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Drie – Vue3 component library for Three.js made with TS and Composition API
AWS serveless runs on a type 1 hypervisor written in Rust.

Google is using Rust on Android and Fuchsia.

Carbon is for C++ code that they can't write from scratch in Rust, given its size.

Azure Sphere SDK only supports C and Rust is now in preview mode. No C++ support planned.

So while it is decades away from reaching C++ adoption level, it isn't as if the big names aren't making use of it on key projects.
I always kept my winter tires in my typical 2x2x2m basement/attic storage belonging to the apartment. Storage would be $50/yr otherwise. I imagine it would be a lot more on Manhattan - but as a fraction of total rent it would probably be less!
> "a glamorous effort led by a hype man"

> "This has the effect of turning technical discussions into debates over the character and achievements of Elon Musk— just the way he likes it."

> "But their founder is who he is, and what he has publicly shared is not so much a blueprint as an inspirational poster."

While I valued many of the thoughts in this post, it made me think of the meme "I choked on a carrot this afternoon and all I could think was 'I bet a donut wouldn't have done this to me.'" Putting aside the argument of whether or not scientific research, especially in space, is a proper role of government/politics, it is disappointing to see what I believe is an intellectual defect to undermine inspiration for human achievement with ad hominems in the context of a collapsing culture lacking meaningful debate on significant government war funding power delusions and destruction. Conquering technical achievements in any form (e.g., "port-a-potty chemistry," getting "to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars instead of Pasadena") vs. conquering people is, IMO, a more appropriate intellectual debate. I'll turn my computer speakers up to 100% for inspiration by Elon any day to drown out the human destructive philosophies of the politicians this author appears to support. [1]

I think Ayn Rand said it well [2]: "The most inspiring aspect of Apollo 11's flight was that it made such abstractions as rationality, knowledge, science perceivable in direct, immediate experience. That it involved a landing on another celestial body was like a dramatist's emphasis on the dimensions of reason's power: it is not of enormous importance to most people that man lands on the moon, but that man can do it, is."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211003211306/https://techsolid...

[2] https://newideal.aynrand.org/ayn-rand-on-apollo-11/
I don’t know if it’s the fault of Apple Silicon, but on my Mac applications regularly crash. That includes ACDSee, IINA, qBittorent, Edge, KeePassXC, Sublime Text, Sublime Merge… There is at least one crash every 3 days. Nothing like it happens on my Windows, Linux or FreeBSD systems. It’s my first Mac, so I can’t compare this experience to Intel Macs, and so I don’t know if it’s just that MacOS is so unstable in general, or if those are still pains of migration to a new ISA.

(Often, when one application crashes, a couple others follow not long after.)
I was a firefighter in a past life. These were installed on all our engines and trucks. They worked OK in snowy conditions up to an inch or so, then thy stopped having enough clearance to throw under the tire. We rarely used them and made sure to follow forecasts closely and chain half our equipment in anticipation. Anecdotally, these may work OK in areas where snow is not as common or often, but wind up next to useless where they might otherwise be considered helpful.
For the colony to be truly self-sustaining it would have to replicate the entire industrial supply chain for its technological and material needs. Without it, the colony and its infrastructure would slowly crumble apart. In such a situation, we could always go back to basic agriculture and hunter-gatherer lifestyles on Earth. Most humans would perish, but the species would survive. That option does not exist on Mars before self-sustaining terraforming.

Putting boots on Mars doesn't help solving the above problem. As TA explains, the first humans would be mostly busy surviving and would be dependent on permanent resupply from Earth. It's a pure prestige project.

The effort would be better spent on engineering a streamlined and automated version of our technological base that can be deployed with minimal effort and supervision to set up a colony or a mining base. Once we have achieved that, we are on the way to become a post-scarcity civilization and can easily push much farther than Mars.
Have you ever seen the PortaPack? https://github.com/eried/portapack-mayhem
It's not preserving the original site, rather archiving snapshots of it, but my go-to place for saving my personal websites for posterity is the UK Web Archive[1] run by the British Library. Given that they have a legal responsibility to archive stuff in a retrievable format there's no worries about them running out of money and they'll have an incentive to keep things available to view after the tech evolves out of recognition.

[1] - https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/uk-web-archive
This is exactly the mindless vitriol I had in mind.

Flow A: hit a button, a menu with text input and pictures shows up

Flow B: hit a button, a full screen with text input and pictures shows up

A is perfect, and B is "practically unusable".
The most recent IQ test I've seen put Chat GPT at 83. I expect 100 by June and 150 by 2024.
Since I haven't used Windows in a while; what are the new killer features of Windows 11 that the developers are delivering/working on?
Right now I have a 16" MBP connected to a TB4 dock. A 5k Studio Display is my primary monitor with a 27" 4k LG display as a secondary. The MBP screen is my tertiary screen.
This is about to change with higher spec connectors being more widely available.
> Is there an easy solution to improve locks on cars?

