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The techniques DM used are popular in academia right now, too. Using evolutionary data to shortcut hard problems has been key to advancement in protein research for decades. DM just executed better, a combination of smart people, some good ideas, and lots of experimentation. NEver underestimate the ability of company that exists to win games, to win competitions.
Oh well I understand that funds are allocated for a project. But in my experience, postdocs who are coming to the end of the funding for one project tend to be moved to another incoming one. I.e. they're essentially permanent staff anyway. I know of people who've gone on like this for 10+ years.

"Revenue generating" centres within unis have targets and projections (e.g. commercialization teams) so they DO have an idea of what funds they'll have in the medium term, even though it's on a project by project basis. I don't see how this is any different from any company that needs revenue in order to keep staff, but yet companies manage to keep staff permanently. In fact, even universities seem to be able to keep staff permanently, unless they're researchers.
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That looks like it. Can't find any followup on the case or more importantly any ruling on the theft issue.
The problem is that the people who name things don't always have enough knowledge to name them properly. And once a name has stuck, even if it's technically incorrect, it ain't gonna change.
Then he has a very bad choice of language. Tipping point means physically that once it is reached then the scales (or whatever is in balance) tip 100% to the other side.
Technical debt: the horrible metaphor meant to explain a project to non-technical people but that only technical people adopted.

And then everybody needs a better metaphor to explain the bad metaphor to non-technical people.
Haha! Is starbii plural for Starbucks?
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Taking an entirely utilitarian view as you have is nothing new nor unconventional. The counterarguments, for privacy and protecting it, are far from irrational and have been made by some of the greatest scholars of the past centuries. This is a well studied and documented debate. There are even many concrete examples over the past 100 years, in recent history and in living memory, of where privacy has been eroded, and the abuse that follows it.

Your own idolization of the utilitarian view is nothing provocative, nor is it rational -- just ignorant of history. Your own "thinking" on the topic is also like religious devotion, analogous to one that ignores evolution, and not even because you reject it, but because you've never taken the time to read about it.
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The time period being compared to the present is the very early 1900s, shortly after the invention of aspirin. Air pollution and toxic materials were also much more common.
I don't think that's true. White rice is processed brown rice. Brown rice surely has a much longer history.
Yeah I tried to be careful with the "some people suggest" because it's still kind of a rumor. I have an eczema problem that tends to get worse when I'm not exercising regularly and gets better when I am. But obviously all bodies are different.
I’ve used them for a long time. I noticed zero change in the service.
Ed Fitchen, department head of Physics told me that there was a big difference between a good postdoctoral that can set up to produce and get a professorship and some other postdocs that are a dead end.

There is nothing wrong with the good postdocs, it's the bad ones that are the problem.
I checked the Haskell implementation of sort a while ago. Apparently it used to be Quicksort, which has a really elegant recursive implementation in Haskell, but they found that mergesort was actually faster. I wonder if it has anything to do with how a programming language implements lists, or if people just assume QuickSort is the fastest because of threads like these and don't bother trying out alternatives.
I’ve used both the keyboard.io and Kinesis Advantage II, and the latter is miles ahead. The curved fingertip bowl, the more logical placement of modifier keys, the F keys and media keys, the softwareless macros and remapping; if you have any interest in a keyboard.io I strongly recommend a Kinesis Advantage II, instead.

Like another commenter said: ortholinear (not staggered) is a huge win. Perhaps even higher priority than split, but close at least. Don’t settle for staggered.

(I emphatically second the urging of ergonomic HIDs!)
Does hitchhiking count? I've hosted couch surfers who have hitchhiked thousands of miles. One couple came to San Francisco all the way from Ecuador.
Well according to the article it could also be considered a berry.
I'm curious if it is even more misleading. Does it count 3840x2160 with 2x scaling as "other" or "1920x1080"?
The latest temperature data was measured from patients visiting hospital. Older people are naturally more prone to health problems and would therefore be visiting hospital more than younger people, on average.

Our average lifespan is longer than it used to be. I'd assume older people have a lower base temperature. This would skew the results statistically.
Interesting, I have a 2015 model, and sending destination from the phone or directly from the Google Maps on desktop always worked. I don't even need to connect my phone to the car. My wife's car is newer, and it doesn't connect to BMW Connected services at all. ;(
2009 (at least) + previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=How+to+Corrupt+an+SQLite+Database+...
> I have found that corruption of SQLite files in practice is a very difficult thing to achieve.

