skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is known as BP-Wrapper, a batching and prefetching technique, that also coined the term lock amortization. Sometimes this is confused with flat combining, which came out a little later and is a slightly different concept.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.15...

[2] http://ranger.uta.edu/~sjiang/pubs/papers/ding16_BP-wrapper....
>difference_type

A forward iterator doesn't have a difference_type. A random access iterator does.
If you knew about it or should have reasonably known about it, then yes, you should.
Influential yet Invisible Whistleblowers in Physics
No apple will still be treated like a star of the show, with the local government rolling down the red carpet for them. Because apple brings the local area "high tech" jobs, electronics manufacturing. Apple controls the tech, has the management experience, has the worldwide market and brand name. As the local people in the developing world, it would almost feel as a blessing from these companies if they decide to build a factory in their town. So local people and government would bend forward and backwards to win their business. And you never want to piss these companies off, because they might just bring their business elsewhere. There is no shortage of places to do these manufacturing in India or Asia. A pattern I learned from apple and the likes of Foxconn's during the early days of their manufacturing in China.

Recently india government created tax reductions favorable land prices for electronics manufacturers. Wondering if this plant used any of these incentives. That would be a shame, billion dollar companies used developing world tax payer's money and then failed to pay them stated wages.
This is really poorly written. It makes a lot of accusations but is really absent on proof. Through all the bombastic writing one salient detail is glossed over: The software does not automatically fail a student, it only flags for further human review. Seems like it’s doing its job.
> I was bemused by the very chi-chi local middle class deli near my home insisting they'd be staying open when I enquired on Saturday evening. I mean, sure they sell food, but really - I'm unsure how vital to survival artisanal cheese and pasta is!

Let's not repeat the mistakes of the first lockdown. If you close down too many places, all that causes is everyone cramming into the same few places still open, causing superspreader events. At one point, LA shut down outdoor farmers markets and many cities including London slashed their public transit schedules, leading to overpacked busses and trains.
“Guys, it’s taken you 90 minutes to clear out this room. I gave you a 60 minute deadline. I’m deducting one beer and one slice of pizza from your payment.”
Thanks for the reminder! Sometimes the meaning of these colloquialisms are diluted or lost.
It's not wrong. Imo the issue isn't the treadmill - that's natural, and will always happen with or without PC police. Unacceptable words existed long before PC police (in the modern sense) existed. Communities have long self moderated acceptable words.

The real debate is about how fast the treadmill moves.
Lots of downvotes, no answers

And source Bellingcat, one of the most dubious "news" outlets. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat
Don't worry in 25 years the next generation will be cursing your generation for having all the advantages.
This was what pushed me to get the a6600, the autofocus on the fast Sigma primes is quite adequate, good even, and IBIS means I can do some video off-the-hand if I'm careful. The much larger battery was also a factor.

My use case also involves a fair amount of tripod work, and I even picked up a gimbal just recently.

So I'm glad that Sigma is making lenses which are cheaper / better for the price by leaving out OSS, because there are ways to not need it. If you figure OSS would cost another $200 per lens, which seems a little low but is in the ballpark, then with the Sigma 'trio' of 1.4 primes, the difference between the a6100 and a6600 is just about a wash.
> If I cannot control the software running on my device do I really own the device?

I think that depends on what you mean by "control" and "really own".

Recently folks were complaining that Apple is acting as a monopoly because you can't install a non-Safari browser. Of course they're still stuck installing from the app store. So, demand installing from outside the app store, and they're still stuck using iOS. Demand changing the OS, and they're still stuck using Broadcom chips and indirectly supporting the CCP.

These are all degrees of control, with associated trade-offs. Being able to easily alter and recompile an application is just one degree of control. There are many others you still won't have until you can fabricate a device from raw materials. And even then maybe your government won't allow you to access the necessary designs and materials (enforced by men with guns).

Ultimately, everything is a package deal, and there is really no such thing as "owning" nor "full control", there are just contracts. For example, no one "really owns" their home; they rent the land from the government and (for most folks) the bank.

> my ability to participate in the Information Age is limited

Indeed, because that system works for its own purposes, not for you. You must conform to it, not vice versa. [1]

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-societ...
LOL... WC, they mean diversity of skin color, not diversity of beliefs, personality, etc.

They want the kind of diversity that doesn't require any thinking to consider. You look at the photo, you see a white woman, an Asian man, a Black transgender person, and a Native American non-binary... <whatever I'm supposed to define them as>.

That's the diversity they want.

But what they really want, is for the public to leave them the fuck alone. The above is just how they get it.
Welcome to HN community @dumindaxsb :]

Thank you for making my Sunday an awesome one
Do you think I'm a bot?)) Lol. Most topics on politics on HN relate to USA, and I have neither interest nor competence to discuss such things.

