skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, M.L. is always sold on the metaphor and not on the reality -- that's partly because its advocates are really unable to distinguish animal consciousness and cognition from computation.

Machine Learning models are tools for computing specific predictions. They are not thoughts, have no concepts, etc.

The model isnt what it is used for. A model isnt what it describes. The ability of an ML system predict a person's action isn't a reasoning process. A rock rolling down a hill predicts the path of water rolling down a hill. The rock isnt thinking about it.

Describing ML models as if they were cognitive gives people the impression that computers possess the relevant concepts and understanding which is why its seems scary. It's just current through a write to a fancier dial.
This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown?

How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write my blog posts in commonmark is it safe to assume site generation tools 10 years from now will correctly render commonmark?
Show HN: I made a Hearthstone site for finding synergies and 'hate' cards
On one of my jobs the entire team was a certain nationality and spoke a different language (this was in a country where English is the default and dominant language). When they talked to me they talked in English otherwise they would talk in their own language even when having discussions about work. I felt very excluded. I tried to stay on but couldn't. I left just after three months.
But the individuals are doing the work for the institution. If they'd just refuse (for example, don't sign up to be a soldier working on behalf of an institution you ostensibly don't support), then it wouldn't get done.
IBM has failed to build these state level systems successfully around the world (Canada, Australia, Pennsylvania, Slovenia, New Zealand). IBM should know how to go about building them right or IBM should not be in this business.

The first $200 million of cost overruns I'm willing to pin on the Government of Canada. The subsequent billion dollars and the failure of the system to work at all is the vendor's fault.

If the Government of Canada is entirely impossible to work with, the vendor should have shut the project down at 200% of budget rather than run it to six times budget and still fail.
Agree. Tools are only as good and effective as those who use them. At some point we have to be responsible for the decisions we make. And sometimes biz needs change to the point that those decision change from right to wrong. Just me?

I hear the author. Just the same, at 50k ft, it just seems like the same subject on a different topic. That subject is: Peogramming / software engineering is imperfect. And sometimes things break and need to be refactored.

Why should this profession be any different than any other. The quest for The Holy Grail of Perfection is nobel, but we'll never find it.

I'm not suggesting sloppiness and lower standards, but a sense of theory is great but the reality is reality will never be that perfect.

Use the right tool available at the time. When that tool is no longer right and/or effective then replace it. Keep moving.
Stone cold killers is not the right description here. These soldiers, conscripts, were put into the most bizarre, dangerous, depraved situation you could imagine. The stress must have been unreal, in the jungles. They suffered a situational insanity.
It's a pity scala didn't get continuations in the end.
This is not wrong, but it ignores that in terms of reliable software architectures, it’s very often still better to model change using strictly immutable data types. Often, not always.

As usual the truth is somewhere in the middle, which is why I don’t like the periodically recurring discussions why OO is bad, FP is good or vice versa. I think the article splits up the issue quite nicely, the conclusion I get from it is that the answer to the question whether to use inheritance or not is ‘it depends’.
The chief culprit was permitting tens of thousands of barbarians to enter the empire. They never integrated or left. Within a hundred years, the western part of the empire collapsed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_War_(376–382)
Do you have a list of them? I'm especially interested in the TLD for open registration.
Apple surprise event this month. Presentation of iPhone SE2 and new iPad?
Most trousers (especially men's) are poorly suited to a flexible range of motion. I have pretty flexible hips and large thighs from squatting, and have split my trousers at the groin on more than one occasion doing something silly like a martial arts kick or demonstrating an olympic lift movement. I stick to corduroys now.

Apparently you used to get people wearing cut-off jeans shorts while squatting in the gym, because the tension provides an extra impetus out of the bottom of the movement. A bit like a weightlifting singlet I guess. I've never seen it in person though.
Would not false negative (a critical log being muted) be a major concern while using machine learning in this domain?

What if I never see a critical log because the trained model decided that it is unimportant? How is such a situation generally solved in the industry?
> It was necessary to rearrange those bad thoughts and to restore some form of sanity, namely, a recognition that whatever we do is noble and right. If we’re bombing South Vietnam, that’s because we’re defending South Vietnam against somebody, namely, the South Vietnamese, since nobody else was there. It’s what the Kennedy intellectuals called defense against "internal aggression" in South Vietnam. That was the phrase used by Adlai Stevenson and others. It was necessary to make that the official and well understood picture. That’s worked pretty well. When you have total control over the media and the educational system and scholarship is conformist, you can get that across. One indication of it was revealed in a study done at the University of Massachusetts on attitudes toward the current Gulf crisis-a study of beliefs and attitudes in television watching. One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture? They leave the question unanswered, but you can pursue it.

