skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that it's an artifact of some browser extensions or something, or it could be they just messed up the implementation (or that some heuristic is trading off bandwidth and latency). Implementing things is hard, and Google certainly didn't get AMP perfectly right. Hopefully the standardization efforts will be able to learn from the experience they have deploying at scale.
Erlang gets away with no global pauses because there is no shared state [1] between Erlang processes (their term for fiber).

Loom/JVM fibers doesn't impose the same limitation; references can be shared across threads. So I would expect that, without a concurrent collector, you'd encounter global pauses.

[1] outside of some special case, natively implemented datastructures
Hi!

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I had found a few that gave me some feedback but they are not exactly the target audience. Also, the MVP is like really, really minimal so it is just for testing the initial assumption(s). Hence, I am kind of starting from scratch unfortunately. Any suggestions on the best way to go about it when you just want to test sign ups and conversions on a landing page?

Thanks again!
Mind elaborating on the connection between psychosis and automated behavior control.
Will there ever be a consumer offering along these lines? (i.e. i am travelling around and don't want to have to get travel SIMs in every different country I visit).
I wouldn't call myself an expert. I didn't spend a whole lot of time there (although something tells me I still spent too much time and should have GTFO'd the first time I heard the word "decisioning" being used entirely steaightfacedly). And Hackernews is full of people who think themselves experts and have strong opinions, but are really nothing of the kind, particularly in the field of health and medicine. The real experts tend to keep quiet while the pseudo-experts post anecdata about how everything from rolfing to mewing changed them from bedridden invalids to Matterhorn-conquering climbers.
it’s not just pr reasons. they tried to hot patch this airplane design with software, and now they are hot patching that fix. it seems it is a fundamentally flawed design that they tried to hide and get away with rather than doing the right thing. i know i don’t want to fly on a 737 max ever, and this whole ordeal with boeing and the faa has made me less confident in the airline industry as a whole.

your parenthetical still shows some finger pointing towards “poor” countries’ pilots and ignores the number of crashes and reports for as young as this plane is and the numbers in use.
Sure it is. I am convinced that a is temporary state too.

Enjoy while you can.
GitLab employee, this is somewhat of a drawback to how transparent we are about our issues. I know this might seem like I'm just trying to PR spin it, but it's a real phenomenon. We post about any little problem we have, and 99% percent of our Issues are public, so it probably seems like we have a lot of downtime and problems because of how often we talk about them
Read this person's twitter history and decide for yourself if she's a credible person or not.
This. The more polite/reserved the culture the harder it is to learn by example.
Here is one of these houses in the aftermath of a hurricane as compared to its neighbors:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/us/hurricane-michael-flor...
Last time I checked, Google is part of the free market, no? This is exactly how free markets work. And if it turns out AMP is really bad for the web, then the reverse will happen too at some point.
I’m a man and don’t have direct experience with this, but a few female friends, my wife, and both of my younger sisters have had unwanted sexual experiences at work.

It was a sobering moment when I realized this. I’ve been in the tech industry for over 10 years and I don’t think that anything similar has happened to any of the people I have worked with, but honestly, I have no idea. I’m not sure if I’m oblivious or just lucky to have never worked at anywhere like this. It’s terrifying how common experiences like this are.
This person is a Twitter drama queen who traffics in falsehoods. Adobe isn't doing anything "evil."
If there are problems like this with the finish work, it's likely that there are problems with the stuff you can't see as well. Just like a slow, buggy piece of software is more likely to have security issues than one that runs smoothly and presents a good user experience.
I think async/await lets you make less performant code strangely enough because it _looks_ like good synchronous logic
Yes a lot of big companies are like that. Everyone’s friends, but when your time is done, it’s done. In many cases like this one people are conditioned to push through bad situations, and the company does a favor by terminating the relationship.
Watching Brexit doesn't inspire me with confidence about parliamentary systems, and I think it would work much worse in America which has a different set of problems. The diverse societies and economies of the regions of the US would not be well represented by a winner-take-all approach – the founders had a lot to say about the dictatorship of the majority. They had good points and the problems they feared I think would be worse in the US than in many of the parliamentary governments of the world. People in the US often times have a hard time realizing that their society isn't universal.

The basic problem currently in the American system is overpowered political parties which didn't fit in to the original set of checks and balances. It isn't clear if there is a simple amendment which could fix the system or if it is more of a social problem.
Can you please review and follow the site guidelines? They include "Don't be snarky." Your comment would be just fine without the first sentence.

