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I think it was heavily dependent on the administration.

To my knowledge, recent past administration quite literally made a step by step "playbook on how to manage a pandemic" and the current administration quite literally completely ignored it, or something close to this.
Which is the cause and which is the effect? You might have less candid people being promoted (survival of the fittest) or it might be that people become less candid (learned behaviour).

I suspect it's more learned behaviour.

I see my younger self in the author of these cartoons. I saw myself as the smartest guy in the room and would complain about everything as though the answers were obvious. Now I have more responsibility everything has become a lot less black and white. I realised that bitching about stuff in this way is cheap (and to be honest, I think it's intellectually lazy). It's also a privilege you lose as soon as you have power, because now it's your job to fix the stuff that everything is complaining about.
How then do you explain people like Donald Rumsfeld? He was highly intelligent by any standard measure, yet managed to make consistently bad decisions as Secretary of Defense.
> They never account for the 10-20% of people who just want to game the system and ultimately cause its downfall.

Your estimate is off by an order of magnitude or two. Welfare programs have fraud rates in ranging from tenths of a percent to a couple of percentage points[1]. Most of that fraud is actually conducted by businesses that are serving customers who receive benefits.

[1] https://ivn.us/2014/04/01/really-responsible-welfare-fraud
You overestimate it. It's more like 2.3% as of a few years ago. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm

Minimum wage is a ridiculous concept. Why make it illegal to accept wages below certain levels? The only thing it does is increase unemployment.
The neat thing about codecs is they're really defining the bitstream and decoding algorithms.

The encoding algorithms are not written in stone, so to speak. If you can optimize motion estimation encoding using Lucas-Kanade, you can just write that into, say, the x264 encoder and so long as the output is complaint you can expect all existing decoders to play back just fine.

Decoding of course may not be so flexible for compatibility reasons, and of course software is much more malleable than hardware.

Are there video codecs which are (accidentally) Turing-complete?
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> Covid-19 has a lethality around 2%

?!? I thought it was 0.3%? Citation? Anyhow, all those stats are askew; not everyone who got C19 got tested, but most who died (from any cause) did.

> that may sound like a 50% reduction, but actually it is just a 1% improvement

Well, you just described how the C19 vax say how they improve survival rates.

https://youtu.be/Jkwn5I8tLmE?list=PL2S-_LNXy9Vx24_o9zSTF6MAD...
>Handwavy nonsense. If an adult with kids is making minimum wage, they need to be able to rent a two-bedroom.

This is changing the goalposts. It's no longer "Minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in America" but rather "Minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in America if they're single parents". Just for kicks you can extend this arbitrarily. Why stop at kids? What about your mom and dad too, for a multigenerational household?
Minimum wage workers like those stocking grocery stores and cashiers at said grocery stores are pretty close to holding the world together (I realize many are not minimum wage workers, but many are, or are close enough, that I believe it holds). If everyone who will organize and process transactions for groceries stores dissapeared, life as we know it would change immediately and for the worse.
That doesn't quite apply here, because the games cover different (but overlapping and consecutive) time periods. So you take a world shaped by the alternate medieval history of your Crusader Kings playthrough, run it through the converter and load it as a Europa Universalis game, and carry it forward to the modern day in Victoria and Hearts of Iron.

There's not a reasonable way to go back and say "after the second world war, it's the year 867 again, and the world operates under feudal politics."
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An adult with 8 kids will easily qualify for section 8 and will be able to get into a 7 bedroom.
they could get a roommate or a partner
One has to assume that the result of this article is these unfortunate folks will be kicked out of this property. Or at least, there's a good chance of this. Please writers have a heart.
It's time to shoot fish in a barrel again, everybody! Can you find something wrong with this analysis? If so, then please comment!!
One thing that people underestimate with Malthusian thinking is that we live in a dynamic system. The amount of oil that is "out there" is connected to the oil price. Sometimes that supply effect of higher prices is limited (we are, potentially, seeing this with copper) but if you are projecting linear trends, you don't understand economics (and btw, this was the issue with the original Limits to Growth and almost all of these studies...for some reason, people who are attracted to this problem spend more time fooling around with their toy models rather than just talking to someone in mining or O&G).

That being said, it is equally true that very few people who study economics actually ask basic questions about how and why economic growth occurs. Economic growth is just energy consumption. That is it (whether humans burning food or oil or gas or whatever, the industrial revolution was about unlocking energy for production...note, this plays no role in Solow growth). And if you build a system which is unable to improve efficiency than that process is logically finite (but, as in paragraph one, no-one knows how finite...you can do all the computer simulations you want, no-one knows...a good example of this is shale oil, Russia has unfathomably large resources of shale oil...everyone knew it was there but it didn't matter until fracking, peak oil was a mania).

