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For me, i love blogging, but it's not easy to write decent blog articles with good enough structure without reviewing, refactoring or migrating.

Blogging is just as hard and fun as coding.

So, why coding at all ?
I remember when I was in graduate school doing engineering, a union rep wandered into my lab to try and sell me on the idea.

I got into the program because I was the best at what I did. It paid for tuition, medical, and a little extra on top.

And this guy wanted to tell me that I didn't have it good enough, and I could have it better if he became a middleman? And that my program director was "greedy" and keeping all the fat for himself?

I asked him what program he was in, he wasn't even a student at the University. Asked him what he got his degree in, and he told me some nonsense non-STEM degree.

He was a worthless parasite, with no marketable skills but to leech off what other students worked for. I told him in no uncertain terms to get out of the lab, and if he ever came back I'd call campus police on him.
I like it - reminds me of a 2d rubix cube.
Look I'm just trying to find the best way to stealthily install cameras in every bedroom of someone's house. It's just so I can track their every movement and sell their intimate details to completely unrelated third parties. They're only going to compile all that data to psychologically abuse those people until they spend money! Is that so wrong‽
“a lot of people” who don’t live in Spanish-speaking countries.

Grammatical incorrectness is unkind to anyone who has to listen to you.
You need the commercial license to disable telemetry? That's... new.
Order of authorship is quite dependent on discipline - in comp sci and engineering the convention is as you say. In other fields they prefer alphabetical order or other orders, as I understand.

Some journals have started requiring specific disclosures of activities that each individual carried out.

Interestingly for some of the professors, some publications' ethics codes don't consider merely obtaining funding as meeting the requirements for authorship of a paper. Of course they'll claim other activities, but a quick review of the papers and input they claim to have made will likely give rise to probable doubt. There's a few papers looking at "prolific authorship" in different disciplines.
Marcus Hutchins: Banned from entering the US, legally allowed live there
> Herbert Deiss, the CEO of Volkswagen, recently lamented that a Model 3 is made by Tesla start to finish in approximately ten hours when an equivalent VW EV is made in a touch over thirty hours.

Nobody really cares about this. Esp if Tesla build quality is poor and VW is great I'd think the fast build is doing them no favors.
Dark, Gray, and Light Lore
In the short term it might work but if people start literally starving there's one tool that Americans are more likely to have and might start using. It would be total chaos.
Anecdotes are anecdotes. Everyone I know thinks it's dumb.

Also, millions of people would not die from covid if China did nothing. If you go by UK data and extrapolate, it's somewhere in the range of 400k.

Assuming an average of 10 years of life lost, that's about 4 million QALY. Shanghai's lockdown alone already has cost half a million QALY (interpreting being locked down as not quality life) and as it's not about to end anytime soon, is going to push well over a million. Given that it's pretty unreasonable to believe China can get away with a zero-covid policy without these continuing harsh lockdowns every month or so somewhere, there's little case for "lockdown" over "let it rip".
> The purpose of graduate school is to put compete your peers.

This is what's wrong with higher education today. School should never be about competition, it should be about education. Graduate students in particular aren't supposed to be competing, they're supposed to be contributing to the body of human knowledge under the guidance of more experienced contributors.

Any competition that exists is the result of either a severely misguided but sincere effort to increase productivity or of a cynical and deliberate attempt to manipulate vulnerable young students into providing free labor. Countering both of these cases is exactly why MIT students want a union.
And then you end up with huge parking lots and traffic problems because everything is so far away.
Kevin's entire argument made zero sense. And thank God everyone worked so hard to convince people not to listen to him. Stipend increases are a function of places like NIH who set a lot of people's stipends. The union can and does get benefits in many other places. Like healthcare, better mental health services (which are bad at MIT), stipend increases for the lowest paid students, limits on how much you work as a TA, etc.

He gives Columbia as an example. The new Columbia contract is great! https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/07/columbia... $100 million in extra spending for students over the next 4 years.

> The 34% have various reasons to not join a union but I think we can guess that many of them think the $620/year salary deductions will not be worth whatever benefits the union can negotiate.

Well.. they are wrong.

If you look at unions like University of Michigan or University of Toronto the healthcare benefits they get compared to MIT are worth more than $620/year. The MIT grad student healthcare plan is very bad and expensive. And the working conditions as a TA are not good compared to other places. You have very few protections as a TA. For example, I know someone who was forced to teach an extra section for no additional pay, because another TA had to leave for medical reasons. That's totally unacceptable and would never fly at UMich or UofT.
Can you expound on the VST support? This can write code that compiles to a standalone VST? Or do you mean you provide a VST that can run this code?

