skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's also lower quality attention, I figure.

I'm not sure you can make that a blanket statement.

It's entirely possible to multi-task with a phone in your ear, especially with headphones, and it's also possible to focus completely on a series of text messages. You might be able to say that videoconferencing is necessarily higher-quality attention, but I wouldn't put chicanery past some organizations.
Also the people they hired for consulting was top notch.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silic...

https://medium.com/@timanglade/how-hbos-silicon-valley-built...
Anecdotally, I would need to be paid 3 times as much as I currently make to even consider moving to SF. And that 3 times is almost always outside (by 30%) the salary range for a parallel position in SF. I have more than 10 years of experience developing software. Every time I get pinged by a recruiter I do some snooping about the salary for the position (Glassdoor, LinkedIn, etc). 99% of the time, the salary range for the position would be a pay-cut (even with stock options). And no, I'm not overpaid based on my current position and where I live. I could easily leave and find another company that was willing to pay me the same salary within a 5 mile radius. Here are some additional metrics, my mortgage (owning a house in one of the most desirable areas in the city) is 1/6 of my monthly paycheck. My taxes are 10% of my monthly paycheck. I'm not saying any of this as a way to brag or show off. I'm pointing out that the quality of life I have would only drop off if I moved to a place like SF.
The rest of my comment (everything except the last sentence you quoted) was precisely about showing that the debate was about, and did cover, break, continue, early return, etc.

And yes, the examples given at the time of places were goto was useful are what would now be written with "break", "continue", etc., precisely because those were at risk of getting worse under a blanket "let's abolish goto" -- from which we can draw the conclusion that the debate at the time was indeed about them, and not merely about things like jumps into other functions.

If we're debating what Dijkstra's comment was about at the time, and what the ensuing debate was about (a historical question), IMO we should do that by reading/quoting the primary sources, and not each other's comments. :-) I think we actually agree BTW.

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Let me try rewording.

At the time Dijkstra wrote his letter, "goto" was being used in many ways. The controversy ignited by Dijkstra's letter was whether all those uses of goto should be abolished. (That's why there was any debate at all; if Dijkstra had only said "let's remove jumps inside another function" there wouldn't be as much disagreement.)

During this debate, people identified cases where "goto" was indeed necessary/useful, and those people were right, as we can see from the fact that some of those control flow mechanisms were introduced into languages under names like "break", to cover those examples.

And yes, more recent languages like C have relatively tame gotos as well, as you said in the original comment. Both sides can be said to have won some points thoroughly: Dijkstra's (and others') warning against the "disastrous effects" of the goto statement led to languages locking down the kinds of "goto" they provide, and the other side's examples of useful "gotos" (in the languages of the time) led to languages almost universally incorporating "break", "continue", early returns, error-handling mechanisms, etc., to widen the scope of control flow that was possible without "goto". Try programming in some of the common languages circa 1968 (which didn't have these) without using "goto", and you'll see why there was a debate. :-)

(Restricting Dijkstra's argument to only that part of it that eventually won thoroughly would make it appear that people were idiots for arguing against it, which is both historically inaccurate and ignores the influence from those arguments over current languages. And of course, restricting his argument to only the part that "lost" would make it seem like he was wrong and ignore his immense contribution, but I don't think I did that, did I? If I did, my apologies: my comment is relative to the present time, and what I think many people misunderstand about the debate historically.)
I'm still holding off adding eval() to Snigl [0]. Not because of JIT clashes, since it is a straight interpreter; but because of the can of worms it opens. The thing is that I have to compile code in some kind of context, and depending on what the code says, it may or may not be safe to throw the compiled code away once done. Which means that I'd have to deal with a growing mountain of compiled code or complicate the design to support a feature that's mostly the wrong answer.

https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
This is a pretty great article on the same subject from the New Yorker in 2016.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-v...

My favorite part:

>>>

During one visit to Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, about six writers sat in a conference room with Astro Teller, the head of GoogleX, who wore a midi ring and kept his long hair in a ponytail. “Most of our research meetings are fun, but this one was uncomfortable,” Kemper told me. GoogleX is the company’s “moonshot factory,” devoted to projects, such as self-driving cars, that are difficult to build but might have monumental impact. Hooli, a multibillion-dollar company on “Silicon Valley,” bears a singular resemblance to Google. (The Google founder Larry Page, in Fortune: “We’d like to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more things.” Hooli’s C.E.O., in season two: “I don’t want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place better than we do.”) The previous season, Hooli had launched HooliXYZ, its own “moonshot factory,” whose experiments were slapstick absurdities: monkeys who use bionic arms to masturbate; powerful cannons for launching potatoes across a room. “He claimed he hadn’t seen the show, and then he referred many times to specific things that had happened on the show,” Kemper said. “His message was, ‘We don’t do stupid things here. We do things that actually are going to change the world, whether you choose to make fun of that or not.’ ” (Teller could not be reached for comment.)

Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”
They got too popular.
I think microgravitational brain oscillations related to intermittent contacting of crystal-based planars should be explored more deeply.
did the authors of that show ever apologize?
I think the log is just the utility function. You could substitute it with any non-linear utility function and it would've gave you another answer that makes sense for that utility.

The main takeaway is that a linear expected utility doesn't make sense.

It would've told you to bet all your wealth every game, which does result in a higher linear expected value, where you win (1+1.1)^N with probability 1/2^N at time N, but 0 otherwise. But no real human would take the bet of extreme high payoff at extremely rare chances with ruin otherwise.

Also see St. Petersburg paradox for a similar "paradox" resolved with expected utility theory.
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Using a laugh track.
How often do people in 2 or 3 own the entire voting share of their company, and just have a figurative board with no authority?
If you've every tried to deploy a deep learning based image to image search product, you will know the engineering challenges especially with the Approximate Nearest Neighbors infrastructure. This is a good progress in abstracting out that step!
So now if they add a specific copyright notice on the page that was getting scraped, the court might come back later and rule differently if scraping continues? Or am I misunderstanding.
>He strikes me as a genius when it comes to understanding human behavior

- Office Space, check!

- Idiocracy, check!

- Silicon Valley, check!

For Silicon Valley it helps he's actually worked for a startup, a hardware one at that.
I think TBBT started out fine, but over the time it it went from laughing with and about geeks to just laughing about geeks.
Unfortunately in the real world, with the best available technology, mining coal is dirty, the particulates can't be fully scrubbed, and coal ash is toxic.
Your efforts to illustrate potential solutions to coal’s issues at the point of consumption fail to consider production-side problems such as strip mining, slurry pits and ground water contamination.
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Fractional reserve hotdesking.
I did this project together with my colleague Paula (pksm here, @pksmoraes on Twitter). I am doing research on NLP, this was just one summer project for me. She will work on that project further. So yes, it is not dead! Submit a pull request if you like :)
I always describe Silicon Valley (the show) as being solidly in the Uncanny Valley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley). It's humorous and absurd, but at the same time so close to reality it's unsettling.
or laughing at nerds, blatantly so
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I don't know the last time the fuel gauge on our '81 VW camper worked (before we owned it, for sure). The trip odometer, however, continues to function fine. We haven't run out in the three years we've owned it.
yes, this is essentially the Clarifai product: use a CNN (without the softmax) as a feature extractor for images and then do ANN search on them in the embedding space.
I'm not sure, to be honest. I've always had to go through on-site intermediaries, after whose filtering pass I would pretty much downcheck everybody else.
Ford wants to get rid of that new-car smell.  why
White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent with Minorities
This is bad bad bad advice.

You can't write maintainable software which serves medium-term business goals faster just by blasting Dragonforce louder and chugging more Jolt. If your engineers already think it will take X time, then thats a strong signal that it will take 1.2X-5X time. The value of estimation is that it lets you intelligently cut the scope of a project or focus your attention where it makes the most sense. Intentionally deluding yourself or your team is like trying to teach yourself how to write a virtual memory system after staying up for 36 hours straight.

What business value is created by lying? What individual career value is created? None, just the destruction of trust.
Don't forget King of the Hill. That's a double check right there.
I'm resubmitting this because it was interesting and flagged for most likely dubious reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18488711

Someone commented that the headline is inaccurate:

> Headline is wildly misleading. The research actually says that they are less likely to use "words related to competence (that is, words about ability or status, such as 'assertive' or 'competitive')." Something like "White liberals use less assertive/forceful language when interacting with African-Americans" would be more appropriate.

> I agree that this could be seen as patronizing and problematic, however well-intentioned. But the headline is just awful.

It is not inaccurate. My reply to that person, which cannot go through because this submission was flagged:

No, the article covers what you just said in terms of political speeches, but the article also continues. They designed an experiment where people were given a task that involved word use, and certain words were associated with higher or lower competence (not to be confused with being related to competence). Example: sad vs. melancholy. Note that neither word has to do with competence, but the use of "melancholy" would be associated with someone who is more competent with the English language.

