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U.S. pension funds heavily invested in China complicate Washington's crackdown
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I don' think this one is on the Republicans, a group that effectively doesn't exist in Portland politics.

This is a progressive failure
One person owning multiple homes..
I guess the GP is trying to say that those languages will enter the compliance checklist of some unavoidable rule, and that recommendation will turn into an effective mandate.

What is a quite real possibility. For example, there are plenty of places out there that can't stop expiring passwords every 1 or 3 months because it's in one of those lists. But I do agree that complaining about the recommendation because of this is completely out of topic, the focus should be on the rule that actually mandates it.
Same here. HN + a few RSS feeds now. Reddit without Infinity is no Reddit for me.
It does drive itself, while a human driver supervises and is responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle.

When in autopilot does the car control the steering and acceleration? How can you describe that as anything other than the car driving itself?

Seems egregious to intentionally misunderstand / redefine words to arrive at a predetermined conclusion, just because you wrongly understand the term FSD to mean no humans, doesn't make that reality.

Would you have no objection if Tesla had just called it DrivePilot or BlueCruise instead?
Python is far more popular than the other two for non-web development.
I agree.

The hard part about it is that it's different for every language, so to support it for a language, you have to implement diff for that language.

I'm hoping to make money off of companies wanting those languages.
They think that if you are a peaceful citizen with a place to live and a job, you are privileged and so the government doesn't have to help you. And if you are a homeless addict or criminal, you are an oppressed victim and deserve the help of the government.

I agree with you, the government is supposed to serve the tax-paying and law abiding citizens. But this oppressor-victim ideology that's spreading everywhere is blinding everyone from seeing it.
Ah yes, cause what's better than building a real, working MVP? Learning Rust for half a year just so you can 'optimize' the f out of an app that does two REST calls.
What objective values are you judging it by?

You made a relative value judgement in your comment:

> At the time, given the lack of offer and the standards they had, sure, the books were great.
These will be "run flat" tires. They're to get you off the road to a safe location where a rollback (flat bed tow truck) can pick you up and take you to a tire shop.

There's nothing special about the wheels, so you can mount an appropriately sized "regular" tire and continue on your way. Worth the $250 to get on your way, I think.

I'd guess any non-dealer tire shop would have just sold your friend the tire and sent him on his way.
> Why do we care so much about this kind of stuff?

Because we're in an environment in which authors can be and sometimes are "canceled" for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of their work.

For me, it was refreshing to come across a piece that expresses admiration for Orwell's work, and also recognizes he was a flawed person when judged by modern standards. The two thoughts are not incompatible with each other.

Also, this passage struck a chord with me:

> However bad Orwell’s attitudes toward women were, the warning he gave us in “1984” was not that society might someday become so twisted that women would criticize him. His novel was a warning against the kind of leaders who call their opponents “vermin,” leaders who want to punish people for having the “wrong” opinions or being of the “wrong” ethnicity. It was written about leaders who become cult figures, whose idealized image is plastered everywhere as a symbol of belonging, who hold rallies at which their followers join to scream in ecstatic hatred. It was written about a world in which such leaders could avail themselves of advanced technology, in which propaganda and surveillance were unavoidable and ubiquitous."

I couldn't agree more.
Would Mr. Bean[0] have been sued?

> Even though Mr. Whistler was perfectly aware that his mother was a hideous old bat who looked like she had a cactus lodged up her backside he stuck wither her and even took the time to paint this amazing picture of her.

I’d like to see that trial.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3QOPVC26k
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I use my Series 4 for sleep tracking.

I normally have it in Theater Mode so that the display is off except when I explicitly touch it or press a button [1]. That saves a lot of power.

In the evening when I've finished dinner and sit down on the couch to do the NYT crossword puzzle, read a while, and maybe watch a little TV I put the watch on the charger which is next to the couch. It is usually in the 35-50% range when it goes onto the charger.

