skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not even coming from the perspective of a Silicon Valley big tech company. I’m in Atlanta. We would need at least three additional employees to handle our infrastructure/dev ops workload at a colo and that would be around a half a million dollars for the fully allocated cost to hire them. As opposed to the additional cost of the business support plan, the cost of the MSP, and hiring senior developers who are know their way around AWS. Also we finally hired one person to coordinate everything and take the busy work off the back of the leads.

We can do a lot with a half million dollars a year on AWS.
There's no such thing as an "individual error" - every individual is operating within a management structure. Every error has the chance to be prevented before the fact or mitigated after the fact by proper quality management. Even if that individual is a lazy idiot who shouldn't be trusted with pointy scissors, whose fault is it for hiring him?

All errors exist on a spectrum of foreseeability and severity. Is it foreseeable that someone might miss a spot when cleaning? Yes, clearly, even if they're exceptionally diligent and well trained. The odds of them making that error diminish with training, skill and care, but they never reach zero. How severe are the likely consequences of that error? In this case, someone could die of sepsis.

You can't just shrug and say "the guy who was supposed to clean the device didn't do it properly, it's not our fault". Why did that error happen? What could management have done to reduce the probability of that error? How could that error have been detected before a patient was put at risk? From reading the story, I think it's abundantly clear that many opportunities to reduce risk are being missed due to poor management of the process.
Neural Snowball for Few-Shot Relation Learning
TIHI
Thanks for your fine source, I first heard it on national NPR who mentioned that it used to be 1 felony indictment every 24 hours, so things are at least 33% better as far as ICE/border control is concerned.
Having worked in a couple of TelCo call centers, I can say that it's common enough to be included in training.
Shrödinger's Crouton
A nice discussion here 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20334779
3 months in the ICU with an open abdomen (for example) is likely to cause all kinds of lifelong impact.
Cryptocurrencies are interesting (in the context of this essay/discussion) because they're a well-known instance of a technology aimed at decentralisation, for a specific reason (to eliminate reliance on trust in the monetary system), which has to some extent succeeded, and in numerous others, failed.

The points made generally (not limited to cryptocurrencies) are very well made. They parallel thinking I and others have been arriving at independently in recent years, after long swallowing the decentralised, crowdsourced, open source, distributed, mantra.

I won't say that that's failed entirely. But it's definitely failed to deliver what it promised.

DAT, Scuttlebutt, GUN, and IPFS have negligible take-up so far as I'm aware, and I keep reasonable tabs on the space.
In the 20th century, governments considered total abolition of passports (2016)
A transaction executes all commands using the same connection so it would have worked. The semantics are different though where the commands issued between the lock and unlock aren't atomic if issued on the same connection but not in a tx.
I can’t keep upper and lower straight, but `“foo” | 5` would allow either “foo” or 5, and `”foo” & 5` would be “bottom” (also spelled “_|_”, essentially an error)
It's also available on KaiOS.
Unlike organizing a randomized trial -where each extra datapoint to gather would cost money and one tries to get the most unbiased result for the low total number of datapoints- in this economical setting of an endless and continuously growing number of processed customers one is not interested in how fast the relative error decreases, but that it converges on a fair value.

This is just the law of large numbers: the expectation value of the correlation of pesky clients with the output from a provably fair coin is by definition zero. So yes if 1 out of 10 customers is a pesky (say unhelpable by attitude) customer, and we look at the first ~10 customers, then yes, probably it will result in the unfair assignment where one of the subcontractors got a pesky customer and the other didnt. But this is not a randomized trial with a finite low number of customer tickets.

Treat the problem like a poisson process: after a short amount of time the accuracy on gamma is low, but after the millionth ticket the accuracy on gamma is high, and we are effectively discussing fractions of a cent.

I assume you know how to throw a provably random dice: for example both subcontractors generate a secret randon number, hash it, publish the hash, then reveal the nonce, sum the nonces: even -> A, odd -> B

This is not a medical experiment with a limited budget to study most efficiently with the low number of costly datapoints, this is not about the design of experiments.

You seem to believe a lock-in amplifier could never work? That you can't raise a signal from below the noise floor? or is it really just the transient fluctuation that average each other out by the law of large numbers?
More like Fiction than Design, frankly.
I’m not saying you wouldn’t. I am saying that you get elasticity, orchestration, and availability by using AWS/Azure/GCP and managed services where appropriate and its a lot simpler. I’m not saying the cloud is always the right answer and if I were to do an on prem/colo, I would probably go for K8s if it were appropriate.

As far as Docker, it is the basis of both Fargate, ECS, and CodeBuild in AWS. I’m definitely not saying that it’s not useful regardless.

