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However, Rust doesn't have a "I know what I'm doing, let me be" switch. No, "unsafe" is not that.

I have a couple of languages in my belt C, C++, Go, Python, Java are the primary ones. C and C++ are reserved for "power use". For power use, I mean scientific, HPC stuff or any code I need the full capacity of the processor.

To get that, sometimes you need -ffmast-math, sometimes said undefined behavior, or code patterns which translate to better code for the processor you target.

Rust doesn't allow any of that, moreover limits me the way I can write my programs, no thanks.

For security-sensitive compiled code, I can use Rust, but I can't use Rust anywhere, and everywhere. It also has its niche, and it can't and won't replace C or C++ at the end of the day. It'll get its slice (which might be sizeable), a couple of compiler implementations, and will evolve to become another mainstream , boring language, which is good.

Also, if you give half an effort, C++ is pretty secure and robust to begin with, esp. on the pointers department. Just be mindful, and run a couple of valgrind tests on your code, and you're set. Been there, done that.
Plain Text Rules!

If you need tables, render in a fixed width font.

HTML in email sucks in many more ways than are described here...
Where I live in the UK taking the bus from my town to a town 2 miles away is a 40 minute journey.

In London, taking public transport means massively dense crowds. The city is still choked with traffic. Seriosuly, we have to move away from the mindset of uber dense cities to a more sparse living style. Everything in between filled with trees and vegetation.

We built all this tech so that customers can shop remotely, I dont see why workers couln't work from their homes too.
If the topic doesn't even interest you enough to click the link, maybe skip posting a low quality comment on it.
I didn't know this, thanks!
I'm not sure how I'm replying to your message.

However the quote was made by the creator, not me. It's pretty frustrating that the justification and entire philosophy of the language surrounded is "we can't get better at this because it requires work" (Queue up the next few replies to me from people that say "but needless complexity and business value" )

> nd as a professional programmer I couldn't give a toss about this, I just want people to be consistent and sensible, and that means useful comments, documentation, a test suite, specs, not going insane on any particular style like OO/FP. You have to trust the programmer in the end cos all the guidelines in the world won't cure stupidity.

I agree with you. For the most part the industry has had expected language style guide lines (See the Java Style guide) and has had tools that support opting out of guidelines and defining organizational or project based expectations. This is not the case in Go. Gofmt will break your spaces decision and go to tabs. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914523) Their response is they don't give a flip.
I agree.

I was critiquing the parent and indirectly asking for an example of a firm that has *ONLY* "high context." Things become very abstract with unwritten rules as you move up the org chart.
> Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.

I appreciate the brevity. I hate videos that are longer than necessary. I really hate the videos that are about 10 minutes long (the advertising sweet spot), containing content that could have been delivered in 30-45 seconds without all of the "like", "subscribe", how they're feeling that day, etc.
Sick of this. Like, OP, you're either paying attn or search or something. Day after day repeated posts
Here is an article[1] which cites Logan Kureczka, lead communications consultant at Duke Energy in North Carolina: "If you're just leaving home for the day, it's more energy efficient to keep your air conditioning turned on – but turn it a few degrees higher than you might set it for comfort if you were at home."

This seems pretty legit. I also remember getting similar tips from PG&E here in California. Do you have any citations as to why turning off AC/heater is better than leaving them on when we leave home?

[1] https://home.howstuffworks.com/green-living/should-turn-ac-u...
Can't you mostly just pick them up at the airport when you arrive? That may not be the absolute cheapest option, but SIMs are not usually hard to find.
Isn't this the case with every famous account?
FISA 702 is not a criminal authority. It’s used in cases of foreign surveillance, cyber attacks, terrorism, and espionage. “Convictions” and “evidence” are not the right words, “intelligence” is.
Have you ever considered that the people who vote for the government don't agree with you? Who decides what this social contract is?
It's not that simple. If all of society turns all of it's home heating to max at 5pm to prepare for a 6pm arrival, we'll need to overinvest in either generating capacity or storage.

Not to mention the fact that houses aren't completely empty when the adults aren't there. Kids, pets, plants, and last but not least, pipes with water in them. All of these will die horribly in cold temperatures.
They had to say it was straightforward because the previous poster had said they had done it. That's how the cocktail party works. ;)
> - There are many non-religious private schools like magnets and charters.

Magnet schools are public schools in the US that draw from multiple schools and usually have a particular focus (arts & languages, STEM, etc.). The main limiter on magnet school attendance is their capacity. I ended up in one in HS with a capacity of 1500 students, for a city with over 1 million people at the time (not sure the number of HS aged people). It cost nothing extra to attend, you had to apply and interview to get in and the public school bus system took care of getting everyone to the school no matter where they lived in the county.

