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> I've used vendor-specific C++ compilers with no bounds checking and a barely conforming stdlib, so by your logic C++ has zero bounds checking...

I literally said exactly that: "The standard doesn't require any checks to begin with."

> Defaults matter!

Sigh... nobody claimed otherwise. You're really missing the point of the thread.

All I did was give people a tip on how to improve their code security. The exact sentence I wrote was:

>> "If you want bounds checking in your own code, start replacing T* with std::span<T> or std::span<T>::iterator whenever the target is an array."

"BUT DEFAULTS MATTER!!!", you rebut! Well OK, then I guess keep your raw pointers in and don't migrate your code? Sorry I tried to help!
Or oils from your hand, perhaps?
It is the spark plug insulator. They are using the ceramic from it to break the glass.
I remember hearing about this in the 90s with thieves carrying insulators on strings in their pockets.

https://www.carparts.com/blog/can-a-spark-plug-break-a-windo...

note from the article: "Keeping Spark Plug Shards Might Be Illegal in Your State" so keep that in mind
Many years ago, one of the popular news shows (Dateline or 20/20, I can never remember which) did a special on bullying.

They showed one elementary school where the entire organization (teachers, students, staff etc) implemented some kind of holistic approach to bullying that actually worked. They even interviewed a group of kids where they said "Oh yeah, Tom used to be the bully and we were all afraid of him but now we're all best friends".

I don't remember the exact plan implemented but it struck me as both simple and common sense with excellent outcomes.

Despite much searching on IMDB, Twitter, Google and even using LLMs, I have yet to find the exact episode. Now that I have kids of my own, I'm even more interested in finding it. Any suggestions from the HN crowd?
See: https://lanparty.house/#why-build-in
Nope. It can mean change to some theory, without a need for matter. It is the difference between relativistic gravity and the corresponding observed mass.
Gerrit could use some love, but I'm increasingly in love with it.

I know github is more social platform than code-hosting, but if you'd be looking at Gitlab as an alternative, well, it's equally bad but in different ways.
Don’t radio waves weaken proportionally to the square of the distance? No one would be able to detect them past a (relatively) small distance.
google will almost certainly be acquiring gitlab
My day job is working on a product that uses DPDK for a super high performance file system.
> It is refreshing to see someone make a statement and then proceed to ramble about completely unrelated things with no intent of even revisiting the original thesis let alone defending or explaining it. I haven’t read anything this meandering and empty since I stopped using Twitter

It's refreshing to see a discussion on how different cultural approaches influence writing styles. I think this might partly stem from cultural differences. For example, in Latin-based cultures like Spain or France, it’s more common for authors to leave certain ideas implicit, expecting readers to infer connections or fill in gaps. This can sometimes come across as "rambling" or lacking focus, especially to readers from more fact-oriented cultures, like the American-centric style found here on HN.

In contrast, the American style tends to prioritize clarity, directness, and explicit connections between ideas. Without knowing the author’s background, it’s possible that what some perceive as a lack of explanation or defense in the original piece might simply reflect a different cultural approach to argumentation and storytelling. One that is less rigid but more open to interpretation, even if it invites criticism.
There are two kinds of truths
I'm almost certain that what I'll write down is in the 101 textbook of epistemology, but lately I've been fascinated by two different kinds of truths that govern our lives.

There's learnable truth. Eg.: Water is made of 2 hydrogen and one oxygen. The universe is 13.7 billion years old. Dinosaurs roamed freely and ruled this planet once. We evolved from single cell organisms and therefore each and everyone one of us here today is a de facto winner of trillions of chance events: the genes that make us triumphed through countless generations, people who had to meet met, wars that killed millions did not kill our ancestors (or not in time), therefore rendering an incalculable number of alternate scenarios pointless and meaningless , because we are fucking here, breathing, living, loving, working. That sort of stuff. It's incredibly humbling and deep. But at the same time, that's all learnable. You need a brain and a textbook and you get this knowledge instantiated within said wet neuron-meetloaf.

But there are (in my view) deeper or at least just as profound truths. Truths that you can only experience. For example: What it feels like to hold a child for the first time in your arms or to be absolutely shit scared when they are hurt at any point in their lives. What it means to a parent's heart when their kid smiles at them with glowing beautiful eyes and gives them a "running-hug". How it feels to stroke and smell your dying parent's hair the last time as you kiss goodbye to them. What it takes to keep a friendship alive throughout 30, 40, 50 years. These are all truths that are just as foundational, just as wonderful as the others above. For this kind of knowledge however there is no shortcut. No amount of reading, watching, listening will allow you to understand what it is like to care for a child, to lose a parent, to have a 30 year old friendship.

Sadly it seems to me, that there are fewer and fewer people who advocate for both kinds of truths. As if these two kinds of truths were incompatible... Or if it made sense to focus on only one of them..

