skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not excusing anything; I'm just saying that a single bad article from 7 years ago from a single reporter and the newspaper not appropriately rectifying it – which is certainly a very bad thing – is not a good reason to dismiss the entire newspaper out of hand, especially not considering the scale of the NYT. Things are just not that black/white.
There will likely be more caching in the future, but it's a hard problem and for now, they're working on lower hanging fruit to speed up compile times.

> Reading about this a bit more, it almost seems like whatever PackageCompiler.jl is doing could be automated and baked into the the core julia executable with simple options/flags.

Not really, no. Fundamentally, PackageCompiler is building a monolithic executable with your desired packages baked into it. Every time you want to add a new method to compile, you need to rebuild the whole thing and you cause it to be larger on the disk and slower to start up.

Even if we could quickly cache methods, I have hundreds of Julia packages installed locally on my machine. and regularly call methods with exotic signatures. If I baked every method I ever compiled into my sysimage, it'd probably be hundreds of terabytes in size at least. You have to remember that every time I call a function f on arguments x, y, and z, I need to compile a new method for each distinct signature

f(::typeof(x), ::typeof(y), ::typeof(z))

There are more Julia function signatures that it's possible to create and compile from just Base functions and types than there are atoms in the universe.

Of course, it's possible to do more caching and faster than we currently do, but I just want to emphasize that it's a hard problem.
By "indirectly coerced" you mean that they need food and shelter and they don't have slaves to grow their food and build their house for them?
Algorithm Might Make Facial Recognition Obsolete
+1 interested in more information about the applications engineer role but I don't see it listed on the careers page or on LinkedIn. Any pointers?
No that's not true at all. Receiving a UBI and using the income to take care of your aging parents makes you a giver, not a leech. Your attitude is unhealthy and shows how selfish and narcissistic you are.
In this thread we have on one side a public example of the state ordering a private corporation to do something, and on the other vague blanket accusations of state collusion that get parroted by HNers but never substantiated with any examples. How long can you keep up the cognitive dissonance?
> would you lend vast sums of money to someone who has never demonstrated their ability to manage and repay a loan

Depends on what they're borrowing for. If it's real estate, the valuation is solid, and the borrower has a reliable income, why not? They're obviously either well-resourced or financially responsible or both, since they've previously never needed a loan. That plus the existence of an underlying asset that can be taken back sounds like a low risk deal for the bank.

Also, don't mortgage applications look at your savings and other assets when lending? It's not just the credit score right?
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Some companies collected those loans and still didn't pay employees. I've seen this unfold personally too and it has really shaken my respect for American businessmen...
> "That great freedom in expression is probably what leads to many bugs from expressing things "too freely".

I agree.

I'm not sure why C++ needs to attain perfection of this specific kind - or any kind, for that matter. You could also argue that the great freedom and flexiblity were preconditions for (or at least greatly aided in) the creation of languages like Rust. Through them, people learned what to be aware of; and were thus capable of "distilling" this knowledge into such languages.

My point is: there is nothing inherently wrong with a language choosing to be liberal/maximum generality, allowing for a playground on which new ideas and learnings can happen. I consider C++ to be of that kind, it has served this purpose for a long time in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm perfectly aware of all the issues that come with it, and I'd not advocate C++ as the language of choice for the majority of software nowadays. I reject the idea though that C++ should now be considered obsolete, redundant, or anything that goes into that direction just because some people now believe to have found some kind of (final) "perfection" in new languages.
It doesn't matter what I buy or not buy. It's a matter of corporations being able to eat the cake and have it too. There's a distinction of ownership and renting and corporations have successfuly twisted the difference in their favor by bribing as much people as their could.
Isn't GPT-3 just a language model? Where would the part that parses input and then figures out a response come from?
They need to implement triple redundant AOA indicators. It's obscene that these failure modes are even possible much less approved. Knowing there is a disagreement just lets you know you are close to being fucked.
Boeing and the FAA. Feels like an old couple that has to live under the same roof, so it is broken dishes and shouting all day long.
Peeking at user agents for fun and profit
I've been trying to use the Sipeed Maixduino. It's much like the hifive1 except it uses the Kendryte K210, which is a fully supported RV64GC dual-core. It even supports supervisor and user modes. It's also relatively cheap. The problem is that documentation is lacking, so I'm having to reverse engineer their BSP: https://maixduino.sipeed.com/en/
> he's a holocaust denier

From what little I've seen, Owen Benjamin rejects that description of himself, so I'd be interested to hear why you think he is.

