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> Americans critical thinking ability is being eroded.

It's more nuanced than that. The internet has made critical thinking harder than ever. The search for engagement means headlines and half truths are pushed over deep analysis. And, once a person shows any interest in taking a side they are funneled into a bubble that's hard to leave. Even the best critical thinkers are going to have problems as AI takes off.
> For example: I don't need to drive without a seatbelt to "test" whether seatbelt is as important as everyone says.

There is a trivial objection to every ethical position. The parent commenter is not suggesting every rule needs to be tested. But we can imagine plenty of situations where a form of rebellion would be endorsed by most, or may at least be supposed to be constructive to one’s identity. For instance, rejecting one’s family’s religious practices. Preferring tinkering alone in a milieu that prefers more extraverted, social activities and might view the aforementioned as a concerning form of lonerism. Living, briefly, a nomadic lifestyle. Historically (and, unfortunately, still into the present in some places), being sociable with people of differing race was/is met with censure and even threat of violence. And so on. Certain forms of cultural transgression are imperative, in my opinion, for the advancement and development of society, culture, and (as a downstream effect), technology.

There are certainly advantages to a more conservative, traditionalist societal arrangement as well. It’s a matter of balance.
Great collection, thanks!
This is almost exactly what I did when I needed to shift 70lbs in a hurry - although I cut my calories harder and incorporated a 2.5 mile walk every day to the office and back. I also only drank gin/vodka/whiskey with diet mixers, when I did drink, and I drank little.

Having WiFi scales helped enormously - seeing my progress day by day, week by week - and being fascinated to see my weight fall but take on a gradual asymptotic curve as my metabolism adapted to the new regime.

Anyway. Eat less was the key, and seeing the measurable progress kept me going until I decided it was quitting time. That was 13 years ago, never regained the weight.
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I wonder what research he was looking at too. There was lot of fuss made over the “French paradox” and their wine consumption, and follow up studies which purported to show that one glass of red wine a day had tremendously positive effects on longevity.

Turns out the researcher behind those studies faked data and got caught up in the replication crisis.
You’re kidding, but a working phone was found on the ground after the panel blew out of the Boeing a few weeks ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029806/boeing-737-max-9-...

I don’t think there’s anything in a phone that’d stop its core functions in a vacuum. The human trying to use it, not so much.
Do you mean “tongs” or like jerky dried Ox tongue or something?
I'm curious why that is? While I'm not doing keto right now, it has had some really good effects when I did it.

Wife's also doing it for over 2 years now and reversed her pre-diabetic diagnosis and also lost close to 40kgs since she started it.

Is it just too preachy and is causing people to be tired from hearing about it?
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It's not simply a choice. I know that I am capable of terrible things, if pushed. I know because I've done plenty of stuff I am not proud of.

Avoiding guilt, or reprisals, doesn't make me "good".

All this reminded me of this fantastic Stargate SG-1 episode: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Absolute_Power
Sounds like the old adage that you learn from failures, not successes. Much ado about nothing, methinks.
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the ability to withstand temporary discomfort for a higher end is trainable. most people do not know any better, and telling them to not even try is rather not charitable.
In this case, they were the 'Wrens' of the Women's Royal Naval Service[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service
Absolutely not. While it obviously should not be used for use cases that it isn't designed for, as a conservative mark-and-sweep GC it is extremely well engineered and has very good throughput.
The absolute impact of this situation is pretty minimal, as the reality remains that only two people have died on a US airline flight in the past 15 years.

There’s a lot of outrage in forums like this, where everyone is suddenly an expert on how to regulate extremely complex and expensive aerospace systems, but most people understand the system is still actually working fine.
What if Rust compiled to C? Wouldn’t that be a good way to support long tail platforms with low effort?
What else can be a factor? Fishies libido?
I imagine NASA is built and operated on a foundation of thousands of spreadsheets
This seems huge?
CodeQL is another datalog with the domain of code analysis as its use case. Too bad you cannot create a custom fact database with CodeQL. Otherwise, the implementation of CodeQL is pretty advanced and efficient.
If you can sign in accross sites in incognito, there's clearly some tracking going on.
That's easy, they should have just removed the angle brackets, job done.
I think you must be from the 90s -- if so can you share your time machine?

All kinds of major projects switched to C++ already, for example GCC. All the major new projects, for example LLVM, are also in C++ from the get-go.

