skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you've got a generation of top talent tinkering with an ISA that doesn't suck like x86, you're going to see adoption in actual industry.

RISC V is not much more than a slightly tweaked MIPS, the previous "preferred academic architecture", and we all know what happened to that... much to the chagrin of those who thought MIPS would be "the future of computing".

My prediction is that it will probably replace MIPS where it's currently used (very low-end tablets and phones, and a lot of home routers), but won't really displace ARM or x86. A "pure RISC" like MIPS and now RISC V just doesn't have the "CISCness" that makes successful CPUs beyond the theoretical.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-sho...

Look at the results for the Loongson. It has at least twice as much cache as the others and 4-way OoO, yet after normalising for clock frequency and process power, it manages to be dead last in efficiency on 3 out of 4 of the benchmarks.

I've been following trends in the industry since the 90s. The "RISC dream" is still very much a dream. Trying to get an overly simple and restrictive ISA to perform well is sheer folly. Things that the RISC proponents thought would matter (decode complexity, number of architectural registers, addressing mode complexity) actually didn't, and what they thought wouldn't matter (memory bandwidth/latency, clock speed, instruction density), did. A denser, more intel-ligent (pun fully intended) ISA is what x86 and ARM is moving toward, while the MIPS/RISC advocates are going backwards.
Why are there more viruses for Windows than for Mac/Linux?
My view: we need price transparency.

Find out a medical code, call 3 different hospitals in your area and try to nail them down on a price for that billing code - the variance will be large; but given they should all have similar price structures and pay wages that are roughly the same, they shouldn't vary by much more than 5% ...
That article argues that other single payer systems work better than Canada's system. But you're linking it like it is some smoking gun assassination of single payer as a concept; did you read your own article?

For example it links this article:

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/...

Which shows single payer and universal healthcare dominating the top spots.
You need to incorporate as an S corp and hire yourself W2. Then pay your "employees" 100% medical that way it's a cost for the company and therefore reduces the company's profit, meanwhile you're not getting taxed to pay insurance premiums.

Going from being an employee to being 1099 and SE is still getting
fucked on taxes, just in a different position.

If you're serious about freelancing, your income should be split between a W2 and a K1.

I am not a CPA. This is what I pay him to do for me.
These articles are misguided. Nobody's saying music majors are idiots and unqualified to be in-charge of security at a web company because of the degree itself. If you're hearing that maybe it's your own thoughts bubbling up on you.

What people want to highlight is that this woman's only qualification is being a music major. She has literally no experience in managing the security of hundreds of millions of people's private information. For a company handling such huge amounts of such sensitive data, the CSO should possess exceptional credentials in the security community. She clearly does not.

Combine this with the facts that we know are correct (Equifax has terrible data security and response), and the music major qualification becomes a big red flag.

When sexual harassment allegations against Uber executives surfaced, didn't we put a lot of blame on the CEO for letting such a work-culture thrive? The same is applicable here on the CSO, and the CEO for hiring a woman whose sole achievement is a music degree.
Tungsten: The Perfect Metal for Bullets and Missiles (2014)
Swift has no quality high-level concurrency primitives - until those arrive, Swift is a complete non-starter as a server language.

Concurrency is at the level of proposals currently, so it'll be another couple of years until they come up with something, and another couple until good server libraries/frameworks figure out how to use them properly.

It's a shame really - I imagine this could've been moving along at a faster rate had Chris Lattner stayed on with Apple and recruited some extra help.

He has written a really nice proposal for concurrency, that'll definitely influence Swift going forward. [0]

[0] https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9...
That is a major factor, but there is a bigger one: the product that an insurance company will agree to sell you and the product they will agree to sell your employer are not materially the same product.

The actuarial assumption is that substantially all white collar employees will get group coverage and therefore any company's 25, 100, or 500 pulls out of the pool of white collar employee health risks will be actuarially consistent with random selections from the underlying distribution. This is not true of individual insurance purchasers, because the individual purchasers can have more signal on their health risks than their insurance companies. They can, for example, purchase insurance when they know they're likely going to require treatment and decline to purchase (or shift to different coverage options) when they're likely to be healthy.

This is called "adverse selection" and it is the tradeoff in individual insurance. For a while, the US's policy was that insurance companies could underwrite individual health insurance policies in a fashion roughly similar to underwriting business liability policies, which could be caricatured as "We'll give a policy to anyone with a pulse but if you've so much as glanced in the general direction of an expensive outcome at any point, our answer is Hell No, just like substantially every other insurance company's will be."

