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> which has a pub date from Oct 19, 2022

I think you're misinterpreting this. That's just the date the most recent version of the library was published. The library is something like 15 years old.

> the standard integer data types (and, therefore, the standard language), that not only have no signedness

I'm not sure what you mean by this - they're signed integers. Maybe you just mean that there aren't unsigned ints in the stdlib?

> and only have Int32 and Int64, but have "one bit is reserved for OCaml's runtime operation".

The "one bit is reserved" is only true for the `int` type (which varies in size depending on the runtime between 31 and 63 bits). Int32 and Int64 really are normal 32- and 64-bit ints. The trade-off is that they're boxed (although IIRC there is work being done to unbox them) so you pay some extra indirection to use them.

> The stdint package also depends on Jane Street's "Dune", which they call a "Fast, portable, and opinionated build system". I don't need or want or need any of its capabilities.

Most packages are moving this way. Building OCaml without a proper build system is a massive pain and completely inscrutable to most people; Dune is a clear step forward. You're free to write custom makefiles all the time for your own code, but most people avoid that.
Yah, good one.

Unfortunately, that is not some kind of universally agreed ethical principle, so I am not sure what value it brings to this conversation.
I do think it's unfair when people claim Dune is a straight retelling of T.E. Lawrence's story. For instance I think the messianic aspects are drawn from other episodes in history, like the Mahdist War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdist_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
I’m amazed that Sony sells a modern Walkman and they can cost well over $1000. I prefer a simpler and cheaper Walkman without the Android OS.
Foundry (YC F24) is hiring an engineer to build an internet-scale web crawler
you're right, this kind of entrepreneurial idea actually makes money
For a long time, Apple’s line up included an under powered option that’s too cheap to run well, an over-powered over-priced option with features most people don’t need, and a Goldilocks version.

Yes, the expensive version anchors the price higher, but it always felt like a gift, in that they had picked the middle version that balanced performance and price already.
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Emergency and humanitarian aid wasn’t stopped. Your own quote alludes to it.
And with more affordable and easier-to-learn tools, the creation of music will be similarly made much more accessible?
DAWs and virtual instruments running on regular laptop was one step, generative AI models will be another?
Trump said he wanted peace, but I think he really wanted an end for the sanctions, probably to help with his goal of lowering the price of oil. I don’t think he cares at all about how things turn out in Ukraine.
And did "getting the Civil Rights Act passed" do anything to weaken America, or to strengthen the Soviet Union or expand its influence? No, it didn't. It made America more true to its ideals, thereby undercutting a Soviet propaganda point. It probably increased American influence with third-world countries, especially in Africa. All in all, a Soviet self-own, if they're going to take the credit.
People forget the excitement around alpha from the mid 90s. It was the first Linux port to non-x86 for example. It was a little bit before the AMD vs Intel wars and race to 1ghz kicked off, so it represented a challenge to Intel's monopoly.
The article's claims about the dimensions of the Great Pyramid relating exactly to pi and to the golden ratio can't both be right.

Let's assume that the side of the pyramid has length exactly 1, for a base perimeter of 4. Then according to

> if you divide half the length of the Pyramid’s base perimeter by its height, you end up with π

the height h equals 2/π. While according to

> If we take the surface area of the four sides, and divide that by the area of the base, we come to the value of Ψ,

Ψ = 2 * sqrt(h^2+1/4) = 2 * sqrt(4/π^2+1/4) ~ 1.618993187

That's close to Phi = (1+sqrt(5))/2 ~ 1.618033989, but certainly not equal, already differing in the 3rd decimal.
Utopia is one of the oldest ones I think, it was really fun too, like a browser-based MMO Crusader Kings: https://utopia-game.com/shared/
It’s just combining sample WAV files without human coordination, talk about a lame-ass achievement. It’s already easy enough to set BPM and load in files in Ableton and warp them into unison, from what I heard this is basically just that with”HOORAY FOR AI” slathered as a veneer on top.

