skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what's causing that?

1. Maybe monomorphisation overduplicates code, so that different invocations produce the same machine code in the end?

2. If that's not happening, maybe idiomatic Rust code causes a lot of code to be generated where a C programmer would have written something differently, e.g. using a void* instead of passing by value?

3. If that's not happening either, maybe monomorphisation is more or less producing what a C programmer would have monomorphised manually, but it takes the compiler a long time to optimise away abstractions?

It seems that in this C++ example the problem is #3: it takes a long time to optimise away the range & lambda abstraction.
I don't understand how is it possible that you can't maintain roads. Use car taxes to maintain roads. Increase them if necessary. Introduce paid roads where applicable. If taxes were too high, some people would prefer cheaper public transportation, so market will find a balance automatically.
Portugal has of, if not the, lowest drug usage and overdose rates in the world.
Most errors are detected by checksums or hashes, so measure that across all your hardware (client requests, network hops, server RAM) and estimate how often your checksum should have collided and let an error slip by.

Granted, it's pretty rare to work on a big enough system to have solid data on this.
By that logic you could just impose more busy work on the economy and it would get a boost. Let's say we mandate that every employee needs to have someone that follows them every day and boom, we have doubled up the number of jobs.

The money for these inefficiencies has to come from somewhere and that area will suffer.
Yeah! Making poorly designed and "weakly" typed language with enormous WTF's as a universal language!
I think if they put more effort on webassembly, market share and library support for js will have a huge dropout.
For more universal language how about have a actual sane language other than javascript or even python?
The problem with this is the last mile problem. Cars are their own solution to the last mile problem and highway placement reflects that. Trying to fit a light rail system on the same footprint immediately runs into the question of how you're going to solve the last mile problem. If you don't, you'll have underutilized train stations sitting in the middle of a road nowhere near where people want to be.
If I could teleport around like that instantly, I'd be acting like that too.

However, real-world transport has a real cost: time (in addition to money for fuel/maintenance/insurance/etc.). If teleporting was cheap but took 3 hours for every trip, I'm not going to be having any kind of lunch in Tokyo unless I'm living there.

The weird thing is how much time Americans are willing to waste on a commute. So many of them think nothing of spending 1-2 hours in traffic, each way, every workday, just so they can have some big McMansion in the exurbs with a giant lawn they have to spend hours maintaining every weekend.

>Maybe more roads don't solve congestion but they do produce more "goods," more Kms travelled. Presumably this has value.

When people don't do anything with all those kms traveled than move farther out of the metro area and extend their commute, no, I don't really see the value to society there. Rather, I see that it has a real cost to society for people to waste their time and money on these things, rather than things that provide positive economic value to the society at large. Don't forget that more miles driven means more accidents, more traffic deaths and maimings, etc., all of which cost society. Plus all the pollution produced.
The problem I see is that even if ACA was "working as intended," it would still be an incomplete solution.

We buy off our state marketplace, but can only afford bronze tier plans with the subsidy. All plans are the same at low tiers, and all make you pay the deductible before the insurance company pays a dime (not counting "negotiated discounts," which are completely invisible until after the bill is generated)

That means we're not really signing up to be able to go the doctor, but to not go bankrupt in case of major illness. We buy insurance only to cap our risk at the annual out-of-pocket max. That we get a "free" physical is just a consolation prize.

I think a lot of people don't see it that way. As others said, most people see it as money wasted if they don't get sick. And that's a problem.

I don't blame the ACA for our issues in the USA, I blame everyone in the government who worked tirelessly to ensure insurance companies can continue to tax our doctor visits for shareholder returns.

We need Medicare For All. No one should have to skip going to the doctor because the insurance requires $6k-$8k of blood money before they start performing their function and paying for healthcare, or even let us pay "just" a co-pay.
What do you mean, VARCHAR(8) is a perfectly valid way of storing counters...
Nuclear power creates the most dangerous waste known to mankind

From what I've been reading, seems CO2 tops that list. One can bury nuclear waste in the Nevada desert, keep everyone a few hundred miles away, and it'll be fine. From what I learned in high school chemistry class, a gas wants to expand to fill its container, so the CO2 produced by Chinese coal-fired plants eventually makes its way to me.

The process of extracting uranium from the earth uses tremendous amounts of heavy equipment

How much compared to, say, coal mining? Mining rare earth metals for solar panels and wind turbines?

Yeah, nuclear power has some downsides. But I'm not hearing the "versus" part in your argument.
That is assuming you have the choice. Many people simply can't afford to "take their business elsewhere". The American system may be great if you have the money - but a society is measured by how it treats its weakest members, not its strongest.
> free not to spend on healthcare if they don't want too

At an individual level that is correct. But at the macro level it is wrong because when a person gets sick those costs are realized in the economy (eg. instead of cheap preventive care up front avoidance of early treatment means some percent will end up in much more expensive ER services that will cost more than if all those individuals saw a family physician).
I learned my first few languages through the acid inpired O'Reilly tomes of early/mid 90's. Since then things are far more accessible but this effect is throughout society, not just programming.

