skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually interpret it as
simply having good reasons, as in "rational drug design."
Yeah, aside from phobias I have all of those.

I didn't know anxiety and depression was linked though? I have severe anxiety, much worse than anyone I've ever met. At times dealing with that has been equally as challenging for me. My depression can get pretty bad too although that seems to have eased up a bit over the last couple of years.

Sensory sensitivity is something I experience. I feel unbelievably angry whenever I hear loud or tinny noises, but thankfully I can mostly control that. People think I'm strange for always carrying earplugs and wearing them in public, but I've found it really helps to relax me in busy / noisy situations.

Could you comment on how is IQ linked, I'd be really interest if you have some more information? Is it normally negatively, because I've heard people on the spectrum often score higher on average? I've had IQ anxiety for a while now because on one hand I know in many way I've been very competent in life, but on the other hand consistently struggled when it comes to the most basic tasks. I took a Mensa IQ test a few months back and scored 132 which I think may actually be on the lower end because of how language heavy Mensa's tests are.
It wasn’t the first time. The USSR even killed a sitting Congressman in one of them. The US did nothing then either.
I saw this at my last company. Even worse breaking it into microservices allowed teams of 2 or 3 to start building entire realms where only they could commit and used it for internal politics.

I witnessed someone that wanted to leverage their service into a promotion so they started pushing for an architecture where everything flowed through their service.

It was the slowest part of our stack and capped at 10tps.
Edit: Also, some of those features providing better development ergonomics turned out to cause massive security issues in production systems (eg: https://gist.github.com/peternixey/1978249).
Apologies for the later reply, it has been a busy couple of days.

Certainly there is an opportunity cost in any large-scale expenditure, but the technology developed for the F-35 will be useful beyond just the F-35.

The United States has maintained technological and military superiority over its competition precisely because it is willing to invest large sums of money into the Military-Industrial Complex. The Space Race was one expression of this, and the United States and global economy has been coasting off the technology and discipline developed precisely to safely land a man on the Moon and safely return that same man home.

Yes, there are risks to putting too much money into extremely large capital expenditures which can potentially be lost in war but that is 1. the nature of war and 2. the US Military generally looks to be effective in all theaters of war, whether their opponent is following the same the rule book or not. The Air Force has their missions, and the Army, Marines, Coast Guard and Navy have theirs.

At the scale of the Department of Defense's budget though, opportunity costs don't mean the same thing to them that they mean to you or I though. They are operating arm of the largest economy of the world and should be viewed through that lens.
Are you saying that a billionaire's carbon impact per dollar spent is lower than an average person's? That's an extraordinary claim.
My point about the USSR was about how people will often be in denial when the dominant socioeconomic system is displaying severe problems and may be on the brink of failure.
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Yeah screw those indigents...
Why haven't institutional investors fought back?
The fact that you cite past animal exterminations to justify additional animal exterminations proves my point. The more species are eradicated the more normal it becomes and the more people will be willing to do it again.

The normalization of extermination should be avoided, even if it comes at the costs of hundreds of millions of human lives per year. (There is no people shortage, but damage to the environment is often permanent. And not to put too fine a point on it, but human populations are growing too fast as it is which is a leading cause of environmental destruction. We should not be attacking the environment to encourage massive increases in human population growth; not unless we have very concrete and immediate plans on how to artificially retard the growth of human populations. Waiting for economic factors to suppress birth rates isn't good enough; that sort of milquetoast approach leads to extraordinary destruction of the environment. It's little more than an excuse to ignore the problem and do nothing.)
Yep. This is the actual issue. There is less room for blue sky research with less public funding.
JavaScript is a great language because you can run it on pretty much any machine.

Buts it's especially terrible because it was designed by a guy without much language expertise in a handful of weeks.
Depends on what you deem "vetted". Builds from source from a trusted source. Try ask if they can PGP sign their sources. Builds fine. Pushed to the repos. If its an package from core or extra it goes through testing for a few days.

Also been a push towards reproducible builds, and the stones have been laid with pacman 5.1.
If you want to catch someone stealing, you don’t stop them trying.
There was some more questions about the affected packages on IRC. I posted a mail to the thread with the packages and versions.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-July/...
In bankruptcy, there's a period of transactions that can be reversed, up to 12 months for close relationship. But it probably becomes rapidly difficult to identify these transactions after the borrower dies. I would expect most creditors to send a couple letters and write off the debt, unless it was egregious.
Then you should know a prediction about a game with a ton of variance with many entrants is almost always wrong. But assuming you have a perfect model, simulated over millions of attempts, it's the most correct.
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thanks elon
Or the US balks at the idea of going to war with Russia and decides to remove its nuclear Umbrella from Europe/fails to retaliate after a a strike in Europe.
This happens at every gun show too.
With separate microservices and databases, you could just pause that microservice. With one application and one database, all teams need to be aware of the highest SLA requirements when doing their respective deployments, and design for it. It is certainly doable, but requires a higher level of alignment between the development teams.

