skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Rust, ownership is a compile-time issue. This puts constraints on how you can use references, how ownership is passed around and so on. This programming model has a cost to the user and is probably inherently slower to compile just because the compiler has to do more.

But at runtime it's essentially free.

C++ on the other hand added a set of primitives starting in C++11 to be explicit about ownership through std::unique_ptr and such. These have a runtime cost and ultimately mean getting locks. I've seen estimates of this cost in the single digit microseconds. Not exactly super-expensive but not free either.

There are simply some assumptions Rust can make that C++ can't because certain things aren't possible in Rust.

Another example: Rust doesn't have exceptions. Over the years I personally have some to believe that exceptions are largely a false economy (particularly the failed experiment that is/was checked exceptions in Java).

Instead Rust has match expressions and enumerated types (with state!) that force you to deal with return types. This BTW is very much what Google C++ looks like. It's even debated if you can ever write truly exception-safe C++ code.

This is another problem Rust doesn't have by virtue of not having the feature.

Are you starting to see the pattern? C++ has everything in it. That comes at a cost and there's no getting around that.
Wow. Crazy. Google is starting to leverage their position. They now selling 12.8x this buy in corporate bonds. I think this is the beginning of many plays by Google/Alphabet.

[1] - https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1290338641919856640
My entire point the whole way through was about Sowell being wrong about the CRA, and it literally doesn't matter when it was introduced. It was an example of anti discrimination legislation regarding loans that Sowell has directly commented on, what other example should I use?
Dutch commercial fishers devised a way to electrocute fish and scoop them up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_pulse_fishing
The majority of us are well aware how these devices create a MITM attack against your phone, but is there anything you found particularly interesting or egregious that we should know about? Especially how LE are using them to abuse every group who desperately needs protection from these devices.
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"Various news outlets conduct polling on presidential elections. The public often relies on such polls to stay informed on each candidate’s chances of winning."

Perhaps what they tell the public is different than internal analysis, but national popularity polls are completely irrelevant in a national POTUS election.

We have the electoral college. It's about states, and most would say specific counties.
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Sure, so there's a few things to look at.

The first is going back to the origins of the 4% number in the first place, the trinity study. The parameters for that were a 30 year retirement period, and success was "not completely run out of money after 30 years, 95% of the time". If you extrapolate from that original study, if you retire for more than 30 years (FIRE includes retiring early), success drops from 95%.

There's articles exploring that, e.g.

https://www.fiphysician.com/safe-withdrawal-rate-early-retir...

https://www.madfientist.com/safe-withdrawal-rate/#:~:text=Th...

And then there are a variety of online calculators where you can play with the numbers yourself.

The other elephant in the room is pre-Medicare healthcare costs.
Pet peeve of mine: It's really not the Central Valley as a whole being ravaged, it's specifically the poorer southern part - the San Joaquin Valley. Sacramento in particular is somewhere between the Bay Area and coastal So-Cal. The northern extreme (say Redding) is actually doing a bit better than the Bay Area.

All said, even in Sac, you have some pretty dangerous behavior going on (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/churches-return-corona...), so this isn't entirely surprising.
> I would think rand would be so well explored

On the contrary, random number generation has no general solution and remains an active area of research in many fields that depend on it.
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> Here would could at least prioritize schools?

Or just mandate them in schools and let the rest of the population figure it out. Though even this would be fraught, there aren't enough air purifiers on store shelves to adequately provide for public schools.
The op isn't using the fact Wolff has a PhD in Economics as a argument that he's correct in everything he says, only that the claim that he "doesn't understand how markets work" is absurd on it's face.

Similarly, saying that Kurt Wise doesn't understand geology and paleontology when he has a PhD in the field and has contributed good science is pretty absurd.

Dismissing their claims lie in other arguments.
I wonder sometimes if all of those people who sat around dreaming about what the Web would do for the world ever get together and ask what the hell happened.

What's worst is that a lot of these conversations happened when memory of Eternal September were still relatively fresh. For my own part, I was maybe 22, new to the industry, and had not yet begun to appreciate Carlin's, "Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist." Boy howdy.

The infrastructure that grants us the Enlightenment or Democracy also, when taken ad absurbum, brings us to Idiocracy.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Turns out Reason extracts the same bargain.
"maybe people shouldn't be able to make a living out awating rent?"

