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My meaning was that it is too far for a transmission line to make sense, and once the transmission line gets to South Australia (the state closest to Western Australia) you have only delivered the power to a state with the same problem - too much solar without enough storage. A better way to solve the problem would be to prohibit new installs of rooftop solar without an accompanying battery system.

This won't happen because it would be politically difficult, and because the power companies would lose a lot of money as consumption fell through the floor. They don't want too much battery for a while because this would require them to move from a usage model to a majority fixed fee billing. To reduce public outrage the changeover needs to be slow.
Rats won't play with each other unless the smaller rat wins 30% of the time, even though he will lose every game if the larger rat chooses to do win every game.

A decade ago Call of Duty 4 introduced an under-barrel grenade launcher for the m16 rifle as a way to get easy kills even if you could not aim. The devs called it 'first order optimal strategy' and players called it the noobtube. CoD4 did the right thing, every new player still gets stomped but it ends up being roughly 4-20 instead of 0-24. Game design on this matters.
You're not wrong. I suppose all I can say is that software companies have every right in a free society to cater to people like that to the detriment of technical users... and I have every right to vote with my feet and wallet.

(There's a reason OpenBSD and macOS are both alive and well.)
About a decade ago I used a Zipit Z2 as my primary machine, as a fun experiment. It had 32 megabytes of RAM. Back then, that meant you could just about run Debian (who needs X11 anyway). Believe it or not, I often compiled software on this thing, and I quickly noticed that projects written in C would generally compile, while C++ builds would invariably choke from memory exhaustion. This was actually the first time I became aware of any difference between the two.

A very educational experience!
I'm belgian, living in Belgium and I know which american political party take regulation more seriously, which is more obviously corrupt and which is more socially irresponsible...

Just google "climate change republican party" and you will have a good summary about who should get your vote for the sake of your grand children.
I must be a different neurotype from you people. If I saw someone get upset, lack enjoyment out of playing basketball with, and losing to Steph Curry, I would think that person is a loser. To each their own.
Exactly. At my current place, management would laugh in my face for even thinking of such a thing. And this is a small company, mind you.

Yes, I do want to leave asap.
man, I feel your pain. I've been through this a few times. Just about to go through it again. Yes it's tough. I keep hoping that there's a non-tough bit later when most of the technical problems are solved and we get to sit back a bit and watch the business folk hustle. Haven't found that point so far though
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Ask HN: How do you manage domain/product/technical knowledge in your company?
So I am one of the oldest engineers at this company. and the company grew significantly in the past year. I found myself in situations were everyone is asking for a few minutes to get an understanding of a feature or a piece of code or some service/integration and I find myself spending almost 60% of my time on such requests. So just curious how does different companies manage their internal product/tech knowledge and what does the knowledge distribution mechanism look like.
In general, definitely. But it was only done for critical/high value tasks that either weren't feasible to do any other way or the cost savings from labor elimination made it cost effective. As recently as the 80's businesses typically weren't frivolous with computer purchases... that changed in the mid-to-late 90's.
Ads and tracking. What you read on wikipedia reveals a lot more about your centres of interest, political opinion and concerns than any commercial website.
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It's really an act of not being prepared.

$1.7B? They should be able to destroy and rebuild their entire infrastructure in less than a day.

Have tested backup and restore processes. Ideally have all users in VMs.

I don't see how this isn't entirely Merck's fault.
I wouldn't exactly say that. Jupyter notebooks don't have an easy way to represent an arbitrary DAG. The flow is more linear and narrative like.
That said, we do expect metaflow (with client API) to play very well with notebooks to support a narrative from a business use-case pov; which might be the end-goal of most ML workloads (hopefully).
I would like to think of metaflow, as your workflow construct - hopefully making your life simpler with ML workloads when involving interactions with existing pieces of infrastructure (infra pieces - storage, compute, notebooks or other UI, http service hosting etc.; concepts - collaboration, versioning, archiving, dependency management)
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>> Now a self driving car does not need to have general human level intelligence, but a self driving car is certainly a lower bound on human level intelligence.

This is exactly the misconception that allows people to believe in fully autonomous cars.

Following a lane is easy (in good weather). Stopping when the car ahead does is easy. Route planning when you have detailed maps and GPS is reasonable.

Understanding what unusual things might be lying in the road and what to do about them is hard. Navigating a construction zone with a flag man directing you on the opposite shoulder requires a brain, not pattern matching. Opening the window and following verbal directions...

