skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Even if a subcontractor, bribes the customer, why would the original company care? why would the customer care if he happily takes the money? Why would the opposing subcontractor care? the bribing subcontractor is basically betting the other company is not as performant as the bribe per customer satisfaction.

2) why on earth do you think the subcontractors would want to bribe the customers? they will just file a new complain to milk another refund, who may end up returning to you, so the first bribe was for naught, or may end up with the other subcontractor, you are basically paying a markov chain to stochastically push the customer to the other subcontractor, which will have a certain value, unless the other is simply better able to serve that customer, and then the other subcontractor will get more from the original company AND you lost the bribe to the customer...

so subcontractors won't participate in bribing
> I'm no stats expert by any means, but couldn't you calculate the percentages of each event occuring (and the amount to increment) using bayesian modeling?

No. Probability theory is about working forward from a given model to a set of possible observations. And Bayesian statistics is about working backwards from given observations to which model in a set of models produced them (which is why an old name for Bayesian statistics is 'inverse statistics').

In this case, there is no given set of observations; there's not some game out there which has produced a dataset and you're trying to work backwards to figure out what model that game is using. Instead, you have a bunch of models and you're trying to work forwards to figure out which of them will give you the kind of outputs you want. So, that's probability theory.
Woman with house full of hedgehogs says 'no more'
I totally agree that in the world without tools designed for Tree Notation, stick with the parens.

But I also think the world without parens will be a much better place, once we get there with the tooling and ecosystem.

I don't know how long that will take. 2020 I hope?
For travelers wanting a rough-and-ready conversion
of miles to kilometers, the ratio is useful:
3 miles ~= 5 km; 8 km~= 5 miles; etc.

Discussion at: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2zop5o/i_realised_the...
The optimist in me wants to believe these quandaries will force us to reevaluate the assumptions behind our copyright system.
Belatedly, the Riddle of an Attack on Rather Is Solved (1997)
I'm sorry, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. I have no idea what you said between "I go in a different direction" and "When I read a text book...". That might mean I'm just not intelligent enough, but phrases like "awareness can be increased in both directions to ~inf" have the same over-generalizing feel as astrology predictions.
there is no random trial to set up? it's just plain simple provably random assignment
Learn to think, he says, and then he blames the school systems (instead of blaming the myriad fundamental problems that lead to screwed up school systems).
It's super simple. You have a network where sometimes messages don't get delivered. One agent (process, site ... ) sends a message m to a collection of other agents distributed around the network. How can the sender be sure that at least some number of the intended recipients got the message. This is what databases do with commit protocols. Essentially the same problem is generalized for so-called distributed consensus protocols - of which Paxos is a very complicated example. The simple solution is that the sender keeps sending either until a timeout happens or it gets ack messages from whatever number of recipients it needs to be sure got the message. That's it. If the recipients are executing a deterministic state machine and the messages are the inputs to that state machine, you can be sure all the ones that have received the same messages in the same order are in the same state.
All articles about the Golden Ratio mostly make me think about when Donald Duck in "Mathmagic Land"

See: https://youtu.be/fwYfuJfIgaw
DISCLAIMER:

I work for Buffer have been working on our production Kubernetes cluster.

When we started with Kubernetes we were faced with multiple challenges. Fortunately, with time we managed to tackle most of them. I will list them here and share our learnings.

Code Deployment:

https://overflow.buffer.com/2017/08/31/buffer-deploy-code-ku...

Application Observability:

https://itnext.io/when-istio-meets-jaeger-an-example-of-end-...

https://itnext.io/application-observability-in-kubernetes-wi...

Cluster Upgrade:

https://itnext.io/upgrading-kubernetes-cluster-with-kops-and...

https://itnext.io/kubernetes-master-nodes-backup-for-kops-on...

I do think it's a long term investment but you will eventually see the benefits after 18 months or so.
I do disagree. Many other creatures play politics and morality. Wolves and chimps have power and political struggles all the time. Along with taking care of those injured. But an individual that has a history of taking more than their share and not helping the group doesn't get as much help when injured. They do have their own morality. Whether we agree with it or not, is not really our place. The same type of discussion that brought up when discussing how one country should conduct business as that's an infringement of sovereignty. Even paleolithic hominids (a recent fascination of mine) show culture and morality because of bones with massive fractures that healed over time. Said hominid then lived for many more years. A sign they were taken care of. The more philosophy you learn, the more you realize that we're really not that different. We're just smart enough to see how different we are, but too stupid to realize how similar we are.

So, how is morality, politics and philosophy closed off to engineers? You make it seem that an engineer is pure cold and calculating. That's just a terrible stereotype that, I thought died off quite a while ago. Then again, that stupid ass show The Big Bang Theory kind of brought that idea back.

