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It's very dependent on the code.

I'm currently writing a path tracer as a side project, and -Ofast is sickeningly faster than -O2. Like 4-5 times faster. -O3 duplicates all the loops into two versions: one with AVX instructions chunking 8 iterations at a time, and a second scalar version that does the final 1-7 iterations. -Ofast is a little bit faster than -O3 because it generates the approximate rsqrtps and rcpps instructions.

However this is a special case. Most code isn't heavy on crunching massive quantities of floats, and much of the code that does isn't written in a way that gives the compiler the freedom to autovectorize your loops. And a surprisingly large amount of code is still compiled with MSVC which won't vectorize at all.

In gcc, -O2 is generally fastest for general purpose code, both faster than -Os and -O3. As an example of why -O2 is faster than -Os, -O2 will optimize signed integer division by a constant power of two into a handful of bitwise instructions, which are larger than a single (but much, much slower) division instruction. (signed integer division can't be replaced with a single bitshift because negative integers work differently. unsigned integer division can be replaced by a single bitshift.) People think this is a universal optimization, but it's a size tradeoff so -Os specifically eschews it.
Patent troll is synonymous with non-practicing entity, according to most people.
> So the Slate article is a summary - I didn't pretend it was a published peer reviewed journal article or anything else. I also upvoted your question so I'm not sure why both your question and my answer were downvoted.

>>> I'm not sure when you're referencing, but Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites.

>> This is news to me, are you able to cite any specific evidence? (Not vague allegations or assertions of fact, but rather actual, specific, somewhat confirmable evidence.

> ~you reply with a link to a document which is exactly what I asked you to not reply with.

I expect this is why you were downvoted.

I am downvoted (on this comment, and several others within a span of a few minutes) for not accepting the popular meme. This topic seems to be very strongly identity-related, so logical thinking seems to become very downgraded, replaced by post-hoc rationalization and a variety of other fascinating cognitive quirks.

I mean, think about it - we are on HN, a website full of very intelligent people, and any comment asking for evidence on certain topics will be downvoted. Why doesn't one person ever provide some evidence and utterly crush the "idiot" conspiracy theorists? I believe the reason is, because people literally can't think properly in certain situations. Their heuristics completely overpower their conscious and logical mind, knowingly or not. Hopefully someone starts to notice this and actually studies it, because it seems like it could be very harmful to society.

I believe this is one of the root problems of the day, so I will continue to point it out and take my downvotes in lieu of reasoned disagreement, which never comes.

> If you are genuinely interested in this, then it is easy enough to search out what they're referencing in the article.

I've done so many, many times, and at the end of the trail (if the link aren't dead as some are in the linked article), inevitably the factual proof is always based on one or more articles that I earlier described as "claims with a healthy peppering of qualification or misleadingly speculative terms like "alleged", "according to", "supports the idea", "believed to be", Russian-"linked", etc."

I continue to ask those who assert factual knowledge on the matter, and continue to be disappointed.

> I'm not even sure you know what your burden of proof is here.

I do: none, because I've made no assertion, I've only asked for evidence of yours: "Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites."

I am quite certain there is only suspicion of this. This is certainly the case with the "Russian" trolls on Twitter, because they said it outright, as well as described their identification methodology. I can't comment for sure on Facebook, because I've never encountered an article that describes the identification methodology.
Were you able to make Blackbird or the individuals involved in it pay your legal costs? If not, did you simply not pursue it or is it still in progress?
Others have already described TeX quite well. One important feature not mentioned is that it is virtually error free now and is frozen at version 3.14159... (yes pi)

Donald Knuth decided that there is value in having a system that for all time will produce exactly the output the author intended 20 years or 200 years later.

Every TeX system will layout a document in exactly the same way within the limits of the output device—internally TeX computes positions with fixed point arithmetic at units smaller than light wavelengths.

There is a tremendous ecosystem that runs on top of TeX written in the TeX macro based language. This includes the popular LaTeX system, hundreds of packages including tools for example to typeset musical scores, chess articles, and everything else you can imagine. Do note that some of these packages are very high quality—many comercial books in difficult to typeset subject like Physics, Mathematics, and CS are written using TeX.
> I don't think any platform has ever condoned that sort of use

I feel like Reddit came pretty close to condoning this sort of "growth hacking" when one of the founders confessed that they got the site off the ground by creating lots of fake accounts: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-hug...

I find this confession to be on a par with Zuckerberg's famous "dumb fucks" quote. While Reddit did go on to become a useful site, I consider their success to be permanently tainted. I applaud dang's efforts to ban users who attempt similar deceptions.
It is never made clear that an app is required either. Often devices have an app but you don't need it at all since it was just slapped on as a feature checkbox.