-- Noam Chomsky, "Media Control", 2002 ( https://chomsky.info/mediacontrol01/ )
Ask HN: Nomad (Hashicorp) vs. Kubernetes?
Hi all,

I'm currently looking for container orchestration tools in my current company. We have our applications across multiple data centers (GCP, AWS, Alicloud).

From my research, I found out that the most common ones are Nomad and Kubernetes. Anyone has experience running either Nomad or Kubernetes in production? Furthermore, maybe the drawback and benefit from your experiences?

Thanks
"I suspect the fellow fobbits are substantially more educated on average than a typical prison population and probably generally healthier physically and mentally."

1. I just don't know.

2. We are programmed to say, "Thank you for your service." I still say it, but when I hear anybody telling me they are going to enlist, my heart drops. It just seems like a horrid choice to make. Yes--signing up is easy. Getting the military to train you for anything the civilian world values seems impossible. That's all I'll say because of the political correct backlash I will not respond to.

3. I always felt our government should enlist criminals for war. I just have a sneaky suspicion they would make the best soldiers. There are some very crafty people serving time. Then again, the average criminal, put away for non-violent crimes, might already know the military doesn't have much to offer?

4. I don't want to debate. I know too many people whom get out, and have just so much regret--on so many fronts. Another thing I have seen is so many vets coming home expecting accolades, and maybe a spot on the local Revenue Squad. The Revenue Squads do not need military trained individuals, they need people with degrees in psychology, Law, or sociology.

I don't want to offend vets. I do perk up when anyone makes assumptions about guys doing time. Hell--I know a guy doing County jail stint right now for fishing without a license, with a prior felony (got caught shoplifting in high school.)

I've wondered if living in an American prison is better than being homeless. When I was a young buck--hell no. As I've aged I just don't know. Especially with what a turd this country has turned into.
Drones make search and rescue missions possible in sparsely populated areas
This project was inspired by the days when I used to stay up all night researching Magic the Gathering decks I wanted to build on Gatherer. I'd always wanted additional ways to discover cards there though. So tunnelweasel.com allows you to rate synergies between cards, their capacity to 'hate' other cards. You can also comment on a card if you've got something more nuanced to add.
The Moon also has the same rotation and revolution time, so that it always shows the same face to us. I've always wondered if having different rotation and revolution times could have helped humankind to consider the existence of spherical planets a lot before, hence helping progress.
Formatting tweets: a look at Extended tweets, Retweets and Quotes
I recently built a state machine for a game I am working on. My state machine is inspired by reading https://statecharts.github.io/ and also by some of the dispatch stuff from SICP though it had been a while since I read SICP.

The way I wrote my code is I model the state machine and the states as separate objects and I model the transitions between states as events with messages that the states inform the state machine of and then the state machine looks at what is the current state and what is the current event and it looks at what state if any it should transition to as a result of this.

Here is the class for my state machine object: https://github.com/ctsrc/ITR-LotPT/blob/master/src/statechar...

And here is where I create states and register said states and their transitions with an instance of my state machine: https://github.com/ctsrc/ITR-LotPT/blob/master/src/main.js

Prior to reading about statecharts my state machines used to be messy and hard to reason about. The one I mentioned above feels very clean and I am very happy with it.

As you can see this state machine I use for transitioning from resource loading to main menu and then to the main game, as well as going between the in-game and paused states. For the main game itself I do not use a separate state machine because currently I feel that if I added that stuff there I would be adding overhead without much benefit. The game is still in an early stage and far from finished. The game is in fact not even playable yet. But like I said I feel good about that state machine of mine.
I'm in the middle of a game of Civ VI right now. Gandhi will not stay happy with me and he keeps declaring war on me every 40 turns or so. But I just took his capital so let's see if we can get him to knock it off.
Agreed. In fact I would expect the Square subclass to implement width= and height= so that they each actually set both internal values.
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.app
.bank
.chrome
.dev
.foo
.google
.insurance
.page

Source: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/raw/master/net/http/tra... (grep for TLD)
Can superstition help us make better decisions?
Yes the article is written like if environmental changes were the only factor. It may very well have undermined the inner streng of the empire (as a child I learn about the lead pipes that would have been a major issue because of saturnism) but it still needed external interventions to collapse. The article even mention the Byzantine Empire which have a very clear date and cause of falling that is definitely not climate related.
iam vietnamese
Rome didn't allow them to integrate.
> I still occasionally hear criticism of the show as being unrealistic, that it papered over things or was shallow or ungrounded

I really don't understand this criticism. On a first-principle basis alone it does not make any sense, because the same is true for any children's cartoon. I know this is anecdotal, but wanting to act out the fantasy in Transformers, Thundercats and whatnot certainly affected the playground in my childhood, why would the opposite part be any different? Also, why would people worry about the violence in those series, but not appreciate the better world depicted in this one? Fiction matters.
You forgot to mention they can use facial recognition to ID and publicize pedestrians who don't wait for green light.

