skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Massive problem in tech: Valuing easily-quantifiable metrics for productivity over "softer" forms of productivity. Current tech culture reminds me of a random idiot who makes claims like "Xavi wasn't much of a midfielder because he rarely scored goals".

On one small project I was on (6 person team), we had a guy -- we'll call him Carl -- who was right at the bottom of the pile of commits. I mean, maybe 20-30 over the course of a 6 month project. From an earlier collaboration, I happened to know that he was a very good programmer, but he wrote practically zero code for this project. And Carl wasn't that popular with our bull-in-a-china-shop director, who claimed that Carl was dead weight slowing our fast-paced team down. He constantly asked the rest of us what Carl was "contributing".

So, after months of pressure, Carl "left" for a separate team as the project wound down, in spite of our vociferous appeals to management to keep him on. He quit a few months later.

Why were we so desperate to keep him?

Because Carl was the glue that kept the group working so productively. He managed the egos, kept focus on the goal, and fostered respect for everybody on the team. He intervened during technical and interpersonal disputes. He was calm and quiet and rational. During design discussions, when the more outspoken members of the team were trying to ram through their visions of the world (guilty!), he would bring brilliantly insightful and cogent questions about the long-term and medium-term ramifications of said designs. He was an unofficial liaison to our internal customers. He volunteered to break bad news to management when there was a delay, but deferred to other members of the team when it came time to claim credit for our progress.

Carl was, in short, our unofficial PM, and a damn good one. He realized that his social skills were more valuable to the team than his technical skills. But his contributions weren't valued by management because they weren't as visible as our commits. Our team fell apart in a matter of months after he left, as we quickly became overwhelmed by all the stupid shit -- and toxic politics -- he had deftly absorbed and deflected. We wasted two of those last months working on a feature that he had opposed, only for none of our clients to use that feature upon release. Just as he had predicted.

In general, all the things he brought to the table -- humility, empathy, patience, foresight, listening, respect, selflessness -- are the sorts of pro-social traits that tech companies (and especially SV tech companies) aggressively select against, in spite of the fact that they are precisely the kinds of traits that lead, in my experience, to far greater productivity.

The current culture is borderline toxic. In all the talk of "10x" programmers, people seem eager to overlook that a 1x programmer might have a 10x positive impact on their team in other ways.
I don't know what they're scoring on; they've not elaborated on that. However, when I first read into OpenAI it looked like many of their game links were to simply view the screen. To that end, it wouldn't surprise me if they're identifying things you'd otherwise visually see in the game and simply working off them. To use internal states not immediately visible to the player would be sort of disingenuous IMO.
It's not a matter of opinion that the goal of communists is to overthrow every existing social institution. Marx explicitly states it in The Communist Manifesto.

Given that the United States is a free country where most of the social institutions have formed through voluntary free association, it also follows that overthrowing those institutions would require ending people's voluntary support of them. Because most people have no reason to end their support of social institutions voluntarily, this eventually requires instituting a repressive society.

Thus, it is not a matter of opinion that communism would create a repressive society within the American context. Nor is it a matter of opinion that Nazis would seek to do the same; I hope I don't need to outline that for you.
Not surprising at all, in the end Amazon will wipe out small and large Businesses in hundreds of different sectors
i never drew an equivalence between muslims and nazi's but go ahead and get offended if you want
> lived in a country (the UK) with 'incitement to racial hatred' laws for most of my adult life

Do you trust GCHQ?
This is independent of anyone's political beliefs, there should be limits to radical jihadists, radical anti-democratic communists, radical anti-democratic fascists of all sort, etc. You can choose to pursue your political aims with non-violent means and practice tolerance.

The idea is that you can believe whatever you want, but as soon as you start to propagate violence and pose an active threat against democracy - like e.g. making detailed plans to overthrow the government, advertising that only certain people should be allowed to vote, etc - there should be reasonable limits.
The penalty for leaving Islam (apostasy) is death. Many muslims believe it (like, the majority of the populations of places like Pakistan and Egypt). I guarantee you that you could not, consistent with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, deny service to Muslims merely for expressing the belief that apostates should be put to death.
What about anti-nazis that constantly cry out how every nazi is an armed, dangerous criminal that should be killed or arrested wholesale.

My opinion about those?

Just ban them. Arrest their members. Don't be the socially inept libertarian nerd that thinks only in terms of theory without any real-world experience. It's perfectly fine to limit rights and freedoms in the real world. You can do it!
> Or, get the best of both worlds. ToroDB puts a mongo wire protocol in front of Postgres

Postgres alone is already the best of both worlds. With ToroDB, I am restricted to the MongoDB way of dealing with my data; with Postgres, I can mix SQL and NoSQL however I like, even in a single, simple SELECT query.
Can we derive that Lactobacillus rhamnosus could reduce all kinds of allergies when taken, even without adding proteins that you are allergic to?
With the correct rates and latencies it should be possible to be fair though?

