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@dang given the subject of this post is censoring statements made within their own community, I'm concerned about how quickly this was dropped off frontpage due to being flagged here on HN - wondering if this is potentially an abuse of the flag button (by sockpuppets?).

If not and this flagging was approved by mods for legitimate reasons please ignore this comment.
Yeah, that is crazy.. Couldn't agree with you more.
Hard disagree, however, when taking pictures on vacation or when sightseeing I always try to include somebody from the group (be it friends, family, etc) in the pictures.

20 years in the future I don't know if I'll care to look at pictures of buildings from <Random City>, but if see my younger kids in the foreground it will be worth it.
Interesting hypothesis. I can't comment on Pike's history here, but at Google there's certainly a noticeable difference between old special cases that were built pre-2015 ish, and the modern world where everything is very cohesive. I get the impression that there was a big push to achieve that, led from around that time by various products. It's hit some areas more than others, but there do seem to be almost no new products building in the way you've described now.
FWIW i had similar thoughts about Qt some time ago. For background, I do a lot of desktop stuff in Lazarus (which is very similar to Delphi but cross platform) so i have experience with that. At some point a few years ago i got a job at some gamedev company that used Qt for their tools and i was working on those. I remember spending a lot of time writing boilerplate code that Lazarus would do for me instantly or how some things felt more involved compared to how it was with LCL (Lazarus' framework).

One situation that stuck in my mind was when i used a separate program (Qt Designer) to create some UI for a custom panel in the editor and was writing both code to make the editor see the panel and wiring event handlers by hand, all the time feeling miserable thinking how Lazarus would do that for me without even needing to write any code so i could focus on the actual feature instead. Qt Designer feeling alpha software at best (it was buggy and otherwise trivial things like moving some controls to a new empty parents was hard to do - in comparison even wxFormDesigner, which i had used at a previous job where the engine there used wxWidgets, would allow you to do by drag-and-dropping and even scaled up the containers to make them easier to target).

I never used C++ Builder professionally but i do have a copy i bought off ebay some years ago and played around with it making a simple 3D mesh editor[0] and dungeon editor[1], among other things. I do wish i could use VCL in C++ projects, but i'd never recommend it these days considering how Delphi is treated by Embarcadero (stupidly high prices), let alone C++ Builder that always felt like a second class citizen - and TBH i'm not very keen on recommending a proprietary framework anyway.

I've long decided that the best you can get with C++ these days is Qt Creator.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr1Sr9hTkzg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsE1SWVSako
None of the languages you mention there get even close to C levels of performance when you hit "anything goes" dynamic language features. Those JITs are only competitive (i.e. within an order of magnitude perf) when you are accelerating very barebones code on native types and non-generic functions, or you strip out dynamism.

In julia, there is no separation between generic functions and fast functions, and no separation between user defined types and inline allocated structs.

This is not the case with Python, Smalltalk, Common Lisp, etc.

To actually take hold and stop people from relying on C libraries for everything in Python, the Python JIT is going to have to be as fast as C, and it's also going to need to have a CPython compatible ABI because people are not going to abandon all these pre-existing libraries overnight.

Python's semantics make both of those prospects incredibly dubious.
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you sound no different than every other diet of the month fanatic - overselling the benefits while downplaying any downsides
> I don't get why people listen to him...

People have different tastes. That's OK.

The Joe Rogan Experience has continued to be at the top of Spotify's podcast charts, bringing in 11m listeners an episode. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/07/03/top-pod...
All vegetables we eat have toxins in them and it's precisely these toxins that benefit most of us when eaten periodically. Eaten daily, vegetable meals are probably unhealthy, just as eating meat daily is probably unhealthy. Mediterranean peoples figured this out a long time ago and expressed these findings in religious rituals and texts, with designated feasting and fasting periods, where a feast means lots of meat and cheese and wine, while a fast means humble meals consisting of bread and vegetables and water.

I'd imagine Northern Europeans would benefit from a similar arrangement, though they're likely better adapted to a different periodicity of feasting and fasting, given the climate and the longer periods where fresh food is unavailable.
I've been doing economics research in Julia for a couple of months. The scientific community surrounding it is fairly rich, and there's a lot of very well-written packages for performance.
oh, wow, Hacker News. Inércia 2023 was raw and pure; I loved it. My post is just a tiny POV fragment of many other things that were going on there. I hope the team organizes Inércia 2024 because I'm already dusting off my 6510 assembly skills to work on a demo for next year.
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Looking back on photos, what I found to be precious were photos of people. Photos of things (food, scenery, wild animals) have very little sentimental value looking back.

