skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Labor != Value. I can go dig ditches in a yard for 10 years and not create any value.

Well that really depends on a) whether someone (including you) wants or needs ditches (farming irrigation? undertaker? dog hiding bone?) and b) the amount of time required to produce an article under the normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity prevalent at the time. If someone really wants a ton of ditches, and you can dig faster and deeper than anyone else, is your labor more valuable? As programmers we should hope so.

I don't mean to sidetrack the conversation but let's not make sweeping statements of fact without thinking about them!
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I think the key word is 'concurrently'. My guess is that micro and small instances indeed share CPUs, just never 'at the same time' and L1 is flushed before transition from one VM to another.

I work for Google Cloud, but not related to security or OS development, so am not aware how it is actually being done.
> I'm interested in seeing any pointers to benchmarks that show the improvements resulting from escape analysis in JITs. I haven't seen anything like that and I've done a decent amount of research.

If you've done a decent amount of research in the field of JITs and you aren't aware of what escape analysis achieves in practice then I'm very surprised.

http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Research/Papers/Stadler14/Stad...

That paper is relatively recent, so you can follow the chain of papers from its references.
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The two professors are Lenore and Manuel Blum:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Blum
There's no discontinuity at 0. It's a limit point that is unreachable, as far as we know. That's why 1/T is a better measure. It makes it obvious that +0k is the unreachable limit of "adding a quantum of energy results in an infinite increase in entropy". (-0k is the unreachable limit of "adding a quantum of energy results in an infinite decrease in entropy".)
Can we just agree that it's not evil that people get a choice now where they didn't before?

You're very right! Sharing ideas to enhance your local community can be incredibly valuable and rewarding! However, some people occasionally find that their local communities do not always uniformly and enthusiastically welcome the ideas they want to share. Some people, faced with such experiences and fears, might consider that analog and digital communities offer different tradeoffs.
I don't get how this is an interesting result. When you are allowed to change the applied stress (not just simple bending), getting it to break into just two pieces is easy.

By holding the spaghetti with two fingers at each end and applying compression together with bending, i.e. making the spaghetti look kinda like a sine wave from bottom to bottom, I can break spaghettis into just two pieces with success rate well above 50%. And I have confirmed with simple bending of shorter spaghettis that it's not just because of a shorter effective length.

Here's a picture of five spaghettis broken into just two pieces, along with one unbroken for comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/gOTiHG3

Now I gotta explain to my wife why there are broken spaghettis.
I really don't, but good armchair analysis my guy. I was just reading indie hacker and was wondering what else is out there like this in terms of simplicity. Also my website is far from a competitor to park.io its just a personal EE blog with stuff I like and Matlab I write.
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>Still, I actually tried PyPy on a string-based workload and it was slower than CPython and used more memory. I don't know why but that contributes to my feeling that JITs are bad for string-based workloads.

Now that I'm implementing a interpreter for a relational language and from what I know for why python is slow:

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow...

And also:

https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...

Is challenging to be dynamic and also fast. So, you need to design the language/runtime with performance in mind, or at least, to minimize what could be very slow (that is what I'm triying).
Don't most serverless calls have a time limit?
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Is there something I can install to block ad blocker blockers? In this case it looks like Admiral is the culprit.
She was very engaged with women@scs when I was at CMU ... I wonder how things got so bad that they are resigning rather than retiring
> ...it would appear that your position is distinct from that of the mainstream critical theory/intersectionality social justice crowd.

Not the subset of it I engage with — and that includes people who hold (graduate) degrees in things like "Gender Studies" or "Ethnic Studies", and such-like — which means we're playing some form of "dueling anecdata".

To that end, I'd invite you to speculate momentarily on how many people in this discussion have ever engaged in meaningful, substantive discourse with people from the "social justice crowd" (which, btw: ugh, dismissive name-calling, much?) about their positions, and aren't merely regurgitating their own narratives, of whatever other origin.
Countries that started from zero have an advantage over western countries: no legacy systems to interact with. Just brand new apps
A little more complicated, but a lot more versatile.

I had a similar issue, where I wanted a large amount of extra keys for macros/hotkeys. I bought a planck kit from olkb (https://olkb.com/planck/) (which is just one of many keyboard kits that will run the QMK firmware (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware)) built it and rewrote the keymap to output my special keys.

Later I went on to wire up a couple simple industrial style footswitches to a cheapo arduino pro micro clone and put qmk on there.