The range of scenarios we encounter when driving requires AGI to cope with.
Very true. Companies are trusted to perform their own testing which is, at best, only testing for superficial, short-term effects. And substances are tested singly, despite the fact that we know that their effects are often multiplied by orders of magnitude. Look at the "inert ingredients" in pesticides for example.
If python 3 is available on the target system, this is certainly making sense, it might make the entire thing fly under several radars because a lot of things scan for suspicious binaries (statically linked, coming over unusual channels, etc.) and would leave a python file that is properly obscured alone.
Hello. I am the author of the "Wikipedia has cancer" essay on Wikipedia. After I finish writing this I I will confirm this with a post to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Guy_Mac...] on Hacker news I read HN pretty much every day, even though I don't post very often.

I will be happy to discuss any aspect of my essay on Wikipedia, and I would especially be interested in correcting any errors that may have crept in.
One of the most disgusting things I have seen in my career was when my manager up-leveled a male candidate just to offer a salary the candidate might agree to, but he did not do the same for a female candidate who received similar feedback in the interview process. I mainly remember this because it happened around the same time for the same role we were trying to fill. Neither candidate accepted an offer.
That’s it! That’s the one. And I am absolutely not googling it to verify.
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Now that is an interesting combo.
Are you supposed to enjoy it when you can't change the rules for any reason? People find great enjoyment in cheating the rules and being masters of their own fate.

Playing one game sure, playing a hundred games.. maybe. Some games are built with a design philosophy that make it difficult to win in a very un-enjoyable way. There's a reason we moved on from restarting the whole game when you died in Prince of Persia to a more streamlined experience in modern games.
> A course of antibiotics is said to cure both the infection and the behavior.

Probably not, since antibiotics work against bacterial infections, and Toxoplasma Gondii is not a bacterium.
> One researcher told a colleague she’d lost 15 years of work.

You're telling me that you had never backed up anything in the span of 15 years?
There are many cultures around the world that have developed whistled languages, most likely independently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
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No, but you could scale up moderation in parallel with users over time.
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To the extent this is true, anyone can create new money by extending credit - such as when issuing an invoice with delayed payment terms. There's a not-inconsiderable amount of money floating about in trade credit.
Let me honestly summarize this article:

Part 1 - Musk and others said we'll have self-driving cars all over the place by 2020. Author tweeted that we wont and discusses that for roughly half the article.

This part finishes with a quote by Urmson that he expects self-driving cars to take "up to 30-50 years" before they are really common.

Part 2 - this one quote aobve agrees with the author so he then looks at an actual forecast from a 2018 “Human Level AI” conference where some/most think AGI will occur soonish.

For some reason, he decides Urmson is the only relevant expert, and says these "more large hats than cattle, but [...] people with paying corporate or academic jobs" from the conference must be wrong because Urmson's prediction doesn't match them.

He then does the same for Kurzweil and FHI - they dont match Urmson's prediction either.

Thus AGI has been 'delayed'.

_______

The argument is in my opinion so badly made that I am wondering if the 17 people who upvoted read it, upvoted just because they are anti-AI in general, or because they like the author for other reasons.

Edit: This article is also from May, so it's appearance on the frontpage given the quality puzzles me further.
Mostly containers with K8s and Istio.
Works good but it's complex to start (for my taste).

For data we still have VMs with Spark or traditional ELTs like Talend (depending on the customer); but are moving forward to Apache Beam running on containers even for stuff that can be done concatenating lambdas/cloud functions.
Just as a thought experiment, if country X would shut down power in country Y, asking for 100 billion in ransom to start power again. Would that be an act of war, or just commercial extortion? It matters from a legal perspective, and perhaps the laws of war have to be updated for cyber warfare.
I miss 7-segments displays. It could be 8 Unicode characters, for instance (empty, plus one per segment), or some other scheme.

A hiking/backpack emoji would be useful at times, but then a lot of other activities could make it in: Rollerblades, music instruments, etc.

One pet peeve of mine is the "person shrugging" [1] emoji looking identical to "woman shrugging" [2] with most fonts. I prefer to use genderless emoji, but that does NOT look genderless. I also dislike skin color selectors, but again, that's personnal preferrence.

[1] https://emojipedia.org/shrug/

[2] https://emojipedia.org/woman-shrugging/
I’m on the Italian App Store and I just get a “not available in your location” error, which is somewhat galling.
Automated legal actions and takedowns like this introduce a lot of risk of collateral damage, but I wonder what the alternatives are?

