skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read it closely, this is very similar to RAMP transaction. Both has pretty significant write amplification for storing transaction metadata and multiple versions of each key. By storing txn metadata and multiple versions, it provides many nice attributes like non-blocking, concurrent transactions, etc.

The difference between Abadi's proposal and RAMP is that it moves the "second phase" to the worker, which performs the remote read, to figure out the txn decision.

I think this proposal should be better compared to RAMP instead of 2pc. And even in RAMP paper, it states that this doesn't solve all the problems. E.g. how would you do the traditional read-modify-writes?
I don't consider your anecdote to be a valid argument against his claim that this is survivor bias. I appreciate you sharing that person's story but the fact is, there are many variables at play.

I think that in most cases, career advice is subjective and to brand advice as black and white, good or bad, is silly. Nobody can predict the future. A seemingly negative decision could potentially lead to other positive outcomes. That's why I find little value in this discussion: it's subjective and difficult to measure.
>1 2 3 + 3 4 5

4 6 8

Extend the operators to work on lists!
I was denied last time, too, but I'm going for it again this round.

The equity piece is so small, I think the contacts we can make there and the ability to rub shoulders with people who have startup experience (and multiple unicorns under their belts) is well worth it.
> this classic whataboutism

Not in the least, unless you are saying "what about using the actual definition of the word" is a bad thing for people to do.
Any compiled language will be drastically faster than an interpretive scripting language like Python (although numpy/scipy is generally C or Fortran libraries compiled to be called by Python). Having said that I used Fortran for my PhD to do radiation simulations because I was implementing a new methodology into existing code.

In my opinion Fortran is easier and safer to use for scientists with little background in coding because it was built to do math/simulations really well AND it's readable almost like psuedocode (compared with C or C++). Also, modern Fortran is object-oriented which makes building reusable tools and large packages pretty easy.

Having said all of this I think a lot of the physics/nuclear/aerospace/finance community is probably transitioning into more modern languages and starting to employ people with actual CS backgrounds to build with more updated coding practices.
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It's nice to have a free book as a supplement. Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler is a much better choice and when making an investment in learning, particularly a difficult subject like linear algebra, saving money with a free text is probably the most expensive thing you can do. You might save $40 but end up not really learning and wasting hours you don't have. Above all, find a good teacher.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Btw, I enjoyed your brief intro into building complex systems. I'd love to read more. I'll check out your blog.
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You were already wrong in your confident assertion once. Perhaps re-examine your priors before continuing?
The thing about OpenResty is that you can do most of it on your own without a framework at all. If you don't need all the (it's not really that much) stuff Lapis comes with, you could just require the modules you do need with Luarocks or OPM in a route and handle things that way. It's just Lua. If you don't want to use Lapis's ORM though, you could just not do it though. AND Lapis in vanilla Lua isn't especially OO, it looks a lot like Express/Sinatra.
Given the psychological effects of extended, externally-imposed isolation, it should be considered a form of mistreatment everywhere.
Measuring percentage would do it. I’m always amazed that companies can be so boneheaded. You’d think I’d stop being amazed at some point, but no.
AAA game publishers such as EA, Ubisoft and Activision have already translated such obsession into multi-billion dollar pseudo-gambling businesses. I think more scrutiny on these are welcome.
Why is salon bothered by Pinker? Lots of professors follow ideology rather than logic, specially in the softer majors. Listen to philosophers, and they loosely tie things together from time to time.

Maybe this book of Pinker's is full of it, but why take exception to Pinker when there are many more out there?

It seems pathetically personal, for no good reason [by that I mean it attacks some flourishes and liberties, but not the substance]
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but one note: he didn't go to a different company, he went to a different division within Microsoft.
Yes, but why might one want to do it in terminal? You can start Xorg server or Wayland and make it in graphics, where there are no such constraints.
If a link is getting hits with comments 10 years later, should there be some sort of special class of points? Everybody else is running JV sprints and this guy is dropping olympic marathons.
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What's weird is, I'm pretty sure I originally posted the "direct" image link that PostImage provided, among the options given post-upload. When I tested the link from HN, I just saw the image on Safari's black background. But minutes later I tested the same link here at HN and saw the image buried in a page of ads.

