skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# has a similar memory model and it's the primary language used by Unity games... would you say that's un-viable?
Yeah the language is a bit strong. I’m serious about the jealousy though - perhaps it’s just me. But when I see someone making a boatload on Tesla and I’m sitting there thinking it’s ridiculous, where does that really come from? All I know is I probably wouldn’t care either way if I’d owned some…and since my experiences with day trading and algorithmic trading, I’m convinced 90% of finance is emotional. It clouds the mind and corrupts usually rational people.
Things will change when cannabis users (in Germany) stopped treated like criminals
1TB of free storage on GBQ or Redshift. Pay only for ingestion
Seeing that RAM is the cheapest resource to scale (and that cleverly using it saves energy, given that Java uses the least energy out of managed languages) it seems to be a very good tradeoff.
Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining vision
This post is very confusing to me. Why would the reverse not be true? Why did you post a source that you don't trust? Why just throw out an accusation like that, but with no specifics for people to follow up on and decide for themselves?
>Well let's not be so hasty to call this fraud.

I am going to refer to it as fraud, because that is the usual way the word is used in the context of the legal consequences one opens themselves up to making intentionally false claims about your residence in order to evade taxes. The law does not require anyone to pay taxes on unrealized gains of stocks, so no, it is not fraud if Buffett does not pay tax on unrealized gains of stocks.

>A couple things: > why can't we just regulate #of people in a house.

I never wrote this, so I am not sure who you are responding to.

>It seems like it's hard enough to go after corporations

It is not hard if they are evading taxes by committing clear fraud with no plausible deniability, such as claiming they were physically in one place when in reality they were in another place. The news articles you see are for cases where there is a lot of gray area in the law.

>The problem for the governments is ability to enforce

It is called freezing bank accounts. It is where much of the power of the US comes from, and many times why opposing entities who do not trust each other choose to do business in the US.
> Some students have the mathematical maturity for it.

I think part of the problem here is definitional.

* My oldest son's a few years ahead in mathematical understanding. He understood algebraic concepts very early, as presented in Singapore math and then through enrichment and bantering about various problems with his mathematically-inclined parents. Kids can absolutely get algebra and learn the rules early.

* But even if your 4th grader understands all the rules of symbolic manipulation, and the general concepts behind them... that's only part of what is taught in an algebra class aimed to 13 year olds. There's an emphasis on systematic process, checking for mistakes, carefully matching terms that is likely to be unnecessarily frustrating to younger kids.

* Many programs for gifted youth go in exactly the wrong direction: emphasizing more rigor for the gifted youth, harder problem sets, etc. He took Algebra I with CTY and the number of opportunities for sign mistakes or mismatching coefficients per problem were dizzying.

I believe we should be:

* Throwing ideas at primary kids, with small numbers of degrees of freedom to make the problems manageable for a population that developmentally has less discipline. The complexity of the ideas involved can scale based on what the kid knows so far.

* Throwing deep process and carefulness at older kids. The complexity of the ideas involved can scale based on what the kid knows so far, but the process and accuracy expectations can scale mostly with age.
The federal government does all kinds of things it can take a loss on, and it does in fact take losses.

The federal reserve prints dollars and buys government bonds.
So, chess on git branches. Got it.

Only question is - why?
For me, the answer is simple. Democrats are not progressives. The Democratic Party is a centrist party that focuses on neoliberal politics in service to their corporate overlords and the wealthy. As the viral tweet goes (paraphrased):

US Citizens: We'd like Medicare For All!

Republicans: No!

Democrats: No! [pride flag emoji] #BLM #AllLivesMatter

As far as I can tell, the Democrats mainly exist to take 1 step to the left for every 2 steps to the right the Republicans take. It's all still going right-wing and has been for decades. The only current Democrats who are even close to progressive are the Squad and Bernie, and we have seen exactly how much effect they can exert on the Democratic monolith, i.e. not much at all.

