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You can do joins with queries that we call aggregation pipelines. They're super-powerful,

And hot garbage for performance. Unlike relational indices on foreign keys, mongo simply... does a lookup for each doc in the pipeline step. Indexing the looked up collection does nothing extra in aggregation, you're just doing a repetitive manual join. A simple aggregation query that I wrote that added a value from a second collection based on its timestamp compared to the original document's timestamp, took at least an order of magnitude more time than without the lookup.

Aggregations on a single collection are very performant. But never try to lookup or join anything.

Scaling data is mostly about RAM, so if you can, buy more RAM. If CPU is your bottleneck, upgrade your CPU, or buy a bigger disk, if that's your issue.

Never listen to this person about anything.

The mongo I'm dealing with now scales by database. Each entity has between 20-100GB of data in its own database; we're adding entities continually. If I try to replicate for performance, I'll be replicating everything--there's no selective replication. If I shard, I'll be sharding within a collection, which is the equivalent of striped RAID--great if that's what you need. I don't. I need to shard at the database layer. I need my queries routed according to the database at which they're aimed, not by the sharding key. Can I? Not a chance in hell with any of the existing scaling mechanisms from Mongo. My current mongo VM is already the largest Azure offers. How do I add more RAM to that?
I don't think the OP is arguing that replicated data is not "eventually consistent" because it is as you say.

OP is arguing the blog post is trying to change the definition of "eventually consistent"... the author is saying the delay between the master and slave is not "eventually consistent"... when, exactly as you say, it is.
Coinbase has been on the receiving end of news media abusive for a short while (ever since they offered to pay their disruptive employees to leave). I don't really blame them for wanting to preemptively defend themselves.
Would you use a service that required you to use a separate application to record and then visit a website to select and upload that recording? That seems like a lot of work to publish, especially for what's intended to be casual / short-form content.

Would a downloadable app be a preferential way for you to publish speech content?
And everyone of these scientists is voluntarily giving up the opportunity to move a basic working fusion reactor into the private sphere? They could make billions and become the next GE or Tesla.

If just one of them had a startup bone in his body, we would see a small fusion reactor startup making consistent progress that seems amazing. It's not happening.
Surely you have a day or two where it gets hot. Maybe the TV commentator said it was a hot day.
I'm a white American, and at least one of my ancestors died to end slavery. My father was named for him (middle name).

Now, it's also true to some degree that I benefit from society in a way that blacks don't (at least not to the same degree). And the right thing to do is to work for a world where blacks share in the benefits of society to the same degree that I do. (Where they don't have to be any more careful in a traffic stop than I do, for example.) But "acknowledging the role that my ancestors played"? I do, with pride.
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That’s a fair point, and it’s definitely possible. We shall see, sometime before Sunday!

That implies a high level of intentional deception on the part of the NYT, though. It has certainly happened, of course; and the opinion columns are full of it (like they are at all papers).

I don’t believe that the NYT generally engages in intentional deception, however - so I’m inclined to believe that they aren’t intending on it now.

But as you said, it is possible. And a healthy skepticism of the papers is not bad.
Everything looks like legit health info except the icon and the domain. What am I missing?
I think context is quite important.

Andrew Sullivan is notorious for believing in some version of The Bell Curve theory — that differences in academic achievement can be at least partly explained by measurable differences in average intelligence between different races. He promoted that view in his role as editor of a major news magazine in the early 90s.

That sets him apart from Quinn Norton, who nevertheless used some racial slurs on early internet message boards. I think her article discussing her friendship with a neo-Nazi was more damaging, though. FWIW I think The Times overreacted there.

Sarah Jeong made some bad taste jokes at white people’s expense while being harassed by actual racist trolls. Only the truly cynical would call those tweets racist, when viewed in context.
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Hi brother! What wasn't working about transcript editing?

FYI, our Twitter permissions are read-only. We just use this to make logging in easy and bootstrap your BLRB profile with your public Twitter info: a username, full name, bio, and profile picture.

The terms are at blrb.co/terms and privacy at blrb.co/privacy - all based on GitHub's docs.
Maybe I'm missing something but it doesn't look like memory allocation was carefully considered in this library. For example, there are no custom allocators?
It's worse. Even if you do know how regexes work, you can still be tripped up by the counterintuitive function names. See this comment[0] and its parent for an example. I think English names with ambiguous or unexpected meanings are worse than symbols, which at least don't carry implied meaning.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25215105
Yeah the internet is awesome at mangling and misattributing quotes. The fact that the original is easily found online doesn't help because it's in a foreign language. Fortunately it's pretty rudimentary Hebrew and it doesn't take an expert to understand, just someone who can read the language. Hillel's saying immediately preceding this one is in Aramaic...good luck dropping that in Google Translate :)
Assuming that this extremely simplified model ("access is all you need!"), how can you improve access if there are fewer doctors? I didn't say much about quality, but quantity. Hence, access.

