skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is talking about joining apple and uber like they are jobs in a restaurant that is easy to get for everyone!

And compared money in career with kids in marriage like everyone has a privilege of accepting a lower income without compromising basic needs of life or their dependents.

He has some points, but maybe he didn’t learn enough about what career means to many!
Sony Unveils 'Spatial Reality Display' with Eye-Tracking for Glasses-Free 3D
> Because Linux-capable application processors have a memory management unit, *alloc() calls execute swiftly and reliably. Physical memory is only reserved (faulted in) when you actually access a memory location. Memory fragmentation is much less an issue since Linux frees and reorganizes pages behind the scenes.

This paragraph is confusing to me.

- How would a MMU help for malloc to execute "swiftly and reliably" ?

- What does "actually access a memory location" implies exactly?

- "since Linux frees and reorganizes pages behind the scenes": Is this not what people dislike from malloc? That it's none deterministic?
Certainly cleaner than oil-powered. But doubtfully cleaner than wind.

For wind you don't need mines, and extremely expensive storage facilities. For nuclear power you do.

Edit: obviously such a ship needs mining to get the metal to make such a ship, but so does a nuclear ship: after that, the wind-powered ship sails virtually for free forever, whereas the nuclear ship needs a small stream of plutonium in- and a small stream of highly "dirty" waste going out.
If there wasn’t a constitutional question there wouldn’t be an upcoming Supreme Court case about it.

And let’s be real - I find it pretty unlikely the constitution and 14th Amendment were written with massive amounts of illegal aliens being in the country in mind. Should we count tourists from other countries as well?
In US the highest combination is around 55%, you have to reduce it from 55% to 0%

Typical strategies are using leverage - borrowing - and spending on more business growth stuff. You deduct more than you earned and also deduct the interest payments.

The mere use of a business entity gets you a 20% tax deduction up to $120,000 (unincorporated sole proprietors can get this too, just easier to challenge and audit to fail) and then you can pump another $57,000 into a solo 401k.

An S-Corp designation can somewhat mitigate the self employment taxes.

You can also try paying people in shares/membership interests, parts of specific revenue streams or other noncash things (like free access to your service), so that you can keep your cash position while still making tax deductions.

Just dont run for office, or do, I dont care. Tax code is very understandable to me, it is just a reading comprehension issue.
(1) A COVID-19 infection can have long-term effects even in young people.

(2) We all have seen the images of hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, not having enough breathers, etc. For some reason this doesn't happen with the typical annual influenza ...

If you reduce everything to statistics about mortality rates, you are missing very important parts of the picture.
When interoperating between languages, there are several things to consider:

- API

- ABI, including threading, exception, function call, and memory models at the ABI level

- build specification

- packaging

This article mostly focuses on API, there seem to be some nods to the other three, but those seem like the harder and more pernicious problems to me.

For instance, how would the build system know that a library is being included that requires the swift runtime? Or even the C++ runtime. If any library was built against a different set of standard library interfaces (of any language), do any tools fail with a useful diagnostic?

That's not to say this isn't helpful research, but there's a lot of work to do before all of this is robust enough to be straightforward for end users.
Why scooping an asteroid sample is harder than it looks
Actually C is more batteries included (or accessible...). Since the C ABI is stable you easily can use external libs. For c++ you need to either compile those yourself or hope they precompiled for your exact compiler version.
> liberal states have more [illegal immigrants]

I was skeptical about this so I looked it up. Nevada and Texas are the top 2 states on a per capita basis. I'd hardly call those liberal states.

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/interactives/u-s-unauth...
Meh, I think the point still stands even if there are exceptions. And it certainly doesn’t invalidate the rest of the article. Perhaps the author should have written, “it’s much more difficult to wildify a tamed duck”. But it wouldn’t have made the article any better had they done so.
Depends on your motivations. It might also depend on your location.

Silicon Valley culture sort of expects you to move around every few years - you will get a more well-rounded perspective both technically and personally.

In other places, particularly with different employment opportunities, the picture might be different.

The one that got me here was "misplaced loyalty" because looking back, most of the companies I've worked for are either radically different or ...gone.
I agree with the general thrust of what you're saying in terms of honesty, but I want to point out that it's not clear that the ground truth fits/supports this framing.

If you look at something like https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/interactives/u-s-unauth... and sort the list any way you want: There are several reliable D/R states with almost no undocumented immigrant population, and several D/R states with 3%+.
I work this much out of my own volition and I am happy to do so
Thanks for the info, that's really interesting, I assumed something like this happened but I didn't know about this system.
Or, a situation about which you might want to ruminate:

A customer is doing a full migration to the cloud. They're already using FLOSS project X on-prem and asks 'Hey, <cloud vendor>, project X is a super important part of our environment? We can't move forward unless you support it. Also, can you manage this for me? I'd really prefer not to roll my own servers.'

