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> -There is no mention of eugenics in the film I was aware of.

Eugenics is the "scientific" name for complaining that there are too many people. It's also the rubbish bin where Historians file most proposed and attempted experiments and "solutions" ("final" and otherwise).

There's no point in bringing up "there's too many people" if you aren't planning to present a solution to it, and if you
are planning to present a solution to it, that's eugenics, by definition. I don't make the rules, I just call things by name.

> -The film is largely about the Sierra Club's involvement with condoning biomass burning of natural gas and wood to create electricity

Great? No Green advocate I know is actually "pro-biomass" as a long term solution, because wind and solar (and hydro) are doing really well right now and there's lots more option on the horizon.

Using biomass to condone all of Green energy projects isn't quite a strawman argument, but it is full of hay and I could see it scaring away crows in the field.

> Where many modern cars are made out of aluminum, including EV's, in previous ICE generations predominantly steel vehicles were easily recyclable. Modern alloys have made cars throw away items rather than recyclable. We are arguably going backwards.

A reduction in steel is a reduction in lead poisoning from car parts in landfills. Cars have always been terrible. I don't think we are "going backwards", I think there are just a lot of rose tinted glasses for a point in car history that never existed. There's no point in car manufacturing where cars were not "throw away items", and the recyclability of "classics" is hugely overstated (how many do you actually see on the road? Sure some collectors have put in time and effort, but do you know how small of a fraction collectors have kept "recycled" versus were manufactured in their time?). I am all for "ban cars, reforest parking lots", but blaming EVs for the problems of the vast history of manufacturing mistakes in cars is hilarious. It's cars and car culture that are the problem. EVs are an adequate solution for car culture that must have cars. They remain better alternatives than their contemporary ICE equivalents long term in every measure that counts.

Anyway, here's a well articulated hydrogeologist on the film: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/michael-moores-green...

I'm happy you enjoyed the film, but it isn't a good film and it made a lot of mistakes. I definitely wouldn't trust anything mentioning eugenics in 2020, even if not by name, but feel free to continue to disagree.
That was an interesting choice by Microsoft. I wonder if it broke 32-bit Windows code? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_m...
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I see, you meant things in a more literal sense. I generally agree with you in that case, that the customer experience should be the thing which the team owns, which incidentally involves owning software components. But on the other hand, it's also certainly the case that at a company of a given size or in a given sector, certain kinds of software components and infrastructure are not directly customer facing and yet must be owned in house, and logistically serve as one of (if not the only) competitive advantage over competitors.

Is it wasteful to have whole teams at GOOG, FB et al owning and improving the state of the art of infrastructure? It depends. At a certain point, there are enough internal customers for teams to reach contribution margin positive on engineering initiatives that have no direct but only second order effects on customer experience.
I would never take that bet, obviously. I haven't known you for 16 years, and I can't read you like a book ;-)
> The only social unrest that has happened so far

Keyword being "so far". In Italy, where people have been out of work for months, things are starting to get dicey. Here are some links:

- [Sky News: Coronavirus: Italy becoming impatient with lockdown - and social unrest is brewing](https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italy-becoming-impati...)
- [The Guardian: Singing stops in Italy as fear and social unrest mount ](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/singing-stops-...)

There's more but I won't flood you. The point I'm trying to make is that things _so far_ are okay, but will get increasingly dicey if people don't have access to food and the necessities for living.
The only thing that capitalism implies is the existence of a class that does not work, but collects profits from the capital it owns.

That class sees competition is an unnecessary, and a profit-reducing problem[1] that can be routed around.

[1] See Thiel's monopoly essay.
Maybe we should consider a higher level? For example, with our interconnected highly computerized trading systems and with every megacorp these days heavily invested in financials (think stock buy-backs) who knows? Definitely not the FED Reserve.
It dropped in March because of fear and uncertainty. We didn't guess how bad the impact of the virus would be and no one knew how much ink the Fed's printer has (turns out it's infinite!)
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Many comment here are about the first section (which is indeed rediscovering the basis of optimisation) but I find the second section much more interesting.

He notes that computing the gradient is much more expensive than doing a single evaluation and that the gradient tend to stay in the same overall direction. Thus he proposes to compute the gradient only a fraction of the time and to use normal evaluations in the meantime.

Following an old gradient and only updating it when it becomes clearly obsolete seems like an interesting idea to me.
Absolutely go for it. Firebase scales up well so you won’t need to redo a lot of things when your product starts getting more users. I would suggest to have a look at Nextjs or Gatby for your frontend if you are know React. But to your question, Firebase has all the tools for even large scale app.
Our TOS applies to the IPFS HTTP Gateway where Protocol Labs run the infrastructure (bridging data in the IPFS Network to users over HTTP) to ease onboarding/development. There are many different IPFS Gateways (https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/), with different local jurisdictions that can each choose their own TOS.

