skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's more or less what I assume they mean.

Likely[1], the intent is almost to treat Wordpress as one component (dependency) of your application. Remove all business logic that's held directly in its tables and code, and instead add layer from Symphony/Laravel/Framework-Goes-Here which "syncs/pushes/writes" to Wordpress. Wordpress becomes just a "piece" of your application instead of your application. Wordpress is just the CMS for your business logic (application), not the application itself :)

It'll reduce the surface area of attacks because you fucks with wordpress internals less. It'll make upgrades easier because you fucks with wordpress internals less, and it'll generally make life easier down the road because you need to fucks with wordpress internals less.

Just my two cents :)

[1] Because what they outlined is like spot on with what I'd be doing... I think nervous laugh -_-;
The author was interviewed on EconTalk recently.
> SMS is the email of phone. Limited. Primitive. Efficient. Reliable.

And RCS sounds like the Google Wave of text messaging.
Making an explanation intuitive takes time and effort, but I don't think it requires the explainer to have a better understanding of the concept than another person. They probably must have a good understanding of the concept, but once there is a good enough understanding, I think it's more a matter of finding the right way to explain it.

Lamport's original Paxos paper (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf) is notoriously difficult to understand because he decided to write the whole paper as an archeological survey report. Writing an explanation more intuitive than that isn't difficult even with only a basic understanding of Paxos -- just avoid the whole island and Parliament thing. His later paper (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf) is much more clear.
I highly doubt FB is trying to save money on their IDE budget. Zoncolan and Infer can detect many more bugs and security issues outside the capabilities of the IDE. Also, even if one dev is using Intellij, the global configuration of the system in the article can enforce consistent standards across the organization.
No, it's not accurate. It uses words aimed to give impression which is incorrect. "Unleashing military" means, in common parlance, physical attack of the armed forces, not fundamental research branch of DoD initiating a project. DARPA is a research division which initiated a lot of projects having wide non-military applications. Specifying that it is DARPA initiating the research project is a vital piece of context which changes the whole understanding of what is going on.

It's like publishing a headline saying "Elvis Presley sighted in Moscow", forgetting to specify that it's not the Elvis everybody thinks about, but some other guy that happens to have the same name, and has lived in Moscow, Arkansas, for his whole life and nothing of note happened to him ever. Classic clickbait.
Reliability is weird, you're only as reliable as the sum of all your critical components.

Usually you strive for "five 9's" in infrastructure, obviously there's a lot of wiggle room depending on business case. But reliability for individual components gets exponentially harder with each 9 after the first 2.

99.96% uptime of a datacenter is shockingly low, taking connection issues into account (IE; number of successful inbound packets vs unsuccessful ones, not just served requests). For context my company has around 15 datacenters around the world which routinely hit 5-9's, with only a few issues of datacenters being down for 2-3 minutes during a particularly bad ISP outage.

The overwhelming majority of degradations are ones related to bad code being deployed. But since reliability is a sum of all components availability it follows that permitting more outages is less preferable. Especially since they affect all or at least the majority of components in a given region.
Something that goes unquestioned in this article is that you want to live with people who are like you down to the same taste in video games. I find this not to be true for me, and that I find it easiest to live with people that are different enough that you end up needing to use kindness to relate to each other.

After having felt isolated in my previous living situations, I'm now in a complex where we all hang out in the parking lot most afternoons. I'm a software engineer, my neighbors include bus drivers, clerks, landscapers, those who have no visible means of support, etc. It's a nice relaxed environment, which I don't experience when people who are too similar are around.

This is a problem with a lot of matching systems, sometimes similarity isn't desirable.
Making Web-Workers Async Iterables
> Host games and invite freinds to play with you.

You have a typo on your website
It's not about roommates alone. Many people like myself don't want to share space but enjoy going to a local coworking and having a community there with people who do stuff also outside work. I've found some real friends there.
One of the things I’ve come to feel is that so much of the reading I do on the web (news, etc.) is fundamentally ephemeral in it’s relevance to my life and goals. Put another way, 90% of it doesn’t actually contribute to my knowledge or personal growth — it won’t matter tomorrow or once I realize some immediate goal. Sure, I get entertainment out of it, but that’s mostly it.

In my view, non-fiction books can be a good answer to that. Authors put a lot of work into curating a set of ideas and (in some cases) mental tools, models, etc. that have long-term, portable value across domains. They can also give you good insight into how experts think about certain problems. Some of the most thoughtful writers aren’t publishing their work in digestible chunks — and many published before the Internet was even invented.
Point. "Neolithic/early bronze" is stated in the article. Point being that working wood with stone tools happened.

Ale native American lodgehouses and pueblos (adobe walls, timber roofs), also stone tools.
Or... you could just lock yourself into the top few chat ecosystems that your friends, coworkers, etc. use and be relatively safe because the tide comes in quick for consumer chat systems that people don’t like using.

