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> I’m just not sure about top-down forced mentoring as a career requirement.

Indeed, it feels like saying "oh you two are gonna be friends!"

I feel there's a confusion around terms. Life is a bit more complex. Mentoring is a rather specific thing, and 'real' mentors are a rare (and precious) relationship; it's long-term (at least in perspective, however long it actually lasts) and much more emotional in that there's admiration (reciprocal), there's care (genuine) for the other, it just can't be decided (even for oneself). It's not something you can commoditize with policies or incentives. You don't have 6 or 10 such people in your life, more like 1, rarely, 2 if you're really lucky.

What most of the article seems to be talking about is very good but it's not really 'mentoring'. More like "skill sharing", good "onboarding" (even with seniors as we onboard others onto the systems we happen to know better in the organization or the field at large). It's informal teaching, transmission, it's an organization thing he's describing — not a human-driven relationship that exists around all else.

The platform is more interesting. People with a desire to mentor may find a good match, and stick with it. Reciprocally. But the truth is that no more than online dating, you just can't be sure there's a match right now for you, you may find students / teachers (like find people to grab a drink sometimes), but mentees / mentors (long-term relationship) is a whole other ballpark.

I'd say this: it is a good cultural evolution to value mentorship and try to form minds into engaging in such relationships, like you'd think it good people want to marry or raise kids. It also shows how learning isn't a school thing only, actually very little, but a life-long endeavor wherein all parties grow in the process. But just like Disney movies aren't reality for most people most of the time, a little temperance on the real felt experience of mentorship may be in order when encouraging people to the possibility.
How is the Keylab? I was in the market for a new keyboard and was eyeing Akai MPK249, but the Keylab looks to be more customizable
Change the scenario to "download it and double click it, exploiting vuln in file format handler" and it's correct.
Now you are confusing me, because in Australia "mall" means something else -- and in Bondi Junction there's a mall right outside the Westfield.

I had some visitors from from Washington DC recently. They were impressed at how much more "happening" the local shopping centre (Hornsby Westfield) was compared to American malls. I suspect Westfield is a bit of a world-leader in this business.
I should've said "limited in usefulness for detecting moderately-clever attackers" rather than just flat-out "useless". Monitoring is obviously a useful tool regardless of whether it will always help you detect attackers in your network. You could use nf_conntrack on the host as well but that could also be bypassed by a root process on the host.
I really wish the App store rules made it so non camera apps were not allowed to access the camera and had to ask the OS to present the OS camera. Same for access to the photos. I wish an app asked the OS for photos and an OS level UI let the user choose the pictures and only those pictures are provided to the app. As it is any app that asks for camera access gets too much access and any app that asks for photo access gets access to all photos. neither of those are in line with Apple's privacy stance
Pavlo's research on "autonomous databases" is focused less on issues of data quality, and more around configuration and tuning of database systems [1]. For most databases, there are a staggering number of knobs to tune and configure for a particular workload. DBAs typically work on this type of tuning, whereas data quality issues are often problems at the application layer or above.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2018/04/what-is-a-self-dr...
It sounds you may already know this, but for those who don't: malls were originally designed to be small cities. The inventor of the shopping mall, Victor Gruen, envisioned a structure with housing, medical centers, post offices, in addition to shopping. The idea was to mimic what his birthplace of Vienna already had: a mixed-use center not dominated by cars the way American suburbs are.

99% Invisible has a great episode about it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/
I'm not too familiar with teaching in the US. Could you elaborate on the problems caused by the teachers' union?
Yup, that's my exact setup. Haven't found a need to do more than that for years.
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If you really want to talk about cities that have turned into malls, talk about Singapore.
FB are just no longer trusted by me.
I strongly disagree that this lower barrier of entry won't make things significantly worse. I also disagree that "people are smart". Of course that depends on your definition of smart, but evidence of general intelligence is evaporating rapidly.

If through software a non-technical person can generate hundreds of websites of "content" that either pollutes a topic with noise or misinformation, you can bet that will be used at great scale for everything. Pick an element of human life, and I can describe a way someone will have financial or political (which often boils down to financial) motivation to do it.
"A brushless electric motor has a lot fewer moving parts"

Not to mention it makes a lot less weight to lift; the difference is huge.
Where do you see this? What you say is true in general, but this repo in particular is nothing like that. It is operating entirely using vendor providing APIs, an in particular it fully respecting process boundaries - the GPU code is only alive as long as containing process is, and only has access to the data that CPU part explicitly granted it.

