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> I regularly use several different languages, sometimes in the same project, sometimes not. But in all cases, I want to use the same build system in order to minimize my environmental complexity.

It’s not obvious to me that one can solve the problem of making N languages co-operate by adding another. Why not just use the most powerful language to orchestrate everything?

> I don't want to risk version dependencies. I want to be able to use the same build system even when I'm compiling something using an old version of a compiler, and I don't want to be forced into a build system upgrade just because I want to upgrade one of my compilers.

That begs the question of whether compiler upgrades should force build system upgrades. In a mature programming language, this should never be the case, although practically speaking it’s definitely possible (e.g. ASDF 3.3, released earlier this year but built on a language which has been static for thirty years, adds compatibility for Allegro Common Lisp!).

Incidentally, ASDF is pretty cool: https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/
> 20ish people startup, anything goes.

its up to the person involved in a securities transaction to bring the lawsuit, or snitch

nice bounties for this by the way, doesn't rely on the presence of shares, or being publicly traded. bonds, options, warrants, just as good

employees and contractors and outside personnel can snitch too, just make sure the amounts are worthwhile. if you use a lawyer the US government allows anonymity for this programme
But Nothin compares
To these blue and yellow purple pills.
Why do you want the option to have someone arrested for offending you?
This essay is for kids. Many successful founders have likely listened to inspiring talks like this when they were kids. In places like Stanford or the prestigious high schools they come from.

The people who read here can read it for clarity and the chance that they can show this article to a smart nephew to inspire them. Like I just did.
i understand people disliking using tone indicators, especially when they can ruin a joke, but they are really wonderful things that can prevent misunderstandings like this online
> but my superhero concept filled me with a concern that ecology might be the next banner for demagogues and would-be-heroes, for the power seekers and others ready to find an adrenaline high in the launching of a new crusade.

Damn, he was spot on about this.
Link to any resources you consider valuable for learning about Colossus?
This is fraud. Make it a felony, have a couple of high-profile convictions, and the problem will disappear. It happens because it's zero risk and low cost on one side, and the resources expended on the candidate side is of no concern to those committing the fraud. Attach real actual jail time to the fraud and the value proposition completely changes.
This article is just a hit piece on social media. The cited research doesn't point out causes. The article does speculate on causes other than social media[0], but only sandwiched between blaming social media.

[0] - "The report does not reveal the causes of the changes, but they come amid increasing concern at the impact of rising social media use, income inequalities, the housing crisis, and fears about war and climate change on the happiness of children and young people."
When it comes to freight rail, the US is in the top handful of countries in the world by pretty much any metric.

We’re not great at passenger rail, but we beat all of Europe when it comes to the amount of freight shipped via rail per capita, and all of Europe except Switzerland based on the percentage of total freight transported by rail.
This reads like some kind of Napoleonic complex.
If you read his rebuttal (which is linked in the article) he explains that he was relying on DOD satellites, not the seismic stations. The article doesn't even mention that....
Indeed is owned by the same Japanese holding company as Glassdoor. Would be careful there too.
I don’t think that whole “flight” thing is gonna take off…
Nature is such a good source of inspiration, the "perturb" approach reminded me of [fixational eye movement][1] but maybe that's only a clear link in retrospect.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(visual)
They do but not to this orbit. The smaller Vega rocket is still putting smaller satellites into orbit. Until the Ariane 6 comes online ESA is outsourcing to spaceX (which while unfortunate is better than paying the Russians to launch a Soyuz from Guiana).
> A learning thermostat, after training, does as good a job of maintaining the temperature if not better

Maybe you’ve had more luck than me, I’ve hated every “smart” thermostat I’ve come across. If AGI is a bunch of smart thermostats in a trench coats I hope it comes with an off switch.
Why not just fire them? Severance isn’t guaranteed yet in the US and just cause isn’t that hard to document (I’m genuinely asking - HR fascinates me).
I didn't mean tomorrow ("if we ever.."), or the day after. I meant one day when the US and Russia get along as well as China and the US do. It's not like we'll be at not-war war long into the future. Building the bridges and tunnels would take probably a decade or two, the way we build things. But if we did, then much of China's trade that goes over airfreight could come over via rail... one day.
Let's Set a Maximum Wage for the Rich
If anybody ever happens upon this thread, I just want to point out, for the record, that froren is lying. He has obviously listened to and remembered this old Ron Paul speech and he understood exactly what Dr. Paul was saying, but for deceptive reasons froren choses to feign misunderstanding.

