skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally the thread I’m responding too is asking what the value of optimize then profile is. My experience is that you are likely hosed if you’ve gotten to this point in the 80% case. That isn’t to say these techniques have no value, I’ve used many of them myself. But the question was, “how often does it happen that your optimizations are for a flat profile”. For me, the answer is “most of the time”.
Many things, none of them good if you have 2 Gb of RAM, 2 cores and no graphics acceleration.
Chromium works really well in this kind of hardware specially with javascript blocked.
It is simply obvious? Ask the next twenty people you meet on the street what gender (or sex) they are and if it isn’t a bimodal Distribution you would be at a very curious place.
Capitalism is for solving problems of scarcity, and for that it worked quite well. It's quite useless for dealing with problems of abundance. All our biggest problems today are problems of abundance.
You should have replied to them, since this is just reporting what China's official information is. China and Russia have been buying gold for many years now.
There are certainly rich people planning to sit out the worst effects, how widespread this is I don't know: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
I started at Amicalola Falls in 2014 (where I briefly worked as an intern back in my college days) and thought I'd follow the white marks and see where they went. It took longer than expected. Jokes aside, I grew up hiking on the AT in Georgia and it was fun to do the whole thing. I had no idea there was an entire article on the balds!
Yes? Bimodal = the probability density function has two local maxima.

Still I don’t see how that’s necessarily true for the gender spectrum. Is it really established that the gender spectrum only has two local maxima?
Indeed, there was a discussion about this article, about a year ago. As a fan (and amateur writer) of science fiction, I greatly enjoyed learning about this hypothesis.

Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837120
"Poll: Two-thirds of California voters back SB 50 housing bill"

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18629809/sb-50-housing-trans...
I tend to agree. We've had 30+ years of exhortations for individual action against climate change. Yet global emissions are the highest they've ever been.

Meanwhile, we haven't really tried an effective government policy. One that would replace other forms of taxation with a carbon tax.

We've only tried individual solutions, dabbling around the edges, carbon offsets, cap and trade. Manifestly they haven't reduced emissions.

People may indeed view individual action as a substitute for collective action. But we wouldn't ask people to increase government revenue by making donations.
> But when we watch any big sports event, we're already looking at extreme outliers. It's already the case that genes determine one's fitness for a particular sport.

People already don't have as much interest (in most cases) in women's leagues; do we really just have to accept that there will be no biological female human champions in any top pro league in some sports?

Maybe genes have a big effect, but surely there's room for people with whole different chromosomes. Nobody has a right to glory, but is it right to deny such a huge group of people any chance at some form of ultimate glory?

Again saying this as somebody who does not watch professional sports in any capacity.
Why should we exclude some people from living in attractive cities?

Being less wealthy doesn’t mean a job is less valuable. Police officers, firefighters, bakers, artists, nurses… currently struggle living in attractive cities because they cannot afford it. This makes these cities less liveable for everyone.
What do you mean by "nothing to do"? What is there to do only in the city that's supposed to be so attractive, clubs, modern art galleries? I'm genuinely curious because this never resonated with me.

Things to do in the Hudson Valley, the example I have in mind of a non-city area: expansive hiking trails for walking/biking, a river for rafting/skiing/boating/fishing, great family-owned restaurants all over, lots of nice historic sites such as the FDR estate and Vanderbelt mansion, a drive-in (unfortunately a rare institution these days, and obviously there are tons of normal movie theaters around), lots of good thrift/antique stores, hunting, tasting the fresh cider/whatever from local orchards (and getting great meat/produce from farmer's markets along with that), some concert halls around that play orchestras, horseback riding. If you want some stuff like classic theater/art galleries/etc you can find those around too, and a lot of stuff done by colleges. I'm sure I've missed a lot but this should be enough to make my point.

The city has some good stuff like the Museum of Natural History but not enough for me to want to live there.
Almost all that stuff exists just fine outside major cities in my experience. I went over some of the great stuff around where I'm from in NY here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20218742
Because the lightweight hockey would still be dominated by men. In most sports that require power/speed men still maintain a significant advantage even for size.

Also many sports require people of varying body sizes for different positions. In football for instance a wide receiver will look very different from a lineman.
This whole story is about melting permafrost that wasn't expected to that until close to the year 2100 but which is instead happening now. Evidence is accumulating that such things are happening faster than anticipated, perhaps considerably faster.

