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Appreciate the earnest reply. This is a much better discussion now.

> Do you truly know real software developers using any these new features? I must not be working anywhere cool because I’m always having to explain what they mean in code reviews.

If you mean 9-5 devs, I am not even afforded the luxury of working with C# at all! Haven’t been since before .net core. I do ruby and devops. That being said, I have a side project with dozens of real users, closing in on double digit “market” share. I’ve needed to do some serious performance optimizations (it is a fork). The ValueType flexibility makes it easier to do these improvements.

Init applies to properties, readonly to fields (and methods in structs, or valuetype parameters).

The switch expression is something I’m also not sure about yet, but makes for less clutter in the editor. I think it’s part of a general strategy of providing the language with more compact syntax options. It reminds me of the pattern matching in F#. Did the language need those? Not really, but my biggest annoyance with older C# was the verbose syntax, and it factored into my perception at the time that it was a dinosaur language.

Roslyn is open source, cross-platform, written in C#, and can be forked. The analyzers can be linked as dependencies to any source project. I don’t understand the VS/Windows connection. They are just basically hooked methods that run during compilation steps and can emit compiler warnings, errors, suggestions, or automatically fix code. I think you are shooting yourself in the foot if you throw that feature out on pride.

Nullable reference types are optional on the file or project level and function more as type assertions, and don’t represent separate classes. I understand the frustration with it though. I think the language needed this in order to be able to statically analyze the expressions for nullability instead of relying on runtime checks. Those runtime checks are notoriously unreliable as a safety net because you have to remember to use it, and make a decision on using it. They made a tough call but I think it was the right one.

Structs are not records and are in fact mutable by default! It can be converted to a ref and then mutated, without unsafe code. The readonly modifier prevents that. I haven’t studied the nuances of readonly structs vs record structs yet. It’s considered a bad practice to use mutable structs (and undermines compiler optimization) but if you’ve ever had to refactor a class to a struct, with hundreds of usages, having the mutability can make the task much easier to do incrementally.

I think they are careful, but the decisions are very difficult and sometimes it’s a loss in either direction. C# prefers to change with the times but remain backwards-compatible, but I don’t envy the jobs of the language committee.
unelected, unaccountable judges which are also far more difficult to oust/replace.
As "The Red Queen" points out, organisms tend to accumulate parasites and the parasites become adapted to living in the organism. The organism dying will then kill off its parasites, giving the offspring a better chance not be infected by the better adapted parasites.

The competition for food means the older organisms will be better at gathering food, leaving less for the young. Better for the older ones to die off so the young can get the food.

Nature is brutal. Civilization has been able to ameliorate some of the harshness, but it's still there, and we have no assurance that civilization won't kill us off anyway.
No, they will need suits from SpaceX that fit.
> "This account gets freelance money and this money was spent for home office expenses related to the freelance work which is deductible from that income stream."

Was spent? Are you sure you're not mixing up budgeting and accounting? I think you want to use Sankey to display your accounting.
I doubt they’d allow us to use the beams as data carriers…
RISC-V business: 'GhostWrite' chip flaw detailed at Black Hat USA
If you're making 1m +, just work for like 1 or two more years and you have retire to work on this passion project and have your life if comfort. With so much money idk how you couldn't have both?
You are ignoring the probabilities though. Risk is probability*potential damage amount, so the lower the probability of damage, the lower the risk. This can result in a low risk even if the potential amount of potential damage is high (when the probability is sufficiently small).
> Redundancy in HIV drugs is extremely important and significantly more resources should be applied to such drugs

Does HIV prevention research get more resources than curing cancer? I'm looking through the NIH website and asking Claude and so far the evidence I've seen is leading me to believe that's true, but I could be mistaken.
What is the tech stack you usually apply to in terms of BE languages? I'm wondering if it can be related.
It's a software configuration as I understand it. The software itself is capable of the automated undocking, but it will need to be reconfigured to allow it.

ISS operations have very strict requirements about safety and especially about avoiding collisions with the station under any circumstance. There are also differences in requirements for crewed and uncrewed flights. For these reasons it makes sense that the configurations are different and would need to be updated if they switch to fully automated.

