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> tracing garbage collection (as opposed to the much slower reference counting used by perl and cpython) tends to diminish easy embeddability, both because it's very tricky to do in standard c, and because it kind of wants to own your program's entire memory space

Lua is living proof of the opposite: small, easily embeddable, with a tracing GC
They say that you should never fix a curfty system by rewriting it. The transition from Roman numerals to Arabic numbers is a great example of a situation in which you should ignore this advice.
Isn't this a whole concept of a crisis? You expected to buy half of a country and hire another half, but instead you're among those who are struggling.
They don't. Official ideology is that they a going through a temporary capitalist phase and will switch to socialism once they developed enough to do so.

Obviously they wont. It was just a tactic to avoid the chaos of the fall of the Soviet Union while still changing out the economic system. Keeping political stability while allowing the people in power in enrich themselves thanks to capitalism.
Very cool if true! Unfortunately AMD and Intel have shown to not be able to sustain benchmark numbers over multiple runs. Apple with M-series has been able to do that more or less on the pro series macbooks. So I wouldn't be surprised if this chip beats the M3 Max on short term burst but will lose on real workloads like compilation.
The OS vendors themselves (Microsoft, Apple, all the linux distros) have this power as well via their automatic update channels. As do many others who have automatically-updating applications. So it's not a single company, it's many companies.
Old Spanish was probably closer to the real pronunciation and had also more variety, depending on the whim of the scribe. Most of the greatest works ever written in Spanish are prior to the standardisation by the RAE at the end of the 18th century, indeed
They recommend crowdstrike to customers. Now they are trying to at least skim some good will. Also bad a kernel module that can ruin the OS is partially their fault.
What blew my mind is that a single company has such a good sales team to sell an unnecessary product to a large part of the world's IT.

And if any part of it is necessary, then that's a failure of the operating system. It should be a feature of Active Directory or Windows.

So, great job sales team, you earned your commissions, now get ready to jump ship, 'cause this one is sinking.
There has never been a time when most technology in use was understood by the general population.

"The Last Man Who Knew Everything"[0] was 1773–1829 and the trend towards compulsory education was only beginning, 2 countries at the start of his life and 7 at the end[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_Who_Knew_Everythi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education
What's happening in Cuba has no resemblance to what happens in Southern Europe.

In Southern Europe, talent leaves for better job opportunities and higher salary. In Cuba, people are literally fleeing to achieve basic human rights and 21st century quality of life.

I'm not sure if you've been to Cuba before, but having visited in the late 2010s, it's a caricature of life in a communist dictatorship.

Internet wasn't allowed, except for in certain public parks at certain times of the day, only on phones with certain websites, and with dial-up speeds.

The sum total of fresh food in grocery stores was 1 type of government ham, 1 type of government cheese, eggs, a few fruits, and that was basically it.

I could go on. It's a beautiful island country, but please don't fall for the silly idea that US sanctions or european-style "brain drain" have anything to do with the reason Cubans are leaving.

Authoritarian communist dictatorships are no joke.
Reminds of the revolution, the counterrevolution and the counter counterrevolution of the guy who invented Kolmogorov complexity

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3376

You don't just want to do signalling you can also consider building a blackhole ("singulariting"), like "they here truly"
Congrats? Microsoft has higher quality assurance concerns since anything with their name on it means customers will come beating down their door for support if ANYTHING goes wrong even if it's not them.
That depends on what level of the RCA you are looking at it. It can be simultaneously true that workers dont want to wear them and bosses dont enforce it. Understanding both facts is important for risk reduction.
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Most enterprises these days also run stuff like Crowdstrike (or literally Crowdstrike) on their macOS deployments. Similarly Windows these days is bundled with OS-level antivirus which is sufficient for non-enterprise users.

Not in the security industry, but my take is that basically the desktop OS permissions and security model is wrong for a lot of these devices, but there is no alternative that is suitable or that companies are willing to invest in. Probably many of the highest-profile affected machines (airport terminals, signage, medical systems, etc.) should just resemble a phone/iPad/Chromebook in terms of security/trust, but for historical/cost/practical reasons are Windows PCs with Crowdstrike.
No they don’t. Most barely understand what they are proposing or the risks associated with the mechanisms being introduced.
Given the harm that Crowdstrike caused Microsoft here, it does seem like they missed an opportunity in not calling this tool Blue Falcon.
They never put the guard back on, you’ll never see a guard in use here. That’s why they consider it ridiculous to use one because no one else does. Never-mind the constant stream of people going to the hospital. Plus they use oversized grinders where smaller ones would be fine and safer even if slightly slower. And they take the guard off from the start so there is no guard while they’re still leaning.

