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Kotlin is growing in usage. Not as fast on backend obviously because Java is still perfectly serviceable but it's still definitely growing.

The area Kotlin excels in isn't as a pure Java replacement to be used by Java devs but rather a JVM language palatable to the Python/Javascript/Ruby/Golang crowd. It's very very hard to convince such people that they should even try Java but Kotlin is much easier to at least get them to try and show them it's really not hard at all.
What is the state of the art for running NetBSD (and other *BSD) in CI such as GitHub actions?

Edit: to add a bit more detail, I maintain a cross platform tool [1] on GitHub and require a way to build and test it in CI for several platform not natively supported by GitHub.

Currently I use cargo-cross [2] to build it from a Linux OS but this doesn’t work for running the tests.

One option I’m aware of is running a qemu VM on Linux, which is the approach taken by postgres [3].

Another option is using an external CI provider such as Cirrus who claim to have native support [4] for various *BSD.

[1] https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy

[2] https://github.com/cross-rs/cross

[3] https://github.com/anarazel/pg-vm-images

[4] https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/FreeBSD/
Yes the world is a little bit more dangerous for that kid at least. At any moment his father might throw him in a lake with neither consent nor warning. I never had to worry about my parents experimenting on me and I simply learned to swim with lessons. Lucky me to have had such parents.

What makes it worse is that OP described it as an experiment that was primarily for his benefit, because he wanted to see what it would look like to see kid drowning. No word of wanting his kid to learn something (which still wouldn’t have been ok but at least barely makes a tiny bit of sense). That is mental, and child abuse.
A NSL should already be able do that.
Ha! Just thought about and posted the same. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40063256
Denial of reality is one of the foundations of neoliberalism.

Often it seems vaguely plausible. But sometimes - as here - it's just silly.
A modern cut thru switch typically has one ASIC for a group of ports, and that ASIC handles all the traffic. If the traffic for all of those ports is greater than what the ASIC can handle, you'll have buffering and/or drops.

That being said, the ASIC can typically handle line rate on all the ports. You could have 10G input and fan it out to 10G output on all the ports with no drops, but if there is other cross port traffic, something could get dropped.
Anecdotally, I didn't have a car until I got my first job. Not everyone has parents that can just buy them a car.
That’s just like your opinion man
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone." Alexander Acosta

"The court documents unsealed under a US judge in New York sparked suspicions about the pedophile links to Mossad. According to the website Global Village, this revelation is consistent with claims by former Israeli spy Ari Ben Menashe, who argues in his upcoming book that Epstein was also an Israeli spy.

Menashe’s book also mentioned Ghislaine Maxwell, linking her to Mossad, the website reported, stressing: “Ben-Menashe alleges they ran a “honey-trap” operation, providing young girls to politicians for sex and then using the incidents to blackmail them for Israeli intelligence.”

The author notably reveals that Epstein was introduced to Mossad by Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, who worked as an Israeli espionage agent.

The Daily Mail reported similar details, stressing that the unsealed document has “reignited suspicions” about Epstein’s links to Mossad."

At this point, its not really a conspiracy theory to think an intelligence agency controls the US government through blackmail, its elementary common sense.
Every time someone disagrees with laws passed by a democracy, this argument comes back.

Did you ever speak with someone out of tech about internet spying? I did, no normie gives a shit.
This is 100% the will of the people. Just take the L for what it is and accept that this is democracy working as intended.
We had a cocktail afternoon at the last company I worked for.

I had some brilliant ideas after drinking, but looking at the code sober next day revealed, I wasn't brilliant.
Tell HN: Phind.com Now Requires a Login
up until yesterday https://phind.com was basically free. now it requires a login.

sad day.

can I ask the guy who runs phind: what lead to this decision?
I'm French. I can't list them off the top of my head right this moment, but there definitely are annoying errors that natives do that are in the same category as "could of".
I believe that "Trump-stuffed SCOTUS" is referring to the current Supreme Court leaning hard in "conservative" (Republican) political directions / making decisions Trump would probably approve of.
What? They are asking $100$ for the basic version and 4.4 MILLIONS to make it open source?

That's disappointing. At least they could have used a time-based license like BSL.
Only Windows developers should pick C# for anything, though. From my privileged point of view, that's a tiny minority.

But not sure why anyone would choose Java over Kotlin now that Kotlin exists.
I had the same question. I suspect it is the same issue that triggered re-evaluation of classical methodologies for controlling inflation: they are measuring inflation in a way that doesn't conform to your perception, normalizing salaries based on that inflation measure, and then comparing cohorts through time.

The biggest issue with this is that the zero point in interest was practically reached. The biggest influence of "inflation", the biggest cost that people have, is housing. To be "smart", inflation didn't consider the cost of houses--because that isn't what people would pay each month--but instead some weighted average of mortgage costs and rents. As house prices increased at rates higher than inflation, interests rates were dropped which keeps mortgage rising at a lower rate and this "keeps inflation under control" but obviously that cannot continue forever.