I.e., if an event occurs in the game, it's placed in a queue and the AI "sees" events pop out the other end of that queue, at a minimum latency and at a maximum rate (i.e. if too many things happen at once the AI is overloaded).

After that the AI makes decisions and puts the command in a command queue. The command queue works the same way: commands pop out the other side (to the game) after a minimum latency and at a maximum rate, to simulate the minimum roundtrip from input to action, and the maximum action rate.
Inspiring podcast on Cultivating Disciple by Jocko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tE8kE8IfiY

https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/5tln7k/meth...
I didn't mean to imply mental problems, but emotion can trigger imbalances in how your system produce and regulate this molecules.
I think your statement is very short and in the flow of the thread reads poorly if your intention was to say that committing violence can be done by people other then fascists.

It reads as an implicit moralization. But your correct that it is not an explicit statement. So if that was not your intention then I rescind my accusation.
This one?

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
Intel's naming is confusing, but I think the Celeron is an Atom-based N2840, roughly 30-50% of the performance of that MacBook.
> In addition, once a few of the major players that produce lots and lots of transactions upgrade, the fee pressure will level down for everyone

Also anyone who upgrades immediately gets the benefit of lower fees. Their transactions are halved in size, from the fee calculation perspective.
Several years ago, I developed a bad allergic reaction to mango. Hyper sensitive skin that will rash and welt with the slightest irritation, such as sitting in a car and wearing a seat belt. This will last for over a month. I carry an EpiPen in case my throat swells shut. I know allergies can come and go, so I may no longer be allergic, but I dare not find out.
I don't care about the original argument, it wasn't made by me. Obviously the business has to respect the law.

Therefore comparing cloudflare and the bakery is dishonest, there you go.
The classic reinforcement learning -based AI (from 1992) that beats humans (maybe not top players though) in Backgammon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon
I don't understand your downvotes. I agree with the overall point you are making. Private ownership, for better or worse, is leading to the erosion of free speech itself. Taken to its logical end, a society where everything is conducted through private enterprise is going to turn quiescent or hew to the middle at the very least.

As a brown immigrant currently living/working in the States I'm not a Nazi sympathizer by any stretch but I wanted to post in support of your broader point.
Making Jekyll workflow a bit better
Unfortunately the HN title there which still isn't correct at time of writing this, distroyed a proper conversation.

(Assuming the original article didn't fix their title)
The Ledger nano S seems of much better quality, and is cheaper.
>And the response as I've seen it on other threads: It probably doesn't make a big difference, and will outperform humans there too, and it would be a huge waste of computing power to train it that way.

Well they may be right about the "outperform" part but they are dead wrong about the waste of time/effort/energy part. I mean if (at least human-like) real-time video/audio recognition and decision making is not an impressive AI feat, I don't know what is. I'm no expert in the field but claiming that plugging into an API and crunching numbers is more important than sensory-based decision making, just doesn't sound right
Who hasn't been contributing to the bitcoin reference client in years.
If they don't make derivative code based on GPL'd code available that would be a violation provided it's software you've downloaded and installed, you have the right to it's source.
How is forcing people to take up a different political view to buy bread better than forcing them to change their sexual preferences to buy bread? That whole protected group thing is completely nuts.
Fascism rose well after the Atlantic slave trade ended.
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Ah, so yogurt REALLY is a Bulgarian thing! In France, we've always had a slew of "Bulgarian taste" yogurts, which are usually slightly acidic in taste (and which I enjoy a lot) and I've always wondered if it was just a marketing thing or grounded in reality.
Maybe emeritus, but he hasn't been doing bitcoin reference client development since 2012.
On contrary i have also seen management make bad decisions as well. As evidenced by the results.

I often feel evidence is used selectively.

Statement - Programmers are bad business decisions Evidence - Often use single example point that out.

Statement Managers are good at business decisions - Tons of bad decisions over the years - Apparently still good at business decisions?
Anyone else using that? We use it at my company with very varying levels of success.
This is pure, unadulterated nonsense. Go there and make a post about increasing max block size, bitcoin cash, or any other obviously relevant topic that doesn't suit their narrative and see how long your comment lasts. Theymos was clear from the start that he was going to use heavy handed censorship to force their narrative to people new to bitcoin.