You can teach yourself law or medicine these days online as well as engineering but it doesn't seem to have a commodity effect on any of these professions.

The main barrier remains. It's not easy to learn and requires a person with the "type". I believe the biggest barrier to highly skilled jobs isn't necessarily the skill but skill combined with interest.

Most people simply don't want these kinds of jobs regardless of the pay. Make 2-3x as much to do a job that requires endless learning and a lot of tedium, that only attracts a couple percent of the population that naturally enjoys this type of work or wants the money bad enough to put up with it
They already have that. If you look on your phone bill's list of fees, you'll see one for 911. It's not $10, but it's there.
I recall you saying that "Cryptography Engineering" was much better than AC somewhere.

Do you recommend Serious Cryptography over that?
Humanitarian Highlight 12/27: Taking Action
"mommy can I walk ten blocks to the park"

vs

"mommy can I go outside, the local kids are playing soccer in the street"

also, have fun making the case for the land purchase, remodeling, and ongoing maintenance budget for that new park
It seems related to me.
My spouse had a trip to the ER at one of the most expansive hospital in Spain: 700 Eur, so about $900, all inclusive (radiology + seeing 2 doctors + bandages + the various fees they sprinkle the bill with). Top service. No delay. No hassle. They even provide a translator to follow you around in the hospital and make sure you get a great experience and come back again.

Considering the medican income in Spain in around $1100, I understand why they like clients who can pay $900 no question asked.

We are now investigating getting coverage in some European or Asian country, where they sell insurance for non residents + world coverage + air repatriation (in case of a serious condition, like getting hit by a car in Chicago) at a decent price.

Best we've found so far is around $120 month, with something around a $1000 all-inclusive medevac fee (that gets you in a plane, with a doctor and everything needed)
And why, exactly, can't they afford to live within biking distance from work?

Because
1) You're not allowed to build mixed-use areas thanks to NIMBYs

2) You're not allowed to build high or mid-density areas thanks to NIMBYs

3) You're not allowed to build real bike routes (the kind you'd let your 8 year old cycle to school alone on) because of NIMBYs

4) You could cycle the long distances needed on the road, but the US has made it legal to kill people with your car so long as you're sober, so this is dangerous.

Nobody's driving from NYC to LA for their morning commute. The size of the country is not relevant.
Or didn't invent the cloud:

Exhibit A -> "What the hell is cloud computing?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
Central Kansas reporting. For a short time (hours/minutes, wasn't home, got a text from Dad) the normally 6Mbps CenturyLink DSL was down to 0.14 Mbps.
It is actually possible for an additional road to increase the travel time for each driver, without any new cars added, and with everybody acting rationally! Braess's paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox). It has been observed in practice.
I live in Cambridge about a mile walk from Harvard Square, so fairly close to a decent sized city area, yet we almost never go there. Real estate in the Harvard Square area is so expensive and there are so many tourists that almost all the establishments there are priced out of reasonability for regular/daily patronage. We take out of town guests there and that's about it.

I don't see city center commerce and leisure hubs as being particularly able to dominate neighborhood and suburban equivalents. I need a car to get out to work anyway (8 miles away from the city center), so once all the fixed costs of the car are covered, it's incredibly cheaper and more convenient for us to shop and eat in the suburbs.

I don't see government incentives changing that in a meaningful way.
Same in Switzerland, but if the city/community is really serious about that and there are some long-term plans: don't build slick surfaces but ones made of "bricks" or similar (example: https://www.experiencedbricks.com/images/products/kushequa-b...) which definitely get rid of the "need for speed"-feeling (as the faster you go the more everything vibrates in your car, kind of an analog force-feedback feeling), and additionally build some bumps at strategic locations which force the drivers (like myself) to actively use the brain and pay attention.

Works great (kind of a relaxing feeling while slowly driving on the "brick"-surfaces, like a massage), but I admit that it's expensive if not building with a long-term planning in mind.

Edit: on the other hand I do absolutely hate such streets/areas that have a low speed limit (20/30 km/h) but have absolute smooth surfaces (I don't "feel" the need to drive slowly).

I know, it's stupid, but that's how my brain works...: smooth surface therefore fast, not-smooth surface therefore slow and careful :)
Maybe because we care about people who aren't making IT wages and can't afford to fly around and take weeks off at the drop of a hat.
weird piece of NN propaganda

The irony of the internet ruining itself in a single comment.
Alacritty (the fastest terminal emulator in existence)
unique_ptr is super useful for documenting the point in the code that owns a given object, and for providing some compile time protection against multiple deletions. (If you never write delete and only use unique_ptr, you have to do a relatively foolish thing to get double deletions.)
Paper Summary: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
My suggestion next time you do some tourism: ask. Get quotes. Read the whole contract.

