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Economics is one of the most impartial academic fields. The deference to market principles is due to the empirical evidence showing they promote economic efficiency, and not bias.

If anything, the rent-seeking behaviour of unions has started to introduce leftist ideological biases into Economics. You now see more economists trying to rationalize minimum wage for example.

I suspect bias is introduced as people dependent on union privileges create and promulgate ideological justifications for the laws that empower unions.

This shapes the cultural mores of society, resulting in positions favorable to unions becoming perceived as morally superior.
Work is beeing done to transition datascript into a a much more database like thing:

"datahike is a durable database with an efficient datalog query engine. This project is a port of datascript to the hitchhiker-tree."

https://github.com/replikativ/datahike
Not what I asked.
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Afaik, if you delete now, and ask them to delete all after gdpr, they have to obey same as if you waited until gdrp to ask them
Older folks cost more. This is all about money.
From the linked research:

> More recently in the news was the miraculous survival of a 16-year-old boy who stowed away in the wheel hub of a Boeing 747 travelling to Hawaii. He survived freezing temperatures and very low oxygen levels occurring at the 38,000 ft flight altitude for several hours and recovered with no medical complications. Doctors speculate that his body quickly entered a hibernative state due to the rapid temperature drop thus permitting him to survive at the minimal oxygen levels.

This example where something unique occurs but our ethics prevent us from anything beyond speculation, makes me wonder how much faster we could expand our understanding of medical science by instituting a voluntary and humane program for human experimentation.

Is such a concept inherently contradictory or can it be done?
Is there a way to have intellisense sense work with python dictionaries? It seems like intellisense for json would be a similar issue as nested dictionary representations in json, but I can’t find anything that does this and don’t want to use another class just for faster coding.
It is most certainly not a small investment. Especially considering how few it will benefit.

> I suppose they could allow a monthly lease of a reserved charging station, though.

That's usually how it's done here. And the cost is not negligible at all, more than what I pay in gas each month. And on top of that you pay for the electricity of course. And I'd say that most apartments that even have parking associated with them you will often need to wait years and years to even get a spot (electric or not).
You can do it concurrently.
The problem is not only privacy and that they sell user data. There is much more that is an issue. Look at what early founders criticize (the founder of Napster is among them). This platform manipulates it's users into spending as much time on the platform as possible by utilizing gamification mechanisms, and by putting news and messages into their feeds that they highly propably will engage with, but not the ones that will give them new perspectives, like a good newspaper would do. And it is dangerous for democracies. Because of all the things we learned about in the last months. Echo chambers and that sort of things.
Is the Pitato why we can’t have nice things?
And Intel knew that mobile chips will one day become very popular, too - two decades ago. Much good did that knowledge do to the company.

It's not about them being ignorant about it. It's about them making decisions in spite of that knowledge - decisions that Make Sense™ for the advancement and increased profitability of the incumbent cash cow, but they are often contradictory or have a negative impact on new tech investment.

Here's one main reason why Nvidia will not go "full TPU" with its chips - it wants "scalability". That means it wants an architecture that can be "flexible and server different markets".

The companies that specialize in AI chips will likely beat them in performance because they only care about winning one market at a time (and the AI market is a pretty big one).

Intel's AI strategy is even more of a mess, because it has no clue what it can use to beat Nvdia, so its investments and developer ecosystems are all over the place.
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Not sure where your idea that fighting climate change by conserving energy at home is token gesture. In the UK 4,000 GWh/day are used for heating during winter, about half of that will be domestic and so moving to something like Passivhaus would be a big step forward in both domestic energy bill reduction and green house gas emissions. To put that 4,000 GWh/day in context the UK hovers around 1,000 GWh/day for electricity and 1,500 GWh/day for transportation.
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There is the question of incentives though. The non-gpu companies want perfectly aligned performance that they can both built for and designate in advance. The gpu companies want to make said companies buy and rebuy as much as they can.

As the areas of expertise and manufacturing grow closer, the advantages of paying someone to do it for you decrease.

I know much too little to have an opinion on who is likely correct, but I can understand the two sides each having positions that don't assume the other side is an idiot.
It's definitely not cheap, but its in the ball park for CNC wood routers (obviously you can find cheaper stuff, especially if second hand).

