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What if a more useful definition of age isn't your solar revolution count, but (mitochondrial function, concentration of tau in your prefrontal cortex, degree of autoimmune attack on your joints, reaction time, etc.)?

Then age starts to look as definitional and mutable as names or gender. Why not petition to change it?

Anecdotes: I know someone age 53 whom I would not trust to add two numbers and get the right answer. OTOH, my wife's uncle, who died two years ago at 91, was somebody I consulted regularly until his death about MacOS issues and what DSLR I should use to photograph microwave plasmas. He was an MD. Go figure.

I think definition of age deserves more discussion.
How many people are there in the world for whom you could say, with reasonable confidence, that you know what gender they are? (This is not a trick question.)

How many of their chromosomes have you seen?
> This is the whole point of the borrow checker which is to ensure data-race free code.

That's awesome! I never knew Rust had safer concurrency. I'm quite keen to learn it - just waiting for the time.
I don't find these sorts of articles valuable.

The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying.

If we remove all the filler in this article (more or less the entire article), it amounts to "be okay at multiple things rather than trying to be good at something".

As per usual with incredibly vague life advice from unaccomplished people, this isn't always a good idea to apply. Being excellent at something (or at least very good) has its merits. For example, I don't want someone who can write "Hello, World!" in 30 programming languages. I want someone who understands even just one programming language inside and out, and really puts the effort into improving.

> "Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds Of Success"

No it doesn't.

Bonus points if you have a modal that pops up to sucker you into a free mailing list in hopes of converting you to an over-priced life advice seminar / program / book.

There is no secret bullet to productivity, and paying $197 for this snake oil salesman's course (how long do you want to bet that "sale" has been going on for?) is not going to help you. Eat well. Sleep. Maintain relationships with people you care about. Work hard, pay attention to what you're doing and think critically. That's all there is to it.

> "Read over 500 books"

Someone bragging about the number of books they read is hilarious.

Congratulations on $1.2m in revenue and a business degree, but that doesn't make you worth listening to.
Power law at work.

Very valid question at the end.
No one can afford settling at moderate skill levels these days
I'd go the other way, I want to identify as a 70 year old and get my social security cheques.

Maybe this is how we implement basic income.
Worth reading for those concerned with rigging in much smaller crypto markets
Can say the same thing about age, no?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374305
I doubt the Linux kernel will ever allow non-C code, so the toolchain is not really a concern.

And I hope other projects don't trade off safety/productivity/etc. for portability to obscure hobby architectures.
I'd recommend getting a couple different crystals, at least one at 7.030Mhz, which is likely going to be more popular than the typical 7.023Mhz they come with.
Author here; the arxiv version can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08297. Not much different from OP's linked version, but it includes citations to other interesting Julia AD/TPU-related papers that utilize this technique.

Happy to answer any questions, at least until I turn in for the night :)
Progess means updating legal and cultural definitions. What do you think happened with gender and marriage?
No evidence of communication: OTRv4
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It is hyperoptimization, because most people do not do a rigorous cost benefit analysis of all their behavior based on the marginal costs and utility of their time. Most people barely do any kind of optimization, in fact. They might decide not to vote because they're cynical or lazy, but that's (strictly speaking) different from rationally choosing not to vote because you consistently avoid doing things which are a net negative in value compared to your time.

I've already proven for you that a single vote matters. You can reject that proof, just like you can reject a proof that the square root of 2 is irrational, but you wouldn't be doing so on a logical basis. That covers the positive question of whether or not your individual vote matters - any argument against this basically boils down to, "But I don't feel like it matters, because so many other individual people are voting."

As for the normative case of whether or not to vote - again, I'm open to your time being so expensive you shouldn't vote in principle. But in practice, I'd be pretty skeptical of most people trying to make that claim. If Jeff Bezos and homeless people alike are willing to vote, a plea to the value of your time isn't that compelling, even in the ivory tower of game theory. If such a person spent (cumulatively) an hour or two without deriving any productivity from their time on election day, they should have voted if they were otherwise capable of doing so.
Why do you care how many internet points you have?
It isn't a binary choice between "rockstar" and "mediocrity". There's a huge area between those two: "semi-rad".

That's the point. Learn to recognize when you've achieved a level of skill where you're qualified more than most, and don't have to double your effort and time to get to the pinnacle. The opportunity cost may not be worth it if you can otherwise spend it pursuing other interests.
WaveGlow: A Flow-Based Generative Network for Speech Synthesis
I’ve written quite a bit of Mercury for fun, and I think it’s a great language. It feels more like writing in a statically-typed functional language (like OCaml) than a logic language like Prolog, despite the syntax and presence of relations. I’d love to see more people and companies adopt it; it’s a shame how important technology popularity is for most companies.
The navigator.storage API for persistent storage and quota estimates
There’s a huge difference between the feedback loop of playing an instrument and the one-way experience of listening to a band, though.
Source code: https://github.com/NVIDIA/waveglow
What's the most lightweight, portable ham radio?