What would YOU, as the cloud vendor, do? Give up the on the business (both upfront migration costs and down line usage and maintenance costs), or legally exercise the license that project X's creator CHOSE?

Also, consider that, at your scale (you being the cloud vendor), if 1 customer is having this issue, it's impacting tens if not hundreds of others.

As someone who works for AWS and fields feature requests from customers constantly, the above situation very common.
Capsule review

1. The website is terrible at articulating why this is interesting.

2. The user interface is quite buggy.

3. The user interface is quite beautiful.

4. It’s not obvious exactly what the capabilities are or how do they fit together. E.g. graphing seems completely inscrutable.

5. Despite all this it seems very cool and quite distinct from most of the existing calculators out there. It just isn’t quite mature.

6. The free trial model is going to be a problem. I can’t use this app regularly until it’s a bit more polished, but I am guessing I won’t be able to try it again when it is improvised.
In Excel? Impossible.
It was a lesson I learned early on: "loyalty" doesn't make you any money. It doesn't grow your career, either. Your work life is a big part of your daily life and it should be fun, challenging to some degree, and rewarding.

For me, "rewarding" means financial compensation, learning new things, and being appreciated by my peers and those above me.

Currently, I work as a senior software engineer for Apple. I make a low 6-figure salary while working 100% remote (also before COVID-19). The assigned work is groundbreaking, secretive, uses new tech, and it's going to be used by millions of people around the world.

Then I got the offer a few weeks ago to work for a local bank, setting up their new platform. Even newer technologies and more responsibilities as a competency lead. The salary will increase by 60%.

Imagine making 120k a year and jumping to 192k a year, just by signing a piece of paper. I've worked for Apple for about 2 years now, and I'm having a great time. But there's no way they'll increase my salary like that.

What I have learned over the years is that if I make this switch and don't burn bridges behind me, I should stay in close contact with my current colleagues, and work to learn all I can at the new job.

Two or three years from now, I might apply at Apple again. For a higher-level job. Right now I'm a senior software engineer, but in 3 years with 3 years of enterprise leadership experience, I'd apply for a leadership role. I will use my connections and insider-knowledge to have a more personal connection to them.

That can be a quicker, but certainly more lucrative, way of promoting inside a company. And I've done that before at a different company.

I was a medior developer at CompanyA, moved to CompanyB where I became a senior developer for 2 years, then moved back to CompanyA as a senior developer.

Usually I would have gotten the usual +5% salary increase if I had stayed at CompanyA. But by making a little detour I increased my salary by 30% to 40% with each jump.

Loyalty is worth nothing, except to your employer. That just means you're an asset that is going to become worth increasingly more as time goes by, because your potential market value skyrockets while you remain working for the annual +5%. And every once in a while you'll get the +7% because you're so special. And that one year business is bad, so you'll only get +2%.
>The point of right to repair is for manufacturers to simply stop being hostile to repairing

I'm all for right to repair that allow consumer freedom to repair their own device, i.e the manufacturer can't sue you for repairing your own device.

What I won't support is if it require the manufacturer to design the product differently, i.e forcing apple to make thicker device/using different screw in order to make battery replaceable.
Some people will misinterpret the conclusion. It varies significantly by age brackets not considered in the paper.

A 40 year old would be mistaken to assume their fatality chance is 0.31%.
Extreme poverty is expected increased by 150 million people world wide bc of Covid.

I'd wager there's a lot of people whose kids are running around a shantytown shoeless who would disagree with your levels of risk.
Data from the U.S. census of 1940 was used to round up Japanese Americans and put them into internment camps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/03...
A managed service is "a direct competitor" in usage of the original software. And usage is the one that mostly drives development back into the service.

There isn't a legal difference in AWS repackaging an OSS project, and a company using it internally, but there is a difference in terms of the end result of how the project develops.

That's why I've seen that most comments is support of AWS are either ideologues or their livelyhood depends on a large company that's doing this.
I'm the same. If I know there's something I have to do at a specific hour, I can rarely start working on a new task knowing that I will stop soon. When I work on something I prefer it to be deep work that can last as long as it needs.
Why 3 in 1,000 and what’s the threshold you’d accept and why?
> if you are in a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife

Someone needs to write "waste your personal life, one comfortable year at a time".
Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
It is eugenics once you start digging into it and having a conversation about the etiology of the social problems being discussed. As a former LWer, I regret to inform you that a great deal of utilitarianism on LessWrong is eugenics without explicitly mentioning the belief in an essential origin of human qualities that one wishes to promote or demote. There are many naive members of the community who don't or refuse to see it, and a large contingent of manipulative people who know exactly what they're saying.
Same reason we study history: those who don't, are doomed to repeat it.

