skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also not directly comparable, since the batteries respond near-instantly but pumped hydro still has some lag.
There are a number of other projects that used the same concepts, so, fame was definitely a factor.

But I think it was more important that Torvalds was the leader of an important software project, could mandate its use, and recruit maintainers, despite the project’s immaturity in the early stages.

Torvalds’ skill did matter, though. He understood the essence of git’s predecessors, and wrote a credible system that had very good performance from day one.
The article mentions that interview and concedes Peterson comes out stronger there.
I'm surprised that someone thinks ethnicity or gender is not relevant to cultural fit. Yes it is. How can one not see that it's far more comfortable to hang out with your own culture, even if a latent part of that was a sparsity of blackness?

Does one behave their race or gender away? No.
well, you have some exposure time when your comment is very recent. if we all deserve equal chances but there are many of us, then the exposure time is quite limited. it's a much better system than most others out there. "direct democracy" is hard when you expect others to be listening
Non-native speaker; tense used reflects how such questions are stated in my native tongue; didn't have any semantics to it.
Yeah, I remember when Enron used to shrug off negative news by showing their stock price graphs. The market doesn’t always price in bad news, until it does.
We did but at least I, personally, have never bought or not bought a record because of its cover.
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The main issue with git isn't that it was written by Torvalds (it is maintained by other people as well), but the fact that it was used to maintain the Linux Kernel
When the used fuel rods are properly stored, even the primitive nuclear reactors we use today release quite a bit less radiation than burning coal (not event mentioning CO2 and so on). Even after including all major nuclear accidents, nuclear plants have saved lives compared to coal plants (and they have pretty good track record when compared against even renewable sources).

However, storing the fuel rods properly is borderline impossible due to politics, so your questions probably still stands.
Do you honestly believe Tesla and Elon are flat out lying and committing fraud like Enron/Skilling though? If you do, that is fine, but I'd be curious to hear your argument.
I think both had strong arguments at times.

Quite fascinating discussion, like watching a match of intellectual boxing :)
If she isn't in a generally elected role I suppose she hasn't had to gratify or indulge the needs of any voting bloc or compromise her principals to appeal to needed voters. Good for her and my apologies for using a word that triggered such a strong reaction for you.

My point was not to attack her but the entire concept of a political class as described by other commenters. It's likely very different in Europe but having a ruling class is seen as more distasteful when looked at from the viewpoint of the founding principals of the US. E.g the New Hampshire state legislature has a salary of $100/year which would make being nothing but a professional politician rather difficult. I believe one of the other responses better summed up the historical viewpoints.
It does indeed. Think Peter Molyneux and Godus.
I'll bet you could get California to vote for a ballot measure banning all finite things with a little work.
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> if (x & (1<<n)) {
> n-th bit is set

Yeah, don't get a habit to do that. Instead:

if ((x >> n) & 1)

if x is wider type that int or n, the result of (1<<n) may be UB, and in practice the generated code will be buggy.
Is that also why Walmart and Costco have 2% net income margins? Or why Best Buy makes a whopping $1 billion on $42 billion in sales? Or Target with their fat 4% net income margins.

No, it's because mainstream retail notoriously has horrific margins. There is no scenario where Amazon's retail business will ever generate meaningful margins such that it could be a profit juggernaut. It is not a tax dodge such that they could be yielding massive profits on retail, there is never going to be much profit in that segment.

Right now the only way Amazon is yielding consequential profit, is courtesy of AWS, which does have good margins and is producing nearly all of Amazon's net income.

The retail business - which makes up most of their business - at a standard 2%-4% net income retail margin on ~$140 billion in retail sales, is worth an optimistic $100 to $120 billion; you could push it to $150 billion if you want to give them a larger growth multiplier.

First quarter AWS operating income: $1.4 billion

First quarter total Amazon operating income: $1.9 billion

All the profit-based value in Amazon is in AWS. Retail will always suck, without exception.

That $500m in operating income on the rest of Amazon's $45 billion in sales, is not very far away from the margin you would expect to see on a mainstream retailer. $1b for that segment would be closer to normal if Amazon's growth were more settled (as in the case of Walmart & Target). In this case, that tiny retail profit is still be plowed back into dramatically higher growth than what Walmart or Target have.
You can approach this from two sides:

1. bloom and its descendents/companions are research projects first, so far, in the future, somebody probably sits down and creates a super-optimized reactive database based on this research in Rust or something

2. our trade has been moving from managing constraints on performance and memory to trying to make more correct programs as easy as possible, resources be dammed. This is just the next step, along-side GC-managed memory, or haskell-like lazy-evaluation
Honestly, it's like talking to a wall.

Original Skype network existed in a world where mobile wasn't a thing.