The (very clear) point of Dr. Paul's RNC speech was that regular people are better at solving problems than the government. If the government stopped taking tax money to monopolize "helping the poor" (while wasting most of that money on ever ballooning bureaucracy) then churches and other private initiatives would step in to do the job better, and at better value for the money. We wouldn't just let our sick and our poor die in the street, because unlike a faceless bureaucratic machine that inevitably comes to exists only to perpetuate itself and its own power, we are humans who care about other people.

The people at the RNC were cheering for the goodness of regular people, for the fact that Americans give more to charity than any other nation, and for the positive libertarian vision championed by Dr. Paul.

When the government gets in the way, and makes everyone poorer (by excessive taxation and bureaucracy), however, people become colder, and they can always excuse it to themselves by pointing out that the government promised to solve the problem, and they already forced us to pay them to solve it. So now it is the government's responsibility, but a bureaucracy cannot have any feelings of responsibility, because it is a machine and not a human.

This is also what happens in communist countries like China and the USSR before it.

Unfortunately, many people will probably just read deceptive statements like feoren's, and never go listen to the actual speeches. The left loves to dissuade people from actually listening to conservatives. Just see how they are shamelessly lying right now about Trump's "bloodbath", hoping to stir up actual political violence from people who they manage to trick and frighten.

The left is always trying to use 1984 style newspeak to prevent people from having an honest debate, so naturally they talk as if it was an established fact that either a government bureaucracy must continuosly rob Peter to pay Paul, or everyone starves.

This is because the left wants as big and powerful of a state apparatus as possible, because they intend to use it as an army against their political enemies. A recent example of how the left sees the role of the government is Letita James' lawfare against Donald Trump.

Ron Paul's message was that whenever the government tries to "help", it always backfires. Expecting the government to solve social problems, and allowing them to take money from regular people, leads to financial ruin for the country, and it won't even fix the very problems it claims as the reasons why we must give up our freedom and prosperity. In fact it always manages to make the problems worse.
That NPC is still in you, you just got added. It cant speak for itself, not with words, so you are free to tell the story that it's just you in there.
> if not cheating then certainly leaning heavily on the rules

How so?
you didn't like java generics? why?
Makes sense, thanks for the color. That makes me give Part Two a little more slack. But only a little. Loved Part One but Part Two was a disappointment for me.

Yes, read each of those books once. I think I got up to God Emperor. Next time I have the itch to read the first, maybe I'll just force myself all the way through to Chapterhouse...
https://archive.ph/yQWcV/again?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2...
Why Cicadas Power Spray Their Pee
> I think we've found Naughty Old Mr Car's HN account.

Don't have a valid reply so you have to say something stupid?

Apparently you don't know what professionalism is and an interviewer should never raise his/her voice.
I've a similar question to GP, but from a slightly different angle. I can see the attraction of using a Turing complete language, but on the other hand, an important properly of a build system is that it ought to halt at some point. Something like, say, Starlark, which is used in Bazel, is primitive recursive, so it's not Turing complete, but gets you almost all the way to Turing complete while also being guaranteed to halt. It'd be interesting to see this aspect covered.

EDIT: s/Skylark/Starlark/
"Human extinction". Alarmist horseshit. "Two companies with regulatory capture deciding the truth" is the real threat, and those 10% are probably on their payroll.
Except there's literally a result out this week linking fasting (specifically 16+ hour intermittent fasting) with a 91% increase in cardiovascular disease deaths, which if it holds up would utterly swamp any incremental improvements to alzheimers risk.

No free lunch in personal health decisions, alas. Really the only good advice is stick to well-established science, be healthy in general, avoid internet advice, and don't sweat the small stuff.
But Java has all those features...?
Getting rich and making the world better are not incompatible, or even unaligned in general.

You get rich by offering a good or service that society desires.
Use streaming ?
That was a big surprise for me. I always took the book as an earnest ecological message. Totally missed the "heroes are disasters" central theme and therefore the underlying warning about greenwashing.
How does a VC being a VC disprove anything? Just means he's good at raising money, and hiring good engineers.
It’s not just “Western Puritanism” to recognize that a photo of genitalia usually has a sexual context – the point of cropping it so tightly is to focus on that aspect! – but it’s also distracting from the real reason this is a crime: a convicted sex offender did it, by his own admission, with intent to cause distress to an unwilling participant. No matter how body positive you are, lack of consent to be part of someone else’s sexual gratification matters a lot. Even if the images were totally non-sexual in purpose - say pathology case studies in a medical textbook – consent still matters and you don’t go shoving them in other people’s faces without asking first.

You’ve been conspicuously non-specific about the other cultures you’re claiming would be okay with this, perhaps you could give an example and explain why it’s better?
Sadly, the best public material is the technical marketing for GCP, see the following for example (a few other materials can be found in this comments section):

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer...

