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> The thing is that many people today have never encountered the sort of spaghetti code that Dijkstra was talking about in 1968.

Can't highlight this enough. The type of spaghetti code "goto considered harmful" was reacting to is basically impossible to create anymore, so anyone who didn't work on that type of code in the 80s or earlier probably hasn't seen it.

And thus, is applying the mantra "goto considered harmful" incorrectly. (Such as trying to avoid it in C for clean error handling, when there's no reason to avoid that.)

To try to replicate that experience, you'd have to write your entire application (including all libraries since libraries were often not a thing) as one single function in C. All of it, no matter how many tens of thousands of lines of code, all in one function. Then label every line. Then picture having GOTOs going every which way to any of the labels. For instance you'd preset the counter variable to some desired value and jump right into the middle of a loop elsewhere. Over time you'd surely accumulate special conditions within that loop to jump out. And so on. It's difficult to even imagine code like this today (or in the past 30 years).
Welcome to the last decade of title inflation. Everyone is a "manager" now. A "marketing manager", "product manager", "account manager". No more secretary, it's "executive assistant". It's a perk a company can offer, conferring higher status, at no expense to themselves. So the equilibrium is for other companies to do the same, otherwise the company that gives this cost-free perk outcompetes for talent.

People are graduating watered-down educations, earning inflated cash, with inflated titles. It all helps people believe they're higher status, that they have a university degree and are a manager earning $80k, surely they're getting close to the top of the totem pole now. But they have a worse standard of living and education equivalent to high school in the '60s.
I see what you evidently did there, and I cheered!

Nonetheless, to propose an opinion, you still need grounds.
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I've responded to these concerns in my reply to the sister comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34949197

FWIW, no cryptographer I know would call 128 bits "sub-standard" and NIST itself is of the opinion that quantum computers will not break 128 bit keys. The links in my other comment get into more details as to why.

I want to mention something about "this issue should be clearly stated in the front page". I've seen this suggestion made many times about many projects, and I disagree with it almost universally, aside from the fact that it's often made about non-issues, such as in this case. Security (and security-relevant) tools should not have issues that need communicating to users, and if they did they should fix them, not delegate a choice to a user. Imagine if every project came with a list of potential issues you have to form an opinion on, and that you're not allowed to complain about because you were warned, after all. It's not a solution! If I thought this was an issue, I would produce a v2 of the spec, and guide users through migrating, instead.
> Did you meant 256 bits instead? Or is this a deliberate choice?

No; yes.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/blob/891be91d42721088db0d...
Nobody speaks about the effect of little kids on young parents. It is nightmarish and there is nothing to do about it. I wonder how much damage we get to our minds due to sleep deprivation and shocks. Yes shocks. I once laughed at a report of a mercenary saying he was woken up several times a night with ABBA as a form of torture. I then internally cried thinking of the amount of times I woke up just to hear screams, and put them near my hear in the middle of the night. Or finally falling asleep only for screaming to start, and the rush to stop one child from waking the other, and leading to double screaming. On rough weeks I feel I get ptsd or fear of night time.

I honestly do not understand why evolution gave us this harsh treatment.
Interesting. I'd assume that the installer is one of the better places to get this information too.
The people who still use Pascal make so much money using Pascal that this question is literally above all of our paygrades.
Publishing this with “low confidence”.

Glad our official experts are on the case! Next we will find out whether Assad gassed his own people, and who blew up the Nordstream pipelines.

(Just kidding. Maybe years later we finally find things out after they get declassified: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/how-jimmy-carter-...)
Do people typically gather in the parking lot of the WIV in large numbers? What was the reproductive rate of the initial version? What was the probability of an infection turning into a severe enough case to register to epidemiologists months later? For a relatively low reproductive rate or severity, you will need a lot of human contact to have detectable cases. The fact that the initial detectable cases are clustered within a nearby population center that manifests many close contacts should be expected.
> > Many people against gender theory are former 'tomboys' that are healthy adults, don't conform to gender stereotypes, and are glad that breast binding, hormones and cosmetic surgery weren't foisted on them as children.

> What do you mean by "healthy adults"?

By healthy adults I mean they don't feel any need to conform to gender stereotypes, and are glad that breast binding, hormones and cosmetic surgery weren't foisted on them as children.

