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> My theory: people are just hacked off that life is getting worse for most people while billionaires get richer and richer. Every disaster the wealthy get handouts while the poor have to pay for them. Government can no longer afford anything because all of its assets have been sold and rented back at a profit.

So they support the candidate with the billionares bankrolling him and and doing "million dollar sweepstakes". Give me a break.
> It's been confusing since the first trump term how many dems held this position. How can you call trump obviously reprehensible and irredemable... and then lose?

How is that in any way contradictory ?
The Kamala campaign had one and only one major problem.

COVID stimulus and an economic slowdown from 2020 caused four years of inflation in the entire world, and people see the price of milk going up and punish the incumbent (not even the person who was in charge in 2020.

At which point, it doesn't matter how you campaign, or if the opposing candidate is actual Satan, nobody's going to vote for the incumbent.

It also doesn't help that the press normalized actual insanity that would not have been tolerated from anyone else, and collectively pretended that it's normal and reasonable behavior.
Not all C runtimes allow you to deallocate a null ppinter without consequence.
For reference, it’s been there since macOS 12. You may also like to know that this year (macOS 15) they added jq.
how you know there's not going to be a pandemic
Imagine if a convicted woman were to be the democratic candidate
Try to listen to why they are saying these things. Find where you are similar not where you differ.

Often I have found the same fears, desires and hopes in my opponents as myself.
For example: "I want my children to grow up happy"

From that level of similarity we can reach people. It takes effort.
In this case, the pedophile is _also_ a racist, misogynistic, violent, person, but pop off.
Heavy partisan bias. Polymarket predict this quite well. Putting your money on the line is still a thing.
Florida's failed to pass
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I would say from the outside American politics seems to have devolved into this ultra-polarised culture war/identity politics that doesn't seem to benefit the left at all electorally. It probably helps the biggest proponents of it (on either side) in terms of playing to their base, but it feels like it's overall a net win for the right.

But I don't know how big a factor this is in reality versus the economy.
Governors can be killed by executive order. It’s an official action so under the new Supreme Court ruling the President can’t be prosecuted. Anyone who carries out the order can be pardoned. The courts can of course reverse the executive order, but not resurrect a man so the case would be moot.

This is a man who has talked about shooting political opponents on the campaign trail, I’d be astonished if he doesn’t follow through if there will be no consequences.
What do you want them to do, have a panic attack and kill themselves? It seems that I have more hope in women's collective power than you do.
Yeah, I agree. However, I can blame them on making things worse when I specifically elected them to make things better. Instead of solving Germany's issues, they are infighting and spending money on social programs and on illegal migrants. Next year, every single tax, healthcare, and social security rate is going up.

Furthermore, the Greens are blocking real progress in the name of NIMBY-ism. The current government is actively killing markets by introducing harmful policies.
Flooding the country with millions of undocumented workers to compete with Americans is not a favor to the working class. That is a hand out to corporations.
In this case they seem to have Rust on both sides of the FFI API and seemingly want to avoid heap allocating the Vec's static parts, which makes sense.

So, an extended version if your solution would be to initialize the static parts on the stack using `MaybeUninit`, and `assume_init` on that after the call to get an `OwningArrayC<T>` out, which then can have a Drop impl defined for it.
1) Do not free memory allocated in one language (even more: in one library unless explicitly documented so) into another. Rust can use a custom allocator, and what it uses by default is an implementation detail that can change at a blink.

2) Do not use Vec<T> to pass arrays to C. Use boxed slices. Do not even try to allocate a Vec and free a Box... how can it even work?!

3) free(ptr) can be called even in ptr is NULL

4) ... I frankly stopped reading. I will never know if Rust actually needs Go's defer or not.
Are you suggesting that politics has no influence on the tech world?
In this post[1] there's a JunoCam picture from a previous flyby, which has been adjusted to be roughly as a human would see it. Still a lot of color though!

This[2] paper studies the ovals but has some details on the atmosphere, including the colors:

The reddish color is usually attributed to red “chromophores”, which are products of a series of complex chemical reactions, such as the UV photolization of ammonia with acetylene. These chromophores can act as coating material for the ammonia particles.

The cloud structure of the Jupiter's atmosphere, and in particular the nature of vortex features, as the [Great Red Spot] and the white ovals, is still puzzling.

This[3] paper tries to reproduce the reactions in the lab and compare them with the observed colors. It goes into some more details around the potential color formation.

I also want to just include this picture[4] because I just love the tiny fluffy clouds, which shadows provides amazing depth feeling.

[1]: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25018-nasas-juno-mission-...

