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Mojo is trying to create a new language to solve the problem, and specialized for CPU. We are using a more pragmatic way to solve GPU AI computation problem.
There's absolutely no reason to not tax capital gains as ordinary income. It is the single most blatant, regressive feature of our entire tax system that wealthy people can receive their income at a significantly lower marginal rate with zero deductions for FICA.
Two words: Federal Support.

If the problem is exacerbated by active policy or indirect action/non-action, then as a collection of people/states it is the burden of every state to shoulder it. And the federal government is just that, the collective power of all states combined.
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I'm wondering how someone like the USA government manages this? They have massive deployments of Intel x86 like at the Utah Data Center [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
A Reddit/HN-like site is relatively simple to implement, but the main problems are moderation, spam protection and network growth
I was actually thinking high-end tablet PCs (like the Asus ROG Flow Z13, Microsoft surface) where they have thermal constraints due to having both a medium-TDP CPU (and GPU) AND a large display to backlight.

Tablet setups also can facilitate better keyboards and an eye-level screen, as shown by members in https://reddit.com/r/ergomobilecomputers
hadn't heard about this, thanks for the tip
It's an understandable position yes.

It's not quite so understandable to me that somebody would believe that position to be an inherent truth ("truly owe") rather than just a position.

Capital gains taxes have historically been lower to encourage the investment of capital. This might be good or bad policy. Many economists say it's good policy.

It's stating opinion as fact.
>What is the solution to that?

So, lets imagine that the problem is being caused by other states sending their homeless over. Well, in the US you can't stop that, at least by direct migration, you might be able to stop particular organizations like city governments from doing so. But in a general sense there is freedom of movement.

The problem comes with that, the better you're at solving homelessness the more people will get sent there, and even more homeless will want to come there even if they are not sent. Suddenly Texas, for example would see California spending billions on the problem... Texas would have no motivation of spending billions to solve the problem themselves, in fact in terms of getting rid of the appearance of a homeless problem it would be more beneficial for them to be draconian on homelessness. This would push individuals to migrate to the promise land of California.

California would see is homeless costs increase dramatically and would be incentivized to stop (increasing?) funding on the problem themselves. Moloch wins. More people suffer. Yay humanity.
A new class of materials is here
The AMD RX 580 was released in April 2018. AMD had already dropped ROCm/HIP support for it by 2021. They only supported the card for 3 years. 3 years. It's so lame it's bordering on fraudulent, even if not legally fraud.

I know CUDA via their HIP is a moving target they don't control making it hard and expensive for them to prevent bit rot but this is still an AMD caused problem due to opencl not getting any love by anyone anymore. AMD included.
> Many flawed guidelines are based on a desire to act even in the absence of evidence of benefit.

Very true, I mostly intended to illustrate that many "good" or accepted guidelines are not necessarily based on randomized controlled trials as there seems to be a misconception (based on recent trending posts) that these are the only forms of "evidence" in medicine.

Some guidelines are borderline pseudoscience but pertinently guidelines are not binding. You point out the correct approach - one is entirely allowed to deviate from guidelines for good reason (i.e. no/very weak evidence, questionable benefit).

That's also the beauty of the EBM, you'll find grade & strength of recommendation in any modern guideline to help interpret them. We also have quality assessment tools like QUADAS-2 and the STARD reporting guidelines to help the reader assess quality.

> "Primum non nocere" is probably the most accepted but least respected tenant of good medical practice.

Also agree but I think EBM addresses this a lot more than the old days of science-based medicine where we did things because "they made sense" without looking at various outcome measures that sometimes reveal missed harm.

> A big problem is that humans have a preference for action, and a dislike of waiting for information.

Part of this is also by necessity due to the nature of patient encounters which have a need for decision-making.

Where the guideline is clearly poor (e.g. adrenal nodules, homeopathic follow-up at best) I disregard them but sometimes you have to err on the side of caution.

As an example I recommend pancreatic cyst follow-up per the ACR guidelines even though my (abdominal radiologist)/institutional expert opinion is they're overkill and unnecessary based on very weak and dated observational evidence. But what's the alternative, everyone just does what they want and a patient's follow-up will be variable depending on the reporting physician?
> But figuring out what will pique the interest of some WASP in Harvard's admissions office takes special cultural knowledge.