Right now I have iMessage, Snapchat, SMS, Messenger, GroupMe, Email, Discord and Slack along with a bunch of apps with chat as a feature. I have been caused no harm whatsoever by this setup except that my SO has a way to fill my notification screen when they’re feeling obnoxious.
No joke: I spent the better part of an hour a few weeks ago trying to remember how to use VLOOKUP properly to join two lists in Excel before a coworker chatted me that he had done it in 10 seconds by running the Linux `join` command.
Tangential question: What are good ways to visualize multidimensional data? Excel etc can chart 3D data, but even that is hard because stuff overlaps. And years ago, I had some Excel code that generated 3D views of 4D data.

But with five or more dimensions, it's too tedious and unworkable. So I end up guessing a lot about what projections are useful. It's like that story about blind people trying to perceive an elephant.

Anyway, just thought I'd ask.
There should be. We've tried it with "fact checkers". Most devolved into political operators rather quickly. Apparently it's not so easy to do, and probably not because we lack technology.
When a child expresses curiosity, an adult who responds in a manner that involves a dismissive "instead" should probably seriously reconsider their life choices — especially the ones that led to them interacting with children in the first place.

Clearly, in this account, the adult's manner made the child feel awkward about their interest and curiosity. I remember countless times as a child being interested in something, or curious about how it worked, only to be told I was being annoying, or distracting, or rambunctious, or whatever. Some of those curiosities continued, and led to me becoming a technologist. Others, I can't even remember what I was interested in — just the feeling of having had my emotions manipulated by an adult, so that I wouldn't be "in their way".

It is, in the general case, shitty adulting to shut children down like that.
I've been reading Robert Anton Wilson this morning, so I'm all hopped up on conspiracy theory (what do you call it when the conspiracies are real?)

Anyhow, the system is "works as intended", in re: mass automation of society.

You want decentralization because you want power.

Let me tell you a story about power and decentralization:

Many years ago a friend of mine an I were rambling in the Mission district (of SF) late at night. He said, "Hey, check this out." and made a kind of bird call. It was answered from several places within a few blocks around us, and we could hear other echoes further out as the call propagated. "Those are the people in the gangs."

Most of us just aren't that motivated.

"the history of the world is the history of warfare between secret societies" ~Ishmael Reed
I did it. It's about 50% harder and takes 50% longer. Realistically you need an employer that is supportive of your efforts.
RCS traffic is essentially SIP over TLS ...
Which means that it is "compliant with government regulations", and with all the ensuing vulnerabilities.
It's really weird how hotels scale up. They prioritize appearance of luxury over function in most cases.

Will I be able to be able to stream video to the TV? Probably only at cheaper hotels. Beds and rooms get bigger, fine, but showers and closets? Could be tiny. Gyms? Some great ones out there, but it's really inconsistent, a lot of expensive places still just have a row of treadmills, some dumbbells, and giant inflatable ball.

Extreme breakfast buffets are a common perk. Would you prefer to pay $100 for the same admittedly phenomenal breakfast several days in a row, or would you rather spend that money and those calories on the best dinners in the area at several different places?

Towels. Towels are the only thing that's predictably better. Something's strange about paying a few hundred per night on great towels.

There's an opportunity for a mobile concierge service. Uber eats, sure, but maybe also press clothes for less than $50 per item. Maybe it could even loan you a set of really great towels.
hiring is really simple: you can straightforwardly filter out the obvious no's, but beyond that, it's a crapshoot.

basketball analogy time! (my favorite =) the NBA employs 450 of the best basketball players on the planet, and at any given time, the league is evaluating a few thousand more (out of hundreds of millions of basketball players, out of ~7.5 billion people worldwide). all the easy filtering is done. every year, the 60 most promising players are drafted. and because they're among the most promising, most of these 60 players should become regular NBA players. in practice, only 5-10 will do so in any given year, and you have no idea which ones it will be as they all look promising (e.g., laker kyle kuzma drafted 27th in 2017).

in short, once you get down to the 10-20 candidates you think will fit a given job, you might as well just draw a name out of a hat, work with them for 3-6 months, and re-evaluate. there really is no shortcut to this (not even for google).
Really excited for the adaptable UI testing being done by test.ai , which solves many of the listed troubles. They use ML in 2 main ways:

1) to understand common UI flows and iconography, then automate test generation for all/many possible paths through the UI

2) to adapt the test path to UI changes or panel rearrangement

Ran into a presentation by them at the Big Data AI conference in Seattle this spring.
Link for anyone who wants to check it out: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf
Welcome to the Note Taking Apocalypse
> people that are different enough that you end up needing to use kindness to relate to each other

I've never heard it put quite this way before, and it's so true. Thanks for this.
Your us-east-1f is not the same one as on other accounts. The letter is randomly assigned to the AZ to spread load.
If I read some book to learn then I might read it many times sometime even 10. After reading I try to connect dots in my head if I am not able to connect I try to fill the missing link by re-reading it. For normal reading I sometime skip if it is too obvious.
>It's just that, in this case, the classified material is not very revealing.