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Why they couldn't just add the keyword in the class like typescript I'll never know.
The code itself is indeed simple, thanks to the combined efforts of very smart and capable researchers and developers across the world. But the time taken to write the actual code to perform ML is negligible compared to:

- choosing the right algorithm(s) for the specific task and data at hand

- tuning hyperparameters

- interpreting preliminary results and/or the output of statistical tests

- chasing down and cleaning data(!!)

- deploying the resulting ML pipeline into something more maintainable than a GitHub repo of inconsistently named Jupyter Notebooks strewn with hardcoded paths to CSV files and dangerously obsolete documentation written by employees who have since left your company.
>mathematical identities are not falsifiable

Math papers say, "If you follow these induction rules from these definitions and axioms you will arrive at these results." That's falsifiable, in fact it is found to be false every now and then.
Please don't break the site guidelines, which ask you not to comment about the voting on comments. "It never does any good, and makes boring reading."

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Only if you were given the attention a Chinese child gets.
At least in my parliamentary country, a PM with an absolute majority can also block a no confidence vote, which is why only 1 of 30 such votes in the last 45 years have actually passed. Is it different in other countries?

> I think deep down the US feels that as well. The democracies they have created throughout the world do not mirror the US system of government.

Well, that assumes those decisions are made solely with the best interests of the people in those democracies in mind.
> ... but rather in response to "disequilibria"

That's a nice way of putting it—matches my view perfectly.

> Do you think that the presence/lack of this intellectual need is the highest-order bit?

I do (with an important caveat[0]). My view is that without it, you pretty much just get more or less effective ways of 'going through the motions'. I think updating schemas to take account of new information is something brains have developed to do with extreme refinement, even just in response to speech streams. We are probably not more 'sponge-like'—in the sense of just incorporating all new knowledge we're presented with—because there are costs to overhauling existing schemas, or even to adding new ones. So we have some built-in heuristics for when it makes to sense to actually incorporate new info.

My guess is that the most effective route to improving learning will relate to hacking those heuristics.

A basic form of that is something you pointed out:

> Of course, good authors can also work to create these disequilibria.

I think that should be taken more seriously than it typically is. It's also interesting, however, that if you start considering how to do it in a more serious way, you often end up confronted with the question of whether the student should really be learning the material or not... (Kinda vague but I don't want to bog you down with too much text—I know you've got plenty accumulating in this thread already ;)

[0] I see 'intrinsic motivation' basically as an ideal, but not always practically exploitable. For situations where we just need people to learn some things even though they aren't yet in a position to appreciate why—you may have to do without. Then again, maybe with radical enough revision to instruction, even those seemingly intractable cases could be sorted out.

P.S. Hi Andy! We met briefly at a conference in Sebastapol last year.
That’s false, alternatives offered by Apple don’t even come close to functionality provided by third party apps. E.g. easily using the browser instead of app.
Thanks for the response, I'm not in the open source community and didn't think of Gitlab and Red Cross as a similar concept.
That latency and network slowness still exists. It’s just being hidden from you.

It’s disingenuous to compare AMP style loading with a normal page visit and say “AMP is faster”; if I could preload my webpage before you click on it, it would be faster to load as well! That doesn’t actually mean the website is any faster.
Would it be a fair comparison? What can be done _pratically_ with Instagram mobile, or any mobile platform, and a PC are different.
Work is trading money for time. Some will offer more time (show up earlier, go home late), others less time.

With your time, you can make small contributions or large contributions: a high quality decision that saves time or money, close a big deal, an efficient and reusable process/abstraction that saves effort, recruit the right person for the right job...

Or you can be counterproductive: have redundant meetings, waste people's attention, be toxic and make people feel like shit and less productive or engaged with their job, be closed minded and waste valuable opportunities, create a shitty abstraction that people's wastes time and makes people feel frustrated, recruit a jerk, interrupt someone that is about to say something important.

What you do with your time can be vastly more important than how many hours you work.
> However, looking more closely at the data for the students who started learning after the age of 20, there are a lot of late learners who outperformed many native English speakers.

Anyone who has been around expats and their children in a foreign country knows this is anecdotally false. Not only do kids pick it up faster, they’re immersed in it in a way that adults just really can’t be. Within the first year it’s clear as day.

It feels like this study is saying “we proved people on a motorcycle and people on a pogo stick can each travel 100 miles”
Checkout azure pipelines + visual studio team services :)
people aren't, it's just the media.

Some people are kinda meh about the financing behind this because it used gerrymandering to get funding diverted from say Harlem, but no real conversation daily.
The trouble is the near-impossibility of controlled studies. Has there EVER BEEN a study where adults not only had immersion but went through the child's experience of having some parent-figures and teachers care for all their needs while constantly correcting and helping them with every bit of language and reading picture books or otherwise engaging with the most basic nouns and verbs (perhaps otherwise playing and engaging with mainly peers who are going through the exact same process) over about 2-3 years before being expected to grasp any really abstract concepts???

