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> IMO, that's the kind of divide that's prevents meaningful discussions.

It doesn't prevent discussions for the sake of it. It's simply that we don't know.

Any position you take in this matter is nothing more than unfounded speculation.
This has improved lately. Rules_docker's image pusher has been replaced with a copy written in Go. This pusher is built using rules_go, so that it does not rely on any host tooling.
Plastics are doing incredible damage to the ecosystem, and potentially our own species is included in that. Not much point in avoiding climate change if we destroy the ecosystem that sustains us anyway. Not to mention the carcinogenic potential of microplastics that are now in our food supply.
Unless the overhead is truly polluting, as in using a significant amount of electricity or physical computers, the thesis contained in this article seems like a good way to worry about bullshit that truly, profoundly, just doesn’t matter.

So be wise before inflicting this staggering bullshit on your colleagues. Pick your battles.
Yes, the smart phone has improved the lives of many people in developing countries and even poorer people in developed countries. It has enabled safer mobile payments in developing countries for people without access to the banking infrastructure and now they have access to information that they couldn’t have. Even in the US you see semi-homeless and homeless people who have cell phones that they use to reply to job ads and resources.

Between the private sector and the government, the private sector is much more on the side of the angels these days when it comes to advocating for racial and religious minorities as well as the LGBTQ community than the government.

By nature of both the electoral college, gerrymandering, and each state no matter what its population having two Senators, the government doesn’t represent the will of the people in the US.

Business has one motivating principle - profit. I can deal with that much better than politicians who while they are motivated by money also and PACs, they also get re-elected by pandering to people with a belief system that isn’t in the best interests of anyone who does not fit with their definition of a “model American”.
Article doesn't mention who the FATF is, what makes them or their assessments legitimate, or who is using the FATF to apply leverage against Iceland, and why.

It would be funny if in 100 years we looked back on the cause of so much conflict in the world and found it reduced to the proliferation and tyranny of the passive voice.

Ah wait, make that 75 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu...
Agreed.

I also use this opportunity to learn how these con artists present themselves.

So watching interviews with them to learn their verbal and physical expressions (and people around them).

This is one particular interview I find useful in the above context.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/01/14/watch-cnbcs-full-inter...

Between this and another con artist (Elizabeth Holms, Therano's founder), there a representative sample developing.
Big Mood: Relating Transformers to Explicit Commonsense Knowledge
YouTube Disables Comments for Special Books by Special Kids
I share the love for hand-made svg. But it has its limits when graphics need complexity.
In those cases I use https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner-gui to clean up the svg file after export.
> Yeah basically complaining that WIP features explicitly marked as WIP are not ready ...

As far as I know, several of these features were not marked as WIP when this article was posted. Additionally, no features were marked at all close to the article's posting. From the article:

> This article was posted on 2019-06-23. Facts and circumstances may have changed since publication. Please contact me before jumping to conclusions if something seems wrong or unclear.

One if its criticisms is the claim on memory management. Here's an snapshot of it on 2019-06-25: https://web.archive.org/web/20190625172349/https://vlang.io/.... Here's the page now, marked as WIP: https://vlang.io/docs#memory.

You could argue that you simply forgot to mark these. I'm not going to go into discussion about that, but I just want to say that the author's claims seem legitimate at the time of posting.

> ... and that the first public alpha release is not stable.

Another quote from the article:

> Thanks for reading this far. I hope this feedback can help make V a productive tool for programming. It’s a shame it seems to have been hyped so much for comparatively so little as a result. The developer has been hyping and selling this language like it’s the new sliced bread. It is not. This is a very alpha product. I bet you could use it for productive development as is if you really stuck your head into it, but as it stands I recommend against using it for anything.

> The language can be bootstrapped with "cc v.c" without any dependencies? Who cares!

One of the article's criticisms is that that claim isn't (wasn't?) true.
Clicking on "Competitions" in the site header reveals the past competitions?
Show HN: A simple TCP/IP server implementation in C++11
Slavoj ŽIžek on Digital Technologies and the Human Mind
Unit Testing – An approach to write Testable code and Test cases
I got a 1000/1600 on my first try of the SAT. Then I went through a $6,000 SAT summer camp, and got a 1600/1600. I used this score to tutor privileged children charging upwards to $100/hr. The conclusion, for me? The SAT has become just another way for the privileged to incestuously perpetuate privilege among themselves. I believe it's a great move to stop considering these test scores.
The way she painted St John is fairly interesting — he’s painted to look feminine and I even wonder if it’s a self portrait or a portrait of one of the nuns.
What’s State of the Art in AutoML in 2019?
Knuth was Sedgewick's Ph.D. advisor and if I remember correctly Sedgewick's Ph.D. was on a very careful analysis of the actual running time of quicksort and it's variations.

