skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very difficult for me to separate the brilliant from the jerk in Taleb's writing. When he says "you can't make that inference because the distribution has a fat tail and you're a dumb fuck" I can't tell whether the sentiment embedded in this statement is clouding his judgement. So ultimately all the drama surrounding the brilliant jerk makes him far less useful than you might initially think.
Well... it's the articles second H1 header. The title is "Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6".
> ...Apple was more inclined towards mitigating his jerky behavior, it might not be where it is today.

Do we really want more companies like Apple? They’re the Monsanto of tech IMO.
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> There are "No" brilliant jerks? Absolutely none? What evidence is that based on?

"No" here is used in the sense of "no pets", "no solicitors", "no outside food or drink beyond this point"
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The bitter experience is needed to learn that there are no shortcuts, and that the higher-level library that makes everything easy for you will also bite you in the ass sooner or later. We aren't born knowing these things, sadly.
The world we're going to needs no nuance and critical thinking.

I'm not even sure that's a joke anymore.
There are more dimensions to my decision than the raw cost. I sit next to it and enjoy it being relatively silent.
Just to be clear, literally the first thing they say is "How close is this to what it'll be like in production?" So it's not the 2021 Tesla cybertruck. It's literally 5% bigger than the 2021 Cyertruck, so it doesn't seem like a good title.
> There are tradeoffs with this machine compared to a Macbook Pro. Intel laptops also have twice as fast USB along with Thunderbolt 3.

On the other hand, this has a builtin HDMI port, ethernet port and the capacity for internal expansion (unlike the Macbook), so the performance for external expansion is a lot less relevant.

Who wants to carry around a bunch of overpriced dongles anyway?

> At 350 cd/m2 and 84% sRGB the relatively low resolution screen is also going to be darker with poor color reproduction.

I wish somebody would make laptops with high quality screens and low end everything else. Sometimes that's all you need.

Plus, the low end processors often have the best battery life.
Yes. This is the scenario in which I truly miss a good old-fashioned static type system and a big ol' intelligent IDE. Specifically, because of what you said: it frees up brain cycles for me to think about the real problems.

My highly subjective belief and experience is that Ruby and its ecosystem has enough other perks to make up for this loss. But, I definitely accept others might feel otherwise.
Here's one data point

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23217005

Other data points can be found here (take with a pinch of salt, but gets you the right ball park) are here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/
Would such a database be practical when dealing with laws like GDPR where you have to actually delete stuff sometimes?
Yes I would be annoyed if, in addition to charging rent to the restaurant, the landlord appeared when I tried to go in and pestered me into paying a ‘service fee’ or ‘entry fee’ and ‘landlord tip’ or whatever other nonsense that these services come up with.
>Some of the marketing stuff that they pull out is so outrageulsy ridiculous

You said it here. Some.

Like some engineering endeavors are outrageously ridiculous. No?
Just as an anecdotal counterpoint to all the negative reviews here: I have a 2015 Tuxedo notebook that is still going strong, and never had any issue with it. There is quite a bit of fan noise, which I don't hear as I'm typically using a noise-cancelling headset anyway. The keyboard is rather flimsy and the build quality is definitely not on par with Dell XPS or a T-series Lenovo, at least for this model: in my use case (using external keyboard and monitor 99% of the time) this is not an issue, so I'm (still) quite happy with it. As others have already said, the pricing is hard to beat and its Ubuntu setups are well configured.

I also had very positive interactions with their support staff; very friendly and knowledgeable. I have yet to see a piece of Tuxedo hardware fail, and know several people who are using their hardware (both laptops and workstations, which are even nicer and have a much better build quality IMO).
We see the second half. Your sentence reduces to:

> Trademark violations require intent to mislead, or they do not require intent to mislead.

You are trying to assert that this makes sense and that the second half makes the first half correct. Neither is true.
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Sure, you can shared_ptr everything and pretend your are writing C#, which as you say circles back into the same problems of spaghetti-ownership. The difference with c++ or rust is that you have options: plain &-reference for non persistent pointers, const &-references for read only non persistent pointers, copy for true copies, move/unique_ptr for transfer of ownership and shared_ptr for shared ownership. All this information is readily accessible to the caller through the function signature.
I've also seen many a perfectly functional website redesigned and changed because it was thought to be too reminiscent of the 1990s web.

I use PubMed a lot - in the case of this redesign, I don't see any real advantages to the redesign but I see a lot to dislike.