EDIT: And I had to double check because I've only recently lived in an area with charter schools and have no kids yet so didn't really care much, but they're also technically public schools in the US. They are publicly funded and have no tuition costs to attend.
Isn't this sort of true though ?

Not just the prestige, but the really strong networks you build. It helps you be 'I know a guy who knows a guy' distance from VCs, experts and hiring managers at top labs.

A lot of my close friends went here, and they're able to catch up over phone with people who leave my linkedin requests on 'pending', and this is with folks who've achieved exactly the same as me at the same age.

It is a force multiplier beyond comprehension.
I don't understand this kind of critique. 2% on pure hosting cost. The horror! And they spend things on salaries, like web admins, accountants, lawyers to defend against all the different legal threats the face, people to handle takedowns, spam attacks, botfarms, PR, write the obligatory reports like the one you quote from, etc etc ...

For most companies the main expenditure is HR, that's normal and certainly expected for an org focused mainly on knowledge and information.
To misquote quote a meme, I like dominant women not because I want to be humiliated, but because they say what they want.
On Writing Fiction Influenced by Neuroscience
If the assembly is that important I'd find a way to put it into my unit tests. Create a "golden" for the assembly and it should trigger a diff if it changes.
Definitely a difficult problem you're taking on here, but I don't see anything specific to LLMs here? How or why are you marketing towards LLMs?

How do you compare to the larger players here already Nango[0] and Merge[1] ?

I'm curious how you're thinking about data access / staleness? It's great that you're handling the oauth dance, but does that mean every end user of the product has to auth every product they interface with or are you handling this all at the super admin / enterprise level?

Right now I think there's too much emphasis on the "data loading" aspect of LLMs. I expect to see a swing back into using 3rd party API's SDKs. Interested to hear your thoughts on the Google API, it's absolutely massive and trying to shoehorn that into a unified API scares me.

The only real player that I could see to launch something like this and be successful is Okta.

[0] - https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango
[1] - https://merge.dev/
Health services also log you out after ~15min. Kaiser, One Medical, Epic Mychart, etc. Very annoying
I don't understand how people can be apologists for China's carbon emissions in 2023 still.

Estimates are that only around 10% of Chinese carbon emissions are for foreign exports: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596....

And you can't deny that the US and EU has been moving in the right direction, while China is moving in the wrong direction.

US carbon emissions peaked in 2000 and have been moving down ever since. China's carbon emissions have grown by 500% during that time period. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...

They are uniquely bad in this regard, compared to their peers like India and other developing economies. It's clear that China does not care about climate change in the slightest.
You can get by without owning a car in Philadelphia too. There are pain points, but it is possible.
Questions:

If you were to use twitter to further enflame divisions in the USA, is there anything you'd do differently to the decisions made by its new owner?

And, what exactly does a very unstable, very rich person have to do to get their USA clearances and military contracts reviewed?
> Why do we not see these shows of solidarity in the modern age?

When did you last sit down and have dinner with your next-door neighbor? Discuss the local happenings and politics of the neighborhood in person?

You might be able to answer that question in the affirmative. But many more don't. We're too busy isolating ourselves from one another to grow any form of culture from which organized efforts would spring.
Escaping the Terrestrial Mess: Eight Books about Intelligent Sea Creatures
Can I humbly add "Anders Hejlsberg" to the list of reasons why none of the commenters seem surprised?
Yes, but only on prolonged contact with moisture.

Same with wood.
Last time I checked it was roughly double, but that didn't included the fact the house could have solar which isn't really an option for an apartment.

Impact is pretty much more heating/cooling required for house and I'd imagine that would compensate at least part of that.
So in the failure case, very little of it matters, but in the success case the VC industry can be exceptionally predatory - participating preferences, multipliers, etc. etc. etc.

Honestly, it takes no time at all to have clean term sheets and you don't have the option to fix it later.
> But the red light from fires would often be present when our ancestors were sleeping.

I don't believe this is related. I believe it's simply that blue is the best/easiest/earliest color. The circadian rhythm is ancient, used by bacteria, plants, and mammals [1], long before humans had fire. Blue is most energetic, and is all that can be seen in the depths of the ocean, where life mostly likely originated.

[1] https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/04/sensing-bl...
All of the things I described are UB.
I think we perhaps have failed to ask what does a person need actually.

Heading off the standard rebuttal many many consequential things aren't very resource intensive, like vaccines, safe food, birth control. And a lot of resource intensive things kind a suck, looking at you Mr Car in the driveway beckoning me to drive yet again into the office.
Why? Just add the tax onto the fuel. Employees aren't dumb - they know commuting costs time and money. So on-location employers will have to offer more money / struggle to recruit.

The office-heads have to adapt or die. Perfect.
Questions like that really... confuse me, because is it just a generic 'hello' or a serious question?

