skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just retrain them.

They're going to have tangential skills to the new platform.

Get your network team to learn all about VPCs and networks and security groups and peering and VPNs, train them to be your in-house experts to deal with changes and expansions and to help trouble-shoot issues.

Chances are you're still going to have systems, your systems engineers can be repurposed to better tie in your monitoring tools, your security tools, etc. You're going to need authentication and identity management, and probably have internal people handling it.

If they're motivated to keep their jobs, all it should cost you is a $5-20K/head in training.

That's peanuts compared to the turmoil of everyone thinking they're going to lose their jobs, or the costs of hiring new people w/ pre-existing cloud skills. It is cheaper than the stop-gap of paying outside consultants till you can bring in the interior staff. Also, these people _know_ your existing systems. They know your business logic, they know what needs to be up and they know what can't break on Thanksgiving weekend. That is valuable knowledge that is a hidden cost in rehiring the work force.

You're going to find new challenges in the new system. If your employees are willing to transition, then transition them. It is your best bet.

If you have a subset of employees that can't/refuse to transition, put them on performance improvement plans. No rumor mill - if you're on a PiP you need to shape up or get out; if you're not on a PiP keep doing well, your job is safe.
And thanks to Oracle nobody will use it.
Actually the cost savings hinge on the massive cost savings from moving to a commercial cloud, laying off workforce would save more, but would prefer to save a bunch by moving to cloud and keep the workforce for other things.
Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal
I think you misunderstand the issue here. No one is arguing against reductionism, and equations, and extracting meaning. You have a different notion of beauty in mind than the one that is being criticized here.

This is an overdue debate within the context of theoretical physics. No one wants to throw the process of deriving equations and models that explain data out. If anything Hossenfelder is the classicist here, rejecting ideas that want to go beyond empirical truth in order to salvage preconceived notions on what the laws of physics "should look like".
No, that's only for inciting physical violence (against a person or property) in conjunction with a felony. It would not apply to anything from the mortgage bubble. Unless you've got a specific law to reference?
Can you break off smaller pieces and parachute them down?
We don't pay for health care or higher education and we have good pension plans that are government subsidized, though. We pay a lot but get a lot.
Well, I spent a few months writing a book about serverless, so we have slightly different opinion about serverless haha :)

I like this explanation why serverless looks promising: https://youtu.be/SPsaqiegOP4. I recommend full video, but those few minutes are the important part.

Personally, serverless helps me to build reliable software faster, and it minimizes the amount of time I need to spend setting up the infrastructure. For me it already changed the things big way. It'll not work the same way for everybody, which is fine and expected.
Unfortunately it's a common misconception. Many people with a surge knowledge if the technology believe it's anonymous. It seems like that the guy himself believed it was anonymous.
That's assuming the premise "it is a bad idea" is true.

I also don't believe it is inappropriate for the police to suggest that physical restraint isn't working and that something else should be tried (as that is there area of expertise)
Those drugs aren’t gonna sell themselves
I thought they were going to index unlisted videos using brute force lookups of the URL

If you're more interested in the format of YouTube video IDs, and whether it's possible to bruteforce them, see the last post at

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54443/format-for...

tl;dr: they're 64-bit integers, base64 encoded, and randomly generated.

I haven't been able to find any clear statistics on how many videos it contains, but it was slightly below 2^27 in 2008 (<80M) and based on the other statistic that between 2^18 and 2^19 videos are uploaded every day; in 10 years that's <2^12 days, so there's probably <2^31 videos on YouTube now --- roughly 2 billion. That means your chance of finding a valid video ID by bruteforce random guessing is less than 1 in 2^33. You'd probably be throttled/IP banned long before you got even a single valid ID.
It really doesn't. I was #2 in a class of 39 (lol) and my Math SAT was pretty poor (710) - not good enough to get into schools like CMU, Berkeley, or even GT.

Plus I didn't have research, ISEF awards, USAMO/USACO medals, and everything else that's expected at elite institutions.
You kind of already made the parent's point for them. You didn't call it out explicitly, but you're already implying they are racist.

>Second: not even relevant to the issue at hand. There is, to first approximation, exactly zero undocumented immigration among "Indian immigrants with advanced degrees" so I'm having a very, very hard time imaging how this is an "enormous penalty" we have to pay for failing to solve the "illegal immigration issue".

The "issue at hand" the parent discussed is immigration in general. Not "Indian immigrants with advanced degrees" immigration only, even if TFA is about that. Posts on HN are taken with liberty as starting points of a discussion, and the parent never mentioned that they constrain their observation to only concern "Indian immigrants with advanced degrees", so your response is disingenuous.
Always read the small print. Every now and again someone forgets that other countries can be quite different. Drugs policies are the usual one e.g.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7801410/Dubai-...