Is it comparable to a smartphone?
'metric_name text' is actually a tag-value list. Many TSDB's allows you to match data by tag. Each tag should be represented by a column in your example.

Single table design will be prone to high read/write amplification due to data alignment. Usually, you need to read many series at once so your query will turn into full table scan. Or it will read a lot of unneeded data which happened to be located near the data you need. Writes will be slow since your key starts with metrics name. Imagine that you have 1M series and each series gets new data point every second. In your scema it will result in 1M random writes.

Cardinality of the table will go through the roof, BTW. Every data point will add the key. Good luck dealing with this.
You didn't address the anti-trust claim.

Regarding the rest of your comment, apple are NOT going after your freedom to run apps of your choosing (sidetone: kind of an oblique and overly dramatic way of phrasing it, don't you think?). They do instead offer a different model for the design of their mobile operating system that relies on stringent access control to both improve simplicity and security.

Listen, I'm fine with you not agreeing with how iOS is designed and how Apple acts a gatekeeper for distributing applications. It's not a perfect system, and it definitely has it's downsides. But you DO have the freedom to buy any tablet/smartphone you wish (or to not own one at all), and apple isn't doing anything to restrict said freedom.

Do you also not recognize the benefits of the way iOS works? I'm not even asking you to concede that the design has a net-positive. But you have to admit, there are SOME benefits of iOS' design. As a personal anecdote, I can tell you that my mom absolutely disliked personal computers (and digital cameras) and refused to use them for years. She started using an iPad maybe five years ago and she absolutely loves it, and I've never once had to remove malware from her computer, help her try to recover corrupted or lost photos, or any of the other mundane and often complicated tasks a 'regular' computer user would have to deal with. (This applies to macOS / windows / linux, etc).

I encourage to reconsider your position. I'm not saying that Apple doesn't have faults, and their implementations/decisions are perfect. But your statements are histrionic and you come across as a bit hysterical.
Oh man. This is amazing. Going to require at least one full evening to figure out WTF I am looking at though :)
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I'm guessing you're in the US.
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> "This manipulation was allegedly done through chat rooms with such names as “The Cartel,” “The Mafia” and “The Bandits’ Club,”

If this is true, it would seem most unwise to discuss your cartel in a chatroom named "The Cartel".

How high-level would employees in these alleged rooms be likely to rank at?
Yes, being able to pass ownership of a Vec to another thread is important, because otherwise the two threads have to coordinate over when to call its destructor.
I prefer https://tachyons.io/ as a CSS framework that avoids any pre-styled themes and just provides building blocks. Great for SPA/component UIs.
> Don't we already have a world where machines are the ones producing our needs? There's that Discovery Channel series called "How it's Made" where you see it's practically all robots. Do you agree?

I don't agree, in that we haven't gone far enough with regards to automation. It's still much too expensive, putting it out of reach of anyone without deep pockets or access to capital markets.

> All the technologies for mass production so far has indeed funneled to the top huh? And this I believe has also slowed down advancement in technology (unless it's something that is very profitable).

The majority of productivity gains has been captured by capital, yes: https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTuo.jpg (the dismantling of labor unions in the US is also a contributor to wages being held down, but that is out of scope for this comment)

> You'll be called Socialist. Giving what the laborers deserve is Socialism. "Share the means of production!"

I identify as a Democratic Socialist politically. The distinction is important.
Employee Onboarding App is a free Google Sheets add-on that lets you send as many customized offer letter email with PDFs attached as you want and also add new employees to your Gsuite, Google Analytics, and onboarding Trello board. Saves time to onboard employees especially for solo entrepreneurs and small HR teams.
”Age, on the other hand, is the number of times you've circled the sun since you were born.”

For now, that’s a reasonable approximation, but it already fails due to relativistic effects in the ISS, where astronauts age about 0.01 second a year less than when they would stay at sea level and at sea level speed, and it will definitely fail due if we ever leave earth, say by colonizing Mars, where a year is 687 earth days.
“Theta phase acts as a clocking mechanism, organizing alternating attentional states”

From the research paper linked to by article.
Curious what people are using css frameworks for these days. I used to use minimal ones to get some kind of grid support. But now I just use css grid. Are people still using frameworks due to needing to support old browsers?
That's not quite the same as running a red light. In many places in the US, it is legal to make a right turn when the traffic light is right, provided that you slow down to a complete stop first. In practice, if there aren't any cars or pedestrians around, many people just slow down to ~3mph and keep going (a "rolling" stop, which is not quite legal).
Time is relative though. (admittedly for these purposes it makes little difference, but I presume the question of age should be assumed to be from your reference frame, how many revolutions of the sun (Sol) around Earth have you been alive for.
Perhaps the issue is with the constant use of the adjective "modern" in many new libraries and frameworks. It implies that there are no other notable benefits than the implementation being based on newer technologies and development practices.

