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Does it matter if it is revolutionary? A lot of things that tesla does are not revolutionary but a very large number of small improvements that end up resulting in a qualitative change.

E.g. everybody is talking about exotic battery chemistries while Tesla is able to wring out significantly more performance from their existing chemistry by doing tabless electrodes.

You could argue that the focus on revolutionary progress versus incremental improvements is sometimes holding us back.
No, we haven't learned that.

Plenty of non-US cities denser than NYC did fine. and NYC is also doing pretty well by now. Consider basic stuff like how much is spread before CDC switched to promoting mask usage.

Respiratory Pandemics are also relatively rare events. Sorry, but it's true. Meanwhile suburbanization and car use causes tons of air pollution which sickens people constantly. Integrate and I am sure the suburbs come off as causing more unhealthiness.

Recent wave in suburban eras (Forida) + whatever doom we'll face in the winter will also make the April NYC a fainter memory.

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The subway in particular has excellent air filtration systems, and there have been no super spreading incidents linked to it, so as long as it's less than rush our super-packed, it's fine. See https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/10/nyregion/nyc-...
“it's close to pointless to be a lawyer in crypto/blockchain”
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Which is smart of them.

I’d guarantee that every company with a financial interest in the App Store would start putting up banners about the fee in an effort to stoke the Epic x Apple tensions in their favor.

Let the court decide the case without the mob influence of millions of uninformed users.
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my 2016 ioniq has still no perceivable battery degradation after 60k km. Maybe the technology has changed ?
Thanks! BTW I used more than V4L2.

ALSA from libasound.so.2, there: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/VrmacVideo/IO/... and the rest of libasound.*.cs files in that folder (parts of the same static class). Audio output is harder than necessary on all OSes I developer for, including Windows. From the internets I got an impression that at least on RPi, ALSA PCM is more reliable than the rest of them. Also doesn’t depend on any desktop components, important because the library can also be used without any desktop environment, rendering on a physical display.

Message queues from librt.so https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/VrmacVideo/IO/... .NET has equivalent stuff already. I needed poll() to get notified about multiple things not just queued messages, as both V4L2 and ALSA expose poll()-compatible file handles in their respective APIs.
People are also forgetting how newer docker infrastructures use multi-arch and multi-stage builds, meaning a single build could count for dozens of manifest hits, especially with distributed caching.

All the things docker has been working for to enhance the build tooling will now be more difficult to use, even if the user never stores a single image of their own on docker hub.
I don't live in a 'western country' nor do I make anything near a Silicon Valley salary
This is where it's all about "dumb luck". Unless you live in the middle nowhere with no neighbors for miles around, it's all about pure luck. I've stayed in midtown Manhattan for long stretches with little to no issue. I've stayed in the suburbs with only a single neighbor and it was hell.

There's been construction around me for the last decade. Most of the projects have been fine. The current one is managed by the devil himself and making everyone miserable. It's just luck. That's the problem.
Re: metamap being zero cost

I thought there were no zero cost abstractions in C++?

https://youtu.be/rHIkrotSwcc

Still, it isn’t RoR or anything JS so it has that going for it.
That is a reasonable concern from an accountant point of view. But time and time again Elon has shown that he isn't operating with the normal MBA CEO mindset. He is operating as an engineer, and all that matters in the engineering world is that if you can successfully build the technology and factories to remake these packs at a low cost, your total costs will be significantly lower than your competition. It doesn't take an MBA to understand the implications of that.
> A simple feature like shared channels

You think merging two or more organizations workspaces in a sane and secure manner after likely basing the entire app infrastructure around the idea of a single workspace is a "simple feature"? This is a textbook example of the classic HN comment "Why does this this company need X engineers to create Y product. I could do it in a weekend."
Great article. Unrelated; I'm always interested in the corporate decisions solo developers make for their projects - did you start an LLC? sole proprietorship, etc. Care to expand on that if you can?
Indeed, quite impressive for a presumably "fully production grade" stack to score so hight. But is it me, or are there no fsharp listings in round 19?
It's also a question of what's going on when you dive in. Out of curiosity, I've looked into several parts of benchmark source code before and it's questionable especially where the database is concerned. You'll see some things that seem to go against their own rules, like presorting and batching inserts for efficiency but their rules seem to indicate that it's not allowed.

It has lead me to treat these benchmarks with a grain of salt.