I make electronic music as a hobby and have wanted to make my own VST, but it has proven to be more pain than fun. This looks like a very promising candidate!
IIRC, Araq mentioned that he doesn't like the current effect system and might deprecate it.
Identifying fraudulent PPP loans through network analysis
Ultimately JSON is a subset of YAML, right?
> In practice it's more of a gerontocracy

Right, unionization will just make this worse. Protect the insiders, those already with jobs.
Interesting! I went five years ago and didn’t see it there. It’s a great idea though. Did you go more recently or did we just miss it?

The nearby Naqsh-e Rostam (tombs of Darius and Xerxes among other things) was also stunning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rostam
Zoltan Pozsar: We are witnessing the birth of a new world monetary order
What’s so special about the adjuvant?
>science confirms it’s true

"The results of the research point to the theory being correct."
There used to be some sort of frequent "Expo" - which was more of a flea market to me - that took place in Secaucus, NJ...and i bought plenty of components and a PC computer or two there back in the early 2000s. Nowadays, i just assume there isn't anything like that and just look for stuff on ebay, craigslist, used/refurbished sections of newegg, amazon, etc.
Resolume, VDMX, Modul8, TouchDesigner, MadMapper are the most common softwares that performers rely on
The words of the law are the law; everything else is whimsy. Many H1Bs did get permanent residence at a time when Americans were feeling optimistic. That’s not true anymore and desis should read the words of the law carefully in deciding where to go.
The vaccines do reduce transmission, even if they don't prevent it.

You have to pretty much be willfully ignoring this fact to not understand it at this point.
Probably matters as it relates to data quality mostly
That's probably an even better example but for some reason that's still a political issue, and I didn't want to get into that. At least when talking about drunk drivers, everyone can agree it's real, bad, and not the victim's fault.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. You can't make a living off of a strong copyright system and not expect there to be zero downsides.
Excel users tend to do a far better job of data storage, analysis, and forecasting than most of overpaid SaaS-reliant "modern data team" (Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists).
And unreal to even be having a conversation about.
Bourbaki's academic credit doesn't get Bourbaki grants.
That is interesting. But surely you're talking of things that happened
thousands of years ago. Are you saying that modern Chinese people are
generally comfortable living in conditions approximate to imprisonment?
Is the Great Wall really like the Iron Curtain, there to keep its
citizens inside?
Stanford is notorious for "duck syndrome". People are calm on the surface but are always paddling below the water. I would say the CS papers out of Stanford tend to be nicer than the ones out of Oxford though, at least for Systems research. (This is a huge generalization: I don't read every paper and there's enough variation between authors that it doesn't really make sense to do a cross-institution comparison, but this is only my half-formed intuition).
>or you use some sort of generic inversion-of-control mechanism like async/await or call/cc, which really wants dynamic memory allocation.

To that end, Zig does have another kind of function coloring that's useful there: functions which take an allocator parameter. I like that about Zig, I wish C++ and Rust were better about doing it. Sadly you can still hide this by referencing a static allocator in Zig so it's not totally there yet on the language level.
Sadly it feels like single purchase software is on its way out. All the momentum is toward SAAS.
You want whois instead. A domain can be unavilable but without working DNS.
The url has a keyword at the end, like “Jazz” and then only music with that keyword plays, so you can make your own:

Example:

Locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html?q=Country
You can’t really claim that Wayland has been in the works for x and x years, when such a hugely critical piece of the ecosystem needs network effect to strive. And I believe wayland has just recently got the critical mass to become the next X, but not getting it sooner is not due to its lack of technical merit.
You're responding to something that isn't what I said.

Look at the painting and then look at the photo of the staged corner in the authors kitchen. The big difference is that the painting of the real working kitchen depicted an actual working space, it was busy and active and full of stuff and kind of chaotic. The upper walls were probably greasy from cooking and it probably smelled like food and wood smoke.

I more or less agree with the sentiment of the article, by the way. The sterile home aesthetic makes absolutely no sense to me and it's not something I want or live out in my own life.

But the reality is that a cute kitchen display like in the photo is neither practical nor sustainable unless you spend a lot of your time cleaning. I use cabinets because I actually want my counter space and because when I leave stuff out on the counter it gets dirty and dusty. Patina doesn't bother me, but grime does.

Therefore I called it "pastoral whimsy". People started using cabinets because they wanted them and could actually afford them, not because they were somehow indoctrinated into using them.
It worked pretty well for me and anyone else that is willing to understand "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".

Wherever I get to maintain a proper "digital hygiene"*, I don't have any of these issues that people love to complain about. But I would bet that whatever regulation gets to be approved, it would not only be ineffective to solve the issues that affect the majority, it would make it harder for the minority that still manages to get away from them.

