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It is routine for C++ programs to be substantially faster than a C program that attempts the same job, even though C++ suffers from the same aliasing flaws C has. In the finance world, you would be laughed out of the room for proposing C for a performance-critical task.

That depends on how you write your C++ programs. Virtual functions, runtime type information, STL, RAII ownership can all be performance hits in C++ when compared to C.

Rust has optimization issues of its own apparently.

C isn't a low bar. It is the benchmark.
I did this a few times (no ongoing commitments) when I was a Lyft driver.
Completely agree... I don't even remember enough Perl or Ruby to be effective with it at all. It all changes over time. I do miss parts of Flash/Flex though.
Locating your Uber would be a great use case.
Presumably because the idea is to save money, and a call center forever would be more expensive but the far more realistic issue, if unlike an AI that could provide a consistent on brand experience, with a call center your experience would be hit or miss every time and drive thoughts are already not usually a great experience so a low wage call center would probably be even worse. Taking away jobs is certainly an issue in itself but I imagine overall this will mean a more consistent experience that they can improve over time.
The NYT article we're all commenting on explains: "Studies in San Francisco and elsewhere show that price caps often prompt landlords to abandon the rental business by converting their units to owner-occupied homes."

There's a literature on this; there's no need to speculate.

Another thing worth checking is the IGM Economic Experts Panel, which covered rent control in 2012: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control
Lambda School is 9 months long full-time (~2000 programming hours) and includes CS fundamentals.

The assertion that those things must be taught/learned within the confines of a CS degree is a little silly.
I use Asana/Jira for team organization and for everything personal, I use Focus Matrix (iOS App). It’s based on the Eisenhower Matrix which is really helping me a lot.
I didn’t realize it was possible to be so wrong.
Yeah, thats why we're seeing oodles of houses now that the Democrats practically control all of california. Are you trying to argue that the current one party rule is a good thing?
Which is why vacant property tax makes sense for popular areas
So can Uber, that's just a race to the bottom.
The facts are not disputable, as they are contained in the plain text of GDPR for everyone to see. The legislation allows for fines of up to 4% of global revenues, or €20 million, whichever is greater. So the “Googles” of the world face fines of no more than 4% of a single year of revenue. Small businesses face potential fines that could be 100,000% (or more) of their annual revenue, because most businesses make far less than €20 million annually.

That seems like the very definition of disproportionate to me.
The new battle in Hong Kong isn’t on the streets; it’s in the apps
Span Selection Pre-Training for Question Answering
So Rich's talk about Datomic's architecture is taking place at Oracle? I love the radical openness. There's something cheeky about going to your competitor's office and inviting their engineers to learn about how your product works and how they can make better databases.
>Contrast that to a vaccine that turns out to be not safe: administering the vaccine would then just be stopped.

The smallpox vaccine which was responsible for the eradication of smallpox was a live virus and could spread from person to person. And through the course of time, it did mutate/become contaminated. It was originally cowpox, but at an unknown time sometime in the 1800's actually became vaccinia virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
https://virus.stanford.edu/pox/2000/vaccinia_virus.html

So, the great achievements of the past, such as smallpox eradication were not as risk-free as we perceive them with our 20-20 hindsight.
Isn't OP saying they are doing this because of rent control? (e.g not being able to change rent selectively, only able to constantly increase rent?)
Automated cooking seems more achievable to me, at least somewhere like McDonalds with fairly standardized items. The inputs and outputs are much more defined and there's much less need for AI.

> Maybe they can design automated kitchens that work like jumbo dish washers. Seal, flood, heat, drain, reopen. The robot janitors could take the form of underwater scrubbing drones.

Anything that complex would probably go through a chemical wash rather than having a robot get into every corner. Some medical equipment like endoscopes are cleaned this way.
By buying a stock market ? Let's not over exagerate the evil CCP rhetoric, as it distract from the point.

The more HK is economically hard to kill,the more it can bribe its way out of chinese integration. This is a good move.
Do you feel trapped at all? My understanding is that rent control only affects increases. So if the area you live in becomes less desirable, you're likely to face a choice of "starting over" and paying market rate, or sticking with your current living arrangement due to not wanting to lose that rate.
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing)

http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/
"grifters complain about free labor"
> Only if you're using other people's work.

Many people have had their videos censored without violating any copyrights at all. Many many more have had their original content removed for what would clearly fall under fair use. I haven't seen a case where a large media company has ever been meaningfully punished for blatant abuse of the DMCA.

> Who says everyone should have the right to profit off somebody else's work?

