skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's mainly cleaning data up, getting some random correlations from plugging variables into deep learning algorithms and hoping that it doesn't break with the most silly outputs you can think of.

Said one neuron to the other.

The problem is even if it--all of it, the whole internet and all the desktops and datacenters and databases and webpages and webservers and knowledge bases and ad networks and search engines and speech interfaces and image recognition and traffic cameras and phone system and surveillance systems together in one giant hairball of wires--were a superintelligent AI, could we even tell? If an entity 1000x smarter than you doesn't want you to know it's 1000x smarter than you--or that it even exists!--do you think you stand a chance of figuring it out? It is, by definition, a mathematical certainty you will lose that battle of the wits.

Ok, fine. It's an unfalsifiable theory. But we're not positing that rocks speak in really quiet whispers or unicorns exist everywhere we don't look, just that a giant information processing system can...process information--think. The problem is that the whole thing is insanely massive and so insanely complicated that not a single human alive, nor any group of humans alive, has any real perspective on just what the hell it all is. It's so massive that it doesn't fit in any of our minds. So how you can say anything definitive about what it is not? It clearly is already complex enough and capable enough of totally outclassing us all. So why shouldn't it?

So we are now faced with the reality that our massive interconnected computer system consisting of literally billions of CPUs with trillions of terabytes of RAM run by billions of lines of code, loaded with essentially the entirety of humanity's knowledge, also hooked up to all of the phone lines, cameras, PCs, phones, power plants, traffic systems, ad networks, video streams, everything...is....unknowably motivated, impossible to shutdown, and somehow not a threat? Because it is just "mainly cleaning data up"?

Yep.
All those things could be the case. I'm not advocating any specific approach. I'm just saying that, if you make performance/efficiency job #1 and make all other language, tools, hiring, and project timeline decisions in service of that goal, you probably make some decisions that are different from today's norm.
Boynton Beach.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-01-23/business/0401221...
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How much does it cost to create an app?
I think you made an astute observation: top people at lower ranked schools sometimes don't apply to top internships or grad schools because they don't see it as an option.

This speaks to their lack of confidence more than their capability. Perhaps that is one of the advantages a good school, a good peer group, or a good network can confer: the confidence to aim higher.

People don't think they're good enough... which may be true, but no one can truly know until they try. Self-limiting thinking is particularly prevalent in rust-belt cities and regions where knowledge or achievement is not prized, so people in knowledge-intensive fields have no models to emulate.

And sometimes when they try (it's not unusual for graduates of lower ranked universities to send out 300+ resumes only to get single digit responses), they get demoralized when they don't succeed on their first few tries, when in fact there's more than one path in life -- if one doesn't have natural advantages, one might have to embrace the more circuitous path(s). This can mean joining a startup, going to a better grad school than one's undergrad, moving to a better city to
upgrade one's peer groups (this is more important than most people think [1]), etc.

Life can surprise you if you keep trying and pivoting (ugh cliche, but there it is). There's an element of randomness and stochasticity in a free market, and I've seen enough counterexamples to distrust a static conception of how things "should be". (except for some stodgy areas like investment banking that only hire from certain schools; but even then there are backdoors)

* You're a new graduate, and the hardest hurdle you have to overcome is to get in the door. If you manage to do that and are able to prove yourself, your undergrad degree will become less and less and important. If you google Fortune 500 company CEOs, especially in non-tech companies, (you can do this exercise for yourself) you will learn that many of them went to non-elite schools for undergrad. For all its elite colleges, America is not really an academic-technocratic society (unlike countries like Germany where most CEOs have Ph.D.s). There are elements of William James' pragmatic philosophy that still influence the thinking in this country -- getting results is more important than academic knowledge.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
The last sentence before the conclusion is

> We have to admit that, if there are
too many numbers that fall into the tail intervals, the
Machine Learning Sort might fail.

It's interesting to have a sorting algorithm with a worst case time complexity of "might fail".
From my experience, tons of folks manufacture stress where there shouldn't be none. It's no surprise to see that in the same environment, some folks thrive while other's suffer. Why? Obviously the environment is a fixed constant, so we must reach the conclusion that the difference lies in individuals.

When do we find ourselves stressed? Usually when faced with uncertainty. If you know exactly what to do, how to do it, the stress goes down. How do you know exactly what to do? By having crystal clear communication and have clear expectations. How do you know exactly what to do? By having trained for it before hand. Meaning, studying, practicing and having lots of experience.

