skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less about depth vs fluff than sustained focus and engagement vs scattered, rapid micro-doses of information. Yes, many people read both tweets and novels, but they have different demands and the brain adapts. Somebody who exclusively reads tweets could be less adapted to effectively engaging with a novel than somebody who reads both novels and tweets, and both people would be less effective than somebody who exclusively reads novels. That hierarchy would in turn be inverted with respect to effectiveness at consuming rapid, scattered chunks of information.

I'm not a neuroscientist, I just don't think it makes sense to say "well that can't be true because not reading novels for a while also makes you worse at reading novels". Identifying an additional cause for a given symptom doesn't disprove the validity of all other causes.
There is a plot of warm-up curves for this specific example. Search for "To make the analysis of that benchmark complete, here is a plot with warm-up curves".

However, it is true that the warm-up and memory usage are something we need to improve. We're working on providing native image [1] of FastR. With that, both the warm-up and memory usage shold get close to GNU-R.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilatio...
> People routinely get away with massive theft from the state in less developed countries, but they rely on being able to move the wealth to somewhere more stable so they can keep it.

For those not super tuned-in to international politics, Putin's regime in Russia thrives on exactly the type of behavior, and the Maginitsky Acts passed by the US and several other countries are designed to fetter the kleptocracy by taking away the safe places to keep stolen cash.
...until the sugar fuel in the coating runs out.
I tried reading 451 once, since it seemed up my alley. I got about a chapter in, put it down and never picked it up again. It wasn't that I didn't like the book (I don't remember if I did), but I just happened to get really busy right after that and just forgot that I ever started reading.

Maybe if I had read it I would understand the importance of having an attention long enough to finish the book. Thing is if I had that attention span the lesson would be lost on me since I'm already reading the book.

In other words, a book teaching the importance of reading books is teaching a pointless lesson.
Www? How is this model sustainable? Do I have any incentive to setup a webserver?
Power is not measured by your ability to walk away from a deal, but by your next best alternative if you do walk away.

Lets not pretend like every deal not made at gunpoint was some how made by parties of equal power.
Something that on modern systems is only kind of replicated with COM/.NET alongside PowerShell, and it fails short of what was possible.

Something I have always felt was a killer-feature of the Windows and Office platforms, and something the industry is moving away from. I never saw what you describe, but I'm sad to increasingly lose what interop we've had since the 1990s and 2000s in exchange for cross platform support, security of one kind or another, and silo'd cloud services.

But then again, what you describe sounds worse not better. Like half "wow, malware playground", and half "I just wanted a nutcracker but all I have available is this hammer factory and the machine shop which built it". Would I see the past differently if I started there, then moved to this present? Would I see COM interop differently if I had started in a world of Apps with constrained interop based on a "share this content with a link" popups?

Along with "if everything's top priority, nothing is", and "one size fits nobody very well", if a system is configurable for any task, does that mean it fits no task very well? A set of magnetic letters on a fridge door lets you rearrange the words to say whatever you want, but that doesn't make it "better than all novels".
Because if you can't buy food and shelter, YOU DIE. The company's worries are less severe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17386609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714453

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=PeerTube%20points%3E20&sort=by...
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"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics"
Because they absolutely do. A company that loses an employee likely isn't going to suffer. A person that loses or cannot get a job absolutely is.

"Contracts only happen by mutual consent."

That's not true in the least. When your alternative is to starve, one cannot really call that "mutual consent".
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Is he? To me he comes off as the quintessential rich Silicon Valley outsider nerd. His path has been so singular and so rewarding that he gives the impression of someone who doesn't need to be the least bit concerned about how he expresses himself.

From a street hobo, that gets you instantly dismissed, but there's a counter-intuitive aspect where if you're a Jaron Lanier, it just further underscores that you're Jaron Lanier and can do as you like. Because he is not trying to maximize trust in any way, he comes off as plausible even when expressing stuff that's unusual.

For instance, his reaction to 'how do you define a BUMMER platform?'. He essentially said, "I know Russian Intelligence made special effort to control this, this and this platforms, so define it as those!"

I'd not heard about the specific agencies he cited, but I've personally seen all sorts of sketchiness going down in every platform he listed, and it clicked. I stuck 'em all in a folder with each other, and they do seem to belong together.

