skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well again, you're making political arguments.

The AI results are the way they are, because the data that is input tells the AI to spit out those results. In other words, the AI isn't telling you anything that a human didn't tell it to tell you. The valuable insights are insights that no human saw coming.

So let's take your industry as an example with which you can maybe better relate. Humans give the AI data that says that africans and men have higher recidivism. The AI then spits out results that says that africans and men have higher recidivism. Basically spitting back the information that we already gave it. OK, so far, so expected.

Now here's the thing, the valuable insight would be for the AI to suss out some counter intuitive result that no one would ever have gotten. The result that this particular african, or this particular man will have lower recidivism. That's the valuable insight. That insight saves the enterprise money that the enterprise would not have saved otherwise.

My point is that current AI's can't do that, which makes them not terribly useful. At the moment, they just parrot what any human would tell you anyway. So why pay 2 mil for that? Can you see what I'm saying? This problem is even more acute in diagnostic imaging, because the AI is not improving outcomes. So what, exactly, would we be paying 2 mil for? It's absolutely problematic for me to go out and put an enterprise on the hook to the tune of 2 mil for a black box that sits in a room, looks cool, and tells us things we already know. (In fact, the box would tell us things we told it to tell us.) We can save the money, by a 30 dollar digital recorder, and have it play the doctors' diagnoses back to the doctor after every patient meeting if that enterprise is really that much into the parroting.

My problem with the bias in the AI's I've seen is not political, it's practical. This stuff, as it is, is not terribly practical because it is too biased to offer any truly unique actionable insights that add value which was not there previously.
I think anxiety is the key here. Everyone is capable of deliberate practice, but the degree to which one can sustain it for an extended, discrete session varies a lot by how the stress people feel from outside sources or from the process of mistake-making inherent in practice intrudes on and interrupts their focus. It could be that some subset of average players would be better if the stressors could be dealt with.
We use Vault Enterprise at my company, and I do a lot of the deployment/adminsitration of vault. The enterprise version supports PKCS11 and external HSM: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/configuration/seal/pkcs11.h... and https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/configuration/entropy-augme... for reference.

https://learn.hashicorp.com/vault/operations/ops-seal-wrap is a guide linked at the bottom
Great description, thank you. My main question is: I use https://github.com/shyiko/kubesec (a fancy sops) for k8s and store my database password, stripe credentials, etc in there.

Other than that, I have my GCP account credentials (in 1Password) and my terraform state in... terraform.

Is this a use case for Vault to consolidate? I guess I can't see how I would "outgrow" the above setup.

Thanks for all the great Hashicorp products! Terraform is incredible.
So you don't have to deal with it until user data includes _any non-ascii character_ (including emoji, weird spaces copied from other stuff, or loan words like café)

"Dealing with unicode" is really just about dealing with it at the input/output boundaries (and even then libraries handle it most of the time). But without the clear delineation that Python 3 provides, when you _do_ hit some issue you probably insert a "fix" in the wrong space. Leading to the classic Py2 "I just call decode 1000 times on the same string because I've lost track"
Car safety = Uber knows the drivers, has real-time tracking for your entire trip, and lets you call for help quickly and silently. Taxis have none of this, and there are lots of bandit/underground cabs where you have no idea if it's legit.

Payment options/scams = Uber lets you pay however you want through the app/apple pay without any need for cash, with an upfront price. Most taxis only accept cash, have unclear pricing that you only know at the end, can easily pad the meter in various ways, and may extort you if you really need a ride.

Refusing pickups = Uber drivers don't know the destination until you get in the car, and get kicked off the network if they cancel too many rides or abuse riders. Taxis are notorious for ignoring people based on looks, destination, convenience and usually won't deal with any trip they deem is not worth their time.

The difference in service and safety is magnitudes better with ridesharing vs taxis, that's why they're so popular.
This is my favorite monitor configuration and now I have a handy name for it, thanks!
Non-citizens absolutely. Completely illegal immigrants no, but rejected asylum seekers who cannot be reasonably expected to leave the country yes. (The term is "geduldet", but I don't know the exact legal definition.) Visitors no, I'd guess.
I’d bet that the compilers mostly commonly used would probably inline a function only used once. If not, many languages provide an `inline` keyword to tell the compiler to in-line the function directly.