Take pictures of people, not things.
Facebook didn't hire a dozen people to develop the compiler and ecosystem.
Spoiler alert: No.
Try telling that to Sweden. Some societies are really stubborn about punishing it as a crime against society and a lack of character, despite the harm it causes.
By itself, sure. It's a litmus test of sorts.

It's kinda like how I judge most for-profit businesses based on the checkout experience. Usually (there are certainly valid exceptions), the process of me giving them money is what I expect to be the best experience I will ever have with that company.

Am I going to refuse to shop at a store simply because nobody cared about a payment process? No, not unless it's particularly painful or damaging to me in some way.

However, it's certainly a red flag and a warning that the rest of my interactions with them aren't likely to be better.

Same with the case here. If the landing page for a service product is so heavily pushing particular content in place of actually being useful for them, that's a pretty big red flag.

tl;dr by itself, it's a silly reason to drop it, but it can definitely reveal where business priorities currently lie.
There is something weird in this chart. Clicking on the individual statistics ("Tesla Model 3") shows that it has excellent stats.

https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/autokatalog/marken-mod...

Ah, okay confusing. The original link is about quality issues. The individual statistics are about breakdown statistics.

So quality wise, checked by the TÜV (prerequisite for operating a vehicle in Germany) - not good.

Breakdown statistics, tracked by the ADAC (largest automotive club in Germany) - excellent.
Let's not romanticize correlation. Silicon valley also spent years asking how many ping pong balls fit in a bus, only hired Stanford grads, and sheltered sexual harassers in executive roles. Turns out those were neither necessary or sufficient for success either. Revenue and low interest rates can hide a lot of dumb decisions.
>This repository contains RCEd code extracted from Stuxnet binaries via disassembler and decompilers.

Is there a way to write code (make binaries) such that it would be extremely difficult to recover the source code via decompilers or a disassembler?
TL;DR: Don't eat carbs

Am type 1 diabetic; can confirm that abstaining from raising blood sugar is even simpler than consuming carbs + insulin. The first option of abstinence is an empty equation, which is easy to reason about, where the second case involves addition between two (theoretically cancelling) variables, which is prone to variation and/or error.

When you are diabetic, especially Type I (which is more severe), your food consumption on the momentary level is dictated by the push and pull of insulin vs. carbs. So, to be the devil's advocate, let's say you follow the general recommendation and eat essentially what you feel like and match it correctly with insulin. You would take your measurement/estimation of the result of summing the insulin's graph with the food's graph and you achieve a difference of +/-0 mmol/L glucose/blood over some period of time. That's not going to be a flat line because insulin has a generic shape, whereas foods have their own individual shapes (on the graph), but you're generally doing pretty well if there's no total variation at the end. That can be almost as good as just not eating carbs, but that's also assuming that there aren't negative effects of taking external insulin besides erratic blood sugar.

There are just less moving parts if you eat real food (vegetables, meat, nuts, oils) and skip filler (bread, pasta, potato, sweets, pops). Then are you also consuming food with significant nutritional content per calorie. I would even go further and say that this kind of diet would likely benefit the health of non-diabetics as well. It's literally better food, and for me has gotten to the point where I think of carbs as basically garbage. I still eat them, and do insulin, but am just pointing out how much better it is to just factor it out where possible.

And then if you're gonna eat carbs you can pick lesser evils, like brown things vs. white things. Or rice vs. wheat. Or diluted fruit juice (let's say with sparkly water) vs. Coke. This reduces both variables in the equation, the up (carbs) and down (insulin), which makes the entire equation less drastic to balance. So this is really basic math (0 vs. an equation with two vars) in terms of what the solution to diabetics' diets is.

This opinion probably not backed by the FDA but I've heard that cinnamon and yams/sweet potatoes can passively help with blood sugar control in a gentle kind of sense.
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I could see this failing because the nurse's phone number is different than the school. Any large institution usually has multiple lines.
I've heard Sweden had a notorious doctor who had some public profile in the 1960s talk about horrible drugs are, and that stuck in the society.

I'd like to know who the man is and what the story is about, tbh. This was just banter.
It doesn’t seem healthy from basically every diet across the world. The amount of cultures, in history, that consumed only meat is incredibly tiny.

Ignoring that, just the cost alone will be extreme. Oh it’s fine for you, you’re probably consuming garbage meat. Oh you only buy “grass fed” you’re probably buying grass pellet fed meat that has been shown to not have the nutritional diversity of actual grass fed meat.

How is, eat a balanced diet, mostly plants become so controversial.
I think in the grand scheme of things, it probably is. But it seems to have a momentum behind it that I can't quite see in, say, D or F#. Rust's popularity ratings in Stack Overflow's annual survey are pretty impressive https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-de...
Unfortunately rational narrow bills that benefit ordinary citizens rarely make it out of committee. But it _is_ nice to see the effort.
So sad that no one said: “oh, don’t you know about [insert project I wish existed]”
> It doesn't seem healthy if you are accustomed to the standard American diet.