[2]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201... Characterization of the white ovals on Jupiter's southern hemisphere using the first data by the Juno/JIRAM instrument

[3]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.03.008 Chromophores from photolyzed ammonia reacting with acetylene: Application to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (use the hub of science for full paper)

[4]: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241103.html
Turns out voting is not enough! Damn, if only those Black Panthers got out to vote, we would've fixed racism in America. Shame.
It's also the (trying to be) misleading mainstream media. Stuff like "he wants to deport all immigrants" being uttered until the last day - without specifying it's just the illegal ones, which is a very important distinction.

And there are many examples like these, where he's quoted WAY out of context, and that kind of stuff. If you believe that for years and at one point learn that it's actually bs and he didn't say that or the context reveals he was quoting someone else, or negates the comment the next sentence, etc, you start to question ALL your beliefs.

They pushed too far, fabricated just a BIT too much, and people caught on.
Without reigning in campaign finance, it's real. Criminals rejoice! Let's loot this fucker!
Keep in mind this site swings heavily right wing.
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Thanks man. Basically sounds like they haven’t gotten better.

We have an advisor that’s pushing us towards langgraph but he’s the CAIO at a LargeCo and they have an entire team that’s devoted to building tooling for working with it. Which in and of itself is insane - the whole point of using a library is to avoid doing it yourself - but is also damning against LG because as an early stage startup I can’t afford the time sink of needing to work around a weird abstraction.
Even if something is slow there is utility to have it run faster. Sure, Python will never be with for the most demanding performance requirements but that doesn't mean we should deny people performance.

There are lots of use case where Python's performance is acceptable but a 10x speed boost would be much appreciated. Or where Python's performance is not acceptable but it would be if I could fully utilize my 32 cores.

For example look at Instagram. They run tons of Python but need to run many processes on each machine wasting memory. I'm sure they would love to save that memory, the environment would too. Sure, they could rewrite their service in C but that is most likely not the best tradeoff.
> Do Trump voters really think he's going to improve their lives?

Nope, but ask how many of them expect their sons to have to kneel in the next four years.

You aren't asking the right questions.

PS. Not American, think he' a dick, but spent a half-century watching hundreds of millions where I live keep voting for the worst people.
They are actively leaving and my home state's economy is in real danger of collapsing. I think I'm correct in being afraid.
Inflation was caused by the Covid stimulus of 2020, and the mountains of free money printed that year (which is why it hit the entire world - every government did the exact same thing). Last I checked, Biden wasn't president at the time...
Such C runtime is not standard-compliant [1]:

> The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to be deallocated, that is, made available for further allocation. If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2310.pdf#p...
Didn't the DNC kill democracy in the US all the way back in 2016?
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Highly unlikely. The next Governor of my state is likely that person who stood up to Trumps fraudulent voting claims. We will see if the Democrats can find a decent candidate but I doubt it. They used the same person twice with the same results.
the dems don't have billionaires bankrolling them? if two assholes compete, the asshole who's honest about being an asshole is going to be more popular than the asshole who pretends to be such a nice guy.
He is taking the popular vote too. Have other ideas to bash his presidency?
Someone democratically elected can still end democratic processes.
I meant that the pandemic was something that did change things and wasnt "more or less the same". But that has little to do with Trump.
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> unfortunate for Ukraine, but it's not necessarily their problem

It seems like it absolutely is the US's problem, albeit indirectly. If Russia gets the outcome it wants in Ukraine, they'll have access to rich mineral deposits, vast quantities of grain, and nuclear power, boosting their economy and their status as a rival world power to the US. It will signal to Putin that he can be aggressive towards other neighbouring countries with little pushback. The war has resulted in a growing alliance between Russia, Iran and North Korea which is altering global military power dynamics and not in the US's favour. Also, China is watching what's happening with eagle eyes to determine whether to invade Taiwan, which would definitely escalate the US's engagement.
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As a European I have to ask - do you really need another argument? If I stand on a platform for government in Europe with an arguably fascist agenda I will get called out as a fascist and will lose. Never mind if I am a convicted felon, rapist, and probable russian intelligence asset. Seriously, what are you guys thinking here? Americans would actually vote for an extreme right wing candiate just to prove a point to the dems? Just to get one over on the libs? Please explain.
>I care because I'm capable of empathy

Women are a reactionary element for a reason. Now they've finally been pushed to radical extremes and you see this as a bad thing?
Citizens United and the coup attempt neither being treated as five-alarm fires for our Democracy were probably the moments when a major slide toward authoritarianism became far, far more likely. Democrats just sat on their hands.

By the time we got to the news that at least two Supreme Court justices and very likely more are being bought, and collectively shrugged rather than making that the issue until they were out, well, that wasn’t so much a landmark on the way down as another ordinary day.
Vance was pretty good at talking on Rogan.
Maybe. But you would experience less risk. How much will someone gain from now until 2028? I'm sitting on cash.
Why deflect towards Biden?

