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A good manager is worth 10x a good developer, and a good developer managed by a good manager is 100x base developer value.

This is why managers often get paid more, and it applies even more the further up the chain you go. A good CEO is worth every single penny of the millions they get paid, because of the multiplicative force they have on everyone below them on the org chart.
What's just as bad is the public resistance to these kinds of social media pleas (I'd say astroturfed, but the public response to COVID has jaded me).

"Oh, they must have had child porn in their drive."

"I bet they were spamming."

"Return fraud, totally sounds like return fraud."
Stability rather than inflation or deflation is probably the best.

Inflation being good is a myth that was made popular by the fact that it gives the government and banks power, so economists who promote inflation are themselves promoted and selected by people in power. It is now so prevalent an idea that few question it.
I came here to say this as well. I'm glad these libraries (and Ludum Dare!) are encouraging people to explore programming.
Why didn't you reply with this instead of answering my question with a question?
English pronunciation of Greek letters is indeed quite different from modern Greek pronunciation, but it's not necessarily because English is "wrong" but because of historical attempts to pronounce the letters like the Ancient Greeks did.

For instance, in English we pronounce the letter μ as "mew" ([Mju]). In modern Greek, μ is pronounced "Me" or [Mi] (spelled as μι). Here is a YouTube video of a Greek person going through the alphabet, linked to μ. [1]

However, it's thought that "mew" is probably closer to the Ancient Greek pronunciation (Wikipedia shows the Ancient Greek phonetics as [mŷː] where ŷː is like "few" [2]).

More to the point, though, the English pronunciation of Greek letters was fixed around the 16th century (see [3] for a tiny bit of history) and was an attempt to use the classical Greek pronunciations, though probably not a very successful one.

Likewise π is pronounced differently in modern Greek, where it pronounced like "pee," not "pie," and so would make π-day a very different holiday...

1. https://youtu.be/P85PXR6deIw?t=214

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_Ancient_Greek...
Because Google One, for example, is a service governed by a contract which details performance expectations.
Random question: why is rocket so low in the rankings? Especially since something like actix is very high.
Note also, another reason to browse GitHub is to look at how the various implementations are written. For example, sometimes frameworks use fewer SQL statements to complete the same work, or they configure database libraries with different settings. I’ve noted a few instances where gaming these benchmarks is possible simply because a new framework implements the algorithm differently.

Not to say they don’t have value — they do — but keep in mind your code may look very different from benchmark code. I do think it’s worth looking at the code to examine why some approaches scale better than others, though!

Rarely is it the case that more code = faster performance, but sometimes features you need are sacrificed for extra performance even when a benchmark is classified as “realistic”. Viewing source code is how you can determine which frameworks actually best fit your needs, rather than just which ones performed well in this test…

For example, it’s easy to think that raw Go performance is terrible compared to Rust or C++, but it’s worth pointing out that the raw Go example uses commonly available standard libraries baked in to the language to accomplish almost everything it does. Most other examples at some level or another have to deal with epoll and concurrency manually themselves or via the web server replacements they use. Based on this, the overhead or raw implementation of socket management is often what is being benchmarked. Implementations like just-js use C++ and epoll under the hood to implement their server, like most of the other high performance examples at the top of the benchmarks.

The question often then becomes, do you want to write your own HTTP server or take advantage of an API someone else has written that might have more features or middleware? And remember that configuration matters, I forget off the top of my head, but the Go examples with a new web server had more performance optimization than the raw-Go benchmark had. Obviously I should submit a PR to fix this, but my ultimate goal here is to say that reading the source code will both help you become a better developer but also catch the shortcuts and techniques used by high performance implementations…
Equally interesting is in my opinion who should do the review. Mathworks' own consulting service is probably the best to do so, but I wonder if they would objectively work against one of their own customers.
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The Julia ecosystem provides has a library that includes the differentiation rules hinted at at the end.

https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ChainRules.jl is used by (almost all) automatic differentiation engines and provides an extensive list of such rules.

If the example used sin|cos the auto diff implementations in Julia would have called native cos|-sin and not encurred such a "truncation error". However the post illustrates the idea in a good way.

Good post oxinabox
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Why do we need this?