Sometime in the next hour or so I'll notice that it has finished charging and put it back on.

[1] There is a setting for that somewhere in the settings, but it is faster to just swipe up and tap the Theater Mode icon. That also turns on silent notifications, but the icon for that is right next to Theater Mode, so another tap on the same screen undoes that, leaving it just in Theater Mode.
I don't think Ruby is used a lot at NSA, other than that, it's weird that it did not get mentioned.

They should've instead just said Python and languages alike?
What are you reffering to wrt Singapore? They have stricter laws than China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapo...
That's an interesting way to look at it; governments merging into even larger entities is them giving up power?

The "government" isn't a unified mind. It's a group of individuals looking to further their career and (rarely) pursue a cause they care about. If two governments merge their law-sets into one, they aren't losing anything - the people involved are simply being promoted and gaining a broader peer influence with more vertical growth opportunities.
same, bro. same. always accessing hn from office. i thought it guys are sick and tired of my posts.
Can someone explain why we can't double-down on C++ and, through compiler wizardry and reduction in toolset (say, strings can only be fixed-size at 32 chars, 64, or 256 long. No raw pointers, allocator zeroes out all freed memory), achieve a memory-safe language?

Obviously, making certain concessions would be a deal-breaker for some, but it might be viable for legacy codebases. If you were to try to make C++ memory-safe, where does it begin to break down?
No. That is a tone-deaf and disingenuous interpretation. If I read “open-source AI copilot”, I pretty strictly read this as implying that the model is open-source. And I’m far from an open-source purist! Hell, I’ve never once made a snarky comment about OpenAI “not being open” or anything!
Or a company owning hundreds of homes.
I am not implying that. I am just saying it’s more than memory sandboxing Wasm gives.
Ah, they must have found an exploit in Rust then
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...
Conspiracy: The NSA has compromised the runtimes of those languages to run arbitrary payloads and spy on everything that runs through them. I mean, "catch terrorists".
To really be real if air-gapping is a significant mitigation for your risk profile then you are likely the target of one of those rare APT's. You should probably also be using a memory safe language if you think you need air gapping.
Fortran does not end up where I'm too worried about its security. C and C++ does. At the scale I'm talking about I'm not sure we'd even say Fortran is "in use".

Assembly is in use, yes, but in 2023 I feel there is generally an understanding of the risks and I haven't seen the "write everything in assembly" crew in about 15 years. The problem is that there's still too many programmers blithely using C and C++ without realizing the risks and thinking they can cowboy through the problems. For every line of vulnerable, dangerous assembly I bet there's thousands of lines of C or C++.

There is also the problem that there have been some big bugs that got through even static analysis and fuzz testing, but I'd still be at least reasonably satisfied if all the critical software in C and C++ would be supported by those tools. Interpreters and compilers have had non-zero error rates too.

At the scale I'm talking about, Ada is a non-entity as well. It isn't used. "But it is! I'm a professional Ada programmer!" says someone reading this to themselves. In which case I would say, you darned well know what I mean and don't pretend otherwise just to try to score useless internet points. Ada is not a relevant force on the programming world. That may be sad, but it's true.
This creates a legitimate reason to use an adblocker.
As this other comment pointed out [0] 40% of homes are mortgage free, but that says nothing about home owners.

Anecdotally I know that none of my neighbors are mortgage free. However I also have a few friends that had major cash windfalls things like startup exits or time working in hedge funds, each of them owns 3-5 houses outright as investments.

So, with this small sample I can easily see that of the total number of homes owned by friends/neighbors, 40% being mortgage free sounds about right, but far less of my friends/neighbors are mortgage free.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612670
Don't mind them—there's a certain subset of HN that is upset that web tech has taken over the world. There are some legitimate gripes about the performance of some electron apps, but with some people those have turned into compulsive shallow dismissals of any web app that they believe could have been native.