We do not and cannot control the data that each individual node is hosting in the IPFS Network. Each node can choose what they want to host - no central party can filter or blacklist content globally for the entire network. The ipfs.io Gateway is just one of many portals used to view content stored by third parties on the Internet.

That aside, we definitely don't want to 'apply copyright worldwide'. For one, it's not consistent! Trying to create a central rule for all nodes about what is and isn't "allowed" for the system as a whole doesn't work and is part of the problem with more centralized systems like Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. Instead, give each node the power to decide what it does/doesn't want to host, and easy tooling to abide by local requirements/restrictions if they so choose.
Yes, Most Gov systems are still not on cloud, OCI is way better and modern, cheaper than AWS (Disclaimer : I work at Oracle).
Skip firebase and use Hasura (GraphQL on top of the rock-solid PostgreSQL database). That way you'll have a solid relational data-structure from day one but with the ease of a BaaS.
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This somewhat overstates the case, but it does indeed make a huge difference. For myself (also rather unattractive), I wish someone had sat down with me early on and explained these rather awful facts of life.

It might seem courteous and kinder to pretend that this isn't going on, but living in ignorance has significant costs of its own.

Now that I'm older, I'd definitely advise figuring out where you are on the scale and dating down, not up. If you're with someone significantly more attractive, you're paying in other ways--make sure you know what they are.
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It's simple:

Think about it, a CEO of a big company is more likely to be in social circle of the politicians, judges and regulators.

They are more likely to be sympathetic to their immediate acquaintance who they see every week rather than those poor social economic class people who they have nothing in common with.

Add some dilllusion and descrimination in the mix, like "they are poor because they are lazy" and it becomes easy to make policies which benefit your immediate social circle.

And lot of poor people don't even have time or motivation to analyze those policies and even if someone manages to do that, they don't have enough influence to do anything about it.
With GAAP reporting, stock comp goes on the income statement and affects the bottom line. So it has a visible effect for investors, but no one cares about P/E anymore so...
They also have a couple P-values further down.
Sure, I'll switch between ride sharing apps based on cost alone. But I'll still want available drivers near me. I'm not willing to try multiple apps just to see if it's usable.

I think Uber/Lyft's customer bases are definitely valuable. There's a real business there post Covid-19. I'm not sure what the margins would look like though. I think an acquisition might be a good idea if it was cheap enough and it looked like competitors wouldn't be able to use vc money to offer rides below cost.
Alternative explanation: maybe our medical classification changed the label for something the ancient greeks found valuable, leading to a semantic slide (ataraxia => anhedonia => depression) as it is no longer appropriate in the current society for whatever reason.

Maybe people feel better when their are busybodies because culture/media feeds the message they should be unhappy if they don't do something or help others. Maybe society couldn't function if most people felt no desire to have kids or work besides the minimum required for shelter and subsistence.

The post below yours at the moment calls for having a kid, which is both taking a responsibility and according to most parents the equivalent of finding a greater purpose that yourself.

It strikes me also as very convenient bargain for a society that couldn't function if the population and the economy was always shrinking.

Do you really think most people would bother waking up to go to work if they had no kids but a place of dwelling and food on the table (say through UBI or anything)? The creative hackers, maybe, but I think most people would find videogames and drinking with friend quite sufficient.

The post pandemic will be a great experiment to check if the price elasticity of work has been permanently altered by a few weeks of isolation, and reflection.
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Because money is going to be worth significantly less than it is now. So in real terms it dropped.
> Why isn't a vector type similar to { ptr, count } a normal thing to pass around in C?

For one thing, as I recall in the original K&R version of C (before ANSI C89), the language didn't support passing a struct as a function argument or return value.

That means if you did make a struct, then every time you wanted to pass one of these pairs around, you'd have to pass a pointer to the struct, and you'd have to dereference that on every use. Which is arguably just as cumbersome as just passing two arguments, at least in terms of how much code you have to type. Plus it was probably slower.

From there it's no surprise if using separate arguments becomes the normal, idiomatic way to do it.
This could also just be a 'bull-trap', and the major stock indices could collapse soon. There was a major bull-trap at the beginning of the great depression.
A general strike [is needed][1] around the world demanding a basic income of between $1000 to $2000 a month for all human beings, and a one-time payment of around $100,000 to each person when they reach 25 years of age, financed by a [progressive tax][2] on the wealthiest people in the planet.

[1]: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/05/01/Piketty-C...