Really, the only thing bad here is that some memory scan engines in antiviruses cannot monitor this. But how many memory scanning Linux antivirusesave you seen?
No, but I didbsit there and listen to a really drunk dude sitting on the street once who'd just broke his 10 year sobriety after coming home and finding his wife fucking s room full of men about a half hour before I ran into him. He was about halfway through a 40 of whiskey by that point.
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I found a very effective way of eliminating ads completely. https://www.youtube.com/premium

It turns out I can use some of the money I make in my work, to pay other people for their work.
I understand how this was needed historically, when using the official installer might overwrite the Python you already had installed. But as far as I know, you can download an installer for a new version, run it, and it doesn't touch your previous installation.

For example I've had 3.7 on my macOS system for a while, installed from the official installer, not through Homebrew. I just installed 3.8, which pointed my python3 to 3.8. But my 3.7 was still there; I created an alias python3.7 to point to that. So I can run or install anything I want against 3.7 or 3.8.

Why do we still need pyenv? I'm not asking that antagonistically, I really don't understand at this point and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
>No, the more insidious goal is to flood the zone with enough dis- and misinformation to overload our ability to filter it. It’s like gaslighting at scale- at some point you just stop being able to process information because it’s so voluminous and of dubious quality that you stop believing any of it.

This isn't new by any stretch of the imagination. It might as well outright be the job of the Fourth Estate ever since the Fourth Estate has existed (funded, as always, by ads).

And when you look at the people complaining about this, which is for the most part people part of said political group (Facebook/Twitter/non-tech journalists), it makes sense that anything that could diminish their ability to control the narrative should be presented to the public as a new and novel threat.

So this isn't going to result in widespread social chaos, because it's already happening. If anything, this technology will democratize what the old media is currently doing; which will likely result in driving political power towards crowdsourced content aggregation instead of the individual content creators themselves.
Back in the 90s, the leading Malayalam newspaper had us download an exe of a font installer, maybe only for IE5.
Your right, I misread. Historically wrestling has been awful. It's the rare example of something coming out better from lessons learned.
This would definitely lead to me being very confused when things I'm selecting that I thought were aggregates were actually being implicitly grouped, or when one thing I'm selecting that I didn't realize is an aggregation results in grouping by all the other fields. There is no way for the query engine to know which direction I made a mistake in, so it just tells me something is wrong and let's me figure out how to fix it. Failing fast is much better than trying to guess at what I'm trying to do.
Kudos to you. I just looked it up and the Walmart Neighborhood Market closest to me is ~30K sq. ft. while the CVS closest to me is 17.5K.
China has announced plans to expand their territory across the pacific ocean. That's where their interest in aircraft carriers stems from.
At that point you may as well ban all user generated content since one user might have an insecure OS
They're (meant to be) used for applying and removing makeup, taking samples of fluids for medical purposes (e.g. DNA swab), cleaning small items such as jewelry or electronics, applying glue in arts and crafts.[1] Using them for ear cleaning is associated with a number of risks to the ear.[2] But you do you.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_swab#Use

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_swab#Medical_risks
Complex SQL takes a lot of time to write, and some of us don’t have the money to pay someone.
Read the whole article.

>And however tough things get for the Octoparts, I predict they'll succeed. They may have to morph themselves into something totally different, but they won't just crawl off and die. They're smart; they're working in a promising field; and they just cannot give up.

>All of you guys already have the first two. You're all smart and working on promising ideas. Whether you end up among the living or the dead comes down to the third ingredient, not giving up.

He admits that this speech is made for the startups in the room; ones that already passed the bar.
I lived in Oakland (and commuted into SF for work) for a year and a half so I feel like I'm pretty street smart as it is

What's the draw of Europe? Personally I don't think I'd like being a foreigner and not having any friends there. Might be cool to visit for a month or two but 2 years is kinda.... stretching it? At least in NYC its still in the states
Given that they're selected for being the very best returns, it's probably a decent (but not completely exceptional) combination of every factor- skill, luck, laundering, connections, etc.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-ta...
Nothing Elon Musk does threatens astronomy. Musk will accelerate innovation and development within the astronomy industry via reducing the cost per pound of placing satellites in orbit. It elevates the feasibility and affordability of space telescopes like the hubble, as well as future space missions and development.
My problem with SQL Server is that the name is so generic it sounds more like a product category than a product. Its like naming a word processor "Text Rendering Engine". Microsoft seems to be generally terrible at naming things: I don't know how they expected people to keep .NET Core, Standard, Framework, and Mono separate, not even counting how bad a name .NET is in the first place.
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Time is money. A cruise ship not carrying passengers is not making money.

