skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I am referring to: http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-slow-start/

> As it turns out, Clojure start time is a complicated and multi-dimensional topic. Clojure projects are slow to start not only because of JVM — JVM itself starts in ~50 ms — but because of JVM specifics the classes are loaded slowly. Clojure projects are slow to start not only because of Clojure — Clojure itself starts in ~1 second — but because of Clojure specifics, the namespaces, especially not AOT-compiled one, are loaded slowly. And so on.
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It happened way earlier than Pixels. The Nexus 5 is the last device that supports Miracast.
1.5 generations ago in 1950, about %8 of people went to College. I don't think that 'free' in relative terms is quite accurate as it was clearly still out of reach of most people it'd seem.
I'm sure the wayback machine or other similar projects have lots of search results pages indexed.
Appeal to authority is generally not a healthy line of arguing. Only the argument itself should be considered.
It's the same as saying you're a lawyer.
The same is true for entry-level media jobs. Paying $40-$50k in NYC... you can be sure kids without generational wealth & parents financial assistance choose other paths.
Having been a few times.... This is a wild exaggeration.
Back in the 90s a friend of mines dad donated a room full of new PCs for the pc lab (486 dx66) and some big monitors to our high school. My friend at the time thought that since he was the main one (voluntarily) tech supporting most of the PCs in the lab, and it being his dad who donated everything, that he could exchange a few things with his personal setup at home. Initially it was trading his 1MB RAM sticks for 4MB sticks. Near the end it was carrying home one of the those incredibly heavy Sony Trinitron 21" CRTs (the one with composite outputs) on his bike handlebars a few miles home down. I rode with him and kept thinking no way he'd make it... but he did, although there a few close calls stopping at traffic lights.
In the spirit of his (sadly passed away) adventurous self, a few years ago I carried home 2x 24" LCDs that i had lent my friend the week prior... on my unicycle, figuring my hands were free, why not carry something? The worst part was going up hills... thankfully there were no spills ;)
> Where nickel is mined and refined, it destroys land and leaves waste.

Sounds like this process might have more immediate use as a preventative measure to reduce the footprint of conventional mining processes. Catch the residuals in the tailings and the slag.
I'm sure you didn't. I didn't either and I don't know if me commenting here at all was in any way constructive.

It's a nuisance problem with no clear solutions.
The fact that you include 'going to the hospital' as common sense advice shows you're severely, severely out of touch with the common reality of the average American.

Very few Americans are going to go to the hospital, let alone the doctor if they catch the coronavirus. Because few Americans can afford the costs of healthcare. Even I would be hesitant to go and I have good health insurance because the cost could still be in the thousands of dollars!

So the only people that'll end up going to the doctor are likely those with more severe symptoms while those with more mild issues will continue to spread it by going to work (because they can't afford taking time off) and so forth. We've dug our own hole and now we get to deal with something we never were prepared for.
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Exactly that law.
objconv – Agner Fog's object file converter [pdf]
You could just buy used gear. Apple doesn't benefit from that purchase.

Better to buy something that's already in existence in the local area where you live, than some new product from some supposedly ethical company that also requires turning natural resources into unrecyclable material via dirty energy and the generation of toxic waste.
Yes, self-rationing care is already a huge problem in the US.
Looks interesting for personal or company wide search across multiple document types.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, but didn't Double Line (or some other firm) produce an article that the lower interest rates are, the less affect there is in lowering the rate?

One would assume that a cut from 1% to 0.5% would mean a 50% change in Interest Payments. While a 8% to a 7.5% cut would mean only a ~6% change.

In practice, it's much more complicated than that.
The two platforms are targeting different audiences and solving different problems so I don't think it really pays to compare them.

For example Plan 9 was released in a market where UNIX was already successful and "good enough". So it was always going to be a tough sell. Whereas BeOS was released in an era when desktop OSs totally sucked (NT wasn't yet ready for home users, Windows 9x was an unstable mess, Mac OS 8 and 9 were even worse than Win 9x, Linux wasn't even remotely ready for the casual user and Atari / Amiga dead and becoming increasingly irrelevant in all but a few niche scenes). Even at that time it felt like desktop operating systems sucked and then along came BeOS and proved just how much better things could be. It felt light years ahead of the competition and yet still failed (I'm not bitter at all!)

It's also worth noting that Plan 9 did go on to influence UNIX and Linux quite a lot since. So while 9P transport might superficially feel like the only Plan 9 tool to survive (it's not because people do use other stuff like ACME), there's a lot of Plan 9's influence in modern *nix too (eg FUSE).
Which internet stranger am I to believe?
"Physics has the notion of an observer, which is inherent to all matter."

I have no idea what you mean by this.

