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> Graphical symbolic communication is tens of thousands of years older than what the article discusses.

This article says that the earliest proto-writing is 10,000 years old - 3-d clay counters used for accounting. What was earlier?

https://sites.utexas.edu/dsb/tokens/the-evolution-of-writing...
I participated for r/cpp for a very large number of years, including quite a number of high-impact posts - just not with that account.

And would you be so kind to actually link to the comment you banned me for? This is it, for everyone to see and judge:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1gyiwwc/c_standards_co...
The shape of a photon – "something that hasn't been seen before in physics"
> I think people on HN can be better than to spread conspiracy theories and avoid racism.

HN users tend to think they are more logical and thus, somehow more immune to racism, while failing to understand that's simply not how racist attitudes develop.
But it’s much easier to comment immediately with my preconceived notions than to actually read the article and risk that it disagrees with them.
It’s been a while since someone has wilfully destroyed a thing that has an obvious replacement. Last one was probably Digg.
How are people still making the classic `foo`/`foo_safe_version` mistake? In a supposedly modern language. And they didn't even name the safe version clearly! If the rest of Nim is designed on this level then I hope it never succeeds.

Note that Rust got this exactly right. assert, debug_assert. Clear and fail-safe.
The parent did not say anything about climate and pointed to actual the problem in The Netherlands: nitrogen deposition. Our nature parks are dying because there is far too much nitrogen deposition from nearby farms.

(But our current right-wing populist government likes to pretend the problem does not exist, so they have to be slapped on the wrists by courts and the EU.)
No it wouldnt. İf I leave a mustache like hitler, no one believes that I am hitler, but instead this would be advertasing it. Which is still wrong, but this would be wrong regardless of my background. İn this instance, they actually believed the kid would make a bomb, just because of his name. I wonder any kid with different name would go through the same.
Right, this whole debug_assert thing is just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar. Everyone starts their C/C++ programs with a dozen lines of #define that wouldn't be necessary if only the authors in the 1980s had the foresight to design programming languages to fit the taste of 2020s programmers. This eliminates one of those lines.

Rust provides some remarkably rich features to help you reason about the assumptions, preconditions and postconditions your code has, but debug_assert isn't one of them.
Quipo are amazing, but mostly accounting records?
Interactive examples are nice, but would have been better if there was a side by comparison or toggle for switching to previous iteration. In most of the cases improvement of each iteration is so subtle I couldn't tell a difference.
> Oh why can't anyone just ever call a spade a spade on here?

IIRC, the reasons varied from one blue zone to another. Not all were fraud.
That is literally what Common Lisp has and GP describes…

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/Advanced_topics/...
Of course I haven't done EOD. I don't need to be to know that bomb squads treat stuff like it's a bomb until proven otherwise via x-ray or a tech inspecting it, or it is disrupted by water cannon.

> we can only rely on common, rational, sense to debate this amongst ourselves.

"common rational sense", riiiiiight. You implied bomb techs should assume (or know) that cylinders with wires coming out of them wrapped in black plastic attached to critical transportation are just batteries and could not be a pipe full of explosives.

We're done here.
Exactly. It seems that alphabet development is closely related to the regions more focused on international trading (the region we know as Phoenicia) rather than war and conquest of the neighbours. Maybe a system that represent sounds was useful to write words from sounds in multiple languages that were never heard before, unlike pictograms, hieroglyphs or cuneiform, that had to be adapted to each language.
Farting maybe, but the impact from cow burps is measurable and no conspiracy theory.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17517715/
And he’d be right.

When those trees die and then rot or burn, that CO2 will be released right back into the atmosphere. They’ll temporarily hold some, yeah, but it’s like trying to rapidly fire a squirt gun at a fire when someone else is spraying it with a firehose of gasoline.

Especially because trees plant themselves. If they want to set aside the land for forest and seed it a little to get going - great - but those large tree planting operations are a waste of time at best or carbon credit loopholes at worst.
Pfff. Ironically, the ""walled garden"" on iOS protects users better than the anything-goes wild west on web browsers, where sites can run any code they want, change anything under your feet, and snoop on your other "apps" at will.
Now that’s a real problem, farm animal excrement is an issue. Seems like one that technology can solve?
Correction; a kid named Truman
He denies it, and even if he said it, it was 1981 and I doubt he meant "forever".

> Affluence does not equal wisdom.

True

Just waiting for someone to factcheck about planting trees: there must be nuance. In australia we burn em to protect people and the environment for example. We have done it for millenia.
There is a matter of definition. IIRC, if you lookup some cave paintings from ~30,000 years ago, there is/was a debate whether marks near animals were intended to represent quantities.
> "Is there a reason you did (or did not do) X?”

I think many people would take that as a direct challenge of their decision.