You will be surprised what some places offer.
Chargemasters may be going online as early as next week:

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/put-chargemaster-...

It's not clear that this will have the intended effect (since insurance always pays a heavily discounted price), but I think it's a step in the right direction.
Do you know what the actual costs associated with common accidents and hospital trips are? I got in a car accident and had 3 surgeries and a one week stay in the hospital.

The bill was over $120,000. And I was not in any condition to reject treatment or shop around, as you seem to do in your fantasy scenario.
Yes. It should be "did you enjoy math homework or do you think it's worth getting paid 3x your salary to do math homework all day". Programming is mostly simple math but we've all been in the situation where SQL, data, and bugs combine into some unholy quagmire. The kind of thing that most humans honestly have no desire to deal with
E Coli Report: Will Burger King be sanitary in 2019?

GAO Report: Will EPA Executives be accountable in 2019?

Consumer Report: Will Toyota vehicles be safe in 2019?

I guess if you say anything often enough and loud enough, it's true.
A health insurance startup with a medical tourism option to Cuba, Canada, or India would be a promising venture, for sure.
> Roads are almost always wider than needed

Wait until you see Boston. I live in this street in Cambridge, its not quite wide enough for buses so occasionally they cross the lane of the opposite direction, especially if some asshole parked a little off. If this wasn't unsafe enough, there is also an elementary school near this street! In general. Boston streets are very narrow and it makes it hard to drive since (1) you can scratch other cars parking or (2) it's hard to see the direction you're turning to.
My thoughts exactly. I've lusted over the Model S for years, and the minute that they become available in my country I'll be the first in line.

But, now that means doing business with a company owned by One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison? I wouldn't dare. The way his most well-known company treats its clients is so grotesque that I wouldn't even want to work at a company that uses its products. They are extremely abusive.

For the first time in Tesla's history, with all its obstacles and negative press, I now fear for the brand reputation.
Because I'm literally using Vue, Axios, a polyfill, and Bootstrap-Vue. Two CSS link tags, and four script tags. Currently for external resources, but trivially brought locally. It's an internal web-app, so it's not like minification is even required, much less bundling.

No Javascript is used on the back-end currently. To use NPM/yarn/etc, I would have to first install Node, and then configure it to build my stack. At some point if I pull in a bunch of requirements, maybe that's worthwhile, but right now, it's actually a fair amount of work for dubious return given my current needs.
In the “secure computation” part, do you learn how to do such computation or is it just another explanation of what it is?

I know the “what” of this but not the “how”. If this teaches me what I need in order to go and actually implement it myself then I am interested.
Imagine if there were several powerful allied special interest groups that all made a bunch of money from healthcare staying expensive.

And they're not just trying to change your mind. They're also working to get the support of the electorate directly.

Now imagine some of those groups had absolutely superb PR. Literally making childhood cancer sufferers healthy again.

Now imagine, like every industry that wants government influence, they hire your friends into highly paid do-nothing jobs, donate generously when you raise money for your charitable foundation, and so on.

Now imagine they're a big employer. And they've got a whole bunch of jobs. Office jobs. Highly paid high-level jobs. Well paid mid-level jobs. Jobs that employ lots of minority groups.

Now imagine that the most efficient outcome would be to shut down all the insurance companies and nationalise all the hospitals, but you don't have the political capital to deliver that, it'd make a lot of people very nervous, and you're not even sure it'd be a moral thing to do anyway. So you'll probably have to settle for a middle ground that keeps a lot of the existing middlemen fat and happy.

Now imagine, even if your reform is a huge success and goes way better than you have any right to expect, people are still going to die in hospitals, and some people are going to say some of them are your fault.

Now imagine turning a blind eye to the problem has been working just fine for the last 20 years. It'd be so easy to just let sleeping dogs lie...
And then when you do need it?

I was hit by a driver 6 weeks ago. He and insurance company accepted 100% liability. My 2015 Audi was totalled due to multiple airbag deployments (though the vehicle is largely intact other than frame, so will be healthily recouped by the insurer on the parts market).

Despite this...

I got a settlement offer from my insurer (who, bear in mind, are going to subrogate this to the opposing side) of $5K less than KBB for the vehicle (which was bought a year old, and is now 3 years into a 5 year loan), and $3K short of my outstanding loan (don't even start me on gap insurance - I've never seen that pay out, there's always a loophole).

So the insurer's idea of indemnifying me, mitigating my risk is for a 0% fault accident, I:

1) lose my car, which was in excellent condition, and barely 4 years old;

2) lose 3 years of equity in a five year loan;

3) do not have a car;

4) still owe my bank ~$3,000;

5) need to come up with a down-payment and a new loan for a vehicle within 7 calendar days of their (pitiful) settlement offer.