There's value to some hobby users in that it looks like you get to save on bench space. For some users that might be the difference between having and not having a CNC wood router.
The difference is that foursquare isn't a monopoly and facebook is. Quiting foursquare if you don't like them is easy (nothing to loose other than a service you didn't like for whatever reason), quiting facebook because you don't like them can be hard because it has a monopoly over your friends.

When it's hard to quit something that you don't like, that thing can easily evolve in ways against you, essentially you've removed the democratic aspect of the thing and you have a dictatorship - facebook.

I think this problem is a little unique to social networking, it feels like it's inevitable that one will prevail above all others because people _want_ to all be on the same platform. If social network is to survive in a healthy way it would seem that a cross network protocol would need to exist to make it easy to switch between them, but that will likely never come from facebook.
Thank you for this tip. Out of curiosity why does this trick work?
This sounds a lot like (full disclosure: mine) https://github.com/amark/gun ? How do you compare?

- Except ours is Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) and ranked #2 on GitHub in Blockchain and Cryptography https://github.com/topics/blockchain

- Performance benchmarks are posted publicly https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2...

- It has been load tested doing 100M+ records/day for $10/total costs (CPU, disk, backup) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8

- Explains how consensus, CRDTs, and DAGs work http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html
Wouldn’t these black holes have evaporated by now?
DARPA just announced a somewhat related program, called Biostasis. The emphasis is a little different—-they are interested in battlefield medicine—but there’s bound to be some overlap.

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-03-01
If you press it twice, it will put you at the beginning of the line.
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You need to very weary of people, especially someone who is your direct superior, telling you to slow down. I was in this situation, but luckily used it to my advantage when the time came to leave. They can easily turn around and throw it back in your face, which is what happened to me. Some have suggested waiting 6 months before rocking the boat, but in my experiences, they don’t take kindly to being outperformed, especially when it’s a subordinate. Just quietly leave, and don’t look back. Some situations/companies just aren’t worth working and fighting for.
My favorite is when you have a git merge conflict - just open the file in VSCode and you can visually merge it. I can't explain the feeling of joy I had when I discovered this - and this keeps happening over and over with VSCode.
At work they pay the license for us if we want it but many of us (including me) still prefer VS Code.

(And FWIW, I have used Jetbrains products before I used VS Code.)
From the paper you link:

"A history is serializable if it is equivalent to one in which transactions appear to execute sequentially, i.e., without interleaving... A history is strictly serializable if the transactions’ order in the sequential history is compatible with their precedence order... Linearizability can be viewed as a special case of strict serializability where transactions are restricted to consist of a single operation applied to a single object."

In these terms, FoundationDB has the strict serializability property, and thus if you do exactly one operation in each FoundationDB transaction then that is linearizable.

But that kind of linearizability is much less powerful than what FoundationDB actually gives you. You cannot efficiently maintain global invariants, like indexes, with single-operational linearizability. I don't think this definition is very useful! I think strict serializability (which is to say serializability & external consistency) is what you actually want.

A linearizable CAS register can be implemented in FDB as simply as this:

@fdb.transactional
def compare_and_set( tr, key, vold, vnew ):
if tr[key] == vold:
tr[key] = vnew

but this is not the limit of what you can do.
Interesting, keep 'em coming!

Historical information is not part of datahike, now and it's not on the roadmap as far as I can tell. But perhaps one day :)
This is an insightful, thought-provoking article.

It mentions Billy Durant, the exciting, visionary entrepreneur who raised goads of money and built GM from a disruptive startup in 1906 into a company with $10 billion (in today's dollars) in annual car sales by the early 1920's... but who was nonetheless fired by GM's board because, despite the company's rapid growth, it was burning cash and remained dependent on continued capital-raising. The board concluded GM needed someone who could execute a business model, not someone with grand visions who would perpetually need fresh capital to turn them into reality.

The parallels to Tesla's current situation are obvious.

The person who replaced Durant, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., ran GM for three decades with incredible success, turning it into the world's largest automaker.[a] This is the same Sloan as in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT's Sloan School of Management, Stanford's Sloan program, and Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. (Durant died poor, managing a bowling alley in Flint, Michigan.)

PS. The most interesting aspect of this article, for me, is the fact that it was written and published in the first place. It makes me wonder if the mindset of investors with regards to Tesla is changing from "show me an exciting vision" to "show me profitable execution of a business model."