The investigators would likely argue that notifying domain holders would reduce the chance that they can take down a botnet's infrastructure successfully, which seems likely.

Could there be some maximum time after which the 'rule set' for the auto-takedown code needs to be made open source / public? It must presumably be implemented as software and/or configuration files.

That would at least allow for inspection, confirmation and disputes about how it's implemented, and if this was 30 days or so, it shouldn't risk the takedown effort.

While top-tier network engineers are developing takedowns like this, presumably they'll do a good job of minimizing false positives - but as this case shows, it's not always going to be perfect - and I worry that if it becomes more common, we'll see sloppier implementations.

That could lead to connectivity and access issues for more users (again in an international context). It's great that the situation was resolved in this case but I imagine not all users would be able to raise a complaint at a similar level of technical detail and respectful tone and for it to receive the same amount of attention.

Maybe that's untrue - maybe injustices really do get amplified by social media and relying on companies to notice this 'works'. It doesn't sit particularly well with me as a remediation process though, and I'm not sure it scales.
No but there is an opportunity cost to the research on self-driving that could potentially be spent on other methods that seem less cool.
This is the important point. A serious fork of Wikipedia with a large chunk of the community behind it would be dealt with manually by Google; their explicit decision making would be the relevant factor, rather than the algorithm.
> Which is hinting that global scale is counter productive to innovation

I'd say not Global Scale per se, but achieving own goals without further goals to work towards. I.E you've achieved everything there is to achieve, what can do you do more?

Bill Gates reinvented himself by tackling humanitarian causes. Googlers set up further missions, e.g. self driving cars or health improvement, but those seem unimpressive comparing to world dominance.
They really went out of their wait to avoid using the word "server" in that article.

I've always hated the term "serverless", but its usage in this context is even more ridiculous.
keeping it as separate entities meant that useful data could not be shared. Under one org, more data can be safely shared while respecting user privacy.
It's certainly not what I expect as a user - turning off all the switches individually, should be equivalent to turning off the master switch - unless there is explicit guidance somewhere.

Not a biggy to me - but not good.
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This is so bad. This process needs transparency and notifications! It shouldn't be possible to sinkhole a website without the owner being aware.
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The learning thing is sort of irrelevant since you can install a program on your laptop that is strategically better than 99% of humans and tactically better than 100% (which we now know through experience is enough to beat 100% of humans, even the ones with superior strategic reasoning).
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Corporate missions are valuable/futile tools for filtering investors: "we may occasionally compromise between that and Total Profit, don't act all surprised if we do".
Personally I’d rather deal with the FBI accidentally seizing a domain than some foreign entity.
Buy a Kindle? I always use long flights as a great excuse to catch up on my reading.
I not sure I see the value in treating academics as individuals and not a single entity here. Academic consensus matters more than any individual academic, so why not treat it as a single gestalt entity?
As soon as you include C++ stdlib headers (even only for the stdlib features you're actually using), you have tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of lines of complex template code in front of your own code, and this in each compilation unit. In the end your own code is maybe one percent of all the code the C++ compiler needs to work through each time something is compiled (depending on how many source files you have, this is also why unity builds - merging all source files into one - are so much faster in C++).

In comparison, CRT headers (when compiled as C, not as C++, as in that case additional C++ bloat is added) are usually a few dozen to a few hundred lines of simple declaration code. Compared to C++, it's very hard to make a C project compile slowly.
I guess 850 jobs moving out of Silicon Valley isn't that big a deal, relatively speaking.
sorry- i meant notebook figuratively.

so metaflow is the local dev version of workflow construct. and then export that to airflow/etc compatible format ?

what workflow engine do you guys use and primarily support in metaflow ?
You can continue to pay only for what you use and handle super bursty workloads. But there is no free solution to cold-start if you don't see the future. People needing consistent latency were already doing something similar to keep the containers alive or they just avoided to use Lambda. So I think it's a step forward.
Most of the unexpected do not - human drivers handle it on reflex - but there is enough that does.
The manually directed traffic example would require some sort of workaround for instance - map update or protocol to tell it to the car. Human drivers utilise informal protocols in such situations including blinking signals, voice communication and formal ones like policeman signals.

None of which actually requires AGI to handle, and actually educated guesswork to figure out. Think of it as a human driver in another country - they have to learn the behavior from the observed subset to not stick out, but it's not actually too hard or involving. It's not AGI, but it is sparse dictionary learning (bounded set of allowed behaviors) which is hard anyway. And a bunch of high grade logical inputs as context.