There were lots of people that objected to that measure of inflation. Now they bump the interest rate "to keep inflation under control", and suddenly young people cannot afford a mortgage anymore: the principal has been increasing above inflation over the years, and suddenly the interest rates also jump. You're double screwed. Add to that education costs, which aren't factored into inflation calculations but are becoming an increasing cost of life for the young, and here you are.

So to me, the economist is comparing apples and oranges here. The way we measure inflation isn't useful for this comparison between these cohorts.
>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing

What is the base of this claim? There are EU elections this year FYI.
i really want some information like this on rooting my echo show. i don’t care for it as an alexa device but the hardware seems nice and useful to hack on if you take amazon out of the picture.
>A <$insert hyper emotional disparagement>. Dictatorships need hardly interfere with the "stability" of a society which <$insert random example some democratic failure>.

And yet they do interfere. We've seen plenty of evidence, from Russia, Iran, China and (I still can't believe how they got competent at this, but there you go) North Korea.

And in some cases they've been successful at destabilizing formerly fairly sane and stable democratic countries. The social divisions that the UK And US currently find themselves in could be attributed in part to this steady drip of caustic interference.

However, as a "short term pessimist, but long term optimist" (Hitchens), I'm optimistic that we will start to introspect a bit more as societies and begin to be less easily manipulated. It will take a while, but I believe even now the tide is turning.
Physicists actually use spherical cows-- it's a useful simplification to make calculations tractable. A phib as used here is more like the common "imagine a trampoline with a heavy ball on it" explanation of gravity that I always hated growing up. (Mostly because it's self-referential, but it's other kinds of wrong as well).

Did you read his book? I'm considering it... This blog entry refers the reader to the book for an actual explanation. Annoyed me a bit since I was hoping to find an explanation in the blog entry itself. He says it's too long.
The oldest Gen Z are 27 in 2024, still very young but not exactly an unheard of age to be leading a company. Evan, Zuck, Bill, etc were considered pretty effective leaders at that point, but you’re right, their management style was certainly different from other CEOs.

It does beg the question though, where all the Gen Z founders? I earnestly cannot think of a single one. Anyone have a name that comes to mind?
Does anyone else find GitHub’s mobile website to be poorly designed now? They used to be great but now it’s barely useable.
Cooler transformers could help electric grid
Rather than being a father who is not abusing his child, better to abuse the child to teach a valuable lesson that family cannot be trusted? Great lesson. How about being a father who can be trusted?
Yes you can, I had no problems adding balance with a credit card issued in Finland. No need for a VPN or anything. Been using the API for three weeks now.
Incredibly self-serving paper.
Or its a foreign intelligence agency which does this.
Avocado toast ain’t got nothing on the $20 smoothie at Erewhon

https://erewhon.com/category/2006/smoothies
Are you being coy? Is there or isn't there in your opinion?
> "Everyone" being 'the USA'.

Indeed. To be clear, I'm a UK citizen, I lived through those protests, and to me all the events of 9/11 bore the same sense of unreality as a blockbuster film — I didn't even know about the specific existence of the Twin Towers until seeing pictures of them on fire, and my first trip to the USA wouldn't happen until the end of 2014.

However: in this context, the USA's opinion was sufficient even in isolation, as they are both a nuclear power and were the main force involved in the invasion — if the American government wanted to use nukes, they'd have used nukes, with or without the rest of us. And I don't think the threat of possible Afghan nukes would have slowed them down, rather I think it would have turned the tragic failure to nation build after the invasion, into a real life (though probably geographically limited) equivalent to Fallout.

Fortunately they kept that option off the battlefield, opting for non-nuclear alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB
>the fact their graphs show boomers as poorer than X, millenials and Z tells you all you need to know

it's comparing income at the same respective ages and that is completely plausible. I'm a millenial, child of boomers. Both were lower middle class workers, I'm the first in the family to go to uni. This is a very common situation. I'm better off than my parents were at my age.Like, ask any parents of millenials what they had growing up in the 60s compared to what we had in the 90s and the education access I had compared to what they had.
I have ADHD and I do great on IQ tests, each question is a little thing to answer, I move quickly through them and get a quick dopamine hit. If there is something difficult then I can get stuck there and thrown off my rhythm, but this seldom happens.
Gen Z can be the first generation with both improving living standards and a sustainable environment.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hannah-ritchie/not-...
So when you write it’s “all you need to know”, seems like you’re saying that the incorrectness of their methodology is self-evident, which isn’t that obvious to me.

Is your objection primarily based on disagreement with the inflation metrics they’re using?
I immediately remembered that they fulfilled their expectation by filing a bug against Windows 95: When you earned the cloaking device on level 58 or something, you couldn’t activate it.