If you know what to do and how and are still feeling stressed what could be the cause? Perhaps other unrealistic expectations, such as a tight deadline. Well, if you believe something is going to take 3 months and your boss believes it's going to take 1 month, then there's a break down in communications if you can't reach a consensus. You must learn to communicate and be diplomatic. What you find out is that those who have great communication skills/social thrive and are less stressed.

Let's say that you are great at communication and the deadline still persists, why stress? If you are highly skilled, have a great network, and sufficient savings, you can go get another job right? Well if you are not highly skilled and lucked into a safe boring job, have no network or poor savings, then you can't eliminate the stress.

A lot of stress and strain comes from within not outside, it's all about your mental toughness and approach to things. If you believe that these stress are external then you will have a tough time dealing with them, if you believe that you have control and most of it is internal, then you can change your mental approach and state towards them.
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Literally everything you just said, and I can't say I could really have said it better. Also -- a fair amount of federal/state govt. and some contracting roles for govt. fit the bill here too. Certain very large nonprofits as well.
For a radio telescope in the USA, the Wendover Productions channel made a good video about banning radio sources - "Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjCZ6k7EzjE
Additionally you can use CI for testing and validating the ledger files.

For example we check that expenses don't overrun their allocated budget, and that there is still enough months of runway in left.
There is usually a big difference time and yield in creating exploits from random binary updates and doing the same from disclosures. The amount of people who dissect, or even can dissect, updates are far less than everyone who follows disclosures. So I don't think that argument makes much sense in this scenario.
[A bit OT] Brilliantly said. I always enjoy reading encouraging statements like these; especially in response to self doubt.
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Thanks. That's a good point. Even in the short term, I can think of using it for data science or maybe 3D. There's a lot.
Just to be sure are you thinking about Math only or about CS and other academic studies as well? If so, which?
The fact that they buy and own their GPUs already says that they spent a whole magnitude more than if they just rented CPU time.

Moreover, say, a tier 2 player like a major AdNet rents its CPU time at rates that make AWS users cry. For them, it makes even more sense to just "let the code be a horrid contraption written by 10$ per hour outsourcing shop, but we can run in on cheap hardware"
It would be pretty trivial to add key-matching to this thing but like you say that wouldn't come close to everything a good dj or live band is doing during a performance with an audience.
Kitty is OpenGL based. Apple is deprecating OpenGL in Mojave.
Interesting. I've been watching a lot of Curtis Stone on Youtube lately. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in this type of thing.
Then how do they usually bootstrap C? Do they write a C compiler without structs, then program a C with structs compiler using C without structs?
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute.
Never trust a binary more than you trust the person who built it and the channel you downloaded it through.

A better method might be to fork VSCode’s repo and modify the build scripts and/or code to remove telemetry.
I'm of the opinion that tying instances to topics is the mistake here. Since the software is mostly following the email provider model, I think it makes more sense to base instances along other lines of trust model/ownership model/hosting provider than "topics".

Obviously "topic" is the easiest way to differentiate instances today, but when was the last time you choose an email provider based on "topic" (or even domain name, for that matter)?
Thanks for the descriptions. I’d read up on them previously but your reply gave way more context. I’d like to build bicycles and things with wheels in general but i’ll take your advice re injury/death potential. If I understood correctly I should do a class and that’s pretty much the only way to learn besides doing it on the job with a mentor?
Although you can change your nick, you can't have a per-server profile picture, which may or may not be a problem for business use.
I guess he means that the OS cannot do more than it was intended to do. A software with a very limited set of features and functionality that you can't expand even if you wanted to. Which would mean an attacker would have to get by with only that instead of the "endless possibilities" an OS usually provides.
This is one of those TED talks that sounds absolutely groundbreaking and miraculous but has my bullshit detectors firing constantly because it sounds like a commercial without any critique or analysis of the technology. I realize that may be too much to ask for a TED Talk, which is supposed to "inspire" the public viewership, but I don't think it would hurt to inject some discussion of limitations and challenges.
Github. Great integrations, familiar to most people in the company.
In defense of complicated measurement systems
Had the same impression. I was surprised for a long time there hasn't been any such project under the k8s umbrella.
Nope, fresh installs of Windows 7 definitely not nearly as responsive. Thousands of machines a year, Windows 10 is by far the fastest.
(1) How would you make it? Photo masking is an inherently 2D process. That's why 3D chips are stacked wafers.

(2) How the heck would you cool it?
I don't know, mine contains a request from Her Brittanic Majesty's Secretary of State, in the name of Her Majesty, that I should be allowed 'to pass freely without let or hindrance' and says nothing about requiring me to be inconvenienced and held up...
As someone who has done IT for law firms, administrated law firms, and owned a law firm, I endorse this statement.

