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> I was always under the impression that Go never had a great optimizing compiler. It was never a primary focus given the limited developer resources.

It's an intentional choice, that's why it compiles code so fast. Also because of that it's a lot simpler than say GCC. Before Go, the Plan 9 C compiler was designed in a similar manner too (I think the Go compiler was forked from it).

I think the simplicity aspect is even more important than the compiling speed. It's easier and cleaner to keep the compiler simple and write optimized assembly code by hand when it's needed. That way, the compiler doesn't get so messy (fewer bugs, easier to maintain...) and the written program is of better quality (humans can produce better code than compilers).
So you suggest doing nothing? Letting the car continue until it leaves the road at the first corner? Potentially causing a head on if there is no dividing barrier?

Tesla driver did the right thing, and is a hero in my books.
Not possible for me. I have a family to support and they have recently developed costly medical issues. Not to mention I don't make all that much (under $100k), so most of my income now goes to expenses (area is moderately expensive even when trying to live cheaply).
Dealing with people is the biggest post pandemic challenge
We have a reasonable idea of the likelihood of dying of covid: the estimated IFR is between 0.14% and 0.2%. That means for every 10000 people that contract it, roughly 16 to 17 of those people will die.

Of those 16 to 17 deaths, the vast majority will be people with comorbidities. People with comorbidities don't have as many years to live as healthy people of the same age, with or without Covid.

On the other hand, we do not know how vaccinated immune systems will interact with an evolving virus. There is a study suggesting that ADE might be a higher risk with the Delta variant ("However, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants may tip the scales in favor of infection enhancement. Our structural and modeling data suggest that it might be indeed the case for Delta variants": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351274/)

If ADE becomes a significant issue with Delta, or the next variant to emerge we will have a scenario where people vaccinated against the Alpha ("Wuhan") strain will develop more serious illness. Imagine the shit that will hit the fan if that happens XD
What do you do if there is a traffic jam in front of you? You always hit the last car?
If you pull down once on the stalk, it should activate cruise control, right? It's pulling down twice that activates autosteer.
>start of the slope of enlightenment

that would be more like staircase of enlightenment. or up the down escalator to enlightenment
Twitter has to be one of the most dystopian apps ever created. Not just from a UX perspective, but from a cultural perspective as well. Some of the most evil people I’ve ever come across are avid users of Twitter and wield it like a sword to destroy people’s lives. I’m confident it’s been a net negative for society.
"He used the compiler's self-compilation speed as a measure of the compiler's quality. Considering that Wirth's compilers were written in the languages they compiled, and that compilers are substantial and non-trivial pieces of software in their own right, this introduced a highly practical benchmarks that directly contested a compiler's complexity against its performance."

p44 "Oberon — The Overlooked Jewel" Michael Franz, in "The School of Niklaus Wirth".

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_School_of_Niklaus_W...
Is there any data that links cancer survival to where that treatment was developed?

I’m genuinely curious and realize this is one of those topics that is easy to come across as combative, but please know that’s not my intent.

The reason I ask is that I think roughly 40% of healthcare R&D globally is funded by the U.S. For its size, the U.S. scores relatively high on the access and quality dimensions, but as has been discussed is quite bad at cost. I wonder if the US has optimized for quality and access at the expense of cost.

I have also heard from those in the field that the US effectively subsidizes other countries costs through their R&D and price policies. E.g., other countries may have tight drug price controls and the only way pharma is willing to invest in R&D is because they can make up those profits in America.

It really makes me think all this discussion about one country’s healthcare vs another is myopic. Just like many other aspects of economics, healthcare to a certain extent is a global system.
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> I worry that humans are constantly chasing a bigger better lifestyle, neglecting sitting down and noticing how great their actual life already is.

