skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the pool becomes too big and wastes memory

It is fine when the user keeps opening files and the parser can reuse the objects.

But eventually, the user has opened all the files he needs. Then the process will never open another file again, and none of the objects can be reused. But they also cannot be freed, when some objects are still used, e.g. when the user did not close all files.
Changing opinions is fine. Did he change because now as a LE officer he sees actual need for looser crypto? Or is his change of opinion purely political? This article does nothing to discuss that.
Micropayments and cryptocurrencies are really separate concerns.

All you need for micropayments are low fees - that doesn't require a pseudo-anonymous collective keeping a shared public database of transactions. In fact it's better if you know who the counterparties are.

Companies like stripe, apple, google or banks like monzo could offer low fee transactions for example between two counter-parties who are both customers, bypassing payments networks and taking on a little more risk for a lower fee.

Payment networks are ripe for disruption, but I'm not sure bitcoin et al will do the disrupting - it's solving the wrong problems.
It's a good point, and maybe I wouldn't if I knew. I do in fact perform an excellent simulation of someone with no political views.

A lot of the world is run on plausible deniability. Biden seemed like a great politician for decades. Now he doesn't.

If I was OP's friend, I'd advise to not mention it. If it bites anyway, keep moving. There are far worse things in life than not getting a job at a FAANG.
> We could easily sustain our livelihood with much less work

Sure. But not everyone wants the same, and central planning has proven that it's even more inefficient and wasteful than the capitalist free market system with its insane shoe-storage-system-stores and shoe-storage-systems-insurance-salespeople.
Anybody found info on the max frame rate? High frame rate is super common in phones but hard to find elsewhere, and I need it for a project...
I've been a crypto bear/skeptic for a long time, but given how much cash the Fed has pumped into the market and their general reluctance to take cash out of the market, we could be set up for some pretty intense inflation if/when there is a U shaped recovery. As such, I'd be looking to buy inflation protection where you can these days: gold, BTC, TIPS, etc.
Trademarks that use camel case are much easier to defend in court than those that do not.
Great point! I've dealt with customer support for a SaaS in the past and a good FAQ definitely helps.

I think I placed too much emphasis on the pain of dealing with support in my article. The other motivation was really just that, having thought about pricing, the whole idea of charging more and dealing with support less sounds more appealing than the opposite, and given that I could elect to follow a path that leads to that with little latent cost incurred, why not do it?
MemoryStore is GCP, AWS' redis is named Elasticache.
> Credentials are not the only way to acquire or demonstrate expertise. You say you are a "dude that likes to read research papers", how many epidemiological research papers have you read? How much time have you spent discussing those papers with epidemiological experts? Did you reach out to any of those experts to have them take a first pass as fixing any mistakes you made before you decided to post it publicly

> Instead you decided to broadcast your ignorance with confidence about an area already ripe with misinformation that is costing people their lives.

This is not a fair characterization; I was very clear that this represented my "first draft" and that I was looking for feedback specifically to have people poke holes in it.

Fortunately, a lot of people did have substantive contributions that pointed out errors or places where the arguments were weak, as opposed to merely engaging in sanctimonious gatekeeping as you are doing.
IMO, this is where regulation and government come into play.

Some things aren't ever going to be profitable if built and managed for the long run. These are things that should be government services.

Other things can be profitable but need to be those doing them need to be persuaded to do them in a prosocial fashion. This is can be done by internalizing externalities. Negative externalities appear as taxes or fees, and positive ones as subsidies. Particularly harmful actions may be flat out forbidden, with stronger disincentives attached.

The problem with this approach is that any significant regulatory system will have such a large economic impact that for many players, the most cost effective approach to regulation is cooption of the regulatory system.
> The tests in riscv-tests are not complete enough to indicate strong compliance. I have found several bugs in my implementation that were not caught by them.

I've noticed that, yes. They got me pretty far, but there's something I'm doing wrong and I haven't been able to find what. That's why the next thing I'm going to try is co-simulation.

> The biggest issue I have seen with running C programs is that people don't have the system calls that C runs on startup. In a log from rv8, you need brk, uname, readlinkat, and mprotect. So without those you shouldn't be able to get a program into user code unless you make a custom entry point.

Yes, that hasn't been a problem so far. I've written minimal implementations of a few (so far: fstat, brk, exit) as I've gone along. https://github.com/michaelmelanson/riscy/blob/master/emulato...
Do employers have degree requirements? A 1970 SCOTUS case put strong constraints on what employers could require, at least with respect to high school diplomas. The same logic would apply to college degrees. Unless a direct link to a job (not just a general linkage) could be demonstrated, if there is a de facto racial discriminatory effect (and there would be, just from different rates of graduation from college) then the requirement would be illegal.