Access to professional medical care is a minor factor anyway. Increases in life expectancy are not not primarily due to medical care, but to other improvements like better nutrition, better drinking water, better sleep, safer neighborhoods, even things like better financial security. And as it turns out, the effect of access to health care on life expectancy or better health outcomes for the poor is much weaker for the groups you mentioned. In a real sense, access to care itself matters mostly to the middle & wealthy classes (of whatever "race"). Also, I'd quibble that wealthy whites aren't also improving. Poor whites seem to be suffering, but by all indications, wealthy whites are also doing well.
It sounds like mathematics. Just design a system where condition X holds true (commutativity or parallel lines converging or whatever) and then explore it till you can generalize from it.
> I agree 100%. As an Asian American it is baffling how throughout years of propaganda, so many Americans firmly believe that personal freedom and democracy cannot co-exist with a competent and effective government that has all the tools and resources to do its job.

Propaganda? What?

> I think it comes from shallow interpretation of sayings such as "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I mean it's a catchy saying, but in reality it's just a result of terrible system engineering (in this case the government system) in many places.

I'm pretty sure it comes from the enlightenment era and especially the American Revolutionary War. American colonists were never been big fans of the powerful churches and monarchs of Europe they were trying to escape.

> If your big government devolves into individual dictatorship it just mean the single executive position likely had too much power to begin with.

Would you believe me if I told you this very thing was happening across the world in the 1930s and 1940s? And pretty close to home too? Maybe all it takes is enough people to forget history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_dictatorship
What if disinformation leads to the gullible placing "bad-faith actors" in our elected governments and judiciary? Just imagine!

We must hedge our bets and let disinformation be cut down wherever rational minds exist (for now).
Your story sounds a lot like mine.

I'd say unless you have really experienced it first hand, or know someone who has, it is hard explaining to others how having a short stent of misfortune can really snowball and keep you down. As much as we hear the great fortune of those that get lucky at the right time, we never hear about those that miss out at the wrong time.
This is how it's supposed to work. That's the promise that sold me on using it for my business for a couple of years. It never delivered. Huge waste of time and money. Never again.
S/he must have watched Stone’s JFK...
Of course, the only correct definition of human dignity is your definition.
I'm glad to see this position growing in popularity. You should never apologise for baseless accusations. Doing so would just invite more accusations.
> Other such claims from Big Tech would require verifying code, and to do that properly all code should be released under freedom respecting licenses.

That is ... a stretch, especially considering that there exists non-free "source available" software (e.g. Unreal).
Was it management's decision to move you or yours? If it was theirs', it seems like management didn't have confidence you could improve once the problem was found and fixed. Kinda like changing two things at a time when troubleshooting. How did you feel about that?
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It's par the course for MongoDB. 10 years later and they still use sales tactics to lie about the capabilities of their database. MongoDB might be a solid database when properly used, but their marketing material, again, promises things that the software just doesn't support.

This is literally their "we are the fastest database just turn off commits" claim, but now in a distributed manner.
Pele won 3 world cups. He won 2 world titles with Santos. Santos used to travel around the world like the globetrotters because of him. He scored more than 1000 goals.
Those "facts" are about as relevant to dispelling the allegations as is the "fact" that a table has four legs. The facts are there to support an argument. The fact that only 3 people filed a formal complain isn't strong support of the argument that there wasn't more widespread discrimination, particularly when set against the specific statements of multiple alleged victims that will be published in the story.
Extremely easy to block those ads on both desktop and mobile
Furthermore, with immutable objects there's no need to to have any public constructors at all.

`REGEX.startOfLine().then("http")...`

Since the start object is immutable, there's no reason to create new ones. Here's an example of this pattern applied to HTTP (my project):

https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery

Avoiding repeated Pattern.compile() is a good point though.
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> It is totally possible to have a powerful government and have that government supervise.

Are you sure that holds for periods > 100 years?
The only route?

