skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the workflow DAG is a core concept of Metaflow but Metaflow is not just that. Other core parts are managing and inspecting state, cloud integration, and organizing results.

At Netflix, we use an internal workflow engine called Meson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R58_tx7azY
Everything else aside, Welcome Collection is an awesome place! If you're art/architecture nerd, make sure you visit to see their kinda famous stairs, they can look like that from certain angles: https://www.flickr.com/photos/149993730@N05/32374727987/in/d...
I work at a pharmaceutical company and this does not suprise me at all. Our IT infrastructure and support is atrocious.
Well, disease is not abnormal nor death is. Only our culture makes it abnormal.
Make sense to who? I don't think the beneficiaries of a particular setup are incentivized to challenge the status quo.
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I use due.work to track issues
I used to disagree, then one day I was showering and thought I heard something I couldn't possibly have heard (a train crossing bell). False positive, my audio neural net heard some sound and with all the distortion got it wrong. My other facilities quickly ruled it out and concluded that it was unlikely that a train was in my apartment, but also that there is no train crossing there either.

This problem (pattern matching, cross referencing experiences, deducing truth) mirrors the SDV problem pretty well. Can they tell that the plastic bag on the road is safe to drive over? Can they infer that if the truck in front of them is overflowing with poorly-secured tools and equipment/soon-to-be debris, to maybe keep more distance? If a human waves to indicate they should go around, or the road ahead is closed, or they need help, will the car understand?

The way to solve self-driving cars in a few years is to start building roads and infrastructure for such automation. Maybe even have a human driving multiple cars, computer assisted, simultaneously from a remote office.
And here's the thing, the billionaires depend on the military-industrial complex and police to keep their investments safe and growing... but at the same time, they are not contributing their fair share in taxes towards that goal, which means that the lower classes have to pay for it.

It's the same problem that Europe has with its defense - we have over decades relied on the US to keep us safe, without contributing our fair share.
By the way, this is also what I love about a lot of Star Trek tech. Humans are mostly in the loop. (I am sure it's just a product of the times it was created, but I love it.) Reports are brought on PADDs walking to the captain, not emailing the captain. The computer is explicitly instructed to scan for people, it's not keeping tabs of everyone at all times. If you lose your badge, your are generally not tracked anymore. (No implants.) The badge is not always in recording or transmission mode. Sickbay does not have CCTV system always on. And so one. It seems like a culture which long ago decided on a trade-off between surveillance and privacy, and it's not the same we choosing right now.

But if I keep thinking in-universe style, the Star Trek / Federation culture on surveillance could have come from some hard won failures earlier on.
And what if I fire 500 concurrent keep-alive's? (Or maybe a bit of overhead). Then the 500 lambda instances will stay alive for a couple of minutes again, but I'm still only charged the 500 calls. Not the Gb/sec the rest of the time the labmda's are alive, right?
The point is about asking good questions and having a healthy debate not about arriving with a preconceived “ethical core.”
If the excluded system service is reporting location to Find My iPhone, then I’d say it’s working exactly as I’d expect.
Well said, I could not have said it better. Just to add, the productivity boost you get from short build times, in a long run, think of a project you work on for years, will out perform ANY gain you get from using a library, templates, and the like that kills your build time.
Except Google doesn't respect privacy.
What is and what is not optimization and what changes are allowed or not depends on the application.

MP3 is an optimization of WAV, yet it changes the result.

Some applications are ok with reducing precision of calculations because they are not sensitive enough to small inaccuracies or they take effort to control inaccuarcies.

For example, graphics applications are typically heavy in FP calculations and yet they tend to not care much about precision and much more about performance. For those applications reducing accuracy for slight performance increase is likely win.
Well, with `gzip --rsyncable` and similar (most compression tools have such a mode), it's technically possible to compress first then dedup!
To be precise it's "chunk first, then compress", which still admits a 2nd "chunk, then dedup" pass to reuse data, but not as efficiently as a combined "chunk+dedup+compress each chunk"...

`gzip --rsyncable` and friends are mostly useful for when you already have compressed files on your filesystem, and want to sync/backup them byte-for-byte. Of course the benefit is lost unless most compressed files in the world are produced with such mode, and sadly most aren't :-(

The author of `zsync` did various experiments confirming gzip --rsyncable then sync is sub-optimal, and implemented a somewhat crazy "look inside" approach that can sync compressed files byte-for-byte AND very efficiently:

> gzip --rsync does fairly well, with both rsync and zsync transferring about 410kB at the optimum point. zsync with the look-inside method does much better than either of these, with as little as 140K transferred.
> -- http://zsync.moria.org.uk/paper/ch03s03.html

IIUC though it's more of a "2-files sync" scenario like rsync, not applicable to "chunk everything then dedup" approach of borg and similar tools.
In case people are wondering about the reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzx5Hwg24xw
What Is Great About Developing Open Source and What Is Not?
React-like RxJS-based framework (weird)
Very interesting project. I love that this allows you to transparently switch "runtime" from local to cloud, like spark does, but integrated with common python tools like sklearn/tf etc. Looking forward to test metaflow out myself.
Automating scheduled payments with the bunq API [with request body examples]
"Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all."
China’s TikTok Sued by U.S. College Student over Data Use
And still just a web browser underneath!