Edit reply due to rate limit: yes I edited because I realised I’d already written this in the comment you were replying to, you just hadn’t bothered to read the comment before replying. I wanted to highlight how foolish you were. I hope you understand now.

And yes mutilating one’s body is harming it, I have no qualms in telling you this in a very direct non-quiet fashion. Stop encouraging people to wreck their bodies.
Yes, this I consider the key advantage of iOS over Android.

Alas, Apple also supports some highly anticompetitive business practices (App Store exclusivity/tax, EMS/iMessage) which I do not want to support.
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should've called it a lick screen
Sadly, they still are and it's super depressing.
This is the most important part of Unicode for me:

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-46.html

because I speak a right-to-left language. Whoever wants to write an application involving text entry, and truly support localization or internationalization, should take the time to read at least section 3:

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-46.html#Basic_Displa...
But be aware that their code for knowing when to stop emailing you is quite buggy, and they have a very very broad interpretation of pertinent events. I've resigned myself to getting an email every time there's a protest in Berlin for the rest of my life.
I didn't say that "poc" was a catch-all for marginalized groups. I was using the term literally, as in - Jews are not "white", therefore they are "people of color" by the definition. And Asian people, be they from middle east or far east, are "people of color" too. But they are often excluded from that group due to the reasons unclear for me.

My go to theory, is that some people, who are not quite clear of racial biases, wanted to have a name for specifically and strictly for black people, but without ever using word "black". So they have constructed a hypocritical landmine by their own hands, and after "other" people of color readily showed up, from all across the globe, they are in a collective denial.
The best way to find interesting people to follow is to follow hashtags you are interested in and see who is using those hashtags.
Exactly. As with all things labeled 'equity' rather 'equallity', we are currently testing if two wrongs do in fact equal a right.
Process is the punishment in India. They can arrest you based on allegations, keep you in jail for months without even filing a charge sheet and no one is liable when a court finally acquits you after months or years of jail time.

In any functioning democracy, government should not be able to arrest members of their opposition parties or journalists just based on allegations.

If an alleged scam of 100 Crore rupees is really a reason of arrest then why Adani is not arrested yet with an alleged scam and money laundering of thousands of crore rupees?

140 Cases Filed Against different AAP MLAs and Members, 72 Disposed of, Just 1 Conviction So Far [1]

Another example where they arrested a journalist. The journalist stayed in jail for 28 months before a court granted him bail. [2]

[1] https://www.news18.com/news/india/140-cases-filed-against-aa...

[2] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/846-days-timeline-of-s...
Not every good thing has to be scalable.
Can I ask where you're at? I'm a certified teacher, and since it's math/physics I can easily transfer it to any other state. Really debating moving somewhere dark if I move back to America, just so I can have the sky.
Sounds good to me. Since the job doesn't require any skills, I think we should proceed to the negotiation phase. How does 500/hr sound?
Last year, the author tried a slightly different approach: use GCC to compile for AVR 8 bits, than translate the AVR assembly to 6502:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIKAqcLxtT0
Crypto boomed, had billions sunk into it and has had multiple high profile implosions. Yes it has absolutely crashed.
Why are other explanations more likely? I'd be interested in your evidence for that.
> Unsubstantiated assumption that universe started out, and...

You have elided something very important here. I did not say that the universe started out, full stop. I said it started out in a low-entropy state. It is the "in a low entropy state" part that matters, not the "started out" part. If you don't like the idea that the universe "started out" then you can replace this with "the universe was, at some point in the past (specifically, about 13 billion years ago) in a low-entropy state. We don't know how it got there, or what, if anything, happened before that."

And this is not an "unsubstantiated assumption." There is evidence that the universe was in a low-entropy state in the past. In fact, the evidence is overwhelming. Disputing it is akin to disputing that the earth is round.

> it is not at all clear how this assumption helps us to explain that an isolated system could not have higher entropy in the past long before we observed it.

That's because it isn't true. An isolated system can have a high-entropy past, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_echo

But any system that we actually observe is not isolated, and that is part of the reason why we never observe decreasing entropy despite the fact that decreasing entropy is not only possible, it actually does occur under the right circumstances.