Even if there was no way to inline a function, I tend to prefer code that is easy to understand over code that manages to shave off a few extra instructions. Code that is hard to understand will be hard to maintain and can lead to bugs in the future.
Because gold is less risky due to its traditional status as money? Just curious.
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SpankChain.com may be a alternative?
While deflation is a concern for the economy as a whole people who hold money generally like deflation. A lot of why people bought cryptos is in hopes of massive deflation (egbitcoin price going up). Also, the promise of cryptos is essentially deflationary since productivity (and total world wealth) goes up while e.g. bitcoin total supply is constant.
I'm sure other forms of exchange, for example, USD to GC, can still be used to launder money. This is not exclusive to cryptocurrency as you would imply.
Strange indeed that "tightly controlled enterprise environments" are so blissfully unaware of the functionality of chrome.
Thanks to Obama-era Operation Choke-Point.
What a terrible crypto-shilling (is that a new currency?) article. Can I have my time back? Since time is money, I'll take 30 euros please.

One thing that crypto-idiots don't understand is that whatever currency it is, it's not worth anything if no one wants to exchange it with food (or clothes or shelter). If in the upcoming Mad Max future that farmer only takes tea leaves, everyone will be running around trying to find tea leaves.
HSBC admitted negligence. The cartels liked working with HSBC so much they even had secure money boxes made that were specifically designed to fit through the hole in HSBC branch teller windows.

There are tons of references online, but these are some:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-12/hsbc-mexi...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/17/hsbc-execut...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/hsbc-knowingly-helped-mexican-...
5.0.2.

A Samsung device.

Obsolute when new, no OS update ever available.

I am less than pleased.
Judging by my experience with lyft - mobility for people that are too lazy to go walking distance ... all the times I used the app it was more expensive than a cab or slower than walking.
I'll play you in chess any day mate.

It's very clear who I am.
That makes it way more relevant.
Thanks, interesting, and understandable.
Sight is pretty confined dimensionally. R,G,Bx100x100 + focal plane gets you basically all the resolution you need.

We can’t even model smells.
Would this work where mobile internet is slow or non existent? Would this break dependence on having Firebase as the power-efficicent centralized push system? Will this have delivery receipts? Can this be used as a transport for E2EE apps?
- format strings

- mandatory keyword arguments

- multi-dict splatting

- nicer yield semantics for generators

- Fixing system-specific encoding ambiguities

- dataclasses

- inline type annotations

- better metaclass support

- more introspection tooling

- pathlib (for nicer path handling)

- mocking pulled into the standard library in a cleaner way

- stable ABIs for extensions

- secrets handling

- ellipsis instead of pass (yeah who cares but I care)

- lots of standard lib API cleanup

All of this is very helpful for making clean applications. But I would say it's _very_ helpful for making good libraries as well. This stuff is about having a strong language foundation to avoid plain weirdness like the click issue .

Obviously it doesn't kill all of them, but there used to be even more of that kind of thing all the time. Library issues would basically get exported to its users, all basically due to language problems.
Is it actually true that 6:30am is more concentrated than 5:30pm?
There's some 50% off promos for Feals - check out the /Filmcast podcast notes. I recently ordered 2400mg for $120.
I love it...
This is one of those things you don’t truly understand until you’ve experienced it first hand. I have. Very appropriate metaphors.
"...accelerating the probe to a meager 9.2 centimeters per second relative to the asteroid (slower than a snowflake falls on Earth), but that was enough to give it enough velocity to escape"

That is pretty insane.
I’m danish, like I assume the author is, and what he preaches here is very typical of meta-programming in our C# crazed nation. I get it too, it’s a lot easier to have a lot of short functions with single responsibilities in a neat structure while you’re working on a C# project. As long as you know what you did and where you put it, it’s absolute bliss. It’s also really easy to sell your clients a lot of useless automated tests for this approach.

Five years later when I come in to debug the monster you’ve lost track off, however, I’ll curse you to the death as I go through endless loops of “go to definition”.
This is one side of the equation, the other is people ordering the real thing, repackaging it with fake from aliexpress and returning for full refund. More enterprising folks sign up as Amazon supplier, register for some expensive products, ship real thing once or twice and then start throwing more and more fakes into their shipments, all nicely co-mingled by Amazon.
So what. Everyone being capable of doing so should pay tax to maintain society functional. That banks should pay tax in form of a couple of free debit card transactions for poor people is not an unfair share. Banks earn enough money because society no longer works without debit cards.
Hi Sauwan,

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I have started to move in the other direction for C#. A long sequence of code that flows in one direction should be kept in one method if possible. Good reasons to break up a method are things that are not readability but other things such as re-use testability. If the methods are only called in one place and not performing a piece of work that is testable, then they shouldn’t be methods.