Turn off keyless entry and use the mechanical key.
6.7 million people have died according to the same source as the OP. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-deaths-and-cas....
I‘d pay a 100 times that amount to get a new Windows with consistent classic UI (e.g. Windows 2000 style).
It looks like Windows is heading towards Linux in this matter- having to know weird commands to get things done effectively.

I only use Windows occasionally, but when I have to set up a printer (shared from another computer) or file sharing, I often have to resort to either creating obscure registry entries based on random internet tutorials or use command line to figure out what exactly the GUI wizard means by "the thing you want can't be found"
That's the whole argument. This should not need to be "fixed" by a third party tool, it should just be part of the system that was already paid for! (It was even included all the way up to 10 so clearly there was no technical reason to not have it anymore)

Frankly this mindset is ludicrous to me and yet I see this with MacOS users too who happily pay for third party solutions to first-party breakage on stuff you already paid for. Somehow the more you spend the less customizable software is and the even more you have to spend to work around dumb choices.
Amazing. Well done!

I can't do all that mechanical engineering, CNC cutting etc.; I'm not meticulous and careful enough to manufacture the parts. But if someone offered a kit of finished (metal) parts, I'd be up for buying two (subject to price, of course).
Not really, I already know what it is and use it all the time. I mean, I just wrote about it. Plus I don't program in python.

Honestly, I just opened your page and it's not a great example. Consider the method chaining in the linked article that operates on an array, it's much closer to real problems imo, and more succinct.
Little corporate adoption? Rust is most viable for pure greenfield projects, which are rare, or gradual conversions from pure C most of which is now on weird embedded chips where Rust is inherently at a disadvantage for all sorts of reasons. When you account for that, Rust adoption is actually happening very rapidly. There's even a lot of RIIR activity that wouldn hardly be expected for any other language.
Ask HN: Looking for quick, (constructive) feedback from front end devs
I put together this landing page for our new SDK - https://www.sdk.livecycle.io/
Can anyone give some quick (constructive) feedback?
- Do you understand clearly what we do and why it's useful?
- If not, what would you change?

THANK YOU.
This was my impression after moving to macOS after years of using Windows and Gnome as well.

The "document-oriented" window management and the fact that you can Cmd+X selected text, but not selected files is deeply bizarre.
Also, it doesn’t hurt anyone to keep it around.
Ask HN: Why is there no 'who is hiring' post for January 2023?
Traction control on an AWD system can be composed of power management (overall torque output), power distribution (how much power goes to each axle/wheel) and braking (slowing down individual wheels).

Traction control on a 4WD can only consist of power management and braking, because there is no way to vary the distribution (otherwise it would be AWD, not 4WD).

There are some systems that under certain conditions will switch from 2WD to 4WD. Those systems are NOT considered AWD and dont have the benefits thereof.

FYI, ESP (Electronic Stability Program) is just a brand term for an ESC (Electronic Stability Control) which covers both TCS and ABS. When people talk about "traction control" they usually mean the entire ESC subsystem.
On top of that, I am having issues with external monitors.

It's like Windows forgets the secondary monitor from time to time. And I have to extend the primary again.
Then the pop-up for witching to the monitor audio out comes up. And I have set it to "Disabled" in control panel->sound a million times.
No crashes on mine, maybe you got a lemon?
"Business is about connections and rich people"

Forget that nonsense, it's about starting with a large pool of money with which to bet.
This used to be the case, but the last time I installed Windows 10 the already hard to find “create local account” option was completely gone until I disconnected.
I swear those changes are just designers trying to excuse their employment
That's not going to happen, because "distributed" was always a misnomer when it came to blockchain things. "Massively redundantly replicated" would be better. If work is distributed, every participant has a little piece of the work to do, but in e.g. blockchain contracts, all the participants need to do the whole calculation.
> have to click multiple times.

Huh? It’s hover and 1 click?
Interesting, you might need to it yourself through the UI then, just copy everything after the slash and paste into the search of any trusted Mastodon instance and it should load the profile through there. Not sure why the URL redirects to the other instance.
Every meeting should have an agenda. No agenda = cancel meeting.
True. And they are used by orders of magnitude more people because they have proven their usefulness with the masses

Stating the obvious, but it's a good reminder, because I asked the question anyway. For the mass market, it's a UX problem before it's a product problem before it's a tech problem.
These should give you some background

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/09/21/the-latest-bitco...

