skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which again brings to mind the question- if you want those great benefits you could try to get hired as an employee. Or come on as a contractor and prove yourself to the company. If you are a contractor you are trading that for higher per hour wages. In my industry in the Houston area the most I could ever expect to make as a developer a specific niche is roughly 150k plus or minus 30k. As a contractor on a good year I can triple that. Unionizing Would only bring that number down.
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Seconding Greg Egan. I'd highly recommend Permutation City and Diaspora by him. The books explore mind uploading from lots of interesting angles.
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I think the proposed idea is not supposed to allow people to simply invest the money and live off the proceeds.

Just like when a VC or government grant agency gives you money, you can't simply invest it and live off the proceeds in those cases either.

With that ruled out, the $1-3MM is not really the recipient's money, and they are not really wealthy in the way you are comparing to other households.
Did you not read the paper? They make direct comparison to AA in the first paragraph.
> as an example point, the Go garbage collector clears heaps of 18gb in sub-millisecond latencies.

The trick here is to double the heap size, which would be completely unacceptable for a game that's making use of what the hardware offers.
The biggest flood insurance beneficiary is the Houston TX area. "More flood insurance funds have been paid here than in any other National Flood Insurance Program-participating community."[1]

"After the 1940's, the Harris County area did not suffer what would be considered a widespread, regional flood, that is, until June 2001." Since then, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, and right now.

Houston way overbuilt in flood plains. That area has had floods for a century, but the impact was lower when the big losses were herds of cattle. They need higher flood insurance premiums to discourage building.

The Florida Keys, Greater Miami, New Orleans, and Houston are just too low-lying for today's hurricanes. New Orleans has everything going wrong - the Mississippi River, hurricane country, and sinking land.

[1] https://www.hcfcd.org/flooding-floodplains/harris-countys-fl...
You can demand all you want, and your manager can respond with 'LOL no you're not worth that much'.
> "By the end of the century, 13 million Americans will need to move just because of rising sea levels, at a cost of $1 million each"

13M feels low. Given the "of $1M each" then perhaps they means households. At an average of 4 heads per, 52M individuals feels closer.

That said, what goes into a $1M move? Does beachfront property average out that high?

Finally, is that $1M in current dollars, or adjusted for inflation estimates?
What an incredibly creative idea.

On the home page I thought, yeah sure but how am I gonna know exactly where to look exactly when and how long do I have...

...and then the first result was the ISS moving in real-time laid over my street view, and all my questions were perfectly answered. I mean, I know what building to look above down to the second!

So just -- super-kudos, one of the cleverest things I've seen in a while.
I waved off Silverblue when I learned one must reboot to install packages. Maybe that's not a big deal with a server OS, but having to unlock the full-disk encryption, then restore my desktop and possibly reauth any apps is a bridge too far for me. To say nothing of the heartache involved when you realize that, haha, you didn't know the full package list you needed, so now you are iterating through that process.
Interesting. Haven’t come across this book before.

A quick glance on the Wikipedia page[1] doesn’t give me the impression that it paints all managers/executives as reprehensible though... But I guess you’ve read it and come to this conclusion?

I do agree though that there is, in many of the organizations I’ve worked in, large and smallish, a perverse incentive structure in that "instead of ability, talent, and dedicated service to an organization, politics, adroit talk, luck, connections, and self-promotion are the real sorters of people into sheep and goats" [1]. But you think the solution to this is more bureaucracy? I’m leaning more towards better selection, cultural norms and perhaps some “separation of powers”. But I’m speculating.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes
Compilation times even for simple C++ programs are far too long and it's not like you can reject this "feature" unless you basically write C code compiled with C++ compiler. For instance: simple hello world with iostreams takes 280ms to compile vs 40ms for C equivalent with stdio. And it only gets exponentially worse with bigger programs.
Its not just pauses either. Non-deterministic memory usage is a big deal too.
Cool concept but the implementation is terrible. Just give me a button to input my own location. Not to mention the dot on the globe is about 3,000 miles from the street view it gives me.
fail "literally" means to be unsuccessful

it implies doing something dumb as much as 'not succeeding'

... which is to say, not at all
I don't think working 80 is either sustainable or even possible for that matter.

My wife was on an assignment in South Korea and she experienced the 16 hour work days there. No one even blinked when you tried calling your colleagues at 11:00pm.

