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Hi All,

I'm Nisan, a Chaos Engineer at Wallaroo Labs, and the author of this post. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread throughout the day and answer folk's questions if you have any.
Google can get by with very low click rates. It can be profitable at 1 click per 10,000 views. I may only click an add every few months and mostly by accident, but that's enough. Further, a small percentage of people can easily be clicking more often where Facebook viewership is binary users can only count as one viewer.
> Every social service other first world countries have, we can't afford. That is directly a result of our military spending.

The US spends a lot on its military, but it's only about 15% of central government spending. When you look at spending as a percentage of GDP, we (3.3%) are not that far off from European powers like France (2.3%) or the UK (1.9%) whose defense we essentially subsidize through NATO. We just have a much larger economy so that 3.3% turns out to be a really big number.

There's no obvious (to me) fiscal reason why our social services have to be so poor, so I have to assume we just suck at allocating the money (possibly intentional).
The word censor comes from a Latin word for a government official who, well, censored things. In English the word has the implication of being action taken by someone who actually has the power to make moral decisions on behalf of society, such as a government. Maybe you think the word has a different meaning, or maybe you think Youtube has this power, but you should try to disagree without accusing people of being part of a conspiracy to change the meanings of words.
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The only way to be sharp and clear about how Youtube and Reddit should behave is either boycotting them or having the regulators strongarm them into changing their practices. You exclude the 2nd option, that leaves us with the boycotting. We'll see how it'll turn out but I doubt the general reddit and youtube audience is mature and principled enough to drop these websites because of their idealistic goals. As long as they don't ban cat videos and videogame streaming I'm sure they'll do fine.

I expect that, as always in these situations, a minority of users will migrate to alternative websites (voat, alternative video streaming websites etc...) many of them will end up coming back to Youtube/Reddit because that's where all the content is and the network effect is strong. Repeat in one year when Reddit decides to issue a new wave of subreddit bans. I genuinely don't know how we can get out of this situation.
I had to go back to find the article, because it was just a headline that appeared in the sidebar of an article I was reading this morning.

This wouldn't appear to be a general solution, they're moving to Pornhub:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/a-gun-demo-youtube-c...

(The slug in that URL is wrong. They changed the headline to be "24 million views".)
AQR is algorithmic but not high frequency, as far as I know. No one knows what strategies Renaissance employs.
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I thought this was a fairly decent article, worth reading if you are interested in the history of nuclear-powered flight attempts. Of course, not much is known about the weapon that Putin made claims about, but informed speculation is better than uninformed speculation.
Heh, appreciate the honesty. I guess there is a temporary market condition where that might seem realistic to some.
AQR are certainly not a high frequency trading firm, and Renaissance may do some high frequency trading, but they are not primarily a high frequency trading firm. Where did you get that idea?

The paper explicitly addresses the point that large-scale systematic collection of public records may be indicative of the kind of fund that outperforms, rather than an indication that the public records add alpha in and of themselves - it's in the abstract

> The effect is not due to differences in fund type as the results hold within-fund.

I think you need a more convincing argument than just saying "There are a great number of additional factors at play" and "Trying to link public information to an increase in performance is far fetched".
The STEM Glut
Right of way means cars are obligated to stop when you cross the street. It doesn't solve the practical issue of drivers needing at least some time to react, even if they are paying complete attention and driving at a reasonable, safe speed.

Difficulty of looking both ways and pausing for a second before you cross the street: 1 unit. Difficulty of getting getting every single driver in any area where pedestrians have the right of way to drive slow enough that they can make a safe stop assuming any pedestrian can legally dart into the street without warning: 1,000,000,000 units.

And yet I've seen plenty of people turn 90 degrees across a street at their usual walking pace with no pause and with their eyes on their phone and headphones in their ears.

If you want to spin that particular chamber of probability because legally you're technically protected, honestly I feel worse for the driver who has to live with that memory now and wonder what they possibly could have done to prevent it short of just never driving a car at all.
While I get your point, I do think there's an important distinction: train lines are rare, usually far away from where people live, walk, bicycle, etc. Roads, on the other hand, occupy a significant portion of public land in our cities. It's not great that it's effectively a death sentence to be less-than-focused while walking home.

You know the old saying "with great power comes great responsibility". The onus for being responsible is not on the pedestrian. It's on the person (or CPU) operating the multi-ton machine at speeds that can kill.
> Two thousand tv stations? How about 20 million (Youtube)? In an information theoretic context, scale is irrelevant.