It's not exactly free money -- landlords do have to deal with the maintenance of the property, fixing/replacing broken appliances, and so forth. Before a landlord goes bankrupt they will cut back on maintenance that is not absolutely essential (something I lived through in my younger years, seeing benches fall apart, trash not being removed, and weeds taking over the front and back yards of the building), and eventually would not be able to pay for maintenance that actually is essential (good luck getting your plumbing fixed when your landlord cannot pay the plumber). There is also the matter of cascading bankruptcies when large numbers of landlords are not being paid, resulting in their loans no longer paying (likely dinging retirement accounts and pension funds).

The fact is that a major shake-up in how we organize housing e.g. getting rid of rent-seeking landlords would be difficult in normal times. Doing such a thing during a deepening economic crisis would make everything worse for everyone, including people not directly involved.
> The issue is that C++ can do everything that every other language can do, which means it's not a language

None of statement are true...

C++ cannot do everything. C++ can do most every other "system programming languages" do, but that's by design that they are all system programming languages.

Even if C++ can do everything as other languages, that does not make it beyond a language. C++'s system is coherent. It is complicated, but no where it contradicts itself in any major fashion.
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For computations using a lot of float arithmetic it removes boxing and unboxing. Say: (fl+ (fl* f1 f2) (fl* fl3 fl4)). This has to unbox fl1 fl2 fl3 and fl4, but racket 7.7 immediately boxes the result of fl* only to unbox it again for fl+. This new racket does not.
The “appeal to authority” is also used to sell toothbrushes. I agree that it’s foolish to trust an article or “fact” because 9 out of 10 doctors agree. I am very interested in why that 10th doctor didn’t agree..
Okay, so ignoring the fact that the iPhone SE exists, do the math even on the shorter lifetime: that's between $2-4 per week. That's not nothing but I would not think it precludes a “budget” label, especially given how much value people get out of their phones.
It's still better than nothing if they're avoiding exposing customers and getting directly exposed to customers, but yeah, that's a recipe for spread in the workplace (and we've seen a lot of that). Most break rooms and such aren't really designed for the circumstances, so it's tricky to address this...
x86 has much stronger guarantees about memory ordering compared to ARM [1]. Maybe this comes under x86 features, but multithreaded software will not work if assumptions of memory ordering guarantees are made.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ordering
"But it’s important to understand the problem with the Times: it is not that the facts it reports tend to be inaccurate—though sometimes they are—but that the facts are presented in a way that misleads."

Shall we make sure that the quote at the top of the thread includes at least one full sentence as context?
I don't want to minimize Covid - of course you must protect yourself as you see fit.
Are Americans buying land in Scotland specifically for fly fishing? Not that I don't love visiting Scotland, it just seems unnecessarily expensive and far when Montana offers vast areas of (to my knowledge) world-class fly fishing without an international flight.
It is. Plain and simple.

edit: spelling
Interesting statements and reasoning, but zero data to support the argument.
It works here (USA).
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> Surely, there could a be a whitelist for major legitimate porn sites with an automated response that those sites are legitimate businesses not hosting illegal material.

That probably only works for sites that are run by producers. They're already required to keep extensive documentation of the actors' ages. The content is also curated (i.e. it is only their own catalog).

That doesn't work for the YouTube style sites where videos are uploaded by random people, with (I'm guessing) no verification of age.

As an aside, I am curious how much of the CP they can actually check just from a URL. I know nothing of the practice, but I would have assumed most of it was locked behind private forums or the like where you need a username and password to actually see anything. Maybe CP opsec is just much worse than I imagined
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There's a lot of really nicely summarized points here. I think it's a good "makes you think about things" bit to read if you're going to work in this space.
Or you know sometimes things get exaggerated. If you go by internet you would think half the world believes in flat earth.
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I personally find much of the prose in the New Yorker clear, even inspiring. Especially w.r.t. its travel writing, I don't think any publication better captures the magic and the essence of the experience. [0] [1]

I also think Emily Nussbaum is a wonderful TV critic and more or less deserves credit for elevating TV criticism to equal status with art & movie reviews.

Having said that, I quite take your point and I am always pleased when a researcher takes the time to write clearly. It's a skill that needs to be practiced and developed, but unfortunately, for most academics, investing in that skill isn't obviously a good career choice.