However, this particular news referring to my home country and I express my own opinion.
I had about 60 or so domains. I would get one every time I heard a catchy word. I've been letting some of them expire, but I did find a good use for about a dozen of them. I pointed them to fastmail for family members to use in combination with aliases so that when a company sells their email address or gets owned, they just simply delete the alias. Some of them still come in handy for little projects now and again, but I will probably whittle the list down to a dozen that I hold on to. This is of course just my preference. People should do whatever works for them and suits their needs or wants. If you are going to let a domain expire, check its value first.
Bankruptcy tanks your credit rating for years. Most of a decade, ~7 years IIRC. If student loans could only be cancelled via bankruptcy after 10-15 years, that would mean students trying to cancel their loans through bankruptcy would be doing it in their early to mid 30s assuming they graduated at 21 years of age. Their credit scores would be ruined until their 40s at least. Few people would pursue this route just to save some money on education.

If a graduate doesn't have enough assets by 30 to make bankruptcy a bad option, then I think it's fair to tell the lender that they made a bad investment and that the loss is reasonable. If this is how it worked, student loans to good universities would still yield a good return. It'd probably incentivize universities to track students' earnings after graduation, and focus on improving that figure. Lenders would probably stop writing loans to degree mills, or non-rigorous universities that don't substantially improve the employment prospects of students.
don't underestimate the importance of the calendar.
Bellingcat has targeted enemies of the western world
and is run by a British guy. It's a classic dictatorial distraction tactic to point to the US and say they do bad things too. But this is hardly just against the US. They tried to murder two people in the UK and shot down a commercial airliner in Ukraine.

Russia seems to shamelessly go around assassinating people so they make easy pickings for him.

One of his latest investigations and podcasts was some random African country (Cameroon) based on video evidence online.

A better question to ask is why hasn’t Russia or China freaked out at NSA hacks? Like the west just did with SolarWinds (I’m sure the western media would eat it up and so would we here). We had to wait for a western (Snowden) to find our rights are being violated domestically. The answer is Russia and China are on their own spree and keep any of the failed NSA ops quiet (assuming they exist). So there’s not much to go on for some random open intelligence blog. Russia et al don’t care about defending rights or exposing evil.

But Russia and the other mafia states provide plenty of open source evil to sort through.

I also don’t see the US shooting down a plane with a hundred people and denying it or openly assassinating their enemies in ‘enemy’ territory.

There’s so many answers here.
That's probably true but a lot of medical cost is scheduled like follow up or specialist visits, surgery and things of the less urgent nature.
The correct answer.

Aptitude is like the Midnight Commander of Apt-Get.
Conflict resolution is one of my least favorite parts of Git but I don't complain because there ain't no such thing as free lunch.
Does Pijul reduce the number of conflicts that would otherwise be faced by a Git VCS? And if so, to what extent?
An alternative to the current system which would be very disruptive and allow for a lot of experimentation and alternatives would be to have state level or national level certification exams that would need to be passed to obtain a degree.

The exams could then also show percentiles, so even if you were self taught you could be ranked against Ivy League students.

Cons to this approach would be the same issues that exist with standardized testing today. Emphasis on only learning to the test, high stress make or break testing (although this already exists with the SATs and other exams). I'm sure there are also a number of other cons.
Free market principles fail for healthcare for reasons entirely unrelated to those things, as has been pointed out up-thread. You're advocating for regulations to be eliminated as if that would fix unrelated problems. Do you care if healthcare is improved, or do you just want to see free-market-style reforms for their own sake?
It actually has a 150kW 208v 3-phase generator set that provides power to the power distribution cabinet which then uses variacs to transform the voltage to 5v. The genset has a theoretical current output of 415A, pretty serious power!

https://www.edn.com/cray-1-super-computer-the-power-supply/
While being only slightly sarcastic, maybe it's time to put a sign on the door "If you're not covered by health plan XXX, please do not come in this room." That we have to even joke about such things is beyond ridiculous.
Fastmail's web UI is incredibly good. I've also been using it for several years on my custom domain and have zero complaints.

The migration process was pretty painless. I did a one time import of my historical mail from gmail and then set up an autoforwarder --> specific fastmail folder that I look at from time to time and either unsubscribe from whatever sent an email there or update the address as appropriate.
2-Adic Logarithms and Fast Exponentiation
I don't know much about the topic, but I noticed this the other day:

https://www.diyphotography.net/this-guy-liquid-cooled-his-ca...
I use Fastmail (for work) and Hey and ProtonMail for my private mail. I pay for Fastmail and Hey (free plan on ProtonMail).

If I would pick one I would go with Hey, since I really love their Screener feature which helped me reduce a lot of noise. When they launch Hey for Work we'll probably switch from Fastmail (not that anythig is wrong with it).
So they tax 8% higher than USA's highest tax state?