NASA has been pretty clear that Starliner could be used as an emergency escape if necessary. That leads me to think the concern is more about collision with the ISS that with the ability to re-enter safely.
Thanks, I'll try and populate it fully!
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> Is Swahili banned in schools because they don't teach a Swahili class?

No. Because no one banned Swahili.

By contrast these books are banned from inclusion in the school library because they have been banned, by policy, from inclusion in the school library.
Ask HN: Memory leaks in C/C++ Application debugger tool?
I have a application which is written in C/C++, when I try to run Valgrind or sanitizer for detecting mem leaks it shows less leaks. But memory is keep growing when the application is running for longer time.
My potentially dyslexic brain read this as “How the French drain in work” and pondered for a second: Hmm, I thought the French had great work-life balance and early retirement and all of that, what happened?
My sympathies for your situation - it's difficult to have to see such terrible diseases take away those we love.

That being said, are all individuals in a position to take preventative measures against HIV? And does research of a disease (and ways to treat it) only benefit development of drugs that treat that disease?
I think I made it clear that I chose a Chromebook because of ChromeOS, not in spite of it, it was the only thing that gave me everything I needed. I prefer a trackpoint and slackware with notion wm which is what every computer I have had for ~20 years now has had but for this need it would be a very poor experience, interacting with notion on a tablet would not be fun. So I looked for the device which best suited my needs, and I found it.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish with all this? You made it clear that you dislike Chromebooks, which is fine but you keep going on trying to prove they are always the worst option but have yet to provide any device which meets my needs as well and have not even bothered to identify what my needs are. Is your hobby making faulty assumptions or something?
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I’m in the same camp. If I do something I find interesting and make it open source, it’s because I’d like to do this work out in the open, or someone might benefit from it, not that I am necessarily seeking out collaborators.

Plus if you do GPL, accepting that first contribution is giving away the easy path should you want to relicense in the future.
NASA would be fully aware of the capabilities and would not have made assumptions, especially for flight to the ISS. They are very strict about approaches to the ISS, and would have gone through it with a fine comb before the flight.
The Dragon, obvs! Then, I get more time in space, and I get to try both capsules -- Boeing on the way up, and SpaceX on the way down.
I worry that the idea is the process changes being made today will be used to prevent anyone else from having a hope in hell of being able to use it at any point in the future.
Mapping different viewpoints to combat disinformation or create better policies is key in this age. I'd wish to see a better integration with cognitive psychology and it's overview of biases, also in relation to personal insecurities, trauma and with agogy and education, like The Evidence Toolkit.

A short overview of the Argumentation theory and tooling field:

“Within computer science, the ArgMAS workshop series (Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems), the CMNA workshop series,[34] and the COMMA Conference, are regular annual events attracting participants from every continent. The journal Argument & Computation is dedicated to exploring the intersection between argumentation and computer science. ArgMining is a workshop series dedicated specifically to the related argument mining task.
Data from the collaborative structured online argumentation platform Kialo has been used to train and to evaluate natural language processing AI systems such as, most commonly, BERT and its variants.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_technology

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_framework

Sibling tooling (with help from Sonnet and Wikipedia):

1. Argument Interchange Format (AIF):
This is a standardized format for representing argumentative structures in a machine-readable way. It's used in various academic tools and research projects. 2006

2. Rationale:
A software tool developed for academic use, particularly in teaching critical thinking and argument analysis. It offers more structured mapping capabilities than Kialo. 2004

3. Araucaria:
An open-source argument mapping software developed by researchers at the University of Dundee. It's designed for analyzing and diagramming arguments. 2001

4. ArgDown:
A markdown-like language for creating argument maps, which can be useful for programmatic approaches to argument analysis. 2016

5. OVA (Online Visualization of Argument):
A web-based tool for argument analysis and visualization, developed by researchers at the University of Dundee. 2010

6. Argunet:
An open-source argument mapping software that allows for collaborative work and integrates with a database of arguments. 2007

7. AGORA-net:
A web-based platform for argument reconstruction and evaluation, used in academic settings. 2013

8. Kialo 2017
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kialo

9. ADA tools. Gregor Betz (2022). "Natural-Language Multi-Agent Simulations of Argumentative Opinion Dynamics". Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 25: 2. arXiv:2104.06737. doi:10.18564/jasss.4725. S2CID 233231231
https://www.gregorbetz.de/