We can learn from past generations, especially about large societal and cultural issues, even if those past generations didn't have things like penicillin or TikTok.
Just thought I'd post to say I think you are spot on with this comment.
+1. Nothing wrong with some job changes in your CV.

I think that for those who struggle with getting complacent, I would say that they should look at internal job transfers. Different team, different project, something that gives you the change of work/scenery in the company but the constant hopping between different places doesn't look good to someone interviewing you.

As a manager, you're thinking, "I'm taking a risk on this person. Will they be around here for our multi-year project vision?" Someone who job hops likely won't be around long enough for you to execute on the big picture and you'll be back to hiring/training a replacement too soon.
(1) Need sources. This is extremely extremely extremely rare if so, and very speculative and unproven with no hard science.

(2) This is also extremely extremely rare in under 70 population.

Horrible things happen ALL THE TIME but there's a statistically miniscule chance of it happening to you.

Everything in life is dangerous if you look at life the way you're championing.

I think you might just be scared of LIFE in general.
I remember watching this as a kid. Even though one did not understand it, you felt it had way more substance in the story than Moomins. Like evil corporations, scheming, politics,...
> You seem to have forgotten that it's entirely possible for "fantasy" to have more complex themes than "evil space wizards vs. good space wizards," or that something must be only one or the other. Star Wars is solidly both, and as far as its sci-fi aesthetic goes, it's more grounded than Star Trek, which runs entirely on nonsensoleum sometimes.

Not really. I mean, yes, fantasy as a genre can obviously explore deeper themes and does so all the time. But Star Wars is a morally unambiguous universe. It really, truly, does not fit to try and have a nuanced discussion of morality while other more important characters literally commune with the universe and draw power from the sides of light vs. dark. Whatever themes you draw out are just not supported by the environment around them.

Nobody cares about greedy capitalist when evil space wizard is standing next to him.

> I mean, the actress is American born, of Vietnamese descent, but sure, Chinese is basically the same thing, right?

As a mixed Asian, shrug, whatever. I am willing to bet a substantial amount of money she existed only to appeal to chinese audiences. If she's actually vietnamese, sure, good to know.

> And that was one of the best themes of the Last Jedi. Of course there would be war profiteers - we already know this because the OT gave us Mos Eisley and Jabba the Hutt and bounty hunters. "greedy war profiteers and evil capitalists" aren't at all unknown to the franchise. The problem here is this sudden dump of complexity should have been a throughline with Rose for the entire trilogy. It certainly would have been better than "This time the Empire is even more fascist and the Death Star is huge."

If you're saying it wouldn't have been dumb if it was just an entirely different story, then sure.

> The "faction" doesn't identify itself as the Dark Side. It identifies itself as the Sith.

The leader of the Sith is called "Dark Lord of the Sith". They identify as as ON the dark side all the time if you really think that's an important distinction.

> Also the Sith and the Dark Side weren't known for "destroying planets at a time." The Death Star was built by the Empire, and yes, while Palpatine turned out to be a Sith (as a retcon) they even made a point of having Darth Vader point out how insignificant the "technological terror" of the Death Star was compared to the Force - not the Dark Side specifically, but the Force in its entirety.

I really think you're splitting hairs here. The bad guys are the ones who destroy planets. The good guys are the ones who try to prevent the bad guys from destroying planets.

> But Rose wasn't, she was just badly misused as a character.

Meh. I was happy when her first appearance in the final movie is basically. She seems like a boring character to me.

"Wanna come on the main adventure?"

"Nah too busy"
why the `fp.readline()` and `while line:` business?

I don't have a big file handy to benchmark but that pattern moves the file reading into python bytecode.

The canonical way to read a file line by line while counting the lines is to loop over the file (it's automatically a line iterator) and use enumerate.

here is the disassembed bytecode of the respective versions

https://pastebin.com/Rd4g8cE2

that being said, Rust will still outrun Python overall.
Among other things, safety for minorities. The census is supposed to be secret and never used for any sort of law enforcement, etc. But in our living memory that protection was abused. The US census was used to help round up Americans of Japanese descent and put them in concentration camps in the 40s.

It'd be nice to think that could never happen again. But then you had the Trump people literally trying to put a citizenship question on the census despite every expert saying it was a mistake. The intent was clearly to intimidate (we have this in writing). The question ended up being left off but the damage was already somewhat done.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/17/us/report-says-census-bur...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/03...
> Source: censuses I've taken under Democratic exrcutives asked me plenty of other questions.

