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> Sounds like they aren't but the EU wants to be on their back anyway.

> The regulator hasn’t reached out to Bluesky directly, yet, The Financial Times writes.

I think no on is on anyones back, they just follow standard procedure more or less.

There is a new "growing" platforms which might be affected by such regulations and they just want to make sure what their state is and under which legal aspects they operate (e.g. if they have any EU offices onto which they should base official communication).

The things pointed out by the article are also non issues:

- a missing statistic about EU users which you need once you have a certain size but practically kinda should have before _to show you have not quite yet that size_. But that is somewhat of a nothing burger, you add it when needed and as long as there is no reason to believe you acted with malicious intend it's unlikely to involve any penalties.

- regulation related to moderation, non issue as Bsky enforces their AGB and that already fulfills more or less all moderation requirements (maybe not some increased reporting requirements for larger companies, but like said they don't count as such yet)

So IMHO a nothing burger.

My guess is various news paper made "official" information/press requests to some EU institutes asking if Bsky complies with this or that and stuff like that and then created a issue from atm. more or less nothing. Wonder if it was with malicious intend.
For additional context (I think some was lost on a bug tracker migration), he's the author of https://gitlab.com/akihe/radamsa, a fuzzer implemented in owl, that was quite popular finding vulns in the chrome codebase some time ago...

I just found out there's a rust port: https://github.com/microsoft/rusty-radamsa
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I'm sure it was, and it's pretty clear BPD is who your frustration should have been directed at.
This article seems to a lot of fluff, but one thing I generally dislike in arguments is pulling some historical period, quoting similar complaints from that time, and using this to imply that because a problem has existed before it's the norm.

History has had many ups and down, and instead of saying that anything is "normal", you should ask if those periods really were downturns that needed solutions.

Societies have always had issues, but that doesn't mean that the issues we have right now are not something to be addressed.
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You frame it like "Rust advocates" try to infiltrate into C++ language decision making and inject safety features into it. That's not the case at all. For years C++ committee simply ignored the need for safety and they didn't take Rust and lifetime analysis seriously. But now they themselves want it.
For papers sometimes you need to hit a page count to make your sponsor/advisor/conference happy. I've been told "this is a great paper but can you pad it out to 12pgs?", maybe that happened here as well.
yeah, i was with that comment until that point. i find it very hard to naturally meet or run across people in the suburbs, though i suppose in smaller rural areas if you are engaged in the community in some way you'd likely see the same people over and over and that could perhaps build your sense of community.

i don't know that the increasing online-ification (or whatever) of the world really has a stronger impact in the city. if anything, as i start to push away from things being online, i find that i'm able to walk or public transit to a place that i can get basically anything i want, and over the past decade or so i've met people through bars, through restaurants, through volunteering, and through other activities around town. i run across people in the street all the time, because they're not in cars - so i have impromptu conversations with friends, neighbors and folks i know from local businesses randomly on street corners. this is a set of benefits that basically necessitates urban density.

i agree that it feels like a city naturally offers you more opportunities to find your tribe offline. if you like music, there are lots of bands and shows. if you're an artist, there are probably others working in the same medium around you. if you like food, you have restaurants to explore. if you like drinks, there's bars. i've been to many rural towns where the community seems to revolve primarily around a singular institution (very often a church) with the folks who aren't part of it trying to make do on the fringes or building smaller support networks.
That's dependent on the market actually being efficient.

If a consumer walks into a store and sees coffeemakers by ten different brands, but seven are all actually owned by one giant manufacturer and the other three by some American almost-as-giant manufacturer, then a tariff on the former will drive up the price of seven of them and the American manufacturer will almost certainly raise the prices on the remaining three. Otherwise, it's just bad business.
I would only disagree with your penultimate sentence. There are certainly some career fields where diagnosed mental health conditions could have negative consequences for your career; specifically I'm thinking of members enrolled in PRP. But my understanding is that a diagnosis of anxiety or ADHD is not a career killer and will not usually result in a medical discharge. Getting access to care still requires jumping through a lot of hoops but I wouldn't want to discourage anyone that's considering enlisting or commissioning to avoid doing so if they think they might receive a diagnosis later in life. My experience is entirely limited to the Air Force though and different branches might have different restrictions that I'm unaware of.
probably American:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enr...

https://www.qualityinfo.org/-/college-enrollment-among-recen...

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/03/13/strong-catho...

https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/the-catholic-church-is...