I recently got a pair of Bose QC 35 headphones and out of the box they are non functional until connected to the app. I had to borrow a phone to connect them to the app to set up and then thankfully they started working on my own devices with bt and wired without needing an app.

Headphones should just work out of the box. The only useful function the app provides is firmware updates and a way to map the button to NC level.
I was an expert at Visual BASIC 6.0, ADO, ASP 3.0, SQL Server 2000, Access 2000, then Dotnet came out and people started to switch to Python as well.

I have to learn all over again. I know the basics of a language as they use the same logic as others. So I can write small programs in Python, but I have to reinvent myself.

I am 51 years old, and it seems I am too old to hire. Especially when I have a disability. So I get overqualified for most job postings and no response for others.
I recently bought a washer and dryer, and oddly enough, only one dryer was shallow enough to fit where I needed to put it. Every other one has this weird bulge in back that adds several inches. And the ones that fit did not have any smart features, and in fact didn't have any of the other trendy features like front loading, a missing agitator, etc.
My database is relative stable. I'm also using mongodb, it has some flexibility.
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Do you have any evidence that she received more than she paid in, or that she would have died in misery, unable to pay for food, etc
One word

Liability

They are so obsessed that something could go wrong it takes a team of lawyers.

I hope they can’t stop him. That would be really nice.
I had a relatively easy high school experience compared to many—almost no physical bullying, very little bullying otherwise, ran with a couple friend groups outside my almost-the-nerdiest-bunch-but-not-quite primary group that had a kind of light-alternative "cool" factor, school was decent and supportive by local standards at least, happened to pick up weight lifting in junior high and stuck with it so got pretty damn cut rather than continuing down the path of lard—but it was still easily the hardest four years of my life so far (now entering middle age, have multiple kids, a job, all that adult stuff).

College was like a vacation afterward. People mostly don't do a bunch of stupid, mean, disruptive bullshit, and if they do you're not expected to just put up with it? 15ish hours in class and you can arrange your schedule for a mix of hard and easy classes to come out way under the ~45-50hrs/wk of in-class and homework/study time of high school, plus you can usually figure a way not to have to get up before the fucking sun at least 2-3 days of the week, if not all of them? If you need to whizz you just... go? If you are sick or just need a mental health day you just send an email or three and rest, and it may mean a little more work later but no-one busts your balls over it as long as you don't do it too much? What is this, paradise?

It was shocking how much less stressful it was. It truly kinda messed me up for a while, just not understanding how to function outside the pressure-cooker of high school. The socialization there had almost nothing to do with how adults relate to one another in the real world, and the constantly high social stress levels, tight and absolute control by adults, and inability to make any reasonable or ordinary effort to get out of that plainly-very-bad situation, were insane compared to most of the "adult" world.

No wonder so many teens are depressed. School is really awful. Like, structurally so. In the best case. The first few months with a newborn, but after you've gone back to work so are trying to do both things, approach but are not quite as stressful, overall, as high school, in the typical case. I'm not kidding.
> So is the topic achievement, or is the topic their feelings?

While the whole piece is a mess, I think the statistic about confidence is provided as a manner of providing a potential explanation of the manner in which the policy change produced the performance change (for which statistics are also provided.)
There is so much housing in NYC.
No, you guys need to quit the platitudes.

You need to do something about your “fixed” meritocratic society where your future is largely determined by your parents’ wealth.

You need tax reform, healthcare, cheaper education. I had a discussion with an American friend recently, he offered that the American society has produced marvels such as Google and Facebook and Tesla and countless others, fair point.

Can you imagine a new social media today competing with Facebook? A new search engine? Wanna open a retail online store? AWS will eat you alive.

I grew up thinking America was the greatest country on earth, truly. You know who also had some absolutely amazing achievements? The Egyptian pharaohs.
My Nest thermostats have become more trouble than they are worth. The learning feature constantly overwrites temperatures I have manually set in the schedule with garbage. Somehow it has learned temperatures I never set. It's infuriating. Time to shut off the smart features.
Nah, graduated in 2010. My brother paid the same amount, graduated last year.

Current-year tuition fees at Carleton range from $3500CAD/semester to $5800CAD/semester [1] for domestic students. The province foots the bill for over half, probably closer to three quarters based on the international student fees. It's gone up a little but it's hardly un-manageable. Both my brother and I graduated without debt by working during the summers, and both scholarships and bursaries are available to help cover the costs -- and loans via OSAP [2].

FWIW I did mean to type $3500 in my original post, which is probably now closer to $5000.

[1] https://admissions.carleton.ca/scholarships/domestic-costs/

[2] https://www.ontario.ca/page/osap-ontario-student-assistance-...
Also remember, they are not only detecting signals, they are detecting same signal at two far away sites that could not be explained by anything originating from Earth.
My pebble watch does this. When it goes "flat" it reverts to time and alarm only mode which lasts for about 24 hours.
> But my cat is fed twice a day...