That's not the point. The Supreme Court was convinced by the evidence presented (statements on record by people in the current administration) that the intend of the citizenship question was to reduce the count of people with illegal immigration status.
So the question was intended to undermine the primary purpose of the census as mandated by the constitution: counting all the people.
There is no back, only forward.

Looking back I should have kept that, sold that, married that one, stayed away from that one, moved out earlier, tried harder, given up, etc...
right now google is at the "makes cool projects and you should get what value you can from it in the first year then dip" stage.

so yeah, it's a cool product that came out. give it a whirl but don't rely on it.
We are into a 2-3 years long unprecedented crisis.

DO NOT PANIC. DO NOT DO IT.

Stay where you are.
If your avarage is always 10 seconds, 7 is fast!
I did a hike on a mountain ridge in Hawaii (Stairway to Heaven), and was very shocked by how loud the highway below was. I was maybe 3000 feet above. The sound was amplified from from the valley below, the mountain sides almost acting like walls of a speaker.

It's something that I don't think gets enough attention, the way light pollution does. But its' definitely a problem in some places. And I can see how it would disrupt bird calls.
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Prisoners aren't free, but they still use infrastructure and I'm pretty sure they are supposed to be counted in the census.
There's also nothing wrong with that. The distinction between the different branches creating law is pretty vague. If congress makes a law and the court strikes it down, are they "legislating from the bench"? Or are they merely pointing out that the new law is incompatible with the rest of the laws?

The quote is right, law isn't just whatever the congressmen decide.
It's not that Tempest was ever a secret, There was advertising for countermeasures (metal screens for Windows, just like you have in your microwave) in the mid 1980s.
It would be nice if I didn’t have to worry about a mortgage any more. It’ll be a loooong time before I have more money than I need.
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I don't understand what part of my comment you are responding to.
I was quite sure that you'd do so, as do i. Just wanted to to point out this effect, which i find quite funny.
Thanks for the clarification ;-)
Successful management of anything -- a startup, a corporation, or an entire country -- requires successful measurement.

Successful measurement requires collecting good, accurate data.

Sabotaging the census is tantamount to sabotaging the government's ability to run the country.

It's the sort of thing that in my mind should be able to happen only in poorly-run countries managed by corrupt regimes.

The leading statistician claiming that the census is being sabotaged, Robert Santos, was recently elected as President of the American Statistical Association. We should probably take his claims seriously.

I find it almost unbelievable that this is happening in the United States of America.
> I am both pro gay marriage and pro-choice - but neither of these things exist in the Constitution. Not one word.

Neither does straight marriage.
The entire purpose of the census is to count everyone. Citizens and non-citizens. Your attempt to make a "both sides" argument here is pitting the very constitutional purpose of the census against a racist party intent on suppressing representation for minorities.
> FWIW, I thought it was funny at the time when it happened in the game, but not so funny now after hearing of the allegations and feeling like this guy actually has serious issues.

Not sure how you're insinuating there's a causal relation between these two facts.

I'm not surprised the former happened. I mean, if you look at Goonswarm (which originated from SA) and realize its a big bully guild in EVE Online, then I am not surprised their leader did some ganking in WoW.
It's rather simple, can easily run on bare metal (ie no OS).

You can go very low level, but it has better higher level abstraction capabilities than C.

It's also really weird, which fascinates me. Eg most Forth code doesn't use variable names.

I've toyed around with Forth a bit. But never used it in anger.

Wikipedia says that Forth is used today in some bootloaders and outer space. I suspect the latter is a historic accident, because the inventor of Forth worked on a big telescope.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
More like uncomfortable.
They are way more efficient than conventional sails, although a lot less practical. The F1 of sailing uses wing sails.

https://youtu.be/926yzLioIxQ
>What people tend to ignore is that the defenders do this while sustaining much higher casualties

Is this supposed to be a good thing for the defender? The us has been there for more than a decade and the defenders weren't running out of combatants.
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What's a good use case for a board like this?
And COBOL was for ~40 years before starting to be left in oblivion in 2000's. Your point?
If only they'd reduce reliance on JavaScript :( . A truly useful product which is undermined by unnecessary requirements.
That is not how the US census had ever worked. See the 3/5 Compromise.
> Essentially the vote of two US citizens does not count equally if you count everyone.

It's not just about the vote. Redistricting is one aspect of it, sure, but it's not the sole reason a census is done.

It's done primarily to predict tax revenues, predict infrastructure needs, predict growth patterns, support municipal planning, etc., all of which are necessities for projects that often span decades.

If you're concerned about the vote, deal with the challenge posed by the electoral college instead. The Census is used for too many other things to be manipulated for the sake of political interests by one party.
ok i take that one back personally, but somehow microsoft stuff keeps getting chosen by the decision makers.
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