There are very few circumstances that I can imagine that would send me running for C++ for a web project. I'm much more concerned about balancing efficiency of the developer environment with performance, security and maintainability, than pure performance. At the point that I'm not, my priorities are out of whack (aside from very niche situations). The side effect of these benchmarks, while we all love benchmarks, is the idea that any of these faster frameworks are actually a better choice because of a benchmark result.
It's easier for Facebook to donate to "charities" that smears its enemies as on home turf.
There are companies in Germany doing small container recycling machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCFDWMPu38

Apparently they use remaining electricity to power the crunching step.
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My point is that if they keep getting those sweet wins, they'll soon have a much higher rating than me.

It's of course possible that some people only cheats occasionally, for whatever reason. People are weird and do weird things...
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> Almost nobody uses the -Wformat

That surprises me. Everywhere I've worked has used -Wallthethings or the equivalent, back to when it was `lint`.
It's avoided by the companies involved taking 5 minutes to talk to each other when comuniticating instructions, and then holding the funds in escrow for a day before disbursing them.

But they don't care and they are not computer literate.
"Enjoyed doing something while doing it"

Yes. I remember a "bullshit" task once: An old version of the FOCUS database query & programming language: It limited the length of a row in the results, and I needed a lot of data in a query. I split it into multiple queries and automated daily outputs. I was working in an ancient VMS system, so I had to write a programs to join them. I'd never used C for any practical purpose, but I managed to write a basic program to join the two queries on a key and append the matching lines, and then automated the whole thing into a SFTP to and ETL system for integration with another system.

It was absolutely a BS task that shouldn't have been necessary if we'd even bothered to install a 15-year old upgrade. But I had a lot of fun figuring it out.
Hmm, OpenMP is a wildcard here.

At which point, its not just the compiler (which GCC is pretty good at), but also the threading implementation (which I can believe that GCC has an inferior Windows-threading OpenMP implementation).

I don't really use either tool. But OpenMP + GCC on Windows doesn't sound like it'd be fast to me.

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MSVC only has OpenMP 2.0 support (OpenMP is all the way up to 5.0 now).

OpenMP, despite being a common interface, also is pretty reliant on many implementation details for performance. One way of doing things on GCC could be faster than another, while it could be the opposite on ICC. Its quite possible that their codebase is tailored for ICC, and that recompiling it under GCC (with a different OpenMP implementation) results in weaker performance.

I wouldn't expect 250% performance difference in normal code however. GCC and ICC aren't that far off under typical circumstances.
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Ian J. Bateman et al. "The natural capital framework for sustainably efficient and equitable decision making", Nature Sustainability (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0552-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0552-3
Most Thinkpads are matte or have an option of matte.
It's difficult to see, but the arm and hand are as strong as they are because the "motors" are one step up. The motors for the hand are (predominantly) in the lower arm. The motors for the lower arm are in the upper arm, pulling on ropes connected to the lower arm (and significantly bigger than the lower arm). And the muscles doing the full arm are what's covering the front and back of your upper torso.

This means that the force of your fingers is generated by a muscle roughly the size of a cola bottle, the force of your lower arm is generated by between 2 and 3 stacked cans of cola, and the force of your entire arm is generated by a muscle the size of a decent shoebox.

So while muscles are pretty good, they're worse than our best motors. Or at least, if you can provide them with the power they need they are. And you think this is not the case because your body hides pretty sizeable muscles in your torso where everybody thinks you have almost only organs and fat, when in fact about half is muscle.
Interesting take.

What if the shoe were on the other foot? What company would hire me if I negotiated a salary and then after we shook hands and everybody had the warm and fuzzies, I said, "Well now, you'll understand this is just the rate I charge, so it is exclusive of federal and state income tax. These are additional fees that I am responsible, by law, for collecting from you on behalf of the government. I've broken the numbers down this way in the interest of full transparency."
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> Professor Bateman's decision-making framework focuses on the links between the environment and economy and has three components: efficiency, assessing which option generates the greatest benefit; sustainability, the effects of each option on natural capital stocks; and equity, regarding who receives the benefits of a decision and when.
The scam relies on absolutely insane system of financial institutions sending critical key information over email, instead of any controlled channel.
> Because I worked at Palantir

Well that's a good reason.

The point I'm making is that I don't agree on Palantir's approach and strategy. If you watch the Ava Duvernay's documentary '13th' you'll see that systemic oppression of black bodies never ended. The school-to-prison pipeline guarantees exploitation and incarceration of the US's dark history of slavery and genocide.

So instead of Palantir pushing for systemic change, I see their technology as regressive and focused on giving power to unjust causes.