So I don't think anyone is really asking the right questions. It is really simple: do we want free energy? Do we want to improve the efficiency of our energy use? Even if climate change wasn't happening, we would need to look at solar/wind/whatever (and, hopefully, this will lead to a new industrial revolution). Imo, population control is also important. We can improve energy use but population will just grow to fill the space (and part of the problem is here actually poor quality elder care and weak pension systems caused by low savings rates). Obv, population control isn't popular anymore but...it makes sense once you understand economic growth.
So that's roughly 50 million / 331 million or 15.1%. Nothing close to 50%.
So if there are 35000 adults in a city making minimum wage and 200 total 2br apartments they can afford, does that somehow lead us to a different conclusion? Of course it doesn't.
If they all disappeared, wouldn't someone else just do the job for minimum wage + $1? Unless of course they were afraid if being disappeared too.
I'm good at estimating what parts of a task will take a long time.
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Minimum wage isn't about extending it arbitrarily.

By design and intent, it's supposed to be enough to raise a family on one income.
Dammit, that's the one that got me on my first try.
This has always been the case and false rumors have a long history of spreading like wildfire. They're nothing new to social discourse, not even in the era of digital social media. Yet somehow, many of the most successful and humanitarian societies have managed to avoid forcing a uniform "misinformation-free truth" down peoples throats through censorship of contrary opinions without collapsing in ruin. If the freedom to claim whatever you like is profitable to many, the freedom to repress those who say what it doesn't like is even more profitable to a small group of powerful interests and government officials.
Yeah, environmental concerns, including climate change is part of what inspired Al Gore to run for Congress in 1976.

So, is like 45 years enough? And that's the thing about incremental change, it creeps up on you. So yeah, last year wasn't that much different from last year, but compared to 5 years ago, 10, 50?

There's always an excuse to do nothing.
They must be expected to consider that before having kids.
Negative shit, liiiiike for/with which company?
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1st percentile? I doubt that. Tenth percentile is 11.26 [0]. That is still below the threshold mentioned in almost every area in this study.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ect/compensation-percentile-estimates.ht...
This is a profound thought. It should be taken more seriously.

It’s two-fold. I also think it’s a test how loyal an employee is to the company, especially how Apple thinks. “Those who want to leave can leave.” The problem is that some real talent can be lost with this approach.

Second, those who stay might not actually be treated like the loyal employees they are supposed to be treated as, especially not by all tiers of management. They might be treated as those who were desperate to stay to keep their job and treated as such.
> Each project is a separate repo, but they have a central integrated "repo" with all the repos, which is the "source of truth", and were code is built and deployed from.

That's exactly one of the things josh can already do for you :)
Josh's concept of workspaces is precisely this: define your dependencies (no matter where else they originate from in the monorepo) and then check out only those dependencies, along with any code that solely exists in the workspace. Your workspace checkout is effectively the "bloomberg"-style repo setup you described, as you only see your code and the code of your dependencies, but when you push, your changes get added back to the hidden, backing monorepo (the source of truth) where all related and pertinent tests are run, and your change can only be committed if those tests all pass.

Thus, your commit is your "release". Sure, you don't have exactly the same workflow, as there's no difference then between a commit and a release, as by your definition you don't release after every single commit, but the whole "release this change to everything else in the monorepo" is touted as one of the benefits: there's no massive integration headache if you have multiple breaking changes which you then need to work on resolving for everyone else.

source: I work directly with "chrschilling" - who wrote josh
Licensing cost is another factor. DBMS tend to be paid software than Web application server. Scaling up Oralce sometimes very expensive.
You fell for the trap in the parent post's phrasing. Everyone not being able to afford the average rent (ie. there is at least one person that can't afford the average rent) doesn't mean people will be homeless. The people making minimum wage can live in below average housing
Yes, unequivocally.

It is a moral failure of our society - where there IS so much wealth - that so many struggle so hard just to put a roof of their heads. It's a worse failure still that anyone goes homeless.
Not possible. The first reason for the high prices are the excruciating taxes. The telcos have boots on the ground, they can't lower their tax sheet; starlink does not.
Exactly. Purchasing is a mess, and it is impossible to get improvements that don't increase numbers on a PowerPoint slide somewhere funded.
Thanks for the explanation! Is it noticeable at this time stamp? https://youtu.be/nj4fhdiXy48?t=178

I feel like the lower notes are much more distinct and separate but might just be imagining it.
I never accepted the premise of that book as being universally true.

Societies have collapsed for reasons other then resource scarcity. In fact I'd say more often they collapse for reasons other then resource scarcity.