Edit: yes it was, see [1]

[1] Sedgewick, R.: Quicksort. Stanford University, Stanford Computer Science Report STAN-CS-75-492, Ph. D. Thesis, May 1975
WebAssembly Extensions for Network Proxies (WebAssembly SF October)
The international date line is needed when you use local times instead of UTC, because the local date is incremented on midnight local time. So, if it's October 19 just after your local midnight, every timezone to the east should also have October 19, while every timezone to the west should still have October 18 because they haven't had local midnight yet. But that doesn't work, since east ultimately meets west when you track both directions far enough. So by convention we have defined a line (or rather a crooked boundary between timezones) where the date jumps back a day in the calendar when you pass over it in an eastwards direction.
An electric crate motor you can drop into your car
Bandwidth is a thing, despite what a lot of web developers believe, and most people browse the web on mobile phones.
The Simple Reason That Humans Can’t Control Wildfires
I've gotten a lot of benefit from Pragmatic while writing my book (went in beta back in August)... Probably more than I thought I would get.

The biggest benefit has been the specific technical editor that I work with as well as the tooling that saves me a lot of time. I think this has led to a much better book that should (hopefully) be felt by readers.
The “Mainframe Kid”
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Growth Hacking for Startups 2020
Most likely it was pension funds or municipalities. It’s not the VCs own money
I applaud your efforts and the idea behind your action.

However, I would find it very hard to justify the extra time for these benefits.

There are simply too many more valuable things I could create with this time.
It's possibly the most playable and stable early release game ever. I've been playing this game without crashes for something like 5 years now.
I completely agree that it's a pity such nice feature isn't known better among wide audience and yes, Firefox bookmarks management ("Library") UI leaves much to be desired. [2]

Just one reminder: in Firefox there is "Add a Keyword for this search..." command on any (form) input field that triggers keyword bookmark creation wizard [1], so what Chrome does automagically by visiting page with form (or using the form once?) you can do quite easily in Firefox as well, but you must find the input field, shift+f10 or click few times and pick keyword.

Also, using same keyword for different URL will (at this moment) silently "transfer" the keyword to new URL, with no warning about

[1] yet again, this wizard obscures resulting bookmarked URL with relevant `%s` part, so regular user cannot find out how this thing works. (I'm sad how hard recent browsers tend to hide whole concept of URL from users, in general. I understand it, but it's sad.)

[2] I had to `select moz_keywords.keyword, moz_places.url, moz_places.title from moz_keywords inner join moz_places on moz_places.id == moz_keywords.place_id order by keyword;` last time I wanted to see all my keywords. (And I'm trying to keep them in a single folder as well.)
Not much, I actually learnt RoR before I got into Ruby. The basic syntax is simple and you don’t need much Ruby magic to get a typical CRUD app up and running in RoR.
I don't believe this for a second. This is a hybrid fine-art / Ponzi scheme. Investors pay over the odds to inflate the valuation, hoping that more will follow after them, raising the value further, repeating the cycle.
Free will may or may not exist, but certainly there is no "I" that has it. Our cognition is so distributed and situated that we can't really ever say that "I" decided anything.
And then eventually get use-after-free access errors unless I use vector clocks to keep track of indexes usage, or reach to a third party library that does it for me.
It's a cynical move to hit their enrollment numbers, sold to the public as something to improve "diversity". But it's really just laying the groundwork for schools to cope with life after the college boom is over.

For elite schools, it also makes it easier to provide cover for legacy and donor admissions. You no longer have to explain how Keese James Shackleford IV got into the the Shackleford school of dkljalfjaf while scoring just 950 on his SAT.
Trains in Switzerland are not allowed to have 256 axles
Don't get your hopes up - if history is any indication, 20 years from now he'll become president by campaigning on how savvy a businessman he is (maybe with a bit of racism and rambling dementia thrown in to spice things up).
On the other hand, you should delegate whenever possible. The less decisions you have to make the better. When you're using package X, you're handing off a lot of those decisions for something which most likely will "just work" and you can move on with life. One feature of delegation is that the job may not get done as well as you would like. You then have to weigh the value of doing the job yourself. If your calculation is that the job was done "good enough" then you can move on. One heavy consideration is if the thing is core to your mission. If the thing is going to be part of your crown jewels, then go ahead and do the job yourself.

