skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a great choice in the era of COVID -- no one is renting or getting AirBnBs.

And who knows what will happen to that market once stimulus checks run out and lots of jobless people start getting evicted.

And then you need to worry about taxes, maintenance, and, if you want to be a landlord, all of those rule & regs.

Or you just drop it in QQQ and try not to think about it too much.
The floating point comment leaves out that one can use

#pragma omp simd reduction(+:res)

as a more precise way to achieve vectorization in the reduction (compile with -fopenmp-simd to only use it for SIMD without linking an OpenMP library): https://godbolt.org/z/17oTz1

Unfortunately, the pragma is not supported with the new-style class iterators in a released compiler, though it works in clang-trunk: https://godbolt.org/z/hbP11W
Note that Clang disables floating point contraction by default (so no vfmadd instructions), despite them being more accurate. One usually wants this globally (-ffp-contract=fast) except when trying to bitwise reproduce software compiled for pre-Haswell.
Ramakrishna is surprising to me. He literally grew up in a small village. Are you saying he was influenced later?
An excerpt from the coding-style.rst:

> Exceptions for introducing new usage is to maintain a userspace ABI/API, or when updating code for an existing (as of 2020) hardware or protocol specification that mandates those terms.

You know that Linus is "drawing the line somewhere" and he is only banning this for new usages. The PC crowd may still question why not remove "all" usages including old code with these "offensive" terms. (It's really isn't realistic for the Linux Kernel.)

You're more than welcome to recommend to remove all usages including historical ones to Linus. /s
An episode of Reply All[0] hints at another potential way of automated stolen credit card testing workflow.

In short, Domino’s across the US regularly receive strange orders for $2 Coke (and nothing else), which then no one ever picks up. The theory is, if a card doesn’t work, an automated script detects that as online order form switches to cash—and if it works, given the popularity of Domino’s this transaction might just slip by the cardholder’s attention.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2
What you're missing is that "them buying fancy crap" is redistribution of wealth. I don't see how it's worse than your suggestions of investing in entrepreneurs; in both situations, something is bought and there is an expectation to extract value from it. On the one hand, they've bought a yacht; on the other hand, they've bought shares in a company.

I do not see what is objectively unhelpful about buying a yacht, or similar. Trades persons are paid, wealth is redistributed, utility and enjoyment is extracted from the product of their labour.

In all luxury consumption there is a redistribution of wealth; and _unlike_ with investment, there is no expectation to extract future wealth from the labour of others after the point of purchase.

In their own way, investors are parasites. They leverage their hoarded wealth to extract value from the labour of others.
> The weirdest thing, language-wise, that I noticed was scoping.

Not the spaces in variable names?
Like in real life - slavery isn't really banished, it's transformed into a less brittle, and perhaps more insidious, social relationship: Former bound slaves are now employed as salaried servants, free to leave at any time. Except if they want to earn enough to feed their families, that is.

So now, we still have masters and servants in the kernels, but the names are changed:

> In their place coders will be expected to use alternatives

> such as “primary” and “secondary” relationships, or refer

> to “leaders” and “followers”, or even “directors” and

> “performers”.

If it's _actually_ primary foo's and secondary foo's, then fine; but I suspect these are just euphemisms. Now, in software, the effect is just a bit of obfuscation. What's annoying is the reflection of the real-life trade not to call a spade a spade.

PS - I'm fine with changes like "denylists" instead of "blacklists".
Making Java Microservices Zing
eetimes.com[0] is usually a decent place for general electronic industry news.

Tip: scroll down to pass the sponsored content to see the full news section below the fold.

[0] https://eetimes.com/
> Wars between countries are certainly more common than civil wars, aren't they?

Far more people are killed in intrastate armed conflict than interstate:

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Du...
> ... but any amount of immunity in a population makes transmission of the virus more difficult.

That may be true from a pure logical/mathematical point of view, but that doesn't mean it makes a practical difference.

Herd immunity is something that happens when a very large percentage of the population is immune. For mumps (which has a very high R0), you need about 92% immunity level for it to be effective.

For COVID-19, it is currently estimated to be around 60+%. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151357/)

We are nowhere near these kind of immunity levels right now, and it's impossible to get to that level without vaccine unless you're willing to accept that a huge amount of people will die or get seriously ill.