I'm sure web designers strongly prefer the new design but actual users like me strongly prefer the old design. People trying to make money on redesigning sites sell the supposed need to look modern and site owners seem to always fall for it leaving users to pay the price in terms of lost readability and usability.
It'd be especially interesting given that MongoDB claims this:

> Postgres has both asynchronous (the default) and synchronous replication options, neither of which offers automatic failure detection and failover [12]. The synchronous replication only waits for durability on one additional node, regardless of how many nodes exist [13]. Additionally, Postgres allows one to tune these durability behaviors at the user level. When reading from a node, there is no way to specify the durability or recency of the data read. A query may return data that is subsequently lost. Additionally, Postgres does not guarantee clients can read their own writes across nodes.

From http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol12/p2071-schultz.pdf
This tool is pretty cool, would be helpful to see prices I guess too. A table format would be easier to navigate. I recently found a TLD that seems underused and has one "total" word potential (chars incl tld as a single word) > .ge
Also can I recommend putting links to other domain providers like porkbun, their platform is super usable and prices are decent.
Every leader you love or hate is a jerk. You only call the ones you hate "jerks".

If there was an accurate adjective for Steve Jobs, even those who adored him would acknowledge that "jerk" is too kind of a descriptor. But he held onto more goodwill than this article's sacrificial lambs of Musk, Kalanick, Neumann, and Winterkorn.

This "no brilliant jerks" reminds me a bit of the anti-bully sentiment. Real bullies are popular, socially calibrated and powerful. The condemnation of "bullies" is for leaping hate on social failures with the temerity to lash out at their betters.
Brooks initial papers like "Intelligence without representation", "Elephants don't place Chess" and robots like Ghengis and Attila changed the robotics landscape. It was a leap akin to going from a Mainframes to an Apple II.

Brooks was extraordinarily well placed to lead this switch in Robotics. He was at MIT, a place with very talented engineers - mechanical, electrical - etc. who could work on the robots. MIT also had limitless funding and a culture for disruptive research with long payoffs. This might not have been possible at other places like CMU where robotics has more industrial applications. I remember watching the movies of Atilla and Genghis over and over again, downloaded over an FTP connection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6piNZBFdfY
Consider redacting anything other than the salary that may be sensitive, but yes, you can share them.

Depending on how you negotiate, you may benefit from not sharing numbers and letting the other side guess (potentially overshooting and offering a much higher salary).
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Forgive me, but this is such a ball of mud. All of the "easy" introductions into these primitives are basically whitepaper length, with long digressions into the high-level vs the low-level and historical vs modern patterns. And nothing gets into error cases or problems with cooperative scheduling or debugging/troubleshooting or where the GIL applies. In 5 years debugging the rats nest of concurrent python code that people are writing right now will make clear that go really got this right. So sad that python did not.

Edit: elsewhere on HN right now:

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/24/
If you don't want brilliant jerks, you are inherently negating their brilliance. A simple chain of logic, extrapolating from that headline, would lead to "if they truly were all around brilliant, they wouldn't act that way. They would be more brilliant if we replaced their non-brilliant side with our brilliant behavioral prescriptions."
Sadly, thinking about it isn't enough.
What does a perfect cold outreach sales email look like?
A lot of big companies do the PO built accommodation blocks at Bletchley Park - as that site was used for a lot of training after the GPO took BP over post world war 2
In my case foreign keys were enforced in the application business logic. The schema was extremely simple.
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Does overshooting work? Won't people get caught doing this..
Ask Susan Fowler whether you "cannot threaten or bully a tech employee" in a tech hotspot.

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Fowler
The thing I wonder about, is that presumable we can control temperature, pressure, magnetism, electric currents, elements and pretty much everything we know and understand in the physical to a relatively fine degree. We can simulate most environments that have existed on the planet over its existence, and yet with all that control, we cannot create even the simplest of life. We can manipulate it, alter it, destroy it - but we cannot yet create it. So either we don’t understand things nearly as well as we think we do, or there are some things that we don’t even know about yet.
Hey this is really cool. I’ve recently started learning python as a hobby, with the goal to eventually start full stack development. I was just wondering, since this is your first web app, how long have you been coding for/how long did it take to get up and running?
> Obviously you know this, but longstanding imperial Chinese policy was that no official was ever allowed to administer his own home province.

The PRC requires that "The chairman of an autonomous region, the prefect of an autonomous prefecture or the head of an autonomous county shall be a citizen of the nationality exercising regional autonomy in the area concerned." http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/...

I'm not sure whether subdivisions in an autonomous area are automatically autonomous as well, but if so, that would require local Tibetan governments at all administrative levels to be lead by Tibetans.

That doesn't mean they can't use the old tactic of promoting officials across regional borders to prevent individuals from building up their own little kingdoms. E.g. the current chairman of Tibet is a Tibetan from Yunnan, so technically he isn't ruling his home province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Dalha

> her father had been in the army, and upon leaving he was settled in Xinjiang.

