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you just contradicted yourself:

> “Faster” is misleading

and

> "At low levels there is going to typically be negligible or no speed gains, but at higher levels the benefit will be incredibly obvious."

there are no "speed" gains period. the same amount of work will be accomplished in the same amount of time with threads or async. async makes it more memory efficient to have a huge number of clients waiting concurrently for results on slow services, but all of those clients walking off with their data will not be reached "faster" than with threads.

the reason that asyncio advocates say that asyncio is "faster" is based on the notion that the OS thread scheduler is slow, and that async context switches are some combination of less frequent and more efficient such that async is faster. This may be the case for other languages but for Python's async implementations it is not the case, and benchmarks continue to show this.
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There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

(you can still see it in the url)
incorrectly where?
Pointing erroneously a logical fallacy should just allow someone to explain how it actually wasn't one, no needs for feelings here.

If the pointed logical fallacy was definitely one then the reader should actually thanks the author for showing him a path toward intellectual growth.

incredibly rude this is hyperbolic, we are an adult forum that should be able to talking about cold facts and respect more truth seeking than pleasing each others feelings.

this has nothing to do with Hacker News's "echo chamber"?
I am refering to the pro mozilla fan base of HN. Being a "fan" often make taking criticism far harder on the brain. Also ironically, they fail to see that I am a more active supporter of mozilla than most of them (cf my comment on how I read all of Servo activity for 2 years)
From the mayor's public statements, it's clear that there's political pressure to not intervene - it doesn't seem to be solely a police decision.
I see nothing in that Twitter thread to support the idea that increased case counts are due to increased testing. Again, my state has both reduced testing and increased counts.
This is slightly off topic, but is anyone else noticing that when this page loads, your speakers begin to play background static? After multiple reloads, I _think_ it correlates with one of the ads loading.

I'm wondering (at the risk of being paranoid) why on earth an ad would have your laptop broadcast static.
To solve your immediate problem, just grab the DOI here: https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery
They also have an API from which you can fetch DOIs in various ways.

DOIs are a solution to the issue of having persistent, publisher-independent links that will always resolve, even if a journal changes publisher or goes out of business. Academia uses them because link rot is unavoidable across the web, but there must always be a link to the publication that resolves so that when someone in 2070 wants to follow a citation in the references of a work published today, they can do that. It's the same thinking that underlies people pointing to the internet archive in Wikipedia citations. It's a layer of redirection, but in a way that preserves accessibility for the long term. It's also the same thinking that underlies DNS. There shouldn't be one company that controls how to resolve an IP address to a domain name, and likewise you shouldn't have to go through one publisher to resolve a reference to a research article.

As a side note, Crossref is staffed with exactly the sort of web geeks that you would see at an Internet Archive get-together (#).

So I hear your frustrations, but I think you're giving DOIs short shrift.

(#) I mean, just look at this. A dump of all journal metadata on Academic Torrents. Is that not cool? https://www.crossref.org/blog/free-public-data-file-of-112-m...
>How about being able to play with your friends after just handing them a link?

I ll tell you how. It sucks.

> I think browser ports are the only hope that old games have at coming back.

Dosbox? Wine? Look them up.
Surely the issue is deeper than jealousy. People develop strong connections to places, and when they begin to get priced out of the place they have a strong connection to, and an area's culture changes as a result, people grow upset by this.
Only loaning simultaniously the number of copies you have in your possession is part of the CDL model, so no, they were not.

Cf https://controlleddigitallending.org/statement

Properly implemented, CDL enables a library to circulate a digitized title in place of a physical one in a controlled manner. Under this approach, a library may only loan simultaneously the number of copies that it has legitimately acquired, usually through purchase or donation. For example, if a library owns three copies of a title and digitizes one copy, it may use CDL to circulate one digital copy and two print, or three digital copies, or two digital copies and one print [...]
This sort of opinion is wrongthink. Very dangerous, best to keep your mouth shut and comply
Congrats for your tool, seems impressive.

Yet another great project supported by imec!
The issue isn't that you can structure incentives to make private prisons prioritize rehabilitation. The issue is that private prisons create a risk of regulatory capture. What creates the largest ROI for the private prison under your suggestions? Sinking loads of money into rehabilitation programmes losing money until decades later where they start to see their trailing commission, or ploughing loads of money into lobbying to change the rules to provide a high per diem and no rehabilitation goals?
Composting carries risks - generally we don't want anything "eating" human flesh. Scavengers or bacteria as it breeds more virulent pestilence and possibly man eaters. Cremation while a bit ghastly and requiring fuel accomplishes the task the best.

