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>Taxing “carbon” is ridiculous. Literally everything is carbon. A tax on carbon is a tax on life itself. We might as well tax breathing. Which probably is the goal. Make breathing more expensive so fewer people choose to do it. It’s dystopian and this whole discussion in not dissimilar to the “settled science” of eugenics 100 years ago. “Science,” celebrities, and popular politicians of the day were all convinced that Eugenics would save humanity. Hitler took that idea to its natural extreme which made people realize that Eugenics wasn’t all that great when it meant that you were next in the gas chamber.

The fact that you admit that anthropogenic global warming is real (ie. human activity is causing more co2 to be released, co2 causes warming, warming is causing negative effects throughout the globe, at least to the effect of 1% of GDP) suggests that at least on the surface that taxing carbon makes sense. If you're generating externality by burning fossil fuels, and some poor bangladeshi half way across the world is paying for it due to flooding and/or poor yields, why shouldn't that activity be taxed/discouraged?

The rest of your comment goes into conspiracy/slippery slope territory. The current proposals for taxing industrial carbon emissions is a far cry from "tax[ing] breathing".
(For any who were curious: it does not for memory reasons)
That is a very good point. The damages done to society by criminalizing something a lot of people consider a part of their life. Especially, as the harm is only on oneself.
It's not like Germany is the first country in the EU to do this. Malta and Luxembourg had already legalized possession and cultivation and it's basically legal in Spain too.

And "international law" seems like a joke at this point anyway (in general, but especially regarding weed). Canada went way further with no repercussions and more importantly the US which basically forced the 1988 Convention/treaty on the rest of the world is completely flaunting it itself.
That could be the point...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_(magic)
This is probably what they are referring to https://github.com/jart/disaster
Every framework is moving to signals, apart from React and I'd say if this became a standard even they will. This is like Promise. It's a sensible shared concept.
This is not an easy task. For those of you that don’t know the iBook G4’s logic board and hard drive are essential hermetically sealed in the plastic case AND a second layer of metal. I ruined my first iBook G4 when attempting this same upgrade as the ribbon cables that connect the power button and LEDs ripped in half from age (very brittle). I bought another used iBook G4. It still has the stock 60 GB hard disk and now the slot-loading “Super Drive” is dead so I will have to fix it eventually If I want to keep using it. I actually bought a used PowerPC G4 MacBook Pro to use and these are WAY easier to work on, just a few screws and you have access to everything.

I will note to anyone reading this the €79 Amiga-like Morph OS is really good experience on these 32-bit single core PowerPC Macs, very snappy. I also installed Debian 12 Trixie using the Sid branch on my iBook G4 via the USB-A port and using guides (and links to files to get WiFi working) on the Mac Rumours forum I got it working perfectly. Using the Window Maker Window Manager it’s snappy and you get NeXTStep?OPENSTEP experience.
Don't know why, but I found Gemini more accurate for this kind of stuff. It yaps a lot, so you have to focus on brevity going forward.
Curious - do you feel lack of math mastery hinders your machine learning knowledge? I ask because despite pretty advanced math in several postgrad programs with good grades, I feel like my true math skills are shit.
As personal anecdata, this checks out.

10 years C++, mostly C++11 once it started to exist and be available.

After a few years of Rust on the side, I was x2 to x3 more productive in Rust than in C++.

I regularly think that the way I express code in Rust would be very tedious to do in C++. The ingredients of the magic recipe are:

- Proper sum types (Rust's enum)

- Exhaustive pattern matching, destructuring, the initialization syntax

- The expression-orientedness

Other things that make working with Rust comparatively a joy:

- 99.9% of the time, no need to hunt for UB during reviews

- quality and "standard-ness" of the tooling: rustfmt, rustdoc, clippy, cargo
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> Is that common to only communicate only through email/github?

Yes. I’ve joined half a dozen open-source projects of various sizes (from 100 to 30k stars on GitHub) without ever calling anyone; written communication is the standard.
It's ironic that VSCode (best performing Electron app) and Teams are made by the same MS. I know MS is gigantic and these being different orgs but expertise is still inside the company.
In context, the 1919 bombings carried out by the Galleanisti (who were a small part of a much larger labour force) came after a decade of violent strikebreaking.

It's incorrect to frame the violence as justified because of a small group of anachists who later retaliated with small bombs.
I'm pretty new to Cloudflare, since Google sold off Domains, and CF does a lot more than I realized. Excited for my first "dev week" with Cloudflare.

Does anyone have any favorite announcements from years past, or hints to what might be exciting this year?
They did communicate off list and non publicly, that's as much as we know at the moment.