In my own experience, I once had an obnoxious colleague who asked "How was your weekend?". I didn't like the question because one, I don't like to talk about what I do / did in my spare time, and two, it was leading because the guy was really really eager to talk about HIS weekend, but... I didn't care, or else I would've asked.
Sure, sure. I was only interested in the no-minimum-threshold model and what were the causative things there. As always, I should have asked ChatGPT since it had a pretty good explanation.
The standard used to be the concept of Imago Dei. Regardless of one’s individual beliefs it sets up an axiomatic basis for the worth of every individual and balancing that with the needs of a society.
Ask HN: 2D animation basics for web developers
In my day job as a regular Joe web developer I'm frequently given a static Figma design that I need to turn into a frontend. In my case this results in a similarly static-looking frontend: there's a general absence of small dynamic animated bits that make the site feel a little more polished. Inspired by [1] I've been looking into using SVG more, but likewise struggling to come up with ideas how to animate them, how to make them feel right, what's considered good animation, basically at a loss where the starting point of learning the finer details of 2D web animation is. Is it all just trial and error or is there a method to how to do it?

[1] https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths
Stock compensation is compensation. It can be distributed the same way as any other compensation: either handed out differently to other employees or taxed. At 90%.

> And your suggestion that anything remotely similar happened to the Reagan era corporations is plainly false.

This is getting tiresome. Highest marginal tax rate in the pre-reagan era was around 90%. People started companies. People got rich. Not Elon rich, or Bezos rich, but rich. The 90% tax rate didn't prevent them from being rich, it limited how rich they became relative to their income/compensation.
>those are established orgs that have come under control, not orgs built from the ground up to push an agenda...

The Washington Post was literally founded (in 1877) "to advance Democratic Party views." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilson_Hutchins
A hacker would start salivating if they heard someone who built a product storing PII said what you just did about session tokens for your personal projects.
Not necessarily (although, hard to imagine there's even 1 spammer willing to spend $100,000/yr on some enterprisey crap like Salesforce Pardot or Marketo).

But I'd just go with whatever sender isn't the cheapest and has the founders still intimately involved in the product. Stopping spammers is ultimately still a human game. Postmark used to be my go-to, but they sold, and I'd bet my entire salary that within a few years that service will end up like all the others that have been bought-and-sold.
I’m surprised we weren’t doing this already. I’d like to see what happens if you train a small language model on preschool level reading material, and ramp up both the model size and training data complexity as you go. My hope would be you’d need less data to train a model in this fashion than you would with our current approach of throwing the entire internet at the model.
What evidence do you have that it is "staightforward"? If it was, everyone would do it.
Subsidized, not fully paid for.
For me the key is that I can lay things out in memory exactly the way I want, if necessary to the point where I can fit things in cache entirely when I need the performance and only to break out of the cache when I'm done with the data. This is obviously not always possible but the longer you can keep it up the faster your code runs and the gains you can get like that are often quite unexpected. I spend a lot more time with gprof than with a debugger.
Not sure about the effectiveness in "lens-form" but the dimming that apps like f.lux and on mobile definitely feel like they help turn down the harshness of bright displays in dark rooms. I have sworn by those apps for like 20 years. It's just like using dark mode. "Easier on the eyes". Less strain on the muscles.
Fortran predates C by over a decade, and dozens of compilers existed for it by the mid-60s. Much of that legacy code is still in use to this day in scientific computing. One example: John Pople won his Nobel prize for work he did (and implemented in Fortran) in computational chemistry - the prize was delayed until '98 but he did the work in the 60s. The software he commercialized it into, Gaussian, still gets releases to this day and remains one of the most popular computational chemistry packages.

It's really dependent on which field you're in. Not all scientific computing requires a beefy computer, but for a very long time it (and I guess LISP) dominated scientific computing. That said, I think it's a very good point to bring up the network effect of using C - if I need to hire a developer in 1985, it's probably easier to find someone with industry (not academic) experience who knows C than it is to find someone who knows Fortran.

I do kinda prefer Fortran to C though, it's so much cleaner to do math in. Maybe somewhere there's an alternate universe where IBM invented C and Bell invented Fortran to win the popularity war.
Wow this sounds like a slam dunk for my next YC application.
What "critique" are you talking about?
This sounds like copium sorry. Sea surface temperature satellites have been doing their thing for decades. We know this year is another extreme outlier with money to come.
I don't think minimally sane climate change deniers deny climate change (there are thermometers), I think they deny it's man-made.

I agree evidence is overwhelming on the side of scientific institutions, it's why I believe they're correct on this conflict.

I was making the best argument for that position because I believe you didn't.

I also don't think they shouldn't be listened to.

