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I got into a debate with a republican over defense funding. I stated how the great bay-area recession of the early nighties was caused by scaling back of cold-war funding. Bases were closed and Lockheed Martin and others laid off alot of workers. They agreed it was terrible for the economy.

So I pointed out how they admit that Government funded make-work projects can have a positive effect on economies. So why not just switch from military spending to other tech spending? Why is it the military is the only government run make-work programs that R's support?
Walter Bright has said on several occasions that compilation speed was one of his design goals for D.
Source for that no longer being the case? My SF housing activist friend says that this has not changed.
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Selfish is the wrong word I think, people are myopic about density and assume its inevitably a negative. A number of cities have shown that's not the case.
> Apple's patent for rounded corners didn't help Samsung engineers from creating their devices

Yes, the time and money Apple spent designing their devices saved Samsung quite a lot of money and effort when they had to design their own.
«All the data is not valid»

That's a non-answer. My data is valid. I challenge you to point out specific errors.

My data comes from two sources:

1) Initially I replicated the chart by Dr. Melvin Sanicas, a vaccinologist and public health physician, that he posted on twitter (here: https://twitter.com/Vaccinologist/status/1220469109378502658). He had no citations for his numbers. So I performed light fact-checking but didn't bother documenting citations for each number because (a) he is a doctor and (b) his chart got massive reviews on twitter and no one pointed out significant errors.

2) For the rest of the number, I plugged them in myself WHILE adding proper citations to either peer-reviewed papers or to the best estimates available today.

As to empty cells, they are empty when the data is not yet researched, or not known, or because it is irrelevant (eg. for most older diseases that have vaccines available I didn't bother researching if asymptomatic transmission is possible because it is irrelevant: most people in developed countries are vaccinated as such such diseases are no longer prevalent.)
Ketamine infusions can completely, instantly and seemingly permanently remove these racing thoughts, allowing you to only have them when you want them. Doesn't impact creativity either. Feels like the part of the brain responsible for running worrying scenarios quiets down and only brings them up to consciousness when necessary. There are several studies showing anxiolytic in addition to anti-depreesive effects. Doesn't work for everyone, though.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31339086
> It's debatable these bugs would've existed if a Jepson pipeline had been consistently in use from the 0.4.x days.

I don't think it would have helped: the Jepsen tests I wrote in 2014 only checked single-key gets, puts, and CaS operations; the problems we found in this report were in watches and locks.
Man seems really interesting, but $25 to $35 for a 30 ounce can is roughly 2 to 3 times what other cheeses similar cost.
But if I haven't spent the effort to extract it, do I really own it? Let me argue that I don't have it because all my implemented queries turn up none of your data. You wouldn't tax me on gold that hasn't yet been extracted, would you? (End of joke.)
This furthers my hypothesis that it is entirely possible we live in a completely different "reality". My red is different than your "red", so on and so forth. Just like its incomprehensible for me to imagine what additional color is there outside of my human range; your reality could be unimaginable to me too.

That is, I do not know what its like to be you. I don't think this necessarily mean that we live in different physical reality, its just that we come to interact with it through completely different means.
It's much likelier that they are responding to the voters that have the time and money to make their reelection difficult.
Being able to independently deploy components is only useful if you can test the deployed components in isolation. This requires extremely well thought out interfaces and is really what makes the components independent.

It seems in many cases teams have decided to port their highly coupled monoliths over to highly coupled distributed monoliths and now they have the worst of both worlds.
>Sad to see "tenant" organizations yell and scream about gentrification and displacement, ignoring the fact that both of those things are happening right now.

Spicy take: they're fundamentally not mad about those things happening right now, they're mad about those things happening to them right now. California housing advocacy is Winston Smith screaming, "Do it to Julia!" over and over again.

They oppose bills like SB50 because they prefer a zero- or negative-sum solution over a positive-sum solution, which would still allow those people to live near them and "destroy their community".
I think there are a few candidate computational problem domains that fit the (useful work / fast verification) conundrum. My idea for solving some of the problems of a useful work approach:

1) To make it distributed

Have a set of institutional (eg. Ivy League University Labs) generators that publically post their "Work Units" on their websites and miners attack these problems in round robin fashion.

2) To prevent pre-computation attacks

Have a problem space that is so vast it would be worse than lottery ticket level foolish to try to precompute a solution. Then use a secure hash algorithm seeded with data from the last block to randomly select the "Work Unit" on a particular lab website to work on.