Original Skype network went down twice exactly because of its architecture.

Original Skype network was already on its way out for the reasons I described several times above.

But sure, keep on believing that peer-to-peer can work in a mobile-first world.
I am not a Physicist (IANAP), so maybe I’m misrecalling some definitions, but isn’t the restriction to Hamiltonians a bit, well, restrictive? This limits the results to path independent potentials, which is basically nothing in the non-spherical cow world. Are the authors working from a different definition of Hamiltonian?

Does it matter if your Hamiltonian is smooth or if you are working from a discrete theory?
Yes. It's become complicated due to the high number of integrations that it supports. It does make it useful, but it has been over-engineered like you said.

What alternatives have you considered? I found a couple of good ones recently Codegiant & Scrumpy, and evaluating between them currently.
I have a hard time believing 80% of time is spent writing code vs thinking of the right solution.

That ratio alone is enough to not worry about efficiency typing imo.
Which is why Apples P/E is so low compared to compared to other tech stocks which I think is totally reasonable. I just got a Pixel 2 and like it more than my old Iphone 6S. With Apples profits so heavily tied to continual sales of 1 main hardware product line, their profit can tank in just a few years and thus I consider very risky.
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I have a suspicion that I got passed over about six months ago for a job as a case of "culture fit" discrimination. It also could have been age, or possibly handicap, I'm not sure. But the strongest takeaway was because of the following:

The first person I met was the company recruiter who handed me a neatly printed brochure about the company culture, which detailed about some of the organizations the employees were involved in and how the company contributed toward their volunteering, etc., all very important. It talked about how they gathered after work and generally socialized outside the company. I was surprised that the emphasis was so big that they burned a lot of money having an expensive brochure professionally printed (which I didn't say).

I read over it, was OK with the idea in general, but kinda didn't get it - I volunteer for my church and otherwise, my time is my own. I haven't worked for a company that made that big of a deal out of it and I said so. I asked if she had anything that talked about the technologies they worked with, stack, tools, etc., since there was nothing on the website. I had a good half-hour to wait for the next interviewer, since they had gone into a meeting.

She promptly gave me a lecture about how I shouldn't dismiss the culture just because I don't agree with it and I tried to explain that I just wasn't familiar with such a strong emphasis.

Generally, I feel like I'm pretty flexible - I'll go along with the crowd for a lot of things and if it's too much, I'll gracefully bow out, citing either other commitments or needs. I am occasionally cynical about such things, but I won't say a word unless I know the person I am speaking to well.

Nothing stands out about the rest of the interview other than it was a good opportunity and I felt like I did pretty well, except on the company culture bit.

I can't help but feel they didn't want someone who didn't wholly buy into what they were doing in their off time.

--

I did have an interview with another entity where the interviewers (there were three) all talked about how passionate (actual word used) about the social causes (all of which I thought were fine and was generally OK with, even though I didn't have much in-depth knowledge of). I refrained from stating that I was passionate (not exactly the right word) about being a good programmer and solving technical issues, but it really is the main thing I worry about.

They gave me 24 hours to think it over and see if I was interested. I passed on that one.

--

I may be old-school, or just old, but to me the thing about work is that you get The Work done. If The Work is social causes, volunteering, beer-thirty on Friday, whatever, you do The Work first. I'm doing the job to solve technical problems, get paid and learn new things.

Not joining a cult.

My two cents. I'll go get my safety helmet now.
I don’t know if I agree with this. If you want to communicate an interface for maintainabilty you’ll declare your type so you know what you’re dealing with in the future.
You’re welcome! Glad it helped.
This DeepMind work has been gathering a lot of hype, but it is very similar to this work by Cueva and Wei:

Published on Arxiv on March 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07770

Published at ICLR 2018, a well-known machine learning conference: https://openreview.net/forum?id=B17JTOe0-

It is rather disheartening that they didn't acknowledge the -- seems like a deliberate oversight.

The Cueva and Wei paper is well written, explains concepts clearly, without the hype, and published in an open access venue.
Also their VP of Autopilot Software, out the door after 6 months.
It’s not the fault of the thing that it lead to bad results.

I understand how it works. 1) What you think affects how you feel. 2) How you feel affects your life, how hard you try and how you deal with setbacks.

The article that you linked to about empowerment talks about empowering others by focusing on the equally objectively true narratives where the others have a say in the outcome. But I think that only applies to when you’re writing a comment or a blog post and you don’t have infinite time to talk about everything and if you have to focus, might as well be on something constructive.