This is such a low bar that it's not really saying much at all. There are very real reasons why this kind of diet is almost certainly not healthy long term - risk of CVD being the main one.

> One overlooked factor is bioavailability of nutrients

This is not a significant factor that someone should be basing a diet on. Bioavailability is influenced by many factors and the vast majority of people aren't eating enough nutrient-rich foods, period. Optimizing based on bioavailability misses the forest for the trees.
No Room to Grow
that would make my life easier, any info?
Stuxnet didn't break anything. It was used to override the working regime of centrifuges and conceal this fact from being discovered.
Any chance of Julia supplanting Python for scientific computing?
Yeah, if one is talking about user-hostile UI, Turbo Vision apps are not, certainly not compared to some of today's stuff.
When compared to ICE, yes.
For something as simple as a dismiss button for a particular promotion, it's reasonable to store the bit on device. This will work for mobile and desktop apps, which I assume are the vast majority of Spotify usage.

Or they could invest in a generic "misc settings" column in their DB - to store random stuff like this in a blob. You could even query/index on them w/ something like Postgres's JSON support.
Yup, I'm sure a lot of people are trickle charging their EVs with 16-gauge extension cords.
It sounds like you may be burned out. I was in a similar position until I changed fields entirely and took a long break from computer work. Eventually (over a year) my passion for technology slowly returned. It helps that I have more time with my family now and I don't have to learn proprietary cloud APIs or Kubernetes.
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We made this for our school project. I think we went a little too ambitious.
> I live in the upper midwest and, like many other places, don't get much light in the winter.

Not to one-up here, but the UK gets around 60 hours on sunshine across the whole of November, compared to Minnesota at about 115.

Europe north of the Mediterranean is gloomy beyond basically anywhere populated in North America.
And conversely, the article also mentions Putin’s social distancing, which could be a rational defensive measure against biological warfare that he believes might exist, rumors of an undisclosed serious health issue notwithstanding.
Yeah - I've been toying with a similar approach in my banking days. Basically, we've used "Genetic Programming" (very pompous term) to optimize order routing to minimize slippage (the difference between the expected price of a trade and the actual executed price).

Basically, you create a "population" out of possible placement strategies for orders. You then cycle through "generations" that quickly adapt to the changing market conditions.

Ultimately, you end up with something that - on average - provides execution closer to the target price than traditional, more static strategies. But the problem for us was that the outliers where really far out. Basically, if it got it wrong, it got it really wrong and you were often stuck with a set of half executed orders that had to be cleaned up manually.
Yeah I think the optimal process is to take a quick photo and then put the camera away. Record the memory, then get back to living it.

I’ve also generally found that even bad photos are good enough for triggering memories, and so the important thing is to take a photo, any photo, and not obsess over the details. (At least for photos you’re primarily taking for personal reasons.)
I sometimes wonder if pieces like this are really just an insight into the writer’s coping strategies. For better or worse, they need good news to keep going. I don’t know if it applies to everyone.
> If i work sat/sun during a push period i might not see sun for weeks.

Regardless of weather and sunlight, you should avoid this as much as possible. Due dates are almost always arbitrary, especially in software.
> which someone made private "because I felt like it"

Further to making statements in their own community private, it seems even this HN post has been flagged by someone for some reason...
for context in case you missed it, Spotify are headquatered in Sweden. Hence the GP's comment about it potentially being the legal minimum they are allowed to give.
Like Linus on the kernel?
Those rules are only there to keep new car companies from becoming competition to the existing car industry. Once you are big enough, they don't really apply.

edit: Downvote me all you like but just look at what for example VW did in the emissions scandal. Not like anyone went to jail for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
TL;DR

15% of Model 3's fail the mandatory audit after 2 years due to 'considerable defects'.
Then wait a week for tech support in India to respond because the public load balancer was provisioned with a malformed cert and there is no way to sensibly reconfigure it.

Oh wait, that's just the IBM Cloud...
Where did you get this from? No one I know seriously considers changing the structure that's in place. Maybe some politician said something and it somehow reached your news feed.
Three commercial ships in the Red Sea were struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen
I checked your profile date, you're definitely vellum.
In order to test my shell scripts, I have a directory hierarchy of filenames generated from /dev/urandom, which contains a sub-structure with filenames in unary, using only the newline character.
This is indeed pure speculation and not how a CPAP works or even sound in thesis.