Engineering teachings teach you to constantly learn. Essential, an engineer is never done learning until they die. This spills over to other topics just fine. The difference is, there's already a skillset of finding accurate and reliable sources, creating your own lesson plans (in a way) and diving into said subject.
Stop me if this is too personal a question, but: As a fellow adult AD(H)D sufferer who is currently undiagnosed, how did you go about finding a diagnostic center that accepted your insurance? I've been trying to find one, but the list provider by my insurance provider (United HealthCare) is less hopelessly inaccurate, and every online psychiatrist/psychologist directory I've found does not have up-to-date insurance information.
I’ve tried to reproduce monthly payment amounts and found it’s incredibly difficult to match the bank’s calculation.

They could be compounding interest at a different rate. They could calculating the daily rate one of 3 different ways. I believe there can also be differences based on the grace period for making payments.

PMT() doesn’t account for any of this - it’s just simple interest.

It’s worse for commercial real estate loans than residential. In my case I gave up trying to reproduce their calculations.
Some companies are already supplying write-once hard drives, restricted at the firmware level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many#Current_W...
Messaging is an important part and most social networks contain messaging. But messaging on its own is not a social network. (no contact discovery, subscription to events, persistent connection with other users)
Disney would never lie to me: https://youtu.be/fwYfuJfIgaw?t=331
> Is there a document like this for your tree notation?

I wish. We have a lot of ongoing threads about it. Someone has one somewhere for logic gates, IIRC.

Here's a snippet from 1 from a conversation the other day on how to build up to an if statement.

0
1
2 10
...
i 01101001
...
f 01100110
...
if 1
2

Obviously that's not ideal but hopefully some more data on what we are talking about with that.

The idea is we'd like to be able to compare 2 systems objectively and decide which is the simpler one.

Here's a rough paper from 2017 (before I had any experience in academia):
https://github.com/treenotation/jtree/blob/master/papers/pap...
> all on device and do not transmit out

Like Apple? Retorical question. My point is: this stays in device is just propaganda. It can be done but will never happen
That's a great wiki. I'm talking about 8A/8B. And it's hard to describe, because you forget most of it so fast. What I remember most vividly is close to the image "Abstract by Matt W. Moore", but not so hard edged. More like "Untitled by Luke Brown". Like a bunch of strings of 3D characters, rotating and writhing through higher dimensions. And they moved and changed so quickly that I could never make out what they meant. Plus the fact that I had virtually no memory left.

I really did have the sense that I was somehow seeing my thought process. As the wiki says:

> At the lower end of level 8B geometry, the experience manifests itself as being able to perceive the supposed organization and structure behind one's current conscious thought stream. This is typically presented in the form of a complex, multisensory, and fast-moving network that contains innately understood and relevant geometric representations of specific and abstract concepts. The experience of these innately understandable geometric representations consistently triggers one to visualize and physically feel the concept through highly detailed conceptual thinking.

> At the higher end of level 8B geometry, the effect retains its lower levels but expands itself to include the experience of subjectively perceiving, through innately understandable geometric representations, the architecture of subconscious neurological processes which are usually outside of one's normal daily perception or understanding. These processes are often interpreted to include concepts such as the structure of one's neurology, memories, perspectives, emotions, and general cognitive functions.
Huh? The entire A/B test you are proposing is a randomized trial. You are proposing a random assignment mechanism (what you seem to misunderstand as “provably” random assignment) but you’re not explaining how you will verify your assignment mechanism didn’t result in a lack of probabilistic equivalence (and thus invalidate a simple comparison between the two groups).

The key part you’re missing is that it doesn’t matter if you believe you are choosing uniformly between each subcontractor. You might have a perfect random number generator, doesn’t matter. The ability to pick “50/50” between them has pretty much nothing to do with the causes for confounding factors to invalidate the comparison.

You might happily go on calling your perfect random number generator and checking if it’s less than 0.5 as your decision rule, and yet still be biasing the population directed to one subcontractor vs the other, due to factors you’re not accounting for.
To add context, Paxos allows you to have the the same state across multiple servers without any manual master/replica failover, with allowances for a minority of the servers to go down due to upgrades or failures and with clients getting the same results no matter which of the servers they connect to. (In distributed systems this is called Consensus.)

It's used in distributed datastores like Zookeeper and Exhibitor, which are used in situations where you need both consistently and as close to zero downtime as possible. It also influenced Raft, a similar but simpler algorithm to accomplish the same goals. Raft is used by etcd, which is the database that powers Kubernetes.