3) Uneven work cost / solution convergence

Have a set of objective pseudo metrics for distributing rewards. I'm trying not to be too coy but there are definitely computational problem domains where you could 'bernoulli' control reward frequency and still make useful work progress.
Yep, if safer or more effective innovative techniques become known, US MDs are not expected to practice them until those innovations become accepted as the standard of care. Other industries/professions don't get that break.
Simply because it has a mortality rate a couple of orders of magnitude greater than the flu's. Something like 8 percent of the world gets the flu in a given year. Millions will die if that happens for this one.
I'd like to explore this aphantasia idea a bit more. I would classify myself as very visual, but on thinking about this more ... it's not like I have a high-fidelity visual impression of the imagined object in my mind's eye. It's more like a physical / tactile impression of presence. Is that what it's like for you?

As I'm sitting here, I'm thinking of describing it as ...
If I shut my eyes I still know roughly where the monitor corners, the keyboard, the table corners, the wine-bottle, the apple, etc. are. It's not like I'm seeing them, but I can spatially query them and perform operations on them. So is this a difference in internal perception, or is it a difference in how we describe those internal states?
Chris Wilson talks about how PoE implements RNG (and procedural generation) little bit in his GDC talk which is on youtube, he mentions one of the design pillars of the game is "multiple overlapping axis of randomness" the whole video is really good.

I love the amount of randomness that exists in the game some of the items that can drop are completely build defining (legion jewels and Watcher's Eyes for example) but also hugely random if you manage to get your hands on one with interesting rolls it feels like possibilities are endless.

At the same time I think they have realized players like some amount of agency as well a lot of the newer content they've introduced has semi-deterministic outcomes where player's action can influence the rewards stuff like Syndicate hideouts, incursion temple etc. Gives you some control over what items you will get at the end of the content.
He doesn't have to move far and away, he can go live to the other side of the San Mateo bridge and pocket at least a million dollars on the house price difference.

And as others have mentioned, there are other mechanisms to defer the tax payment based on the house equity.

The real cruel thing is to lower the bar for the "have" (as in have a house in SV) and higher it for the "have not".
This is also one of the things I suggested that'd be nice to have in the etcd API, along with an AST for boolean operations over guard expressions, more flexible comparators etc. You can emulate these with a sequence of independent transactions, but it'd be nice if the micro-transaction system were a tad more general.
I used to get in so much trouble for this in primary/secondary school. Listening to someone talk was boring beyond belief. So I read sci-fi in class.

I could always respond correctly when called upon, and could recite virtually word-for-word the entire class lecture if need be, so I eventually got a pass to just do my thing.

At this great distance in time I can see how this was impolite to say the least. But, really, it was bordering on abuse to make me sit there and listen with nothing else to keep my mind occupied.
One thing that I noticed when I was a child was that I didn't internally sound words out when I read them. I have to consciously switch to "hearing" the words in my head when I read. My elementary school cohort all told me that they always heard the words when they read and I have found this to largely be the case when I talk about it with adults now.

I think this allowed me to read faster at an early age as I was not limited to the tempo of speech when reading. Certainly this is true for many people.

One drawback I have noticed: I don't get puns when I am reading unless I slow down and voice out the words.
For what it's worth (not much), it looks like a Wall Street Bettor made this bet. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ewcebh/amzn...
Who are also making large sums of money off the housing crisis. I really don't think the State Senators are likely to consist overwhelmingly of renters, anyway: if their property value is appreciating, they're benefiting.
> There are plenty of people who genuinely believe they can help keep gentrification at bay if they preserve the housing approval systems that exist now

It's a complete reversal of cause and effect. New buildings don't cause demand; new buildings are a response to demand. You can't make the sun shine by passing a law against rain.
I think you mean 1 strand of the flu has a vaccine that only a small percentage of the public administer.
“The way OSS is funded today is not sustainable”
First, if you liked this, check out "Neurolinguistic Programming", it's like the "machine code" of subjective experience.

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Second, I'm an internal-dialog person (FWIW), when I picked up one of the Star Trek (original series-based) novels and read it my mind spontaneously (as in it surprised me) used the actors' voices for the characters dialog. E.g. when I read Kirk's dialog I heard it in Shatner's voice automatically! Same for the other characters. It was pretty startling.
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You're right. I confused it with something else.
That’s why it amuses me whenever people point to this area as some bastion of leftist politics. This place has a decidedly libertarian tilt: socially permissive and very much laissez fair in many if not most ways.
SB50 has all the aspects of a dystopic nightmare much like that which produced Kowloon Walled City...,

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city
email is in my hn profile
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I've often wondered why society doesn't force cigarette manufacturers to make biodegradeable cigarette butts. I've never seen a smoker throw their butts anywhere but the ground.
Have you used offline maps in Google Maps? And compared it to the old mapping software you're talking about? It's kind of amazing, and frankly I often don't notice the difference between online and offline.