Their moderation logs also aren't open so they can hide what they actually do censor. They also reorganize threads that don't go their way by most controversial, so they can further hide anything that doesn't say what they want. Claiming there is no censorship on /r/bitcoin is absolutely absurd, and if you really don't think it is true then you need to educate yourself.
the 'mankind'
Depends what the aim is, to create general AI? Or just a good DOTA bot? If the goal is the former, then vision will play a huge part.
You think a toaster is simple?
Try building one from scratch! This guy did: http://www.thetoasterproject.org and it was HARD!
>moot shut down /pol/ (aka /n/) before, twice, on a whim because he didn't like the content

Hate to bring /b/ into my hn, but newfriends, who make up the majority of the /pol/lacks don't even know this.
Not all of us will argue to the contrary. On the other hand, expect no sympathy when the powers-that-be decide to knock your favorite site(s) off the grid because they haven't passed the (next fashionable) purity test. You've no leg to stand on.
So he intentially violated the laws of country he lives in, being in the country at the moment of this act. This is not a wise decision, I would say. There will be some kind of consequences and he should be ready for them.
I considered that, and I don't think there is. The frequency of the actions is already a result of the "actual time it takes to executr the action" + "all human delays". If you limit the bot to that frequency, everything is accounted for.

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EDIT: On second thought, there might be a difference, in that this leaves the bot with more time to think, unless you limit the time of that. Not sure if that would dramatically influence the performance though.
Your chip is better than Gaisler's Leon4-FT? Or what reasons were it not good enough? European Space Agency funded Gaisler's stuff for their use. Not a hardware engineer but still collect info for others.

Note: If speed isn't big deal, there's the formally-verified AAMP7G from Rockwell and the old 1802 ftom Intersil.
There is an excellent line from Norman Schwarzkopf's book along the lines of:

"When the planning started for the Gulf War, they told me I had to go and I could bring only one other of my officers with me. So I chose what any good general would do: my logistics officer"
Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin
His reasoning felt solid to me. Even if it turns out to be true it is unlikely to be useful, which is borne out by the lack of algorithms and research that have come close to cracking it, despite the effort of many.
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Fair point. That would definitely be a bad scenario as well, but would imho be a different issue from hiring someone from outside all together. A bad hire is a bad hire, and someone who comes in wanting to change everything to fit their way (especially if their way is wrong) is not a good thing. I still don't know if the original point is accurate as a common mistake, and perhaps the bigger issue would be that non-technical people make bad choices when trying to find technical leadership that are the wrong fit?
Syntactically equivalent? The syntax is the same - both multiprocessing and threading are achieved through libraries and VM primitives, not by additional syntax.

But if you meant semantically equivalent, no they aren't - threading is shared memory and multiprocessing is message passing. If you were to draw a tree of approaches to concurrency and parallelism, you would probably make this division the root node bisecting the domain into two - it's the two fundamental approaches to doing concurrency.
I feel the same way about all ORMs I've seen (minus micro ORMs which I feel are just inferior to F# type providers but work in same spirit) they just try to map two semantically incompatible data models and try to make it look transparent with a bunch of needles complexity - when it ends up failing you're stuck with something that's a hell to debug and tweak.

Contrast that with type providers - they expose SQL to the compiler - this way you get compile time SQL query checking, type checking (it generates types for SQL queries) and it's manipulating data as input and output with known standard SQL semantics.
So you can share and collaborate...but the functionality to actually _create_, that's hopelessly oversimplified and undocumented. I think you are missing my fundamental point.
There's nothing inherently about Puppet that means it has to manage multi-service "whole OS"-like installations. It can just as easily be put to the task of a Dockerfile: install dependencies and deployables for a single application. Its robust ability to manage things like user accounts, packages, scheduled jobs (e.g. for alerting, though you would have to install at least a second service for this: _crond) and the like makes it vastly superior to Dockerfile shell scripts for complex tasks.

Think of puppet more like a way of simplifying your Dockerfiles to have fewer crazy shell commands in total, rather than hiding the craziness in layers and hoping it all composes properly. If you do use lots of layers, Puppet can make your life much easier, since it can be better at detecting previous layers' changes and working around them (think redundant package install commands. Even the no-op "already installed!" command takes time; if you're installing hundreds of packages--many people are, for better or worse--that can eat up build time).

Puppet isn't a VM provisioner; it can also be used as a replacement for large parts of your Dockerfile, or a better autoconf to set up the environment/deps for your application to run in.

Edit: syntax.
A job I interviewed for recently found it suspicious that I didn't have a facebook or other social media accounts. As if I was lying and had something to hide. I can only imagine what law enforcement would think about that.
There is a big difference between speech and action. People can "question" things all they want.

