skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems to miss the point of medium entirely. He fails to mention that you can be paid for content you create on medium, and content consumers don't have to sell their eyes to advertisers. Yes, they have to be pushy so they can acquire that critical base of paid users, but I'll take that any day over traditional advertisers.

Now, if you aren't interested in being paid for the content you create, then medium's goals might not be aligned with yours, so another self hosted platform may be better.

> it’s bad. Bad. Really bad. It’s not good, for any meaning of good you can imagine. There’s no person on Earth who could honestly call it at even partially good. Banners all over the place. Aggressive tracking and profiling.

Go poll 50 free users on the reading experience of Medium. Obviously this is anecdotal but almost everyone I speak to loves reading on medium. Compared to other ad-infested or high paywall websites, medium provides a incredible reading experience for it's goals as a for profit platform.
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So this is just a demonstration of your website? The video itself is not useful for visualizing GitHub's GraphQL schema. Am I missing something?
Certainly! I use FreeNAS as a backend (file server) and Debian as an App server. What I do is mount any data paths via NFS to Freenas. This is primarily for Nextcloud and Plex, so if I want to reinstall it elsewhere, I can do that without needing to back up and it will come up. Both Nextcloud and FreeNAS run ZFS with snapshots, and Debian runs as an auto update and alert be is a restart is needed.

FreeNAS also allows for VMs, so I can install VMs on my freeNAS and allow then the same thing (I use regular ext4 for the VMs, as they are mounted on a zblock and get snapshotting). Right now they are all encrypted, so if something does restarts, I have to physically be there to decrypt. I think i can use dropbear SSH to prevent this, but I am okay with this limitation for now.

If you have specific questions please let me know.
Out of pure curiosity but wouldn't the number of disks required to guarantee 100% write-backup at 100% peak times be pretty big? A quick search says HDD is ~200 times slower than RAM (on average, consumer grade).
You can encrypt personal fields on the events and throw the key away if you need to forget that user.
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Except that Europe in general kept better written records than much of the rest of the world, so we’re more familiar with its violence.
That's manageable: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-05-01-making-a-dat...
One might argue the problem was not the attempt to make systems resilient, but rather the attack model was too narrow:

What if a malicious pilot had been part of the threat model? instead of terrorist-proof cockpit doors, attacker-proof cockpit doors: split the cockpit in half (strong plexiglass), each has their own combination code for their own door. As soon as one pilot starts disobeying ATC, they can choose which pilot gets control of the airplane...

True, the pilots can no longer circle j* during their boring flights...
I rarely shutdown my Mac to be honest, I usually just reboot if I have to after updates. Otherwise it just sleeps and comes back online pretty much immediately.
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> Much more interesting to think of the times when you were illogical and inconsistent, because it's a lot harder to spot in yourself.

Agreed. This is something I think about a lot. I like consistency and am always trying to reconcile my personal beliefs with each other. It can be quite hard because it leads to questioning other beliefs that may be deeply held. The classic example is logic/reasoning and religion.

A simpler example that I recently went through was that I stopped drinking alcohol. I never had a problem with alcohol and would have beer or wine here and there. But, the evidence keeps mounting that it's literally just putting poison in your body with little benefits. I felt it was inconsistent for me to workout everyday, eat healthy, and then drink alcohol. So I stopped rationalizing and quit.
Whole house bypass humidifiers are cheap ~$500, and pretty quick to setup and easy to maintain. It sits inline where the dry hot air exits the furnace. You tap into the hot water line from the boiler, and a little solenoid spills water onto an evaporator pad. Replace that once a season. Amazing how quickly your humidity will ramp up after that gets in there. Definitely should be mandatory with ANY forced air furnace.
Yep, it's a two pipe system. One of the first things I did was verify that the traps were all functioning. Amazingly enough, they were!