The maps sync on a regular basis, it's got detailed information about businesses including hours open, and it will route you different ways based on anticipated traffic at that time of day. It's also surprisingly not niche, as the app automatically sets up zones for places you visit frequently; odds are the majority of people use it without even realizing it.

I used that PDA software back in the day, and frankly it was pretty lacking. Route finding never took that much CPU. We moved to the cloud because the benefits of serving the data vastly outweighs the drawbacks for most people.
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Colab is great, can’t argue with free, but in a business context if you look here https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing#pricing_example_using_a...

the TPU equivalent of 8x quadro 8000 would be something between tpu v2-32 and tpu v3-32, and the monthly cost of tpu v2-32 is ~$8k. Plus the cost of a beefy VM. Assuming the GPU build sets you back ~$60k, it will start saving you $8k/mo after 6 months.
You have a good point but of course the split is adjusted to that consideration.

I don't believe in profiting from life-saving medication or anything like that, so my intention is to drive rapid growth with my activities in the energy, software, and automotive sectors to fund the less immediately profitable goals.

Make money solving the problems I can first, and later use that money to fund the further-off ones.

Currently this strategy is working well, as my assets are growing at above 2000% annually.
In the modern era, lots of mailservers run software that looks for weirdnesses in incoming email. I don't know, but I'd suspect that the typing delays of using telnet to send mail are likely to trigger their defenses.
> I constantly have something in my ears to tune myself out, podcasts or music

Careful with this, hearing damage or tinnitus (ringing in the ears) are both dangers. They often come along with each other.

*weird to get a downvote for warning about these dangers... I have both of these and want to help others avoid my mistakes.
> I think one reason to avoid this approach is because SQL and other DB languages are pretty terrible

Where did you get that from?
It doesn't work well either. If the cursor is already selecting a span of text it can be hard to return it to a single movable cursor and the two finger drag on spacebar thing will just move around the multiselection in a broken way. There is probably some other secret shortcut to toggle, tapping in the text or double tapping just seems to do things at random and rarely gives back a single cursor.
Not sure where in history people started to believe that micro-service architecture is a simpler and easier-to-operate architecture. Each service needs the same operation overhead as one monolith.

The big blocker most monolith faces as the application gets bigger and is deployed into more and more machines is that _releases becomes a bottleneck_. Scaling monolith's applications are difficult because partial rollout is usually not possible as "services" are often tightly coupled.

Micro-service architecture forces services behind a set of APIs. While the APIs may have breaking changes, each can be independently deployed. In other words, teams can do releases at their own pace.

The main cost-benefit analysis here is how important is independent releases vs the cost of operational overhead?
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Yeah, I have a C++ project a fraction of that size that takes longer to compile. I'm quite happy with Rust :)

Glad a core contributor has such high standards though.
Somewhat unrelated but interesting...in the article it states the US is supplying Iraq with F-16 fighter jets? Do the Iraqis know this is a 40 year old fighter jet? The Pentagon’s fourth-generation fighter fleet no longer enjoys a massive technological advantage as they did in years past.

For around the same price you could pick up a faster, newer, more capable Mutiroll SU30 with thrust vectoring and half a chance to evade phased array anti aircraft missile defense. Im guessing perhaps the bidding process in Iraq wasnt exactly as open as it could be.
High Density Housing near transportation hubs has for the most part taken on the appearance of Kowloon Walled City;

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city
Performance numbers without specifying the machine it's running on is pretty much useless. How is this not common knowledge in 2020?

Another thing: I'm not trying to excuse slow builds, but I'm frustrated that people basically always do benchmarks on laptops. Like, come on, if you're doing serious work, use a serious computer; laptops are overpriced, underpowered and overheating compared to a similarly priced PC, not to mention potential inconsistencies due to thermal variation (2nd+ run is more likely to throttle than 1st).

This "mobility über alles" weighting truly baffles me in the face of how much better and cost efficient PCs are. How has no one done a cost/benefit analysis of your highly paid devs being slowed down O(time) versus O(1) hardware purchase?

tl;dr How does it perform on a 5 GHz i9 9900KS with 32 GB (standard since 2012!) m.2 SSD that still costs less than some shiny web browsing toy?

Edit: Wow, crazy downvotes (was at -4 in about 3 minutes) and zero substantial responses to the points raised. I really expected better on HN.
What a nice way to add to the conversation ...

If you have something substantial to post, then do it, otherwise please respect the guidelines of this site ...
A private service where you are very sure that subscribers wants and opens the mail? Easy.