If you let insurance companies do underwriting, health insurance is (relatively) cheap and lots of people can't buy it on the individual market at any price. If you require "guaranteed issue", health insurance is only (relatively) cheap if everyone buys it.

The US has been wrestling this tradeoff with Obamacare and subsequent proposals. There are no simple solutions to it that make everyone happy.
>meme

Context and clarification is not a meme. You are just too young to remember when context and clarification weren't served up to you with a few clicks. Once upon a time you had to plough through copious volumes of primary sources. If you were lucky, you had a "professor" (the nice lady who gave you a C in World History when you probably should have failed) who could help you navigate through the miles of "opinions" (that is like a Status Update) dressed up as "facts" (pesky annoyances to be avoided).

>trying to understand

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." -Ghandi

>bit of context

This particular bit of context was particularly shattering to me when I was given it, as my education (private school, America) never once covered the source of slaves. It was deemed inconsequential. This, for me, is the scariest mindset: certain elements of history are inconsequential because of X. Your comment personifies this willful ignorance.

>'all sides are bad' mentality

This is my favorite fallacy. People are inclined to seek out a hero and/or Good Side in history. It does not exist. The concept of State Morality is new (it's 100 year birthday is 08 January 2018). Even a concept as fundamental to the modern age as The People is relatively new (France 18th century). There was an article I read a while back about how quickly human societies incorporate Common Knowledge into their shared identity. We then assume it was always this way (try explaining the concept of "second class citizen" to a Babylonian eunuch... after you explain what a "citizen" is of course) and extend our psyche into the humans of the past. The cold truth is that Good Guys cease to exist when the credits roll and history has no Right Side (who is the bad guy between the Mongols and the Muscovites? The Kieven Rus!).

I don't think you are actively trying to erase history, but I get the feeling you see history as a tool for politics, and that makes me sad.
If the developer doesn’t care enough to recompile an app as 64 bit, why should Apple jump through hoops to keep it alive?
That still won't solve the discrepancy because only the top 20-30% of households itemize deductions.
It takes me at least an hour to go to sleep at night, and it has done so since I was a very little kid.

Caffeine intake is not correlated, because there have been plenty of times when I hadn't had caffeine for weeks, months, or even years, and yet this pattern has not changed.

Not everyone reacts the same to these kinds of drugs, and not everyone can participate in the manner suggested.
> Doctors/hospitals might earn less

No, they HAVE to earn less.

Also, if the exact same medicare that pays out today is replicated to the whole population the medical industry will go broke overnight.
Not universally. Midterm exams, graded (regular) homework, graded projects, graded written reports, take-home exams, ... all exist.
That article has all the standard petroleum industry claims: bird deaths (cats kill more birds by a factor of 100x), Native American tribal opposition, and whole lot of data meant to fit a narrative.

The US can't quit coal/oil - because the alternatives along with advanced batteries would sideline petroleum. And we certainly can't have that.
The edited title here ("Equifax’s security chief had some big problems") doesnt match the article. There's no discussion about Mauldin's problems.

The full title is "Equifax’s security chief had some big problems. Being a music major wasn’t one of them."

And the article is entirely about that 2nd part... that her degree in music shouldn't be an issue.
Is there an attempt to go after multi unit residentials? Any incentives for builders to implement?

Asking this as a layman.
I think this is a case where struggling == "doesn't want to learn". It's important to distinguish so you don't waste time trying to help the latter.
The idea is not to go into full sleep mode. Put your phone away, lie down, relax your body and close your eyes. The act of resting for say 20 minutes is enough to put a spring in your step for the rest of the day.
And it has landed. Turnaround time was only 37 minutes in SJU!
One of the benefits of WFH is being able to just lie on my rug when I'm getting drowsy and take anywhere between a short (10-15 mins) to long (1-2 hour) nap. After that, I'll be razor focused for quite a number of hours afterward and not need another sip of caffeine for the rest of the day.
But aren't the prices artificially inflated to build in the supposed "discount?"

To use an analogy, it is like how vehicle manufacturers adds 10% to reach the MSRP, which is "discounted" at the dealership for every vehicle sold. It is a shell game, there is no winning when the game is rigged for the game's own existence.

If discounts were banned tomorrow on medical services, you'd see the costs drop significantly to reflect that.
> Every other major country does single payer.

Switzerland doesn't.
In fact it's the default expectation with the rising standards of living.

However that has started to stagnate for all but the upper middle class so the next decade should be quite interesting.
Freedom of speech is really something that must be contextualized, for it to be a useful term.

In all contexts, freedom of speech is considered a 'right', but in some contexts it's a positive right, and in others it's a negative right.