However, what my wife noticed is that most of the people working those hours seemd drousy, unfocused and inattentive. It boggles my mind how either of the sides of that work contract can think that that kind of situation is beneficial for either of the sides in any imaginable way...
What about the consumers who benefited from the greenhouse gas emissions?
If the lifetime of your objects are not bound to any scope, I’d say you’re well out of the realm of any real benefit that RAII would provide over GC. This is a continual problem that arises with a shared ownership model. The specific principle this violates is encapsulation - there is still encapsulation at the level of the smart pointer, but not with its consumers.
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Divide and conquer is one of the oldest tactics around but by all means keep parsing it. I have better things to do than collect and submit examples to see whether they meet Rayiner's occult standard of conversational admissibility.
Replaced by natural gas? Excuse me, I’ll just go cry in a corner.
How to define disorder? I always struggle to understand that. Less compressible state?
I'd like to understand this better. Do you have a scientific citation for 12.5mm yr until 2100?

Here's the latest from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[1]. It is a graph that shows with 95% confidence there has been a 2.42mm/year SLR for Key West from 1913 to 2018, the most recent information on their site for sea level trends.

When I look at the graph, it looks quite linear over that time period, that spans from before significant anthropomorphic CO2 to the current period of hockey-stick temperatures. I don't see the evidence for expecting 12.5mm/yr, but I'm not a climate scientist.

I'm ready to call BS on the Bloomberg article, but I'm open to hearing more information on this.

[1] https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
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Yeah, I think the satellites that made flares are getting deorbited now. I don't support showing Iridium flares. It's more complex to calculate them because they are specular reflections instead of diffuse and so they require knowing the orientation of the satellite very accurately.
That explains why more than half of the US federal budget pays for low income social programs. Because it’s a govt for the rich.
Vulnerabilities can be used to cause crashes.

In fact, generally a memory safety vulnerability will initially manifest itself as a crash before a more advanced targeted exploit can be used against it.
What an excellent 500 lines introduction to the byterun bytecode interpreter / virtual machine: https://github.com/nedbat/byterun

Also, proceeds from optional purchases of the AOSA books go to Amnesty International.
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Because why should the current homeowner happen to be the one caught with a total loss, rather than another one in the previous 30 years or the next 30 years?

If the government is making it policy not to be able to live on land you purchased, then it should compensate you.

(The exception being if everyone who bought property had always known there was an e.g. 80% chance of the government taking it without payment and thus bought their property at e.g. 20% of what would otherwise be the market value... but that doesn't seem to be the case.)
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Why Buddhism is True [0, 1] does an excellent job of covering the modern neuroscience that overlaps much of Buddhist teaching, such as the hedonic treadmill [2], while ignoring the more new-agey / spiritual / not-evidence-based aspects often associated with Buddhism and other eastern religions, such as reincarnation, "auras", etc.

When I started my meditation practice, the guided meditations in the Calm app [3] helped me a lot.

0: https://amazon.com/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlightenmen...

1: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

3: https://www.calm.com/
No it does not. I just reread the opening paragraph three times and there is no comparison being made to AA. Did you not read the paper?
Crap, that sucks. Unless you can pull a Vader and perhaps have a room with negative pressure it seems like the surgery is your best bet.
The next step is to realize that despite you are not the voices in your head, the voices are in fact you and not something independent. Approximately like you are not your hand but your hand is you. Therefore you have power over them and can do whatever you want, at least within your head. It takes some training (especially to become able to exercise this in extreme circumstances, with your amygdalae stressed and with your levels of trytophan, dopa, gaba etc depleted) but you literally can feel whatever you choose to at any given moment.
I think mental health is key in this situation.

There's a reason that what we now call "mass shootings" used to be called "going postal."
It's not even that. It's votes and party donations.

I'm in NJ. A few years back we had hurricane / super-storm Sandy. Not only did the GOP gov at the time ( Chris Christie) find the money to rebuild. The state actually ran adverts with the tag line "Stronger than the storm." It made no sense to me.

The people living at the shore (as we call it in NJ) aren't in denial. They don't even see it.
Vote for people who want to ban fracking. Buy renewables with your power bill (no way to specify nuclear unfortunately); it’s usually very little more per kWh, check with your utility. If you can, run for office.
Yea, but the point is that its not necessarily causal. It would be like looking at people who died of cancer and determining weight-loss as one the best correlated culprits to ID it. It would probably catch a ton of people who were really sick, but it seems to ignore some of the deeper casualties.

