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> I'd vote to undo these setbacks by moving to local data processing, where a large number of cores each have 1/N of the total memory, shared by M memory busses. Memory controllers would manage shuffling data to where it's needed so that the memory appears as 1 contiguous address space to any process.

Cheap RAM is DDR. Fast RAM would be on-die but that would be very expansive, or maybe now on package (but with some tech to be developed). But appart from decoupling latencies of accesses, I don't really see the point of having N busses (from local core to its local memory), especially if you need a very large number of cores. More memory channels seems good enough. The bandwidth is already hard to saturate on well-designed SoC like the M1 Pro and above, probably improvement to the latency could yield to better benefits than trying to increase the bandwidth more.

> In other words, this would look identical to the desktop CPUs we have today, just with a large number of cores (over 256) and a memory bandwidth many hundreds or thousands of times faster than what we have now if it uses content-addressable memory with copy-on-write internally. The speed difference is like comparing BitTorrent to FTP, and why GPUs run orders of magnitude faster than CPUs (unfortunately limited to their narrow use cases).

"content-addressable memory with copy-on-write internally" are you describing what caches already kind of do, in a way (esp. if I mix that with: "memory appears as 1 contiguous address space to any process")? The good news would then be: we already have them :)

What remains, that I think I fully understand what you mean, seems to be: more cores. The other good news here is that: it is in progress. If 6 years ago you would have gotten 6 to 8 cores on an enthusiast platform, you would now probably chose 12 to 16 cores on just a basic one (and even more on a modern enthusiast one)

There has been a pause but in recent years but it was basically Intel having process difficulties, and being caught up by the rest of the industry. Including some with power consumption also in mind, and given what an high perf CPU dissipates today, power consumption has also become key to unlock raw performance anyway.
There are 200+ healthcare systems in the world.

Are there any nearly as insane as America’s?
Purity: https://xkcd.com/435/

Farmville Devs <- Facebook Devs <- Chrome Devs <- OS Devs <- Chip Devs <- Factory Devs
RIP amateur radio operators. (Small-scale solar is a huge offender of radio frequency interference)
> The problem is that healthcare has senselessly been given a long leash to price opaquely in a way that doesn’t allow price discovery to emerge.

Right. Put differently, the healthcare system has been smartly given a long leash to price opaquely in a way that maximizes profits.
In my experience these forms are only signed by patients, so why are they valid in those cases?
>if you want to classify mathematics as a science on the basis of ... The argument here for math to be a science is very tortured and contrived,

I am not classifying Mathematics as a science on the basis that you claim. I am not even making an argument! All I am doing is empiricism!

I am observing a fact about the universe: What humans call science is any enterprise which builds and systematically organizes knowledge about the universe. I am also observing that Mathematics is one such enterprise. So it's a science.

If you think society's definition of "science" is too broad - that's fine.
If you want to use a narrower definition which renders Mathematics a non-science - that's also fine.

But I am still asking why?

Why does it matter whether Mathematics is classified as a science; or a non-science; or a social science; or a natural science?
It’s simplicity is also it’s crutch. It lacks so many niche things (like math) that every implementation have their own syntax.
Yes. Strawmen don't have anything to do with the thing being judged. The supporters are not necessarily grey beards who don't update their knowledge as the times changed. Also, other uses of biases exist in the text:

> his knowledge

Women are programmers too, and there are older ones out there maybe shaking their head at this type of judgement.
In proper, modern countries, healthcare “billing” is simpler than paying for groceries.
>> and the fact that claimants are not afforded the procedural protections that the Constitution requires for criminal defendants.

This is a hit piece on the constitution. The secure in our possessions language is plain and simple. To pretend those protections are more nuanced is disingenuos.
People blame the hospitals but this the game they have to play in order to cover their costs...

If you do things that literally ruin people's live, I don't care if you "have to do it" to keep your business going.

As to lawyers, in a society with money and contracts, these exist. What I would hope for would be a statue with in the case of the abusive billing, the victim can sue for ten times the amount of the bill, just for starters.
Thing is, we didn't have socialized medicine in say the 1970s, and I don't remember things being this bad or regulated. What happened?
I get that, it's hard to do self-hosting with a commercial product, but something I'll look into in the future for sure
web apps can be totally offline via localstorage and some PWA APIs, it's just not widespreadely in use unfortunately
It’s confirmed as the the same toolkit used by Apple and 3rd party authorised repair.
The controversy exists because people want it to - iFixIt exists and offers a different approach. Sounds dumb to me that Apple should offer something different from their official procedures to please those that are in over their head.
Research seems to indicate successful persons, underestimate the role luck had in their success.