There is not an oxygen supply problem in a room even if it isn’t actively being ventilated. If there was, you’d have bigger problems. Also plenty of people do have some form of ventilation or air circulation in their homes.

Unless you’re sleeping in a tiny cramped space that is almost fully sealed, this is not an issue.
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I’m hoping the EU forces them to change this before I’m shopping for another vehicle.

Or everyone else sorts out the charging network. Either works for me.
If you think it through there is so much more to do here. This is the 3 person startup solution, but really doesn't get you much further than that.
There's more context on the launch post from Chris McLeod: https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/so-about-that-feed-reader-only-...

Genuinely excited to see RSS being talked about more and more - definitely feels like it's having "a moment" this year.
Interesting. Would the differences in binary sizes be prohibitive for use on the internet?
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Not heard this used before so nice to learn something, thanks!

Is it said in a neutral sense like yardstick or is it an ideal to aspire to like exemplar or paragon?
There’s always movfuscator [1]

[1] https://github.com/Battelle/movfuscator
Triangle of Death (Italy)
I don’t know what the LOI states of every piece of fine print and I’m not affiliated with them in any way, but what we do know is that at IN 2018, the moment of that decision, the information available at the time was:

The odds of success of that 1M investment and the chip company were closer to 0 than 100%

The odds of success of openai in a competitive environment with massive monopolies who were building AI was closer to 0 than 100%.

Trump was president. He was rattling the chains of every trade partner and China was threatening the most important chip-making places.

Sam altman was co-chairman of OpenAI, not CEO, and still led YC.

There could be plenty of other things about him to be concerned about, but this investment, with the information we have about that time, is not. Especially because you don’t get AI without chips.
> it was the most advanced cyber weapon of its kind to ever been released

Correction:

... it was the most advanced cyber weapon of its kind to ever been discovered
Shareholders have had a poor investment so they do share in the failure. But the way a business works is shareholders vote for a board and the board installs management. This management then installs leaders/managers to oversee the different components of the business.

These people are the business and are often compensated in large part with meaningful equity. Everyone else (middle managers and contributors) are not the business - they just work for it. They are mainly compensated with a salary and are called employees. They are hired to complete tasks for the managers.

The managers will increase and decrease the number of employees based on the CEOs and other managers plan which the board approves. Plans often have certain assumptions that everyone (managers, not employees) agrees on and sometimes it doesn’t pan out so they have to change the plan.

Sometimes the managers resign or are fired when the plan fails and it was their fault. Other times they aren’t because it wasn’t something they could avoid (economic downturn, rise in rates, inflation, etc) or other reasons (they could be large shareholders themselves).
I'm beginning to hate Substack with their stupid popup window.
New bots follow me on Twitter every day, spamming my notifications. They're very obviously a bot bc their name and lack of posts. I rarely had that problem before the downsizing. I think my follow count went up 20% in the past year, nearly all bots.

Otherwise, the service is generally reliable.
Yes all the time. I see people coming up with world changing inventions, becoming huge names in various fields and seemingly coding projects every week and feel like I'm not doing enough by comparison.

But I suspect it probably stems from 'extraordinary' stories being easier to come by than normal ones. You see the former all over social media, especially here. The latter usually doesn't have much of a big deal made about it.
According to benchmarks, JIT implementations are still very slow.
It is weird for you to see different things in two totally different statistics? Hauptuntersuchung != Pannenstatistik.

The first checks whether it is safe to drive with this specific car on German streets. The second is about how often the ADAC had to help people whose cars broke down.
I would think so, people want to listen to swift and drake not some ML song with no relevance.
https://yuri.is/not-julia/ is a good write-up of one person's opinion on the problems of Julia. I'm much less experienced with Julia but I somewhat agree. There's too much focus on "magic" instead of correctness for me to try building serious software using Julia. An amazing language in many aspects though.
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Does this work internationally?
Accidents/breakdowns per 1.000 cars is obviously not the same thing as number of failed inspections. Also: All new cars in that price range have excellent stats in the statistic you mentioned.
sounds like you must only log in to HN about twice a week in that case..... a lot of lazy/bad takes on here that equate to "large company bad". Definitely gets a reddit vibe especially if its an announcement like this.
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When you click on the name, you get the "Pannenstatistik". Which sounds like it is how many cars insured by ADAC had a problem on the road.

The chart on the "TÜV-Report" seems to be what percentage of cars turned out to have a problem when routinely checked in a garage.
It’s not exactly hard to watch a few 30 second videos and pick up some new slang via contextual learning. It’s a skill we all learned in elementary school.
Carthage and Rome also fought what was by some measures (by number of ships or sailors) the biggest naval battle of all times, even taking WW2 into account.
those are accident stats, not inspections