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> I'm dumbfounded that anyone knowingly moving there would be dumbfounded that things move at a much slower pace.

That's a pretty rude response and also invalid. He's not dumbfounded at the slower pace of life. He's dumbfounded that a nation of 300k could have a week long electricity outage and not have a single resident capable of fixing the issue or a backup plan ready to activate. It suggests exceptionally poor planning -- even for an island nation in the Pacific.
What characters exactly? "!"?

You literally tell it to break, a null-safe language will not actually prevent you from shooting your foot, it'll just make sure you do so knowingly. "foo!" is essentially a shortcut for

guard foo else {
fatalError()
}
> If SBF did donate the large amounts of money he claims he did as "dark money", surely he could prove this.

Yes, I'm sure someone who carefully managed their massive fraud/theft empire to conceal movement of funds, to the point of making sure the corporations involved didn't keep records of who their employees were, what their job duties were, what bank accounts they controlled, etc., would have no reason to avoid providing supporting documentation of political donations that were deliberately made in a way which doesn’t require reporting, because there is no way such documentation would also reveal previously concealed parts of the mechanisms of the crimes he has committed.
Please don't make new accounts to reply to a single comment.
also adding my voice to say I did a very similar thing. 2 years WFH (as a young single male) was a miserable experience for me. I switched to an office job and I’m much happier.
Well, then it was underdimensioned.
I have an Inlet (their smallest) and it really does takes about 8-10 min to set up. I often race my partner to see if I can get it set up before her inflatable paddleboard completely inflates.

I haven't seen a Folbot before, but it looks like some sort of outer layer you stretch over a frame, almost like a tent? The Orus are nothing like that, they're more like origami that you fold together, tightened by a couple of pull straps. And they get easier and easier to assemble over time as you continue to wear in the fold creases. I can (and do) easily set mine up by myself with zero cursing.
Here's a document showing Italy had similar restrictions: https://italygreenpass.com/super-green-pass-requirements-cha...

You are right in saying Germans love to follow rules. The restrictions in Italy were also not as hard as in Germany. I gave the example of Germany since that's where I lived during the pandemic, but Poland for example I heard was similar to Germany, and much of Eastern Europe was _worse_ (since for them it was properly life or death -- all the doctors left, and the medical infrastructure is in shambles).

edit: actually, those restrictions did get tightened, like in Germany: https://italygreenpass.com/new-decree-on-super-green-pass-re...

Italy is not associated with strictness or rules, obviously.

edit2: Germany also counts natural infections as 3G+/Superpass. I didn't get naturally infected for a _long_ time.
130,000+ people were killed in the breakup of Yugoslavia, I believe those bombings were an attempt to put a stop to that killing and not commercial interests, "blood for oil", or some attempt to kneecap the Russian Federation the way many Russians seem to believe.

I'd find it hard to believe people in South Vietnam were broadly supportive of the US involvement there but there were certainly individuals who either benefited commercially from that presence or who hated the North worse. (They were not nice folks, if they couldn't fool the US into assassinating the village elders they would do it themselves.)

I think people in Kuwait were glad to see the Iraqis evicted in 1991.

(There was a great photo of General Petraeus being served a Naan by a boy at a street food stand in Afghanistan who had a very ambiguous look on his face like he wasn't sure it was safe being caught in that photo...)

I think some Ukrainians wouldn't have minded being part of the Russian Federation if it had happened peacefully or relatively bloodlessly like the 2014 invasion of Crimea. If it involves bombing residential apartment buildings, leveling cities with artillery, or using cruise missiles to wipe out the electric grid I think there is little support for Russia.
why would you check excess numbers instead of just checking n^2 < end

for (int i=0; i<sqrt(n); i++) == for (int i=0; i*i < n; i++)

^2 is monotonic
> You can set the FP rate arbitrarily low, but they will eventually happen. "Basically nil" is not the same as "actually nil".

I know “basically nil” is not the same as “actually nil”, that’s why I said “basically nil” and not just “nil”. It is “nil for all practical purposes”. This is a good enough standard for software the whole world uses all day every day to depend upon – otherwise hashes would be pretty useless.

“Eventually” needs clarification here. Of course, if you spend from now until the heat death of the universe iterating through the search space you could get there. But that doesn’t mean that in practical use, such a collision is guaranteed as you claim. This system could have run its entire lifetime without a collision. You are mistaking “if you cover the entire search space” for what happens in the real world.

Do you understand that there is not one, but two hashes, and that they both need to collide simultaneously for each image? And do you understand that this has to happen not just a single time, but for several images on your system? That’s why I specifically said “basically nil when you use them in the way Apple was proposing” and described how it worked.