There is certainly a "keeping up with the joneses" aspect to this particular issue, but thank god people still wanted bigger and better for the last century or else most homes wouldn't have electricity and running water and countless other modern luxuries we take for granted.
> In the lab ... which is not the same as the real world

No, I quoted the real-world value intentionally. The lab value is 0.06%. Depending on when you wrote the page it's understandable that you might not have had access to that yet, but it turns out that LFT's are really, really good at not throwing a false positive.

> Only if you assume there is no cost to false positives.

No, you don't need to assume there is no cost to false positives, only that it is less than the cost of false negatives in aggregate. And that's not hard: false negatives cause infections which compound exponentially, whereas false positives have a linear cost. That alone would make false negatives more costly, but when you account for the probability of each it's really not close.
I think the sentiment is more "The rich have created this financial system that's essentially a giant casino, where if they make a bet and are right, they profit, and if they make a bet and are wrong, the general public loses their jobs and 401(k)s while the government pays to bail them (the rich) out. The fact that none of it appears to even be criminal is just icing on the cake and shows who the law really protects.

If none of the actions that caused all that misery are actually crimes, that's the problem.
Yes. The Ballista crate (part of the arrow-datafusion repo) provides distributed query execution and the scheduler has a gRPC service. Flight is used internally as well but not directly exposed to users. There is also work in progress to add Python bindings for Ballista (they already exist for DataFusion).
We never used it for anything except messages. Now we're on Teams.

I'd be curious how many users were like us - messages only?
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This is what happens when you stop hiring on merit and allow too much dead weight in your organization.
Someone also needs to put to rest the "The Banks were bailed out using taxpayer money!" scandal.

Based on what I heard, TARP the Troubled Asset Relief Program, bought a small percentage of those hedge funds and investment banks that were in danger of going under, then let them slowly buy their own shares back over a number of years ... ..... and the "taxpayers" got all their money back.
Sounds like this will only cause people to trade more in crypto. It's not like bitcoin needs to be able to be traded to fiat to be useful as an item for transferring value.
What do you mean? It's about writing a node-js like event loop in rust. Calling it "for js" seems highly misleading.
> AMD has really raised the bar. I’m most impressed with the CPU performance of the M715q. They both run quiet and cool, with Ubuntu Server and Windows 10.

The M715q was offered with a fantastic 4750G chip, a Ryzen 7 Pro chip with 8 core. Today all one can buy in terms of small form factor business PCs is an M75n with low end low power Ryzen 3300U, a multiple-generations old Ryzen 3 with 4 cores.

Small business PCs are great, and for a while, there was serious excitement that AMD was going to make this segment much more interesting. Those dreams seem to have all been cancelled. I'm glad to see that affordable, competent AMD laptops are about, because in many ways it feels like AMD has succeeded so greatly that they have vanished from the market. They don't seem to be allocating production capacity to consumer GPUs, they seem to have withdrawn from this price-conscious market segment,... AMD keeps vanishing.
Why use WASM here? Security? Apologies if I missed that in the post.
The GrapheneOS developers like to talk as if relocking the bootloader is unique to Google Pixels and providing a custom key is unique to them.

But that's not true. Every OnePlus device in the last few years allows avb_custom_key as well, Xiaomi Mi A2 does too, probably many others. And ROMs like Pixel Experience publish their custom keys too.
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Choice quote:

Our study of ShotSpotter data is not about technological accuracy, it’s about operational value,” said Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety Deborah Witzburg. “If the Department is to continue to invest in technology which sends CPD members into potentially dangerous situations with little information––and about which there are important community concerns–– it should be able to demonstrate the benefit of its use in combatting violent crime. The data we analyzed plainly doesn’t do that. Meanwhile, the very presence of this technology is changing the way CPD members interact with members of Chicago’s communities.
> I'm ignorant. From my perspective it seems like the value of bitcoin changes too much,

The value of Bitcoin fluctuates UP and DOWN too much *when compared to the US Dollar*.

