skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capacity provisioning was the most annoying aspect of using DynamoDB when I last worked with it, but in the last couple of months they've added autoscaling[1] which would seem to address that major bugbear (with the caveat that I haven't had reason to test it out yet ;)

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-scaling-for-amazon...
Yes when I worked for BT full time in my divison (systems Engineering) there might be 20 possible promotions from MPG2 to MPG 4 every 18 months.

As my boss said getting on the short list meant that the company thought you where good enough but with say 600-800 potential candidates for promotion the competition was brutal I knew better developers than me who just gave up
I don't really know. I've never heard of any exploits but that could be because it might simply not be an attractive enough target.
PouchDB is great! But it doesn't offer a discovery mechanism. Dat is solution that offers this but uses a similar log based system for distributing changes.
Seems I'm the idiot then, missed the "gateway" bit... so this basically sits between something providing VNC/RDP and makes it accessible with just a web server?
That's an unknown.
This made sense a couple centuries ago, but no longer does today. The seat of federal government could be moved back to Philly and the country would operate much as it does now. No American metropolis needs military protection "from the states" more than any other.

DC statehood would also help mitigate the distortive effect of allocating 2 Senators to every state regardless of population, which exaggerates the rural vote.
Isn't that same for every city? Even London has its Peckham (well not anymore it's been gentrified).
This is where I find robustness of Go particularly interesting and it's probably one of the reasons where it gained so much of momentum recently.
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As you can see from the output, the model can simplify the shape, alter the geometry, put a texture on an object (projecting a texture like UV mapping) without being explicitly programmed to do so. It is inherently different from Photoshop filters that apply a fixed transformation on the pixels.
The fundamental difference is that the model is able to abstract away from the pixel representation of the image and it can decorelate content and style.
Also, it is not necessarily more computationally intensive in the generation / forward phase.
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That's an enormous misinterpretation of what the author is saying. He's just juxtaposing the extreme wealth in the city with the poverty and drawing from his personal experiences to represent the wealth. He explicitly says

"The man pushing his house could have used that $250. We ate and drank it."
Lotus Notes was first. Distributed, replicated key value store.

Actually I'm not right: http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.h...
Take for instance http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/README.ht.... I could feel the frustration when reading those compiler errors.
I mean it's a list, one of the simplest data structures to implement, I was doing that stuff in high-school.

But it's not just about a particular example, instead I get a general feeling of inaccessibility when reading Rust code. It's not enough to know C or C++, one has to understand the Rust way. This might seem unfair to complain about, but I didn't have any such issues when learning e.g. Swift or Objective-C, to give an example of non-GC languages.
> Add a million LUTs and several thousand special-purpose blocks (ALUs, CAM, SRAM, DSPs, etc.) on CPU die that can be reconfigured within a few 10k cycles

LUTs are implemented as a cascade of muxes that are controlled by local latches that are set at configuration time through a scan chain. Scan chains are key to letting you configure all these LUT control latches across the whole chip in an area-efficient manner, but there's a severe time vs area trade-off since you're essentially configuring one LUT control bit (a vanilla 6-LUT has 2^6 = 64 control bits) per scan chain cycle per scan chain. FPGAs already suffer ~30x area overhead for LUT logic compared to equivalent ASICs, so adding a lot of additional area to enable much faster reconfiguration seems like a tough sell. Matrix addressing as used in DRAMs and LED/LCD displays is another sweet spot on the time vs area trade-off curve. Not sure if anyone's ever done an FPGA using that as the configuration topology, but it'd probably make a fun dissertation topic.
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I don't want to legalise drugs because "they're not harmful" - I think they are harmful.

The reason I want to legalise drugs is because I think those harms are better treated as a health problem, not a criminal justice problem.
well the UK/FTSE does not like this sort of dual class listing and one high profile media group (DMG) got kicked from the FTSE collated index over this a couple of years ago.
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Actually, I would tend to think net neutrality should apply to content host as well. Provided content is not illegal, obviously.

The best to do to fight false info is to shame those who share it, just like we shame news outlets which do not verify their sources. It's probably the best way to make sure everybody double check what they post (plus, if citizen start to check their sources, that's a huge win).
Which facts? The very selection of relevance itself tells a story.

However, you can sort of get this if you limit yourself to "agency" news, ie AP or Reuters. If you have a big chunk of money and news is important in your work, you'll have a Bloomberg terminal.
Also permanent guys get to support contractors' code, which adds an insult to an injury.
The chatbot content is currently very minimal. I'll work on it more soon. I'm thinking of disabling api.ai's small talk, and taking on the absolute barest of personas.

I want to make useful things that present an authentic interface, and set clear expectations. "I'm a vending machine. What do you want?"