I'm pretty damn certain that I could go anywhere in the world and learn all the names for stuff in a house and basic actions and syntax in any language if I got to role-play as an 18-month-old 24-hours a day for a year, and I could go on to have 4-year-old near-native ability (even in pronunciation) in just 2-3 years and on and on.

Except there's no way I could ever get that experience and unlikely I would ever commit to it anyway. The only people who could ever even approach this are already outliers in massive ways.

But it's always seemed to me that people are crazily overconfident about what we know about child vs adult learning.
> Is this based on your anecdotal observations, or is this opinion based on something concrete?

Not every semi-flippant comment has to be a bloody double-blind epidemiological study. Get a grip, man! Go and have a beer.
"to maintain independence we want to become a public company rather than be acquired"

I don't doubt this is their honest preference, but these are words, part of a communications strategy.

Since it's fairly clearly a business, they have 'a price', surely, moreover, the outside impetus may force their hand.
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GitLab employee, thank you for your kind words, and I also couldn't agree more! We're currently all at our company-wide conference [1], and legit every single employee is passionate about transparency (and also very happy to work here). Definitely not something I've experienced at the other companies I've worked for.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/contribute/
Luckily, uBlock Origin can block all portal tags entirely.
Yeah definitely. I would consider this a form of semantic analysis, of the kind provided by Language Server implementations rather than the kind of syntax highlighting provided by syntect. Also note, the syntax highlighting done in xi-editor is both incremental and async[11]. This actually worked out well, and I would preserve it going forward. What I wrote above actually overstates the case, I think the ideal solution is an extremely simple form of OT so you can reuse as much as possible of the already-computed highlighting state, but you certainly throw away the highlighting result for the region being edited. Preserving "before" is trivial, and preserving "after" should be a simple matter of fixing up line counts.

[11]: https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_11.html
I'd argue that if a junior is net negative productivity for 6 months, either the onboarding process is not well enough defined and too drawn out, or the junior position being filled should really be for a senior.
So is Google Material Design is a much sexier alternative? No, thanks. LAMOH.
If anything, I really like it as a file-storage option. 200GB (maybe they lowered the amount?) and encrypted and seamlessly integrates with my file-system (except for having to update Dokan on Windows).
I never realised how highly some people praise hackernews comments lol

Hackernews has an _instagram filter_ where everybody brags about how smart they are.

Then there's a bunch of fresh grads who fanboy their favourite tech companies.

Then every so often you get a gem of a comment from knowledge leader in the industry.

But that's quickly overshadowed by 'my Startup, my Startup, mah Startup' and how everybody wants to be rich one day.

But like every larger community in the internet, it eventually derives itself into an echo chamber.
Right, but there's no way to cryptographically enforce that. All the totp implementations I've seen are symmetric, with the validating server running the same calculation from the same seed. You could do that locally - but then the seed can be extracted or a client can be patched to just not request the code in the first place.
The reason we live in the economy and government today with such successful companies and people is because you can't change the law on a whim.

The predictable rate of change of laws is actually by design. It doesn't let a single government change everything.
Bugs tend to appear in Poisson law of probability: 2 big bugs immediately, 2 others a few weeks later, but that means there are hundreds of them to discover over a period of 5 years (until the D-check).

So, in all probability, we don’t even know the list of fatal flaws even yet!
Nearly all such generalizations about HN are quite wrong; this one seems particularly off.

I think it's because comments we don't like make a much stronger expression than comments we do, so they weigh more heavily in forming our impression. This also explains why people arrive at such contradictory generalizations: it's because they like different things.
If one takes GitLab's communication entirely at face value, one might consider there is some kind of 'principled' thing going on here, but I suggest that 'it's just a business' and that GitLab isn't some shiny example of much, other than a well run entity.

All of the 'everyone can do this' language in their communications, is just that, communications, it has a cognitive resonance with words such as 'equality' which appeal to some (well, all of us in a way) - but it's marketing.

The are what they are because it works for those involved, and also makes them money. Many boring business without fancy communications provide immense surpluses to the world.
Just like how some open source projects object to improving the look and feel of their software as it would be ‘dumbing it down’, UX designers, especially those from an HCI background somehow feel that making their stuff look good also makes it less functional.

Forgetting that properly good design is both usable and also doesn’t look like a dog’s dinner.
From AA’s point of view they were passing on working and proven airplanes from Airbus for something not even on the drawing board yet. For them to agree to this Boeing had to offer them an amazing deal.

