skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of a comment on microservices a while back.

The guy claimed that his company had "done it properly", but it required a huge upfront investment in infrastructure, setting up everything properly and keeping it running.

Wasn't the idea that they were supposed to make things simpler and cheaper?
Its the pricing model that is serverless. That's about the only truth in the name.
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This is the old school moderator answer from back in the day when the net was young.

I.E - the old school binary censorship "block/ do not block" - let people decide

The update to this is that censorship is ALREADY happening without explicit actions by parties which want to do right.

The strategy is to saturate the pipe.

After time on the net, the concept of signal vs noise has been advanced enough that we can now just override the signal, by pushing enough noise.

You are talking about small holes, while you are already surrounded by a deluge.

Once twitter and facebook took off, this was a done deal.

The issue is frankly one of communication strategies (and not even meta-communication, this is from propaganda playbooks).

With enough automation, its possible to saturate the pipe.

Humans are built with limitations, for example short term memmory, suited for 5-7 "objects".

You don't need to resort to explicit censorship anymore.
The comment stands on its own.

“I have what my kids need, if you don’t, you should feel lucky that you aren’t fighting wild animals.”
They will not be able to meaningfully contribute to such military alliance - every state having single fighter jet? Or a few tanks?

And if they pool money to form an army - how will be the funding determined? Some states will want more defence, some less, some will prefer naval power, some airpower . . .

if those people can't agree on anything to such extent that they want to be entirely separate, how would they agree on anything when they would have even less incentive to cooperate? See how dysfunctional EU seems at times today, and this would be way worse . . .

Especially when you start considering other forms of warfare, like trade. Solving all problems leads right back to something resembling either superstate or close coalition of large states.
>The underlying problem here is that the cost of making an SoC is enormous.

Broadcom designed a custom SoC for the Raspberry Pi 3 and everything still runs over USB 2.0.
The IT department in my company is an example of the result of a totally outsourced organization. At the top you have a huge layer of well spoken, very personable people who "facilitate", "align" and call meetings. They have no technical knowledge. Then there are a few "architects" who sit in these meetings. The architects come up with a solution and then send the work to India. At the place the work is actually done the people have no idea why things are the way they are and they often do nonsensical stuff. The organization never learns anything because next time around it will be a different set of people working on the system. It's really bad. The overhead is enormous and even the simplest project need weeks of meetings, planning and budgeting.

But to the CEO it looks like a lean organization because the permanent headcount is so low. I bet they would be better off if they had a fixed staff of experienced people who actually know the systems they are working with.
File management and some UI paradigms in general. Terminal.app isn't very comfortable. Package management feels hacky and various things seem to work better with various managers. And the need for 3rd party package manager for basic stuff itself. Absolutely terrible OpenGL drivers. The way library linking is implemented for the bundle files is horrible. Troubleshooting is hard. And those are just first things from a quick dump out of my head, I could type more.

macOS seems like a better, Unix-based Windows for me. Better than Windows, but that's pretty much the only thing I can say about it.
Salina v. Texas changed that. It's a horrendous decision.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/supreme...
Yes, although access to the system allows you to probe it without necessarily alerting the defenders; you can prepare your zero-day and learn from all the crashes and other things that the defenders might have noticed etc.
Edit instead of replying to your post.
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I remember a similar build up of fears leading up to the Iraq war, many of the same people in the house and senate are banging that old war drum as well. John McCain effectively switched parties to join in on the fun.
Oh, an article about Russia from US media. I'm surprised they didn't include the usual stock photos of people in hoodies typing away as matrix text scrolls behind them.
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Panem et circenses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Reminds me of the "Nmap In The Movies" page: http://nmap.org/movies/
We just spent the better part of two decades proving that the most powerful military on earth can’t effecticely control a bunch of poor people in Iraq and Afghanistan who have guns but not much else.
The problem with graphics though is that some graphical operations are destructive so you can't just undo the operation.

