skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See that's the thing.

You don't need Access Control because it's just an excel file and whoever has the file has the planning model. In most organizations like this, there's only like 5 or 8 people who all work together on a team, so it's not like 50-some people who are separated. Excel is a tool, a tool that you use to get things done. I mean even programming solutions have issues such as Knight Capital Group's $460 million loss due to mistakes in their code and deployment processes. Planning modules does not mean Operational modules. It's a big difference/jump between the two.

Again, these are all tools. What's important is how you use it and how do you properly validate these calculations. the thing you also need to understand is that no critical infrastructure planning is perfectly to-the-dot numbers. Our systems are far too complex, built off of human operational decisions, and have so many unknown losses that planning modules are based on scenarios. Also we're talking about thousands of these agencies around the world and their critical infrastructure planning teams are mostly 5 to 8 people. The current agency I'm working with has hired around 3000 employees to operate the systems but only 5 or so are really in-the-deep running these models and building these plans.

These people are not programmers. They spent their time learning about resource planning, mathematics, operation theory, physics, and engineering. Excel is an incredibly user-friendly tool that lets them automate a tremendous amount of their tasks. They're all very intelligent and can definitely learn how to code, but that takes their time away from more critical skills and tasks they need to accomplish.

The most important solution to the problems you've stated is the workflow. You setup a proper workflow, and risks of these problems should be minimized.
Congrats Noam for the great breakthrough work!

I have a question about the conspiracy. For the 5 Human + 1 AI setting, since the human pros know which player is AI (read from your previous response), is it possible for human players to conspire to beat the AI? And in theory, for multi-player game, even the AI plays at the best strategy, is it still possible to be beat by conspiracy of other players?

Thanks.
> If I lived in Nevada instead of California I wouldn't have to pay state income tax so by your logic I should just stop paying?

No, my point is that Californians shouldn't point to Nevada and say they're not paying their fair share of taxes.

Google isn't dodging any French taxes, and isn't dodging American taxes either. What people are complaining about is the fact that American companies' foreign earnings aren't taxes until those earnings are brought into the country. This is not against the law, since companies aren't forced to move that money back into the country. And to put the cherry on top, most countries don't tax companies on foreign earnings at all.

So France is trying to say that they are being disadvantaged because these companies are delaying payment of American taxes, on earnings that wouldn't be taxed at all in France or most other European countries. This is blatant hypocrisy. France is complaining that American isn collecting taxes too slowly on earnings that it and it's peers don't tax at all. If European countries think corporations should pay taxes on foreign earnings, maybe they should begin with taxing their own corporations' foreign earnings first.
Private or not, the kind of attitudes shown in the group are directly associated with their employment and the people they interact with through that. They condemned their own integrity when the individuals decided to engage in such awful behavior while simultaneously attempting or pretending to have any sense of actual professionalism in said line of work.

Not only that, it's not as if it's just a few bad apples. This Facebook Group consisted of roughly ~9000 members of current and former agents. US Border Patrol employs roughly 20,000 agents.
> Most adults I know have a relationship with their immediate family that I would regard as acquaintanceship.

America is also _big_, which I think also contributes here. It isn't unusual for family members to move away within America but be far enough that frequent face-to-face interaction isn't possible.
Yes, this is ones of my problems with Julia. It seems to be optimized for long runs and REPL/notebook usage.

Take, for example, a simple program that creates a line plot (https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/tutorial/):

using Plots
x = 1:10
y = rand(10)
plot(x, y)

After installing the package, the first run has to precompile(?), and subsequent runs use the package cache. But ~25 s to create a simple plot is incredibly slow and frustrating to work with.

$ julia --version
julia version 1.1.1
$ time julia plot.jl
julia plot.jl 73.71s user 4.45s system 110% cpu 1:11.04 total
$ time julia plot.jl
julia plot.jl 24.41s user 0.39s system 100% cpu 24.633 total
$ time julia plot.jl
julia plot.jl 23.38s user 0.36s system 100% cpu 23.519 total
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This resonates a lot with my experience and reminds me of a short book I read by Sebastian Junger called Tribe. His focus is more on the tribal aspect of military life and that the disassociation with a close knit group or a tribe is part of what leads to PTSD as there are quite a few people who have been in the military who have PTSD despite not ever being in combat. He claims that in smaller tribal communities mental illness is less common and that in times of extreme hardship or disaster people report decrease in symptoms of mental illness as they become more valued by their community as a helper during the hardship.