As an open source developer he might have received donations too from the adversary - it's reasonably common for devs to get donations to "say thanks". He might have had voice chats with them, who knows. The emails might be with LEO at the moment but I think its in the public interest for all communications to be released.
Some people buy things because their beauty pleases them and some buy things to signal to others how much wealth they have. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with either. Have you ever bought something that was nicer and more expensive than it needed to be to serve its function?
So move to lemmy ?
I don’t think “AI will take all coding”, if not never, at least not in the next decades.

I think programming languages will get much closer to natural language, but the interesting, important, and hard part of coding will remain there.
last nuclear plant got shutdown a few weeks ago, but, yes, drug testing is a thing (but not popular) even for some office jobs.
Promise.withResolvers can fill this gap now (though it's not natively available in Node, yet):

function sleep(ms) {
const { promise, resolve } = Promise.withResolvers();
return setTimeout(resolve, ms), promise;
}
> I would also be concerned about the implant getting covered in nasty biofilms over time.

The implant doesn't necessarily sit inside the gut though does it ? Just somewhere it can ping the relevant nerve.
Isnt sprint goals just "do all the tickets"?
Quite, indeed in London the pressure group "action on empty homes" say it's 2.2% - and that includes second homes (people with a flat in London and a house elsewhere, airbnbs, etc)

That's a tiny number. Even if that number was zero there would still be a massive shortage. Most claims of "homelessness" ignore overcrowding, they're looking at people living on the street, or at most sofa-surfing, they don't look at overcrowded houses, at 30 year old adults with above-average wages who have to share family homes with half a dozen strangers in HMOs.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6553693f7d629a133b6a4...

I don't know about Dublin but I would be surprised if it's not a similar demographic. A lot of cities have a fair amount of airbnbs because they work better for modern travellers than hotels

The biggest places outside the City of London (the square mile in the very middle, it's a special case due to its size) are holiday hotspots like Cornwall, South Devon, the Lake District, where holiday homes, either private or rented out ("airbnbs") make up nearly 10% of the stock.

They also (like action-on-empty-homes) claim airbnbs as "empty", which is a political view. There are about 200k visitors in a given peak summer week to Cornwall [0] and 13k "second homes" [1]. Assuming they are all holiday lets, and lets go for a typical 4 person family, that's 50k visitors. Slash those numbers and that's a hell of a lot of tourists not spending money, and a hell of a lot of jobs not being funded.

On the other hand cornwall could have its total housing stock increased by 5.6% and all the problems would apparently be solved - as there would then be the same number in primary residential use as exist right now.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-58099906

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6553693f7d629a133b6a4...
Show HN: Hustled over the Easter weekend and got my design blog up and running
Let me know what you think - used framer and figma for this.
I am also curious, and if something like asan would also have found it? It seems social engineering was used to get MS to stop fuzzing the library for malicious code, so if the malicious party expected the valgrind behavior they might have removed it as well.
You can say this about almost any art though. The Mona Lisa is just some paint on a canvas.

Objects are valued at what someone is willing to pay for it.
The public foundational models maybe.

But this isn't true in general, you can easily train a local model to write in very localized styles, and include temperatures that allow for wild swings outside of average.

If you want a rambling, occasionally brilliant Kerouac or de Montaigne you can make one.
> Edit: There is actually a breakdown by county if you scroll down the page. Dublin and Cork appear to be at 6 and 7% respectively.

So lower than the average in Ireland
No one steal my plan of buying a farm and raising cattle okay?

I just need another ten more years gruelling over PowerShell to save funds for land and then I can run away from the internet forever.
Indeed at a certain scale the "easy" approach ends up becoming a mess. A simple counter isn't complex enough but this is a great idea and would be a positive for the language.
> wrong side of the law and gave us an unnecessary deep distrust in law enforcement of any kind.

healthy skepticism seems in short supply thou
today being today ; I must ask ; anyone has actually tried this ?
I studied math, so I can never understand the insistence that the truth of the fourier transform is that it converts from the time domain into the frequency domain. What if you apply the fourier transform twice? Something similar is done in voice processing, and it's perfectly valid. And the origin of the Fourier transform is not in the signal world, but rather in the diffusion world, and there's not necessarily a signal in time involved.

I think the concept of the basis of functions, a series of functions which you can combine to approximate any other function is something that engineers should be able to understand. Then you can see the time to frequency as a (very useful) application.

BTW, the visualization in the post as to how the transform works is awesome, and can also work with the function basis explanation instead of the frequency one. In fact, it might make even more sense! And the posterior mention of the cosine transform wouldn't need to be hand wavy about real and imaginary parts.