I'm no human expert but personally I'd try something like "Man I bet you had to make some tradeoffs and juggle priorities over $X right ! ..." and then see what they offer up. At the water-cooler, bar etc

> "Can I offer a suggestion?”

It's not the done thing to say no to that but depending on the tone a lot of people would then just ignore whatever comes out your mouth
What kinds of forests? For nature, or for lumber? If the latter, what is quality of the timber produced, or will it spark a new wave of power stations burning wood pellets. Lots of questions, with very little detail available in the article.
In general, you need a type system that supports sets of integer values, e.g. range(2, 7) or set(3, 5, 7). Rust doesn't support that unfortunately so it has a special annotation instead to make NonZero work.
Can you dig up any instances of that happening?

Because if not, you've accidentally proved the racism in this incident, because we can already turn up news reports of misunderstood nerdy islamic kids, but find no arrests of caucasian supernatural enthusiasts.

A nonexistent, hypothetical strawman doesn't bolster your argument.
> I participated for r/cpp for a very large number of years, including quite a number of high-impact posts - just not with that account.

Interesting that you did not choose to voice your opinions using your main accounts on that community then.

> And would you be so kind to actually link to the comment you banned me for? This is it, for everyone to see and judge:

Nah, that was just the comment I used to get to your profile. I banned you for insulting someone.
I would say no. In fact it is risky, because if you try to add an assertion message inside the parens you’re now asserting a non-empty tuple which is always truthy. Though obviously you might know enough to not make this error, and want the parens for consistency when asserts need to be multiline.

tratt might also be doing that more for consistency with the desugaring than as a routine behaviour.
I did a CSS experiment back in 2008 (before CSS allowed for backdrop-blur) that did the same'ish effect: https://webdev.andersriggelsen.dk/aero/

It works by using a fixed-position pre-blurred (with glass effects) background image: https://webdev.andersriggelsen.dk/aero/bgl.jpg

This is a lot more performant than a live gaussian blur but it of course has all the drawbacks of not allowing for a dynamic background image.
ToolKit
An open source app we can all learn from
You could plant a trillion trees tomorrow but it won't help anything so long as places like China and India pollute the oceans with millions of tones of plastic waste trash every year. That's in the thousands of tones per day region. The sheer scale of pollution there makes Denmark's measly little contribution just that, peanuts. No wonder the farmers are upset. They're destroying their own industry and people's livelihood and food security, for barely moving the needle on the altar of enviromentalism.
I'm not sure you can trust local news stations, either, especially when they're all owned by the same company.

For example,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
Is that the same article that Last Week Tonight brought up in their expose on TikTok where they brought up some very valid questions about the method used in that study?
Yes, companies are legally obligated to disclose risks.

But that’s not even what this is about. Facebook _did_ disclose those risks, but just not strongly worded enough in the hopes of the plaintiffs.
It could be this, or it could be:

He experimenting hours and was proud of what he did. He wanted to show it to as many as possible, so he ignored what the teacher said. He was interrogated. Why more than one hour? It could have taken less then 10 minutes if you ask the teacher. Why was he handcuffed later? The police clearly wanted to make a statement or show.
Many years ago I had a designer friend do some interface for me and I pointed out we should be using a couple icons for actions like "post", "delete", etc.

He replied something like "I don't believe in the thaumaturgical power of icons" and that has stayed with me forever since. Words may he worth 1/1000th of a picture but at least you understand them.
Our issues in The Netherlands are probably similar to Denmark's and the biggest issue is not all agriculture. Meat and milk production has an outweighed impact on destroying the environment. You need far more land to grow crops to feed livestock and keeping cows leads to a lot of nitrogen deposition.

We can reduce land use and have food security if people were not so intend on eating/drinking animal products every day (and there are perfectly fine vegetarian alternatives).
> If you're gonna spend 3-6 years of your life there it's worth putting in the legwork

There are over 500 public universities/colleges. Your advice is great after you've made a shortlist. My advice is on making the shortlist to begin with.

> and on the percentage of classes under 20 - that's the exact metric I'm talking about being easy to game.

Technically true, and overly pedantic. I'd put money that 90% of the schools that have that metric actually will have fewer students in the classes in the major of your interest (likely engineering). In the real world, these kinds of counterexamples you speak of are, well, the exception.

Engineering is demanding, and many students drop out after the sophomore year. At least in my department, they had a very clear and open goal: If you don't do well enough in the introductory courses, you will simply be disallowed from taking junior level courses. You needed a B on a key (not easy) course, and a grade of at least 75% on that course's final exam.

