skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My postdoctoral mentor didn't go that far. But he did say that when he read a book, and encountered the statement of some lemma or theorem, he liked to try to figure out how to prove it himself instead of reading the proof there.

There is also the infamous "exercise" in Serge Lang's algebra book (scroll to the bottom):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pEp00B111JYWU1NmY4MjktZTN...
Thanks! These are SPEC2006 which is already retired, but those numbers for the A13 do indeed come in the same ballpark as the last official SPEC2006 results that were published for Xeons in 2017 before retirement.
The point is you’re eliminating a completely unnecessary vector for getting infected. The risk of getting infected from within the grocery is assumed in both scenarios.
Extracting oil from shale reservoirs was though to be too difficult and expensive to ever really flood the market like this. Turns out it wasn't.
Will it save a person-month in future work? If there's 10 devs working on this project and it will be around for at least another year, then that requires less than a 1% increase in average efficiency.
I think OP was suggesting that authors should have a choice. Either take a government grant in which case output is open source or don't.
Economic conditions have real and immediate health consequences too.

For example, in 2010 US unemployment briefly grew about 6% to a total of 10% in the US and there were 40,000 additional deaths from cancer alone[1]. When you consider heart disease, other illness, drug abuse, and suicide, the numbers are much greater. The often cited number of 40k for each percent unemployment may not be far off if these factors are taken together. We may have already volunteered hundreds of thousands of Americans to die from the economic fallout. If food scarcity becomes and issue, we may have already volunteered millions in the 3rd world to starve to death...

I'm not saying that I know what the correct choice is here, but it isn't as simple as saving lives vs GDP.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This trend also holds true in the OECD where social programs are more common because there are still budgetary constraints on centralized healthcare. Here is a Meta-analysis showing that the risk of death was 63% higher among those who experienced unemployment in the US AND Europe

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/
I think there is/was validity to the concept of EROEI: energy return on energy invested. The EROEI of oil has decreased over time.

What they got wrong was the overall estimate of how much of this stuff there is to be extracted. The easy oil is indeed being used up, but as you invest more and more energy (EROEI decreases) the amount of oil available actually increases. Look at how much tar sands, oil shale, offshore, and heavy crude there is, but all that requires more energy to get.

We would eventually run out of oil to be had at a reasonable energy (and thus economic) cost, but after that if we still needed it we could get it by converting coal. That assumes we decide we don't need the ice caps, or the coastal cities.

We probably have enough carbon to destroy the world.
Serious question: how do I invest in some of those $10 barrels of oil? It seems like a contract to deliver oil at $10 in 2021 is likely to be worth more than by next year.
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The Wikipedia entry (sorry only in French) glosses the background including multiple appeals to the monarch (there was a change of king which helped) and the fight was presided over by the king. Here’s a lengthy discussion in English that describes the process of the trial with multiple appeals to the king as it was in process: http://www.thearma.org/essays/DOTC.htm Per the standards of the era it was a judicial trial.

Though I have an undergraduate degree in French History I didn’t study medieval law (!) which in any case wasn’t as formal as it was today. But this was clearly not taught under the rules of private duel which would have been arranged and resolved relatively quickly.
I've recommended this on here before, but I’ve found "Understanding and Using C Pointers" by Richard Reese, a really wonderful modern book on C.
Yes, I live in NYC, I decided to stay in NYC for this reason.
Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity
It is too difficult and expensive for this. Most of them are taking a loss at this price.
The picture with his cookies contains the suspicious keys "hphone" and "hmail", which likely show md5 sums of his phone number and mail respectively.

Especially the phone one can easily be brute-forced (small search space). I wonder why they hash this in the first place?

I hope they're salted...
is the price war the reason, the consequence or the accelerator of the current market?
https://outline.com/A2HZWv
See my comment to vidarh
The 'oil price war' was 3 weeks ago. Things are changing fast these days.
Find a broker, buy some futures.
Companies producing their stuff in the sweatshops, by exploited workforce, in the poorest regions of the globe. Then selling this stuff with an absurd markup. Companies held by family clans which have become richest on the entire continent. They don't have money for their rent, hmm....
All good points, but these cautions apply before you encounter and touch your purchases as well. In either case, you're cleaning and disinfecting your potentially contaminated purchases inside your home, whether or not someone touched them before or after you purchased them.

