reductive. Rather than considering the content of the character, all the comments are focused on the color of its skin.

We could be having a productive conversation about how working class run societies and government (The basic core of the US experiment in self rule) were divided and conquered by the Owner class.

But instead, we'd rather pick apart the example. This is far, far too common here on HN. It leads to a reduction of the value of HN as a whole.

PS: What's the HN shorthand to name syzarian's comment that I'm replying to?
They seem to be way less opposed for government to bail out corporations from same tax money tho.

And I definitely knew many people that oppose to tax break or something for someone that's not in their group all while they enjoy some other tax break without problem and excuse that their one is fine.
> Nintendo is generally a lot more likely to delay games - they've done pretty major delays for BoTW 2, they restarted development on a metroid title, and so on.

That is something that keeps Nintendo games as largely day one purchases for me. I don't hesitate to preorder their next game because I (generally) know it will be quality. Even as bad as the Wii U fumbled, the games themselves were some of the best Nintendo games.

Yeah I can see on the Pokemon side that being complicated. But it does leave a mark on Nintendo's reputation. Especially for anyone not familiar with how it actually is setup and just thinks Pokemon == Nintendo (more or less).

I just feel like Nintendo needs to find a way to do something. Somehow, they have a majority stake in the pokemon company and I thought gamefreak.
It is time for the government to step in and do more than force a contract agreement. They need to threaten the Railroad companies and side with America workers. Some suggestions:

- Take back the railroads that the public built and maintained. Then charge commercial rail for the use of them. This is a huge issue since it currently is a major limitation of passenger rail in the US, and once again, having these be public could help spur the necessary improvements for passenger rail.

- Breaking up the railroad monopolies. We've broken up companies before, so there is precedent to do it again.

- Nationalize the railroad companies. This is highly unlikely it will ever happen in the US, but it should be discussed. It could become something similar to the post office.
Perhaps this works correctly with some combination of Android devices, but it has not ever worked on the devices I've owned.
Nand gates are not the most efficient way to build all functions.

It's just that when you are merely drawing a schematic and treating all gate types as equivalent atomic particles, where a NAND is just a symbol like OR, and ignoring what they're actually made of, NAND is captivating because you can build anything else out of nand.

But the only reason you can build anything else out of nand in the first place is because a single nand gate does a lot, and is made of a lot of transistors and diodes, and you essentially waste some to get other functions.

For a basic example, if you need to simply invert a signal, you can just feed it to both inputs of a nand, and the output will be the opposite of the input.

But that is wasting 90% of the nand. NAND is just AND with an inverter added to the output. Feeding the same signal to both inputs of an AND is a no-op. So you just used a lot of transistors and diodes to do nothing at all, just to use the inverter on the output.

(edit to add real numbers: 4 transistors for the AND part, and 2 more transistors for the inverter, and really a single CMOS transistor is really two simpler transistors, so that's 12 classic transistors to make a single nand gate, and it also needs it's own power and ground connections to half of the transistors besides just the inputs and output, for each single nand gate.)

Building on that, OR is actually just AND with inverters on all inputs and outputs. NAND is half of that already, and above we know how to get an inverter by itself. So you can make an OR out of 3 nands, one to be the AND and inverter on output, and two more nands just to act as inverters for the inputs. So, that is a hugely wasteful way to get an OR.

NOR -> add another inverter on the output of OR, that's 4 NAND to make a NOR. And so on.

It is still actually useful for real manufacturing when you're talking about discrete parts with only a few gates. It's more efficient to have one part number than three different part numbers if you're only talking about a few, and you can eliminate items from the bom. 2 of the same nand part are cheaper than one nand and one or, just like it's worthwhile to use all the same size resistors, even if it means using more of them.

But there is no such advantage from uniformity for designing a larger ic like a cpu. In that case it would just be a huge waste of junctions (diodes and transistors).
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This reminds me of the Interocitor, which was featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and had me rolling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQlF-dpU5lw
> the JVM checks at runtime for overflows

It doesn't. Overflows wrap around in Java.

