skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can, and have been, calling the ability to work from home a privilege.

I think what you are calling "privilege" is an advantage, but it seems to me that because there is a consensus that "privilege" is bad, that's what everything is called whether it really is or not.

Have you seen the cartoon (there are many variations) comparing equality with equity? Where there are three people of different heights, and equality is where they each have the same height crate to stand on to see over a fence, whereas equity is where the shorter ones have more of a boost.

The thing that I noticed about that, is that it seems implicitly to be saying that advantage, if uncompensated for, is bad and shameful, while appropriate privilege is the remedy.

Isn't it reasonable to call it privilege when people are held to different standards, and advantage when people have different difficulty with the same standards?
For sure you can have a slick website with javascript and CSS that doesn't slow down the page because of all the tricks like loading/caching/prerending/whatever magic is available. But that's the thing: it requires work, which means you have to be very good at it, or select the correct tools to do it and depend on them; in the case of companies website, you most likely are pressured to cram yet another feature that is extremely urgent yet there's no budget for making the site fast. Sometimes developers don't even care because it's fast enough to them. Some other times they do care, and they come up with excellent initiatives like 2G Tuesdays (https://engineering.fb.com/networking-traffic/building-for-e...)

So yeah, doing a 90s' style website is not necessary to have a fast website, but it's impossible to have a slow website. But it's true that a very minimum amount of CSS can totally change the look of your site without being bloated: see for example the Best Motherfucking Website (https://bestmotherfucking.website/)
>We're not jacking in and penetrating black ice with tech stolen from a corporation-state

I'm not so sure about that. Stuxnet, the Shadow Brokers leaks, and who knows what is being sold on the black market; this continuity seems very close to the plot of a cyberpunk novel.
Just offer a -Wpure flag for checking if functions are pure. That way production/test releases can check while you can still use it for debugging.

Also, the problem with eliding breakpoints already exists afaik, since the compilers already check for pure functions.
Does anyone know if the export functionality works between versions? I'm guessing no.

Thought I would ask sense I'm working on this right now :)
Turning to baseball there are teams like the '62 Mets that really help a fella out when "narrowing." The 2003 Tigers were not far ahead.
Composeability is front and center in GQL, so you may want to consider it.
This is probably because you're comparing them to consumer GPUs, which are designed this way - favoring integer and single-precision functional units on the SM cores. That's a sort of a marketing/tiering strategy by nVIDIA. The Teslas have good double-precision performance - but they are priced waaaay higher than the consumer cards.
Careers are not cast in stone. Some people do change their careers if they realize that there's something else that they'd really rather be doing with their lives.

I've met an artist who became a doctor, a lawyer who became a stockbroker, a software developer who became a full-time professional musician, a professor who started a hedge fund, etc.
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Call it what you want, that's what they're optimizing for. Some people can't afford market prices, and this is the hack around that market failure.

You call it a handout, I call it compassionate government.
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> Also, one of the strongest predictions of working memory in all groups was gender, which may be an indicator that confounding factors haven't been broken down.

“May be an indicator”. Not quite the Olympic jumping-at-conclusions performance I’d expect from a “dangerously wrong” comment.
I echo this sentiment. I've learned a ton of Python from reading the Django source code. There's definitely something to be said about the DSF and the many contributors over the years who've worked tirelessly to push the envelope with the framework (and the ORM, in particular) while also keeping the codebase sane. It's not all perfect, but it's about as good as it gets for FOSS with so many people chiming in over more than a decade
Implement coding standards as check-in hooks. You won’t be able to check in any code that doesn’t meet the coding standards.

Once everyone does that, then the humans can focus on the actual meat of what the code is supposed to be doing.
IdentityServer is a framework to roll your own IdP, it’s not fully functional out of the box like Keycloak.
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It has value - it should just be treated very skeptically.

And, honestly, the US numbers are highly inaccurate as well due to a simply lack of an ability to test (instead of a lack of will to publish the real numbers).
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Debt is. Indentured servitude is widely understood as being a variation of slavery.