Feed it half as much 4 times a day!
So only 35 years?
Also student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so there will not be a dramatic crisis triggering writedowns. The digestion of bad loans will take decades.
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This is the biggest misconception in the space (and that's saying a lot). They're un-banked and under-banked because they don't have money, not because the services don't exist. You want to solve this problem, solve wealth inequality and income inequality, don't pretend magic beans that cost $1-3 to transact will solve the problem for you. That's more than it costs you to use an Amex Bluebird or even a Green Dot card at an ATM, let alone a T-Mobile prepaid visa. And it's dropped half its value in the last two years (generously). Those are the people you want to disadvantage with a massively fluctuating currency?

Not to mention the low-income folks are most likely to have smartphones and therefore access to online banking with Ally or Schwab, which require $0 minimum balances and refund all ATM fees. You need a phone to use BTC, which means those same people can access Ally or Schwab and be objectively better off.

This is again a social problem in need of a social solution.

Postal banking is a great way to solve the access problem where it exists, too, like is done in the UK, and was in the US until the 1970s.

Sorry, this talking point is debunked, unless there's something I'm missing here.
The OP is attempting to justify the policy when they say "it's not ridiculous". Obviously, it is ridiculous.
> Also student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy

Yes, they can, though it's harder than other unsecured debt.
And audio is only pedantically different.
Based on `perf`? If so, try passing `--call-graph dwarf` in your `perf record` invocation. Then things should work fine despite lack of frame pointers.
the exchange process for cryptocoins is far worse in approximately every locale.
the best students should never be weighed down to benefit the lower performers. the top percentile people in essentially any pursuit are responsible for a disproportionately large impact. it is far more important for the top performers to achieve their potential than for the middle to do slightly better.
Except that bitcoin can be converted to any fiat currency. The people with dysfunctional banking systems can trade bitcoin for fiat in a peer-to-peer manor. Somebody up the chain can trade bitcoin for USD or any other fiat currency.

1,000 sats is worth about 10 cents USD but $14 Jamaican dollars.
It’s a public policy issue. It’s not a matter of companies giving or not. The housing crisis not only can be solved without corporate giving or taxation, it has to be — we can’t keep feeding the rentier beast.
I only recall that there are prior art search engines and have been a viable side gig for at least half a decade

Seem to recall Microsoft backing one of them
Not at the Jesuit college I went to, which I’m still pretty bitter about. I got cheated out of grants because I qualified for “financial aid”—loans which I am still paying off.

I guess it depends on the school.
wouldn't that violate accounting practices if they took one time charges? That's what constitutes fraud right?
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Don't read too much into my paraphrasing, as per the article they did in fact raise substantiated malpractice complaints. The troll had entered into a forbidden profit sharing arrangement with a non-lawyer, and was being purposely ambiguous if it is a law firm at all.
Google "wifi projection alarm clock" and one product shows up, with universally poor reviews that for the most part have trouble with the Wi-Fi not connecting, Wi-Fi stops working after 6 weeks, etc.

You have the world's largest database of consumer products at your fingertips, it's easy to verify his claims.
you are right, i completely misread that.
I suspect this is what Waymo plans to do with Chrysler. Waymo will be the brand of AI driving the car, and probably own the app/marketplace, but the car companies will take care of building/capitalizing the fleet (and probably maintaining it, too).
My point with that example was about how Apple doesn't treat developers as partners, something I said multiple times in my other comments is the crux of the issue, which this whole internal API in Electron rejection issue is simply a symptom of.

You ignored my perfectly good example of Apple breaking an API because you have nothing to say about it.

You ignored my comment you just replied to pointing out how irrelevant sem-ver is when your "vendor" doesn't care about you.

You are fixated on trying to nitpick the one tiny foothold you've found for your screed, one which only exists because you're ignoring the initial point I, not the article brought up, that this is an issue with Apple not caring about developers literally in the first comment you replied to.

Maybe spend more time reading and less time replying.
Less likelihood of media or police attention. Maybe the gangs are hoping (or even empirically aware) that authorities will be reluctant to investigate them -- for whatever reason -- if their activities keep under the public radar.
You can't assume they will do that everywhere. I was in CVS, and it seems like rather than discounts for "loyalty" they have jacked up their prices if you don't have the card. They said they would look me up by my phone number, but when they didn't find me, that was it, no discount. I said fine and left the overpriced batteries behind.

I don't know why grocery stores don't seem to care, whether it's corporate policy, or employee culture.
That’s already covered: https://keys.casa/bitcoin-inheritance-plan/
I couldn't even hazard a guess but I bet it is a lot. Do you have a round number for what it does cost?
Nobody needs to be sacrificed!