Raft has a great website with deeper explanations at https://raft.github.io/
I’m genuinely interested to know when containers should be used. I’m not ignorant and understand advantages - consistent env, run anywhere, fast startup time, etc. But there is also considerable cost involved with increased complexity, educating devs, hiring experienced DevOps, etc

I have over 15+ years of professional development experience and AWS experience and I understand the scale.

Our company has 20-30 instances used by 5-6 services. We use terraform/ansible to deploy infrastructure so deploys are pretty reliable and repeatable. So I am genuinely interested to understand if it’s worth going container route?
Also use pass (for passwords). That's a clever hack, thanks.
They are not: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hospital-operating-margi...

> A new Navigant study analyzed for-profit and nonprofit provider networks and found that the average operating margin declined by almost 39% over the same time span, from 4.15% in 2015 to 2.56% in 2017.

Contrary to your assumption, hospitals are about as profitable as grocery stores. It would be useful to introspect about that a bit, because I imagine many people have similar misconceptions. What was your assumption that hospitals are “extraordinary profit centers” based on? Do you think peoples’ attitudes toward hospitals might change if they knew the real facts? Does the truth change your attitude about who should go to jail?
I won't call these claims because I don't know whether it's true or false for you, but I will offer you some hypotheses you can test. My hypotheses are:

1. If you journal daily for a year about your short (today-this week), medium (this month-this year), and long (next 10 years-life) term goals, you will a) notice ways in which you could be working toward your goals, b) notice behaviors which are counterproductive to your goals, and c) notice how you feel about the goals you've consciously or unconsciously set for yourself, which will result in adding, removing, or re-prioritizing some goals.

2. If you journal daily for a month about what you're grateful for and something beautiful you experience each day, you'll notice what a rich life you have and experience a slight subjective improvement in your overall mood.

3. If you journal daily for a year about the problems you're facing in your life, and spend some time every month reading all the journal entries from the previous month, you'll identify recurring problems you didn't notice before so you can start to address them.

Try any of those claims out and see what happens! I've personally tried all three (though never as consistently as "every day") and seen each of the results for myself. But again I'm not claiming you will see the same results, only hypothesizing.

I think part of why you're not hearing many refutable claims is that most people who journal are aware that there are a lot of reasons to journal and ways to journal, so it wouldn't be wise to make universal claims. I think you can come up with what you want to get out of journaling and come up with a journal plan that might achieve that goal, and just try it, but what you want is going to be personal to you.
After reading that, this looks really exciting. Seems like they've solved some tough issues.

I'm sure there are background issues that aren't apparent to a layperson reading, but 15,000 transistors and "we think we can move forward further" is a lot better than "we made two transistors!".
Check out Heidi Howard's work for some nice generalisations and variations of Paxos. Her approach using immutable state makes things more tractable.

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/08/a-generalised-solution-t...
https://youtu.be/KTHOwgpMIiU
Even easier don't think about the ratio! Think about the Fibonacci sequence: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 etc. Then you are doing just addition.
I totally agree, how on earth could being given optional access to lower level functionality ever be considered a negative?
If you know emacs: it works well with gpg mode. The default (~) auto-save won’t work though in this mode.
This is a really bizarre article. They are praising this guy like he is the greatest skateboarder to ever live when he's really not that big...
> Serbia and Croatia aren’t listed as having safe drinking water (I assume it’s the pipes that are of concern, not source, like first tier Chinese cities).

Croatian here. It's not the pipes, it's just nonsense. Tap water is perfectly drinkable in Croatia and, as far as I'm aware, of great quality.

I've also traveled and stayed in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria (in addition to already mentioned Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro) and no one mentioned anything about not drinking tap water.

The link you provided seems to be very unreliable source of information.
> If there isn’t a tension, a resistant, a sorrow, you didn’t make a break through.

Sounds masochistic. How can you determine whether this is helping or hurting? If you are regularly searching for things to make you sad and tense, you could be conditioning your mind to seek and find those things.
It seems Rails used to default to not escaping as well, but in Rails 3 they switched to escape by default. And from what I'm reading, nested helpers do suffer from the over escaping, and in fact they warn not to blindly html_safe them. But I admit, I can't find very new guides on latest versions, are you saying ERB now tracks nesting and only escape once at the end?

That's actually what hiccup2 does as well by the way. I admit, it is a nicer behavior, and I'm not sure why hiccup2 hasn't gained more traction since it released, but you are free to use it, it's part of the normal hiccup release, just require hiccup2 instead of hiccup.

But hiccup is not the only popular Clojure HTML templating lib. Selmer, Clostache and Stencil which are much more ERB or Django like, both HTML escape by default.
It came about because of Linux' intrinsically unpredictable and unreliable memory management. Even when you disable overcommit, Linux can still easily get into situations where the OOM killer is triggered. Similarly, OOM scores won't reliably and consistently result in the desired process being killed.

