skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In early versions of Microsoft Foundation Classes … repeatedly appending a character to a string (I think it was CString) was quadratic, because they didn't increase array size by a multiplicative factor, but by a linear amount, so you'd get a ton of reallocation and copying.

I remember seeing production code slow to a crawl once because of that one. It wasn’t long after I’d left university, where I’d studied CS but the lectures on complexity theory had seemed quite theoretical at the time. Suddenly, here was a vivid example of how it could cause a problem in practice, in a situation as everyday as putting some text in a UI. The solution — using a string builder — then led me to several other principles about choosing an efficient internal representation for data and it being OK not to convert that data into its “true” form until you’re ready to use it. I suppose I should thank whoever made the original mistake, because despite causing a frustrating afternoon with a profiler, it also created several lightbulb moments early in my career.
My couple of years experience in retail taught me that people are generally horrible when they’re not around their peers. I feel there should be a mandatory 1 year of service in retail for every American. It would humanize them.
Quit job, write an app, make money off it. I might need another job while waiting for it to grow, but by the end of 5 years, it'll likely be way more than $20k in the bank.
I think you may be approaching the discussion more from the standpoint of where to assign blame specifically regarding COVID-19, and I'm more interested in the benefits from infectious clone technology and infection experiments in general, which covers the last 50 years [0], not just the work in 2R01AI110964 that is currently under criticism. So I yield on all Wuhan-related points.

One thing that really confuses me though is why you say human testing is a requirement, when almost all work is done in cell & animal models. Usually human tests are restricted to treatments, and only those that have already gone through cell and animal testing to ensure as much safety as possible. I just want to emphasize this point because the thought of doing infectious clone testing on people is awful and the Common Rule is meant to prevent this kind of abuse [1].

Regarding "previous accidentally released viruses, which were believed to be naturally occurring variants, did not have this [highly infectious to humans] property." The ones that are notable enough to make it into reports kind of do. The 1977 H1N1 leak affected "20-70% of those under 20 years of age in school or military camp outbreaks in the first year" [2]. There were also several leaks of the 2002 SARS virus that could easily have gone the same way COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) did. China was the source of several of these leaks, so feel free to use this as evidence for a lax safety culture.

[0] https://www.virology.ws/2009/02/12/infectious-dna-clones/

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/...

[2] https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Esc...
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Technical site nit: your links are very hard to see as styled even on a colour / emissive display. On my e-ink reader, they're impossible.

Note sure if that's your choice or Substack's, but either way, it could stand improvement.

(Unfortunately, styling annoyances stand between content and topical response and criticism.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412599
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That's the hard part & the most tricky as well. As when the product you are making is so simple to make, then marketing is the only differentiation. On a related note, read this blog post → https://www.allencheng.com/starting-a-business-around-gpt-3-...

You need to make something that hasn't been done before so you'll have interest from people as GPT-3 is hyped up now. Spend less than the users will pay you. At first, you need to concentrate on getting customers. Most people use AppSumo lifetime deals but I think they're only good for funding your startup initially without VC money.

Otherwise you can go the VC route & get funded if your idea has legs.

Distribution/marketing is the hardest part in GPT-3 based biz but if you do it right, you'll print millions for sure.
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Ah, so instead of risking anyone having a decent schedule they ruin everyone’s schedule. Got it.
households with income under $40k mainly used stimulus money to pay down debt or purchase essentials

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/10/how-ha...

a good chunk did go to savings but for budgets this small that usually means a savings account or cash at home.

i expect unemployment was spent similarly.
I doubt it on pets. Cats serve the valuable social purpose of keeping mice in check, which reduces disease and limits damage to property. That the domestication of cats has persisted for so long is a testament to its antifragility. I could side with you on more exotic pets, however.
I like "what would happen if we" in a team situation.
I was a lecturer for a semester, many years ago. In my view the wages and working conditions of lecturers is highly variable. Your case may be unusual, or you're in a specific field where lecturers are treated particularly well.

In my case, there were no full time lectureships, only half-time, which came with no benefits. (I simultaneously applied for positions in two separate colleges of the university, which made up 100%, and then they had to give me benefits, but that's a freak event). The policy of no benefits for part-timers predates Obama.

You are not a permanent employee, but have to re-apply for whatever is available each semester. You sign a form waiving many of your labor rights. In my state, public employees can't unionize, except for the police.

Lecturers in the humanities get paid a pittance and often have to work at multiple schools to make ends meet.