There's nothing wrong with using web tech to build things! It's often easier, the documentation is more comprehensive, and if you ever wanted to make it cross-platform election makes it trivial.

If you were working for a company it might be worth considering the trade-offs—do you need to support Macs with less RAM?—but for a side project that's for yourself and maybe some friends, just do what works for you!
>Java

Java it's a pest fest for exploits.

From those, I'd choose Go, C# (and not totally sure because of AOT/JIT's) and Rust.
so what you’re saying is proper C++ is fine?
something like this? https://guanjunwu.github.io/4dgs/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London

Building a building without regulation is easy. Building a city that doesn't burn to the ground every time someone knocks over an oil lamp is not.
RAII is great (especially as a developer’s aid), but I don’t think it’s had a huge effect on memory unsafety: it’s still very easy to UAF in a RAII-only codebase, thanks to all of the flexibility C++ allows in constructors and destructors (and unintuitive behavior in moved-out-of objects).

Rust is generally perceived as having many of the same developer kindnesses as C++, while having same-class performance. Learning it has a bit of a curve, but I found that it eventually clicked (I have a C and C++ professional background).
While I generally agree with the sentiment, I would also like to introduce you to the 2024 Chrysler Pinnacle PHEV, MSRP $63k. I can't speak to the margins, but they've certainly got luxury and high price.

https://www.kbb.com/cars-for-sale/all/hybrid/chrysler/pacifi...
If you're a major on-line ad distributor like Google/Meta, and broadcast malicious ads to consumers...

It's actually worse than that. If they were neutrally broadcasting, they'd at least have the argument that they were conceptually just a common carrier providing a neutral conduit between advertisers and consumers. But they are actively selecting which ads to present to which consumers---with respect to scam ads, they are preferentially sending scams to the people they believe are most likely to fall for them, and profiting as a result. They are not neutral conduits, but active participants in the underlying fraud.

Note that Section 230 only means they are not treated as a publisher or speaker of the fraudulent offer. That does not mean that they could not be held liable for an independent act in furtherance of the fraud, such as identifying vulnerable targets in collusion with the scammers and preferentially presenting the fraud to those targets.
A home owner might own multiple homes
You can probably make the same argument for someone with an alcohol DUI but we still deal with that issue severely. We need more of that here.
the internet says "it tries to be".

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-13-9-1....

https://old.reddit.com/r/ada/comments/mme3jk/is_ada_memory_s...
You’re not commenting on the efficient car options. They’ve been around for years, and they’re not that expensive. I don’t know how people would behave, but people could certainly (slowly) produce less carbon by purchasing cars that are more efficient.
This is entirely unreasonable from the user's perspective.
Python itself is memory-safe, but you're right that a good chunk of the packaging ecosystem uses memory unsafe languages for performance and interop.

The Python Software Foundation noted this in our response to the US Government RFI on open source security. There are efforts to make using Rust easier as a systems language for Python packages and some security-critical packages like 'cryptography' have migrated to Rust.
Betteridge's law of headlines: any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no".
The act of ice skating is a miracle of physics
Blackrock and other funds buy thousands of homes and rent them out. Those are mortgage free homes.
Will we one day be able to use AI to make code memory safe?
I wonder how AI used "for good" would look like. To take all the disinformation online and point out the contradictions and things that do not make sense in a clear way.

Of course, it remains to be seen if people would be convinced or look for their already stablished opinions, etc. Still, cynicism aside, I wonder how something that balances that toxicity using AI would look like. Maybe reducing news to plain facts, like news wire services?

You could train on the comments of major newspapers.
When I’m on my way back from an international location the last thing I want to do is sit in a TSA office and answer questions about my identity.

But, then again, I lucked out - TSA came to my work and did interviews there. Kind of weird but it got me in with little hassle.
Turkish club president arrested for referee punch Leagues suspended indefinitely
Why Tolkien and C.S. Lewis explored the flat-Earth "absurdity"
Fine them? They don't have money, and won't pay. What do you do when they won't pay? Garnish their wages? Don't have any.