A few other interesting and smaller keyboard kits can be found from vendors like https://www.1upkeyboards.com/ (the sweet16 macropad/keypad) and https://keeb.io (the chocopad or just half of any of their "ortholinear" split keyboard pcbs.
All of Asia where it rains for much more than 3 weeks straight during the monsoon seasons.

That said it’s not clear if it will catch up in any place where these are seen as perks of convenience rather than essential transportation.
There may be complex lessons in this. Reinforced concrete has tended to reach end of life sooner than expected which has some serious implications for structures both built and so far only proposed.
B) is a fair point, and not exactly what I meant either - I'll update the parent.
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Traditional escape analysis uses algorithms like equi-escape sets.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p111-...
> All keys are programmable and you assign keys to toggle/activate a layer.

Hmm, it's possible to do this with any keyboard. Find a key that you never/hardly use and bind that to running the command which toggles the layout.

Thanks for the inspiration.
They are the two "Blums" in "Blum Blum Shub."
Because they're not my definitions.

They're the generally accepted definitions.

The definitions you are presenting are therefore ideological at best.
What I really, really, like is location of all the public toilets. This is precious information while exploring big cities.
It's essentially a back-end only content management system that makes content accessible via a RESTful API.

According to wikipedia, the term "headless" comes from the concept of chopping the "head" (the front-end, i.e. the website) off the "body" (the back-end, i.e. the content repository).
Copy-paste of article because this website is pure utter shit and requires you to disable adblocker.

Lenore and Manuel Blum — both longtime professors of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University — have submitted their resignations.

In a Monday morning email blast to staffers in the School of Computer Science, Ms. Blum, founder of the university’s Project Olympus business incubator, made accusations about “professional harassment” and “sexist management” on the school’s Oakland campus over the last three years.

In the email obtained by the Post-Gazette, she pointed specifically to changes made in recent years under a “new entrepreneurial management structure on campus.”

Monday evening, Ms. Blum confirmed the resignations, noting they will take effect Aug. 31, 2019, as the couple have been on sabbatical for the past year.

“Carnegie Mellon University is saddened by Lenore and Manuel Blum’s decision to resign from the university. We recognize their lasting contributions to the university, the City of Pittsburgh, and to the field of computer science,” CMU spokesperson Abby Simmons said in an emailed statement.

“Lenore and Manuel raised some important issues in the email announcing their resignation,” she continued. “Please know that we are committed to examining them, and acting accordingly on our findings.”

The Blums have compiled impressive resumes.

Ms. Blum, 75, who earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, has been a professor of computer science at CMU since 1999.

She is the founder and faculty adviser for the university group “Women@SCS,” which has a mission to empower women's academic, social and professional opportunities in the computer sciences.

In 2007, she founded CMU’s Project Olympus startup incubator, which has supported a number of successful companies on campus. For example, portfolio company Safaba was acquired by Amazon in September 2015 for its automated text translation software and Facebook bought Faciometrics in November 2016 to boost its facial recognition algorithms.

Manuel Blum, 80, who also holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT, has been a professor of computer science at CMU since 2001.

In 1995, he received the Turing Award — the highest honor in the computer science field, often likened to the Nobel Prize — for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory.

Ms. Blum, in her email, did not detail specifics as to what drove the decision to resign beyond describing an atmosphere that she felt put up roadblocks and kept her out of major decisions, including refusals to answer her emails. On numerous occasions, she wrote, she tried to resolve troublesome situations, but they have not been resolved.

“So we are resigning. We are not retiring, we are resigning,” she wrote. “No parties please.”
Would the border wall be a huge waste of money?

It’s a weird game where the stricter you enforce the less people try to come in the first place. So it’s all about signaling.

And if a wall is to be built, should it not be a virtual wall to reduce cost and improve the likelihood that one day it can be merely switched off?

Wouldn’t broad sensors of this type have massive secondary applications?
I'm not sure if the answer is clear, it's not to me. I'd guess you mean the car, but $1300 aint peanuts and IME (in the UK) it's things like the road tax (yearly fixed cost), upkeep and petrol that's going to matter in that assessment. I remember first filling up my scooter (a Piaggio Skipper, I got rid of over a decade ago): at the time my tank of fuel in previous car was £30, the scooter was £3.50. A little less range but it did 3 times the mileage and could do 65mph.

We scooted for a couple of years, used public transport or hired cars when needed. Only had to ride in snow a few times though.
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The article never outlines what the alluded-to downsides are (p-hacking, spurious correlations) which makes me wonder if the article’s sourcing leaned too heavily on advocates of this theory-free approach, which was the subject of a Wired cover story a few years ago, so it must be true, amirite?

