skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"historically in the U.S. so far the market has always recovered."

This is sorta enshrining survivorship bias in your premises - take the largest economy around today and point out that every time it's crashed, it's recovered. Well, if it hadn't, there wouldn't be anything to point at.

There are actually plenty of examples - even among European settlers of the Americas - where the economy did not recover. The Continental Congress and the monetary system setup under it failed through hyperinflation, leading to the expression "not worth a Continental", and then the country had to be rebooted under the U.S. Constitution. Similarly, plantation owners in the Confederate States of America were totally wiped out - not only was the currency debased, the infrastructure destroyed, and the plantations burned, but the whole legal framework under which the plantation system operated was rewritten.
Well, refactoring isEven or exponentiation to a loop is faster. But wait, you know what's even faster? Using built-in math primitives.

I wrote an entire article about refactoring tail-recursion to iteration and linked to it in TFA. I've also written a Scheme interpreter that can perform this optimization for certain functions on-the-fly. But arguing that the code is slow is missing the point by a country mile, and then some. The article is not arguing that the code is fast, or that you should always do this. I find it amazing that every time a programming technique is discussed, people want to worry about whether it belongs in production.

Is there no recreational programming any more? Or is it all about shipping the next app to deliver food by electric scooter? My world would be depressingly boring if the only things I thought about were the things I use at PagerDuty every day.

Now as to what I asked you about:

What you said was that this implementation leaks memory in such a way that using the trampoline it trades a stack overflow for an out-of-memory error.

I wish to understand that problem. Specifically, how does the decoupled trampoline leak memory?
Y'all keep trying to explain the morality of what the banks and lenders did to me like I don't already know. I know. It's not good. That's irrelevant to the question of whether they were solely responsible.
Where Do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL
I did give an example of another way: reducing the features of the chip. DRM is just one case.

I am aware of the reasons for shrinking. I’m not saying they should never pursue a new process but they’re attempting to achieve it on a timeline that isn’t realistic.

Also, power-inefficient design is something that is hard for Intel to change because too much depends on their architecture being the way it is.

So between not wanting to get rid of stupid features and not being able to sell a backward-incompatible chip with power-efficient architecture changes, they’re left trying to shrink before everybody else.
Oh yes, the so called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the beloved myth of the speech police. It makes great science fiction (read Babel-17 by Delany, it's a classic) but unfortunately as a practical idea that states there's scientific proof that if we use words like "blacklist" it makes us prejudiced against dark-skinned people (but banning this word makes it go away) is total bunk. There are some cultural differences in how people prefer to express themselves but this is lightyears away from "language defines thought" that some people seem to believe.
Skype's “comfort noise”
Well you covered every possible person one can meet in SF..
The Isle of Man Electric Railway had a huge mercury vapor rectifier in active use until 2010.[1] I saw it in operation once. It would glow brightly when the trams were drawing high power.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/trained_4_life/10978575914
"The surprise that is coming is that the working class won't tolerate being robbed in the next financial crisis.
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I highly doubt this sadly. As long as Americans have their internet, their cable and other comforts, they wont revolt. Its not dire enough.
Git log --follow enthusiastically tracks empty files
You don't need cars if you have better transit and more dense cities. You would need less parking also.

Ride sharing makes congestion worse because people are less likely to use mass transit for the route.
I find Matt Might's post on this topic (Y in JavaScript) the best I seen (even though it's at least 8 years old by now): http://matt.might.net/articles/implementation-of-recursive-f...

It's clear, minimalist, insightful, and even has an in-page live code demo. Bonus points for including fixed-points as a key concept, and memoization as an extremely useful technique.
If you're optimizing purely for maximum ROI, then that's the correct product decision.

Whoever achieves maximum ROI attracts the most additional capital investment, which enables them to lower unit costs and continue improving that ROI further, thereby gaining even more capital, etc.

EDIT (since I'm getting downvotes): to be clear, I'm not advocating this particular "maximize overall ROI" decision as a moral good. I'm just pointing out that, empirically, this is what the market is actually optimizing for, irrespective of my feelings about it. That's the reason why they do it; it's not because they're dumb.
Often ride-hailing has to do with whether it will be too much of a pain to park. That's the 1st question my wife and I ask ourselves when it comes to most uses of Uber.
An economist thinks US is bankrupt: What it means for retirement
There's nothing ugly about it.

It's real.
> And like most countries after ww2 - while the devestation was great, the rebuild was rather quick. Once there was peace. And one important part of peace, was liberation and independence.

independence didn't happen for a majority of countries that fought in world war 2 however.
Either they got locked behind the iron curtain after being litteraly level to the ground (poland), or had to fight a bloody long war for independance (vietnam, indonesia, most of africa).

your comment is only really relevant for western europe in that sense.
US west coast <-> East Asia, and US east coast <-> Western Europe (especially London/Paris) already covers a sizeable fraction of business travel, doesn't it?