I think this is nonsense . They are not only not incomparable but both equally necessary for becoming a well rounded human. Embrace them both and give the middle finger to anyone who dares to belittle or diminish the importance of either.
I get strong "Majestic 12" vibes from it.

Which is to say, I assume by default it's a hoax. The name alone just seems too on the nose.
> In a way, what we've done is custom-built a database by turning it inside-out. We simplified the canonical storage into a NoSQL cluster, and then built our own querying engine with the view servers. It's a lot less convenient to build with, but it scales.

https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

Turning the database inside out? Where have I heard that before... Oh, right,

Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza (2014),
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/09/18/turning-database-ins...

Further, Martin's Designing Data Intensive Applicarions (2017) is a very very well respected book that encompasses these ideas & more.
I do not like GitHub, but they do not force to use 2FA on a cell phone at least.
Should destructive buttons be hard to find?
You’re talking about the contribution from the venue to the boardcast centre, increasingly not a full program but being mixed remotely.

That’s a very different area to transmission of live to end users.
Surely any such eclipse lasts a long time. From the perspective of our lifetimes it is static.
Should work the other way too. Physics and symmetry:)
> giving up GitHub will be even harder than giving up Facebook

For a solo developer it was as simple as installing gitea and running it.
> SICP is not a programming course, it’s a computer science course.

I don't see what you mean by this at all. Furthermore this doesn't strike me as a useful distinction when a) it doesn't cover most topics labeled by consensus as "computer science" and b) it very clearly does teach a great deal about programming.

Why not say it teaches computer science and programming skills? Why do these have to be exclusive? There's obviously a great deal of overlap in general.
I think writing a book about something technical. Either self-published (I like leanpub) or through a publisher. Doesn't have to be long, even a 30 page ebook is a big effort.

I have done this a few times and you learn so much and appreciate so much.

Other than that, I think it really depends on where you are starting. If you are a webdev, building an MVC framework. If you are a system programmer, building a basic HTTP.1/1 web server.
There are other predictions MOND makes. For example, it predicts higher collision velocities than LCDM, for example, see:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8193356

And, of course, it predicted that the early universe would have bigger and more structured galaxies (which is what the posted article is about).

Dark matter has a slew of problems of its own; it's not the case that LCDM is problem free, despite good success in some areas.
> Is cable video over IP now?

Over the US and Canada it mostly is, though how advanced the transition is is very regional.

The plan is to drop both analog signal and digital (QAM) to reclaim the frequencies and use them for DOCSIS internet.

Newer set top boxes from Comcast (xfinity) runs over the internet connection (in a tagged VLAN on a private network, and they communicate over a hidden wifi).
"Comrades, it is not enough that we disrupt the GPS and Galileo of the Western imperialist oppressors, we must move the very North itself!"

I wonder what technologies are on the horizon to help us get a better idea what's really churning deep deep underground.
I highly doubt this. Netflix has a system of OCAs that are loaded with hard disks, are installed in ISP’s networks, and serve the majority of those ISP’s customers.

Given than many people had no problems with the stream, it is unlikely to have been an origin problem but more likely the mechanism to fanout quickly to OCAs. Normally latency to an OCA doesn’t matter when you’re replicating new catalogs in advance, but live streaming makes a bunch of code that previously “didn’t need to be fast” get promoted to the hot path.
I wish the OP had added to the Title (2022) ....

Interesting enough, the article/opinion is factually correct, up to today.

Yet people still went with Github. Including those who loudly promote FOSS.

Humans...
I think the problem with this particular challenge is that it is incredibly non-disruptive to the status quo. There are already 100s of billions flowing into using LLMs as well as GPUs for chip design. Nvidia has of course laid the ground work with its culitho efforts. This kind of research area is very hot in the research world as well. It’s by no means difficult to pitch to a VC. So why should YC back it? I’d love to see YC identifying areas where VC dollars are not flowing. Unfortunately, the other challenges are mostly the same — govtech, civictech, defense tech. These are all areas where VC dollars are now happily flowing since companies like Anduril made it plausible.
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Two different things: left liberals and socialists.
I was thinking about this today but maybe not for the reasons the author specified. I feel like I bought into the gamified era of social as I lived it through my 20s and 30s. Part of that meant I became a star chaser. I have a couple projects that exceed 10k and 20k stars. What did I gain for that? Nothing really. I mean some of it helped pay my bills but in reality, I was sucked into some sort of "hype it up" vortex. Even now its a habit hard to break when creating new projects. I'd delete my account but it's still a valuable resource for storing software. I could shift it all elsewhere or maybe just let it all go, not sure yet. But definitely something to think about. Code doesn't need to live on Github. Its a useful way to share, but it's not the be all and end all of code.
What would be the purpose of a hoax like that?
This is how bullying has been dealt with in Norway for decades. Nice to see the UK might be trying to catch up.
As the former proprietor of LanParty.com (which I mistakenly included in a sale to IGN) I must salute you. The absolute genius of the provided lan equipment and particularly the management thereof is an inspiration.

