skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can access by wildcarded fields, it looks like. Like if you have a tuple (string, int, int) you can query ("test", 1, ) and get back all those rows, or (, 1, 1), etc. This isn't generally efficient in a schemaless database.
The same type existed in classic Visual Basic as well. It's part of the set of basic COM types in Windows.
Why doesn't such a system scale? What about it makes it undesirable even if the tech was perfect?
apologies for the edits; in attempting better clarity I am achieving the opposite.

> The whole concept isn't good even if the tech was perfect -- precisely because of scale -- and must be protested until the whole idea is let go of.

I don't disagree with this. my questions are not political in nature, I was simply curious if the tech had approached or surpassed the accuracy of super-recognizers.
you guys are basing it all on personal anecdotes.

amazon was always the wild west. since 2009 when I started to use amazon heavily I remember having to always police myself to never buy from items without the "sold by amazon" note.

it has nothing to do with evil foreigners or going down to alibaba level. amazom was always the alibaba of the US.
We're comparing the security properties of

`curl https://somesite.com/foo.sh | bash`

with

`curl https://somesite.com/foo.deb`

and

`curl https://somesite.com/apt.key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install some-software`

I don't think there are very meaningful differences in the security properties -- I don't think it's more difficult to become compromised by one than by one of the others.
I mean its obvious that we really should be looking at APL/K/Q/J as the replacement for COBOL. /s

Actually though, I believe that modern Ada would probably be the best upgrade path in these cases. It has a strong static type system, it has first class support for fixed types, with Contracts and SPARK you can get strong guarantees of correctness, and as a compiled language is decently fast.

Contracts and such do automatically insert runtime checks which can effect performance however if they are causing a legitimate issue can be reduced via compiler flags (not super safe) or by verifying that they are unnecessary in code. (demonstrating correctness to the compiler via SPARK)

In systems such as Finance, languages such as Ada (in its modern form) have a real chance to shine given their speed, safety guarantees, and remarkable stability.
It does raise questions about the costs and actions for sure.
Some of these behaviors are so benign that any regular person might exhibit these. Slept during the flight, changed clothes, boarded last (I hate standing in those queues), observed the boarding area from afar. Hell I do many of these things. I am sure their "ML" model must have spit these indicators but it's a waste of resources.
Why the rescued Thai boys are considering becoming Buddhist monks
>If you look like someone the system is looking for, there's nothing you can do to whitelist yourself other than wear something on your face, you will be flagged, every single time until a human looks at it, and if they're stopping people, that means being stopped, every time.

Wouldn't such a system (ideally) learn the differences in [who it expected] and [who it found] and attempt to improve its accuracy to prevent false positives in the future? I don't know if this is too basic, but I'd assume training with a set of similar-but-not-an-exact-match data would be vital for accuracy at scale.
If you regularly buy Melatonin, I highly recommend Trader Joes Brand chewable Melatonin tablets.

In my area they cost $2.99 for a bottle, far below the cost of other brands, and the dosage per tablet is 0.5mg or 500mcg which for me is pretty optimal.

EDIT: corrected units.
dpkg doesn't stop you overwriting system files in a post-install shell script, as far as I know? Which is the way that a malicious package would choose to do it. I don't think dpkg performs any meaningful security review in the way you describe.
> This may be because the crow is less experienced, or more aggressive, or has some neurological issue with suppressing inappropriate responses.

in case of for example seals having sex with penguins http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141117-why-seals-have-sex-w... :

"young male seals sexually coercing what appeared to be healthy penguins of unknown gender.

...

The seals were not yet old or large enough to defend harems of female seals, explained de Bruyn."
It's entirely reasonable to want to be able to read a series of tweets that are meant to be read as one long tweet/block of text the way it was intended to be read. I don't understand how you think this is an unreasonable request, especially when tools exist to correct this issue with the max-character limitation Twitter has, or what "slippery slope" this could have.

You're getting downvotes because you're advocating something that makes entirely 0 sense from a usability perspective. And commenting on why you're being voted in a particular way is wholly against the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Every single person here, if your serious about diving into the science of sleep, should read Matthew Walker's book: Why We Sleep: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...

His interview on Joe Rogan is a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

He covers everything from why we sleep (obv), naps, melatonin, etc. I've just finished it and really enjoyed it.
You should look into a new career if you are afraid to learn new languages. However, something to keep in mind is that learning a new language is generally not very difficult if you know a similar language in terms of semantics (i.e. NOT syntax).

For instance, since you know Go, learning Java should be pretty easy since they have very similar semantics since they are both garbage collected languages used primarily for writing server side programs.
>0.5g or 500mcg

I hope you mean 0.5 mg not 0.5g because that would be a very big dose!
Twitter doesn’t understand what makes it successful so it is loath to change anything.
>No, it wouldn't. The point of keeping data is to be able to detect unusual activity and cross reference information. Not to spy. The people are the country and they should be able to make an informed decision on what they want the government to be tracking about people.