But the environment is always a nuanced priority - like deep landfills vs surface dumping of any given substance.
This might merit its own Ask HN post. I’m curious what responses you might get.
That kinda shows you what privilege is and how it conditions the political discussion. If you never had to face a problem (never needed someone to protect you against greedy employers), it is so hard to understand why that it's relevant.
This is an excellent example why unions are wrong solution to a bigger problem - lack of universal healthcare, free education and guaranteed pension. If we had the three above - there won't be a need for unions because you are not loosing _everything_ when you are loosing a job.

Until this bigger problem is fixed unions will remain one of the very few things workers can do to improve their odds in life. So you can't be for or against them - it is the only logical outcome of the current social order.
That's not what a strawman argument is.

A strawman argument is when you restate someone's argument in a way that's stupid, then you refute the stupid argument. Or in the extreme case, argue against an argument that the person never made. In both cases, you're not arguing against the other person, you're arguing against a straw man that you made up. Hence the name.

It's still a logical fallacy, just a different one. Fallacy of relative privation applies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Fallacy_of_r...
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> Maybe they make things worse, but they're not the root of our problems.

I have a hard time believing there are a few "root" problems. We got where we are because the entire incentive+accountability structure was completely skewed for decades. IMHO, there are thousands of "root" issues at this point, to the point where the word "root" is moot.
Just skip the rehab step entirely and just release them - it's cheaper for the prison and the increased chance of re-offending means they'll get another lump sum next go around too!
Right - we will consume alerts from other tools. I see your point about consolidating collection. We'll look for opportunities like this if we can. For now, we do try to make it easy and lightweight to set up our collectors. And many of our users do have multiple collectors/agents on the same clusters. Please contact us if you'd like to give it a try.
My only experience with social causes is doing labor organizing in Seattle, but that experience has been almost exclusively organized and run by uneducated working poor.

My point being that from what it looks like, there probably isn't a list of people organizing the CHAZ because it's mostly a spontaneous reaction to the current circumstances. They're explicitly non-hierarchical, and if they look anything like the circles of activism I've worked with in Seattle they're probably made up of more working class activists than this idea of liberal business owners.

But that is just my assumption based on my own anecdotal experience, I don't live in Seattle anymore and haven't been to the CHAZ myself.
I believe the issue today is that the police are causing violence against the people with little power in our political system. To those people the distinction you are making is without a difference.
Perhaps, but that's not a very high bar. If you personally experience something that disagrees with what a research paper says, I don't think it's reasonable to just assume you must have been mistaken.

That doesn't mean I think you should believe your senses either. It means it's worth looking into it further (if you care, at least).
Just for context, let's include the complete text of that anecdote from https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-oral-histo...

Nash: “Somewhere in the Midwest, I think in Minneapolis, we were at the hotel after the show and Bob Dylan came by. Stephen and Tim Drummond immediately corralled him into a different room and shut the door. That wasn’t nice.”

Drummond: “He played us all the songs from Blood on the Tracks on acoustic guitar. We were on twin beds, across from each other. Oh God, I can’t tell you how great it was. At one point Stephen said something to him about the songs not being good. I was so Goddamn embarrassed. He was probably coked out. Dylan, being the arrogant man that he was said, ‘Well, Stephen, play me one of your songs.’ That was the end of it. Stephen couldn’t even find one string from another at that point.”

Nash: “Stephen walked out of the room and said to me, ‘Bob’s no musician.’ In the back of my mind, I also remember Stephen buying a Precision bass for Paul McCartney and telling him it was time to start playing a ‘real’ instrument and not his old Höfner. He’s saying this to one of the greatest bass players in the world.”
>Anecdotally, I've seen mask usage go way down in the last couple weeks

I've seen this too. A coffee shop I frequent literally went from masks one day to no masks the next in the last week. At the same time, cases are consistently going up in my county (Orange county CA)
If the evidence is that American institutions fail where the vast majority of developed countries succeed, the onus would seem to fall on the “American” part and not the institutions. The same logic applies for healthcare, public transportation, and representative democracy.
Do you have that running Linux via Crouton or have wiped the C201P? Or something else?