The house was built in the 20's by a commercial plumber who put in some more commercial-style amenities including some state of the art for the era tankless flush-valve toilets. I love them, wife hates them.
Looking at the wiki page, it seems the population on the island is decreasing. Hopefully they will either all die, thus relieving us of the ethical dilemma, or India will come to its senses and stop the abuse of these poor people and actually help them. Its criminal that they are allowed to carry on without access to any of the modern world's technology or services. And of course the islanders that killed those fishermen should also be forcibly removed and punished - murder is murder, and the fact that someone is pretending they are still in the stone age has never been a recognised defense...
Thats pretty reductionist - so is every newspaper, cinema, and television station. Perhaps your argument is that if a single company controlled all news, television companies and film studios, as well as several large social media properties, they would not be a monopoly - so long as some other large companies existed that competed in other ways for people's time? I mean I can see why you could draw such a conclusion, but I hope that you can also understand the other side that would suggest that a large company like that would be inherently harmful without actually deliberately leveraging its market share in anticompetetive ways.
You might find this interesting, and it has possibly my favourite title ever :)

https://jacobitemag.com/2018/04/24/uncanny-vulvas/
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> Military sighting

> Multiple points of observation from reliable sources. Visual AND radar observation

> "Natural" sources ruled out

> Military equipment going out on three occasions

> American military investigators

> US military satellite saw an IR anomaly at the same time on its own
As an ironic living example of how it's a poor choice I guess
China (in the guise of the Chinese Communist Party) versus Islam is a bit like the clash of nations, two irreconcilable doctrines which each want to have a total say over the way people live their lives. When China gets its way - as it mostly does in the country - things start to resemble a cross between 'Gatacca' [1], Brave New World [2] and Down and out in the Magic Kingdom [3] (especially the concept of social credit [4]). When Islam gets its way - as it did in parts of Syria and the Levant and as it partly does in places like Saudi-Arabia and Iran - you get a pre-medieval theocracy where you either submit or get killed. When both of them try to get their way you get conflict, as shown by this report and others. In the end one of them will have to give in in some way, either by allowing the CCP to influence their doctrine - as the Roman Catholic church did - or by going underground - like practitoners of Falun Gong did after their practice fell out of grace with the party. The chance of the CCP giving in to any other doctrine is slim and the likeliness of something like that happening without conflict even slimmer. The future does not look promising in this respect, the past is littered with the remnants of such conflicts - Tiananmen square [5] etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_King...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
this is a demo of open source project, would you like to see more?
1912-1913: Balkan Wars: 500,000 casualties

I'm not really seeing peace. I mean, the First Balkan War ended only 13 months before the outbreak of WW1.
I don’t understand what you are asking for. 100% certainty before making any decision? Any decision in a messy real world that’s far more complicated than a simple math statement that can be proved?
It's easy to say that this is the best possible time for a human to be alive, when your occupation is motivational speaker. You've got YouTube, and business class, and 7-minute workouts. The message you've got is to disregard the media you're using to send that message.

Try working in a field where this isn't true, and tell us if you still think this is the best time ever to be a human. Do high school teachers (who have to compete with the internet) think 2018 is the greatest?
Repeatedly including your company name, especially if it’s something unique like “thousandeyes” is essentially pointless when it comes to SEO. They own the domain thousandeyes.com. Google is going to recognize the intent for searches for thousandeyes are going to be about that company.

Other keywords, yes, those are important for SEO. But repeating your unique company name, not so much.
I lolled at the qualification of the conspiratorial bent arguments as fallacious. They clearly are not. Conspiracies happen and can take a long time to unwind. They should not make up the bulk of your argument and should not fuel a position without doubt, but they are not fallacious. Scientist make mistakes, take unwarranted positions and take bribes all the time. (I mean this across all fields not as any kind of direct accusation.) Some scepsis with any consensus is just smart logic.
I did not got this from the article. From what I read, it was more:

- In order to have local stability (following industrial revolution and regime changes), Western countries need an exterior outlet, for access to exclusive markets, natural ressources and space to put excess/unwanted popultation.

- To be able to colonize, Western countries needed an ideology to justify it: thus white superiority, nationalism and jingoistic propaganda.

- Then there was an ideology in place in all countries, which explain the war, not capital and ressources.

Of course it's how I understand the article, I might be wrong.
It is all relative to costs. If they were going with hollow thorns anyway it is theoretically possible the thorns could have existed before there was anything eating them as a "fluke" that didn't cost much anyway.

Pre-ants they could have had variants with hollow ones mixed in. Once the hollow ones gave a significant advantage the other styles would fade away unless there were biochemical constraints.

I don't know for sure but I would expect slow evolution from hive insects - their reproductive members are a fraction and thus a smaller working genepool. Ironically the sessile but more genetically diverse plants could have outmaneuvered the ants.
For an example of biochemical constraints take sickle cell anemia trait for instance. One copy makes red blood cells just deformed enough to function but give malaria resistance. Two however and the cells go conclave. The little bastard mosquitoes and their littler bastard malaria made for a nasty situation. In regions with endemic malaria no copies and you are probably screwed - malaria will probably kill you unless you flee the region - a risk in itself. With two you don't need to worry about malaria killing you - your sickle cell anemia will do it on its own just fine. With one you are a-okay but your children or mate stand a chance of getting either bad outcome.