Also, you're really not thinking even your own remarks through. If a person is 19 now, they could conceivably be alive by the end of the century.
As others have said, a lot of new construction is hotels, shopping centers, and office space.
People need to reframe the problem. It’s not an issue of men vs. women. It’s an issue of segmenting the population into groups that can fairly compete with each other. As I can see it, those groups should be split up such that the number of men/women who win is proportional to the number of men/women who compete (i.e. if the group is split up based on height and there are 10% men in that group, men should win about 10% of the time).

Wrestling does it via weight, and different sports might have different metrics.
May I suggest you take a look at this??

https://www.onmoneygrounds.com/target-redcard-credit-card-ta...
There is no such thing as not meddling in the market, because people that move to cities will work to enact policies to ensure that they can continue to either live in those cities or grow their own property value.

In SF it swung hard in favor of landlords with the outcome of it being unaffordable for tenants and anyone except the ultra rich. Berlin seems to be swinging in the opposite direction and is attempting to fix things for tenants.

And realistically, anyone not taking action to secure their home or investment would be considered an irrational actor by any free market standard.
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I think there's a difference in what people consider "bad" - millions or billions dying from disaster or their regions becoming uninhabitable isn't the extinction the human race, but for me it's at the threshold of "bad" that I'd like to do something about it. Am I worried about all the human race being eradicated? No, we're cockroaches. But I'd rather untold numbers don't have to suffer.
I don't see how it is "damaging" though. Weird, yes, but it's so small it seems neither unsightly nor likely to cause harm
You consider 12 light years to be within shooting range?

Good luck with that.
More Fraud and Mismanagement over New Jersey Tax Incentives Surface in Report
I guess so, but what you call bimodal is just a definition, not an absolute truth.
lol and then left this useless comment just to make sure everyone knew your opinion anyways.
Or categorize based on something besides sex or gender, like height or weight.
> No one is obligated to rent a property from someone else. You rent if you believe it's in your interest to rent, instead of buy.

Ok, how does this work. In germany, you usually need to pay 20-30% of the full price from your own saved funds when buying property. 100% financing is rare and usually only available for people that have sufficient assets. So people that have a low income basically never have a chance to buy. They don’t choose to rent. Their only alternative is living in the street.

Rents in Berlin have been rising substantially faster than wages for the last decade or so, turning this into a vicious circle that even the middle class cannot escape from.
Ok, I've put your phrasing in the title above, though that pushed out the Supreme Court.
I built it (circa 1996) on HP PA-RISC workstations, like HP-715's. There was no assembly code for those, just portable C. The frame rate wasn't great, but it played.
Well, I don't have experience with the quality of Yodlee's data, but I can certainly confirm that around 2014 there were Plaid competitors who had much worse support for big banks than Plaid did. Compared to Yodlee, Plaid might have just been competing on price, developer experience, and support.
History guides us well in this fallacy. No matter the wealth or influence of a person, we're all just humans in the end.

Look at Carthage [0], it was 100 years before major settlements began after their bronze-age war. No ammount of wealth saved their elites.

Look at the Zone Rouge [1] and the ecological effects we still see today. That land is just outside of Paris and used to be some of the most beautiful in Europe before the first modern war. Now it is toxic.

Look at Chernobyl or Fukushima. Radiation cares not for your credit card color.

True, in some of these instances, the wealthy could and did flee. But they had to flee to escape and could not stay. When the whole world is a Zone Rouge, where can they flee to? For how long? Time and again we see that it is not long at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Carthage

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
On interstellar travel realities: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high... - aka it’s not happening soon.

And for terraforming Mars, Isaac Arthur’s YouTube channel has many related videos, and he posits that by the time your civilisation could do it, it would be a wasteful use of Mars when it could be better disassembled and turned into O’Neill cylinders or something.

But coming over a crater or valley on Mars and transforming it into something habitable would be enormously easier than travelling 12 ly.
Presumably, the people who actually know how to "operationalize" writing, aren't writing self-help books, but rather are managing stables of prolific (if maybe schlocky!) writers.

I would love to hear writing advice from the managing editor of a publisher of pulp serial-fiction books, of the kind where the writers churn out multiple new books per year. Those books might not be the greatest thing ever written, but certainly they're better than failing to ever publish anything.
What you describe seems more akin to why people write diaries rather than write books.

I'm sure I'm over-generalizing but anyone who sets out to write a book has publishing it in mind--and, if they're using a publisher, the publisher certainly does.

Things like blogs blur the boundaries to be sure. But I still view blogs as discrete published items rather than a process I enjoy for sake of the process.