The white thing certainly is problematic culturally, but it's not REALLY the problem its more of a symptom of previous power choosing future power.
Why did you fallen out of practice?
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The "equipment" needed is a model of how the points came about. You may already get the point but permit me an example:

From an information theory perspective, consider 'apple' vs 'aaaaa'. I submit that if you have nothing besides the string itself, you'd conclude that 'aaaaa' is lower entropy than 'apple', but if your model is word frequency on the web, it'd be the other way around. There isn't anything inherent in the strings that makes one or the other true.

There are interesting cases in-between where you could derive a model with more math, e.g. the first million digits of pi has very low entropy, but in general exactly how much is a matter of the uncomputable Kolmogorov complexity.

With a physical system, if you know the configuration of the system and the laws of physics it obeys, you can compute this in a meaningful way, and it can tell you what direction the system "wants to go" to satisfy the second law of thermodynamics.

Wikipedia has a neat article on the topic which I'm just starting to read now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_...
Presumably I'll get downvoted for this but here it goes.. I know that news sites like to link anything they can to climate change in the global human-caused sense because it might create more clicks but how is this a "climate exodus" in that sense? It's more a case of people having built homes in a very flat, easily flooded place that has always been really, really shitty for living due to the dangers of extremely bad hurricane damage (something that has been the case since Europeans settled the region). Way too tenuous for a title like that, but it fits the more hysterical narratives of climate change so in it goes. Note, i'm not doubting or denying the very real global dangers of human-caused climate change, but we should be careful in ascribing just anything to them. Some regions of the world have always been unsafe for human habitation due to persistently unfriendly weather, that we have colonized them with our technology doesn't mean that something has fundamentally changed about their climate whenever things go wrong and nature reasserts itself.
Same issue in New Zealand. There's even a cottage industry of corrupt TEFL schools so you can meet the language requirements.

In a way I hope it gets worse, to damage beyond repair the integrity of a university education. I think it's a tragedy we extend everyones childhood by 3 years, and at the end of it half of all graduates can't even earn themselves an upper working class lifestyle.
That is likely to happen if you decline location permission and the IP geolocation fallback is inaccurate. If you try on your phone it should get an accurate GPS location. Adding a way to manually override the location by specifying latitude and longitude is on my to-do list.
I can’t say that has been my personal experience, and I feel like I use AUR pretty extensively, but I can see how that would be very frustrating if that’s been your experience with it.

I am often surprised at what’s available on AUR — my most recent discovery being a current version of dwarf fortress, which is kind of a huge pain to get working on Linux.
As an example of people being concretely impacted by climate change now, you are citing projected sea level increases. I think you could have probably picked a better article to prove your point.

That aside, the point I'm making is that it would still be much cheaper to relocate people from those coasts (in the immediate future) and engage in emergency preparedness than it would be to substantially mitigate our emissions output.

In the long term, that fucks us, but most voters aren't long term thinkers.
The semantics matter. A lot of game engines use a mark-and-release per-frame allocation buffer. It is temporary throwaway data for that frame's computation. It does not get tracked or freed piecemeal - it gets blown away.

Garbage collection emulates the intent of this method with generational collection strategies, but it has to use a heuristic to do so. And you can optimize your code to behave very similarly within a GC, but the UI to the strategy is full of workarounds. It is more invasive to your code than applying an actual manual allocator.
Yeah, well, you might be onto something here. I've been told I've not acted in my own self interest a couple of times before :P
This is a wonderful comment. I think someone on this site said that coding is the process of understanding the solution. This is what that means.
What makes you so sure there isn't some sort of classified biomarker or correlate?
For the joy of getting the round peg through the square hole of course.
Nobody said they have no choice - but they definitely won't vote to decrease oil production and if you think they voluntarily will you have your head in the sand
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I don't think it's even a particularly large shift. Both "personas" demonstrate a large degree of in-group loyalty and a desire to hold "traitors" accountable, to the American state and the American people respectively. It's not hard to see how a realization that the state was "betraying" the people could have provoked his change in perception of "in-group".
Hi! As someone moving from 20 years of application development towards embedded software development, let me share my thoughts.

First, examine your reasons not to move into management or architecture roles and make sure they are valid, and not knee jerks. This is a whole big discussion in its own right.

Second, within your current organization, look for mentoring opportunities as a mentor or a mentee. Either way, you may find your knowledge and skillset expanded in an unexpected way.