Who says someone should be able to buy the rights to profit off someone else's work and then continue to profit on it indefinitely? It's in our power to choose what copyright means. Right now we've ceded that power to media companies who have bribed their way into getting the laws they want passed and into positions of power within our government itself. They've used that power to turn a good idea (limited protections to give creators a chance to profit from their works) into the broken system we have now where copyrights are perpetually extended and creators are routinely screwed over by massive corporations who want to act as gatekeepers.
Visited malaria country recently and was told by doctors that most people growing up there end up with constant low levels of the malaria parasite (like 1-2% of red blood cells maybe) that their bodies have just learned to live with. Not exactly immunity.
"Multiple W-2 employers is not that uncommon for people doing temp work."

But not simultaneously. Once I went to a neghborhod where I knew I would not get any Lyft rides (stodgy white folk in suburban San Diego) and took Uber rides specifically to nail bonuses on both platforms.
I urge people who care at all about how stock exchanges actually work -- it's substantially worse than what you describe -- to read 'Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt' by Michael Lewis.
I was responding to your incorrect assertion about the argument ABC's lawyers would advance (as indicated by the article.)
I think there's always new skills to learn... software development especially if you're good with the UI/UX will always be needed. Some areas more or less than others. After 9/11 (Phoenix) it was a rough year... others in California were far worse off, as the dotcom bust was worse there.

Software is a field that works on how other jobs get automated. We'll have work until it's all automated, which is unlikely in our lifetimes.
>> It probably sounds less than ideal to you and me, vs. living on a planet, but it probably wouldn't be so bad to someone born in that sort of environment and is used to it.

Yeah, and also at some point, it won't matter what's ideal or not.. it'll be about survival.
The article continues beyond that line.

They outline, with numbers, the practical effects of rent control in the sample size of metro Toronto.

I’m not an economist but I didn’t think consensus was a valid benchmark against empirical data.
The US economy is the driver of the world economy, and has been for quite some time and it's why we see so much innovation of entire new sectors in the US. (Yes, you can see sustained higher growth for a time in some other places, like China, because starting from a lower level allows for piggybacking in the same way the US economy grew with regard to Europe in the 19th century.)

The reason mature European economies do not come close to entrepreneurship and the rate of innovation in the US economy is because widespread govt regulation and taxes across the board stifles economic options for investors.

It is simply not true that housing and employment laws in other places "works great", it's a tradeoff, and if the US follows that path the world will become a less good place for everybody because Europe and Asia will no longer have an innovative capitalist petri dish to follow and leverage from.
What hope do we have for self governance when the poster child of bad economic regulations, universally derided for having the opposite effect for which it intends, can still be implemented? Are governments incapable of learning? Are we doomed never to make any political progress on policies that are counter-intuitive, even when there is overwhelming agreement and empirical evidence of its harm? This makes me cynical of climate change. Even if we do achieve a carbon-neutral lifestyle, who's to say the next generation of politicians won't make the same arguments being made today against stopping climate change?
I imagine a person is more likely to get that wrong, yes you may get lucky, but also many low wage staffers especially late at night tired could easily be quite confused. Versus an AI that can be programaged on all the various terms people use and be programmed to ask for clarification consistently when a request is made that can often me more than one thing, and even take into factor things such as the location of the McDonalds and the dialects used there. Sure will start off very buggy but then presumably would only get better with more data.
True, but the majority opinion driving AB5 seems to be that most drivers are doing this as their full time jobs. Yes, there are those who drive a few hours occasionally as a hobby or for extra side income, but they don't count much. If the number of Lyft drivers falls significantly, consumers will have to wait longer to get a Lyft ride and they will start abandoning Lyft. Hastening the spiral.

Another comment mentioned that Lyft might pay drivers more to keep them, but given that both Uber and Lyft are hemorrhaging money, it seems unlikely that either will be willing to pay drivers more. Also, Uber just needs to pay the same as Lyft for a little while, and just wait out the decline of Lyft due to AB5.
Why should we subsidize your landlord, paying on a Prop 13 valuation 1/10th the market rate?

None of them are suffering.
Gaslighting is a great example of imprinting new realities

I’ve been doing experiments with my wife to “inject” a different time in her head when I come to bed.

You realize you are gaslighting your wife, and that isn't ok, right?
> "Their job is to be fast on the mouse -- that's their job,"

Ugh. No wonder why the project failed. It treated people as tools instead of people.

There should be a custom board of keys. The more common the order item, the bigger the button to press.
Technique Critique - Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me, anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE&list=PLibNZv5Zd0...
110 years in the past is insignificant relative to a planet's geological period's age.
This should be the top comment. The upshot is that if you are a family that is renting, you won't be forced out of your home on short notice.