In order to undo without a redo list, you would have to keep a complete graphical representation of the image and each operation. With images the memory usage goes up very quickly in that case, copying large blocks of memory on each operation makes your image editing slow down too.
As contractor I found useless meetings much easier to bear. Every 15 minutes I would look at the clock and think " you just wasted another $30". Now as employee I feel they are wasting my time instead of their money.
Thank god for Sci-Hub, then.

That reminds me, I should donate.
Ah, OK, got it.
> "Sorry, but that isn't ready yet"
Thank you, I will give it a look.
People are discussing this in a security context, but that's not what its about. This article is about modelling and analysis and the 'gothic hotel' model is just an interesting imaginary situation to try and analyse. And its a very useful example because its a state machine.
Ordinary people (non-programmers) have been doing fairly complex spreadsheets since the 80s. My dad, a cost accountant, was born in 1934 and was a Lotus 123/Quattro Pro master by the late 80s/early 90s.
The cooks are in the back and the waitstaff are in the front, with different specialised skills. Oh and you can't go from kitchen to front of house and back to kitchen without washing your hands or at least changing gloves.

The POS system is not just a communications system, it's also a means of taking EFT payment and a means of auditing. Even trivial places like donut shops have a POS system in order to take payments. And as soon as you get a business large enough that the owner isn't the only one handling money, you need an auditing system to avoid being defrauded by your staff.

(I work in a POS company at the moment. Our origin story is exactly that of an hotel entrepreneur solving his audit problems by building a POS system - in the early 1980s.)
Current AI approaches don't have that much to do with the biological brain. Despite the name 'neuronal networks' that we have history to thank for, it's better think of them as just long compositions of functions with a lot of parameters one can tweak.

Historically researchers looked at activation functions that are at least somewhat justified by nature, like the sigmoid. More recently people have focused on the mathematical aspects and figured out that the rectified liner unit `ReLU(x) = max(x, 0)` works just as well if not better for most applications.

Maxout networks (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.4389.pdf) are another interesting development in that direction.

There's still lots we can learn from biology, of course; but the last decades rapid advances we saw from deep learning at most barely relate to real brains.
Unfortunately for every qualified contractor you have 20 clueless people hired from some body shop who make a mess of things. Good contractors are a rare breed.
People assume you believe your idea is novel when it's not.
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Just a comment:

Reputation is key.

Having studied game theory for systems of agents producing results and content, I feel fairly confident in this conclusion: the only reliable long-term design to incentivize beneficient, truthful behavior involves assigning good reputation in return for good behavior, and assigning future rewards/attention based on past reputation.

Based on this, I postulate that any good news feed algorithm must use reputation scores based on past history to choose what to believe and what to show when a new story comes out. Humans of course do this instinctively, which many modern news organizations will have discovered too late as they sell out their integrity, accuracy, and priorities.

Remember what von Neumann said about arithmetic attempts to generate random numbers? Similarly, anyone who attempts to algorithmically determine "truth" based on instantaneous metrics is living in a state of sin.
You missed the part where the definition of the problem was being percolated during this process. Agile won't save you from not understanding the problem you are trying to solve.
Keep an eye on this thread [0] at the VMware Fusion forum.

Seems that it depends on if you installed Windows 10 by BIOS or EFI. For BIOS installed configurations you would have to disable SIP in order to use the bootcamp partition as a VM.

Hopefully VMware finds a better solution.

[0] https://communities.vmware.com/thread/572924
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Reminds me of the Yakhchāl I've visited in Yazd, Iran. They used to sell ice from those in the summer to traders travelling the Silk Road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
Wow.... You just put Independence next to treason, rape, pederasty, murder or canibalism.

That's a solid argument.
> However, it was never meant to allow compiler to assume "ok, I can see your code is totally broken, so let's break it more, cause you don't care anyway".