For me, photography is probably more in the enjoying the process camp although I do publish it as well.
This is rather silly. The existence of heavyweight boxing doesn't stop people from watching (and enjoying) lightweight boxing.
You're getting "ripped to shreds" because it doesn't sound like you really know much about the topic. Muscle and bone density changes on hormone replacement therapy start happening pretty darn fast and the effort required to maintain or increase it increases significantly (personal anecdote n=1). Best I can tell, and generally supported by the science, doom and gloom about the end of women's leagues if they aren't trans exclusionary seems greatly exaggerated.
It stores the energy it got from other sources, it doesn't generate it itself.
That gives more background info so we've switched to it from https://www.timescale.com/cloud. Thanks!
Sunnyvale and Mountain View aren't really different rental markets, though, so I'd be surprised if the difference in rent increases you saw between the two are related to differences in new housing permits.

Put another way, restricting housing supply in Mountain View likely impacts rents its socioeconomically similar neighbor, Sunnyvale.
Venezuela would be in a much better condition today if the CIA was not interfering in its internal politics. There can be absolutely no doubt about this - the evidence is absolutely clear to those who care to look.

To discount the negative effect that CIA interference in the normal operation of sovereign states has on the world, one has to be willing to fall for a hell of a lot of propaganda and lies. The CIA is one of the most evil organisations on the planet today.
> even the bank cannot reduce your balance in secret without your authorization

Uh, neither can my Traditional Legacy Bank™ if I ask for regular statements?

I suppose you could argue they could lie to me about the actual amount. Well, then I will just sue them for the money.
I am arguing that we need a framework where an individual's actions reducing the carbon footprint will benefit that individual instead of reducing their life quality. Carefully designed taxes that would make non-carbon alternatives more competitive are realistic. Asking/forcing people to scale down their lifestyle without offering viable alternatives isn't.
> Most lisp machines were specifically targeted at developers

A bunch of Lisp Machines were directed at production, not developers. From Symbolics there were special models for that and also smaller "delivery system" versions of the operating system.

For example American Express had a bunch of Lisp Machines as checking complex credit card transaction, Lucent had Lisp Machine nodes in a network switch, NASA had Lisp Machines monitoring video camera streams of rockets from Space Shuttle launches, Symbolics sold many graphics systems to TV studios, etc.

> while smalltalk at Xerox was more targeted at office productivity.

Is that true? Xerox had an office system running on the same hardware, but written in Mesa - unrelated to Smalltalk. Xerox had the CIA as a main customer for the Smalltalk machines, using an application called 'Analyst'...

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Adele_Goldberg

'But our big commercial involvement was with the CIA.'

> Interestingly enough Xerox hired the BBN team that made lisp machines, and the Xerox star was made to run lisp as well.

BBN made a Lisp in the 60s, from where some developers went to Xerox in 1972/73. Before Lisp Machines existed. BBN Lisp was renamed Interlisp and was supported by both companies. Xerox developed Interlisp-D for Lisp Machines and BBN put Interlisp on an internal research computer.
Somewhat off topic, how would one go about getting good technical editing for something like a blog post or for a book like the OP? Is it expensive?
How long will it take until the next planet is overpopulated and resources are consumed?

I mean: birth control? Socialism? Rules to obey?

If it is a competitive race it will end up pretty much the same. The question is then only: how long will it take?

Over to the next one ...
That didn't take long...
Did you read the article I linked? It's not talking about the extinction of rhinos, tigers and polar bears. It's talking about the mechanics of the end-Permian mass extinction. To quote Wikipedia:

"known colloquially as the Great Dying... approximately 252 million years ago. It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct."

Seriously, it's a good article and quite short. I think you'd find it interesting food for thought and I'm honestly interested to hear your response to it, not some cheap dismissals.

Edit: if you really don't have time to read the whole thing, at least let me know what you think of the figure on page 6
Are you sure you aren't looking only at single family housing? RWC built a ton of downtown apartment/condo buildings.
Haha, whatever you say.
The article in question covers "women with naturally high testosterone."

"[The IAAF's] initial analysis of data from two world championship competitions showed that women with higher T had significantly better performances in only five of 21 events. [In a corrected version, in] three of 11 running events, the lowest T group did better, and the strongest association across all events was the negative association between T and performance in the 100 meters, where lower T athletes ran 5.4 percent faster than the highest T athletes. In none of the events where high T athletes performed better was the gap greater than 2.9 percent."

