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> Reddit is one of the highest visited websites in the world
> Throughout nearly their entire history, they've struggled to put together a way to make money.

True, but irrelevant. It also means they handle more traffic per dollar than probably any other site in it's category.

> They have notorious uptime.

Browsing https://reddit.statuspage.io/ for less than a minute proves this is hyperbolic bull.

> and have contributed essentially nothing to the technical community in their entire history

It's not like the reddit source code hasn't been open source forever. But sure, whatever you say. Would have taken you 10 seconds to Google before spouting off nonsense.
I certainly get the sentiment. However, my reaction to 9nGQluzmnq3M's coment is mainly this: Why judge an article or opinion on what it's not instead of what it is?

In this particular case, the article reads to me like someone sharing their emotions and feelings, achieved by contempaling some minutiae of experience in Japan. Does that explicate an experience that generalizes? Apparently not, but this certainly seems like a different matter.

Put a bit extremely, the article is also a pretty terrible recipe for turducken. I doubt many would flay the article for this failing, but the point is that judging an article or opinion's failings says just as much about the reader's personal expectations as it does anything else.

Pretend for a moment that the article was written in the form of a poem. I seriously doubt it'd be getting the same kickback for "lack of objectivity." I would guess this is because we culturally learn to approach written language with different expectations, based on the form of its presentation. Heck, I'd not be surprised to even see some interesting anthropological theses on this very phenomenon.

Anyway, winding back the meta-levels a bit, I do get where the author is coming from, myself having lived in Japan for ten years. It's possible to find poetry or meaning in certain minutiae of daily experience, and when thinking in Japanese I certainly do interpret, feel, and use silence differently than when my brain goes into English mode.

Think for a moment about the "magic" of watching a Good ol' American Superbolw game with your friends and family, or how about drinking at Ye Olde pub down the road with yer mates. The experience is singular in a way to the particular culture it's in, and after accumulating many memories of this experience, it's common for those memories to achieve some "special" emotional quality that's diffilut to transfer to others who haven't done the same. I read the original article as an attempt to share some similar kind of feeling.
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Hi, author here. There are a range of ways the estimates can be improved, although many require data that isn't available. The main point is that having a ballpark idea of how reliable your results are is good, and you can achieve that with this sort of simple napkin maths.

No statistician would do what I did for a formal publication, but I think what I did gets the point across.
s/tmate/tmux in a few of those places

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Unless you consider vast swathes of America “ghetto”, there are other places in the country where salaries vs cost of living is much better.
Have you tried using gutenberg? i love it.

granted, i'm not trying to make a business selling wordpress templates, or trying to use wordpress in some way other than just as a blog. but a lot of the gutenberg criticism seems to be of the "i hate this because it's new" variety.
IMO that is an incorrect understanding of Buddhism. It is not about renunciation of all action. That's the kind of early Western misunderstanding by people like Nietzsche which has painted Buddhism as rooted in nihilism and inaction.

Quoting from The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha translated by Bhikku Bodhi: These are the Buddha's words:

> "There is, brahmin, a way in which one could rightly say of me: ‘The ascetic Gotama is a proponent of non-doing.’ For I assert the non-doing of bodily, verbal, and mental misconduct; I assert the non-doing of the numerous kinds of bad unwhole- some deeds. It is in this way that one could rightly say of me: ‘The ascetic Gotama is a proponent of non-doing.’"

> "And in what way could one rightly say of me: ‘The ascetic Gotama is a proponent of deeds who teaches his Dhamma for the sake of deeds and thereby guides his disciples’? For I assert good bodily, verbal, and mental conduct; I assert the doing of the numerous kinds of wholesome deeds. It is in this way that one could rightly say of me: ‘The ascetic Gotama is a proponent of deeds who teaches his Dhamma for the sake of deeds and thereby guides his disciples.’"
That may be true, but what about the chocolate deficit compared to Switzerland?
There are 49 other states besides California.
The world bank says that we shouldn't compare consumption since it is calculated differently in different countries: "Because of the diversity of methods and instruments used by the surveys, comparability across countries is limited."

http://datatopics.worldbank.org/consumption/detail

I wouldn't be surprised if the American value was grossly inflated by things like expensive healthcare and education, while the study in for example Sweden possibly didn't even count free healthcare visits, free college education, free school meals for everyone, free public transit for kids or free kindergarten as household consumption.
Moore's law is dead, however.
This is great! These are some concrete and non-trivial architectural techniques for "Systems Programming" :-)

I have had opportunity to work on/with some of these techniques on Fast Network Protocol/Security Appliances and so have some familiarity with them. However some of your hints(breadcrumbs?) are not known to me and hence i have something to research and study. Thank you.

