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This is exactly the situation for a well-balanced parallel work queue. You want to start as many threads as there are cores and run them full tilt pulling work off the queue until it is empty. If you're running a large scale cluster that is dedicated to a particular task (e.g. like servicing a special kind of query, or encoding videos, rendering, etc), this is very common, or even a parallel Photoshop filter.
Sure, improvements should be made. The pedestrian bridges themselves are improvements. People use them by choice, and not because they appreciate the exercise. It would be easy to underestimate just how many many vehicles and pedestrians are attempting to navigate the metro Manila area. Roads and other transit infrastructure are seriously lacking in Philippines, relative to that seen in more "developed" nations.
The fastest way are probably rational numbers, as they are natively available in many functional languages or Perl6. That is, 0.1 is represented as the integer tupls (1,10) instead of a floating point number.
I understand the complaint about noise, but the message is fairly explicit as to what is changing and what you need to do and where to go for more info:

"A cookie associated with a resource at http://google.com/ was set with `SameSite=None` but without `Secure`. A future release of Chrome will only deliver cookies marked `SameSite=None` if they are also marked `Secure`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032."

A quick google (ha!) check shows articles from plenty of development and security blogs (i.e. not from google direct) going back to May (though a LOT seem to be from the last few months, not sure if that's because chatter picked up or because Google is giving me more recent results, and I'm too lazy to experiment - I definitely heard about it from multiple sources before the original impact date in Oct)

Focusing on the point - Obviously this is a change Google should give "enough" notice for (both time-wise and breadth-wise). What would you recommend them doing differently than they have? At the end of the day, I'm not really sure what they can do that they didn't do - indeed, since they delayed the original release, there's a real risk of people ceasing to pay attention if you delay too much.

I'm asking out of curiosity, not accusation.
If you have safety, discoverability, and direct manipulation you have less of a need to turn a small flat piece of glass into a simulation of a physical control panel. Mobile device screens are a new medium. Do the things that free you from pre-smartphone thinking. "Flat" isn't a goal. Neither is realism. You can't wireframe direct manipulation (or even long-press, or multi-finger touch). So it is underutilized.
Startup time is the least interesting metric in this article. The more interesting metric is the number of syscalls. This isn't a measure of performance, it's a measure of complexity and busywork. Complexity tends to indirectly affect performance, but that's not the point of the article.
"Passing /dev/urandom into perl is equally likely to print “hello world”"

That gave me a good chuckle towards the end.

It'd be useful to break this out a little further as it'd have been interesting to see how small just the output is on the dynamically linked versions instead of just comparing static to whole dynamic bundle.

It's also a bit odd that e.g. zig gets optimized for size and stripped via the compiler, c gets optimized for speed and stripped via strip, and Go/Crystal just gets built standard with no stripping at all. I don't think it'd change the big picture just a bit odd.

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Unrelated tangent/ramble, I played with Zig and Go as part of my yearly "take December off and tinker" break. Zig was really fun to work with but unfortunately still in a huge churn and development. Go was a lot better than I expected it to be (I had put off messing with Go for a few years now) and the size of the stdlib is just astounding. In the end it wasn't as "fun" as zig but it had very low friction and I definitely see myself using it for a few personal projects over the next year... and then seeing if Zig has less churn in December ;).
I believe there is a reason the sunk cost fallacy exists, instinctive behavior patterns come from millions of years of evolution, and I believe that if they were totally wrong, they would have been selected out.

For example, imagine you are a predator, chasing some prey, on the way, you see a prey that looks easier to catch, the "no sunk cost" solution is to stop the chase and go after the new target. Then you see a new one, then a new one, then a new one, etc... In the end, you will probably be to busy changing targets to catch anything. That behavior is commonly exploited, just look at kids playing tag, taunting "it" by putting oneself in relative danger is a common strategy, and the counter is to ignore the taunt and focus on a target, even if it is not the easiest one, i.e. honoring sunk costs.

And the $500 proposal for the $55 ticket doesn't make it a $500 ticket. When you buy a ticket, you pay the price of the ticket, plus everything that goes with it: free time, getting there, uncertainty and risk, and all the emotional investment that is harder to quantify... Imagine you value that at $500, so including the $55 ticket, that's a $555 experience, the reason you wouldn't have bought a $500 ticket is that it would have made it a $1000+ experience.

And here you see why refusing the $500 proposal is not necessarily a mistake. The guy is offering you $500 for a $555 experience.