The question isn't if he's better or worse than Biden, the question is if he's well enough for the presidency. And he's shown very clear signs of mental decline the last months.

Neither Trump nor Biden should have been chosen as candidates, yet all the focus has been on Biden.
The article explains it very well.
AFAIK everybody who was sent to Afghanistan was either professionals or ordinary soldiers who applied.

If we end up in an attack on our homelands thats another thing.

But even then no ordinary conscript that reads HN (ok, possible exception for russians, but even they try to maintain a veneer of "voluntary" on it when they send conscripts) will be sent to abroad.
Netherlands: can't you just do Dutch/US friendship treaty, live here for a number of years and then apply for citizenship?
I'm not American either, but I see a war going on between authoritarian states and democratic ones, and Trump supporting the wrong side.

It deeply concerns me from a human rights perspective and also on a personal security level because I live near Taiwan.

I've also felt the impact of disinformation and conspiration theories spreading from the US to my country and I fear it's only going to get worse.
This is a great advice, thank you. I am learning Rust and this definitely gives me good pointers (no pun) how I should idiomatically handle them.

EDIT: can this be done/automated using macros?
middle class taxes cuts, bringing back roe v wade.. all that..
The most interesting idea in my opinion is biased reference counting [0].

An oversimplified explanation (and maybe wrong) of it goes like this:

problem:

- each object needs a reference counter, because of how memory management in Python works

- we cannot modify ref counters concurrently because it will lead to incorrect results

- we cannot make each ref counter atomic because atomic operations have too large performance overhead

therefore, we need GIL.

Solution, proposed in [0]:

- let's have two ref counters for each object, one is normal, another one is atomic

- normal ref counter counts references created from the same thread where the object was originally created, atomic counts references from other threads

- because of an empirical observation that objects are mostly accessed from the same thread that created them, it allows us to avoid paying atomic operations penalty most of the time

Anyway, that's what I understood from the articles/papers. See my other comment [1] for the links to write-ups by people who actually know what they're talking about.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3243176.3243195

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42059605
I assume by 'strong personality' you mean populist. I think it's a big mistake to think populism can only be fought with populism, otherwise all democracies would have fallen to it long ago.

I do think if we're pointing fingers, most of the problems came from before the Harris campaign kicked off.
No doubt. Sell while the markets still exist.
Taiwan being abandoned to its mainland neighbor, maybe?
The possibility of constructing a bomb was known probably since the '20s. The USSR most certainly could have done it themselves, alone.

What the leak most probably did was reduce the number of nuclear tests done by the USSR and probably nuclear accidents too (USSR were really prone to accidents). Which is good for the entire planet.
Blue brain washing. I am not holding my hopes high but with Trump we will probably have less wars, less trade wars, less inflation and a better economy.
Harris' plan lowered taxes for everyone making less than 900K per year

https://itep.org/kamala-harris-donald-trump-tax-plans/
Well she lost anyway. Bidens policies were generally unpopular, it would have made sense for her to distance herself from them.
>I wonder what would have happened if we poured the same amount of money, talent and hardware into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc.

But that's backwards from how new techniques and progress is made. What actually happens is somebody (maybe a student at a university) has an insight or new idea for an algorithm that's near $0 cost to implement a proof-of concept. Then everybody else notices the improvement and then extra millions/billions get directed toward it.

New ideas -- that didn't cost much at the start -- ATTRACT the follow on billions in investments.

This timeline of tech progress in computer science is the opposite from other disciplines such as materials science or bio-medical fields. Trying to discover the next super-alloy or cancer drug all requires expensive experiments. Manipulating atoms & molecules requires very expensive specialized equipment. In contrast, computer science experiments can be cheap. You just need a clever insight.

An example of that was the 2012 AlexNet image recognition algorithm that blew all the other approaches out of the water. Alex Krizhevsky had an new insight on a convolutional neural network to run on CUDA. He bought 2 NVIDIA cards (GTX580 3GB GPU) from Amazon. It didn't require NASA levels of investment at the start to implement his idea. Once everybody else noticed his superior results, the billions began pouring in to iterate/refine on CNNs.

Both the "attention mechanism" and the refinement of "transformer architecture" were also cheap to prove out at a very small scale. In 2014, Jakob Uszkoreit thought about an "attention mechanism" instead of RNN and LSTM for machine translation. It didn't cost billions to come up with that idea. Yes, ChatGPT-the-product cost billions but the "attention mechanism algorithm" did not.

>into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc.