So yeah, Democrats often fail to live up to the progressive statements they make and progressive ideologies they claim to hold. While Republicans don't even pretend to care about anyone but the wealthy and corporations. Both sides suck.

#LateStageCapitalism
yes. thanks.
> It honestly sounds like this is a conversation for your doctor, considering the possible heart thing

Yes, if I must get a third jab in order to be allowed to roam freely then I will probably ask my GP if I could get a different vaccine the next time. I had Moderna as my first two jabs and perhaps having the Johnson or Oxford is something to consider.
Again, I don't think your point was perfectly relevant. I believe that's why multiple people were picking on that particular nit.

I'm sorry I can't better help you understand which things I feel were mischaracterizations or conflated; it seems we're bound to be stuck at some lower levels of disagreement.

At least we can agree on not understanding each other! And, I suppose, that factory farms are a problem. Cheers!
For a simple example if you make a simple type to store the color of a pixel

class RGB {
float r
float g
float b
...
}

and then make an `ArrayList<RGB>` the list will end up using over 2x the memory (128 bytes for object headers, 64 bytes for pointers in the list) compared to a language with value types. What makes this even worse is that since you are using a list of pointers, you can't use SIMD for any of your computations, and accessing elements will be slow since the values won't be in cache.
I think that's probably true for some. It's a kind of perverse power fantasy. Fills the void of knowing deep down that you've never done anything worthwhile, and never will.
Mostly off topic but when I read these stories I'm always irked at the use of "marijuana" instead of cannabis. Maybe because I'm in Toronto where cannabis is fully legal and every store around me that sells it uses cannabis - not to mention the products all use that term as well.

Marijuana just seems like your using old, slightly racist terminology. And makes me think of 4/20 BLAZE IT kind of crap. Which is probably why companies here use cannabis to go after the non "taking this is my entire lifestyle" crowd.
I'm pretty sure PCIe is that today.

PCIe CPUs may have failed commercially, but they prove that its possible (Xeon Phi).

PCIe GPUs are common. 4x or 8x GPUs are your typical mining rigs.

Perhaps most common is PCIe SSDs (aka: NVMe or M.2 slots).

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So our modern PCIe "backplane" gives us storage, extra compute (GPUs most commonly), longer-distance network access (fiber optics, ethernet, etc. etc.). What else do you want?

Sound cards (especially MIDI instruments support) maybe? Dedicated video processors? A big problem with dedicated devices is that modern CPUs are so powerful... there's not much point to buying an ElGato H264 encoder anymore when you can just buy a 16-core CPU instead and do it all in software.

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Your standard Threadripper motherboard has 4x16 PCIe slots, and I'm pretty sure 8x PCIe to each of the slots, with full support of bifurcation (splitting into smaller PCIe slots). Surely that's enough for any of your hobby projects?
>I very much love the people I worked with at SAS.

What color is the boat house at Hereford?
There's a simple solution: move to a less desirable area. But for some reason people don't want to compromise and think they're entitled to live anywhere they want. I don't get it.
+1 to this; also an AWS employee, also use other VPS providers for personal projects (Hetzner and Vultr). Don't need the full breadth of AWS services to tinker with Caddy and Tailscale, but more than that I simply follow the practice of "don't shit where you eat".
Where is "here"?

The article mentions it is decriminalized in DE.
Constructors and evil initializers in C++
If you agree with their model of human vision anyway.
I've used a version control system that has this feature (Perforce, specifically).

In principle, it's good. In practice, I think we found it to be more trouble than it's worth... Engineers go on break / vacation / get hit by a bus too often with the locks held, and then there has to be a policy process to break the lock while that user still has outstanding changes that are now stale (in an entire environment that didn't reconcile "stale" code well because it was designed to prevent the need to merge code).