The transmission method has leas to malaria as the number one historical killer.
Similar story here. As a kid I was laying in bed staring at a bright disk floating in the sky at night. Totally sure it was a UFO. Turned out to be a reflection of a street light in the window.
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> 1$/day is for dev setups

This is just for the AWS-hosted cloud version; you can run the dev version locally for free.
One interesting factor I don't see a lot of in these discussions is that the US also has a nasty habit of leaving its military assets out of range of the land they ultimately defend. A hyper-advanced carrier group out in the Arabian sea won't be a lot of help if Mexico suddenly becomes hyper-nationalistic and decides to press their claims on the US southwest
I applaud this decision.

If you can't explain the model, it means you don't know the assumptions that went into the model's output, which means you won't see it coming when the model doesn't work anymore. And if you don't want to look like a moron saying "oh but the model said...", (and not getting sued for mismanaging investors money).

Honestly, it's probably the investors asking questions that led them to this decision, but nonetheless, this is reason talking.
I think it may come back in about 10 years coupled with a solar thermal collector.

https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/chem/news/Pages/Emiss...
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Many of the buildings in downtown Pittsburgh are still steam heated. I believe the same is true for Oakland (the university district of Pittsburgh).

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2013/02/14...

http://pacthermal.com/
> they're full of biases known and unknown

Are we talking about AI or people?
What is a controversial scientific view that you wouldn't characterize as "conservative"? The article mentions aversion to GMO, does that count?
It seems naive to believe that the US isn't comparable to China when it comes to surveillance considering the actions taken and information that has come out, particulary since 9/11

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-su...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/national-id-hr4760-biometri...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/26/16932350/ice-immigration-...

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/voice-recognition-techno...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...

https://freedom.press/news/revealed-justice-depts-secret-rul...

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

https://www.eff.org/cases/first-unitarian-church-los-angeles...

https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel

https://www.eff.org/cases/hepting

https://www.eff.org/cases/smith-v-obama

https://apnews.com/d69a8e6db867477795f4152d0511bbf9

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-records-fact...

edit: Why the downvotes with no response despite my comment being entirely relevant? If anyone would like to explain/counter I would be curious to hear their reasoning
Came here for fluid mechanics. Don't know if my tech degree is outdated already, but I certainly skipped getting an MBA. At least I wondered a bit as to why BlackRock is into fluidity simulations too.
yeah, why aren't there more sightings of invisible stuff?
. . . the individuals behind that code remain responsible ?

Sounds like time for these coders to move offshore and surround themselves with massive security like Mark Rich did (Mark Rick:Wikipedia).

. . . Learning of the plans for the indictment, Rich fled[8] to Switzerland and, always insisting that he was not guilty, never returned to the U.S. to answer the charges.[Notes 1] Rich's companies eventually pleaded guilty to 35 counts of tax evasion and paid $90 million in fines,[7] although Rich himself remained on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most-Wanted Fugitives List for many years,[21] narrowly evading capture in Britain, Germany, Finland, and Jamaica.[22] Fearing arrest, he did not even return to the United States to attend his daughter's funeral in 1996
They don't. Writes go to ONE server's memory. A crash will lose data. Speed over durability is the tradeoff. Eventually, writes are pushed to disk but not right away.
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In similar situations, I've left the old api as is and created a singleton to contain each version.

Plugin.getInstance('<version_number>')

Over time move people to that construct and eventually deprecate the old api.
Sure, interpretation must be done with care, but that's one of the primary goals of statistics. I think the bigger distinction you're missing is the difference Breiman draws between algorithmic models and data models. If you use logistic regression (and hopefully a careful study design) to describe a plausible data generating model, you can get good, interpretable inference out of it. If you use the same tool (or penalized equivalent, or RF, GBM, NN etc) as a prediction algorithm on unstructured or poorly structured inputs, you're not going to have your lunch and eat it too (get good, interpretable inference along with robust prediction).

