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Something that annoys me about developing for V8 is that if you just write to the language spec, you'll hit all kinds of de-optimization cases. There's this constant voice nagging at the back of my mind saying "don't use try/catch, it's slooow" or "don't use native promises, they're slooow". It's black magic just to keep track of what's fast and what's slow in the language, and it makes benchmarks even trickier and debatable than normal, if you can believe it. I hope this resolves that by optimizing the language more evenly.
> Net neutrality says that if you and I send traffic to one another, your ISP can't charge me for my packets (trucks) carrying data (cargo) to you because you've already paid for use of the road.

Net neutrality has no business dictating how an ISP wants to conduct business and what pricing structure it wants. If you or me don't like our ISP's prices, we can switch.

> At the same time, they say it's fine that the government itself has severely limited your choice in local road providers giving you no power to negotiate or find a suitable competitive road provider.

This is the real problem that has led to this issue. Instead of treating the symptoms, the government must ensure that there is healthy competition and customers are able to choose from multiple ISPs. We got to this place because the government granted some companies a defacto monopoly. That must be undone. Net neutrality is trying to solve the bad effects of government overreach with even more regulation!

Lastly, I see many people on hn and reddit implying that NN is an open and shut issue. That any sane person is obviously pro-NN and anybody who speaks against it is either dumb or evil. This is an absolutely wrong position to take. It fosters no real discussion and results in name-calling while politicians muck up the real problem even more. Thank you for being open to discussion.
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> I wonder what US cities have the best "proximity to interesting people to living expense" ratio

I wonder what place, worldwide, city or not, has the best "proximity to interesting people" : cost-of-living ratio. I'm at a place in my life where I'd be willing to both immigrate and learn a language if it meant finding myself in this century's Venice.
"is the minimum wage a regressive tax in disguise"

Anything that increases prices could be seen as that, but I don't think it is that bad if you cut down to the necessities and you end up having a job at the higher minimum. This is just my intuition though.

Worst case: prices go up and you are unemployed.
Because archaeologist's aren't dumb.
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Hello,

Throw-away account for obvious reasons. I have a mental illness, and during one of my episodes, I committed a crime. This was over five years ago, but it's still on my record. I've been struggling to bring myself to work on Ruby on Rails client projects because of my mental illness, but believe with the right startup environment I could contribute (Ruby on Rails development). I've been working with the framework since it came out about ten years ago.

However, I'm looking for a flexible situation that's not so demanding, e.g. "work on this feature today" is too stressful for me, especially without another developer to pair with.

I also have an idea for mentoring would-be developers in a one-on-one situation, but that is more of a startup idea and I'm afraid I'll run out of funds to pursue this concept before I can bring it to fruition and start bringing in paying customers.

Any advice?
Maybe you were not trying hard enough.
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My concern is that when the RNC was hacked, then Russians kept the material to blackmail the Republicans and so the Republicans will never act.
This has nothing to do with the TSA. It comes straight from the Department of Homeland Security. The TSA would have to enforce the ban of course, but it ain't their idea.

The whole campaign against the TSA is idiotic and it is entirely based on some people's nefarious plans to replace the TSA at various airports with private companies that will be able to extract monopoly fees from airlines and passengers. Let's not confuse the two issues.
> biochem training

and pharmacology, and physiology, and several years on the wards watching the meds go in, watching the pee go out (or not), seeing what happens to the patient, sorting through laundry lists of meds at admission and discharge, losing arguments with pharmacy about why that max-concentrate K-Phos is a bad idea considering the patient's CCr was 1.1 yesterday and now it's 1.4, etc, etc.
>There is absolutely nothing wrong with it but no need to start writing Communist Manifesto 2.0 when all you need to say is "Robots are going to replace us, jobs are going to go away and we need basic income".

Although the Manifesto was a product of its time, many of its ideas still hold for Communist revolutionaries, along with the rest of Marx and Engels' works.
Many languages--like Python--are implemented in C, so it's a pretty natural chain-of-events to get from there to WASM.
What's the medical equivalent of a paralegal? A good nurse?
I was just kidding. No, I don't feel bad for him at all.
Dr. Dang recommends full recalibration of your internet provocation meter. "Ignorant fool" is well into the red!
Something that can withstand the acceleration of a mass driver and the accompanying atmospheric heating while still being light enough to achieve orbit would be quite the feat.
The corporate income tax rate is a progressive system just like the personal income tax.

At the lowest bracket (<$50,000), you pay 15%.
At the highest bracket ($18 million+), you pay 35%.