If you want to learn about modern exascale filesystems, the best paper today is probably from Facebook:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast21/presentation/pan
He's saying that whether or not they fire this person the day may come when they have to get rid of someone.

More broadly, managers like to hold onto headcount if they can unless someone is a real problem for their team. If they're just someone who isn't an ideal fit any longer they'll probably hold onto them.
Win? Embarrassing himself and not being professional and not being able to keep his cool is not a win, its embarrassment which he has always been.

He lost a big deal because he wanted to be hostile and argumentative and against the truth (when Elon told him people will show whos right/wrong, he said that doesn't mean anything even if there is a study attached)
Postgres wasn't even on my radar until the 9.1 release (2011) rounded out their replication story. MySQL replication had been baking for a decade at that point, despite its other glaring flaws.
Yet another wealth tax argument they fails to understand how the top 0.1% actually have the new worth they do.

People who don’t understand how money works are in no position to dictate how it should be distributed.
Show HN: Build a keyboard monitoring tool to decode your typing habits
Today if I were to write a cgi script it would have to send json payloads to the JS front end because round trip latency on phones is between 100 to 500ms to hit a dns server. I was getting lower latency on dialup in 1996. On my desktop it's 2ms on a bad day.

You can't just use HTML because browsers have mutated to fat clients for a X like protocol which is a mishmash of html, css, js, and whatever else someone's decided to throw on top of it.

We're using screwdrivers as axes and everyone is acting like this is some type of acceptable outcome.
Huh, but I'm using Unsafe in JDK 21?
Maybe those infant memories exist, but they aren't accessible to our adult minds because our understanding of sensory data at the time was so different from our more developed minds?

The data is still there, but it's in a forgotten file format.
I find it interesting that his justification for working with South Africa was "science transcended politics" when I can only imagine it was common knowledge during that time that "science doesn't transcend human rights" as the international community established through the trials of the Nazi scientists who experimented on human subjects.

I've had people argue with me on this very site that the results from the Nazi experiments should be allowed to be used for reasons.

Not that I'm accusing anyone of anything but I think he would have shared the same opinion regarding the treatment of the Jewish people and the general consensus that came out of it post-WWII.
It is: Appendix II
CAIDA had some awesome stuff back in those days. There was also an outfit that generated poster maps of the Internet backbones too. I wish I had bought one back then because I don't know of anyone making things like this anymore. Our data was used by a number of companies to create visualizations too. One even appeared on a 60 Minutes story (I think it was that show).
> Still if I need JVM then Scala or Kotlin are still preferable over Java.

That's so 2010. I would avoid Scala like plague. It is a soup of all features imagined and some more. Java is difficult for novice. With Scala even experienced senior devs can look into a snippet and be befuddled. It is designed by academicians who thought clever looking choice is better.
Yes I’d much prefer it over the same old articles about Musk drama and impending doom from AI.
Google blocks man's email account over nude childhood photo
Great episode of the Lawfare podcast recently where Shane Harris interviewed Benjamin Breen about his book, Tripping on Utopia, which tells the story of how Mead’s research into expanded consciousness and psychedelics.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id...
But Apple never races to the bottom - they sell premium products that their customers pay a premium price for - the customers know that the hardware quality, integration and support are good [1]. I don't understand how a market that's crowded makes a difference to their value proposition.

[1] I owned two macBooks with butterfly keyboards. I know it's not always good.
no windows?
I was really excited to open this thinking it would be a thought experiment on how to restart all of Google's services if they ever went down all at the same time. Was mildly disappointed to find that this was about starting the next Google.
Aren't Horn clauses enough to make a language Turing complete?
There’s such a huge time gap between our current rail and air that many things that are somewhat time sensitive end up flying which would use a reasonably quick rail network. NYC to LA is well under 2,800 miles so getting just about anywhere in the continental US on rail in under 48 hours is a completely reasonable standard.

Yet, people moving from Texas to Florida don’t just park a U-Haul on a flatbed and fly, because it’s not just slow but also unpredictable. It can take weeks or even months in some cases because the network is optimized for coal and wheat etc which don’t care about delays just cost.
This comment is just a longer and more critical version of saying that you chose not to upvote the other comment in question.
What I’ve heard from people who have presented to him is he liked to say “that’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard”

At the same time, it seemed to draw results
It looks like the new D&D set is about $0.10 per piece, including licensing, but it's 3745 pieces so there is economy of scale.

The set you link is much smaller and has Disney licensing, which I suspect is of the "how much money do you have?" variety.
MDN doesn't like it

> Browsers set required values for this header according to their active user interface language. Users rarely change it, and such changes are not recommended because they may lead to fingerprinting.

