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> The C# approach was sensible for them because they could build on features they already had (default parameters, properties)

You've misunderstood. Once you have properties it makes sense to go a certain way. If you don't, it makes more sense to add records and not properties.

Now you don't have to agree with the Java team's decisions. Programmers rarely agree on much. But I think you should at least appreciate the irony that if we had added properties, I would be responding right now to another equally annoyed person complaining that we're not learning the lessons of Go and Zig and Rust, which have refused to add properties, and couldn't we see what an obviously stupid idea it was.
"TensorFlow has the better deployment infrastructure"

Tensorflow Serving is nice in that it's so tightly integrated with Tensorflow. As usual that goes both ways. It's so tightly coupled to Tensorflow if the mlops side of the solution is using Tensorflow Serving you're going to get "trapped" in the Tensorflow ecosystem (essentially).

For pytorch models (and just about anything else) I've been really enjoying Nvidia Triton Server[0]. Of course it further entrenches Nvidia and CUDA in the space (although you can execute models CPU only) but for a deployment today and the foreseeable future you're almost certainly going to be using a CUDA stack anyway.

Triton Server is very impressive and I'm always surprised to see how relatively niche it is.

[0] - https://github.com/triton-inference-server/server
> he believes that we must be a multi-planetary species to survive which means Earth is destined to die.

I don't read it as "destined to die", just that there is a non-trivial chance.

Mars… I want to be excited, but the more I think about it (and, bluntly, the more bad decisions Musk makes), the less I like the idea.

That said, Mars is sufficiently difficult in all the right ways that if we can make a self-sustaining colony there, the only way life on Earth will end is some kind of self-replicating swarm, either in the sense of an engineered pandemic (specifically an engineered one: a merely natural one we can probably defeat just like COVID) or a more sci-fi von Neumann swarm.

Mars has half our sunlight, it is colder than Antarctica, dryer than the Sahara, the air is thinner than the top of Everest, the soil is toxic, and we'd have to make any hydrocarbons from the air itself rather than digging them up.

Make a Mars colony work despite all of that, we'd easily survive a repeat of the asteroid-ending impact or nuclear winter here on Earth.
Show HN: Math of Pasta
Putting aside the idea that "analog" doesn't have overflow. (Any physical implementation of that analog signal would have limits in the real world. If nothing else, then how much current or voltage your PSU can supply, or how much current can go through your wire.)

But that is not even the real issue. The real issue that it is not analog, it is just "analog" with quotes. The neural network is executed by a digital computer, on digital hardware. So that "analog" is just the underlying float type of the of the CPU or GPU executing the network. That is still very much digital. Just on a different abstraction level.
Don't use floats (it wasn't a 3D game) or if you have to, make sure every float is derived from an integer that's kept in sync. And don't do anything that affects simulation state based on those floats.
Really? I must hang in different circles. I've never heard anyone say anything like that who has any clue whatsoever about space flight and what it entails... or is any kind of real engineer with a grip on reality.

Of course maybe I just dismiss clueless comments so rapidly that I don't register them.

I have heard people say we could put a settlement on the Moon or Mars, which is possible.
> Could the number of existing copies of those works floating around in the world... maybe just be enough already?

New copies must keep being made. Over time, the number of accidentally misplaced or damaged copies will reduce the numbers in circulation.

> Are they obligated to continuously [retool and] produce new copies of each and every previously-sold work in perpetuity?

Without question. If you appoint yourself as a gatekeeper of a piece of content, you better stay alert and willing to let people through the gate. Anything else amounts to culture hoarding or vandalism as people are denied the chance to participate in a shared experience. Access to affordable culture (all of it) is a right, not a privilege, especially when it’s so bloody cheap to duplicate.

Don’t want the responsibility of granting people access in perpetuity? Let people duplicate the content freely. Pirates will do it without grumbling if you just let them.
Year of Blogging
I originally thought more along some pneumatic nuzzles, basically like direction controll nozzles on a space ship capsule
I'd argue code I don't understand is indeed tech debt. not sure what you were implying with your statement, but I sounded as if you disagree with the statement. undocumented code that no one knows is a serious tech debt issue. time should be taken to read it, understand it, and document it.
we need cameras everywhere, this is a good start
Published last friday - https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/20

Oodles of vulns in linux that are made possible by C's lack of safety guarantees.
I actually generally strongly prefer the quieter mix on vinyl, I also like vinyl for that certain... texture? it has.

The only time I ever want a very high dynamic range is when I'm listening to orchestral music. Otherwise for casual listening, I prefer the quieter mix of an album intended for vinyl.
The scheme they're designing is for selling ads. Every site using their scheme has a rule to clean gmail addresses (thIs.is.mY.email+extRastUFf@gmail.com) to be "thisismyemail@gmail.com" then they hash that clean form to obtain "UNIQUEID#123232". Then they use the hash to ask the ad network "who wants to pay the most to show an ad to UNIQUEID#123232?". All the sites you login to and ad networks they use will know this same id.