Small businesses with NO employees (e.g. the 80% of such), are typically pass-through entities not subject to corporate income tax rates, or are making far far less than 18 million dollars.

One could easily see a proposal to raise the tax on the highest bracket, or create an even higher bracket (e.g. companies earning 100 million or above), and tax that at 40%.
I spent two nights at the Inn at Price Tower:

http://www.pricetower.org/stay/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Tower

They offered two types of rooms: a standard room and a two-story loft. My partner and I stayed in both--the standard the first night to save money, and the loft the second night.

I haven't seen the interior of other Wright buildings, but I _loved_ Price Tower. I'm no architect, and I'm sure there's plenty to criticize, but for something that was first conceived in the 1920s and built in the early 1950s, it's amazing. (I'm not sure how much the final draft was changed, but AFAIU the design is substantially the same as conceived of in the '20s.)

One noteworthy thing about the loft apartment in Price Tower is that it was loaded with electrical outlets. I distinctly remember our docent discussing the quantity and spacing of outlets, and IIRC those were a part of the 1920s design. There was a surfeit of places to plug in our chargers. And the general layout of the loft was very comfortable and pleasing, not to mention the incredible views.

I'd also note that the building seemed to be kept in fairly good condition. Given it's remote location, complex architectural features, meager financial support, and general public disinterest until recently, I doubt it's a complete maintenance nightmare. (AFAIK it's not killing people or setting them afire.) That said, the design clearly pushed the envelope, perhaps even by 1950s standards, so I'm sure it keeps some lucky building maintenance engineers busy and their employer stressed.
What do you mean by this comment? I don't think many people, even the Marxists, are arguing that capitalism isn't a good thing; the disagreement is whether the capitalist mode of production is the "best" way to organise production.
You made it sound easy.

The tallest building is about 830m high. A rocket would have to undergo some fierce acceleration to gain any useful speed over that distance. Something like pushing a bullet through water.

The stresses on such a structure, and the launch vehicle, would probably give them a limited life span.

I suspect economics plays a big role here. I suspect it is cheaper to launch multistage rockets than to build a mass driver long / tall enough to be useful.
I don't think the parent poster was talking about incompetence; rather, they're referring to staff who have no organizational power to do their job—people who are not empowered to help you, but rather are required to go get someone else every time anything you'd assume would be "their job" (i.e. the reason they are being paid, as human, to work there) happens.

In most chain fast-food restaurants, if the shift manager does a rotation taking orders, those orders go much more smoothly, and the line moves 10x quicker. Because, under that setup, the person with the responsibility for the order is also the person with the power to ensure the order happens correctly.
> patient handoffs are so dangerous because of the dysfunction everywhere else in the system

Anyone who has participated in a root cause analysis at a hospital knows that.
There's more to computer vision than image classification, multicamera geometry is still necessary for any serious work in computer vision.
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It can't be said enough how amazing this work is. V8 and friends have really pushed the web forward a tremendous amount by continually pushing the JavaScript performance boundaries.
You've managed to quite rudely respond without actually answering their question except with an appeal to authority.

While I'm sure the archaeologists who determined it was 40,000 years old had a good reason for it, jeez.
Or maybe he had an experience not reflecting the reality, which often happens when someone fails to overcome the language barrier.
Don't most manufacturers pre-image OS on computers at the factory now? They usually have an option to create recover disk/sb drive.
I was referring to the standard falcon 9, but you're quite right. It'll be impressive if SpaceX manage second stage recovery.
Heh. I'm a little sympathetic to that view, myself:

http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm

Still an area I'm mulling over.
So? That sounds like a bad decision on their part.
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Sp3 is for 32-core chips wirh 8-channel memory. Sp3r2 is for 16-core chips with 4-channel memory. The reason the Sp3r2 platform exists is to make motherboards cheaper -- the lines for 8-channel memory force you to use more layers, increasing cost.

They are using the same large socket to reduce time to market -- they had validated the 8-channel socket, they don't currently have a modern 4-channel socket, and they think there is demand.
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Actually, I'd say "go buy a laptop from the shop in Melbourne that sells systems with Linux pre-loaded, they'll look after you".

Not only is that a viable approach, I'd take any bet you'd like that she'd get better support from them than any 'big brand' supplier of Windoze boxen.

(Actually, I'd probably say "holy shit I thought you were dead", but that's specific to my mother).
Simplicity has its benefits.

And, to be clear, there is some info online about craigslist tech.

Source: I'm a 8+ year employee who's given public talks about tech at craigslist, some of which have been recorded and are online.
I'm not sure about the other equipment, but I can say that police definitely need designated marksman rifles(7.62x51mm NATO)and infantry rifles(5.56x45mm NATO [typo'd as 6.65mm in the article]) as a matter of course.