Not in the slightest. Stick your Plex DB on NFS and it’ll get messed up in very short order.
Interesting. I’ve got a bunch of (older) Netgear GS-108s and it’s definitely entirely locally managed. Good to know I shouldn’t buy any newer ones, thanks for sharing!
He is supposed to mail hn@ycombinator.com. That way dang actually sees it. And the guidelines specifically ask for doing such meta communication off HackerNews.
Seems fairly dead, the examples certainly don't work or are missing entirely.
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Fair enough. But you can find other threads where people talk about making 500K+ a year, and 50%+ of that is coming from stock. Without the stock market, that sort of compensation would be unheard of.
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Haha, thought you said Papa John and I was really confused for a bit
Here is a real, actual example:

I "defaulted" on the loan of replacing a script I wrote in 2 minutes in autohotkey (a windows scripting language). I'm never going to write it properly.

Now explain to me how defaulting on this technical debt has hurt my credit rating.

Is the next time I open a new autohotkey script is it going to say to me "Now wait a minute. What about all the debt you defaulted on last time? I'm not going to let you write a quick and dirty script! You'll default on ever rewriting it! Go do it properly as a source controlled project in Microsoft Visual Studio. I am not letting you write another script."

Is that what happens? No?

That autohotkey script is running now. Where's the debt? How is my credit rating worsened by defaulting on it?

It's debt you can default on at any time without any consequence, while being able to continue to use what you bought on credit.

Your version is like saying that the minute a squatter takes up residence in an abandoned building, he's just gotten $140,000 in debt, the cost of buying some land nearby and building a proper, albeit unfinished building with no electricity or heating.

And if, still in his abandoned building squat, he finds and burns some wood in the winter, watch out! He's just added $25,000 in debt to the $140,000 he already had, since that's what a proper HVAC system will cost in his properly built building. He went from $140,000 in debt to $165,000 in debt the minute he set fire to some wood.

But that's clearly very wrong. Maybe he'll live in that abandoned building for 4 years and then just walk away. Poof. The $165,000 in lousy-analogy debt disappears the moment he walks away.

It's not debt. It's a lousy, bad analogy.
Couldn't they just get new coins (which would be shiny) from the mint? Would that be more expensive than washing them?
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How about, instead of a charity kitchen, it's a restaurant that gives away its leftovers? If they only have pork leftovers, should they not give those away to those in need? By disallowing them, their choice would either be to throw the food in the trash or obtain other food to give away in addition to the pork. Of course, most businesses would just shrug and throw it away.
No issues with other metrics? To me all those metrics look like they are targeting work where every problem is well understood and people are just implementing primitive solutions and fix bugs. Or maybe just maintenance work. But not work where something new is created, actual problems solved or even just some amount of creativity involved, because then all the metrics will look abnormal and unpredictable.
Financial debt is a good analogy, but there is a crucial difference: technical debt is not fungible.

Cleaning up one kind of issue in your code doesn't affect other kinds of issues, and you can end up with fundamental architectural problems that no amount of testing or clean up can compensate for. You can handle some issues incrementally (eg adding tests), but some issues are going to be so fundamental to your system that you can only handle them by making a lot of changes all at once.

You can't refinance technical debt!
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Rather than downvoting, which I strongly want to do

The bootlickers don't bother leaving an explanation for their downvotes; you're under no obligation to operate on a higher moral plane to placate the demons who advocate for our subjugation.
SpaceX successfully tests escape system on new spacecraft
I can't help but laugh that a guy who calls himself 'Smirking Revenge' is a stan for Peter Thiel's revenge by proxy lawsuit. If you were a fictional character, I'd think the author was being a bit heavy-handed with your aptronym.
Outside my 401k, no. I didn't have enough money to put into the stock market. And frankly, even now I wouldn't dare; I don't think I'll ever grok how investors work well enough to take the risk.

Especially since the transaction fees set an artificial floor on how much I need to get out of any given buy/sell transaction.
There's a startup or two doing that in the UK (can't recall the names), but if course it only works for shops that are on board and use a till system that supports it.
It isn't necessarily a bad link of thinking though with this.

Higher CO2 levels can reduce cognitive function [1]. Reduced cognitive function could mean reduced energy expenditure (a common figure is the brain is responsible for 20% of your energy demands), it may not though. I can see this as being a valid mental leap worth investigating.

I suspect however in this case it's a combination of the things the article suggests as well as the thermic effect of food. A reduction in the amounts of nuts/seeds/spices/whole plant foods consumed, combined with highly processed foods that require less work to digest (a piece of fruit vs a bunch of table sugar), likely means diets with a lower thermic effect from the foods. Lower thermic effect means less caloric expenditure, less caloric expenditure should mean a lower body temperature.

[1] https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037
I post my protonmail publicly and I haven't gotten spam for a year or so.
How is a table of resolutions supposed to tell you anything about DPI? A 640x480 screen can be high DPI while a 3840x2160p screen standard DPI. Or the other way around. Or neither. Or both. It depends on both resolution AND physical size.