Any suggestion that herd immunity is relevant in today's environment is plain wrong.
Interesting - in the barrage of recent pessimism about the US's covid response, I was unaware of its high testing numbers. Nice to have a little good news.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/international-comparison
In case anyone watches this: The Q/A In the end is also very interesting :-)
My mistake. I guess I'm specifically speaking of Ontario.
Genuinely curious, in what context is it perjury? My understanding of parallel construction is:

1. Officer receives information $A through inadmissible means (which may be illegal, but not necessarily)

2. With information $A, officer is able to "prove" that a suspect perpetrated a given crime

3. Officer pieces together proof from possible unrelated, but admissible evidence - $B and $C, let's say.

4. And this is the part where I don't know that perjury is what we're talking about: Officer simply testifies to the truth of $B and $C, and that the suspect committed the crime in question.
you would retire on RRSP + CPP (very small) + whatever you currently have in your 401k + whatever you have in retirement savings from any other country(ies) you have lived in.

That said, depending on your age, with a max RRSP contribution of 27k, if you can contribute the max for 20yrs, you should have enough to retire on RRSP alone, assuming reasonable retirement living.

Assuming you contribute $27230/yr for 20yrs, and manage to get 5% growth on that account each year, you would end up with about $1m in the RRSP. It all depends on how much time you have to grow the account I guess.
So which claims in this article were widely reported elsewhere?
> A hobby that burns 1% of the words electricity and costs literally Millions of dollars every day.

70-80% of mining is using renewable energy or reducing pollution, and isn't pulling away from other use cases.

But you didn't know where the energy came from, only how much was being used I guess? You should be able to corroborate this, let me know!
Programmers – Let’s Bury the Immigration Dream
Sure, but who is renting the property after that? In your scenario, the answer is, noone, which significantly incentivizes at least _some_ of the landlords to negotiate with tenants, instead of mass eviction. Some income is better in the short-run than no-income, particularly for small property owners.
If you haven’t left NYC, it may also be true that our perception of “going out a lot” is about equivalent to much of the nation’s “lockdown” perception.

In other parts of the country, like Florida and Arizona, it doesn’t seem like the transmission rate ever really went below 1: it just hovered around 1.

So now NY, Boston, etc are “opening up” to a roughly equivalent position that those states were in when they were under “total lockdown”: in NYC, we still don’t have indoor dining, for example, whereas Arizona still allows 50% capacity indoor dining despite nearly running out of ICU beds in most hospitals.

When you’re in the center of the epidemic, merely getting to an infection rate of 1 is not good enough. NYC got well below that. I don’t think everywhere else did, and even the places “shutting down again” may not be doing enough.
My guess is that no states will do that.

Even as the number of cases goes up, deaths (the more important number) keeps coming down.

https://i.imgur.com/LMVNbBD.png

We keep hearing about how this trend will reverse soon, ("two weeks from now"), but that hasn't happened yet.

It seems pretty clear now that even our low estimates of fatality were too high and that many people had Covid-19 in March/April/May and were never tested/counted.
I don't think we'll be adding a CFD model. ;0)
Thanks, this is an excellent observation. One of the other stocks I watch is docusign and it has also gone parabolic for quite the same reasons(getting included in nasdaq 100) although not as much as tesla. I feel like this is a way to game the system, grow somewhat big and you can then be included in a premier index where you then have multiple funds forced to buy your stock, your market cap increases, get added to more indexes etc.
This is a very interesting article, and it is somewhat surprising to see Python entering the malware space more in recent years. Other compiled languages with sophisticated runtimes and cross platform support fit in quite well (Go especially) but to see Python is quite interesting. I guess these actors are at a point where they can churn it out relatively quickly, and are not too worried about the code being reversed rather trivially.

What I'd want to learn more about is whether or not these Python samples tend to be very large (in terms of actual code, and not just language internals/pyinstaller/boilerplate). I expected the real life samples to be smaller than some of the larger botnets and the like written in these compiled languages, but some of the ones you go in depth on are somewhat surprising.
Cool technique. I read the evaluation and there is afaik no mention if the tests were run multi-threaded or single threaded.

Considering the rather complex dynamic of Intel's downclocking with AVX512 workloads, that would be pretty interesting.

Similarly the AWS VM CPUs were clocked at 2.0Ghz, which is pretty low and possibly does not even downlock in that configuration, were tests run on desktop CPUs that go to 5Ghz regularly on non-AVX512 workloads?
How is the advantage there?
This is the same thing that happened in India. Precious lockdown token was used up too early, now they can't go back to lockdown again even thought its speading like wildfire.
It's a shame. I'm on the same boat and not being able to use lld adds a literal minute to my builds :-/
so what are your suggestions then?
You want to actually kill piracy? You need two things, and probably either one of them would work on its own, too:

1. A streaming service with a reasonable monthly fee that has all movies and TV, not sharded between multiple different services.

2. The ability to buy and download movies and TV shows, DRM free, for a reasonable one-off fee. I know that the entertainment industry is allergic to no DRM, but I promise you, if they did this, piracy would go down, not up.
Thanks for all the hard work and congrats on your launch!