The Catholic Church is similarly struggling in the UK:

https://faithsurvey.co.uk/blog/church-attendance-in-england-...
I actually think it’s more readable because it makes the distinction between assignment and equivalence very clear.

bugs originating from the similarity of == vs = has probably cost the industry millions over the last 3 decades.
Counter-point: as a programmer and data engineering working with large and small companies, GDPR has been of massive help to me, as the clients have now the concepts coined and I can back my stances with legal texts when it comes to protecting people data.
Sure, but it’s a choice heavily influenced by authority figures in your life. But yes strictly binary it is a choice. Thankfully the world is more nuanced.
> Not sure if you're in Canada

canadian passport, did K->BSc. in canada, live in nyc now

> You could make real estate a far less attractive financial investment if you don't tax the stuffing out of every other type of wealth accumulation

we could've also bit the bullet and let housing collapse in '08 like the US, I think that was the moment when we chose to hitch our wagon to real estate going up indefinitely propped up by the government. somebody has to pay taxes though, because CAD is not a reserve currency and we can't print our way like the USD can; I would prefer landsquatters pay the most, but still more equitable for capital gains to be taxed than income.

> give everyone else a "tax holiday" with their own money, suspending one of the fairest and most effective taxes.

this was short sighted populism, i agree
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I'd say those are unintended consequences and should have been taken into account. The effective result of the regulation appears to be just to have added annoying popups and close to zero change in company behavior.
Inner Platform effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
It would form a gaussian distribution if you pick the questions carefully enough.

If you rank-order scores and fit to the distribution after the fact, the questions are nearly irrelevant, as long as you have a mix of easy, medium and hard questions.
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This article pokes holes and casts doubt on a concept of a loneliness epidemic, just to conclude, "Americans have been repeatedly warned about loneliness and about the loss of friendship. The alarms, of course, may not always be false. History might prove the 2010s to be one of those times where there was some reason for concern — at least about young men." And then "...because false alarms come with a price, particularly in diverting our attention from other, less amorphous matters, such as economic dislocations, violence, and real epidemics."

If you put the bottom line up front, the rest of the article doesn't support that conclusion. It doesn't address the resources that we're spending on loneliness, or what's a better use of those resources.

There's another swing and a miss for the conclusion a little earlier too. "If there has been increasing chatter about loneliness, then, it has been more the result of higher expectations and greater self-reflection — especially among the chattering classes — rather than greater isolation."

So people aren't more lonely, they just feel more lonely. But that's not true loneliness. Again, you could write an interesting article on that, but this article isn't.

This article ultimately comes off as a call to inaction because the alternative is believing there's a loneliness epidemic and being tempted to do something about it.
It's probably not going to be possible to completely silence your neighbors, but I'm sure there are a few things you can do to make a difference.

If noise is transmitted through the floor, add thick carpet and support your bed with a vibration deadening material, e.g. something viscoelastic. Sorbothane is popular for this but you'll need to spread the load out or pick a high durometer (stiff) rubber.

For the walls, hang up some carpets or similar, and/or hang heavy material around your bed as a canopy as you suggest. What you want is a material that's heavy enough that the energy in the sound waves is dissipated trying to move it around. Maybe a weighted blanket, or a duvet cover stuffed with mass loaded vinyl (used in cars for sound deadening).
Why would any modern military want a warrior culture? Warriors fight for personal glory, not maximum operational effectiveness. E.g. a warrior culture would never use drones to their fullest extent, despite their demonstrated effectiveness, because killing people via drone isn't glamorous. Modern militaries want soldiers, not warriors. Consider the idiom "soldier on". A single warrior beats a single soldier, but soldiers scale much better.
The "warring camps" framing is very overstated. Greenberg, who doesn't practice in this space, believes it to be a vital concern, but giants in the twin-study practitioner field freely cite GWAS results, including the EA studies.

A 2015 twin study result is basically a citation to the phlogiston era of polygenic population-wide genetic surveys. Heritability estimates of that vintage basically define away indirect genetic effects, which subsequent work appears to have very clearly established; the work now is on characterizing and bounding it, not asking whether it's real.

"Blog post looks biased" is not a good way to address this unless you actually practice in the space, like the author does, and are in conversation with other practitioners in the space, like the author is. You find lots of --- let's generally call them pop science writers --- knee-jerk responding to the new rounds of heritability numbers, but those same authors often wrote excitedly about how GWAS results would bolster their priors in the years before the results were published. It's worth paying attention to the backgrounds of the people writing about this stuff!