If you want to read more about how algorithms recreate bias, there's quite a lot of material that has come out recently. Here is an important point from Algorithsm of Oppression:

※ Those who have the power to design systems--classification or technical [like library, museum, & information professionals]--hold the ability to prioritize hierarchical schemes that privilege certain types of information over others.[1]

There's also another book called Automating Inequality, among others.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2206336831?book_show_a...
For what they are trying to solve for initially, we’re talking about people that cannot even move a finger.
There are western vulnerability brokers that sell advance warning of exploits to clients like large corporations and governments so they can protect themselves, then presumably handle notifying the company in question so the bug can get fixed. Of course, one problem is that their clients are free to abuse the exploits, and another problem is there's no guarantee they'll make sure the exploits get fixed... but that's certainly an option for you if you aren't comfortable using HackerOne.

Another option is to just disclose it to the public a set number of days after notifying them, like Project Zero.
Seems a little extreme if our goal is just to get more people using public transportation.
> But this is not a necessary aspect of living in a city

Ding ding, we have a winner.

Around here, if you complain about noise, you'll just be told "It's a city, it's noisy, deal with it! If you don't like it, move to the suburbs!". Which is kind of a silly suggestion: I've lived in the suburbs and kids having pool parties were a lot noisier than anything I've seen in a city. You'd have to be in the middle of a forest or something to not have to worry about human noise. In cities, suburbs, whatever, noise is a lot more cultural, and what people consider okay or not.

Sure, some level of cars/traffic will just happen. Other things like construction can be done in a lot of ways (some cities require plans on how they will minimize inconvenience to neighbors. Others are free for all). Backup alarms seem like a necessary evil, but I'm told in London they're not really a thing. People screaming at 2am is just about enforcement and cultural norms.

Some cities are loud. Other, bigger cities aren't.
They service low interest debt and a lease price locked in for 10 years

Distribution of failure probably won’t be worse than before for new entrepreneurs

People with money or access to capital are in a different world than people without
Fuel energy density is a hell of a problem. On car you have some room to wiggle as anyway you're getting some weight reduction by just changing from a combustion to an electric engine.

Motorbikes on the other hand are optimized on a specific setting (think how an enduro handles different than a superbike and so on) which makes it really hard to add weight and you end up with a much bigger trade-off between fuel volume and range.
Natural capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_capital

> Natural capital is the world's stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water and all living organisms. Some natural capital assets provide people with free goods and services, often called ecosystem services. Two of these (clean water and fertile soil) underpin our economy and society, and thus make human life possible.

Natural capital accounting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_capital_accounting

> Natural capital accounting is the process of calculating the total stocks and flows of natural resources and services in a given ecosystem or region.[1] Accounting for such goods may occur in physical or monetary terms. This process can subsequently inform government, corporate and consumer decision making as each relates to the use or consumption of natural resources and land, and sustainable behaviour.

Opportunity cost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

> When an option is chosen from alternatives, the opportunity cost is the "cost" incurred by not enjoying the benefit associated with the best alternative choice.[1] The New Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen."[2] In simple terms, opportunity cost is the benefit not received as a result of not selecting the next best option. Opportunity cost is a key concept in economics, and has been described as expressing "the basic relationship between scarcity and choice". [3] The notion of opportunity cost plays a crucial part in attempts to ensure that scarce resources are used efficiently.[4] Opportunity costs are not restricted to monetary or financial costs: the real cost of output forgone, lost time, pleasure or any other benefit that provides utility should also be considered an opportunity cost. The opportunity cost of a product or service is the revenue that could be earned by its alternative use.

How do we value essential dependencies in terms of future opportunity costs?
It's perfectly good topic to talk about!

Arguing about what emotionally charged wording to use to describe it is not a discussion about facts though.
You replied to a claim about “most software” with a site that compares big tech companies, and only their US offices. The world is much bigger than your bubble.
It costs you more to do the work to recover your money than you get back. The government's contribution is only the general deterrence, which has no effect to attackers from hostile nations.
Colon and rectal cancer cases are going up among people younger than age 50
the valuation could go in a second if there’s a hint of running low on liquidity - or that either assets appear bloated or liabilities understated

also it’s the clearest sign of accounting fraud...but apparently the SEC doesn’t care to investigate that anymore.
Context matters. In this case it was a challenge because of previous research and I would've done it just for fun and the experience. I'm lucky I can afford to do that. Doesn't mean I don't value compensation.

In other cases maybe yes, maybe no - for some nonprofit, maybe someone needs help? are they a business and can they afford to compensate this kind of work? maybe it is some prominent product? there is no simple answer
> should the language catch us making a type error here?

