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Python and Ruby although in the same category have still different mindset. It is understandable the way you think fits Ruby more.

I tried to learn ruby and was put off by all the magic, last value calculated is magically returned, the useful but cryptic method calls.

It is shorter and more implicit, I like the explicit approach more.

to give you my perspective on the points you made:

- self: more explicit, I would prefer to write it, because there is classmethod(with cls) and staticmethod(without any) params.

- spaces vs. braces: I don't hate braces, but spaces makes it more readable, less things I see(whitespace vs. {}) the less distracted my eyes are from the the characters that do the actual work, you get used to it, I like it more to be honest.

- len(string) vs. string.length: again, no preference, I am used to both.

- py 2 vs py 3: it is not never ending, I helped move a 170K Django project from Django 1.6 to Django 2.1 and python 2.7.4 to 3.6 in a span of a year, we were mainly 3 people working on it on the side, our work was not even in the sprints, 2 senior engineers + 1 really good QA & deployment engineer, it took 1 year because the platform was business critical and we incrementally fixed stuff. At this moment whoever still runs py2 either has been lazy, does not care about technical debt or their business does not value solving technical debt, so they can not allocate time to do it. This is my opinion, might be wrong, maybe there are other reasons also. But the change had to be done for the health and longterm viability of the language.
This will definitely help the party and candidates that are barely raising any money compete with the one that is breaking all records. It would be like a fire hose competing with a squirt gun. We just can't allow that.
Giving the companies profits to the people who own the company is not "financial engineering". Apple has decided it cannot effectively use that money for R&D, so it isn't
"Was like North Korea of Ancient Greece" was not direct comparison. It's relative analogy like chicken:egg :: tree:seed.

Sparta:Athens :: North Korea:South Korea

Sparta was to Athens like North Korea is to South Korea.
As a sector. One source is here: https://lifescivc.com/2016/11/biotech-venture-capital-mythbu...

Are you referring to Nasdaq as a whole when you say Nasdaq tech? The Nasdaq components aren't really representative of tech startups: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/quotes/Nasdaq-100-Ind...

Biotech startups IPO at a much higher rate than tech startups and IPO on average 3 years after series a: https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/ipo_2018_q12019.html

These IPOs give IRRs of 60% on average to series a investors: https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/venture_returns_ipo.html

Biotech VC portfolios have low loss rates and greater portfolio concentration than tech VCs

There have been 10-15 new biotech unicorns a year since 2013 or so, on annual VC funding of $5-15B

There are plenty of other sources but i don't have access to them atm
Political campaigns also buy ad space with money. It's not as if there's some discount political rate.
There are some search engines that help to solve this problem (no affiliation):

- https://wiby.me/

- https://millionshort.com/

Reddit is not bad for discovering content if you understand the inherent biases, and I personally have good results with blogrolls on blogs I already enjoy such as https://slatestarcodex.com/.
I'm a bit late replying to some of these. I think this is great advice. I'm definitely aware of how much a poor performer has a negative effect on team morale.

I like how you say "don't be selfish by being nice." You're right that the aversion to doing what's necessary is selfish.
While it's true that siege weapons and food were not transported via supply lines in the sense that modern militaries plan for it, that doesn't mean that logistics wasn't an important concept in Classical Greece. Even if you're living off the land, you still have to actually figure out how to transform the local produce into food, and actually procure sufficient local produce (if you're settling down for a siege, you can't exactly rely only on the nearest fields). Sparta's attempt to lay siege to Athens failed several years in a row entirely because they couldn't manage to support that level of logistical sophistication, which is a pretty indicting failure, even given the simpler problem it was 2500 years ago.
Even in these cases, 1A does not allow the government to prevent such speech (that is, prior restraint). These are not criminal issues. If you engage in any of these practices you may be liable for civil judgments, but that's the extent of it.

It's true that there are limitations on 1A. But these are very frequently misunderstood. For example, the bit about "shouting fire in a crowded theater" is incorrect.
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I think the dude lacks a ton of human centric skills, and his political ethos is yet to be determined.. he's running out of spite of a former colleague in a way.

The odds that he can compensate by high grade mathematics are not good enough to me. I think he's gonna go depth first into tech/ideal solutions that nobody really want.
What we call "technologies" are really consequence-generating dynamics operating though a (possibly) small set of modalities, producing effects which can be classified on a pretty classic 2-D "consultant's matrix".

On one axis: beneficial vs. negative consequences.

On the other: immediate vs. eventual apparentness.

We tend to adopt technologies with immediately apparent and beneficial consequences.

This creates two sets of failures:

- Not adopting technologies with eventually-apparent beneficial consequences.

- Failing to reject technologies with eventually-apparent negative net consequences.