Everybody with even a basic grasp of what hashes are understand that collisions are certain when considering the entire search space. But that doesn’t correspond with what happens in practical terms, which is why hashing is actually useful in general, and I think people are getting too fixated on “hashes can have collisions” to notice the other properties of the system.

Apple can tune the false positive rate by varying the number of matches necessary to flag an account. They say they chose a threshold that would result in a false positive rate of one in a trillion. Are you saying they got their maths wrong or were lying, and that’s actually impossible? Because there’s only eight billion people on the planet and most of them don’t have Apple accounts, so if one in a trillion is accurate, then it seems entirely possible for this system to have run indefinitely without a single false positive.

Remember – I said “basically nil when you use them in the way Apple was proposing (two separate hashes; several matches required)”, and not that a single hash function wouldn’t ever produce a single collision for a single image. Do you really disagree with that?
Perseverance (the rover) has its own "Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (GDRT)" that puffs compressed nitrogen to remove dust from samples before analyzing them, not sure if it can turn that back around on its own panels though...
That's actually a good point. I made assumptions about the meaning of the term `null` that can't be true in every language that uses it.

There are some exceptions to the behaviour you describe, like for instance with C# which for the longest time only allowed value types to be annotated as nullable, and only very recently extended this to reference types, and only as an opt-in feature, and the type checker only throws warnings, etc. That would be a case of a language which is not "null safe" but provides faculties for accomplishing that.
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I don't work for Google (no inside knowledge), but from what I can see, their use of Dart has if anything increased substantially.

Dart/Flutter are highly unlikely to be abandoned.
The crashing is almost certainly a "you" issue.

Different scaling ratios in X11 do not work - period. You can define different ratios per monitor, but application windows will take the scale of the monitor they open on and never change.

Most distros are now on Wayland by default for a reason.

Gnome support is excellent.

Sway support is excellent.

KDE support is... not as excellent, but still pretty good at this point.

Ubuntu 21.04+ is on Wayland by default.

Fedora 35+ is running Wayland by default (minus KDE, where they default to x11 still, but ship a plasma-wayland session).

OpenSUSE Leap 15+ is running Wayland by default.

Debian Buster+ is running Wayland by default.

Garuda is running Wayland by default.

Manjaro Sway & Gnome are Wayland by default (again KDE is not - but the plasma-wayland session is included).

Basically - Wayland is not "the future" anymore. It's the "Right fucking now" across basically every major distro. Even KDE based distros are discussing moving to plasma-wayland by default at this point, since it's improved a lot in the last two years.
In most warm countries all over the world, I would guess. Typical in some places of southern Europe because if you water mid day, most of it is wasted
SBF also stated that he just needed to raise $8B and everything would be okay. I'm not sure if he's delusional or lying, or some combination of the two, but I think we're past the point where we should believe much of what he says.
Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
Also - introducing Carl as a ‘friend’, if true, was unhelpful. Introduce Carl as the commercial guy needed to negotiate contracts and payment, because it would have signalled to the author that he should be engaging his agent at that point.
My belief is that the Feds already had the tools they needed to get the information they needed off the phone, but wanted to use the situation to create a new standard of practice as it was too juicy to pass up—never let a horrific event go to waste.

Luckily, it didn’t work in the way they hoped or at least to my knowledge, it didn’t.
Part of it is that manually flipping through pages gives me a better mental model of the location of the information and thus its relatedness. For (good) textbooks I still prefer a hard copy to a pdf and I have a huge e reader so it’s not even about the formatting of the display.
You can see this more clearly in beta.openai.com/playground, with Show Probabilities set to Full Spectrum. I've bracketed the parts it shows in red (uncertain):

111151111 * 184582 is 20[6035002082]. This is the result [when] one multiplies 1111151111 by 184582.

When asked for an explanation:

In some cases, when multiplying large numbers, the middle digits of the result may be incorrect. This is because the multiplication process involves carrying over digits and performing complex operations on large numbers. These calculations can be difficult even for humans, and they are beyond the capabilities of my underlying technology.
There is one thing that works in tech, and boss man doesn't want to hear it: pay a small team of good developers a good wage and treat them well.

The second a difficult bug arises in your low-code (or, now, GPT-generated) solution, good luck.
So many things are different. Two things are that Madoff, unlike SBF, admitted to fraud as his company blew up. Also SBF's relationship with the Bahamas is certainly a complicating matter that will only serve to help him as he delays the inevitable arrest.
I think it's a good signal for microservices architecture - at least at this scale. When things have broken, it's only been one piece of the platform for me, rather than the site breaking entirely.