This also doesn't scale. Where do you start with the garbage? As soon as you start with the OS, you're dealing with a stack of trash. Every layer adds more junk to the pile. Even considering where you should start cleaning is huge decision overhead. Every decision is a potential rabbit hole which can lead to problems. Mo' decisions, mo' problems. Better to keep the decision space clean. I would rather my trash be digital than cognitive.
Another notable mathematician and exemplary programmer is D. J. Bernstein.
I'm going to bring up a concept that you might not have considered called 'break-even'. And perhaps one called 'never run out of cash' ;)

You've got a fundamental error in your reasoning here. To a craftsman, the market is _irrelevant_. They cannot necessarily scale anyhow. To a craftsman (I know what I'm talking about as I run a Patreon-based open source business along just these lines) the only thing that matters is cash flow and whether you've got your own clientele doing enough business with you to keep the doors open.

You're certainly still creating value, and operating a business just as much as publically held companies, but the market is irrelevant to you and you may even benefit from repudiating the market and claiming you're not confined by its expectations (I do this, quite successfully).

It is still possible to be killed by competition doing this, but only through illegal acts (such as buying your building and kicking you out, or colluding with all your suppliers and making them refuse to sell to you, or killing you outright). If you aren't publically held and you have a clientele that you can service, you cannot get swallowed up by competition no matter what they do: in fact, it's possible to manipulate hostile actions by a larger competitor to your own benefit, by crying foul or claiming they are trying to eradicate a superior option.

These things are, yes, more than 'your craft', but they're completely realistic. I've run Airwindows for over ten years in a really nasty industry along these lines, and as long as I stayed over break-even (or hung in there through lean times!) I ended up just fine :)
Show HN: Batteries Widget for Mac – Track all of your batteries from one place
"...as if anyone beyond the growing collection of authoritarian dictators seriously argues against it."

How can anyone take this person seriously when they seem completely oblivious to the growing movement against free speech?

I'll back anyone promoting free speech in this regressive environment we find ourselves in, where a plethora of people are arguing to go back to the pre-20th century understanding of the first amendment where the rich and powerful could crush speech they didn't like.
He gave back the trademark payment iirc.

He got a few hundred million for stock he sold, and borrowed a few hundred million more against stock he still owned. We don't know the exact numbers though. He also gave away $100m+.
Yes..These Google devices scares shit out of me.. to be honest.
So basically any identity that has been established by the members of a community instead of a singular entity... Like subcultures and other grassroots movements.
opt-in vs. opt-amish.

99% of the population doesn't wear fitness bands and doesn't need one. Most those that do have a fitness band don't wear it at all times.

With SOLI, everyone that is in the neighborhood of a SOLI-enabled device, that is a mobile phone, or, soon, a SpyNEST heating control, or SpyTV, or SpyFridge, or a SpyCar, will have their heartbeats monitored 24/7.

Changing the world from monitoring 1% of the population to monitoring 99% of the population. That's the story of Google/SiliconValley, from NielsenRatings-to-GoogleAnalytics, all the way to Fitbit-to-SOLI.
most of it was built before people understood why/how some things work. Take for example scales. In the beginning, you learn that over a C7 chord, you can use the mixolydian scale. Fine. But then you discover that the minor third (e-flat) can work too, and the major 7th can work as well (fe bebop scale). Then you discover that the others can work too (yes even the minor 2nd) and depends on other things like strong-beat/weak beat and what you're resolving to. Classical music theory has no framework to explain all the things that can work. (The reason why all of the above works is still better explained by physics)
I assume the one without a halo is Judas.

Rather ironic, since without his betrayal there would have been no absolution of humanity's sins.
Some notes (answering potential future questions):
- the app can’t be on the App Store because it uses private Apple APIs.
- the app is notarized and checked for malicious content by Apple.
> The tests have been gamed by a test prep industry that extracts money from wealthy families.

No matter what you do, it will be gamed by money from wealthy families, because successfully graduating from one of these schools opens doors!

For example, one thing that rich families are doing now is getting apartments in "ghettos" so that certain institutions that use an address as a proxy for "diversity" will include them.

Whenever you have something of value (like an Ivy League education), people are going to compete for it.

Short of a literally random lottery that cannot be sold, there is zero way to change that.

> Professors would rather teach exceptional, motivated students from all walks of life

Exceptional, motivated students have never had a problem getting into schools. Universities have long adored the idea of having "church mouse" geniuses, but it turns out that there are only so many of them. These self-motivated, exceptional students never had to worry about the SAT, because they knocked it out of the park ... without coaching!
Yeah good thinking. Maybe not sustainable at a $35B+ valuation. However it is likely sustainable as a $10B+ company.

Their marketing is largely the reason in that article. Their growth has slowed so that makes sense. Airbnb has been slightly profitable before. And unlike Dropbox who have been in the same position, they don’t have the same competition level.

