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A Discussion on Circuit Breaks in the Microservices Architecture
> These should be compilable to a single asm routine, as long as there is an homogeneous way to copy them

That's a massive asterisk. In practice, copying values to the heap is complicated. Integer values may be memcpyed. Pointer values may require read and/or write barriers, or perhaps reference counting. Compound types may require some combination. Maybe you have copy-constructors and you need arbitrary callouts! These implementation details can't be hand-waved away.

> The difference between this case and the polymorphic case is that here the underlying structure (eg "compare" or "insert") isn't done in a homogeneous way (single routine) for every type: the polymorphism is ad-hoc and not parametric. The vtable solution is a form of boxing and that impacts runtime

Kindly, I think you have some confused terminology. Parametric vs ad-hoc polymorphism is a difference in the type system, and occurs long before the optimizer kicks in. Parametric polymorphism is a single function implementation parametrized by types. Ad-hoc polymorphism is multiple implementations, and the compiler chooses one based on types (e.g. C++ overloading or template specialization).

If the optimizer chooses to emit a specialization, that does NOT make it ad-hoc polymorphism. That's just a detail of the optimizer. And it is a distinct optimization from inlining, for good reasons, like not wanting to be tied to the inlining cost model.

> for efficient compilation of languages with generics you need to have an efficient compilation of parametrically polymorphic functions (by type erasure)

C++ and Rust both have efficient generics without using type erasure. Boxed generics are not necessary at all, as long as you accept static linking.
Yup, it's called flirting only if you're attractive.
> The big problem nobody talks about with actors and message passing is non-determinism and state.

I have written a lot of actor-based systems, and I’m pretty sure this is heavily talked and thought about.

The race condition situation you described is only a problem for people not used to concurrency and actors. It is bad form to have your actor depend on the order of messages it receives if it is intended to receive messages from multiple actors. So the situation you’ve described is simply bad actor programming.

Often, a good way to program actors is to have them be finite state machines.

Also, your shared mutable state reference does not meet any definition I have ever seen of “mutable”. In actor systems, yes, actors can receive the state of other actors, but that state is a copy. The internal state of an actor is not allowed to be mutated by an external process, typically.
Wouldn't an audit just increase costs even more? It usually goes like: let's audit the cost, then let's create a committee to explore why the audit we just did cost so much.
Isn’t that because hairy animals often overheat quickly? (As opposed to being exhausted energy-wise.)
Except that it’s literally not a suggestion that there are circumstances under which it is ok. You’re not stupid. You know what he meant. And you know what he meant wasn’t what he is being smeared as.
not sure why this is apparently being downvoted - this is a perfectly reasonable question for someone who isn't familiar with objective-c
The whole point of the article is they were spending ~42,000$ per month per inmate. If they were instead spending 1,000$ per month per person, they could afford to be paying that to ten times as many people and still be spending a quarter of what they are now.

Plus with the added bonus of (hopefully) less crime.

I'm not claiming those numbers are accurate, but as presented, it's a saving to keep people out of jail, not a cost.

Besides, right now there's obviously a financial incentive to keep people out of jail, yet here we are, with the US having the highest portion of their population in jail of any country in the world. The financial incentive to the state obviously isn't working now.
If Nadine means this absolutely, she opens herself up to easy counterpoints in the extreme.

Ex:

What if I work at a hospital and make an intellectual argument in favor of eugenics?

What if I have Jewish coworkers and publish statistics about the percentage of media executives that are Jewish?

In these cases, "punishment" may also just mean that you've made people unwilling to collaborate with you, or you've done something that undermines your neutrality in your work.

When working or living with others, there are still social consequences for things that are intellectually defensible.
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That's a fascinating take, but I don't think it's particularly related to what actually happened. I wasn't toxic because of some Microsoft FUD, I was toxic because I was a teenager with low empathy who hadn't learned things yet. I grew out of it.

Lots of people in open source were never particularly toxic, and there's no reason they should have been. Even granting the existence of the external stress (and it really was NOT that big a deal), not everyone reacts to stress by treating people badly. Furthermore, people who didn't grow up around those OSS advocates have exactly the same problems sometimes, for the same reason that people in every field of human endeavor have those problems sometimes.
“Good times breed weak [humans]”

But I see it differently. I feel the wolves are in sheep’s skin, and are trying to convince me the sheep are wolves.
does this flow effect work with the water analogy of electricity?
FB allows a custom audience to be built from identifiers like email, phone, etc. They claim it is hashed before use so they never see the raw data (not sure if they mean hashed client side or server side though).