Things I've seen broken over the past week:

* Notification counts - this is replaced by an empty blue dot

* Media - text-only tweets and replies work fine, no profile pictures though

* Replies - root tweets load fine and show an error if you try to open replies. If you try again enough times they would usually load.
The video suggests the car can drive itself without supervision, just those pesky laws are holding them back. We all know 5+ years later there is way more than "legal reasons" for the car not to drive itself without supervision.

They used intentionally misleading stunts like this video to get people to shell out $10k dollars thinking the technology is imminent
Everyone is talking about chatgpt and code generation this week. I think the code generated with chatgpt might be 90% accurate but how confident would you be to deploy that in production. We know empirically that last 10% can take decades to get it right. Using gpt to generate a blob of content is different from using gpt to generate code.
But they were all "friends"...

They had a general agreement and by taking the money he basically agreed to the arrangement.

I think they could have easily taken this guy to court and won. Technically, Microsoft can sue the crap out of him for giving away something they have bought and paid for.
The computer isn't making the decision, the Intel driver just includes a handmade list of known titles telling it which library to use for each.
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The problem is, creating the code isn't really the bottleneck. It's the stakeholder negotiation and conversations and understanding the business problem and updating the site when the business problem changes and updating the wording and changing the site because legal are unhappy with it then changing it back because the CEO overruled them and so on and so on.
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You can drink your virtual Starbucks while wearing your virtual Nike shoes and outfit in the Metaverse using the fiat currency you traded for web3 cryptocurrencies.

Who knew that paying to advertise for big corporations could be so much fun!
The morale of the story is humans are insecure fragile little creatures, half of us are blind and the other half are pessimists because we can imagine what the truth/future looks like. Lies only last the time you can use energy to hide them.

I made a comment about the virtual memory space of most desktop CPUs in use. I have no idea what you are talking about, did you mean to reply to me?

Anyhow the arch of binary evolution is over;

I don't think these words together mean anything.

to build a MMU that can adress 64-bits of data is probably impossible with electrons.

It's strange to call something impossible when it has already been done.
I think if you went there and asked around, you would find that their basic attitude on this question is extremely level-headed and sober.

Nobody there "likes war" or wants to be in this fight as a matter of patriotic belief or some other abstract principle. They're doing what they have to do so they don't end up getting killed or permanently enslaved, period. It's really extremely straightforward and simple for them.

So yes, they greatly appreciate whatever help they can get - and will continue to do so long after the dust settles.
Even the most cynical (possibly accurate) take is that politicians only care about getting elected. How would defending a confirmed bankrupt scammer help anyone get elected? He doesn’t have any money or power left
I also always feel this way, glad to hear someone else express the same. I'm tired of seeing ads that aren't relevant to me despite most advertisers knowing who I am and where I live.
Why? E.g. numbers that start with 1 are more commonly seen in random sets than other numbers. Things might repeat forever in a pattern
I've learned to just ignore them. Like a beggar asking for change, I just don't make eye contact and keep on with my business. It's awkward in a store but I'm okay with that and it doesn't take long for them to realize I don't need help. The normalization of always-worn-earbuds has been a great enabler of ignoring people in public.
But the absence of nulls is the feature, not the presence of Option.
Cool story. The most important aspect of it, in my view, is that the problem of 'deriving the resolving power of an optical system' is a very interesting one that inspired Heisenberg and Bohr! I speculate that the way Wien taught it was by rote, and not fully understood, even by Wien.
"Crypto mathematically prevents fraud"

Uh what? How could it do that. Fraud isn't even a technical layer issue. It's an identity issue and identity is pretty much entirely abstracted out of the crypto ecosystem. So, if you think about it that way, it's actually impossible for crypto to "mathematically prevent fraud". That you even said something so ridiculous without any reflection speaks to your intuitions in this space.
Google Chrome Adding Memory and Energy Saver Modes
This made me laugh hard, sry for my Spam post XD
Celine transitioned?
since when has writing the code been the hard part/blocker for this stuff lol
The Capterra post that zdnet refers to: https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-pms-can-use-low-code-...
Presumably, the alfalfa is used to feed animals, which account for a much bigger part of the economy.
This belief seems to be especially pervasive amongst tech industry: That because justice/law works at a slower speed than social media, it doesn't work.
I still wait for Elizabeth Holmes to go to jail. I disagree that SBF will go to jail. American justice has a problem in that some people are just too rich, too connected, and too "pretty" to jail.
I feel the same. My problem is that my teammates (future and past) will continue using null deliberately. Makes it a bit hard to eliminate.
It will be a very interesting few years. I assume there's a lot less regulations for "cryto exchanges" than for any of the traditional finance companies. Perhaps SBF will skirt jail because of less regulations? Perhaps the "establishment" and traditional finance companies will use this as an opportunity to dismantle the "crypto" industry (and jail SBF for a long time) through regulations to beat down competition.