If you do something obvious like use amazon@example.com at amazon, you should expect them to add a rule that blah_blah_anything@example.com gets cleaned up to "@example.com"
Ask HN: What car do you drive?
In the spirit of continuing our conversation on objects you have purchased at various price points, I am interested in learning what car you drive as I try to make that decision for myself.

Do you drive a car where software is front and center such as in a Tesla or do you go for a more analogue feel like you get with a classic car?
Do you have a manual or automatic transmission? Or do you perhaps drive an electric vehicle (EV)?
Is miles per gallon (MPG) a concern?
Do you have any particular brand loyalty or are you buying the best car for you at the moment?

Let's hear how you ended up with your current car and your thoughts on that purchase.
Just to add myself to the contrasting voices: I used to be like you but nowadays I enjoy the idea of 1-on-1s with strangers.

Perhaps what changed for me was accumulating knowledge and experience over the years by simply being very curious about all sorts of things. Thus I found that I don't even have to try anymore, my natural curiosity + experience automatically leads me through such encounters all the while being fully aware of the risk of being confronted with an absolute nutcase which only makes things a little more exciting.
My solution to this is to always use '+' email addresses - IE: "fabs+hulu@domain.com" - and I filter out all e-mails that don't have the '+' suffix as the recipient.

This way dropping the suffix drops those e-mails in my spam folder. Them normalizing the address makes my spam filter more efficient - and I would like to thank them for it.
That's assuming everyone is on board with the very fact of living in a system where an individual can amass hundreds of billions of dollars while almost half the planet lives on a handful of dollars a day or less. I'd guess a good chunk of them would have something to say about that but just cannot.
A colleague of mine worked Walmart returns desk back during her high school/university days. She said many people would buy all their Christmas decorations early December, then return them early January since Walmart had a very relaxed return policy.
Is providing books, etc. for staging a business opportunity? There is already such services, no?
There can be many goals for saving.

It is easy to imagine parents that want to save as much as possible for their kids, for example.
Very interesting article. Following the articles logic, you should be able to deduce a country's Social mobility based on the number of exotic items (such as supercars) you see in public. Furthermore, it becomes apparent that Europe has lower Social mobility than the United States. You will seldom see exotic sports car in the streets in Western Europe because most of the wealth are from well established institutions and families.
Windows 2000 was perfect. Super fast, minimal UI, rarely crashed.
There is someone who does this already: https://med.stanford.edu/snyderlab/news/May-24-20211.html
I heard him give a talk - at that time the main thing he learned was that although being extremely fit, he was at risk for type II diabetes, so he modified his diet. My takeaway was that, even with all this monitoring, the best strategy is diet and exercise (or doing what your doctor has been saying for the past 50+ years).
But why would a terraformed mars somehow be better than even a highly polluted earth? The only potentially legitimate reason for a move to Mars would be to get away from other people on earth.
Good catch, Morten :)
Yes, it looks functional and usable, I already said that.

I just find the look ugly. There is no objectivism in preference to how something looks.
What distro do you use? Would you recommend it to newcomers?

I've friends and family who always ask me this. My partner tried Fedora KDE, but their input methods are completely broken, and writing in Chinese (her native language) was simply not feasible.

I tried live media of a few random distros, but basic things were always broken (e.g.: touchpad scrolling didn't work, things like that).
Why would a person want advertisers to correlate their behavior? What’s in it for them?
> Science's recommendation at any given time is based on assembly and analysis of evidence. It evolves over time in the presence of additional evidence.

I think you’re confusing science with “The Science”.

The 6 foot rule and mask mandates weren’t science, they were “The Science”.

People aren’t Luddites or anti-science, but they do often know when people (bureaucrats, politicians) are full of shit.
> There is no way to see if the user pressed only Control or Shift, because from a terminal’s perspective all they do is modify a bit for the typed character.

Modern terminal emulators can do this using the xterm modifyOtherKeys protocol, which sends escape sequences for such combinations.
Ask HN: What do I spend my training allowance on?
My job has given me a £30 (about $36) per month allowance for anything related to learning, training, or wellbeing. How should I spend it?
Are you seriously asking why a virus that propagates itself based on proximity would have a harder time propagating itself if there were less people in the world?