I have dealt with firms that pay tens of thousands per month in physical space rental that will balk at the idea of a couple-few thousand per year for IT/web infrastructure/maintenance/etc.

Lawyers are probably not especially more cheapskate than other people, but I would not exactly be surprised if we are.
It's hard to say if we are better off with out them. I wasn't alive during the first half of the 20th century, but my grandpa was and he is vehemently against unions, having worked in them for 20+ years.

I am cautiously optimistic that unions can be a net good, but I'm also worried there aren't enough checks to balance them.
A legal response to my ethical one. When I already granted the legal aspect of the argument.
> I always forwarded those on to the intended recipient.

And this didn't generate any electronic knocks-on-your-door??
I never make any of those assumptions (notice how you have to quote sentence fragmets and even single words to set up your stra man...)

What I assume is that not all humans are perfectly rational individuals whose only goal is profit maximization. And thatwe cannot see peoples souls, so we need laws that err in the side of caution.

I also assume that homo economicus is explicitly disincentivized from reasoning about feedback effects and historical context, which are two things many actual homo sapiens care about (for obvious reasons).

E.g., disregarding feedback loops and the long arc of history, ie in a vaccuum, supporting racialized slavery is perfectly rational for non-enslaved people interested in profit maximization. Cinsider also a completely not raciat loan lender with vested interest in high property values who knows dark skinned people lower property values. Even if the data scientist is perfectly unbiased, bias and hatred in the underlying population can result in data driven, profit motivated decisions that harm marginal groups. The fact that this really actually happened en masse is WHY we have these laws...

Regarding the latter point, you are effectively dismissing all non-consequtialist ethics and associated legal traditions as "gut feelings". I submit that these gut feelings play an important role in human societies made up of irrational people. In fact, they are even important in societies with perfectly rational people who are not super reasoners with perfect forsight.
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First, no it's not. I just checked. 1 out of 12 projects on my laptop have c dependancies.

Second, wheels allow installing c dep tranparently now. And the top 20 c dep have wheels for windows, mac and most linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy
Exactly! The title is inaccurate and misleading. Readline works across all terminal emulators and is supported by a lot of applications, Bash being just one of them.
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The block I/O latency controller
They cross-compile on a machine that already has a C compiler.
There are examples for this, eg carrier IPTV.

3GPP IMS had the grand vision of telco-controlled Internet Multimedia System (IMS), an Internet modeled after the phone network. It runs over separate lines or at least separate layer 2 sessions. An application would use a signaling protocol (SIP etc) to request access to "multimedia" services like gaming, the telco would reserve bandwidth and guarantee that the service could be accessed with assured quality (and billed, of course).

While IMS uses internet tech, it has a completely different philosophy.

I'm not aware of any IMS network that went beyond doing telephony, though.
Hello everyone – I'm the creator of Enlist.

I recently discovered TrackMeNot[0], an addon that fights tracking by polluting metadata. It doesn't make you anonymous, but creates "noise" to hide behind.

We know that the NSA tracks us through it's XKeyScore program. Various sites showcase an interesting, but possibly vacuous list of tracked keywords[0].

My addon makes random Google searches using these tracked keywords -- this puts you on the NSA's list.

Realistically, the addon is pretty weak. It doesn't make "normal" searches, so it's trivial to filter out the "noise".

If people find this interesting, I'll consider making the searches more realistic, and harder to identify. Maybe I'll mix normal & incriminating searches with a random walk through a markov chain.

Thanks for your interest.

[0]http://attrition.org/misc/keywords.html
looking at what's available for under 800k in malden, and I don't really like the idea of living in a former retirement home.
I got a chance to visit these when I went to alhambra. Definitely worth it.
A new kernel polling interface
lol -- that angry boss who always yells things in slack chat, OUR APP IS BROKEN WE NEED TO FIX IT ASAP... see ya later sk8r , you've been silenced
For the case of the checkerboard, the color of pixels near the horizon has to be gray. This does not mean that there is blur, it is just a realistic rendering model.

The problem is that it is very difficult to filter a generic texture so that it looks perfect near the horizon. For a particular simple texture such as the checkerboard you can compute the exact rendering explicitly. But I know of no method to do it in general.
I started working on a similar VM-based bootstrap for getting from bare metal to C compiler. If anyone is interested in collaborating let me know.

The idea is that you implement a simple, ASCII-based VM for your platform and that's enough to bootstrap a number of different assemblers, to a basic C compiler, to a full-fledged C compiler and (very minimal) POSIX environment.

The goal is twofold: a base for trusted compilation like this one, and a way to guarantee long-term executability of various archiving programs (ie: guarantee that you can unrar a file in 20 years with minimal work).