- Failing to adopt technlogies with non-apparent net benefits.

(We also do correctly reject technologies with immediately apparent harmful consequences.)

This is confounded by other factors. Technologies aren't single effects but sets (matrices) of effects, and can interact with other technologies.

There's a huge problem in that the non-apparent results, positive or negative, take time to become apparent. For various psychological, sociological, economic, and political reasons, there's also a frequent bias to promoting benefits over harms, at least by parties with an interest in the technology. (Those suspecting they may be disadvantaged will employ the opposite bias.)

When you're looking at planetary-scale actions and behaviours in which there's no ability to opt out (we're either all in or all out), then you've got a problem of assuming a major risk, and there being potential major negative unforseen consequences.

It's the unintended consequences of historical emissions which are the result of precisely that dynamic -- it was not widely seen when widespread use of coal, oil, and gas began, in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, that these could have a relatively immediate (decades-to-centuries) impact on the state of the environment on Earth. Even when proposed mechanisms and cautions were sounded, resistance to those warnings grew -- Cassandra's Curse.

Fixing one problem by going whole-hog in on a new technology, without having the time or opportunity to consider what might happen as a result ... strikes many people as a trifle rash.
Can you talk about how to infer causality without running an experiment? From your description, "real-time processing + auto ML + algorithm" still sounds very much observational to me.

I'm asking not as knock against your service, but genuine curiosity about how you manage to solve this incredibly hard problem.

EDIT: From your white paper, it looks like you're running a regression that controls for a bunch of confounders. You also interact the treatment variable with those confounders to get the heterogeneous treatment effect.

My concern with that is that we're not controlling for unobservable confounders, which make causal inference so difficult. If we assume that controlling for observable confounders is enough (we shouldn't!), then correlation and causation are the same.

White paper: https://blog.clearbrain.com/posts/introducing-causal-analyti...
I was typing in a password (which I have since changed, lol) that contained one of these letters and it kept rejecting it. Assuming I was typing it wrong (I’m prone to that), I very deliberately typed in every letter one at a time and noticed that no dot appeared when I got to that character. I was gonna tweet about that one letter but then I started wondering how many other letters would do the same. So I tried them all.

My day job used to be internal technical support at a software company, and now it’s engineering.

Before that I was at 9to5Mac reviewing apps, and even before that I was a pretty prolific beta tester for stuff like iOS jailbreak tweaks, so I’ve got a LOT of troubleshooting and debugging experience that comes in handy here haha. I live to break things.
> Well sure, but build systems are hard, so that's still success in my book.

Sure, but suggesting the one true way to use the tool is a way that only works inside of google's ecosystem is myopic. I don't actually have complaints with bazel directly. I have issues with the googlers who continue to insist on using it on a way that only works inside of google to others and then act surprised when those people don't use it at all (or use it wildly incorrectly, or complain about the tool being poorly thought out, and so on).

What you suggest runs counter to many of the things that makes Bazel useful for anyone outside of google. I would swap back to CMAKE, by hand makefiles, hell I would use shell scripts, before I use it the way you suggest.

> No, but neither is the language analysis stuff you suggest I build instead

I didn't say you specifically should go build that. I was saying it's possible with bazel, any language that doesn't have those features is not a mature programming language, and if bazel is going to be used with that language it should probably make use of those features (or accept that it's not a mature language). If C++ and javascript can provide reflection than so can whatever bespoke language you are describing.

> and claim I'm incompetent if I don't do.

No I claimed you are incompetent because you claimed you couldn't do you job if a `.lib` file contained the output from more than one source file.
Then you can't use those places to generalize Atlanta. The fact is Atlanta isn't adding housing fast enough to keep up with demand. That is the same problem San Fransisco has. It's just not nearly as bad.

>If you own a house you wouldn’t want the value to meet inflation every year. You want it to gain value.

Of course. That's a huge part of the of the problem. Housing can't be both a good investment and affordable. You've basically summed up NIMBYism in 2 sentences.

>Atlanta is a very affordable city by any measure

It is currently more affordable than some cities less affordable than others. But if housing prices keep outpacing inflation and more importantly wage growth, it won't be affordable for long.
Lack of testosterone because they already have a mate.

There is a lot of science to back this up. That getting married and/or having kids is what marks a man's decline in innovative output, because they no longer have to impress potential mates.

But it's also correlative and not causative, and assumes most men make the breakthroughs, which has been traditionally true but almost certainly because of some other factor than just gender.
I commend Jack Dorsey for his ethics. I think there could have been a better solution though - why not just disallow targeting on political ads? Only allow coarse-grained targeting, say at a state level. You still give political campaigns the opportunity to leverage the network and spread the word, and you get at least part of the revenue.