In most fields, the fact of being a lecturer disqualifies you from applying for a tenure track job because you have not been doing full time research to build up a publication record and funding proposal. Lecturers and post-docs face the same brutal odds against ever getting onto the tenure track.
How do I find the language selector if the page is in a language I don't know?
> If by living, you have the right, then you don't need to fight for it. You already have it.

Exactly. I would not fight _for_ my right, but to protect the rights I already have. In the US, thats why articles in the bill of rights are phrased as they are. The first amendment doesn't say, "congress grants the right speak freely." Instead it is -- congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech. This is because I have the right already and the amendment is there to protect it.

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no offense but since when was rights based discourse ever the focus of the left? The left's self-declared purpose is advancing material interests of ordinary and marginalized people, using collective institutions like the state to make that happen.

It seems like you're complaining about the fact that the left is not conservative at heart, which is odd. It's not exactly some sort of hidden agenda that the point of the left is to win elections and wield executive power rather than obstructing the government and focusing solely on individual rights.
I've never heard of this. Could you elaborate on why you'd not use an actual form element?
How on earth is a former McDonald’s employee, now unemployed, getting approved for any kind of loan for a rental property?

Crypto? Sure maybe like 20 bucks once, but the rest of that money is for food and rent and maybe a small hobby.
I think the advice is about not getting offended by differences in opinions about stuff you don't have to care about much.

This is not an advice to hide the key elements of your identity. Instead, it's an advice to concentrate on them, and protect them with the energy you saved by not wasting it on petty issues.
I get there similarities, but I worry we are engaging in semantic diffusion.

If we define religion as "anything people get super passionate and opinionated about" then it's pretty much tautological that people will argue about such things, without telling us anything about why such arguments start in the first place.
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> How did you come to this conclusion?

How did you come to the alternative conclusion?

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

> Is it the lack of social safety net that opens opportunities?

There are a LOT of social safety nets. I pointed out one in my prior comment -- Medicare and Medicaid. I'd argue that's actually the cause of our price increases in medicine, but they do provide effectively free healthcare. I'm not sure how many poor people you know? But I grew up in a poor area, and I can tell you, no one had their primary concern as medical care. No one was worried about food, no one was worried about shelter. I've lived with people who their entire lives have never found or wanted to find a job, they've survived entirely off what the government provided. I know at least ten people (several in my family), who live like this.

> Does the lack of parental leave open up opportunities for mothers to breastfeed?

What type of question is this? You have to choose to be a mother, if you cannot figure it out, you probably shouldn't have children.

> Or having to work multiple jobs open up opportunities to spend time with one’s family and participate in the community?

My entire family has worked multiple jobs at one point or another? For reference, if you work on a farm (as some of my family has) you work every day; usually ten hours. I don't really see the difference here.

That being said, I dont' know what you're saying?
> the planet can only support so many people

I think this is a big, and very sad misunderstanding.

Back in humanity's hunter gatherer days, we truly lived off what the planet spontaneously produces, and that sustained world population of something like 50 million people.

The we invented farming, and all sorts of technology, and now we're 7000 million.

So how do those 6950 extra millions survive?

I think the best way to think of it is that they (we) produce their (our) own food!

Each mouth to feed also comes with two hands to produce food. The planet doesn't have to do the work. We make our own food.
The workforce participation rate is far lower for KY (56.6%) than TX (62.2%), though.
I am sympathetic to many of the ideas in this thread, but view many comments as too skeptical of the process and sociology of science and of career paths in science. The high entry barrier and generally low incomes compared to alternatives means an enrichment for individuals with genuine intellectual curiosity. Yes, publishing papers and getting grants involves some gaming, but that is also true of almost all forms of communication and interaction. Science is usually a game with a good cause.

Over the next 50 years we will get far beyond our still primitive methods of publishing key data and our analysis (aka papers). You can see the transition already in the form of web services, Jupyter notebooks, R/Shiny, Pluto, etc. Soon most core publications will become living, growing structures instead sad mausoleums. Data and code quality will become much more important when data and workflows and logic are highly visible and highly granular in a new post-FAIR+ science world.
I believe what you are saying is true in some instances at some scale, but I wonder if what you say is the median case or a sample case that you’ve been fed by an anti-ACA source.

My anecdata for people on ACA is that it works pretty well, with a caveat that premiums are high due to various misaligned incentives in the US health care system.
I feel like this is only true in cases where either your product is your appearance or it's highly unlikely the thing you're selling can be returned.
Why the extra `echo` and subshell $(...) ?

dig... | tr... works fine without it.

also, `dig -4 ... ` to get your IPv4 address, for us dual-stacked folks. Otherwise it returns your V6 address by default.
I'm not familiar with Hayek, so you may need to fill in gaps where I may have them, but the argument in the article (as I understand) specifically establishes the context where savings are presumed invested into capital. How I understand deflationary currency is that investments are not incentivized, and would therefore not lead to the situation as described in the article.
> personally.

