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People go nuts here on HN if they think you said something bad about their baby.

I said per-thread, but I meant single-thread... as in CPU bound single process activity. That is undisputedly slow compared to languages like Java, C/C++, Go, etc. That is also very much not what Erlang is designed for. It adds a lot of overhead with the supervisor and other features which do not give a benefit for single thread CPU heavy activities.

And since the parent poster mentioned the multi-dispatch approach would not be performant, I attempted to suggest that the performance cost of that would be less relevant considering Elixir is already not very performant in single thread cases. In other words, it was a moot point.

I never said that Elixir/Erlang was slow for multi-thread/process distributed activities. Obviously that is where it really excels. But if you want to crunch numbers sequentially in a way that cannot be spread across multiple processes/threads, then you will find Elixir to be slow.

The benchmarks you are referring to are very much multi-thread comparisons. They are specifically NOT what I was was slow.
Chile's new “mental privacy” laws would lead the way in protecting neuro-rights
Impressive honesty in the first pages
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-space-orbit-oort-cloud.html

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was between 3 and 10 miles diameter. 2014 UN271 is 100km-370km.

Would we have discovered 2014 UN271 earlier had its orbit brought it closer to Earth? It’s making its closest approach in 2031 (ok, 11AU away!), only 17 years after discovery.

And sure, incredibly unlikely something that size would hit Earth, but just an example of something that is very large, and discovered shortly before it makes its closest approach.
Wat. I'm not arguing for a specific instance of 'has great effects' for judging good/bad speech.

Just that the government already has the power to judge good/bad speech - and people are not revolting against that.

Why doesn't the government's ability to judge good/bad speech give you the heebie-jeebies, but that specific instance does?
I came to post the same thing - sometimes Americans forget that they are a country of immigrants. And one of the routes for potential immigrants is college education.

But with a typically enterprising capitalist mindset, the American system also wants to ensure that talented individual don't go back to their country (or elsewhere) immediately after getting a degree. This is where the high cost of a US college degree comes into the picture - the burden of paying for it acts like an anchor for most students who come from developing countries or econonomically weak background. Even if they get some kind of scholarship and / or do part-time work, they still have to take a huge loans to live in the US to complete their education. And often the fastest way to repay these loans is to work in the US or other developed nations. This may take another few years. The American system hopes that by then the potential immigrant would be sufficiently exposed to the American culture and lifestyle and consider staying here.

(The high cost also ensures quality of education is high in the US, thus attracting talents from around the world. And the money is also pumped into a lot of R&D in the college allowing US to maintain a big tech lead. It's a neat system that seems to work so far.)

The other aspect of ensuring that higher education remains costly in the US is to also ensure that a blue-collar workforce continues to exist, and wage is suppressed among the white-collars. Perhaps the law makers also feel that it acts like an incentive to work more diligently, out of anxiety and worry - after all, people with more qualification, experience and higher stable income often tend to jump around more (which the big tech try to thwart by entering into illegal agreements to not hire each others employee).
wow, that introduction is worth a read alone.

seems like an entirely different army mentality that today.

> The best way you can do this is by getting along with Iraqis and making them your friends

...

> And secondly, so that you as a human being will get the most out of an experience few Americans have been lucky enough to have.
Yes, but many of the partners at those firms who are "economists" probably have PhDs.

I imagine it's also fairly common for banks, trading firms, and the like to have economists on staff but my point is that they're likely not mostly undergrad (or even Masters) economics majors.
Thankfully I live in a country where I've never had to pay income taxes in my entire life :)
> They implored me to trust that they had "never sued anyone" and "have no intentions to",...

For me, I have basically the same thing, but when I brought that up they straight up told me it'd be non-enforcable for the most part [1], along with that they put it there, because they had some people who started there just to get access to some expensive training, then left for a competitor/started their own company.

[1] which is actually the case
Google Play gift cards have been broken for over a month
> STEM masters degrees are a necessary hoop to jump through to get promotions in many industries. Humanities masters

Are also hoops people in certain fields need to jump through for jobs (e.g., community college faculty, lecturer at some other institutions), advancement or pay incentives, etc.
I'm so stoked for this, and I totally agree. This is the future of entertainment.

I'm working on mocap, photogrammetry, and compositing on Twitch, and I'm leveraging vocodes for subscriber interaction in the stream.

Are either of you working in this domain? Want to chat?
The definitions I've known have remained stable until very recently. I'll stick with Race: genetics; Ethnicity: the group/tribe one "grows up" or is most shaped by; Nationality: the country you're in/from.