There is nothing misanthropic about stating that we are too many, unless of course you assume that I mean that anything more than zero is too many or a similar ridiculous interpretaron, otherwise it's just a very simple proposition about resource management, and arguing its misanthropic is a emotional response without much through, no reasonable person would call a man who wants the exact opposite -lets say 100 billion human population- a "lover of humanity" or anything remotely similar, then what is the logic to call me a hater of humanity for suggesting humanity itself is better off with less humans living at the same time?
Wikipedia says

> The nicotine causes the receptors to release nitric oxide, which slows sensory inhibition causing a suppression of a subsequent stimuli

It seems unlikely that nicotine is the only discovered substance that causes this effect, meaning there should be a healthier method?
> the country literally right next door

Well I never lived in the Netherlands and I am not planning on doing so, so their healthcare system isn't really something I have ever had any reason to study. This system strikes me as very different from ours and the costs I see on this page are far higher than those in Belgium, France or Germany. This deductible system also does not exist in these countries.

Average wage in Belgium after tax is 19 000€ from what I can see, so about 1600€ per month, however various sources give different numbers and another number I can find gives 2250€ as median wage. The difference might be that 1600€ per month takes into account the whole population including people who aren't working while the median is calculated on the people who do have a salary, I'm not sure though.

It's not especially low either way when one doesn't have to pay "$30k to $45k per year [...] for a family’s (of 4) healthcare in a calendar year" (according to sibling comment). School and education in general is mostly free as well, which also helps I guess. A family of four in reasonably good health should expect to spend a few hundred euros per year on healthcare here.
I want to learn the emerging technology and I feel I like the idea.
The choice of food is in fact a choice, and moderation isn't really required if your main ingredient in a dish is egg plant. It might not be an exact match, but the similarities between nicotine addiction and food addiction are more numerous than the differences.
Phenaki – Realistic video generation from open-domain textual descriptions
I think that kind of thing is the result of when you let developers do things that they think are clever instead of having designers thinking of UX and making those decisions.
Let's set aside the part that making a planet where we could live is hard. Just presume we did that, to start.

Let's talk Logistics.

Presume there are only 1 billion people left on Earth when we decide it's time to go. How do you get them there? The gravity well holding us here (and holding the air down so we can breath it) is pretty darn strong. Today we're hoping to get cost-to-orbit down to around $100/kg. I weigh a bit less than 100kg, so that's $10,000 just for my mass- not including the life support system I need.

And then I'm just in orbit.

If I'm moving to some kind of spin-gravity station in orbit, that's not too far away. But Mars? Mars is a months long trip in a best case.

And don't get me started on planets on other stars. Even the most optimistic generation ships would be taking 10s of thousands of years to get there- longer than all of human history so far. If each ship held 100,000 people, you'd need 10,000 of them. And what power source would you use to move that massive ship, and keep the light and heat on between stars? (Antimatter, I guess?)

If we can make Mars habitable, we can make Earth habitable for far less cost.

I'm entirely in favour of building spin-gravity stations, Mars habitats, even terraformation of Mars and Venus. I just feel like it's never going to be the case that anything more than a tiny fraction of humans will leave Earth to go see those things.
At first glance, flashers can seem to be a mysterious and complicated piece of technology. A display may show a myriad of colors that can be challenging to decipher unless you know what you’re looking out for. Furthermore, some people seem to believe that flashers are meant to attract fish to a location.
Presumably because their domestic US unix support -- and focus -- will be on Red Hat, cuz IBM owns RHEL.
Yeah. It feels more like they have a long to-do list of settings menus to update and they just can never quite get through it.
The part that these people are completely oblivious to is that they then have to wait for these packages, figure out what they are, print labels, and get them to a return location. This ends up being a cost in time akin to getting a workout in, reading a book, or taking a walk that day.
Are you doing the equivalent of repeated squaring here?

Otherwise, you'd need up to 255 (or so) additions to multiply two 8 bit numbers, I think?
Why are these COVID cranks also skeptical of net zero, pro nuclear and pro Putin?

That's a really weird mix of opinions.

> Put to one side the fact that waging “total economic and financial war” on a nuclear-armed regional power that shares more than 2,000 kilometres of borders with Europe could hardly be considered a sensible move

Presumably it's just easier to coast on conspirscy theories generated by people with deep pockets than to fight against them if you want to make money as a "journalist", but its a bad look.
The market segments changed when business realized you didn't need to spend $$$$ on expensive UNIX hardware when cheap x86 systems for $ could do the same thing. It's just market dynamics changed.
The Power (and Pitfalls) of the Computer-Screen Movie
From experience, usually that means doing non-software engineering research and need to develop the software to accomplish reasearch goal(s).
Ostensibly it's so that the user can get more relevant ads.

In practice, it's not of course, but that's the answer you'd get if you ask them.
But that still doesn't result in a control character. In my terminal (testing with cat -v) I just get a beep (and it's not a BEL character!). Because the 7th bit of 35 ('#') is already 0 there's nothing to convert it into.
2015 Volkswagen Jetta. Had a 2005 Jetta before that. Build quality is excellent, not too much software (has basic Bluetooth connectivity but that's about it). Was also affordable since I bought it used pre-COVID.