Reading the article makes me wonder what Woit (author of Not Even Wrong book and blog) thinks about this and how it dovetails with the epistemological morass the string theory people have gotten themselves into.
Bosch in Germany used to have a big research facility dedicated to Diesel engines and their control systems. They stopped that and converted the facility to research and develop various control systems for electrical cars. So Diesel days are numbered indeed.
This is why I wish Elio Motors [0] could actually get to market.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Motors
St Petersburg, London and Amsterdam are not "modern cities". Obviously there are tons of large cities that have been around before AC, but the article cites the rise of cities (and population) in places that were previously undesirable because of the warm climate. AC has caused a migration of sorts towards warmer places.

> Cities have boomed in places where, previously, the climate would have held them back. In 1950, 28% of the population of the US lived in its sunbelt, 40% in 2000. The combined population of the Gulf cities went from less than 500,000 before 1950 to 20 million now. Neither the rise of Singapore, nor the exploding cities of China and India, would have happened in the same way if they had still relied on punkah fans, shady verandas and afternoon naps.
Building your own keyboard is actually very easy. There is some open source firmware out there that can run an arduino pro-micro's (and teesy 2.x) and clones. (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware)

Search above in another comment by me and find a few vendors for keyboard kits that run qmk firmware...
Yes.

Thought experiment:

There are two channels. One airs very compelling content (the king), but is low quality. The other has tepid content, but is excellent quality.

Which do you use?

Over time, I have asked this of a ton of people and have A/B tested it a few times in my home. Originally about legacy, broadcast media and choices I did not understand.

Compelling is the majority answer people give. And yes, that varies, but not so much as to make the discussion moot.

Yet, what we see is majority tepid, regardless of production and delivery quality. Secondly, peak quality is rare. Choice comes before that. Broadcast wants multiple streams more than fewer, better ones. Almost every time.

Channel control is king. Competition gets balanced to avoid mass tune outs.

Anyone doing all compelling, goid quality, few to no ADS will win big, costing others a lot.

Watch Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and the legacy media sorting all that out right now.
This does not advocate the truth of the author's proposition by appeal to his credentials, only refutes the shallow, reflexive "this is clickbait, why is it posted on HN" comment. The answer: it was written by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Thank you for calling it lunacy since that is exactly what I feel every time I read on HN comments that say that black people can not be racist or women can not be sexist. Worse is when people talk about privilege in regard to race or gender as if those automatic resulted in power.

Relative power is relative, and its associated with a distribution curve. One can acknowledge that different groups has different averages and distribution curves, and that those indicate social issues, while still object to lazy stereotypic that ignores the relative property of power. So much political fighting and polarization could be avoided if more people would see power as relative property between individuals.
For a security product deployment of the model over the internet is a significant cost. Hundreds of thousands of machines in an enterprise may need to be updated at once. These machines may not have an easy way to accelerate the evaluation of the model, either, making feature reduction important for CPU work as well.
What you see in Asian cities are really light motorcycles though, right? As in, they can keep up with auto traffic. In places like KL the "scooters" (or whatever the right term is) are really something. Can't imagine driving there.
Yes, that's how network effects work. The connectivity provides value. Telephone networks were also useless without the people to call.

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

A bunch of people independently operating their cars to give rides with no common means to find them, schedule them, and pay them makes them almost completely useless. The network is the only thing making them useful to consumers.

It's like claiming Google is only valuable because it has websites to crawl.
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Swift is #6 on that list, TypeScript is #4. Swift is a completely new language which has a big overhead to learn from start to finish, but JavaScript has a lot of momentum and existing developers since it is already the lingua franca of the front end of the web. Swift is evolving slowly, but JavaScript is making very quick progress through TC39 during the same time span that Swift was alive. Swift has ambiguous and biased leadership but JavaScript has a well defined and established committee with members from major competitors who have common interest in the language succeeding. TypeScript inherits a lot of these benefits, as it intends to always keep up with the latest JavaScript standards and specification.
In Mexico the pizza delivery drivers all use mopeds. If it's raining heavily, no pizza for you.
These ebikes that are designed to look like motorcycles are a bane and shouldn't be allowed to be driven without a license and insurance.

In the Toronto area we often see these bombing around, riders acting like they are motorcycles but having no training or understanding of safe practices, not wearing proper safety equipment, and several of the privately owned ones have been modified to increase their speed significantly.