Even the Linux kernel is considering switching to C++ now.
Mostly, but not exactly. Graeber would have probably identified a number of jobs in both Healthcare and teaching as BS jobs (e.g. pulmonologists who largely treat smokers who don't have good addiction support as duct tapers, or assistant principals in bureaucratic schools as task masters).
Not such a crackpot theory in my opinion - the tools we use to communicate design surely will influence what we design.
I have to assume any time someone says a line of X can do 100 lines Y, there is a lot of abstraction they aren’t accounting for.
Multiple governments involved that is at least French, German and Spanish. So capturing all of those at one time is much harder process.
1) It’s not as bad if the logo or name is at least the manufacturer of the object. There’s an argument to be made that it’s a form of standing behind your product: this is good enough that we don’t think you’ll come to think ill of us.

2) Some of us in fact do avoid wearing logos. Nicer (and not even that nice, necessarily) clothes, bags, shoes, et c. tend not to have them, or at least make them very small. Logos for something other than the company that made the item would be even worse. Large logos and legible clothing more generally signal things I’d prefer not to signal, so… I don’t. Freebies in that category get worn around the house or as a base layer.
Thanks for that.

Having both played many instruments and getting into music composition, I can say that music composition is fundamentally quite different.

Instrument practice is easy in that there is no ambiguity. There is the piece and there is you.

There is simply no guidance with music composition, so it is incredibly open-ended. But I think you're about the attitude of a practice.

Another issue might be that because it's a hobby I have to try and wedge in between the busier aspects of my life, it might feel that I simply don't have the time to truly dedicate myself to the things I'm passionate about, and that's really where my disappointment lies.
lots of java being used at mature banks & successful fintechs
I lost 20 lbs with this method (another vote for MyFitnessPal!), though I gained it back when work got stressful and I stopped being able to control my calories. I’m trying to get back on the wagon again.

I’m also investigating water fasting as both a rapid weight loss and longevity strategy, due to the forced senescence of unhealthy cells. Have you or anyone else here tried that?
One of my colleagues had a big movie style popcorn maker on a small table near his desk. Whenever we fired it up, it would inevitably summon people from all corners of the office to stand around eating popcorn out of the small cardboard boxes. It’s pretty great.
What about the surface area of a basic ALU NAND gate and a basic DRAM cell?
Have you seen how terrible SH code generation is? At least code compiled in 2005-2009. Unnecessary moves:

mov r0, r3 <-result from a subroutine

mov r3, @r4

mov @r4, r3

do something with value.

And many many more examples like this. Wasting cycles and space.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-s...
That is what they kind of do with XClound and iCloud based services.
Note that while the title says "beyond repair", the report states "beyond local repair" which is quite different.

> the estimated engine damage is $3,933,106.
real time collision detection is a good book on those fundamentals with real world considerations.
Congratulations! 55lb is a big chunk of weight to not be carrying around!

It's very true that for weight loss, diet is the single most important variable, but that doesn't mean exercise doesn't matter. The kind of exercise you do matters a lot, too, particularly once you start caring about lean mass vs fat, rather than just the gross scale weight. Cardio has this image as "the way you lose weight", but I think that strength training is vastly superior, overall.

Strength training doesn't have to be ultra time-intensive or strenuous, but it has huge benefits for both health and weight loss; muscle is metabolically-active tissue, taking 6-10 kcal/day/lb to maintain, vs 2-4 kcal/day/lb for fat. This has two implications: first, in a caloric deficit, the body will preferentially catabolize unused muscle tissue over fat, since it's more expensive to maintain, and second, maintaining a greater percentage of your weight as muscle rather than fat increases your daily "just keeping the lights on" caloric expenditure. A caloric deficit with a high-protein diet and even moderate weight training will result in a significantly higher level of retained muscle mass, resulting in more net calories/day burned, even on the days you don't train. Think of it as the difference between active and passive income - the more "passive caloric burn" you can rack up, the easier it is to make progress towards those goals.
Flagged, of course. Hacker News is weird. A nice hack profiled in a very respected magazine. But if the submitter is the wrong type of person….
So it’s not anonymous then because they see what the customer is generating? Otherwise how can they know what it’s being used for?
Between bash.org and textfiles, a big chunk of my youth was archived through our logs and zines. Because of Jason, I'd hung onto everything - logs, pictures from meetups, web designs, source, and plenty of dumps, emails, news stories, and recordings that covered a bit of the history behind some events around the turn of the millennium with the intent of turning them over one day, but lost pretty much everything in an unfortunate beer accident in my 20s.

