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I'm one of the data scientist at Talla working on NLP and ML problems. One of the challenges of selling an "AI product" is that users assume the AI is monolithic. With Talla, the user interacts with the product through either through the chat bot (via slack or ms teams) or our web application to create/manage knowledge content, import content, and manage users. So they (fairly) assume that the AI is the bot itself, which is their primary point of engagement.

In reality, many of the "AI" technologies we have developed are behind the scenes and rather invisible. We have deployed various machine learning models and nlp techniques across the product to make it more intelligent. We are working on models to extract context and entities from user questions, support natural language querying of tabular data, extract "useful" user questions from slack channels, and automatically generate diagnostic workflows from user conversations. So ML/AI is more than the bot itself.
Well, the main concern most people have with mean is if it ignores abstentions. Sum does not ignore abstentions, they are the same as a marked 0. But you're right that sum is like mean if mean counts all the abstentions as 0's.

I'm open to the idea that actually using median is superior. Could you expound on that?
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- Writing Automation Tools.
- Writing Web scrapers that could fetch million+ records in a few days.
- Web Development in Laravel and Flask.
- Developing Chrome Extensions(Launched a new one, check this out http://adnansiddiqi.me/items/ptab/)

- Recently done with Kafka, ElasticSearch and Airflow so could help you integrate it.
- Reading/Learning CRO these days, something I meant to do for a long time. So if you have a website that is not generating traffic enough or have a low conversion rate, I could help you out.

- I can teach Python and related things.

In case the listing above does not cover what you want, no worries, just shoot the message. I a not a typical programmer :-)

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That's not a technical decision though. That's a business decision.

A real technical reason might be "the ability to fix the software ourselves" or "easier debugging of the software". Avoiding vendor lock-in isn't a technical decision
I tried a scooter recently. They might need to come up with a way to reward people for following the rules of the road in addition to parking the scooter correctly.
Are you talking about the squat toilets?
Because the other smart toilets are very nice, even if you don't use the cleaning options, having a heated seat in the winter is amazing.
Not at the cost of leaving end users vulnerable and in the dark, vendors can deal with the consequences of their choices.

Hard lessons are needed, having attempted to disclose serious vulnerabilities in T-Mobile USA's APIs by reaching out repeatedly, most vendors will not patch in an urgent manner, and some (like T-Mobile) are content to leak customer info indefinitely.

It is a culture problem, and it will take (financial and reputational) pain to alter the existing corporate cultures.
>Nvidia doesn't fab their own chips and never had a process lead.

I would argue that is nothing to do with Intel stagnation. Look at Intel's leadership and management. Look at Jensen Wong. The last time Intel had any energy at management level were Pat Gelsinger, and they pushed him out.
It sounds like you’re assuming that all the voters would have chosen their top IRV candidate as their plurality candidate, but that’s almost certainly not the case.
GraphQL to REST is a more typical comparison. In this case: designing a GraphQL API is substantially easier to both make and consume; while REST just tells you "here's some guidelines, now go do it however you want", GraphQL enforces a much more consistent view of how an API should look, while allowing clients much more freedom in how they get the data they need.

Where you start running into issues is the surrounding tooling. Integrating a typical REST API into an APM monitoring solution is a cinch, because all of these tools know how to read the incoming requests, HTTP methods, paths, bodies, etc. With GraphQL, you might be left building glue for your APM tool of choice, or just using the highly limited, but at least specialized, Apollo Engine. Enforcing strict rate limiting is easy with REST; very difficult with GraphQL due to how complex and free-form queries are.

Optimizing your backend to support those free-form queries is also (I dare say intractably) difficult; I haven't seen a single backend framework which doesn't actively encourage an N+1 problem on any query which returns multiple objects of data. AppSync as well, my god is that an evil play from AWS; if you've got separate lambda functions serving all the different nodes in your graph, a single query could trigger dozens, or even hundreds, of invocations. Combine that with their guidance to use Aurora Serverless and any casual observer might say that they're actively exploiting the unfortunate ignorance of an engineer trying to jump on the latest trends.

I don't believe any of these things are problems with GraphQL. I think they're issues with ecosystem immaturity, and I hope they get better over time. Frankly, every single backend library I've used sucks; its designed to be awesome on the frontend, and it is.

I think you're right that, right now, its best suited to large organizations. Large organizations can engineer around all of its issues and extract a LOT of value from it. Medium organizations are almost immediately going to run into ecosystem immaturity and scaling issues. Small organizations are going to get the most value from an "all in one" solution, whether that's Firebase, or a simple REST API on App Engine, or something like that.

But I could be wrong in my analysis that its not a core issue with GraphQL, and there are subtle complexities with the API definition language which make scaling it for anyone who isn't Facebook intractable. Time will tell.
That's not a fair comparsion as the current Chinese party has only been in power 'democratically' since 1949.

