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> looks like it uses the C ABI.

Only in the sense that C++ itself "uses the C ABI". This is still C++ ABI; most if not all of the plugin types inherit from C++ classes and there are no code wrappers generated whatsoever (except the usual moc slot unmarshallers if you want to be really picky, but these are not going to be ones you'll be calling). These macros are there for discovery and enumeration/reflection. After you have constructed the root plugin object, you are calling it through the C++ ABI, vtables included (since actually you call it through the base class).

> I'm interested in the details of that. Perhaps the GCJ compiler generated some sort of bridge between the languages?

The C++ exception/"personality" ABI is kind of designed for this, which is one of the reasons it may appear complex and/or slow. Just search for gcj exceptions for examples.
We have "self driving" cars that "work" in a very narrow set of circumstances and road conditions, but to say "it's already been done" feels....silly at best. It hasn't been done, it isn't even remotely close.

"but can it be done is no longer in question."

You are right - it doesn't seem like it can be done at all, not in the way that most people imagine "self driving" - where you hop in your car no matter the weather, tell it where to go and it just takes you there while you sleep, and it works in every country in the world on every road like any human can drive.That doesn't seem possible this century, if ever.
Yes, most services have a “death process” that typically involves the next of kin sending the death certificate and some type of document confirming they are in charge of the deceased’s estate. They might then set you up with your own login, or send you paper copies of all the info you need to an email account or mailing address.
How many broken systems are the result of perverse incentives?
Oh, I understand that when AC is present, but in my experience in the PNW - AC is uncommon, but forced air is still preferred for heating.
Assisted death is a liberal concept; social conservatives criticize it because, in the conservative worldview [1], any form of self-determined death is considered immoral. In light of the conservative view of this issue, it is useful to apply a critical eye.

1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/assisted-dying-bill-ottawa-...
The Indian government is complacent because they allow such extreme poverty to exist where people need to seek out scams like this in order to survive.

Extreme inequities rationalized by an abusive caste system, mixed with a culture that praises creative work avoidance.
Point is that generally speaking databases rarely delete fields once added, especially field as valuable as a phone number; as such, my assumption is Twitter has had a field in their database for a user’s phone number since it was first released.

Twitter’s been collecting phone numbers since at least late 2006:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061103054924/http://twitter.co...
And then he can use as much drugs as he wants without it introducing new and interesting avenues for geopolitical instability.
luggage is totally an airline thing, not an airport thing
> they'll just re-sign the modified script with their own signature

Nope. Of course if someone stores a Code Signing key on the same server as the distribution server then all bets are off, but otherwise it's no possible.

PS CodeSign isn't perfect, but there is enough hoops to jump around for this not to be an easy task for a malicious actor gained access a distribution point.
Unless you are being sarcastic, i think the person was asking the "real" substance of the entity that is having a subjective experience.
Are people who quote-tweet Musk tweets to dunk on them spreading Musk propaganda? “Satire is bad because it spreads the thing being satired” is a fun take, but no one in the media seriously believes it enough to be consistent about it.
What Happens When You Withhold Emotion from Your Partner How Suppress
Except that isn’t what he said.

He said the people in those regions should be able to decide which country they want to be part of and that the result should be enforced/respected by both sides.

It’s a stupid opinion, but he didn’t say what you said he did.
The difference between this and cooking/toasting bread is that your bread-making activities have no way to negatively affect someone else - we don't have an epidemic of spammers paying people to bake "underground bread" in their homes.

Of course, an override should be provided - the restriction should be relaxed over time once the account is established for a long time without any complaints.
maybe… I sort of agree it's not a huge hassle when recovering from another still functional 1Password installation. I still think that the initial flow of asking the user to print something that looks complicated is something that turns away users who are less IT-savvy.
> How is this a problem?

I never said this was a problem.

> Again, PMs and engineering managers get by just fine with standard natural language.

I agree only to some extent. At least in my experience, edge cases are often hashed out between the PM and engineers in spontaneous meetings, Slack conversations, or <insert medium of choice>. If ticket descriptions / acceptance criteria then get adapted accordingly, great. (Most of the time they don't – since we're so fucking agile.) Though, even if the descriptions/criteria do get updated, they often still lack precision and require interpretation – which is no problem, since all engineers now know what is meant by the ticket description and how to handle the edge case. However, if your entire spec is natural-language-based and you want your AI to reliably generate the same code every single time without needing to provide additional context, you better make sure to remove any ambiguity from the spec. But removing ambiguity from natural language basically comes down to speaking like a mathematicion / programmer, so the natural language spec will end up being rather similar to (pseudo) code again. So you're essentially back to programming.
Life is ultimately valuable, that's why allowing people to have complete ownership over their own destiny is good.

