skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was talking about the life on the ship, not the carbon footprint of the ship

in a city, each individuals uses their car to go buy food, then come back home and use car to go do their other activities, then cook things at home, wasting a ton of resources and producing ton of useless waste

something that doesn't happen if you are living on a ship where everything is optimized for the group

hence why i then mention if using nuclear propulsion would help fix the latter problem, like submarines
Looking at number of commercial vehicles involved that are GPS and internet connected, we should have a alert system of impeding danger ahead...but we don't.
I start counting them as independent computers when they have their own firmware.
Also, politicians are amazingly cheap. Remember reading that Comcast bought of my local representative for $30k. I'm sure politicians with "aligned views" on the matter are even cheaper.

There's only 100 senator and 435 house member. Of those, companies only need to buy a few swing votes. $2MM at 30k a pop is 66 votes. If most republicans are on board anyway, that's all they need.
Maybe an ACLU-like legal org.
I wonder if its possible that the FSD beta graphics use more power to render. Would be dumb to lower range on all Teslas for what is essentially eye candy. Even on FSD vehicles the visualization reverts when FSD is not engaged.
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or maybe like sudafed pe is an advertisement, a reminder to check behind the counter for the real thing
Similar to how the GC has become faster and faster with each version, we can expect the generics implementation to be too. I wouldn’t pay much attention to conclusions about performance from the initial release of the feature. The Go team is quiet open with their approach.
Nobody's saying you can't use Go or must use C/C++/Rust. If Go works for you, that's great.

The issue is about positioning of Go as a language. It's confusing due to being (formerly) marketed as a "systems programming language" that is typically a domain of C/C++/Rust, but technically Go fits closer to capabilities of Java or TypeScript.
This is about as close as you can get to the government suing itself.

Turbotax is the dominant player in an industry created by the government. Tax prep fees are just another tax.
the stabbing part is part probing, and part digging out the mine that you know is there already.
Binning is definitely a possibility. Separately from binning, there are often just features that don't work right and get disabled with "chicken switches" or "feature enable bits."

Any two-ANE design would have a lot of control logic that has to be right, e.g., to manage which work gets sent to which ANE, which cache lines get loaded, etc. It's easy to imagine bugs in this logic which would only show up when both ANEs are enabled. So it's likely that there is a chicken bit that you could use to disable one of the ANEs and run in single-ANE mode.
First hand experience.

Totally useless as a decongestant for me.

Stick with pseudoephedrine.
One group is physically imposing its ideology on another, and they are asking why we have a few examples of people acting out? I think a better question would have been why have people taken it so well and not seen more pushback. Many jurisdictions in North America and elsewhere have essentially been living under occupation (sometimes by a majority) where people are being forcibly told how to live.

There are literally 10s of millions of people that disagree with what they are being forced to do, but go along with it. We should all be impressed (or horrified, as I am) that all we saw in the way of pushback was a bit of rudeness.
Computers indeed look more and more like black holes. It is not unexpected, then, that one feels the need now to talk about structurefunctions that live in spacetime.
The raw rate tells you something but not everything. What are the available deductions? What counts as income?
> SAT being an IQ is a stretch. SAT is a scholastic amplitude, a far more narrowly defined construct.

SAT is an IQ test[1]. It was always an IQ test. There might be better (i.e. more g-loaded) tests out there, but the SAT still definitely works.

> You might have meant to say that SAT is correlated with IQ. While true, that is by design and is scientifically uninteresting on its own.

The SAT is correlated with g, which makes it an IQ test. You claimed that IQ doesn't correlate with anything other than performance on IQ tests. That is clearly incorrect with regard to academic performance. That you find this correlation 'uninteresting'is frankly beside the point.

> If your model includes scholastic amplitude but you measure it in IQ, you will not only have a less accurate model, but you will also make gathering data way more expensive and difficult.

There's not one 'IQ' test. Anything that correlates strongly with g is an IQ test. Yes, it also tests knowledge, but the ability to learn and recall facts is a heavily g-loaded activity.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/
Yes, what you describe is how civilized countries typically process their taxes for the reasons you describe.

My understanding is that the US does not do it this way for a couple reasons: 1) lobbying from tax preparation companies and 2) anti-tax advocates who believe that making taxes simpler might result in people becoming less opposed to taxes in general.
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C++ can suffer from negative performance from template bloat in two ways:

Templated symbol names are gigantic. This can impact program link and load times significantly in addition to the inflated binary size.