Pretty much all this bot can do is: tell you a little about talky.cards, get your email, get you to set a password, and checkout with Stripe.
I didn't downvote, but I have an inkling. I'll share what some of these people may be thinking about your comment. I'll be hyper-critical there because you specifically asked about why someone might have downvoted, so don't take it personally.

"Reading about rewards in AI context makes me wonder, why current AI only focuses on the network topology aspect of natural intelligence."

Well, it doesn't. Not at all. It looks as if you conflate one very specific AI techique (deep neural networks) with all of AI. Because that one technique is currently insanely popular and has been widely mainstream reported and hyped that makes it look as if your education in that field did not go beyond reading a couple of mainstream media articles. Also, there's a whole huge subfield in AI which is actually defined by it's focus on learning from rewards, which you seem not to be aware of.

"What about the neurotransmitters like dopamine or serotonine? Could they (or more specific: their effects) be key to an AI that feels more “natural“?"

Not applicable as written, too broad and unspecific. "Not even wrong." Looks like someone with superficial knowledge is just throwing a few sticks into the blue in the hope that someone might be aroused to a reply which competently tries to make actual sense out of it.
There are good reasons for some things being and remaining almost universally seen as illegal. Can't think of a single reason to legalize treason, rape, pederasty, murder or canibalism for example.

Laws are intended to preserve convivence in society and secession is like a bomb put in the middle of the lifes, properties and projects of millions of people (Not necessarily for better. We have dozens of examples of how things can turn hairy easily for the population).

The argument can never be: must be allowed because currently is illegal, thus we must be lacking some good freedom here.
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Isn't the point to have some defense in depth, so if there is a zero-day exploit found for your SSH authentication, you are not wide open? In a way like the grooves on a key for a pin-tumbler lock.
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> San Francisco is in the future. San Francisco's future isn't pretty. It's cold, hard, technological. It's fueled by both extreme poverty and extreme wealth.

I don't think extreme wealth would agree that extreme poverty is "fueling" wealth's future. At best, wealth might describe it as holding back the future, or at least the view.

I think equilibrium will be reached when basic services are automated, the poor have died, left or been pushed out, and $250 meals will be served by human waiters shuttled in to the city that they can't afford to live in.
I don't recall where, but while going through one of the links above I saw the numbers:

45% on-site, 55% remote
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So COBOL and Fortan is still going strong in the areas its appropriate for.
It's really not. The discard rate of MSFT tech is pretty high. The amount of times I've seen people discard their WP handset decrying it as a "fucking pile of unreliable broken shit" is quite ridiculous.
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Looks like we reached maximum thread depth so replying here.

I agree, the side-effectful choices are either a global, some DI container, or just passing it down.

For loggers, I think global lookup from some (pluggable) logging library is justified because logging is probably the most ubiquitous cross-cutting concern ever. For pretty much everything else, I think passing as a parameter is actually the best option. It's explicit and simple, and you don't even need to explicitly pass it around _that_ much if you store it in a field of a class that plays the role of a module. Most uses of the dependency will be in non-static methods, lambdas, or inner classes.

I dislike Reader because it's similar to a DI container (or a global) in that it's more work to figure out, for a given call site, what the last value written to it was. With parameters, you just climb the call chain.
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Sounds like the premise for a Douglas Hofstadter book.
It's fun to poke fun at the system we have in the US, but we're doing fairly well from a numbers standpoint. Our GDP is fantastic, our median income is quite good, and we still manufacture a bunch of stuff.

China didn't actually start to manufacture more than us until just a few years ago, and they have something like three times the population.

People say the middle class is shrinking, but seldom mention that the number of people in the upper class is growing. We have pretty good employment numbers and our securities market is booming.

Many of our businesses are the most profitable in the world. We are still sought out as the place to go for education and starting a business. We have more people trying to come here than we can even accommodate.

So, from a numbers view, we are doing okay. We may not be number one in every category, but we're up there on the list and still doing quite well.

Of course, there's more to life than numbers, but hopefully I expressed it well enough.
> pcANYWHERE for Windows had this all figured out in the late 80’s. They hooked GDI and transported the API calls wherever possible.

RDP does the same; the early revs were basically GDI over wire. Later versions would have extensions/hax to transport the DirectX stuff (did they just ship framebuffers? I dunno).
Maybe I'm not an entrpreneur if I don't actively think of that place that way. I mean I don't know the logistics of the supply of restaurants. Closest thing would be POS/menus for cooking those look realtively old or maybe it's one of those "does its job no need to fix".

Haha the restaurant industry for me is like purgatory haha I look forward to the day that I work as a developer full time. Poverty is my never ending nightmare but I live in opportunity up to me to save myself haha.
I try to have an analogy for humanity's place in the universe. I think the best is a colony of ants floating on a branch in the Pacific Ocean. But with careful attention to wind, smell those ants have worked out shipping and landmass. Now they just found out how to detect Skyscrapers. One day they will be able to read the menus at the deli by Central Park. Let's discuss science funding again shall we?
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i changed it toredirect to https
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No I meant parameter-based function overloading like C++ has (or is it not the wrong term? I forget).