At our scale, this required us to have someone act as a full-time "repo guru," which was a brutally thankless job.
Helicopter money is not like a stock split, because you aren't handing it out in proportion to how much money people already have. When prices go up it certainly creates an incentive to spend your savings, even if you're getting new money to offset the costs.
Your last paragraph seems like the sort of discussion that should be had with a healthcare professional, not random people on the internet.
Opens vscode to write left-pad2...
> 1918 flu lasted 26 months. We are at 21 months with masks, vaccines and lock downs and no ending in sight.

Do you think masks and lock downs were intended to reduce the duration of the pandemic?
The opposite is the case: they're intended to reduce the infection rate (to avoid over-stressing the hospitals), which slows down the pandemic --> it'll take longer than if we did nothing!
It helps with the operational side and the "boring" stuff: monitoring, logging, reporting, rate limiting, traffic control, endpoint versioning, etc.
I would recommend reading the entire article before drawing any conclusions, not just the headline or the summary graphic.
I agree, but stratifying too early can be harmful.

I believe what's likely to be best for everyone is:

* Keep everyone on the same track through early elementary, but we need to work hard on making the classrooms encourage everyone to be curious and stretch themselves. Games and puzzles are the answer here.

* In upper elementary, start to offer differentiated instruction within a classroom.

* In middle school and beyond, have true stratified tracks (which this article recommends not doing).
Ask HN: Is there a EULA template for social networks?
> compiles against its own version of the C/C++ standard library

The C++ library yes. However IIRC Windows now ships a conforming somehow-modern C standard library (ucrt) and modern MSVCs link to it. It is probably also included in current redistributables for the still supported (by MSVC) old versions of Windows that did not have it. Also, the forever binary incompatible C++ standard lib had its limit regardless of the platform (more because of 3rd party binary libs) and MS has switched to a backward binary compatible C++ redistributable for a few years now (they may rebreak in the future).

So on some points (but not all, and it is likely to never be all) the situation is converging.

> to avoid the classic nonsense that every Linux user sees when they build a binary and bring it to an older OS

The thing with building a binary-only program for "Linux" is that "Linux" is not a single OS, and you don't really have cross-distro binary compat except by luck, and for the different versions of a same distro they concentrate on rebuilding everything from source, plus you have a unified namespace of symbols in ELFs so you would not be able to load 2 different C++ libs anyway. This brings drawbacks, but also advantages (for ex you can use C++ libraries of the platform, with an unconstrained C++ API)

So the end result is kind of what you say, except if you want things to work really well you should probably even do:

* a specific native package for each distro (maybe × version)
* try to dynamically link to the fewest possible libs of the platform, ideally only glibc (and yes, an old enough one), maybe also libstdc++ if you want to support plugins, and maybe others if they come with a compatibility policy (so on a case by case basis)
* or target something else than a native distro (ex: flatpak, appimage), although it is sometimes kind of equivalent to yet other distros -- anyway at this point it starts to resemble to how you would distribute a binary for Windows -- so with those possibilities existing it is just that under a GNU/Linux distro you also have the classic/more-integrated ones.

Anyway, Chrome manages to do binary packages for various version of Debian, and probably other distros; likewise for VS Code and Virtual Box. And building for multiple targets is arguably less a pain today than 10 years ago.
I can buy stocks from you, with cash. It's cumbersome as hell. No one does it to my knowledge. From a practical perspective you basically cannot buy stocks with cash.
Woah, this is incredibly sketchy. What is the point of the command in the first place? What’s the Easter egg?
Just sharing this really great benchmark series on JVM GCs, though it doesn’t include the latest versions of OpenJDK:

https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/06/23/jdk-gc-benchmarks-remat...
What I like about this approach is that it requires zero differential calculus. People forgot that Radix2 DCTs come from a century's worth of advanced math in the S domain. This approach is applied-computer-science based, I can get my head around that a lot better than a Laplace/Z transform.

But what shocks me is how did absolutely no-one apply such a naive RLE in the 30 years of internet image formats?