> dangling pointers

Only to managed memory. You may still allocate something through Unsafe and you're on your own, just as in Rust. And some popular Java libraries do use Unsafe / FFI under the hood.
Then legalize drugs, voila.
Really? No one else is going to mention the P-filled aliterative title?
I wonder what the breakdown is between people who, if all their needs were satisfied at some agreed-upon level, would choose to engage in activities that produce something or who wouldn't.

And of the ones who wouldn't, what would their reasons be? For some, I can imagine a great taste for art and travel and appreciation, which isn't "productive" per se, but is self-motivational. For others, perhaps trauma of various kinds makes the prospect of producing anything and subjecting it to scrutiny overwhelming.

I'm sure there are some people who truly are just plain lazy, but I think if people truly don't want to do anything, there's usually a reason, and if that reason were overcome, most people, just because they're humans, would want to do something.
> However, due to the fast, atomic operations involved at many places, HAProxy was previously limited to 64 threads, and therefore 64 CPU cores, on 64-bit machines. This limit is now raised to 4096 threads by the introduction of thread groups.

This is such a welcome change! I've been in more than one situation where I rediscovered this limitations when trying to scale things while trying to remain monolith (due to costs and performance reasons) but noticing HAProxy not being able to utilize the newly upgraded machine. This will make a huge difference!
As I understand, the problem here is that any railroad that behaves reasonably here, will be punished by the markets, and the management that made the decision will likely be replaced.

The solution, as others have pointed out, is that this should be a regulatory requirement rather than negotiated business-by-business.

There are not really any "losers" in such a fix: The workers get a more appealing and reasonable benefit package and life. Managers keep highly paid managing jobs. The businesses keep making large profits, perhaps a tiny sliver less. The stock remains very valuable, whatever variance this causes would likely not even be noticed among the daily swings of the market. Consumers never even notice their new widgets cost pennies more because of a tiny change in freight rates, etc.

Congress did not see what the winning play was, and instead perpetuated the bad situation.
I would say that those of us in the US who are more or less "coastal elite" types are probably just kind of sophomoric about how things work in Europe. I think a lot of us have a simplified and rosy picture of how European systems work, but if we were pressed on the details, would have to concede our ignorance lol
as a big fan of self-hosting all the things, without CDNs (except vids or hi res galleries), i've been a regular user of google-webfonts-helper:

https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts
> The author is British?

What ho, old bean. Yes, I am.
Ok so, this started as a flip response, but... how hard would it be to implement a small air ionizer to embed in a raspberry pi project, whose only purpose is to emit a puff of ionized air on startup?

The answer, I suppose, would lie in, what caused the air to be ionized in the old unit? Is Hackaday on here? Ben Heck? We need this device.
Ticketmaster's tech problem isn't a tech problem
I enjoy passing the time on airplanes with my phone held up near the window to get a GPS signal, and then look at the names of towns and landscape features far below as I pass them by. It is quite surprising how anything you can see tends to be 10-20 miles off to the side of the plane, until you start paying attention to the quantity of 1 mile cropland squares. Then you truly appreciate how high you are!

This takes 100-300MB per state--I use OsmAnd via F-Droid of course.
>Household debt in the U.S. is at 20 year highs.

Isn't the largest share of household debt a home mortgage? Implying that talking about the rail strike is a distraction from the root cause. There are still real consequences to Americans from the rail strike, but (very much like the student debt crisis) it seems like tap dancing around the root cause doesn't really fix the problem.
Maybe (In the US) we need society to fail a little bit. "Christmas to be canceled," as the President likes to say when justifying why the railworkers will have to accept not having sick days.
It has to do with how nontechnical people perceived things pre-smartphone.

To technical folks, a computer is a device with a CPU that can process data and make decisions based on that data. So smartphones are computers.

To nontechnical folks before the late 2000s, a computer was a device that ran Windows or macOS with a screen and keyboard, and you use it to do spreadsheets, word processing, and such. A phone was a device that connected you to your social world via voice and later text communications. So when smartphones emerged, to nontechnical folks they looked and behaved more like phones -- social connectors -- than like computers, or information crunchers. So they got called phones.