It didn't feel like counterculture, just that everyone else was wrong, you know?
https://web.archive.org/web/20240120095030/https://www.lrb.c...
I've taught hundreds of people programming. For one year, at my first real job, I was tasked with teaching the programmers within a big company Pascal. All of them were already professional programmers using Fortran, COBOL, or assembly language. The company had a commitment to modernize their software development practices and one facet of this was to introduce a more modern language--Pascal at that time (circa 1976).

I enjoyed that year and, for the most part, my "students" were easy to teach, and Pascal held up well. They were all programmers already, so I didn't have to go slow through the basics and introducing ideas like recursion (absent in Fortran, COBOL, and assembly language of the period) kept the classes new and interesting to the students.

Unfortunately, standard Pascal isn't really a good choice for a first programming language today, even though modern Pascals have removed many of early Pascal's limitations (packages, batteries included libraries, etc.)

So, how can we decide if a language is a viable first language? Employing the wisdom of crowds, here are the top 30 languages in the 2023 IEEE Spectrum rankings:

1-10: Python, Java, C++, C, Javascript, C#, SQL, Go, TypeScript, HTML.

11-20: R, Shell, PHP, Ruby, SAS, Swift, Dart, Rust, Kotlin, Matlab.

21-30: Scala, Assembly, Perl, Visual Basic, Objective-C, Lua, Fortran, Verilog, Groovy, Julia.

I contend that we should limit our choice of first-languages to some language in the top 30. This rules out many languages that I consider important, but we should stick with a language that is likely to benefit the student more than others as a first-language. That means not teaching Lisp or Racket or Ada or Ocaml or Prolog or even D for that matter as a first language.

To narrow our top 30 down to a handful of alternatives, I'm going to use my own subjective difficulty rating and remove C++ and Rust and Scala from the list because they will be too hard for beginners.

Furthermore, let's remove languages that aren't general purpose; this knocks out SQL, HTML, R, Shell, PHP, SAS, Matlab, Assembly, Visual Basic, and Verilog.

Some languages require more complex build or execution environments; I would remove Java, Dart, Kotlin, and Groovy from our list for this reason.

Finally, there are some languages that are not as easy to use outside of specific hardware or operating systems; I consider these languages C#, Swift and Objective-C to be ruled out.

For good measure, I'm removing Perl from the list (a bit too irregular) and Fortran (not widely used outside of some important areas).

Our condensed list now look like this:

Possible first languages: Python, JavaScript, Go, TypeScript, Ruby, and Julia.

To narrow it down even a bit further we can observe that one should learn JavaScript before learning Typescript. (Is this opinion shared by HN?)

Ruby and Python seem like close cousins with Ruby being a bit prettier and Python being much much more popular.

Julia is a bit specialized and a bit harder than the others so now we are left with just three: Python, JavaScript, and Go.
There is a Rust front-end for GCC that is under active development [1]. If the chip vendors are not willing to develop and upstream a LLVM back-end then they can start contributing to it as an alternative.

[1] https://rust-gcc.github.io/
Or, or, NPR management knows exactly what it's doing, and knows well not to bite the hand that feeds. The hand that feeds is extended by, of course, Congress!
> jawns wrote of Catholicism, bsdpufferfish and throw__away7391 wrote of Christianity.

The claim that is addressing is that religion is the mean of popular belief. How does that account for the Catholic experience? Catholics are obviously a minority among American christians and have less political power.

> The latter, broader, category is the majority of the population across the USA.

Indeed. However they are not organized in any way. The percentage who has been to a church more than 3x in their life is probably significantly lower.
The KC-46 saga gives the complexities of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus#Flight_...

On the one hand, Boeing fucked up the project badly. On the other hand, the contract was written so Boeing ate the $5B+(?) in rework / deficiency remediation.
Syncthing works for me. I think it's the best way to do it for devices that you own.
Reading out complete fossilized DNA would be cool.
Undefined Behaviour in C is the opposite of a gap in the standard. It's behaviour that's addressed in the standard that for historic, political, and performance reasons is allowed to be inconsistent. That's the reason it sucks to have been bitten by it (e.g. to find out that shifting N-1 bits out of an N sized integer gives you 0 bits, but shift that Nth bit and all bets are off)
Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs
> The difference is that tinnitus is easily preventable.

That is categorically NOT true.

I'm not a rocker. I've have earplugs on my keychain. I have over the ear hearing protection for the shop. I have no detectable hearing loss relative to my age.