I substantially rewrote this comment, which was sprawling; the original is preserved here: https://gist.github.com/tqbf/b118ec9f9e69e0f3f61003c152d0d44...
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We would be remiss to leave out the 1970s classic Protein Synthesis: An Epic on a Cellular Level

https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb90484996
>Regnier reportedly went on to say that the commission has asked the EU’s 27 national governments to look for “any trace of Bluesky” like EU-based offices. The regulator hasn’t reached out to Bluesky directly, yet, The Financial Times writes.

Really?
Right, I’m sure they’ll have to bring in ads, but I believe we’ve seen this play before. I’m cool with ads, I’m not cool with promoting hate speech because it “improves engagement”
4g has a really low range, this is why we want to keep the old system. We can't put up enough 5g masts in the forest...
What classifies as British? I love fish n' chips. Love shepherd's/cottage pie. Love bangers and mash. Love a good Cornish pasty. Love crumpets. Love bacon sarnies. Chip butties. Big Sunday roasts. Never tried haggis.
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I have a crazy idea.

If a corporation lays off any people in a particular job category/title, that corporation should not be allocated ANY H1B visas for that job category/title for the next year.

If a corporation institutes any policy that requires decimation (or any other statistic-based termination program) of employees with a particular job category or title, or if IN EFFECT they perform this (because they will just hide it otherwise), then they will not be allocated any H1B visas for that job category or title, for the next year following any such act.

In essence, the point here is that if a corporation decides it can live without X% of their workforce, then they don't get to go bring in foreign workers. The H1B program is to help find workers for positions that can't be filled; if you're laying off or mass firing people then obviously you CAN find people to fill those jobs.
In particular, his social media was scrutinized for being a Trump supporter, which like I said, is also the leanings of more than half the voting populace. He doesn't post anything really, but was notified that they were looking.
They can use Fil-C++ and then they get memory safety without any rewrites.
Seems like it'd be much easier to use Docker...
> I'm curious to hear if you have examples of any database using only object storage as a backend, because back when I started, I couldn't fin any.

Take a look at Delta Lake

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-09-29-build-a-serverless-ac...
I love these things. I have a custom NTP for my Chrome and FF profiles. It's my productivity hack.

I put all my super frequent bookmarks there, big buttons are easy to click, keyboard shortcut.

Doesn't sync tho :(
If you want alias tracking and lifetime checking, yes they are backwards incompatible. They need "viral annotations" if we speak with the C++ committee terminology.
You asserted that bugs are hard if you write unit tests. The parent stated that some issues only occur under production load and a unit test will not catch it. Nowhere was it implied that unit tests are useless.

Perhaps a less defensive posture might invite more discussion.
In your estimation what is the EU’s greatest contribution?
> The primary "Loneliness" epidemic that gets talked about today is basically just the mainstreamification of incel/4chan talking points.

That's just one angle. There's also the angle where watching other people live great lives online—however illusory such perception is—makes us feel more pessimistic about our own lives and contentedness. There's also the angle of disappearing third places. There's also the angle a relentlessly commodified society is alienating. There's also the angle that watching millions of people die from a preventable illness makes us feel like less of a society. There's also the angle of the disappearance of community structures like Church from modern life causes this perception of loneliness. There's the angle that cultural pluralism causes us to perceive ourselves as more atomized than we are. Etc etc. Discussions on the topic are clearly far, far more varied than just those had by bitter young misogynists.

Do not take my observation of this as an endorsement of any of the above points, please.
If it's fifty years of feminization, and seniors 22 years ago had mustaches and were smoking cigarettes, just think what us knuckle-draggers were doing in the class of 1973. (Only a few guys smoked cigarettes, and apart from one beard-growing contest one year, facial hair was not permitted.)
The play devil's advocate, presumably they're fired because they didn't meet standards (in whatever vague way they can justify) and they want foreign workers because local workers didn't meet those standards.
My English professors in college beat this kind of stuff out of the students. One went so far as to grade all papers that started with something like "since time immemorial, man has..." with an F.
> is this a falsifiable claim?

Yes, we can observe animals at various stages of consciousness and correlate their brain structures (or lack thereof) with consciousness tests (such as the mirror test).

Assuming consciousness isn't primarily a function of brain structures, we'd expect to find animals, plants, or bacteria that defy our predictions of consciousness.

> Is there any proof of this?

Yes. Beyond being able to observe varying levels of consciousness in animals, we've seen the impacts of traumatic head injuries to people. Their entire personalities change, they sometimes become unconscious (think vegetative state). We are fairly confident when operating on brains which parts control what. And we have interesting diseases like split brain syndrome where 2 separate consciousness develop in individuals when there is damage to the bridge between the brain lobes.