So yeah, good to know about the sunk costs fallacy, but I believe it is also important to understand why that "fallacy" exists, and how to properly evaluate costs, even those without a clear price tag attached to it.
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From 2 months ago I am exclusively on Windows 10 with Windows Subsystem for Linux. Works great. I was Linux user for 19 years and 3 years on Mac OS.

I am a generation that read books about evil Gates and refused to use Windows but I sold my soul now...
> I’m going by the only facts that you offered.

You did not. You fabricated accusations to fill gaps in your comprehension based on your imagination alone, and proceeded to use your made-up accusations to attack others. That's not cool, and just speaks volumes regarding your lack of arguments and your ability to contribute to a discussion.
The rule refers to products, not freely available source code.

Companies don't sell stuff from GitHub, they sell proprietary stuff. It may well be based on open source code, but they own it to sell (license) it.

There's lots of examples of products in the geospatial domain that are not "AI" yet are restricted or even classified.

For example, ship detection from space-based radar. There are numerous public papers on the topic yet any software that purports to do this is subject to ITAR rules in the US and CGP rules in Canada.

Just because you may know how to do something doesn't prevent a government from restricting you from selling it, or talking about it. Even if it is "public". Machine guns are an old tech and yet are restricted. As they should be.
So, a narrator saved him from a deadly sin of suicide, trading it for murder that he would have to answer for?

That's very noble for a believing Christian.
Check out my answers to the other sibling comments.

Would you settle for quit smoking by a self-help book? ;-D

Here's something that blew me away...

My sister just quit smoking. From ten cigarettes a day to zero. We (her family and friends) are all so overjoyed. How did she do it?

https://www.allencarr.com/

She read that book. That's all. When she was done, she was no longer smoking. Within a few days her
sense of smell came back and now cigs smell disgusting to her.

Go ahead and be skeptical. If it hadn't happened to my own sister I would be too.

And then get the book for the smokers you love in your life, eh? I mean, you can return it if it doesn't work for them, but if it does... My sister just got back years of her life!

I don't mean to be pushy or saleman-ish, and I'm not affiliated with Carr in the slightest. I only remembered that a book cured my sister of smoking addiction in the time it took to read it after reading your comment
goto11, cheers!
In the middle of a complex 500 page ancestral deep dive Marquez will slip the simplest sentences that make me pause. It's not even the beginning of a chapter -- it's just something he tossed in without much thought to continue the magic. brb going to go check out a book.
> Black community does not have a solid culture and tradition comparing to other immigration minority groups

lol, I stopped reading here. Go read some du Bois and listen to some Jazz. Black culture is American culture. They've been here longer than most whites (the great European migration happened right around the time the slave trade ended and that's not coincidental).
Drew's familiar with nim, and he's talked with you about it before on HN. Crystal was volunteered by someone working on Crystal, Julia was volunteered by a dev who works using Julia, etc. Haskell was also presented, I think, but Haskell was a mess.
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Best acronym I've seen in awhile!
You don't need to do 40 to 24 mate. You can do a yearly decrease of 1 hour for the next 16 years.

What's the point of all this technology and innovation if we're always going to keep working the same amount.

Also if an industry can't keep up with this, oh well. That's why you do it slowly so you can handle the fallout.
As much as HN's readers need to see articles like this, I don't know if the sophistication levels on this topic are high enough to handle the discussion that's ensued.

"Or, you know, fathers," is a... disappointing take, to say the least.
Didn’t the most advanced AI research come straight out of China?

The ResNet Project [1] of 2015. It was used as the core algorithm behind Google’s AlphaGo in 2017.

The 4 computer scientists behind the paper were Chinese nationals. They were all educated by the Chinese educational system, and got their PhD there (one guy was from Hong Kong). They worked at Microsoft at the time, so Microsoft paid them a salary for their work, but I think Microsoft benefited more from their research, as did the other Silicon Valley and American companies.

Three of them went to start or lead other Chinese unicorn companies, and one guy went to Facebook in Silicon Valley, so Facebook benefited here.

[1] https://macropolo.org/china-ai-research-resnet/
Alternatively, the sunk cost fallacy is a heuristic that compensates for the fact that calculating marginal value (especially in high-pressure settings) is hard.

Evolution has also selected for more powerful brains that allow us to develop more sophisticated frameworks (e.g. law, science) for reasoning than pure emotion.
Interior mutability is a principled way to relax the requirements. Multimut exists for really low-level code; it's spelled *mut.
I will not pretend that reading is easy. I cannot appreciate your difficulty. I am eager to read. I read voraciously. What number you've read in your life, I consume in a year. I should, perhaps, regard you as a marathon runner would regard a couch potato looking to get into the sport of running.