In the US constitution, it's a negative right. The First Amendment states that 'Congress shall write no law ... abridging the freedom of speech.' In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it's a positive right:

"everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice". [1]

If Twitter were subject to the UDHR, it would seem to me that people would be entitled to use Twitter as a free speech platform. We are lucky that this is not the case, because that would surely violate Twitter's property rights and its employees'/investors' right to self determination.

To dissallow Twitter to shape its own content/user base strategy would be unethical.

[1] http://www.claiminghumanrights.org/udhr_article_19.html
Flat Design: Why to question Nielsen Norman’s research on the design style
It's a work in progress: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rfcs/issues/36
Been running with this same setup in ECS for a few months now. We also partition by environment (in the key name), which works well with a minimal .env, and makes it super easy to manage/revoke credentials (as opposed to distributing .env files to team members and keep those up to date)
Users paid most of that money to the apps developers, yet the developers won’t even recompile the apps to keep them on the store. Why should Apple punish all the other iOS users by sucking up memory to support abandoned apps they don’t use?
Maybe that will force the industry to increase their efficiency(hopefully not through decreased attention to patient, but through cost reduction, better negotiation power with pharma industry and all)
Our costs are disproportionately higher. Let's fix that before we get the government to foot the bill.
Might be premature, but iOS 11 on my 6S plus feels.. slow. It was snappy on iOS 10. Hope it improves, or I may look into downgrading.
Yes. This. Price transparancy and the ability to predict the eventual bill will increase competition

Edit: predicting eventual bill, not the outcome.
Nor are we quite sure how you think it’s not, other than logically fallacious argument from authority.
As another user pointed out though, it's not quite that simple. After reading up some more, I think this is a better analogy:

You have 2 magic entangled coins. Each coin has a heads and a tails side.

If you both look at heads first, entanglement guarantees they will show the same US president. If you both look at tails first, entanglement guarantees they will show the same US building. However, and this is where it gets weird, if your friend looks at tails first, and you look at heads first, then your respective coin presidents and buildings will be random.

As you can see, this does not allow you to communicate with your friend faster than light. However, if you send a message to your friend using entangled coins, he can check if an eavesdropper intercepted your message by first looking to see that every coin has the same president on it. If some coins have a different president, it means that an eavesdropper intercepted your coins and looked at tails first somewhere along the way. This relies on you and you friend agreeing ahead of time that you should always look at heads first.
When the whole nation is the pool, then there is no need for the insurance company.
Take a look at the links to the articles this article criticizes. They do not highlight general lack of qualifications, they focus almost entirely on the music education angle when talking about her.

E.g. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-m... talks about her non-degree experience with one sentence:

> To play devil’s advocate, Mauldin does at least have 14 years’ private-sector experience since getting her degrees.[...] The question is how far any of this can take you in this field if you don’t have a formal education in technology.

Pointing out to the general public that this alone is not unusual in the field is IMHO important context. And it's not like the article is trying to argue that she was good at her job, just that you can't derive much information from the pure fact what degree someone has.
Rest of his comment.

> In fact the increase in wages could be used to fund a basic preventative care plan (read not full on single payer) for all Americans.
Except that won’t work for the most expensive medical care because you don’t have time to comparison shop, if you’re even conscious.
Vim gives the ability to refactor large amounts of code rapidly. This doesn't make it so your typing speed is significantly faster, but it removes obstacles to refactoring large amounts of code which means that as a developer you will have more choices available to tackling some problems.

This can only really be shown via examples.
Let's say, a lazy person has created a 3000 line file containing the declarations of a datastructure, and you would like to modify the constructors to each have an additional shared parameter.

In order to add this parameter you could add some behaviour to the constructor definition.

With vim you have a new choice open to you: you can define a macro that to find and modify all of the constructors in your declaration file in 20 seconds.

Now you can choose how you would like the constructors to look, rather than the choice being made for you by the existing code.

There are of course other ways to bulk-update text files, but the advantage of learning vim is that it is context-free. The same commands used to modify C# are fine to use for modifying javascript or XML. (i.e. you don't have to use parsing libraries)
The Two Tiers of Singapore's Tech Companies
I think Hired salary calculator is more accurate for SF https://hired.com/salary-calculator
I think you mean the server can't enforce ssh key encryption/passphrase protection (next point down)?

And 2 or even 3 factor should maybe be on the list (key+pw, key+totp, key+pw+totp).