It reveals that we were monitoring the launch, either by violating Iranian airspace with a drone, or with a satellite whose optical capabilities appear to be worthy of discussion.

It also reveals the likely position and identity of that satellite, which reveals likely other candidates for American spy satellites.

>I do think people are exaggerating how bad this leak is to make it worse that Trump leaked it.

The fact that he tweeted slides from a classified intelligence briefing is already very bad. The fact that his justification amounts to "I had the right to, so I did" is very bad. It shouldn't even matter whether the material leaked is "revealing." Do you think Trump actually cares?

FFS, people wanted Hillary Clinton sent to the electric chair for treason for far less.

>If we keep blowing things out of proportion, the other side will just be pushed into immediately dismissing us every time.

The other side is composed of people like yourself willing to dismiss any degree of outrage or anger at Trump as simply "jumping on the bandwagon of 'trump bad'." They already immediately dismiss us every time.

But... and I say this irrespective politics... Trump is bad.

That's not liberal or Democratic sour grapes, or panic from the deep state or leftist media establishment desperate to stop Trump from disrupting the status quo, that's not jumping on a bandwagon because he's politically incorrect and the country is full of SJWs clutching their pearls at the sight of a man who tells it like it is. It's literal, documented, established, objective truth at this point. Donald Trump is not a good person. He's not a good Republican. He's not a good Conservative. He's not a good President.

Even if you support his populist agenda, wear a MAGA hat with pride, and would bring your own hammer to build the damned wall yourself if you could, it should be obvious at this point that continuing to support Trump is a fool's errand. Anyone still drinking the Trump Kool-Aid has clearly gotten to the poison and it's eaten their brains away.
They aren't necessarily going to (try to) defend against misinformation. You'll also want to study defense if your objective is offense - knowing how the other side will defend will hopefully lead to finding ways around that defense.
Fair point.

If you're good with 4 stars you could probably get there with a little internet sleuthing.

Casinos running specials trying to attract gamblers during the off season is probably the best bet. Or low population areas like the midwest.

https://www.wonderslist.com/15-cheapest-5-star-hotels-usa/

https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/hotels/states-wi...
Floradix FTW. That stuff saved my life.
I've been wanting to make a vr application for a while that lets you navigate around n dimensional structures with ability to control which dimensions you are moving in.

Also the concept of perceptual extension is interesting, feed in a bunch of additional information and present it in a consistent way until the brain begins to incorporate it in it's world model. e.g. add additional senses.
Matte vinyl wraps are common on high end cars in NYC. I see one a week, easy.
For MS, an edge case is something that probably has under 100k users unless someone on the dev / feature team decides to champion that item.

So no - some of your examples are very much edge cases, preference, or lack of understanding how MS works.

Example(s) off your list: item #4 - that's subjective and I am certain there are users that do want that feature. This same feedback probably applies to #3 also. Or not enough people care / complain about #2 and #3 to get them prioritized.

#5 and 6 is probably because people tend to think that MS is one unified company; it's more like little ones that group together to produce a product. The Excel and PowerPoint teams pre-Satya wouldn't have even talked on features outside of integration testing. That item also might be a PowerPoint issue, a Windows OS issue (for how the formatting gets preserved on copy) and not related to Excel at all.

The VBA item someone else has already addressed.

MS dogfoods heavily; it's just that MS doesn't represent their user base (hence the push for insiders - as insiders may represent the user base). I think most large companies (Google, Amazon, etc) that make software have that same issue (lack of user base representation internally).
Maybe not yet, but for example gradient descent - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

As for back propagation, I'm sure there are aspects in nature in which translate - maybe the nerves system of some species.

Way to see it is that evolutionary change of any form could in theory be modeled in machine learning. There may be aspects of evolution and how it operates that help refine how we do machine learning.
Fortunately, for smaller companies there's another option - use personal networks to find candidates, the chances would be much better. For googles, they can just afford some misses, it costs but not something they couldn't stomach.
Optical Coherence Refraction Tomography
I think the author missed some key points:

1) It will take you longer than you think
2) It will be harder than you imagined
3) It’s harder to find people who know it and non-trivial to get good at it (this should have been closer to the top) your project can be done in six months by five k8s experts but you only found one dude who knows it and he’s more a’ight than pro.

It’s probably still worth it, just go in with your eyes open.