That said, my above point is about non ruling party representatives. In Europe, there tends to be more than 5 different parties, showing plenty of voter choice is possible.
"People I find interesting" is usually synonymous with "people who are like me." Even if it's not intentional, we tend to perfer people like ourselves.

My opinion is uninteresting people are just fine for coworkers, you're interviewing for an employee, not a drinking buddy.
My guess is that they realized the enterprise market was more profitable for them, so they decided to focus more exclusively there. They know their enterprise customers aren't about to jump ship, so they can do pretty much as they please due to their dominant market positioning.
Most companies and organizations react terribly to being made aware of security issues, sometimes landing the messenger in prison. Prevailing practices are to sweep vulnerabilities under the rug, or quietly acknowledge them and hope no one notices.
That's a fantastic explainer, thank you. In general, VC is by nature a game of ownership.
Considering the amount of "moon hoaxer" videos on youtube (no I'm not joking, go look) I think it might be counter-productive.
In the United States, the Founding Fathers debated the idea of direct democracy at length and rejected it. Their reasons included preserving state sovereignty/local governance, and protecting rural minorities. Here's an article by George Friedman at Stratfor which serves as an introduction to the discussion: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_13051196

The only thing which can reliably be said about modern debate on how to structure a good representative government, is that the participants are rarely informed about the 500 years of debate on the subject that occurred before they were born
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I also came here with a similar sentiment that I was expecting would be echoed by someone else in this thread.

As an Eagle Scout who participated in a co-ed Venture Crew, I think it’s a good step forward for the BSA organization. People in the thread have mentioned some possible issues with co-Ed integration, and while it has its issues, I firmly believe on the whole that it’s a net good for the organization.

I won’t speak for the plight of the Girl Scouts organization, who undoubtedly has done a lot of good and has always been the more progressive of the two organizations, but I can at least say that the BSA has done decently well to adapt to the current times given the immense sort of political pressures they have been under over the past 50 years.

I have a lot of value and memories of my time in the Scouts and given the changes they have implemented after various scandals over the years I can confidently say that they are at least interested in fixing long running issues unlike other organizations such as the Catholic Church who are more willing to ostrich-head-in-the-sand away something when nastiness emerges.
There are better outcomes from doing these kinds of bug brandings, it creates awareness of sometimes serious vulnerabilities and gives us something more friendly to reference a bug by than its CVE #. Who remembers the CVE # for Blueborne or Heartbleed?
I think the explanation of the Fermi paradox is the fact that without a natural predator and add technically superior intelligence we populate the entire planet, while also having little care for the environment causing global warming which is then a problem handled too little too late (or even denied) by our politicians around the globe. This can eventually cause conflict, especially when food prices become too high. Besides that we are also are still fighting like toddlers (USA, Russia, China, Middle East) though it is hard to tell how serious those conflicts are.

I think we are before the gap, that might also be because I'm pessimistic about the current state of the world.

That said, if I'm wrong I would rather have any aliens find us. If you're advanced, you probably resolved various issues regarding limited resources, so why would you kill us as being primitive species?
Intersting, as per your link, the dictatorship is for the people. Seems similar to commander in chief role but without congress?

What is democracy in a modern sense?
OK, so a bunch of engineers have been told to drop everything to patch this. Maybe work weekends, (hopefully not) provide hourly updates on their work, etc. I don't see fixing this as entirely tricky; the patch looks to be a few lines of code. Then it's over to testing for a short run, and the release team will be running around informing vendors in order of importance and then updating https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog, which incidentally hasn't changed yet (it will be interesting to see when this happens / how long it takes).

So that's the on-the-ground mess that's been made. It's annoying, but not the end of the world, so concentrating only on the lowest level is arguably a distraction from the bigger picture - which is impacted by all such events as this.
Ah, yes. Squat toilets are usually called "Japanese style toilets" so that got me confused.
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It's interesting that this language won't die. To me Perl is a great course in how not to design a language. And Larry Wall somehow seems to default to being wrong about design choices. Perl is one of those things that people spend a long time learning and pride themselves in it, not realizing what they're learning is useless. Only Ruby seems to be worse, but at least it has fewer sigils.
There are actually some patches in the works (currently used by LXD from memory) that allow sqlite to be distributed. I'm quite hazy on the details, but apparently this is part of what enables LXD's clustering.
>I really admire Dan Warmenhoven's management philosophy which was very low politics. People serve their ambition in one of two ways, by lifting up the community around them or by pushing everyone but themselves down.

Is there a book about it ?
Mostly you only need to replace the lid+seat to get those.

There's a few companies selling Japanese bidet seats in the UK and some that provide translated control panels. No reason they wouldn't succeed in the US too.