So like:

int do_something(int param);
int do_something(double param, char *param2);

I don't see how you can avoid some form of name mangling since obviously you can't just define two duplicate "do_something" symbols.
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Interesting... I wish there was a dataset like ImageNet for standard text analysis tasks...
RDP dude. Or something like GoToMyPC.

Open-source solutions for things like this are generally developed as infrastructure, or a basis for future work. Proprietary solutions are built for people to actually use.
Isn't that standard practice?

HP wants to sell their product so they do this. If the Pentagon doesn't want this they would need to purchase exclusive rights to it or the state department would need to forbid the sale of the software overseas.
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We're living in the age of the serverless Web, not to mention the meaningless technical term.
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All I saw from the article was that you should use Sublime.
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I don't think that's enough, according to the video at least.
This is totally normal practice.

Also most likely ArcSight used by pentagon can be totally different beast then ArcSight used by private companies.

Also most likely ArcSight doesnt cover most of US cyberwarfare arsenal.
No other city has such a stark contrast between the areas. In London, the poorest neighborhood is Canning Town, and even in its grimiest pockets, immediately south of Newham Way, it’s not as bad as parts of Tenderloin.
no system is isolated though, so if one system benefits at the cost of another who should collect the benefits ?
RDS is serverful not serverless.
Hmmm. I'll need to read more closely later and make a real comment, but since when did Gershman or anyone at DeepMind get on the predictive-coding train?

Nonetheless, this kind of algorithm sounds like exactly what I expect from a predictive brain that cares fundamentally about trajectories.
IMO this is juicero all over again. Whether you want to go to HD and spend 20 bucks to DIY one of these or just grab one of the other off the shelf option from your local hydro store there are plenty of other more cost effective ways to grow your own anything. Another luxury item that will never yield a decent ROI for the consumer.
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Agreed, a negative result should not be confused with shoddily executed science. A solid methodology that produces a negative result could save other researchers from going down the same rabbit hole to come to the same conclusion. We should record these conclusions. Perhaps maybe part of the problem would be the increase in number of publishable results overloading editors and reviewers?
This is a piece of software that aggregates logs and allows you to look for patterns to flag up suspicious activity ... it's not like it's the source to your firewall, total non story.
Really nice blog. Cutting through lot of bullshit in web today. Tough to find quality blogs. Thanks. This will give me great pointers for the reading sessions we have.
"a couple" rather than "several" to be clear -- let's not exaggerate how long it's been around!
Looks to be some small amount of C code in those macros as well.
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> It's fun to poke fun at the system we have in the US, but we're doing fairly well from a numbers standpoint. Our GDP is fantastic, our median income is quite good, and we still manufacture a bunch of stuff.

NONE of that matters because those metrics measure the winners. The key measure is, does our system have a lot of big losers? If the answer is yes, then that system has failed.
Rust does not currently support parameter-based function overloading, and there are no plans to in the near-term, if ever.

(This isn't the only way to end up with duplicate symbols, just trying to make it clear that this specifically won't be a problem with Rust.)
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Just an idea, why have a POS system at all? Why have a waitstaff that take orders? Why not just give the orders to the cooks and eliminate mistakes made by servers? What about in-kitchen optimizations? What about reducing spoilage?

The possible places to improve are limited mostly by your imagination. What complaints do the bossss have? What do the workers complain about most?

Those are rhetorical questions, I don't know enough about the industry to help. The goal is to start with something, it hasn't even got to sell and make a profit. The goal is to learn and improve, to learn new thinking, to see where changes can be made.
This appears to be a case of patriotism vs the Almighty Dollar, albeit with shades of nuance. Is it standard practice for security software vendors to provide enterprise clients with audit rights? And could a restriction in future market opportunity lead technology companies to avoid doing business with the government?
From what I read, it looks to me like actually, in the UK, it's permanent workers which have pretty poor salary for the IT market.
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Great tool indeed. To be honest even web browsing works just fine with it, as long as there is no animations to display.

I use it to get around my firewall at work, which seem to block anything apart http/https. If anyone knows a better solution than guacamole, let me know :)
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IMHO the single best thing about contracting is not having to deal with office politics and chasing promotions... which is also a downside, career-wise, as you don't get promoted, ever.
> an island at a considerable distance from the mainland U.S.

It's just over 1000 miles from Florida - about a third the distance from New York to San Francisco. That's not "a considerable distance" that should be hampering anything for a country currently engaged in a war about 6000 miles away.
But the most important thing in the US is paying less tax, right?

So don't complain when there's no money to pay for services.
But this has its cons you know. Lot of the work these days are just improving state of the art. IDGAF about sota man. New ideas should flow not architecture tweaking lol
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