All the while getting condescending remarks like:

"Gap insurance would have protected you" (not in my experience, and my credit union 'neither recommended nor required it based on the FMV at purchase', and the only reason there's a deficit is your woefully inadequate settlement offer)

"We're looking after you - remember we've been paying your medical bills so far" (how ominous, "so far") - and I've been paying for a policy which included PIP for nearly a decade, so you'll forgive me for not lauding you fulfilling your contractual obligations _for which you have been compensated_.

To add insult to injury? They direct debited my premiums, including for the vehicle they totaled, and I had to explain this to a CSR. Who then said they'd take the amount they'd erroneously debited, and "apply it as a credit across the remaining 7 months of your policy on your other vehicle". No, thank you, I just want you to refund it.
You're basically saying "fuck you, I got mine".

Yes, medicine is a business, an industry, and obeys the same rules as other businesses.

But the goods it produces, "healthcare", are not like other goods. Demand is infinite, supply is scarce, and on a national level it makes sense to make sure it is distributed on a needs basis instead of a can-afford basis, because that leads to a healthier and more productive population, which is good for everyone.
Hmm, always suspect when you see a thesis about a large and varied group of societies doing anything en masse. For example, today Iran is about 20% the size of the USA, but produces nearly as many engineers[1], in spite of being an Islamic republic.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/06/09/the-co...
Sorry, I care too. I just don't understand.

Because if you are not earning a whole lot and risk getting hit with a $100k hospital bill, it just make no sense whatsoever to just take the week off (or even quit!) and get treated abroad using your credit card.
How do people like you even get out of bed? Have you never felt accomplishment in doing something challenging?
From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness
Tying Allowance to Chores Could Kill Kids’ Motivation to Help Out
She got more confidence and experience. That makes her a better leader in her next job. She moved on and chances are that she got a better job because she could convince somebody that she can succeed in a difficult environment.
Wow. In Germany you’d be paying 15% of your income for health insurance, and no more than 800$ per person if you make more than 5k a month (around that)
I started the article hoping it would be about making death and life-threatening situations more severe in games, both to make them a little more realistic as well as making them more difficult and requiring more strategy. I've always thought that there should be an FPS where getting shot once is likely to kill you. Probably there is, but I don't play a lot of games anymore.
I don't know a single American commuter who thinks nothing of spending 1-2 hours in traffic each way. Every commuter I know balks at a single way commute of more than 30 minutes. Any commuter I know that has ever spent more than 1 hour in traffic each way moved within a couple years to be closer.

You're assigning beliefs to Americans that, in my experience, they don't have in any significant numbers.
> (and with IT salaries!).

The point of the article was that salary is no longer an indicator of healthcare availability.

> Medecine (sic) is a business just like any other.

This is the ideology that functions as the crux of the matter. In the US, medicine is a business from which people involved should earn profit. Healthcare (and health, by extension) is not a right. In other places, I suspect it's the opposite. In a herd you can either strengthen your weak, or let them die off. Either way, the theory is that your herd will get stronger. The US has implicitly chosen the latter of the choices.

> If your local shop tries to screw you, take your business elsewhere.

It's not that simple. Everyone gets sick. Not everyone needs an iPhone XR or a brand new pair of Nikes. You can get by with a flip phone and a pair of brand x sneakers. Freedom of choice is great for goods and certain services. Healthcare isn't one of those services where "taking your business elsewhere" is any good, mostly because of the pricing collusion between the providers.
This is just the weekly Tesla hate thread. You will see this sort of negativity around essentially every Tesla-related news item. It's actually an improvement over the near-daily nature of these threads from earlier this year.

To answer your question, this changes nothing. He's been a major shareholder for a long time and now he's 1 out of 11 board members.
More on the Langley engine:

http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_A...

The reason the Wrights built their own engine was they wrote to several engine manufacturers with a specification that they all turned down as unbuildable.

So their engine was groundbreaking, though it may not have been the first. I don't know anything about the provenance of the Langley engine, except that it's clear he had to build his own engine, too.

More to the point, where did the engines for the other first flight claimants come from?
"the first ship with that name was sunk by the French secret services in a terrorist attack in 1985 because of Greenpeace’s campaign against the French nuclear tests in Polynesia"

As the article states "French secret services"

Do you think the French secret services where attacking and hoped to kill off enough members the stop the organization?

Or hoped to destroy enough infrastructure to win?

Maybe the second, but I think a terrorist attack was far more likely their plan.
I have nothing particularly against references, especially since they look nicer with function pointers. But, you can do everything with pointers alone and if you open the gates of hell.. erm I mean C++ then there will be countless questions about lvalue references, rvalue references whether it's ok to use T&& whether it's ok to use std::forward, std::move etc... It's just simpler to stick to pointers.