I've been waiting for someone with a bone to pick against higher education to file a lawsuit over this. It could devalue college degrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
to use on iOS you need to embed it in the source of your page, because iOS doesn't let you execute JS from the address bar. On Android you can use it to view pages without embedding it into the source of your page.
I'm from Utah, so I really have no clue, but a quick search revealed this:
https://www.dexafit.com/locations/kansas/kansas-city
This is not true. The mega-wealthy aren't needing to sell their assets because the Fed is doing unlimited QE. Since the mega-wealthy own most stocks, they don't need the liquidity when their "stable" investments are backed by the Federal Reserve's unlimited free money program. This is crony capitalism.
Do you understand the distinction between "does not serve as evidence" and "serves as evidence against"?

Now in fact it is possible to learn from self-directed study. But your odds of learning are massively better when you get to ask questions, test your understanding by talking with others, and have your ability to explain your understanding graded.

Which means that, on average, people get more value out of going through a book in a classroom setting than they get by reading it on their own.

Whether that is enough value to justify tuition is another story entirely...
>It is a way to get a credential that you can use to signal your worth on the job market.

What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in that this attitude is common.
How hard is to have a web site viewable without javascript? I mean it is not a web site that has maps or some kind of desktop app type of feature. At least make it so it will be viewable without javascript.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback and encouragement. I love your points. I will make the suggested improvements. Top of mind is to solve for difficult level (and of course the auto-advance without having to click next and keeping focus on text input).
> without making an effort to get their ideas validated by people

Me posting this is literally me doing that, so your visible irritation is very oddly placed.
Not all colleges are the same. For example, at the UW-Madison, over half the students leave with do debt at all. There is a Bucky tuition promise so that any low-income person will have college paid for in entirety.

All of the negative comments on here treat "college" as if it is one unified thing, when in fact the experiences across institutions (both educationally, as well as financially) are quite different.

All of that said, to those who say "free college": try telling that to a person in the middle of the state, who has never been to Madison, has never had a kid go to Madison, and who has to pay their tax dollars to support the University. It is a hard sell. Sure, it'd be great if people were willing to support colleges so that they were free. But the taxpayers, by and large, aren't.
Why did you decide to spend a year building something before releasing it? Wouldn't you want to validate the value your product brings to the table before spending that long on it?

> Working 3 weeks on something and expecting it to have some value is totally unrealistic.

Agreed -- the conversations I was having based on that were more about projected value it might offer rather than the current value. I wanted to see if I could people invested in the idea and my capabilities to deliver it, more so than the actual product as it existed at that time.
It's in the news years after the pensions are granted. A lot of people choose the jobs before the news started coming out.

A lot of the people who have these pensions took the jobs before google even existed, so telling them they should have googled this is ridiculous.
re: #3, They said they were saving abused animals from farms, not doing violence to people. That is also a felony and breaks some laws. Both things can be true. The machinations of the powerful are often totally morally bankrupt and also the law of the land. Your analogies are too extreme for this instance.
Midwest, Iowa. College town.
It's sad to see even on HA people have absolutely no idea what they're talking about when it comes to CPUs. Nothing requires multiple cores. Nothing.
These are for Soviet clones of 11 microprocessors from the 80s I think?
> How do I know if a piece of computer generated music is good or bad in general?

How do you tell if any piece of art is good or bad?
Sorry, I phrased that last comment incredibly poorly. I was referring to the supply of financing which in turn impacts demand. When the demand curve shifts, they supply being provided by colleges decreases. The overall amount and quality of education is not something we want to be decreasing.
College at $60k a semester while an adjunct earns $28k a year and somehow this doesn't result in a 1:1 student:teacher ratio means someone's skimming off a ton of money.
... The Fed hasn't bought a single share of stock.
Precisely this, I define lockdown as the forced closure of businesses, public parks, beaches, etc.

Telling people "we recommend physically distancing and wearing masks" does not qualify as lockdown. I hope that I made that clear in my writeup.

Thanks for jumping in here, I think you made the point far better than I could have.
Concentration of power is (or at least I thought it was) obviously bad. This is why there's laws protecting against that but either they're not enforced or they weren't updated to the internet age.
Just looked up his twitter, and Christ what a douche. Every post is just a pretentious word soup.
I think we will soon find that what really makes us "human" is the shared chemo-biological composition of our selves with the rest of the ecosystem and evolutionary hierarchy.

When you cuddle a puppy you can actually smell the infant hormones on them... why... because we share evolutionary biology. How do you teach a computer to do that?