Forcing people to die in pain, misery, and utterly debased is a misplacement of values in my opinion.

And this is often than not a symptom of capitalist valuation. The value of a life is too often viewed as economic [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354671644_VAluing_L...
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34149239
> I don't understand, why do people throw in trash can one of the strongest Linux features: package management.

Linux package managers are missing many of the packages I want to use. The packages that they do have are often out of date.
but can it be done is no longer in question.

The question that remains is whether it *can be done* in an economical manner that is at least as reliable as a human driver. Anything less is a failure in terms of money and lives impacted or lost.
FYI, thumb drives die. The longest I’ve hand one work was about 7 years, more recent thumb drives tend to only last 3-4 years.

For longevity a CD / DVD might last longer, but even then those are 30 years on average.
Then you are over-reacting to partial information you have received, and assuming things that cannot actually be assumed by what was stated.

Farmers primarily farm for other people, and live off the money they they make from doing it. Their goods are grown/raised specifically to be converted into money. That money is the commodity that the household lives off of.

With this in mind, let's look at the difference between hobby farming and homesteading, which is solely what I was doing in my original comment:

Hobby farmers farm for their enjoyment, and not strictly for a living (except in the case of petting zoos, etc, but that is far and away from commodity farming), and require groceries to maintain themselves. The key is the word "hobby" in the title. It's not commercial, and it is not their primary way of survival. What they grow/raise is for the hobby aspect, and any commodity aspect is extra - something additional. It's the difference between a professional and a hobby skier. One skis for fun. The other skis for money. One can become the other, but the difference between them is still pretty clear.

Homesteaders literally live off the land, off the grid, etc., and thereby are differentiated from hobby farmers. They grow food for their own consumption. Only excess is traded, and it is nearly never a commercial venture. If we had to cram in the ski metaphor, then to a homesteader, skiing becomes a form of transportation. And just the same, skiing could get you to your neighbor's farm efficiently, but you could also do it as a hobby. Oh, there's that word again! But surely you see the difference now. Intent and purpose have everything to do with the difference.

There is cross over between homesteading and hobby farming, but they are not the same thing. This is precisely what I said in my previous comment. There was nothing mentioned in any way about profession commodity farming. You pulled that one out of nowhere.
User idiotsecant posted this excerpt from ChatGPT a couple of weeks ago. It kind of blows my mind (the last paragraph). It feels a bit beyond just basic probabilities of words.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33833178

We're just at the beginning.
World in a polycrisis – and these countries want to end it by looking beyond GDP
Biggest issue with disability is you cannot start working again, even as an experiment, without losing your disability. It's a lifetime disability.

It should instead be a credit, where earning income replaces the benefit $1 for $1, but if you earn over the disability limit you don't lose your credit permanently. This would encourage disabled people to try and find jobs that they can do despite their disability without the fear of being ruined if the job doesn't pan out. Over time this would help transition the "permanently" disabled into being self-sufficient and make them feel happier and less of a burden on society. People want to feel that they have agency and contribute.
All of these could be true. However, the start-up was using GSuite a lot. It constituted about 90% of the company's interactions with Google. It's impossible to certainly know what happened since Google can't be asked where it got its data.
Sure, but if I have a Macbook with Safari and a Linux workstation with Firefox and a Windows gaming PC with Chrome, then I have to use a 3rd party service, right? I don't mind that personally, I'm just an old man yelling "You should have better interoperability between similar competing software services!" at clouds (in the literal and figurative sense).
Seems they only linger for Southwest, as they made up 90% of all flight cancellations today.
I'm admittedly a hammer seeing everything as a nail, but as a designer, I see so many opportunities in FOSS lost to basic, unnecessary branding and usability oversights. Developers shouldn't expect themselves to be able to do good design work any more than designers should expect themselves to be able to make scalable, reliable, maintainable, production-ready code. It's a specialty for a reason! Incorporating designers into FOSS projects from the beginning seems like a no-brainer, but design is nearly universally considered a superficial matter to be considered once the real work of back-end development is done (which is generally never.) It's one of the reason that open source alternatives will remain the alternatives rather than the standards. Good design takes a lot of up-front work, and once you get ignored or bikeshedded into oblivion with one design proposal, the liklihood of doing it again is pretty much zero. Definitely my white whale, but it kills me to see so many great projects that could have so much more impact if they enfranchised specialists to design the look and feel.
It's Musk that hurt Tesla, not 'people'.
> I feel like we don’t have the slightest clue how the brain works and then I don’t see how we could ever make electronics interface with synapses in a way that makes you see video, audio, etc.