10. Argument Analytics
http://analytics.arg.tech/

11. IBM's Grand Challenge, Project Debater 2011- Published in Nature in March 2021
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Debater

12. German research funder, DFG's nationwide research programme on Robust Argumentation Machines, RATIO. 2019 https://spp-ratio.de/

13. UK nationwide deployment of The Evidence Toolkit by the BBC. 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/young-reporter/articles/z6v3hcw
This describes https://codestats.net very well
But also that willingness to face the risks goes with the expectation that the people on the ground did everything they could to minimize the risks. If that trust is broken, because someone cut corners to save on costs and schedule, it's less likely that astronauts would want to sign up for such a job in the future.
It's a bit like finals in college. I knew that without the stress from the threat of failing the finals, I wouldn't apply myself to learning the material. Stress brings out the best in people.
I agree there is limited modeling going on but the smoking gun is not on the fact that all there is to an LLM is mere "next token prediction".

In order to successfully predict the next token the model needs to reach a significant level of "understanding" of the preceding context and the next token is the "seed" of a much longer planned response.

Now, it's true that this "understanding" is not even close to what humans would call understanding (hence the quotes) and that the model behaviour is heavily biased towards productions that "sound convincing" or "sound human".

Nevertheless LLMs perform an astounding amount of computation in order to produce that next token and that computation happens in a high dimensional space that captures a lot of "features" of the world derived from an unfathomably large and diverse training set.
And there is still room for improvement in collecting. cleaning and/or synthesizing an even better training corpus for LLMs.

Whether the current architecture of LLMs will ever be able to truly model the world is an open question but I don't think the question can be resolved just by pointing out that all the model does is produce the next token. That's just an effective way researchers found to build a channel with the external world (humans and the training set) and transform to and from the high-dimensional reasoning space and legible text.
> automated and typically takes less than a minute

I have no problem with the fee, but
getting that frickin signing process just right took me days to get working right the first time.
There are no school buses in Polish cities. I was using regular city transit buses, just like grownups do when going to their jobs.
I built a vector embedding database in Go for learning purposes
Not exactly the most reliable supporting evidence, but Veritasium has a video which talks about this stuff.

https://youtu.be/j5v8D-alAKE?feature=shared
That's curious; maybe this is device/distro-specific? I've had good experience using this approach to transfer files to both my tablet (Samsung s2, lineage) and phone (pixel7, grapheneos).

Or maybe Termux is pulling some additional tricks to avoid this issue?
if you want mechanistic sympathy and low latency then you can't really do much better than dpdk; uring is still going through the very generic and abstracted kernel networking stack.
Starship won't work for the ISS, it is just too big and will create all sorts of control issues if it does dock.
Thermodynamics only applies to closed systems. Living beings are open systems because they constantly exchange energy and matter with their surroundings. Earth is also an open system because it receives energy from the sun (and, to a much lesser degree, from other stars), and sometimes things from outer space fall here.
As a developer who works a lot with frontend, this kind of feedback is gold! I wish I could get testing/usability reports like this.
Perdu.com the oldest Internet French prank, is down
It had been up since 1998. It show a 404 error today.
So sad :'-(
Mixins via inheritance is a sweet pattern that I miss in C# sometimes.
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You are not alone. I can't retire yet to start working on this, but I'm looking forward to when that day comes. In the meantime, I'm working my day job and writing at night speculative fiction on the intersection of this topic and our current value systems. A big chunk of the problem is that most people are extremely conservative when it comes to death... and perhaps for good reason. But the time has come when more of humanity should leave the shelter of resignation and faith and go into that battlefield.
(For what it's worth, so did the author of this piece).
Not in Eastern Europe or India where Microsoft was giving away a ton of licenses. The students rejected them anyway.
The problem with what you are saying, is that the industry involved is shrouded in secrecy and full of smoke and mirrors.

Because the only sources you have provided are anecdotal, its entirely possible you are falling for the illusion.

To use your phrases, 'certain games companies' are known to totally lie about their anti cheat techniques and methods to throw people off the scent of the real methods.