The problem with social media advertising is the targeted nature of ads. If you take that out, and place ads like DuckDuckGo does, it is not that different from newspaper ads and much less dangerous.
Plenty of good points being made in this thread.

I'd like to point out that discoveries in fundamental physics do not always come from work in fundamental physics. Physical systems exhibit some "holographic" or "self-similar" tendency where high-level statistical effects will often mimic low-level fundamental dynamics. For example, wave propagation was originally described for pressure waves propagating in a physical medium, then applied to light waves after the work of Maxwell. More recently, the Lorentz transformations, originally used to calculate the effects of finite-speed electric fields on susceptible particles, turned out to be a fundamental property of the universe. And the Hamiltonian path integral formulation, originally a mathematical curiosity, turned out to be crucial for describing relativistic quantum interactions.

Some of the work that `yummypaint describes which is being done in quantum chromodynamics -- a field in which we have a working "lattice" approximation but almost no real analytical solutions -- may eventually prove useful for a theory of quantum gravity. However, QCD is still very immature. Those with a little experience will recognize the phrase "non-perturbative" which describes some QCD problems -- this also appears in quantum gravity, where perturbation theory fails. The lattice gauge theory model used to solve QCD problems today cannot be extended to gravity, but other methods might not have this limitation.

So the lack of clear and demonstrated progress in fundamental physics does not mean that we are not learning real facts which can eventually be useful for describing fundamental physics. The situation is not so dire.

As for critiques of Hossenfelder, it's certainly true that her writing tends to the dramatic. Just last year she was optimistic about asymptotically safe quantum gravity:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-an-old-theory-of-everythi...

technical FAQ: http://www.percacci.it/roberto/physics/as/faq.html

One might guess that her tone of despair here is a little performative as well.
The people who will have control of the system have no incentive to be sensible; they have incentives to do what the executive government tells them to do and situations get very political very quickly. Consider the IRS vs conservative groups under Obama (according to Republicans).

The issue isn't a slippery slope as much as it is centralising power to a single point vulnerable to corruption & allowing politically charged decisions to be hidden behind opaque bureaucratic processes.
I'm skeptical of this. Is a private charity promoting an LGBT fundraiser a political ad? What about Fox News pushing an ad about how other news is fake. Or MSNBC pushing an ad about Russia collusion? Was the now infamous Gillette woke ad political? It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
> "But only focusing on the good is definitely a trend that happens a lot--it's called romanticizing."

It doesn't appear that way to me at least. The tired trend I see "hey, you see that thing you like, here let me rub shit all over it. Why do you like it? stop fantasizing, cant you see that I found something bad in it so you are obligated to hate the whole thing". Case in point.
Foreign govt can also pay for political ads via TV/print as well. Most of the foreign govt interference is not via ads but via organic channels such as FB Pages, FB user accounts, Twitter accounts/bots. Those will continue to operate regardless of this decision by Twitter
Nim is written in Nim and no one has run into this style insensitivity confusion despite many people contributing. If your project is smaller or fewer people and you still think this is a big issue, good luck. And if it is larger, this is the least of your concerns.

Think in reverse, is it a useful language feature to have MyNimName, mynimname, MY_NIM_NAME, My_Nim_Name, __MYNIM___name_ be different? When did you need this flexibility recently? Are we really so limited at naming things appropriately?

It's fine to make a big deal about something in theory but if it really was such a dumb idea it would have died over the decade Nim has been around. It was debated again prior to 1.0 and persisted, several good reasons are also mentioned in this thread. And it isn't even an original idea as brought up by several others.

If this is the reason someone doesn't try Nim then it's only unfortunate for them. Add this to the tabs vs. spaces, curlies vs. whitespace indentation or other so called concerns which make no difference in the grand scheme of things.
I half suspect the original comment was a subtle dig at the ambiguity itself.
I agree completely. What the double-digit A1c people need first is to understand where they are headed, which the test substantiates if the practitioner has the nerve to spell it out. What to do about it is a different part of the problem. I am paywalled out of the article, but the word 'routine' is grievously vague to me. It could mean anything from an annual A1c to quarterly A1c's, with glucose monitoring anywhere from hourly to never.
With the current "low code" hype in mind, i guess access is exactly that..
GPL is toxic because a company can include software that you wrote for free in their non-free code and they will have to release it under GPL, right?

That seems more than what you can do with their non-free code, I would say that 1: GPL is less toxic than EULAs and 2: GPL prevents toxicity by preventing GPLed source to be included as part of non-free software.
That means that most people didn't even figure out how to attempt one, because the means were taken away.