Is this a case of "man reinvents wheel again because why do research" or is this exceptional?
Most of tech either isn’t remote or hasn’t been for very long, so strong candidates with large scale prod experience are still concentrated in markets where these skills are most valued and attainable. If you want those candidates, you have to compete with offers from local big tech.
No, I don't think so.

If you meant to use those as examples, please tell me who are these LGBT and feminist authors who cannot freely give talks at American campuses these days?

Other than, you know, team TERF.
Nice link. I guess theoretically you can always optimise this in languages with manual management. With complex GC you have to figure out a way to tame the beast and I’m not sure if it’s easier to reason about
Also the founder of HN wrote an essay on VC suckage http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html
It's like talking to an old person about computer games. They literally see 0 value and don't get why we are all excited about it. Most feel it's a net negative on society.

And yes, that's also a market that dwarfs all of its neighbors.
SpaceX launching NASA DART spacecraft to crash into an asteroid
From the biology perspective, monoclonal antibody production is hard, expensive and time-consuming. I don't think you'll see a rapid scale-up of these, as manufacturing at scale is so different to manufacturing in small batches.

Recombinant monoclonal antibodies seem like an interesting approach, these would speed up production by shortening the critical chain.
Better yet: HP’s Z27q display. It’s 27 inches and 5K, which is “Retina” to 2560x1440. And I’ve got two of ‘em (…and a 6-head GPU to accommodate their MST cables).

I just wish there was a 16:10 aspect ratio option.
pretty hard to square the results with lived experience on several fronts. For one Singapore turns out to allegedly rank material well being-relatively low, when from personal experience it's kind of 'late capitalist' on steroids even compared to SK or other East-Asian countries. Often in Singapore when I asked what people do for fun the first answer was 'go to the mall'. SK still does have a fairly active cultural life besides work in comparison and a thriving art scene.

The general trend of a lack of life satisfaction beyond material terms is right but I'd say it's a global condition, somewhat more intense in East-Asia but not by much, the differences in the survey seem random or probably dependent on how open people are about these questions.
The land value is increased by the nearby development known as "San Francisco".

The same land in the same location, with no development nearby, would be worthless.
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Recent 4-cores, 2.0+ Ghz and 4GB RAM ARM SBC's are plenty powerful for most tasks a home user may need. Media consumption, browsing, light text editing, editing the weekend video and even compiling small code bases. People have been doing that in chromebooks for years.

Unless you need to compile large code bases, edit serious videos, process huge amounts of data or CAD/games, a simple cheap ARM computer should be enough.

Too bad the desktop was taken by a monopoly and monoculture of x86-64 with windows where you are locked if you need compatibility with some proprietary formats or tools/software.
Yes.

I am a great admirer of his.

Had the world been a more tolerant, supportive, and friendly place I wonder
what he would have achieved.

Just for him to have an easier life would have been enough though.
They continue to use Java 8 as they see to reason to change. Article like this are meant to motivate those laggards.
I wonder if FoxCon is seeing other fabs commiting to US development like this and wonder if they should too rather than just the con job they pulled? Would the current trends influence them to go ahead and start moving forward on the deal they made?
'Nobody forced them into slavery, why didn't they just go somewhere else?'
Edit: On second thought this is probably a bad idea, but I'm leaving my original comment below for posterity.

Probably easiest to generate a virtual card number with a spend limit, off the top of my head I know Capital One offers this, Apple will also generate virtual card numbers though I don't know if you can set a spend limit on them.
Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
Peter Thiel recognized that problem in 2018 and cut his SF Bay Area investments: "One thing I’ve been thinking about as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley is the vast majority of the capital I give to the companies is just going to landlords. It’s going to commercial real estate and even more to urban slumlords of one sort or another."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-vast-majority-cap...
>* As an American, that speaks volumes about our lifestyle and culture, and I find it disappointing. Satisfaction is contagious; I want to live among others who feel this way. Most of my friends work from home and are either alone most of the time, or have significant others but few friends whom they see on an active basis.*