And that is fine, but it doesn't mean it should be prescribed to everyone.
I think there is a similarity between both statements. The issue as I see it comes when people have strong opinions not based in commonly agreed upon facts.

So what we end up having is person A saying "we should get rid of ABC, it causes XYZ!", and person B says "ABC is amazing! Everyone should have ABC! The XYZ claim is overblown conspiracy", both opinions are very strong. But they don't agree on whether ABC causes XYZ. Before an intelligent conversation happens, the basis in fact has to be agreed upon.

This is basically impossible with non-falsifiable claims. But non-falsifiable claims generally means "there is no evidence for it". Because if a claim relies on evidence, then it is by default falsifiable. Show the evidence is wrong, and the claim disappears.

If there is no evidence... they didn't come to their beliefs through evidence. They came through some other means. Find out THOSE reasons, and you can have a fruitful discussion.

I've had plenty of fruitful discussions about politics just as I have about religion. The key in both cases is finding that reasoning. In both cases that reasoning is almost never the topic at hand. Don't start a political conversation with slavery. Start it with... idk... maybe what news outlets they pay attention to.
Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all?

Sheer scale. There’s so many of us, and everyone is mostly replaceable. Not just in the economy, but in everything.

The identity is the one flag in the ground that screams ‘I stand for something’. I’m upset at myself and everyone for bringing back high school into our adult world. The book bags adorned with band stickers, the clothes, the cliques, all making it clear in a superficial way ‘this is who I am’. Like a generation of adult Goth kids - we fucking get it.

It just seems like we have to grow up, over and over.
One disadvantage of the proposed idea is that it will not cache very nicely at the HTTP level, ie. GETs that you would normally offload to a CDN.

Although it would be technically possible, I am not aware of any CDN that lets you cache based on the content of a multipart form.
What is the question they are blue-screening on?
> Friends have repeatedly told me I'm not allowed to complain or comment because "I can pass". Feels like if that were true I wouldn't need to pass, but when I ask that question it's like their brain gets a blue screen.

“Friends”
Knowing the generally used names of things isn't the same as knowing the things.

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." -- Ernest Rutherford.

I suspect there are many people who understand the Big-O, Omega, Theta, and Little-O implications (the physics) but might not have heard the term "constant time amortized" (the stamp collecting).

(Not that knowing accepted names is bad, it's much much easier to communicate when everyone shares a set of terms that they agree on the meaning of...)
Nobody here is pretending all speech is good.

The point many people here have is that if you only defend non-offensive speech, you’re not for freedom of speech at all. Nowhere on earth bans what they consider non-controversial, inoffensive speech.
Underwater 3D printing to be rolled-out in 2022?
I suppose it's too soon to tell if they take off, but they seem to fit the bill to me: Priests, holy writings, dogmatic beliefs, original sin, etc.

As a way of bounding this definition, I don't think javascript would count as a religion. Although perhaps I'm not sufficiently tapped into that world to make the necessary parallels.
Obama tried. The Affordable Care Act barely passed. He had to make last-minute compromises with members of his own party to get it voted through at all.

It’s not a loophole in the sense that it’s an unintentional exploit. Everyone involved knew full-well what the point of that provision was. If Congress voted in something more stringent, their corporate donors (e.g., Walmart) would have been pissed. That’s a deal-breaker for most Congress-critters.
It is amazing how many strawman arguments you are getting, apparently from teachers. You requested clarification on specific items, yet the answers discuss entirely different things. Maybe that is the actual problem with how things are taught.
I live near a hydroelectric dam. Once when I was a kid, I was swimming near the floodgates. It was horridly frightening how unexpectedly suddenly the current got strong and started sucking me towards the gate, to which in my opinion I wasn't even that close. Inverse square law and all that. The immediate realization that if I don't start swimming away right now with every muscle I got I'd get sucked in startled me. I'd see nightmares for years involving water and dark holes I'd be unable to stop myself from flowing into.
So if you even make an argument that sounds like one an unperson made, you are also an unperson?
Personal Privacy and Sovereignty in Social Networks
How do you define religion? And how does crypto and wokeness fit into that definition. I feel like you're using crypto and wokeness in a perforative sense, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming you have a working definition that's interesting and useful.
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Since we are talking about Chinese ships, it is useful to remember the words of those who have led the party for a long time: "strike one to educate a hundred." Although, when you are as dependent as Argentina is on other countries, including China, to survive, there are few opportunities to educate others.
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The paradox is that people seem to need a sense of identity. You can't have no identity. And there can be some sort of psychological satisfaction that comes from sharing an identity category with others.
A great principle. The problem is that very few exchanges are ‘free’.
> The labor force participation rate will keep falling as America transitions to a post-scarcity economy.