I interact with people normally at work, but outside of work I'm usually alone and it is hard to ignore the negative effects of it on my mental health. If I'm around people after work I generally feel more positive and have less anxiety, but left alone for too long and my anxiety will start to take over. I really miss my younger years where I had close groups of friends and we hung out all the time.
There might not even be anything you can do if its systemic! Honestly as I get older (im 32) i find how fucking lucky i was to have been brought up in a really really strong family (half is italian, half is european jewish.) Its amazing the degree to which this has helped me be a normal person with good coping mechanisms.
Exactly, every vendor has default passwords. If you are doing things right all default credentials are changed or disabled. Access to any service is firewalled off or better yet only accessible out of band on a dedicated management network.
I don't think you can make this claim without understand the motivation or threat models of the billions of non-facebook users. I use Google services, I do not use Facebook services. Am I the exception to the rule? How many are in this exception group?
You're right about needing to hold law enforcement to a higher standard, but honestly these people should face consequences even by civilian standards. If you work at McDonald's, and you go on a forum for McDonald's employees and brag about screwing up customer's orders all the time for fun, there is nothing wrong with McDonald's firing you for that.
To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. - Nietzsche
I have found that truly open office plans act as significant discouragers of social contact at the office. Everyone except for the truly oblivious are hyper-aware of how any pleasant extraneous conversations they have are being heard by every single other person in the room. With a small team maybe that's not so bad if everyone has good chemistry, but not so with a large team.

When everyone has their own office or cube space, people aren't nearly as averse to friendly conversations because there is a sense of moderate privacy there. Additionally, you feel comfortable having social interactions in shared spaces, because you know you have the 'safety' of your private or semi-private cube to return to.

My last nightmare of a job was open office with ~100 employees. Even the kitchen was part of the open office, right in the middle, so even during lunch there really was no space where people felt comfortable having any sort of non-work-focused social interaction. I would go weeks without any friendly interactions at all despite being surrounded by people. It got to the point where I would walk out of the office building after 8+ hours onto the busy streets of downtown, and feel alienated/isolated/detached from all of the other people walking around. I was really getting concerned about it because I hadn't made the connection. I mentioned it to my therapist, and she asked me to describe my standard workday, and when I did she said "It's no wonder you feel like this at the end of the day, your working environment sounds like a nightmare."

Yet we are supposed to believe that open plans lead to increased collaboration and sharing of ideas.
> I didn't find a way to specify the exact size of arrays in the type as you can do with Eigen

https://github.com/JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl
That's not a bad thing, people she embrace loneliness and learn to be able to enjoy it. What's the point of speaking about it like it's some kind of a problem with the person. If someone wants company then they can go socialize with whoever is available, otherwise maybe they don't wanna socialize with what's available and prefer to just chill on their own.
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>128gb ram

I think you mean 128mb. Otherwise, that must have been some Pentium system!
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If you're just getting comfortable with it (as I am) then something a little lighter weight than a course seems like a reasonable approach. Also, for me at least, at this point the distinction between interpreter and compiler isn't as important, and there are some very high quality interpreter resources out there. [0], [1], [2] are easy to get started with and great to work through. At the very least it seems like these should be good preparation for something more rigorous.

As for compiler resources, I've put a respectable dent in [3] and so far I've found it to be pretty accessible.

[0] https://craftinginterpreters.com
[1] https://interpreterbook.com
[2] http://www.buildyourownlisp.com
[3] https://holub.com/compiler/
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You’ll probably have to wait before resources are available for the new UI
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There is a difference between being alone by choice or just being alone.
Like I said, PS1 emulators like ePSXe run fine on everything. They would run fine on an Apple Watch. Modern GPUs (and even a PIII’s IGPU is “modern”) are scary compared to back then.

Accuracy makes things slower, sure, but the PS2 emulators in question (like Play!) aren’t striving for accuracy. They’re striving just to get the darn thing to run. But there’s only so much accuracy you can trade off when the only thing you’re really being asked to do is push polys. What are you going to do; drop some on the floor?