That’s easily accomplished with a Blue-Green deployment. As far as the database, you’re going to usually have a replication set up anyway. So your data is going to live in multiple databases anyway.

Once you are comfortable that your “blue” environment is good, you can slowly start moving traffic over. I know you can gradually move x% of traffic every y hours with AWS. I am assuming on prem load balancers can do something similar.
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You're not wrong, but you also have to consider that species-altering technology will likely save millions more lives in the next few decades than "strategies like repellents / clothing / vaccines" alone. There are careful tradeoffs and considerations to be made here.

Germline altering should only be done in extreme circumstances, and I think this is one of them. Even if mosquitoes do pass on vital antibodies (why hasn't this issue already been noticed in wealthy people who have never been bit and have never consumed something that was bit?) or malaria finds a new way to spread or their absence otherwise creates some kind of butterfly effect ecosystem chaos, what's easier to do in 30 years? Artificially re-introducing safer versions of these mosquitoes / mosquito analogs / isolated antibodies back into the ecosystem and finding new treatments for pathogens, or resurrecting the millions of people who needlessly suffered and died of preventable diseases?

And also consider the chance that maybe nothing bad at all will happen if they all die off. Obviously, this is a very risky hypothesis that's nearly impossible to prove or disprove in a lab, but it's just a possibility to keep in mind. Complex systems like ecosystems are fickle. Sometimes removing a tiny piece of a system wrecks the whole thing like a Jenga tower collapsing, and sometimes removing a massive piece has almost no effect at all. Eliminating a parasite species doesn't necessarily mean there will be significant negative consequences. But of course, there absolutely could be.

As long as this technology is tested extremely carefully and applied to smaller real-world ecosystems which can be studied for years before being deployed globally, it seems like the overall best answer is to avoid the short-term death and despair and deal with future problems as they arise.

Evolution by natural selection no longer holds all the cards. Humanity has, and will continue to, supersede it and override it to achieve things that would never otherwise be possible. We don't have to cower in fear of natural processes anymore, because we can intelligently shape our world, and soon other worlds, as we see fit. We still have to understand these systems and processes to prevent externalities, but that doesn't mean we can't cautiously venture into this kind of technology. It would happen sooner or later, so why not right now?
The corollary is that working for Apple has a higher chance of exposing you to technology that is interesting enough to steal.
How to Fix Reinforcement Learning?
I was just at the international institute for forecasters conference on Colorado as an applied practitioner.

There was a lot of hype on how to best use ML/Neural-nets in time-series forecasting. Well, it was well-founded hype. It was hype by people who know there is potential there, but who also consider a 20% accuracy improvement over naive methods that were developed in the 1980s to be a cause of great success.

And even then, it doesn't always work. NN/ML has had true breakthrough success in classification type problems, and fitting situations of nonlinear high-fidelity. For example, self-driving cars.

But in terms of economics/demand/weather dynamics, which include much much less data, and often deal with more chaotic macro-patterns (i.e. Your data is a time-series of a few megabytes over years, rather than gigabytes over minutes from cameras), it offers much less.
It’s public information. You don’t have an expectation of privacy about your license plate. The exact opposite is true: you’re legally required to display it prominently whenever your vehicle is on the public highway.

ICE goes after human traffickers too.
For every couple kids that have iPads and spend their days consuming mindless content through apps, there are kids who build computers from old parts, install linux on those computers, and learn from the infinite amount of documentation on the internet. The future internet might not have the same independent spirit as in the past, but it will exist.
Your response only contributes to the problem, not the solution. If we share wealth (rather than refusing to cooperate or even starting a war to "free" the poor people (war always knows at least one losing side, often two)), the people will be able to have a better life than if we do not. If we refuse to cooperate at all, we shouldn't trade and send things like iPhones (in this case) at all. Sure, they can build their own, but we already have them. Why reinvent the wheel? It goes the same for all other goods and services.

Things like ammunition for the government is different, but in general, goods and services offered to people anywhere usually makes both sides be better off, because that's why people trade: they're both happy with what they receive. Refusing to cooperate because of something that the trading partner (such as an individual in China) cannot easily change... that's not unlike selecting based on someone's skin color.
Pretty sure if you’re drunk in public with your kids and get arrested you will in fact be forcibly separated.