I don't think you're eliminating a vector by going out yourself. Not significantly, if at all.
By paying, you leech
The Cheap Bastard Plan
Wins for the user were performance improvements and security. The dev quality of life features (better type checking, f-strings, nicer pathing syntax), as someone else mentioned, will improve our development velocity in the future, which gets back to the users as new features faster.
Is this just an ad? Or a warning?
Which side does the practice of distinguishing between the useful and the useless fall on?
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Airbnb as so many other startup that came out of the "sharing economy" are all about internalising profits and externalising risk and costs. I pretty much would argue that most of them don't have do not have any societal benefit.

It's even worse many of these don't even have sustainable business models it's all about growth and increasing stock prises while leaving a trail of burned soil in their wake. Prime example uber or all the bike and scooter rental companies.
I'm using Typora, which works pretty well for this use case. Open source, cross-platform, very nice. I'm in no way affiliated with it, I just like it :)

I get the parsing difficulties. Generally, at least for markdown, pressing a character should affect only the line (paragraph) that contains it, so worst case scenario, you need to parse the entire paragraph. Worst case scenario, you need to re-render whatever fits on the screen. I refuse to believe it's not possible to do this efficiently with 2020 hardware, and I have proof, in the form of editors that work.

If it's 2020, I try to append a character to a 400k file I have open, and this takes multiple seconds, it's because someone implemented Schlemiel the Painter's Algorithm, not because the hardware is slow or the file is too big.
Many of the world's airlines could be bankrupt
Turns out the world has loads of oil, and is still discovering more, and even more natural gas, coal and so on. We’re not running out anytime soon, which is actually a problem.
I'd be curious to know Sal's response to this. From what I remember, he left a lucrative position at a hedge fund for an uncertain position at his newly founded non-profit. He doesn't seem like the money driven type. With absolutely no evidence, I would guess that:

1. Someone probably had to convince him it was okay to take that salary.

2. The level of his salary is probably just above what it took to hire their top talent, as a technology focused non-profit.
We are also very rural with many families with no internet. Instead of eLearning, we have printed packets available for pickup at the front office. For those with internet, the same packets are available online.
Global death toll tops 30k as Trump weighs quarantine on N.Y. area
I think this article constructs a strawman argument – pretty much all developers are solving some sort of problem.

The big question is who you're solving problems for – when I was a single person doing freelance web work (like this article seems to assume), I was always solving problems for customers and their clients.

Once I started working with other developers, I became interested in solving their problems too – sometimes in the form of a big refactor to improve the code, but also making tools to improve the codebase at scale.
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Java is only throwing generic type information away in the declaration of classes and methods. The code that is accessing generic types is compiled with casts to the expected type. List<String>.get(1) will generate a cast to String therefore nothing is actually missing in the generated code. It is only missing when you use reflection to e.g. deserialize a List via Jackson by passing List<String>.class. That unfortunately won't work because the generic type parameter is not part of the declaration, only the generated code.
> I’d rather be the one to lay hands on all my own products.

Someone had to stock the shelves that morning.

I've been keeping my groceries in the bag, sticking the entire thing in the refrigerator, and then not touching it for at least 24 hours.

The only thing delivery/curbside pickup changes is reducing the time spent breathing in close proximity to other people.
Markets are broken when oil usage develops towards sustainable levels?

We have to drastically cut down oil use, let's not pretend that the pre-corona oil consumption was tolerable, much less desireable.

Now would be a good opportunity make internaltional agreements to cap oil consumption and extraction to its current level in shutdown, and when the shutdown starts to get rolled back, the shock will be smaller as rising demand and price mechanisms reconcile how the remaining lower oil supply gets used.
Offered without comment, I'm not sure what this link to an opinion column is supposed to mean. The quote is a hypothetical example. It seems that T4A is more of a temporary diversion program than a recruitment program anyway. Harvard students, who in a just universe would all become wealthy investment bankers, are encouraged to teach in urban schools for a couple of years. This despite the fact that their Economics and Philosophy concentration probably included very little on pedagogy. This despite the nearly universal (although not necessarily justified) opinion among teachers and administrators that first-year teachers are pretty much useless. This despite the writer's apparent suggestion that the point of the whole thing should be an easier "in" to Goldman.
Prevent the suffering of others, we must.
We'll be at 12 devs this year with a 3 year runway. Thanks, we didn't think to put a precise number on the efficiency improvement!
Xmake v2.3.2 released, Build as fast as ninja
Keeping oil prices low punishes not only Russia but Iran and Venezuela, so that could be a major reason why the Saudis are flooding the market.
I also wonder if the peak oil computations included oil discoveries as the arctic melts.
Many "web apps" are plain CRUD entry forms with fancy CSS animations.
You couldn’t be more wrong. Java and JS have expensive FFI because of the specific costs of synchronizing the VM entry/exit with the GC and JITs.
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The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed
> The iconic shape for a nuclear power plant cooling tower also incorporates curvature in both directions. This shape, called a hyperboloid, minimizes the amount of material required to build it.