In any case, I've seen so many engineers insist in the time to frequency explanation that it must somehow be easier to understand for people. I just lament that the beauty of function spaces is lost in these explanations, as well as the underlying understanding of why Fourier transform is not only useful but deep.
These projects do other non-gaming livestreams for certain events, meetings, etc. Twitch was just a game streaming platform for many years with more incidental gaming / just chatting now than not. Unless there’s a lot of pushback, this will likely just be the tip of the iceberg before allowing more ads in more places in the future.
It definitely speeds up the data transfer rate and makes them a lot faster, a better experience. Sadly you're still limited to 1 processor core in a world where most computers that are in active use have at least have 2 processor cores.

For example I bought a "PiStorm" for my Amiga 1200 computer that uses the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B for processing power (RTG Graphics, RAM, and data storage too via the SD card) and it made my Amiga 1200 useable for daily driving but it's the 4 core Raspberry Pi 4 Model B doing all the heavy lifting, not the Amiga. All I use is the keyboard and the proprietary bespoke chips when playing games that "hit the hardware".
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AFAIK this is allowed during the approval process for very specific roles, but not just randomly in day-to-day work after admission.

And for good reason. That would be an entirely unproportional encroachment on privacy and personal rights, irrespective of whether the test turns out positive or negative.
No. It now means 'content that offends my refined sensibilities'.

(But I'm with you, words matter, and I loved your comment).
Big business is easily won over with tax cuts and cheap labor. I don't think there is any question that big business prefers the "lax" regulatory environment the GOP offers.

You hope the deep state and big business can limit Trump's power, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to find historic precedence that those are hopeful limits rather than practical ones, thinking otherwise is American exceptionalism.
I enjoyed playing the game with my pre-teen nephew and his friends. A fun experience for everyone, especially with some of the players inevitably parting it kept being laugh inducing to the end
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I don't have the citation for this, but I learned in a class long ago that most implanted devices end up covered in biofilms, it's only a matter of time. Especially if it's plastic. e.g. breast implants, catheters, etc.
> I think that if you asked people on the street, they would probably say indeed that ought-statements aren't objectively true, just matters of opinion or something like that.

Not that it really matters, but if you asked people in philosophy departments, they would say the same.

> But to be sure, what I've been saying is that the claim that "We ought to reproduce as our primary purpose" is true is incorrect. If you don't think ought a statements are truths, then there's actually no disagreement here, you don't think it's true either.

Since it's a value, it's either right or wrong. You've decided that "reproduction is necessary and sufficient for a meaningful life" is wrong.

> Now consider " We ought not hold slaves." Is this statement more like "Spinach is yucky" or "The earth revolves around the sun"?

It is in the same category as the former; it is a statement of value.

> Slavery is wrong and has always been wrong - even when it was traditional, when most people held slaves, etc. Because morals aren't just claims about what's traditional or conducive to reproduction. Just like "the earth revolves around the sun", tradition and evolution and psychology don't affect the truth of this statement---it is simply true.

I doubt it. I don't want to open up a can of worms, but I have no problem forcing people who have committed heinous crimes to work for nothing; my only problem is that I think such a system may not be implemented properly. Also, I don't have a problem with people not being able to profit from publicising their crimes. I think the only problem I have with the government seizing assets from criminals is that government officials abuse their power.
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Child, orphan, zombie" computing terminology is goofy at best. A process has a child? Already doesn't make sense, it's replication and mitosis, not reproduction via fertilization. To anthropomorphize (make human, apply human qualities to) computing processes, threads, and conceptual allocations of heap space is an attempt to invite our biological comprehension into a digital domain, but sometimes it is better to invent new words.
I personally dislike images with headlines for blogs posts or news sites. They almost never ad value and needlessly consume screen.
They could supply a "pretty" version for people who want to review it. Every time I have to step through code (and accidentally step into STL code) it looks sloppy and gross, like a swamp. No comments or organization. I would expect something neatly formatted, and comments saying "This is overload-4 of std::copy()..." etc.
Dynamic dispatch doesn't solely belong to the OOP paradigm.
I don’t suppose this will lead the us govt to invest heavily in the open source projects behind SSH?
This title is clickbait and misrepresents something Discord had for years as "ads":

"Discord Drops" are in-game challenges (originally just "stream this game for X minutes to at least 1 viewer") that grant you a key for some in-game promo content, like an item skin. They had a cross-promotion with Halo Infinite in 2022 that did this:
https://afkgaming.com/esports/guide/discord-drops-how-to-set...

The setting for this has existed for over 2 years now. It's just very, very underutilized. From the looks of things, they've just probably got more game companies on board this time:

> “The paid promotions are from videogame makers and will offer users gifts for completing in-game tasks while their friends watch on Discord,”
I wonder how this ends up impacting government agencies and especially courts and law firms. My experience has been all three struggle with these things.
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Yes, I see what you mean and it's a good observation and, funnily enough, you're both right and wrong.