I think the lack of any standing offerings of variations of Quake is a glaring mistake but easily rectified. :)

It's really heartening to see lan gaming continued and offered in such a way that the amount of hassle and setup is minimized and the gaming is maximized. We spent far too much time in the 90's and 2000's dealing with driver issues, etc etc. Bravo.
Not all the others, but all the popular enough others. And the definition of “popular enough” goes around attractive to the groups that want to influence, push agendas, sell or whatever. Closed or small enough communities have the opportunity to escape from that fate (or turn to echo chambers, or their members become isolated from the rest of the world because everyone else became alienated by what happens on the popular ones).

Being social and accepted comes with their own compromises because of the dynamics happening around them, some are of which try to use them as tools.
I’m surprised people still have LAN parties.

My lan parties were more adhoc. Plan to play at some dudes/gals house, bring pcs/laptops/consoles and other gear, run cat5 cable between rooms, hook them up to some shitty switch and go to town. Many hours of sweaty gameplay. Piss off the neighbors. Trip a few circuit breakers.

This “lan party” has such a corporate feel to it. Almost reminds me of a typical work office. Just what I need after grinding it for 5 hrs and commuting home for another 1-2 hr — to experience the work environment again!

I’m actually more interested in the dedicated cat walk and doors that lead into various rooms.
I hate to be this guy, but being bullied in school is a direct cause of my success in software (and my failure in relationships I guess). I retreated to academics because I was unpopular. I was unpopular in school now I am popular professionally (All the LinkedIn recruiters love me).

I don't mean to say bullying is good but I personally am thankful to my high school bully for keeping me focused on computers (Thanks Fred, I owe you a beer next time we run into each other).
> but I don't hear many people having a worse opinion on Windows than the decades before

Well sure, but windows has never exactly been highly praised outside the enterprise world. Much of the praise that is held is mostly nostalgic.
Were they using KiVa perhaps? It's the Finnish anti-bullying program which seems to be applied worldwide quite successfully.

https://www.kivaprogram.net/
>It is correct to blame them for the way the door locks work though and therefore can be blamed for the excess injuries/deaths that result from the design decision.

This is what is being discussed here: that four people burned to death because they were unable to exit the vehicle.
Thats probably not happening at that scale. I know this is the premise of interstellar communication in the three body problem. It's not real.
Dealers of lightning about Xerox parc is quite impressive
No, no it isn't. AI produces nothing new, and is just aping what it has seen. There is nothing new to be seen, only the echos of humanity tossed back at you.
The outsized importance people assign to twitter is one of the greatest mysteries of the last 10 years.
Cool, let me know how to improve the code security on my vendor compiler then, I'll be waiting.
would we be on HN if we were the popular kids in school?
> Nowadays we know that humans (and other animals) bully because they derive immense health benefits from being the aggressor

Which health benefits are those?
Sorry for the off topic but what’s this thing that I only come across in Hacker News about referring to a company by their stock exchange name (APPL, MSFT, etc) outside of a stock context? It seems really weird to me.
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EEs actually had a head start on ML, especially those who took signal processing.
It's amazing to see how much the mass media along with Big Tech has brainwashed people with their alarmism. The dystopia is rapidly approaching where you cannot do anything without their explicit approval, and it will all be "for your security".

Some people are more prescient than most, but they've been canceled for telling others about it.
> ICANN rules allow ccTLDs to create emoji/punycode domains

Well, they can't prohibit it, strictly speaking, they don't have such authority, but I remember them strongly discouraging it and advicing against delegation of such domains. Did something change their stance? I'd like to read that.

And the rules of IDNA2008 certainly did not change, they still prohibit emoji in domain names.
Prolog et al is a real brain buster. As in it will break your spirits and build you back up better.
I remember in college I was able to build a binary tree with 3 lines of code. And once you write the insert, the delete, search, and others just magically appear.

It also frames your thinking about defining what you want rather than how to get it.

If you really want to see the power of these kinds of languages look up Einstein's puzzle solved with prolog. The solution just magically comes out by entering the constraints of the puzzle.
To tamp down a certain optimistic bent of mind: There's usually a cost and reason a biological system reaches a certain equilibrium. Please don't dose your normal brain with embiggeners unless you also have a control group. :p
is this supposed to be a joke?
I would have just made it simple, delay the live stream a few seconds and encode it into the same bucket where users already is playing static movies. Just have the player only allow start at the time everyone is at.
I always found it really frustrating that a "zero tolerance" policy to bullying seemed to disproportionately affect people who eventually fight back.