They can all align to (mostly) one group, like in India and China, or can be mostly aligned like in northern Europe, or a melting pot like the US.

It's the "connotations" (i.e. conflations) that are the reason that almost everything is labeled "racist".
Those are called “trade schools” in the US, and most community colleges have programs for trades. For example, a lot of community colleges have programs in auto repair and heating/cooling.

It gets more complicated in the US because of unions. In many places, you can’t become a plumber or electrician without an apprenticeship, which is controlled by the trade unions. Therefore, community colleges might offer classes on plumbing or electrical, but there’s no equivalent to a certification program, because it’s not possible to become a professional just by going to school.
Existing law on likeness already deals with this. If you're the identical twin of a celebrity, you're allowed to use your likeness as it relates to you (i.e. use your photograph to promote your real estate business). You're not allowed to use it to suggest the celebrity in question.
What's with the rant about github? Was the intent of the article to show potential clients your technical knowledge or a soap box to air personal opinion?
I haven't chatted with it, but obvious lapses like your example seems to be what they're trying to solve for - generally when you talk to another human, you remember what's just been said, even more than one step back. But I will say that most chatbots can ask you variations on the same question over and over without expecting the answers to be similar (or comment on them not being). I did think it was interesting that they're siloing the 'memory' for each conversation, which makes perfect sense for privacy reasons, but also presumably weakens the overall potential of the bot.
Yes absolutely. They enjoy and take pride of their work. But did they start their business with the idea of "making the world a better place" and then went on to trade school?
I'm not saying these two things are opposite of each other, but most people start businesses so they can make money to bring food on the table at the end of the day.
+1 for OMSCS. I’m about to start my final class of the program. The low relative cost and scheduling flexibility made it attractive. I don’t feel as though I’ve been scammed. I was exposed to a lot of computing topics I wouldn’t have been able to explore as easily and with as much depth or rigor elsewhere.
To what extent is someone's "smell" a product of their local dermal biome and what they've been inoculated with, so to speak, via sharing deodorant, clothing, activity level, diet, etc?
The software shouldn't be showing a percentage value that can't be reasonably interpreted by its operator. 97% on an exam is really high. A 1 in 32 chance that it's incorrect (if that's what this even means) isn't proof. It should only say that the person is flagged and requires a human to check.
The easy solution that the UK takes is to have £1000 of untaxed casual income. If you sell things at home for profit and make less than £1000 a year (which is most people), then you don't have to do anything.
The Redis instances we're talking about here are "just" Fly.io apps; they're not like a special platform feature or anything. Which is good news; it means you can do whatever you want with Redis. You could, I guess, do a replica-of-replicas tree configuration, with app nodes holding connections (Redis connections are really cheap) to their local node, a macro-regional node, and the global node and selectively synchronizing. Or you could go the other way and lose some Redis servers, keeping Redis servers only in certain regions. We make it sort of straightforward for apps to suss out the topology with DNS queries.
Good results! Where did you get the voice samples?

I love your use case for ham radio. That's brilliant!
Nicely done, from zero to a polite and not completely ignorant foreigner.

Was there an equivalent US Army guide from the last few decades? Was there ones for Afghanistan?
Not yet, sorry! If you'd like I can give you an account -- it's all web-based for now (Desktop + mobile friendly). Just shoot me an email at w -at- chimerais.com :)
== The book is about the French, the people, and how they are when you live with them in their own country==

But almost entirely through the lens of “they are our longest ally and have fought alongside us multiple times.”
To speak more strongly, it’s going to be impossible unless you’re a rock star.
For the majority of taxpayers, the proposed legislation would introduce about two-dozen fewer steps.
It skips the part that masters degrees are required for some jobs, like teaching higher education. (Odd it picked on film writing and arts.) This in itself is part of the racket. Want to teach in any college, public, community, private? You need a masters, no matter how uninformative the content really is. It's a big circle.
Race operates on an individual regardless of their behavior. It is a construct that is based on physical appearance only. Race is something that an individual has no control over.

Culture and ethnicity are constructs derived from behaviors, including language, manner of dress, interests, etc.

Culture/ethnicity is something that depending on the individual, they can have far more (though not total) control over, via changing manner of dress, language, etc.

Discrimination can be based on either one, but the immutability of the former distinguishes it from the latter.
thought crimes are very serious. Until alexa, siri and google have the ability to read our minds, we need to act on any indicators that a thought crime may be occurring and pursue the guilty person until their proven innocent.
Dr K is the type of thing we need more of when people say things like “we need to support mental health more”. I don’t even think his content is particularly good or helpful yet his fostering of a community and overall message of normalizing taking care of your mental health is praise worthy.