>What evidence should I provide? You concede that climate change is true.

You accused me of following a narrative? What narrative and why?

>The emails provide no evidence that "fraud and political censorship run[s] amok"

I agree. The strongest argument against that position is if it happened with University of East Anglia, why should you trust every other scientific institution?

Again, I know how to dismantle this argument (it's absurd this many actors with differing interests coordinating), I'm playing devil's advocate, because I don't think you can or should write off these people as completely irrational.

There's some valid criticism (some scientists and scientific journals are capable of unsavory actions) which shouldn't be completely disregarded.

>I would define Ad hominem as attacking a persons character rather than their positions. I believe that narratives can influence a persons position, and I am not commenting on your character, but how your position has been influence by a narrative.

That has no bearing on something being true or not.

The scientific method is a narrative, a belief that the material world holds truth.
Language is not reality, it's a narrative (narration) of reality.
A couple of months ago we had some neighbors over, a couple and their two sons, for an early dinner in the back yard.

They just got back from a family vacation, and one of the sons showed me some photos he took on his iPhone.

The photos were in focus and well composed, but everything had a strong orange cast. They almost reminded me of Kodacolor negatives [1] but of course they were positives, not negatives, just very orange.

I meant to ask if he was using some artistic filter or manual white balance, but I figured "he's having fun showing his pictures, let him run with it."

Then the other son showed some photos on his phone, and they were orange too!

It wasn't until later when I got a glimpse of their mom's phone that I realized what the problem was. She didn't have a photo on the screen, just some text or a web page that would have a white background.

You guessed it, that was orange too. And I finally realized they all had Apple's Night Shift turned on.

Well, if nothing else, this gives me a good excuse to get together with them again so I can see their photos as they were meant to be seen. :-)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20101128030127/http://photo.net/...
It would be fascinating if you could give any such comparison examples. The only time I've seen JVM come anywhere close to C++ in normal usage is if the C++ code was written like it was Java - that is, lots of shared_ptr heap allocations for nearly everything. Or perhaps you're one of the rare few that write Java code like it was C instead? You can definitely get something fast like that, but it seems all too rare.
Not sure if this is an edge case or not. But getting approved for SES isn’t that simple. And then shut downs happen very quickly even for legitimate cases. AWS is very aggressive with SES.
too many layers, too much undesirable heritage would be the problem with that, I'd guess
Those disjoint memory addresses can be an absolute pain to deal with, ask anyone who had to spend time dragging performance out of the PS3 despite it being faster on paper. UMA/USM can also bring it's own set of issues when you have pathological access patterns that collide with normal system memory utilization.

For what its worth UMA/USM wasn't build to bridge a gap but rather to offer greater flexibility in resource utilization for embedded platforms, that's been moving upstream(along with tiling GPUs) over the years. With UMA you can page in other data on a use-case basis which is why they were relatively popular in phones, if you don't have a bunch of textures loaded on the GPU you can give that space back to other programs. Although come to think of it we used to stream audio data from GPU memory on certain consoles that didn't have large discrete system memory(the bus connecting System <-> GPU memory had some pretty harsh restrictions so you had to limit it to non-bursty, low throughput data which audio/music fit well into).
Paying for private versions of the same doesn't seem to be a big improvement.
Businesses influenced politicians to force workers back into the office.

We as workers should form some sort of collective union to push back against these policies.

All employees are replaceable. If we don't fight back now then we will ultimately go back to where we were pre-pandemic.
The Xerox Alto was early 70's and that GUI OS was written in Pascal. I always thought Pascal was better designed and less bizarre than C. Null terminated strings were particularly a bad idea.
> I absolutely would characterize both of those as pretending nothing can go wrong, at the very least in context at the function call site

Agreed that within the function call site I'm pretending nothing can go wrong, but not within the entire program. I don't see what's unsafe about that. We're just now implying that anything can return an error instead of restating that fact every time, and instead you have to be explicit about catching it.

About the functional programming... you're saying there's no if-else or early return in functional programming, but Erlang, a functional programming language, has if-else and exceptions ("throwables") that look like Java: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/errors-and-exceptions. Under the hood it's one logical chain like you said, but we're using a lot of syntactic sugar on top.

> if you only wanna do something in the happy case, you send in what to do using map, and then keep passing it around

That's the kind of if-else early-return I mean, and it's probably what you want to do if you aren't using exceptions. My C++ code also (explicitly) passes the error around, albeit not in the functional way. In like 99% of the cases you are just passing the error up.
I think it's well established that there are more autistic men than autistic women.

At least to the point that I wouldn't challenge it with ideology alone.

There is an awkwardness here. If transwomen didnt choose to feel like women we must accept it as a neurodovergent condition, why would there not be coexistence with other meurodovergent conditions?