Worth noting that outlets that reported him as a "holocaust denier" also claimed that he would definitely lose this lawsuit, which was clearly false. Not only did Patreon lose, but the judge went so far as to point out that the cases they cited undermined their own case.

> He has every right to say it to whoever will listen, but private companies should not be forced to amplify that shit.

Private companies have an obligation to honor their Terms of Service, which Owen did not violate, and why he and his fans filed for arbitration in the first place.
All those mortgages are wrapped into bonds. No mortgage payment, bonds can't pay. It's a default. Or haircut.

Those bonds in turn are people's retirement income. It doesn't just end at a bank.
Personally I prefer dogs over cats. I've met cats that I liked but when I sat down and thought about why I liked those particular cats it was because they acted in ways I associate more with a typical dog rather than a typical cat.
It's funny how the blog talks about the importance of backlinks while being full of links to other sites itself. It's almost like he needed an excuse to exchange links with other sites and did it in one blog post. I'm not judging, but I don't have my rose colored glasses any more.
> They get the money from individuals who are not using healthcare.

:thinking-face:

That's weird, I use healthcare, and yet I still pay monthly premiums. Can you explain why I don't fit into your explanation?
In Russia the government set up a process to have people freed from contracts during the pandemic, using this legal concept.
similarly, I was able to go through k-8 with no effort outside of paying attention during class. high school was more or less the same, not to mention interests can easily wander during those years. in college I quickly discovered I could get more or less straight Bs with almost zero effort and figured the effort needed for the last 1 point in GPA was far too "expensive" relative to the first 3 so I coasted.

never having explicitly failed during those years ill admit my level of "grit" is lacking. after a decade and variety of circumstances i sit here, mid 30s, saddled with a ton of student debt and no career. in the grand scheme i have definitely failed; if this reckoning point (realization) had been reached as early as mr. tao perhaps there would be time to turn things around.
Given the option, would anyone choose to book a trip on one of these new Boeing aircraft rather than anything else? I know I wouldn't, my family wouldn't, and none of the friends or co-workers I've discussed this with would.

Something tells me airlines are going to be making it even more difficult to determine which aircraft you'll be flying on when you book a ticket. As far as I know they're not required to tell you, nor are they required to use the aircraft listed at the time of booking (they can swap it at the last minute if they want).
Lake country + Sunday night = high beams.

When people improperly load vehicles, especially when towing things like boats, the headlights tip upwards. You were probably seeing overloaded vehicles, trailers with high tongue weights because they pushed everything to the front rather than center the cargo over the axle. That pushes the back of the truck down and the headlights up.
Hungary also as a public service media. In fact, I am not certain there is any independent media still existing in Hungary. Which goes to show that public media is not always the best.
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"The “wind resistance” effect on radio waves is incredibly small, but space is big."

This reads like something from XKCD!
Filtered, yes, but not HEPA.
As an alternative, don't import all of DifferentialEquations, just import the sublibraries you need. For ODEs usually just DiffEqBase and OrdinaryDiffEq are sufficient.
Personal opinion--I like the pre-cooked templates, and would love to see more of common trivial SaaS products. Things like timekeeping or inventory management for instance. That would make it feel easier to justify, since it essentially replaces one or more things we'd already be paying for, rather than the abstract notion of "we'll create new efficiencies, somewhere".

It could even go the third party marketplace route, similar to what you see with quite popular wordpress themes and plugins.
The 5.3 is a great phone. The Pixel 4a has a better screen and better camera (kinda), but at $200 in the US it's a fantastic value for what you get.
They don't use white lasers. They use blue lasers, which are focused by mirrors on a yellow phosphor lens to make white light.
Not very secure either, but pair a miband4 with smart unlock. 3-4 weeks of battery life, works with gloves and masks/scarves. Keep keychain or throw it in backpack. The 1st party app lets you adjust unlock distance by range. Anyone in range can unlock your device, but works well in terms of convenience.
Cut pensions then. Right now the working are paying full price to the retired. Everyone should get a haircut.
Its difficult.
The times had an interesting article at the beginning of Covid about a restaurant closing.