You can't determine the public agenda by owning a single news outlet out of 20 millions, you could however do that by owning a major newspaper back in 1970.
One of the founding principles of the US was the right of its citizenry to protect itself from the overreach of the government, which was enabled partly through the right for citizens to own firearms and other weapons. They're a means of self defense, but more importantly as a way to keep the gov in check. No government can control millions of armed citizens--which is exactly the point.

Killing in response to being disarmed is probably one of the most "American" things its citizens could do.
It seems that a child will perhaps learn to count quicker in Japanese than in French, say, but the complexity and inclusion of factors/compounds also seem like they would push a more complex understanding of number to be adopted.

I wonder if a French people make change with 20 Euro-cent coins more often than others do.
Some do use AWS and other cloud providers for collecting and processing data.
Where in the wording of the 2nd amendment does that exist?
Maybe it's been taken down because it reeks of bad linguistics and bad anthropology. Not to mention the obvious that being good at counting doesn't make one good at academic subjects. I studied math and didn't see a number larger than 10 after I got my BSc.
It's a "maybe" because I don't have any more data points than what's present in the video - only assumptions.

But I strongly assume this could have been avoided by more thorough testing (e.g. use a contraption to shove various inanimate objects in the path of the car at various speeds [both object and car] in various light conditions).
And iff a proper investigation finds out people responsible for this accident (engineers doing dirty fixes, managers neglecting safety, the driver just being an unaware dummy; you name it), they should carry the consequences same as a human driver would.

And yes, their self driving cars should stay of the road until the fault has been found and fixed. I never claimed the opposite. (Aren't they? IMHO it's the obvious thing to do; but then we're talking about Uber and their poor sense of responsibility...)

Eventually "maybe" has too weak of a connotation in this context (as a non-native speaker I sometimes find it difficult to pick the correct variant for the exact thing I want to implicate) - for which I apologise if I mislead you there.
Appears to be partially covered by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434597. Not clear it will be fixed before launch.
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It surprises me how many people assume that Zuckerberg is evil. I've never seen any convincing evidence of him being anything other than a relatively regular guy in an extremely unique circumstance.

What makes you so sure he's a sleazebag?
To me, the |web| link seems like a reasonable work around. It's a convenient starting point for anyone who cares.
The video is very damning. Either a problem of camera contrast or a big bug. And having a backup human driver is useless.

There is a terrible ethical dilemma here. Humans are currently at a a death rate of about 1 per 10^8 (hundred million) miles travelled. Waymo, which is best in class, is at 1 human engagement every 5,000 miles as per California data. Of course, most of those were likely minor. But there are more than 4 orders of magnitude there to allow for plenty of surplus dead people. These things shouldn't be on the streets!
Yes, exactly.

If the authorization doesn't say it, then it's not authorized to do it.

This level of explicit consent has legal basis in the EU.
Proof of Stake, then? Blockchain pays you in coins that are earned randomly by hosting a node? The node would need to then be part of a big distributed file system since any even halfway decent social network would be way too large to host at home. I don't mind the idea, but where does the value of the coin come from? do you have to buy one to join? do you need to rent a coin to have access to the account? Social networks are subscriptions (or they should be, since the costs of hosting are recurrent), so what would the economic model be in "mining" and hosting one? What would give the token a value?
Even so, the problem is that some of my internal behavior is conscious, and some is not. So what makes the difference? I'm certainly not conscious of everything my brain does.
There are different kinds od technical debt. One should aim to keep abstractions simple, and to be able to refactor as quickly as possible. But that also means that the code should be manageable. Unreadable code is never a good thing, and will slow down development considerably.
Look, we understand.

"If the company is paying for a service they have every right to view everything the employees are doing with the service"

But it's still a huge fucking breach of privacy and I my opinion of my company would be shattered if I found out they actually were reading through people's DMs. I simply wouldn't want to work for that place.
The bird population going down can be summed up as Pesticides used in mono culture farming.
No.

Basically, in one of Intel's execution engines you have a reservation station which is fed µops and allocates resources to each µop. A RS port is what connects ALUs, load-store units, vector units etc. to the RS.
So it may be, that our fate was decided by the stars.
They're not HFT, although they are more blackbox / quant than the "traditional" hedge fund, which I think still supports OP's point.
I'm sure plenty of them were sold out of state or shipped to friends/family out of state as well. There are more options than destroy/turn-in/felony.
As an intermediate-to-advanced PS user, I found that it didn't fill the void too (but this was more than a year ago). It seems more geared toward traditional media emulation.