Level 58! Wow, that’s a dedicated employee!
Usually when I see this sentiment, what is really being said is “why can’t we afford to invest in real estate?”

Which is a very different problem from not being able to afford food.

What is it you’d like to buy but find yourself unable?
Earlier GitHub UI was heavily reliant on web components. Now, they have been increasingly using React.
It’s not misplaced. Putting your kid in danger without their consent just to “see what it looks like” is completely insane and a huge betrayal.
Sure, there are downsides.
1. The replay of WAL records becomes somewhat more CPU-expensive. But at the same time, OrioleDB can do that in parallel.
2. Replace becomes not the file-level equivalent of primary. Thus, you, for instance, can't continue file-level incremental backup started taken from the primary with the replica.
Nevertheless, I strongly believe that row-level WAL is a great win on average, and opens brilliant perspectives for further developments.
There are much better longer argumentations and essays out there which are easy to find.. two badly rephrased prime args for me:

- It is not about you but fundamental rights in our society that are important. Argueing like "I don't have any of that sort of stuff" is like saying "I'm not gay, so what do I care about gay rights" (replace with any disadvantaged group and don't blame me for bad example please).

- Things can quickly change, even when done with nothing bad in mind. You find countless misuses with collected data, prime example is again the Nazis that rolled into Dutch (or Belgium?) and abused the recorded religions. However, today in almost any democracy imagination has not to be taken too far that another worse power comes to real power. Just look at threats Trump, or mostly right wing parties in Europe already made.
> North Korea and Iran have proven investments are not an issue.

Technically it could be done, I guess. But probably Ukrainians did not want to live in isolation. I mean, the whole USSR collapse was about indulging in the "western values". Jeans, bubblegum, Arnold Schwarzenegger, all cool stuff.

> Obviously, no other country will do that in the future.

We will see when US will collapse and states will separate. I don't think that all of them would keep nuclear weapons.
It’s plain old mob mentality. It’s been that way since we were hunter-gatherers in the forests.
> they presumably need to be electrically conductive since the elevator carriage will need a lot of power to travel upwards a few thousand KMs before their passengers starve to death

Even a slow space elevator that can only be used for transporting cargo would already be extremely useful. You could even load it with a container filled with life support if you really need to ship living cargo.
> where all the Gen Z founders

There are plenty of Gen Z/young Millenial (24-32) founders, VCs, and execs. We just deviate towards B2B SaaS now.

I don't want to name names but most of YC's best startups are B2B firms founded by people in the 24-32 age cohort.
> The social divisions that the UK And US currently find themselves in could be attributed in part to this steady drip of caustic interference.

Please look away from the curtain hiding rising wealth inequality, cost of living, and the financialization of daily needs. There are no material explanation for the rising contradictions. It is simply our boogymen misleading our population.

It is good we as a society make bets on housing! Who needs to sleep under a roof when you can own shares!
Only Indian Civilization is contiguous throughout the history
Accessibility in Flutter on the Web
A few are dated but number 74 is one I think about a lot when programming.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

Important to remember this was written in the early ‘80’s at the end of Perlis’s long career. For most of these to stay relevant and humorous 50 years later is pretty impressive.
> Is that because the meds make me smarter?

At some level, IQ tests measure your ability to take IQ tests. So it would make sense that your measured IQ would go up when you're on ADHD meds, since those will obviously have an effect on your ability to take IQ tests.
It would need a more serious analysis to really get to the bottom of that but I think would hypothesise that electric cars being significantly more expensive than the equivalent ICE changes the dynamic slightly. It's harder to justify financing a more expensive product up-front in the hopes of running costs offsetting the cost later on when you have to pay significant interest on the difference.

Also, supply chain issues and inflation on underlying materials have obvious had significant impacts on sales over recent years.
I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes
Anecdotally, I had access to my family's car on a pretty regular basis unless my mom had specific needs for it. I was a hardcore introvert and took advantage of that way less than I could have, but it was explicitly available.
Third Preview https://openjdk.org/jeps/465 was last updated at 2024/03/21 17:42

Are you sure they completely removed it or you meant something else?
- How does this compare to the raytracing units in Apple A17 Pro/M3 series? They also provide additional eye candy for a relatively large cost I would say.

- Why are relatively expensive and large GPUs like in the RTX 3070 commonly called “midrange” online? The meaning of “midrange” seems to be creeping upward.
Sorry, you think it's better to drown your own child than to google it? You can just search "how to spot a drowning person" and you'll find loads of articles and videos
IMO this it just a very bad hit piece. It's just picking whatever fits its narrative.

> The average 25-year-old Gen Zer has an annual household income of over $40,000, more than 50% above the average baby-boomer at the same age.

Might be worth mentioning that this isn't inflation corrected. Oh and of course averages don't tell the whole story.