I sincerely doubt there are many (if any) universities trying to game that metric. Letting professors teach small classes is expensive. Which is why I said that if a university really has a weird distribution where there are lots of courses with a tiny number of students - that in itself is a good omen!
Yes, I'm actually starting to agree with the stereotypical Gates view in those "Linux is communist jokes" of yore. Because as it turned out, F/OSS killed the ability to just sell software, taking the basic, honest business model of exchanging money for value. So now everyone finds increasingly more abusive ways to make money off their software, and some are even shameless enough to open-source the software itself and claim that makes them the good guys.

(Of course the actual reason for open-sourcing of core products is to soil the entire market segment, preventing would-be competitors from selling a competing product.)
> Interesting that you did not choose to voice your opinions using your main accounts on that community then.

I'd love to, but reddit and cpp keep banning/suspending accounts - so I can't! Funny how that works isn't it?

> Nah, that was just the comment I used to get to your profile. I banned you for insulting someone.

That is not true. Here is the message:

> Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in r/cpp because your comment violates this community's rules. You won't be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it.

With the link being to https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1gyiwwc/c_standards_co...
what a touching story
This is all cultural. As an immigrant from New York to a Nordic country, I have been lucky enough to experience two working cultures intimately. New Yorkers are considered blunt and no-nonsense, but I had no idea. Nordics are utter minimalists when it comes to feedback. It is unadorned and without any frills whatsoever. None of this couching the ouch between two positives. Nordics make New Yorkers look like Californians.

They will genuinely be confused by American-style feedback. Did you ever notice that we use a lot of superlatives? Something we like is the best, we love it, it's the greatest ever? That's not bad, it's just our style of talking, but the untrained Nordic will take that seriously. I have to tone that way down: "That code is really well done."

Moreover, you are required to give truthful feedback, here. It's not optional. If you think something is a bad idea and you don't say anything, you are doing a bad. If somehow you're caught not saying something, or worse, lying and saying you think it's a good idea, you will be in trouble and lose reputation.

This approach to giving and getting feedback took some getting used to, but I find it refreshing and I am afraid I'm spoiled for any other way.
It's 2024 and not 2014. 5 years from here, critical race theory could be about "removing" certain races because of their inferiority. The reality is that society has no safe-guards against such derailing and the worst part is that government will just "buy-in" into whatever popular theory is going on today.
> but, in engineering, your peers aren't going to be incompetent.

True - they were not incompetent where I went. But they also didn't dream big, the way you'd see students at top universities do.
This holds true in 3D space to a _certain degree_, but here we’re looking at faux 3D projected onto a flat 2D surface where our eyes’ depth perception doesn’t work.
> I'd try to invent ... a printing press

I sometimes wonder if the development of the printing press relied on technology that hadn't been available previously - like many/most innovations. But what?

Paper? There were ink-retaining sheets long before the printing press. A durable mechanism for the roller? They made wagon axles, I assume, that supported much more weight. Durable letters? Even sans metal, I'd guess that carving wood letters would still be worth the effort.
I feel like the “test” is ruined by inclusion of “ai artists” which is to say people who are dedicating all their time and effort to deliberately filter, prompt engineer and tweak AI to get a result that looks like it’s not AI. I’m sure that if the first pass of any of those works was included instead it would have been a completely different result.
I think it’s okay to have unwritten rules that are inferred. I am not trying to make the perfect the enemy of the good. That said, is HN best served by this status quo? Folks are genuinely arguing against the reasoning for such a rule in the first place, arguing that a rule against LLM-generated content on HN is unenforceable and so is pointless; others are likely unaware any such rule even exists in the first place; you are countering that the rule is fine, but not so fine that we add it to the guidelines.

I don’t know if this situation benefits from all of these moving parts; perhaps the finer points ought to be nailed down, considering the explicitness of the rule itself in practice.
> The alphabet seems like a huge abstraction I don’t think I could come up with on my own.

Given how many humans did come up with it, over all those millennia, I think we all can safely say that!
I don't mean this in bad way but these COP conferences really don't make sense.

Each time we have the leaders on every country saying that this time for real they are going to stick with the plan and lower their emissions. Yet according to this link: https://climateactiontracker.org/publications/the-climate-cr... The progress on the already agreed targets has been lacking.

It's like having a meeting about a project whose deadline was 3 weeks ago and having your team tell you that the new deadline 2 days from now will for sure be met this time.

Countries keep agreeing to new targets that are even more ambitious than the previous unmet targets. It's not as if just publishing the new targets will make the old targets much more achievable.

Make it make sense.
Meditation considered harmful
Those who benefited from the carbon emissions at the cost of others on a per capita basis need to take accountability of funneling the accrued capital to those who are suffering because of it.

https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
Structured generation for LLMs performs better - a detailed rebuttal
I would gently encourage you to engage with the topic rather than a puerile dismissal as “farting cows”. Agriculture is one of the main drivers of climate change (~30%), and and also has associated land usage implications. Ruminants (“farting cows”) directly produce around 6% of our total emissions.
the Netherlands exports so much food (and meat...) that it becomes a burden on local wildlife and milieu, mostly due to nitrogen emissions, pesticides and fertilizer.