PS: Can you add some more details on the above techniques? Like System/Library/API calls to look into, books/papers/articles to read etc?
No, semi-automatic handguns would not.

The idea that state-by-state (or, just as likely, county-by-county) gun regulations couldn't work flies against reality; they won't keep criminals from bringing guns in, of course, but no regulation will, and that's not the intent.

I'm less interested in the general crime argument. We're not having school shooting drills because of gang shootouts in Camden. Prosecution of gun crimes is unlikely to be the intervention that solves that problem.

I generally support all viable gun control proposals; background checks are fine, but won't really address the proliferation and mass casualty problems.

I absolutely do not believe, even a little bit, than amateur gunsmithing is a meaningful factor in gun policy.

I understand that the receiver is, legally, the important part of an assault rifle; I don't so much care about firearm components. As I've said elsewhere, I'm also not generally interested in confiscation of firearms; most people who own them should be able to keep them.

Ironically, with licensure, we could probably eliminate a lot of weird NFA regulation as well.
$2.5/year from each of their monthly active users would be sufficient to keep Facebook in the Fortune 500. (As referenced in the post I was replying to.)

(Tangentially, they would have to cut costs to remain profitable, but I figure it should be possible for 6k employees to maintain a set of services that people are willing to pay $2.5/year for.)
The way Moore's law worked was that ever more fraction of energy was being used for compute instead of fort waste heat.
Steve Wozniak only gets 10% employee discount when buying Apple products
Clearest microscope footage ever recorded (2017) [video]
WeWork is somewhat different. Its deflated valuation is because of a creative governance and self-dealings, rapid growth, and a tech-like valuation. If they paused expansion, they're basically Regus with better decor and more risk in a recession. Fundamentally, their business is viable, even without growth.
It's not, though. You don't pay the electric bill for most services you consume.
The value of an asset is determined by the expected return to investors (i.e. rent). If you reduce expected returns by limiting rent, your asset (the apartment building) is suddenly worth less.

But the typical rent control regulation only covers older building. If you are a developer of new apartments, you can benefit here. Your competition is under rent control, so their current tenants have a strong incentive to remain in older buildings. This reduces supply, and your new apartment building can raise prices.
When you take out a loan, it doesn't decrease your net worth, right? If I'm worth $X, then I take out a $1MM loan, at that moment I'm still worth approximately $X (because the $1MM the bank gave me and $1MM I owe the bank cancel each other out).

So I'd rank them as:

- Billionaire

- Home owner

- Minimum wage earner

- Neurosurgeon
Does he blame your generation for being lazy
> So why do I think that arrest was part of a plot to gain a pawn to be used in exchange of something wrt the economic war between US and China? Because the weapon motivation is utter ridiculous!

You are a new hire at the US-Mexico border control. One day a suspicious looking guy passes through, and you find a ton of white powder in his suitcase. You look him up in a database and find he has previously been charged with drug possession. You have been warned by your higher-ups that many people have recently trying to get through precisely your station smuggling drugs. So you detain him out of caution, but it turns out, for some weird reason, he just wanted to ship a suitcase full of baking soda to the US!

So since baking soda is totally harmless, this obviously means that your action must have been part of a plot on the US's part to put pressure on Mexico to fund the wall, right? What other explanation could there possibly be?

I have, of course, just gone through the article paragraph by paragraph and changed the subject to America. (Also, I am a US citizen.) No doubt, events like this happen constantly, and nobody cares, because mistakes happen. Only when the subject is China is everything a grand conspiracy.

> That's just how power works: the Chinese govt will leverage that capture to gain something from Trump

It doesn't actually work like this. Detentions happen constantly on all sides. One detention does not do anything to affect policy. I would bet that after a week this guy will be back home, to absolutely no consequence in the trade war, and you'll never hear about it in the news because it doesn't cause enough fear.

Ascribing the most sinister possible motives to everything a foreigner does is something that feels sophisticated and intellectual. But it's not. It's the oldest cognitive bias that exists. It is from the stone age and it will take us back.
MS can't really win against its own Consolas. If you haven't tried Consolas, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Would be cool if MS opensourced that, if they can.
Yeah, this only works if you initialize at the same time as declaration. And as you say, without const, the same code is generated. All it prevents is accidental reuse of current_foo, which may have some value.
If you declare a variable in this way in C, it can never be assigned. Not once — zero times.

What is or is not good practice in C has little bearing on or relationship to functional languages, so I'm not sure why you bring them up in this context.
You're spot on - the calculations in the post are totally wrong. For instance, a Dice coefficient is itself the average of hundreds of thousands of observations (each pixel in an image), so you can't just treat the coefficient as a single data point. However you also can't just take a standard error, since the points are highly spatially correlated.