As for circular, I saying it is impossible to define consciousness in a way that excludes man made machines (is my computer conscious because it is aware of other similar machines on the network, as well as its own place in the network? Is a self driving car conscious because it is aware of its position in space relative to other cars?), without simply using other words that have similar meaning.

People define "conscious" using words like "aware" or "feel" or "think", while being quick to assume that all words don't apply to machines. But they won't explain why not.

This goes into detail about circularity of definitions: http://www.karmatics.com/docs/dictionary.html
> We've got to get away from this myth that learning a programming language makes you forever forget how to shower, makes you unpleasant, ignorant of the customer, etc.

This wasn't even implied, and seems like a projection of your internal biases.

My point was geeks are good at some things, and bad at others. Nobody is better at everything, and that is a profoundly arrogant stance to take.

> What is not avoidable is that people who don't know how to program, and how software works, still don't know how to program, and end up making decisions while blind.

Sure, and most geeks have never made a sale in their life. Most geeks have never raised VC capital before. Most geeks have never had to make a presentation to shareholders before.

Geeks have their strengths and weaknesses just like everybody else. However this "us vs them" mentality is just a setup for disaster. Sure, it would be better if more people had the knowledge to code like geeks as that lends them more perspective. Likewise, it would be better if more geeks had the knowledge to do sales, create partnerships, and everything else useful for running a business as it would lend them more perspective. But people can only do so many things with the hours in a day, which is why people specialize and collaborate.

The obvious superficial example to bolster my argument is to look at the clusterfuck of product launches at Google, a fundamentally engineering-first company. They're the laughing stock even amongst geeks here on HN.
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I'm sure things were a little rocky for the cotton industry in 1865 too...
While true the hospitals cannot turn away patients who are sick, it pretty much guarantees anyone who has any form of assets will never do so. U.S. is based on percentages, ie. company may be allowed by law to make only 20% profit. So, the bill is made multiple orders of magnitude higher at first bill. Then, "insurance earns its money" by lowering that bill. Then, you usually have to negotiate the final bill and deal with all the associated third-party charges. Finally, medical bills are very hard to discharge.

The only people who think the U.S. has a good health care system are the rich who can afford anything and the poor who watch the news (propaganda) extolling how good our system is but don't actually take part in it. Even if you have insurance, you have to be very careful about what you use and when.
The precision of locomotor odometry in humans (2008) [pdf]
https://github.com/jmapio/jmap-perl seems the most similar to the project discussed here. Anyone have experience with it?
Yes and no.

An AD DC can be offline for as long as 60 days (by default, since the actual length of time is covered by AD's tombstone lifetime, which is configurable) and recover just fine, assuming you're not to worried about the intrinsic fact that changes at or affecting that site aren't replicated immediately.

And assuming you plug the site back into the network somehow, under your 60 day limit, AD will largely just keep truckin'. If you've got sites that are offline for more than 60 days at a time due to unforseen circumstances, well, maybe those sites need some other solution.

Spotty connectivity is just fine for AD, though, especially if you're designing things properly.
Would formal verification be helpful in this situation?
> it's been a decade since the article so I wonder how it's working out?

What article? The actor model dates back to 70s much has been written about its various implementations and incarnations since then.

If you don't treat it like a theoretical model of computation (like Hewitt does), then what's left is various largely unrelated architectures that employ message passing, with various levels of granularity.

I don't think any claim about higher developer productivity can be made without specifying what it's being compared to.
Not sure what the old one looks like, but this is pretty appealing.

Up front and center code examples are nice, and IMO works well.

The Rust-example would have been a running application on my machine, had I not already been in bed and reading it on my phone.

Good job!
Is there any proof that more primitive humans (ones who ate a more natural diet, I mean) lived longer or had other benefits (e.g. seem younger at older ages)?
Yes. "Crispiness is a stimulant to active eating; it appears to hold a particular place in the basic psychology of appetite and hunger satiation, spurring one to continue eating."

And that's how the food industry turned America into a nation of oinkers. Even modest convenience stores now have entire aisles of chips.
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In regards to powering a bunch of gear traveling, I'll share my secret tip for international travel: Bring a surge protector/power strip, then you only need one actual adapter. I've found a few that support varying standards.
Yes, become a co-founder or act as one by entirely, completely, unapologetically owning the product by going way beyond the distance regular people go: code, architecture, features, marketing, UX, the business side of things, the pitch, legal, relations with prospects, knowledge management, documentation, building tooling for colleagues, building deployment pipelines, making it easier for co-workers to do their work, disseminating knowledge, living good engineering practices, enabling colleagues in areas where you're better, simplifying onboarding, training documents, sales copy, story of the product, everything and I mean everything down to the minute details legal documents have or the phrasing of responses to non-pursuit towards job applications. Own everything.