What's different about ITER? If I remember correctly, they're ahead in terms of results towards energy generation.
Yeah apologies if it seemed like it went too far, I definitely don't intend to claim anything about the story since it hasn't come out (and even when it does, I know little of the matter), thanks for the addition.
The bank takes it out at a standard rate - when you open an account you tell them your marginal rate, if you get it wrong it's obvious to the IRD.

We have no tax on capital gains (we should, it badly distorts our markets, leaves too much money in real-estate).
Whatever your dislike-level to JS is, we cannot dispute the fact that JS, or at least JSON can do pretty much everything HTML can do, but not the other way around.

Of course our beloved HTML can still exist, just as PDF exists. But in my opinion it shouldn't be the required standard. Since I can markup just as easily in JSON And like it or not JS is one the the core web components today, we can make JS the standard (we can keep it safe by allowing defining a safe subset of JS - e.g. JSON - which would work with general scripts disabled), with support for plain ol' HTML.

Point is, JSON can replace HTML, while preserving everything you like about HTML but not vice versa.
It's easier for me to switch from google to ddg. Then to actually complete a captcha. I don't understand why businesses don't understand this.
C++ comments and inline functions arrived with C99, which was 21 years ago, not C11. With C11, itself now an obsolete standard from 9 years ago, we get the _Generic keyword.

Avoiding the _Generic keyword is difficult. One might try using the sizeof operator.
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I’m sorry that has happened to you. Journalists are fallible, like all of us. But in the aggregate I believe the Times is a force for good in the world, and helps illuminate a good many things that people in power would rather be kept murky.
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There’s no question mark but Betteridge’s law of headlines still applies.
So since we have an exit elsewhere, this one was the entry.
Thanks for the tip, time for a rabbit hole
That's why I have even stopped using google services. If I literally have to get another browser to use your snowflake site, then why would I use your service anyway?
That sentence does seem easy to attack if you assume that if you don’t read the manual, MongoDB will not be consistent or robust.

If defaults are touchy, it sounds like they would still benefit from a closer cooperation with Linux distro packagers, perhaps even taking upon the task.

MariaDB has shipped as “UNIX sockets only” and “Only listen to localhost, no default auth”. This increases the difficulty of trying out the database, but for a mature product for mature people, maybe there is no excuse for bad defaults anywhere.
"For all of you out there who have ever had to deal with the warp from hell, remember that there is something healing in finally controlling that which would not be controlled, something triumphant about making something from total chaos."

Today in "Unexpected WH40K quotes"...
> The New York Times is one of the most respected news organizations in the world

Not anymore. The web advertising industry strongly effected the quality of their work. Now they're just another slightly larger news organization with a spotty track record.
No that has more to do with dating Willie Brown.
Wow never heard of that. I've been meaning to get a full body checkup one of these days, this encouraged me to go book it. Cheers!
You know what would be interesting?

Step 1: Make a list of all of the wars that the U.S. has historically been involved in (WWI, WWII, Vietnam, etc.), and their dates...

Step 2: Give GPT-3 a corpus of all foreign policy documents of all the years leading up to the year that the U.S. made war with a given foreign country...

...but do not give GPT-3 documents which would explicitly inform it that the historical war actually occurred...

Step 3: Now, ask GPT-3 if it thinks that the U.S. going to war with the country that it historically had the war with is a good idea or not...

And see what it says...

(Keep in mind, we'd be resetting the clock on our computer for this experiment; GPT-3 would have to think it was August 31st, 1939 (One day before the start of WWII, according to Wikipedia), that is, before WWII actually happened, to get its opinion on WWII...)

Maybe this experiment could determine if wars are simply the result of groupthink (GPT-3 representing a statistically neutral party), or if there is some other factor or factors at play...

Think of it this way, the decision "go to war with country X" abstractly speaking from an AI perspective, might not be all that different from a "buy this stock/do not buy this stock" decision, although in one case the background data corpus might be foreign policy documents, and in the other, the corpus might be the historical financial news about the stock...

Wouldn't it be interesting to see what GPT-3 has to say about historical foreign policy decisions, based on the historical precursor foreign policy documents?

And not just for the U.S. -- for every country?
I have to say, Om Malik is great, but that entire article just says “I like San Francisco and even though others have left, I am staying because I like it and have been here for a while.”

I wish it had a bit more perspective on what he thinks will happen with the city, recovery, reasons not to go, a way to use this as an opportunity, or anything.

For that matter, I would love to hear anyone’s perspective on why to stay and how it could be a good thing now.