> The researchers found that liberal individuals were less likely to use words that would make them appear highly competent when the person they were addressing was presumed to be black rather than white. No significant differences were seen in the word selection of conservatives based on the presumed race of their partner. “It was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect,” Dupree says. “Even if it’s ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing.”
It all comes down to 2 things:

- If you're single, working at an office is good for you. Surround yourself with people who share a common interest. Yeah, it's work, but I'm sure you'll meet people who have similar interests outside of work. Go share a 2 bedroom apartment with someone else in downtown and enjoy the social life.

- If you're married (or even with kids), remote work is what you should be looking for so that you take away the bad energy you collect at the office and you don't bring it back home. You can spend more time with your family which is what matters the most. The bad energy includes a long commute to get to work since you can't afford living next to the office. Competitive environment and politics. Dress code, loud open space environments where you can't get anything done, constant distraction, having to fake working 8h straight sitting in front of a screen while anyone can look over your shoulders. You need to be able to afford a bigger home to host your family so you need to move far from your office.

You can get flexibility in both, not only remotely. As long as you're not forced to commute more than 30 min to work, usually Tech giants are flexible companies in terms of hours, etc.
When I take friends climbing for the first time, I start them on top-roping. That way they get used to how climbing works, without the fear of falling or having to learn how to climb down. (Down-climbing, even with extra handles, can be difficult when you've used up all of your energy getting to the top.) And they get to enjoy coming back down as a sort of victory lap.

After that, we go bouldering. There are plenty of intro and V1 problems they can do even on a first try, now that they've got a general introduction to the concepts. And I get to show off a few mid-grade problems to aspire to. (I'm only a V3-V4 climber myself.)

I prefer to boulder myself, because I can do it without any coordination. But you need somebody there to help you on your first day, and top-roping has a lot of advantages for new climbers.
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The characters, especially the female characters, were just too far off the mark. Also, too many girl-meets-boy plot lines. It got worse as the show went along with no new ideas. "Friends" with nerd jokes.

(I live next door to Pasadena and am acquainted with many Caltechers.)
This is probably the most dramatic reply I can think of
All of those shows have an acceptable time, place and use for me.
Hello people! A voice from the field here.

As in most of the cases in Italy, we can say that the approach is: "the situation is hopeless, but not serious". Apart from the joke, it is a sad period and the Xylella case is just part of a bigger whole. But let's stay focused.

Actually, the problem has a long history and Nature wrote about it several times over the last 5 years.

I'm not an expert, nor a practitioner of the field. Nevertheless, it seems a growing evidence show that the bacterium is responsible for the problem together with a state of abandon, spread over many areas of the region, uncultivated from several decades.

The local court started an investigation to understand how Xylella reached the Salento area. Due to a poor scientific approach and an uneffective communication, such investigations gave rise to very large protests among public opinion. These protests blocked de facto any political decision to stop the spreading of the bacterium: politicians are more interested in their consensus.

This lead to a paralysis status in which Xylella prospered and the infection spread over, towards southern areas of Brindisi province.

Meanwhile, the investigations did not find a clear responsible. There are two main voices in this side. The first says that Xylella infection was the result of an out of hand scientific experiment aimed at testing some plant protection products. The second says that Xylella comes from massive and uncontrolled import-export activities in a big plants trading facility. Both stories have a similar geographical origin, near the city of Gallipoli.

HTH,
Nico
The most interesting thing to me about the Kelly criterion is that it demonstrates that the martingale system[1] is a bad strategy even if the odds are in your favor!

While it's immediately obvious that the martingale is bad if the odds are in the house's favor, it's less obvious that you are likely to go bankrupt with the martingale even if the odds are slightly in your favor (assuming the house's bankroll is much greater than yours).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
I haven't followed the split very closely at all, but "someone claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin" really understates things. That someone is Craig Wright. Craig is _obviously_ not Satoshi (the creator of Bitcoin) -- he is a transparent fraudster, lacks technical understanding, and is unhinged (see his tweets and crazy threatening emails).

I think a lot of this is just stemming from Craig's ongoing desire to fraudulently control Bitcoin by claiming to be it's creator (the fork is called "Satoshi's Vision").