Presumably it was more cost effective to use this than to travel to a dry dock wherever that is. The article this was switched over from did say it was fairly far from a dry dock capable of taking it in.
I was experimenting with this stuff and you can too here [1]. It's kind of impressive but not convincing. The main impression it gives is it doesn't know what subjects affect which objects, what one kind of relation implies about another relation and so-forth. Still, it gives a sequence of words with a consistent "feel" which is impressive.

However, I would still only find it's text convincing for producing ... a marketing blog since such things just seem like a contentless stream of buzzwords to begin with. If anything, it gives a certain idea of how marketing speech require something, a stream of words with certain feeling, but not real logic.

[1] https://talktotransformer.com/
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This reminds me of Ze Frank's Ugly MySpace pages. He used to tease creators of "ugly" MySpace pages during his show. When someone called him out on it, he had this to say about it:

"For a very long time, taste and artistic training have been things that only a small number of people have been able to develop. Only a few people could afford to participate in the production of many types of media. Raw materials like pigments were expensive; same with tools like printing presses; even as late as 1963 it cost Charles Peignot over $600,000 to create and cut a single font family.

The small number of people who had access to these tools and resources created rules about what was good taste or bad taste. These designers started giving each other awards and the rules they followed became even more specific. All sorts of stuff about grids and sizes and color combinations — lots of stuff that the consumers of this media never consciously noticed. Over the last 20 years, however, the cost of tools related to the authorship of media has plummeted. For very little money, anyone can create and distribute things like newsletters, or videos, or bad-ass tunes about "ugly."

Suddenly consumers are learning the language of these authorship tools. The fact that tons of people know names of fonts like Helvetica is weird! And when people start learning something new, they perceive the world around them differently. If you start learning how to play the guitar, suddenly the guitar stands out in all the music you listen to. For example, throughout most of the history of movies, the audience didn't really understand what a craft editing was. Now, as more and more people have access to things like iMovie, they begin to understand the manipulative power of editing. Watching reality TV almost becomes like a game as you try to second-guess how the editor is trying to manipulate you."

http://www.zefrank.com/thewiki/the_show:_07-14-06
I don’t really agree with your opinion (especially as someone that came from the ‘burbs and if your primary experience is the LES, which is a fun area, but one of the grungier areas), but regardless, fwiw, Bloomberg tried to ban cars in Manhattan, but that plan was rejected. People love their cars here, even if they are in the minority. But it’s progressing, slowly. More bike lanes are being built. Broadway is slowly being converted to pedestrian-only piece by piece.
It wouldn't be an accident, it'd be a (messy) workaround for camera startup time
This is not done over regular lisp lists, but over scheme syntax objects that retain the original source info.

Those syntax objects are also the basis of the hygienic macro systems in many schemes (at least ones using syntax-case) so that macros also benefit from that information.

The lisp source representation is already an AST, so these kinds of transformations are trivial.
How is your battery doing? Try changing it to make sure that there is nothing throttling performance. iOS 13 is snappier on the 6S. They did a lot of work on performance improvements.
GL library is pretty high level, so most of the functions are safe. You don’t in general specify direct GPU instructions to run, instead it is large things like “apply transform”

GL does allow uploading some code to card sometimes, in form of shaders for example, but this is fairly constrained and limited language.
I built https://writeup.ai to help with that, but while it helps, it still feels like it's missing "something" at times.
There are different ways of explaining this (like conversely talking about what computers and computation are) but my personal preference is to explain it in terms of time.

We don't understand physics well enough to know whether time (and space [1]) can be arbitrarily halved over and over.

For an actual "infinity point" you would need such halving of time of computation up to a point where you actually have infinitely small time increments. The way you would define this would be via a limit and again the main premise is arbitrary halving, something that we have not seen in nature and which is a mathematical tool, rather than a hard physical fact.

Since you have physical computers, the composition of such a computer would have to lead to computations in these infinitesimal time brackets and in turn, for example, may necessitate infinitesimal matter. The way I understand the Planck length, at least as a concept, is that after some really small length of space then essentially you don't get anything smaller.

In any case, talking about a "singularity point" is an activity done by social personalities who like to sound clever. But they are not saying anything remotely clear.