If anyone has found an unknown insight into SVM, KNN, etc that everybody else in the industry has overlooked, they can do cheap experiments to prove it. E.g. The entire Wikipedia text download is currently only ~25GB. Run the new SVM classification idea on that corpus. Very low cost experiments in computer science algorithms can still be done in the proverbial "home garage".
> I think Biden's decision to run for a second term was what sunk them

You think?

> Democrats had to

Oh? Oh— They had to.

> the only viable alternative

K.
It was not, but the Trump campaign continuously lied about it. Trump lied and lied and lied about the democratic party being anti-men, anti-cis, anti-Christian, Kamala being low IQ, and whatever other stupid shit he could think about, but somehow it's Harris fault for being "too divisive" (not sure how).

Trump is the incarnation of a thin-skinned bully, he allows himself the worst but will cry as loud as possible on the first sign of a backslash.

If people who voted for him are not stupid, they certainly act like it.
College aged women often benefit financially from old rich dudes.
Calling out people who invoke Nazi themes doesn't make them more Nazi, nor does giving them a pass make them less so.
People no longer feel comfortable telling the truth about their votes.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/30/election-gen-z-voting-lies
It was true 2 centuries ago. In the age we are now where each country is interconnected at every level of a society (economy, culture, trade, innovation, research, military…) that’s not possible anymore. WW2 showed it. You can’t play head in the sand and think that everything will be fine. Since then every major economy drawbacks showed the world we live today is all interconnected and interdependent. And that’s the same for any other type of backlash or drawbacks from politics, alliances, society…
> But morally, its absolutely evil.

At what level of development is a human foetus anatomically distinguishable from a cow foetus?

There's no fact-based reason to draw the line in any particular place. We, humanity, don't know what "personhood" really is beyond the laws we write while guessing and the just-so stories we tell each other to justify those laws.

That's why I'm vegetarian, and why I'd become vegan quickly as soon as someone can get milk from GM bacteria. (And sell it in supermarkets).

It's also one of two reasons why I try to be nice to LLMs: just in case. (The other reason takes it as read they have no experience of existence: by being trained on humans, they'll do better and worse exactly when real humans would do better and worse, and that means worse on holiday season and when getting insulted).
The gibberish that routinely comes out of their candidate barely qualifies as speech.

The reality is, nobody who was wringing their hands about Biden's cognitive abilities, or his son's legal problems actually cared about either issue. If they did, they wouldn't have voted for an mentally declining criminal today.
There's actually some interesting context there.

Shortly before the Brexit referendum, Scotland had an independence referendum, where the Westminster government was in favour of the status quo - and they had a great deal of success by deliberately not figuring out what independence would mean.

What currency would an independent Scotland use? What will happen to their military? What about healthcare, and education? EU membership? What share of the UK's national debt would they take on? Who will get citizenship? What will the border look like? Nobody knows! So a yes vote was a scary leap into the unknown with many unsolved problems, while a no vote was safe and predictable.

After the strategy succeeded in the Scottish independence vote, Cameron decided to repeat that success with Brexit - not figuring out what Brexit means was a deliberate strategy intended to boost the remain campaign.
5 Trillion added to the Fed balance sheet is not a small handout. They didn't o ly hand out money to individuals but also gave to businesses and propped up the bond market.
But it is a shiny example of what most sane people call Too Much Government.

People love to hear Trump saying he will drain the swamp.
Rip America. China and russia are gonna love this.

Astounding they have elected a literal criminal as a president. Bonkers even.
A newborn can't exist on its own though. It needs to nurse, has to have someone change its diapers, etc.
The argument of the GOP was, Trump is better because the inflation was lower during his term. How are you supposed to counter this?
I took some AI courses around the same time as the author, and I remember the professors were actually big proponents of neural nets, but they believed the missing piece was some new genius learning algorithm rather than just scaling up with more data.
That's what the previous generation said in the 90s. They could afford that choice, because they knew they would likely be dead before climate change started really affecting everyday life. Our generation – those who are not close to retirement – does not have the same luxury. Our future will be tougher anyway, both from the climate change itself and from the efforts to mitigate its effects.
> From a game theoretical perspective this is a good result. It is a clear reiteration of the message to the Democrats: you won't win by claiming to be 0.1% less bad.

Yeah, I said as much on a reddit comment prior to knowing the results: This is a good thing for the future of the Dems! They can now take this valuable feedback and put together a better platform to run on in future races.

Running on social activism isn't a winning strategy, no matter how loud that vocal minority is shouting.
I disagree. There's a big difference between saying "kamala will win, it's certain", and "we don't know".
Just like supersonic travel between Europe and America becoming common place was inevitable. Oh, wait.

Optimism is good, blind optimism isn't.