You can think of the body as "data" and the brain as nothing more than a database that let's you query it. AI might give a better database... but until it gets the same chemo-informatic data... well good luck.
Cigna spoke to its investors specifically about its various books of business with regards to coronavirus and COVID19 for 2020. A significant part of Cigna's business is as an administrator for self-insured companies meaning they don't bear financial risk for specific healthcare costs. This aspect of their business, along with the fact that the expected costs associated with a mild COVID19 outlook for their insurance markets contributed to their optimistic financial outlook over a month ago. This was a view shared by many large plans at the time.

Since the emergence of social policies designed to curb community spread over the past 6-8 weeks, economic conditions for their customers and members have deteriorated. A large percentage of these groups are considering member disenrollment or group termination. Public support of these groups to help ensure healthcare access is a good thing and the AHIP letter that Cigna supports advocates for this position.

As an aside, the social policies currently in place are crushing the business models of hospitals and medical offices. It's devasting financially, but largely seen as temporary until shelter-in-place requirements are lifted. The ensuing economic depression will hurt the majority of business sectors, which in turn will negatively affect health insurers financially later this year and next year.

For the time being, insurers are financially benefitting from lower medical loss, but this will likely be balanced out in the near future as pent-up medical demand returns. The long-term financial future of insurers will depend on how well people can predict COVID19 costs vs. actual utilization.

source: I help manage a community health plan
A little bit of feedback. Your homepage brings my computer to a crawl. I'd fix this problem since that page is the first impression user will have when they check your product.
Sounds like a recipe for prices spiking.
It's going to be a rough ride.
> Base clocks are irrelevant on desktop

It's relevant for the TDP number.

> I'd personally point at the 10700F as being the winner from the specs, 4.6 GHz all-core 8C16T with slightly higher IPC in gaming than AMD, for under $300

I think the 10700F would only be the winner if you have a motherboard that either isn't following Intel's recommendations for turbo or lets you ignore them.

Otherwise the 10700F's 4.6ghz all-core isn't going to happen with a 65W limit after unknown seconds. That TDP limit is going to really cripple that chip. Whether or not you can ignore that limit will I guess decide whether or not the i7-10700KF is worth the extra $50.

But the 9700 appears to be almost nonexistent. I think the 10700 will end up in the same camp. The 10700K will likely be the only chip with any meaningful coverage/reviews in the i7 lineup.
Which is why credit card interest rates are so high and why you can't get a credit card with $100,000+ limit as an 18 year old with zero income or credit history.
RPC is basically built in, so you'll probably never use REST internally. There's an in memory database built in (ETS) that will replace redis for most key value storage cases. There's easy recovery from crashes via supervision trees and associated features. You can do hot upgrades while your system is fully operational.
Last time I tried (January/February IIRC) no, they did not.
I'm sympathetic to this view. It doesn't seem very efficient to have businesses compete on whether they can predict major disasters. That means some of them will be unprofitable most of the time, and then have a monopoly once their day comes.

OTOH, you also don't want businesses to be/look profitable simply by running on super short runways while high on debt. There are all kinds of non-black-swan things that they need to anticipate riding out if they want to be solid businesses. The culture of running on that model (as the neighboring comments note) needs to die.

A middle ground might be to just require businesses to contribute to a common "rainy day fund" that activates whenever the government has to fight a major disaster, and, as public policy, bans entire businesses.

But then, I don't see a major economic/financial difference between that, and just paying unemployment/bailouts out of general tax revenue. The only difference would be "who bears the burden" -- but it's not much a difference, given that disasters affect the whole economy at once, and most everyone is thus affected.

I'm not advocating a position -- not in this comment, anyway -- just wanted to give an overview of the dynamics.
I got a liberal arts degree that by all accounts should have left me with terrible job prospects but I ended up going straight into a lucrative career path with just my BA. I know music majors who went into consulting and English majors who went to work for Goldman Sachs. Yes, they were exceptional people. None of us were rich.
I'm an EE that went to a mid-level state school and got a hardware engineering job out of school; I got lucky that there was a hardware company in town that did a lot of hiring from my school. I had a similar experience applying to other companies before I graduated though, the company I eventually started working for was the only one to ever give me a call back and I think that was only because I was already working there as a software engineering intern ;)
Honestly, I care more about arguing about your metaphor than Urbit. I think Urbit is a weird little side project that’ll probably come to nothing, so I don’t really care. Now being pedantic on the internet is something I really care about.

If creating a subreddit makes reddit feudal, than everything is feudalism and the word literally means nothing. The hallmark of feudalism is not the presence of total control over limited resources, that’s common in a huge number of systems. What makes a system feudal is the binding of people into an immutable tree of hierarchical relationships, with peasants bound to lesser lords, lesser lords bound to greater lords, and so on up to the king.