In fact, we can invoke the anthropic principle to explain why we do not observe decreasing entropy: creating a record of the past is not possible in a universe where entropy decreases. There are, by definition, fewer low-entropy states than high-entropy states, and so transitioning from a high entropy state to a low entropy state requires the destruction of information by the pigeonhole principle. And so the reason such universes are not observed is that such universes cannot contain records of the past, and so they cannot contain observers.
That's also speech, and even though I disagree with it, I will defend it.
Just put a couple AI in a sweatshop to do the filtering. By sweatshop I mean the AI computers gets all crammed together with no cooling to same money.
We almost exclusively use Lazarus/FPC at work. Most of our software is PC applications for controlling / communicating with industrial machinery (CIJ printers, cable cutters, ..), so we don't need the latest & greatest stuff.. I'll be glad for the day when I never have to fiddle around with RS232/485 again..
You’re thinking of a Toast Master.
Imagine your future self (let’s say you with 45 years old). What would that person prefer? A career in software engineering with 20 years of experience and no master’s degree, or a career in software engineering with 18 years of experience and a master’s degree? (Assuming the master’s degree takes two years to complete).
Dan recently recorded a session about Relic, if you'd like to hear him speak more about the origins of the library, some design choices, and some examples:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QsEJ5O2e4Es
> Since the job doesn't require any skills

Oh like hell it requires no skill.

You tell me how you'll generate better photos, improve dialogue coherence across multiple speakers, and control camera direction and movement (something we're using LLMs for too as we experiment with special-purposed models).

All of this is not known a priori, by the way. And I won't accept building a database or lookup table as an answer.

I also want to know how you'll test, benchmark, and refine.

You also need to budget for inference complexity.

I'm waiting :)

I can do this myself, but it is a full time job. I am so busy with all other aspects of my business I'm looking for people to bring on board.
IMO, it seems obvious from the behavior of China's government that they know it is a lab leak. If it wasn't a lab leak, then presumably there is an animal reservoir of the virus somewhere in China, but as far as I know they haven't claimed to have found it. But if there is an animal reservoir of the virus in China, then how could the Chinese government ever expect a lockdown to work? A lockdown on travel would only really prevent the virus spreading from people bringing it into the country but obviously wild animals would still be spreading it. Yet the Chinese government claimed that their lockdowns did work. How is that at all compatible with the virus being from wild animals and not being a lab leak? It doesn't make any sense.
What school did you go to?

Regardless, I have my doubts that not knowing about git or software tooling held you back. I know many recent grads that don’t include anything about Git on resumes and it doesn’t come up in interviews.
As someone who came out at 18 (technically an adult), both:

- younger—I had a vastly accelerated "social puberty" bc I started so much later than most folks.

- older—for the reason you mentioned.

- but now younger again—I don't feel the same pressure to have biokids, and thus not beholden to the "biological clock" that forces birthing parents to start families in their 30s. I'm 32 and just went back to school, because why not! Plus, the pressure of the white gay dating scene forces me to take better care of myself (sleep, diet, exercise), which also make me feel younger.
Lua is very widely used despite the fact that Unity and Unreal don't support it.
“People eating weird things” isn’t the only alternative theory to “lab leak!!!”

A farmer handling infected guano (which is used for fertilizer) could’ve been patient zero. A scientist studying bats in a cave could’ve been exposed, and I guess that could count as a lab leak, I guess, but it’s not as sexy as “mad scientists were manually recombinating viruses for the interest of authoritarian regimes!”
not lab made, leaked from a lab
That argument would also count against repairability, therefore it doesn't show that longer updates are better than higher repairability.
Speaking of lab leaks...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...
I think that this is a dangerous attitude that leads to more laws and the clawing away of rights.

The supreme court explicitly held that people have the constitutional right to hold an anti-gay rally outside of military members' funerals [1]. I think that the vast majority of people (including the overwhelming majority of people holding anti-gay views) would find this behavior atrocious and immoral. But it's protected free speech.

The problem though is that enough of this kind of stuff happens and laws begin to change. Sure, it's one crazy group in this case, but if this sort of behavior were prevalent enough, peoples' views on free speech would change. Sure, this is an extreme example, since something specifically mentioned in the constitution is very hard to change. But there are plenty of examples of laws that only exist in response to some idiot(s) who decided to ruin it for everyone else (as a very simple example, I no longer have the right to buy more than one pack of Sudafed at a time where I live... they didn't just dream that law up out of thin air).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._Phelps#Alito's_disse...
Operator overloading makes simple math cleaner, but that's just a nice to have.

