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strangemonadon Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades

It should follow similar rules to other professions with privileged information like most accountants need to follow

The colloquial translation for “a stop sign” in Quebec is “un arrêt stop”

strangemonadon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

Rivian | MLOps & DevOps engineer | Palo Alto (ONSITE or REMOTE)

We’re looking for MLOps and DevOps engineers to join us in building the software-defined, data-driven factory of the future. We love using modern tools tools like terraform, kubernetes, kubeflow, and dbt (to name a few) to automate our our workflows and allow data scientists to train, deploy and monitor models that make production decisions on the factory floor every single day. If this sounds interesting to you, head on over to https://grnh.se/25b640213us so we can get in touch.

strangemonadon Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

In what scenario does it bot become endemic?

strangemonadon The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9

Definitely not out of the blue. This has been a long and steady march

strangemonadon Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

Ironically the same badass developers

strangemonadon Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test

Raptors don’t use teb or hypergols. This is some other fuel mix reaction

strangemonadon Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty

Why is this being downvoted when it’s demonstrably true. The people being hit the hardest where the ones already in economically precarious situations

strangemonadon 30% Faster Rust Build Times using Cranelift instead of the LLVM

(llvm monoculture comments aside) I find it really interesting that llvm isn’t able to be used in a similar way and achieve similar speed gains for incremental debug builds. Especially since swift debug build times probably matter enough for Apple to want to have a similar fast path with an llvm tool chain

strangemonadon AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

Honestly, even putting aside the social and community aspects. When I’m evaluating a technical offering I’m often very willing to pay for “hosted xyz”. I feel like I’m reading through the tea leaves to understand which AWS product offering is more or less a hosted offering of an open source product and what additions AWS has made that might change performance characteristics. Even without upstreaming changes, if the offering were pitched as “hosted X with these additions unique to aws” I would likely choose the hosted option over operating it myself.

It goes without saying though that supporting the open source core (and the core developers) would also go a long way.

strangemonadon The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means

There are already several ways to do this sort of bioremediation using mushrooms as bio-sponges (Eg for heavy metals). There’s the question of where to safely store those mushroom after the heavy metal is absorbed.

Important tangent, mushroom’s ability to absorb elements of its environment is a strong case for eating only organic mushrooms from known sources. Heavy metals like lead and mercury have been found in edible mushrooms from questionable sources.

strangemonadon Hash: A free, online platform for modeling

Meant to agree with your reply, the comment was for the post you were replying to. We have lots of data but that doesn’t mean we have widely distributed understanding. Data != understandable models of the world. We need much more of the later.

strangemonadon Hash: A free, online platform for modeling

That’s conflating availability of lots of data with ability to understand though.

strangemonadon A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS

You’d be constrained by making sure the specific KPI is compatible and additionally that libsa is properly implemented so that it can patch the vtable to dynamically adapt to ABI differences

strangemonadon Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher

I think that’s exactly OP’s point. We need to stop reinforcing this kind of behavior.

strangemonadon AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance

I thought that was Pete Bannon https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/24/18514308/tesla-full-self-...

strangemonadon AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance

Even the sensational title “Rome: is it real”. Obviously it’s real. It’s fair to ask “how does it perform in real world scenarios”

strangemonadon The lat/lon floating point delusion

The 2D pixels in the projected satellite image will never map to a precise gps lat lng coordinate. These gps coordinates are also just a rough approximation of dead reconned coordinate systems that actually define the parcels.

You can easily try and overlay county parcel data into google earth and see how many features don’t align with the sat imagery.

strangemonadon Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

They haven’t commented publicly but I’m guessing they’ll play a key role in regenerative braking for semi and pickup and also help higher powered super charging

strangemonadon Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter

Unrelated: thank you for using “idempotent” correctly. Too many people use it to mean referential transparency or having a functionality property

strangemonadon Why American Construction Costs Are So High

“That said, having spent the last nine years looking at topline costs and a few itemized breakdowns does let me reach some initial conclusions, ones that I believe are robust to new data.“

So... a hypothesis?

strangemonadon Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

The quantity of urea would be to low unfortunately for any indicator compound. https://youtu.be/S32y9aYEzzo

strangemonadon SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce

This seems to be confusing attrition with layoffs.

strangemonadon Robinhood launches 3% checking account

Why is a question like this being downvoted? It seemed honest and in good faith – what is it that leads to organizational ossification and stagnation. It might be different factors in different industries.

strangemonadon Tulsa to pay remote workers $10k to relocate

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/18/oklahoma-and-kansas-enac...

Thanks but no thanks

strangemonadon MLton Compiler Overview

I see lots of comments about how the multiple passes have to do with limited resources like memory. In MLton’s case, (it’s a whole program optimizing compiler) each trasnlation phase has nothing to do with resource contention. And in general, limited resources is typically handled by separate compilation, not compiler passes.

The more important design choices here have to do with 1) Typed assembly languages (rather than untyped assymbly languages) 2) Type directed translation (rather than syntax directed translation) 3) The ability to reason about the correctness of each step of the translation as the program is gradually lowered from SML to assembly.

For more on the typed assembly language work, check out the work of Morissett and Harper that came out of CMU (specifically the TIL / TAL parts of the ConCert project). The XML type system was developed a little bit before that by Harper and Lillibridge. The general idea of a language being a mathematical object with an elaboration and a semantics where you can reason about progress and preservation at each step is a result of the vision of Robin Milner (there’s a good overview here http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/Milner2012/R_Harper-html4-...)

strangemonadon Cloud Identity

I’ve deployed Auth0 in production before (and quickly glanced through gcloud identity). This seems aimed at larger enterprises (both in terms of features and pricing). Imagine an enterprize trying to deploy ldap or active directory in the cloud age and keeping all accounts in sync with various SaaS.

Auth0 can be used that way but with some work. It really shines when you want to build saas that requires user login. Auth0 is worth every penny (priced by active logins) but I’d be hard pressed to spend 4$ per user if I’m building a consumer saas (but 4$ per employee login is reasonable).

strangemonadon Off-heap direct-memory data stores

can someone please change the title to indicate this is a deep link to a patent? I clicked through on a work computer.

strangemonadon CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

and french