What? This is completely meaningless. A hyperboloid shape minimizes the amount of material required to match what constraints? If the goal is to minimize the amount of material while reaching a certain height, you just want a pole. If the goal is to minimize material, full stop, just don't build the tower in the first place. What's the goal supposed to be?
You get some extra legal protections with a normal landlord.

With an assured shorthold tenancy in England it's quite difficult to evict tenants in the first six months; deposits must be protected and held by an independent organisation; there are some legally mandated safety checks, etc etc.
It’s the consequence of the slowdown in demand.
i think the platform has evolved quite a bit over the past 5 years
I have a docker-compose.yml locally with:

dnsmasq -> pihole -> stubby

The first dnsmasq is for local .test domains for dev. Works well for when i'm not on one of my networks.
The OpenJDK JVM (aka Hotspot) addresses both issues: control [1] and monitoring [2] (there are built-in compilation and deoptimization events emitted to the event stream). You can also compile methods in advance [3], and inspect the generated machine code when benchmarking [4]. You can even compile an entire application ahead-of-time [5] to produce a native binary.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/vm/compiler-contro...

[2]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/jfapi/why-use-jfr-...

[3]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/docs/specs/man/jao...

[4]: http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com/2015/07/jmh-perfasm.html

[5]: https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/native-image/
i hope it doesnt go back to the same levels. So many people are learning to work remotely, i hope they stick to it. i dont know what that means for overall energy usage but it seems it will be cleaner
> Compensation should be set at a level where people don't need to worry about money, with a reasonable but basic standard of living. In the Bay, unfortunately, that's around $200k. On the other hand, compensation should not be set at a level where people are there for the money. You want people to be there because they are passionate and care.

This is not realistic based on my experience with what motivates people.

> I'd gladly take a job for $200k with a lifetime guarantee of doing meaningful work over one at $800k without that guarantee.

Nature doesn’t offer guarantees on a lifetime timescale.
Kostya/benchmarks: Some benchmarks of different languages
How is that rule made up? There's one car, if that door's been opened it's not left for the player to open. Obviously you can't win by switching to the location you know it's in because you've seen it, that's not a game.
Delete the associated cookies - or nuke everything in your browser cache.
The price war was unintentionally started just as demand began to be wholesale destroyed by the response to the COVID pandemic. Supply was reduced, but demand was reduced even more by a halting of the global economy.

Saudia Arabia was trying to bring Russia in line with OPEC+ price targets, but Russia has enough state cash reserves and a much lower state budget break even point (~$40/barrel vs Saudi Arabia's ~$80/barrel), so here we are.
Afaik the only modern Lisp implementation that actually uses these techniques is Clojure.
Seems like the original developer should have left a comment about why their nested for loop was the right implementation (if they knew it was). Would have saved everyone a lot of time.
Far less than many charity heads, I think it's completely fair with what he's created and how little he made in the early years from it.

Do you work for a charity/donate all of your time by the way?
I think we've all underestimated just how many people "everybody" is. Normally we're spread out. Now we're either at home, the park, or the grocery store, and suddenly it seems more crowded even though "everybody" is staying at home.
We shouldn't not do other things if we can. I was just arguing that coal is more than 50% of the problem and that getting rid of it is do-able. If we can phase out coal we're halfway there.

Electrification of transport is happening for multiple reasons: climate, high oil prices (they've fallen for now but they'll go back up), the maturing of modern EV tech, and the fact that IVs actually drive better and are lower maintenance.

The drive better part is no joke. It's just physics. I have an older 2013 Leaf, which is a wimpy EV, and it can out accelerate a lot of higher end cars if I want it to.
I've read we're right at the peak with shale. If we continue normal usage/production sans the effects of covid-19, we would've hit the drop off (for shale) of the Hubbard curve some time before 2025.

source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/peak-shal...
It’s not like that’s suddenly over now. But on top of that, demand is even lower, because fewer people are flying and driving around.
A fast memcpy used to be complicated to implement but these days I heard a simple

rep movsb

will do the trick. This assumes that the source register points to source, destination register points to destination and counter register is set to number of bytes to copy.
> Don’t build a datastore on the JVM if you care about tail latencies, you‘ll be fighting the GC forever (see Cassandra)

OpenJDK's ZGC [1] is well on its way to have worst-case latencies of under 1ms (as soon as this year) on heaps up to 16TB in size.