This ideal mindset breaks down for everyone other than "the good guys". The point of keeping what is tracked a secret is to prevent the-actual-people-you're-looking-for from just occluding that particular information. They can't really "opt in" to the kind of surveillance that is necessary to find predictive patterns in their behavior, because they (obviously) won't, and knowing what is tracked just tells them what to spend the extra effort hiding.
This sounds like the latest "mission creep" by the TSA in order to justify their budget and possibly ask for a budget increase. This would not be the first instance of "mission creep" by them.

See:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-bey...

and

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/02/29/the-tsa-is-...

They are basically an entrenched part of the security-industrial complex at this point. It seems to be a vicious circle of "expand the mission to justify a bigger budget and ask for a bigger budget in order to meet the self-directed increase in scope." There seems to be very little practical oversight of this agency.
Although if it broke a disk then the “infected” disks would break other drives.

In my case the school drive got the click of death (don’t know if patient zero or infected secondarily) and then literally everyone else who owned one had it die with the click after bringing their projects into class on zip and using that drive.
>When I travel I'm not doing it to relax, but to go on an adventure, to experience other worlds, push myself, and get outside my comfort zone.

I too don't care to be pandered to in foreign resorts.
Can you share some specific things you do to push yourself and get outside of your comfort zone when you travel.
DoD is quite literally = to Military in the US. Not sure what you mean here.

The "bureaucracy" of the Pentagon directly supports warfighting across the entire spectrum. Efficiencies in government credit card processing for an Army SSGT going on temporary duty to train on employing the MRAP, enable effective execution of wartime tasks. This is a well understood and ingrained sentiment.
Looks like the author posted it on his personal blog, but also on the group blog LessWrong, so the link avoided the filter.
If it's decimal currency, why not process amounts as integer cents?
I wonder if that is how Singer Vehicle Design got started making the best Porsches available for the road.
Just want to add my thanks for iTerm2. Having an IRL Quake-style console at work just makes me feel like a kid all day long even though I'm not messing around anymore but doing real work. :-P
I've watched a bunch of his videos a while back and he said he had a day job in the tech industry. But basically he's said he wanted a tesla without paying $$$ so he bought some salvage vehicles and did it as a hobby.

But with his channel starting to take off he might have transitioned to a youtube career. At this point he's probably funding a lot of it via youtube income.
"Lazy" isn't a bad thing. When I see a curl-bash command from a reputable site, I'm not about to waste my time evaluating it. Consider step one to three from this site https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/... or get-pip instructions from this one: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/

But I agree with your sentiment. If the exact same step was to `apt install ecs-cli` I would just do that and not feel any inconvenience about it.
> That's not it at all and nobody cares

FYI - macular degeneration and circadian rhythm disruption are not mutually exclusive, and lots of people try avoid both of these things...
> Modern hardware significantly reduces IPC overhead.

In case you see this comment 5 days later, can you elaborate? And do the benefits of modern hardware in this area automatically apply to IPC on existing mainstream systems, or does the OS have to specifically use the new support?
This sounds like they’ve hired a bunch of air marshals but don’t have much for them to do. Having them make observations on random people might be a way to make sure they’re still doing their job?
Sold by amazon guarantees nothing.

Just 10 minutes ago I paid 10% more for a tool at home depot because I honestly wasnt sure if I would get a fake version on amazon and 10% was worth being relatively sure.
How do you install the virtual machine software ? Where do you put the trust ?
Sciter is an HTML rendering engine. It has to do its drawing somehow, and apparently it uses GPU acceleration across platforms.
there's a good portion of the DoD bureaucracy that does not exist to get warfighters downrange and on-target

No, actually there aren't. Whether or not they are successful or efficient is irrelevant. The money funding both the super efficient successful targeting system and the failed warfighter support system are fungible and come from the same "color" or pot of money.

It's not zealotry, it's understanding the purpose and mission of the organization.

Also the VA isn't part of the DoD. It's a Cabinet level agency.

Frankly it's getting annoying listening to people in tech talk about Defense matters as though they are authoritative.

[1]http://acqnotes.com/acqnote/acquisitions/color-of-money
So the $1 could have benefited the team significantly. It was hard to get from the article wether the author was thankful for the $1 or thought it was petty.
While much of this was interesting and perhaps true, I don't really think it's why COBOL is still being used. It's still being used because it works for cases where the "BO" part of "COBOL" is relevant, in domains where the potential downside of migrating are very, very large (if it goes badly), and the potential upside is actually pretty limited. Best case, your migration doesn't get noticed as causing any problems, and now your programmers keep leaving for other industries because their skills are more general. That's a whole lot of scary scenarios on one side of the scale, against a pretty meager upside on the other side of the scale.
I'm going to answer (or not answer) the question from two separate angles....