The following code "works": http://move.rupy.se/file/atomic.txt
They have to at least provide the ability to download all your data in case they ban you. Otherwise it's a hostage situation. IIRC even Facebook does that.
The way it's described, it seems he's described that way for "pandering to the public".
No, it's exactly what you said. I didn't make up any straw man, you believe that Soldiers on the battlefield run around randomly shooting wherever and whatever they want.

It simply isn't true. As a Soldier, you are responsible for every round you fire.
The most frequent application is machine learning. If my piece of code is implementing some function that I want to minimize, then taking the derivative (w.r.t. some vector of parameters) tells me in which direction I need to change the parameters in order to reduce the function: "gradient descent".
In regards to society computers are still a relatively new invention. The behaviour we're seeing at the moment will either be regulated away or the affected populations will end up as neo-serfs, subjects to decision making systems they are allowed no control over. The EU is at the forefront of the fight against this: people can demand an explanation of algorithmic decision making and GDPR prevents organisations from holding your data without consent.

Computers are powerful tools and can be put to both constructive and destructive purposes. I'm hopeful that at least some societies will figure out sensible limitations on what use they can be put to.
>taking the life of an innocent

The prosecutor isn't unilaterally deciding whether the DNA evidence is valid. There will be a public hearing where both the prosecution and defense show evidence about the validity of the DNA evidence, and a court will rule based on that evidence.
I'm pretty much the opposite. I find exercise equipment tedious. I don't run but I do like walking. And, sure, variety is good but the past many months I've been fine with mostly taking the same forest/river trail that's next to my house because there's hardly anyone there.
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Stop caring about unfinished, public wip. In the end, nobody but you is really bothered by its imperfections.
One of those ideas i never got to :) what's your plan with this?
I would hope so, it would certainly be a "probably legit" signal. I'm annoyed I have to consider the possibility at all.
The latest stable rocket release doesn't use async, actix does.

The master branch of rocket does have async (and stable rust, not nightly!) support.
UTF-8, no BOM. Use it.
I have a similar setup for my blog and I'm using Netlify for both CI and hosting (free). It's been great! GitHub Actions could probably work well for you if you already have decent hosting.
Ask HN: Why has the internet become so pessimistic and political?
I can't find a single place without politics and pessimism. It should be easy to differentiate between conspiracy theorists but lately, I have been finding it harder. Every thread here results in accusing companies of wrong doing even when the evidence isn't quite clear. Other places like reddit and blogs are even worse.

While I understand there must be politics in every day life and it is inescapable but the issue and discussion seems to go round and round. I am not finding anything insightful from any political discussion online. Is it just me? I feel like most things come down to people wanting to have enough resources to live happily. If they just had enough money, most of their problems would be solved.

Is it selection bias that commenters on the internet tend to be more depressed/lonely?

Has the demography gone down in age which results in lot of shitty behaviour like witch hunts and trending non-issue outrage? Young generation seems to like these and they especially love twitch from what I have seen. Maybe an impact of that?

What do you think is the biggest reason for the current condition?
I disagree.

Saying that it is "great" is really overselling it at this point, unless the languages you're comparing to are mainly C or C++. I would also toss Ruby in that category for now, but they seem to be working on making async better with Ruby 3+.

When compared to Python, JavaScript, or C#... Rust's language support for async isn't really that impressive to most developers, although the implementation has some technical characteristics that are nice for people who care about the low level details. The ecosystem is pretty lacking, even though it is much better than it was a few years ago.

Compared to the aforementioned languages (including Rust), Go and BEAM-based languages are just on another level.

I'm sure both Rust's language ergonomics and the ecosystem will improve over time, but Rust's goals also make it unlikely to ever be compatible with my definition of a great async system... which is the model Go and Erlang use where the developer can't tell that every single sequential process isn't running in a separate OS thread -- and, by extension, every function is automatically async with no distinction that I have to worry about.

In Go, I can spin up as many goroutines as I need, and I don't have to worry about any single goroutine blocking an executor like I have to worry about in Rust.

Yes, some async runtimes in Rust have worked on clever things like monitoring the executor threads and spawning a new executor to steal a blocked executor's work queue... maybe some day that will be a battle tested solution. Like most of the Rust async story, there are rough edges that could benefit from some more time.