Duplication of identical code for every type, for example the methods of std::vector<int> and std::vector<unsigned int> should compile to the same instructions. There are linker flags that allow some deduplication but those have their own drawbacks, another trick is to actively use void pointers for code parts that do not need to know the type, allowing them to be reused behind a type safe template based API.
> data from multiple different time zones processed by code written by different developers over several years!

This feels strongly an argument FOR unix timestamps. Simply a number, the biggest mess up is seconds/millis. This order of magnitude difference is not that hard to disambiguate.
Research finds no higher risk of brain tumors among cellphone users
"Cellular Telephone Use and the Risk of Brain Tumors: Update of the UK Million Women Study"

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jn...
I appreciate this concept, but I'll need someone to tell me what the baker/welder is producing. At this point I NEED TO KNOW
Most distributed consensus algorithms, or distributed systems in general, are not resilient to nodes producing arbitrary wrong results. That's the realm of systems like Bitcoin, which achieve such resilience by paying big performance costs.

So it shouldn't be surprising that computers have the same lack of resilience.
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I found this during my own research but did not agree with the conclusions in the reporting.

Here's a paper by the same author:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579652/

Table 4 has the highlights. An extra 10 years of age has an odds ratio of 1.4 and a p value of 0.02. A 10 cm increase in waist size has an odds ratio of 1.9 and a p value less than 0.001. That is to say, this same author found waist size was a stronger predictor of testosterone than age. This study occurs a few years after the one referenced in the article.

Here's the actual study which does make the claim that these factors are insufficient on their own to explain age-normalized t levels. Personally I'm not totally convinced by their methods to control here. It's surprising to me that the later cohorts studied were seemingly the same weight but had poorer health metrics for one. The initial cohort also had an age range of 47-71. The later cohort had an age range of 57-80. The average age being 10 years older. I'm not convinced their mixed effect linear model is going to get a good comparison between these too.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/196/2598434?login...
The concept of abstraction is simple and clear when you think about programming as primarily the act of teaching other people (future maintainers, other contributors, and my forgetful self) rather than writing instructions for a computer. An abstraction is simply a grouping of human-level concepts. Good abstractions are generally easy to teach and learn.

Some abstractions are more useful/helpful/powerful than others. The usefulness of an abstraction often depends on the domain. Much of the time, the best way to find out the right abstractions is to first create multiple things with no new abstractions, then decide that everyone will save time if you merge some of the concepts you created. It's good to use well-known, tested abstractions early on, but it's risky to create new abstractions prematurely.

Sometimes a function, data structure, interface, or API happens to embody an abstraction very cleanly. When that works out, the abstraction is easy to teach and tends to be more useful. Most abstractions are a bit messier than that, though, which is why abstraction is really a human-level teaching/learning construct rather than any element of programming languages.
As automation gets better and better, the difficulty of the remaining jobs for humans goes up. Not everyone is cut out to be a software engineer, doctor, or lawyer. We have to deal with the fact that people of average (and below average) skills and intelligence still need to support their families.

I think hampering technological progress to protect jobs is the wrong approach though. We need to contend with the fact that traditional supply-side economics will start to break down as we enter an era where most or all human needs can be met with automation.
Elucidate - your unfair advantages. Honestly at this point I am sick and tired of this dog-whistling nonsense. And when called out all of you losers act all innocent about it. That shtick worked years back, but it's just plain racist in 2022 and it's well known.

Get lost.
Maybe they just kept the Soviet one with some edits of the nation's name. That one was also wonderfully progressive and respecting of human rights... On paper. Come to think of it, did the Soviet Union really "go under"? Only in the sense of losing all its peripheral territories, AFAICS; the core remains. In several senses.
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I'm not opposed to standardized testing nor am I among those saying to just eliminate the test; I'm just defending opinions critical of these tests from knee-jerk responses that I think are overly protective of them.
Hmm yes, why stop there? Why have functions? Just reimplement business logic all over your codebase. That way each block of code has everything you need to know. Sure, functions have been adopted by every other language/ecosystem and are universally known to be useful despite a few downsides but you could say the same about package management and that hasn't deterred you yet.
Process knowledge, ie. how do you effectively contribute to the organizational body of work, and how you can make it more effective etc.
It depends.

Real innovation in art software for example could only be done by someone who is highly skilled and experienced in both artistry and software engineering and has an very open mind when it comes to design.