Twitch is a weird place, the parasocial dynamic has become so mixed with the gamification of twitch via subscribers. It is kind of gross and I agree with the other poster here, it eventually turns you off. I really wish things like sub counters and goals would be banned. Yet, twitch is run by complete morons, seriously the worst run platform I have ever seen. It has become super corporate, partnering with shady companies like cashapp, promoting garbage content like slots and soft core cam girls who use it as an advertising platform for their onlyfans. Meanwhile the “good content” is just an in group of content leeches who got lucky.

Dr K proves how much power a streamer has over fostering a positive community. The community is a reflection of the streamer regardless of how much effort they put into building it. Many streamers ignore this and complain their community is toxic. It is a shame twitch doesn’t give a shit about the community it is building anymore.
At least 75% of the people I know with masters degrees didn't pay a thing and in fact got free tuition AND a stipend.

I have a lot of relatives from India that came to the US to get their masters in various engineering disciplines. None of them paid a dime.

They had to work a lot of weekends for professors doing research but it was just 2 years and then they had published research papers and industry connections to get a job.
You are both right, in some ways we have become less bashful about certain aspects of life, but also society today is a bit more particular about some things. It is no longer enough to disagree with someone, you must destroy their will to continue.
That’s true. If those are the types of incidents you are preparing for, it would make sense to have printed copies. You could also do both.
What is this actually useful for?
Researchers Develop Quantum Dot Smartphone Device to Diagnose and Track COVID-19
"One of your big jobs is to prevent Hitler's agents from getting in their dirty work. The best way you can do this is by getting along with the Iraqis and making them your friends. And the best way to get along with any people is to understand them" // Great advice from the dark times.
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plus lost wages for four years.
Making a ton of money as an entrepreneur is much harder to do than learning how to efficiently spend the money you have. If you're skilled at tech, you can make ridiculously large amounts of money, thinking globally, 100 to 200k is a huge pile of money. If you're very lucky and skilled at tech, and you're the 1% of startups that make it, you can make millions, big if though.

But why? You could just follow efficient living principles and be totally set for life with just a decade of coding at SV salaries.
with future ML pose engines, joke's on him!
We probably read very little about Java and yet it runs the world.

What we like to read and write about may not be very well correlated with reality.

Rust is a very niche language, gaining attention, and a serious contender to be an important language but it's probably not going to take over any space and even if it does, it's going to take a long while.

You definitely don't need to learn Rust.

It's a neat language though and it's worth tooling around in for a bit, at very least to get a feel for the 'borrow checker'.
The government has an explicit limitation on excersizing that power. The first amendment is, well, first, its not exactly forgettable. The primary law of our land is "government can't fuck around with free speech". I see no ambiguity here. There's a huge difference between shouting fire in a theater vs saying, are the vaccines safe. We can have our disagreements but its in nobody's interest to outlaw them.
To Stop Climate Change Americans Must Cut Energy Use by 90%, Live in 640SF
This comment is completely off the main topic, however, you are the first person I have encountered reading HN that is looking for a macro-assembler and theorem prover combo. I built a language to use just for my day to day and keep tinkering with it when I feel like it. One of the modes of operation is at least on the path to what you asked for. Right now, it is more of a generating C or C++ with full spectrum dependent types (i.e. it misses the convenience of the standard theorem provers). I find that it is quite practical for what I use it for, which is usually not at the full dependent type level, but it certainly works for me. I have toyed with making what would effectively be an assembly back end, but compiling to C++ usually fits my requirements. No real point in this comment, just wanted to cheer for another dev who seems to find interest in similar subjects.
The problem is large scale ground currents, eg currents of thousands of amps traveling through the ground.

Which means that deeply buried (or underwater) cables are particularly vunerable.

And of course that even happens today, eg the ground currents caused by electric trains and trams can be very destructive.
"Smart and skilled" are only loosely correlated to success as consultant and small business.

This is not meant to be sarcasm. There are many other characteristics necessary and better indicators. I am smart skilled and successful. But I made a lousy consultant when I tried it too early in life - (self)salesmanship, business skills, tenacity and courage, people skills, and a specific view on risk acceptance are far more important. Relationships and a full Rolodex and branding / reputation don't hurt either.