EDIT: very rough repo is here - https://github.com/mmastrac/bootstrap
cPanel is pretty secure and was the industry standard before AWS/Azure/GCP and their ilk came along. You act like user jailing isn't a thing.
Focus on being precise
Vfs_shadow_copy2 – Expose snapshots to Windows clients as shadow copies
Epic is at fault, maybe, for not e-mailing Google every single day asking that they coordinate the announcement better. Google is at fault for not responding for 7 days and then disclosing, and is at fault for having a policy that makes announcing patches dangerous.

If you think people should be warned right away, Epic should have the right to notify its own users, and Google should have the basic decency to reply to a request to coordinate.
So it's like Nifi, but not as good? What would be the benefit to use that?
I agree, but I think your perspective on this depends on who you think the courts are supposed to serve.

In the US, courts enabling wealthy corporations to smash individual citizens into meat paste are working as intended. It is "justice for sale", albeit indirectly -- you don't pay the judge, you pay for enough lawyering to destroy the opponent, win or lose.
On the flip side -- remember your total compensation package. If you work a 60+ hour week, that higher salary broken down to an hourly and compared to the 8 and skate 40 hour a week job suddenly isn't so high. Also compare PTO and other benefits, especially considering "unlimited PTO" often offered by many fast paced places is usually a lie. There's often other benefits in big places that aren't directly salary, but pay off in other ways (discounts, better health care, etc.) And there's the added non-financial benefits of lower stress.

There are pretty big cons to the bigger corporate world, B2B, etc., but money isn't as big of a difference as it first appears.
> Uber Rickshaw for a classy ride.

Kramer was ahead of his time.
What assembler syntax is this? The comments don't say.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
Was a bit of a hassle to get popular video platforms running ;/
I think the above poster was talking about whomever is actually developing the extension and supporting infrastructure for this "EULA in plain English" button.
Yes, but Nifi is pretty good at what it does. 1GB RAM cost is nothing compared to the time it saves you in the end to make very robust data flows.
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The problem with the asynchronous bsg interface
I enjoy the articles about tech related news and subjects related to...
Embedded Software Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Technical topics concerning Software in general
Advice on Interviewing and Career development
Systems Engineering
Sounds ripe for disruption.
Interesting read overall.

What I don't get is this.

>I suspect that what we are seeing here are some of the effects of passive index investing. Increasing numbers of investors and traders aren't buying or trading individual stocks at all. They are just buying or trading index ETFs like SPY or sector ETFs like the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLI). When all the stocks in the index get traded together, they all end up with the same valuation levels.

This is not how index funds work. Index is passively adjusted to whatever the active investors decide the proper price distribution is few times a year. If some stock is not valued it's share in the index drops and drops and drops.

Index funds can skew up the pricing between the stocks temporarily relative to those who are outside the index, but not within the index. Eventually lowest performing stocks are switched to other stocks even in the index.

Professional investors are salesmen and badmouth index funds without any logic behind it.
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I always assumed it was Oracle buying Sun and Steve Jobs NOPEing far away from the prospect of putting an Oracle filesystem at the heart of their then-largest product. Oracle is really good at using their products as beachheads to vampirize large companies. I hesitate to even imagine what would have happened to Apple had they gone forward with ZFS.
I wasn't aware of this site until a few months ago so I was just curious what else I'm missing out on. I am aware of reddit though...
Legal questions are rarely truly settled. You might think a clause is unenforceable based on some lower court rulings in your state, but a different lower court could is still free to rule the other way, an appeals court could still overturn, a federal court could overrule the state courts on a Contract Clause theory, etc. And even in the rare case where there is an on-point US Supreme Court ruling, the Supreme Court is free to reverse itself tomorrow.

Also, consider that you and I are free to agree to anything we want, enforceable or not. All that enforceability tells you is whether a court will be willing to intervene. For example, we can agree that you will donate a million dollars to my foundation, but a court will likely not enforce that because I didn't give you anything in exchange (the doctrine of consideration).
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So this picks the short term income mobility, the picture is titled "Share of people remaining in the bottom fifth of incomes after four years". It's interesting for sure, but it takes some thinking to interpret in relation to usual intergenerational mobility measure. For example: UK is known for its thin social safety net, so income drops and hikes are hard and steep, and Denmark is known for its short but generous unemployment compensation - again leading to steep short term income changes.

(Also, the OECD's own press release on the article's source publication doesn't raise the same points and points at the Nordic countries as good models: https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/action-needed-to-tackle-stalle... - maybe economists, or OECD economists in particular, think that inter-generational mobility is a better measure?)