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-10-the-184-bil...
I never see people making their own keyboards, and would love it to see a blog about making high-quality custom keys and a case for the keyboard.
There was info a while back that memory management issues become more obvious on Apple Silicon, problems that x86 is more forgiving of. Can’t find the source unfortunately.
What's the difference between Val and Vale? Besides that one letter, of course. There's also Vala which is its own thing, but also in the "not quite C++" space. Very confusing!
That's why the Silcon Valley Angel Investers give out books instead of funding rounds.
In other languages adding something like this is possible from within the language in basically any syntax you want. No need for some plugin on another layer like GCC.
Most currently used keyboard layouts (like qwerty, azerty..) were made for one reason: to avoid jamming typewriters.

They are old legacy that is clearly suboptimal, but no one wants to change it because it still works and the transition would be costly

A bit like the imperial system
Ah, forgot about that, yes I guess that could be considered the bigger brother of the flipper zero.
> Disabling it in group policies reserves the space for a message that it has been disabled.

This is outright user-hostile.
Do you get both sets of tyres balanced?
None of system programming can be statically checked, since it's mostly about I/O with weak memory models.
We’re talking past each other.

I’m arguing we shouldn’t be arguing about Musk. I don’t know how much he is personally involved in the engineering decisions, but it doesn’t really matter because SpaceX has proved it can solve the vast array of problems that need to be solved to:

- Launch a rocket into to orbit

- Land and recover the first stage of that rocket (which had never been done before)

- Build a spacecraft that can be launched into orbit, dock with the ISS, deorbit, and be recovered

- Make that spacecraft support human life, and launch humans on it to the ISS, and bring them back alive (which also had never been done by a commercial entity)

I wouldn’t bet against SpaceX being able to do the engineering required to keep humans alive on spacecraft for years once it becomes a priority for them. At this point it’s premature.
Fanaticism is a problem of arrogant self-belief not of faith (2013)
Apple's design changes over the years have been much more subtle, mostly changing textures, fonts, line widths and control outlines. Meanwhile they've kept all the software on the same UI toolkit so they can update these things universally.

This means that even the little-seen parts of the OS that have never been redesigned (like DigitalColor Meter, the Bluetooth file receive dialog, ColorSync Utility, Keychain Assistant) still look pretty much at-home in the latest design.
VPN are really usefull for business to link different locations with internet instead of using (awfully costly) dedicated link... or to allow remote work

So VPN are not really in the same category
Thank you. I really love this idea.
It may not be biologically possible for those who grew up on a low-gravity planet like Mars to emigrate to a higher-gravity one like Earth.
Note how one flow literally erases everything else on the screen, disrupting whatever it was you were doing and disorienting any lesser-skilled users.

On a desktop computer. More than likely with (a) monitor(s) big enough to occupy an entire desk.

The Start Screen was fucking horrible all around, and its horribleness was proven with the immediate resurrection of the Start Menu and demise of the Start Screen in Windows 8.1.

Metro also met a similar demise because it forced a black-and-white, no delimiter UI upon desktop computers. Computers equipped with GPUs and monitors capable of rendering billions of colors with huge screen real estate.

Some of Metro's baggage is still with us, but I welcome Windows 11's slow move back towards a colorful Windows UI.
The Commodore 64 – a technical perspective
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

"This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month."

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A keeps the context of what you were doing on screen.

B can yield a minor mental context switch, with no good reason for doing so.
Enjoy your combinatorial explosion of states.

It's not equivalent at all.
Unless there is significant reason to avoid garbage collection (for the vast majority of software there isn’t) then Crystal is the best C++ replacement out there. Its Ruby syntax is easy to read and write, its OOP model derives from Smalltalk (via Ruby). And it has easy interop with C++ code.
I agree, but I do want to point out that some of these "not updated" things are still heavily used and offer a bad user experience.

For example the Services (or any mmc based) UI with no filter/search integrated is absurd. Heck they just "redesigned" Task Manager and none of the tabs have filter/search functionality which is annoying to say the least.

I suppose you can start typing with the inner tab having focus, and it SOMETIMES finds the correct thing, but it isn't reliable and is hidden functionality that people just need to know is a thing.

Props to them adding an address-bar to RegEdit though (in the W10 Creators Update) and multi-tab Powershell terminal. Very welcome and positive improvements. Wish we had more stuff like that.
Curiously, users of my Lunar app (https://lunar.fyi/) always lament about how Windows handled monitors so much better than macOS for them.

Are some monitors that bad on macOS but better in Windows, or viceversa?
Great little app you’ve got there, enjoyed your video!
Gluon: A New Node.js Framework to Create Desktop Apps
Is science scientific enough? Rupert Sheldrake (37M video)
> It looks like Windows is heading towards Linux in this matter- having to know weird commands to get things done effectively.

I'm pretty sure Windows has always been like that. Magic registry keys and underdocumented mmc panels, mystical cmd commands and some COM/WMI poking vbscript. This is also why powershell is such improvement in windows world, it attempts to reset at least some of the management madness.
Yes the original premise he’s trying to refute can be dismissed far more easily.