The post also doesn't draw on any actual reported experiences of either competitors or hosts of competitions. Generally in post competition wrap-ups there's a lot of information sharing and very significant development of understanding that comes about.

To take the imagenet example that's claimed in the post as being a likely example of over-fitting: each year's imagenet results led to very significant advances in our understanding of image classification, which are today very widely used in industry and research.
I also want to challenge an implicit assumption made in the article, namely that rent control inherently limits housing supply.

Suppose rentals were simply banned. That is, you can only buy, and the rental market was eliminated. Would housing supply disappear?

I'd argue no, that you'd simply end up with more longer-term, higher-rate (to compensate for default-risk) mortgages.

Which might be a good thing. You wouldn't have to worry about 40-year residents being suddenly forced out of their homes any more, and still have a "free" market.
Cities may not be able to control nonresidents moving in directly, but their taxing authority is more than sufficient to strongly discourage it. A municipality could massively raise property taxes and grandfather in current city residents for example. It could then use the new revenues to ensure the current residents can continue to live there.
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Human semen can host up to 27 different viruses (2017)
> Over a career, the value of tuition free college for the average American comes nowhere near the extra taxes and lower income they’d have in France

That's so bullshit.

What matter is of course not the difference between tuitions fees than taxes.

What's matter is that everybody, even the ones that can't afford the tuitions fees can access university. Which you can in France, which you can not in Europe.

I am the living example of that. I come from a family what would never have been able to afford me US schools tuitions fees. And still I am engineer, thanks to the European systems.
> However, my reaction to 9nGQluzmnq3M's coment is mainly this: Why judge an article or opinion on what it's not instead of what it is?

To me, I'm judging the article based on what it's claiming to be.

He starts it with a faux linguistic analysis including numbers, faux cultural comparisons, and an analysis of the Japanese language -- which he professes not to know.

> I read the original article as an attempt to share some similar kind of feeling.

The way he opened his article and continued trying to pick at linguistics is what kept me from feeling that kind of thing. His own credentials and the location of the article also contributed to that.

If it were a personal blog and he were talking about subjective feelings, that's one thing -- but when he is writing an article on lithub and starting with numbers and apparently scholarly linguistic analysis, that's a completely different thing to me.

Edit to add: And one other point is that this is all to publicize a book of his called "A Beginner's Guide to Japan," which sounds very authoritative.
Microsoft is just on a roll when it comes to open source.

- Windows Terminal is pretty solid, and fast. Dare I say, nearing rxvt-unicode/kitty speed. There are some remaining terminal corruption with tmux + vim sessions, but soon enough it'll be replacing hyper/conemu for me.

- WSL 2 alleviates file system issues that plagued WSL. I recently wiped debian off my Thinkpad because there's no point, I get everything I need from WSL 2. And I can start to dabble with learning C# / Visual Studio.

- https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim This thing, which has support for Unity and Unreal, and is MIT licensed

- VSCode: They ship a new feature release every month I guess? I was happy with it 1 year or two ago, but now they also have WSL 2 integration. This editor works across platforms on MacOS as well.

- Windows 10: Snapping, HiDPI, sound management, drivers just work, lots of apps in windows store, if not you have everything in chocolatey anyway. Steam, with all the games, at full speed. macOS is no longer clearly superior the consumer OS space. Windows 10 is better IMO.

The best part of Windows though is hardware choice. Unlike Apple where you're stuck with an expensive metal wedge, a keyboard you may not (or may!) like, that at least for me gets miserably slow after 3 years, in Windows-land you can pick Dell, Lenovo, HP, so on. You can build your own Desktop, and pick good quality components that last, that aren't soldered together wastefully. Generally speaking, it's more DIY / Hacker friendly.

Maybe Microsoft is getting stronger, or Apple is losing touch with open source stuff trying to push their app / boutique hardware business model. But without open source and standards, what will be left to sustain it all if/when their app/hardware market sours?
Napoleon never set foot within a thousand kilometers of a similar climate, the closest he came was in exile.

The humidity is the main attraction to the show and cares little for shade, peachtree, sycamore or otherwise.
Why is a house an asset but an education isn't? Do you think a potential spouse would pass over the neurosurgeon?
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So do Uber and Lyft--this isn't the dot-com bubble. Their issues is they all have quirks that were blissfully ignored pre-IPO. All these companies are running proven business models that can work.
Spending $60 USD on a video game doesn’t make sense anymore
What about Braintree?
You might find the following useful.

* Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices - https://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinar...

* See MIPS Run - https://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Kaufmann-Computer-Architecture...

* UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers - https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Systems-Modern-Architectures-Mul...