With a statically typed language, the choice is up to you. Every statically typed language is just a "dynamically typed" language with the ability to statically assign types. For example, you can type the variable as an "Int" or for more runtime flexibility, a "Variant" (if using C++).
This only applies to New Yorkers but there is a law on the books that requires retailers to accept used batteries of the same type they sell for recycling. I bring mine to a local Apple store and they gladly take them every time. Often I have a PC battery or two in the bag too.
The greatest trick that javascript ever pulled was to convince the latest generation of programmers that it was fast...
If you haven't had food in a few days, there are many better ways to get food on the table than trying to find exploitable vulnerabilities and sell them for tens of thousands of dollars, including

- Work on a bounty program that rewards mitigations instead of exploits (e.g., https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/patch-rewards/). Those are much more deterministic. (But there's no black market for them.)

- Get a conventional job (possibly in software, possibly not), which pays you on a schedule.

I get the argument you're making about money, but I'm having trouble believing that going after bug bounties ever makes sense to someone in that situation, given how non-deterministic it is to find a bug.

Also (as this bug shows), it typically takes a long time between reporting a bug and having the responding team decide that it merits a bounty. In this case it took a month. (And then there's logistics about actually getting you the money at that point.) Are people who haven't eaten for a few days really going to be happy not eating for another month, even if they get a hundred thousand dollars then?
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This is a great example of the walled garden. There is a serious issue where experts refuse to accept that outsiders can have impact on their field. Let’s say neuralink does fail, it’s still very likely they push the field forward in some meaningful ways. Most likely they will innovate on hardware pushing the curve for what is possible outwards. But sure, let’s diminish all work that isn’t done by academics as impossible and merely false advertising. Track records don’t matter if you don’t have the degree.
Impossible is a word that has been often used with SpaceX and Tesla. I would be careful using that word to describe anything Elon is working on.
if this is indeed a Tesla subsidiary, it’s accounting fraud
>Those things are extremely unknown and hard to model, and AI does not work there.

That might be because they're problems for _any_ thing. Can't really apply a solution to a problem with what hasn't been solved in the first place. No human is doing any better either, so it'd be unfair to expect autonomous vehicles to do miracles either.

For some reason it's fine that Bob just killed a family of four, but unfathomable for a thinking rock to make the slightest error.
Your story highlights a common issue with recycling: so much of it is virtue signalling bullshit. I get to feel good about separating my trash (and somehow like my consumerism wasn't a net negative anyway), but it still goes all to the same dump.

Of course not all recycling is BS as this article shows. But we should change the automatic narrative of "recycling=good, landfill=bad" because it encourages practices that are wasteful both for the economy and environment.
In 1994 the Internet became widely available, exposing you to attack from 6billion people.
Why would you want to print two times of everything merely because someone changes the work timings? It is similar to changing over to a different shift during a season - the only difference is that this shift is an hour earlier or later than the previous one. All you have to do is set your alarm for a different time.

That apart, there are so many countries in the world with vary different day light timings based on season and very few of them have daylight savings time.
Walmart has a monopoly of Walmart's shelves. /s
It was telling Press for More info !

That's it
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So sometimes the cost benefit of a rewrite outweighs the risk but I'd still say all those things you pointed out were the problem that needed fixing, rewrite really just fast tracked that no?
so... where did the article go?
It was older of a trend than that I believe back to post-WW2 when private sector was hobbled. To keep people incentivized to stay longer with employers they offered more benefits that were employer tied such as pensions and health insurance programs not available to job hoppers or self employed.

But more complex is that when people argued for a nationalized health plan a lot of people agreed with it until opponents argued that white people would be paying for minorities’ health insurance with their tax increases. These days it’s difficult to outwardly tell whom opposes public welfare policies requiring some solidarity based upon fiscal principles or social ones first.
Not just decade, This century
There are many. For example:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40618-020-01370-x
In other news, Bugzilla now requires JavaScript and has a floating top bar with framed content below, which also makes the content not keyboard-scrollable by default.
I’ve had parts of my body inactive due to peripheral nerve damage after an injury (peripheral nerves mostly always heal, so function came back), and I can tell you I would have easily opted into any experimental surgery that could restore function.

You don’t have to go far to find candidates, walk into any ER today and you’ll find trauma victims with irreversible nerve damage from a common car/motorcycle accident.
Yep. That's ooooooooold. Lithium was a project as CakePHP was going through a big update 10 years ago.