For keys, it's in theory possible to ease management with using ssh certificates and a CA - anyone know of a convenient way to manage totp secrets across multiple servers and users?
One thing i learned that i enjoyed sharing: employee provided healthcare started with ww2 to lure employees to a company since they couldnt increase wages.
How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes
For me, I want a good sound system and that's it. No screens, no touch controls, no bluetooth, no internet. Knobs, switches, and analog gauges please.

Sadly pretty much no longer available in a new car. So I'll probably never buy another one.
Or lower costs.

Hospitals charge an order of magnitude too much.
>"At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune teller. Mr. Xi declined, according to a person briefed on the matter."

Does getting FB into China mean so much to this person that he's willing to consider a name suggested by a complete stranger for his own child?

The picture of Mark Zuckerberg running though Tiananmen Square is also quite telling. It's completely stage-managed so that it's taken while Mark is smiling and Chairman Mao's picture is clearly in the frame behind him. I wonder how many attempts this "spontaneous" picture required.

I happened to be in Beijing that same weekend as this photo op. The local reaction to that picture wasn't one of celebrity adulation because people recognized Mark Zuckerberg founder of FB as he's not a household name there. The reaction was one of complete consternation that someone would be out jogging in such hazardous air quality. That's not an early morning fog in the background it's air pollution. It seemed like most people were donning air pollution masks that weekend because the particulate in the was so heavy.

I mention this only because it seems to the same awkward and obsequious behavior as asking the President of China to offer a name for your unborn child.
The original rules were designed for miners, who didn't have the choice to take a 1.5 hour off-site lunch (there wouldn't be restaurants for miles).
Thanks for your feedback, Paul. Any ideas on what can be done to signal that "it is interesting"?
"Buying index funds - will allow me to retire by 2022."

I understand that the returns of index funds are very low and generally recommended as long-term investments (alternative to saving in the bank).

How much are you investing into index funds to allow you to confidently retire in 5 years time?

Thanks!
Source or it didn’t happen.
Even the companies who file the patents claim they don't want the patents.
You want to talk easy refusals? I just had a recruiter come to me with a position at Monsanto.
The incinerated birds are called streamers. Here's a reference. [0]

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/this-solar-plant-accidentally-i...
It's a syscall interface, not a language, but CloudABI combines concepts from POSIX and capability-based security.

https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc/blob/master/README.md
Bonkers.

If you're a christian you could lower that considerably. Medishare.
I think you are spot on. I want to see a website where you can go to plug in whichever procedures you need, and you will see the the itemized costs, and whether it's covered by your insurance or not, associated with that procedure for every provider within an X mile radius from your address. It's absurd that this doesn't already exist.

Uploading this pricing data to the database would have to be mandated by the federal government.
x86 still has a lot of room left for microarchitectural optimisation, precisely because it's a CISC --- complex instructions can be decoded and scheduled internally in different ways, microcode itself can be optimised, and ultimately complex operations (like AES or SHA) eventually dispatched to dedicated hardware. The cycle count of instructions can be reduced in this manner. Besides the aforementioned AES and SHA extensions, other examples of x86 microarchitectural optimisations include REP MOVS/STOS, DIV, and MUL.

In contrast, the simplicity of RISC means such optimisations are either not possible or much harder --- if by definition all instructions already run in one clock cycle on one execution unit, then the only choices are to add more execution units (something the CISCs can also do with the same amount of difficulty) or attempt to recognise sequences of instructions and combine them for execution on dedicated hardware; the key difficulty here being that recognising and combining instruction sequences is much harder than decoding a single instruction to a sequence of uops or dispatching it to hardware internally.
No, I mean sub-speciality. At least, my experience is nothing like you describe. For the most part, the people who are likely to attend each others conference talks agree on notation. They may, however, disagree with the people down the hall.

Bear in mind, though, the papers are written for that same group. For good or for ill.
Is it just me or has China been doing some crazy regulatory stuff recently. Idk if there's an overall mosaic I'm missing or if these are unrelated.
I agree, for the most part, but then again, C also has no high-level concurrency primitives, and basically every server ever is written in C.

You can use Grand Central Dispatch, and it works. It's not as wonderful as go routines and channels, but hey, it works.
Probably because the definition of poverty always shifts to make the lowest x% in “poverty”...?
China's fast descent into totalitarianism is fascinating and scary. One can easily replace 'bitcoin executives' with 'foreign executives' or 'foreign assets' and see where this is going. I wonder if those companies that choose to outsource all the jobs in their country to China realized what they've done.
China's economy is crashing, and Chinese government is panicking.
Porn was readily available on the magazine racks at gas stations and less-than-family-oriented bookstores back in the day. Easy enough to get if you wanted it.