(I have worked professionally with both Rust and Go for several years, and I think they're both great languages with different trade offs... I'm not trying to bash Rust here.)
The Register used it back in 2018: https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/19/wombat_cube_poo_demys...
Great, thanks for the details - supporting these negotiated rates and any custom price books is definitely on our roadmap.
I am a safety advocate, and your analogy to nuclear explosions is pretty interesting. However, simplified analogies may be doing more harm than good because they fuel the straw-men people create of arguments for AI safety.

I am not sure what the proper technique to get someone already entrenched in their perspective to broaden their possibility distribution is, though. Do you have any tips on that, as someone that appears to be engaged in the space and appears to advocate similarly?
St. Gallen, where they are located, is not "sparsely populated", they are quite urbanized and they do have a substantial non-financial industry. I did not mean to imply that the company was completely bogus, but they seem to be a bit more hype driven and less product driven than a typical startup.
I don't see how this makes their illustration invalid.

This is, or could be, just the how not the why.
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Except for the sick, disabled, elderly, deceased, people overseas or out-of-town, anyone in the military that's deployed, people who don't have good access to transportation, people who work long continuous shifts like healthcare workers and firefighters, poll workers, people in jail awaiting their trials, people with stalkers...
Or email headers, which can also tell enough.
Always worth adding - snake oil was a legitimate thing based on traditional medicine in both Europe and China, imported to America. But then some folks found it more profitable to pass off mineral oil rather than bothering with the snakes.
decades ago i was following a kid's graduation project of a OS with full permanence design. that was before Android and other always on "computers".

it was called something like unununium (yeah, same name as the element, for extra hard-to-search points). I noticed the project when he suggested unununium-time as an alternative to linux time in a list was at, to fix some time skew problems... But what caught my interest was his vision that in the near future (remember, before android/IOS) computers would not care about offline data storage and a OS should be optimized for always-on and RAM only.

I can still find some of the assembly versions, but the fun stuff and interesting ideas showed up on a rewrite in python(!) and that i can't find anything any more.

edit: here's the best i could find https://web.archive.org/web/20060208191407/http://en.wikiped...

seems the vision was to threat the persistent storage as the only system memory.
The context may be the UK where it rarely snows (typically <5 snow days per year), but has been snowing/icy over the last few days. In that context it may make sense to avoid the one icy week of the year if you are planning to take up walking when you haven't before.
I started my blog about python/django (https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com) using Jekyll and hosting on Github Pages and it was pretty good to get started because back then I wasn't sure if I would keep it up or not.

After a year or so I migrated to a 5 USD droplet on Digital Ocean (back then GH Pages didn't offer https for custom domains) and integrated with Github webhooks to automate the deployment when pushing new markdown to the main branch.

Over the time it indeed started to degrade. The build time takes almost a minute, but after building the website is just a bunch of static html pages.

Nowadays it is annoying to write new posts because I like to write locally and refresh to browser to check if it's looking good or not. So I would say it degraded for me but for the reader it's still as fast as it was when there was just a couple of posts.

I thought about migrating the blog to something else, but because I used some custom markdown extensions for code highlight and other things, it would be painful to migrate all the blog posts. So I've been postponing it since 2019.
Leave your comfort zone. Move to another country, learn a new language and embrace another culture.
Hmm, maybe this is a pointless semantic argument, but being justified by a choice sounds like its just passing the ball to justification for the choice. In a world where identity is proven to be 100% just a choice, that sounds like its not justified, and while not deserving of discrimination, to some extent committed to being non-normative.

This paper suggests genetics control at least 25% of variance in sexual orientation. We know hormone profiles control another decently large proportion. Are you saying you are upset that deterministic factors cause queer identities? or are you trying to say you wish a deterministic factor for queer identities wasn't necessary for equal treatment?

The first feels strange, the latter makes a lot of sense.
To expand, it tells you how you can change certain variables of a function to change the output of a function.

In machine learning, you create a loss function that takes in modal parameters and returns how accurate the model is. Then, you can optimize the function inputs for accuracy.

Automatic differentiation makes it much easier to code different types of models.
Have you fallen on the concrete or ice lately?

I can tell you, it really really sucks.