Try - for a moment - to imagine you are living close to your maximum expenses and your landlord increases your rent by 20% next year.
This may not be popular but you should, only to improve yourself, consider any mistakes you made and how you might’ve handled the job better. This is part of what your next employer will want to hear.

I am not saying it wasn’t a bad situation, just that you can still learn from it. Maybe, just maybe, the timing of your vacation could’ve been a little different? Maybe you could’ve worded ‘I don’t like the job I’m only here for a year’ a little differently.

Your next employer will have to decide whether the environment was toxic, or you were. Showing growth proves it was them and not you.
>You don't download Windows updates from your laptop manufacturer either

True, but that's a minor difference. The normal way to get Android OS updates is through your device manufacturer, like the normal way to get Windows updates is from Microsoft. The normal way to get Windows updates is not from a torrent found on some random forum, and that's not the normal way to get Android updates either.

>Comparing LineageOS with the custom ROMs on XDA really misrepresents their professionalism

I agree and that's why I said I'm not calling them out... but again they're not the normal way to get OS updates. It's out-of-band and while LineageOS may be professional, it's not professional to have to abandon the normal update mechanism just to continue to receive OS updates.

LineageOS is still community support, and community support is not "solid software support". It's community support.
Yeah but it's round robin. You don't lose a ride by not mashing the button quickly enough.
So tax-control bad, rent-control good? Owners’ properties benefiting from services that they aren’t paying for also bad? Renters benefiting from services they aren’t paying for doubleplus good?
Chickens from South Africa
True, but the assertion that 9 months of a bootcamp that includes "CS fundamentals" is the same depth as 4 years of CS study is also a little silly. They are different beasts, for different purposes.
Also

2. Realize that not everybody in the world needs to or should live in the Bay Area/Hollywood.

3. Don't pass statewide laws catering primarily to the group of people aspiring to do so.
Yes - I was super disappointed by the last two to three paragraphs. Was there any research there? Some evidence that these coding schools and boot camps actually provide value?

I didn't finish my computer science degree, I've never done a single boot camp or coding school, and I used to write ColdFusion before moving to VBScript / Classic ASP. Talk about obsolete! But I learned VB.NET and C#. I migrated to HTML 5 and CSS 3 and through jQuery and newer JavaScript libraries. Now I'm a Node.js developer. Go figure! My "learning by doing" has nothing at all to do with any formal education, least of all the aforementioned boot camps!
> if strict can give equal chances to tenants no matter your background.

The GP's point is that it gives equal chances to tenants to stay. New tenants do not benefit from rent control, they instead are hurt by the higher prices due to lower supply.
Was there some other short story about a similar concept (AI managed fast food workers)? Something by Stallman or Doctorow maybe? I have vague deja-vu at that story, but from much longer ago than 2017, when Manna was published.
9 months is short, and far less than that is spent on teaching CS. So yes, a CS degree would be far more comprehensive.

A bootcamp is not a substitute for a CS degree.
Do BSD jails solve these problems? The little i know of them, they are good at containerization but don't solve the distribution problem that docker containers do.
I have that problem too. Solution seemed to be to set up an alias to clean out old images, volumes, etc and run that every so often
I believe that already exist and is called "AppImage".
Specifically, it's an attempt to hedge against the possibility of the market rate increasing by more than 7% in a year.
The Black Hand
> Docker for Mac/Windows still run in a hypervisor because so much of Docker is specific to Linux/cgroups.

As I understand it, that what you describe is true of Docker for Mac, but not Docker for Windows which uses Windows' built-in container support (analogous to cgroups).

https://stefanscherer.github.io/how-to-run-lightweight-windo...
Consensus are built from empirical data of more than just one metro area.
> I think most developers in California would have bargained statewide rent control for development as-of-right.

In fact, that was more or less the deal—until Anthony Portantino torpedoed it.
California already has a net outflow of people, especially middle class. This is offset by immigration and undocumented migration from Mexico so that the state's population actually continues to grow. But most of the newcomers are not affluent, will almost certainly rent rather than own, and tend to live together in large family groups like 10 people in one apartment. This is going to keep putting pressure on the housing market -- people need a place to live, they can't afford to buy, so the powers that be, in their wisdom, decided to just legislate limits to the price, hoping no one would notice all the unintended consequences that will definitely happen.
> There is a housing affordability crisis throughout the first world.

Only in the most dense urban areas. Not "throughout the first world."

> Housing and food are rights. They should indeed be funded by government, through comprehensive social welfare, and in the case of housing, publicly owned housing.