Those are basically the four major global economic centers. And among those four, the only link that this service can't provide is Europe <-> East Asia.
What happened then? It was able to serve the site but not do API calls, so no mem-cache in front of your database? The Redis mem-cache didn't flush itself when full?
Would it be possible to add C++'s implementation to C, or does it rely on other C++ features that C doesn't already support?
> the working class won't tolerate being robbed in the next financial crisis

The working class wasn't robbed at all. Maybe they lost the value they thought their homes had, but the reality is that all of that was just inflated.

2008 was an issue of moral hazard and unfortunately Joe Schmuck isn't aware of that going into a mortgage agreement. This will continue to happen forever until people finally learn that when something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

If you want to blame 2008 on anyone, you need to spread the blame like peanut butter among lending banks (but not every bank!!!), people who took on mortgages they couldn't pay (if nobody defaulted, the crisis would never have happened) and above all the credit rating agencies who exist for the sole purpose of assessing risk and maliciously failed to do so in order to not piss off their biggest customers (the banks).
Paranoia? Yeah, that's a completely unacceptable phrase considering what they're actually doing. Shame.
They could have, but they didn’t. Ergo, the FTC has jurisdiction here.
Many readers at HN find posts with interesting titles, skim the comments, and then read the article. Discussion of the title is useful for them, because if a commenter reveals that the title is misleading, the reader might choose to read something else, or approach the article with a different frame of mind.

Point being: there is some value in discussing the title. Certainly different readers value that discussion more/less than discussion of the content.
> No matter how powerful the thing in your pocket is, I have a box next to my desk that can hold 50 of them. And we're always going to find ways to use more power.

Yeah, but convergence could mean transferring a memory image to the dock's larger RAM, transferring control to a beefier processor in the dock, and then halting the phone's CPU. In a docked state, the only phone hardware in active use would be it's storage.

Convergence should be more about seamlessly transferring state from one device to another than using one device with different peripherals for all things.
Well, a lot of the flights from US East Coast to Europe or from US West Coast to Asia fly over water or unpopulated areas for substantial periods of time.

Do you know a good way to check, for a particular flight route, how much of it would be eligible for supersonic flights?
please make a write up or video too I'm curious how this was made
While I agree with your assessment, it reminds me of the "flying horse carriage" view of the future. Wouldn't be surprised, if multiplanetary hosting would change things more generally.
Not really, it's all in the first bit:

"devops: operations and development teams working together."
Interesting: Can you provide some examples of Mainframe capabilities not available to laptops or x86 machines in general?
The difference is that PCs and PC-based servers really can do everything mainframes can do if you port your software. Phones cannot do everything a PC can do, both for hardware reasons and for OS lock-down reasons (the latter is a bigger barrier for iOS). The mainframe/PC = PC/mobile argument is a piece of faulty reasoning by analogy. PC/mobile is more like truck/car than horse/car. Cars displaced horses for transport, but cars do not displace trucks.

What we are seeing is specialization. Phones are used for short transactional interactions with larger systems, texting/chatting, and casual reading. PCs are used for more prolonged deeper interactions including virtually anything creative. The latter may seem smaller than the former when you go by usage logs alone, but the latter is more important and is not going to be displaced unless phones can grow to do everything PCs do. In that case you no longer really have a 'mobile device' in today's mold. You have a tiny form factor ultra-portable PC that can be used as a phone when not plugged into a monitor.

Going with the car/truck analogy you might say that prior to mobile there really wasn't a "car" in computing. There were trucks used as cars, but nothing truly ultra-portable designed specifically for lighter more casual interactions. Mobile exploded because it filled a missing niche.

Note that mobile hardware may "eat" PC hardware in the sense that ARM64 could eat x86-64 eventually, but that will be an ARM64 running a PC OS. It'll be a higher clock speed ARM64 with more cores, more cache, and more cooling too.
That's on your carrier+FB.
Because these countries also have very unusual patterns regarding education. Some examples mentioned in the study were non-normal distributions of scores, and a large percentage of religion-focused schooling.

If we're trying to draw conclusions about innate differences operationalized as distribution test scores, any kind of biased schooling undermines the ability to draw conclusions from that population.
>> $5 trillion
> This sounds like a made up number. What is your source?

$1.3 trillion from two levels of TARP, plus AIG, plus Fannie/Fredy.

The rest has been documented from lost of people who had sustainable mortgages but lost their home due to 9% unemployment that lasted years. There are many sources that cover this. I've read several books on the mortgage crisis and they are all in this category. That is a subset of the $13 trillion referenced in wikipedia sub-prime article.