The sheer amount of resource and power they can wield against an individual citizen is unparalleled in the entire human history. The only thing stopping them from utilizing it is only its own bureaucratic inefficiency.
Unfortunately, the wording you had "executed in stadiums" is categorically false regardless of original intent. Why not edit it?
No. When references or arrays of references are treated as contravariant, you would have the opposite problem of ArrayReadException. You can now store things into arrays safely but you can no longer extract things from arrays safely.
I think it's a perfect example, actually.

Apple made its fortune by paying attention to the small details.
> because what else should a recently married game designer spend his evenings doing?

:/
Stephen Hawking had pinned his hopes on 'M-theory' to fully explain the universe
Concurrency in C++11 (2013)
I was feeling the same thing. We have absolutely no context.

That said, I think it's fair to review the history if events, in a butterfly effect sort of way, as interdependent and each built upon the other. Could some other sequence have the same / similar ends? Of course. But let's not be so quick to say, "there are other planets similar to our own, we can not be alone." It's not only the planet but also the history.
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I thought it was impossible, but I guess those that said that Apple without Steve Jobs would go to waste were right.

They won't go bankrupt anytime soon, but it's not the same Apple.

I've personally switched to PC with Xfce after a few nightmarish 6 months with the new MacBook Pro...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16605109
Indeed although generally it's usually a bad idea to misappropriate the exception throwing / handling mechanism for other purposes, as it's probably be less well optimised, performance-wise, than other parts of a VM.
I just tried it (middle aged white dude) and my lack of ankle flexibility just won't let me keep my heels on the ground. Maybe I'll add it to my workout warmup to see if things improve over time.
I wasn't talking about generics, I was talking about the `List` interface and its implementations (`ArrayList` and co). Don't they provide a common interface that doesn't leak like the rectangle/square example does?

Also, I posed a question asking if I'm wrong in thinking something, was a downvote really warranted? (Not you specifically, but whoever downvoted)
Another collapse by changing environment is (likely) that of the Maya civilization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Maya_collapse#Drought_...

A civilizational collapse is rarely caused by a single event, but instead by multiple events - each which would be survivable on their own - causing a complete breakdown in the system. A society can survive a drought, a war, a plague, a famine, but all four at once might just be too much.

It's not for want of a nail that a kingdom is lost, but because of all accumulated failures and breakdowns which led to the point where loss of a single nail was just that one failure too much. Death by drowning in a million raindrops.
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Do you have the link to the studies?
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But none of that explains why the actual results would be better. You could make the same argument about other kinds of virtue like religion, property ownership, wealth, or ancestry. That may seem irrational to us, but it made sense to some people historically.

And the choice of service is completely subjective. Maybe only parents should be we to vote? Because only they can truly understand. And they have sacrificed so much for their children. So many sleepless nights!

But you did not pick any of those things, you picked military service. And military service is virtuous because of war! It would be very difficult to create a culture that glorifies military service, but treats war itself as repugnant. People are just not that nuanced. The realities of war are just too unimaginable for a person in a peaceful nation to really understand. That is why it is risky to glorify service in this way.

I agree that war will make people less enthusiastic about future conflict. But surely you need a constant supply of wars to allow you to recruit these rational voters. If you have 100 years of peace then the system fails.

The irony is that we have had many periods in our history when a huge number of voters and politicians had direct expert of war. Did it improve the prospects of peace? Who knows.
Consumers are contravariant in Scala, but producers are covariant.

EDIT: Good reference: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/software-teams/covariance-and...
Stellaris suffers from many things. Civ (and all other historically inspired games) draw a lot from the relatable content. If Ghandi threatens Cesar with nuclear weapons, it may be absurd, but we relate to this absurdity in ways that we don't relate to [randomized species A] threatens [randomized species B] with [deadly thing that is supposed to be more deadly than some other deadly things].