Given that the Ivy League is only 33% non-Jewish white (compared to ~55% of the US population), and Jewish students have a ~12x better chance than non-Jewish whites at Ivy League admission [1], and are 7x over-represented compared to their US population, while whites are 0.56x under-represented, maybe it's not WASP cultural knowledge you should be targeting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306230
Notably, China seems to make use of aluminium wires which are copper plated.

They're cheaper than pure copper, and the plating means they don't have the fire problem - since it is always the copper surface that makes contact in any joint.

I don't know why we don't use them - they would make electrical jobs cheaper, and mean we can afford to upgrade in other ways - like for example having every circuit powerful enough for a dryer rather than needing a special dryer circuit.
I do see your point. But I feel we only need to look at, say, passing the exams to get into IIT, or at the South Korean school system, to see where this leads. At some point it's just too much, and it doesn't matter how fairly the Hunger Games are administered.

Let me put it another way: It's extremely destructive to a society if too much effort is channeled into zero-sum competition within that society.
Calling in sick is a lot different than actually being sick. Especially if you happen to work in a place with use-it-or-lose-it sick days.
This is false. In Canada, 50% of your capital gains are considered tax-free and 50% of the gain is taxable. The tax rate on that 50% is whatever your marginal tax rate is.

So if you have capital gains of $100,000 in one year, you don't pay any taxes on $50,000 at all. For the remaining $50,000 the tax you pay is [ 15% / 20.5% / 26% / 29% / 33% ] depending upon which bracket you're in.
You can still have reporting that digs into things, perhaps not detailed sob stories about particular homeless, but do the digging and track why they're homeless, what they have done (and what has been done to them), look at program projections and program results, and so on. Compare cities to Houston [1]. Are the homeless in CA the same as the homeless a year ago? Five years ago? Obviously, since the numbers have gone up, some aren't, but there's tons of data (and governments are probably already tracking major portions of it).

Simplistic articles that go "money in, homeless out" don't help inform, which more and more seems intentional, because everything is political.

17 billion divided by 250,000 would be 68,000 condos (rough numbers). There are obvious problems with "give every homeless person a condo" but the numbers are huge and something's not working.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-...
What is the fraction of people that could have housing and are choosing not to receive it, and the fraction that would accept housing but has not been offered it?
There is also a federal capital gains tax.
Not an expert, but I like this as one potential solution: https://palletshelter.com/homelessness/

In my area, the city council is talking about spending up to *$400K per unit* to help provide shelter for the homeless, which is insane: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story...
The majority of small towns in northern BC have been gradually depopulating for decades, due to economic pressures similar to those in the Rust Belt of the US. (And plus, it's just damn cold up there, so it's hard to be homeless if you do end up homeless.) Their populations have to be going somewhere.

Yes, homeless people don't actually sit on the streets of e.g. Quebec City, begging until they can fund a trip to Vancouver, with the aim of living on the streets here instead.

But people are often in some kind of unstable living situation wherever they are, and find out about some job offer, or housing offer, in Vancouver, that lures them to come here for a chance at a more stable living situation. But after coming here (and spending what little capital they have to do so), their job offer falls through, or it was just a seasonal job, or a job with very tenuous stability (e.g. in construction); or the housing they found was a sublet in a rent-stabilized building, but the building owner then figured out how to work around this by "rennovicting" all the tenants so they could jack up the rents; etc.

I live in the East Hastings area. I speak to the people wandering the streets pretty often. I get the impression that many of these folks had a "stable living situation" for a year or two after coming to Vancouver. But this stability was an illusion. They didn't have the earning power to support themselves long-term in Vancouver's high-cost-of-living environment.

These folks are used to smaller low-cost-of-living towns, and just want to escape a failing small town with no economic opportunity; but they don't tend to have job skills that are highly-valued in dense urban areas (e.g. doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc.) These people can still move — but not to high-cost-of-living Vancouver. (Even the highly-employable "service class" of Vancouver, can't afford to live in Vancouver; they have to commute in from quite far away.) Rather, these folks would be much better off moving to another small-ish, lower-cost-of-living, but non-failing town in BC. Prince George, Vernon, Mission, etc.
What's a problem you get only after 15 years? Lower back pain? I've never heard of interesting problems being gate-kept by years of experience. PhDs have the best share of current interesting problems.
Indeed, but I can't delete it now. Oh well, thanks for the heads up!
They partner with Intel to get what they need taken care of. Not something the average person can do.
A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022)
They obviously meant ethically owe, not legally owe. It turns out that "owe", like many words in our fine language, has multiple meanings.
Atari did the same with the ET cartridge.
God knows what other government spywayre us already available and in use and that can do more than this.