Here in Toronto the other month, right across the street from my home, there was a man having a mental breakdown in a park swinging a handgun around, and they had five marksmen in range ready to take a shot if it got out of hand on the ground, and rifles on the ground to make sure it doesn't get too far out of hand.

Grenade launchers are fairly common equipment for a police force these days, there are a large number of crowd control and tactical (visibility flares, IR flares) devices which can be launched out of standard grenade launchers, since the military has brought down the cost of this equipment, police forces seem to standardize around it.

The border states having higher spending on weaponry and armour is intuitively understandable, given how hot the border is. Per-landmass and per-police-officer numbers might also be a more interesting stat to look at.

LA county makes regular use of their armoured vehicles, that I understand. So unless you're arguing that police officers in LA county should just let themselves get shot when people are shooting at them, I think it'd be hard to imagine it being a bad thing that they have armoured vehicles.

Explosive Ordinance Disposal vehicles (and other equipment, such as X-ray imaging devices, tracked robotic vehicles, projected water disruptors) make a lot of sense. The New York Police Department has had a bomb squad since 1903(!). If you love the idea of bomb technicians being shredded into mists of blood, flesh, and bone; or love going to funerals where there is no recovered corpse, then sure, their lives are not worth even a couple hundred k per capita, less than the average person in the general population in the U.S. government's estimation.
I had a friend who was a QA process engineer at a regional hospital. He identified a significant source of errors - every morning there was a 'double-handoff' as the doctors handed off to nurses, who ended their shift and handed off to the next shift. The problem would be solved by moving hand-off time by a mere 15 minutes, but neither the doctors' group nor the nurses' group would budge on the matter.

I've heard a few other similar stories from him as well. Doctors have immense political power; if hospitals are grinding them to dust, it's because doctors as a group are letting them (the good old 'seniors don't care that juniors are getting crushed' problem). From my own limited experience working with them as a neuro tech, doctors will close ranks quickly against outside forces, but plenty will sell each other out within the profession. For every haggard ED doctor, there's a specialist somewhere making cushy deals with the administration.
Dubious indeed.
Honest question, do you ever think about not eating there if you know the staff are getting screwed over financially?

My logic is if they have such little regard for their staff, they probably don't have much regard for my health. That and I just think it's cruel to work people like robots.
It's absurd to say that "because there are poorer people in (I'm assuming you are referring to) Asia/Africa/Central America, we should make no further effort to help". We should help them because they are our neighbors and it's our moral imperative.

It's not robbery, it's the cost of being part of society. Those billionaires rely on the laws, created and enforced by the government, to maintain their status and possessions. If it's a government of and for all the people in the country, then the government absolutely has moral authority to tax citizens relative to their ability to contribute, and to aid citizens relative to their need for aid.
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Sadly, that's not how it would work. Everything he's done would be legally valid. And the order of presidential succession would decide the next president.
A lot of spam on CL isn't created by bots, but by human beings.

As little as 3 years ago, I knew people who'd make job ads on elance asking someone to 'automate' their craigslist renewals and postings.
> tldr; The problem people are having is figuring out input and output for domains other than image processing.

This and some of your other comments in this thread lead me to believe you are unaware of how DL is being used in NLP. I would argue real industry use of DL for NLP dwarfs that of DL for images. Personal assistants, search, customer service, sales, chat are the big general cases, let alone company-specific tasks (.e.g. financial data, reviews) or other NLP domains that are not particularly industry-adopted (.e.g. translation, summarization). There's a lot of demand for NLP DL experts, and it's no surprise this year that Socher's NLP DL class had 700 Stanford students enrolled.
What's innovation have to do with it? Sounds like someone has convinced you that things have to work a certain way and you've found your first counter example...
No, I flew international first class and international economy. I stand by what I said, it's the difference between being uncomfortable and being slightly less uncomfortable. You're still stuck on a plane.
> and enforces the laws it sets.

Then all they would need to do is pass a law, saying that we are taxing X to give some benefit to all citizens. Which is, in fact, correct. That is how it works, and it is perfectly legal and moral, as long as all citizens are treated equally under the new law.
Stevens–Johnson syndrome seems to occur as a response to several different drugs, but apparently only to people with a specific HLA genotype. Part of the solution here is that currently we only approve a drug if it is safe for nearly 100% of the population, even if it is useful for far fewer (see statins) and the path forward needs to give more consideration of the differences in people, and having suitable genotyping a prerequisite for some medications.
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Pilots have more incentive to manage their fatigue: if they screw up, they die.
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Us government ruining everything. GET OUT OF MY LIFE GOVERNMENT. The government should have no say in who can practice medicine. Currently it's a criminal racket as far as I'm concerned. It requires like 15 years of higher education to be able to be a doctor!! That's so stupid, especially with google. And once they graduate, it leads to a false sense that they know it all.