That's nevertheless how compiler writers are interpreting the standard right now. Take integer overflow for instance. Stuff like this:

unsigned u = some_computation();
int x = u; // because of reasons
x += 42; // hmm this may overflow, let's check that
if (x < 0) { // It's a 2's complement machine, this'll work
handle_overflow(x); // now, let's deal with the overflow
}

Now here's how your optimising compiler see that stuff:

unsigned u = some_computation();
int x = u; // x is always positive.
x += 42; // signed integer never overflow
if (x < 0) { // x was positive, no overflow... always false
handle_overflow(x); // Let's delete this dead code.
}

Then, what actually happens:

unsigned u = some_computation();
int x = u;
x += 42;

This is insane.
they were designed around the constraints of slow teletype machines and slow 300 baud modems. they make no sense as a UI until you take into account how long you used to need to wait for a computer to respond
Brilliant!

> We want the user to treat data errors with the
> same rigor and care that they deal with bugs in code.
> To promote this practice, we allow anomalies to be
> filed just like any software bug where they are
> documented, tracked, and eventually resolved.

If a human screws something up we expect that person to fix it. If an A.I. screws up, we're like "we're within 2% of the best score on Kaggle so we're doing pretty good".

A.I. is not going to replace humans until we have a disciplined process to get it to work right.
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I've been reading that we are doomed since the days of reagonomics. Well, technically longer. I've seen the very same predictions and arguments made, yet here we are.

To be absolutely clear - the system isn't perfect and could use improvements. My post was merely to point out that we're not only not doomed but are doing fairly well.

We have hungry people, but we don't have people dying of hunger in the streets. We have crappy medical coverage, but we have some of the best practices in the world - and horribly unaffordable emergency treatment that will probably financially ruin you. We have both wealthy and poor, but our poor are rather wealthy on the global scale.

It's not perfect, there's room to make improvements, but it's not really that terrible and the doom and gloom predictions haven't changed since the 80s. They've barely changed since the 60s. I can't speak for earlier than that, I wasn't cognizant.

Society isn't breaking down. The kids are as reckless as they ever were and old people complain about them as they always have. There isn't going to be a revolution, class warfare isn't going to erupt into violent confrontations on a mass scale, and nobody is going to eat the rich.

Call me when they are hanging bankers and politicians from lamp posts. It's not perfect but it's not horrible. It's actually pretty good for the average person. Even the below average have it pretty good if we examine them from the perspective of a global community.

Our poor people get more monthly food assistance than some people spend on food for an entire year. Not that we should emulate them, but we should stand back and admit that it's not that bad and acknowledge that the many predictions of doom have been grossly inaccurate.

Can we improve? Of course, and we should. Only insane people would think the system is perfect and can't be improved. I'm fact, the only differences I see between groups of people are the things they want to improve. I don't think anyone seriously believes it is currently ideal.

It's just not that terrible for the average person. You don't start getting massive uprisings with serious revolution potential until those average people can't get their football and beer.
I am really getting tired of programmer's "cute names for things". I recently went through training on adobe experience manager and literally every single internal technology was named for something that had no bearing on what it actually did. Felix, Sling, Jackrabbit ... I just did a quick google on the AEM tech stack and got the following choice quote which I feel perfectly illustrates the meaninglessness of Apache's naming "Apache Felix is to Apache Sling what Equinox is to Eclipse." what does any of that mean or do?!

I'd very much prefer if the named Guacamole the "Apache clientless remote desktop gateway"
Privacy implications of email tracking
What-songbirds-could-teach-us-about-constructive-tweeting
That's what they want you to think.

Some people want you to think you already missed the boat:

https://alphacord.com/
We should distinguish between the information processing of the machinery of the brain and the information processing of the mind, even though the issue of what makes up the latter is an open question. It would not be a useful measure of a program's complexity to simulate the hardware running the program, and calculate the complexity of that simulation (even if we didn't follow the implicit infinite recursion in that approach...)
>> we do find ourselves sometimes implementing relational DB functionality at the application level to compensate for Dynamo DB's "flexibility."