Stellaris is trying to be generic (the Stellaris world could be the background for almost any interstellar epic, it's full of little cameo references to every sci-fi classic the authors could think of), where Alpha Centauri went to great lengths filling the canvas, in one specific way.
One thing that is astonishingly glossed over again and again is energy. There is no activity, no economy of any sort without energy. Energy availability therefore is absolutely central to any economic activity. Energy availability is not infinite, or infinitely elastic to demand. You cannot either infinitely yield more output from a given amount of energy. In last resort, we could say that all money is an energy debt (every dollar amounts to some energy quantity that varies). Making untenable promises by printing large amounts of money doesn't change this (promising that in 20 years, we'll have x% more energy than today doesn't help making this actually happen).

In a finite world, you can't grow economy infinitely, period. Frigging laws of physics.

See for instance

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/

Or start here for more

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/post-index/
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>That's sound thinking, in my opinion.

Except for the fact that its pandering to the survivors fallacy. Of course, the ones who don't want to fight wars won't be around - they'll have been dead. The ones who survived war, are more likely to want more war - especially when they emerge as the victor nation. Just look at how blood-thirsty the 5-eyes nations are, currently: none of them have truly 'lost wars' (i.e. fought on their own territory), only troops. Yet, here today, don't ask your average Aussie to ever criticise their nations war-making; they'll think you need psychiatric help for just questioning the Australian Defence Forces' heinous crimes...
You're welcome! One of the appeals of Amiga was that it offered all this at a very competitive price (when compared to IBM compatible PCs). Still, I recall a Commodore 64 costing my parents about 4 months of salary, and that was without even a tape drive. This was Eastern Europe, so perhaps we were poorer than most on HN. Commodores, Ataris and other alt machines were pretty popular around those parts, due to their price point.
What I find ironic is on the set William Shatner was a dictator on set too.

Get had huge amount of power on that set.

I never understood why the other actors didn't seem to like the guy, until I heard this,

'He would refuse to do an episode if he didn't have more face time.'

It really bothered me when I heard that. As a kid, I worshiped the guy. I remember being in 7th grade, and a kid asked me why I wore a tan polyester tee shirt--every day.

My response, because the Hang Ten shirt reminds me of something Capt. Kirk would wear. The kids laid into me, but since I was stronger, it didn't go too far.

My sexy science teacher overheard the conversation, and made me her assistant. My God did I want her to molest me in that supply room. (Different time folks.). Well she never did, but she shared my love of Star Trek. We used to talk about the good episodes while cleaning Pyrex. Boy do I miss her. I remember my heart was broken when I saw her at the beach with her boyfriend. They were kissing. I remember wishing I was older.
Sure, but they could have just thrown rocks from space, or nukes from orbit. A culture that can fly across the galaxy does not need to use infantry any more than a US marine needs to throw a spear. It is a very common thread in this kind of sci-fi. It is just more glorious to shoot the insect from close up. There is more opportunity for pointless sacrifice.
Maybe an easier way to go is to record it structured up front (it’s already structured in the original application source anyway). This makes it much easier to record efficiently (so you can record more data) and also much easier to query efficiently, where eg you might invest time in machine learning on logical data instead of having to mess around with text.

That’s what we do here anyway, it’s worked well for us:

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes/blob/master/README....
Groupthink is an ultimate political power, and it has been weaponised.
This is plainly brilliant. Just done that and the interface seems to not give any clue about the expected number of digits. Meaning that an attacker have no mean to even estimat the time needed to unlock. One could only figure out that complexity of password increased after failing all attempts with less digits (which will already take a lot of time).

But of course alphanumerical would be even safer.
Seconded. I just made it through the whole 20 hour series and it was sobering. I never learned very much about this significant war in American history (I am American).

To think that we started this war to help an ally (France) maintain their colonial power over people who wanted to be free, and then stayed in it because it would look bad, is horrific. Nixon even interfered with peace talks before he was elected to make sure he’d have a better chance of being elected, and that fact was seen as so damaging that those in power decided to keep it the American people in the dark. A presidential candidate interfered with the peace process to get elected and the American people weren’t even told about it.

And then the massacres. So much humanity was lost. Not just in the massacres but in the battles for a war that didn’t need to be fought.

The Vietnam war is such a dark part of human history, and yet we barely talk about it. Or when we do, many people to this day believe the government lines they were being fed at the time of the war. That this was necessary, etc.

And now we have a president that threatens war and people support him in it. Hell Obama pushed war too and advanced many war efforts.

I wish we could stop all this killing. I mean - we could. I wish we would.
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