It'd also be interesting if they were even checking physical resolution or virtual (scaled) resolution.
> I really think wealth inequality is a terrible metric for overall social wellbeing because it does not consider that the baseline has risen. It just comes off as a greedy attitude to be salivating over your neighbor's plate simply because it is larger, even though yours is quite full.

Rationally, I'd say that you were correct, but that does nothing to address the feelings of the folks missing the "American Dream".
Well, he's buying land the size of Manhattan in NZ to build an apocalypse compound. [0] I'm no mind-reader, but he seems to have come out OK.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...
> I've cooked a week's worth of rice in about 30 minutes and you can cook a potato in the microwave in 5 minutes.

It takes rather more effort to make an appealing and nutritious meal than microwaving a potato.

[Edited to avoid pointless arguing]
The Readme for this repo is very well written. It makes me think that the rest of the project is worth checking out.
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From the article:

> Berries also must have two or more seeds, and their fruit must develop from a flower with one ovary. Once again, the banana checks those boxes. And, weirdly, so does the tomato, eggplant, kiwi and pepper. Oranges are a specific type of berry called hesperidium thanks to their distinct segments.

Just to throw some extra confusion into the mix :-)
> Quality in the west also has potential for strength because of greater devolution to the production floor.

What do you mean?

> But I do have a problem with saying 'west' vs 'east', everyone can learn from each other. I have problems with assumptions of superiority. Could framing it as a question of learning and leadership be better?

I think it's better put through the frame of negotiation. That's typically how the boundaries of any exchange internationally are set up to be fair and, depending on the goodwill between parties and their negotiating style, are mutually beneficial or mutually non-harmful.

"East" and "West" are also drastic simplifications which I'm sure you're aware of, but you don't get the evidential fodder for analyzing negotiation structures. This includes motives, positions, interests and personal players.

Like for example if I said "Eastern Europe versus Western Europe" I'd be conflating the interest of multiple countries and would be missing out on the history between Germany versus Russia (not a lot of goodwill), or Merkle versus Putin (maybe some goodwill due to her East German background?).
Below are a few specs related to refactoring/rewriting the TLA+ model checker to scale to more cores:

* https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus/blob/master/tlatools/src/...

* https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus/blob/master/tlatools/src/...

* https://github.com/lemmy/PageQueue
Which is probably one of the reasons why Julia takes ages to do a simple plot.
> I'm showing it as an example of OVERFITTING. ... if you change any of the many parameters ... they will turn into disaster

Come on, there's nothing to be seen here. Hyperparameters were handpicked to result in 100% profit on a certain timeframe.

And the title is misleading.
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In the realm of software, flying rockets is pretty simple. The hard parts of flying rockets is not the software.
TL;DR Title is misleading clickbait but the semi-interesting part is:

> Backtesting results [of the backtesting strategy referenced] look absurd: 100% profitable. But if you change any of the many parameters in the Settings popup, they will turn into disaster. It means, the rules of this strategy are very fragile. Don't trade this! Remember about backtesting rule #1: past results do not guarantee success in the future.
The article's choice of conclusion to run with is a great example of journalists cherry-picking data to support narratives prevailing among the journalistic set.

If you look at the underlying survey, you have to look very carefully for the data that supports the headline: https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2020-0....

If you look at Slide 73, "my hard work will be rewarded" is one of the three questions that feeds into the "lack of hope" dimension. If you look at Slide 12, "lack of hope" is actually the least prevalent dimension of the analysis. Just 26% of people cited "lack of hope" as being "true for them."

There are many clearer conclusions that could've been made from the data. For example, almost everyone in the world sees businesses as more competent and trustworthy than governments. If you look at Slides 39-40, trust in business is 58% globally, versus 49% for government. People trust business even more than the media, which is the same as government at 49%. (Slide 42.)

Slide 52 shows that 52% of people list governments as "corrupt and biased" versus 38% for businesses. Slides 55-56 show that businesses in most countries are rated as at least competent, and in many are rated as ethical. Whereas government is listed as both incompetent and unethical in most countries. (Again, businesses outperform the media, slide 57.)

As to the data about "capitalism"--generally, the polls on that question look very different when you use a question that explains what "capitalism" means: https://reason.com/2014/07/10/64-of-millennials-favor-a-free.... In the U.S., for example, millennials prefer "free markets" to "a government-managed economy" 2:1. See also: https://acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/05/23/grea...

> The poll shows that Americans trust the “free market” to be in charge of nearly every facet of society, including “the distribution of wealth” (by 40 percentage points), wages (27 points), and “the economy overall” (29 points).