Essentially you've got a large debt. You're only allowed to work for the person who you owe that debt to. That person gets to choose your interest rates and your pay rate. For many it is made impossible to ever repay that debt, even if they pay it many times over.

Note they can't go somewhere else to get a higher paying job, because to do that they have to pay off their debt.
It's the kind of "technically correct" that is literally useless.
Like bri3d said in his comment, there are a few options -- ArduPilot is heavily focused on mission planning (Waypoints, GPS guidance, etc). There is other flight controller firmware like Betaflight which is more focused on the stabilization and PID control of a quad.

There's definitely a lot of different decisions you can make on the hardware side: Choosing what sensors you include, flight computer & flight controller, ESCs and motors, frame, and so on.

On the other hand, you could also choose to build a drone from a kit or ready-to-fly model, and experiment more with higher-level software. ArduPilot can be connected to ROS, which is the standard software platform for robotics. Much of the swarming behavior, visual tracking, and other experiments are done on a platform like ROS, which then sends waypoints or other instructions to the flight computer.

Some areas to research if you're into this:

ArduPilot (Firmware handling waypoint missions, guidance, etc. on an onboard flight controller): https://ardupilot.org/copter/index.html

MavLink (Standard serial protocol used to communicate with drones, used to communicate between an ArduPilot controller and a ground station): https://mavlink.io/en/

ROS (Software platform designed for robotics, commonly ArduPilot drones feed into a ROS system for swarm experiments etc.): https://www.ros.org/
I would like the PL theory analogue of "emulation cones" and "rulial space" please :)

If these concepts don't have a single name that you can just rattle off, and that we can Google - if describing them in terms of existing theory would take serious effort - then surely identifying and naming them is a major contribution?
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A far better "hack" would be LVT+get rid of zoning and other restrictions on building.

That would actually reduce market prices instead of requiring a subsidy.

>Compassionate government

Nope, a government driving up market prices by restricting new construction is not compassionate just because they tried to help a handful of families buy below market.
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I second that. Apparently a website that doesnt even bother to be responsive for mobile is a masterclass of design. It's a few links and a geico ad. They clearly dont care about the website. The article mentions that they cant read the minds of the berkshire hathaway website design team to understand their intentions. Do they really think berkshire Hathaway has a design team for this? It's not "designed for shareholders" - shareholders use smartphones to check in on their investments too! Compare this with the website for berkshire Hathaway's three service and see what berkshire can do when they actually care about designing a site:

https://threeinsurance.com/
I'm disappointed that this didn't end up getting more attention on HN. It seems like a rather important bit of news.
In other words, the submission title is misleading: the effects of poverty are type of trauma. We're not talking about "too poor to afford the latest game console" here; we're talking about people who have trouble with things at the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs [0].

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When I think of modern production practices, I think of Ford’s assembly line. I wonder if the kilns in 18th century applied any form of assembly line or was each worker pretty much starting and finishing each piece on their own.
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In the ActivityPub context I meant decentralized and interconnected on server level, same as email. RSS is connected only to the single webserver.
This is in Houston. They already have some of the most lax zoning in the country.

You're free to your opinion this is "inefficient" and causes "perverse incentives". In the meantime, people get homes they otherwise wouldn't. Some of us consider that a win.
"Many of the lines saved for declaring identical resource types..."

Yeah, it seems a bit silly to say that a benefit is saved lines of code, yet the Terraform example is setup to do quite a lot more than the Pulumi example. The resources are just there and turned off with the "count" configuration. The Pulumi example isn't doing any of the RDS, Redshift, Elasticache, Database ACL, VPN gateway, etc things. This example is a pretty substantial module and I'd guess the LOC would be pretty similar between the two if the functionality were closer.
I'd recommend Collapsademic as far higher S/N.

Mod is a former /r/collapse mod. Pesimistic, but not a loon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/collapsademic/
"Everywhere was growing with roughly the same exponent before lockdown."