I have no issue with the tech, I think it could be a great green solution, but the policies and regulations around it need to get caught up before people are seriously injured.
The article is about the expansion into Atlanta, which is a bit hotter and rainier than NC.
To add, the accused professor is, along with the signers of the ridiculous letter, are obviously completely corrupted. Similar to politicians who campaign on fighting corruption and then go and do it themselves, this woman should be treated as an academic criminal and forced to retire and be forgotten about in the field. Kind of like former governor Blagojevich of Illinois, though they don't have prisons for corrupt career academics.
You do have a point, traffic does seem to be much more reasonable to be in and interact with the faster you go. If you can average >15mph and follow the rules of the road, most people in cars are quite pleasant in my experience. However the many people darting out on red lights and going the wrong way down the road tend to give most drivers a bad view on cyclist.
Anything that makes me talk with people outside of tech and makes new friendships. Hiking, bar hopping, Fortnite... you name it.
> To insist that the "prejudice + power" argument is premised on bright-line "race == power" is to mischaracterize it to the point of being unrecognizable.

Would you mind clarifying the distinction between "differentially enfranchised groups" and "race == power" ?
But the point of the original article is that "just rent it again" is entirely dependent on the renting authority deciding they still want to rent it to you. If Kindle decided (or was pressured) to censor a book for whatever reason, then it has enormous ability to dictate exactly what type of information you're able to consume.
And their Wikipedia entries don't begin to convey what super nice people Manuel and Lenore are
Why delegate motorcycles to the same category as cars? The lighter ones solve the horrendous density problem of cars just as well as other forms of transport, yet are also able to keep up the with regular cars on the motorway.
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Yep. Combined with the earlier news that they removed demonstrated interest as an admissions criteria (too far in the other direction IMO), CMU is starting to look like a warzone.
Awesome thanks - article here: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/06/26/do-londoners-dre...
See Jeff Sessions recusing himself from Russian collusion for more of these words.
I live in a small Texas town outside of Austin. I think my diesel pickup is the only unmodified one here. It's really that common. The exhaust after-treatment and DPF systems are fairly complex and most owners just take 'em out. There's emissions inspections in this county, but diesel vehicles are conveniently exempt.
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Wrong on all three points, as explained in some detail in the article's paragraphs following the first.
I have always been fascinated by Air conditioning. Back in highschool, I wrote a paper all about how South Florida became inhabitable as a result fo AC. After college, I started an air conditioning related startup oddly enough.
The key word is "Concurrently".

They can give both hyperthreads to one machine for 50ms then both hyperthreads to another machine for 50ms.

For VMs with less than 2 vCPUs I suspect they give them two virtual threads and just schedule them for half the time they would otherwise.
I always thought CMU was immune to this type of stuff. It is very disheartening, but I hope it gets better.

Is there any news out there with info on whether this is a long-term or widespread issue at CMU or is it more of a localized problem?
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> the city of Antioch had a population density of about 190 people/acre (~500,000 souls, with a diameter of ~4 miles); by comparison, modern day NYC has a population density of around 100 people/acre.

Manhattan has a density of 72,000 people per square mile. If it were its own city, that would make it the 6th densest city in the world[0]. The top three are Manila and Mumbai, at 108,000, 74,000, and 74,000 people per square mile, respectively. So, regardless of levels of development, modern cities cap out under 80,000 people per square mile, with Manila being a slight outlier (but not by much).

190 people/acre - what you cite for Antioch - is 121,600 people per square mile. I'm not able to find any reputable sources that back that statistic, and estimating populations of cities from antiquity is inherently a bit tricky. 500,000 people would also put it at 50-80% of the population of Rome during the same time period, and more populous that Constantinople, though it's not included in any of the four lists of populations of large cities on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...

[0] There are two more, at 108K and 80K, but they both have populations under 70,000, so they're not comparable.
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I had the exact same thought. I might add this question in, or add it to a later survey (we're doing a bunch of surveys on paper versus screen for ebooks, news, PDFs, etc.).

I have the same behavior pattern you mentioned, though it's hard to know whether this is strictly a bad thing. If word-search-ability means I can get all the relevant stuff out of a book, then perhaps that's more efficient than reading the whole thing.
> It seems we're substituting "ownership" with control.

But you do not control anything any more with those companies. They can revoke your accesses, they can ban you from using their services for any reason, they can change the terms of services, the offers, the rates, whenever they wish.

Unlike you, I would say you lost the control which came implicitly with ownership, and did not regain another form of control. At least not as much, far from that.