There's been a lot of snow lately, I think you don't necessarily have to be living a life of fear to not want to slip on the ice.

For the record, I'm a 30 year old, in good shape, and love to walk. But walking outside these last few days in NYC has been a lot of tepid steps with the slush because it is indeed slick. I caught myself when I slipped on something metal and slick the other day, but it was close.

And as a sibling commenter said, even the jerky movements can end up causing issues.

It's been very pretty out, but I don't think lately has been the kind of walking conditions I usually associate with the sorts of walks that are described in the post despite those moments of appreciation for winter wonderland.
Just a throwaway line, written, no doubt, in a fit of high-mindedness.
A crumple zone capable of affecting the deceleration of a 3000+lb car while complying with bumper strength requirements (though today's standards are much relaxed from those decades ago) isn't going to protect a sack of meat from a car. The bulbous front end plastics that take up a lot of space without much underlying structure, flimsty upper radiator core support and thin easily bent hoods are where the pedestrian safety comes from.
"But, this is also a great opportunity, because it means that you could be responsible for building a missing library or feature. "

Ok, so this is an 'opportunity' for some, but a 'big cost' for others.

So remember there are very few Rust devs out there, it is a little bit hard, and though a good chunk of devs might jump at the chance to learn, others, not so much.

It would be a really hard thing to rationally do a 'crud app in Rust' at this moment in time due to all the above reasons. There's a lot of added risk for really no benefits.

If you have a core team that has the skills, ability and is willing to commit to it, then maybe. But we have to think beyond that, when you need another 100 devs ... and people maintaining it ... one can see how other things factor into the equation.

If there is some specific reason and the conditions are right, and if that reasoning is not warped by our own natural tendencies to 'want to use Rust' then there might be an opportunity ... but generally not.

As team members get more excited about 'the problem they are solving' and less 'the tools they use' - you might see an inclination towards other tools, for the most part, at least today, for CRUD-ish kinds of things.
We make developer tools for computer vision so engineers can create models without being machine learning experts: collect data, organize images, annotate, train, deploy, and improve.
I personally don't move anything into git until it's close to ready. WIP writing is kept on Bear (Markdown editor). But there are tons of other apps, including ones that sync to a cloud.
> Because sending money to people in the third world who DON'T have a bank account is almost impossible via a normal transfer.

Vs

> If you’re in a third world country

This is a different scenario.

There’s many people that send money back home. What they use varies. I know people that transfer funds to someone and they give the cash to the person minus an amount. The method will depend on the location. I can’t speak for everyone and won’t try to.

>If you lost your wallet and debit card, why would you have thousands of dollars of cash on hand in a country you don't speak the language? That sounds both unlikely and extremely dangerous.

Depends. What country?

And in that country, how much is a room? Where am I staying? How much is a ticket? What do I need to get my stuff replaced? Do I have anything planned? Is it a business trip or leisure?
So personally I'm quite excited about the whole "multiway" point of view on non-determinism. The causal graphs that Stephen presents here are one way of summarizing how local events interact with one another across the space of possible histories, but you can go further. I'm working on a generalization of this idea, which I'm calling a token event graph, which "factors" causally distinct subsystems of a rewrite system (such as an NDTM, a hypergraph rewriting system, a string rewriting system, etc.) in a clean and precise way. While it is still early days, there is already an intriguing amount of rich mathematical structure to describe and formalize. I hope to publish a blogpost about this soon.
> "Regulation" gave us a 5 day work week.

Wasn't it Henry Ford who gave us 5 day work week? 5 days to work, 1 day for church and 1 day to get out and buy the cars he was making.
They are claiming that this is "snake oil technology". I think that research is exactly what's needed to determine whether using AI for facial lie detection can work or not and, if it does, how well.

I don't think this is a waste of public money to research this and if it works it could be very useful indeed in cases where asserting the truth is important. They mention immigration checks as an example but police interviews are another obvious application among many.

Of course, like for new technology we would need to think about the need for regulation and appropriate procedures.
It's not like I enjoy the treadmill itself :). It's the Netflix (or Amazon Prime, or etc.) that really lets me get through the session.

Plus I don't really have much time to consume movie/TVs these days, so it does let me combine both (exercise & entertainment).