Vendors like Google and Facebook have for years created their own userspace OOM killers that attempt to stay one step ahead of the kernel's OOM killer in order to improve consistency and reliability. PSI is just the latest in a long series of features over the years that companies have contributed for the benefit of userspace OOM killers.

There's a similar issue with Linux' aggressive buffer cache. Even if you disable overcommit, and even if there's technically uncommitted (free) memory remaining, you can easily bring a Linux system to a halt with a combination of I/O and memory contention. See, e.g., https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/4/15 The hanging issue can even lead to the OOM killer kicking in when Linux' heuristics determine that memory eviction isn't progressing quickly enough. And, yes, even if you use memory cgroups, you can still hit these situations. At scale and under load you will see these issues regularly. It's a nightmare.

Outside Linux, the enterprise solution to OOM situations was to write robust applications that could handle malloc and mmap failure, naturally responding to memory pressure and allowing them to reliably and deterministically maintain state and QoS. Solaris doesn't do overcommit, for example. Neither does Windows, at least not by default--it's opt-in when you do, so robust applications don't need to fear being shot down by devil-may-care memory hogs.

To reiterate, even if you disable overcommit in Linux, the fact of the matter is that many aspects of the Linux kernel were designed and implemented with the assumption of overcommit and loose accounting.

There are various ways to deterministically handle the related buffer cache and I/O contention issue. The simplest is to keep buffer cache and anonymous memory separate so one doesn't intrude onto another. But of course that's less than ideal from an efficiency and performance perspective. Another is to have a [very] sophisticated I/O scheduler that can integrate memory and I/O resource accounting and prioritization together so you can get deterministic worst-cast behavior, at least for your most important processes. A partial solution might be to strictly provision memory for disk-mapped executables. But in any event Linux doesn't provide any of these. Any particular application could theoretically implement these itself, but unless all applications do the kernel can still get wedged.

PSI is just another band-aid. It can improve things dramatically, at least if you have the time and capability to write your own userspace OOM killer and tune it to your particular workloads. (There are no generic solutions--if there were the existing OOM killer would be good enough). But when it comes to resource accounting Linux is basically broken by design. It's the price to be paid for its performance and rapid evolution.
>I think because there was never anything really written about the shift in meaning.

My point is what I have found to read about stoicism is either a greatest hits of 200 CE or drawn out rhetoric about the wrongness of the dictionary definition of stoic. In other words, exactly the opposite of your line there, nothing but the shift in meaning.
> No tests exist which can detect those imbalances.

Yes, but the drugs actually work, which validates the prediction.

> Mental illnesses, in general, don't develop organically from biological defects.

In schizophrenic patients there are clear organic changes in the brain, you can see it on brain scans.

> These things come about because of profoundly dysfunctional psychosocial environments.

Then it would surely be possible to "fix" these issues without pharmacology treatment, which is unmistakably not the case.
What would you be ok with the government spending money on and why?

If you are ok with police or courts or schools or firefighters then why not other things?
You're getting downvoted to hell, but I heartily approve of your cynicism.
There is demand at low wages considering they have to work Long shifts and all hours of the day often rotating between days and nights
Functor, Applicative, and Monad
Huawei's open source HarmonyOS compiler
Sabbath: Living the Gospel
All programming languages have tree representations of their syntax, so are kind of a 'lisp' under the hood. However other languages typically don't allow you to get under the skin of the compiler in the way macros do to manipulate those trees. Therefore I don't think all programming languages converge to lisp (although lisp can converge to other programming languages!).
I once told a younger coworker that before 9/11 kids could actually visit the cockpit of the plane during a flight. He wouldn't believe me. A lot of things were way more chill before that yeah.
> As I have told my patients and medical students, a surgical infection is a life altering event. There is a good chance that you will never be the same after experiencing it.

What is it that makes such an infection is so impactful? Is there physical damage that persists, psychological trauma due to the experience, or some other factor?

Edit: Read the comments prior to reading the article.

> When Harrison awoke from that surgery, he imagined his nightmare was over. But in reality, it had just begun. Since then, what began as a simple operation has turned into a lengthy struggle that left him for months at a time dependent on hired nurses, unable to dress himself, take a shower, or work, and afraid for his life.
What changes and what food chains? Your statement is just false. We don't live off the wild. We're long past that point, and the developing world is increasingly past that point.
Just curious, what's your hypothesis for correlation between kb cleanliness rsi? I don't really see a mechanical relationship there.
Right fully so. MacOS not a server OS.