I don't see why people thought SBF and FTX was any different from any other billion dollar finance company. The old men in suits were young men in suits at some point. BlackRock, with it's trillions of dollars under management, is only 34 years old. There wasn't any change or a new era that was going to be ushered in by FTX/SBF. Just more financial crime, how long would have it gone unpunished if it wasn't for their own incompetence?
for me personally, it already has.

i have a large set of scripts i use to automate the boring parts of my job. i originally wrote them in bash. past a certain amount of complexity, that became unworkable, so i ported it all to python. after about a year, i found python to be too limiting as well, based on my own coding style, so i am porting it all again, this time to dart.

the dart compiler makes it a cinch to create command-line apps that work on basically anything with a terminal.
Italy also counts natural infection as well according to the article you linked.

https://italygreenpass.com/how-do-i-get-a-green-pass-for-tra...

>Italian citizens and permanent residents can get a super green pass when they get vaccinated or recover from Covid. The green pass is the equivalent of the EU Digital COVID Certificate, issued to EU citizens and residents as digital proof that a person has either:

- been vaccinated against COVID-19

- recovered from COVID-19

- received a negative test result

I don't disagree that governments have imposed restrictive COVID measures, especially in Europe. I just am pointing out some limitations and caveats in your examples that makes them less damning than they seem as supposed "abuses of power". At a high level, I agree with you.

Edit: the shift from "use of power" to talking about "abuse of power" was itself a strawman by marcosdumay. We all got baited.
If cash is not a problem I would say medicine at some level. Reasonable to good compensation and great job security. Might have regional restrictions based on field. If cash is a problem, choose something that can’t be outsourced but that has to be done. Trades, high end maintenance, things like that. No pizzazz but, again no problems finding work or watching it offshore.

To do tech, be visible and be good. There’s no need for training if you are lucky and there are foss tools and projects you can work with. It doesn’t require formal training.
By 22 people usually have some idea about what they like and what they’re good at. Or at least an idea about what they don’t like. That’s a much better signal than “HN recommends”.
>>> he still had difficulty with it! And again, when Bohr pointed out the error, it led to emotional difficulties for Heisenberg.

This resonates with me deeply - knowledge that I "should" have known but are shamed for not knowing become massively harder to learn. I think I somehow label that area as "not part of my identity" and so if I need to learn it Indont have an intellectual challenge I have to resolve past trauma and adjust my view of myself. And accept past failings

It's easier now but I see this in kids learning maths or in my own money management etc.

We need to be kinder to ourselves.
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His lawyers fired him because he wouldn't shut up. https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-bankman-fried-lawyers-quit...
Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski also
The coax and transmission stuff all had to be engineered for safety and regulatory compliance. two wet pieces of string can carry an ethernet signal, and nobody can stop you.
I'm not convinced people fail PhD viva all the time.

It's only a real fail if they tell you to give up
Contracts and law being mutable and open to interpretation by squishy brained humans is a feature not a bug. Yeah too much mutability you get room for corruption and selective enforcement/application, too little you have a contract that might do what it says or it might accidentally empty your bank account with no recourse because a flawed human implemented it and the world is complicated.
I was honestly shocked when I first started seeing people without helmets here in Texas. But, sure enough, if you are over 21 you are entitled to drag your skull and exposed brain across asphalt if you so choose.
Right: at a basic level, using WebSockets lets us change as little as possible from the user perspective. You get an ordinary Postgres session with an ordinary Postgres driver, full control over transactions, and so on.

At this point, your serverless function establishes a new Postgres connection on each call. We do pooling on the server side with pgBouncer, which means we can handle lots of simultaneous connections (which is what this approach generates). It's true that this approach doesn't fully optimise for low latencies. But, as Nikita has mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we have a roadmap for bringing latency down in a number of different ways over time.
I mean what’s the big deal? Should he not be invited to a hearing to explain what he did?
PHP 7, released December 2015, 7 years ago, still gets bug and security patches. Seems similar to me.
This is a pet peeve of mine, checked exceptions map one-to-one to Result types, and in my opinion the former is strictly better (it automatically unwraps the ok result on successful execution, while makes the error handling as tightly scoped as one wishes (try block, leaving it out and auto-bubbling up) with native language support. Plus it includes proper stack traces which are a must in production systems (as much as some people hate them).

Now don’t get me wrong, Java’s implementation leaves much to be desired, inheritance is not the correct choice for denoting it, but I feel we really didn’t give it a proper choice.