I had a ‘see me’ for an exemption policy while I was there and they didn’t need one. They really were not doing the kind of work that needed it.
Individual workers at job sites decide what they do, from how to build to what safety gear they use. Project managers and engineers give instructions but workers can and do ignore them and do whatever they want.
We have some sand to thank. Jokes aside, it is still mind boggling how most of the manufacturing is still dominated by very few companies, it's the perfect setup for WWIII
What does OSHA do in this situation? The roofing worker was fired for safety violation but can find work elsewhere.

In this example it isnt about the company.
And the Windows license terms, offers no guarantees of any kind, while it seems from this outage, is used at 911 response centers and hospitals emergency and surgery rooms...

" Disclaimer. Neither Microsoft, nor the device manufacturer or installer, gives any other express warranties, guarantees, or conditions. Microsoft and the devicemanufacturer and installerexclude all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement..."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/U...
Interesting.

Are there better MCUs on the market for these applications (other than massively expensive actual 'rad-hardened' space chips)? You can get MCUs with lockstep dual CPUs, for example (TMS570 etc., and I assume the automotive sector has loads of stuff).
I wasn’t assigning blame here, but rather preaching the virtues of balancing the interests of engineering and business folks.
> what actually led to the immigration

Great point, and just FYI: "emigration" here.
I also think Microsoft should be responsible, they gave the keys to sign the kernel driver so I expect that driver to at least be subject to regular testing and scrutiny not just when initial release was made.
It's a mistake to make the good-faith assumption that Republicans have logically consistent views.

To Republicans, Cubans don't count as illegal immigrants because they're escaping "communism," and their immigrants consistently vote red. Plus, the majority of Cubans are white and Christian, unlike the brown immigrants that Republicans don't want in the country.
This is the mini existential crisis I have randomly. The attack area for a modern IT computer is mind bogglingly massive. Computers are pulling and executing code from a vast array of “trusted” sources without a sandbox. If any one of those “trusted” sources are compromised (package managers, cdns, OS updates, security software updates, just app updates in general, even specific utilities like xz) then you’re absolutely screwed.

It’s hard not to be a little nihilistic about security.
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> Why isn’t “june” then “iune”?

Because it’s not Latin? Things change quite a lot as centuries pass. But it could have been different, like in German, in which Juni (=June) is pronounced /iuni/.
The following in the article is pretty spot on ”Numerous industry sources say TSMC’s real strength is the ability to deliver process development kits for just about any process or package." There are countless flows and tools that need to get enabled, tested, etc. on the way to make a chip. TSMC has established a fairly good reputations delivering the required collateral. Just having a great process without proper PDKs will not get you anywhere fast
Projects-CLI: A CLI tool for initializing projects in different languages
Vouching for this since TikTok was also the way I was exposed to and educated about this safety risk (as well as many others).
Are there any ways to do anything with the space debris, or is it planned? I am a bit concerned about it and its impact on future missions.
You may have the wrong person.

But that's the magic of throwaway.
If their altitude is low enough to begin with, this atmospheric expansion can drag satellites all the way into reentry.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-lost-geomag... ("SpaceX says a geomagnetic storm just doomed 40 Starlink internet satellites" (2022))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30267587 ("Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm")

In the OP paper, the 486 km satellite (fig. 5) dropped down about 300 meters. The Starlink satellites that were lost were at 210 km. (For mass optimization, they're released at below operational altitude, and use slow, electric propulsion to get to their nominal orbits).
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How does one use the NPU features on such a chip from like a normal C++ program?
> The UK recently had a Prime Minister of Indian descent

And the US had an African American President yet police brutality incidents still occur.

And that Prime Minister has anyhow left the UK and returned to California (a couple blocks from the Santa Monica Pier). Some GSB alums are setting up a VC Fund for that PM post-Downing Street as we speak.

Hell, his business career only started AFTER he immigrated to the US and then returned to the UK to work at TCM.

> he was able to breakthrough the glass ceiling
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Money is the ultimate equalizer in a country as status obsessed as the UK.

Sunak attended an independent school which his parents were able to afford being specialists.

Grammar Schools were shut down in the 80s-90s and comprehensives continue to underperform independent schools in placing students in Russell Group programs.

If you're parents were working class, you statistically will remain working class.

Intergenerational Social Mobility remains lows in the UK [0][1][2][3], and add to that economic depression in the North+Midlands and the very real othering that happens in the UK and that has caused the Mirpuri community to remain economically deprived.