Article also says they still have $3B in cash and a $1B credit line which is a good sign vs total raised amt.
I'm exactly the same. I actually consider it a matter of intellectual honesty to listen to 'the other sides' of what I believe/think. I didn't know this was called Hegellian dialectic but that's exactly it (just generalized beyond dichotomy, a multi-dimensional 'tension' to account for nuance and complexity).

I find that it gives me a much better "BS" (bad faith or belief-driven argument) whichever side it comes from; and the good arguments are then free to flow irrespective of our perception of 'sides': it does not matter who said it, or whether it contradicts other elements; if there's truth to it, then it deserves to be explored, integrated. That's reality for us.
> As someone who is at least somewhat well-informed, I literally never heard this. How would you expect investors to know that? Wouldn't it be better to just live under a system of laws that prevents insanity like this? And then you could spend your time learning and being productive instead of poring over the details of how you're being duped in any given situation?

There are already numerous laws around securities. That is no excuse for lack of due diligence. Would you buy a house without getting a title search?
The article is right on that Zuckerberg when giving interviews doesn't seem to be able to articulate what the company's policies are, how they fit into legal frameworks, what the response would be if the model of the company was fundamentally broken, and so on.

This was really apparent in the interview he did with Yuval Noah Harari. When Harari asked him what would happen if "connecting the world" wasn't actually a positive thing, Zuckerberg didn't really have a coherent answer other then going on about how free expression is always great and how it's in the American constitution or whatever.

That's something that I've noticed when a lot of these CEOs are interviewed or when one reads their books. You expect to encounter some profound insight but it is surprising how shallow, uneducated and out of their depth these people are when it comes to placing their companies in some historical or political context. It's like they've done nothing but trying to make money to the point where they've forgotten why they're doing anything, a bunch of facile PR slogans aside. No self-awareness, no reflection, no ability to consider the broad impact of their behaviour. The most philosophical you're going to get is likely a tract on the AI apocalypse.
Elena 4.1 Is Out
I think he's only darker to imply a lack of divine light. He's also the only one without a halo.
Qantas testing human effects of NY to Sydney 20hr Flight
Reverse Derivative Categories
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Thanks but that much I understand. I guess for people living in that border it doesn’t make sense to me how they can jump back and forth 24 hours.
I've been using a few of the mentioned providers (RedisLabs, Elastic Cloud to name a few). I hoped because these companies have control over the software they support, who else would know better how to operate them? It is not just about providing the best throughput for buck, but to avoid JVM memory pressure hangups or providing details why the query response time went up and the CPU utilisation stayed the same? Why there is a 2-minute gap in the metrics? (Instance restarted, but who knows?) Many frustrating issues that seems to be so easy to solve and they would have run into these if they have to be forced to use their own product. AWS has its own issues, but at least more transparent when it comes to understanding hickups.
I would second this. I had to re-read the title twice before deciphering the meaning on my third attempt.
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Yes, I should’ve been more precise in saying they are one payer in a system of many payers vying for lower prices from healthcare suppliers.

But as I’ve stated multiple times and what you seem to be purposefully ignoring to defend your position, the overall costs of these services are determined not only by how they’re consumed by Medicare beneficiaries, but by overall functioning of the healthcare system and continuity of care throughout its beneficiaries’ lifetimes.

You can very clearly understand that the price of any given procedure is not determined by how it is consumed and paid for by one segment of the market, but by all of its consumption and the interactions around it. A given surgery or hospital stay is is not something consumed exclusively by Medicare beneficiaries so they are not the sole determinants of its price.
He was paid for 'we' in stock, not cash, and he ended up paying it back after their first IPO filing caused an uproar.
This intrigued me. I was surprised that many long haul carriers didn’t do some of this human testing before launching a flight route.

“It will be the first time Qantas is collecting data for a route before operating it. Qantas is teaming up with researchers from the University of Sydney and setting up the Boeing 787-9 as a laboratory, testing recipes, lighting schemes, temperatures and stretching exercises specially designed to combat jet lag on six volunteer passengers. They’ll be seated in business class.”
It's rare to see a CS paper, let alone a CS paper with category theory, with 7 authors!

It's fairly mathematical, so I'm going to quote the abstract for some context as to why you might care about this:

The reverse derivative[0] is a fundamental operation in machine learning and automatic differentiation. This paper gives a direct axiomatization of a category with a reverse derivative operation, in a similar style to that given by Cartesian differential categories for a forward derivative. Intriguingly, a category with a reverse derivative also has a forward derivative, but the converse is not true. In fact, we show explicitly what a forward derivative is missing: a reverse derivative is equivalent to a forward derivative with a dagger structure[1] on its subcategory of linear maps. Furthermore, we show that these linear maps form an additively enriched category with dagger biproducts.

[0] This is usually called the reverse mode of differentiation in the automatic differentiation literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation#The_...

[1] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/dagger+category