"Consider a recent analysis of teenage Olympic weightlifters, in which the best predictor of strength was lean body mass, which has a complicated relationship to T. Among girls, body mass was initially the only significant predictor of weightlifting performance, and T was a predictor of body mass. But, counterintuitively, once the investigators controlled for the girls’ size, they unmasked a strong negative relationship between T levels and performance: girls with lower T lifted more weight. Controlling for body mass, there were no relationships between any hormones and performance in boys, even though their T levels ranged from 0.5 to 30.2 nanomoles per liter. In short, T (and other steroids) affect multiple body systems, and the relationships sometimes work in a positive synergy to improve performance, but they sometimes detract from performance."
Nitpick: we can actually transmute, either by fusion or fission. Sure it's not economically effective, but then neither was Apollo.
She lied about her age and her graduation date, and then a few other things.

What's the point of lying about your age? I can't imagine a 36 year old is less likely to be funded than a 42 year old?
> Everything you described is fundamentally a problem with banks not with Plaid.

I don't disagree, but banking is not an arena where "creative disruption" that has harmful side effects should be welcomed. The reason you can't send money from one bank to another efficiently in the US but can in the UK is purely due to regulation. Or why there isn't an Open Banking Initiative in the US but there is in the UK. Once again, regulation.

The private market isn't making the solution better in this case because their implementation is reckless and potentially harmful.
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> There were also some manual transformation steps occurring on their end, because there was a cutover point where the Word doc was no longer accepted

This was probably the point at which the text had been moved into InDesign for typesetting by the designer.
I have my ideas that this is what we should use AI for - basically a technocracy where any decision is entered in to a computer that does the crunching.
Degree of sustainability vs gain and have the computer say "no" if it's just not viable.
If it says "yes" have a vote and let it be decided.

Just dreaming.
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I've seen examples of actual production systems where there is just a general proliferation of slow practices that make the system slow without any one function standing out yes. In C# such practices could include using interfaces (for dependency injection) and linq (for readability), and reflection for instance. All of these have fast alternatives with varying levels of downsides. The downsides aren't as big when you are practiced at them.

Also, when profiling production code, it can be hard to FIND the slow function since the optimizer may inline things.

There is perhaps value in understanding your language and ecosystem very well, so that you have decent intuition for what is fast, and making default-fast choices even if their is a small readability cost. That cost may be made up for by not having to crunch on performance later. As well, many performance choices make code simpler, after all the goal is to do less. and less is less.
For that matter, there are series of branded tech books of various sorts that are used by companies for marketing campaigns. They're written by freelancers and are often more successful at their objectives than you would like to know.
If you look as far back as the 60's, there was a lot of resistance from pilots with regard to unsafe airframes where various forms of trickery were employed to cover up problematic behavior. Check the D.P. Davies Interview by the Royal Aeronautics Society with regards to the 727. Even plastering over minor behavior near stall was a controversial move due to fears of pilot's at the time of starting down a slippery slope where more and more non-regulation compliant airframes were allowed to be certified because there would be some system X that would compensate for the aircraft's bad behavior. The fear being that eventually there would be so much automation between the pilot and the end behavior of the plane, that you might as well have a dog in the cockpit to bite the pilot should he try to mess with anything; and that should anything go wrong, the pilot would be helpless due to the plane only really being airworthy to his level of skill with the automation in place.

Boeing historically built planes flown by pilots. Every aspect of the planes behavior had a way for the pilot to control it. A Boeing plane would follow a pilot right out of the flight envelope, at least maintaining a 1:1 binding of pilot intent to plane output behavior.

Airbus makes planes flown by automation, directed by pilots, that should that automation fail, requires a significant investment of skill maintenance to know what not to do at that time. This makes common UI for the pilot easier to implement, but comes with discipline degradation through having a computer that will largely ignore your daft commands until it suddenly has no way to measure your daftness, leaving you with a plane with a hodgepodge of reliable automation to reason through about whether or not the plane will do something daft if you order it to.

History may show who won that argument, (Airbus does exist), but the fact does remain today that aircraft that one wants to certify as flying just like another aircraft (MAX flying like a 737) should actually do so. The MAX doesn't; the technological fix intended to make it so was not developed to a sufficient standard of rigor, or communicated to pilot clearly enough, to transparently account for that aerodynamic divergence.

The problem is multi-faceted, yes; but the statement that the MAX suffered from a fundamental design flaw is absolutely accurate.

The flaw exists aerodynamically, and in the fundamental engineering process through which it was certified.

[1]https://www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-the-d-p-davies-interv...
No, I don't imply that vaccines caused the increase, however, the NYT writers make it seem that vaccination caused it. Also the article doesn't say what part of added mortality is amid the vaccinated people. If your reading was correct, and doctors killed 7-15 times as many as nature, because they vaxed kids unfit for vaccination, it would make the argument much worse; but the authors didn't say that.
And apparently to be closer to the "ideal female phenotype."