Got it for reliability and I'd say I'm somewhat of a brand loyalist. Good purchase.
I love the language

> UID2 is a framework that enables deterministic identity for advertising opportunities on the open internet for many participants across the advertising ecosystem.

Can we get stochastic therapeutic benefit from watching them thrive as a tight knit community in cutting edge plexiglass dormitories, please?
> I dont see what my care costs at any point. I dont think that leads to good decision making.

How much extra do you want them to spend on computing this? To what extent do you actually want cost factored into your care?
this is an argument from 1985. there is no room for this kind of selfish thinking now
I love the win98 icons. But that teal background was something i found just fugly.
> Cloud software is in my experience leaps and bounds faster than legacy software

You and I must use disjoint sets of software then. For me, cloud software is universally slower than legacy software. Good chunk of it is because of the browser. The UI, by default, is jankier and slower for every interaction - to the point I can notice the delay on every click, which for desktop software even 15 years ago was true only when the machine was under large load - not literally all the time.

And that's without considering UI interactions that block on network requests.

And so, I find trivial webapps to be just jankier. For anything serious though, they're near-useless, as the performance drop prevents using the app or, in some cases, slows down the entire machine. 2D raster and vector editors, and 3D modelling software, is still done primarily as desktop apps for a reason.
These "X, or: Y" titles are becoming an annoying cliche.
It's not about sending email. They hash the normalized email and use the hash to track activity across websites and services to build user profiles for real-time ad bids.
> Are we not worthy

Probably not. Agree it's disheartening, but look at human history: we are ape-brain savages, doing dumb- and bad-shit all the time. If you saw a planet doing the kind of shit we pull all the time, would you want to walk up and just say "Hi, I come in peace from an advanced civilization". It's sort of like walking into the poor/uneducated ghetto and flashing your cash, and saying, "Hi there fellow spiritual being, would you like to make my acquaintance?" Favela/slum will eat such folks alive, right? The smart thing to do is not engage us--despite how "advanced" we think we are, which likely makes it hard for us to accept they don't think we are the life of the party that they, "Oh my gosh!--just have to meet!"

ALternate hypothesis is: they are imperfect just like us, and they are simply doing covert surveillance. While they try to be constantly covert, sometimes they fail and are seen by various secret or public sensors.
Along similar lines, taking cautious mental health steps like learning about bounderies and emotional coping/regulation would help people to look after themselves physically (e.g. not drinking or eating their feelings). Being your own psychologist has risks, so counselling is a good alternative.
Because a virus that propagates itself based on proximity would have a harder time propagating itself if there were less people in the world.
Do you think the hundred starving people outside the gate of your self-sufficient micro farm are going to respect your boundaries? You might be better off for a month or two, but ultimately will be overwhelmed and picked clean of resources, ultimately being just like everyone else.
Do hands release from the line they're on at the point of the next time increment being reached (meaning, by the time they hit the next line, they'll be late) or does it kindly release earlier, affording time for the hand to travel to and arrive at the next line in time for it to represent the current time?
It's unlikely for new projects to compare against uwsgi because "The project is in maintenance mode".

https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Kinoko: A window into the mystical world of Japanese mushrooms
Photographers do this quite often with just about anything you can return, though it seems very rude to do it to a small business.

You should see how the film industry used to return rental cars.
You should express that as a percentage of the population and also show precisely which groups died.

Specifically, it was very old and otherwise very sick people.

A large percentage of the deaths were simply pulled forward a couple years. Tragic and awful, yes. But worth 2 years of major disruptions to life and the huge lingering economic impacts?

At this point, I think most would say no. It was absolutely not worth it.
nobody cares, email, along the majority of the internet as "computers talking protocols", is dead. The absolute majority of email is handled by gmail or microsoft, accounting for >80% of MX servers in the wild by the data i had five years back. I'd imagine the share of the duopoly is even larger today, considering how difficult it is to get into inbox these days.
They'd be very useful for postmortems too. And all for $200.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of overloaded terms.

Languages like Ruby are indeed nightmares for static analysis. Even constructing a call graph is a disaster. But "safety properties" includes a huge amount of stuff that isn't necessarily security relevant. Do you want to prove that your Ruby program won't crash? Good luck. But do you want to prove that your Ruby program won't read key material out of memory when it shouldn't? Pretty easy. The security problems in these sorts of managed languages tend to either be logical errors (also present in a C++ codebase) or dynamic code loading / unsafe deserialization (not present often in C++ codebases, but much easier to eliminate in principle).
It’s 2023! There is no reason why high-school students couldn’t learn everything that was known to humanity in 1940, right?
Ansible has a non-trivial transition cost (speaking from experience here). Cloning VMs is a legitimate stopgap measure, because that’s sometimes the best you can do if available engineer hours are tight.
I think SC was built on top of LDoms if I recall rightly. Been too long.