[2]: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-...
Meeting people face to face is insanely valuable.

Here is one example from personal experience. I met someone at a conference in Silicon Valley years ago. Later on I’m doing research for a project and trying to find subject matter experts to lead the effort. In my research I find 15 people who are qualified. Two respond to my attempts to contact them. One dismissed me and the other is that person I met at that conference. He tells me that the only reason he’s talking to me still is we met at the conference.

We started working together and it’s been a fruitful endeavor.

The moment in person conferences are safe again they will explode. Everyone will want to see other people again,
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There is no reason to bring that reference in an otherwise non-political discussion.

It's hard to separate socioeconomic differentials from politics. And I specifically use deplorable to call out the political excesses of my own accustomed "tribe."
I think the small upside (a single 5-star rating contributes very little to app ranking) is outweighed by the potential downsides (it can be a turnoff if the user sees that because it strikes of astroturfing, which seems a hot topic these days; it violates app store guidelines, though there's a close to zero chance of that being enforced).

To me it seems like unnecessary risk for little benefit.

Edit: And product reviews are not the same as voting. :)
+1 for Bitwarden. I host it myself, it's got great support for apps on IOS / Android. The browser extension works well.
FWIW, I just delivered a product (front-end in React+Typescript) using just that.
I started writing a back-end in AzureFn+CosmosDb+some other stuff) and switched over to using Firebase for auth and the DB. The cool part is that because of the nature of the Firebase client APIs that emit change-notifications whether it be from local or remote changes, GFB acted as my state/store so I was able to get by w/o any React state mgmt frameworks (like Flux or Mobx, etc.) - though I also did so for expediency as I'm normally not a front-end dev so I wanted to ramp up on as little as possible. Though I'm still an Azure/.Net fan for back-end work, I appreciate that GFB provided only what I needed (at least for this app) but no more.
See also acedia.
I wish Dan would combine his kernel knowledge and latency optimization knowledge and see which optimizations and improvements he'd recommend.
> Can someone help me understand why the broader stock market is actually up compared to six months ago despite all these dire numbers being thrown around? Heck, Boeing stock is up today!

Dumb money is pouring in, and institutional investors are riding the dead cat bounce.

For Boeing specifically, it's because they fired thousands of workers to cut their costs. And to their credit, they're actually expecting a long slump. Many businesses are still deluding themselves.
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I wasn't trying to create a strawman, I only described things the way I did as a shorthand due to my belief that it was obvious to all the outsized role that youtube plays in public discourse. Just as was said on another informative thread I saw recently on HN, your facts (torrents, filesharing, non-neccesity of video etc) are correct but irrelevant.

> Free speech absolutism, to the degree of allowing even fraudulent and hateful speech to proliferate without check or consequence, is a minority view.

I appreciate your illustrating what an actual strawman looks like.
Which is one way to ensure not too many people sign up. Losing people that you expect to lose in a couple years saves some money and presumably everybody was planning on them retiring soon anyway and so had plans in place so knowledge isn't lost.

It might also get a few people who have personal reasons to leave, but headcount is lost with people who wouldn't stay so there is no loss.
Initially I was opposed to this idea, but I'm coming around on it. We invest heavy tax subsidies into Boeing, and time and time again their executives seek short term profits at the expense of safety, worker protections, jobs, etc.

A nationalized Boeing could have different objectives, provide a strong set of working class jobs, and ensure we continue to produce planes here in the States.
Question: Lufthansa's market cap is less than 5Bn, why is the German government not buying it for that amount, bailing it, then (hopefully) selling it in a decade when the situation improves?

France is bailing Air France, Germany is bailing Lufthansa, what does it mean for a company like EasyJet? Will it get bailed too or just crash due to governments helping some companies but not others?
Just wanted to let you know there's no sound in Safari as the user has never given permission to play audio. So every time you run `audio.current.play();` it gets rejected with a `NotAllowedError`.
Ahh, today i learned
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I'd really like to talk to any designer that endorsed this site because there are three titles - One top-title (annoyingly in all-small) one caption title in title case (Well done on it's own but quite conflicted against the all-small over-title) and then an additional sub-title that is, unaccountably, placed after a social media callout... in other words placed in a position after the thing everyone ignores... Also it's in all-caps because having your titles in three different capitalizations and utilizing capitalizations in the opposite order of general assumption is just what we like doing to not make the user think. At least they didn't use three separate font faces, but I feel like that might just be by chance.
Lyft alum here, and other alumni are working to try to help out here.