Only the top of the iceberg is being visible to public if not less.
I'm mostly curious about the next generation of DLSS and Frame Generation. It's already very very impressive and game changing but I guess it will only gets better by the time.
Economists seem to disagree with you
HIP is a pathetic CUDA API clone. Gratuitous renames don't do it any good and are more representative of NIH rather than anything else (sadly).

They should have shipped a proper header set instead of hipify.
It also breaks down when you have a full screen window and a normal window. It's so jarring.
But not causation.

There's also a strong correlation between homeless people and parking garage density.

Housing prices are high where there are people. People are homeless where there are people. It comes with the territory. Throw in amazing weather and states bussing their homeless to CA and it becomes a very attractive proposition for someone without a home.

If there was a correlation then sending the homeless to Arkansas would solve the problem, but it wouldn't. They'd just be homeless in the woods.
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Non-american ignorant here. Why don't they just build the houses? 17B sounds like a lot.
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These limits of old hardware are exactly what makes the software so amazing.

Look what was achieved despite those limits. We've basically had the same desktop and productivity software for 30 years. Look at games like Doom or Tyrian, or what was happening on consoles and think about how crappy that hardware was.

Modern software is embarrassingly slow by comparison. I've been around long enough to know that's always been the way. Newer software drives new hardware sales and we're on yesteryear's supercomputers but why?
This. I have small children, and all the local parks are completely unsafe and unusable because of the homeless population.

The parks should belong to families/the broader public, instead they’re dumping grounds for violent drug abusers and the mentally unwell.

I despise paying taxes to the corrupt government that allows this. I hate that so many people are seemingly just “oh well, what can we do?” About all this. There is a LOT we can do, we don’t have to live this way. We don’t have to put up with any of this.
Look up the Skid Row Housing Trust's collapse for a detailed look at why housing first is doomed to failure.

In a nutshell: homelessness is a symptom, not a cause, and housing doesn't address the reasons that individuals are homeless. The SRHT focused on housing first, but now has hundreds of unoccupiable units that were damaged by drug-addicted and mentally-ill individuals and rendered inhospitable (and this ultimately led to the SRHT's financial collapse).

For the 90+% of homeless that are homeless due to mental illness or drug abuse, treatment first is the only viable solution, but we're not legally allowed to force someone into treatment until and unless they're an immediate physical danger to themselves or others.
Yeah, but the production of IPA doesn’t lend itself to benzene contamination. I’m also not sure I believe that a bunch of IPA factories were springing up overnight—you can’t make it with yeast and a still.
California has a housing crisis and there is no political will to fix it. Not wanting low cost housing in your neighborhood is something that unites people very strongly across the political spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_housing_shortage
You don’t have to pay severance if the employee quits first.
As far as I can tell, you're only missing two things:

1. It's five "Unicode scalars," that's the name for the top-level logical unit. The term "code points" technically refers to a lower-level concept, one that varies across encodings, just not as much as the number of bytes. I didn't know that, and it's the helpful thing I learned from this article. UPDATE: And it's also not true, sorry. "code units" are the lower-level concept from the article, "code points" are a more expansive category at the same level: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/ch03.pdf#G740...

2. The author takes it as an unstated assumption that top-level logical structure is useless because any specific usage either ignores all structure or has a point at which low-level structure comes into play. (That assumption is false: Top-level structure is useful for keeping track of what you are doing and as a sort of "common currency" for translating between different low level representations. For example, see the very first table in the article.)
I think a lot of people knew how to respond, its just they were fired.

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Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.

Trump’s elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see the threat of pandemics in the same way that many experts in the field did.

“One year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,” Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed Friday in The Washington Post.
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I think there are alternate facts. Both left and right have sources of information and narratives as to what is helping this country and what is harming it.
Alternative facts are like alternative religions. Alternative orientations and life goals
Things still happen in heat death because of quantum mechanics and fluctuations. Time still has a meaning, but it may lose its arrow if microscopic quantum interactions are what dominates. At a small scale, these have no direction in time. The direction is macroscopic.