If they used a native toolkit this bug wouldn't exist, no?
some people use the trash section as well. same result

not ingenious though
Raising the minimum wage in restaurants is good news for everyone
Sex Tech Stats for 2019
There are a few whatsapp and telegram groups in my area selling all kind of drugs, they even upload gif to showcase their products. You place your order with emojis and some dude show up in your street. Sometime in a black bmw/mercedes, sometimes it's a hippie on a ridiculous bicycle.

It's like ubereats but they're always on time.
Musk takes the stand in first day of “pedo guy” trial
What are you talking about?
There is no scientific consensus that fully autonomous cars will be available for 2020s.
It require necessarily AGI cognition on some tasks and research have zero clue, zero formal roadmap to achieve AGI.
Thus any prediction is baseless, absurd wishful thinking.
As what I say is true, unless a sound refutation is provided, this should be the scientific consensus.
When your PSN buddy is a government informant
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades
Big Size, Small Features
OT: Do people really enjoy reading information like this sprinkled over multiple tweets? Is it so that the can granularly react to a specific segment of information?
Review of “Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey” (1993)
New York City Sued over Program That Moves Homeless to Other Municipalities
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw...
Thanks. Let us know how you like the prototyping -> scaling out & up journey.
If that was the case then every company/startup that fails to raise another round would survive on the "better tools" they developed with their previous funding rounds.

But as we know, they die or sell instead.
Interesting. I noticed that the blog post mentions the Nymaim malware family. I read about Susam's case when it hit Twitter the other day and might have even followed a link to his URL. Then a few days later got an email from my ISP Virgin Media claiming they'd detected Nymain on my home network.

I run macOS only and as far as I can tell Nymaim is Windows only. Still, I ran an malware scan on my Macbooks and nothing popped up, so I'm pretty sure nothing infected my devices.

Still, I wonder if I ended up hitting the sinkhole, Virgin was somehow notified and this triggered their email? Or maybe it's just a complete coincidence.

Edit: Sure looks like Virgin works with Shadowserver: https://www.ukfast.co.uk/it-security-news/virgin-media-to-in...
The screen capture is at least incomplete, there are other settings under the diagnostic section of privacy settings that clearly imply diagnostic will include locations.

Thus before testing one should ensure that all diagnostics are also turned off because if diagnostics are on and location global switch is on too this is indeed expected.(NB: sorry lazy to try right now on my everyday phone).
Way cheaper given a particular workload and access pattern*, Lambda is not magical and its pricing is tricky to figure out until you have something running.
No, the Find My iPhone service has its toggle and it's disabled.
Genius claims it caught Google by spelling out “Red Handed” in Morse code
Why aren't you using Aliases in webpack config?
We are talking about the linked article. In it there is a an estimate by a bunch of scientists which has been rejected in favour of one person's estimate. None of it is about 2020 by that point in the article or this discussion.

Perhaps, you are confused because you thought we are talking about a worldwide scientific consensus?

>As what I say is true, unless a sound refutation is provided, this should be the scientific consensus.

This is not what consensus means (and again, nobody is claiming today that there is a consensus that self-driving cars will arrive in 2020).
Right, this is why Turing's "imitation game" test matters. The humans won't accept that a machine is intelligent, whatever the machine does it's just another clever trick that isn't "real" intelligence. So you have to humiliate the humans. You have to rub their faces in the dirt or they'll disregard all sense rather than admit that they weren't all that. It isn't enough to beat them at chess, at Go, at a million other problems, you have to pretend to be a human so well the other humans don't know you're a machine and only then are they forced to confront the reality that they're just a half-arsed compute substrate made of warm biological soup and not after all anything special.

The animal intelligence researchers face a similar problem.
I would love to lose a game of basketball against Steph Curry, would certainly be a fun experience. But it would get old fast as he would certainly crush me every time.

If my goal is to get better at basketball, playing against Steph Curry is not useful. Learning happens most efficiently when the challenge is somewhat above your current skill level, but not enormously so.