For what its worth, I did (well, started) a PhD in this and you're bang on. We don't understand the brain at all, and trying to fudge this immense knowledge gap with Machine Learning is getting us nowhere. Doesn't stop the grant money from rolling in, though.
Forgive me if this is covered in his argument since I haven’t read it yet, but does he discuss why this same argument wouldn’t apply to biological brains?
I think the future of work communication is going to be something similar to what these guys are doing https://www.volleyapp.com/ I don't Volley is there yet (or even close), but the concept is on the right path: async video/audio/3D stitched into a coherent narrative thanks to AI.

Input and high quality audio is the biggest barrier at the moment.

When I say input, I mean that we need something similar to sousveillance tech that can contribute to conversation without me actively switching context. Just like we would in a real-world conversation.

When I say audio, I mean that no one wants to listen poorly articulated voice messages that are hard to follow. We need tech that can make each of us sound smart.

It will happen. Few interesting startups in this space.
Southwest is a "discount" airline. They do many things to economize, i.e. no assigned seats, they only fly 737s so they don't need to certify pilots or mechanics on any other types, you can only book with them and not with Expedia etc.

It would not surprise me that their back-office operations are likewise economized and some things are just not done because "they can never happen."
The dominant business model for tech is telecom and cable subscriptions, Microsoft sales, asset purchase from Dell/HP/Apple/Cisco, and cloud services (leased capacity). Instead of subsidized newspaper, junk mail, and air tv infrastructure we get subsidized Google drive. Instead of air conditioned shopping malls we get subsidized shipping. Nothing new under the sun.
What your title actually says is given a man and a woman the woman will be a better empathizer. I don't think that not what you mean.
Here's another one is this rapidly growing space: https://rapidreply.ai
Any URL on the web could host a browser exploit that requires no interaction beyond visiting, but if I had to guess which one were most likely to, I'd put phishing links up there.

> You should trust that your browser is secure enough to render random webpages.

I honestly don't. Is dangerous.link/virus.exe any more dangerous than nytimes.com? Probably not. However if some 0-day, no interaction browser exploit does exist, it's easier to put the exploit on the some lookalike phishing domain rather than additionally exploit some mainstream site.

Of course I can't possibly know what URLs are "safe" to click on and which ones aren't, but I'm going to guess that URLs that look like they're intended for a phishing campaign are less likely to be safe than any other.

If your blog is go0gle-com.net, and someone emails or messages it to me, I'm not clicking on it and deleting the message.

Most often what happens is I click some sketchy looking link on my phone and it attempts to hijack the browser with popups and history modifications and whatever other shit they do to let me know my Android iPhone is infected and must be cleaned immediately.
Not that this helps but car rental places are like trailer/truck rentals. A particular location will often just be a franchise and own their own vehicles. They'll also handle vehicles from other locations/corporate but they have their own little fleet. They charge one-way rentals based on the likelihood of that vehicle returning to them in some time frame and/or them getting a replacement vehicle while the one-way is rented.

More generally they schedule based on their return schedules. If they have a car scheduled to return at noon and you set your pickup time to one, they assume they'll have that car and be able to rent it to you. If I don't drop it off at noon they can't assume I'll drop it off at 12:01 so they need to let you know it won't be available (since they can't predict my actions).

This is all compounded by agents on the lot renting out cars under the radar or booking agents doing some customer service override. They are incentivized to rent cars, not rent to specific people. For them it doesn't matter if your car is unavailable, it got rented out which made them money.

Good luck getting a car and making your drive.
I also don't expect AGI to appear.

Current state of AI is still interesting - we can leave edge cases to people and let computation deal with everything in its function range.

I might still have to drive through the city because it is too much to deal with - but I would be glad if we have highways restricted for autonomous cars, where I could travel between cities reading a book like I would be in a train but with all convenience of traveling on my time schedule instead of adjusting my schedule with train schedule.
If only Gandhi's idealism was even somewhat practical. This is what he thought about the Jews: “Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.....It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany.... As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.”