My favorite semi related video on this is Susskind’s: Why is time a one way street? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnKBKZvb_U&t=600s (YouTube) It’s a one way street because the multiverse makes observer moments like ours (ones not in heat death like Boltzmann brains) a common state of affairs. That is unachievable in our universe because of infinite heat death. Something must exist outside of our universe (other universes) to offset the future of our universe where Boltzmann brains will dominate the class of observers. If infinite in time heat death with fluctuations is our universe’s fate, that we are not Boltzmann brains is secured by a multiverse which makes many more universes not in heat death which outpace the ones in heat death. Yes BB’s really are a problem to modern physics/cosmology, and one way out is a multiverse where many many more universes are spawned (and non-degenerate ones) by the time one is in heat death.
> That doesn't sound like it lets me increment any stack address I want and store into the resulting pointer.

Why not?

> And are return values still on the same stack?

Other implementation-defined things might have addresses too, those things just aren't variables. I think you might be able to still allow inlining without UB if you make it implementation-defined per call-site what other things might get addresses.
Of course, not all cities experience homelessness at the same rate. However, Houston is in the top 25 cities for the total number of homelessness.
I wonder if it can cure adult myopia or just prevent some of it in kids?

If the study were done longer would it prevent more than 54%?
I think on this issues it’s conservatives that make a solution untenable.

Conservatives are going to be against giving out living space. So that kills any housing first policies.

The alternative has to be something that a politician can sponsor and be confident that in a few years when they are up for re-election that there won’t be any obvious fraud or abuse. Eg. If their policy is found to have housed a crack den then their political ambitions likely get killed.

This has the consequence that checks and balances and overhead has to be put in place. So we get a solution that is less cost effective with worse outcomes.

My wish is for government to come out and say we accept 10% fraud out of this program if we can house Y number of people. But yeh that won’t happen either because their political opponents will distort that 10% and say the government purposely threw that money away.
It's the job of the reporter to figure something resembling reality out from the competing sources of truth. Who is reporting what figures, and what is their background? Where do they meet? Why are they divergent in specific places-- what is their sampling methods, etc?

I've already heard 10000000 times the 1000 foot view. No one has told me the specific appointed people, the percentages of the total they've been distributed, and where those peoples' public records are for their own municipal budgeting.
Everyone wants that solution. No one wants that solution in their neighborhood. Even unsubsidized low cost housing.
I solved this problem by printing anything on the Internet that I want to read. I print it. Staple it. Put it in a physical inbox. Get back to "real work". Surprisingly, having a physical inbox with papers in it consumed no mental space. I feel no pressure to read it all, to get the inbox to zero, etc. When I need to kill 15 minutes, I pick randomly from the pile and read. If I need to go to the doctor's office, I take 10 random documents and read them.

When I do read the printout, I highlight things I want to store permanently and put it in a different inbox which is processed every few weeks. However, this is the exception - probably less than 5% of documents have something I want to store permanently.

Details in the link:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2021/Dec/consuming-articles-off...
That's great. I applaud keeping out of it as much as you can.

Just be aware that some people can't tune it out. If one of your children were trans, for example, the culture war would come for you, whether you want it to or not.

Like I said, it's best avoided as much as humanly possible. Just spare a thought for those who can't, and remember that it hurts. Not something you necessarily have to be aware of all the time, but there are times when it matters. Such as at voting time. The political positions in the culture war may not affect your family, but there are many others for whom it does.
I'm always happy to see a speedrunner decompile the game they're running. I've always thought it was an underappreciated part of understanding a game.

But I wish companies would just release their games' original source code after a while. Monkey Island is almost 30 years old, and people have already reverse-engineered it, so they won't be losing too many sales by releasing it. And for Monkey Island specifically it's not a case of losing the source - the original devs gave a copy of the engine and game source to the Video Game History Foundation[^]. But us outsiders will never get to play with it :(

[^]: https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/
Verizon/ATT/T-Mobile are in the ~$130B or less revenue arena.

Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/Alphabet earn much more revenue, multiples more on some cases. Even Meta earns nearly as much as Verizon/ATT.
i wonder why no one commented about Putedata, Csound and Supercollider as a cheap alternative…
Snow fly in US and Canada can detach its legs to survive, research shows
Assault Allegations Plague a $1.4B Home Eldercare Startup
That ending was such infuriating sophomoric "meta" bullshit it only cemented my perception of Curse as being the best MI game.
That still sounds like an angle that no one outside of Criminal Meta would give a shit about, so why would they make it public
900 dollars, lol, what a joke.
I say in all seriousness have you seen published academic papers before? Obfuscationism for the sake of flexing has long been a norm.
On this note, LA has hundreds of shelter beds the remain empty every night because they're located in "sober" facilities (meaning that the facilities do not allow alcohol or drug use) and the putative residents would rather be able to drink and use drugs than to have shelter.