We do provide public housing and food for those who can't afford it, but the people who utilize it often aren't the ones creating startups.
The article alludes to education, but doesn't connect any dots. I'm not sure where "well-off" is coming from, though.
and my attempt to get it run on mac were fruitless. I would have to do it in a Vagrant VM like 5 years ago.
Exactly.. if you don't say that part, they'll usually remove the cheese too. Similar on experimenting on how to order. "Diet Dr. Pepper" is another hard one, often you will get regular, or diet coke.

The dipping cup ranch, for those curious is because the ranch dressing has a lot of added sugar/carbs and the dipping cups are like 1.5g each. Severely diabetic and nearly 0 carb has been the only effective way to manage it well.
Before We Can Change Our Prejudice We Have to Be Honest with Ourselves
a cs degree is going to require you to cover a lot of math, which is required for cs proper. a bit of an apple and oranges comparison
It is fun watching the Democrats running California to self pwn themselves over and over with idiotic legislation like this.
That sounds good, but how long will the SE receive iOS updates?
That isn't "type checking", that is just a guard to prevent simultaneous writes to the same data.
The episode of Curb, where Ted Danson donates anonymously!! If you look in my comment history, I’ve made the same exact point.
> Any price control inevitably has negative consequences in the market.

And what is the magnitude of the consequences of this law? That’s what matters. It’s very small.
I think Wendy's did that for remote order takers... they found it worked better, and had more accuracy with dedicated/shared staff taking orders for multiple locations.
(As an American) I don't think that America should have that much power, no. I'm also cautiously keeping an eye on the direction where Chinese regulation will go here too
The thing that would be different is the game theoretic situation where every landlord feels compelled to do that so the market rate increases by 7% per annum.
Woke up to numerous email services blocked too, fastmail and zoho
Using the law to destroy the value of someone’s asset until they abandon it is confiscation, just indirectly.
This makes me curious... is it the property management company or the landlord that sets the rental price? I recently rented a house and tried to haggle with the PM but they refused to budge on price but were willing to negotiate on other factors (like lease term and property rules), which made me wonder if the PM's hands were tied re: price.
EU law requires that all fines and penalties be proportionate. Fining a small business 100,000% of their annual revenue is clearly not proportionate. It's groundless FUD.

The proportionality is not in GDPR or any individual law, but set out in the framework treaty under which all EU laws function.
>Conflating LineageOS with forum sourced ROMs is FUD

Nonsense. CyanogenMod started off as a forum-sourced ROM on XDA just like anything else [1]. It may have grown beyond that, but only because people blindly trusted it and installed it on their phones 10 years ago, and XDA is still distributing hacked ROMs in the exact same fashion today.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537204
How do you distinguish land value from property value - especially given that the resource and service usage is not determined mostly by the amount of land, but rather the property on that land.

If you were to tax on the basis of land value the immediate impact would be massive increases in taxes payed in rural areas as a byproduct of the necessary increase in tax rates on land.
Also, you can learn fundamental, intermediate and even advanced topics on CS without a formal degree via MOOCs, like the ones offered by Coursera - some of them taught by professors from universities that you may not even have the money/time/grades to get in for a formal degree.

I was thinking about attending to a CS undergrad course some time ago, but since I'm full-time employed at a very big ("unicorn") startup - an opportunity too good to be wasted -, I opted to take some classes on advanced topics such as Discrete Optimization and Automata theory on Coursera . It has been the best use of my spare time ever.
I've been using Docker since 2015ish and the container start up / stop speed is really the only thing that bugs me.

Everything else is fine for day to day usage IMO (on Windows and Linux at least) and very much worth the trade offs, but having to wait multiple seconds for your app to start is tedious since it plays such a heavy role in both development and even in production. Each second your app is not running is downtime, assuming you're not load balanced.

I opened an issue for this almost a year ago but not too much has come from it other than identifying there was maybe a regression in recent'ish versions: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/38077

We're talking multiple seconds in Docker vs ~150ms as a regular process to start up a typical web app process like gunicorn in a decently sized Flask app (many thousands of lines of code, lots of dependencies -- a real world app).
Vacancy rates in San Francisco are very low compared to the rest of the state and the country. Rent control in SF is problematic not because it leads to vacancies but because the allowable increase is far too low, way below inflation.
One reason we care about containers taking seconds to start is that our CI tests have to start and stop a lot of containers, and it all adds up. And running them in parallel wouldn't help because they would just bottleneck on the global docker daemon... or break entirely by interfering with each other, unless we run multiple Docker-in-Docker setups, which would be even more painful and add its own overhead.