Internationally, overwhelming majorities of people in emerging and developing countries "agree" with the statement: "most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor." https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4hP0Ux5fnuZfwOvqn7SnjS-oZac=...
There are at least a couple commercial offerings that do something similar.

There are non-trivial challenges in identifying qualitative code behaviour with static analysis, then the problem of whether you can dynamically exercise a sufficient majority of code paths in a program and classify the results is also a hard one.

This can work well as an open source project because it's basically an advisory tool where the user takes on the risk and ownership of the results. Commercially this is hard because the confusion matrix of the classifier is going to exclude customers with a high sensitivity to false-negatives. Great project, and good to move the state of the art on this forward.
“Would take decades to match the purchase price”: That’s typically because such stock is on a very good growth trajectory, so you paying a high multiple is part of the risk you are taking.

Or, are you genuinely thinking that a business like Facebook should be valued at a 5X multiple just like your small one-person SaaS project would likely be valued if you were to put it on the market? The risk with Facebook is much lower, hence it commands a much higher multiple.
This is exactly what the article says:

> Technical debt consists in performing a fix or development in a quick and dirty way because it takes less time, even though it will make the code harder to work with in the long term.

If you aren't going to be changing the code later, then writing a bunch of spaghetti code won't make it harder to work with in the long term.
Sure, but secure RNGs are not cheap. That's another trade-off to consider.
Just want to reiterate:
“In this case instead of the wrong person arrested for the murder, nobody would be arrested and the case would go unsolved.”
Are you suggesting this would be worse?

also, I don't think the air crash investigation analogy works well here, as pilots aren't as incentivized to fly in a way that is dangerous and likely to result in a crash. I assume more crashes are purely accidental or due to mechanical failure, where with law enforcement the concern is that wrongful arrests are due to overzealous and/or badly motivated officers.
Why would it trash the write performance to pick an arbitrarily large delay, such as one minute? Can you give an example? I don't know sqlite internals but this document is about "corrupting" a database (not just losing some data.)

So I imagine it could be set up so that any power loss that keeps data from being written within a specified arbitrarily large delay (such as one minute) won't actually corrupt the database - just lose data.
Years ago I was trying to prototype something like this (the "typing gloves" part) with accelerometers. I wanted them so I could see if I could type while lucid dreaming. Alas, my hardware skills were not up to the task!
Have you considered that these are different people holding different opinions?
What? Electronics, cars too?
> You've just made exactly my point, but from the opposite side. You are saying that Safety, and those "proven properties" are of higher importance than being bug-free in the real world.

You don't know its bug free. You're saying you haven't seen obvious bugs. That may work for you, but I try to gamble as little as possible when it comes to code.

But even if we ignore safety, you're also skipping expressiveness and more self-evident code for what?

You're not qualifying your "real world experience" with any sort of alternative rigor that might represent some sort of nod to modern practice. Until you do, you're shouting "I believe in this because of my pride."

You can deny that characterization, but that's what it is.

> Generally speaking, I have no idea. In this scenario, I know the project owner has done some performance testing, so maybe. But honestly, I've no idea what you're trying to argue here.

As opposed to your "pop" metaphor, you think asking for some demonstration of rigor is confusing? Well... The world is full of different ideas I guess.

> No, Pull requests on GitHub for a trusted and depended-on project are NOT a single click. If that is how you run your open source PR pipeline, very quickly your users will not trust you.

You didn't read very carefully if this is your takeaway and I won't entertain a straw man. Perhaps next time spend less time on a labored "pop" metaphor?
Well exactly, but the HN audience is not majority FAANG.
I worked on a large legacy application (in production since 1996) implemented in Smalltalk for a couple of years. I don't feel we had any particular issues keeping the codebase consistent due to Smalltalk itself (there were some issues due to the Smalltalk system's version control system which was pretty terrible), but Smalltalk enabled us to implement new features in the application very smoothly, and debugging issues was simply a joy compared to other systems I've worked in. Finally, we could also fix bugs in the platform itself, which was quite useful since the vendor stopped supporting this particular Smalltalk compiler around 2000; I did a couple of small but quite important fixes like this while working on the project.
You bring up an interesting hiring process. I have not considered giving it emphasis. From what I've compiled so far, I have found that thoughtbot also anonymizes applications. They still accept a resume, but they redact things like names, school information, pronouns. Basically anything that would distinguish a person unfairly.

They also have a more in-depth application than usual tech companies. I've compiled their interview process here[0].

I will be monitoring this thread to see what other companies are there and may add a new filter. If you're looking for different hiring practices, I hope [0] could serve as a good resource.

[0] https://introview.io/company/thoughtbot/