I don’t blame AA for taking a good offer. They did not force Boeing to do this.
Yes, it's pretty much very common. You need to attach your photo with a resume as well when applying to a job.
I think people have said that you can't force people to own or carry IDs because not everyone has equal access to get them.
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As a person from a third world country, I don't think paying local rates makes sense for an employee.

I worked in both Vietnam and Bay Area. The salary difference is ~10x. In Bay Area, I easily save $100K or more per year (earning >~$300K a year). Even earning a top local rates in Vietnam would have a hard time accumulating $100K in savings. I could go back to Vietnam now and earn like $5K USD a month top.

Living in a country with lower cost of living often means lower quality of school, safety, health, and etc.

If I work remotely for gitlab, I'd immediately move to Bay Area or maybe Seattle to increase my savings.

But, well, it saves gitlab money. So, it makes sense for Gitlab to make this decision. It's not good for employees though.
The actual scientific establishment at any given time and place is never going to be a 100% pure implementation of scientific ideals.

Some might not be doing science at all, even though it says so on the building and their business cards.
Please do not take HN threads further into flamewar, or political or national battle, regardless of whether someone else started it. And particularly please don't resort to personal attacks. We ban people for doing that.

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I didn't realize it when signing but the apartment I'm staying in through Bungalow is under a flight path.

There is a curfew for flights at night but that only covers departures. Airplanes can still land at any hour.

It's a slow torture. I can't wait to leave San Diego.
NPUs like Tomahawk, etc are not FPGAs.
It seems a very cumbersome approach (and potentially slow) just to avoid ids in the URL. Whereas, having ids in the URL is simpler and has very few drawbacks.
Compare this with no US president ever being removed from office (although I will concede Nixon was pretty close). A no confidence vote passing once every 50 years is downright frequent in comparison.
> And yes, this topic is something of an exception.

Is it, though? The top comments include ad hominem attacks on Google engineers, such as the replies to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886610

I appreciate how you responded to the worst attack, at least, but the general viciousness is still disappointing. I don't work for Google, but I'm sure not eager to present a contrary view if I'm just going to be mislabeled a shill. Doubly so for anyone who does work at Google, I imagine. Possibly developers from other members of the AMP Project's governing committees as well, including Cloudflare, Twitter, and Microsoft: https://blog.amp.dev/2018/11/30/amp-projects-new-governance-...

I don't want criticism of AMP censored, but I don't think AMP should be an exception to the rule against negativity either.
People are mad that $4B was spent building this tacky thing instead of on improving the city for not multimillionaires.
My, what an unfortunate educational domain name then https://www.horizontaleducation.com
still a good way good way to get your phdce in computer architecture at least according to a couple profs i've talked to
Noise is the obvious answer if the respondents are in a city with a low AQI number.

It can be hard to breathe in large cities in India and China.
Here's a more rational explanation from someone with a better history:

https://dazwallace.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/the-great-adobe-...

This is because of patent / licensing claims by other companies, like Dolby. Know the whole story before taking out your pitchforks.
I am a regular wanderer of the Mazatzal Wilderness, one of the most desolate areas left in thw lower 48. In 5 years and 100+ milea of rugged terrain I have found dozens of mylar balloons. Their absence will be welcomed.
Heh, funny you mention that. Building the binaries for the rest of the system wouldn't work on anything newer than Ubuntu 9.04 because of some Perl incompatibility that the build system depended on...
The UK system has survived many hundreds of years and crises far more severe than the US has ever experienced (the US has never been at serious risk of a land invasion). No system of government is without its embarrassments and messes, but the UK's parliament has been battle tested and is proven.
Would such abusive parents get their child a private phone knowing it limits their power over the child?

Maybe privacy-respecting tech is one of many solutions to bad parenting. Though I suspect getting to know ones neighbors well would be a far more effective first step.
> old people are daft and impatient

Please don't post nasty generalizations about large groups of people to HN. It isn't kind, and it is flamebait. What we want on HN is exactly the opposite. Would you please review the site guidelines and take them to heart? We've had to warn you many times, and the last time we unbanned you you promised not to do this.

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For sure. If you're doing collaborative editing, then CRDT is a reasonable choice, but it comes with tradeoffs compared with other approaches such as OT, as I hope I've explained. (The comparison with differential synchronization is not as well understood as it should be - I suspect it works pretty well in practice but doesn't lend itself to academic analysis.)

On the other hand, the idea of using CRDT for something other than collaborative editing (or certain types of databases where eventual consistency is a reasonable consistency model) is almost certainly not worth the complexity. That's what I wish I had known when I started.