If we’re talking about living with yourself, then I think there’s plenty of time to consider all of the perspectives. The nihilist can come to terms that there is no meaning in life provided for him and create his own.
Yes, this DeepMind paper has been associated with an extraordinary amount of hype! This must be the third or fourth time it has been posted here, when most of the extensive grid cell literature has never been posted once; including theoretical work that explains the emergence of such cells, or that uses grids for navigation. And I don't think this is the first time that a DeepMind paper has been selective in its literature review, either...
The author claims 20 generations would be enough to breed the powers shown and thousands is unrealistic:
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even the most pessimistic estimates of how many generations it might take to drastically increase average human intelligence or almost entirely eliminate a nasty recessive by R.A. Fisher might be 20 generations .
"

But some of the powers, like remembering ancestors memories barely even exist in humans today. The field of epigenetics has proven that a starving parent can alter how the genetics of even grandchildren express themselves. So some basic functions like wrapping DNA tighter or loser and adding a methyl chemical group exist to pass information across generations, but this is like an extra bit or two per gene. To extend the functionality to the level of recording memories would take almost as long as it took for DNA to become as fancy as it did from the original RNA molecules that could produce more of themselves without any enzymes or DNA having developed yet. So almost as long again as life itself has taken, not 20 years.
The link says I have to pay $8.99 to "rent" the article, or subscribe every year for $199. WTF? Is this science?

Why can't people publish research in open access journals or conferences?
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slipperymate posted the direct link to the official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051425
Instead of his vague recommendation to "accept luck as a primary determinant in your life," I recommend reminding yourself that although luck may be a necessary condition for success, it is not a sufficient one.
I'd love to see some research done on this. Please share any of your findings here
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The GDPR rather makes it obsolete, actually. DNT was meant as a general purpose opt-out, whereas the GDPR requires an explicit opt-in for most things.

And well, DNT could have had legal bearing, since most legislations in the world require you to stop tracking when the user tells you not to.

So, if the user goes and sets up this general purpose opt-out, you'd have to have some sort of argument why you're different than what the user had in mind when they turned DNT on.

Could have had that legal bearing. Microsoft as well as Google and Facebook killed it off pretty well.

Microsoft by turning it on by default in Internet Explorer. Meaning that there were now lots of instances where the user had not explicitely gone into the settings to turn it on (nor did they perform some other action that serves as reasonable sign that this is what they'd want, like going into InPrivate Browsing, or specifically installing a privacy-focused browser / operating system.)

Google and Facebook killed it off by saying right away that they would not respect it. With how many webpages bundle a Facebook Like button or Google: Analytics, ads, GStatic, ajax.googleapis.com, JQuery, fonts, ReCaptcha, Maps, YouTube etc.

As such, there were very few webpages left that could have chosen to respect it and no judge would have just ruled that everyone has to respect it. It would have killed the internet for a few months.
I’m doubtful. Abolition was the direct result of Christian fundamentalism, perhaps even zealotry. I don’t see the world moving back in that direction.
>> - To provide mentorship to junior staff.
> There's this thing called documentation ;)

Mentoring is somewhat more than telling someone to RTFM. A smart engineer who's willing to teach less experienced team members is extremely valuable. The people who are really good at it never see it as a bother, just part of the job.
My experience is that it's not as effective with remote teams.
I didn't know he was a part of the SOE in WW2 and took part in the kidnapping of Kreipe on Crete. If anyone can get to the British Museum in London before July 15th, there's a free exhibition called "Charmed lives in Greece - Ghika, Craxton,Leigh Fermor" [1]. I hope to visit tomorrow.

[1] http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/charmed_li...
Flexport is an interesting place for Fieldbook to land, but I do see some synergies. I wonder if the team will focus on improving Flexport's internal operations or building a platform for Flexport's customers.
Germany and audio software. Name a better duo.
Unfortunately a lot of researchers submit themselves to closed access journals due to prestige factors. I understand why a PhD student or academic might do this, to rake up impact factor points in order to graduate or get pass the tenure committee. But these guys are DeepMind, with high salary jobs already, without the academic BS, so you'd figure they would know better ...
To get an idea of how the New York Times depicted children of a drug addiction epidemic when it was black children affected, see here:

CHILDREN OF CRACK: ARE THE SCHOOLS READY? - A SPECIAL REPORT: Crack Babies Turn 5, and Schools Brace

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/25/us/children-crack-are-sch...
Well, the paper was received from Nature on 05 July 2017, so it isn't surprising that they didn't cite the work from Cueva and Wei published 21 Mar 2018.
Agreed, and I would not claim it makes no difference, just that it eliminates only one category of brittleness from a project.

Others — poor testing, over-coupling, external dependencies, and the broad category of anti-patterns — are still available to us.
Is your argument "Amazon is a retail business and Amazon doesn't yield high profits because retail businesses have low margins"?

I guess that's true but so is OP's assertion that Amazon has a reputation for reinvesting would-be profits back into the business.