I have this to say: I will _never_ reach the bottom of books' wellspring of value. I have not, yet reached diminishing marginal returns. Every book I read makes the next one more valuable.

You don't, however, have to read as much as I do to gain the benefit. My whole life, every year has brought me a handful of life-altering, mind-blowing new books.

That being said, I have put down many bad ones. Do not be afraid to quit a boring book. There are too many to read. There are so many more out there. Skip to the next one.

> I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations.

I don't.

> I even find myself reading the comments and not reading the article most of the time.

Me, too. Books are way different, however. Articles too often, in my experience, couch the _news_ in many paragraphs of exposition, and background context. I skim them looking for the _novel_ information. Not so, with books, which I read in order to _augment_ my contextual, background understanding.

Time spent absorbed in a book allows for deeper re-wiring of one's basic precepts. An article may help you navigate your current mental models with agility, but only a book offers us the substantial choice of retaining or replacing them.

> Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
-- bell hooks

Novels, likewise, afford a world-altering subsumption of reality. Our imaginations are massively powerful--or else, to put it another way, our connection to material reality is tenuous, and can be all-too-easily shifted to project ourselves into fantasies. A visit to alternate realms--even as mundane as contemporary fiction set in a different town--grants us opportunities that short forms don't. I have only rarely been swept away by a reddit comment, and felt myself to have visited another place. (One example might be the roadside in "Today You, Tomorrow me.")

I think you're reading in the wrong genre. There are dozens, and truly their boundaries are fluid, but self-help is perhaps the most vapid.

You are missing out.

I would recommend Bujold's "The Curse of Chalion" as a fantastic, mature novel with fantasy elements, or Stephenson's "Snowcrash" for a colorful adventure not without gravitas. If you're trying to gain non-fiction information, I would recommend Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America," CrimethInc's "No Wall They Can Build," or Ehrenreich's "Dancing in the Streets."

In the realm of pure intellectual pursuit, Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" will not disappoint.
Yep, that’s a future cost of the decision to not go to the concert, not a sunken cost like the cost of the ticket. It’s not relevant to the discussion of sunken costs.
> Reliably scaling outbound mail is the easy bit - the hard part is the reputation management that managed mail services provides, and no specific deployment mechanism will solve that.

^this. if you want to send email its not hard....but if you want that mail to pass spam filters its a different problem altogether. hosted services like SES and mailgun will expose problems in how you are using emails (not handling bounces, not handling unsubscribes, etc) and in our case was very helpful.
What did you find disappointing about the comment? Why not reply to it?
The authors of this regulation probably assumed that married couples would not be induced to split just to collect money, and that single moms would stay chaste in order to collect, and thus not have more out-of-wedlock children. So they set up a law that incentivized behavior they were trying to avoid. It's like the Marriage Penalty ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty ) except worse.

So it probably wasn't a result of maliciousness but rather a lack of imagination and empathy (aka stupidity).
I’m wondering why his dynamic glibc C executable is so big.
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Completely fair locks can have extremely terrible throughput performance, so depending what you are doing with them, they might not be a good idea...
To bolster you argument a bit..

I have a background in systems engineering building public/private cloud from hardware(cab and networking physical and logical provisioning) to VM provisioning automation and tooling. I've provided managed server, PHP hosting, Mail, and just about any other form of support you can imagine an ISP/Hosting provider needing to provide.

These days I deal more with full stack development and SRE type work. I ACTIVELY AVOID running servers, using tools like Chef and Ansible, and running kubernetes clusters unless there is a strong value proposition for them that can't be ignored. This despite the fact that I have no gatekeepers and ton of experience with all of them.
A typical example might be a blogging app where posts reference users. Each separate post might have to have a copy of the same user object, whereas with a normalized state structure [0], the posts reference users by ID, and there is a single copy of each user object stored in a lookup table by ID.

[0] https://redux.js.org/recipes/structuring-reducers/normalizin...
When you saids "It is just that .." , did you really mean those are the only causes of the higher black crime rate? If not, what do you think the other major causes are?
Total. I was wondering what sort of Co2 it released and if this speed up Climate changes in measurable way, or is it a drop in the bucket.
The portion of your comment I disagreed with was here:

> I'm not aware of Russia doing anything remotely similar since its birth (where "birth" refers to the collapse of the USSR).

While I agree that Russia _cannot_ have the same impact, it’s not for lack of trying. The “unfair” part was comparing 243 years of history with 28. However even within the past few decades you seem to be ignorant of or ignore Russia’s actions in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria; the violence Putin used to gain and hold power; killing Russian citizens who are political adversaries; and the active belligerence and aggression that Russian Intelligence has shown toward other countries, especially in the last few years.