You get get things like Sonic Pi from people who are both musicians and developers.
Thank you. I tried this some time ago from another article and could not get it to work. I'll try from your link and see how I get on.
Wasn't the same old trick SIM swapping?
Do you really think they'd drag out the case endlessly rather than just having a human spend 5 minutes looking at your account, verifying that it's indeed not malicious, and reinstating it?
Go is strictly less useful than Java because it has strictly less power. This is true for general purpose programming (though somewhat remediated through introduction of generics) it's doubly true for "systems" applications:

No access to raw threads.
No ability to allocate/utilize off-heap memory (without CGo and nonsense atleast).
Low throughput compared to Java JIT (unsuitable for CPU intensive tasks).

The only thing I can think of in it's favor is lower memory usage by default but this is mostly just a JVM misconception, you can totally tune it for low memory usage (in constrained env) or high memory efficiency - especially if using off-heap structures.

On a stdlib level Java mostly wins but Go has some highlights, it has an absolutely rock solid and well built HTTP and TLS/X.509/ASN1 stack for instance, also more batteries vs Java.

Overall I think if the requirement is "goes fast" I will always choose Java.

I may pick Go if the brief calls for something like a lightweight network proxy that should be I/O bound rather than CPU bound and everything I need is in stdlib and I don't need any fancy collections etc.
The lack of availability of proper pseudoephedrine in USA led to situation where there are papers describing how to turn methamphetamine into pseudoephedrine, not the other way around.

With explanation in abstract that its easier to buy meth than pseudoephedrine.
I very much agree with this and while Kubernetes is better than a poke in the eye, I look forward to the day when there is a true distributed OS available in the way you describe. It's possible Kubernetes could even grow into that somehow.
The point is they shouldn't be slower than a manually-copied implementation for that concrete type. They also should be faster than vtable dynamic dispatch in the vast majority of cases. (I also fail to see a compelling reason that they couldn't have been implemented by passing the fat pointer directly, making the codegen the same as passing an interface, instead of having that business with the extra layer of indirection.)

If there are specialization opportunities when hand-implementing the function for a given concrete type, I would indeed expect that to be faster than a monomorphized generic function.
Phenylepherine has excellent "not being easily convertible into meth" properties, if only it had actual decongestant properties to go along with them...

Sigh.
Also I'm sure he's on their radar given he works for Docker, but they should spend whatever it takes to hire github.com/crazy-max
A good paper giving a concrete example of all this is "A fork() in the road", where you can see how an API just like fork(2) has an absolutely massive amount of ramifications on the overall design of the system, to the point "POSIX compliance" resulted in some substantial perversions of the authors' non-traditional OS design, all of which did nothing but add complexity and failure modes ("oh, but I thought UNIX magically gave you simplicity and made everything easy?") It also has significantly diverged from its "simple" original incarnation in the PDP-11 to a massive complex beast. So you can add "CreateProcess(), not fork()" on the list of things NT did better, IMO.

And that's just a single system call, albeit a very important one. People simply vastly overestimate how rose-tinted their glasses are and all the devils in the details, until they actually get into the nitty gritty of it all.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...
I just recently got scammed by this. I’m not sure why they even allow selling and marketing this.
> Innovation can take away your job in a span of ten years while not creating new jobs for generations to come.

That case isn't true. The new generations had jobs well enough (increased productivity grew the economy much faster than before), they weren't committed to weaving clothes by hand. The Luddites themselves didn't fair as well in the short term, but many of them would have aged out of the work force in a few years anyways (manual weaving is pretty unforgiving on the body).

Truck drivers are rapidly aging as well, if self driving vehicles move retirement up by 5 or so years, it isn't going that huge of a deal (we can rely even on America's social safety net), and their kids didn't want to be truck drivers anyways.
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I have argued in the past that the real problem of misinformation lies with users not FB. However, when FB is the sourcing of false info that endangers teachers to boot, they should get the hammer.
It's unequivocally worse.

Every single day, cruise ships worldwide emit the same particular matter as a million cars. A single large cruise ship will emit over five tonnes of NOX emissions, and 450kg of ultrafine particles a day. To give you an idea, it emits about the same amount of sulfur dioxide as 3,6 MILLION cars.

https://www.geekyexplorer.com/cruise-ship-pollution/
> something more mathematical

It has been done. Category Theory (a.k.a. "abstract nonsense") has been pretty successful describing abstraction using the language of functors.
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I don't really see any reason to consider process migration a required feature of either a distributed os or a single system image. Even on a single computer this isn't always practical or desireable (ie. you can't 'migrate' a program running on your gpu to your cpu, and you can't trivially migrate a thread from one process to another either).