I don't think the Mayans ran out of anything. Neither do I believe the Romans ran out of anything.

My guess? The professional political/priestly/mid-level manager class gaining self serving control and cannibalizing productive (and competitive) capacity is a very common cause of collapse.

We see it on a smaller scale in companies real time.
> Handwavy nonsense. There are lots of places in the world where three or more people live in the space of a studio apartment.

In the US, some CPS will require kids to have their own bedrooms. Certain states also have housing laws requiring kids of certain ages to have their own bedrooms, as well. Property owners who take government housing benefits are also required to make sure children have their own bedrooms.
I'm not arguing against destructors, but this example is ultra contrived. Why would you defer cleaning up objects you are returning? That's no longer your responsibility.

Instead you'd return an object, and make it the callers responsibility to close it. Destruct all three in the close call.

It may not fit your mental model, and that's fine. But let's not pretend it's a serious hurdle.
I do exactly this. I get pings from time to time for a position that is a good fit for one of my friends, but does not interest me personally.

I'm far enough in my career that I can be picky and I don't mind the job search taking 3-6 months of mostly passive search.
Yea, but does it play the boogie woogie?
I'm using this as a metric to determine if my brain is deteriorating. (my age) + (my best score, without more than a few minutes of 'training') > 80 means I'm still doing OK.

Today, at 56 years wise, I scored 34, so 90 > 80. Means I judge myself to be smart enough to put my shoes on the correct feet, still.
Why should minimum wage be enough to raise a family on one income? Why can't people do it together?
Pretty sure the actual reason was to prevent exploits that lead to piracy.
None of this will matter to the faithful. They will be recalcitrant and spiteful as ever. The Russians got all that they could have possibly expected. They have no more use for Trump and leaking these documents is just milking it for all they can.
All the inmates who dont commit suicide disagree and are more credible sources on the matter.
Re step 1 and 2 - here's interesting podcast on how they detect rare infections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzzD2F73iGU

Basically sequence everything what's in your blood and look for what doesn't match your genome === infection. The problem is this is orders of magnitude more compute intense than whole genome sequencing. Basically increased demand for sequencing far outmatches available compute!
Over the last decade, I feel like quality of products from Amazon has turned into an unmitigated disaster for consumers... At this point in time, I won't even consider buying from third party merchants, certain categories of products and even stuff direct from Amazon feels like a crapshoot.

Most of the products on the Amazon marketplace feel more like the type you would find at a dollar store than from something you would find at a Target, WalMart or even a specialty store.
It's good.

Due to the stiffness of real strings, the overtones do not occur at even multiples of the fundamental frequency.

This means that when tuning a piano, you need to compromise between tuning so that the fundamentals are in tune with distant notes but having the overtones sound discordant with nearby notes, or having sweet overtone matching with nearby notes, causing notes to be very far off when harmonizing at longer distances across the keyboard.

With my upright, I've had more success tuning more based on the fundamental than on the overtones, because it has enough inharmonicity that tuning to the overtones causes right-hand-to-left-hand harmonies to sound noticeably off. But this makes single-hand chords sound messier.

A piano with looooooooooooooooong bass strings can have skinnier strings that are flexible and behave closer to ideal, so you don't have to compromise as much when tuning.
>By design and intent, it's supposed to be enough to raise a family on one income.

A lot has changed since when it was first enacted. Most notably, families switched from single earner to dual earner.
That's not quite right. The overtones are the harmonic series, not just octaves (1:2, 1:4, 1:8, etc..) but an octave and a fifth (1:3), two octaves and a third, (1:5), etc..

In a piano, the bass and treble strings have a lot of inharmonicity. They don't behave like ideal strings for various reasons, so the harmonics aren't exact multiples of the fundamental frequency. Piano tuners deal with this be stretching the octave, so that the piano sounds in tune even though it kind of isn't.

Having a super long bass string instead of a short double-wound bass string probably behaves more like an ideal string (with harmonics that are closer to whole-number multiples of the fundamental), so it should sound like it has a more definite pitch and less like a gong.

Interestingly, we don't really perceive the fundamental frequencies of the low notes in a piano much at all in the first place. If you filter them out, the notes will sound about the same -- we take most of our perceptual cues from the higher harmonics, and our brain just inserts the implied bass fundamental. In the same way, playing a major chord sort of implies a bass note a couple octaves below the root of the chord -- if all the harmonics are there, then we expect it to be there.
> The 'Peak Oil' hypothesis was that all the wells would run dry without good alternatives

This was literally never it. Peak Oil never had anything to say about the pumping capacity of oil, it was about the expansion of supply relative to demand.