I wonder if they have some kind of "hey, non-members get a limited number of directs" policy.
I read this book and had the same thoughts. But I think what he was intending to get across, is that you can take any statistics and spin it in a positive or negative way. In other words - you can choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. He does address this at several points where he says something along the lines of having a healthy level of skepticism is a good thing, but to do it in a positive way.
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This highlights a fundamental truth about human psychology. People want to have fun without having to do much. If the boots were simply powered, as in, the person wearing them didn't have to walk in order to move from A to B, it might've attracted a large following. In fact, check out the [0] Segway Drift W1

[0] http://www.segway.com/products/consumer-lifestyle/segway-dri...
“Some have pointed out that modern racism more or less originated in the Enlightenment — contra Pinker”

This is an odd statement because didn’t the Enlightenment start many modern thoughts? Is this odd or unusual? All who is “some?” Are their ideas important for some reason? It’s odd to make a vague reference like it’s somehow meaningful. Is the author quoting her neighbor.
GoT would have a huge figure if hbo did international releases via Netflix. DC released Titans on Netflix international. I saw heaps of people streaming it on their phones via Netflix on the train. If GoT was on Netflix I suspect piracy would drop a lot (not completely cos people will always pirate)
Rmf. Risk management framework.

Diacap. DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation process.

Stig. Security technical implementation guideline.

Scap. Security content automation protocol.

These are all DoD Cyber processes. Anyone who knows the acronyms will know the purpose of the site.
An excellent example of "perfect is the enemy of good".
Agree. The same principle that applies to code, applies to design: should be optimized for reading, not writing. I currently know some developers who have trouble switching away from IntelliJ IDEA because without it they can't navigate the entire abstraction hierarchy they've created.
The overall company policies were pretty good, but each district was ran like the District Manager's personal fiefdom.

Corporate pretty much let DM's run things the way the wanted and, and most DM's let store General Managers do the same (to a lesser extent). That combined with corporate providing tools to make it easy to drill down into meaningless metrics, and you ended up with employees encouraged to walk low margin customers in some stores, while in other stores that would get you fired.
Seems like there is a hidden bit of advice about not becoming overly specialized or at the very least be nimble enough to be able to change your specialty quickly. Also seems like this will lead to "specialists" with shallow knowledge on average.
I think waiting in traffic and being forced to use alternate means of transportation is a net negative. There are already Big Cities in this country for anybody that enjoys the city-slicker lifestyle, and increasing total population won't make the world better for those people.
The vinn diagram of "people who understand PostgreSQL internals" and "people who are good at design" probably has a very small overlapped area.
This post assumes that everyone wants to 'move up' in their career. Maybe, but what is wrong with not doing that? Is it the worst thing to keep doing what you like doing, being comfortable and enjoying life?

I know that many people are driven to reach a certain goal in their career, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to do that. Some people might want to just go to work, do their thing, and take home their salary. That isn't bad, it is just different.
Did they write python correctly though? If you vectorize your algos well enough to exclusively use numpy scipy and never use python loops then python is really really fast (not because python is fast but because numpy/scipy is fast)
Those trends began 2011 not 2016. But it's nice the preliminary data shows they may be continuing.

But inequality continues to grow at an alarming rate with almost all economic growth going to asset value not wages. Likewise, the cost for necessary goods such as housing, medicine etc far out pace wages.
That is awesome. I used to write some moonscript for love2d too. Abandoned it for Godot but that really helped me get a better handle on game dev.
The problem with these acronymed principles is that there are always programmers who will treat them as religion (and senior programmers who will enforce it as such).
I was responding to a comment about using trains.

Yes, autonomous cars would make spreading out easier.
Out of curiosity, who do you follow?
Maybe the author is just early in stating the truth.

Two factors he didn't consider: the rise of privacy concerns and the forthcoming availability of open source Linux phones. Both of these will, hopefully, speed Google's demise.

It's worth pointing out that no company survives over the long haul without innovating. Apple used to be an innovator but that died with their co-founder. Google never was an innvoator, merely an opportunist copycat. That's not a sustainable business model.
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More people = more traffic is not a bold claim. That's traffic engineering 101.
I think the only way that this guy could have won would have been to license the invention for a tiny royalty amount just to get the thing made and establish his personal brand. Then, once he had handed the invention off to someone else, he could have gone on to his next product and gotten a bigger development budget that would let him get out ahead of the competition before they could catch up.

Instead, he tried to do everything himself thinking he was a real business genius when he only had the idea and was a decent engineer. This is a typical engineering mindset. Engineers think they are smarter than all these genius marketers and hustlers out there. They think that being good at math means you're good at marketing, but they are really different skills and good marketers and promoters should be respected for the unique and genuine value they bring.
I had to turn the volume to its minimum, this woosh noise is borderline painful.