It's also unclear to me what you mean when you say that NNs uniquely approximate a Bayesian posterior, or why that's a good thing without knowing more about what posterior you're talking about. You could do a Bayesian logistic regression and get an actual posterior, and it would not remove the interpretation challenges you raise.
> Would you want your car or an aircraft you're on piloted by neural net the actions of which can't be explained?

Almost all cars and aircraft today are operated by neural nets, the actions of which can't be explained.
In the UK for example the electricty usage has gone up from 192 TWh to 300 TWh, which is not great but not 4x either. The increase is mostly down to the developing nations around the world. So we'd have to go back the 1950s to see a 4x reduction (73 TWh in 1956).

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historic...
This is exactly the "no longer utopia" part of the article (or the extreme end of it anyway). With private systems, this is a real possibility.
I've got to say, I can't actually call to mind any instances of controversial peer-reviewed papers. I can point to the Bell Curve- that was controversial, but it was a also a book written by a conservative political operative that made specific governmental policy recommendations. That seems like an entirely different topic to me. Or for another example let's take Jordan Peterson, he's quite clearly written lots of academic papers. But are those controversial?

Not really, he's widely regarded as a fine professor of psychology. But does that really wave a magic wand over his head and grant him immunity from being judged for the self-help books he publishes? I don't think anyone reasonable person would agree with that. Also, what protection does pseudonymous authorship afford him? He's literally making a career out of touring different countries giving speeches about the moral decay of western culture.

Here's my question: Does this problem actually exist? Or is this misplaced fear about a different issue that actually does exist.
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It could be possible hackers simply haven't turned their attention to exploiting these devices yet.

There is always a time before a vulnerable system gets hacked, and there is always a person doing the hacking. Maybe this article on HN, some tweet, or some other comment on the internet will prompt someone to break into a IOT medical device and cause harm to someone. Who knows when it will happen.

That said, I wouldn't understand the rationale behind someone who knowingly hacks a medical system for malicious intent. What honor is there in turning off someone's pacemaker? That just seems like murder but with a technological twist.
difficult to comprehend, agreed. Four years of vicious fighting probably left plenty of doubt that the armistice would actually take place, hold, wasn't a trap, etc.

What was the drawdown like in the weeks after? There must have been plenty of defensive mistrust on both sides. Would the other side use this for some devious sneak attack?
The article does say they want HLSL shaders to just work. It doesn’t explain how all the new syntax at the end fits into it.
> Recommended by whom? An algorithm?

By YouTube; the choice to make the recommendation and the choice to use an algorithm (both in general and the specific algorithm chosen) as part of the recommendation process are human decisions made yb YouTube employees in the course of their duties.

> Youtube does need to address these videos, but they're not omniscient gods either.

While the second half is true, it magnifies rather than mitigates the firall it does is call out the hubris and irresponsibility at YouTube behind the current status quo.

> There is too much content to humanly (or algorithmically, seemingly) to police effectively.

The quantity of content on YouTube, and the fact that it is not constrained by their ability to effectively police it is also a product of human decisions made by YouTube employees in the course of job duties, not some kind for natural occurrence with which YouTube is beset. And the fact that any part of that corpus is subject to recommendation algorithms without being policed is also such a human decision.
The article implies a scientific fallacy, which is that scientific knowledge is binary - i.e. either science can say with certainty that something is true, or it can say with equal certainty that something is false.

This is not how science works. There are decreasing circles of confidence out from the relative certainty of a core curriculum - approximately an undergrad degree in a hard science - to various research topics. At the edges are pure research which is really just educated guessing. Far from being an invincible march towards knowledge, science actually progresses by throwing grad students at problems more or less at random. Some of them get lucky and find some key insights that match reality.

Most don't.

Unfortunately there's plenty of evidence from history of scientific reassurances being presented as certainties which were subsequently shown to be wrong - sometimes dangerously so.

Add the toxic influence of corporate interest and the unarguable reality that fact that some "evidence" is bought and paid for, and it becomes very hard to accept research as the proof science would like it to be.

So it's actually rational to be skeptical of extraordinary claims.

E.g. GMOs. The extraordinary claim is that GMOs will end hunger. Obviously only a total monster would oppose that.

In reality research into other farming techniques also increases yields, and in any case hunger is actually caused by bad politics, not lack of faith in science.

Articles like these conflate the difference between science-as-pure-research for the sake of knowledge, and science-as-policy-justification.

The standards for science-as-policy should be much higher than science-as-research, because the consequences of warping truth for profit or power can be so much more damaging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Sure.