If you're looking for something designed to work like and solve the same problems as PS and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Design by Serif are probably what you're looking for. They are around $50 each.
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Thanks for the quotes. Apparently I slightly misremembered the problem. From the second one, this is what I was thinking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13926839
Except Inkscape which is extremely slow. Especially on 4K.
Is it because of the age though? Or because of the cost/value ratio?

A senior dev might ask for a higher salary and the increased productivity (due to experience) might not be required for that role.

If it made sense from a financial pov - I'm sure there wouldn't be an issue...
Dupe of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642594
Here is the paper, which is not linked in the news article -

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3127825
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They improve their model. The factors that allow them to capture alpha change so you cannot set it and forget it.

The holy grail of investing would be a quantitative model which automatically changes and consistently outperforms everyone else.
Sounds like a semantic nitpick. The point doesn't change if they're acquaintances instead.
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I was drawn to that passage as well. The author goes on:

> Sadly, this star’s passing likely went unnoticed by our ancestors.

I mean, I get it, but why is it sad? Is it because it feels like a "missed connection" with our ancestors? Tangential, but I feel like the answer to this question connects with why people study astronomy in the first place, and I'm just curious if others relate to this sentiment. :)
I appreciate what you're saying, and I agree that it's a valid approach, but I would be more interested in making any of the methods which are interested in the object, capable of handling any of the values expressible by the object's type.

That is, you need useful zero values (which means no null pointers), and any method that takes the object should be able to do sensible (if not useful) things even if things are their zero-values.

As for validation, you don't always know what different consumers of your type consider to be valid or not. For a rectangle any non-negative size should be valid, for instance, but when you try to pass a zero-sized x side to a class that (for some reason) needs non-zero x length, that class should be doing the validation, not the Rectangle class itself.

I think I'm coming at this after doing nothing but golang for a few years, and then having to switch to Java recently, and I really hate the language so far, mostly because of the style of programming it encourages.
No, for the site.
The one without something to prove?
Sorry, I use the default.
When a 20 year old calls people dumb fucks in a private conversation, it generally means that they are a normal 20 year old.

Saying that Zuckerberg is a sleazebag based on a snippet of a private conversation he had 15 years ago when he was a college student is a stretch.
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But not all behavior internal to the organism is conscious. Most of it is not. So consciousness is not behavior, even though it's correlated with some internal behavior.

BTW, behaviorism meant observable behavior, not biological processes, because behaviorists treated the brain (and body) as a blackbox, rather than get involved in a lot of speculation about how internal processes worked.
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Both being iterable is great.

String iteration yielding individual characters as strings is debatable.

A function or method having no way to specify that a parameter must be a list of string, then acting strangely when passed a single string is a problem that types can help with.
I agree that it can be painful, but there are parallels that can be drawn. Dick's Sporting Goods just stopped selling certain kinds of guns. Those gun manufacturers can still sell their guns, but just not at Dick's, so they're losing part of their potential audience.

There was a story a month or two ago about a publisher that went out of business because their whole business model (apparently) revolved around pushing their content on Facebook and then Facebook changed their newsfeed algorithm. I think that's a risk for anyone relying on a given channel for their product.
What's wrong with voat besides that it's a cesspool? It seems like it has all the technical features that make Reddit work, and the lack of moderation that makes it so disgusting is the result of not having speech clampdowns.
GP claimed civilization would be unable to rise again, implying thousands of years of knowledge would disappear.

Wikipedia is available for download and requires less than 15GB of space[1]. This is an unprecedented density of self documenting data, containing thousands of years of advancements in science, mathematics, philosophy, arts.

Consider how many people live in or visit dwellings that are tens or hundreds of miles from large population centers, and how many of these dwellings have emergency gasoline generators and working computers.

Now, presuming that most of the destruction happens in major cities, and the rest of the earth generally remains livable, there will still remain millions of people, and if just a small sampling of competent technically minded people survive, there will be billions of abandoned, unused, solid state devices, and millions of generators to power them, ripe for picking. What are the odds that not a single competent survivor will have backed up a copy of wikipedia to be able share with other survivors in the decades after catastrophe?