But compared say, to the Mexican Peso or say (more extremely) Venezuelan Peso, it has gone steadily up. So for us who don't live in a place with a sufficiently stable central bank and a trustful government, Cryptocurrencies are one avenue to safeguard the value of our income.
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This exact same thing happened to be in LA. I was driving behind a really slow Tesla (like 35mph on the freeway). I switched lanes to pass him and noticed he was just asleep at the wheel. Maybe he also had a medical emergency, but it seemed like he was just sleeping. Maybe I should have called 911.
I'm trying to think of weird edge cases, but yeah it does seem like the odds are against AP being on in this case. Maybe TACC was on, but even that seems a little inconsistent with the report.
A few years ago I nodded off on a 50mph thoroughfare. I was jet lagged from a transpacific flight a day earlier; I knew I was falling asleep, but there was nothing I could do to stay awake, and there was no exit I could take. Eventually I drifted into the lane on the left, hit a cargo truck, bounced off and hit another car on the right. Thankfully no one was hurt, but it could have turned out really ugly.

Don’t drive when you’re jet lagged — or fatigued, generally speaking.
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yes, it's akin to when people describe discovery / invention as cutting away the cruft to isolate the gem. when you get the gem, everything fits, it's small, solid, shiny.. but it took hundreds of cuts.
What happens with Teslas on autosteer when an emergency vehicle approaches from behind? Will it safely get out of the way for flashing blue lights (US police), red lights (fire, ambulance). Amber lights - tow trucks? If a police car with lights on pulls in behind and waits, will autosteer pull you over? I am wondering how to safely stop a car with autosteer ON and driver OFF.
You're supposed to turn on your blinkers and pull over ASAP. Stopping cold on a highway lane is a huge hazard.
What do you think is lacking in C# extension for VS Code vs TypeScript? I would expect a better experience with C# (in terms of tooling) because the language is typed.
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All I did was to find a single youtube-dl contributor and follow his local fork and can see many branches he or she is working on and are about to get patched and submit.

So far I have seen the same concept on three different contributors, therefore I will agree with another comment that most likely developers are on a summer break.
regarding point 1, I actually feel it's the opposite in my circles.

for myself and many of my unhappy colleagues, we would love to push code to prod and build software but we're cut off from that part of the job due to the growth of data engineering and ML engineering roles as their own disciplines/roles.

instead we're left with the boring one-off 'make a slide deck report and some bar charts' type work instead getting the privilege of getting our hands dirty and actually building something.

i guess that just goes to your point that we're all unhappy in different ways.
I don't know. I've been here for nearly a decade (I switch accounts every once in a while), and in the last six months or so, it sure feels like somethings different. Specifically, I'm noticing more joke replies that aren't downvoted. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Per article,

Delta remains handled by current mRNA. Combine 4 seen mutations (present in Delta+) and it has complete breakthrough.
Not being cynical, I am genuinely curious. As most of these employees are based in California, which is an at-will-employment state, what is stopping Apple from terminating the ones making the noise but under the guise of poor performance (PIP) like most of the other FAANGs do?
Slack implemented something similar called Huddles, but I think is for paid plans only. I personally think Slack calls quality in general are much worse than other services or platforms like Discord or Meets/etc, so I don't know if it'll really help reaching people and companies that are using alternatives for voice.
> Immigration is entirely within the control of the executive.

No, its not; immigration control is a power Constitutionally assigned to Congress and which Congress has extensively prescribed rules on. Courts have repeatedly in recent years invalidated executive immigration actions as violation of legislative rules, both substantive and procedural.
I've actually read it, about 30 years ago. Good memories.
That nuance does matter which is why we are still having the discussion. Teams can pick which style they want but mixing is unnecessary overhead and when you're talking about 10s or 100s of solutions I'd like the style to match across the board.
You dont necessarily need to charge the Wall Street CEOs. You can charge the Senior Managing Director of Structured Products. Or MD of Structured Products banking/trading/risk/whatever. There were plenty of individuals who set policy to enable this. No need for a scarecrow argument about CEO or bust. I could literally look thru Linked In or a Bloomberg Terminal and figure out who the responsible parties are. Too bad they all go to the same country clubs as the folks at the SEC and NY Times