Only the highest priced ones are the complete toilet.
It should be able to handle it.

I just added a 30-day money back guarantee.
I think he just means that they hire 5% of applicants, by definition they are the top 5% because they are the ones they chose to hire. Unless of course they have a significant number of people going through the entire interview process only to decline the offer.
Homebrew OS? Interesting. What did it do? Can I see it anywhere?

What VM were you using?

Host OS crashes like what you describe are no-trust-me-it's-really-not-the-compiler unlikely.

I did have X crash on me once while figuring out the X11 protocol specification, but that's because X is widely known to be less than perfectly stable :D and also because the actual graphics driver I was using was a little flaky.
It depends on the vendor. I once followed responsible disclosure with the clowns at cPanel. They downplayed the report and never notified their own customers. I wont follow responsible disclosure with clowns.
1 - You seem to imply that for one to be a good "bureaucrat", one needs to have roots in the private sector. Can I just say that this is far from obvious for everybody? If anything, I'd be wary of those people as they pose a far greater risk of conflict of interests. I don't want to be run by lobbies, thank you. The recent story of M. Kohler, Macron's closest ally, makes me very wary. I won't say that all private bankers, CEOs and whatnot are the devil, because I am not a popullist know-it-all, but I do not trust them more just because they've worked in the private sector, as if it were some kind of holy virtue.

2 - I know a capitalist system that notoriously fails to redistribute wealth even though it's the richest economy in the world. Its ruling class seems to be keen on implementing those ultraliberal taxation ideas of yours. Sub-par healthcare and expensive education is the result. Then again, that is not a system that I think is worth emulating.

3 - As much as I appreciate politicians in general, I wouldn't be so immodest as to pretend that they're a bunch of stupid bureaucrats, meaning by that that I know how things work better than they do.
I'd like to learn more about this and their motives. It'd be a little alarming if the US government was the top investor in the top vc firm buying up massive stakes of top SV companies. But maybe im unaware of how much investments America and other countries make like this.
And what connection could it possibly have to installation of a bidet seat?!
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Looks really slick! Love the night-mode

What is this written in? Native swift?
The most recent report about this is https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless... - this is maybe only one step above rumor, but most of what I've heard through the grapevine matches this. Basically super cliquey and horrible unless you are one of the cool kids.
I wouldn't put it that way. The potential value lost (reputation, downtime, etc) for the vendor could be more than the value an attacker might gain.

It's not a slice of cake that is exchanging hands. The attacker might only be interested in the cherry on the top but he could also destroy the rest of the cake in the process.
Nor do you want to work when your old (most people in most jobs). Balance is key.
One thing I always thought fascinating about Gates was his candid relationship with feces.

mindfuplay’s comment reminded me of the famous glass of shit water Gates drank from his Omniprocessor project [0].

But within that 2015 article, Gates mentions a long term plan for seweage and shit[1]:

>If we can develop safe, affordable ways to get rid of human waste, we can prevent many of those deaths and help more children grow up healthy.

>Western toilets aren’t the answer, because they require a massive infrastructure of sewer lines and treatment plants that just isn’t feasible in many poor countries.

He also mentions he wrote about toilets before in a 2012 article titled “Reflections on the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge.”[2]

Digging deeper into that article brought me to a PDF from the Gates Foundation outlining grants from their 2011 program: “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” [3]

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[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzppWSIFU0

[1]:https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omniprocessor-From-Po...

[2]:https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Reflections-on-the-Re...

[3]:https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/wsh-reinvent-the-...
Tell that to Sun.
Whenever you are not accepting it, just say out loud "I accept this." Practice that, instead of the other things you are saying, and it will shift. I'm going to do it as well. I fucking complain a ton and I believe it solidifies my misery.
The exploit half impacts the E1000 driver, but the other half impacts VirtualBox's implementation of the virtualized system; so no.

Specifically, the write primitive exploits the way the E1000's EEPROM is emulated, and you can see the read primitive exploits VirtualBox's ACPI implementation.
But NUL is not used by UTF-8 (by design, of course) so that cannot be a problem.
I wouldn't qualify this as a knee-jerk reaction. I'm not saying it's not misguided in its current form. What I mean is that tax evasion in the EU is a well-known problem, and a fix is looooong overdue.
I second this. Learning about Buddhism and practicing its concepts has really helped me. I avoid spreading negative energy, I avoid getting angry, I spend time each day meditating. It's not for everyone and it takes a lot of practice not to get angry. But this is working for me.
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Qualia is a red herring, just like the p-zombie topic. Consciousness is a program run on your brain to make you think you are conscious. (And as long as this explanation works and is simpler than all the others, we should go with it, instead of claiming how incredibly hard and unfathomable consciousness is.)