I will definitely check this service out for a side project I'm working on that combines basketball and AI (https://www.myshotcount.com/)
Here's an article that gets into the differences between the Vedic hymns and the later material that grew around them (in section 2):

https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/vedol

In particular:

”Over time a body of dependent and scholastic material grew up around the poems, known loosely as 'the Veda'. Perhaps around 1000 BC (all dating in prehistoric India is only approximate), editors gathered the ancient poems together and arranged them, together with some more modern material, into ten books according to rules that were largely artificial"

In terms of subject matter, I would cite the texts themselves. The bulk of the original Vedas (meaning the Samhitas proper), though exquisite in language, poetry and description, are remarkably concrete and earthly compared to the subject matter of the Upanishads, which instead are concerned with esoteric subjects like dualism and non-dualism, and the relationship of that to individual identity and a universal consciousness. The Vedic Samhita's subject matter predominantly concerns propitiation of deified forces of nature to aid with everyday survival concerns, like food, kinship practices, and inter-tribal conflicts.

The Upanishads clearly represent the reflections of an elite of a far more "advanced" stage of society than the Samhitas.
This is a listicle of context-free ideas distilled into bon mots. Great for going viral, especially among the VC twitter crowd.

The problem with these lists is that they give the impression that you're learning something when you're really just consuming Content.
Yes it's controversial, but that controversy is not evenly distributed: there many places one can be openly anti-car and still get elected. (And that's not even counting proportional representation giving voice to minority views.)
Yup, that's the case in Ontario. Mask wearing is also now mandatory indoors. I guess the question is why did California rush to re-open fully?
Mmm, sounds promising. Can you write C++14-style code with Wt though?
In Astounding Test, Scientists Revive Damaged Lungs for Transplant
I never even thought about this being a problem until I watched the video. It's amazing the types of things we have to build algorithms to handle that our brain does naturally.
Maybe it's relevant to point out that white Americans perpetrating slavery against Africans is by far not the only instance of slavery in world history. So in the light of this, it's a little silly to be terribly afraid of the terms "master" and "slave" due to presumed racial bias.

For example, Mediterranean people were for a long time regularly kidnapped by Arab raiders from the south. Vikings kidnapped people from the British isles. Etc.
Simplify the Internet
Folding@Home[1] or some other distributed compute project that you would like to support?

[1] https://foldingathome.org/
I have no idea it this will work, but how about leaning into the pattern? Whenever a fluffy item comes up, suggest that the lead take it "because they must be so busy with 'things'". Whenever a hard/extensive one comes up one of the non-leads can volunteer to tackle the challenge. After a while it should be clear that everyone knows who's doing what as a sort of running joke. If you're lucky maybe the managers will pick on this 'vote of non-confidence' through laughs at the lead's expense. Maybe the lead will start to get insecure and try doing actual work, or maybe they'll lash out in some unproductive way. Chances are good that something will change, but not guaranteed for the better.
This article was a light read. Well written and clearly stated, but rather short on new ideas. In particular, it would be interesting to know how good the source available licenses - e.g. Redis' RSAL license - are at addressing the cloud-provider issue. Of course, it's not technically open source, but does it work?
This seems to be missing any discussion of non-profit academic society publishers, which in many fields are the dominant publishers and so much better than the for-profit companies that seem more dominant in the life sciences especially. I'm most familiar with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in computer science. Sure, they have their own bureaucracies and added costs, but they run all kinds of other programs and events based on the profits from journals and conferences, including the kind of student scholarships to conferences they suggest. The overall costs are way lower, they're governed by the leading professors who are elected from the membership, they've been far more willing to negotiate with universities in the big transition to open access, and I've found very little meddling of the sort this piece describes.

In ACM / CS, the publishing pipeline is now fully based in LaTeX, so authors effectively do their own typesetting for their own articles. There is now a standardized template for submissions, so the version of the draft you send to peer review is typeset in the same way it will be published in the final version. In my experience, almost always the version that gets published is identical to the final "camera ready" version I submit after peer review.

Finally, peer reviewing is indeed not paid, but the way my fields treat peer review is that you are supposed to review proportionally to however much reviewing you obligate on others by the papers you / your students / your lab submit to peer review. If your paper goes out to three reviewers, you sign up for three reviews. Then for the reviewer coordinator / meta-reviewer burden, if your group/lab is submitting 6-8 papers a year, then you have an obligation to be on the editorial board / program committee, which comes with the reviewer coordinator burden of what a decent sized group/lab obligates on others. Of course, some people are still free riders, and many people submit publications who are not qualified to peer review, but it does change how you think about the "peer reviewing is free labor" issue.
>I saw a thread on Reddit the other day where someone mentioned "taking the 30 seconds to read something"; the discussion went on a tangent where someone called themselves a slow reader because it took them a whole minute, and then others chimed in that it was taking them longer still. So, I timed myself and it took me 14 seconds to read it.