This will rely on a user's FB account having the same email as used for BB, which could be unlikely in the case a company is paying for it. But it should work well enough for retail targeting.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/341425252616329?id=24...
binaries never contain references to anything else, and therefore can never be a part of a reference loop. so it's safe to toss them out into a shared space and use reference counting to track them. you don't want to do it with small binaries, as the overhead of shared-allocating/ locking/ incrementing/ locking/ decrementing would probably be worse than just coping the small binary in the first place.

if you put complex reference bearing data out in the void, now whatever memory arena that allocated it may contain data that it references, and now you have to keep track of those references and use all of the shared items as new roots into your data. and if some other memory arena receives it and plucks out a value, do you only then copy it or do you reference back to the original. if you send a message back and form a loop, the gc process for either now has to jump through both, and you've destroyed your cheap gc cycles. if you shunt all of the data into shared memory to avoid multi-gc reference loops, you've now just created a big shared gc that will have all the problems of big shared gcs.

the per-process small gcs with full copying between them mean you can do things like just dropping the arena when the process dies without even checking liveness for anything in it ( you'll need to run any destructors if anything needs cleanup ( like references to shared large binaries needing dereferencing ), but you can keep track of items that need that in a bitmap or something, and avoiding the trace is a win on its own )
> 1. What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?

Due to economies of scale, less than the minimum wage per annum.
Counterfeit Mitutoyo digital calipers (2019)
> Sarah Mei then went through the board members involved one by one, digging into each of their histories, and tweeting what she viewed as fire-worthy infractions. The crimes included: “being super involved with Wikipedia,” retweeting a “hideous” New York Times editorial, and being friendly with famed democracy activist and law professor Lawrence Lessig. Publicly calling out each board member in turn with a clear implication: associate with a thought criminal and you too could be in jeopardy.

Did she really do that? wow
They're useful, but I could never see them replacing small-group teaching (1 PhD student/faculty member to 2-3 students), a standard feature of my university. It lets them focus on exactly what _you_ need at that time, and can pick up on weaknesses and misunderstandings you might not have even realised yourself.
Costco is selling a nice Klipsch set that I’ve been very happy with. It’s a 2.1 set, which is something OP didn’t want, but they also have a separate volume knob for the sub specifically so you can dial it back if you need to.
C++/WinRT: fully open source WinAPI development using C/C++/Rust
This is very dangerous. A counterfeit tool and a bad measurement could cause a plane to crash.

I wonder if anyone has been killed already because of Amazon's disregard for a manufacturer's right to his brand.
It doesn't. The rules people claim are the rules aren't the rules. There is a different set of rules, but they change all the time so you have to be on top of it and follow those. It sounds hard, but really you just do what everyone else is doing and you will be fine. Step outside what everyone else is doing and you are at risk.
Wow that's a fantastically effective way to burn a lot of good will.
It can.

And it would've been true even with cold war peak weapon stockpiles.

To anybody claiming the opposite, am asking them just why wouldn't it be any different how in Mao's most famous saying.

Even with an extreme prospect of loosing half of population, you will still have a very angry country that too went completely overboard on preparing for NBC war, and which will still have world's biggest heavy industry even after massive losses.

Even to this day, NBC shelters are built in every Chinese city. Xi, and top military officials spends most of their day in bunkers. The industry is holding bi-monthly, or tri-monthly mobilisation, and war production drills. Most state employees get military training, and basic military training is still a part of high school, and college in China. Humongous food, and materials caches across the country prepared explicitly with war in mind.

And of course, the famed Kim style VIP nuke shelters in the mountains to hide a big portion of the party elite are very real too, as are the draconian plans which CPC has for its population in case of war, with being shot on sight for opposing conscription probably being the least cruel.

Seeing well educated, if not elite, people in the West dismissing that so easily makes me nervous at least.
How about here in Australia? I think our outcomes look pretty good. We went hard and early, locked down, and now we basically have no restrictions internally (apart from not being able to travel internationally except to New Zealand (travel bubble should be starting in two or three weeks), and having to quarantine on entry coming from anywhere but NZ for two weeks and with two negative tests on I think the 10th and 13th days).

We have cinemas, sporting events, music concerts, etc. all open, you don't have to wear masks, you don't have to sit with empty seats between you and others. Schools have been mostly normal this year (save for a 3 day lockdown in QLD and a one week lockdown in Victoria and Western Australia). Lots of people are still choosing to work from home but offices are back to normal, domestic travel has been back on all this year an a decent part of last year... All with basically zero community transmission.