>> Wall Street over leveragged had huge wealth handed to them in money printing that was giving directly to their balance sheets.
> But there were certainly not any "no strings attached" givings of cash to the big financial entities.

You are missing the big robbery. Investment banking firms that purchased the CDOs/MBSs only had 3% of assets backing massive leverage. The reason the financial industry was going to CEASE UP was because they all didn't have the assets to backup the extreme leverage.

The robbery came because extreme money printing (QE) was used to "give assets" to banks so they would have far more than 3% assets to backup their massive leverage. The US tax payer was robbed with the money handed to them to sit on their balance sheets. That is the way their assets backing leverage raised above 3%. Banks getting more than 3% assets didn't happen any other way. Massive inflation will happen when this massive assets flood the market once a bank gets in trouble and transfers these QE "assets" into the market. That is when citizens will get robbed by the huge inflation impact of that QE.
What about in the EU?
What exactly are they keeping their assets in? A house that they can't sell and make that worth liquid? A retirement account they cannot withdraw without huge costs and compromising old age? Where else?
I think the free version also has it, I'm using OneNote with my personal account, and I never pay for it.
> everyone would agree your heart was on the "right" side of your body etc.

Heart on the right side is called Dextrocardia in this universe, so I guess it would be called "Levocardia" in the chiral universe.
Can anyone who works on the discord app explain to me: How am I impacted for having (being part of) let's say 100 server (guilds) on my app versus having 1?

Should I quit the discords that I don't use? I feel like they stay in sync in the background and if I am in 100 servers and they all post say tons of text I will get massive lags.

Does that make sense? Is there a way to prioritize only the server I have active/I am talking in and freeze the rest while im full-screen/in-game/focused?
Not exactly groundbreaking, but it's nice to see some more moderate and lower power options. Quite affordable, too.
This isn't actually that complex a problem. 51% don't get to make decisions, 66% do. The correct answer is almost always "no" so making it more difficult to get to a "yes" from the decision making body is (within reason) a good thing. This has the added benefit of forcing people to take a good hard look at what they propose because it has to make sense to everyone to have a chance to pass.
Scientists say ‘Neuroweapons’ were behind Cuba attacks
I think this is possible, but I'm not sure about the details. I think their IPs need to be obtained somehow though. I don't think you can use things like mDNS from web pages without a plugin.
> Another interesting idea to come out of the computing world around that time was the saying “worse is better“. Although this idea wasn’t a direct relative of the Unix philosophy, it’s certainly similar. The idea references the fact that additional features or complexity doesn’t necessarily make things better, and a “worse” project — one with fewer features and less complexity — is actually better because it will tend to be more reliable and usable.

I don't think that this is an accurate description of "worse is better". I've always taken it as being a bit (or more) tongue-in-cheek. Sort of an analogy to the saying that a lie can travel half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on, but going on the say that a lie is therefore better because its faster.
One way to think of this, is that Uber and Lyft are transforming the impetus of parking-pain into car service. People pay money to avoid the hassle of driving and parking. This means that a number of cars will be utilized more, and a number of parking spaces will be utilized less.

The 1st question my wife and I ask with regards to Uber is generally, "Will we be able to park?"
Compilers do that a lot already. The question is at what level we can do stuff, particularly in a compile-time issue.

Instruction-level (peephole) optimizations are omnipresent. You're not going to beat a compiler in register allocation (at least, not by enough to actually be worth the time writing in assembly), and optimizing for microarchitecture is generally within reach of the compiler, when the compiler is made aware of these details. Superoptimization means that automatic tools can write better patterns than you can for loop-free code, and maybe even small loops (although most compilers don't incorporate superoptimization for compile-time reasons).

The next level of optimization is loop nest. Compilers already do loop idiom recognition (if you write a memcpy as a loop, LLVM will recognize it as a memcpy and convert it to faster memcpy idioms). But recognition is of course limited to known kernels; we don't have good general-purpose tools. Automatic optimization for parallelization, vectorization, cache hierarchy (block loops out so everything sits in L1 cache, for example) are all well-known, but they tend to turn out to be extremely problematic to work in practice because languages suck, and many of the core kernels can be wrapped up in autotuned libraries (e.g., FFTW, ATLAS).

Whole-function optimization, interprocedural, and whole-program optimization are much less mature. Whole-function is used for many microoptimizations (dead code and various kinds of partial redundancy elimination), but it's not really feasible for higher-level algorithm analysis. Interprocedural optimization is largely limited to figuring out if inlining functions would help reduce code size or dead function analysis, and whole-program is used to improve the quality of these kinds of analyses.