1. I spent nine years at a company where I did some VB, lots of C and C++, Perl, Java, Object Rexx, Classic ASP, a little JavaScript, some C#, and worked with MySQL and SQL Server. I had become a jack of all trades but a master of none. I guess I was a "polyglot programmer". But while my skillset may have been valuable to the company I was working for, it wasn't valuable to the overall market. They wanted someone with a deep knowledge of either Java, C#, or to a lesser C++. My suggestion is to avoid jobs where they want a "polyglot programmer" especially early in your career and focus on working somewhere where you can get experience in one or two related things.

2. I have no opinion on the technical merits of Go, but if you want to tie your horse to a language, why tie it to a language where there is not as much demand? In my market, there are plenty of jobs for C#, Java, and Javascript and the jobs that want PHP and Python developers pay much less. Guess which languages I focused on after leaving the job I had for nine years.

I am not a polyglot developer (I don't think) but I do try to know at least one language/framework/technology down the whole stack. For me that's JavaScript, C#, most major RDMSs and Mongo, and AWS for netops and devops and a dabble with Python for scripting.
From the article:

>The consensus stresses that melatonin is a very weak hypnotic. The Buscemi meta-analysis cites this as their reason for declaring negative results despite a statistically significant effect – the supplement only made people get to sleep about ten minutes faster. “Ten minutes” sounds pretty pathetic, but we need to think of this in context. Even the strongest sleep medications, like Ambien, only show up in studies as getting you to sleep ten or twenty minutes faster; this New York Times article says that “viewed as a group, [newer sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta, and Sonata] reduced the average time to go to sleep 12.8 minutes compared with fake pills, and increased total sleep time 11.4 minutes.” I don’t know of any statistically-principled comparison between melatonin and Ambien, but the difference is hardly (pun not intended) day and night.

>Rather than say “melatonin is crap”, I would argue that all sleeping pills have measurable effects that vastly underperform their subjective effects. The linked article speculates on one reason this might be: people have low awareness around the time they get to sleep, and a lot of people’s perception of whether they’re insomniac or not is more anxiety (or sometimes literally dream) than reality. This is possible, but I also think of this in terms of antidepressant studies, which find similarly weak objective effects despite patients (and doctors) who swear by them and say they changed their lives. If I had to guess, I would say that the studies include an awkward combination of sick and less-sick people and confuse responders and non-responders. Maybe this is special pleading. I don’t know. But if you think any sleeping pill works well, melatonin doesn’t necessarily work much worse than that.

The evidence says that it's a very weak hypnotic. The writer then makes a long, pseudoscientific argument against the evidence, while making a claim that their article is scientific, even though it wasn't peer reviewed. They make a cherry-picked comparison to Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata based on an article by non-scientific newspaper New York Times to bolster their claims; they ignore the ability of other, more potent hypnotics to improve time to sleep and sleep length in mental illness-caused insomnia -- on whom melatonin may be ineffective -- and in people with different causes for their sleep disorders.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find the other flaws in the article.
Your example, while certainly a good one, is from 1943, rather late considering the empire would start shrinking and decolonizing in 45.
I think he did mean .5mg since 500ug is .5mg. Still, I'm a bit confused. The bottles I get come in doses of 10mg, I can't imagine taking even just two or three of them in a single night! On the other hand, I'd think 1/20th of my pill (.5mg) would be way too little. After reading this relevant paraphrase from the article:

> There have been few studies on sighted young people. One finds that 1 mg works but 0.3 mg doesn’t; this study is an outlier. Another study on 25yo found both to work equally. Another study on 22-24yo found that 0.3 mg worked better than 1.0. UpToDate and Mayo Clinic suggests using at most .5mg. John Hopkins’ experts almost agree: they say “less is more” but recommend 1-3 mg.

I wonder if I should actually start cutting my pills in 20ths now... The author goes on to say he personally thinks that .3mg is a good amount and anything beyond 1mg is too much.

Edit: Sorry for the edits, I read the article after I made my comment, then figured I'd share their answer since I asked the question myself.
If you're on a Mac or a system that doesn't have sponge installed by default, use moreutils to install.

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
https://rentes.github.io/unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils...
> The difference between Twitter and Facebook is that Facebook can make money.

Twitter is profitable (last 2 quarters) and is earning something like $3B a year.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr/financials?query=income-s...
I figure that "repairable by owner" is just a proxy for "repairable by someone who the owner designates which is not necessarily the same company that manufactured the car."

In any case, where would you stop? If we decide that only manufacturers are qualified to service things which could potentially affect other people, then the list grows very large in a hurry.