Also this is a great example of static thinking, because it completely ignores dynamic effects. Ban family separation, how humane! Second order effect: incentivize bringing children when committing crimes. A sane and compassionate, as well as moral and just, society doesn’t want to encourage bring your kids to crime day either.
What’s your point? All sorts of public information is not shared en masse with law enforcement. I’m not trying to argue that this is somehow illegal. This company isn’t committing a crime, they’re just assholes.
They are built by the core Arch developers, or as in the case of the 'community' repo, by 'Trusted Users', the latter being people who have done high quality maintaining of packages in the AUR and shown good community involvement.

Having met these criterias, they need to be sponsored by an existing TU, and then it will be put up to a vote.
Those are rhetorical questions. I ask them because these are questions you need to know in order to work well with SQL. I cannot become a master of SQL by only learning SQL. I have to learn the specific implementations, I have to run EXPLAIN... etc...

A good abstraction only requires you to know the abstraction not what lies underneath. What we have with SQL is a leaky abstraction. My argument that a high level leaky abstraction placed over a critical bottleneck in the web is a design mistake.
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The Java serialization downtime was sad, but I died when you said clear case.

When they rolled out clear case in my team at IBM, I quit a few weeks later.
If Apple needs to comply with China's demands, do you think that Apple would refuse to break encryption if China requested it?
Will do. We're live the batch payment system now. Moving to instant payments soon.

Where are you located ? Interested in joining us - we're a python shop

Cheers
> "data laundering"

Don't mind if I do start referring to online abuses of privacy as such
Birds may miss a few meals.
I see doctors as being more stable in later career than engineering. I don't really have any data for it; that's just my gut impression.

Also you can be a doctor anywhere. Being an engineer in tech feels like you're geographically stuck unless you're willing to make other (career) trade offs.
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Let’s not, instead let’s help them with the many more pressing concerns such as homelessness, alcoholism, and mental health issues. No need to eradicate a species to improve their lives. For the record, screwflies were eliminated to save the livestock industry billions, not to help homeless people.
There isn't really a line because "a decent VPS" is exactly what EC2 is. You use it if you

* are averse to the kind of risk that comes with being tied to a smaller provider, and/or

* are not averse to the kind of risk that comes with being tied to a provider who cares not one whit for your well-being because your business is insignificant to them, and/or

* actually have a use for, and staff with the expertise to take advantage of, any of the million proprietary bells and whistles that AWS provides, and

* are not averse to absolutely abysmal UX.

Discourse falls mostly into category 3 above; as Sam enumerates they are taking advantage of a bunch of various AWS offerings and have split off several of their supporting services onto their own instances. Those things can be built up gradually; you don't just wake up one day and decide to become "Enterprise" and watch all your costs increase by two orders of magnitude.
> "Its important to differentiate b/w the plans of a politician and the plans of research scientists who have done actual work in this area."

Not really, because the general public won't take such care with the differentiating. The more scientists deliberately exterminate or cull animals, the more the public will grow accustomed to the idea of humanity taking such an active violent role in the environment. And the more the public grow accustomed to that idea, the more they'll be willing to fall in line behind politicians who try to do the same. Particularly when those politicians claim science as their justification (numerous disastrous examples in the 20th century.)

The ethical analysis performed by scientists looking to justify exterminations should include the social impact of their actions. Scientist and engineer sorts often loath considering such factors.
Thanks much.

You know anyone there we can get in touch with ? I sent them an email thru their generic contact email info@sikich.com
Exactly, my concern is unintended consequences.

I fully agree with you that something has to be done about these diseases. Going back to your first post I replied to: my mother had Polio and lived with minor side effects all her life, while thanks to vaccines, that disease is something from history books for myself and my children.

I am just concerned that people tend to ignore the risks from things we don’t know exist and therefore don’t usually account for.
fat jars are just as expensive to create as war files. No matter which way you do this you’re going to be copying a lot of files around.
Ok that is clever. I take your point!
This is why, as a machine learning engineer, my skepticism about most AI / ML work is rooted in the sociology of predictions / forecasting.

Humans seldom care about actually improving forecasts beyond the level given by very simple models. We are drawn to a very, very tiny set of domains where people might care, like epidemiology or meteorology, while in the vast majority (investing, customer analytics, national security, energy, climate, politics) we totally don’t care. Advanced algorithms only help to the extent they offer marketing hype or drive recruiting.

Robin Hanson alread wrote a great summary about this:

< https://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/13/robin-hanson/who-car... >
I go to gun shows and I've never seen it. What is your proof?
I'm curious because I don't know a lot about China (other than what Western media reports, which is colored): what was worse in the USA compared to China in terms of government, oppression, etc.?