Not that I don't agree with your overall message but petty one-upsmanship at things one should never strive to one-up someone else on is kind of a staple of Reddit and that's probably what you were reading.
The protocol is more or less all plaintext. The "best" peer to peer cipher available is rc4; almost no one uses it. The tracker announces can run over HTTPS, but often run over plain HTTP.
> all signs point to meanginful immunity and virtually no signs point to the opposite.

Here is a story from CNN via the Mercury News about 3 teachers sharing a classroom. Anecdotal, but makes me think these are signs of a lack of immunity. A positive, negative, positive test.

> A month after they caught the virus that killed their colleague, Martinez and Skillings are still struggling.

> Martinez says fatigue is lingering, she still has a cough, and she continues to take breathing treatments to relieve tightness in her chest. She recently tested negative and retested.

> Skillings says she thought she was getting better, but recently her cough returned full force. She tested a week ago and it came back positive again.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/12/three-arizona-teacher...
Study after study has shown that the US actually has some of the lowest social mobility in the developed world, and its poor educational systems and strictly rationed access to high quality learning environments are a direct contributor to that.

Part of the reason is because education is a political football. From school boards up to the presidency, everyone has an axe to grind.

Ironically - because there's so little awareness among the public of how empirical research works, and in some quarters there's a strong bias against facts and evidence - almost no one knows how to make it sharp and effective again.
This is true. The only way you actually learn something here is by taking ideas as a starting point to identify where they are prevalent in your own life.
I'm out of the stock market waiting for the other shoe to drop. I've been all-cash since early Feb just watching this FOMO rally from the sidelines.

I'm not average for an American (consumer or investor), but people like me exist.
I dont understand for the life of me why the state cant get tough on masks and distancing with the rule of law. All they do is put out suggestions and guildelines. Until they flex the guidlines with some muscle it's just theatre
The highest-voted question on Stack Overflow is related to branch predictions and branchless programming:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
That sounds like a great way to make the most upvoted comment "submitter's favourite baseball player is Jason Heyward".
Property also seems pretty inflated from where I sit. Direct return on investment a paltry half percentage point or so above the interest rate.

Maybe if you want to bet on the interest getting negative and staying there forever, but then you're back at the same assumptions as if you invest in the stock market.
People are not using the cards to get service from AAA, they're likely using them as fake forms of non-photo identification. The same goes for the fake bank statements.
Is the metric system on the horizon?
Sorry, how is NOT using the terms master and slave helping actual slaves? I used to be bullied in school when I was young. I'm sure if people removed the term nerd and bully from some software projects I'd be much better off. Thank god for the word police.

In what context can we use the terms master and slave?

The term slave means to be controlled by another entity in its most basic definition. Just because there are loads of people who are slaves in the world doesn't make that term less accurate for its other uses.
I appreciate how the french idea of education includes savoir vivre.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23809211

One should be able to be convivial even with those who aren't companions.
I would expect some activity like this, but it seems implausible that it could drive up the price >2x. Surely lots of these would-be arbitrageurs will end up losing a lot of money?
> black holes are fundamentally simple objects. They only have three properties: mass, charge, and angular momentum; so, you should be able to describe them fully from any reference frame outside the event horizon using those 3 variables plus the spatiotemporal location of the hole.

Yes, this is correct.

> At that point, if you have a universe with nothing in it but your one, lonely black hole, you have a static universe.

Yes. (More precisely, it's static outside the hole's horizon.)

> If you introduce matter, you could theoretically model interactions between all the particles of matter in your toy universe, and the black hole. If you constrain the number of particles enough, you should be able to at least approximate how this idealized universe evolves.

Approximate, yes. But there are no exact solutions known for such scenarios in GR.

(Also, a minor point, GR models matter as continuous--"point particles" don't really exist in GR except as "test objects" that can move within the spacetime geometry but do not act as sources for the curvature of the geometry. Continuous matter is described by the stress-energy tensor.)
Technically true but wouldn't going with a cheaper exterior option and using the saved cost for dedicated insulation be more efficient? Aside from airflow it is usually windows and frames where the insulation property is relevant, otherwise we would see using thicker walls instead of just spraying insulation for cheap development.

I mean it is a neat concept but unfortunately efficiency often selects the "boring" option.
These are the affected counties:

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1282780070323515393

Notably, San Francisco isn’t included. Probably because SF hasn’t opened up as much as other counties on this list.
The Future of Education Is School as a Product
Knowledge Graphs: Modeling your understanding of an idea
The article is fairly UK-centric, and in the UK, most suburban homes are made of brick.