> Until we can replicate consciousness (heck, until we can even measure consciousness), this is as much a matter of faith as any other belief about how consciousness emerges.

This is a bit of a leap. With many physical sciences, we don't need to replicate things to make predictions, observations, and conclusions. We don't, for example, need to replicate a supernova to understand how stars are formed.

> But I've yet to see anything come close to explaining the phenomenon in a testable and falsifiable way, placing this entire subject outside of the realm of rational science in the meantime.

Have you looked and are you a biologist?

Look, I'm not a biologist, just someone interested in the subject. But from my own personal research on what it known, it's far less a mystery than what you might assume. For example, modern biology doesn't really recognize consciousness as being just a binary on or off sort of thing. There are multiple parts to it that all function in tandem.

The unfortunate thing is that consciousness is not simple. Because of that, it's not something that you could reasonably expect an explanation of in a comment. But if you are interested in a primer then this looks to be a good article [1]

[1] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-did-consciousness-evo...
> What I don't understand is why you demand that C++ evolution be halted in a clearly suboptimal position so you don't need to change your processes.

I don't demand that C++ evolution be halted. I support the current trajectory of not adding viral annotations for the sake of implementing static lifetime checking. I want C++ to evolve into a better version of itself, I don't want it to become something it's not. If you want static lifetime checking, please use Rust. It already exists and it's great for people who need static lifetime checking.
I couldn't see anything that made it especially cloud native, it doesn't rely on any cloud services - it's just a bunch of containers.
This actually sounds like the translator didn't do their job properly. Most countries have detailed official guidelines on how to transliterate names into Latin script, because they need that to issue internationally recognized passports. For Ukrainian, the relevant standard is https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/55-2010-%D0%BF

The real problem here is that transliteration rules depend on the source language, and you often don't have the context to distinguish that (e.g. the name can be spelled identically in Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian, yet transliterations will be different). And even where you do have sufficient context, this still requires the system to be able to handle any source language that can be potentially thrown at it, which is just about anything. So it never gets implemented properly in practice.
I think the value of low performers becomes much more obvious when you separate out the concept of a toxic employee. Toxic employees hurt the team or organization whether low performing or high performing, and with rare exceptions it’s almost always worth getting rid of them. Toxic employees are the people getting into arguments and conflicts all the time, dragging others down constantly. Or they’re the managers who cause attrition or can’t retain their team or lie to their peers and own leadership until it catches up to them, often dramatically.

However, low performers are not always toxic. Often, low performers are just kind of lazy, or they take longer than they should to finish their work, or they take too long to reply to emails or messages, or their work needs extra review and checks and balances, or they are only capable of delivering on a relatively small set of fairly simple tasks, or they just want to work on the same part of the same product forever and can’t emotionally handle change, or …

Non-toxic low performers can be great because they’ll often do the unglamorous work for you for relatively low pay, and all you have to do is not bother them too much. The worst thing you can do with non-toxic low performers is try to force them into high performers. It won’t work, because they’re either not capable or they just don’t care. For some people, their work just isn’t that important to them, and there’s nothing you can do to change their perception of the relative importance of their job to the other aspects of their life. What might look like low performance in a corporate environment can just be someone setting boundaries and refusing to let work infringe too much on their personal life.
The article notes the horrific increases in the cost of modest "starter" housing.

But not the similar increases in the cost of education.

Nor of non-emergency medical costs.

Nor of childcare - which, back in the day, the latter was very often "free" by current standards. Because of extended family living in the same area. And letting young children roam the neighborhood, and walk to school by themselves, and bike to the store, and etc. was perfectly acceptable.

Nor of ...
I can't find myself a bit happy about that .. it's good that money can't just buy everything.. hope they have a homebrew mobile maker that benefits from the stance. And that its just not a play for more money.
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To be honest I don't know what you mean by this.
yes, of course. That's not my point. My point is TypeScript succeeds because it's just JavaScript with types. It's not a new language. cppfront is an entirely new language so it's arguably going to have a tougher time. Being an entirely new language, it is not analogous to typescript
Nevermind, I forgot that there's a "Share" popover whenever you highlight text. The subscription popover mars what is otherwise an okay reading experience.
I had some success with a -lot- of training but mostly it’s 10% useful and 90% pure blue check engagement garbage. The following tab is still fine though. I’m pretty selective there and only include software people, science feeds, news orgs, etc that aren’t full of garbage. Also twitter control panel works pretty well delete all blue checks from comment sections.
> Doesn't sync tho :(

maybe try synchronizing over github or gitlab thru git?
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