By the way another way to look at Amazon is the retail business provides significant operating leverage to enable AWS to yield substantial profits.
Maybe not exclusively because of the cover but I'd be lying if I said it's never influenced me to buy a record I was otherwise undecided about.
The math on their business is pretty straightforward.

Extrapolate Amazon's retail business out to the size of Walmart, $500 billion. Assume extreme retail margins: 5% net income margins. $25 billion in profit, at max size, under the best case scenario Amazon will ever see. More likely, Amazon will never reach the retail size of Walmart today (inflation adjusted).

A more likely number: maybe $12 to $15 billion in retail profit. Slap an optimistic valuation for the retail sector onto that: $240 to $300 billion valuation. Comparable to Walmart.

Next, AWS at $60 to $80 billion in eventual sales, with 20%-25% margins, spitting off perhaps $15b-$20b in operating income. That business might end up worth $300b to $500b.

All of Amazon's best case scenario growth for the next ten years, is already priced into the stock. That's what you would typically expect with a ~250 PE though.
Your rules are basically "the winner takes it all in the long run". This is similar to reality but real actors can disappear. Individuals have a limited lifespan. Their offspring have slightly different abilities. Corporations/Nations/Organizations are run by individuals (chosen not randomly) and may face technological/political challenges but here it's not clear that these structures need to disappear.

Do you see a good way to factor in these things?
To contrast this, types help a LOT for me when developing something. The last thing you know are the implementation details of what you're doing, so I usually start by sketching what I want to do put, with some simple ADTs (algebraic data types, e.g. union/sum types and product types just to give something tangible). Then create a couple of functions I think make sense, give them an undefined for now in their function body, and align the types up from the inputs and outputs.

Now, here's where you usually hear people praise dynamically typed languages—I want to change the design, because I still prototyping. How do I do this? Just change the types (ADTs)!

After changing my design, the compiler will now let me know where my functions don't make sense anymore. Contrast this with when I usually dev in a dynamical language, I end up running my program again at this step, finding out that one function over here didn't like that I'm now passing a string down instead of an Intel, another function was expecting a boolean, but now I'm returning the result instead, etc.

The saying that static languages are not great for prototyping needs to die. They are magnificent, you just need to have a conversation with the compiler instead of fighting it.

Of course, this all assumes a language with a sophisticated enough type system, e.g. Haskell, OCaml, Idris, PureScript, Elm (somewhat), Rust (depending on your do domain), etc.
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> But at a time when every engineer wanted to work on AI, self-driving cars or cryptocurrencies, a SaaS startup with modest, sporadic growth wasn’t very attractive.

Were they looking to hire in the SF/SV area only? I enjoy these kinds of projects (though wasn't & am not looking for a FT role), and I know a few others who do — but because we’re not driven by the hype train, we don’t live in the normal ‘tech’ areas.

Further down the article I see they were on the 'peninsula' (not sure where that is) and didn't want to become a remote team. But if they weren't in SF, there must be programmers around who enjoy data work, not buzzword-tech?
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> You're not helping minorities by pointing out that their success in life will be mostly due to luck, you're just giving them excuses to not try harder.

You really think they’re not trying hard enough? What is trying hard to you?

I don’t know if you’re American but it’s not unusual for black Americans to work twice as hard as their white counterparts to receive equal recognition, or success.
Yes, if it wasn't for Github, we would probably all have been using Mercurial which is simpler and more user friendly.
> While not cost effective in the slightest

I looked it up, and underground storage seems to cost about the same as launching into space with falcon heavy launches, at about 1700$ per kg.

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/business/underground-nuclear-waste-fa...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Rockets-What-is-cost-of-sending-1-kg-w...
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If they are famous they can probably withstand the occasional flop, although I suppose writers, actors etc., have been known to fall out of fashion entirely.
Nobody can say for sure. However the music is why the album sold, and I think why people want to associate themselves by buying t-shirts and posters.
Camus’ Feeling of the Absurd
Would this artist have made any money if they had assigned all rights and not ownership to the client? No.

So what's the difference?
The ACH Advantage
Even if the artist wasn't presumptuous, what does it matter?
Is this short ratio atypical? I presume it involves some major institutional investors being against TSLA, but is there a good way to determine who?
Huffman suggested the machine could say something like, “I’m the Google assistant and I’m calling for a client.” More experiments are planned for this summer, he noted.

Another Google employee working on the assistant seemed to disagree. “We don’t want to pretend to be a human,” designer Ryan Germick said when discussing the digital assistant at a developer session.
If you are making that argument, you should refer to the ICLR deadline, which is well earlier, but still after July 2017.
The manner of the flop is important as well. The reason Peter Molyneux's reputation has taken such a pummelling over Godus is the way he handled - or mishandled - the crowdfunding.
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