I just use mine for fun/learning. Have it flashed w/ Libreboot and running PrawnOS (Debian / Linux-libre based) which keeps seeing a nice amount of improvements. https://github.com/SolidHal/PrawnOS
Sounds like the set up in your state is to have branch campuses try to serve many of the needs that community colleges serve (or used to serve) in my state.

Whatever the setup, I think it is access to higher education at as local level is important.
It’s shown up on HN before at minimum.
Got it -- true virtue requires not encouraging others to be virtuous. So what are you doing?
Unfortunately, I think this is the right decision. Books can and will be archived by publishers; The Internet Archive is most important as a repository of culture that won't be preserved any other way.
> This changes the incentive structure from keeping people locked up as long as possible to rehabilitating and releasing them as fast as possible.

So long as private prisons have a say in when a prisoner is released there is conflict of interest. If a private prison gets paid $100k for a prisoner, they are going to ensure they are released at the very soonest opportunity instead of detaining them as long as possible. If they get paid per diem, they will keep them as long as possible.
It does, but it's hard to differentiate yourself making yet-another-remote-jobs-job-board, especially if you're not on distribution already (like I wasn't). I think Telegram is an interesting distribution channel that let me connect directly with people (instead them having to come to a site)

I'll make open newsletters in the future as well, for the people that are not on Telegram. Thanks for your comment! :D
I did not contradict myself; saying that async is “faster” implies speed gains in all circumstances. In reality the benefits of async io is extremely load dependent, which is why I don’t want to call it “faster”.
Looks like a killer of all other IoT connectivity solutions (eg, Verizon, AT&T, Particle). Those IoT platforms better find a way to support third-party SIMs, if they don't already.

Source: Consulted AT&T on bringing their IoT Connectivity solution to market. Their huge cell network was the main selling point; the platform and services were add-ons.

Edit: Another commenter mentioned Hologram, which already has a global Sim and therefore a lead start. I haven't watched this space for a few years and forgot about them. Good for them!
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Is it really 'absolutely toxic' or perhaps just 'unfortunate', or 'a flaw'?
Arguably charter schools shouldn't exist either
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My take is that Karl Friston's description of depersonalization is a technical description of the partition that occurs in the neural communication graph, along with some hints of the qualitative experience of that partition.

Ego-death on the other hand is a name that the community of connoisseurs have given to a common qualitative experience, which does not attempt to explain the underlying physical process that causes it.
I do not want everything else the archive preserves (including, full disclosure, reams of pages I scanned myself) to be lost because they decided to pick a fight they couldn't win.
There's some subtleties there, on both the C++ and Rust side. I won't speak to the C++ stuff, but on the Rust side, it's more "not yet, and we don't know when, and maybe never, we'll see" than it is "no."
As someone struggling to gain weight it always bugs me how "being healthy" is only associated with weight loss.
good for you Capitol Hill your friends in Vancouver support you :)
What I have learned from U.S. union interactions is that people who profit from bureaucracy love adding more bureaucracy to the system.

The "boxing match" analogy is reflective of the "us against them" power struggle between those trying to leverage their own hand at the expense of someone else in the U.S. corporate-union world.

This is contrasting to the concepts in Europe of labor stakeholders having a roundtable and coming to compromise as a group effort... not that it's perfect, just a different system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire
This has been asked before here. The best answers were essentially niche blogs with commenting systems and niche subreddits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209
I think some states have suffered from a “we’re not NYC” mentality, causing them to under invest in preventative measures.
This is such beautiful work I’m speechless.
Just like democracies are run by the voters?

True in principle, but rarely in practice.
> It's about being negative all the time. It's about labelling yourself as cynical and making all of your schtick be about that negativity.

But you are talking about being positive all the time, and about labelling yourself as a better person and and making all of your schtick be about that positivity.
Ah, I presumed you were talking about distributed failure situations (split brain, etc) as opposed the to PG level replication (which most solutions orchestrate anyway).
Hmm, glancing at the screenshots at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#plans, it seems that it's not always very good at distinguishing jobs offered from jobs wanted in people's twitter posts.
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saying "toaster mode" do you mean "Toast" extension from dotoast.com?
The democratic left absolutely does not want unions outside of government which is probably the worst place for unions in general
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Whats next, Master bedroom?
Probably. I don't even know what telegram is and I'm a senior developer who works remotely. I'm def not installing anything. Also, quick question: "OC here" -- I thought "OC" meant "original content" and is used often on reddit because of so many reposts. Is there a different meaning?
Having used both (and in the space for writing JITs particularly), C++'s support is very weak in the space of ADTs. Like most things in C++ you _can_ reach it with straight jacketing yourself in a particular way, with 80/20 static analysis rules backing that and 20% manual code review, but it's difficult to maintain.