None of this excuses aggressive behavior by any other country, but to say that Russia has been exemplary or that they’ve not engaged in horrific behavior as well is simply untrue.
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Just today, I went back to one of my old textbooks (Lathi's Signal Processing and Linear Systems) and came out with some really important points about Fourier analysis that I'd missed the first time around. A good, carefully written textbook makes hard choices about context, sequence, presentation, and level of detail. It's a coherent whole. All the information might be out there on the internet, but the cognitive load of evaluating whether the source is trustworthy and relevant, and of interpreting it without supporting context, is much higher on the internet than it is with a book.

And then, there are the pleasures of fiction. I can't argue for fiction other than to say that it's good in a way nothing else is, and you have to experience it to understand.

If you want to try, start with good short stories. You could do worse than the sort of "anthology of classic short stories" they sell in the bargain bin at the used bookstore. There's often gems in there. Look for O Henry, Mark Twain, de Maupassant, Dickens, maybe some of Balzac's shorter material. Skip anything that doesn't grab you. Once you've developed an appetite, try more involved works. Survivor bias operates in your favor here: 19th and early 20th century works that we're still talking about are generally quite good, and there are quite a lot of them. Both recency and copyright law oppose you finding good novels written in the last century. There are many, but you're more likely to miss something good because it's not fashionable, or read something bad because it is.

So yes. Books are worth it.
> Black community does not have a solid culture and tradition comparing to other immigration minority groups

Just curious, what evidence do you think you have for this claim?
> This is exactly the situation for a well-balanced parallel work queue.

What if your work queues are running on a multitasking operating system that runs services? And what about a hypervisor?
There is definitely a major difference between the Canadian and American university experience. But the parent poster is still correct that the author of this post's experience is warped.
I'm a Redux maintainer, and I strongly agree with this post. I've been suggesting that people avoid using Immutable.js for years [0]. There's just not enough benefit.

Instead, we _do_ recommend that folks use the Immer library for immutable updates [1], preferably as part of our new official Redux Toolkit package [2].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/4rcqpx/dan_abra...

[1] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-immer-for-w...

[2] https://redux-toolkit.js.org
11% is a huge and totally unacceptable number. We need to get our shit together.
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It’s not rational to choose receiving $500 and having your wife and friends be upset at you, unless you value the $500 more than having your wife and friends be on good terms with you. That’s a tautology, of course, but apparently it needs to be said.
If could understand if Iraq struck back at the US. But kicking back at the US by seizing a British oil tanker or attacking Saudi civilians and Iraqi protestors?
> Such systems of discrimination surely aren't more powerful now than when the government was enforcing Jim Crow, when schools were segregated by force, when the Ku Klux Klan was not only active but had active members sitting in Congress, and when academics openly claimed that non-whites were inferior to whites and proposed eugenic 'solutions'.

Unfortunately, they are. Those clumsy relics of explicit bias were too reliant on individual antipathy, which is dissipating in a connected world, where others' experiences area available through books, movies, and the Internet.

What we have, instead, is a much more sophisticated, and less error-prone system. It's not a "convenient scapegoat," it's actually very, very inconvenient. Institutional biases are hard to change, especially when they're baked into the ends, and not incidental means.
You don’t understand. $240K is not cool, $2M is cool.
Good luck with hourly billing to get that kind of money.
The only way to still doing what we love - software engineering (not some kind of managerial, leading, business role) is fixed price and re-selling already implemented stuff (same approach as lawyers).
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I heard someone say a long time ago something along the lines that the frontal lobe develops differently between ethnic groups and that it controls your empathy and impulse reactions. I haven’t seen any research that supports this though (and did nit search for that). It would be interesting to see if this claim is supported by science.
I recommend _Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers_, https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Editing-Practical-Editors-H...
>Such systems of discrimination surely aren't more powerful now

How do you figure? Is it easier or harder to fight discrimination in, say, employment when, "We don't hire negroes," is stated upfront, compared to when black applicants are denied for "cultural fit" reasons?

>something else is clearly doing the lion's share of destruction.

Again, how do you figure?
If you don’t want a video of yourself in the Internet, don’t make a video. I always assume that any picture I take can leak to everyone anytime. How naive can you be? Someone pays you money to have sex with a stranger (prostitution in my mind) and take a video of it. And she really thought they wouldn’t sell the video?
It’s an odd mistake to make, since it implicitly recognizes that someone may value the experience of seeing the concert more than $500, but fails to recognize that someone may value their close social relationships more than $500.
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