But

DoAll() {
DoA();
DoB();
DoC();
}

Is simply not better in any way than

DoAll() {
// A
...
// B
...
// C
...
}

Private methods will blur this somewhat. The key to readability is not having to jump around. Ideally of course methods are both short and reusable, readable without jumping etc, but given the choice between a 100 line method or the same code broken into 10 methods of 15 lines each (yes, more lines), where each method is only called once from a main method, I’d rather read the first. The 100 lines might indicate some other problem with the api (a chatty Dx12/win32-like API for example).

This obviously varies from case to case, I think one of the worse things a team can do is enforce hard rules that invariably lead to “style rule-induced damage”.
Rabbit and most others do; but only once it reaches the queue itself. The problem that using a fb to queue stuff gets around is guaranteeing it earlier; your changes to database and the queued messages are either all committed, or not - a single transaction. This is hard to impossible with queues outside a dB. However obviously it’s a trade off; it’s slower, it’s more work and connections to your dB. But, you don’t have to code around messages either never sent it from a later rolled back transaction.
so I think what you mean is that profiling is immoral if the service is necessary to live, and in Germany (and other progressive parts of the EU) it is also illegal.

I'm pretty sure these banks doing the profiling were in the U.S
Perhaps government would invest in proper public transport if so many businesses weren't trying to figure out ways to avoid taxes by, say, insisting a huge number of people who contract full-time and long-term for them aren't really employees?
I'd say there is a range, as there always is. I've seen fantastic and clear visuals of FDTD simulations of laser interactions in my field in 3d, then, I've seen jet used to pcolor data that ranges from positive to negative. I would say though that a good enough fraction (not sure if it's greater than 50% but I wouldn't be surprised if it was) do care about making good figures.
Every car has some random problem. Don't forget there are 30k fires every year in the engine of internal combustion engines (of course there are a lot of those cars). But no one says I won't buy a gas car because it might catch on fire. Tesla quality is generally very high. They are made by humans so there will be some problems, but they can be fixed. My car is 4.5 years old now, recently decided to buy the extended warranty and keep it till it's 8 years old.
Just read your original opening statement. I think what everyone is telling you is that you were being unnecessarily hyperbolic towards an author that writes for a mathematical argument. If it offends you so much as you've indicated that you just "moved on," then so be it.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sea-thru-brings-c...

Original article linked in current article, has more pictures/content.
Obviously not 100% but that would be a minority of rides. If you need a car to get to your destination then you either drive or use another car option (like Uber or taxis). Uber is too expensive (and sometimes too slow) to replace other choices for equivalent distances all the time. It's likely used in situations like rain or emergencies or something else. And people who had no options before or lacked last mile reach can now use Uber so of course there's net new riders too.

Uber will add to traffic but traffic always increases anyway. Check any city over any period of time. It's normal. Uber isn't the problem, it's the lack of capacity for a growing population and other viable transportation. For example, look at electric scooters and bikes in big cities that people are using for medium distances instead of cars. That's what happens when there's progress and competition instead of regressive regulation.
Most of the materials from a panel should be recycleable. The bulk of the panel is an aluminium and glass wrapper over the solar cells. Glass and aluminium are very recycleable.
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Well,

No one can know with certainty whether a given object or situation is going to hold up. Life isn't guaranteed.

Sure, you can tell yourself "X has worked so-far, that makes it continuing to work quite likely". But X is "driving your car without adding gas or oil", that it worked for a while hardly makes it more likely.