The world is not a fair place. Morality doesn't get you fed, doesn't get you proper education or healthcare. And when you don't have proper opportunities to earn money the right way, it's tough not rationalizing scamming other people to get your basic needs fullfilled. Overall it's a good thought experiment to imagine what all we would have done if we were not born with our current privilege. I personally feel people are only as good as the world allows them to be.
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He's not wrong. Every airline will attempt to blame operational issues on non-finable causes, such as weather.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean “Make it work with HTML and CSS today”. I meant, Why couldn’t HTML and CSS be used as a basis for a PDF-like format? New features are constantly being added to HTML and CSS. In 5 to 10 years, maybe we’ll have a revamped powerful paged layout that will have all the features that you mentioned.

So my point is, why create a new format when you can enhance HTML and CSS?
A long password doesn't mean much by itself. If it has been previously leaked in a different breach, reused, is relatively easily brute-forced - then yes, you need to worry about that.

The bigger problem is: even if you are safe right now, your vault is out there. If at any point your master password surfaces somewhere - all your accounts are instantly compromised. So the only sensible solution IMO is to start rotating all passwords and usernames today.
They do. But at least there would be another option for traveling.
“From our perspective there is no logical difference between this and Western dress codes in public.”

Western dress codes generally do not distinguish between men and women and for the most part the convention against exposing women’s breasts in public is not a legal one, and there are protests. And where there are protests the protestors aren’t being tortured and killed like they are in Iran.
I think this might be historical revisionism. The idea that all conversations about assisted suicide 20 years ago were solely about the extremely disabled seems unlikely.
It’s bonkers to me that gift cards are so readily available to enable these scams. There’s no way the gift card providers (Target, etc.) don’t know about this, but they go out of their way to make it as easy as possible and make sure there is zero support available for scams.

It’s so infuriating. I know people who have lost hundreds of dollars to people impersonating US Social Security and immigration officers. The gift card providers do not care. The impersonated government agencies do not care. The local police do not care. The phone companies do not care. There is total and utter impunity for everyone perpetrating and enabling these scams.
To an extent, it’s the worst system except for all the others; most people don’t think it’s a particularly good system, but, well, what’s your alternative?

RE the Twitter thing, you’re benefiting from hindsight a bit there. Musk almost immediately started trying to get out of the deal, and it was far from clear that he’d actually be forced to complete. It was quite reasonable that there’d be some price uncertainty.
“The First Amendment Isn’t Absolute.” Sure, but So What?
Working on my 3rd bachelors degree - in my early 50s - required me to provide my selective service registration number. Something I had not needed since the 1970s.
Oh man, I am so, so terribly sorry to hear this. You both must be absolutely devastated, both individually and as a couple. Clear open communication, just listening to each other, and accepting that you're both grieving for the loss of her health and for the awful effects it is bound to have.

My wife was sick for several years before she passed, and for the last 14 months, we knew it was coming. The main thing that got us both through the ordeal was finding joy in everyday life, wherever we could. My wife was amazing at that, and that had a lot to do with her faith too. I'd be remiss to leave that out. That's also been my coping mechanism in almost every way. But it's not a blind faith that she "went to a better place" or just listening to what some pastor says. My faith is fully informed, and I've chosen it after deep Bible study.

I know that may not be the answer you're looking for, but it's the truth. Without my faith I'd have been wrecked. It was hard enough as-is, but the religious organization I belong to has excellent written articles as well as videos that have gotten me through some really, really rough times... the kind you don't know even exist until yougo through them. Foremost however is my relationship with the true God. He has helped me immensely and brought tremendous relief.

This isn't a platform for proselytizing, and I respect that, so I've limited my answer to an honest answer to your question. There are resources that I'd love to share with you that will help you even from a secular standpoint. If you'd like, email me at my hn user at gmail. Take care, my friend. You're welcome to reach out to me any time.
> one should actively seek out things that matter

After reading the word "bullshit" about 10 times in 5 paragraphs, a beautiful piece of advice emerged.

The "bullshit" avoided in life should be replaced with something meaningful to you! At the end of the day, a proud man has the realities of his past: meaningful work done, love loved, and suffering bravely suffered. Replace the nonsense avoided with things that matter in a 1 to 1 ratio.
I think it is vital we continue to discuss it here, but at the same time my conversations with my extended family show that people overall do not share my concerns over these at all. I do not get upset, because coming from a former soviet union country, I am trying hard to understand their frame of mind ( partially to see if there is a way to counter it ) and lot of it seems to a result from a deep trust in the system.

In fact, just yesterday, the related conversation resulted in and I am paraphrasing 'you need to let go of some control and trust the system.'

I will never understand this level of trust in your own government institutions.