(I am not from the USA by the way, so don't worry about offending me or anything!)
And yet still being peered - https://bgp.he.net/AS197426#_peers
I'd argue that this approach is better for the food chain than any chemical sprays. This way other bugs aren't indiscriminately killed as well.
If patents are ended, that’s pretty much the end of >95% of small-molecule pharmaceuticals.
One possibility is that you can do the C's and R's by hand with regular wire solder.
Let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/gun-sh...
I think patents should be replaced with prizes. People can propose problems which needs solving and then private individuals and/or government can pledge money to donate to whoever finds a solution to the problem first. However the winner doesn't own the idea. It must be made public.
Now that's plain weird. I mean, I kind of get why Apple pulled the Taiwanese flag from the emoji set (Foxconn etc.), but what kind of pressure does Israel have on Apple?
Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal
I'm saying there could be another high level language that took the place of SQL. An imperative language with explicit algorithmic declarations. I'm not talking about custom solutions, I'm talking about how the web has evolved away from ideas that could have been better, because SQL to me is clearly not what I imagine to be the best we could possibly do for database queries. Same story with javascript and CSS.

which to you would be more clear?

SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE id = 56

binary_search(column_name=id, value=56, show_all_columns=True)
Nerves that fire together, wire together. Input that happen together end up mapped to nerves close to each other, so the neural maps in the brain end up in the same order as the parts of our body. Thumb and index finger input end up next to each other in the brain neural map.

We could setup our code to self-organize under similar principles perhaps.
If Musk wanted to bid on future US Military contracts I am sure he would be able to, but since he doesn't seem to be in the business of constructing fighters for the Air Force I think we can safely leave him out of this discussion.

The F-35 is a complex weapons and sensors platform, tasked, perhaps overtasked, for many different capabilities and mission-types. I think you can make a compelling argument that it may have been cheaper to divide those into separate proposals and take separate bids for more specialized fighters, but then you would have been stuck justifying each and every one of those to Congress rather than the F-35.

Not developing any sixth generation fighters when the competition is, was not an option though. I'm not happy, as a member of the public and US taxpayer with precisely how the F-35 turned out, nor am I happy that F-22 production was shut down by the Obama administration with the F-35 expected to fill its role instead.
You're comparing 15 human lives against 50 sharks killed by this program? Wow. They're just sharks. The slavery boats from southeast Asia kill many more sharks every single day. The sharks they kill aren't menacing a beach. Many of the sharks they don't kill directly. They just chop off all the fins and then dump the shark back in the ocean...
that "shady" domain is the official pastebin for freenode's Arch Linux IRC channel
I would solve it with a combination of public funded research and prizes awarded to those solving important medical needs.
> Such as aidding and abetting authoritarian foreign governments to suppress freedom of speech.

Over half of all countries have few to no protections on freedom of speech. Is your premise that Apple should only sell its products in about four dozen countries? If we wanted to be really strict about it, only a few nations have strong protections on freedom of speech.

You are aware of just how bad the individual liberty protections are in the bottom 100+ countries, right? Freedom of speech protections are rare, and it's even more rare for them to be regularly enforced.

Major countries as diverse as Turkey, Singapore, Thailand, China, Russia, Venezuela, Sudan, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia - have no or very little freedom of speech. The bottom 40-50 nations on human rights barely have any actively enforced rights protections at all.
Let’s say we’re neighbors. I keep a close watch on your house, and every time you come and go I phone the local police and tell them, “OceanKing just got home” or whatever. Would you be ok with that?
Capitalism continues to wow the masses
It isn't a "mental health issue" on my part, that I don't want maggots living in and eating my flesh...
Yes. I think Apple would disable iMessage in China entirely before breaking its encryption.
https://dev.splunk.com/page/developer_license_sign_up/

You can grab a 10GB/day Dev license for Splunk for free. IANAL, but should be suitable for home use. Lasts a few months, and renewals are free.
Thanks. Do you know anyone there that you are comfortable sending me contact info for ?
Firefox probably qualifies. Split between C/C++/Rust/JavaScript/XUL/Python/god knows what else
But shouldn't every mating pair be able to afford having at least 2 children? Otherwise we will eventually go extinct.
As far as I can tell, the eradication of hundreds of species of mosquitoes is being suggested by many.
> PBKDF2 is used only as an example of a computation requiring a lot of CPU.

Oh wow, I completely missed the point here. Having worked on strong client-side hashing in browsers and being into crypto generally, I saw this problem being presented and completely mistook it. Thanks!