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by lacker 5y ago
I'm happy to see this. The python packaging ecosystem is frustratingly nonstandardized, particularly the split between conda and pip. Now that the Python 2->3 migration has mostly been dealt with, hopefully the community is able to
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by lacker 5y ago
Three of the four are in fact outliers: Kubernetes and Android are both financially backed by Google. Is that really "outlier" behavior? More and more important open source projects are prominently backed by a single large tech
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by lacker 5y ago
One of the first things I do at any job is replace the 90th percentile with the maximum in all plots. Really? I find percentiles to be more informative. Looking at the maximum is like looking at an error log, it is basically throwing out
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by lacker 5y ago
Progress requires transforming it into a discussion of police efficacy. The problem is, once you look at it as a problem of efficacy, it becomes pretty obvious that police killings are already quite rare compared to other failures of poli
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by lacker 5y ago
I think you’re picking the wrong stats here. The article says that 55 unarmed people were killed by police last year. If armed people are killed by police in a shootout, that isn’t the same sort of obvious tragedy that a plane crash is.
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by lacker 6y ago
The problem isn't even "corruption" per se. A dictator can do this entirely legally by simply raising taxes in an area (or cutting investment in public services) whenever NGO-provided cash or services lets the people there af
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by lacker 6y ago
Our movement gets hijacked by a military strongman who happens to be charismatic and liked by the people, and now we're under a brutal military dictatorship. This risk is inherent in any political action (or inaction) There is cert
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by lacker 6y ago
It seems like if an NGO provided a UBI in a region that was controlled by a dictatorship, the dictatorship could simply take all the money. When taxes are not set democratically, giving money to individuals seems roughly equivalent to givin
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by lacker 6y ago
I share some of these concerns. I was reading this book about the Congo recently: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XCJ62YJ/ It's a fascinating book for many reasons, but one relevant part is its interviews with m
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by lacker 6y ago
Why should you not attend medium-size gatherings after being vaccinated? It's okay to be in a group of 100 people in a plane, but not in that same group of people in a field outside? It doesn't make any sense to me. There are more
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by lacker 6y ago
Amazon just wouldn't do that. They would either not offer it as a service, or make a clone from the beginning like they did with MongoDB. In general none of the cloud providers are actually willing to comply with the AGPL license.
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by lacker 6y ago
I also couldn’t get into Crime and Punishment, and I read a lot of books and loved The Brothers Karamazov. The idea of just quitting books that you enjoy is really important... for me at least, I feel like I get more out of the top 10% of b
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by lacker 6y ago
Facebook's official policy for a while has been, don't use the phrase "culture fit". The interviews previously known as "culture fit" are mostly asking you questions designed to answer things like, do you work
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by lacker 6y ago
Any AI products designed to supposedly recognize emotions are necessarily snake oil. You are making far too extreme a judgment here. You also say humans cannot "reliably" identify emotions from photographs. This is just setting
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by lacker 6y ago
The simplest way is to make the transition within the company you're already working at. I have seen many software engineers convert into PMs successfully and that's usually the way they do it. It works best when you are working o
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by lacker 6y ago
Some of the processes around the no-fly list have been declared unconstitutional before. For example: https://aclu-or.org/en/cases/court-rules-no-fly-list-process... IANAL but it would not surprise me if the court
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by lacker 6y ago
Everyone thinks of WeWork as this huge failure, but WeWork is still worth 8 billion dollars! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/WeWork-Spac-ipo.... Yeah, their valuation is down a lot from what
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by lacker 6y ago
Uber is also good if you have a 25 hour a week job which pays better than Uber but you need to get some extra money and those 25 hours come at unpredictable times
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by lacker 6y ago
You really need to implement limits service-by-service, and with as many services as AWS has, it would make sense if some of them hadn't implemented limits yet. Think about the details... if you are paying something for both storage an
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by lacker 6y ago
I'm surprised that the law requires you to allow dogs in your car. It's one thing for a public space, but for a private service it seems like it should be okay to have a no-dogs-allowed rule.
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by lacker 6y ago
There typically is no "prevailing rate" for a startup. So just figuring out the tax implications is too much work to do it like this. Also, usually you're giving people options rather than equity; you can afford to give peopl
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by lacker 6y ago
At Google around 2008-2009 we had a similar issue with the word "lesbian"... it was basically impossible to get Google Suggest to suggest anything non-adult when you started typing in "lesbian", despite trying hard to fi
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by lacker 6y ago
There are plenty of possible outcomes that would be better for Coinbase than for Bitcoin. Popularity of Ethereum, any other coins, or other sorts of crypto-based financial instruments. So far Bitcoin has done well but past performance does
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by lacker 6y ago
Python and Go are both like that. The language really encourages a single way of doing things, so when a new programmer sticks 20 lines of new logic in the middle of someone else’s file, it quite often aesthetically blends in. I like it, bu
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by lacker 6y ago
I think "lying" is pretty harsh. The pandemic caused many, many people and companies to have trouble predicting future demand. To me, it's a miracle that the American economy has kept going as strong as it has. I know it&#x27
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by lacker 6y ago
I don’t think it’s possible to be completely data driven about a company-wide cultural change that you can’t a/b test. A year or so after they make the decision, though, I’m sure they’ll have data on whether they have a spike in losing
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by lacker 6y ago
The M1 laptops are pretty clearly their highest-quality laptops ever.
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by lacker 6y ago
The idea of making the parks car-free doesn’t really make sense to me. Right now, the vast majority of the parks are car-free. When you visit, you drive in, park in a huge parking lot somewhere, and then you have a vast area you can hike th
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by lacker 6y ago
Even in Yosemite, at the absolute peak of the tourist season, if you go to one of the trailheads outside the main valley, in the Chilnualna or Hetch Hetchy area, it isn’t overcrowded at all. If you take a multi-day backpacking trip, after t
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by lacker 6y ago
I believe that quote actually predates the modern era of AI! Here is an article from 2013 referring to it, as being in the then-current version of their textbook: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013&#

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