Is it faster (than what's current out there), more stable or easier to use, would be the answer that most prospective users look for...
I like fast, small web pages because not everyone has a broadband connection at all times. Can you tell me what other mature, tested, well-supported CSS frameworks have a feature set that large in less than 25% of Bootstrap's size?
God forbid someone tries to monetize a project he's spent over two and a half years developing/maintaining..
It's always mind-blowing to hear the precision and scientific rigor of the ancient Buddhist monks from two millennia ago and how they managed to create what is ultimately technology to observe the phenomena that comprise consciousness to the smallest perceivable level.
I was originally against transgenderism having legal authority because of its effects on other methods of identification (like age). I suppose with that battle finished, this is the inevitable successor.

Well, I'm not going to be on the losing side this time. Here's to hoping for an age-fluid world in 5 years!
Anyone interested in this approach may also like Tailwind https://tailwindcss.com/
New release, but I just felt HNers needed to know about it.
That’s interesting, the career steps you took.

May I ask how much is the general pay in those “high paying jobs”?
Why even encourage them? Assuming that most of them will vote Democrat?
Ask HN: Have you created anything with the Pocket API?
The first time I heard the spotlight analogy from a neuroscientist, I asked for what backs this up and the response I got was, "it's been shown" with a tone that made it clear no argument or discussion was allowed. Later I found out it comes from some behavioral studies that are pretty contrived.
Search for rtl-sdr. It's a 10$ DVB dongle that can also work as generic RF front end. This plus GNU radio or gqrx and you can already receive some fm and ham radio signals
The same "logic" could just as well be applied to prostitution. What is it about your life that's worth more than theirs? A pile of money?

And wouldn't that blood do more good in a blood bank where it could help people who actually need help?

I'm pretty sure that if they had enough money, they rather wouldn't go through with this. Doesn't taking advantage of less fortunate humans bother you at all?
Black male privilege is a thing...

https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/content/black-male-privile...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/black-male-what-the-blac...
90% compression on time series is not viable unless you have some very specific dataset.
There was that story about a male some 49 odd years old, who wanted to be a 12 year old girl or what.

Hard to change the fact having fathered children.
Sadly this also puts laptop users in the situation that they always need to vpn to the office otherwise sites that use HSTS will break either when on or outside the corporate networks, depending on when you visited the site first.
Yeah no, clearly some abbrupt break happens after precisely the 18th or 21st revolution around the sun /s.
The AGP bus was invented to remove the bottleneck for video cards the year this article was written, which wasn't phased out until PCIe became common in the mid 00s.
I've always thought it strange this project isn't more popular.
Well, if you want to be pedantic, there's already non-C code in the kernel, it just doesn't make it into the runtime. I've seen Linus's opinion on C++ in the kernel, but I've never seen anyone explicitly state that no other languages would be accepted. I'm sure that it's something that's always possible even if very unlikely right now.

Blanketing every architecture LLVM doesn't support that GCC does an "obscure hobby architecture" is not really a great way to look at things imo. I haven't looked into it but I'm pretty sure outside the bubble of desktop computers there are plenty of important uses of Linux on less common architectures, I would assume mostly embedded systems.
Excellent point. I too fetishize “progress”, which is why at my most recent birthday I progressed from 25 to 900.

That isn’t to say I was born in or even alive in the year 1118 AD. But I’m 900 just the same because I feel like it.
> (I totally deserved it though)

The commonality of this qualifier kind of disturbs me.