.. but it's also possible to become an accidental tourist in someone else's civil war. Or, in the case of this guy, forget that committing crimes internationally can make you wanted in the US.
The thing I find curious about UPS/Fedex operations is that they're still oriented around a "make deliveries during business hours" model that made sense decades ago when businesses were overnighting documents to each other, but makes less sense when traffic is largely goods ordered online and shipped to residences. To an outsider, it seems like door tags/missed deliveries/redeliveries must be inefficient, expensive, and almost entirely predictable for the carrier, while also being a major driver of customer pain.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree that's the case sometimes, but so far I've experienced it being a really small part. Though recently I've watched a series (can't recall which unfortunately) which took at least 10 hours, which I've felt should really have only taken at most 4-5 and it totally felt like it was only to keep me watching for a longer time.
> I had female friends talking about going to holiday in Dubai

You get a 1-dimensional perspective every time something local goes wrong and is masqueraded as international news. Its like if a civil rights violation from one US city on any given day was elevated to the world stage. It would sound like much more of a nightmare than anything going on in the UAE.

Most females I've talked to absolutely love Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Even people that have moved there.

The best analogy to the experience is Disney World. Lots of thrills, and adult sexual behavior is stifled, except for minor infractions instead of simply thrown out of the park you'll be thrown in a horrible prison.

The fact of the matter is that you're not one of the slaves. That side of things won't be your experience.

You hope you don't get sexually assaulted and judicially victim blamed, and thats the same anywhere.
> “Why should the laws of nature care about what I find beautiful?”

This article is a nice counterpoint to Paul Dirac's speech in favour of mathematical beauty in physical theories. [0]

Some quotes from Dirac:

> What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. [...] We now see that we have to change the principle of simplicity into a principle of mathematical beauty.

Interestingly, he also says:

> For example, only four-dimensional space is of importance in physics, while spaces with other numbers of dimensions are of about equal interest in mathematics.

> It may well be, however, that this discrepancy is due to the incompleteness of present-day knowledge, and that future developments will show four-dimensional space to be of far greater mathematical interest than all the others.

His prediction here was almost correct. Except it was physics that started to take an interest in a higher number of dimensions.

[0] http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.htm...
On the contrary. She suggests adhering to it. The notion of whether a theory is elegant or beautiful is exogenous to the question if it describes nature, hence should be cut by the razor.

In technical terms, there is no need for a prior on theory space:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02176

---

5.2 Occam’s Razor

A probability distribution from which to calculate the most likely choice of parameter adds unnecessary structure to the theory and is thus in conflict with the dictum of simplicity. We could have chosen a parameter and be done with it. The probability distribution and all the not-observed values of the parameters are unnecessary for the derivation of any observable and they should therefore be stripped by Occam’s razor.
"And is facing a life sentence.
Dont travel to such countries. Never ever period."

Wouldn't the proper thing to take away is, "don't become a drug kingpin"?
Our business is an old, traditional business that happens to have lots of data centers for legacy reasons. Even though we spend $BBB on data centers, they're not the core of the business and a very small part of overall revenue. Realistically, even if we didn't move from data centers we would be good as long as the core non-tech business functioned.
Meh i'm sure they'll change their position when they get flooded with erotic fiction games like itch.io but...the author of this article comes across like a self righteous asshole. As much as I kind of dislike things valve does it seems kind of hypocritical to write an article calling valve arrogant while dictating what it should do. As much as the author thinks valve has a responsibility to uphold whatever values they think it should, it doesn't. The company can decide whatever they like about whatever standards they would like to hold the games they allow in their store to. They have no responsibility in being the upholders of morality....they really don't. I'm sure they will figure out what works based on the kinds of games that begin to appear in their store. If it negatively impacts their business their policies will likely again adjust. Because in the end they're there to make money, not be the moral police.
Are patents _required_ to teach a reader how to make the invention? That seems like an interesting requirement that I hadn't heard of before, and I've got a patent with my name on it myself.
GM's dress code is only two words
Yes, absolutely. Unfortunately the majority of people don't fully understand what the system is and how it works. Sound bites and misinformation are regurgitated and spread like the plague while solid understanding requires a lot of work exploration.
The interesting thing from a German perspective is that over here, unions seem to have a much more positive influence on business decisions. I wonder where the difference is coming from.
Isn't it a false assumption that immigrant workers should eventually get Green Cards? The whole point of the H1B system is to temporarily fill shortages of skilled workers, not to be a path for permanent immigration.
It can’t be very useful if it cannot work even in principle though.
I personally think that people unconsciouslly hated the start menu of Windows 8 because of this phenomenom. You open it and the whole screen changes. Worst possible UI.
This is sounding more and more like you're advocating against traveling the world at all.
Paywalled again. With 'could be' in the title rather than 'will'.