Take their drugs? Oh no. They'll just get more, eventually. It's not like they have a lifetime supply stashed away. They generally do the drugs shortly after getting them. They're unlikely to have any to take.

You act as if the police are complete morons and totally incompetent and haven't thought of any or tried any alternatives - anywhere in the world.
ignore the naysayers; nice job building out your idea
As per saying - When you know how to use a hammer, then every problem is looking like a nail.
The good parts:

> Trial runs with small amounts of manure recovered more than half the ammonia in the first pass, with a recovery of about 85% after two cycles.

> ... a preliminary technical economic analysis [...] shows that a model dairy farm using the system could expect resulting revenues to be higher than operating costs...

(The article is about proof-of-concept work - so TBD whether the capital costs would make it a no-brainer or no-go.)
I’m surprised there is no liability for facilitating scams / fraud on the ad networks given that they’re making money on it.
Obligatory: "what if they stay?"
Absolutely agreed + the second you start shaming people for complaining about this you've lost the plot

People were getting ratfucked online for saying "I don't like watching people shit all over the sidewalk" - so you know what? They moved! Maybe out of Portland, maybe politically, but pretending that smoking fentanyl on the MAX is good and normal is just totally insane.
They kinda do this; they'll bring a drink cart up to block the aisle while the door is briefly open.
Looks impressive in the video on your website.

Is the video passthrough offset to the right/left due to the camera location or are you able to correct that in app (asking due to the open peripheral vision).
if you want it, build it :)
This explains why they own many mortgage free houses and you do not.
Not sure about Coca Cola specifically, but we are talking more generally about well-known big advertisers.
Yes, but it's without prompt only for apps that they themselves installed, while Google Play can bypass that.
Because, despite what we Americans have claimed forever, America is actually an anarcho-capitalist wasteland of domination.

So if you can figure out how to dominate a group, you will win and you’ll be rewarded for it. This is why people come here. America is the last place where you can basically do whatever the fuck you want, and as long as you gain enough money and influence, you’ll be celebrated.

I mean Trump EMBODIED what I just described and he not only won the presidency, he has successfully created a cult that could actually ruin everything.

Where else but a lawless wasteland would produce that?
Khan Academy: AI 'coaches' will soon submit students' essays to teachers
PWA's issues are with iOS and MacOS? last time I read, Apple are not really into supporting PWA, if at all.
Saw the headline and thought "This sounds like Raymond Chen". Saw "microsoft.com", I knew this was Raymond Chen.
IBM unveils largest quantum chip
Worth mentioning that if you are in a corporate environment, running a service that sends arbitrary desktop screenshots to a 3rd party cloud service is going to run afoul of pretty much every security and regulatory control in existence
High speed fiance is mostly done in Java and Haskell, because mistakes are expensive. (And yeah, it's one of the very few fields that Haskell enters the list.)
Yeah. Back when machine architectures were churning so fast that compiler flexibility allowed portability that otherwise wouldn't have happened, UB freedom was a net good. Now that those arbitrary architecture choices have stabilized, the good is no more, and the evil of optimization rules lawyering has replaced it. UB needs to go.
Give them a 10% raise if they do well in the first year, problem solved.
Totally agree with this. I thought it was weird when I first joined, but over the years, I've grown to appreciate the lack of it.

Keeping track of your points is a decent indicator that activity has happened though. I just remember roughly where it was when I left, and then I know whether I should check /threads or not.
I just found out hyperview yesterday and am learning it, seems interesting to me.
Map of which States teach personal finance in school
But other languages use c++. I think r for example is widely used and has a ton of packages where people write often buggy c++.
With Verilog, clearly.