How does settlement work in that case? Did they give him a plot of land to farm or a job at a SOE or did they simply order him to stay in Xinjiang and find some way to make a living there?
I tend to agree. I also would have bet my life that the first comment would reference His Holiness, Steve Jobs. Good times.
Problem was the ads target audience was to broad.
Of course not, but we all shrug at the many thousands of deaths related to respiratory illness that occur among the geriatric and the morbidly obese every year, not the mention the millions of Americans who die each year from various other causes. This wasn't some printing error where the New York Times accidentally printed its obituaries on the front page, and its editors don't believe these people are particularly worthy of being memorialized. The New York Times is making a statement about the size and scope of the disease, and attempting to make an emotional appeal, and it is that statement to which the original poster is responding.

If I were more cynical, I'd say that certain journalistic outlets have a business model built on war coverage and commentary. Since they haven't been gifted one in recent years they've used this illness to fill in. This front page is a cliche; the type of depression poetry one writes in middle school, and its purpose is to draw out an emotional response in you and limit serious debate. It's the journalistic equivalent of selling an all-white canvas. I have no doubt it will win a Pulitzer.
I think that's only necessarily true for the US.

Edit: I mean the punctuation inside of the quotes being traditional.
I didn't pick Mongo, I was just the engineer called to clean that mess.

My only experience with MongoDB is being "the engineer called to clean the mess". I'm sure you can effectively use MongoDB in production if you're knowledgable and careful, but most people aren't and they shouldn't have to know the detailed inner working to not create a mess.
My friend is an ICU nurse in Manhattan and they were(are) absolutely overwhelmed. PPE shortages, mandatory overtime, staff shortages due to infection, and almost every department became a covid department.
VFX sysadmin here

> Setup alerting if you care about your data

Yes. and make sure that you have the correct signal to noise ratio. Otherwise you won't act on it.

> scrub everything

Yes, this too.

One thing that I would add is avoid mdadm like the plague. Its tricky, poorly documented and requires a whole bunch of other crap tools to make it work.

ZFS or proper hardware raid, there is no inbetween.

On the subject of loosing a raid during rebuild, I've had that, but I can't be sure that it was because of simultaneous disk failures. The raid in question was a 60 drive array with 8TB drives. There were 4 raid 7 groups with 4 spare drivers.

After each rebuild, a new drive would fail. over the space of two weeks we changed about 6 drives. Because the raid was under huge pressure, it didn't have the time needed to rebuild (24 hour rebuild time jumps up to 96 hours)

In the end we migrated the data to another array.
>“Often the board does not act sufficiently suspicious. Only a small percentage of directors are good at pushing back. They tend to trust the CEO too much”

It's not about trust. It's about politics. They may not actually trust the CEO but to keep their position and good standing they have to pretend to trust the CEO.
Perhaps it would be cheaper to buy the SSD separately and add it yourself?
Compared to my HP ZBook from 2014:

Pro:

- No number pad, I really love this. I could finally align the center the laptop with my body.

- Smaller footprint, same screen size. Nice to have.

- Half the weight. Good.

- Much better battery. Nice to have.

- Lower price for the same configuration (32 GB / 2 TB.) Good.

Cons:

- No physical touchpad buttons. I really hate this.

- Generally awful reviews of the company in the other comments here. Probably a deal breaker.

I didn't investigate the self serviceability of the hardware and the availability of spare parts. The ZBook is great about that. I'm also used to next business day on site repairs from HP for the first 3 years. The last time the package cost about 100 Euro. That's important. I've got an old spare computer but I can't do everything there.
What would have happened if he had moved on to another field? Subsumption architecture would eventually have been discovered by someone else, standing on the shoulders of giants and eventuality of all discoveries etc.

Or it might have taken another 50-100 years. Fundamentally unknowable.
Very very few people writing software knows how to do it well. I'm talking from a cultural perspective, not from a technical one. Young people are either hungry enough or not jaded enough or both to put up with it.

By the time you hit your late thirties you're already too tired for this crap. By your forties you're looking for an exit. By your fifties, you're one job loss away from semi-retirement.
Very simple. Create something that saves a group of people time in some way. Let’s say making it easier to research something / like a product they’re interested in.

Saving time = value.
While peer review has its problems, I have the feeling that the problems that we're talking about here are not primarily caused by peer review per se, but by a set of perverse incentives that surround academia these days. I'm talking about the "publish or perish" culture that is results from the (sometimes) automated metrics based on which promotions are decided, grants are handed out and academic staff is assessed. Isn't it these incentives that can create attitudes like "Who cares? It's one more publication!" (as quoted by another commenter in this thread). And isn't an overwhelming amount of mediocre journal submissions that result from this one of the reasons peer review is under pressure, qualified reviewers are rare and politics are so common?
There is. It's called Postmates, and from comments I read on delivery driver subreddits, of all the apps drivers hate this one the most for various reasons (doesn't pay well, poor coordination, etc.).