But why am I cynical? I consider myself a realist, no job is permanent, salary compression is real and the best way to get a raise is via RDD and job hopping.
Maybe take a look at gg [0]? It seems to solve the problem of slow compilation quite nicely.

[0] https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg
The discussion was about terminating customers that are more trouble then they are worth, threats of violence are separate from that discussion.
I’m the last person that will defend Elastic Beanstalk, but what issues have you had with the other stuff?
It's right up there with Lyme Disease bioweapon conspiracy theories and flat-earthers.
You just made me happier that I declined the surgery for my separated shoulder.
If you need hard core science proof that journaling is worth it, maybe go on to a different activity like mime or surfing that you'd like better. For me, it lets me be more objective about what I'm doing and helps organize things and sketch out new ideas. I've been journaling since the 70's so I'm a bit of an outlier.
I find that I zone out if I put the windows side by side, so no better than copy paste. Instead I have the emacs frame cover the ebook while I'm typing. I do a _lot_ of Alt-Tabbing between the ebook and the editor, but the code is guaranteed to enter my head before it goes out my fingers.
jsonnet is basically GCL, but after like five failed attempts to rewrite, replace, or fix GCL, which included creating a formal semantics of GCL pointing out all the problems. I believe there was a final successful attempt to fix it.

The Cue docs talk about jsonnet explicitly.
If tardigrades were capable of reproducing on the moon it'd already be colonized. There has been more than enough impact ejecta in the last 530 million years to land living tardigrades on the moon long before humans even evolved.
Yes, and this kind of issue comes up a lot in computing when trying to find deep optimizations: If you make a processing pipeline that drops information and reduces quality as it goes along, you can always turn that into a speed-up, but some features become hard and others become impossible. So in the end most pipelines cohere into an unexciting but generalized-enough solution that retains some extra data, while the cool hacks and approximations are left as special cases used to get an effect in specific applications(and the history of real-time 3D is, in essence, a history of progressively fewer cool hacks and more generalizations).
It was awhile ago, but IIRC I just called around to a bunch of places. The best way to get information unfortunately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Upton Sinclair effect - It is difficult to get someone to come to terms with necessary lifestyle changes when their wasteful, resource-intensive lifestyle depends on them not understanding it.
>Joint surgeries are some of the highest risk for infection. In fact, when doing open joint surgery, orthopedic surgeons will wear what looks like a space suit with helmet and air supply and work under a giant air suction device to keep the would from being contaminated.

I can imagine how an open joint surgery has a high infection risk for the patient. But how does it also impose a risk for the surgeon?
> What you are doing is showing excitement at the long history of forcing OUR values, systems, and in this case, living beings on another world. That is not our right, and it is not our job. If we carry on with that mentality, even if we took away the ‘colonization’ word the premise is the same. It’s colonialism. It’s imperialism.

hmm, defending the rights of non existent beings from colonialism on a barren inhospitable moon? cmon it's a frickin postage stamp load of water bears... Let get real, if they manage to populate a single crater it will be a miracle, and no Moon creatures are likely to be harmed since they are so elusive.

[edit]

So, it seems this person has a bit of an anti planetary colonization, anti planetary contamination... anti planetary pretty much anything that comes in physical contact with it agenda:

http://astrobiology.com/2019/07/absolute-prioritization-of-p...

Elon Musk is not going to like this person.
Because people consider other people much less important than their new car. Hence,
more chaos and less quality control because "it only happens to poor people and others, right? Right?"
The jsonnet mailing list still has activity. Is the project dead?
Luca Cardelli Fest (PL Researcher, 2014) [pdf]
I mean a form, with blanks and pulldowns. There's enough info in Cue to generate one. Not just a syntax checker that tells you that you got it wrong.
The Troubles on film: ‘Hollywood has done everywhere and it’s always wrong
Imagine a binary tree. The root node represents the probability of 5%. If you take the left child to mean a positive result, the probability stays at 5%. If you take the right child to mean a negative result the probability rises to 10%.

Every left child produces a tree from that point which is exactly the same at the root tree.

Every right child produces a probability of +5% until you get to 100% after which the right node is forced back to 5% — meaning it will match the root from that point.

I feel like once you’ve defined the tree to depth 20, you could average all the probabilities and it should equal 19%, because everything from that depth further is just a uniform repetition of the probability tree, but it’s probably slightly more complicated than that.
That should be doable! (Disclaimer: I work at Wasmer https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer )
Author here. Thanks for weighing in.

Why don't you get stuff out, determine what needs to be improved (if any, as opposed to starting a new task) and improve that?