I can think of people who're purportedly much more trustworthy, that I would not accept their statements on things like that without investigation. But I've heard from Jaron before and he's always (a) speaking out about something with NO concern for how his statements will come across, and (b) citing stuff that he's deeply familiar with. There are times I've looked into his details and found them interesting and all he said they were, so it only underscores the impression of him as the Cassandra truth-teller, privy to important things that are typically overlooked.

Maybe he consciously adopts that manner for that very purpose. In marketing it's always best if you can brand yourself using the core truths of yourself: then you can't get it wrong, or slip up and reveal inconsistency. He may take pains to seem the raving prophet.
Let's not make this an "us vs. them" thread, that doesn't help anybody.
There's nothing wrong with the idea of having multirole aircraft. Hell, the EuroFighter was originally designed as an air superiority fighter, but is used for a variety of ground attack missions as well. And the F-35 isn't intended to replace the B2 Spirit stealth bomber, nor the A-10 (though the USAF would really like to); it is meant to replace the F/A-18 and F-15, which are themselves multirole aircraft.

The issue with the F-35 isn't that it is intended to perform both air superiority and ground attack missions. The basic objection to the F-35 is designing a single airframe with several variants capable of conventional takeoff and landing (F35-A), short takeoff and vertical landing (F35-B), and catapult assisted takeoff and arrested recovery (F35-C). These are completely different ways of taking off and landing, with different design constraints, and it is difficult to create an airframe that can be modified to perform any of them. That's the primary philosophical objection to the F35, at least. There's another whole debate about whether we need aircraft dedicated for the close air support role (like the A-10), and the rest of the complaints are specific to F35 design choices.
Hoping to avoid injuries, computer gamers get physical training
Open-core is free. We'll monetize support & tools we build around it!
By my understanding, this research has identified a small number of epigenetically regulated genes that affect the ability of two haploid sets to combine into a viable zygote.

The researchers proved their effect by knocking them out, probably with a CRISPR/Cas9-like deactivation complex. Future developments will have to instead epigenetically de-regulate and artificially re-regulate those target genes in order to produce a healthy adult organism.

They may eventually be able to make the haploid set from a stem cell masquerade as either the set from an egg or the set from a sperm, as required.
Ok. Tell me something he gets wrong, and why it's wrong.
I think the population you're observing here are people who first joined a FAANG before 2014 (since I imagine most people stayed for their initial four-year grant given FANNG stock performance). Facebook (not sure about the others) in 2014 had ~2k engineers IIRC, but Google IIRC had like 10-15k engineers around that time. The gap has closed in recent years, but looking at current engineering numbers isn't the right approach IMO.
Ex-Amazon engineer here. Worked for ~4 years in the Prime Music team. Contrary to popular belief, I had incredible time at Amazon. Learned a lot, good work life balance, progressed to L5 etc. Primary reason I quit is to start something of my own and not live under a draconian H1-B visa that treats people like second class citizens (will save H1-B rant for some other time).

What am I doing now?

I enjoy building dev tools. I am currently building ReviewNB (https://reviewnb.com) that helps with Jupyter Notebook diffs and commenting. I built https://nurtch.com earlier this year to help Dev/Ops teams write executable incident runbooks.

How?

I moved back from Seattle to New Delhi, India. Cost of living is less than $2000 per month which gives me enough time to work on my projects without being stressed financially.
I presume we're talking about long running programs otherwise the conversation isn't really super useful since for any program, short or long memory is reclaimed when a program exits (well, at least on any modern OS).
Python is older than Java and now has optional type-checking. Golang is ten years old and runs at Google. Rust is on its way and a safe language by design. And there are other floss options.
Ok, then find another way to measure developer productivity, or reliability in production, or customer features delivered.

If you can’t find a measurable benefit to a refactoring (or anything else, really) then maybe it was not worth doing in the first place.
Isn't all telemetry data currently copyrighted? Streetview? Pictures of a street? Satellite images?

Why would it be public domain?

Honest question, I'm not understanding how telemetry data is different than airborne laser scanner data, Streetview, map data, satellite pictures, etc.

Or even server logs generated by an iPhone for Apple, Tesla's car data logs, etc.
If Trump is good for anything, it is for complaining about contractors charging too much money. Hopefully he complains.
| Are there significant research advantages to super-fast turnaround (less than 15 minutes, enabled by massive parallelism) in this domain?