At the same time, convicting a low level work in his 20s as the ring leader (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/01/fabulous-fa...) is disingenuous.
Probably not, and no.
Is there a way to short such a business model? Don’t get me wrong: I wish you every success in this world, I want neither yourself, nor your business partners to go bust. Still, I think lending to lenders is a high risk business and susceptible to even the tiniest liquidity shortages in the money markets. We did not see any liquidity problems for more than 10 years, so shorting this would be a good hedge.
Good luck, though!
Going to be the dissenting voice here and say I find the UI usable, and have no major gripes. The Member List can be hidden by the user icon to the left of the search field, and there's a convenient "Compact mode" to make things more dense information wise.
So goverment healthcare is not a socialistic system? The public infrastructure that is built using taxes and can be used by anyone and is owned by the goverment which represents the inhabitants is not socialistic?

wikipedia: While no single definition encapsulates the many types of socialism,[12] social ownership is the one common element.

what, if not a socialistic system, is it then in your opinion?
Thank you so much for sharing your personal experience. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your mother - this is unfortunately a common theme among our patients and we're excited to make a big change here. Let your mother know that we're pulling for her!
Of interest is the updated graph (red line shows actual, which is sadly right on track): https://imgur.com/G7DbbBi
Thank you, that was educational! At the time I'd have been happy with just getting the data out, so to encourage others, here's a simpler version of the query: https://w.wiki/3x8t

Short version:

SELECT ?awardYearLabel ?winnerLabel ?dateOfBirthLabel WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
?statement ps:P166 wd:Q185667.
?winner p:P166 ?statement.
?statement pq:P585 ?awardYear.
?winner wdt:P569 ?dateOfBirth.
}
ORDER BY (?awardYearLabel)

Annotated version with comments:

SELECT ?awardYearLabel ?winnerLabel ?dateOfBirthLabel WHERE {
# Boilerplate: Provides, for every "?foo" variable, a corresponding "?fooLabel"
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }

# "Statements" of the form "<subject> <predicate> <object>."
# also known as "<item> <property> <value>."
# Variable names start with "?" and we can think of them as placeholders.

# For example, a straightforward query that lists winners
# ("P166" means <award received> and "Q185667" means <Turing Award>):
# ?winner wdt:P166 wd:Q185667. # <?winner> <received award> <Turing Award>

# "Qualifiers" on statements: See
# https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/index.php/simple-queries/qualifiers/statements-with-qualifiers/
# or https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPARQL/WIKIDATA_Qualifiers,_References_and_Ranks
# A **statement** of the form "<somebody> <received award> <Turing Award>"
?statement ps:P166 wd:Q185667.
# In that statement, the <somebody> we shall call "?winner".
?winner p:P166 ?statement.
# That statement has <point in time> qualifier of "?awardYear".
# ("P585" means <point in time>)
?statement pq:P585 ?awardYear.

# The ?winner has a <date of birth> of ?dateOfBirth.
# ("P569" means <date of birth>)
?winner wdt:P569 ?dateOfBirth.
}
ORDER BY ?awardYearLabel
I've always wanted to run a traffic simulation to see if traffic is eliminated if the highway was partitioned (5-10 rows of car per partition) into several chunks going at a precise speed and requiring cars to maintain some distance between the next partitions behind them. This could be accomplished with some tracking laser following the cars against the wall. Of course this would be ruined as soon as drivers wanted to hop into the partition in front of them, change lanes, etc.