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In the US I never get asked where I'm from, or told that "my English is excellent", or after a couple pints with coworkers get told "you're one of the good ones". Yet I've faced this kinda BS ALL THE TIME whenever I'm in the UK for work. It's worse on the mainland.

Fundamentally, in the US I am not treated as a token nor do I face microagressions. In the UK or Mainland Europe I have to deal with both.

[0] - https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/from-briefin...

[1] - https://ifs.org.uk/news/social-mobility-continues-fall-and-m...

[2] - https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insigh...

[3] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.1...
It's a trivial cost to pay if the alternative is CrowdStrike inflicting billions of dollars of damage and loss of life across several countries.

(I expect this to tally up to double-digit billions and thousands of lives lost directly to the outages when the dust settles.)
If you are interested in this there's of course also the mature https://www.pgadmin.org. It's available for many platforms as an app or Docker image.
StackExchange doesn't allow AI answers. ;)
> implementing this because of a business case not a technical case

there are some certification requirements to do pentests/red teaming and then those security folk will all tell them to install an EDR so they picked crowdstrike, but the security people have a very valid technical case for that recommendation.

it doesn't shift liability to crowdstrike, thats not how this works. In this specific case they are very likely liable due to gross negligence, but that is different
Sounds like they have node on their machines. Not the js framework, but the prometheus/grafana package that gives you all the meters for a generic system monitoring dashboard. Disk usage, CPU, memory, it's all set up already, just plug and play.

In fact, I found a memory leak this way not long ago.

Super useful having this on your infra, saves a lot of time.
The other way around, then, is also true. People saying that someone is successful due to inspiration, genius or 100% hard work are propagandizing for the successful person.
How much are you willing to simplify?

Because if you need to explain GPS at the level of the impact of general relativity, my understanding is that by itself is already a topic normally introduced in the final year of a physics degree.

If you're OK with simplifying to "time passes at a different rate for the satellites, here's the equation, I will not explain why it works just roll with it", why insist on ceasing to use it if the foundation isn't understandable?
If only. The Nordic countries solve the problem with a very easy trick: They’ve lowered the ceiling by a tremendous amount!

There’s a reason people do their startups in the US, there’s a reason the smart Nords move to the US rather than the other way around.
There’s a reason Y Combinator is American.

I encourage you to try innovating in Europe (or just the Nordic countries). Please prove me wrong, for the sake of Europe.

To be fair, it’s certainly not _impossible_ to move up, but it’s relatively much harder, which is the point.
What’s your point? How does it relate to my comment?
Q: What does the CCP think about that?

A: We respond that socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism

Full quote: Some have called our road "Social Capitalism", others "State Capitalism", and yet others "Technocratic Capitalism". These are all completely wrong. We respond that socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, by which we mean that despite reform we adhere to the socialist road – our road, our theory, our system, and the goals we set out at the 18th National Party Congress. ... Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the dialectical unity of the theoretical logic of scientific socialism and the historical logic of China's social development. It's scientific socialism rooted in Chinese realities, reflecting the will of Chinese people, and adapted to the requirements of China and its circumstances.
— Xi Jinping, speech to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, 5 January 2013[5]

Q: What does the Constitution say?

A: Article 1 The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants. The socialist system is the basic system of the People's Republic of China. Disruption of the socialist system by any organization or individual is prohibited.

From the preamble: After the founding of the People's Republic, China gradually achieved its transition from a New-Democratic to a socialist society. The socialist transformation of the private ownership of the means of production was completed, the system of exploitation of man by man abolished and the socialist system established. [...] China will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time to come.
What we are witnessing quite starkly in this thread is that the majority of HN commenters are the kinds of people exposed to anti-woke/DEI culture warriors on Twitter.
Ok, makes sense, planning for higher scale densities TBA, and banking on continuing scarcity of nvidia inference engines.
This is worse than discounting medical advice. This is about suppression of medical evidence on the basis of a political agenda.
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Spaced mathematics practice improves test scores and reduces overconfidence [pdf]
Fair! I’d not considered that aspect, but you’re right, serializing these into a git repo would be the correct solution here.

I think the integration is important though; I’ve vented plenty of steam at co-workers who don’t look at the COMMANDS.md / README.md / etc in a repo. It being auto imported into their terminal program (with search, autosuggestion, and adjacent documentation) seems a pretty killer offering for teams.
The author seems to be confused about inductive and deductive reasoning. He writes, "To that end, this hypothesis represents the last idea considered, only after all other possibilities have been falsified (see Image 1)." This to me sounds more like abductive reasoning.