> The content of Accept-Language is often out of a user's control (when traveling, for instance). A user may also want to visit a page in a language different from the user interface language.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

:shrug:
Look at the law in Vermont. There's no law against nudity (there are local laws in some places, though!) but there is a law against undressing in public. Nudity legal, flashing is not. This guy was flashing. I think Vermont got it right. I believe your right to dress as you want exceeds my right to dictate how you dress. But that does *not* mean you get to involve me in your sex games.
> It's not about what is being signed, it's about who signed it

Yeah, that's what I said about PKI. I also said there is confusion between provenance of a statement and its accuracy. Just because it's signed doesn't mean anything about its accuracy, but those that confuse the two will think that just because it is signed, or because it was signed by a certain "trustworthy" party, that indicates accuracy. PKI does not establish the trustworthiness of the other party, it only gives you confidence in the identity of the party who signed something.

George Santos could sign his resume. We know it was signed by George Santos. And yet nothing in the resume could be considered accurate (or even a falsehood) purely because it is signed. That it was proven to be signed by George Santos via PKI is independent of the fact that George Santos is a known liar.
> what would happen

The market cap would not change.

Enterprise value (which includes asset) = Market cap + debt (borrowings) - Cash.

Therefore, market cap = enterprise value + cash - debt.

So the company now would have EV of 100M and 0 cash and 100M debt. Its market cap stays at zero.
> So you think sending dick pics to a 15 year old is chill in other cultures?

Not what they said.

The suggestion was that they'd laugh, make a joke about stupid men, tell them to put their dick away.

The most probable response to a real life flasher in this part of the world would be a little finger wiggle and the expression "ahh, winyarn" with a lot of mocking laughter.

Needless to say, not very many actual flashers .. but you can see plenty of near and fully naked men (and women) briefly changing in and out of wetsuits down the car park at the beach. There's more on show at the various nudist beaches.

You keep your puritanism by all means, it's no skin off my western nose.
> I don't really understand why sites don't use language headers which obviously specify the user's preference.

Accept-Language headers aren't obviously the user's preference, though. There's the four users that manually set it, and for them it is their preference. Mostly everyone else is getting a default based on their OS language, which often isn't really something they set either.

There's also the problem where the country appropriate website for where you are may not have a language you understand.
I don’t think so, because it is the runtime JIT (Just-In-Time) optimizer that is the critical speed advantage that allows the CLR and JVM to beat C and C++.

The inlining of virtual calls is the critical optimization that enables this. Because C/C++ is optimized statically and never at runtime, it is unable to optimize results of function pointer lookups (in C, and thus also virtual calls in C++). However, the JITs can inline through function pointer lookups.

In sufficiently complex programs, where polymorphism is used (i.e. old code that calls new code without knowing about it), this yields an unsurpassed speed advantage. Polymorphism is critical to managing complexity as an application evolves (even the Linux kernel, written in C, uses polymorphism, e.g. see struct file_operations).
Where is Mr Wilford when you need him?

Sorry couldn’t resist the Snowpiercer Reference - where they connect alaska to russia with a long ass bridge.

To be fair it does look like a “technically possible but ruinously expensive” kinda project.
Man, Marc Andreessen looks like a conehead!
It’s not clear at all. So far, the only sentient, intelligent beings are the ones God made. His Word (Bible) said He made us for Him with predictions for the end times. AI takeover isn’t in there. Also, it implies (a) we won’t ever observe an act of evolution that produces anything like us and (b) any artificial intelligence will likewise require brilliant, intelligent designers to work and be maintained.

So far, all these AI’s with a tiny fraction of human capabilities require brilliant designers in fine-tuned environments, like we did. We’ve also observed billions of human and non-human births with no new kinds of animals coming out of them. So, the Word of God is supported by billions of observations plus every AI ever designed while evolutionary or singularity-type views are not. That’s despite so many comments in these discussions referencing evolutionary or mechanical explanations as if they’ve been proven instead of disproven by observations.

So, put your trust in Jesus Christ, receive the Spirit of God our Creator, and find out for yourself what’s special about us. Your life will be much more than the product of a biological, cellular process. God is powerful. You’ll see His work in a new light after you personally know Him.
Knowledge learned from airplane propeller development, as well as from jet plane wing aerodynamics, has had a great impact on the design of wind turbine blades, which are now affecting the evolution of birds.
If the only explanation someone can provide is that "a cluster is slow", the issue isn't with network observability. They need to do at least the minimum level of analysis before escalating.
many young MDs in the USA are drowning in school debt; some middle years MDs have bad luck with money D-I-V-O-R-C-E ; some young attorneys do not have an onramp to the higher paying situations.. in other words, there is a curve, it is not instant financial success as it appears when viewing top-earners.