A closure ripples through the economy. Salaries/ suppliers and rent. Crazy high rents are going to be a casualty of this virus I suspect.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-re...

I though paying everyone unemployed $600 dollars in unemployment while not a perfect system, was pretty good as that money was going right back into the economy, keeping it from collapsing completely.
I think the key insights are:

- only the most significant (in terms of exponentially) factor(s) matters for big O (i.e. if you have a linear factor, the constant time factor is ignored)

- You have to determine whether you are talking worst case or average case or best case. Assuming average case I’d guess the opposite maze is O(n) because the time expands linearly with number of segments.

(Disclaimer: I am not formally educated in computer science, so admittedly I am not up to snuff on the mathematical side of things. Hopefully I am close enough here.)

edit: Oops, I failed to actually cover any time complexity calculation at all. I do not know if my approach is correct, but here's how I view the original:

def walk_path(n):
// probability of _not_ recursing is (1/n^2)
// probability of _recursing_ is (1 - 1/n^2)
// likelihood of recursing doubles with n
// therefore, the average case of this loop is O(2^n)
for (i : 0 -> n)
if (random() < 0.5)
walk(); // = O(1)
else
// Ignoring the actual walking on the branch, we just pretend we turn around directly.
for (j : i -> 0) // = O(n/2)
walk();
return walk_path(n);

and the opposite is straight forward, since the branches are 'constant time' - so it's more like a straight loop.
“The world trusts US companies” is definitely not true in the sense we are talking about.

Legal mechanisms exist everywhere and can be broken if not by selective enforcement but also by the voters.
“Rent-seeking” does not mean “collects rent”. It’s a specific term that describes someone who inserts themselves into economic transactions without providing value.

The classic example is someone who puts a chain across a path and then charges to move the chain out of the way.

WRT landlords, you can still describe some of their behavior as “rent-seeking” if they are perpetuating a social or political environment where they get greater returns for doing nothing (e.g. NIMBY/BANANA)
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> What do governments do historically during sieges and plagues?

Collapse? Militarise?

Trying to think of examples in what one would recognise as the modern era, outside of the obvious wholesale destruction of WW2. It looks like the war itself was bad for small business in the US: https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqr...

> The total number of business enterprises in operation in the United States has declined from a peak of nearly 3.4 million in 1941 to the present [1945] low point of perhaps 2.8 million. Certain persons have seen in this decline an alarming tendency toward concentration of economic power in the hands of large corporations, accompanied by a continuous freezing out of small enterprises.
No, collecting rent is not “rent seeking”.

Rent seeking is collecting “rents” (which is different than rent for a home) from either a public good (like land) or through lobbying for legal changes that prevent competition and increase earnings.

A house built on a piece of land is an improvement and doesn’t fall under “rent seeking”.

You could make the argument that the land the house is on is rent seeking, sure, but that would mean only a part of the income would be considered rent seeking.
'Hygiene theatre' is the term some have settled on for the proliferation and implementation of this kind of thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy... (subsequently posted to the SSC subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hzily8/bewa...)
Your comment rang very true to me. Thank you for posting it.

What would you recommend to read more about the Alan Watts topics you reference?
So essentially:

"If you want to buy this thing then you must pay a kickback to the government for brokering the deal and if you don't we will use government power to ban it."
> Or more simply, why not make it a member method to begin with?

You may not be the author/maintainer of that class.

> Why not just make your Extension an other class that would be inherited?

Because now I have a down casting issue (especially when talking about non-heap "objects"). Which means implementing and forwarding dozens of methods, and/or sloppy bug-prone (when some other developer puts variables on the class without noticing) implicit casts.

> I wish the article included some real-world practical example of when that would be useful

The classic one is interface helpers. Methods which smooth out the usage of an interface but are not relevant to the implementation of it. Yes one can put those methods on the interface's definition. But this allows separating where the interface is declared (some header some where) and where the code for it is defined (some code file), potentially across libraries (e.g. a header only "library" of interfaces, and a utility library of methods for making it nice to use). Notably this also avoids some frustrating header shenanigans and allows writing interface helpers against concrete types to come up with a more natural library organization.