Figuring out outdated map such as not driving into a lake, damaged or unfinished road can be done without AGI reasonably well, as can predicting potential accidents and dangers and pre-planning responses.

Fun part would be the car asking for directions with voice synthesis then trying to execute them. I want to see that working in practice, still not AGI really. It'd be really freaky the first few times it happens, especially if it's driverless.

Mind you, human drivers tend to do stupid and unlawful things because they're intelligent too.
You can treat it as a single entity. The questionable thing is then throwing out 'the consensus' because a single other expert gives a different prediction.
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It's largely talking about fixed DH groups rather than RSA.

It supposes that the NSA might plausibly break the handful of fixed groups because this would let them passively read the master keys (and thus all the data) for all traffic using these DH groups, which at the time they wrote that was a sizeable fraction of all IPSec and HTTPS traffic (for HTTPS the paper shows the fraction affected passively and the larger fraction that could be coerced by an active attacker with the risk of detection, the NSA's policy objectives mean it prefers not to risk being detected).

In contrast with RSA keys each user will have their own key and might rotate it periodically. If you spent just $1M to break my RSA key and then I replace every 60 days, you're now spending $6M per year _just on attacking me_ and typical estimates are _far_ higher than $1M and you need to do this fast, if you amortize discovery so that you take 100 days to recover new keys you can only begin to read things on average 70 days after they are sent.

For the web, which this paper is especially concerned with, 1024-bit RSA isn't a thing any more, and even if it was RSA key agreement also isn't a thing any more. So the NSA has much less to gain from an attack on RSA (even if it was still 1024-bit) than DHE.
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A dungeon mapper, open source, it saves maps to the URL so no signup needed and they are easy to share with players.

https://monk-e-boy.github.io/dungeon-mapper/

Very simple to share parts of a dungeon and as the players explore reveal more of it by msg-ing them the new URL
Looking forward to hear from Shadowserver on a few points...

• What led to the false positive.

• What actions were taken to notify the domain owner about the actions being taken against them.

• Why there was not a comment put into the Whois entry — or in some other obvious place — saying what had been done to the domain.
if this is their official claim then it is most certainly snake-oil:

> Bitmessage gained a reputation for being out of reach of warrantless wiretapping conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), due to the decentralized nature of the protocol, and its encryption being difficult to crack. As a result, downloads of the Bitmessage program increased fivefold during June 2013, after news broke of classified email surveillance activities conducted by the NSA.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage
I thought it was a universal condition...
The post getting upvotes is not indicative of the content being correct.
I wonder can't you see the picture is just a picture? In a way as when you watch a movie where people die or something you realize it's just a movie, right?
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> if this cold start latency is so important why chose function over elastic beanstalk or other auto-scaling type system?
Pricing! It depends on the application, but there are some use-case where Lambda is way cheaper, so if we can also partially solve cold start latency, why not?
Wikipedia only works because of the massive user contributions and moderation.

Losing even a small proportion of contributors could seriously affect the future development of Wikipedia.
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Personally, I find that stupid. If you want a chance to win, do not play against Tiger woods but play against your peers at your club and have different tiers so that the better players seek to not play in the games where the not so good ones play.
Am I the only one who recoils when hearing "Nonetheless, Google’s core service—providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information—remains at the heart of the company.". This is more or less the complete opposite of how I view Google (Apart from accurate maybe). Google delivers results which are highly biased based on what they think you will like and what they will make the most money from and you pay a high price for it, giving up all your personal integrity.
I think you are being 'unfairly' downvoted because AGI is very commonly used on here, or at least it comes up a lot.

But yes, AGI is the holy grail of AI research. Currently all AI successes have been training computers to be really good at one thing, chess, go, driving etc... And in many of these domains AI has outperformed humans by a large margin.

But take those AI systems and ask them to do something else outside of their specialty and their knowledge doesn't transfer. In essence they are really just optimized functions for a very specific set of inputs.

AGI would be an AI that increases in intelligence across multiple domains and can respond to novel problems (like a human)

note: you could argue the real definition of AI is actually AGI but that is a different discussion :)
The handicap in Go [1] works amazingly well. I have had enjoyable games with dan-level players despite being at best conversant at the game.

That said, I've also enjoyed such games immensely with no handicap, despite no prospect of winning at all. In most games you can have some partial success and psychological reward despite losing the game.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_(go)
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