> Gen Z’s economic power was on display at a recent concert by Ms Rodrigo in New York. The mostly female teenagers and 20-somethings in attendance had paid hundreds of dollars for a ticket. Queues for merchandise stalls, selling $50 t-shirts, stretched around the arena.

That says literally nothing about the economic power of a whole generation.

> In 2022 Americans under 25 spent 43% of their post-tax income on housing and education, including interest on debt from college—slightly below the average for under-25s from 1989 to 2019.

Aren't way more Americans up to 25 still living with their parents, compared to previous generations, because of the high housing costs? I imagine living with your parents is much cheaper than any other housing option.

> Their home-ownership rates are higher than millennials at the same age.

Well, millennials had a worse start for sure, however what about home-ownership of other generations at that age?

> Gen Zers are also producing fewer innovations. According to Russell Funk of the University of Minnesota, young people are less likely to file patents than they were in the recent past.

Fresh off the press this got apparently debunked: https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Resea...

I could go on.
Those two statements are orthogonal. EU elections have little impact on EU institutions. The elections are only for the European Parliament. The European Commission, which controls the institutions and dictates policy, does not get elected by the populace.

There is a lot of criticism (warranted, IMO) on this state of affairs.
going to uni is cool, degree looks great on the wall

owning a house is cooler
I don't think it is; in this instance the electric car would be much more expensive than the mid-range Volvos or similar traditionally used in this role. Like, I'd expect that these cars will be electric sooner or later, but replacing them out of sync would probably not be the best use of funds.
50% turnout last time around.
They adjust for inflation:

> In 2007 the average net income of French people aged 16 to 24 was 87% of the overall average. Now it is equal to 92%. In a few places, including Croatia and Slovenia, Gen Zers are now bringing in as much as the average.

So it's relative, not just nominal amounts.
I've seen several of these before in SICP and other places, but happy to find a longer collection here! Perlis just has his own style and humour...
> And yes growing up in a poor/more violent environment makes you more likely to end up poor with health problems later in life is exactly the point of the study.

My point is that there may be no causation from seeing violence to poor educational outcomes. E.g. instead of [violence->bad grades] it's [poverty->bad grades] and [poverty->violence], so the there may be no causal arrow between the seeing violence and the later bad grades.

> How does a gene for (presumably less) impulse control make you more likely to have seen someone shot?

Don't get hung up on the genes, it's just an example. Put lead in the water if you prefer.

If your question is genuine then the hypothesis here would be that the lead/genes cause poverty which means needing to live in rougher neighbourhoods.
Also footnote 5: "We originally used Microsoft Word for this but it kept putting
the entire document into 8pt Times New Roman whether we wanted it to or not."
Sure, surveil all internet traffic is just to prevent 'human evil,' not to perpetuate it further.

I can't even imagine writing this comparison of democracy vs. totalitarian regimes while the 'democracy' is behaving in the same way as a totalitarian regime in this context.
I live in Germany, famous for having among the strictest privacy laws.

I still get occasional scam calls a few times each month, often using mobile phone numbers or fraudulent VOIP numbers registered in Austria. They usually hang up as soon as you push back on their claim that they got the phone number "from the database, maybe you participated in a contest once" when prompted with the question of how they got your number. The callers are mostly women with Eastern European accents.

I suspect my number ended up in a list when it was leaked in a Facebook data leak because I had to connect it once for account recovery/verification.
We definitely own a house and it’s not all terrible. But where we live house prices have probably doubled in 20 years; if we had bought 5 years earlier (when we were in college), we would have seen our home value quintuple.
Hello fellow user Almodestat, from Annapolis Junction, MD.
I agree with you semantically, but these days I'm less and less concerned with "intent" when it comes to scams. It ultimately just revolves down to empty moralism about "people today," and fails to grasp the issue at hand.

Like how phone scammers are often themselves trapt in a system beyond their control [1].

Or even case in point with this thing. Maybe the owners aren't malicious, but if not, they are clearly somewhat being scammed themselves by AI hype, to the point they are willing to invest so much in the chatbot box, tie their entire business presumably to one current API or another, however bad an idea we know that is.

There are just many long chains of debt, confusion, hyperstition that are knotting around us, with no clear source. One person's scam turns into another's "innovation" before turning again back into a scam for the end user.

If we are really getting ready for the AI future, we need to get used to being wronged and taken advantage of by technically blameless entities, whose intent is logical, capitalist, and at least nominatively "benevolent."

The era of morality itself might soon turn to something else! In a world so predetermined and calculated, where there is such advanced science around influencing thought, cybernetics, etc, how does it even make sense anymore? Or at least, how is focusing on something like intent here even satisfying anymore beyond saying "bad people do bad things"?

1. https://www.propublica.org/article/human-traffickers-force-v...