That "preppers" decided this meant immediate societal collapse is there and your problem with comprehension.
Ah, that's true. I was thinking less of the specific hashing used, but MD5 is problematic so that's likely what they meant. I thought they were referring to the process in general.
And to clarify, if any individual function reaches some arbitrary level of irreducible complexity, then I'll absolutely unit test that. It's kind of a "you know it when you see it" kind of thing.
This is an interesting product that I am happy will exist, but that I doubt will sell particularly well.

It is a Nintendo Switch for the PC crowd, but that comes with inherent compromises and nothing in the way of exclusive software.

I personally do not think I could justify spending money on this over a new laptop instead, but I hope it is a really great little niche product for some people.
I'm certainly not advocating for restricting free spread of information. My point is just that opinions are informed by the historical context they came from, so the comparison isn't really relevant given the drastic differences between communication abilities in the relevant time periods. Making the point that we shouldn't revisit that opinion because we're in prosperous times without considering the differences in the context informing the opinion seems disingenuous to me.
I suspect the minimum wage is quite well below the natural wage floor in most, if not all of the country at this point. Those cashier jobs pay over twice the federal minimum wage in my area, and I don't live in a particularly wealthy place. The only adults I've ever known that worked for minimum wage did so with other opportunities available to them, but took the part time minimum wage position in order to stay on Medicaid and collect other means tested benefits. If you were to raise the minimum wage to say $12 I'd expect the effect to be largely symbolic.
> App stores have reached a size that can now be considered a "para-web".

I agree with this statement. Apple app store and Google play store have a near universal monopoly on the software users can install on their phones. Phones must constitute of a large majority of all software that is run by end users. Hence, the usual argument about the stores being a "private platform" do not apply.

Google and Apple must treat it as a public square, where everybody has a right to host their apps. If their app is doing something illegal, let the courts sort it out.

If managing these stores seems to be an unsustainable task to them, they are free to shut down the stores and let people install whatever software they like on their phones.

Unless this happens, the vast majority of the population will never experience the liberty that computers afford.
Ok fine, why would it be news that 10th percentile earners can't afford 50th percentile housing?

If 10th percentile earners are renting 50th percentile housing, who exactly are the folks who are going to be renting say the 10th percentile housing?
You're confusing a protocol (email) with a platform (e.g., Twitter).

You can still pretty easily "opt in" to receiving their communications. You just can't force someone else to be the middleman. If they set up their own blog or forum you're completely free to visit that.

This is similar to how you can't force bob@example.org to forward you your friend's messages, but your friend can send them to you from their own personal email.

The locus of agency is on your friend to put in the effort themselves if they can't find anyone willing to help them spread their speech.
Yet the timbre on this is quite different from that of an ordinary piano. Which make the experiment worth doing on its own (and successful)!
Maybe those 35,000 adults should move somewhere where pay is better and/or rent is cheaper. This isn't a hard concept. If there are 35,000 hunter-gatherers in a forest that can only support 400, are we supposed to sympathize with the stubborn ones that don't want to move out?
One reason you sometimes don't get responses on this sort of thing is that the claims in the paper are sometimes just fake.

Not totally fake-- e.g. they'll do part of the work so that they feel like they can extrapolate to the rest. Like they might implement a field multiply and benchmark it, then just count how many of those they need for the whole circuit.

Then no one wants to waste the column inches explaining what they actually did or dealing with reviewers that want to nitpick it ... at least not if they can help it. I know I've personally regretted including experimental details for that reason. ("oh great, a reviewer wants me to re-run 20 CPU years of number crunching because they've taken issue with some irrelevant detail that I could have just left out. Fine.")

The "more approximate than they let on" doesn't just come from sketchy and obscure research groups but this kind of work happens under well known names too. If you read a lot of the lit you can get an impression on which groups/people are actually competent implementers because they publish them or at least also solve sub-problems that you'd only encounter when creating a full implementation.

There is a lot of pressure to go this route because of time constraints and because the engineering to actually implement this stuff is often too far outside the authors expertise-- the people who really know about implementations can get highly paid in industry and many do.

For anyone who isn't faking their research this should be all the more incentive to publish your code! But so far it seems the incentives haven't lined up that way yet.
parent's EfficientNet graph seems really dramatic. Is it misleading somehow?
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I can't say what I'd do if I were a rich misanthrope. But if I were to have a conversation with a rich misanthrope, I might urge them to take up some kind of spiritual cultivation practice like loving-kindness meditation. And I would try to impress upon them the idea that no human or group of humans is smarter than all humans together, i.e., the best ideas seem to come from emergence, the clash of all our activities, rather than some committee of them and their friends. I would try to instill doubt and humility in them about whether the world needs saving and whether they're so sure that their ideas are correct that it's justified to force them onto millions of people by trickery and deceit.
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