No, the 15 minute turn around time is not important given the dataset we have at the moment, but showing that it was possible to do was considered important from a science perspective, because of the upcoming LSST telescope. LSST will generate an amount of data equivalent to the full dataset we had available every 3-4 days, so being able to scale this up far enough to accommodate that as well as future planned extensions to the algorithm, necessitated showing scale. The actual science runs by the project are usually done on a few hundred nodes over a couple of hours.

| Do you feel like a massively parallel system with Xeon Phi nodes is a good match for this problem? Or did the code get optimized to run at high scale on Cori Phase II because that's where you were given compute resources?

Cori Phase II worked well for this problem, though I wouldn't be surprised if GPUs wouldn't have been a better fit (though harder to program of course and at the time the Julia GPU infrastructure probably wasn't quite ready yet - even KNL was a struggle since LLVM was still in the process of completing support for it). The Celeste project is still ongoing (working on science goals more so than extra parallelism or performance improvements at the moment), but I wouldn't be surprised if there was an attempt to run on Summit at some point, especially now that Julia's GPU compiler is much more mature.

One of the biggest problems we failed to anticipate actually was getting the data from disk to compute units quickly enough. Early in the project we crashed the interconnect on the machine, so for the challenge run we weren't allowed to do anything other than pull the data directly from disk (lest we bring down the machine again while other challenge runs were ongoing). I haven't really looked at the interconnect on Summit, so I can't say how well it would handle that.

| Does this approach effectively scale down to e.g. a university that can afford a large storage array and beefy commercial servers

Yes, it scales fairly well. In fact you could probably do it with spot instances on a public could fairly well. The biggest thing would once again be getting the data to the compute units quick enough. That's quite demanding on the network (and ideally you want to pre-stage the data in memory). Certainly it's feasible to do this on a large-ish university cluster on the SDSS data set in a few hours. Probably less feasible on LSST data once that comes online, but maybe by that point improvements in computation speed and storage speed will have made up for that and it'll become feasible again.
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I know at least ten SREs at Google with ten years service.
The article only states that the share of venture capital deployed in the United States is declining and not the total amount. The total amount is increasing. This is to be expected and this is not surprising by any means.

Article states that investment outside the United States is increasing at a faster rate. That makes sense since its a combination of trying to catch up from a lower base and a faster growth rate in gdp.

The us share of world gdp is 23%, if venture capital was proportionally distributed across the world the us would only get 23% of total venture capital spending.
A good guess, but that's not the reason. She and many in her group use Snapchat and Instagram (if I have those names right - I've never even opened a page, if they have pages, on one of these services) knowing that at least a handful of parents established accounts specifically to keep an eye on things. They don't care. They even happily interact with the parents on the platforms. They just don't like Facebook. When they want to have (what they think are) private conversations they use WhatsApp, etc.
Out of curiosity, what risk in last paragraph have you in mind? What is in stakes and what can you loose?
I would like to see more prototyping of techniques that could be used on Mars to create materials. It seems there is a lot of handwaving but not much real-world engineering. Before we haven't run a long-term trial for surviving in some desert on earth it would be irresponsible to fly to Mars.
Ok, we've reworded the title above to try to reflect that.
It will probably depend on how noticeable the change is. Sleep/wake cycles are broadly controlled by internal clocks whose timing is synced to day/night cycles via light sensing cells different from those we use to see with.

From personal experience, though, most of us probably know that a bright light in the middle of the night can wake is even if we are nowhere near the point in our circadian cycle where we would be waking up. But a dim light, like a candle, probably won't.

So, I'd expect nocturnal animals in places that are already fairly dark, such as bats that live in caves, to probably sleep right through it, because it will only make a minor change to the light in the cave. Nocturnal animals that live in more exposed places might react, either to the change in light or to the change in temperature.

A bit of Googling indicates this may indeed be the case. Cave bats usually don't react. Forest dwelling bats have been seen to come out.

It would be interesting to do some experiments to see if it is the change in light or the change in temperature that is waking them.
Hey, we started porting DataModel (where all the data ops happens) in Scala but then put it on hold.

Will figure out the effort and roadmap and then keep you updated on the plan.
FWIW, going far over budget is pretty typical on gov contracts like this. Often times everyone knows this is going to happen from the start.

It would be surprising (out of character) if this didn't happen.
Asterisks in Python
Duolingo achieves 50% female ratio of new engineering college graduate hires
wow - 28 people on the about page and the only woman is the diversity director.
Dealing with retention departments
> do we turn off this trust-by-default gene? It’s really an evolutionary dead end.