See here: https://twitter.com/haddartha/status/1255559084012699650

Also, there are alumni facebook groups and slack channels. If those are for you, email me: ivan.kirigin@gmail.com
Larry Ellison is #21, having donated $0 this month.
There was an interesting piece in this week's Atlantic on the motivation for having states declare bankruptcy:

"Under the Constitution, bankruptcy is a power entirely reserved to the federal government. An American bankruptcy is overseen in federal court, by a federal judge, according to federal law. That’s why federal law can allow U.S. cities to go bankrupt, as many have done over the years. That’s why the financial restructuring of Puerto Rico can be overseen by a federal control board. Cities and territories are not sovereigns. Under the U.S. Constitution, U.S. states are.

Understand that, and you begin to understand the appeal of state bankruptcy to Republican legislators in the post-2010 era."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/why-mitch-...
If said "down economy" led to a long-term depression or a year or two of lost crops due to any number of possible disruptions, we could easily see more death (both directly and due to social unrest, suicide, etc).
Python contains semantic cluster-fumbles. For instance:

def fun(listarg = [])
listlocal = []
listarg.append(3)
listlocal.append(3)

It turns out listarg is bound to a list which is not freshly instantiated each time the function is called (with no corresponding argument), unlike listlocal. The expression is evaluated at the time the function is defined, not at call time. The value is stashed somewhere and that value is used for initializing listarg by default.

I learned about this from ... running pylint3 on some code which found a buggy use of such a list.

This is probably that way for performance because Python doesn't have true literals. [1] is more like (list 1) in Lisp; it's a constructor that has to be executed, producing a newly allocated object; it is not like '(1) which is just a literal object that can be embedded into the compiled program image. Python literature incorrectly refers to [] as a literal, which is bad education: a disservice to newbies who deserve to understand what is a literal. The fact that you can do "x = []" and then safely append to to it proves that it's not a literal, because literal is an abbreviation of "literal constant", which is also something newbies should be taught.

Students of CS must absolutely learn the crucial difference between variable initialization and assignment. Python conflates the two.

x = 42

def fun():
x = 43 # defines and binds local x.

This was not even fixed in Python for a long time; now you can assign to the global one with a global statement. The concept is bad here and damaging to newbie brains.
No. Even fully cured cyanoacrylate can be picked off without taking skin off. It's actually kind of fun, like picking a scab. It doesn't come off easily though.
Maybe it's just me, but "Amazon already has one" strikes me as the opposite of a reason for Amazon to buy Lyft.
I really like it. Thank you. I wish I could see in my profile which competitions I'm currently in the top 5.
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LLVM already supports completely arbitrary integer sizes up to 2^23-1 in its IR (https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#integer-type), and I think it can “lower” any integer size to fit what the hardware actually supports. So if Clang doesn't add an artificial constraint on top, in theory you could use a one million-bit integer size if you wanted to?
I felt a bit similar and what I had to do is actually think and even write down what kind of activities really interests me, give me energy and inspire me. It was quite an interesting mix of tech, teaching, community service, working with youth. Now I try to slowly move to that and so far I feel much better. I wish you good luck!
Amazon is propping up the major stock market indices [0]. While Amazon's services and hiring are playing a role in stabilizing the economy, it can't do it alone and its outsized impact on stock indices is misleading as a general economic health indicator.

[0] https://www.tradingview.com/chart/SPX/JNwcmXqj-S-P-with-and-...
This is excellent news.
You have a reading comprehension issue my friend. You apparently neither understand the article ("Why we can’t build" point #1 filibuster) nor my comment. Good luck to you in life, but might want to slow down, read throughly, study vocabulary.

The article doesn't just not make that claim, it explicitly makes the opposite claim. And not just for housing, but also for infrastructure.

No it doesn't, never once. It suggest the filibuster is the first tier of the problem, and if it went away, there are additional tiers of vetos.
Because the content is just simple HTML, it's amenable to the reader view option available in most browsers.
The federal government was attacked to touch off the Civil War. Like, by men with guns. That's a rather critical distinction.
My original point was that a benefactor that stays within moral and written rules is not avoiding taxes, as
kemiller2002 suggested. Breaking those rules is tangential to that point.

It's a common mistake that bothers me because it often is used to dismiss (or even demonize) what is, in the majority of cases, an altruistic act.
I argue that falls into my point above. If there is a sentiment that by having a thing now, and by either holding it or selling it later, it will make you money, there will be demand for the thing. Whether being able to sell it later for a profit is because of an intrinsic increase in its value or because the Fed propped it up is immaterial. You bought a thing, and later sold it for more money.
They won't be dead if you make vaccines mandatory, but don't shut down free speech of anti-vaccers.

Speaking against vaccines should be allowed. Not taking vaccines should not be
would this work on python?

repeat3(lambda: greet('themagicalcake'))
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