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by amitport 5y ago
Which distance would you chose? And to what purpose?
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by amitport 5y ago
> it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing, it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism (e.g. coding style, etc). I should take a couple of hours. The code works? You know how to repro
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by amitport 5y ago
I wouldn't blame anyone personally, but it is what it is. If eventually, this is what's happening often, then the workplace feels unjust to me. It doesn't matter if the cause is some manager, HR, CEO, etc.,. (Sometimes I ima
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by amitport 5y ago
This just feel unjust for me. It bothers me to see a coworker getting underpaid just because they have certain personality traits (that are unrelated to their actual work). I will be less likely to stay at such a place, even if for me perso
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by amitport 5y ago
They are in an interview which is not a normal situation. The way they read the situation, the interviewer was laughing at them. It is normal and very very common to be oversensitive and misread things like that during an interview. The int
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by amitport 5y ago
Ironicly, you describe a very judgmental, insensitive, and quite toxic behaviour. Edit since I can't reply to your comment: if you lack the emphaty to understand why people may be very reasonably insulted in such cases, you really sh
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by amitport 5y ago
Oh so there is an overload! filter<U extends T>(pred: (a: T) => a is U): U[]; Additionally, getting TS better at inferring type guards is an open issue (literally): https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/
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by amitport 5y ago
I wonder if it is possible to add a feature to Typescript to help with this: You could potentially add a syntax for type guards function types, then add a signature to filter that accepts a type guard and returns an array of the guarded typ
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by amitport 5y ago
Look, there is still a big jump from the usual founder sharing partial vague optimistic statments (e.g., "our algorithm is great"), to the not so common direct lie (e.g., "we tested it with statistical significance, it works,
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by amitport 5y ago
Aren't women of child-bearing age discriminated against in the job market regardless? Did the USA really solved this issue by not providing paid maternity leave?
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by amitport 5y ago
The company is mindgeek and AFAIKT they outsource (/ use subcontracts / off the shelves tools) in most of their operations.
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by amitport 5y ago
I did emphasize that I do not know. Giving an extreme but possible situation is kind of the point. The wife, the prosecutors, the judges, and the legislators, are also real people, the article portraits them as stupid or malevolent. I would
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by amitport 5y ago
AFAIKT the "director" may be incorrect. He doesn't provide any credentials / documents / corroborated testimony with all side heard. I am not an expert on, and have not investigated the matter. (BUT) I choose not to
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by amitport 5y ago
The minimal details are missing from the article. Maybe he was a very rich abusive violent spouse who had 4 affairs and 25 children. I really don't know. This is not journalism. Maybe his case is unjust maybe it isn't. I would lik
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Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens(deepmind.com)
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by amitport 5y ago
Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29486607 (This is a different blogpost, but does not seem to add over the original) Edit : following derac's comment see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29
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by amitport 5y ago
Every feature seems simple by itself, but considering the overall scope and the maintenance effort, you will need dozends of people working full time on this. (I worked at such a very for profit media tech company)
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by amitport 5y ago
Thing have improved, but... Compared to TS, Python typings as second class are uncomfortable and often overly verbose (probably as you remember).
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by amitport 5y ago
...but how do you implement this? How do you know people are not coerced?
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by amitport 5y ago
It's also straight forward to implement in python. It is common enough to be standard so people won't reinvent the wheel. And it should be available to people learning the language before they learn generators. Array.prototype.ind
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by amitport 5y ago
Nice, I didn't know about that, but in any case note that IMO it should be part of the Iterable protocol. Also note that the proposal above creates a copy on reverse AFAIKT.
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by amitport 5y ago
'zip' a-la python
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by amitport 5y ago
'reversed' a-la python
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by amitport 5y ago
'range' a-la python
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by amitport 5y ago
The world is only one or two steps removed. Israel is acting under the approval and protection of the US ==> US was spying on itself /s
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by amitport 5y ago
Really? Have you actually read the Wikipedia page you're referring to? 50 years ago during a full scale war with all surrounding countries, Israel accidentally (as determined by US investigation) hit a "spy-ship" near Egypt (
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by amitport 5y ago
Nobody claimed in the article that this is a case of Israel spying on the US. That would be quite a jump.
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by amitport 5y ago
There are specific car models they're looking for (e.g., Prius 2009), so to maximize the chance of finding these they search in large crowded parking lots. So, if anything the problem was aggravated (at least here) when the societies w
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by amitport 5y ago
I agree with storng regulation. Unions become pretty much the same as cooperations (they do not algn with the cooperation interest, but have their own) after a decade or so from their inception. Really not a good tool from the civilian poin
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by amitport 5y ago
Strongly disagree. I have many examples where unions are the political force that is part of the (anti consumer / anti citizen) lobby; even stronger than the company's management sometimes. It's a bit naive to think just beca

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