As far as I can tell, many things are limited only by the amount of complexity people are willing to handle and the workload they can support. If you're okay pulling a work-day with co-workers and then another one when they leave, then we understand each other. Some people can pull off 16 hour work days or more, even during the week-ends, even during holidays and think about the product all the time. Some are great and can do that in 4 hours, I personally can't.

Find things that suck, fix them, institutionalize that knowledge, document everything, prepare for the eventuality of your disappearing, build an organization, train people to think like that, read a whole lot, become good a things, add a lot of value, become someone you would fear if they were a competitor, have very high expectations of yourself and be afraid to disappoint yourself tomorrow, experiment, demonstrate by building things and implementing things, not just as "ideas" but actual outputs, either codes/graphics/copy/documentation/training manuals/videos. Go for it.
It is easier on the client side as you’d only have to implement the parts you actually need. In server side if you want to expose JMAP then you’d have implement _everything_. You can’t decide for example that as no-one actually copies messages but moves, then you’d skip the copy endpoint.
I didn't saw yet a single industrial baguette that was better than what my local baker does.

Industrial one may be crispy but have nothing like a good one.
"the Linux ecosystem and its various distros can do just about everything Windows and Mac could."

Can you please stop spreading that myth? It is wrong, wrong, wrong. It will just lead to false expectations and then disappointment with linux.

It is not only video-editing. What about audio? Qubase or FL studio? Nope.
I like audacity, too. But it is not at all in the same league.

Photoshop?
No, gimp is not equal.

And countless other professional software no one bothered to write linux versions, but quite some people need for their work.

And how about driver support on laptops? It is a fckn* gamble and you are allmost allways worse with linux on a laptop, than with the windows drivers. I wish it would be different, than I could dump my chromebook for a real linux laptop that satisfy my use case (small, light, long batterie, no standby hickups)

So yes, we need more people in open source software and hardware to change that for the better, but that won't work with false promises.
> A single context switch is in the range of 100K-1M CPU cycles.

1M cycles is roughly 300 microseconds (assume 3 GHz processor, so 3 cycles is 1 nanosecond). Eli’s graph from the post I referenced above, has a context switch in the 1-3 microsecond range [1] depending on taskset/core pinning. The high end (3 microseconds) is about 10000 cycles then.

Maybe you mean fork() or pthread_create for your 1M cycles?

[1] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/images/2018/plot-launch-switch...
From https://www.agner.org/optimize/

(about halfway down the page...)

Excerpt:

Object file converter

"This utility can be used for converting object files between COFF/PE, OMF, ELF and Mach-O formats for all 32-bit and 64-bit x86 platforms. Can modify symbol names in object files. Can build, modify and convert function libraries across platforms. Can dump object files and executable files. Also includes a very good disassembler supporting the SSE4, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, FMA4, XOP and Knights Corner instruction sets. Source code included (GPL)."

Download:

https://www.agner.org/optimize/objconv.zip

Related:

https://github.com/gitGNU/objconv
there is a paper regarding coronavirus [S]protien and ACE2 interaction

https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnm1267
Spice/heat >>> sweet. And I have never heard anyone refer to crunch as a flavor.
Actually most of the uninsured in the States are covered by public funds and consume more healthcare than other cohorts. It’s the underinsured and those with high deductible plans that may not go to a doctor due to cost,

The outcome is the same but the health cohort might be a surprise depending on your mental model.
Pretty exhaustive list ... here's one more:

* No need for a road atlas, or asking people for directions to their home and scribbling spoken directions down on paper
* And even when MapQuest finally came around, no more need to print out the directions!
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Another comment goes into more detail, but it's not too complicated. In the US, a lot of people are reluctant to seek healthcare because of the high cost. So people in a poor economic situation who are starting to feel the symptoms are forced to take a gamble:

- Go to the hospital, get tested, possibly get quarantined, lose work income, possibly get fired, possibly pay large bill if uninsured

- Don't go to the hospital, hope you recover fine

If it splits half-half, that's a lot of people who are going to be going outside and infecting people.
I would argue that smaller metros in America have a much more diverse housing stock than what you say here - while there are certainly plenty of houses in far-flung, low-density neighborhoods and ugly apartments in massive complexes, there are also typically more appealing urban neighborhoods in the main city (and often in the larger suburbs) with a good mix of businesses, community buildings, transit, small apartment buildings, townhouses and single-family homes all intermingling. Though these neighborhoods are often desirable as a result and it can take some waiting for an appropriate listing to go for sale, rentals are usually in high supply.
IMO the flagship items are:

- The marginal case fatality rate is 0.7% in China, and 0.6% globally, and trending down [page 12, 13]

- Death rate under 7 is 0%, under 40 is 0.2%, under 50 is 0.4%

- Almost 55% of people are asymptomatic entirely and not counted in the fatality rate data due to lack of widespread systematic population testing
The Professional Engineer title in much of the United States is an additional level of credentialing and is more rigorous than just completing an undergraduate degree in an engineering field (though I guess some areas let you qualify with years of regular demonstrable experience).