We've had mechanics, including owner-mechanics, working on far more complicated machinery than an electric car for a hundred years. It's not nearly as hard as inexperienced people believe.
If you are running the same script as everyone else, then then there is a good chance someone else will notice if something is off. If everyone is potentially given their own personalized script then this safety in numbers strategy doesn't work.

If you know you are running the standard scripts that everyone runs, then it also makes a post-breach investigation more easy. You know the exact scripts you ran as opposed to knowing "well I curl | bashed from these sites so one of them might be bad".
Worse, what happens when I do want the applications to communicate?

An amusing gotcha I found with docker was how do I convince the servers I communicate with from in the container that I am me? Best bet was to map my user into the user on the container, but that was actually ridiculously fraught with trouble. (There is a chance this has since been fixed...)
I agree with you however it's much more than that because verified reviews can also be fake. There have been incidents of sellers creating bot accounts and buying products and shipping them to random addresses so that they can give themselves a verified review. The random person gets a free product (usually something very cheap, not the actual product). There was an interesting podcast about this. I generally look at the number of reviews, their distributions and the reviews posted by people with 1*.
> We don’t need to be looking at things people do and asking how deep neural nets can do those as well, we need to be looking at deep neural nets and asking which tasks they’re uniquely capable of doing.

I remember seeing a post here a while ago, talking about essentially this process. The poster was disappointed that AI researchers tend to get to the point where a new approach starts bearing fruit, and then get sidetracked finding applications for the new approach and forget about the search for 'real' AI. IIRC this was also suggested as an explanation for the "once we can do it it doesn't count as AI" phenomenon.
Seconding this. His data on agents of sleep disruption/degradation of sleep quality were eye-opening.
Your life sounds like a script for a romantic comedy movie.

Unfortunately, I think most of this is far from real for most parents.
I wonder more how it would have fared if DG weren’t kind of an asshole.
I used to suffer terrible sleep until recently. Always exhausted in the morning. Sore all over. Missed meetings, or called in sick some days. Would wake up around 11 if I could

Now I can wake up around 630 am, lift weights, do HIIT, and be early to work

Melatonin wakes me up in the middle of the night. I take Unisom (Doxylamine) as well. Works pretty well in combination

I have blackout curtains but I need some light to wake me up in the am, so I leave them open about six inches on one side

I eat a small organic meal for dinner, early as I can, usually by 630
Do you have a common name by chance?

I know a couple of people with “John Smith” and “Kim Park” type names who have trouble with processes built on lists of names.
False positives are fine. It is basically a bloom filter. False negatives are very bad, but false positives are fine.
The discussion above is talking about general immigration laws and attitudes, not the travel ban in particular.

That said, my analogy is completely appropriate - and necessary - as there seems to be many who are unable to empathize with people who are scared for their safety, whether justly or unjustly paranoid.
> when it's coming from a very prominent trusted source like...Amazon AWS.

Be very careful here. https://installation.s3.amazonaws.com/setup.sh looks like a legit URL, but it's just some guy with an S3 bucket named "installation".
>"... companies will have an infrastructure comprising of 6 or more languages and they want someone senior who knows all of them - and i'm only 1/6th of that."

I would ask them to clarify the statement "knows all of them." If they simply mean "had exposure to them" I could maybe see that, although 6 sounds high even given that.

If a company says that a candidate must be "proficient" in all 6 languages present in their entire infrastructure I would take that as a "red flag" and not bother applying.
One reads that Elon Musk has an interest in colonizing Mars. If Mars ever has a government, they'd better have some Right to Repair laws! Those would me more like, you'd-better-not-be-jerking-your-customers-around-and-let-them-repair-vital-equipment-or-people-might-freakin-die laws!
Another good summery: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-air-marshal-program-sca...
> On the other hand, I'd think 1/20th of my pill (.5mg) would be way too little.

That's one of the key points of the article:

> “But my local drugstore sells 10 mg pills! When I asked if they had anything lower, they looked through their stockroom and were eventually able to find 3 mg pills! And you’re saying the correct dose is a third of a milligram?!”

> Yes. Most existing melatonin tablets are around ten to thirty times the correct dose.
That’s what you should do until you need to do math involving division (or worse) on them.
Joe Rogan is one of the biggest propagators of pseudoscience. It's not a good sign when a guest appears on his show. Joe usually tries to rope them into talking about his two favorite health topics: cholesterol and testosterone.
Melatonin has been a lifesaver for me after having kids and for a few other new parents I know that I've recommended it to. Somehow it allows you to get much more rest out of interrupted sleep.
https://examine.com/supplements/melatonin/

See section 9.
Reminds me of a quick, classic read from GK Chesterton: "A Piece of Chalk" https://www.chesterton.org/a-piece-of-chalk/