You are spot on, most of the video shows somebody running alone.
It is uninteresting, just having shiny boots does not make such a clip attention grabbing..
No we don't need to starve plants. But nuclear energy could do it.
I stopped reading on the first line: "Quillette, the “Intellectual Dark Web’s” online safe space"... That's junk writing and I'd already had more than enough. A paragraph of that would get flagged on here and reprimanded by dang for being tiresome flame-war language. All it wants to do is fight.

Someone let me know if I've been unfair and it's actually worth reading, thanks.
Yes, the advice the rats are fleeing, soon you'll be king ignores why they are fleeing. Any non-sinking ship beats a sinking ship.

The new position he selected (after researching several) was "interesting" - a positive indicator. It was also still within Microsoft, so a baseline of safety.

tl;dr The "risk" was highly constrained; and things would likely be better, at least regress to the mean.
dom96 was probably thinking of Nim[0], as they're one of the developers in the project.

[0] https://nim-lang.org
Pinker's stuff often follows the old 18th-century Whig history pattern.
Hungry writers sometimes attack their betters in order to earn some publicity from the controversy. For it to work, the victim has to be famous and with a significant following, such as in Pinker's case.
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>GMOs are widely considered safe by scientists,...

(Irish university scientists) willingness to buy GM baby food? (41.4% would buy; 45% would not; 13.6% not sure)

"4. Willingness of scientists to buy GM food :
Respondents were asked how willing they would be to buy certain types of genetically engineered food if they were at the same price as similar non-GM products. The axiom that those buying food would do so to consume it was
drawn. These results are shown in Table II. Of the respondents 60.4 per cent would buy genetically modified food items if they were the same price as non-GM food with the notable exception of baby food (41.4 percent would buy; 45percent would not; 13.6 percent not sure). T-tests carried out showed that when the means were compared, the drop in willingness to buy GM baby food was statistically significant (p < 0.01). This drop is an interesting insight into risk analysis of the scientist."

"Genetically modified food issues: Attitudes of Irish university scientists - Shane H. Morris Catherine C. Adley" (2000)

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This is all kinds of wrong.
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> Those trends began 2011 not 2016.

I'm not sure I'd call that totally accurate. Real wages have been increasing since the Great Recession turned around. That's true. However, it is continuing to increase past the point of previous highs. The middle class inflex happened in 2016, although there doesn't seem to be data since then.
Nice. Does Visual Studio support the level or version of OpenMP used in this code? (see the pragma)
I was a beta tester for the Amazon Echo and had one a year before they were generally available. I decided to get rid of it when another person's device thought it overhead something it didn't like. Alexa called the police who showed up and shot and killed the owner's dog.

That was it for me.
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Javascript is still missing simplicity, consistency and a unified core set of ideas. It will always be that way too.
Javascript will always be something grudgingly accepted or used with some misgiving. ES6 has some very nice features and the good parts of javascript stand out as much as the unfortunate inconsistencies lurking inside the language. People know how to use it. Some use it quite well but I always get the feeling I have to step around carefully and not make a dumb mistake in js which is easier to do than almost any other language except say PHP. Web assembly should open up some badly needed possibilities. All we really need is a consistent API. A world without js? I hope so.
I feel like you could take a subset of JavaScript and make a new "JSLite" language that forces you to do things in one, proper best way. It would be a great way for new developers to learn modern techniques.
Was watching a guy coding a shader on Twitch and he used this tool. This tool is so cool. Very tight feedback-loop!

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I read this hoping to see examples where Pinker's data about progress - which I find surprising and interesting - was misrepesented. Instead it's mostly about the semantics of the argument.

It's definitely not cool if Pinker used quotes in ways that gave the impression people agreed with him who don't. But these are also viewpoint quotes that are just as meaningful in the new context Pinker gives them - so reattributing them doesn't exactly refute his argument.

And a bunch of the stuff later on is just giving a platform to people who disagree with Pinker, and don't think he included enough of their view. Which is like, a reasonable opinion but not an error.

Does anyone have a good piece that takes on the substance of Pinker's arguments?
My favorite was when we started focusing heavily on close rate. Close rate was just the number of transactions divided by the number of people who walked in the door, so someone proposed that we start breaking up people's purchases into multiple transactions.

I proposed a counter solution--we just move the laser sensor on the door a bit higher, so that short people wouldn't trigger it.
While I am much more productive in Unix command line than in GUI I still am not sure if it is real productivity boost or I just have a skill and simply used to Unix command line.
At my first job in US I had about a year and a half of unused PTO accumulated. I gave my two week notice like a good team player I was and then left on the agreed upon date.