The real kicker is value type semantics. You have two options with reference types : you can either do math in-place or allocate on each operation. First option is a huge foot gun because the ownership is unclear it's super easy to share references to something and update something unintentionally. And it can be hard to track down. Second option is super taxing on GC. And the overhead of going through reference for simple 3 float tuple (and object type info, etc.) is large - but for large arrays you can sort of work around it by primitive arrays. But that's like hand rolling assembly and you're supposedly using a high level language.

C# with structs and operator overloading is an ideal high level language for gamedev - most of the time it's really ergonomic and high level, but it has the tools to get down to memory layout control without it looking like disassembled code.
Actually as a side question, why does the reporting on this story in particular use the somewhat unusual phrase “US Energy Department?” It is the Department of Energy, right?

I seems like a little nitpick, but there are lots of agencies in the US, sometimes there’s a little nobody agency with a name similar to a big deal one… as a style thing, reporters should stick to the common names for big agencies, so we can be sure they aren’t mixing things up.
> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - and we have mandatory processes and tools to control how those individuals interact

https://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
They're also one of the few people with a massive "supercomputer cluster" to do simulations. (and part of the reason we have zfs on Linux now)
I'm not sure what the better headline would be. "Lab leak possible origin?" Well, yes, in that they haven't ruled it out. But that's not really the same thing as saying that something is "most likely" even if, as the subhead notes, they wouldn't bet the farm on it.
Because deliberately releasing a virus that is so infectious that it will cause a global pandemic and will inevitably hit your own country is a bloody stupid thing to do. Everyone loses, unless you already have a vaccine that you can sell.

And if you are trying to insinuate that it might have been the Chinese that released it, it becomes even more bloody stupid, because you would obviously never release it on your own soil right outside your own biolab which would immediately be under suspicion of being the source. You'd release it at NY Grand Central Station or the Atlanta International, and no one will be able to figure out what happened.
People are allowed to call you bigot or hater. That's freedom of speech. Even if you disagree with it.
The genie is more or less out of the bottle on that one. If it is a lab leak there is no stopping it from happening again and China is not doing anything special. There are hundreds of these labs all over the world, they have containment breaches all the time [1], and given the way of international politics it is effectively impossible to shut them all down. Probably undesirable as well given that labs like those are the reason we had the medical knowledge to create a vaccine.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecuri...
Forget the government. Do we have transparent and trustworthy lab staff?

After working in a BSL3 lab, I've seen some fairly poor working practices including someone infecting themselves, presumably due to sloppy working practices. There is a reason why lab leaks are common, if not vastly less consequential than the lab leak under discussion. It's because people are people, and they make mistakes, whether that's accidental or deliberately breaking the rules. It does make one question whether we can work on dangerous pathogens safely. I'd have to say, after direct experience of work on multiple diseases of varying types, that for many of them I have serious doubts. When it comes to Gain of Function, I think it should be banned worldwide. We aren't capable of working to the required level of stringency to guarantee safety.

To provide a concrete example, look at the German researcher who infected herself with Ebola. In a BSL4 facility. Not even involving GoF research, just the regular virus. Even top researchers slip up. This one made the news due to the severity, but how many are quietly buried, or not even reported within the organisation at all for fear of the consequences. It happens, and I've seen it first-hand.
> In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect a human cell line (HeLa). The team engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology#SA...

Do we have the genetic sequences from these experiments? Has anyone compared them to the sequences from the pandemic?

I'm not entirely up to speed but I recall hearing something about the US government funding them (without its own knowledge..?), so perhaps that info is not only in China's hands.

(And while we're on the subject, did anything come of the thing about Pfizer engineering the virus, ostensibly for vaccine research purposes?)
You must be new here. They’ll consider adding it in late-mid-‘40s.
The "no" is bc challengeable reasons, which are useful to be explicit about

"This would take resources away from delivering X and limit devs ability to collaborate, so we need a way to motivate the budget precedence / growth and a way to afford 50% + 6mo per dev productivity hit around retraining"

"Database x is a VC co toy that risks dying, acquisition by Oracle, and losing customer data when we do not have time for self-inflicted nonsense. We need ways to mitigate the risk such as $10M in NIH DB dev budget in case the likely case happens. We already spent our innovation budget for X, so need more to motivate doing it again on Y."

Less than gate keeping, this is a great way to help mature early/mid career devs / job hoppers who haven't had the chance to live with many self-inflicted senior-level mistakes yet