Also, are there ways you can move horizontally within your organization? Maybe there's a tooling team, or a testing team.

Finally, just understand your own goals. Do you want to maximize income or savings over time? Do you want to maximize something else (fun? knowledge? recognition?) while reaching a minimum income or savings amount? Then, over time, reevaluate those goals and make sensible plans to reach them. Expecting excitement from doing the same kind of thing over a 40 year career is probably not a fair expectation.
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The paper does not use the phrase “benefits whites.” Interpreting the paper as such is a racist interpretation. You would do well to read the paper.
> I assume they must work to some degree, or they wouldn't do it.

I wouldn't be so sure. Unionization is usually rare in the US, and combatting it therefore won't have much evidence to go on. So you end up with crazy people making shit up and seeing what sticks. Like the guy working for Oregon's negotiation team who created fake aliases 'Aanus McFadden' and 'Roy Vragina' to post anti-union messages on social media: https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/08/06/oregon-health-and-scie...
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I don't share the sympathies of him being a hero. I'd wait until seeing all the information before making a judgment:

There's conflicting stories on Edward Snowden's history. There's accusations acted out in the workplace and possibly embellished information about himself [1]

There are things in the report that made it look like he planned out taking the data. That's the most damning information against him. If that didn't exist though, or was refuted, the story could be more sympathetic.

There'd still be allegations in this summary he may expect to confront eventually, fibbing about his legs, cheating on an entrance exam, him misrepresenting his job positions as if he was more senior than he was, based on the report, he appears to self-aggrandize out of habit.

In his upbringing he probably had events with parent/authority figures where he learned to lie to cover up his mistakes as a survival tactic. It's progressed to more than hiding, if he cheated on an entrance exam, some people may see that as fraudulent.

He would allegedly break chain of command and email managers too high up when localized stuff happened, his story feels more like someone who was under a lot of pressure and needed more experience defusing issues in a professional environment.

The leaks themselves:

He didn't suggest improvement to the laws or regulations. He divulged the methods themselves, which other governments were probably doing anyway. Those other countries won't stop doing it, and they'd be happy if adversaries stopped.

In his videos / posts, he never talks about how information could be used to prevent a terrorist attack, surveilling / interrupting a spy cell, gathering other valuable information for his country to better understand things. It's as if he had his wish, he'd throw away the whole system.

It's like he can't discern consumer privacy (which is minimal in US), from protecting data from criminals (which is improving with TLS, 2FA, etc), from his own job. I wouldn't look to him as a role model for national security, civil liberties, or even basic ethics.

[1] https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hps...
What about the people who won't be hired at all because of a union? How does the union work out for them?
Both are getting a lot of competition from Tesla currently. Apparently some of their former customers want fast electrical vehicles. Also, trucks are going electric. So, Daimler might have a fight on their hand there as well.
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The majority of people who believe in climate change would be unwilling to pay $10 a month to avert it entirely.

3.5/100 is for easy concessions that didn't actually require giving up capital (like race concessions, because racism is actively irrational). A rational actor today who only cares about their own interests (like the super rich) will fight tooth and nail to prevent any actual change to their consumption.
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Two sides of the same coin, which deserve the same judgement.

“It’s snowing - climate change is a hoax”

“It’s 100F, - climate change proof”
Yes, absolutely, I think that's a part of the success of startups, possibly any new company. The participants fully know, understand and believe in the company's products and vision,
I'm guessing its not a coincidence you chose the day the ISS passes over the middle of the continental US to post this?
I mean, nobody is suggesting they leave the garbage around and not clean up after themselves.

But instead what you can do is to reuse the "slots" you are handing out from your allocator's memory arena for allocations of some specific type/kind/size/lifetime. If you are controlling how that arena is managed, you will find yourself coming across many opportunities to avoid doing things a general purpose GC/allocator would choose to do in favor of the needs dictated by your specific use case.

For instance you can choose to draw the frame and throw away all the resources you used to draw that frame in one go.
> Dying on a burning planet is a cost I expect to feel personally.

But you understand that isn't how the science works, right?
If my apartment windows opened I could throw a rock to the spot where the streetview was taken from (though that would probably bother some people). While I agree a custom input location would be cool I suspect it's because you didn't ok the geo permission.

(Edit: ninja-ed)
Holy... Believe nothing that guy says. I'll just wait until he releases his first game with network connection and instantly gets a buffer overflow and his game becomes an entry for worms into people's systems.