I'd stay far away from anything he touches.
This paper [1] is pretty interesting RE: the effects of fly ash in concrete mixes. It isn't a replacement, certainly, and brings both problems and benefits.

[1] https://www.cement.org/docs/default-source/fc_concrete_techn...
It’s pretty crazy how the real SV has been obligingly giving the real show new material since it first debuted, with ever-increasing excess, quixotic ventures in search of markets, worsening scandals, and externalities everywhere!
No matter what I draw, I always end up stuck on the "finding a place in the world" step.
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Yes, and parentheses can be tricky as well. Shell is full of dangers.
> He rarely gets four hours of sleep.

Right.

I genuinely don't get where this glorification of no/ little sleep is coming from.
America is already there, it's half hull of tarded mud mutts begging the white man to fix everything for them.
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As someone who fits almost all of the boxes for people Big Bang Theory has made fun of, I still enjoy the series immensely, as I have since it started. Sometimes I wonder if it just hits too close to the truth for some people, or if on the opposite end, they are too detached from the sort of people it characterizes and hence don't see where it draws from.

Silicon Valley is a very different show, but definitely on solid ground. And it's unique in that it seems quite popular amongst people its blatantly making fun of.
Pardon the terminology, but I consider that show to be Nerd-Blackface. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I find how the show deals with anything technical to be an affront to intelligence in general.
Someone on a podcast I listen to called it "nerd blackface", which I think is a fair assessment. The main characters have so many different stereotypes and so many different personality quirks rammed into singular people that it's borderline ridiculous; they don't feel like real people. It's still a really well-written show though, but many people will choose to blindly hate them instead. Much like the same hate Lorre's other show, Two and a Half Men (Sheen era), got.
Bitcoin core derives a good deal of value from being the entry to exchanging for coins/tokens to buy into an ICO, which is now more restrained due to last week's SEC actions. While there are stinky ICO-funded projects, there are also valid projects that are growing. I have always seen it as more of a front door, given that it's the primary pair across exchanges and given tx costs. LTC was, for long, promo'd as the coin that would be used for day-to-day purchases. Unfortunately traditional fiat users do not think in that way as this is not the usual use of something fiat.
“Supply Facebook free content on which they run ads”
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It was intended as a joke, but good point.
I gave a talk on the theory behind image to image search if anyone is interested. Image search is essentially what this backend well suited for and what the graphic on their home page uses:

http://www.eggie5.com/126-semantic-image-search-video
Did you stop cold turkey?
Both times I've stopped taking meds I've been instructed to do it gradually.
The environmental impact is one thing, but I would argue consuming coal unnecessarily is immoral because coal is not easily replaceable. If you cut down a bunch of trees, at least you can replace them in few decades. How long does it take coal to form? Thousands? Millions of years? My point is, one you burn coal, you can't get is back.
Python 3.7 now a supported Lambda runtime
I take citrate, which I initially chose for it's laxative effects. Not sure if it's the most effective for reducing tolerance.

Agmatine is a more potent NMDA antagonist, but is unfortunately no longer available in the EU, due to the fairly 2017 Novel Food Regulation[1]

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/oc_oof_analysis_main_outcome_en.pdf
even Beavis and Butthead captured defiant male teens pretty well
Vegan studies don't control for a lot of conflating factors.
There were also several moments the real show gave the real SV new material.
I really want a scooter, but I'm really afraid of how vulnerable it makes me. I walk and bus most places I go (in Seattle) and I've wondered how much more dangerous it would be to ride a scooter than walk.
I wasn't really talking about scams or technically unfeasible stuff. Just things where people use a blockchain when it's not adding any value.
Dan, "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons also worked as a consultant for Silicon Valley.
I bought that book about 4 years ago in an attempt to try to learn how to produce estimates for the sorts of tasks I might do in a given day as a software developer. I read through the first third of it and then skimmed the rest. Unless my memory has wildly deceived me, that book doesn't contain advice on how to do so. Rather, it assumes you know how to estimate ticket-level work and talks about how to estimate on the scale of months or quarters.
Remember, you'd only need to charge each vehicle enough so that it can reach the nearest fast charger, so you wouldn't need a huge battery to service multiple vehicles in a day. Besides, how many "out of charge" breakdowns is a single service van likely to encounter in a day?

A DC-DC transfer would enable fast charging rates with relatively compact and lightweight equipment. A diesel generator that can output, say, 100kW continuously is pretty big and hefty!
I tapered off over the course of 1 week, but I'd only been taking it for 4 weeks.