Why is trust by default the dead end, and not people lying? Is being unarmed an evolutionary dead end as well, because one armed person can take advantage of an unarmed one?

Wouldn't the ideal world be one where you could trust everyone, rather than one where nobody trusts anyone? Why on earth would the latter be preferable?
What about it? At the time it was signed, it was enforceable. So the lawyer would be fine.
It’s time Migrating to Java 11
I was born in Uzbekistan. I lived 22 years in Uzbekistan. My parents had no money but in 1994, my father bought me russian clone of ZX Spectrum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0...

Basically, in 1990s many of us, used what was popular in 1980s in UK.

My father wasn't technical person but I fell in love with ZX Spectrum from day one! So I just learned it all myself.

Schools were terrible, I mostly skip all classes. But ZX Spectrum is very simple machine, so it's possible for 10 year old kid to learn it without external guidance.

Funny fact, I started working in Internet club in Uzbekistan in 2003 for 10 USD per month. In 2004, I discovered wonderland called Knoppix and FreeBSD. Then I learned programming in Bash. After that I learned programming in C because Kernighan and Ritchie books was so thin and at the same time all Unix/Linux was written in C.

More details on how I learned programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508460
sure, but there's plenty of other reasons why JS isn't a contender in this interactive-data-analysis space
An important question to answer is why this wouldn't be an issue with moonlight.
In my case I was mostly referring to the fact that I left a lot of acquisition money on the table at Google, but it was totally worth it. I've been lucky with what I'm doing now and it's worked out very well financially, and the freedom is priceless, especially now I have a kid.
You know pre-paid burner phones are a reasonable option to harden security at your own pace, right?

No one is forcing you to use the same number for everything. And don't complain that it's just too expensive and unrealistic to maintain more than one phone number, because that is simply untrue.

Yes, I am aware of NIST's guidelines, regarding SMS as a layer of multi-factor authentication [0]. Those guidelines are for large organizations that dictate user behavior in a top-down hierarchy. Individual security profiles are much more flexible, and don't require the same degree of adherence to recommended practices.

[0] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
If you think a non-compete is bad, look at something like a non-disparagement clause.

I'd recommend anyone who encounters a Non-disparagement clause (in this case strictly in a employment agreement) in a contract walk away from said contract.

I am not a lawyer this is not legal advice.
I might not be understanding correctly, but it doesn't seem like you're being paid for the content you're hosting on PeerTube.

The model feels different than a webserver where you are either hosting your own content (and paying for that) or charging others to host their content on your server. Or am I misunderstanding?
This article made me go back and play with https://ncase.me/trust/ my favorite society simulator.
Put a hard limit on clauses that may be severed without invalidating the entire contract. Two, perhaps. Three strikes, and you're out.
I was a student of 42 for almost a year, before I switched to Holberton.

In my opinion 42 is a very good school for those who already have a lot of experience and want to learn a new skill set, without the need of any support. If you want to qualify for a free bed in their dorms, you have to complete very complicated projects in a very short amount of time, making it difficult for a beginner to succeed.

Holberton school does not only provide peer-to-peer learning, but also rely on the community local tech (and non-tech) community: mentors (SWE/SRE professionals), school alumni and students.
Even though there are no teachers, there is a constant support from the staff and the larger community to help you understand the concepts, build your career, especially for those who came with zero experience and completely different backgrounds.
As a student, you also have to work hard and have deadlines, but following any deadline, you get peer learning sessions and whiteboarding sessions to make sure everyone understands the concepts. We have to re-create the projects from scratch but on the whiteboard, explaining every single step and algorithms, asking and answering the questions of everyone. This way, they ensure that everyone can be successful.

School 42 is a great school, but was simply not the right choice for me and in my opinion, Holberton School is a much better choice. But as always, it depends on your background, challenge, context and motivation.

I never heard about Lambda, so I can’t comment. Seems like a great program too, but online.
I once got put under a similar contract, while I was employed. (part of a merger). The alternative was to be out of a job with a pregnant wife. I later talked to a labor lawyer, who told me it was essentially unenforceable, and he was >95% certain I would win, but the contract also stipulated that it would be tried in NY (A very far away from me place) and that it would probably cost me $5k-$10k to defend it.