* a simple set of rules to live by.

- prefer free-software solutions for all use cases that satisfies your hard requirements, even if they miss on the "nice-to-haves".

- self-host as much as possible: see all services you are paying currently and look for existing open self-hosted alternatives. Get an old computer or laptop and run these. Invite your friends and family. If you are not technical, find someone in your close circle that is and ask if they are interested in doing it, offer to help with the costs.

- If you don't want to self-host, find service providers that offer these open source services.

- use Brave: complain about crypto all you want, it is the only web browser that gives control to the user and that promotes a business model where creators are rewarded directly by the consumers.

- use the received BAT to be as generous as possible with open source developers. 5 bucks a month might not mean much, but if 10% of internet users did that I guarantee we would kill all the app stores and their abusive practices.

- Do not rely on streaming services. I'd rather pay for a private tracker to download what I want than finance Disney/Comcast/HBO/Amazon/Apple to increase their cultural dominance even further

- use alternative frontends whenever you have to access youtube, twitter, medium.
Yes, and anyone without a Shanghai hukou (identity card) is not even allowed to get government food. That is a LOT of people in the Shanghai region. I wish the best for everyone stuck there.
In theory this should be true, although the information asymmetries involved (especially for international students who go based on citations or notable papers or "reputation") mean that it can be hard to lose the flow of good students.

Ultimately if they are a tenured prof and can keep winning grants, they can offer postdoc and postgrad contracts, and that is effectively the only internal currency that matters for a student that needs to find a postgrad position.

With a limited number of chairs, it's hard for someone else to get a "rival" chair post and then compete internally, to give students the choice (which you'd get in a free market). If the institution has a good reputation, they'll likely have a flow of willing students regardless of how they act.
It may be correct for some abstract mathematical concept of correct. But suppose your lang care about side effects and you want to track coloring for side effects. And then, it turns out there is a sporadic case where there is a performance regression and you want to do telemetry and produce spans to track the regression.

Now you will want to blow your brains out because you will have to refactor all of your function calls down the chain.

It could get even worse if at some point, you are passing a function to a library/framework and for whatever reason it refuses to tolerate a function of your color (assuming you can't lambda-ize the color). Now you have to rewrite the library. Or use a library that does tolerate it. Which might lose other features or ergonomics.
In fairness, these already seem to form the majority of PhD students at universities near me
Check out my post history 2 before this one. We'll be fine.
I'd like to hear from someone in China on why the government still pursues a zero-Covid policy. Is it just face-saving at this point?
the drone pilot's skills are pretty impressive. Some of the racing drone pilots are incredibly good.
Terrifying. Is there no private food delivery?
> If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

Why not? Taiwan only had 854 covid deaths, or 0.00335%. Hiding that from official statistics doesn't seem too hard.
There was one in Shenzhen just last Month, but it was confined to a few region and lifted quite soon.
Yeah, I wasn’t too keen on the notion of being a couple thousand feet in the air watching the pilot having to bounce their avionics software.

Or…asking me to troubleshoot the damn thing since I had a Windows NT MCP at that time.
"This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
Well, what's the alternative? Waiting for package maintainers for various repos to materialize out of thin air?
The UIC grad student union is pretty effective at keeping their teaching hours to under 20 hours per week (so, you complain to them when there's too much grading). But the stipends there are among the lowest of good math departments, certainly lower than many non-unionized places. How much of this is due to the union being ineffective vs UIC being broke and poorly run I don't know. [Source: I used to teach math at UIC]

Overall I am not really convinced grad student unions really make much of a difference in practice, at least as far as everyday stipends and working conditions. I am at a non-unionized place now and we don't work the students any harder. But in principle it's certainly a good idea, and I have indeed seen the union be a useful advocate in certain special situations.
> The promise of Zig's semantics w.r.t. async is that you can write a library that accepts allocators, writers, and readers from the end user, and your library's functions will be specialized at compile time to be async or not-async based on what kind of writers and readers were passed in. If we had a broader effects/capabilities/whatever system, it would still be nice if library authors could address the needs of many different users without caring whether those users want to do IO.

The problem is that the library author must then code for the worst case and the compiler won’t help them; injecting preemption into synchronous code can expose things about it that used to be unobservable, but now can make the difference between success and deadlock. (Similarly to how injecting mutation into pure code can expose—and bar the optimizer from changing—things that were previously unobservable, like “in which order does map() visit elements?”.)

There still will be async-compatible and async-incompatible libraries, except now you can’t tell which one is which except by looking at the documentation—look at the lengths R5RS goes to in order to define things like returning multiple times from inside a letrec while R6RS just flat out prohibits that.