I obviously didn't get any of the PTO paid to me and in retrospect realize that I could have just taken my last two weeks off with the same outcome.

I was so sure that there must be some law that would force employer to pay out unused PTO, that I haven't even thought about researching it in advance. This was a rude "welcome to United States, bitch" awakening for me.
I feel like this opinion is too popular so I just want to respectfully speak my peace. I'm a relatively new developer and I never learned any of the languages that a lot of the old guard fawns over, but after learning coding with Racket, Java, and Python, JavaScript (especially TypeScript) has always felt, and continues to feel, awesome.
I think it's even worse than perfectionism. It's a fear of success. Some engineers have this fear that they've only got a few good ideas in them and once they finish with this one, they'll never have a second one, so they've got to milk this one for all it's worth because once they're done they'll be all used up.
Like Gilbert Strang? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PL49CF3715C...
I used moonscript extensively for a project about 6 years ago, and it was fantastic.

I love watching all the things you build, and thanks for all your contributions to the lua ecosystem!
That would confuse the heck out of people who would expect + to concat the arrays (I guess not much better than the current behavior of string concat)

Obligatory lodash reference: _.map(_.unzip(arrays), _.sum)
I see it as a bit of hidden advice of just because someone knows a shit ton about one thing, doesn't mean they known everything about everything, even if they sound like they do.
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Taking this logic to the extreme, several languages let you define functions within other functions. Since everything is ultimately just used by main, why not define everything in main?

Well, those local functions usually capture context too, so every local variable of main is now effectively global - with all the difficulties of reasoning about widely shared global state that brings. On large codebases you now have a main function that's millions of lines of code - a bit hard to reason about.

In a less extreme example, I more commonly I see functions in the several thousand lines of code range. John Carmack has actually argued for this "style C" at least in some cases: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm... . When it's a simple linear flow like those examples, I'm even relatively OK with that style!

But IME clean examples like that are the exception, not the rule. Most functions with thousands of LOC have very high cyclomatic complexity scores too, and are hard to reason about. I have significant trouble keeping track of invariants and edge cases in such code. Ultimately, it can be done, but you have to figure out how to digest such code into bite sized chunks of functionality and what they operate on.

Functions declare in code those chunks, imposing some limits on how they interact with other chunks - only interacting through global, member, or input variables. You're forced to give them names, which are much better maintained than the section comments.

OTOH - 1 line functions used in one place? I'm quite willing to inline those. And larger functions. There's a sweet spot to cater to - something about how much code you can reasonably keep in your head and reason about all at one time.
I live in LA and I am homeless. Its really a bad place to live if you don't have a degree and 5+ years experience in your field. There is no way to afford a place to live if you have no degree or experience.
> Is it really bad to jail mentally ill homeless man?

One point is that should we forcibly imprison someone who has not committed any real crime?

Or even put them in a mental hospital?

In the US at least jails and mental hospitals have a long history of twisted sadistic abuse by extremely well meaning individuals who were convinced they knew what was best for these people.

During the Bush II administration he appointed a Homeless Tsar (who didn't like Bush) who advocated for a program where the hopelessly homeless were put into a decent 1 bedroom apartment, signed up for health care, and given a small monthly stipend. This cost less than these men were costing society showing up at the emergency rooms with frostbite and side effects of diabetes, etc. One controversial aspect was that there were no restrictions on what they spent the money on. They could for example purchase vodka instead of food if that was their desire. Unlike with most homeless shelters, they were left alone and allowed to live their lives as they chose if they wanted that.

This program was very successful and greatly decreased the cost of managing long term homeless persons.
Sorry, butter is still widely (unfairly) considered evil. We replaced trans fats with rapeseed oil, soybean oil, and palm oil, which are hardly the foods our grandparents ate.
Keep in mind too that a lot of long scientific simulations are more complicated than vectorized loops or linear algebra. Monte Carlo algorithms were developed to simulate neutrons in the Manhattan project and programmed with the help of Von Neumman.
It this case it was even stronger, identifying not what won't grow fast, but what was failing.

And the new business being "interesting" improves the odds of growing fast.
This sounds interesting but I know nothing about 18th century, Whigs (other than they are/were the Torys counterpart[y]), or history patterns. Could you explain this, maybe give examples of what Pinker said/wrote and why that follows this? Thank you in advance!