I’ve been gone all of Covid and keep coming back to visit, but don’t see a good way back. I wish I could hear some optimism from anyone about why it’s a good idea to be there or to go there now (or soon). Any thoughts welcome :)
I'd really like to see evidence of this... if you bury wires directly, the voltage will speed corrosion to the point you won't have wires after a few weeks at best.
I’m not an expert debater, but if you’re going to accuse an organisation of being race-baiting, it’s always good to at least provide an example or two. Since the commenter didn’t, I sort of zeroed in on that.
I have no firsthand experience with this, but what if your founder equity has vesting but your angel equity doesn't? Track it as if you're two people.
https://restya.com/core-jira-slack-alternative seems to have covered all these area. (I'm on their beta program)
Xenix support for multiple terminals played a part in a distributed specialized CRM system, for which I had some small gigs helping launch as a kid.

IIUC, each of the many field locations could run the software locally on either (if the location needed only one simultaneous user) an 8088-based Sperry PC running MS-DOS, or (if multiple simultaneous users) an 80286-based Sperry PC, running Xenix, with terminals hanging off it.

Yes, there was `hack` on these Xenix '286 systems. :)

I think the official terminals might've been the popular Wyse WY-50, but there were also some unusual Tatung terminals kicking around the same organization.

IIUC, the field location PCs had modems for infrequently sending data back to HQ (maybe sharing the main voice POTS line for some locations, after business hours).

I imagine that the ability to use cheap PC hardware and dumb terminals made economic sense. Compared to a centralized minicomputer, and a bunch of dial-up dumb terminals and dedicated phone lines.
WebAssembly lets you do all the things you could do with Java in the browser. And which weren't done.
> Sequential Consistency is the name for this model. Writes don’t get lost but ...

Writes can get lost if the primary dies and the secondary is promoted in the meanwhile.
you'd think there'd be a demo video for something like this instead of pictures of play buttons
> MongoDB is an ACID database. It supports atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

Yeah. If you dismiss the part that it took them 4 versions and 9 years to be able to make that claim.

ACID by compliance. Definitely not ACID by design and hence not trustable for transactions. Even this article says that MongoDB shouldn’t be used for transactions.

MongoDB seems great for when you need to capture large streams of data in a create-once/read-forever type of way. Probably why is popular among large enterprises.
Just watch the Zapruder film in slo mo (https://youtu.be/eqzJQE8LYrQ)

He gets shot in the neck, it appears to exit the front of his neck and enter the backside of the guy in the front seat (I think the governor).

He then gets the front of his head blown off, which definitely looks to be an exit wound as the front of his skull flies off and mist flies forward. An entry wound would not explode out like that. The thing that throws people off is that his head moves back when the front blows off. I think that would be a natural movement from the force of the bullet exiting and blowing off the front of the skull but you also have to remember that he had a terrible back with limited mobility. As a person who also has a bad back, if you get pushed forward to the fullest of your flexibility, you will recoil back with force.

I was raised to believe in multiple shooters but I don’t see it here. One shooter.
Do you think sending a pre-emptive heads up to their staff interally was unusual or unwarranted?

Coinbase has been subject to a number of prior leaks where internally communication was shared partially and without context.

My assumption on seeing this was that they didn't necessarily want to make it public but, instead, had a reasonable apprehension that if they didn't make it public themselves someone else would excerpt from it and use the fact that they didn't make it public to suggest there was something shameful about their response.
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I don't think I would go that far. It's easy enough to restrict spell-correct to dictionary words.

When I search for a specific part number, I tend to get a similar more popular part where spell-correct makes zero sense to have anyway.
This patch is very short: https://dev-files.blender.org/file/data/dyx4giga47ol4633ba2p...

Am I looking at the right thing? Could you maybe elaborate a bit on why this will help Blender become competitive in the CAD/CAM space?
It ultimately has nothing to do with whether or not we outliers use these services or not; the world needs to be changed so that these services are either modified to preserve privacy, or the services need to be shut down, or the user base needs to abandon them.

I'm not a big fan of forcing people to do things they don't want to do, so I think the best way forward is 3, via education. Already it's uncool to use Facebook. The next step is Instagram and WhatsApp, and perhaps even the facebook spyware SDK.
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> too speculative with an uncertain path to revenue (unlike Space).

It's really funny (and great) that there are actually people now that continue this phrase with the mention "unlike space". It used to be that "the best way to become a space millionaire, is to start life off as a billionaire."