I think it's the same for Denmark, though the mostly hold pigs in stead of cattle.
Well, one of the points is trying to figure out how that constantly used "per capita" argument ever solves environmental problems.

Exactly why should we reward India when it comes to pollution just because they have a lot of people? What does that do for the environment and for solving the climate crisis?

Should the West start doing their part when it comes to save the environment by having a lot more children?
> You also don't have access to those interesting research projects to begin with.

Faculty members still need to do research to get grant money and pay part of their salary. They still want to publish papers. They still compete. At least where I went, the research was interesting enough.

> apply yourself sufficiently despite not having peers pushing you (have to be able and willing to buck the tide; not everyone is),

Yes, you need the motivation to do well. In my experience, and of those I've asked who were in a similar situation: If you are aiming high and go to such a school, you believe you're getting an inferior education (mostly false), and you compensate by studying more than what is assigned. Then you go to a top grad school and find you know more than your peers who went to a top university.

But if you're not motivated, then this whole thread is rather pointless. And if you're not motivated, you definitely are better off going to a mediocre state school. You could seriously get burnout at a top university and drop out. I've known fairly smart people at those top universities end up that way.
There are a lot of comments about the up vs down hierarchy thing, but I think it's not really the most important factor for "giving feedback", which here seems to mean more "advocating for change".

The important factors are

- do you have a good understanding of where your goals and priorities differ and where they overlap? Maybe you want to reduce tech debt and your manager wants to hit q3 goals. Then saying "spending 1 week addressing this issue will allow us to implement features a,b,c in 2 weeks instead of 4" is stating your goal with an emphasis on how it helps manager get to theirs.

- do you have an existing relationship of trust? Humans are pretty tribal. If person you're talking to up or down defaults to "this is an ally who usually says competent things" then you can be much more direct and blunt. "Your idea is stupid because of these flaws that you didn't consider". If you don't have that trust, then some of the sugar coating "fluff" is necessary to avoid emotional reactions.
That's what the industry has been saying here for decades and they tried a lot of things, but the problem has only gotten worse. At some point you have to say - apparently you can't fix it, so we have to buy out farmers near nature reserves.

But the farmers have been intimidating politicians by blocking highways and inner cities with tractors and other equipment. Funnily, if anyone else does this they get arrested, but farmers get a carte blanche to disrupt society.
Is there a way to get source files? To do similar layouts in excel or PowerPoint?
> Your ego either inflates to infinity because you're a big fish in a small pond, or you get depressed being around really incompetent people.

Neither was the case with me. If you want intellectual stimulation, just go talk to the professors!

> Is it easy and low stress? Probably. But I feel like I'm being driven into mediocrity.

Quoting another comment of mine:

"Yes, you need the motivation to do well. In my experience, and of those I've asked who were in a similar situation: If you are aiming high and go to such a school, you believe you're getting an inferior education (mostly false), and you compensate by studying more than what is assigned. Then you go to a top grad school and find you know more than your peers who went to a top university."
The reality is AI is largely in the uncanny valley right now. This is great because it weeds out the noise and gives the focused long term builders breathing room.
We Tracked Every Visitor to Epstein Island
Hamas uses TikTok very effectively
Social media is like freeways. They will fill up and become as crowded as before.

It is a land grab like everywhere else.

The crypto people have already shown up, and the solopreneurs are chiming in as well.

Hopefully Bluesky’s algorithm can make the experience significantly different that people stick around.

Instagram launched a recent thing where they allowed people to reset their profile history and clean the slate.
Formatting/phrasing could be improved, but incomprehensible? I don't think so.
The allies threw 7,800 bodies at the Battle of Blanc Mont right as the war was ending. Two days after the battle, Germany requested an armistice, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires disintegrated. Two months later in the US in 1919, prohibition went into effect, 26 cities had violent race riots, and the Attorney General began a purge of immigrants and communists. In 1920, the Republican Party returned to the White House with the landslide victory of Warren G. Harding, who promised a "return to normalcy" after the years of war, ethnic hatreds, race riots and exhausting reforms. Harding used new advertising techniques to lead the GOP to a massive landslide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(...
Also, in some, symbols represent syllables. It's significant because there are many more syllables than individual sounds.
Or consistent, or whatever. It doesn't matter, they're not relevant to the puzzle.

Why do you believe the content of the labels says anything about where the treasure actually is?
> Personally I'm not convinced that it's alphabetic writing

What is their evidence and argument for it?