But actually, something like that might be possible. You know how the mobile port of FFXV looks—same game, lower-detail textures, all the models replaced with re-rendered low-poly versions? It’d totally be possible to build a PS4 (or any other 3D console) emulator that can achieve that effect “automatically.” We already have “HD texture packs” for emulators like Dolphin and Citra. We could have “LQ texture+model packs”, to reduce PS4/3/2-era graphics down to PS1-era graphics. That’d take most of the workload off the emulator, and let basically anything run these games. (And, in theory, you could compute such a pack automatically. For the textures, you’re just downsampling. For the models, 3D-geometry simplification algorithms exist, although they’re not realtime. But you could run them over a whole game’s worth of assets in a couple hours; and so, with disc images in hand, you could stand up a server and work your way through the whole console library over a few months.)
This looks like a good reference for the fundamentals of both statistics and Julia, as claimed. I have a small critique, since the authors asked for suggestions.

The format for the code samples goes like (code chunk —> output/plots —> bullet points explaining the code line-by-line). This creates a bit of a readability issue. The reader will likely follow a pattern like: (Skim past the code chunk to the explanation —> Read first bullet, referencing line X —> Go back to code to find line X, keeping the explanation in mental memory —> Read second bullet point —> ...). In other words, too much switching/scrolling between sections that can be pages apart. Look at the example on pages 185-187 to see what I mean.

I’m not sure what the optimal solution is. Adding comments in the code chunks themselves adds clutter and is probably worse (not to mention creates formatting nightmares). I think my favorite format is two columns, with the code on the left side and the explanations on the right.

Here’s what I have in mind (doesn’t work on mobile): https://allennlp.org/tutorials. Does anyone know of a solution for formatting something like this?
To be clear the system you're asking for exists, it was brought in by Obama as part of the JOBS act. Anyone can buy equity under the JOBS act and the company has far lower documentation requirements. The 'good' companies (in-demand equity) don't do it because they won't want to pollute their cap tables with 'dumb money' and the ones who are okay with that are terrible investments. It's adverse selection. [1]

Getting rich isn't easy and opening up unregulated access to crap securities isn't going to change that.

[1] https://www.finra.org/investors/alerts/crowdfunding-and-jobs...
Being _forced_ to sell sex for survival is less palatable. Not the same as flipping an unnecessary TV or lamp.
I may be in the minority, but the older I get the more I want to be alone. I love my wife and kids, but there is almost too much pressure anymore to do this, do that. There are too many hands on my time. I recharge only when alone. I cannot do it with the TV on, kids in the background, etc. It's one of the reasons I like hunting. Just me and the great outdoors. I really like getting up at 0430 and being in the deer blind by 0600, watching the night drain from the firmament and knowing I'm alone for several miles in any direction save animals. It's a great feeling. It's also why I tend to favor holidays in remote places with few to no tourists. My wife also likes this approach.

Editing to say that schools are now offering summer sports, which I hate, because it means less time in the evenings to relax after work. American culture is too busy. Too many games, too many expectations of parents to commit to this and that. Too many schools begging for money when I already pay taxes. It goes on and on...

Some people need lots of social engagement; I don't. I don't like parties. I do like two or three couples over for a BBQ and beer. It's intimate enough, but controllable enough that there are not competing voices in the background.

At work, I'm fortunate to be able to keep the lights out in my office, draw the blinds and stream my psytrance while working. My colleague I office with likes the same things, so it's a win-win for us. People think we're weird that we like it dark, but I've never worked in an IT office where the lights were preferred. I think this may be an IT thing. I also dearly miss when IT was in the data center and not accessible to the general office staff.
I'm assuming you'd want to have playable framerate.

Maybe. With a herculean effort, way surpassing tricks and techniques used by x86 PCSX2 and other PS2 emulators.

Pure CPU computational performance wise yes. You'd need to have very clever ways to emulate the "Emotion Engine", like VPU0 and VPU1 vector processors. A single RPi4 core would far exceed those, but using it in an emulator might be very hard, because you'll probably need to synchronize execution and to emulate PS2 internal memory model. Emulating PS2 300 MHz MIPS core would be a walk in the park compared with the other issues.

But memory bandwidth might be the true showstopper. I think RPi4 has just one 32-bit DDR4 channel at 2400 MHz, which yields just 9.6 GB/s theoretical maximum bandwidth. More than what PS2 got, but the margins for emulation are uncomfortably low.

So while it's "possible", I don't think it'll happen at playable framerates. It'd be easier to reverse engineer the rendering engines in popular PS2 games and to simply port them.
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Many Americans own a lot of idle property. There is a problem now where baby boomers want to age in place in their suburban homes, which locks younger people out of those properties. However these suburban homes have huge yards by global standards, that could easily support the construction of grandparent/in-law structures. It seems like one solution is for the suburban elderly to, maybe with their children's assistance, build an outlying house in the back yard and downsize to there, and let their children occupy the main house for raising grandchildren.