* Advanced UNIX Programming - https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-UNIX-Programming-Marc-Rochki...
It feels that the article demonstrates, by and large, the law of diminishing marginal utility is still at work in research communities, which makes sense. At some point you should call it a day and do something else.
Looks like YAML anchors and aliases are not currently supported.
https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/Support-for-YAML-...
Console logger: log output in your terminal when dev console is out of reach
This is totally unrelated to the article, but are you by any chance the DanTheMan of Wilt Chamberlain Archive fame?
Geez --- dug up 15 year old code that called Authorize.net. It was a DLL and the response looks like it was a comma separated string --- probably predates their XML API.

At least the credit card #s were encrypted before storing them to MySql :).

https://github.com/jmathai/photos/blob/master/includes/class...

FYI ... I'm not looking for a code review.
I usually read the description and judge the personality of the host based on that; I stayed with some fantastic hosts recently, and when they asked me why I booked (it was their first), I told them: great, personal description.
Had worked for me as a good filter in addition to reviews.
This is a good looking font. Will use it for a while. :)
This is pretty neat. Here's the overview blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code/

FYI, there's also the "Input" font for coding: https://input.fontbureau.com/ and of course "Fira Code" which became popular for ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Oh, you're right, I'll just go and install a tram line now.
Meh. Choose your poison. As the trope goes, "No language is good at everything." Python is verbose compared to bash for many tasks, and the reverse is true as well.

IMHO, spending the time to actually learn some bash can really improve one's CLI life. Bashing on bash seems mostly like a tired ol' trope, "If it's in bash, it's bad."

The author of the original article really has written some pretty shell code!
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All FFI in Rust requires `unsafe` so it's impossible to do this "without doing anything".
Terraform: First you use this to create VMs.

Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt: Then you use this to install your stuff in the VMs. Just pick one of these and stick with it.
I'm very much for private ownership of property, not sure why you would think otherwise. All I've said is to do what just about every other state does: if your property is worth $200k, you pay $2k that year in property taxes. If it's worth $2 million, you pay $20k. This isn't hard, and it isn't controversial.

Edit: just to appeal to authority: every single legitimate economist agrees with me on this as well.
Women are mentioned as needing protection from being misled not just because they produce babies but because they are deemed incapable of protecting themselves from out-of-caste males, morally or physically.

> Elsewhere Krishna Bhagavan offers everyone explicitly including women direct access to the embodied divinity — namely, Himself.

Oh you mean the passage (chapter 9, verse 32) in which he lists that even those of lower birth: women, vaisyas and sudras have access to him? To be clear, this leaves only brahmin and kshatriya men in the those-not-of-lower-birth or dvija or twice-born ranks.
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PenTesters for the state/government cybersecurity require a special designation #red_team that allows for incursion and flag dropping; 'tracepoints' -- public disclosure. There are a lot of steps and often it involves writing out a clear mission scope/goals to avoid this type of circumstance.

This includes progress reports to their organizational handler announcing the intentions/progress .. progressive research. Introductions by state employees, informing the law enforcement.

OFTEN ..

I find myself informing the officials & administrators during normal business hours, etc. "people who may be affected" that could be conducting an exercise that involves your building in [timeframe] you have until then to prepare; readiness drills etc. bring it.

Afaik getting caught is part of the fun (how far can I get before you catch me?) but there's always a point of no return where it's not fair; never typing the rm -Rf or "encrypt *" commands but you never actually do if you're a good person; I know I had a lot of interesting "oops" moments in my early career where I accidentally embarrassed somebody and made an enemy.

IT Departments are run by normal people who have limited budgets and time; and I like to point out that a failure usually means a better budget justification to fix it; and assurance that anything we break we'll fix; but how confident are they in their backups and how easily I can get to them.

So fuck that cowboy pen testing bullshit, a great hacker will only use that as a last resort and then EVERYBODY should know it's happening so there is less risk. This is why "this is a test" is played during military exercises; because it's about the readiness drill. I will take your system down; with or without you -- do you want to watch?

I've had new guys on teams suggest cutting primary wires; to trigger failures i.e. "video camera feeds" etc to demonstrate coverage lapses in physical security. if they did any property damage; they are liable for that.

If the building administrators decline the #red_team audit; then we submit that back into the report and put them on our "naughty list"; which means well try 2x harder to embarrass that particular person; shame on them.... it needs to be clear that a failure does not necessarily reflect badly on them in our report; unless they were blocking the audit; that is bad. that's all you can do; they don't want to engage -- forward it to the foreign upper bureaus who don't need to follow the same disclosure rules as a good place to train recruits.

As a hacker; pen-tester #red_team
I make it clear that's exactly what I'm going to do if they don't personally cooperate; usually they'd rather be helpful than risk pissing me off and being the subject of my wrath - we work together to fix it. It's a bit heavy handed; .. 2020 election security is going to suck donkey balls btw.

/ #red_team