Therefore without actually decompiling something to prove whats going on, you have no real idea what techniques are being used at all.
All you need for dictatorship in general is a critical number of human accomplices.
I don’t see how an LLM in the mix would make it worse.

IMO mass communication technologies (radio, TV, internet) are much more important in building a dictatorship.
I've seen papers outlining an Orion docking to the ISS. It was considered as part of the conops back when Orion was part of Constellation rather than Artemis.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20070025134/downloads/20...
The main problem is that it's targeted advertising of children.
The position is weird to this European.

A constitution is not a sacred text but a very practical one. The constitution of my country went trough five major rewrites and was amended approximately a dozen of times since the last rewrite and somehow we are still a liberal free country.

The idea that touching it in any way or form is a slippery slop leading to less rights is a fallacy.
Another hit from Neal. I wonder (and envy, in a good way) where does he gets the time to work and all this wonderful little games.
I'm particularly intrigued by the idea of unbundling complex problems to gain deeper insights. This approach seems to offer a powerful way to challenge assumptions and find innovative solutions.
Setting aside the complexity of "detachable" ALU clusters, the bigger problem is that essentially, we can currently drive all those ALUs _because_ they're SIMD and executing the same instruction.

For example, if you could un-gang even a single Zen5 ALU and do 16 independent scalar FMAs at once, you now need the front-end of the processor to decode and issue 16 instructions/cycle for each 1 instruction that it currently does! That's hopelessly wider than the front-end of the CPU can process. It needs to decode the instructions and schedule them, and both of those are complex operations that can be power hungry / slow (not to mention the instruction fetch bandwidth is now through the roof!).

SIMD bypasses that by doing lots of operations with a single instruction. It would be extremely difficult to achieve with just scalar instructions.
Death is a preferable outcome to immortality.

If there is no death, there will only be more suffering, as suffering is in human nature. We experience pain, and want to return that pain.
Not directly answering your question, but if I were in your exact position, I would consult for local startups. I don't mean, being a programmer for hire. I mean actual expertise consulting. I think that would be super fun, and a way to invest in early startups without putting your hard earned $$$ at risk.
Most vaccines have had some toxic component in them particularly historicaly. If you look up different vaccine types over the past 50 years you'll see often ingredients are removed or replaced because of it. The general wisdom is that it's either small enough quantities that you'd have less negatives from the toxicity than you have from being able to prevent the disease at a population level.
> ...he was stopped and handcuffed by police officers. Foreman may have recognized the handcuffs. They had been sitting in an evidence room for nearly three decades, until Aaron and Bess received special approval to take them to Ohio. They were the same pair that had been found on Edwards in 1995.

I am surprised they did this. I imagine DNA evidence trumps the cuffs as evidence, but still.. That's just begging for the DA to make some bogus claim based on technicalities.
> The project disregarded Google’s rules that prohibit personalising and targeting ads to under-18s, including serving ads based on demographics. It also has policies against the circumvention of its own guidelines, or “proxy targeting”.
Don’t say “stuck”!
FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention
Hence, it finally lived up to its name
I would think that WASD movement would be very unintuitive for most people who don't play first person 3D games (although it would be nice for the minority who do expect it, and it shouldn't be too hard to implement either).
PFAS only describe one part of the overall molecule. It doesn't necessarily tells if the rest of the structure is toxic or not. It's like saying "I though canine were dangerous?" (yes for big cats, no so much for your average French bulldog).

Also, the dose makes the poison, etc.
Unless the Boeing CEO and their children fly back down in the Starliner along with the astronauts, I don’t think anyone else should risk their lives on it.
You’re talking about a depressing future and all I’m hearing is a depressing present where you think the best way to fight for software freedom is to ensure people get hacked rather than, like, actual policies designed around giving control back to users. I can think of few things less empowering than software that is designed to be intentionally worse for an auxiliary side benefit because we can’t get our act together and figure out a real way to manifest what we actually want.
Internet French Prank?
Sorry, but is there are any alternative links for this?

I'm getting `ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR` when I click the link.
Somehow, all people suddenly do wish to be immortal when they realize their death is very close. At this point I'm convinced it's a very strong, socially normalized form of learned helplessness.