That argument has as a premise that taking on investment increases risk. For the most part that’s simply not true, having more money in hand reduces risk for a business.
In my understanding of history it would be more accurate to write: The Apple II is what sustained Apple post- and pre-Jobs.
WORKSFORME
> Most popular works from that year have made millions of dollars in profit

More importantly, they have made virtually all of their lifetime profit by that time. Rare exceptions and that tiny remaining dribble are weak justifications for longer copyright terms.
Great general analysis of many of the problems in science - the institutionalisation, the funding, etc
>>Do all these examples demonstrate that different applications are compiled with different UI Frameworks that are all in use and supported?

yes, examples include win32, mfc, wpf, winui 2, winui 3 are all UI frameworks that MS has released over the years, all of which are still in active use, some more than others.

For example, WPF is probably one of the most widely used, even though MS keeps trying to kill it.
Raising radiation levels is not a problem here on earth at all. Not sure about gravity and health effects, maybe it can be simulated with some amphetamine + sedative cocktails.
The 'Mutable value semantics' section reads like a carbon copy of the Rust borrow checker. Is it just me or is val just ripping it off completely? I'm honestly not sure of this part so if I'm wrong someone can let me know.

Other than that, the whole title of the article is manipulative. It's not a fair and balanced examination of all the possible successors of C++. The author admits he works on Val, and the article is obviously promoting Val as superior to other alternatives.
Win XP had this right-click on group in the bar and you could spread the windows evenly on the screen. It was really useful for Matlab plots but for some reason they removed it for Win 7.
Presumably yes, although some people prefer having a special-purpose device even if it is an extra thing to carry around. It does depend on your threat model I guess.
You could just take best 3 out of 5 etc
Exactly. Since a few years now, and as many Windows 10 versions, the disconnection trick is not needed anymore. They still unemphasize the offline profile option (with the usual dark pattern of making a button not look like a button, and to word it as something negative you sure wouldn't want), and nag you twice if you find it, but it's there, hidden in plain sight: you just need to pay attention.
Or they will come up with their own AI/employ private companies that can create/run such AI to find the copyright violating content and copyright strikes or claims will be increased multifold?
Your average teenager or thief won't know how to pick a lock either, yet everyone installs pick resistant locks instead of cheaper alternatives.

Yes. Your security might have been good enough, but world moves on. Back in the day Triple DES was good enough, but you are very irresponsible if you use it today.

I get that whenever you are looking anything from inside the industry there is constant need to make processes faster and cheaper. I am sure all car manufacturers would immediately remove seat belts and air bags if they could. However is maximizing profit really what society needs? I think we should have more laws and regulations around product security. *All* products should meet some minimum security standard, but until we have some governing body that can enforce this we will from time to time run into issues like with this device where the large company is decade or more behind the world due to neglecting R&D and now they don't want to pay for their mistakes.
> What exceptions do is enforcing that your working set does not have to encode any erroneous states

You do that by having types that encode a guaranteed non-erroneous state. It's not like exceptions are doing anything all that different, they're just trying to establish that guarantee in a language where variant record types and pattern matching are not first-class facilities.

This is something where C and C++ actually regressed from PASCAL, which did have support for variant records.
I'm just telling you the pure mathematical truth of the situation.

According to the maths, given people of identical skill and the same starting funds. Some small percentage of people will get lucky and accelerate out into riches whilst the rest will drop into poverty.

The people who accelerated into riches can't tell you why they accelerated out into riches, since it was purely luck based to begin with.

The more funds you acquire, the more risks you can take, the more money you can make.

Taking risks doesn't make you rich, becoming rich makes you take risks. It's that way around.
Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t decades of backwards compatibility cruft everywhere. Microsoft needs to just support legacy versions of windows more or less forever to keep those institutional users happy and draw a line for the majority of users who want to at least keep some kind of pace. You don’t have to obsolete everything like Apple does, but we’re well past the point where you can virtualize or emulate something like Windows 7 or older and it will still be faster than bare metal of the time.
No*

Directories have been tried over and over.

Search engines show you possible shopping items eg above organic results.

*Amazon is stealing search from Google and Meta by effectively being a better yellow pages than they, when a user almost defintely is in shopping mode.
I bring up Go because it’s of similar age to rust and yet significant projects have been written entirely or almost entirely in Go (ie. kubernetes, docker). Nothing of that scale has been written in rust. You don’t get to list things predominantly written in other languages lol.
From a typical starting pool of 100 leads, what percentage respond positively having received (up to) seven emails?
I rarely use Windows, but every time again I am surprised how they still squeeze most out of their win95 UI concept by only adding new shiny layers.

There are dozens of desktops that went into several mostly consistent redesigns in all that time. Gnome Shell nothing feels like Windows 95, Windows 10 still somewhat does.
check this out https://www.breadbox64.com/blog/the-mechboard64/