All this with about an eight week lockdown where I live (unfortunately Victoria had another outbreak so had to have another three months later on but got that back down to zero community transmission). So the lesson should be that it actually was perfectly possible to eliminate the virus locally and open up again fairly quickly. We could have done it even quicker if our incompetent Federal Government had acted more quickly, but luckily for us the State Governments all did mostly all the right things apart from a few issues (letting in a cruise ship with dozens of infected people with no quarantine or testing early on in New South Wales being a big one, and some issues with hotel quarantine later on).
Show HN: Puzzling Tiles – An Artsy Crossword Puzzle Game
One of the only convincing rebuttals to the statement "taxation is theft" I've heard relies on the fact that the government is the entity that bootstraps the very concept of private property as we know it. Without this guarantee of private property, there is no way to accumulate wealth for an individual in the first place.
Trust in government ops is valuable for success of democracy
And what's wrong with that take, exactly? It's a natural conclusion any critical thinker who strongly values individualism will come into before they start to consider the differences of power at play that make giving and recognizing actual consent very tricky (even for adults, let alone children); which actually isn't that obvious to notice at all if you have never been in such situation yourself before. This is a take that is logically coherent and honest - and naturally progresses once you learn new information. Which seems to be exactly what happened in case of Stallman, who retracted his earlier opinion in a logically coherent way.

Honestly, I'm amazed at how many bad ideas people can come into just because they don't understand that other people may think with different processes than they do. I'm honestly not sure whether it's intellectual laziness or pure malice (or both).
Anyway non-RAIDed simple setup is also vulnerable to drive failure. So backup (and RAID1 if you need HA) is the solution, not non-RAID. RAID1 just make x2 failure rate.
They are paying pensions for 13.5K people, but only have 10K employees?
The only reason I use Backblaze instead of tarsnap is it is 62 times cheaper for the same amount of storage. tarsnap is dramatically overpriced if you ask me.
Nor is heterodox academy (I'd categorize it as essentially the opposite). She's certainly well credentialed, and worth listening to, but not, at all, because she's "PC".
> the business relationship resembles a BDSM relationship more than a traditional relationship

No. Mutual "consent" and "communication" are cornerstones of the BDSM community.

Google doesn't believe in either of those.
ImmutableX will be releasing a zk-Rollup for NFTs soon. It'll enable 9,000 transactions per second on Ethereum, which will completely eliminate the problem of high fees, and the associated energy consumption, for Ethereum-based NFT transactions:

https://www.immutable.com/
The relationships between Shift JIS and its variants, graphed
> Perhaps it would be more insightful to look at collectivism vs individualism as a continuum rather than a binary choice.

I already did in this thread:

"The more the country tries to run the lives of its citizens, the worse the country does."
Did you seriously just join HN to try and troll our Launch HN post? If so, I'm sorry, I hope you find better uses of your time.
We're trying to solve a problem for founders and infosec teams alike. You're perfectly entitled to your opinions and judgements. Feel free to build something and share it with the community if you disagree with our approach.
You can get in touch with us through our website if you'd like to try the product. Thanks!
This is the same company that has published iOS apps that have silently escaped the sandbox. I think pathological is probably an appropriate word for them and wouldn't trust anything remotely related to them with a single bit of personal data.
The problem in my case was "train_steps" in the model json file. Default is 0. The notebook sets it to 401000 which works.
I very strongly disagree. I’m extremely happy they had to undo their crime.
Also, you know OVH will be investing significantly in fire prevention strategies, so that will all be state of the art.
Is It Farewell to the Handshake?
Wasn't part of the issue with Stallman that his behavior, not just his ideas, were problematic. Like telling a college freshman that he'd kill himself if she didn't go out with him: https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...
Here is the thread in question: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1172283772428906496.html
>For better or worse, people are individuals, not members of a collective.

Huh? There might be a few "individuals" living individually in the history of the world. Isolated from the world, forgotten in some jungle, retreated to some cabin in Alaska, or so.

Some not by choice (e.g. due to some accident with their boat or something), others by choice but only after they've first been raised and prepared by living in communities.

The huge majority has always been members of communities and collective entities.

Without living together with others, collaborating with them, inheriting traditions and knowledge from the past, you don't even have language, culture, science, or anything, not even a cuisine. You're like some animal...

>Collectives of people don't work, and it isn't for a lack of trying

Between famillies, villages, cities, companies, churches, armies, nations, and so on, I can't even think what you had in mind as "not working"...
UK schools were open most of the autumn/fall term. They have been closed since mid-December and reopened earlier this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemi...
> 1. What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?

A better question is, exactly how is that $500k being spent?

> Why is cost the concern? If there's rampant corruption in incarceration, why are you focused on the money spent and not the human toll of a corrupt prison system housing millions of human beings?

$$ cost, corruption, and 'human toll' are all concerns, and in this case may well be related. Of those 3, $$ cost is the easiest to measure. If your goal is to solve any or all of the above problems, investigating $$ cost is likely to be the most tractable approach.
A software engineer starting a bake shop doesn't exactly sound like someone looking for a "scalable" business.
Browsers blocking it is a stopgap, adtech companies will find new and innovative ways to track users.

You need strong legislation and even stronger penalties. The only way to stop pervasive tracking is to financially ruin any company that employs it.
How much extra did you pay?
> A lot more than a lack of violence is required in order for cooperation to be possible.