A public service where a lot will be spam and unsolicited emails? Must be hell to run.
Prop 13 is a huge distortion to tax and revenue generally, but it doesn't promote anti-development NIMBYism. If anything, Prop 13 should make denser development more tolerable to existing residents as otherwise denser development in their neighborhood would lead to accelerated increases in assessed land values. That's the very reason Prop 13 was enacted in the first place--to improve ownership security in the face of rapid changes in the neighborhood.

The one and only fix for NIMBYism is to remove local control. Cities have every incentive to continue restrictive zoning because the immediate costs are externalized to the larger region, while the benefits--satisfaction of home owning voters who don't want multi-family dwellings in their neighborhood--inure directly to the city leaders. It's a collective action problem. Mandates don't work well because leaders who comply are voted out of office, while those who find loopholes or simply ignore mandates are favored at the polls.

So when politicians complain that SB50 and similar bills remove local control, that's exactly the point. But nobody wants to say that aloud because to most people "local control" is in the abstract a good thing, and losing local control a bad thing.
Many do, and even large DBs can be accomodated by throwing terabytes of RAM at the problem, but etcd is fundamentally targeted at a different problem domain than a general-purpose database. Everything in etcd is represented by a single-threaded state machine, which is great for simplicity and correctness, but that comes with performance limitations.
Do you have any evidence to back up your assertion?
Defense companies sell butts in chairs. They know the game and play it well. I remember working on defense and the PM was pushing me to reduce hours. I was costing the project over $500/hr. The IC who was working with me could work all he wanted though, due to the way his costs were billed.

Working at that place, I heard stories from other defense veterans detailing massive, unending incompetence and graft.
I'm not trying to discredit them at all. I think the question of patents and trolls is a very important one. It's worth making sure we are not confusing the seriously awful behavior of patent trolls _exploiting_ the system with the intended functioning of the system.

(We can have a rousing debate about whether the intended functioning is something we think is societally advantageous or not, but the changes to that are different than the fixes we need to prevent patent trolls from causing so much harm.)
I remember reading a study about gender pay disparity (where it actually exists between similarly skilled people in the same industry) was because the female members of the group were less likely to ask for pay raises than their male peers. They may have felt more intimidated or less entitled to simply ask, possibly as a cultural side effect (maybe as a result of childhood stuff like the way males are highly competitive early on).

I know a female software engineer friend of mine had read about that and got inspired and ended up asking for a serious raise when she got a new contract. I remember being both surprised and jealous the person said yes and took it as a life lesson.

I also remember tptacek on here always talking about the value in asking for more money as a software person, product, or consultancy because you're probably worth it.

So as the other commented mentioned the qualities of new immigrants might certainly select for this sort of thing, ie, people with high-motivation, bold life plans, taking advantage of their opportunity to really buy into the American dream, etc. That combined with a local-cultural confidence thing could certainly help explain it.
I think in a very spatial way. I can roughly imagine objects or scenes as something like a 3d graph of connected points. I can imagine the facade of my house if I close my eyes only by sort of tracing its shape, in which case I can feel my eyes moving along that dimension as I do it. I cannot imagine a person's actual face, which I'm told is really weird, although I'm very good with recognizing them when I'm shown them. I can generally map out a location as if I was overhead once i've walked through it, but only really as a spatial scene. Closing my eyes is kind of what I imagine its like to be blind.

For very simple objects, I can vaguely visualize them like a drawing from an early 80's graphics demo, but that's about as good as it gets.
I've always been able to do both, really I would call it all three (abstract, visual, sound). Maybe 4? (I can also imagine taste/smell) Maybe it's because I was bilingual from an early age, but I always knew I was a bit different as I tended to think more visually than others. I can talk to myself and it's more now that I'm older but it's still more visual. And there's also what I would categorize as a third type of thought (which I used confused with visual before but have since noticed it's different) that I use when translating. I don't translate from language A to B directly, but through C, this abstract representation of a sentence. It is sometimes visual but not always (since not all concepts are visual, in which case I just feel an "intent" like in the case of a action or feeling). It is also very rare for me to mix languages in one sentence. I never understood people who did it. To me it's like a literal switch I have to flip, and my thoughts flip to that language as well. I can switch back and forth but it feels computationally expensive. Also now learning a new language I find myself in modes C and the new language, say X when trying to switch to it, instead of my dominant language and X.

Anybody experience anything like that?
I built a little service on AWS running on load-balanced EC2 (runs nginx for HTTPS and an internal Node server which securely performs the operation) with a simple API that takes integers and returns the integer plus 1. It's pretty useful for whenever I need to perform addition by one in another web app.
You might not like it, but lots of developers use laptops as their primary computer. Performance is relative anyway.