Either way, this seems like a great opportunity to hijack this post by giving an excerpt from Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig.

"Two kinds of logic are used, inductive and deductive. Inductive
inferences start with observations of the machine and arrive at general conclusions. For example, if the cycle goes over a bump and the
engine misfires, and then goes over another bump and the engine
misfires, and then goes over another bump and the engine misfires,
and then goes over a long smooth stretch of road and there is no
misfiring, and then goes over a fourth bump and the engine misfires
again, one can logically conclude that the misfiring is caused by the
bumps. That is induction: reasoning from particular experiences to
general truths.

Deductive inferences do the reverse. They start with general
knowledge and predict a specific observation. For example, if, from
reading the hierarchy of facts about the machine, the mechanic knows
the horn of the cycle is powered exclusively by electricity from the
battery, then he can logically infer that if the battery is dead the horn
will not work. That is deduction.

Solution of problems too complicated for common sense to solve
is achieved by long strings of mixed inductive and deductive inferences that weave back and forth between the observed machine and
the mental hierarchy of the machine found in the manuals. The
correct program for this inter-weaving is formalized as scientific
method."
The whole post is a rant.
This is the real world, everyone is doing something wrong.

The alternative is to replace you with AI yes?
Same here. The noachian deluge of spammy scammy ads before Christmas made me delete my account.
The question was asked over 10 years ago and now it's getting clicks from HN someone's copypasted a claim from a LLM, possibly without verifying it. That is kind of interesting, but not in a good way.
For me the cliffhanger starts at 16:58
Yeah ok buddy, every job site everywhere is just anarchy. We have no idea how bridges and skyscrapers get built, really.
Just don't try to put a footnote in a heading. I'll keep using LaTeX until Typst is less buggy.
Data centers draining resources in water-stressed communities
He said it might melt your processor... but on a macbook m3 in arc runs great, like every one of those was amazing.
Nice to try to create something, but based on the price I would not recommend that to anyone:

For example, with a day pass in France, 1gb per day for 30 days so around 30gb for the month is like 50$.

To compare, here you could have 50gb for a month with a throwable sim for a 15e maximum. If you take subscription for a little longer, for around 20euros monthly you will have 300 or unlimited gb of data+ unlimited calls and SMS.

The rate difference looks like to be the same for other countries I know where I had to use a temporary sim.
Yup, https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter is the standard way to monitor machine metrics with Prometheus.
Imo the root issue is that SWE is such a young profession: it hasn't had time to find a real footing, it's probably somewhere in the barber surgeon era about now.

Therefore the current identity crisis: the avg SWE is expected to be skilled and autonomous, but also report to daily standups and use mythical "story points" to estimate Very Serious Projects.

I would say devs are neither plumbers nor engineers but managers (of automation), but to recognize this is not Agile so instead we'll treat them as cheap cogs and wonder why the best escape to run their own shop where they can recapture the responsibilities and compensation eroded by bloat and grifters.

This is why the corp narrative is so wishful toward AI replacing engineers: an abstract magic box that prints money with no concept of accountability, copyright, liability is a dream for CEOs.
Well done with writing your experience.
Thanks!

So, you’re proposing adding a third state (“done”) to tasks (as an addition to “active” and “archived”). It should be doable; I’ll see if I can add it as optional behavior via a configuration parameter.
> Microsoft has higher quality assurance concerns...

No, they don't. This is the same company that has turned the Windows OS into an advertisement platform within the OS [0]. A company that puts buggy telemetry collection over their end users [1]. And a platform that is known to spy on its end users [2]. So, no - Microsoft really doesn't care about its end users with "higher quality assurance concerns". They care about turning a profit.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-window...
[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-microsoft-compatibility-t...
[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/is-windows-11-spying-on-you-n...
Amazing. Is it possible to tell how much lag these would cause if used on a production website?
"It's not flying, it's falling... with style"
Thanks for the follow! The only other social media accout is on Hackaday.io: https://hackaday.io/project/196769-decstation2040
Ex-MSN person here. Hotmail accounts are made inactive after 180 days of disuse, deleted after 360. I don’t recall the recycle time; however, you might be able to get it back if it’s been recycled.
The fundamental difference here is that this isn't a court of law deciding justice, it's a private organization deciding who is allowed to participate and under what grounds someone should be barred from the same. Transparency in this case extends to making it known that someone is banned from formal participation, who made this decision, and under what grounds the decision was made. We have that in this case; there was a CoC violation, potentially of a sensitive nature, and discretion is therefore warranted.
The issue was caused by a data file, Microsoft is not involved in signing or testing individual data files.