Now Postmates uses an elastic workforce, so it's subject to the supply/demand constraints of driver availability.

What if it were possible to hire an permanent workforce of delivery drivers to serve a restaurant cluster (say large ethnic neighborhoods)? Not all cities have restaurant clusters so this wouldn't work everywhere, but maybe with some tweaks it might.
I’ve never been there unfortunately. How is the car culture there? How does the people without cars get by?
> Serious question but what is the advantage of getting a bigger car while on a business trip?

It's an upsell. If you perceive it as better, it's useful to you. But, if you like small cars, they are annoying to park and the clerk will give you a funny look when you say you like the small car better.
Care to explain why you think so?
I sometimes wish I have the presence of mind to add the dry remark -"I agree that that's your opinion." The one time I was able to actually pull it off, it deflated the jerk.
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Given so much discussion over the years and the fact that there were probably a lot of searches for alternatives, one has to think they probably know about it but just don't care. Why wouldn't they care? Their goals must have shifted away from those that led to the creation of the initial site - and as a result, I moved on to sites that more closely aligned with my goals.
It would be OK if the additional size actually bought you something, like speed. But it doesn’t, somehow the opposite is true.
If the conversation is supposed to be private, have it in private. This is like a walled garden with a glass wall.
> If you don't want brilliant jerks, you are inherently negating their brilliance.

??¹

> A simple chain of logic, extrapolating from that headline, would lead to "if they truly were all around brilliant, they wouldn't act that way.

???²

¹ Valuing non-jerkiness more isn’t “negating brilliance”. Brilliant non-jerks are available.

² Er, no.
I thought the Impala was a Malibu with a bigger engine?
Usually when I'm visiting a company it's a long day (or days) of meetings followed by business dinners. I'm as much for exploring new areas as anyone but the last thing I want to do at the end of such a day is take a drive into a not-so-close city.

I used to work for someone who would drive a number of us a bit crazy because he always wanted to do team meeting dinners in the city about an hour from the office where we would meet during the day--which was actually the wrong direction from where many of us lived. (He, somewhat understandably, wasn't crazy about the dining options near the office.)
Why would that be impossible for malware with root privileges?
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Elsevier is a mixed bag. They bought up thousands of journals with not that much centralized oversight. They have a long history in publishing but as a subsidiary of an increasingly broad conglomerate (RELX) they sometimes show more interest in exploiting their reputation than maintaining it. That leads to things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Fake_journals

Disclosure: I formerly worked for MDPI, a rival.
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...

just lovely ;)
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Neither the contents of your comment, nor that of the document on Wikipedia appear to substantiate the claims you have made. Please cite any relevant documents, laws, etc - that support your claims as directly as possible; for example, document link, page number, subheading, paragraph, etc.

As is, your comment to me is worth less than having said nothing at all — as it requires time to read your comment, link, and the responses critical of it.
I find the article super confusing. It goes at length about how RAID is fine and array failure is a myth, but doesn't mention RAID 5 until three chapters down.

The only issue with RAID has only ever been with RAID 5 specifically. Don't use RAID 5. Definitely not with large drives or more than 4 drives.

The author runs one disk check that immediately detects one disk is dying. After replacing the disk without the whole array exploding, he concludes that the risk of losing data is a myth??? WTF. It was really one inch away from losing all the data. If anything it proves that having a single redundancy is not enough to store critical data, there is always at least one disk about to fail in a large multi disk array.
That is what is called a 10x people manager, and they are even more rare than 10x engineers. Not to mention they tend to get promoted too quickly to stay in jerk handling roles for very long.
> you are inherently negating their brilliance

This isn't how logic works... It's a statement, saying "No Brilliant Jerks Welcome Here". It does not negate their existence, only their company.
Einstein sent his papers to Planck, and Planck, as an editor of Annalen der Physik, decided to publish them in the journal.

Here's what Einstein had to say about the modern peer-review process in which a draft is reviewed by anonymous referees:

> We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the—in any case erroneous—comments of your anonymous expert. On the basis of this incident I prefer to publish the paper elsewhere.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2117822

On the other hand, Einstein was really into what we might today call post-publication peer review. A significant chunk of Einstein's publications were reviews of other scientists' publications.
At least this kind of thing is genuinely useful as a stress test for the Rust compiler.
Agreed, but a notification about a potential performance issue is not forcing anyone to add an index.