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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
Definitely migrating to microservices helped alleviate the pressure from some of these problems: easier testability, smaller individual codebases with simpler dependency graphs, faster test and deploy times for each service, etc. But the la
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When I worked at Yelp circa 2013, we were an entirely Python shop (for backend). At that time, we had millions of LOC in Python. I love Python to death, but it became very clear that Python was simply a very bad fit for a project as large a
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I mean in the app. If this is a no-code version...
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
The app is beautifully done. I'm really impressed by how well it works given the knobs available. However I tried to train it to recognize some images of characters from an anime (so a little different than facial recognition), and I m
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I wonder how historically true it is that people had an ability to voice unpopular opinions without social consequence. My parents are from the Soviet Union, so that example comes to mind most readily. Obviously speech was heavily restricte
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
FTA: longer education, better nutrition, and access to better healthcare and hygiene
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
A friend of mine wrote a paper on the effects of cosmic rays on memory errors in data centers a few years ago[1]. He also posited they had effects on hard drive reliability. The first thing I thought of when reading this article is whether
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
Question: I’ve previously read that recycling is economically viable in some EU countries (Germany, Austria, Netherlands). Some countries like Finland have figured out ways to recycle components that go into landfills in the US. How did the
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
This is very interesting. However, it doesn't appear this rule is applied consistently as Facebook is in the S&P500 and is probably the most infamous example of a multi-class share structure.
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
This is a great read and obviously Gavin has thought a lot about some of the deep problems in Bitcoin, especially from the crypto side. I was a bit disappointed to see that he punted* on one of the more well-known “shallow” problems: the en
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I would like to raise a different point from the many valid points already raised in this thread. I understand this might depend on the definition of “wealth tax”, but if the founder uses the money they make in their 20s to, for example,
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
Then what happens if one child who knows they won’t get anything, refuses to provide their piece? BTW K of N cryptography is well known as Shamir’s Secret Sharing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
The problem (among other things) is hyper-targeting of people who are specifically vulnerable to extreme points of view. One of my friends is an expert in tracking ads on Facebook and has found that white nationalists micro-target people wh
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
This is so pointless I absolutely love it
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One of my friends leads artifact evaluation for USENIX Sec. It's an emerging but I think valuable addition to the peer-review process in CS. There's been a growing movement, which I very much like, for improved reproducibility. He
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
There’s a lot of room for improvement: - grad student stipends are negligently low, making it difficult for students to complete their PhDs. - many journals in CS are not open access despite the authors and reviewers not being compensated f
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
It has been confirmed that the reviewing system in question is HotCRP, which is a very battle-tested system that is unlikely to have these issues. There is a comment from Eddie Kohler on Twitter which implies this was not a leaky endpoint p
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
This comment is not very helpful. Many scientists are doing their best to improve the world by publishing their research to the public. They are doing so, at least in CS, at a substantial pay cut compared to industry. You can see the effica
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
Can you please explain? In CS conferences there is generally a small pool of reviewers for a paper in a given sub-area (ex at a conference on systems some people might focus on file systems). These reviewers tend to review each others’ pape
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I have reviewed papers for these types of (but not this) conferences. It would be staggeringly abnormal. For example, people almost never relinquish authorship credit.
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I believe the author of this comment is referring to industry conferences. Please note these are very different from peer-reviewed academic conferences. In CS these academic conferences are held in many different locations, and many (most?)
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I used to watch some of these IQ debates in college, they can be really good. The longer format and strong moderation really lend themselves to interesting discussions, and you can learn a lot. One of my favourite debates of this format (th
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I don’t live in the US, so please take what I’m saying with a grain of salt. I imagine you are a smart and decent person on the other side of this screen. Usually print media is considered higher quality journalism than TV media. There are
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
It’s not about presenting an opinion, it’s about moderating a debate with facts to inform the public. A journalist’s job is to try to present the truth, not create false equivalence.
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When I was a kid CNN used to do this: they would invite a single climate scientist and a single climate change skeptic and have them make their points on equal time. CNN would then say “who’s right? You decide.” And the program would end.
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
We are a research group at a company with 2000 or so employees. We have a few GPU machines to train models, which are utilized nearly around the clock. AWS and co’s GPU-enabled servers are exceedingly expensive. Most of the GPU models on th
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The Privacy Challenges of Digital Contact Tracing(nortonlifelock.com)
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
Quote from NYTimes: > For days, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City has pushed for a “shelter in place” order and the governor has repeatedly dismissed the idea, saying he would not quarantine New Yorkers in their homes. He also spoke
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...
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Can you explain why it's not possible to create `google.golang.org/protobuf@v1` retroactively? Also: > In ten years, hopefully nobody cares about the old github.com/golang/protobuf and the confusion is gone. is the co

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