The Engineer license came up particularly to address quality control in civil engineering works [1]. So it's actually important to protect that, lest a bunch of folks start deciding they're qualified to give opinions on complicated structures or earthworks.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
Or buy your iphones used from craigslist, and ride your bike to the sale. That way you aren't contributing to further polluting the worlds oceans and the port of Los Angeles when the shipping container with your fairphone is received by the longshoreman.
I can't get over the cultural issues. Life's too short to spend my time around people who are devoutly religious or think Trump is great for America. Let alone the backwards attitudes on sexuality and gender.

Maybe if I was married I could imagine it for a short time. But as a single guy I don't think I'd find the dating pool I'm looking for in a place like Tulsa. And I sure as hell would not raise children in that kind of community.
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"... wanted to bootstrap a business by optimizing costs" -- The famous quote "premature optimization is the root of all evil" comes to mind. :-) As a fellow tech entrepreneur, thinking long and hard about my planned startup's technology stack, I was also guilty of initially leaning toward a scalable, safe, enterprise-y and fancy, but less mature, stacks, like C# on .NET Core and Julia, correspondingly. However, upon my extensive research and thinking, I'm now leaning toward using Python and Flask for API-focused backend and Vue for frontend. After all, unless you're the next Google (or, at least, Dropbox), costs of your infrastructure would be negligible compared to business costs associated with people (due to salaries) and lost time-to-market advantage (due to higher complexity and learning curve). Should a startup become wildly successful and scale-driven cost optimization would become an issue, it most likely would make much more sense from the strategy perspective to ask a team to rewrite the platform(s) - or, rather, its relevant performance-critical parts - into a highly-performant language, like Rust. Having said that, I still think that the containerized applications (not necessarily microservices!) approach might be preferable, despite corresponding increase in extra complexity, learning curve, efforts and costs, because IMO the above-mentioned extras are less significant (and, thus, more affordable for a bootstrapping startup) than those associated with attempting to use new to founders or relevant team or not mature enough language and corresponding technology stack.
I was playing with Glade the other day and it is quite a nice but also hard to get into. I wish there were more examples. I'm try trying to replicate some things I see in the GNOME settings app already, but I can't quite get it.

So - more Glade files as examples would be really helpful! Apperantly, most GNOME apps don't use it,not I just can't find the Glade source files for them.

But I guess the fact that the tutorial link brings you to a tutorial which doesn't work with the Glade version in the screenshot already gives away that glad might not be first priority.

It's still pretty good tough.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive If You Don’t Believe in It
If they can work remotely, people also move closer to family once they have kids, not everyone moves to Barcelona or Thailand.
You need to dig a bit but I spent a month there and was never short of things to see and do.
This is laughable. Just renting another box at Hetzner with the specs necessary for their Gitlab would be around $100-$150 per month. That is maybe 1-2k per year. With 10tb/month traffic included already, IIRC, additional at a very reasonable price, and traffic to their already existing Hetzner runner box being non-metered to begin with.

But woooh, that's probably not cloudey enough.
Pretty sure, unless the law has changed from when I took the required professional practice courses in engineering school. (I went to schools in Quebec and Ontario)

That part you cited in wikipedia has no citations and may not be legally correct. This is something that is codified in Ontario law [1] (not sure about other provinces, but I believe it is harmonized federally -- in Quebec the title ingenieur/engineer is protected.). This law has been tested several times (example in [2]). More info here [3]. Even Microsoft had to give up the use of the term "engineer" in Canada after being hit with lawsuits [4].

[1] https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p28#BK43

[2] https://www.peo.on.ca/engineering-licensing-body-clarifies-u...

[3] https://engineerscanada.ca/frequently-asked-questions

[4] https://www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/engineering/micro...
The thing that’s always fascinated me about fantasies of using lie detectors to protect consumers or citizens from liars is that the most convincing liars have lied to themselves first.

They fully believe their own bullshit. By any objective measure they aren’t lying. They’re dogmatic and steadfastly wrong. You know, idiots.
Most quantum optics experiments are done by simply attenuating laser pulses until they have on average much less than one photon per pulse. This way the probability of having more than one photon is very low (at the cost of reduced count rates since most pulses don't contain any photons). These pulses can then be used to create entangled photon pairs using SPDC.

There are also several ways of creating pulses that contain exactly one photon, but this is way more complicated.
I call these McQualifications.

They're a negative signal when I see them in a CV.

Virtually all certification schemes are a scam with extra steps. Candidates who don't see the scam for what it is, are bottom of the barrel. Likewise employers who bought into the scam are bottom of the barrel.