What you're saying is that Negation as Failure (NAF) introduces a concept of uncertainty, that we can consider a third truth value. Prolog doesn't have classical negation, where negating a logical atom (a "fact") makes it false, unconditionally and with certainty; it only has NAF, where an atom is true only if it cannot be disproved (since we prove by refutation).

Intuitively speaking, that is right. NAF is the simplest way to treat uncertainty, or in any case there is no simpler way: just set aside what you cannot know with certainty, and proceed based on what you can (dis)prove with certainty. There's even a name for that: non-monotonic reasoning, and it's a powerful technique. There's an argument that's it's a good model of how humans reason about uncertainty. I'm agnostic on that front [1].

Formally speaking, thinking of Prolog as a ternary logic because of NAF is not right. NAF is just one way to assign truth values to atoms, but there are still only two truth values to assign, true or false. We might have uncertainty about the assignment, but that's still uncertainty about assignment of one of two values [2].

A bit more precisely, there are only two possible outcomes to a query: either it succeeds (one or more times, nondeterministically), or it fails. If the query succeeds we say that it was "true", for some values of the variables in the query, and if it fails we say it was "false", or there are no values of its variables that make it true.

In other words, Prolog will never return a NULL, like SQL. The uncertainty is baked-in to the success or failure of a query.

But that's a really cool subject and you are on the right track thinking of NAF in terms of uncertainty.

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[1] Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a different logic programming language where the difference between classical negation and NAF is part of the semantics of the language, and for the purpose of non-monotonic reasoning. I don't really know that literature very well so I can't recommend specific texts.

[2] Also keep in mind that uncertainty exists only about the result of a query. Anything we declare as part of a Prolog program, "facts" and "rules", are axiomatically true. Since queries are proved by refutation that means that only falsehood is uncertain. We can know truth with certainty and un-truth with uncertainty.
So because of this bundling it has been a long time since I have used Slack.

Is Slack still good or has it had its own problems?

I hate using teams but I don’t want to try to push for Slack if it has also gone downhill.
It amuses me how the default hacker stereotype changed from an autistic nerd person (no offense) to a state-backed USA/Chinese/Korean/Israel/Russian APT group.

I can absolutely imagine people like crimew pwning sshd because it's fun! it's interesting! it's a way to get people to think more about open source community! just why not?
I'm confounded. Backup 30 years and replace Microsoft with at&t and it sounds like the chorus line. Somewhere between agile is bullshit and Microsoft is bullshit is something that makes life and work better for all. Where is it?
Hmm, the whole point is the image. It is like a gallery.
I’m not sure if you meant a different chemical, but methyl salicylate is wintergreen oil and is used in food products.
someone surely had that plan, but most stoners are just astonished and glad that something got done
Interestingly that sounds like something that would work better for introverts, but either way you've got to find some work to pay the bills, and that means providing something that other people perceive as valuable.
And 30~ years of skill and experience that can't be easily obtained.
Every rocket has apogee
At the end of the day, backdoors in the open-source software projects will be caught sooner or later, the problem are backdoors in closed source projects ala NSA backdoors.

To this day, I'm not completely sure if my Windows machine is secure or not. I remember Gates once said that governments in the early days of Windows demanded from Microsoft to show them the source code of Windows but even that is not enough since Microsoft can hotpatch whatever they want in their machines.
Usually applications distributed outside the app store would simply not work (or be limited to close to useless) if sandboxed.

I disagree. Sure, there are some applications that need to be distributed outside the App Store because they need additional privileges (like DaisyDisk), but there are many applications that are distributed outside the app store that could be sandboxed. Just to give some examples, why do Discord, Signal, Obsidian, Dash, or 1Password have unsandboxed processes? (1Password was in the App Store and sandboxed before it became an Electron app.)
We already saw the warning shot in the NH primaries...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4451721-new-hampshire-...

I'm more keen on the Bluesky idea for Stackable Moderation: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...

Anyone can run one, users can pick those they follow, let market forces go to work.

I was talking with a friend about putting the equivalent of a yubikey in the photo ids we already get. Mostly out of complaints in dealing with gov't systems and trying to remove pain there, but could also be used as the "blue check" rather than a gatekeeping device. I would say the country of origin ought to be attached to "verified posters"
This backdoor would've been caught eventually because the added latency is substantial. It wouldn't have occurred on Arch Linux, BSD, macOS, any Solaris derivative OS (Illumos etc).

We should be grateful it got caught so quickly. I sent Andres a honest thank you email. It isn't financial (and I am just one individual) but it felt the least I could do.

If there is a way to donate, I would. This person could've earned more via HackerOne or black market and instead went with an arguably better path. I don't think we can compete with the latter though, unless we start treating this for what it is: a weapon.
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