Not all units of computation are interchangeable, and a system that recognizes this and doesn't try to shoehorn everything down to the lowest common denominator actually gains some expressive power over a uniform system (else we would not have threads).
You mean QNet [0]? That is still alive... It is for LAN use ("Qnet is intended for a network of trusted machines that are all running QNX Neutrino and that all use the same endianness."), so extra care is needed to secure this group of machines when exposed to the internet.

[0] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.0.0///index.html#com.q...

[1] https://recon.cx/2018/brussels/resources/slides/RECON-BRX-20...
JIT engine is impressive too.
This is what I've been saying for months. TikTok has been an instrumental tool to help fight racist right wing propaganda. We've to join in with China and fight racist right wing propaganda against China.
Hm on thinking about this, I agree. As someone interested in standardized, predictable platforms I just don't see a welcoming atmosphere in the DIY world. The DIY programming world has an anti-intellectual streak these days that turns me off from it. I find the kind of work I like doing to get more purchase in academia or the corporate world.
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You really haven't given any supporting information for your argument other than a vague feeling that GC is somehow bad. In fact you just pointed out many counterexamples to your own argument, so I'm not sure what to take away.

I've seen this sentiment a lot, and I never see specifics. "GC is bad for systems language" is an unsupported, tribalist, firmly-held belief that is unsupported by hard data.

On the other hand, huge, memory-intensive and garbage-collected systems have been deployed in vast numbers by thousands of different companies for decades, long before Go, within acceptable latency bounds. And shoddy, poorly performing systems have been written in C/C++ and failed spectacularly for all kinds of reasons.
as a former Graphic Designer turned Dev all I can say is how much a difference a different teacher makes. I had some design teachers who did little else than explain how to use Photoshop and others who you spent all your time and effort on and bled for their approval like some kind of unloving father figure, who at best would just nod and explain how it's acceptable instead of the usually tearing apart with critiques. This was miserable at the time but like some kind of perverse design bootcamp hammered in the fundamentals.

In contrast with your experience, I tried to take a programming class early in college and felt completely alienated by that professor who expected all of us to already know how to code and was visibly and verbally frustrated when I struggled to understand things that were completely new to to me but well known with the rest of the class. It wasn't until nearly 10 years later I finally learned it.
Mild coincidence! I did an Instructable on making one of these from a Moleskine, back when the conceit was popular:

https://www.instructables.com/Moleskine-Hipster-PDA-case/

The mild coincidence being that I remembered this in January and made myself another one.

Which... I haven't been using. At least it's there for the next time I get annoyed enough at Things to meme myself into thinking I'll start writing things down with a pen again.
>Yes but your computer will not gracefully handle CPUs randomly failing or RAM randomly failing

That's incorrect.

There are plenty of machines/OSs which are (or can be) resilient to a CPU failing; Linux, for example. From the OS point of view, you just kill the process that was running on the CPU at the time and move on.

Resilience to spontaneous RAM failures is rarer but possible.
Gorilla which many of VM ideas are based on is in C++.

Druid is Java and very fast but not like for like as it's an event database not a timeseries database. Pinot is in the same vein.

Most of the very big and very fast databases you have used indirectly though web services like Netflix (Cassandra), etc are written in Java.
> It didn't really take off until the 2008 election pushed so many people to participate in new mediums. 2004 was kind of a prelude with Howard Dean's campaign, but he mostly reached the already online set.

I find the idea that the Internet’s adoption was related to US presidential election cycles a little bizarre. I know they dominate the mainstream media for a few months every four years but surely the utility of the internet vastly exceeds that?

What about online shopping or even email displacing paper communications?
The tandems I listed above, originally used lock stepped processors, along with stratus/etc.

edit:
Googling yields few results that aren't actual books, Try this

https://books.google.com/books?id=wBuy0oLXEuQC&pg=PA218&lpg=...
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git clone?

I mean do we need bespoke package management tooling for everything now?

Seems like an outdated systems admin meme that violates KISS, explodes dependency chains, risks security, etc. IT feels infected by sunk cost fallacy.

It’s electron state in machines. The less altogether the better.
I don't think it's useful to frame "fitness for a given domain" as a binary, but yes, Java is often used successfully for this domain (although personally I think Go is an even better fit for a variety of reasons).
My daughter loves the same. Just fascinated by garbage trucks running their routes (many videos on YouTube). She also likes the show Trash Truck on Netflix whose only similarity with the real thing is the truck.