If you think I’m being harsh, I have my reasons as a professional musician to critique these things in an unflattering light because they are my competition. Thankfully actually “generated” AI music is trash. Copyright is problematic in the US, I admit, but tech bros using copyrighted material to train programs to put us out of business - without paying a penny which even Spotify doesn’t per stream - yeah, I’ll have some disdain about this scenario and I feel it’s justified.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
I have the starlite tablet with phosh and while not perfect it is already great and improving monthly. Don’t think I’ll go back to Apple’s golden straitjacket.
No I mean entire cultures have surrounded tattooing for thousands of years. A decade means nothing
> Only recently there came up some examples of well-written C++ code.

I'm not sure what you're referring to (link?) but note that whether C++ code is good or bad can depend strongly on the tooling. Certain coding patterns can be fantastic when your tooling can adequately detect their misuse, and awful when it doesn't. Which means sometimes you can't tell just look at code and tell whether it is good or bad.

> But most of old cooperate, Microsoft or Stroustrup code is just horrible, worse than hard-core perl nonsense.

I got the impression Microsoft's C code was always pretty good, their C++ not so much a decade ago - not sure how their C++ is now.
> a whole apartment building parking garage going up in flames, resulting in mass casualties

Good thing ICE vehicles don't use any explosive components. Any evidence of these "mass casualty" events?
Not sure what the point you are making is? Should we just keep going back in history and try to cherry pick events to blame and justify current conflicts? That can go on indefinitely and is why we keep having wars.
I don’t think that’s true, there are parameters that must be measured experimentally: https://spinor.info/weblog/?p=6355 (I am not a physicist, so I welcome education to clarify this).
in my country there are plenty of critical services you basically can't access without mobile apps. e.g. interacting with medical services, and official personal id app.
It's those bugs and weird cases (and the fact that -IME- systemd provides zero diagnostic help when you hit them) that are the killer.

In my professional experience, I've come to understand that the systemd project has an assload of accidental complexity that the systemd folks are unwilling to reduce. At least once a year, we'll have a production-down page from a customer whose root cause turns out to be systemd failing in some bizarre and entirely inscrutable way. After a ton of digging, we'll eventually find someone who has run into something similar, and either got no response, or a "Wow, that's weird. Well, there's nothing WE can or should do." response from the systemd people.

"Solving" these issues is very frustrating, because we usually end up changing things from one way that the docs indicated would work just fine, to a different way the docs indicate would work just fine... which doesn't give us any confidence that what we did won't suddenly stop working next year. A project that is as fundamental as systemd wants to be really should be aggressively reducing complexity to the minimum required to get the job done and regularly documenting caveats and quirks as they're discovered and deemed "E_WONTFIX".
The problem, especially around mobile devices, is that the vendors only care about a single-time sale. They just fork a specific kernel release, take a chainsaw to it until it stops crashing on their device, and try to never touch the source again. Very few hardware vendors put money into having maintainable drivers, because the next gadget they ship might have different chips in it, and the chips come from a subcontractor anyway.
No, it’s not a style, it’s by definition an incomplete song.
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Canada Retaliates, Puts Tariffs on $107B of US Products https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250384
Yes, this has always been the case. This is why capital holders are actively hostile to labor organizing and tend to back fascism when liberalism falls into crisis.
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> Conscription as an enemy army marches through your borders is neither uncommon nor concerning.

Having to rely on forcing men to the frontline is a clear indicator that the war is not going in your favour and you may need time to rebuild. It's also questionably immoral - forcing someone to fight.

> This line is essentially devoid of meaning without naming anything specific. The point is that what USA is sending is tremendous ROI in terms of damage to its enemies.

US has spent over $100B, in return for what? How has the average American benefited?

Are you okay with sacrificing hundred of thousands of Ukrainian lives to damage your enemies? Is that acceptable?

> Are you familiar with Budapest Memorandum

Yes. And it's not a defense pact. US followed through on all commitments it made.
"40+" not "40 exactly".

Are you implying that you agree things were worse in the 60s, but somehow magically at their prime in 85?

Or are you just being pedantic?
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My take is that finger muscle are really different from person to person, to a degree that can be surprising.

I might be at the other extreme end, but even typing on glass doesn't bother me much, and laptop keyboards are a good compromise to have just enough travel and not too much.