No, they weren't. You're just asserting that this is true. There's effectively no way to know what the doubling rate was in a place like Boise before the national lockdown, because the numbers were in the low single digits:

https://covid-19.direct/metro/Boise?tab=glance

But even ignoring that...the site you're linking to shows a wide range of slopes on the per-state graph. You just think they look the same, because the log Y-axis compresses dramatic differences in scale, particularly near the origin. New York, NJ, Michigan and Louisiana are well above the diagonal line, while states like Wyoming, Montana, Vermont, Maine etc. are all well below it.
Good book.

How so specifically?
Houston's land trust seems to be managed by the city government. So is it draining government coffers? Not sure how this works.

San Francisco has a land trust (I only know of one). But it's community-based and owned. Here's the site: https://sfclt.org/

There are other trusts as well, such as farming trust: https://malt.org/why-we-protect-farmland/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI...
It's a really bald joke, like naming your restaurant "Tastes Bad Pizza". People are just like huh?
The far right and far right behave similarly -- except the language used differs.
Yes —- for instance, it’s not very mobile friendly.
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What’s wrong with the font?
Hopefully (for them) they have their own agreements apart from the general populace.
$100bn is a lot- but not as much as you seem to think. It's not the amount to move the needle on something like nuclear fission and drug research, which have a multiple of this budget annually. They picked verticals where production deployments were already feasible and the diff between dominating the space was a capital moat- ride sharing, office sharing, etc.
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Those states are in for a surprise like Florida was - they may get lucky and just have a very low rate of spread into their state - but if they have a lot of community transmission the disease will spread very quickly and the lack of a reasonable response will be obviously stupid in retrospect once again.

Shelter-in-place is a good general rule - we can roll it back when we've got infrastructure to vaccinate people.
It may be better for TOTP; I was looking at U2F and WebAuthn.
I have one question related to this - when we are talking these astronomical figures (10s or 100s of billions) - is there actually enough room to create new investment opportunities in such field or would it just bid up the prices on the existing ones and possibly screw up the price/return ratio ?

Biotech does not sound like computer programming - I can't turn my hobby project in to a product or train myself to enter the field in a relatively short amount of time ?

Let's say you redirect a huge amount of money in to biotech startups - are there really that many opportunities waiting to be invested in ? The way I see it is best case scenario is you bid up the market price and drive interest in the industry - but that's going to lag years and there's no reward for the people going in ?

On the other hand real-estate/financial speculation seems almost infinitely scalable in comparison.
Crucially, there’s a difference between “males have statistically significantly better memory”, which is what you are talking about, and “gender is one of the top predictors of memory”, which is, reportedly, what the data in the article shows.
I think the way you nitpicked his phrasing was mean and unconstructive.
Somewhat related, my uncle was a “Phantom driver” (F4 Phantom II) in Vietnam. Flew a bunch of missions of varying types.

So Top Gun comes out, and my mom points out he had graduated Fighter Weapons School - my uncle is a real Top Gun!

So I asked him for tales of dogfights, war stories. He had exactly one: “they’d send us out to fight some MiGs, and as soon as we got in range and turned our radar on to start shooting, they’d turn and run.”

So not like the movies?

“Nope.”
Your post makes me keenly aware of Tesla’s future: the only company really taking EVs seriously, with a massive head start.
Thanks for the code, this is exactly the kind of concrete example I was looking for!

You're correct about how it behaves with "int" and "unsigned", very interesting. But it occurs to me that on x64 we'd probably want to use 64-bit values. If I change your typedef to either "long" or "unsigned long" that seems to give me the SSE version of the code! (in x86-64 gcc 9.3) Why should longs behave so differently from ints?

I very much agree that getting good numerics performance out of the optimizer seems to be a black art. But does the design of C really help here, or are there ways it could help more? Does changing types from signed to unsigned, or int to long, really convey your intentions as clearly as possible?

I remain skeptical that undefined behaviour is a good "hook" for compilers to use to judge programmer intention, in order to balance the risks and rewards of optimizations. (Admittedly I'm not in HPC where this stuff is presumably of utmost importance!) It all seems dangerously fragile.