If you put out a marketing video for your app, and it drives 1000 purchases of your app, you should be proud of that. The video itself is irrelevant, so don't judge it, or yourself by it.

I think the craftsman analogy is misleading because physical objects can't be updated after selling. Maybe a better analogy is that of a chef, who doesn't measure himself by how it turned out when he tried a new dish for the first time. He measures himself by how it is after repeated iterations.

As Basecamp says, work should always be compared with what it was before, not a theoretical ideal.
Every year my High School Spanish teacher would spend the summer in Mexico and every year either he or one of his family members came back sick. Mexico may be many things, but it is disgusting as far as water and sanitation go.
There are several projects that have tried to use LLVM as a direct backend for higher-level languages, and not many have gone well.

- Rubinius - Ruby JIT on LLVM, often slower than the standard interpreter (!!)

- Pyston - Python JIT by Dropbox, abandoned because it wasn't going anywhere

- FTL - JavaScript backend by Mozilla, they're now doing their own thing with BBB and abandoned LLVM because it wasn't working out

The only ones that have worked well, like Falcon (Java backend by Azul), have major IR and passes in front of them and use LLVM like a portable assembler, but as you say that's not ideal anyway.

You can't just dump your language into LLVM and expect it to work miracles, but people keep trying again and again and again.
This calculation was way off, not a few dollars or cents. Clearly there was an error with one of the parameters being used to calculate it.
And the reason why systems generally default to simpler representations over more complex ones in nature is because the process of evolution is in many ways basically just a very slow random search. Simpler solutions fundamentally are more likely to occur than complex ones. Of course over many iterations of simple changes, an overarching complexity often can seemingly emerge over time.

Also, to be 100% accurate, I should say that technically evolution is a form of a genetic algorithm which is slightly different and more constrained than a pure random search, but it's not that big of a deal with respect to this conversation.
yeah there is no ethics in space. leave ethics and all the human drama on earth and colonize space. there is nothing to protect out there. there is only stuff to protect on earth.
You obviously are not working in healthcare, to say that.
It's not every day a new disk storage implementation detail makes it this far up the storage stack.
checkout https://apex.sh/up/
>"never choose friends for roommates" was a common saying - you spend too much time around roommates and have too many petty disagreements with them

In my experience, great conversations more than make up for petty disagreements. In any case, if you move into a house with people you aren't currently friends with, you aren't increasing your risk of losing any of your current friends. And if you make friends with your new roommates, that will help you navigate petty disagreements more easily. (Also, roommate matching software could try to identify and prevent the most common causes of petty disagreements.)

>The problem is that the rich complex of relationships involved in friendship tempts the entrepreneurial minded to exploit that richness and destroy those relationships through monetization. And indeed, the last fifty or hundred and fifty years of history is that. So there's really nothing left (at least for the monetizers) and the opportunities for roommate monetization are absurd fantasies of trying to light ashes on fire again ... and so-forth.

I think the interaction between business and friendship is much too complex and heterogenous to be easily summarized as "businesses hurt friendship" or "businesses help friendship". Some businesses harm friendship (multi-level marketing schemes). Others build friendship (bars, sports leagues, adventure travel). You have to look at a particular business to determine whether it hurts or helps. You're making a very strong generalization without any supporting evidence.
each of those options have major downsides:

- 'dumb data' (json, yaml, ...) is machine-, but not human-friendly. it's often tedious to write/read, and you can't abstract common parts out

- DSLs are something you have to write, debug and maintain yourself. is the bug in your config or is it in your DSL's implementation? who knows!

- full featured languages require a full blown interpreter and aren't tooling-friendly. as an example: with a Python package, it's not really possible to statically determine the dependencies , because its setup.py can declare anything it pleases depending on, say, the time of day. also you can't really run untrusted configs because they might launch some missiles

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there's a decent middle ground – write a program that generates a 'dumb data' config. you write a small amount of code (friendly for humans) and run it to get a static, easy-to-process config (friendly for machines). however in practice (in most languages) the program won't be pretty – probably about as easy to read/write as an implementation of a macro that directly manipulates ASTs (i.e. not very). this can sometimes be ameliorated with some EDSL trickery, but that brings back all the problems DSLs have

and so generating configs is what projects like Dhall/Cue aim to improve. i'd say they're aiming to be something like the regex of config generation - do a limited amount of common&useful things, and make them easy to express.
You're not breathing silicon dust!

Chips in all computers are highly encased, either in ceramic, hard plastic, metal, or some combination. They're never, ever, exposed to the air circulating through a computer, because the dust would destroy the delicate circuitry.