I tried a nuphy low profile and it was tiring after a while. The thinkpad standalone trackpoint keyboard has been my go to for a while, and tgis keyboard also looks great to me.
The biggest thing that DMT taught me is that time is an illusion, created by our minds as part of the construct that allows us to exist and focus on survival. This is true for all life that experiences an internal chronology, but as humans we can only know how this applies to humans. Sorry, time travel hopefuls :)

DMT also taught me that our perception is our reality, and that we cannot actually perceive "objective" reality in any form. It helped me understand my mother, who we believe was suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia (she was never able to be diagnosed before physical health issues became the primary concern). She would tell me about these stories of traveling to write movies or novels. Prior to my DMT experience, I would respond like many would, "oh but you never left the bed! you've been here the whole time!" in the gentlest way possible. After my DMT experience, I would sit with her and ask her about them. She was never able to go into quite as deep detail as the person you are talking about, but from that point, I truly believed that, in her perception, in her reality, she did very much indeed travel to write movies and novels. Or at the very least, I believe that is how her brain interpreted what the DMT was presenting her.

I believe DMT is ultimately the "guide" for death. It doesn't cause or induce death, but our brains release it in response to death. And sometimes, like all biological machines, it happens at the wrong time. Sometimes before, and sometimes maybe the brain misses the signals and is unable to secrete DMT at the appropriate time, for whatever reason. I believe dementia is merely the early natural introduction of DMT into the brain. I guess I'll find out when I feel what it feels like if I end up suffering dementia.

There's a lot of "belief" here, sure. Some may even go so far as to call it "woo". But DMT gave me this profound understanding at a deeply visceral level. This even took some time to realize upon lengthy reflection on the experience and what it took me through, with surprisingly strong remnant memories of the visuals of being forced through a "time loop" where my eyes were sort of "dragged" along the very path I'd looked around the room in the early part of the trip. We do scientifically know our brain will sometimes "rewind" to fill in gaps in our vision (think of the classic example of looking at a clock with a second hand and the first second kind of seems to linger, that's our brain rewinding and lying to us about what we were seeing in that moment, using all available information once our eyes stabilize).
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Then that's a really weak point. There's a lot of things we know it can't do. It can't break the encryption between software, and remote servers.

It also can't cause the phone to levitate. It also can't recharge my battery.

As a rule, I don't worry unlikely hypotheticals, because doing so is a needless denial of service on my brain. Saying it's a blackbox is true, but that doesn't mean you get to invent random things to worry about, without direct evidence it's connected to the specific device we're discussing.

But do think I should at least try to meet you half way, so maybe I can preempt a few things that used to be true or possible. The baseband also can't install software into my android OS. It also can't directly read memory from my phone. It can't directly control my phone's bootup.

These are things poorly designed phones used to be able to do, that aren't possible on the Pixel line of hardware because it was designed to prevent them. That's why GraphineOS targets the pixel line. Because it's hardware is designed in a way to enable a secure device.
> they hold up all of these technical accomplishments and quality of life improvements they have made under their one party system. But now over here is Taiwan that never bought in

Never bought in to one party rule huh? It seems like people forgot about the 38 years of martial law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Taiwan
This is a new technology. Early adopters of almost anything will pay more as it takes time to scale up and improve unit economics.
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Why not weapons? Why bother with expensive, unionized US labour building rifles and missiles and jets when Russia has cheaper alternatives?
The personal force-field shield was clever too. Removes bullets from the story, in favor of martial arts.
Trump has long boasted that he could have gotten semiconductor investments without subsidies. He would see it as a win if TSMC did the same thing, or even more, for free.
"Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind," [...] "It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world."

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So 1920 to today. The period over which America transitioned from a regional power to the global hegemon and the richest country to ever exist.

Certainly since Reagan things have been slowly going downhill but up until then..