If you need good performance out of some tight inner loop, the easiest way to get there is to communicate to the compiler the “obvious” facts about the state of your program and check to see if the compiler did the right thing. If the compiler did the right thing, then you’re done, and you don’t need to use vector intrinsics, rewrite your code in a less readable way, or switch to assembly.

I strongly agree with the first part of this -- communicating your intent to the compiler is key.

It's the second part that seems really risky. Just because your compiler did the right thing this time doesn't mean it will continue to do so in future, or on a different architecture, and of course who knows what a different compiler might do? And if you end up with the "wrong thing", that may not just mean slow code, but incorrect code.
What are your recommendations on going about learning the C language properly? And How to go about learning all levels of abstraction of the language?
The mad rush to shout down the Wuhan Bio Lab escape theory was always so odd to me. It was mentioned as a possibility and then there was a sudden deluge of headlines proclaiming the idea was patently ridiculous, etc.

But if you actually read the articles their reasoning was basically that coronaviruses like Covid-19 already exist in wild bat populations. One even said that the virus wasn't deadly enough to be a bioweapon, which is obviously nonsense and indicates a significant amount of grasping and/or lack of imagination.

The fact is that numerous pathogens have escaped biological research facilities in the past, including from Chinese facilities in the past 15 years.

Maybe Occam's razor tells us that the coronavirus originated from the wild, but maybe Occam's razor is on the side of the escape theory. It's not clear right now. What is clear is that there is a lot of smoke.
Sorry, yes, I didn't mean to give a misleading impression. It's very plausible that a government might intercept hardware in this way. I'm just skeptical of this specific way (there's got to be a subversion both easier and less obvious than planting a magic spy chip), and don't believe that Apple and Amazon would issue such strong denials if they had in fact found such a chip.
If you are interested in such topics, read

't Hooft, Gerard: The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-41285-6

Reference number 23.
They could at least state which essay so its not just randomly out of the blue
The article is about land trusts in general, not just the one in the headline. Regardless, the correct solution is to implement LVT. Without that, almost by definition market prices will be higher than they should be.

The market failure is the government permitting people to buy and sell land. A small trust buying up some land and taking it off the market doesn't fix the underlying failure.
A 'right' bestowed by society is no longer a right, but a privilege conditionally granted.

However, without a shared higher moral authority, I can claim whatever rights I want and you can't tell me otherwise. All you can do is forcibly remove my ability to freely exercise them, and all I can do is forcibly defend my ability to enjoy them. Hence the existence of the USA's second amendment.
Has any ship been torpedoed by a submarine since the Admiral Belgrano in 1982?
I have incorporated the following macro abuse to prepend the number of arguments to a variadic functions into my projects: https://gist.github.com/61131/7a22ac46062ee292c2c8bd6d883d28.... It does introduce some overhead, but it suits my needs for the projects that I am working on.

That being said, I would like it if the default types for variadic functions were promoted from int/float to int64_t/double in order to be more reflective of the wider ranges supported by these types.
To me this isn't too strange. Sure it's different but the alternative is our current system where each single social network implements its own video player when it grows big enough.

I'm still trying to understand ActivityPub / Fediverse completely, but once you manage to make several social apps use the same underlying protocol then the app just becomes an interface and the protocol runs the social network. And just like how a file system has various kinds of tools to interact with different kinds of files, it's not odd for a network of shared 'things' to have several tools to interact with different kind of things.
And like a carbon tax, a land value tax will never be implemented in the US due to entrenched interests.

> The market failure is the government permitting people to buy and sell land. A small trust buying up some land and taking it off the market doesn't fix the underlying failure.

This argument is hopeless. Good chat.
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This is why the label "ethical" has become semantically meaningless. People, as you have done here, just define "ethical" as their own point of view and "unethical" as any point of view they reject.
Ironically, having used both, Pulumi’s APIs are much cleaner/simpler than AWS CDK’s.

I feel CDK was overengineered when I last used it. Pulumi has been a breath of fresh air.
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