Even if you think having better developers would prevent the problem, the average Rust developer is probably better at writing bug free unsafe code than the average C developer.
The moment you turn on garbage collection in Dlang, you've introduced stop the world pauses to all your Dlang threads.
If you were to implement a Rust GC, then Rust can guarantee that references haven't escaped the current thread, which means there is no stop the world pause anymore, only the current thread gets paused, which is acceptable.
Unless your memory allocator runs a form of garbage collection, which most of the advanced ones do! Worst memory performance issue I've ever seen was in a C++ program where the deallocation of a large object graph from one spot completely trashed the performance of the application across many threads...
I might sound like a broken record, but dentistry is stuck in the past.
Alzheimer's is basically an advanced form of gum disease caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis) that has infiltrated into your jaw and then traveled into your brain where it causes systemic inflammation which in turn lets other pathogens in that cause neurodegeneration.
There is probably no cure because the only thing you can do in dentistry is prevention and preventative dentistry is still in its infancy.
This is probably wasted on the HN crowd though, because I haven't seen any demand for preventing Alzheimer's.
Isn't this blog post more evidence that drewdevault became an extreme leftist?
I mean he's basically going off a checklist of leftist stereotypes here and trying to check as many of them as possible.
Meanwhile the other guy he's criticising is literally just a standard right-wing conservative, not far right, not alt right, just the regular kind. The far right I've seen is basically beyond the idea of being merely anti-immigration, they demand ICE style mass deportations immediately and in every country.
If both of them met in a bar through sheer coincidence, I'd expect drewdevault to start the fight.
Sorry, but painting these people as "standard right-wing" is just evidence for the shifting of the Overton window further to the right. White replacement theory and expressing support for an alt-right ideologue who manipulated people with bad faith, dishonest and downright monstrous arguments is not "standard right-wing".
Charlie Kirk was for mass deportation. He didn't even hide it. He said it openly. How do you come off saying that these people aren't far-right or alt-right when they are unabashedly so?
Well, the overtone window certainly changed, but ... I judge a bit different here.
"expressing support for an alt-right ideologue"
This is what Kling actually said:
"RIP Charlie Kirk
I hope many more debate nerds carry on his quest to engage young people with words, not fists."
I also support fighting with words, not fists. I do not support his ideology at all and would have loved to debate him openly, but the concept of murdering someone for having the wrong opinion is disturbing to me, so I agree with Kling here.
And about "white replacement"
"'White males are actively discriminated against in tech.
It’s an open secret of Silicon Valley.'
One of the last meetings I attended before leaving Apple (in 2017) was management asking us to “keep the corporate diversity targets in mind” when interviewing potential new hires.
The phrasing was careful, but the implication was pretty clear.
I knew in my heart this wasn’t wholesome, but I was too scared to rock the boat at the time."
He said whites were discriminated for being white. Not replaced. That is not really the same to me.
>White replacement theory and expressing support for an alt-right ideologue who manipulated people with bad faith, dishonest and downright monstrous arguments is not "standard right-wing".
It is now. That's what the shifting of the Overton Window and normalization of right-wing ideology does. These aren't fringe beliefs anymore, they're commonly held, mainstream right-wing views. They're policy within the US government. Charlie Kirk was treated as a martyr and a hero by the administration. He was treated with more dignity and respect than war veterans. The DHS posts memes about mass deportation.
The "far right" and "alt-right" no longer exist. Those labels are no longer useful and no longer describe reality.
I don't know what you mean by end to end loss optimization in particular, but if you mean something that involves global propagation of errors e.g. backpropagation you are dead wrong.
Predictive coding is more biologically plausible because it uses local information from neighbouring neurons only.
Ok but it's already known that you shouldn't initialize your network parameters to a single constant and instead initialize the parameters with random numbers.
Both you and the comment above are correct; initializing with iid elements ensures that correlations are not disastrous for training, but strong correlations are baked into the weights during training, so pretty much anything could potentially happen.
An NP problem can contain subproblems that are not worst case problems.
It's similar to the gap between pushdown automata and Turing machines. You can check if pushdown automata will terminate or not. You can't do it for Turing machines, but this doesn't stop you from running a pushdown automata algorithm on the turning machine with decidable termination.
I'm not sure why you think "any one bacterium's mutation must become universal across the globe". That's a pretty strange takeaway in the presence of a mutation that is so advantageous it lets you become a predator and hunt other bacteria or run away from predators and gain a painfully obvious survivability benefit.
The takeaway should be "mutations that confer massive benefits can become universal across the globe even if they only happen once, no matter how unlikely they are", which is obvious and intuitive.
Google's TPUs have obvious advantages for inference and are competitive for training.
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