If someone just recently started going to the gym, would you put a 300 pound barbell in front of them and tell them to lift that, and assume they're a loser if they don't get any enjoyment from failing to lift it?
Hyperbolic Cellular Automata Simulator
... and Puffin Party being used similarly in "Four Lions"
tldr; Collateral damage from law enforcement taking down a botnet, resolved reasonably fast.
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/how-google-book-search-got-los...

They got sued, prevailed in court, but by then the 10 year battle sapped energy out of the project. With antitrust and other scrutiny, I doubt Google will attempt other massive forms of digitization that need it like academic journals. My personal opinion.
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

The WMF has no plans to sell out to a commercial outfit like Google or Facebook , but is it actually illegal for them to do so?

See https://money.cnn.com/2008/01/15/smbusiness/non_profit_sale....

While it can be difficult to sell a nonprofit like Wikipedia to someone like Google or Facebook, it isn't impossible.

There are two ways that the commercial entity could get a court to agree with the sale and both of them start with the WMF screwing up so badly that they run out of money and need to either sell of shut down. We are nowhere near that, but it could happen in the future. I have talked this over with people who appear to know the law on this, but I am an engineer, not a lawyer. If a real lawyer replies, please ignore me and listen to them.

There are a couple of things the commercial entity could do to make it more likely to get approval from a court.

They could simply say that they are abandoning all of the federal and state tax exemptions that a nonprofit enjoys. The easy way to do this would be for the wikipedia.org domain to announce the end of wikipedia and tell everyone that they have accounts with the same usernames and passwords on the new wikipedia.google.com site which runs the exact same software and has the exact same content as the now-frozen wikipedia.com version. Add the usual "we don't plan on changing anything; we just want to save the now-failed wikipedia" language.

Or they could create a new, independent nonprofit with the same rules as the WMF has now but with funding by a generous donation from Google and fork the content as above. As above, the key to making this work is the existing Wikipedia running out of money and shutting down.

So, while it isn't going to happen any time soon, it isn't actually illegal.
Thanks for you feedback, really appreciate it! Very good point on identifying duplicated accounts across same/different channels. I really agree deactivation of disengaged prospects can really impact deliverability to the entire list.
It's not even perfectly clear that human level intelligence is enough for driving. We accept a lot to get it over the line: 1.25 million deaths and 30-50 million injuries. We broadly accept the benefits outweigh the negatives (lives extended, saved, flexibility of social organisation etc..).

But still no-one thinks the average driver is good at it.
False: you can't if you're browsing the site anonymously.
AGI hasn't been delayed. It's been overpromised. And the proponents will continue to overpromise right up till when it arrives. We need a breakthrough in AI research of at least two magnitudes before even tackling the AGI problem.

One is we need to understand the mechanisms of neural networks at least an order of magnitude better than we currently do. Best article on the subject that concisely describes NNs is The NN zoo[0]. I have no idea what needs to happen for us to collectively understand the mechanisms better. We need an Einstein moment I think where some researcher has a happy thought and a decade where the rest of us catch up (at minimum).

The other is we need to understand the problem we are solving. At it's core it seems very easy to define intelligence but you very soon realize that it's an endless Matryoska with no discernible root. It's very easy to define intelligence in terms of solving elementary cogitation tasks and this is what we are doing writ-large. This leads to a culture of solving Weak AI tasks, hoping that the aggregation of the solutions will lead to AGI. Well, it's only going to do so if we are engineering solutions that will solve the larger problem and if we don't understand it well enough it's going to be a really random occurrence finding it.

[0] https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/
That is the purpose of sinkholes. That's why you don't just change the DNS record to 127.0.0.1 (or similar) - you want to log the traffic that you're seeing so that you know who is infected and can help them.

I'm unaware of this particular international cooperation arrangement but it's great to see.
I personally hate haggling, but I do appreciate the raw efficiency as opposed to arbitrarily set prices. Maybe the ideal would be some built-in automated haggling: you set a desired starting price, and a private "red line", and the prospective buyers do the same. Then the bots can haggle and maybe dynamically update the prices as they discover more information about the market.
What right did I have to be sobbing in front of my computer?
Badly Dubbed Movies
The server is down it seems

https://github.com/susam/susam.in/commit/91405150ff3f44fd094...
I don't quite follow this. The translation is written neatly, but has some emendments in Elizabeth's hand. So the conclusion is that Elizabeth translated it, had her translation recorded by a scribe (she dictated it? Or wrote it somewhere that does not survive?) and then made corrections when reading it back. It sounds plausible but hardly conclusive - couldn't it be someone else's translation she was working on?

