C++ is proposing pre- and post- conditions to verify functions in C++26; notably, Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ creator) is opposed
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gemstones commented on Social anxiety isn't about being liked chrislakin.blog/p/social-... · Posted by u/rohmanhakim
I agree with you as a general rule. But this is actually pretty close to how Social Anxiety is defined. It's about the fear of being negatively evaluated or embarrassed.
For example the DSM definition https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712/table/ch3.t12/ or the Mayo Clinic explainer page https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/social-anxiet....
I think what this blog post is getting at is describing for people the difference between fear of negative evaluation and positive desire to be liked.
One thing the post misses is that sometimes these are learned behaviors that come from a lifetime of experience being disliked for no obvious reason. For example, sometimes outgoing autistic children develop social anxiety after their peers reject them repeatedly.
It's about a specific type of debilitating fear. The DSM has a rule for criteria that, to be considered as having a condition, it must seriously affect your ability to live a normal life.
Most social anxiety is not debilitating, and would not meet the diagnosis. This is why therapists receive so much training - you must encounter enough people with a truly debilitating fear that you know when to diagnose it.
gemstones commented on Ask HN: Assuming this 2023 LtG paper is correct, how do you prepare? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/_ddzr
If you're already an American, move to St. Louis.
- North enough that climate change will not affect it as much
- Inland so not at risk of sea level change
- Next to a large fresh water source
- Food security - weather suitable for all kinds of crops, even as temps rise
- A large enough group of people in a rich country that it will still be able to get resources as things get worse
- Because of the city/county split, the city crime rate is arbitrarily high despite being a safer metro than most. Means that housing prices are low. Places like Chicago are more at risk of becoming unaffordable as refugees crises get worse
- The region is one of the few that has been continuously settled from pre-colonial days, indicating some Lindy effect in play
gemstones commented on World's deepest, largest underground lab operational chinadaily.com.cn/a/20231... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
I don't think you need a mountain for that. A properly guarded surface complex with enclosed corridors between facilities would be far cheaper and enough to protect something from intruders or satellite surveillance. IIRC similar facilities (Cheyenne Complex, Zheleznogorsk MCC, Yamantaw) were built as nuclear strike resistant bunkers first. There are also nuclear waste storage facilities all over the world.
But a mountain would work, yes? And if you already need the mountain lab for physics, what is the extra cost to staff military personnel there?
gemstones commented on World's deepest, largest underground lab operational chinadaily.com.cn/a/20231... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
The lede suggests that it is mainly for dark matter detection, but later on they say it is for interdisciplinary research including life sciences. Is this just due to the "ultra clean" capabilities, or are there other reasons why you would want to do life sciences research 7K feet underground?
(This is not China-bashing, as I assume lots of other nations do this for the same reasons.)
It's a lot harder to have unwanted intruders, and satellite surveillance is less likely. This lab will 100% have a military research purpose.
I think this is about the stage we are at in regard to decentralized finance at the moment.
I often think about how strangely archaic our financial system is.
For example when you start a new job and the first payment comes in after 4 weeks on the job. In the future, the payments will flow realtime.
Or when I want to check the price of some stock and the stock market is closed, like it is most of the time. In the future, prices will be set on a global market with no downtime.
Or when I talk to people who run online businesses and the plethora of problems they have with credit card payments. Because a credit car payment is not a payment. It's a something where the receiver of the money is held responsible when the one who pays plays dirty tricks on them. In the future, an electronic payment will be simply a payment.
Let's hope we don't need over 40 years from theory to reality like it took for the internet.
Do you think that most businesses have the consistent cash flows needed to pay out wages every hour?
I’m not sure this is a technical problem, I guess. Maybe a financial engineering problem but is the demand there?
Aren’t most security vulnerabilities in C or C++ code? Seems a bit rich to point to C’s write-your-own approach as being a security benefit. I’d want to see some data on that before I arrive at that conclusion.
gemstones commented on HTML, the Programming Language html-lang.org/... · Posted by u/recursivedoubts
One suggestion - it would be really cool to allow FFI. Something like
<script type="text/javascript">
const foo = (bar) => {
document.getElementById('my-element');
// More here!
};
</script>
gemstones commented on Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about? · Posted by u/aredirect