Yep, this is A-grade crazy, and exactly my point. I would question if it's "sometimes", or "actually almost all the time, now that we think about it, there's not much that we CAN do with DynamoDB without writing application level database functionality."
Numenta have been doing this for many years now, https://numenta.com/
> Every living person needs a basic level of respect, care and dignity...

Can you substantiate this claim?
I used to do contracting in Germany and the US. In Germany there was an understanding that you have a higher risk and therefore a contractor should make more money than an employee to compensate for that risk. In the US most companies view contractors as cheap labor and pay their employees more. No idea how general this is. It's just my personal experience.
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While I'm not a huge walker, I find that there are definite benefits to learning when to walk away from the keyboard and just plain think out problematic code. As a young developer, its hard to realize sometimes that the best thing you can do is just _stop coding_ and think hard.
I read that Blender initially didn't have undo. Saving to a file was quite fast because they used binary data. So what they did was save the scene to memory, then save again, and compute a diff for the undo queue.
Yes. This is a further consequence of the maximization of profit at the expense of the common person.
> What exactly does that mean?

I meant that it has a lot of parts that don't work well togther: the presentation doesn't match the writing, the writing doesn't match the setting, the slots doesn't evoke a feeling of a contested combat. It feels like a lot of ideas thrown together without an overall vision tying them together.

I keep thinging of Inkle's Sorcery! and how well it's put together, or Simogo's Device 6's novel use of text.

> a STRIPS planner

Well now! I'd love to hear more about this; I didn't notice it in action while running backwards and forwards from the war forges to the corpse room & back while waiting to see if the explicitly-mentioned time-pressure was really a thing or a unconvincing plot momentum device.
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ArcSight was an acquisition if I remember correctly, and it would have avoided a lot of the HP/E Software issues as a result.
The new thing is that the embedded hard CPU core is some flavour of Xeon rather than ARM or MIPS.
>I'm not really seeing loads of people taking advantage of the feature however. The platform is cheap, the technology is available but its just way too weird an architecture to become mainstream.

AMD sells a consumer product. For most consumers even a smartphone offers enough CPU and GPU performance. The content producers who care about performance usually buy the best CPU and GPU. HSA isn't available on AMD's Ryzen or Threadripper processors.

Intel is trying to sell to datacenters where performance or energy efficiency is a major selling point.
Congratulations to Kip Thorne. I used to attend his lectures and sometimes greet him in the parking lot if I happen to come across at Caltech. Even though Caltech is not far from Hollywood I always thought these people are the real super stars. Caltech has probably 20+ Nobel laureates.
Sure[0].

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^ this! And only this.

It is defense budget for crying out loud, not "lets attack every country our rich gods don't like because it doesn't accept their dark business".
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You've summarized the political views of the majority of people in San Francisco.
For those who have watched the Bollywood movie “3 idiots”, the role of Dr Phunsuk Wangdu was/is inspired by Sonam Wangchuk.

Ice stupas are quite a sight if you happen to visit Leh Ladakh area in India
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Guacamole is way easier to remember than Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway. Also while seeking help it's a lot less characters, so people wouldn't be annoyed by typing.
They are trying to create a brand, something catchy that will be remembered. "Apache clientless remote desktop gateway" just does not have the same ring to it.
> Not only anti-rationalist and anti-Enlightenment, but you're even disagreeing with object permanence!

And not even "not only" that, it also veers into the dirty movement of muddying the waters of responsible reporting, into a discussion of "what is truth really?". When "nothing is true", every venue from 4chan to infowars is equal in its non-truth to AP/Reuters/WaPo/NYT/Atlantic/etc.

When all media is fake, listening to Alex Jones talk about water supplies making children gay is somehow legitimized.
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> the prose was a little purpleish, which is exactly what you want for a low fantasy Hawardesque fantasy novel (or game)

No no no, you go big or you go home. You can't be a little bit The Eye of Argon.