What's hard is bootstrapping the whole thing. Evolution simply used brute force and copy-pastes a sort of working, already pre-wired, fine-tuned mishmash of faculties as a brain from the previous generation to the next. And uses the old gen to train the next gen.
https://www.amazon.com/MS920CEMFG

Not sure if that link works but just go on amazon and search “Toto washlet”
This is why local root exploits matter even if compromised userspace already gives attackers control of everything in the VM. Don't update your kernel, and maybe they'll get everything outside the VM too.

From the article: "Elevated privileges are required to load a driver in both OSs. It's common and isn't considered an insurmountable obstacle. Look at Pwn2Own contest where researcher use exploit chains: a browser opened a malicious website in the guest OS is exploited, a browser sandbox escape is made to gain full ring 3 access, an operating system vulnerability is exploited to pave a way to ring 0 from where there are anything you need to attack a hypervisor from the guest OS."

Defense in depth means caring about every link of the chain.
Posted 36 days ago under its actual title, "Trump admin claims Calif. net neutrality law causes “irreparable harm” to US"
This was a fun weekend project for me, and I felt like sharing.

* Passes 8TB (~20 hours) of PractRand statistical tests. Mersenne Twister fails after 0.5TB, so this should be "statistically sound" enough for anyone.

* Roughly 30GBps worth of random-numbers, far faster than conventional RNGs.

* Got to use those really interesting SIMD intrinsics to write the ccode.

* Really short: like 10-lines of code for the core generator. It was a great tutorial for me on learning how to use Agner Fog's instruction tables to come up with a fast configuration.
Oral hygiene has been improving over time, see:

https://fluoridefree.org.nz/fuoridation-status-countries/cou...

Perhaps people with the bad oral hygiene of the past had a different gut biome, had more stomach infections, or just had less pain when eating and this led to less calorie absorption.
Very interesting video...

My answers to the questions in the video are:

Fuel: D-D

Temperature target: 15kev

Confinement: hopefully approaching ideal at small ion counts.
(penning traps are very good at trapping particles for long periods of time)

Instabilities: unknown but probable at high ion counts. I know there will be challenges to solve, but hopefully they are not fatal problems.

I believe the first prototype could achieve Q>1
The problem is you need to be able to produce it in volume. The original projected 10nm is better than TSMC 7nm, that is assuming the 2019 10nm is still the same, which rumoured is not. Will be up against TSMC 7nm+, the next generation of 7nm.

Let's just assume they are both equal in absolute terms. By Late 2019, Intel would have barely launched 10nm and possibly shipping in 30 - 50M quantity ( And I think even that is an optimistic number ). TSMC wold have shipped more than 300M 7nm across their entire 7nm generation.

And TSMC has 5nm ready in 2020. I don't think Intel will have their EUV 7nm ready even in 2021.

Combined with the fact there is exactly only ONE, one EUV equipment maker on the market, ASML. And they have limited capacity in producing these ASML machine. As far as I am aware all of the 2018 and 2019 capacity are already locked to Samsung and TSMC.
Crew and Sea Scouts are thin on the ground, and not available to most kids unlike cub scouts or boy scouts.

IMO the BSA has scared off competent leadership from the local troops, digging the graves of the plethora of troops that have folded. There are a handful of high caliber troops out there today, but most do not have the organizational capability to do the best job possible for our youth.

I speak from the perspective of a gay former patrol leader and life scout, my troop was great and gave me skills I couldn't get anywhere else at that age.

I was (apparently) a positive influence on many of the kids that were in my patrol, but none of the troops in my region besides the one I spent half a decade in has been able to field a coherent presence at Camporee or any of the summer camps. These kids are missing out on opportunities to learn valuble life skills that the local troops used to readily teach.
Because a non-trivial number of people are incapable of accepting feedback (even if only to discard later) and react in anger. That's unpleasant for everyone.

Best to avoid it. That's a safe neutral ground.
The plague of modern software engineering is "there are no updates, it must be unmaintained". This attitude makes tons of solid, old, working software seem "outdated" and creates a cultural momentum towards new, shiny, broken shit. The result is ecosystems like js. Maybe we should believe software can be complete?
Ask HN: How can we make the web more seamlessly translated/multilingual?
It seems at this point that deep learning language translation is pretty solid.

But it also seems that Google in other countries doesn't index machine translated versions of webpages that are written in English.

That means that we seem to be unnecessarily limiting the convenient access of the non English reading world to lots and lots of knowledge, which seems bad.

How can we make this better and easier? Should Google include machine translated versions of webpages in every language in the search results? Why don't they?
This is assuming that the input data is high quality. It isn't.
I have a couple of Toto toilets in my house. They have washlets that fit most of their products. I have one.

I don't mean to overstate this, but it is life-changing. I can't imagine going back to a time when I used only paper and considered that sufficient.