You predicated everything you said on the dangerousness of criminals. Now it seems like you're backpedalling.

Overall, your response shows a tendency towards hyperbole. How to manage crime is a complicated topic; you seem prone to catastrophising the worst, and this catastrophising leads to unrealistic conclusions like "let's pack them all away and make them a problem for some other country."

There are lots of things we would like to trust about people around us. Eg, we would like to trust that we can make mistakes in life and that there is a way to come back from those mistakes.
> really you just do what everyone else is doing and you will be fine. Step outside what everyone else is doing and you are at risk.

This, sadly, is exactly the correct advice. The path of least risk for most people is to just be like everyone else. Don't try to be more pure, or more boorish, just be alike. Conformity is almost always more beneficial than not.
*Alleged past transgressions.
The larger the extended family, the less like a collective it runs.
> They use a mask that covers the users entire face or just the nose and mouth, but they are not effective for the critical symptoms of COVID-19

CPAP is used by the NHS for Covid-19 to try and avoid the need for invasion ventilation, even in the ICU (examples [1], [2]). I was in intensive care for 10 days, and was on CPAP (100% oxygen) for the majority of the time.

[1] https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/Downloads/AA_COVID_19/COV...

[2] https://www.sign.ac.uk/media/1757/sg_cpap_guidance_version_2...
Spending that kind of money per prisoner is absolutely staggering. It is equivalent to:

Each prisoner has their own $400 per night hotel room
Each prisoner has all their meals in the hotel restaurant with a $50 budget for each of their three meals per day
Each prisoner has $50 per day for sundries (toothpaste, uniforms etc)
Each prisoner has their own 100% dedicated guard, assuming four shifts on a 7-day fortnight rotation whose payroll costs are 50% above USA median wage
At the end of every single day, every prisoner celebrates by drinking a whole $100 bottle of champagne
This only happens if you use their web interface, right? If you only interact with your B2 storage via their API, such as through a backup program like Arq, there would be no Facebook involvement?
I don’t need nor want servants.
I think that because a Swift array of objects must be bridgeable from Objective-C, and Objective-C arrays might be non-contiguous, Swift arrays of objects must be permitted to be non-contiguous. This isn’t a concern with arrays of structs because they don’t exist in Objective-C. In practice, I’d imagine that Swift arrays of objects that are never bridges to/from Objective-C are almost always contiguous.
To date, EleutherAI as an "organization" (read: basically a Discord server) has not really attempted any kind of marketing. It has no PR dept, just individuals tweeting about the work that Eleuther does.
So you take your money and then leave. But most don’t, they see the next income level coming up all the time. Are they at the “housing security in the Bay Area” leave or “retire at 40 or before/own a large boat/small plane”?
I am sorry that I was misinformed about the state of our DALL-E replication when I made that tweet. It was not malicious - I was reporting what I had been told by someone else.

Yes I was wrong. That said, I had hoped that maybe after two an a half months Shawn would stop holding it over my head.
The only thing more rare than righteous institutions are forum threads not plagued by malcontents griping about capitalism.
I mean, short term yes, but long term no. For half a million bucks an inmate, you have a lot of room to recover some money.

Googling pulls up a stat that 4000 people are incarcerated in NYC. If you could spend 1.9 million dollars and reduce expenses for a year by 1%, that pays for itself in the first year. At that scale and cost, any efficiencies pay for themselves fairly quickly.
Sorry for the formatting fail, here's a second try:

Spending that kind of money per prisoner is absolutely staggering. It is equivalent to:

> Each prisoner has their own $400 per night hotel room

> Each prisoner has all their meals in the hotel restaurant with a $50 budget for each of their three meals per day

> Each prisoner has $50 per day for sundries (toothpaste, uniforms etc) Each prisoner has their own 100% dedicated guard, assuming four shifts on a 7-day fortnight rotation whose payroll costs are 50% above USA median wage

> At the end of every single day, every prisoner celebrates by drinking a whole $100 bottle of champagne
A Brief History of the Hedge Fund
"For instance, one of those characteristics is having trouble with rhythm. I love the most complicated, fascinating rhythms."

Somehow I can't shake the feeling that his example supporting his confident self-diagnosis paradoxically undercuts it instead.
>Corporations are not collectives. They are organizations of people with self-interest, not selfless-interest.

Which is neither here, nor there.

First because nobody said people on collectives can't also have self-interest: just that they work together for the benefit of the collective too.

That said, there are also collectives where self-interest comes second (to the point of sacrificing yourself for them) and they work just fine. In fact the whole of human history they have been instrumental: families, armies, countries, and so on.
This is not a valid comparison. We still spend close to $4 trillion on healthcare in the private sector.
What on earth is your threat model where you trust B2 with your files but not their javascript?