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Indeed, you're right.

Fromthe mouth of CockraochDB's CTO: ‶So if we were starting at this point in time, I would take a hard look at Rust, and I imagine that we would pick it instead of C++.″

I'd say that life at startups paying peanuts and expecting rockstars is considered slavery, not startup life in general.

However, modern HN just feels so deeply cynical, angry, and negative with much less of the entrepreneurial tech optimism of the older posts

Isn't that a direct reflection of the current state of the tech world? Since the 00's, it has morphed from a rather hacker-friendly, digital far-west into a locked-down plutocracy dominated by a handful of gigantic corporations, whose end-goal are quite often to squeeze every single last bit of personal information or other valuable commodity they can out of, typically, misinformed users.

E.g., despite all the folklore, I feel much better toward 00's ‶Linux is cancer″ MS and their Windows 2000 than toward 2020's ‶We <3 Linux″ MS that just spy on me through Windows 10 and put ads in my start menu.

Similarly, I prefer the 90's ‶we're making expensive and original computers″ Apple to the 2020's ‶we will scan all the photos on your device″ Apple.

And it's not to single these two out, they're just the first examples I'm thinking of. All in all, I just believe the whole digital world is much more hostile now than it used to be, which would, at least partially, account for the growing apathy, cynicism and defiance in the community – it's hard to feel any different when every other week brings a new personal data leak, spyware scandal or privacy-infringement affair, be it corporate- or state-sponsored.

When they say like a family they mean treating each other with kindness, friendship and compassion

We have a word for that: politeness.

At the same time, you can't expect Wiki editors to be expert in all cutting-edge domain of knowledge to be able to determine which academics are or aren't notable.

civilization ought to have collapsed several times over.

Which it did, in some ways.

Yeah, it has left the 4chan community and entered the mainstream quite some time ago; e.g. here (https://old.reddit.com/r/virginvschad/), and it even has derivatives now (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/swole-doge-vs-cheems).

For an overwhelming majority of Zoom users, scaling over 1k users is not a concern.

Zoom was the very first to let people join meetings without a) signing up; and b) downloading anything

E.g. BigBlueButton and Jitsi were doing it for much longer.

That's ~4MB per thousand emails; while I agree it's conceptually wasteful, I doubt it would have any real consequences for anyone.

I agree that these names are kind of meh, but they stand for things that will mostly be chosen on their technical merit, and that you don't have to sell to your friends/mom/gf/brother/etc; so it does not really matter.

Any other reasons to go beyond 64 (or 80) bits?

Algorithms stability. As precision decreases when magnitude rises, many tricks are used in sci. comp. to scale everything into ranges where computations won't diverge due to a lack of precision.

Because the academic ML community does not care about shipping product to end users not equipped in nVidia.

Although AVX instructions, those are scalar. The SS pattern at the end is for Scalar Single-precision, so only one lane of the whole SIMD register is used.

Thanks!

[1] Except empirical Bayes, which is a dark art.

As a not-an-expert-in-stats, why would you say that? Is not empirical Bayes basically the same thing, but with priors stemming from the known data?

there are some minimum legal hours of seminars you have to attend

True, but that's like a few dozens hours over 3+ years.

and classes you have to teach during your phd.

Nope. Might depend on the “École doctorale” or the lab you are attached to, but that's not a universal requirement.

The RBF kernel nakes any dataset linearly separable, as long as the bandwidth is small enough

That's very interesting, would you happen to have the paper proving that somewhere?

BeamVM is much worse than the JVM in the raw computing performances department.

web-based

And that's already not a decent concurrent for org-mode. Not that I have a grudge against web tech, but no self-hosting of my most personal data and no offline abilities is a deal-breaker for me.

80-bit precision is actively harmful

How comes? Unexpected clipping when converting back and forth to 64bits?

If I understand correctly:

we still make a small profit on low oil prices.

and

when prices are low everybody expects to rise back to what we're used to again soon, because we're naturally optimistic. But that's not a law written in stone, it might be true that oil prices drop again in future, so we're better off selling it today.

So basically, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I don't understand what it has to do with reentrancy?

Why would you want to port Phoenix? As long as the underlying VM follow the spec, Phoenix should be oblivious of on which it is running.

How is brew different from apt or dnf?

Until you want to write code that works on platforms not supported by these compilers.

For a bad transition, look at Perl 6

At first glance, you're right. But if you take a closer look, from a purely pragmatic perspective, there are now at least two coexisting ecosystems in two different languages, peacefully sailing along.

Python 2/3 is in this kind of weird twilight zones that the two versions are far away enough that you can't have a smooth transition like in e.g. C++, Java, Rust, Go, etc., but still close enough that there is not a clear cut like in Perl5/Raku. So for a few years, one had to juggle with some of the libs that were 2-and-3 compatible, some that were 2-only, and the others that were 3-only.

C++ et al. let your code evolve Theseus ship-like; Perl makes you build a new ship; and Python tells you that your ship should be OK if you repaint that thing, change a bit of that one, oh, and by the way, you'll have to check very carefully your bunkers, because the boilers will explode if every coal nut is not Unicode-compatible.

Except for _e.g._ memory alignment, or types of a given width (until C99).

There is a middle ground between having enough cash reserves to survive for months, and not having cash at all because everything has been bled out in dividends and buybacks; namely, having enough cash reserves to survive for some time, but not for several months.