And, of course, you can't claim predictive power for a sequence of individual experiences. And if you apply regression to a Ponzi scheme, it will seem like a great idea.
I think I’m getting old: seeing this topic move into acceptable (albeit online) discourse so much makes me feel quite uncomfortable.
I haven't tried to find out from their finances, but this move would worry me; I'd assume that previously they were independent and profitable, and that now they're on a deadline to generate a lot of return on investment and most likely future is to be acquired in a single digit number of years and then absolutely ruined by the acquiring company (because that seems to be what acquiring companies do - buy things and wreck them).
If you disallow remote telemetry (which is an option), I wonder what it would do. You should try one for a weekend. They are a fantastic car. Tesla is very careful and successful with their software updates. You can just refuse to update them (in my 7 years of owning now two of them, I've never had a problem with updates). There have been 2 or 3 updates that were required because they were safety issues (they changed the way the s adjusts the height of the car at high speed to be more conservative in one of them). Tesla software is not like the shit software you'd expect in legacy car companies.
I sort of agreed until I googled the author's name. They were a "Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT" which I'll be honest, not sure I'm super aware of what that is, but I imagine they are somewhat knowledgeable.
Thanks! It's been 15 years since I did any linear algebra or had any use for eigenvectors or matrices, and I could follow this. Much appreciated.
But how do I transfer bitcoins from your main wallet to the new one without having this transaction public so linking your wallets.

As I said I did not researched this topic or own bitcoings, my scenario is that say we all use bitcoins everywhere, then I or you manage to upset some internet community, then they will start "hunting" , they could grab a list of all the transaction, see what you bought/sell from who you received money, who did you sent money , they could "cancel" people even faster then today.
I moved to ID back in 1999, and it was a great place - hardly any traffic, people were friendly, everyone accepting of each other, etc. Within the last 5 years, I have seen an influx of people from AZ and CA moving in that is changing all that. They are bringing in the big city "snottiness" and behaviors that come with it. Also, they are bringing in their liberal attitudes to a state that is historically conservative and Republican. I left recently out of disgust, as it's not the place I moved to and loved. A lot of the people from CA seem to be standoffish to anyone not born and raised in the western states, and it shows in their cliquish attitudes. I won't be back to the Boise area in the future unless it changes.
That’s a very broad, general description of behaviour that doesn’t actually describe an implementation. In fact it could apply to many completely different possible implementations. I suspect though that humans do more than this, that we have a way of either constructing entirely new models from scratch, or of dramatically adapting models to new situations without mere iterative fitting to feedback. Humans are actually capable of reasoning effectively about entirely new ideas, scenarios and problems. We have little to no idea how we do this.
People say about the same for the S, and they came out in 2012.
Do you actually use a non-FDIC bank?
Not always, but for more reason papers, you could always shoot someone an email and ask for data.
Cloud formation is after lacking support for resources that are new or less popular. Terraform is much better in this, supports most of the resources from the start as far as I know
I mean i think it’s mostly the blunt, binary right/wrong nature of your posts getting you this reaction. For most folks they’ve moved past that and almost all of us have non perfect world systems where we’ve made trade offs. It’s just not my (and I guess a lit of folks) reality to be so black/white on this.
Finding a $20 bill on Times Square
Deflation means that aggregate prices go down over time. I am not sure what it means that, as you said, people bought cryptos in the hopes that the dollar prices of bitcoins would ”””deflate”””. But sure, prices go up when demand go up - is this unusual?

(Sorry if I came across as arrogant.)

On whether deflation is bad for the economy. The standard example of this is the Great Depression, where massive amounts of credit was created and later people opted out of USD and wanted gold. There were bank-runs, as I’m sure you know. Thus FDR ”banned” gold (he even forced people to return gold or risk confiscation and jail time).

Of course dollar prices go down then, i.e. deflation.

I don’t see this as an argument that deflation is bad.

Or do you have another example or perhaps can correct me?
Why so quick to assume?

Maybe you’ve never heard of Fold app or Bitrefill. Some of us are actually trying to build a circular bitcoin economy. These companies not only offer onramps and offramps to the ecosystem, but they actively fund and incentivize building. Yes, they make a profit too.
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Our data is worth more to them than the equivalent ad dollar
Laws like AB5 & the CCPA doesn't help them in that regard.
Nice article. Are there any good biographies of John von Neumann that are highly recommended?

EDIT: found it at the end of the article

"
For anyone interested in learning more about the life and work of John von Neumann, I especially recommend his friend Stanislaw Ulam’s 1958 essay John von Neumann 1903–1957 in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 64 (3) pp 1–49 and the book John von Neumann by Norman Macrae (1992).
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Considering Bitcoin's chief feature is skirting legal authorities for money transfers, that wouldn't surprise me.