You should compare with suicides/suicide attempt rates in general population (or general prison population) to make this statement.
Salesforce, the core database/CRUD bit of it if you ignore all the stuff they've purchased and tacked-on in the last few years, is essentially 'Access in the cloud', in terms of the sorts of things you can do and the ease with which you can do it, and how far you can stretch it before it starts to get cumbersome. And yes, they are making a killing.

edit: And if that sounds easy, imagine how you would go about upgrading and patching and extending your access-like cloud platform twice a year without any significant breakage of any of your customers varied and extensive customisations, and without any significant downtime, and keep that up for 20 years. Thats the thing that Salesforce are good at, and not many people appreciate how difficult it is.
> Unfortunately my numbers look a lot like this :,(

Fortunately you have a mathematical equation at your disposal that helps tell you this so that you can feel confident in trying something different and seeing how that effects PMF
Relative to the prison staff budget.
Then only a few named candidates will have most of the leverage. Is that what we want?
Many trees constitute a forest. A single tree does not. At some point, a group of trees becomes large enough to be considered a forest. There is no way to provide any non-arbitrary rule where that point is.

Does this render the concept of a "forest" meaningless?
It's shown up in every single HN thread about Gates's ties to Epstein.

Have to say I'm particularly impressed with Reid Hoffman's PR outfit though. By all accounts he was a major Silicon Valley nexus connecting Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and others, yet he managed to stay almost completely out of the headlines and even still hosts a show on NPR about the startup scene.
This has become a lot more noticeable within the last few years (e.g., the Washington Post editorial "Why can't we hate men?"), and it is indeed having a negative effect on my state of mind.

Not easy to do, but I've been working hard on withdrawing from social media, outrage news, etc., and those who are wrapped up in it. It seems appealing in the moment, but I do think it ultimately contributes to this sort of despair.
> what is the correct decision, in your opinion, when a criminal floors it and reaches 90 mph in an attempt to evade officers

They've got a suspect description, car description, and license plate. There is no reason to believe the car is stolen, so there is a registered address. There is likely a helicopter on the way, and ANPR cameras will flag the plate. It was a property crime. Yes they should let the perp speed away and catch up with them later, rather than using the situation as an excuse to engage in their own sanctioned criminality.

If you call any police station and ask this question in terms of say a hit and run collision and whether you should pursue, they will give you a similar answer.
I've advertised on twitter, and you can either promote tweets or promote your account. When you promote an account, it raises the visibility of the account, its description, and recent tweets (which people end up seeing when they consider following you or learning more about you).

So promoting an account can have the same effect as promoting a tweet, though perhaps at a higher cost (because it's a less efficient way of promoting a tweet). If political advertisers end up doing this, twitter may profit from their policy shift, but without actually achieving the putative goal.
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Okay, you can point out one extreme side of the continuum. What about the other extreme, where every political ad contains blatant lies because anyone who doesn't do that cannot possibly get elected?

> I worry though: often the truthfulness of real world statements are difficult to determine. Even when truth is easy to determine, there are few arbiters of information that everyone alongside the aisle trust.

This is true, of course, but why is this such a serious or novel concern? All criminal trials, for instance, require making a judgement on the truth about reality. Of course some cases are very hard, and sometimes we get the wrong outcome. But what else do you suggest? That no one ever attempt to determine anything about reality?
oh wow! much luck to him! i remember watching a talk from him on youtube and putting that book he wrote on my wishlist.
Lots of democracies have legal definitions for what counts as political advertising. Obviously Twitter doesn't have to use those definitions, but there are fairly clear guidelines in a number of jurisdictions. And it doesn't have to be a situation where they set rules for life: taking a firm apolitical stance on advertising likely requires reassessing the rules over time. But it is doable.

What will be really interesting is whether Twitter tries to work with governments or whether they unilaterally come to their own rules. There be dragons on both fronts.
That's why you get rid of the landlords
Do they mean run RPI with Ubuntu as OS or have raspbian OS and have an Ubuntu server on top of it?
> Instead it's three-finger directional swipes and pinches and long-touching a caret to pick it up and whatnot.

Wait hold up. I've been on iOS13 for months now and been super frustrated with what I thought was a buggy copy/paste.

Are you telling me I was just doing it wrong?!
Yeah exactly. Working in an IT Dept when someone said "ah they've built a spreadsheet to do it, but now they want us to add that functionality to the main DB" we'd all roll our eyes because it was another lashed-together thing that we would have to unpick and re-implement. But the fact is, if they'd come straight to us and asked us to do it instead of doing it in Excel first, they would have had nothing, for years and years.
I totally agree. I have so many interests and so little time. I can't wait until I can retire so that I can focus on the things that really interest me. I'm hoping to form groups of like minded people with similar hobbies. I envision my future as one of those old dudes playing chess in the park, except chess would be replaced with one of my many interests.