It's like how the ancient Hebrews called whales and dolphins fish, despite those animals being classified as mammals under modern taxonomy. The Hebrews were going by how the animals looked and behaved and how people related to them, rather than genetic inheritance
We see the effects of bad tooling and game engines all the time. Just look at the disastrous development histories of games like Destiny, FF13, FF15, any number of Battlefield games, or Mass Effect Andromeda.

edit: At this point, I think it's clear that it's not just their tooling and engine though. I mean, clearly these are big issues, but I'd say it largely stems from a lack of technical expertise and/or investment in R&D and engine/tool development.
TRUSTCOR employee NOT having authorization to sign root certificate did it and got the auditor in trouble. I am trying to get the CFO to explain to him YOU cannot let his secretary issue certificates with no EXPERIENCE.
The Math Behind Wordle Guesses
I have hired them and taught a class. Rule of thumb if you can find they were top 1 to 3 in the class they’re probably a good if not great junior dev candidate.

My golden 2 pieces of advice to bootcamp grads:

Don’t use the resume template the bootcamp gives you. If 2/3 of your resume is “software projects” you’re probably getting screened out at this point even if you’re actually good, it’s a tell.

Second, since you’ll still need to include one or two, spend time polishing the heck out of them and make sure they are online and working! Best if they’re not a microblog, recipe/beer picker, or pokedex. Do the same polishing for your personal site. If it looks like crap you’re probably getting screened out on this, too.
They are, actually. The PUCT has historically done a great job.

But, legislation (outside PUCT) has allowed the utility (generators and transmission/distribution asset owners) to cut the system to the bone and defer maintenance and expansion despite a new city's worth of people (~100k) relocating each month to Texas.
Sword and Shield didn't use unity.

People have peaked into the nsp file structure, and have confirmed Brilliant Diamond/Pearl did but Sword/Shield was a modified version of the 3d pokemon engine.
Once the ‘programming bit’ is flipped in someone’s brain, I think metasyntactic variables like foo and bar become very instinctive and easy to reason about. You have activated the part of your brain that visualizes things as abstractions with placeholders.

The problem is when foo and bar are used in material aimed at beginning programmers who are still developing that instinct and who haven’t yet got that bit set.
I took a cross-country round trip on Amtrak once, because I had the time and I wanted to try it out. The entire time I was on the train felt like a time warp back to the 50s/60s. Even the food in the dining car was like something out of a Betty Crocker cookbook.

Now this wasn't terrible, mind you, because I did get to disconnect and enjoy some quiet time in my private room. But it was obvious the whole thing was still run like it had been for decades.
In the very unlikely event that the US (or any country in a similar situation) were to nationalize the railroads, what would happen to the labor unions and workers' ability to collectively bargain? If the railway were nationalized and the government said "PSR is here to stay, no sick days, it is illegal to strike" or something like that, would this be any different than exactly what is happening now?

Personally, I think nationalization is good for many reasons, but just wondering how government workers collectively bargain, if at all. How does this work with USPS for example?
A demonstration of my exact point couldn't be made clearer than your comment. Thank you.
But if you dropped them, you'd need to put them back in order, and decks are very amenable to splitting and dealing.
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It's a legacy term that made the leap each new generation. Apple's decision to name their device the iPhone helped solidify it.
It's a lot faster and cheaper to add more telephone circuits than to build more train tracks and stations. Our infrastructure in many places was just never designed for so many people.
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That’s only because we have limited the scope and definition of “work” to just mean doing a job or task to earn money doing tasks for someone else’s interests. Most people probably hate the concept of a job, but I think human beings have an innate desire to be useful to their community (I.e. the fundamental definition of “work”)
> There's some truth to this, but what's the alternative?

I propose we try something similar to what we did when there was an undesirably low level of literacy in society: mass education. But in this case, the subject would be philosophy.

> Do we design communication systems with the assumption that all people are incapable of telling fact from fiction just to make it easier for those who can't?

I would say yes, but I would drop the "just to make it easier for those who can't" and replace it with something like "because an undesirably low level of people in society have substantial skill in logic, epistemology, rhetoric, etc, and it is at least plausible that this state of affairs could have negative consequences, including with regard to 'existential' problems like climate change or the preservation of 'democracy'[1]".

A big problem is that people tend to have pretty strong beliefs about their capabilities in any given domain, and the source of this confidence is very often substantially based on intuitive self-assessment, the output of which is a function of the very skills in question.

> I think it's far better to give people the tools to work out what is true/false and to debate difficult topics (even those without a clear answer) in a transparent manner.