I still have tinnitus. Nobody knows where or why I got it. And there is no treatment.

Apparently, compression on the audio nerves can also cause it. There is a doctor in Massachusetts doing research on this right now.
I almost drowned as a kid too, maybe a couple of years younger. Out in rural Ireland I was jumping from rock to rock at edge of a small lake and fell in. I remember it was actually a very calm experience - sinking down underwater with eyes open, then coming back up a little, then an arm from above came down into the water and dragged me out. Luckily one of my elder cousins had seen me fall in. My parents were there too, but oddly I can't remember ever talking to them about it... I guess fell in, got pulled out, end of story!

I taught/got my daughter to swim at an early age (4-5) for the safety benefit. I'd just take her to the pool once a week and we'd hang out and play, and over a year or two she just learnt to swim from being in the water!
Yes, it's definitely not anonymous. I added to my comment right as you replied—they collect IP addresses and usage data and explicitly say they will share that with law enforcement upon request. It's a US-based company, so they kind of have to.
I think this goes for anything. I have dozens of water bottles from conferences. I use the Yeti and some of the other nice ones. All the no-name stuff that feels cheap and smells like chemicals… never used them once.
As some others are saying here, just telling people to exercise more and eat less is not working.

I exercise at a minimum of 35-45 minutes a day, and when I can get out in the warmer months sometimes as much as 90 minutes a day. While it does have its health benefits, it can just make me hungrier.

And sure, I’ve tried eating less. But I find that leads to me being foggy headed, tired, and irritable. Which the leads to more stress too. And let me tell you as remote developer that is not a great way to live your life.

And in the past when I’ve done all that I still plateau around fifteen pounds lost. And if I slip up any, well, I have to work that much harder to get back again.

I’m not sure I’m ready to resort to medication yet, but I can definitely see the appeal.
Some other "rules":

- you need to get a college degree if you want to get a good job.

- work hard and you will be rewarded by your efforts.

- you can be good at anything if you stick long enough with it.

Would you agree that there is no way to reliably "observe" if these rules are true?
A startup is letting shareholders sell their proxies
I wouldn't use a Chinese business service, mostly for geopolitical reasons. China may decide to block Western users at any time, or the US may decide to block Chinese servers at any time. It's volatile.

And there's concerns about the Great Firewall, CCP ownership of all your data and assets, cultural and ethical differences (in regards to privacy, piracy, IP, etc.), censorship and wiretapping, VPN blocking... it's a lot of overhead that's hard to justify. It's just matter of time before you piss off some official and get in trouble. And if they ever invade Taiwan, oof, it's gonna be a real mountain of headaches. Just not worth it. Even if China does nothing hostile, the US will keep using them as a scapegoat for all our domestic problems because it's easier to blame them than ourselves.

I don't think there's anything a Chinese team could do to earn trust, short of moving out of that country and reforming the business elsewhere (like how Jetbrains left Russia after Ukraine). It's really got nothing to do with the team, but two superpowers approaching a cold war.

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With games and movies though, I guess it's not as big a deal. I still don't like that China owns so much of our entertainment sector (between Tencent owning many Western studios and much of Hollywood being Chinese owned now), but whatever, that's just entertainment.
Evolution is not necessarily linear. Theoretically, it's possible for a virus to die out after which the host's defenses against that virus would be pruned by evolution due to them harming fitness (no use for them anymore while still costing energy).
> Even the Linux kernel is considering switching to C++ now.

Source?
Yeah, looking on Safari myself I can see the images are pretty blurry.

https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/image/microsoftcorp/...

I guess their CDN is doing some heavy crunching of the images to keep page speeds fast.
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Wouldn't this be relatively easy to test with a benchmark? Apple's ARM processors are pretty fast, especially for single-core stuff. Most data-center processors are designed for lots of cores at the cost of single-core performance. Plus, if you're using an x86 processor, you'll need to be translating ARM to x86 which is going to come at a big cost.

To get plausible Mac mini benchmarks on the fastest x86 processor, you'd need overhead to be less than 25%. Plus, you'd be buying a $650 x86 processor instead of spending $600 on a Mac mini. You'd also need to think about power. That x86 processor draws 150W base and 253W peak compared to an M1 Mac mini which hits a peak of 39W. Even if you're getting pretty cheap power (5-cents per kWh), that's still $44/year in extra costs.

I've used QEMU on Github's x86 runners to run Linux-ARM and it's painfully slow. It seems like it would be hard to make the economics work out well while still offering a plausible experience speed-wise.