I'd also note, If Nazis are banned, then they will simply no longer go by that label - then their right to self-determine means you won't be able to call them Nazis.
I kept raiding the local library archives of the local army university for such back issues in the 1980s and 1990s. Great technical content.
It's not obvious if you call them bitcoin when that isn't their name. That's like calling 7-UP a coke.
Why is robocall and telemarketing spam legal? It is surprising that in a modern world where everything is regulated and monitored such a simple problem cannot be solved with fines and jail.
Again I'll provide a real example of how hard it is to draw a line : is discussing the number of casualties resulting from the Nazi agenda during WW2 (discussion which you can for an example find in this precise thread) considered pro-nazi or not ?

Should this discussion be shut down ? Some people are convinced that discussing a number is just the foreshadow of radical negationism and therefore should be banned speech.

These are (in my opinion) really hard questions.
640x480 or 800x600 and I think you mean the latter. 640x480 was more a Windows 95 resolution.

We could waste some words here how display resolution didn't keep up due to Windows being crap and people being bamboozled into 1366x768 being "HD" or "HD Ready". 800x600 vs 1366x768 that's only double the pixels and barely more vertical.
I actually agree with you, and Christianity has the same problem in writing.

But the difference (or similarity?) is that only a diminishingly tiny fraction of practitioners for either religion believes in stoning.

If I asked you to give me a few key points of the tenets of Islam and Christianity, would any be about killing, eradicating, or persecution of people?

If I asked you to do the same for Nazism? Are you going to pretend it's comparable?
I wonder if they had a control group taking only the bacteria, and another one taking only peanut proteins. If not, why did they decide on this combination?
99.9% of modern software does not require that level of cleverness. Also, the fast inverse square root code is a poor example as it's:

1) A very small amount of code

2) Isolated from everything else

3) Conceptually easy to understand what it's accomplishing (even if the implementation itself is interesting and non-obvious)

Most people would kill for a colleague who wrote code like that.

No, instead what you most often get out of people like the OP is mentioning (because I too have worked with and been burned by them) is some weird pseudo-ORM they wrote from scratch because they don't like how Hibernate handles joins.

Naturally, there's no documentation or even comments because it should be obvious why paxos was poorly implemented in this weird pseudo-ORM framework. And of course, the entire codebase was rewritten overnight to use this new framework as well.
I actually got to play with Turtle in France. But these machines were already antiquated at that time, and I didn't think it was that useful.

I agree with you, computer literacy doesn't start with coding. It starts with typing, understanding basic internet protocols and software (text editor, spreadsheets, slides) and then a little bit of coding. Just enough to be useful, to be able to automate basic tasks. It's important that it is very practical, first to be useful, but also to catch their interest. Like creating a website.
You seem to be rebutting a rebuttal without having read the grandparent comment. "What about the nazi ban?" is a non-sequitor in context.
When Government Rules by Software, Citizens Are Left in the Dark
Which part is an ad hominem? For that to be true it would have to be irrelevant to the discussion.
Depends on the aspect of the "work place" you're asking about.

Nothing is "professional" everywhere - you see it across so-called "Shadow IT", lack of proper tools (running all of your product compliance testing and tracking through individual Excel files, for example), goofy "compliance" requirements, and on and on.
This course looks awesome! Do you (or those scrolling by) know of any other courses like this? By this I mean short but focused burst of learning done in person.
Should it make a difference then?
Well, smelting your own iron and making plastic are the hard part. There is nothing particularly challenging if you have a few pieces of metal laying around.
While you are obviously right that it's not a "true" match, I have to disagree that it takes them out of their comfort zone. Especially Arteezy (playing one of best Shadow Fiends), Sumail are extremely good mid players and both have actually participated in the solo 1v1 tournament I've linked. There's even an official 1v1 game mode in-game - I would argue that they both play these matches "on a regular basis".
Generally we discard 9/11 from such discussions as it blows death toll comparisons out the window. Going post 9/11 stays both relevant to current times and removes the absolute worst events in both cases (Ok city, and 9/11).

Doing comparisons without these cases we get similar numbers for both factions within some wide margin of error. Looking at this from a per capita perspective though we have Muslim Americans that make up around 1% of the population by my googling having a similar terrorism death toll as the 32% of the population that is right wing white Americans (white Americans being 64% of the population. This would make that faction 32 times more dangerous per capita than the white right wing.
I used to get BYTE from circa 1983 until the very end. What was noticeable was how physically thin BYTE had gotten near the end. Lifting just a year's worth of early BYTE magazines could almost put your back out :)

That said, even at the end, it was still a cut above most other computer magazines on UK newsracks.
Lobster is tasty, and kind of an unusual experience if it's your first time. Depending on how much you value experiences, it may be worth it even if it's expensive -- I wouldn't know, it's cheap in this area.

Caviar is still tasty, but not fundamentally different from, say, peanut butter. It's something you spread on bread. I don't think I'd bother with it.

If you do get some, try putting sliced, hard-boiled egg in a sandwich, caviar on top of the eggs. That's a great combination.