The next one is it much easier to write "literate programming" style code in C++ (which is nice because they often make types "disappear" in their usage, and many argue provide more readable code as a consequence). A problem many developers currently solve with operator overload (see `<<` for the C++ standard printing library). This also makes it way way easier for such literate programming to be extensible (believe me I wrote the templates for extensible literate programming once, it's insanely painful).

Also, depending on how these implement templates, they might be a much more appreciated method of adding optional class methods to templates by making the method a compile error to call in the first place ("missing method") rather than a substitution failure error ("<massive call stack>").
Check their leases, apply a vacancy rate of 5%-15% depending on history or estimation.
Today, that saddens me greatly. It seems like there are always members of any community, virtual or physical, that go to such an extreme that they provide fodder for all those who don't like the community as a whole. The Warhammer Heresy memes are just too true.
The Pixel is all about the camera. There are a few other niceties compared to other budget/mid-range phones, but if a good camera isn't important to you then there's no reason to buy the Pixel.
Even the came-with-the-car headlights are often dangerously bright, no need to assume they're aftermarket.
> That said, the Pixel line of phones isn't known for having long lasting battery. A feature that I've found to be indispensable is wireless charging. I just rest my Pixel 4 on a vertical charging base throughout the day. Otherwise, I'd have to have to constantly plug/unplug the phone throughout the day to charge, and that'd be a huge regression in the user experience.

Note that the 4a actually has a larger battery than the 4, per the article, so this complaint may well be addressed by this device.
funny, it has all the features of an IDE
> disable MCAS for the remainder of the flight.

My understanding is that the MCAS or something equivalent is necessary on the 737 MAX because the engines sit lower than they really should and the forward propulsion creates torque that raises the nose of the plane. Something needs to counteract that force.

If the MCAS is disabled, is the pilot able to trim the airplane manually similar to how MCAS works? Or will they have to just kinda hold the nose down with the main steering controls?
That seems like a sale ripe for exploitation. China would have been able to harvest data on closeted individuals and leverage them. Completely agree with blocking this sale.
Noob question here: Since, if I get this correctly, all these changes will require new pilot training, why is the MCAS still needed?

My understanding was that this system was installed in order for the new plane to behave exactly like the old one therefore not requiring costly additional pilot training.
It's nice to see our government responding to the CCP appropriately for once.
Obviously, someone has to hold the bag, but who?
You cannot just expect everybody to receive their guaranteed returns on investment as if nothing happened.

But who and how much -- that is a very tough decision.
It's impressive how well the caching in these SSDs works to still provide good performance until the cache is full and performance falls off a cliff.
Caution her in private, protect her in public
Not if they are halogens. I've only seen manual adjustment on HID-equipped cars, and only older ones. Most anything modern is auto-leveling.
I've started to see some of those lifted trucks (almost always white, for some reason) with LED strip arrays mounted into the front grill fascia at just the right height to glare directly at the eye level of passenger cars.
Repairs are estimate'able and often increase the value of a building by allowing for the increase of rent making the current leases a floor of value. The roi is relatively straightforward. Buildings are some of the simplest assets.
Bottom-left quadrant of this. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1789676-money-printer-go-brr...
NYT leans slightly left, WSJ leans slightly right, and I feel like reading both gives you a fairly balanced view on the issues of the day.

The opinion sections of each publication can get fringey, but that's just the clickbait that pays the bills - it's obvious that the rest of the articles try hard to adhere to journalistic standards.
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Actually you need to provide citation for the idea that messing with the banking system would cause a total economic collapse.

Also, a bank run is probably the earliest, and most completely solved problem of financial
problems. In the US with FDIC insurance, and the fact that the Fed has stepped in to bail banks out time and again, there is absolutely no reason to believe there would be a bank run.

Also, banks saw trillions of dollars of revenue disappear in the 2008 financial crisis. The disappearance of revenue wasn’t the issue. The suddenness with which it happened and the unexpected impact of non banking financial institutions was what caused damage.

Suddenness wouldn’t be an issue because it would have been something mandated by the government. And the non banking institutions are smaller, better understood and would have been far less of a problem this time.
WSJ news section is pretty good, but their focus is a little narrow. The opinion pages? Just tear those out and trash them before any of the words can accidentally leak into your brain.

The space between the news side and opinion side of the WSJ is wider than the space between Fox News and Fox and Friends.