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by shrimpx 3y ago
> Cars sometimes kill children, shall we ban them too? Yeah if they sold cars with 0-star zero safety rating claiming that it's just too hard to do anything about making cars safer when you sell cars at scale. If Meta was a low-marg
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Thank you, I believe you are right. I did try to make a race condition happen using += and am having a hard time. Here's my code import threading i = 0 def test(): global i for x in range(1000000):
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Python is a nice language with a shitty implementation. The ergonomics and productivity gain of the “nice language” part keeps winning over the other part.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I think by “data races” the parent means that code doesn’t lock around operations like += and len(). The data races are there in theory but do not exhibit due to the GIL.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I feel like LLMs won't find their success in this "here's a LLM product!" kind of way but more by being leveraged internally by companies to increase velocity, do more with fewer employees, etc. I've certainly gaine
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Housing is a bad example because there’s not enough supply for competition to work, so prices can become arbitrary without rent control.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Thanks I appreciate the info. I love python and I use it for nearly everything. But it often gets dogged for perf, so I wonder about the reasoning in using it for high frequency trading despite the bad rap.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Was the exchange actually running on Python? Or was Python used for less intensive stuff?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Yeah March 2020. I was not actively trading stocks back then so I watched passively. I do think market timing is bad as a general strategy but sometimes the writing is on the wall. I have timed the market successfully since then though, w
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Anything on the way down in a steep selloff is a good buy, so you did good. Also WRT the pandemic it was pretty clear that there was going to be panic selling, as soon as a pandemic was announced. What wasn’t clear was where the bottom was
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Although when the s&p dropped 20% in a few days in March 2020 — that was clearly a buy signal. And when tech stocks dropped by 70-90% in Nov 2022. Those stocks are now up 2x/3x from bottom. Sure, long term it probably doesn’t work
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by shrimpx 3y ago
That's cool, it's kind of like Scratch [*] for business. Presumably the market is people who don't like Retool because it is too high-level (not enough control) and don't like code because it's too low-level (too mu
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I agree. And what makes python a nice choice for this is that you can go wild in the beginning and then gradually add type hints as your project takes shape.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Sure. The “serious” stuff is written in more serious languages and the rapidly changing experimental stuff in more lenient and expressive languages.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
If you didn't use **kwargs you'd have to copy and paste every kwarg and its default value from the superclass into the subclass, which is ridiculous IMO.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> disaster of an anti-feature Untyped languages tend to be at the forefront of paradigms, and typed languages come in toward the end when reliability and need for tooling are more important than innovation/discovery. In the 90s a bu
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Which Europe? Plenty of destitution, poverty, far-right inclinations, ultra-nationalism and anti-migrant racism in Europe. (Often against migrants from other countries in Europe.)
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I don't think he would or should. I was just thinking if he applied, he probably wouldn't get in.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Point taken. I think they strive for high impact, at least high market impact, in the application phase. What they end up with doesn't reflect what they want, kind of by definition. The extreme majority of YC startups fail.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I did qualify it as stretched to the extreme. But it's the same basic framework: Build yourself into an influencer with a high follower count, then sell them basic products.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Was just talking myself through why this forum would be unfriendly to this guy Tony. A forum that is run by YCombinator, a company that presumably values entrepreneurship. And my take is that both this forum and YC are fairly aligned on &qu
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Stretching your take to the extreme, it's like saying Kim Kardashian makes money from perfume because she's a genius fragrance designer and really understands the nuances and opportunities in the fragrance market, not because she
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by shrimpx 3y ago
YouTube influencer with 138k followers, I think he probably gives a shit.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I think the guy’s aesthetic just turns people off here. He seems intensely invested in how to make virality happen in any way possible, and building simplistic stuff that’s not advancing the state of tech. People here want to see technical
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by shrimpx 3y ago
To push that point further, I’d say JSX is opinionated, adding magical/weird templatey syntax to Javascript.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Separation also has drawbacks. You have to go to open a different file and search for things by ID or class name. It’s like aspect oriented programming.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I think it's hard because we have GDP growth as the #1 KPI, and VCs seeking large-multiple exits in single-digit years, with no major concern for negative effects on society. Veering too deeply into pure capital acquisition will destro
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Good points but I think (a) this is a fairly complex stack with moving parts and multiple languages where (b) it's still pretty hard to build something as simple as "when I click this button, it reads something from disk and the w
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by shrimpx 3y ago
The problem is that short-term profitability isn't compatible with the long-term health of society, because often the easiest way to make a lot of money quickly comes as a form of societal exploitation. The most direct examples being c
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by shrimpx 3y ago
A lot of it is fueled by the govt continuing to refuse to release the JFK papers.

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