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I agree, but that is not in line with the comment that kicked off this thread with this:

>They just don't get it. People are sick of their BS and they need to just comp to it and change. The days of BSing people are over.

There is a clear difference between reserved skepticism you are talking about and the "FAKE NEWS!" type rhetoric that has grown over the last half decade.
It got ugly in Spain due to getting into the old folk homes just like NYC.
Weird tendency in modern internet discourse of pseudo psychoanalyzing people in order to discredit them. Instead of say engaging in the discussion, talk about their ideas, etc.
furthermore, it seems that it should be easier to obtain credit if you have no debt than if you have more debt than collateral, and obviously no ability to pay it.
Yes – it's just interesting to see how effective it is, even when people who are trying to be rational are explicitly thinking about costs.
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Another mental trick is to repeat to yourself "I'm an interesting person and people like me."

It's usually true. Lots of social anxiety evaporates. And sure, sometimes you put yourself in an embarrassing position because of it. But the benefits are worth it.
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Do you have a cite for this? Amazon, Best Buy, and Apple.com alone make up 42% of overall smartphone sales[0]. Verizon is the largest carrier, at only 11% of total sales.

And internationally the picture is even worse for carrier channels.

[0] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/amazon-leads-online-sma...
I would prefer more usage of ISO 9995-7 symbols. They might be equally inscrutable, but at least they are an international standard.
It frustrates me too for the same reason, but for many apps the majority of users isn't advanced enough to use keyboard input to navigate dropdowns, so depending on your userbase it might make sense to do it. Especially because with this trick you're already trading the minority's UX for that of the majority anyway.
Just because there are others doing better doesn't mean it's not luck. One might expect success to be pareto-distributed , so when you are looking at 100+ countries, there are bound to be some that are much better off than others, for innocuous or random reasons (e.g. "luck")
> California created this situation through lax enforcement of immigration laws.

It's not for states to enforce federal immigration laws. If enforcement is lax, that's a failing of the federal government. It's also a failing of the federal government that the path to legal immigration for many people is file some paperwork, then wait 20+ years for your turn.
> Concentric circles, e.g. x^2 + y^2 = 1 and x^2 + y^2 = 4. They don't intersect at all, right? Ah, except you forgot to count points over the complex numbers, where they do.

How is this possible? Are you saying that there are pairs of complex numbers (x,y) such that x^2 + y^2 = 1 = 4?
This is why science communicators are extremely important. Technical words are great for trained professionals who understand the context. But too many people, myself included, repeat these words only partially understanding what they're intended to mean.
A clever way that the Material Design icon font works is to define ligatures for all the icon names, so the text in the document is default readable by a screen reader.

This only helps when the icon is used for something relevant to its default name. I'm not sure how you opt-into a more descriptive name because some alt-text on the containing elements, ie <mwc-icon-button> has a label attribute for this.
Ah, yeah for my use case it was purely for use within my LAN and camera firewalled externally.
> He opposed Trump in the primaries, like many conservatives, and supported him in the general, like most conservatives.

I feel using the final election to say someone 'supports' a particular candidate is not really a good metric in the American voting system. Primaries are better since there is more policy choice.

Obviously, Sowell would support Trump over Hillary even if he didn't like Trump as a candidate, or even if he thought Trump was not the best candidate. Sowell is very conservative, and believes in school choice, free market healthcare, deregulation, etc. Clinton didn't want any of that. Like many people, Sowell's 'support' of Trump (I don't believe he ever even endorsed him specifically) in 2016 (and likely in 2020) is a vote against the other candidate.

> but it does make him a weird topic for an HN discussion.

Why?
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Parent's argument can still be correct even though the CRA did not cause the housing crisis.

Those are unrelated. The first argument might be correct and the CRA increases defaults by giving loans to people who can't afford them, and still there was a regulatory failure with firms rubber stamping bad debts as AAA and packaging them up in 2008.
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Totally agree.

The ROI from the outdated conventional schooling model is minimal compared to what is now possible.
Transparent DBT for userspace programs has been a thing on Linux the whole time, more or less. QEMU could stand to do a lot better performance-wise, though, for programs that actually care about that.
That's where the six feet distance part comes in.
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