From this I guess they are guessing this based on the fact that Apple have been slow to update their laptops recently?

So one day soon Apple are going to come out with new computers that are a radical departure from the past, the x86 gone and their own chips powering the next generation of MacBooks?

Sounds great but in the same timescale Google are going to bring out something that is an Operating System but not as we know it, with A.I. baked in. Should be interesting times.
Weird and here I thought a path to citizenship had broad Republican support, they just want it tied to stronger checks on who enters.

But keep winning votes and changing minds by calling your opposition racists and bigots. That will win your votes.
What about layoffs?
"wait, my employer isn't automatically withholding the earnings from this money, I've never been in this situation before, does nobody know that I have some money now, so therefore I don't have to pay taxes!"

pretty much everyone in cryptocurrency, whether they thought a little harder about it or not
South African financial services company confirms IT systems have been breached
>but you'd need to control the whole stack, incl. hardware, incl. the monitor

Even then, you could tear monitor apart and grab LVDS signals to panel.
There is a structural reason for this. What's the easiest patent to read? Show an object, name it clearly, describe what it does and how it's new. Easy!

But that is a poorly-written patent. As a competitor you can just read it, do the same thing but substitute something equivalent for one part, and you've just stolen the research investment that led to it.

A good patent has to describe the broad category (the innovation). And suddenly you go from clearly describing an example to using weird high-level vocabulary.
How many are them? (10? 100?)

Are some of them close to retirement age?
Memory evolved (at least in mammals) to tie together places, smells and [proto]emotions.

The connection is still quite present in humans.

There are many examples: going for a walk clears your mind more than being indoors. Smells and flavors reconnect to places & so on...
People do make career choices based on whether they'll be able to have a family and support them. I can't imagine how the military would have the same talent pool to draw from if there weren't measures to make having a family more conceivable.
Still, the retailer is responsible for both across the EU.
And yet we design open-plan offices around the central theme that people working in a concentration-demanding field should orient their every moment of work around the assumption that not only are context switches costless, but that “collaboration” only happens if everyone is constantly preemptible according to the capricious judgment of managers and other colleagues who are not in a position to even judge the importance of the current task the person being interrupted is working on.
> Also, if we discriminate on merit, then racism is also fine?

They can "limit" based on skills, they can "limit" based on country of origin with the main difference being not using the hot-button word "discrimination" to, err...discriminate between the two while implying some sinister race-based system of visa allocation.

> Maybe we should only discriminate on an individual level and with the attributes that individual has under his control.

They you'd be "discriminating" against people who can't afford advanced degrees from prominent schools who just want to work hard so their children can have a better life like the countless number of first-generation citizens I've met over the years. This is where I'd put a "why you hate poor people?" to make my point but I know that's not what you're arguing.
After working with pip and gradle I have never encountered that issue
So, science is a contraction mapping of reality onto its subset (some mathematical theories). For it to work, it should remove some redundancy, some predictable structure. Finding and describing this predictable structure is the essence of science.

Lack of a predictable structure is lack of beauty: a stream of random numbers is both incompressible and aesthetically disappointing. This is why looking for signs of beauty is a good heuristics for finding that hidden structure. Same applies to engineering, BTW; the father of Soviet space program (Sputnik, first man in space) S. Korolev said: "An ugly aircraft will not fly".
In my mid-Atlantic market, UPS Ground does residential deliveries exclusively between 5-8pm and business deliveries during normal business hours.
Nothing is falsified by the failure of an experiment to observe the expected.
As a business owner I use UPS quite a bit to get things delivered to clients etc (during business hours) and I don't think twice about paying $70 for next day air delivery. I doubt online stores pay anything like that.
Well, if a particular news site blocks europeans I would guess they are not expecting any kind of revenue from there.