"Is Success Luck or Hard Work?": https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I
2016 database, someone needs to update it. And how does one even get all the magnet links like this?
Ok this is a silly question but would a simple law that's says "you must provide an estimate before any medical procedure and cannot charge over that". And these charges must be available on your website and fixed for 60 days.

then you might see some competition ?

I mean my NHS - born heart hurts at the idea but still ...
I feel the same :( but creativity is a muscle !
BlindAI, an open-source privacy-friendly AI deployment in Rust
> Peter Thiel said, something along the lines of it does not matter how great your idea is and your talents, if you tell me you met your co-founder at a networking event, or something along, I won’t fund you.

My complete guess is he thinks there is a selection bias for the type of people that go to networking events, and that he believes that type of person tends to be unsuccessful. Alternately he could have noticed (anecdotally measured) the pattern through his interactions with founders. Is that what you were asking?

I can think of a variety of logical reasons why perhaps networking events self-select for unsuccessful entrepreneurs. One single example: perhaps people that are poor at networking tend to go to networking events?
My wife gave birth at a hospital in our network, but our daughter needed ICU care (in their opinion). We were given no choice in the matter and our child was taken to the ICU. And surprise, surprise, the ICU doctor we had no choice in selecting was not in network, and a low 5-figure bill was racked up for care we didn't really want and our child almost certainly didn't need. Also a very difficult thing to fight when you've got a newborn.
The hospital making a mistake and then over-billing her is scamming her. Made a mistake? Take responsibility.
Whether or not Monkeypox is a real threat is a question mark, but the outrageous Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf fear-porn tactics by health officials and the media over the last 2 years on Covid has ensured that a substantial portion of the public has no trust that anything that they're told on health matters is accurate. If there's a pandemic in the near future, society seems set to implode because so many people will not believe it.
If you want to stay in your current gig, focusing on mentorship is the next logic step for you.
In Japanese mushroom is kinoko. kinopio is the name for Toad, probably comes from kinoko but doesn't mean anything by itself :)
Is there a language for the JVM with union types that's gaining any popularity? [Edit: Scala 3+ any others?]

TypeScript is a bit of an outlier in this respect of being widely adopted with this particularly useful feature. Null-safety is basically a corner case of union types.
localStorage is nice but what I really love are files, in a folder, on my computer :D
Maybe just "time" happened? It takes time for the rot to properly develop.
Imperfect information games always have an element of chance, or "luck" if you prefer, because there is no important difference between rolling a die and guessing. It's not rare at all to have two ways of playing a hand which, based on the information available, are equally likely to make your bid but one works and the other doesn't.
Specialization is for insects. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. --Robert Heinlein

We shouldn't be hyper focused on becoming "especially good" at one thing but . Jack of all trades, master of none, makes you better able to see and apply relevant knowledge to different areas. It's good to know your own limits, but not good to to only focus on one area and ignore others.
This seems worse. At least today I have a small chance of getting my item returned.
The reality is, just don't sieze. It sieze AFTER the trial and conviction.
One of the more interesting articles I've read about talks about the fact that there are a lot of domains that you need to work all at once together to form a coop. And they were experimenting with ways to "franchise" coops into structures that help that.

https://ownershipmatters.net/newsletter-item/tim-huet-arizme...
The hospital would most likely have a very easy argument that since it's not actually their standard form and you didn't tell them about it, they didn't accept the agreement in any way. And they'd probably try to get you for fraud as well.

See also https://xkcd.com/1494/
Totally agree. All these agreements are signed under duress and ask the signer to agree to pay an amount while making it impossible for the signer to know whether that’s possible.
I guess they are physically more invasive - you have to undress and the gel has to be applied on the body part to get the ultrasound scan.
The solution is to not sieze. It do it after a conviction. And to stop the war on drugs
I love how this credits the back/forward cache to chrome when it was a webkit feature chrome inherited. Much like almost every other "chrome" feature other than the process architecture (which was also the actual real engineering work they should have got credit for).
The signatures per se don't really matter. What matters in contract law is if there was an actual agreement. The signatures are just evidence that there was an actual agreement. They are neither necessary nor sufficient. This is why verbal agreements can be binding contracts, it's just that these are harder to enforce because it's harder to show that a verbal agreement was actually entered into.
Generally stress often manifests in tight jaw muscles. And the jaw is close to the nerves that cause one form of tinnitus. And the jaw muscles are also connected to the muscles in neck and shoulders. And these muscles are often strained with people that spend their days hunched over computer screens.