(A specific view on integrity and ethics too. I'm not saying no integrity or no ethics. But the salespersons / deal closers in my area are all honourable truthful people whose job I couldn't do because my view of truth wouldn't necessarily correspond to theirs)

Finally, if we grant your last statement that most people want renumeration and happy life, for many smart and skilled people, stress and risk that comes with consultancy business does not contribute to happiness.
Yeah, tbh, the lack of anything was mostly depression through the pandemic, largely because I’m also an extrovert. Shit was hard.

I’m doing PT right now and then planning a return.

And yeah, the inversion thing was mostly a joke :) I prefer seeing things right-side up :)
Dr K is great. His community uses the phrase "AoE healing", fun video game references like that are pretty common and seem to connect to the audience.

I'm not sure that the fear mongering over whether his interview streams are therapy or not is useful. I can see why licensed professionals might be wary of new techniques, but requiring that everyone get 1-1 therapy doesn't seem to be scalable enough to meet modern needs; and maybe an preview of what therapy can be like is enough to get some to go.
Randall makes a typical mistake: the constitution bans one specific form of censorship, therefore all other forms of censorship are acceptable.

They are not, they just aren't so unequivocally bad that you can ban them in the constitution with a single sentence.
How? Do you mean how do I know it's slow? Because it takes longer to run.

Write a typical computation such as Fibonacci in Java and Erlang/Elixir and compare. Fortunately someone has already done this.

Elixir is 3x slower than C and 2x slower than Java for this single thread example.

https://github.com/drujensen/fib

Apparently this upsets people for me to point this out. However, I did not say that Elixir was slow in general or a bad choice. It's an excellent choice for problems which suit parallelization or which require reliable, consistent performance.

Since the parent poster had commented that adding this multi-module dispatch would not be performant, I merely pointed out that the single thread peformance was already slow (as in, why worry too much about the performance cost of the multi dispatch suggestion).
That is not a good reason for every software engineer at the company to be under overly-broad non-competes.
Can you expand on that? I have dual citizenship, have spent each half of my life in both countries and I find French and Americans very different. How do you see them as similar?
Worms will often take down a large network from exponential growth. Upside is a non-wormable bug won’t do that, but you need to prevent and look for exploitation.

This is tough as print is a dumpster fire in general, and who knows what’s lurking.
Yeah and all these things are not in the 99% most people really need
it’s not the sleeping part. who cares. it shows recklessness to mix your job with your personal/emotional life. and to do this with multiple people from your job?
In the paper, Carrol goes through great pains to try reject people changing the laws of physics because they don't understand consciousness. This is exactly how I view people taking up the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, where the wave function of the entire universe collapses when a random person makes an observation. Instead I take Schrodinger's equation (and the many worlds interpretation) as the rule and what we observe illuminates how _we_ work, or more specifically how the brain and consciousness work.
> In Denmark and some neighboring countries there's this concept of a school you can go to just to learn stuff later in life, as an ongoing thing

We have those in the US; we don't have a general collective name for them, but there are both private for-profit ones with a variety of (mostly narrow) specialities, either standalone or as adjuncts to other related businesses (selling, e.g., products in the field that it teaches people to act in), plus community colleges, public libraries, public parks and rec departments, and museums tend to also have programs that serve this function, despite it not being their sole or primary function.
There is some inherent human nature to viewing your own actions with incredible nuance, while reflexively generalizing the actions of others.

If it happens to me it’s bad luck, if it happens to you it’s bad planning.
Sure, I can accept that, seeing those are non-tax related products but personal finance related, and free as you mentioned.

I should have communicated more clearly, I was specifically regarding personal finance data collected via TurboTax during the tax process.
An important prerequisite was left out: Meshroom requires an Nvidia card for CUDA. Sadly, I swapped out my Nvidia card for an AMD one so I could switch to Sway/Wayland. I've contemplated putting both cards in, AMD for the desktop and the Nvidia for CUDA, but I haven't got around to it. I need my desktop intact for WFH duties.
yep. pattern matching on the `__struct__` sugar, the poor man's protocol!
Right. You can't be a Hero without taking the Hero's Journey. And it doesn't always end in triumph, either.
England’s Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists
This is digital tyranny.
Looks decent. I'd like to see more tooling around creating flashcards that are easy to answer over a long period of time. It's deceptively difficult to make good flashcards because you often can't tell if you've created a bad flashcard until you've repeated it a few times. Often, that means months/years later.

For example, rule four here https://zorbi.cards/making-good-flashcards/ tells you not to make difficult to answer flashcards. And then the rest of the examples all over the site are all difficult to answer cards. Maybe not now, but in a year or two from now.