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan
Cream rises to the top - awesome tool - thanks for creating it!
this ignores user trust.

now the closed source application is impervious to mim attacks or bad CA operators but the user also have no way to validate the traffic comming out of their very own device.

generic is good sometimes. and the generic solution already account for generic user/app local certificates just fine. no need to hide an extra one that can't be verified/update inside the app. that's kinda of an asshole move.
Speaking of Japanese, i ran into a claim some time back that the view of Bushido that we have now is one fabricated by a Japanese writer. That effectively transplanted European chivalry over long after the samurai had turned into career bureaucrats, and was called out on it by his contemporaries.
Is my math right that a 1 gb database sitting there doing nothing is 1.4M tokens per month (2/MB/hour). And tokens are $5/200k, so $35/month before you do anything.

This seems pretty crazy. But I really need a blockchain db for the permanence.
A fine isn't going to hurt Wells, especially when it's about two weeks worth of profit.
If you want to teach a bank a lesson, you have to hit their business model. If after a fraud is uncovered regulators instituted restrictions to account openings instead of fines, you would see change. For example, if Wells wasn't allowed to open a new account - of any kind - for six months they would start to lose customers - and bankers - to institutions without restrictions. That would change the industry.
This sounds potentially useful. I mostly used (for more than a year) Telegram for ad-hoc interactions at technical conferences. (E.g. EuroPython 2016 & some groups I interact with at FOSDEM 2018 used it, so I "had" to use it.). And right now, it's sitting dormant since February.

[Slightly off-topic & potentially opening a barrel of worms ahead; and this has been discussed to death here.]

Now ... I have been using (also for well over a year) the Signal Messenger. Given Signal's funding model, their crypto protocol (which was peer-reviewed & got robust positive feedback -- corroborated through its adoption by WhatsApp & Facebook Messenger) and their (almost) zero metadata collection, I found it's better to invest my energies in Signal.

So, FWIW, I have been trying to "converge" on Signal and slowly persuading (without forcing, of course) friends to use it; I've had good success so far. A lot of my colleagues & a decent chunk of people I collaborate with in the open source community already use Signal. So that's not a problem there.

This is all just to make an attempt at maintaining sanity with the Chat Tool proliferation. Wonder how others are handling it.
Sure, but nothing gets governmental attention like a million angry users being featured on the news.
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Do not see why Google would care what Nvidia is doing? Why would they?
European chivalry is also a fabrication due to writers.
multi-selection; multiple cursors, arbitrary (non-contiguous) columns, arbitrary rows.
Normally I like this flowchart, but the permanent record is useful even within trusted parties. There aren’t many (any?) distributed databases with permanence built-in. So getting that for free is nice to not have to build yourself.

Especially self-hosted. If this allowed self hosted, it would be cool. Paying them seems not very useful.
Yep. The NoSQL crowd constantly pushes the concept of no data modeling or need for a data administrator. These two claims have been proven false time and time again, often to disasterous results, yet it keeps on being said.
> In order to band together, we need a common enemy

Yes, to band together, sure. But is that friendship?

> Friends are predetermined; friendship takes place between men and women who possess an intellectual and emotional affinity for each other. But comradeship — that ecstatic bliss that comes with belonging to the crowd in wartime — is within our reach. We can all have comrades. The danger of the external threat that comes when we have an enemy does not create friendship; it creates comradeship. And those in wartime are deceived about what they are undergoing. And this is why once the threat is over, once war ends, comrades again become strangers to us. This is why after war we fall into despair.

> In friendship there is a deepening of our sense of self. We become, through the friend, more aware of who we are and what we are about; we find ourselves in the eyes of the friend. Friends probe and question and challenge each other to make each of us more complete; with comradeship, the kind that comes to us in patriotic fervor, there is a suppression of self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-possession. Comrades lose their identities in wartime for the collective rush of a common cause — a common purpose.

-- Chris Hedges

Of course, disliking the same thing or person can also be a result of intellectual or emotional affinity. I can meet someone in the wilderness and think they're an okay person because of how they are to me, but if we then go back to the city and they steal from a blind beggar, I'll no longer think they're okay. Likewise, if I walk around with a supposed friend and we see someone do that, and they react with a shrug or even a smile, that will similarly lower my opinion of them.