The frontier of compiler research (and in terms of shifting research prototypes to product compilers) is in moving our techniques to larger and larger program slices. Program synthesis can already automatically generate specialized data structures from the queries you will make on them, for example. As the original paper points out, making these techniques easier and more readily available is likely going to the main program here for the next two decades or so.
And the satellite laws are based on a stronger government interest than those sex laws. The sex laws are solely for the interest of the foreign victims whereas the satellite laws are protecting domestic participants.
Generating Flowers Using Simplex Noise
...and evenif we completely solved the machine vision problem, the motion planning under cintact problem would remain.

At some point the world will wake up and realize that this problem is approximately as hard as the machine vision problem, and will devote resources to solving it. But that awaeness hasn't happened yet.
At the risk of sounding philosophical, when you're building a cloud service that gets continuous delivery of features... when is that simply an iteration, versus something new?

Anyway, I'm not a philosopher. But I don't think that this is simply a "rebranding exercise", and it's been in the works for quite a while; it's not related to GitHub (which, for the record, we have not yet acquired).

We've made a huge engineering effort into the individual components that make up Azure DevOps, and those deserve (in my opinion) to be recognized. So, now "Azure Pipelines" gets to shine on its own.
Seat tilters. That's the biggest discomfort for me. The person in the seat ahead tilting back. If there was a seating section that didn't tilt, I'd take it. I'd even pay a little extra for it.
"Instead of DTLS/SRTP, we decided to use the faster Salsa20 encryption."

This is just confused and sounds quite worrying :I
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. The reason CDO's were underwater is because the price of housing dropped and left the collateral worth less than the principal of the loan. Loans to companies follow the same principal. If the value of companies suddenly drops same thing. It's a weird statement and is directly contradicted by the next paragraph in the article.
It isn't mentioned in the article, but I hope the new commuter jets don't sacrifice speed for economy on longer flights... spending an extra 30-40min in the air for the same route is a good reason to choose a 737 instead. You can filter for it on most of the flight aggregators.
They are not automatically corrupt, but they are absolutely and automatically worthy of suspicion of corruption, as doing this revolving door thing is indistinguishable from corruption on the surface.

Experts who aren't the authors are the only ones who can safely be assumed not to be corrupt and are therefore the only people who you can allow to be hired if you hope to prevent corruption.
In most of America (geographically, certainly), the common citizenry are much better armed than law enforcement.

I'm not sure that's really relevant in this case, but by the same token, the "increasing militarization" of police departments is probably also not relevant.
The early days of radio are just as fascinating with plenty of big electronics for transmitters. Droitwich the BBC's main LW transmitter is 500kW and still uses some of the old, water cooled valves. Thanks to the last round of govt budget cuts the transmitter won't last beyond the last stock of those valves.

See here for some background of their early days and photos : http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscen...

No glow from the mercury rectifiers though - they're steel cased thanks to being 600kW
This may be way too much for this topic, but where do closures get stored?
From a classical view, maybe you're wanting more and more intellectual heroin.

The Eastern answer would be to 'let go' then you break the cycle of incarnation and then you 'get it'.

I think high level Abrahamic metaphysics would put 'God' far beyond any kind of acquisition of knowledge, 'states of ecstasy' etc. etc..

Once we crack the law of conservation of energy we'll be up against another boundary :)
First off it will take you a while to change your wardrobe. Don't rush out to try and fix it by buying all new stuff in a weekend. This never ends well. Think of dressing well more as a journey rather than something you can just change immediately.

First some links of places that helped me out:
reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice
https://www.youtube.com/user/RealMenRealStyle
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlphaMconsulting
https://www.youtube.com/user/Teachingmensfashion

(Note: The youtubers will keep trying to sell you stuff in their ads, some of it is good, some of it is trash. Probably best to just ignore the advertising while you're starting out.)

The /r/malefashionadvice subreddit has a good wiki. Check out the links for beginners and people getting started. Also look through their WAYWT threads(What Are You Wearing Today) to get an idea of what looks good on others. It's easier to copy what others are getting right. For example see a guy that looks your age and size and you like what he's wearing? Copy it.

The youtube channels have a lot of good information especially real men real style. Check out the videos that are relevant to you.

Overall the biggest thing you can do to immediately dress better is to wear clothes that fit. So focus on understanding what a properly fitted pair of pants, t-shirt, polo, and dress shirt and suit should look like on you. Get your measurements so you know what your sizes are, and make friends with a good tailor.

After you nail the fit, everything else is really extra credit IMO.
Goldman wasn't the kind of socialist that Orwell is describing.

Orwell was obsessively critical of Authoritarian Socialism - namely big [S] State Socialism as represented by the Soviet Union.

That is in stark contrast with Goldman's Democratic Anarcho-Socialism which shares little relation - philosophically or sentimentally - with the State Socialism that Orwell was writing about.