Another slightly relevant idea is to mark intersections with a large red no-go area placed at the calculated point, where, if you were going the speed limit, if the traffic signal changed to yellow and you were in this box you could not safely pass the stop line. I hate having to guess how long a yellow light is (3 to 6 seconds is a large gap).
I use https://mercury.com for this and it is great; I have a card for each SaaS app with their own limits. Just a standard debit card so no credit complexity.
Wondering about the same with POWER 10 too. I got bored with consumer tech for a long time and really want to look at all these exotic niche tech. It is interesting both of them happens to come from IBM. So while I think their software sucks, their Hardware team seems to be operating on a different dimension.
For LMS, we use LoanPro:
https://loanpro.simnang.com/

Canopy is a recent new entrant:
https://canopyservicing.com/

Using a vendor for LMS added some complexity (integration is a pain, idempotency is a concern, etc), but it helped us focus on things that differentiate our business. We certainly wouldn't have launched five months after founding without one.

I've talked to some startups that built an in-house LMS. The moment a payment reverses or someone backdates a payment or they backdate a loan change or modify a due date... they have big problems.

> We've had investors ask why Pipe doesn't just do this and we respond with, because it's a just a different beast.

Next time they ask, ask them why Google's VC branch doesn't just take their deals :)

It's astonishing to see how some investors don't realize how deep of a field lending is.

> We're trying to avoid lock-in mechanisms like ROFRs and warrants. The product is either efficient and founder friendly, or it is not.

Nice. Godspeed!
I just think they don't really care.

They care about retention, but they've realized that content >> discoverability for that.

People will find out about content. What they will not do is watch bad content, no matter how specifically and accurately it speaks to them.
Abuse, e.g. sadism, opportunism, deception are all definitions of unmasculine behaviours. There are men who behave in unmasculine ways, and I'd reassert they usually disqualify themselves from deeper friendship with men who don't. Among men, I would also say that negative traits are necessarily also unmasculine because they are usually immoderate instances of other qualities.

Of course, this is a practitioners view which perhaps does not reconcile itself to theory.
I wonder how many Apple employees with real greivances about long hours, illegal labor practices, harassment, etc. will keep quiet given this website's thorough use of culture war vocabulary. I've experienced bad working conditions at big tech companies (Amazon mainly), but would never lend strength to a movement that so clearly exists as a vehicle for identity politics.

I'm also a little (not a lot) surprised at the lack of clear examples. The language is 100% vague accusations of abuse and mistreatment. Did the people who created this website experience any of it firsthand? Why can't they be more specific? Why didn't they gather more concrete examples before going public?
I can't think of many reasons Discord "ate the whole market" besides smart marketing, honestly. It does audio rooms incredibly well, but everything else (even their developer support team) is just terrible.
If the "property damage" is to your own shareholders, that's a fuckup, not a crime (on its own).

If that starts a market rout, or bank collapses, that sucks, but it's still not a crime

If that leads to the collapse of the US dollar, it's a catastrophe, but it's still not a crime.

US policymakers are responsible for the stability of the US economic system. CEOs are responsible for their own companies. Congress calling for CEOs to be put in jail is in large part simply trying to deflect from the fact that they are not doing their own jobs, and are simply trying to offload responsibility for US economic policy onto the private sector.
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But since Facebook visits the link first and leaves, the game gets aborted almost right away before any friend gets to join.
The latest update has eye tracking and warns you if you take your eyes off the road for more than a second or two.

Nobody is saying that self-driving cars are perfectly safe. Considering how many Teslas are on the road and how many miles are driven on autopilot, it would be surprising if there weren't any deaths. As long as it's safer than unaided human drivers (which it is), it's a net win.
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And it is neither amusing or surprising to see another 'too smart for u' commentator choose cynical apathy and misinformation over the challenge of dealing with reality: this didn't have to happen.
Out of curiosity, why Level? You're the second up-front cash-flow company called Level I've heard of. Is it a market term?
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Absolutely does not make it ok though. We paid/pay for the device. What we do with it is our business and it should work as expected (assuming drivers exist…licensing shouldn’t prevent this)