But that's because of what I am for, which is primary and a cause if you will -- not because of the need to be against anything, which is secondary and a symptom.
Pretty basic list of things...
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There is a big difference between an individual using it as a tool to cope with the difficulties of corporate life and a business using it to try and improve their bottom line.
For those interested in more intuitive understanding of how the "smearing" breaks the meme about atoms being mostly empty space, check out these plots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#/media/File:Hyd...

While you can argue they are still flawed, they do clearly show that the electrons have fairly large probabilities of being observed pretty much anywhere inside the "radius" of the atom.
Having a multi-node database that syncs (even slowly) and handles merge conflicts is useful in many applications.

Specifically, this is useful in global health situations where you have lots of data collectors with tablets entering data that all has to eventually come together. But has lots of offline/online changes and has an untrusted data entry issue where you don’t want anything deleted.
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The only problem I have with the GM analogy is that GM benefited greatly from WW2, not to mention the reconstruction years after it.
In fact GM has essentially even benefited form the German rearmament after the Nazi’s rose to power until essentially the US declaration of war or at least until the revenue payments from Opel stopped crossing the pond.
Damn. Now I regret never taking a typing class.

It only took using a keyboard for about 22 years to learn pressing home more than once has benefits.

Thanks!
Well deserved! I was amazed at how much of a game changer a automatic code formatter was. Saves me a ton of time.

I do prefer adding a .prettierrc to projects, though, instead of inside vscode options (user or project) like what is suggested here. That way my teammates and I can use the same settings, even if they don't use vscode.
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For those that don't know, Datomic is a hosted database, similar to how Clojure is hosted.

Datomic can be hosted on MySQL or PostgreSQL (and maybe others?). It's basically a 2 column table, so yes, Datomic inherits transaction safety. According to people I know that use Datomic, an early lesson is indexing, which apparently is often done way later than it should. Datomic also inherits the speed of indexing a huge table.

A counter is that many things may be covered in majic, but all on top of a fairly leaky abstraction.
When I became a monk in Burma, sayalays (sort of like female novitiates) in the monastery were expected to show respect to me, even when they had been there for 30 years, and I had only been a monk for two weeks.

A western monk friend and I discussed it a lot, and we concluded that the rules of the sangha (the monastic community) ensured it would be roughly as sexist as the society around it.

See, one of the rules of the vinaya (the ancient monastic code) is that monks are forbidden to grow their own food; all food is a gift from someone. This is an interesting rule, with both good and bad consequences.

The beneficial aspect is that it keeps the sangha tied to the lay community; it prevents Theravadan monks from disappearing into the forest with no ties, and is probably crucial to maintaining the existence of a religious order for over two millennia.

The detrimental aspect is that it punishes sanghas that are too progressive for their community. Every morning, we would walk out at 6:00 for alms. If the townfolk were pissed at us, we'd have starved.

One of the things western buddhist communities have done better is gender-inclusion. In fact, most of my teachers in both zen and theravada have been women.
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The new Google Speech solution is the perfect example on why Google had to do their own silicon.

Doing speech with 16k samples a second through a NN and keep at a reasonable cost is really, really difficult.

The old way was far more power efficient and if you are going to use this new technique which gets you a far better result and do it at a reasonable cost you have to go all the way down into the silicon.

Here listen to the results.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

Now I am curious on the cost difference Google as able to achieve. It is still going to be more then the old way but how close did Google come?

But my favorite new thing with these chips is the Jeff Dean paper.

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.01208v1/

Can't wait to see the cost difference using Google TPUs and this technique versus traditional approaches.

Plus this approach support multi-core inherently. How would you ever do a tree search with multiple cores?

Ultimately to get the new applications we need Google and others doing the silicon. We are getting to extremes where the entire stack has to be tuned together.

I think Google vision for Lens is going to be a similar situation.
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I don't know how people program without this feature

You must do some kind of programming I've not encountered in my many years. While my editor of choice can do this, I would have no idea how, because a feature like "increment duplicates" is needed so infrequently that I would never remember the shortcut.
Gradle does have a build cache, which can be local or remote:

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_cache.html

It is a newer feature, so that might be why you're unaware of it.

Also, I get that the models of Bazel/Buck/Pants are fundamentally different, because they are inherently cross-language / "sit on top of other compilers" systems. And are best for mono repos.

But Mill doesn't fit in that camp AFAICT.
Isn't Telegram compromised by the Russian government..?