So, jaw relaxation, posture, sports does it for me.
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It's alright, Rails programmers can do that. Nice little trick for building SPAs. There are other systems that use the technique, it has some advantages and disadvantages. If it works for you, great. What's the point to argue against the advantages of SPA?
That... sounds like a good candidate for a bug report/feature request.
> The technology stacks used on the back-end, front-end, mobile apps, and their associated tooling are most of the time very different.

Which feels like a major mistake to me. My house doesn't use different construction technologies for different rooms. It was built all at once, why would it have one room built of bricks and another one from glass and steel? (Other than for some artistic reason, I imagine...)

> Most developers aren't polyglot, or at the very least have a preferred ecosystem in which they are the most productive.

Yeah, sure. But you don't need to artificially exclude the situation where for example everyone on the team speaks C# (like with the emerging Blazor projects). To say that different developers on a project often have different preferred ecosystems does not mean that different developers on a project must have different preferred ecosystems, even if they're working on different parts of the same project. That feels like a very weird form of segregation to me. "You're a girl, you'll learn cooking!" "You're a C# developer, you'll write the database interface!". Why couldn't the girl weld a bike frame and the C# developer write a Blazor UI?
How do you figure? A currency no central authority has a monopoly on deciding supply is on it's face more decentralized, and an improvement on the social front, regardless who has what.

A currency entirely owned by one person isn't a currency, and people actually using it causes dispersal to a naturally occurring Pareto distribution over time.
It's hard to understand that the most predatory industry in the US is health care and people are OK with it. It's easier to deal with loan sharks or used car dealers vs hospitals and health insurance.
I'm sorry, but there is no call to authority, the person is merely sharing something, and anonymity is a personal choice. As mentioned, the person in question works in a high position in finance, and should not be giving out details about operations and operations of business partners. Even if the practice is an open secret in cryptocurrency "investment groups", any kind of association to their person, their role or the (legal) operations themselves is to be avoided. It's also surprising to me that choosing anonymity would be scrutinized on Hacker News.

What is being described here is not front-running.
Yes this is completely standard for all crypto projects. And then next step is to buy a positive news articles and an exchange listing. And when it comes to the technology.....lol...well what technology their money is made
I would be interested in an analysis at scale of artifacts, components, foodstuffs, industrial inputs, which have similar impact to the loss of this source of wheat, against a worldwide wheat market.

If (eg) Argentina Bolivia and Chile were unable to supply Lithium, how long would it take the world to ramp up to using Australian sources, and what would it do to the supply chain?

Or, if the soybean crop failed in one economy, would worldwide pig production suffer?
I'm wondering if now people like Zuckerberg, for communications like this, instead of email will be using something with auto-delete features to avoid get this messages on the internet in 10 years.

Do you think that on the time of writing he knows that this can be public someday?

This is public because some law force Facebook to give this messages to the government and they publish it? Some recipients leaked it? FB was hacked?

I get some negative feeling on reading this messages that seems to be written as private.
It's much better to play go against human competitors; there are several servers where you can do that.

The best place for tips is probably the Sensei's Library website.
Ahh, ok. It means "publish/share" in Greek.
EMTALA was passed under the Reagan administration. This forced hospitals to treat the uninsured, but it provided no funding to pay for those treatments. So the uninsured who don't pay are subsidized by high costs to the insured who do pay. In the 1970's, hospitals would just let the uninsured die in the parking lot / street.

So that's the change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...
it'd be nice to offer a lifetime license in the future
Greed happened. Hospitals consolidated and bought up small practices.
Requiring megabytes for a base system image (although it could be stripped and compressed) the Smalltalk runtime was once considered too large to be shipped with individual apps, and apps tended to be slow and unresponsive compared to compiled C apps. There may also have been licensing issues with shipping a runtime environment.

Fast forward to 2022. Compared to current app sizes, it's laughably small. Compared to Electron/web apps, it's probably faster and more responsive. And the licensing issues have been solved with open source versions.
The original intent was to stop drug dealers without having enough to convict.
It is difficult for dealers to deal if they lose their car or boat or money. And apparently it is "obvious"the items came from ill gotten gains.
Disclaimer: I'm a bi guy and am pretty okay with any kind of consentuous, safe sex, but (butt?!)...

Oh man that's loaded. Why does everybody always pigeonhole male on male sex together with anal?

Not everybody is doing it, and really, why would you associate (see what I did here?) monkeypox with ass?

Mucous membranes are mucous membranes, and besides that you can't deduce anything without further information on how it transmits.

And after all, anal is a bit like Java, works with all genders.