Yes, this seems to be a pro-colouring comment while elsewhere in this discussion I make what seem to be anti-colouring comments. I really don’t know what the answer is.
Seems like your comments got flagged while mine stay up. I wish I could reply to what you said, but they’ve been deleted.

I’d suggest you be less toxic in future. You can try to claim that you’re not using a casteist slur when you say Savarna but I’ve never heard anyone say that word without venom and hatred.

If you think the sources (thePrint, Soch) I shared have issues, point them out. If you think either video makes inaccurate claims, point them out. But please avoid ad hominem attacks on me.
How is that a justification against duplexes and row houses?
> shifts the Overton window

It's ironic that you mention this, because the Overton window has been shifted so far to the left, I don't even think it's on the wall anymore.

Censorship is _rampant_ around the world. I'm glad you think it's all roses and daisies out there, but you have no idea how naive your perspective is.
Lockdowns only achieve keeping people in their homes and that's the only meaningful result that can be discerned from them. The claim that they stop disease is 1) not proven 2)not the only way 3) not the best way
> Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory?

Emacs: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html
That's a good question. For an honest and complete answer, I'd have to remember the messes I've seen and it's been a couple decades now, so I don't. But simply, everything in setting up forms and reports is more convenient if you have real relations as opposed to a bunch of columns like "supplier1, supplier2, supplier3...".
Tight and Loose Cultures
And there's nothing more insincere than telling strangers on the internet to believe what you do because "it's the right thing to do!"
I'm in the middle of rewriting these, expanding them, and finishing the series now, for the substack.
Can confirm - did once for my 100th jump, and once on a birthday. Nothing quite like naked skydiving.
I use UltraEdit, it opens files way beyond hundreds of GB without issues, both text and binary (in hex edit mode). Love that editor for over 10 years (perpetual license) on Windows, Mac and Linux. See the video loading a 35GB text file: https://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials-power-tips/ultra...
Ironically, O365 is $7/month with max rows = 1m+ and spreadsheet.com is $9month for max rows = 10k.
>This has had the effect that a lot of Chinese people don't trust Covid vaccines, including Sinovac. As a result uptake has been abysmal.

This does not seem to be supported by the data. China's vaccination rate is 88.95%, the 7th highest in the world.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/international
This ran pretty well on a Galaxy S10 in Chrome.
> Americans want H1Bs to be temporary workers who go back home, not immigrate permanently. That’s why the statute has “temporary” plastered all over it

This is false. The H1B is a 'dual intent visa', which means it "allows foreigners to be temporarily present in the U.S. with lawful status and immigrant intent".

> Unless they’re eligible for a real immigrant visa (in America, the main one is the family reunification visa)

This is false. An H1B ("temporary worker") from, say, Iraq or Serbia has no wait times for a green card. In contrast, a child ("family reunification") of a Mexican US Citizen must wait at least 20 years for a green card.
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7996464

Having worked on a few ATS projects, most just parse the resume files they receive in the arbitrary formats and output to HR-XML.

https://www.rchilli.com/solutions/resumeparser-api

https://www.sovren.com/products/parser/
I’ve seen pictures of those barriers. I’ve wondered how China was able to source those materials so quickly.

I know China is amazing a manufacturing anything at scale but I can only imagine having the wide deployment of something like chain linked fencing available instead of large barriers.

Did they have a stock of them ready?
it doesn't, but their agenda it's very clear, very anti previous gov in favor of current gov ignoring many things running own agenda in line with current gov
Do you also believe this pattern will hold as this generation ages? It could be the case that this property is really about young vs old people. Although I hope future generations will be so well off that they'll view the role of menial labor in modern society as something akin to slavery.
In Canada as well (e.g., York is known to have a strong 'activist' graduate union that periodically shuts down classes over labour disputes).
The dynamics of academia really surprise me sometimes. When I think of "work", I think of two things: "work" (the actual day to day things you do) and "workplace" (the place your work at).

In a traditional workplace, were always taught to value "workplace" over "work" and to never stay at a "workplace" for the "work". That is, if you have a crappy boss and toxic culture, working on a shiny greenfield project isn't going to help and most will advise you to leave and pursue a "workplace" that is more aligned with you.

With academia the dynamics are completely different because now "work" and "workplace" occupy the same space, as in they are equally important, with "work" might be even more important than the "workplace". So you get into a situation where you hate the "workplace", but unlike the traditional workplace, you can't simply up and leave because your "work" is far too important, and continuing your "work" at another "workplace" is from everything I read about academia, difficult to say the least.

Not sure how unions will look in academia but it's clear that we need some sort of arbiter in that space to re-balance the "work" and "workplace" since the dynamics are so different.