The right way to do this is obviously that everyone gets an education adapted to their needs and talents!

That means special programs for the "gifted" as well as for the "not much with the book learning" kids.

A "one size fits all" education will always be a compromise that's maybe optimal for the median kid.
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There’a an app for that: https://keys.casa/bitcoin-inheritance-plan/
even if everyone could have all their bills paid for them so they could learn all day at any age, it's ludicrous to suggest this would "obsolete" the discussion of how to treat intelligent kids in relation to others.

also fluid intelligence declines over time so it is absolutely in society's interest to identify talent and assist it as early as possible.
Per the post, their complaints were based on rules prohibiting attorneys from splitting contingency fees with non-attorneys. The patent they were asserting against Cloudflare was purchased from the inventor for $1 plus “other good and valuable consideration.” As part of their defense to the ethics complaint Blackbird asserted that they do not use contingency fee arrangements for the patents it acquires, but do something "similar."
Well when lawyers think they are the smartest ones in the room but are in reality dumb enough to present starving engineers and entrepreneurs with a "life or death" dire problem to solve, what did you expect to happen?

For us just to sit back while you guys prostitute us for all our worth so you can pay for your 3rd wife's divorcing you?
"Also those screens and buttons are always the first to break, and are totally unrepairable"

How is a phone better? When your app "breaks" from code rot and you can't upgrade it, or run it on your new device, you're in the same boat.
To me it's like any other stock, except more volatile. When you use it for payments it's like selling some of your shares in a stock.
> It was a continuing education class at the University of Utah, so maybe not as impressive, but, I think the more telling point is how cool my mom was/is to give me opportunities like that.

Still mega imo. Yes your mom seems awesome too.
Congrats on that victory, sweet strategy!
Well, at least at a societal level because you want to live in a relatively equal society and have all of the benefits that come with that as opposed to a feudal dystopia.
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Hmm.

Imagine you are running a forum.

A few users decide to use it to exchange some encrypted content,impenetrable walls of base64.

Should you be able to ban them, and remove their postings, if they don't listen to polite requests to stop?

How is this different from being an email service, or an ISP?

I mean, there are more relevant details than the very broad formulation assumes.
Yes, but how would that work in practice? Special schools for high performers is much more palatable than special schools for quarantining children who aren't going to amount to anything (no matter what you call it and how you design it, this is how it will be perceived).
That’s illegal.

https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch...

> Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of:

> murder
drug dealing
aggravated assault
rape
possession of a deadly weapon

> But expulsion can be permanent if and only if he or she is over 16 or older. And of course, forget all those criteria for the disability manifestation exclusion–if the student was convicted but disability is the reason for the behavior, no action can be taken.
Why do they need more help? The classes are already designed for them. The problem is that the smart kids are forced to be in them too.
Wow, you all are absolutely insane. Seriously. You're nuts. I'm completely willing to believe that plants are intelligent, but exist in such completely different context from humans that we dismiss them as inanimate objects. Time passes differently for plants. They have different sensory perception, etc.

But what are you talking about with all this "I, it, thou" nonsense? Maybe it's me, in fact I'm sure you all will say it's me. But my gosh. Is there something in the water (or lack thereof) in California?
You show several examples of bureaucrats making decisions that other people make money off of. But you said "paymasters". Got any evidence of "pay"? Or just evidence of bad decisions and suspicion of pay?

I grant you that, if you are correct, it would explain a lot. It would explain why we spend so much on education for so little result. But, as I asked, do you have evidence of pay?

And "paymaster", to me, doesn't imply just a little cash under the table. It means that they're getting paid something in the neighborhood of their salary, or more. (Maybe that's just how the word strikes me.)
A lot of people don't see/won't look at the cost of healthcare that their employees are already paying. Even fewer would recognize this as effectively the same thing as a tax.
I was in the gifted program. So is my daughter. It's a nice break from the monotony of regular school but it's not challenging in any way. It's not really clear to me what the purpose of the program is, but it doesn't appear to even try to challenge the students or introduce them to more interesting/meaningful curriculum.
That's generally not what they do. They deliberately structure it not as a "life or death" problem, but rather a "nuisance or larger nuisance" problem. The expected response (which generally happens) is that people choose "nuisance".
You're making it sound like the Voyager software and hardware was developed by poking soft clay tablets with a pointy reed. The systems had OS's, screens were surely available, ICs and high-level languages were in use. The '[computer-ish] tech phenomenon' itself is a fair bit older - 'Silicon Valley' is named after literal, not figurative silicon-based electronic components.
Shouldn't blackbird have to cover your legal fees if they lose?
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