Multi-generational housing is a good solution to this problem of elder isolation and general social isolation, and the friction associated with that can be eased given the amount of land many suburban properties contain.

I have always thought that the turn towards the nuclear family caused many of the social problems that began to appear in the 1960s. I think we should return to more extended family living situations.
While the aggressive JIT it's a core part of the current approach, it's still an implementation detail and not a property of the language design itself, and other compilation strategies are being developed, such as interpretation/less aggressive JIT for when you only want to run something simple a few times (like JuliaInterpreter.jl and the --compile=min flag), better sharing precompiled code between sessions (like PackageCompiler.jl and the variants) and possibly even AoT with reduced functionality (which will be useful for writing Julia libs for other languages and stuff like WASM).
The default Array does not have a size as part of its type. There's a package StaticArrays which does this, typically faster below about 100 elements. But this isn't useful for catching mistakes before you run it, obviously.

Plotting is indeed slower than ideal, have not used Gadfly but Plots is more like 15s after restarting, then 10ms each time after. GR is faster, 5s or so the first.
How large do you really think the number of non Facebook adults are in the US that would be Google users? The number of people in the US on Facebook and the number of adults in the US is public knowledge. Just step out of the geek bubble.
Nothing to do with being American, since you're afforded the luxury to learn other languages for free through public schooling. If anything, bang your head because you chose not to.
Few work things have bemused me more in the last couple of years than watching someone re-implement a slow SQL process in an HDFS big data platform forgetting all of the things that went wrong the first time, fixing them again, and then running into weeks worth of new bugs just to get not time critical data faster.
> including the original developer who wrote it, could figure out how to configure it properly

Oh, Scott knows how to configure it, the problem is he's the only one. I'm a developer at the university works/created it at, and anything that needs to use shibb goes through him. Fortunately, he manages all the configuration (I'm assuming because no one else here knows how), requesting shibb for a new site or whatever is dreaded. It's almost a rite of passage for devs to get a scathing email back from him (almost always in less that 5 minutes) because your request wasn't filled out correctly, the worst part is he will only tell you what you screwed up and not give much help (or any) as to how fix it, and then indirectly (or I've heard directly too) to not waste his time.

As a user, shibb isn't really that bad. As a developer, I hate it so much. Scott, from what I can tell, is a strictly Java developer. So that means we're stuck with Apache and a shitload of XML, there exists a module on GitHub to integrate shibb with Nginx which I think literally every dev here I've talked to would love to be using rather than Apache, but that's probably not going to happen here unfortunately. And Apache with all the XML crap wouldn't be all that terrible if the documentation wasn't extremely vague or just plain missing.

I wanted to get some extra information about the user on signin that, according to the docs, would be available but wasn't clear enough that I felt I could just go in to even our staging servers and monkey around with. So, I figured I throw together some docker containers tinker with before I did it on anything real. It took me an entire week, to get a working shibb setup in docker since the docs literally only got me as far as getting things installed before they stopped being helpful. But, I'm now the only one in my department (at least) that knows how to get shibb up from scratch -- but I wouldn't trust it outside development.

Apologies for the rant, but shibb is probably my least favorite thing I have to deal with here -- when you hear the guy that made it works here, you'd at least think we'd get some good/helpful information about it from the source, but he seems quite happy being the only one that knows anything about it.
I feel the exact same way. I really appreciate that he clearly defines concepts, explains the rules and demonstrates with concrete examples of what he is talking about.
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And how do you suggest India "deals with it"? Because you've discarded creating more job opportunities as a viable solution.
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They would better off sponsoring OEMs that try to keep BSDs and GNU/Linux hardware alive then.

On my Mac circle it is all about store apps and Web apps (Java/.NET Core based).
In my family and extended family, we keep parents with the kids as they age so that they’re never alone. Free babysitting too. Requires quite a bit of compromise though, but being able to afford a larger well insulated home helps.
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In a perfect world we'd do this and the companions would be well-paid - better paid than they were for the automated jobs in that this new gig can't and shouldn't be automated.

In our actual world the funds saved would find their way to the caregivers but when does that ever happen? Some intermediary will be there capturing most of the value, as is the nature of 21st century America. Companions are rarely off the books highly paid no bennies, much more likely off the books underpaid undocumented immigrants or minimum wage workers hardly able to house and feed themselves much less compassionately care for their wards.