[1]: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main
Java JITs don’t throw away type information. The bytecode carries strong types, though you have to do some work to get them out (some abstract interpretation). But that’s something you can do statically; no need for profiling or speculation.

In JS you can only get the types by profiling.
Video of the incident [1].

The interviewed WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward has his biography removed from the WHO's leadership webpage after the interview [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/emilyrauhala/status/1243905923048976384

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Aylward#Controversy
Basalts turn carbon into stone for permanent storage
Our initial prototype was a cluster-based approach, and once we had a better estimate of user growth and resources we moved to a monolith for all the reasons you cite.
> It's not a huge burden to change your behaviours for other people's benefit especially if others also do the same.

Potentially exposing oneself to a lethal virus is indeed a huge burden, and I do not agree that anyone is obligated to put themselves at risk.
Dispossessed. le guin.

Mon. Grass by the wayside. And then. Soseki.
Look into the parent company of Pornhub, the exploitation they do, and the semi-duopoly they are a part of.

I’d hope people don’t want people in porn to get screwed over figuratively too.
All the good ones.

In all seriousness, I think I heard that FF doesn’t profile concurrently. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why they’re so slow.
for the most part the government could just ask Google and cover majority of people
City hall is 100% responsible for housing shortage. High rise build would fix low supply problem pretty quickly (see Tokio).

How many apartments are on Airbnb? 10%? And probably only in centre.

And some people like me actually stay in airbnbs long term. It is easy to negotiate reasonable price outside of tourist season. Normal landlord is way too expensive and does not bother with basic maintenance.

It is xenophobia, because many cities are blaming their problems on 'tourists'. But those are often foreign workers and students.
I'm not sure if you looked at the papers I linked, but the deaths are not from starvation or violence. Examples would be much more mundane, like a skipped doctors visit which could have detected an early cancer.
Don't have any personal experience, but in the UK I think most supermarkets are taking similar steps, at least when it comes to plexiglass shields and limiting capacity in shops. I was surprised at the extent of the distancing measures in some cases -- looks like Tesco defines a route around (some of? I got this from an ad [1], so, pinch of salt) their shops and has 2m intervals marked throughout.

[1] https://twitter.com/Tesco/status/1243670478524383232
Two ways in Bloomberg. Either search in debug mode and disable two displays that are what is disabling them or simply disable Javascript on their page. It will be limited in functionality but you can read the article.
These are the same assholes that sued Google in federal court, claiming that even if Google provided only snippet results in searches, the very act of Google holding an archive of copyrighted books, and allowing it to be searched, was itself infringement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

Fuck them.
They didn't, and if we go there we definitely have enough carbon to go back to the Pleistocene epoch. Antarctica is believed to contain large coal and oil fields but they have not been thoroughly mapped as they are not economic to reach at the moment.

I recall watching an old 50s documentary on Antarctica when I was bored years ago and they mentioned that there was enough fuel there to satisfy our energy needs for hundreds of years. This was before anyone was very worried about CO2.
As a little experiment of your question (using the original figure actually) I repeated a dozen or so ~lines~ paragraphs of Lipsum... a lot, until I ended up with a text file with a little over 17K lines... 532K words... and either 3.1M or 3.6M characters, depending whether you count spaces.

MacDown (a native MarkDown editor for macOS) opens it in a snap, has no lag editing, and even the rendered preview (which scrolls with the editor side) has no lag. Memory usage was about 150MB.

For shits and giggles I then pasted that content into the OP's linked tool.. The Safari process for that tab is still sitting at 100% CPU a minute or so later, and is unresponsive.

Is this example a bit ridiculous? Sure. But it demonstrates the difference between a native app - oh, and the process for that tab just disappeared because Safari killed it - and trying to make an app in a web browser.
That’s true, but that can’t be eliminated.
the article says the futures are still trading high, meaning you probably couldn't make a lot of money buying them right now, likely because traders know the prices are going to come up too.

Am I misunderstanding?
I'll try a less snarky rebuttal because I think there is a point here.

Why does IA get to make that decision? I get why this has populist support, but that's not an excuse to commit piracy. I get that IA is popular, but I'd also be annoyed if a less popular company did this.

If this was a government level decision to nationalize bookstores, to waive library checkout limits, then I'd understand a little more. But some random company taking copyrighted material they don't own and distributing it without the consent or payment is something very different.

I'd further point out that publishers, copyright holders, etc also need money to operate. I get that they can be less of a sympathetic group than author, but they have rights and they have bills to pay.

Theres lots of public domain books, books from libraries, free online content, etc. Theres no reason we need this sort of piracy to get through the pandemic.