Reddit is more akin to modern American property law; property owners have (more or less) total control over their property and who to rent it out to. But with huge amounts of unused land available, anyone not happy with their current home is free to go buy cheap land and do the hard work to build their own house if they want to.
Thanks for the clip! I had forgotten that movie, "Other People's Money". It has so many funny dialogues between Larry and Kate. Larry is as likeable an antihero as it can get.
Everybody is at or approaching <2 children - under replacement. Everybody (but one or two outliers). Yet poverty is all over the map. So, what correlation?
> to communicate aspects of human life that are deeply interwoven with facts and experiences

So a computer communicating the aspects of its life based on the facts and experiences it has been fed is any less valid?

If turtles spontaneously developed human-level intelligence and created music, would it "miss the point of music" for not conveying human experinces?
How many people actually have internet faster than 1Gbps? Transferring large files around on LAN is not a particularly common use case either. The small number of people that actually need > 1gb ethernet can always add an expansion card.
Of course it is of badware they know about. This is why 3rd party analyst reports are useful, since you get a second datapoint. This same issue is present for iOS too, so I don't see why it should lead us to believe that Play is worse.
I'm not sure that's true for science.

Harvard is a biomedical behemoth, especially once you include the affiliated hospitals (MGH, Brigham and Women's, Dana Farber, Beth Israel Deaconess, etc) and research institutes (Broad, Roland). Harvard proper and MGH each receive about a half billion dollars a year in NIH funding. These are usually listed separately in those "league tables", but the whole system must bring in nearly $2B/year (out of a total NIH extramural budget of ~$28B).

The other Ivies aren't as big (though not much else is), but all of them have well-regarded medical schools (except for Princeton) and biomedical research programs. Yale, Havard, and Princeton have pretty credible chemistry programs too. Princeton also has the Institute for Advanced Study, which has hosted a crazy number of Nobel/Fields/Wolf/Cole prize winners; it's formally independent but...right there.

It may be debatable how much this matters for undergrad teaching--is it better to have a world-renowned expert or someone invested in teaching?--but for anything involving research (including undergrads), they are definitely way up there.

(No argument that JHU, Stanford, and other places (CMU, UMich, NYU, etc, depending on field) also have intensive research too).

NIH funding data from here: https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm
> This is the book for writing a 64-bit RISC-V emulator from scratch in Rust.

Next I want to see the book for writing a 64-bit RISC-V emulator from rust in Scratch ;)

The upper case S in the title made me believe for a second that they did it in Scratch :)
Something like 90% of people with a mask, any mask, not infected after sharing space for an hour or two with sick people. In an airplane. Pretty solid protection.
This source does not have any information related to loans availability correlating with tuition prices. Are you making the assumption that tuition hikes can only be caused by loan availability?
I just flipped off my Javascript and it loaded fine. Are you sure that is the problem?
> You certainly have a way of responding to things that weren't asserted in the first place.

I thought we were having a discussion and not a point-counterpoint style debate.

> I don't think shaming parents is producing results the way you think it is, or producing a "better culture and a better future," as you would say.

My parents grew up with actual famine, high levels of pollution, horrible factory jobs etc. So did almost all of my uncles and aunties.

A minimum wage job at Walmart in the US would have provided a huge increase in quality of life for them.

Yet looking at their education levels they were still miles ahead of the bottom 25% of US high school graduates.

> And you should probably recognize that there are limits to how parents affect their children even under "perfect" conditions.

Of course - but we can’t really untangle the complexities involved except by trial and error.

I feel we have tried providing more money/funding in the US with overall poor outcomes.

I’m telling you about a method that has worked - for a different culture in a worse economic environment. Maybe the success is not from the shaming but in spite of it - but like I said it’s difficult to untangle.

I’m not even really promoting it as I still remember the pain from getting caned for getting poor results.
Abby Kearns Takes over as Puppet CTO
My sense is it's a good idea to separate college as a place where you take classes and can get a degree from college as a lifestyle choice. While living at home and later with a friend, I went to a community college after high school, that my family paid a nominal amount for, and transferred to a UC from there that was entirely covered by Pell/Cal grants until graduation. No debt required.

Had I gone straight to a 4-year from high school, lived at the school, and made it a lifestyle as opposed to someplace I go to take classes, then I likely would have graduated with a significant amount of debt.
Yes, we (Cloudflare) use much more Go than Rust. But we do use a lot of both. There are teams that work exclusively in either language, there are teams that do none, and there are teams that do both.

(My team actually uses Go, and almost ended up using some Rust, but decided in the end not to, for good reasons.)