Be prepared for this unfortunate pattern: “this thing I want just doesn’t work and probably never will.

Deploying k8s on a small, self-contained project that you just want to set up and go forever is probably a good place to begin.
If you try to move your whole production workflow in one go...
You’re going to have a bad time.
> Other than that, I can't imagine not running non-stateful applications on something other than Kubernetes anymore.

How do you deal with stateful applications like databases?
Yeah I remember the 90's. Every time I used a system that met the standard Unix definition it felt so vanilla I wanted to dribble chocolate sauce on it.

That was a metaphor. The reality is I'd get in trouble for spending modem time using UUCP to get a decent, usable tool chain in place before I could do anything productive.
Regularly come back and flip through the notes you made, like what was most striking, it can weave a lot together even after days months or weeks have passed. Every book needs a notebook beside it to become the verbatim abridged version of what's valuable (at that particular time of reading).
Thanks for the detailed answer. I can see immediate value of TLA+ in helping you clarify your high-level thinking about the system and finding bugs in it. Maybe the problem is the expectation that "verified by formal methods" is some magical stamp of approval that makes your program bug-free, when in reality it is just one of many tools to make your program better.
The age old tale goes that FriendFinder was intended to be such a website, before gaining the prefix.
If it's a simple solution, why hasn't someone built it?

I suspect that any such product that starts to get a significant user base is quickly overrun by people looking for cheap hookups, on the one hand, or "sugar" relationships (at best) on the other.
I use jupyter notebook for Scala. I like having the same repl software for multiple languages.

The kernel I use (almond) is based on Ammonite, but I believe there are others out there.
And then you have cases like Android where there was a FloatMath class, implementated in native code due to the dog slowness from Dalvik with floating point math.

After ART came into play, and its JIT started getting serious optimizations, doing regular Java math was faster than going over the JNI wall and FloatMath is now deprecated.
I personally like the Baron Fig, it's exactly the same size as the iPad mini, so portable, but not pocketable. I actually keep two: one for scribbly notes and the other for my more thoughtful notes. Took me a while to get over making mistakes in the nice one, but I'm fine with it now and it doesn't hinder my writing.
on the contrary, I have found that reading stuff on the web is 90% of what contributes to my knowledge. I can say that whatever I am today (in terms of what I know), it is most probably because of the internet. Not just in terms of computers, but just daily life, directly or indirectly.

I think it is just a matter of the source in your case, which may have led you to feel that 90% of what you read doesn't contribute to your knowledge.
Oh, and bots aiming to take advantage of the above-mentioned people.
Because usually it ends up with debugging generated JavaScript at some point.
I don't care how much money someone earns, be it a dog or otherwise, or if they can buy me untold carpets. I am still going to tell them off if they shit in the middle of the living room floor.
You're right about Hiccup, but I don't understand the rest of your post.

What common SQL solution in Clojure are people using that introduces SQL injection, for example?
Similar attitudes exist, or perhaps we could call them myths, exist for meat - that you don't get all of the nutrients you need if you only eat meat.

In part I'm sure it's perpetuated, for every diet, by whatever industry or industrial complex wants to create "news" and attention for themselves - which can include creating misinformation against the opposite.

Superfoods that are fads is an easy example, also, you don't ever hear about the healthiest fat weight loss diet - which is water fasting - because a company generally can't make money off of telling you to not eat.

I agree with you that through evolution there would have been different sources of food for different groups, with more or less meat/animal sources available, and so there will be different lineages of evolution that thrive with certain foods and where those same foods may be harmful to others.

There hasn't been adequate research done for diet, to factor in all variables that are important - including starting state of health of someone's GI tract. To do a proper, holistic and fully inclusive research, will be a big and expensive undertaking. And observational studies isn't adequate research IMHO, as they miss important nuances and help perpetuate whatever ideology someone is pushing/cheering for.
It’s my understanding that plenty of older people who are getting to the point where it’s difficult to stay totally independent do this as an alternative to having to go into residential care. Makes sense too, it’s probably one hell of a lot nicer if you can make do with the medical care onboard.
I believe at that time there were talks about VSTA being made available in other parts of office, living alongside VBA. It never happened but I thought that was a good way forward to phase out VBA.
A cell holds some datum (like "Q" and all its associations) and a pointer is something that can reference another cell, for example ("Q", <rest of alphabet after Q>) includes a pointer to the rest of the alphabet after "Q". This (datum <ptr to the rest>) pair is exactly the LISP list, usually written as s-expressions.
I think it's probably referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
Related to playing, feeling shame, and being yourself, but in the context of exploring body movement: https://youtu.be/l0O9wfIdP8w

That guy suggests a way of overcoming shame, by "feeling the fear of god" (apparently a common expression in Israel) and using it as a guide to being present all the time.
The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers