skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The drop in economic activity in Sweden is, roughly, just as large as in Norway, Finland, and Denmark. But with 4 to 10 times the number of deaths. So, no, the lack of lockdown (which is a fallacy itself) didn't protect Sweden from economic impact.
> The text boxes for eg the memory window ... didn't consistently accept keypresses at all

Old Motif/X apps follow "focus on mouse hover" principle, so you can modify text fields only when there is a mouse cursor on them.
The sharrows on Sand Hill / 280 N are a complete mess. The dashed line (which indicates where cars are supposed to cross over the sharrows) are way too late. If you actually crossed at the marked location, you would barely have enough time to make the on-ramp. And that's under ideal circumstances — if the pavement is wet or you're in a top-heavy vehicle, it would be very unsafe to wait until the dashed lines appear.

I actually once saw someone cross at the dashed lines and then take the on-ramp, and my first reaction was "whoa, that guy just careened across traffic to make his exit". Then I realized that he had actually waited for the dashed lines to appear. But when you do this (locals don't), it makes you look like a lunatic.
I imagine it's not appropriate for startups, since they're burning money fast and mental health appppears to be less of a priority? I've not worked at one, so hard to say.

Besides startups, I think it's fair play at companies of all sizes. Employees are the most important thing to companies, and the overhead of losing trained, context-carrying talent tends to be heavy. So, why not let them fulfill that scratch and keep them at your company.

I've seen some companies allow 20% on any team within the company (rather than any project whatsoever): that could be a nice middleground for a company that is unsure about the whole thing.
> Banning foreign investment will force them to dump dollars and treasury bonds and will accelerate the development of an alternative to it for international trade.

How does this harm a working class American that derives all of their income from working wages as opposed to assets?

> it will not be 6% but closer to 30

Cite and example where a country did not default/print money for their debt payments and inflation went to 30%

> Yield curve control has not worked for anyone, it is a death spiral that results in zombie economies, at best.

How does this harm a working class American that derives all of their income from working wages as opposed to assets?

Lastly, address how any of the above prevents an increase in manufacturing jobs, which was the intent of the measures originally listed.
I get 2.1 MB win32 and 6.9 MB Ubuntu x64 with fpc 3.2

Which is rather bad. I used to use Delphi 4 and it would create 350 KB programs by default.

Which was also bad, so I sometimes used that Delphi without the GUI designer and without the VCL, using the win32 API directly, to create 50 KB programs. That is a reasonable software size. Software keeps getting worse every year
> This is a great post showing why you have to measure the specific tasks you care about rather than relying on general assumptions.

If anything it turns out it's an argument that benchmarks mislead way too readily and first-principles arguments (which would quickly refute the idea of a 3.5x slowdown due to vector width) should always be used to double-check your working.
I remember pestering my father for one back in 1973.

He managed to get a demonstrator from the local office of HP, for iirc CAD$695, which was a lot of money in those days.

I would push a few number keys and the log button, and, like magic, 10 significant figures. Beyond magic.

The other mystery was this: on the label at the bottom on the reverse side, it said "Made in Singapore".

To me, in the early 1970s Canada, that was as mysterious a place as you could imagine.

(I'm sure it was assembled there, not manufactured, but still.)
Tesla is trying to do exactly what you describe. Build "the machine that builds the machine", as Elon Musk would say.

I agree with you that trying to compete on low-cost, low-margin is a race to the bottom. We could conceivably bring manufacturing of iPhones back to America. I would also imagine that manufacturing of silicon is largely automated, so the US could try to build the best fabs.
I suspect that the author is using the term "racist" differently than you use it. The Bell Curve explicitly argues that some racial groups are inherently, biologically less intelligent than others. In the author's view, that in itself is overtly racist (because it argues that one racial group is genetically inferior to another racial group), no matter how much intellectual argument is presented or how gently it is stated. Perhaps you use the word differently, and believe that something is only racist if the author hates people on the basis of race.
JavaScript 99'er, a TI-99/4A emulator in the browser
Social networks have value thats not measured in traditional cash flow analysis. Thats why its less of a gamble than many think it is.
Edb – A cross platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger inspired by Ollydbg
Isn't the core conceit of The Bell Curve that Black people have lower IQs than white people?
The myth that 20% time is dead was started by mchurch. He was at Google for six month and was let go. He then went on to bad mouth the company here and elsewhere online.

20% time at Google exists and managers are supposed to adjust the workload - it's not supposed to be 120% time. That said I think it would be hard (but not impossible) to a launch a 20% project to external users that doesn't have people working on it full-time.
It’s not the same as cloud run though. Cloud run just needs a thing listening on $PORT environment variable. That’s the only interface needed to the container. The rest is totally agnostic to knowing that it’s inside cloud run.
Theoretically you are renting 100% of a virtual core (whatever fraction of a real core that is depends on the hardware you're scheduled on at that moment), but in practice you're sharing cycles at small core counts.

But anyway, if you spawn 8 instances each with 2 cores you're not getting any more compute than 16 cores on the same box. You could schedule them with cpuset to have 2 cores per process, or you could let the scheduler run. But there is no free lunch from the cloud.

I have no idea why you think running on N images reduces overhead.
I've found the M1's 128bit instructions to be quite fast. My M1 MacBook Air can hit 90GFlops on a single core. My 2019 16" MacBook Pro is only 1.5 times faster at 135GFlops per core, despite double the vector width.

Benchmark here: https://github.com/bwasti/mac_benchmark

If anyone has the new 2020 MBP with AVX512 I'll update the benchmark to include avx512 instructions! I'm very curious about those numbers
I like the green-painted bike lanes out of the non-physically separated mechanisms. Over in Kirkland we have some reasonably good bike lanes (some green, some not). Dooring is still a highly rational fear, though, and when I'm going past cars that are parked I slow down quite a bit and I presume that pretty much any car might contain a driver that's opening a door without looking. Hugging the left side of the bike lane is also helpful.

The biggest lesson I had in my first season of commuting to work was "TRUST NO-ONE". Do not trust cars to do what they are supposed to do under any circumstances. Do not assume that eye contact with drivers will affect their behavior. Do not assume that slow car speeds are safe speeds. Any given car can turn in front of you at any time, or flip open a door on any side.

I once had the same guy almost get me twice in a single commute. He didn't mean to do it...just a very distracted driver.
The paper is available [1]. They did a reasonable job - 9% black/african-american and nearly 30% latino (the trial was run in Argentina and Brazil). Subgroup analysis similar efficacy between groups. Around 25% were more than 65. Maybe not so ideal as that is one of the key groups. Immunocompromised were excluded, which is understandable, but the data would have been interesting.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577?query=RP
I think it's incredibly healthy to encourage that sort of "visitor" committers in an enterprise codebase, for a couple of reasons.

The problems of getting an existing employee up to speed with the codebase are a subset of what you need to do to get a new hire up and running. And so you really should have a decent story for this regardless.

And culturally, it's super-valuable to have a certain percentage of visitors, since it helps break down the silos, one commit at a time.

The counterpoints, of course, are that no team really wants to have to maintain a bunch of crap written by someone who's moved on after a quick stab at something, and it sorta sucks for the sustaining team if all the "rockstar feature requests" (as the GP put it so succinctly) are picked up by folks in their 20% time.

The former can be mitigated with a good model for managing incoming pull requests, in my experience. The latter is a tougher nut to crack.
Wow thats great! could you also recode tnt physics similar to how they were in version 1.7.10 so that tnt cannons can work again?
In Denmark we have light blue lanes in many intersections to make it obvious where cars can expect bikes to cross and also guide the bicyclists.

Also more recently "bike boxes" have been drawn on the street effectively widening a bike lane to cover the entire lane right in front of the intersection to ensure that all bicyclist are in front of and not to the right of waiting cars.

Unfortunately bicyclists are getting injured or even killed by cars or trucks turning right without noticing the bicyclist and the blue lanes and the "bike boxes" are attempts to prevent this from happening.

Danish publication about bicycle safety in intersections with some photos: https://idekatalogforcykeltrafik.dk/krydsloesninger/
Why would you trust big corporations as an American, period? History shows us that they will take every opportunity they are given to make or save a buck, from virtually enslaving people via company towns and company scrip, to killing people for unionizing, to polluting the places we live, to covering up evidence that their products do harm, and to suppressing evidence of the severity climate change for literal decades.

These things are all so well known, it isn't even worth the effort to track down citations for them, and you still trust them?
The study found that regulated banks tend to unload risky assets prior to regulatory review and then load back up on risky assets after review. The authors conclude that regulated banks are carrying more risk than was thought (mainly in liquid securities) and that reviews should add a greater element of surprise in timing and structure to prevent this.
Did the NEED to be broken up?
I mean low-cost for the immediate benefit is all.

I agree with you that there are hidden costs to just ignoring the infrastructure too, don’t get me wrong. Hell tack on the health benefits too, from both the act of riding and the improved air quality, investing in bicycles makes tons of long term sense.

But reality is we live with people who refuse to think ahead, who vote against their own best interests, who would gladly hold their wealth and watch others die from their homes. And they vote. Progress can and has been made, it’s just painfully slow and frustrating because it’s actively a problem that is actively killing people :/
You can just try the instructions with an off-the-shelf assembler. They're not supported.
Anyone else that use about me?
Maybe almost every major advance.

Personally I think it's just that most people are not good at adapting to new contexts that evolve. And people are not really evaluating things rationally. For example, in the beginning those types of programming languages were completely infeasible to implement due to hardware constraints. So people were not used to them. That created a type of prejudice.

Another example. Look at CISC versus RISC. When the context is raw machine code or assembly language, you absolutely want more complex instructions because otherwise programmers are going to a competitor that provides them.

But then when you have high-level languages that part of the equation changes and reducing instructions gives other advantages.

Neural networks might be another example of an advance that was shunned initially.
Isn’t 3 weeks about 21k deaths?
This monetary policy, and the consequent industrial policy ("free trade"), is, more than any other factor, the cause of the so-called "Great Stagnation." Its persistence is why the Great Stagnation is not over, despite some recent noises to the contrary. US growth will not resume until energy production does. With shale seemingly spent, nuclear too scary for most, and fusion perpetually 10 years off, growth is unlikely. The US will continue to "print" oil by printing dollars (h/t to Luke Gromen), care of Saudi Arabia, until it can't. The US will do anything and everything to ensure this continues, history is proof of that. When the US finally fails there will be a war. Not like Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan. A very, very bad war. And the winner will determine monetary policy for the next century or so.
And the real data is now behind AWS Data Exchange at $150k/yr.

Oh, and the old IMDB API you could pay for is gone (or, gone soon), and some of the features it provided are gone permanently.
Would food be included? I don't really want to 'fight' with 7 entire other groups over the use of a single firepit, unless there are grills every campsite or similar.
> ... paying a flat rate for unlimited storage, or transfer, pits you against your provider in an antagonistic relationship. This is not the kind of relationship you want to have with someone providing critical functions.

This looks like a good theoretical point, but I don't see how it holds in practice. What would be practical examples of this happening? (assuming POV of somebody not intentionally abusing the system)

> If you pay for every bit you store, your provider will enthusiastically enable you to store as much as you can.

Again, good point in theory, but I'm not sure how this works psychologically - flat rates bring peace of mind and allow easier budget planning. I still remember how internet browsing in dial up days were sort of stressful.
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Hi! Thanks for fixing that up - I had an 18% failure rate (368/444) and lost the list of failures when I clicked away, so given this I'm now trying to flush/reset my library. I'd recommend (a) logging the import task to a logfile for the user to review failures, and (b) providing editing at scale (list view with checkboxes -> action), as I'm sitting here clicking "remove" hundreds of times to reset book by book. :-/
What kind of time commitment do you have? Do you study in addition to working full time?
I would love to see all “Share the Road” signs replaced with “Bicycles May Use Full Lane” [1] signs. This is the law in California but many motorists are unaware, or don’t care.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycles_May_Use_Full_Lane
Particularly at Google, programming languages, code styles, common libraries, and tools are incredibly similar between teams. There are really low barriers to jumping into someone else's codebase. It's not uncommon to review changes to your team's codebase from people you have never met (on average, maybe weekly?).

Anecdotally I also think a lot of code was generally really well documented. There is some effort to document things for a general Googler audience (i.e. you should understand most of the documentation on any given page without having to read all the other docs).

All in all, once you have onboarded into the Google ecosystem, it's fairly painless to jump around the codebase.
I wasn't aware of the 10k Euros, makes sense. TBH a smart idea anyway, because in the first few months after a move to a foreign country you are likely spending more time on learning language, culture, dealing with bureaucracy, etc.

Also interesting that you are not able to self-employ as a foreign student. This is how I worked most of the time while studying.

Anyhow, spending money carefully is kinda implied with the numbers above. But we were mostly discussing money spent compared to the US, here is an example. Let's assume you want a BSc in Computer Science. According to [0] tuition alone is around ~25k USD for an affordable Uni in the US, while 870 EUR monthly expenses [1] TOTAL * 36 months around = 37930 USD for a BSc. And this is comparing a rather low tuition with average total cost of living in Germany.

[0]: https://www.geteducated.com/online-college-ratings-and-ranki...

[1]: https://www.unicum.de/de/studentenleben/geld-finanzen/lebens...
I hate to break it to ya, but if you do cheats like this when you use reliable off the shelf COTS solutions, imagine the shortcuts they're going to do if/when they try it do this themselves.

Salesforce isn't cheap, but its not exactly expensive either. However, with this short sighted shortcut you did, you certainly cost your company big. That data is useless. If you upgrade, transition, migrate you now have to spend employee time fixing what was a fixed cost.

Human time is expensive. But what is more expensive is putting artificial costs where they don't need to be.
Could just use "country".
Depends on how they do things. Clicking “yes” on a phone wouldn’t be happening at higher trust levels.

If they offload auth to a on-prem or third party IdP (common in big hybrid O365 tenants), there are often different paths, implementation screwups or bugs that let you bypass MFA. Microsoft’s position is “buy Azure AD, Buy M365, Buy ATP” and other paths are poorly tested, or they explicitly tell you to F off.

Also remember that federal agencies are bigger than most fortune 50 companies, are usually global in scope and have lots of collaborations with other agencies and other third parties, and may have independent pockets within the agency. Those friction points are where problems tend to happen!
I believe bicycles are purposely devoid of rights by the automobile industry lobby to get people to go through all the pain of buying and owning a car. It's painful, and people hate it, but they do it because there's no other good way to get from point A to point B in America.

Some examples:

1) I suspect the "new car smell" that car buyers believe affects their judgment is purposely chosen glue (I think it's a glue) that dissipates into a gas that literally, psychiatrically impairs buyer's judgment. It's real. [edit: it's still relatively mild].

2) Stealing a person's main means of transport should be punished independently of how expensive that mode of transport is. So, the penalty for stealing a car should be based on the price of a car and the fact it was the main means of transport for that person. Same goes for bicycles, it could have been a $100 bike, but it's the main means of transport and that person is equally stranded as the driver without it. For this reason, being a bike thief stealing 10 bicycles could mean a decade in jail, if laws were different. Who would steal bikes then?