Actually, I have no idea if FPGAs in HFT are still a thing.
That's the irony in all of this. The Fort is sprinkling their wisdom down upon the masses and proclaiming that C++ is unsafe while arguing for a language that's a wrapper for c++ developers...Reminds me of John Gall's book about systems "The system itself does not do what it says it is doing."
Command and Conquer did it too, if I recall
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I initially built Cogo for myself, to launch my ideas faster.

Now, it's available to you.

2024 will be an exciting time to build some cool stuff.

Comment or DM me on X @_lyrold, I'll grant you access.

Cheers,

Lyrold.
He said "friendlier than apple." Please read the comment in its entirety before replying next time.
I didn't suggest it's a country-wide problem.

The size of a country isn't an excuse for any of this. You won't find this phenomenon in other large developed countries either, not with these specifics.

This is about laying down the law in a very basic way.
Stating the obvious once again I see.
I don’t know if this is true evidence but you have to wonder what the market will look like once Boomers need to vacate their homes, only to see a market where old millennials who don’t have much working life left decide never to buy their first home.
Epic already does that and has a number of exclusives to their store, like Alan Wake 2. They also will pay devs to have it exclusive to their store for a year.
Gorilla Glass is hydrophobic and oleophobic IIRC

Additional features for [transparent wood and/or the above in a supportive lattice layer] windows:

Variable opacity,

Photovoltaic output, and consummate wiring to the panel,

Thermophotoviltaic output,

Thermoelectric output from the thermal gradient,

DisplayPort, HDMI, USB-C video input,

Contactless multitouch,

Mirror mode; variable reflectivity,

WiFi: Chromecast video/audio in, Miracast or similar audio/video in, Pipewire audio in/out, Opacity/Reflectance/Volume control, Smart assistant support,

Audio out,

Sensor data; temp, humidity, light level, brokenness, contactless multitouch
Which model would you recommend for a desk jockey who either runs or lifts weights a few days a week and goes hiking and climbing on weekends?
You're missing the GP's point. They're claiming that scam ads pollute the ad marketplace and drive away engagement. Why click on an ad, or even pay attention to it, if there's a good chance it's a scam? And why would advertisers pay for ads if consumers are not engaging with them?

Thus, Google has an incentive to keep the ad space free of scams - it makes Google users more valuable to advertisers.
Drone Shots of China's Cyberpunk Cities
I appreciate the comment, I really do! Fwiw I play around with thumbnails and titles quite a bit to try to learn what seem to work, and I think the underlying sentiment in the comment rings true for most in my audience. Aaand, it may be a coincidence but the views just hockey-sticked when I changed it :D
WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
I just think it's a bit misleading to call something "open-source (xyz)" if it wholly depends on a proprietary service that provides (xyz). If you made an open-source implementation of the Discord client, it'd be misleading to call it "Open-source direct messaging and communities app". At least in that example it would be possible to reimplement the backend and make it truly open-source, but so far nobody has been able to reimplement GPT-4V in a way that it's nearly as useful. Hence why some people get super excited when they see "Open-source [...] AI (using vision)" and super disappointed when it's just another wrapper for OpenAI
What I'm saying is that if you are sufficiently smart then you could concievably write perfectly safe C++. But since almost no one in practice has ever been able to be sufficiently smart consistently enough to ship C or C++ code that doesn't have memory safety issues, I don't trust anyone to do so and would rather people stop writing stuff in them when there are better languages to use where I don't have to trust you as much.
What are you implying? That the Netherlands, a vastly more progressive nation than the US, is somehow similar to North Korea, an authoritarian state?
Hm, maybe? Public transport, for example, I very nice, I agree, but in fact it’s less affordable in most places than, say in New York. I’d much rather be poor in NYC than in Paris, London or Prague. At least in NYC, you don’t get charged more for commuting from a cheaper area, the city provides heat, there are community programs, etc.

Look up some actual political programs from major parties in Western Europe. You’ll be surprised.

I think most Americans have seen a sanitized version of Europe, just like most Europeans have seen the evening news version of America. Both of those ideas are caricatures.