When a single human can hold in his hand all of the science and mathematics necessary to derive the technologies upon which modern civilization is based, rebuilding is easily within the realm of possibility. Not to mention, artifacts of modern technology will remain as examples for engineering and even use with sufficient technical knowledge.

Further, I encourage all of you to download and keep a copy of wikipedia for this very, however farfetched, purpose.

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/lifehacker.com/how-to-download-...
In some states, sure.

At a federal level, it's not that easy. If there was an easy way to ban them, the ATF would have already. It's really hard to define a bump stock in a way that wouldn't either ban a lot of other things, short of classifying them as machine guns. If you classify them as machine guns, at this point, you pretty much have to let people who already have them enroll them on the NFA registry (federally, there is no legal basis to confiscate property that was legally acquired and legal to acquire when acquired), which is not necessarily what you want either.
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It's not exactly an "Obama original" quote, though.
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From all the commentary in the press after this deal was officially announced, it seems like no one really understands it but they say it’s about growth and increasing revenue. However, this one article summarized it nicely:

...customers typically want an independent vendor for the type of service Mulesoft provides, since it has to interact with so many different programs from different companies.

“Part of the value of MuleSoft is its true neutrality, and I just kind of think about what happens to that under the umbrella of Salesforce because obviously you guys are a leading applications vendor,” John DiFucci, a Jefferies analyst, said on the call. [1]

In other words, revenue may increase in the short term but in the long term Mulesoft revenue will decrease as customers choose independent data integration solutions. No one wants the old on-premise model of vendor lock-in that Oracle, IBM and others are notorious for pushing.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-buys-mule-pays-ped...
Ah, shame. 30's here. Hint: no retiring yet. In fact, not sure why you'd want to, but for escaping the daily grind for someone else. The well is endless. Drink deep.

Also not sure why its worth selling some of the best, most energetic years of one's life to something one cares so little about that one wants to enter into it on an escape trajectory.
Google has Grumpy. Because writing a compiler is easier than porting. https://github.com/google/grumpy
I honestly think changes should be made to employment law that invalidate sections of an employee contract that contravene or reduce the employee protections written in law.

You shouldn't be able to sign a contract that waives your right to sue your employer if they discriminate against you.
Or in this case, he was a 20 year old kid running a website with his college friends and roommates.
IMO the constraints should be as close to the thing that needs the data, as possible. Your object is an expression of data that may be valid in some contexts and invalid in others, and trying to pick any one of them is difficult (and leads to things like complex inheritance trees to express all the different flavors of constraints.)

I think this is the essence of the "composition over inheritance" idea that seems to be the most violated piece of sound OO advice out there.
I recall ray tracing a simple image of a shark over some sand on my old Amiga 500... one single frame took hours to render.

And now we have this! Very Impressive!
I don't work on self driving cars or even vision, but I have heard when you are on a highway you start with filtering out small stationary reflections, since they are almost certainly not cars. (Which is maybe why the tesla didn't see the big red firetruck - it was not visible). It's not a big leap to imagine that Uber's LIDAR ignored the bike because it was not recognized as a person, was moving perpendicularly at a low speed, so got pre-filtered as a puddle. We can only guess and Uber will report whatever they want.
I don't think it's that ridiculous. You buy a new suit to look professional, shave for a new date, why is dying your hair that crazy? We all do plenty of things for appearance purposes.
There's a bunch on the web actually. The gist is that you create a Google App Script linked to your Sheet and deploy it publicly, which can receive GET and POST requests and respond as you like. See:

http://chriszarate.github.io/sheetrock/

http://douglasduhaime.com/posts/crud-operations-on-static-file-sites.html

https://github.com/liddiard/google-sheet-s3

https://www.johnastewart.org/coding/twine-game-data-to-google-sheets-via-javascript/

https://medium.com/@dmccoy/how-to-submit-an-html-form-to-google-sheets-without-google-forms-b833952cc175
Take this with a grain of salt as I don't work at any of the funds mentioned (but still in the industry), but why not?

Filings are subject to change due to errors, updates, etc. It's cheaper, easier, and less error prone to just scrape and overwrite data than search for any updates.

I may have been heavyhanded in saying that the firms are rescraping the entire universe of filings on a daily basis, but I guess my point here is that these numbers can very easily be skewed and are generally a pretty poor indicator of actual data access.
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