Pretty lame-ass logic here.
You can always try a different hospital for better service. Of course this won't work in situations where timing is critical, but most surgery is scheduled. We might as well treat it for the business that it is. If they can't give you a reasonable estimate up front, then don't sign the paperwork. If they care about earning your money they will negotiate with you, and it's always better to negotiate terms up front proactively than deal with it reactively. The strongest power a consumer has is to vote with their money.
It is this reason why I compare the US hospitals to white-shoe mexican cartels. The latter use simple intimidation to take what they want. Our hospitals identify a potential victim in need who needs immediate help, and thus can't negotiate, force you to sign a blank check (using verbal intimidation), force you to waive your right for protection from racket (binding arbitration), lie about costs (they call it a good faith estimate), then estimate your net worth and demand half of that. When you refuse, they send their white-shoe gangsters (lawyers) and take that half. A carnival of greed and moral depravity.
I think I'll pick up a Spitzenburg to plant next winter. Trees of Antiquity has them.

Thanks for the suggestion.

"The king of all apples"

https://www.treesofantiquity.com/collections/apple-trees/pro...
TIL that MyPal is a thing!
this is actually our company/startup for the ChemE type companies.

it is just hard to find software/data science people interested in manufacturing/engineering
If you were stuck on a desert island, would you prefer a boat or a raft to rescue you? I'd pick boat everytime.

Words do have meaning and in a sense it's all we have.

Approaching CS as a series of abstract mathematical problems to solve can make you a very good programmer. Finding the right place in society to sell your .exe's is sometimes better solved by a programmer with a liberal arts education.
That was Ripple that was caught trading against their customers not Hayes. Ripple paid off regulator so are all good now
oh wow, I guess I got some bad info – thanks for clearing that up for me!
That‘s the US perspective… which is kind of an outlier, on a global scale.
I struggle with this a little. Or rather, I struggle with the counter corollary: “Because you don’t know it.”

I mean, I solve most of my problems with the hammers I have at hand. But I try not to fall exclusively in this trap of “I will use tech X because that’s what I know.”

But I see a majority of my programming peers who will avoid moving “forward” because it’s easier to “stay behind.” At first, this works, because the difference between what’s new and evolving versus what’s established and a “core competency” is trivial and easy to marginalize. As it persists over time though, the investment can become a real millstone.

I am pretty comfortable with Python. We use it some pretty key areas in our product. It’s an established technology and competency for us. Last year, I needed to construct a service that was going to involve spinning up LOTS of little long lived threads. I was concerned about doing this in Python. Doing so would be easy and straightforward. “Because I know it” would definitely have said “do this in Python right now, deal with scaling issues later.” Instead I looked around and deemed this a good reason to take Elixir for a spin. I’m glad I did. It turned out to be a good fit for this problem. “Because I don’t know it” caused others around me to raise their eyebrows and question my approach initially. Was it the 100% best choice? Who knows for sure. But it’s worked out well. Ironically, just the other day, a data serialization library I have in both systems, the Python one needed to run faster (new use case for it suddenly needed speed that we didn’t hitherto care about). After some profiling, I rearchitected the python algorithm to be more similar to the Elixir one and gained about 50% speed up.
It's called "applications" because it's not "sites". Slack, Gmail, etc.
Right around the time the author was celebrating Tagsgiving, I was in Library School, and tagging was a hot topic around those parts. The consensus there was: "this is great and all, but there's a reason we have controlled vocabularies and classification systems. We'll see, we'll see."

I was all in on the possibilities for "folksonomies" and user tagging. However I have to admit that I have not seen many examples of where uncontrolled tagging was all that useful at scale.

To organize information, you need experts, with training, time, and a reason to get it right. Or, you can do it with an arbitrarily sophisticated, mostly theoretical ML system. But neither of these solutions benefit from having user tags.
Went to a Cali burger today and their whole system was down, from the ordering kiosks to the automated fry cooking machines. But they had a swipe set up for credit cards that seemed to work ok (no ApplePay or chip/NFC).
> But if you have an unknown number of borrowed shares in the market, then this entire calculation is unreliable.

You have perfect knowledge of the number of actual issued shares, plus a 2 weekly disclosure on the number of borrowed shares.

> Absolutely perfect information about all of reality would probably never exist, but you have a blockchain you can look at in real time

How does the BTC blockchain, as an example, show short positions? (Hint: it doesn't, it requires disclosure by centralised exchanges in exactly the same way, except these disclosures are entirely unregulated and spread across many exchanges).

Sounds like this is a criticism of stock exchanges that is again worse in the cryptocurrency/blockchain magic world.
Public support isn't the question. The public does support Medicare For All[1] but that doesn't matter given the election and decision making process of congress - essentially that it's controlled by forces that profit from the present system.

https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/24/medicare-for-all-publi...