If you're regularly cracking open chips to snack on them, you have bigger problems...
There is software that handles that issue. I wrote some in 2002 that uses bar codes and tracking to see what instruments need cleaning. We invented a lot of the tech involved with it into a Windows 98 Javalin touch screen. I migrated the database from Excel to Access and SQL Server to speed things up. Other companies had similar products but not GUI at the time.
My point is less about your specific situation, and more that — in general — it’s possible someone doesn’t even realize they’re one of those “trouble” customers costing the company money and justifying the building of a support moat.
Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims
If it were up to that person, we should all backmigrate to Africa and depopulate Eurasia, The Americans, Australia and Oceania because we’re not native to them and have colonized them over tens of millennia. Wonder if they themselves followed through with their own advice.
Veterinarians manage because they are far less specialized than docs for humans. Also, there is less demand for potentially lifesaving but financially ruining treatments.
All the interventions described seem to be designed for the purpose of keeping what the surgeon breaths out from getting into the wound.
There's an organisation that operates like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruit_training
I never said that either. Don’t put words in my mouth.

I said 3 of 4 top browsers are owned by or almost wholly dependent for revenue on huge ad businesses. That matters. You can see it in Apple’s ITP and prior third party cookie blocker, in Safari from 2003. Apple is not dependent on ads that need tracking.
except Europa
Not trying to be combative, but I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk is not going to like this person".

Is there a specific reason that you feel like that and wanted to note it? I know he's usually known for being rather outspoken about his chosen method in a given field of space exploration.
Australia tackled the gun violence problem
> I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk is not going to like this person". Is there a specific reason that you feel like that and wanted to note it?

He wants to colonize Mars, he has stated this desire in great detail publicly on multiple occasions.
Insurance providers are required to keep their directories up to date with roughly the past 30 days: https://www.ahip.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-Provider...

But there's not much you can do if it's inaccurate besides start looking for another provider. I've written a few scripts to massage my provider's directory into something usable, now lost unfortunately.

UnitedHealth is apparently working on a blockchain for provider data: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4801399/18-SYN-001-Synaptic-W... I guess making a web service is too hard? https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2019/7/how-blockchai... suggests it's mostly about getting management to sign off.
Part of the reason we're going out there is to find out whether or not we're alone in the universe and to learn more about how we ourselves might have come to be.

I think there's a balance to be struck between planetary protection and getting humans out there. No matter what, once we send humans somewhere, there will be contamination, but we should at least make a good effort to avoid contamination when possible.
There seems to be some argument about how common this is for auto racing, but a similar scheme is the foundation of horse racing. Most thoroughbred races in USA (but essentially none of the ones you see on network TV) are "claiming" races. Any particular claiming race has a particular claiming price, e.g. $10,000. Before the race is run, any licensed trainer with sufficient money in his account for the deposit may claim any horse in the race. If the horse starts the race, it belongs to that trainer (or some other owner whom she or he represents) at the end of the race. That's true no matter how the horse performs or even if it survives the race.

This complicated scheme is used in order to ensure relatively balanced fields, which is important for wagering. If favorites are too heavily favored, then no one will bet. So, you can enter a horse worth $25k in a $10k claiming race, and you'll have a great chance of winning, but you'll also have a great chance of selling your horse for much less than it's worth.

The concept of "skin in the game" is fine, but I'm not sure this cascading infection scheme is the way to go. For one thing, physicians are rarely in charge of cleaning equipment. They have other expertise.
Sounds like a job for CSI.

Where's David Caruso? Eyyyyowwwww!
Being so fanatical about "contaminating" the Moon with tardigrades doesn't bode well for the person's opinion of "contaminating" Mars with human presence.
Why not have the common space on the bottom floor and make it an actual coffee shop? Then you're no longer working against developer incentives. I guess it would need to be mixed-use zoning.
From what principal do you derive the right to buy cell phone service despite being a pain in the ass?

Asshole is not a protected class.

As someone who has worked in customer service let me tell you that people already make ridiculous demands.

People start with their nonsensical demands, proceed to threatening to explicitly or implicitly cease future business, move on to threatening to get the employee in trouble, move on to speaking to a manager, to threatening to go to the company about the manager that told them no.

You want to add another layer after the company also tells them to pound sand where they can go to a government bureaucrat and make the company litigate the case for why they don't want to do business or what face a fine?

There is already maximal incentive to make any reasonable accommodations possible because any amount of hassle that costs less than losing the customers business is already a net gain.

If the cost of responding to for example a lawsuit because you declined to do business with someone is thousands of dollars then the equation changes substantially and not for the better.

This only makes sense from a social standpoint if the service you are denied is something one can't do without and then THAT becomes the issue rather than requiring every trivially replaceable company enumerate why they didn't do business with every asshole.