> affordable healthcare, education, and government-backed pensions

Affordable healthcare, education, and pensions are wonderful things and I want them as well. It's immoral to provide them through the federal government though, it should be done privately through the market.
Perhaps they do. I’m not sure this would solve the problem.

As a manager have you ever tried to change the behavior of even a single employee?

If there is a culture problem with the management, an observer won’t solve that.
Was there ever a GUI for Crays? I don’t bet on it but think there’s no image to run Doom on GCP or AWS for the same reason, a keyboard is not but a graphical array display is among requirements for void portDoomWithoutReason(); to be called from OnFoundCapableComputerDoomPlayable(machine Box)
> With Walmart was forced to, they could restructure their company to support the Costco model and lay off a million people.

I'm not so sure it's that simple. Costco has higher revenue per employee because the price per item is much higher. The customers who can afford to shop like this are comparatively much wealthier than those who shop at Walmart. That being said, Walmart does exactly this with their Sams Club locations. It's certainly a profitable business model, but the market is smaller than the customer base that Walmart serves.
>Yet my most downvoted comment on reddit ever was on /r/cscareerquestions when somebody was asking how to weigh stock options when considering job options and I said "not at all" and shared my own experiences.

I'm pretty sure I had the exact same experience. I've been a part of three startups. One took nothing more than seed money and has been chugging along for over 15 years. It's a lifestyle business for the owner, so it also hasn't grown at all in over 10 years. The other two startups were both acquired. I was even a VP at one with over 1% equity in the company. Net value of my options was $0 after investors, credit holders, and founders got paid.

Yes, some folks are going to make millions from IPOs, but the opportunity cost is far too high (IMHO). As a VP at the startup, my total compensation with 15 years of experience wasn't a whole lot more (and less, in many cases) than what a new college grad makes nowadays.

Now that I've got a family, college to pay for at some point in the near future, and a retirement to fund, I'll gladly take the sure thing vs. the gamble. I've bid goodbye to startups and have quadrupled my income in doing so.
And that the other country only allowed it under pressure from the US for a trade agreement.
I didn't mean his books on history. In the last 15 months or so, he's also published 3(!) books on racism in contemporary society.
The only objection IMO would be if Apple allowed their own ads platform to have different treatment. Then it would look like Apple using platform power to manipulate the ad market.
Agreed. In fact, the 'minimum-effort Losers' at certain booming industries (i.e. tech) are, in my view and arguably somewhat objectively, absolute 'Winners' of capitalism.

Health-preserving work, at least a bit intellectually stimulating, paying so well that you can amass wealth and/or retire early + limited responsibility and no serious legal/economical fallout due to failure

"Losers" in tech have got a great deal.

Edit: to add - _job mobility_ to a level that even the 'Sociopaths' envy
I long ago ceased to believe that the Netflix recommender system serves any other purpose than to fulfill the company's internal obligations to push favored content, depending on what it cost. Sadly, the same is now true for Amazon Prime, which is an even hotter mess.
No one use "comrades" anymore in Russia) it's old stereotype
> How did this toxins guy keep getting ahold of Navalny’s underpants?

Thanks for the spit-take. Note to self: put underpants in same security category as my phone.
It's perfectly fine in a technical context: "bacterial growth is retarded by refrigeration" or something of that nature.

But that's not how the commenter used the word. There are other, far less ambiguous and far more polite words to refer to a general lack of progress... old-fashioned, primitive, backwards, antediluvian, obstinate, ...
I didnt work for "you" and I didnt starve.

Guess why
Sure, I don't use full manual either, but after being forced to practice I can say that it made me more aware of what the camera is doing. I can track the settings and if the camera chose a slow shutter speed, I can understand that stuff can become blurry. Then I can adjust manually to compensate. Or when the sun is harsh, I will dial down the exposure comp. In general, I adjust either the aperture or speed, but let the ISO work automatically. I can now notice mistakes earlier, when the auto wb or the meter are wrong. I also have a better sense of where each setting should be to get a good result.
I like fastmail because they have the shortest address I could find. My email address is xxx.mm.st
For those towing the line of "small business will be destroyed": businesses are there to make profit but they have to serve their consumers if they want to continue making those profits which also means taking the privacy of the consumers seriously.

As a consumer, if I don't like the privacy-invading practices a "small business" is supporting (directly or via Facebook), I have the right to know about it and deny such practices (atleast on a device I own, which Apple plans to enable in this case). Businesses do not live in a vacuum and if they don't fit in the ecosystem by ignoring their consumers' privacy needs, it should be ok for them to go extinct so that those who follow a more "well adjusted" approach can evolve and thrive.
>the out of network specialist at an in-network hospital

The worst. After a $2k bill, I learned my lesson to check every doctor that attends me for coverage even if it is in an in-network hospital.
This is the correct answer for my situation.
unless it is mute, as in "this argument makes no sound amongst all the other arguments. It has no voice of its own".

:D sorry, could not resist.
Yes it does, because Pijul has an internal model of conflicts. In particular, conflicts happen between two patches, and are solved by a patch.

This means for example that when you solve a conflict on a branch, and pull from the same remote, the conflict won't reappear (no `git rerere` needed).

Or that you can push a conflict resolution to a remote, even if that remote is in another state: as long as the remote has the conflicting patches, the resolution will work.
>> It now takes more employees than ever before to get a startup company off the ground.

But that is not true. If you look at the startups of the late 90's-- the time when people learned that stock options could be very valuable-- it took a lot of engineers and infrastructure to make a tech start up. As you point out more services and frameworks exist now.

The reason why it takes more employees is the reason cited in the paper, companies stay private longer to make more money for growth investors.

I agree completely with your point about the impact on employees. It's just that its not because the product requires it, it is because investors want the private growth.
Fastmail. If it’s helpful, I wrote a short guide to switching off of gmail here: https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/
Its funny, I've been sitting on some shares for about 7 years since an acquisition, the company is buying them back this month. I had written the company and the shares off and somehow in 2020 they pulled the nose up. Really looking forward to the final payout!

I feel really fortunate to have had what Steve calls a 20th century deal in the 21st century. I was able to maintain an undiluted share of the company, which interestingly I was never able to do in the 20th century.
> If you watch movies, these days, it's almost unheard of for a single shot to be more than a minute or two in length.

Ironically, the low end of the market seems more interested in lengthy shots.

You're right that lengthy shots are unusual in pro film - but people streaming on twitch/youtube routinely record a 4-hour video in a single take. If you're a youtuber shooting an interview with a single camera and no crew, you want it to keep recording and you can edit it down later. Action cameras will keep recording no matter how long your ski run is. Someone recording a sports match or school play or band concert or lecture will want continuous recording. Drone videographers don't want to worry that if they're delayed taking off, the recording will end mid-flight.

Of course, how many people really need or will watch a full length video of little bobby's soccer match? Or need a DSLR to video it rather than a cell phone? Those are different questions...
Is there any reason this couldn't/shouldn't be used for applications besides than games? Other than your motivation/goals coming from solving game development problems, I didn't see anything that makes this useful for _only_ games.

Edit: The GitHub repository implies that this could be used for purposes other than games:

> The goal is a metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, non-garbage-collected language ideal for high performance, iteratively-developed programs (especially games).
> [Citation needed]

Pretty much all private student loan borrowers pick off the "good bets". Because the government rate is the floor.

This was Sofi business model. I remember looking at their securitizations and most were graduate school loans for top schools( Wharton, Harvard, Columbia, etc). It wouldn't be rare for an entire securitization of thousands of loans to have no loans even 30 days delinquent. And they paid back quickly too.

> Investors received a financial return and borrowers received rates lower than the federal government offered. The company sought to minimize defaults by focusing on low-risk students and graduates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi
Hi,

this port of Niklaus Wirth's Project Oberon (http://www.projectoberon.com) to RISC-V (rv32im) is the semester project of my student Rikke Solbjørg at the department of computer science at NTNU in Trondheim/Norway.

The system currently runs in a version of Peter de Wachter's emulator modified to use a RISC-V CPU emulation instead of Wirth's RISC5 (now isn't that confusing? ;-)).

Rikke's announcement on the Oberon mailing list:
http://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2020/015269.html

To answer the obvious question right away: yes, we are working on a FPGA implementation :-). Happy to answer your other questions...
I like protonmail and consider it mostly a suitable replacement to gmail. I say mostly because some websites don't accept emails with the protonmail domain. Weird huh. My understanding is that protonmail might of been used by some bad actors and it's been labelled as the bad people email.

https://community.netlify.com/t/email-domain-protonmail-com-...
I see a lot of Elixir lovers but I just can't wrap my head around a lot of the idioms. Is it bad I much prefer loops to reduce? Also modelling complex domains things just flow better in my brain with OOP, whenever I go to draw things I put them in boxes with as little state as I can.

I would love love love to see two people approach the same exact problem with OOP and FP and see the rewards of both.

However I really love pattern matching from Elixir real game changer of a idea, excited to see it come to Java and Ruby soon and the lightweight threading models come to both of those languages also.

I always preferred Brian Gotez's argument that you should be functional within objects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWZE2Y2O9E
Not quite but close. My Sony A7ii will take a 2/3s of a second exposure by stacking four shorter exposures and using stabilization.

2/3 of a second with an f/2 or f/2.8 lens means you can take pictures lit by not much more than starlight.

Actually, even without this, with an F/1.4 lens I can take a handheld picture using only light pollution.