This puts into words my motivation to enact policies that would free up time and resources for people to better optimize or remove unnecessary weight from their lives. Whether it be healthcare, childcare, rising rents, etc. – the time-suck nature or just constant level of financial stress created by some issues weighs on the individual psyche, and in turn the collective one. When you can't leave your job because of healthcare, need the money for childcare or to service debt or pay rising rents, of course personal life and overall outlook on life take a hit. I may not live in a cycle like that, but I don't want to walk down the street knowing how common it is among the people around me. Death by a thousand cuts, it seems like.

And yes, much of this lives at the societal / cultural level as well, not purely the political. But in my opinion the collective burden of the problems that can be fixed by political means imposes an inertia on life that drags everything else down with it.
Sounds like you're being deliberately picky to get your point across that crypto is shit.
> I bet nearly no one who buys crypto even knows what fiat money is

You're uninformed.

GS, BofA, Barclays, Citi, CS, DB, JPM, MS, UBS, WF and countless funds.

The current hype cycle would be nothing without the institutional support.

But even before institutional investors started jumping in, traders and other employees of the above institutions have long been a key part of crypto markets.
Perhaps it's because I'm one of those dirty rotten real estate agents, but I'm not understanding your motivation with this set of recommendations you posit.

>* allow for multifamily housing

Zoning is entirely a local matter, so sure, talk to your local city / county / state if you prefer there to be more allocation for multifamily. It isn't something that the feds have any control over.

>* remove the mortgage interest deduction

So what's your goal here, given that historically this was the single biggest tax benefits to the (ever-declining) middle class.

>* implement land taxes instead of property taxes

Real estate is predicated on the concept that adding value to the land increases its value. So... what exactly become the merit of taxing land over property? If you tax property, the value of the land is included in that tax.

>* have the Fed stop purchasing mortgage backed securities (in the midst of a housing bubble)

Real estate is local. I'm sure there are markets that are in a bubble, but that doesn't mean that every market is experiencing that.

>* get the government out of the mortgage securitization business

These programs by and large benefit the non-wealthy by providing a degree of stability in the mortgage market that make it worthwhile for lenders to lend. Wealthy investors generally don't care - they are paying cash, working out seller financing arrangements, borrowing from hard money lenders, or have long-term bank relationships such that they have all the access to conventional money they need. It's the less fortunate and middle-class that get hurt when government programs are restricted.
This is from 2019, not that the advice ever goes out of date.

It's crazy how the seemingly easiest most basic security/backup advice is so easy to give, and so hard to actually do. 3-2-1, so easy to teach and remember! In reality, at any kind of scale, not so easy to do.

I am constantly reminded just how hard every aspect of security really is to do. Even for the little/basic stuff.
"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."

What if the actual crime is committed by those that control our money...

Saifedean Ammous' book "The Bitcoin Standard" gives an excellent history of hard money and shows that any new form of hard money will inevitably replace the lesser form (e.g. from the silver standard to the gold standard).

Crypto is composed of interesting projects and scams. Gambling and speculations are symptoms of a wider problem of debased currency and a lack of hard money.

Bitcoin fixes this...

Talking about Bitcoin in the same vain as Crypto shows a profound lack of understanding of history both past and recent when looking at Bitcoin.

While people trade their little Pokemon NFTs Bitcoin will be doing what Bitcoin has been doing from the beginning: Staying exactly 21 million bitcoin - the scarcest and most accessible form of hard money the world has ever seen. It's a black hole sucking in monetary inflation.

1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin.
Or they want to avoid making pricing more complex than it already is, they do that by significantly marking up egress and using it to cross-subsidize other stuff (like data ingress and internal data transfer), and they've determined that the benefit of that simpler pricing to their other users outweighs the detriment to users with egress-heavy use cases.