I find it hard argue against a service that unblocks this kind of news site for europeans from an ethical POV. Copyright law is of course different, but it was you who introduced the ethics aspect.
The states concept is something that is mostly relevant to the US. The different in states in for example Germany is extremly limited.
>Also interesting to note that many of the author's functions, like `lambda x, y: x + y`, only make sense because the underlying language (Python) thought that constructs like `+` shouldn't be functions for some reason

Actually python's + (and most operators) are available as functions, and allow for overloading as well:

>>> import operator
>>> operator.__add__(1,2)
3

>Many languages seem to do this

"Many"? Unless you ever only touched Smalltalk, Lisp or some fringe languages, this is the norm for most languages -- operators are distinct from functions (same as expressions are different than statements). Whether this is a good idea or not, I wont go into, but it's not like this is something surprising, or something that merely "many" languages seem to do. Not just many, but almost ALL mainstream languages (C, C++, Java, C#, etc) do it.
That was the entire point, it wasn't a contradiction, merely a reflection. I've read the OP now, seems that one of the sites mentioned has done just that.
"Sure, but "doing their job" is a bullshit excuse for taking somebody's life away."

I can't have sympathy for someone who was selling opioids to addicts, exacerbating a terrible epidemic.

"Destroying a person's life"

The feds didn't do that, his own actions did that.
I always wonder, why unionised workers won't pursue investment in technology that will make their jobs obsolete rather than fighting a futile war against the technology?

If you're an organisation of hundreds of thousands of workers, you probably can afford to invest in startups that can replace the jobs of the people you're representing. What's better, you already have a relationship with the client and your members have the know-how of the tasks and the business that's about to get automated.

If the investments fail, you keep your jobs. If your investments succeed, you no longer need to work to make living.
Every major advance in physics has arrived with a new paradigm of mathematics, usually more than one new paradigm. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I doubt quantum gravity is going to be solved without the invention of major new mathematics. It's not going to be found by tweaking some kludj no matter how "ugly", nor hidden inside some long-familiar object (e.g., the E8 group...and for the record, Garrett Lisi is NOT a highly respected physicist.)
Look, my point was not that we "need a consumer driven society" though I think history has shown it to be extremely effective. My point was that, regardless of the economic system, with technological progress comes fundamental changes to the state of the economy. New jobs are created and inefficient/unneeded jobs are destroyed, that's true actually by definition. "Bringing back jobs" runs completely counter to those changes in the economy and therefore technological progress.
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This is a very important part of the problem in my view.

Pregnancy and child rearing has a real cost for most businesses, and it is not surprising that discrimination occurs as a result. Trying to ignore those issues and simply make discrimination illegal will never be particularly effective because the underlying issues have not been addressed.

I think we would be better off acknowledging that those issues exist, but fostering a culture where making sacrifices to support families is considered absolutely worthwhile since it is such a fundamentally important part of our society.

There should still be laws against discrimination, but we should not expect the existence of those laws to police our behaviour. A person's behaviour is primarily controlled by what they believe is right, not what they believe is legal
https://outline.com/ works well to get past most paywalls. There's a chrome extension version as well.
Don't confuse "lack of activity" with "broken." The program is considered complete. I recently moved everything to FPC 3.0, see https://github.com/MerlijnWajer/Simba/tree/fpc-3.0. The other work going on is language features for the scripting engine.

Most functionality is documented at http://docs.villavu.com/simba/.
This is not completely true - they provide labelled poses as part of the training set. The differences are really minor.
The idea is to give people from all over the world an equal shot, not to just skew in favor of one or two high population demographics. You can call that discrimination if you like, but in the “discriminating tastes” sense not the KKK sense. The alternative is to discriminate (in the negative sense) against people who don’t come from a population in the billions.
All of these are good discussions to be had, maybe we should have a single global democratic secular government too.

But in no way is the biases or diarciminations in a "fair" merit based system a justification for the discrimination based on country of birth, like in the current system.
Marijuana can solve this for you.
"dress appropriately"
Not at all. Its advocating to think about your own actions. If you make a reasonable calculation to travel to Somalia, it might be a wonderful experience with limited risk,just think before you act.
Thousands, many close to retirement age. Think a company like UPS/Fedex that isn't at its core a tech company but with tech datacenters for logistics and billions in revenue.
I think it's an eye grabbing title, but not really honest, as it changes from 'beauty is bad' to 'why has it failed us'. It's a question worth asking, because obviously answering it would be progress. But, I don't think anyone is actually arguing against Occam's Razor, or that simpler question solving more, is the goal.

I read the article, and I don't see any insightful answers, perhaps we're supposed to buy the book? Or perhaps people should devise stricter criteria for theories to be experimentally demonstrable...
grey market products

... are still genuine. It's the product's authenticity that's the issue, not its journey to you.
This is my setup. Single app/window full screened and sliding between them. I like to focus on one thing at once. Tiling window managers are cognitive overload for me, too much going on at once.