3) Enforce both car driving violations and bike driving violations, but based on lethality of the vehicle. Right now both driving a car drunk and riding a bike drunk are a DUI, which is ridiculous.

4) Legislation that privileges driving over biking harms children, because they can ride a bike starting age 8 or so, but can't drive until 16.

5) Driving is an extremely lethal activity, but AFAIK biking deaths are mostly attributable to automobiles. If you try to run someone over with a car you can be charged with (I forget the wording but more or less) "using a deadly weapon". Because that's what it is. A killing machine.
The legal infrastructure you suggest absolutely works to reduce accidents and increase driver responsibility. When I'm driving in the Netherlands I am critically more aware of cyclists there, due to the road layout but also because of assumed liability, I'd better be 100% sure I'm driving safely.

https://www.bikecitizens.net/presumed-liability-shrinks-cycl...
(Edit: “not really to the former”)

Apart from performance, another crucial thing is that the viewer must not have to think about technical aspects (like exposure, color profile, etc.), as you noted, so the GUI would have to be radically different.

I am envisioning producers bundling N processing profiles with their “digital negative”, and software that somehow allows the user to fluidly explore the perception of the scene by interpolating inside an (N-1)-dimensional space bounded by parameters in those profiles with really low latency.
Against Waldenponding (2018)
sbrk is emulated via mmap today on MacOS and others, this is an abstraction (for bump allocation), not just a function

you may implement custom sbrk via mmap easily
Unfortunately, many cyclists stake stupid risks which also cause accidents. I have seen stoped cycling between rows of parked cars and darting through a red light, or going full speed down a sidewalk past rows of parking garages etc. Without dash cams it’s nearly impossible to tell the root cause as reckless driver or a suicidal cyclist.

This is why both drivers and cyclists really should be recording things. It doesn’t prevent injuries, if it can make a huge difference afterwards.
i wish there's was a remind me bot for hn
When I studied at a university, only calculators were allowed to perform some exams. Most of them can't run other software, and it's hard to cheat by using them.

When using a phone, you can install a lot of things.

Math olympiads only allow specific models of calculators for the same reason.
There is also d) the owners take smaller profits
If these were shares, yes, but AFAIK the laws haven't caught up to Bitcoin yet.
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Bike lanes are a double edged sword. Yes, there's subjective safety, but as much as the white line (or sometimes more) holds cars out, it also holds bikes in.

Once you have a condition where you need to move left, out of the bike lane, it's a big step. But depending on your route, you may need to avoid pavement issues, trash or other debris in the bike lane, vehicles crossing the lane, or you may need to turn left or pass slower bicycles. And the aditional problem that if there's a marked bike lane, drivers will expect bicycles to remain in it.

Sharrows don't provide subjective safety, they just remind everyone that bicycles are allowed there, and should be expected there. (Of course, when they're marked too far to the right, it's worse than not having any markings)
IMpressive start, be interesting what can do with many frames.

Currently has that puppet on strings vibe with the results.

Of course, be a while until can mimic the gait, which is a biometric many overlook in identification and already been used to identify people, just by the way they walk.
> I was pulled aside into the "big glass room" for additional questioning. After reviewing my application, as my new bride looked on from afar, the Immigration officer was yelling at me, turning red, and waving his arms. He was very upset and animated, and from her vantage point it was clear that we were being denied entry and that my Microsoft dreams were crashing down around us right then and there. What she didn't know, because she couldn't hear, was that he had already long since approved my work Visa!

> He was actually upset because their copy of Microsoft Word printed a blank page at the end of every one of their documents and it was wasting paper and he wanted it fixed. I did my best to help configure their page margins before we were released to our new life in America!

Reminds me of a Douglas Adams novel where the protagonist tells the police officer that the computer they are trying to use never worked and it's not their fault. The police officer is very happy and tells him they have been using the machine to bludgeon suspects with.