The wait time to get a new refrigerator is as high as 6 months right now for some people.
The illustration of gate as weak men allowing source of strong men to drain is worth a look.
Did you even read PG's article? It explains the consequences of identification.
I can't think of any large organization that operates without people motivated by their self interest. Can you?
> Lecturers in the humanities get paid a pittance and often have to work at multiple schools to make ends meet.

Lecturers in technical fields get paid a pittance. I can't imagine how bad it is for the humanities.

I got paid $5000 for a 14 week CS course that was about 40 hours/week of work. To put that in perspective, if I give that course to professionals I easily pull that $5000 in a single 40 hour week.
The NRA is bankrupt and about to be dissolved.
MAD. I don't think anyone in the US or China is going to nuke anyone else because of survival instincts. There must be chain-of-command and multi-party custody controls in the militaries of all nuclear powers to prevent unauthorized release. In such stable cases, they become worse than White Elephants: can't get rid of them because of the liabilities of inviting nuclear and conventional wars, and can't keep them because they're expensive, inherently dangerous, and tempting for crazy people to use.

Economic interdependence also creates another layer of protection from either side going too far because of the economic warfare potential before nuclear or conventional wars would be considered.
Extending GPT-3’s context window infinitely
What do you think of this idea to infinitely extend GPT-3's context window, by storing context in GPT-3 itself or in secondary layers?
Do all religions have a concept of original sin?
TFA mentions anting "is a rare occurrence". While I didn't know what the birds were doing until now this happen semi-regularly on my neighbor's front lawn just across the street. There are two specific spots they like. I've always assumed they were sunbathing or too hot.
Understanding of the business. Software development is always a tradeoff, without a deeper understanding of the business it's hard to make the right tradeoffs.
Hmm, I do not see this at all. 40 years in neuroscience and genetics and it is far larger and more open community now that is also much more open to diversity than it was in 1978.

Hundreds of collaborators and none have supported their own research.
You might not always have control over what identities you’re attributed to.

For example if you are an immigrant, based on your home country, you may have an identity assigned to you by the destination society even if it isn’t factual. You might ignore it and remind yourself not to care too much about it (try to keep your identity small) but when you have a harder time finding an apartment even when you’re qualified compared to a local, you won’t be able to ignore it anymore. Or if you support a certain president because of economic policy you’re assumed to be racist by some other group of people who might start to treat you like one.

You don’t always have the luxury and I think this is a big point missing from the article.
Private-use networks connected to the public internet are an ugly hack. If you don't have a public address, you don't have a public address in any meaningful sense, so any effort to figure out "your" address is doomed from the start.

Particularly in these days of IPv6, just give everything a notionally publicly routable address and then every device can know its real address (of course this doesn't have to mean you actually route public traffic to every address if you don't want to).
The wealthy landowner leading the revolutionary army became king, erm I mean president, after winning the war. The guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence became ruler a short time after him. They could have decided against being rulers, but they didn't.
Central banks are a core tenet of Karl Marx's communist manifesto. If by democratic you mean "the people's bank", then I do not disagree with you.

In the land of the free, Ron Paul attempted to audit the fed for decades. Unsuccessfully.
thanks i didn't know that! or maybe im just too blind!
I think you'll find a good correlation between a lack of child care / in person school and a difficulty in finding people wanting to come to work, which is something I didn't find in a quick search in the article.
The US is completely dependent on China for manufacturing. China is completely dependent on the US for funding development. It would be bad news for either frenemy to start anything major.
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Yes, I pulled it out of a shell script which had more concatenated to it and didn’t bother cleaning it up.
Bring up tabs vs spaces or ;'s at end of lines or spaces as code (IE: Python) and watch the fervor over opinions fly.

You may not call it "religion"... but deep held beliefs of the Only True Way come out and I'm not sure what else it should be called.
It was meant as a friendly warning, I think. Like a "Make sure you don't say this in public or to people you aren't super close with, you'll be crucified"
No fork can "contain double-spend". The idea of a double-spend is to spend once in two separate forks, e.g. taking back your money and spending it again even though you have received a service or good in exchange of it already.
You did not do your homework. Read the proposed law before concern trolling.

Nothing mentioned using only Company X or Y.