It's also unfortunate that the article doesn't seem to give a relevant image. There's a neatly written page from the Tacitus under discussion, and a separate sample of the queen's handwriting, but I can't see an example of her making an editor's note in the Tacitus book, as the article claims.
It doesn't matter if you lose - what matters is that you feel like you have some involvement in the game. Good games are like conversations - you can enjoy a conversation with someone who's way more knowledgeable/smarter than you, but not one where you don't get a word in at all
MISRA-C is just a set of rules. It does not stop humans making stupid mistakes or ignoring rules, and causing safety to be violated.

It not as hard as rust where the binary is not built if a rule is violated.
It's in the nature of social networks that new social networks don't look like old ones. Youtube is definitely a social network, and so is Twitch, Discord, TikTok, etc. Youtube has the additional advantage of having persistent count, so I would count on Youtube lasting much longer than any other social network whose popularity changes generation to generation.
Yes, I get that the Shadowserver Foundation does good work. And that they acted quickly, after being pointed to your tweet.

However, if your tweet hadn't gotten traction, and if Namecheap hadn't been proactive, you'd likely have never gotten the domain back. I mean, you had the Namecheap CEO on the case! And for a business losing a domain like that, it'd probably be fatal.

I get that many think that Americans are hugely too litigious. But there is the argument that there ought to be compensation for damages.

You say that "[t]he primary loss I suffered was in terms of time". But arguably your time is worth something. Such as your customary billing rate, times three.

Edit: Or just send them an invoice. At perhaps 50% over your customary billing rate, given that it was a rush job.
Here's a snapshot from the Wayback Machine, given the original website is down https://web.archive.org/web/20181206232625/https://cforall.u...
Why would fully autonomous cars require AGI?

Yes, an "AI" that is simply a collection of situational task-specific algorithms will encounter situations it can't handle.

But humans encounter situations they can't handle too. A fully autonomous but non-AGI car could simply do what humans do: pull over, turn around, or call for help.
Tokyo feels like a vision of the future, as decided in the 1980s.
the server is down it seems

https://github.com/susam/susam.in/commit/91405150ff3f44fd094...
"The days when one could get away with marketing something like Shiner Bock as a bock are long gone."

Can I look forward to the days when one can't get away with marketing American IPAs as IPAs? Because they're nothing like the British originals. I was also a homebrewer and a beer judge for a short time. That was back in the day (the 80s) when Pilsner Urquell was still the most bitter beer in the world. There was a stereotypical homebrewer who used to dump loads of hops in his beers as a sort of "hot sauce penis waver" to express his manliness. These guys paid no attention to beer style or brewing history. This mindset went on to have the dominant influence on the American microbrew industry, which has included varying degrees of misapplication of beer style claims. I've long given up on trying beer from American brewers as only a few of them use any degree of real creativity and understanding that malt does more than just provide color and something for yeast to create alcohol with. Unfortunately, the rise of microbrews inevitably brought the demise of imports, relatively speaking. I could get on board with the canned beer fad if the labels were even remotely readable, but like their overhopped beer, art and nuance is something that is wielded like a sledgehammer to clobber us over our heads.
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We need a Senior Full Stack Developer to perform software development tasks, such as prototyping, feature development and bug fixing in Java and JavaScript. We work in Agile, use AWS, GCP and there is a possibility to work remotely on this position if you're based in Poland.

Are you up for challenges and willing to make this world a bit better place with us?
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Millions of French shoppers are rejecting cut-price capitalism
I don't know what you mean by "events". More people get shot in the US.

There are obviously lots of confounding factors in relation to crime statistics in different areas of the USA. It's more revealing to look longitudinally at the positive effects of gun control legislation in e.g. the UK and Australia.
De Anza had a 370 in the early 80s, but I don't know what replaced it.
OT:

I don't know if this effect has a name, but the reason you hallucinated a train crossing bell was because shower sounds a lot like white noise, and white noise contains all sounds. Your brain 'found' and selectively filtered a bell in it. It's somewhat similar to the Ganzfeld effect.

If you ever experience a new auditory environment like a factory floor or hospital, you will keep hearing sounds from that environment for a few days if exposed to white noise.
.7% growth is an exponential rate. Cities are corporations and the ones that push density are looking for money.
AMD's new budget-concious Radeon RX 5500 XT
Every day for the last twenty years!
I remember seeing people from INRIA talking about CompCert (a formally verified C compiler http://compcert.inria.fr) and the main idea was that C was still the main language used in some critical application like aviation and military equipment.

This is why it was not rare to see defense company or Airbus financing those research.
A fork would be extremely unlikely to attract enough editors.

Forking Wikipedia is already allowed and encouraged: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks That page even has a place to list new forks so they are easy to find.

The only way to make it work would be for the existing Wikipedia to run out of money and have to shut down. That isn't happening any time soon.
This was a really good write up, thank you. And congratulations on getting your domain back.