100% agree. Though, we already have tools that could support that activity (HN is one such example), but they currently have no means of insisting that people do it (unlike in a classroom where unruly/etc students who are downgrading the learning of others can be and are asked to leave, in an adequately skillful way (sufficient to accomplish the goal)).

> I'd agree that both governments and corporations would be thrilled at the idea of a population that has no choice but to accept whatever they are told, but I think that as a people we're better served when we have the option to develop the skills to think critically and online platforms can play an important role in that.

Oh, humanity certainly has this option, it is not prevented by the laws of physics anyways. But having an option available does not guarantee that it will physically manifest - someone has to actually make it happen. Ironically, in the past I've run some of these ideas by moderators here and they....didn't have a lot of (even abstract) interest in the idea....which to me is a sign of...something.

[1] With luck, perhaps some day some non-trivial/adequate amount of humans on the planet would rise to a level of ability that they would be able to competently and accurately discuss the degree to which our "democracy" is actually democratic, a highly contentious and rather important topic that is absolutely butchered in any conversation I've encountered.

Free speech is another excellent example of a topic where most people (including genuinely smart people) simply lack the training required to discuss competently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823725
Exactly. I'm not going to claim there's an easy solution to any of this. The line between "valid political opinion" and "hurting someone" can be very thin indeed. Sometimes they overlap, and then what?

All I'm saying is: we should be honest about these trade-offs, and not pretend there's such a thing as "absolute free speech". And I also think we'd better err on the side of allowing too much speech than on the side of too little. But at the same time, I also think events of the past couple of years warrant a reevaluation of those tradeoffs and there we draw those lines. And I don't think Twitter, Musk, or any other social media should be making those decisions for us, but they probably should be a voice in that discussion.
I miss my old DSLR but yeah, it's too much to carry around. I wonder if there's a market for some kind of "clip-on" DSLR that sits on top of your phone, uses the touchscreen etc for interface, Wi-Fi direct for communication (perhaps?)

I have to assume there's a good reason to not have done this.
And what about the rest of the criticisms of your methodology?
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It's not there yet, but progress is being made fast on that front
I've really liked Scarlet! But I don't play for longer than 1-2 hours at a time and at some blog's suggestion I close the game app every time. I'm not a hard-core gamer or graphics person though.
> As a nitrox certified diver I can offer that most common nitrox mixes do not exceed 34%

You're right. I have never practically seen a Nitrox mixture with 40% oxygen. 28% would be far more typical. Mostly I dived with mixtures around 32%.

For wild and wonderful reasons, however, my SSI Nitrox certification allows mixtures of up to 40%. This would allow a maximum operating depth of 25 meters (30 meters if you stretch the safety margin), which is not very much when you go - for example - wreck diving at a lot of places.
The latter, and i think it necessary. I'll gladly hijack more threads to point it out until enough people are aware of this annoyingly subversive detail.
> The original rationale for Bitcoin was that it would do away with the need for trust — you wouldn’t have to worry about banks making off with your money, or governments inflating away its value. In reality, however, banks rarely steal their customers’ assets, while crypto institutions more easily succumb to the temptation, and extreme inflation that destroys money’s value generally happens only amid political chaos.

1. Bitcoin does away with the need for trust.

2. Some institutions that had bitcoins entrusted to them breached that trust.

This paragraph tries very hard to create the impression that #2 refutes #1, without making it quite explicit.

"Extreme inflation that destroys money’s value generally happens only amid political chaos" — is this some kind of straussian case for bitcoin? In other columns, Krugman writes about the "crazy" GOP, extremists and election deniers — seems like a recipe for political chaos.
We could have a "use slang"; directive sort of like JS strict mode. When you declare a variable in this mode, it must be suffixed with "innit" like so;

>$my_variable = 5 innit;
By that same logic, it's not the shareholders responsibility to sacrifice their own interests for the interests of larger society. Taking that approach is a prisoners dilemma.
just fyi, you can still write all the Java/Kotlin you want to stay relevant.

this post have nothing to do with writing apps for android. They are talking about developing the android system itself. They are writing new system code in Rust instead of C++. Userspace code is still enoraged to be written in Kotlin.
The footnote for #1 is broken.