What does “good” look like? Perfection?
How does toothpaste affect the good bacteria in your mouth?
because none have been found at the depths of bones..
Euthanasia is not suicide. The decision to end a life under most euthanasia or assisted suicide legislatures involve third party medical professionals and psychologists that ascertain the capability of the person to make the decision to end their life and the necessity of that fact in balance with their suffering. Suicide happens outside of society and one's immediate support group (family, friends, etc). Euthanasia is not that at all, family, friends even if possibly not at peace, at least they're forewarned and can intellectually understand there's a "why" of a person's need to die.

I think it's very reductive and naive to equate the two. To deny a person's ability to end their life with dignity is, in my opinion, very inhumane.
Yea the existing ones extending is what I was referring to when I said "new" which obviously isn't the right word for extending existing ones.
Your article said GSA pays $5.2 billion in annual rent to private-sector landlords. Fiscal year 2024 discretionary spending was $1.6 trillion. So we are discussing 0.33%.

Commercial leases are 5 or 10 years commonly. Many of the leases began before 2020 probably.

Owned real estate increases in value in high demand markets and is difficult to sell in low demand markets.

Completion of work can be and is tracked remotely.
In this particular case it is totally black and white.
Prove me wrong.

Tell me one example how music gen in any way benefits anybody to the level that is worth putting out of business the last few artists that make ends meet?
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Except NATO is a defence organisation.

Ask yourself why countries bordering Russia want to join.
Annoyingly, they no longer show your IP on their web homepage.
Yes, I believe so because it uses global type inference. I would gladly add explicit types everywhere instead of this to use Crystal if it had decent tooling, because everything else about the language is really perfect.
> they see Ukrainians as worthless pawns in their battle against Trump.

I don't think anyone does that.
What allies will the US have in a few years?
Runs slow as hell on my phone. Around 10fps.

My phone is not great but drawing some circles and some text should not take 100ms. On any device.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257316
In addition to your points about managers (upper and middle) being bad at their jobs, the c-suite must consider that sometimes tax breaks for the company hinge on physically bringing workers to a specific place: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...
Yea you are the person you are replying to are in complete agreement.
Internally, NT first targeted Intel i860, not x86. This was a deliberate decision to break old assumptions. It was designed to be multiplatform from the beginning. The fact that it had an NT syscall layer but also a Win32 one, then formerly an OS/2 subsystem, also reflected this heritage of adaptability, multi-platform, portability etc.
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Not only this, but also having direct access to the Pacific ocean for blue water operations (without getting detected when talking about submarines).
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Do you not see how your argument could be applied to steam engines putting human laborers out of work? Or computers putting (human) calculators out of work? Do you think inventing the steam machine or computers was a mistake too?
New England has been trying to build an 1.2MW ~150mi interconnect from Canada through Maine down to Massachusetts for many years now, and was hoping to wrap the project up this year. https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/01/03/business/business...

Its been very controversial, especially because most of the land gows through Maine, cutting a line across it. Without doing much to improve Maine's grid. Mainer's passed a ballot initiative to halt the project, but courts ruled that Mainer's didn't have any right to halt the project.

So, the Central Maine Power (the power company) Corridor - officially called the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) - was back on. With various rounds of tax increases for various states & federal grants. Total cost has gone from $1B to over $1.5b.

Conceptually seems like a good idea! It's so unfortunate that it's such a visible cut through & across the land. And now, with this madness, who knows what the future holds.
> Physical storefronts don't collect and sell your information?

I have no reason to believe a physical strip club would sell info of which ladies I look at to anyone with a couple of bucks.

I can't say the same about websites.

> Not my problem and tangential to age verification.

You can't demand a solution while ignoring the cost and expect to be taken seriously.
it shouldn't. but short term profits is just gambling. Even as individuals, if we accumulate wealth, we should consider our great-great grandkids benefiting from it, not just ourselves. Short-term profits are not about generating wealth but keeping scores and one-upping each other.

It's really a question of wisdom, planting trees under whose shades we'll never sit.
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European courts could, Latin American as well, possibly Asian for the international markets, which would then be pressure on the American HQ and courts as the international market is, last I checked >50% of their sales. Likely less so now, since they are dropping so heavily in every market (including China, as of this morning, plunging by 49%^1 - China _made_ up ~25% of their sales).

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