You were a kid. Kids have no idea what they're doing or what's going on and don't deserve shit.
Associate level, or really, really dumb Vice Presidents
Do you mean to say it’s a good read or a useless read? Your choice of words confuse me.
Yep, that's exactly what I was remembering. Though I disagree that rewriting coreutils in Rust is a good place to start, there are definitely some valid points in there. I wonder if the i386 situation has been resolved at this point.
Gender provides close to a 50-50 split, which is not provided by all demographics. But if you want to use height or any other demographic to analyze the proposal of two seats per political office, then please go ahead and analyze it that way instead of getting stuck on gender politics.
Ask HN: What are some assets that you've bought?
From where I come, people generally buy apartments which gets them a monthly income in the form of rent. I would like to know what other things can be used as assets.
I think improvements for products can be devided into positives (e.g. brings value, new features) and solving frustrations (bugs, slow speed, bad UX, etc). By listening to all user complaints you can almost complete eradicate frustrations - which makes your product fun to use and can massively reduce churn.
Ah... Emile Ratelband. Since "Tsjakkaa!" isn't so much on the television any more he craving for attention. He has been doing other tricks to get some attention in the past and this is also one of these tricks. I don't think anyone in my country takes this guy serious anymore.
Spectre is pretty good. I've used it in several projects. It works well.
Branding isn't pricing power. If you see a McDonald's, you know what's in there. It may not be a premium product, but it's consistent, and consistency is worth something.

Buying a branded product is really buying two separate products. One is the commodity and the other is certification of the commodity by the brand. People might pay more for a product certified to be a known quantity than one that isn't, but that isn't the same as market power because certification can be a commodity too. Some random hole in the wall can't compete with McDonald's on being known and consistent, but Burger King and Wendy's can, which is sufficient to keep their prices in check.

Charging more because you're providing something some competitors don't have is not market power when some different competitors do have it.
In philosophy, one opinion is against the notion of the more fundamental question. I see that as institutional philosophy handing off its responsibility, quite paradoxically, because the argument is directed against basal sciences (bio, chem etc.) which give phil a run for its money.
Here is a video about them

https://youtu.be/0b46E4mp_V8
> Once these middlebox vendors catch up to TLS 1.3, what's to stop them from breaking the supported versions extension the same way they broke the client version field

Nothing. It will happen just the same, so TLS 1.4 will have a “actually, this is the extension to use to determine the version”-extension
> while American parents don't even hit their kids. I remember being hit until I stopped crying. And that's considered normal
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I was an American kid hit (many times) by parents. What you find "funny" is, well, bullshit. Consider that abuse is abuse regardless of demographic.
Do you have the same redundant infrastructure and network connection? Buying isn't always an alternative to data center
so good advice will be:
just read technical articles that develop your skills
They did that for TLS 1.2. It took the better part of a decade before it became usable and could be enabled by browsers as a version to try.

Being able to use the improved protocol now is very nice.
I wasn't aware that the Xeon Gold CPUs (61xx instead of Xeon E5 or E7 x6xx models) also support the Intel Memory Drive Technology. If yes, then great! Or are you going to use a different server for the IMDT test?
Thank you! It's comments like yours that keep me writing.
And as to your point on what draws attention.. yes, agreed. Recognizing that is a step and I remain optimistic.
Compare Dupont Circle to Connecticut & K st. Down at K & Conn. they need to use at least 5 traffic officers to direct the flow during peak times.

Meanwhile Dupont circle handles P street, 19th street, Connecticut avenue, Massachusetts avenue, and New Hampshire avenue. Plus there is the pedestrian traffic from the park and the metro stop at Dupont.

Can you imagine doing that with only traffic lights? How many officers would be required to massage that mess?

Unless you propose building a spaghetti mixer, I can't imagine a better system for drivers or pedestrians.
Whenever a language pops up on HN I excitedly look at it.

Unfortunately, the documentation, FAQ and User Guide all failed in succinctly giving me the information I need: what can it do well, what does a known snippet look like implemented in <Lang>, how does it compare to other languages, etc.

I appreciate the fact that the documentation seems extensive and well-structured, but that is only helpful to persons who already know they are going to use the language (i.e. University Students in Melbourne?).
That's how I read it too. To people who haven't worked with metrics at scale though there is some good information and it's worth reading.

It blows my mind that businesses are willing to outsource metrics. When I worked at Amazon it was trivial to estimate the next quarter's results from the app metrics. Naturally this meant we were subject to trading restrictions.

If a monitoring company ever starts applying Google/Facebook style ethics with regards to exploiting the data their customers give them, they will be in an incredibly powerful position.
Erosion-Resistance and Explicit Contracts (2011)
Perhaps, but Go’s threading model uses a lot more memory than Erlang and Elixer and Go’s threading is handled in public memory, whereas Erlang and Elixir processes are all protected in private memory. Erlang and Elixir’s supervision tree is also pretty damn great. OTP is solid and has been thoroughly proven. Elixir also handles dependencies much better than Go, in my opinion. I’m sure Go is nice too, but I don’t think the backhanded compliment about Cowboy, Erlang, and Elixir is warranted.
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Interesting. I'm still researching GPU AD stuff and just skimmed your article.

AD is basically a code transformation method.

What's the most notable way the GPU in particular comes into play?

How does caching come into play? What about intrinsic condensing functions?