As I mentioned, the other argument that one can make is to challenge the ability to indefinitely "improve yourself" as a machine, another dubious claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

Edit: I am not a physicist, so there could be better ways to think of Planck length and discuss its validity.
the local dry-dock is no longer available, they needed to fix something broken in one of the ship's impellers
Hanlon's razor is conditional to having a low level of paranoia towards the actor. If your perceived prior probability (in bayesian terms) of villainy is high, it doesn't apply.
This has been true long before ai. Writing and journalism have always been weaponized. The opposite could be true in that it's easier to recognize automated fake news than well crafted hand done human deception.
Is this something that's similar to what you're describing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7np9rhQmNTU
Well, this probably means end of unsigned content ; every line of text, every article, etc should be / will be signed by living person's key, or it will be heavily penalized in search engine output; governments will run keystores with citizens' keys, and content signatures will be checked against such keystores to ensure content authenticity (or lack thereof) . Time to reopen GPG , I guess.
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Notably, the classic story of fur-clad prehistoric humans digging pits to trap mammoths is quite unrealistic in colder climates (where wooly mammoths lived): digging large pits in frozen soil with nothing but bones, sticks and maybe shoulder blades (as spades) is extremely hard.

I wonder what the average temperature of Mexico was during that time...
I have the same experience. Laravel is way too magical for me.

I use Symfony for quite some time and at one point I stopped using Doctrine data mapper. The DBAL and the query builder are enough.
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" tries to explain a timeline of world history that doesn't exist. In particular, he begins with the idea that western Europe had more "cargo" from the beginning and stayed ahead, which is blatantly false when you look back past the Dutch cornering the triangle trade in the east and the Spanish looting the Americas. He also pretends to invent the idea of geographical determination of history, ignoring over a century of literature on the subject where the initial enthusiasm for the idea was steadily tempered until it was taken as one factor among many.

"Collapse" uses case studies, such as that of Rapa Nui, that are just plain wrong. If you start from wrong data, you can't expect to get much of anywhere.

I stopped bothering with him at that point. He goes over the exact same ground that anthropologists and historians have long before and makes many of the mistakes again.

He's an excellent writer. I wish his content weren't so inaccurate.
It should’ve been obvious I was talking about news sites. Even if I wasn’t, you assumed I was talking about social media without any supporting basis.
Just because a monopoly is not acting maliciously today, that doesn't mean that it won't tomorrow.
Well, security engineering is about tradeoffs and managing risk, you won't get far outlawing all sources of risk. The smart way to handle attachments is to scrub them somehow (re-encode, pdf2pdf etc).
I know it's supposed to be basic, but it still blows my mind that those two things still weigh less than the water they displace...
I wasn’t comparing New York to any place in the US. It is probably the best American city, but that’s not a high bar.
This reminded me one of my childhood horrors when I climbed up the stairwell, looked around, and now both ladders go up to the dead end. One window upstairs and a corridor with no doors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/backrooms/comments/duzaw4/im_a_litt...
nice..
https://sulekhaholidays.com/tours/golden-triangle-tour-packa...
Saying big data is data too large to process on a single machine purposefully leaves out the spec of the machine.

That's because a reasonably sized machine from today is much larger than one from five years ago. And an unreasonably large machine today is also larger but yet more achievable.

A basic dual Epyc system can have 128 cores, and 2TB of ram. Someone mentioned 24 TB of ram, which is probably not a two socket system.

You can do a lot with 2TB of ram.
I believe this is a problem that CS has already solved: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~graham/pubs/papers/cmsoft.pdf

The Count-Min Sketch is a data structure consisting of a fixed array of counters.

This is a short and easily accessible paper, which isn't very heavy on math or obscure notation or concepts, so I would recommend it to anyone with even a cursory interest in the subject.

Here's an implementation in Python: https://github.com/barrust/count-min-sketch/blob/master/pyth...
I am referring to the bit length of the input.
WebGL specifies that memory is always pre-zeroed. There were implementation bugs in this in the early days though.
I also eliminate ads completely using ublock. Not everything is vis a vis. If youtube was a bastion of free speech and didn't demonetize controversial creators then I would consider supporting them.
Unfortunately, big corporations think its "not scalable" solution and prefer to overpay 60k to outsource to AWS...
Access to superior information under the disguise of math and science.
This is deflecting. I was not arguing at all that NYC isn’t a global power and important city. I’ve been in more live able ones though.
I strongly disagree with this comment.

I sincerely doubt 100% of the HN audience always considers those things.

You might think some of those things are basic, but that doesn't make them useless.

This kind of lack of empathy for new learners can make it incredibly difficult to teach concepts to those who don't have as much knowledge as you may have.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84 for a great video by 3blue1brown on this topic.
well I can hold somewhat arbitrarily large integers in memory with the ackermann function, for instance.
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People hate on Gradle endlessly, but the fact that 99% of my JVM based applications can be successfully launched including entirely self-contained dependencies with

./gradlew run

is a huge boon and one of the things that keeps me sticking with the ecosystem.