Government prohibiting the practice of medicine is the cause of so much ill in this country it is ridiculous. It stifles innovation. The official doctors have been known to ridicule things that were proven critical to success. For example now we know that germs cause disease. Well back in the day, they ridiculed people for belicjnf that microscopic bacteria could kill people. As a. Result doctors killed. A lot of people through their terrible practices. It still happens today.
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Look up MIRI, they've done a lot of theoretical work on this
I believe the original term was for recent medical grads working at a hospital before they had their license. It was "okay" because they were internal, and supervised. Once they had the license, they could work unsupervised or externally.
Huge news, waiting for open source robot simulator for long. It's so wonderful.
However, the shadow and appearance are a little pale compared to MuJoCo.
Except one of tenets of Rust community is don't be a language zealot. Don't advocate for rewriting everything, etc.
That used to be kind of true, but now # cycles/sec has hit a brick wall.
His experience is very shocking, he can not buy a HP or DELL computer with a legal copy of windows installed on it in GUANGZHOU.
Good. Dynamic datasets for next gen AI. I think simulation is going to be essential for the AI of the future: physical 3D simulation, game simulation (like AlphaGo, which run MCMC) and ultimately, complex scene with multiple human and non-human agents (self driving cars, robots, chat bots). The era of ImageNet and static data is over.
So what you're saying is that WASM is a Trojan horse.
Because we are lazy. Com'on, the US government hasn't banned Win10 export to China yet.

Home baked RTOSes prosper though.
Just as customers at this book store didn't just care about a good selection of books for low prices, good coffee for low prices isn't always the impetus for a visit to a specific cafe. Some places are just cool for whatever reason, and people will hang out there despite the coffee being crappy or the prices being high. Coffee shops sell coffee, sure, but for many of them, that's not the point of going. I can get free coffee from my workplace, and we actually have nitrogen cold-brew, espresso machines, half a dozen types of milk, syrups, half a dozen different drips in pumps, ice, blenders, RO filtered water...and I still go out to buy coffee. Many of my coworkers also go out for coffee. Sometimes it's nice to go somewhere else, and coffee is a great excuse. Sometimes we'll hang out at whatever coffee place we end up at for a good conversation.

Back in high school, there was a big old dirty cafe all the kids hung out at. It had room for maybe 200 people on busy nights, which was probably over what fire code allowed. The coffee was made by stoned hippies on rarely-cleaned equipment and was pretty bad. It was normal coffee shop prices. It was the place to be because they were open 24 hours and had open-mic nights, where angsty teens could play guitar in front of their friends.

Another place in that same state was super tiny (seating for about 10 people) and had a line out the door most mornings. Their coffee was good, as was their pastry. It wasn't cheap at all. The service was pretentious and rude, but mostly in a funny way. Being a regular there felt cool, and you'd chat with other customers in line.

There are places in Chicago that charge >$6 for a cup of pour-over. These are typically fantastic. They could charge $7 and likely lose very little business. People who go to these types of places aren't cross-shopping Starbucks.

I'd bet that a place charging $10 for a cappuccino in SF would do just fine assuming it had something else going for it as well. Build a business that is Instagram-worthy and charge whatever you like for your product, and you'll still get lines around the block if it's a good enough gimmick.
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So are Brits good a coming up with nicknames, or are they simply more apt to build enormous buildings that look like common household items?
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And the "private sector" is the existing physicians. Every dollar they pay a resident can't be used to buy their spouse more Prada or new tires for the Porsche. But the AMA had kept the valve throttled so long, society was desperate. Seeing a bunch of short-term greedy louts who apparently didn't study much math (don't get me started), the government seized the opportunity to pay for residencies, which created a Venturi effect where they can suck up not just the MDs, but added the flow from two other pipelines: the DOs and IMGs. And the flow has been so vigorous and steady that additional medical schools have opened outside the US borders (the Caribbean, Middle East, etc) to support the flow.
This is exactly how terrorists win.

Or, rather, have won.
Was my experience reading that article a human interaction? Is my comment one? Byrne shared something personal and I respond in turn. I mean, it is certainly less of a human interaction than being at a party with Byrne. But isn't this more of a human interaction than going to a bank and asking a cashier to give me money?
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