Rust gives you that more or less by default and for free wrt tooling. It's sort of the classic "Rust makes you write the C++ you should have been writing all along", which makes it a net win IMO.
> To make communication easier and simpler on your phone, Android 11 will move all of your conversations across multiple messaging apps to a dedicated space in the notification section.

That makes me think of Unity's messaging menu. Everything old is new again, I suppose.
If the rent is relied upon to pay a mortgage, then it wouldn't be wise to wait until the pandemic is over. Landlords also have bills to pay. Rationally, this pandemic won't ever be over. The Spanish Flu still circulates.

Also, there is no particular reason to believe that jobs will spring back to where they were, if they ever do.
So, it's a VPN for cellular data, right?
Seriously... 8GB is an ocean. People were reading and editing HTML email in the days of 16MB.
I'm generally against pre-employment tests, but a short writing test is quite possibly the best I've heard of. The biggest problem I can think of is that making it non-discriminatory might be difficult.
> "I understand your exasperation with American ignorance and cultural bias on the subject"

"Ignorance and bias" is apparently now equivalent to "decades of experience that differ from your preferred reality".
Mute by default, please.

One of the worst things a website can do is start blaring sound when someone is just casually looking.
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No verizon support, unfortunately ...

https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot/supersim/available-networks#...
There was a joke in the reddit thread but I seriously think it'd be fantastic had he gone to work for VIA to kickstart competitive processors. Even with a strong AMD, we would still benefit from more competition in x86.
It would be nice to have answers marked as obsoleted and then a little historical breakdown of the greater changes that have come about to make that answer obsolete
I wonder if this will be like Programmable Wireless where you can get cheaper data rates for different levels of commit. Their pricing page says "starts at" and doesn't really go into how they handle bulk discount.

If this really is the pricing, then it's definitely IOT focused instead of Programmable Wireless's more general focus.
> Clearly, my actual weight loss (red) turned out to be slower than expected one based on our simple deficit math (blue). So this is where things get interesting... so we don’t get to fully resolve the mystery of the slower-than-expected weight loss.

Weight loss is difficult and I think everyone, no matter how smart, dumb, famous or obscure they are, has trouble with it. It's always a surprise how difficult it is.
I love how this is making everyone mad at progressives. Not one progressive asked for this and not one progressive is going to call people white supremacists for using the word "master".

Let's call a spade a spade and recognize that this was a big company trying to sound "woke" without doing anything.
Most of the time, I let my IDE check the code with rls, rust-analyzer or cargo check which invokes the rust-compiler without doing the costly code generation part with LLVM, so it is usually fast enough checking huge projects while writing or at least when saving.
> result = asyncio.run(red(x))

Still much harder to think about/read then

result = red(x)

We should be finding ways to get to the latter with concurrency. async/await is at best a patchwork compromise until we can do better.
Yes, I'm considering and planning it. In fact, I'm thinking either building integrations myself like a Slack or Google Calendar one, or the widget idea, I have both of them on the short-term roadmap. Any other suggestions/feedback?
> This is why we tolerate the police for a few hundred years now - on occasion they cause violence that's predictable and can be influenced.

The point of these protests is that the violence is not occasional. It is endemic, and attempts to stop it stretch back centuries. It has persisted across the country, under both progressive and conservative politicians, despite many, many attempts to eliminate it.

If the violent system we have has successfully resisted change and accountability for hundreds of years, how is this a regression?
That's because, at least anecdotally, many more people are overweight than underweight, so "being healthy" involves weight loss more than weight gain.
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Two great illustrations of this concept from literature come to mind:

* Borges's 'On Exactitude in Science' [0] about a map that is as large and as precise as the territory, which renders it useless;

* the wonderful Eschaton scene in Infinite Jest [1], with Pemulis screaming: "It’s snowing on the goddamn map, not the territory, you dick!

This point gets made enough over time that one suspects it's an enduring trait of our cognition to mistake the two. It certainly comes up when people present and talk about epidemiology models.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I -- I think this Decembrists music video does Eschaton wonderfully.
> Don't have telegram?

I don't even have a smartphone, it's in the repair shop for 30+ days now :)
Pretty sure you could set limits or alerts on bandwidth usage to avoid that.