I would guess it's a combination of "nobody sees the first hit" (since your attention is elsewhere, of course) and that bullies get quite good at testing boundaries and thus know how to avoid detection.

But, really, it's truly frustrating that as I child I was bullied relentlessly, and when I finally took my parents advice and stood my ground, I was expelled from school (due to zero tolerance). Those bullies continued to torment some other kids, of course.

This is far from an uncommon situation, over the years I've heard many more scenarios like this.
Not trying to discount your personal experience, but I do feel I ought to point out that you don’t actually know what would have happened if you hadn’t been bullied.

It’s good to be satisfied with where your life has taken you, but that’s because you can’t actually change what’s happened and you can’t know how it might have gone otherwise.
Misinformation? I don't know. I'm not basing my opinion on anything but vibes.
> Cool, let me know how to improve the code security on my vendor compiler then, I'll be waiting.

Switch to std::span and add 1 line to std::span::operator[] to check your bounds...
Then sign a contract with Akamai, who has been in business for 25 years? You outsource if you aren’t planning to do something very often.

There is no middle ground where you commit a mediocre amount of resources, end up with downtime and a mediocre experience, and then go “but we saved money.”
Dropping the windows on frameless doors goes back to at least the 90s and mechanical door handles.

I wouldn't be surprised if it goes back even earlier and someone even tried it entirely mechanically without electric windows...

Update: it looks like it was first done on 1946 Buick convertibles.
to see that upside on a home requires you 1. sell and 2. buy somewhere cheaper (or not buy at all) ... Otherwise it's a zero sum game. Home for a home.
Ah, envoy. Now that is a name I have not missed.
Not really, its premise is using our Sun, not some lens composed of 2 galaxies (that would probably misalign well before our signal would reach them), not sure how you came up with such an idea.
This is a strange way to express your disagreement with the post.

The article clearly follows a course that outlines the process behind the author's beliefs. He says that he intends to share his argument against the alternatives later...So consider this the first part of what may became a greater work.

I disagree with him, although I don't discount all of his observations. But it's clear that he's put some effort into the article which is ostensibly meant to be continued.
That statistic is not controlling for the drivers. It's interesting, but it may be biased by who buys Tesla and how they drive. Similar to likely "cars with aggressive custom paint jobs have higher fatality rate".
I studied mechatronics and did reasonably well... but in any electrical class I would just scrape by. I loved it but was apparently not suited to it. I remember a whole unit basically about transistors. On the software/mtrx side we were so happy treating MOSFETs as digital. Having to analyse them in more depth did my head in.
same as word document with track changes enabled… you see entire document and with history exact why each piece of the document is there and when and who made it so
There is a sibling comment that matches what GP replied to. The longer threads get, the longer it takes until you can reply. I guess GP replied to their own comment instead.
Surely the idea of it being a new kind of matter that interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically yields some testable result? Does it actually yield nothing testable with today’s experimental methods?
Yeah sure over time the animal that rests will be better of than the animal that chews on its wounds. But what I meant there is that there are obvious limits to what pure optimism can do.

I had a very optimistic and upbeat neighbour who thought she could beat cancer without modern medicine into which she had zero trust — she died with age 55, having tried literally everything but modern medicine.
What prevents to precompile shaders on windows, in a similar way it's done on those other platforms?
> Tesla has the highest fatality rate, so that is ruled out! :)

Do you have a source? Genuinely interested. From the little reading I've done Tesla seem to have put quite a bit of thought in to making their cars perform well in crash tests so it seems surprising that they'd have a high fatality rate.
Reading the comments here, I think one thing that's overlooked is that Netflix, which has been on the vanguard of web-tech and has solved many complicated problems in-house, may not have had the culture to internally admit that they needed outside help to tackle this problem.

A combination of hubris and groupthink.
And then for the extremely destructive ones, force people to type in a word or wait X seconds as the button "arms" itself to prevent reflex clicking.
Who said I didn't need them? The problem is people in the real world don't have /s markers and often aren't actually your friends and can listen actually mean you harm. Part of my neurodivergence leads to me being trusting of people when I really should not, (aka I'm gullible) and this sends me down the wrong path sometimes. Since I'm neurodivergent and have trouble with this, the way for me to get better at it, is to practice harder at things that others find easy, not for me to demand and expect the whole world change to suit my needs.
I would argue Tyson has a shorter reach, Jake was whiffing a lot of superman punches, and all that does is waste energy. Jake might be able to throw punches, but he clearly wasn't interested in taking them. If they stood closer and slugged it out, the fight could have gone either way.
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Indeed that’s what OP did. Bought in the Bay low, then sold high and moved to Austin, where presumably the increase in value is again sufficiently high because Austin prices skyrocketed in the last 5 years.
That advice will work for significantly limited number of population. Like, it's true, but also "hope you have enough mass/strength/flexibility". My little-old-lady neighbour could not do it.