Hacker News: stochastic_monk

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Show HN: A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)"

stochastic_monk — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:25:08 +0000

There's also Snakemake, which is mostly used in bioinformatics pipelines, but it's sort of like a Makefile program with inline python enabled.

It's nice and I could imagine it getting some adoption because of its flexibility, but my C++ projects tend to have their needs met with Makefile.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost"

stochastic_monk — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 02:57:43 +0000

It's a reasonably valid point. During his administration, right-wing autocrats the world over have been emboldened, and he hasn't spoken against them. See, for instance, Khashoggi, the Kurds, or the Skripal poisoning incidents in recent memory, or, more to the point, the promise that Trump would say nothing of the protests in Hong Kong if he got his trade deal [0].

You're being downvoted, but while it's not a direct cause and effect, he has supported and encouraged authoritarianism the world over.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-promise-hong-kon...

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition"

stochastic_monk — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:41:49 +0000

Thanks! I've written code for discrete GPUs but not integrated, and so I'm unsure what the advantages would be. Would there be lower latency for transfers, then, if not higher throughput?

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition"

stochastic_monk — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:15:10 +0000

Would the GPU have its own RAM or simply share address space with a CPU?

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe"

stochastic_monk — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:09:48 +0000

That sounds much less onerous than paying for your employees' healthcare in the United States.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?"

stochastic_monk — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:41:39 +0000

Correct. It's the corruption that has his critics seeing blood in the water. Visiting your affair's home during work hours while funneling money into her business and taking her on trips she has no reason to be on to boost her career is what's the problem, not the affair.

The fact that the affair has been admitted matters only because it bolsters corruption allegations.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon"

stochastic_monk — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:54:27 +0000

Please don't use code blocks for quotations. It ruins display/readability on mobile.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "In Defense of Richard Stallman"

stochastic_monk — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:51:36 +0000

His creepy, shirtless "get on my mattress" calls to female undergrads at MIT register as more than being awkward or autistic. That alone should be unacceptable behavior for faculty.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "In Defense of Richard Stallman"

stochastic_monk — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:48:08 +0000

Jury of peers is for criminal prosecution, not job performance assessment, which is closer to civil cases, in which preponderance of the evidence is the standard.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit"

stochastic_monk — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:08:09 +0000

Off-topic: Reminds me of "Half a mil in twenties like a billion where I'm from."

On-topic: that's misleading; once you pay fixed costs, you have a lot more latitude for discretionary income. Not everything is the same ratio more expensive in the Bay Area.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "More than half of the trees that grow only in Europe risk extinction, says IUCN"

stochastic_monk — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:42:18 +0000

Because I'm not a dictator.

I can only make changes by being politically active and making environmentally sound decisions myself/encouraging others. I do these things, but don't have the power to force systemic change.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says"

stochastic_monk — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:29:13 +0000

I know plenty of straight couples who are married or in committed long term relationships and met on tinder.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Graal Autovectorization"

stochastic_monk — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:45:06 +0000

NVIDIA's emphasis on modern C++ was very smart as well. Compare writing CUDA to OpenCL. I have hopes for ROC.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Scientists create first billion-atom biomolecular simulation"

stochastic_monk — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:23:51 +0000

I'm not familiar with this method, but NAMD and CHARM are a great way to inspect biological systems at greater resolution than experimental methods can measure. There was really cool work on fibrinogen about a decade ago showing how it provides elasticity.

Reference: https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Highlights/?section=2008&highlight=2...

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1"

stochastic_monk — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:20:32 +0000

Meaning that the underscore allows them to be used as positional arguments instead of being only accessed by "keywords", to use a python analogy?

New comment by stochastic_monk in "The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)"

stochastic_monk — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Otherwise, I’m inclined to believe that this is new because this is “Hacker News”.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts"

stochastic_monk — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:19:56 +0000

That was a typo, thanks for the catch! That’s exactly the point I was trying to make.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)"

stochastic_monk — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 18:43:02 +0000

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New comment by stochastic_monk in "Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts"

stochastic_monk — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 18:41:40 +0000

Interestingly, in the US, legal cannabis prices are usually more than double those on the black market because they’re taxed extremely heavily.

Granted, users of cannabis aren’t* usually as captive as those on opioids, but the issue remains that legality may not provide the price change desired.

* Edit: corrected typo on mobile.

New comment by stochastic_monk in "College admissions scam: Chinese parent arrested in Spain for bribery"

stochastic_monk — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:17:17 +0000

> Xiaoning Sui, 48, of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, was arrested in Spain on Monday night and charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

> Prosecutors said in a statement they are trying to extradite her from Spain to Boston to face charges.

If she’s from Canada, why is she supposedly Chinese? There’s nothing Chinese in the article but her name.