skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a choice between scientific fact and "fossil fuels like coal are too important to our short-term economy".

Several governments make the political decision in favour for short-term benefits, just like they do for other issues. They do not want to risk having today a recession because the voters vote for a good economy now.

Is long-term planning incompatible with democratic elections?
That was roughly the thesis of Fuzzy Logic (Kosko 1993); complex control systems that used neural nets during design to extract "rules" from the system under control.
The move from Python 2 to 3 would likely have also involved changing the architecture so they could migrate components incrementally. Since they were going to do that regardless, and if they already wanted to change the interfaces from HTTP to GraphQL, this is a natural time to do it. Though, this migration has nothing to do with React--they were already and will continue to be using it.
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klong doesn't have a toy interpreter. It was likely processed server-side.
Agreed, a sensible overview of the history of research, and then a launch into cloud cuckoo land. It's as if the editor decided it needed to bring along the loons (who, it must be said, have the majority).

I have long wondered why so many people have such a hard time thinking of consciousness as an activity. "Where does the mind go when you die?" reads to me like "where does the flow go when you turn the water off?" or "Where does the signal go when you hang up the phone?", or even "where does the conversation go when you stop talking?"

I am also disappointed they did not mention frontal lobes, at least to say why not.
I agree, but the word hasn't gotten out very well.
So what is the difference of using this approach with exploring the set of inputs to find the optimal one using a search algorithm like A* or the many different ones?

I’ve been struggling to find where machine learning starts and what is just good old statistics (used in data mining for ages) and search algorithms like A*.
Sure, but it's obvious nonsense, just playing with words. If consciousness is a process that doesn't need for anybody to be doing it, why bother to look at people at all?
I think the article addressed this. Any time the reader has to reach for an add-on or click some other button to make your site readable, they're more likely to just go elsewhere. After all, quit a bit of the article talks about font sizes and colour contrasts -- both easily fixed by flipping to Reader Mode (I assume Chrome has something similar?) but really, how often do I do that? Hardly ever... the reading matter has to be reeeally compelling for me to bother with that.

Any friction at all is still a friction.
Why is it too hard to ask? That's just in your head. Especially if you're honest about being bad at names and make a little joke about it, 99 out of 100 people will just laugh and tell you the name.
Simply one of the best computer books I know. I think this (or something similar to it) is the language all those toy-lisp projects should implement instead of something super minimal. It's actually useful and you learn about how lisp was actually implemented.
did u look at aws batch maybe
I don’t worry too much about our responsibility to our environment; I leave that for after we have any sort of semi-coherent approach to our responsibility to ourselves. The human species will be destroyed by its own inability to control its impulses long before it does damage to “the earth”.

In that way, the context you mention is almost irrelevant, except as a recognition that life isn’t fair—we didn’t ask to be here, we didn’t plan for our level of foresight, and we couldn’t have known that building our economies around certain resources would lead to global catastrophe.

But, as you mentioned, these are the cards we have to play. We have to do the best we can with that. :-/
>Any model which has no explicit understanding of the causal behaviour of an environment is going to misbehave for one of those unseen data points (eg. an unseen road in a weather/lighting/etc. condition

I disagree. That sounds like an older interpretation of behavior of simple deep nets like the inception family. My experience with auto encoders and GANs is such that the nets can and unquestionably do interpolate between training data points. What's more, the latent spaces display order reflecting logic - much in the way that you can perform arithmetic on BERT encodings in what amounts to a form of logic. This is the where SOTA is now and I think it's a strong step towards AI, though we're still far from it.

The trick is in understanding the boundaries in high dimensional space that your training data represents. So there is some degree of covering all your bases, so to speak, and that requires a new kind of intuition. These are very exciting times in tech/ML.
This reminds me of when I gave an tour of the software development company I was working for (we had about 250 employees at the time) and his reaction was "so many people, but you guys don't produce _anything_".

He was right, we didn't ship anything physical.

We just lined up electrons. :)
I said my hardware raid failed, I'm still checking georedundancy / failover at sperate locations.
It would also be good to bear in mind that First World demographics are already and increasingly skewed toward older age groups.
Manhattan disagrees with you, 5 story walkups are extremely common there. Helps keep you fit!
Your body is primarily water so no pressure suit is necessary, but gas narcosis, high pressure neurological syndrome, and oxygen toxicity are all serious issues. You use different breathing mixtures like trimix or heliox to manage them.

Ascending is just as dangerous since you now have highly compressed gas bubbles throughout your body. There are different models you can follow to manage decompression, but it’s far from settled science. Both individual variation and situational factors can affect it greatly.
Static Marks [1], a tool I have written, fulfills at least 1 and 3 (and the OSS bonus). 2 could be achieved with HTTP Auth. But currently the tool is rather meant for techies, i.e., all bookmarks are maintained in YAML files and you have to setup the pipeline yourself. For example, I handle my private bookmarks in git and update the web app on every push on my server. The access is handled with HTTP Auth. It works similar for my team's bookmarks.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
Well in the US the execs would be rewarded. At least 30 less employees.
No, the article literally presents two sides of the story, presents the claims of both sides, and at the ends attempts to provide a synthesis. The two sides presented are those that find fault with the NIMBYs who blocked building more housing, and those that find fault with the “tech bros” who are viewed as gentrifying communities.
I way prefer monolith compared to dabbling in microservices here: https://natalian.org/2019/05/16/Microservices_pitfalls/
I tried to figure out the what3words value for the location but can't find a search term it likes.
Agreed. Ghosts were anything but the conventional definition in the book.
> My opinion was the root of the problem is database choice and practices. If all I want to do is simple CRUD, then give me good scaled Redis cluster...

Throughout my entire career I have come across very few simple crud applications that will actually work properly with denormalized data structures. It’s not even about scaling users, it’s about scaling your schema. The very first instance you encounter where a document has a nested array will start to cause problems, and the only way to solve it is to push more complexity and state management onto the client. Which is bad interface design, and quickly gets out of control.

If you really do have a simple crud app, and don’t want to put too much effort into running your RDBMS, just use MySQL imo.
That's because we as a culture over-analyze and study businesses as if they are living entities that are the sum of all of it's different internal divisions/parts/stockholder-connected output, instead of fundamentally about delivering value to customers and getting back a greater amount of value in return.

The universities and pop-business books has made everyone so obsessed with the business processes themselves and their management, particularly the stuff that has commonalities across various niches: finance, management culture, 'innovation', etc.

But the all of the various unique fundamental value propositions are what really drives the companies, everything else is just helping deliver and execute that, but the core of the business often goes to the way-side in favour of obsessing over perfecting all of the the small processes in between. An ideal organization should put its primary business front and centre, above the various small processes which it is composed of mostly just for practical reasons of running a business.

It's sometimes difficult to distinguish between the two but I do very much think that it's possible to lose sight of that distinction in the day-to-day running of things, especially once the business gets really larger and running the business itself becomes the biggest time-sink for everyone involved.
Still, if that would execute and throw away, like most of them do, there is still nothing gdpr relevant.
Another exception of a sort, and I believe the one this research is meant to address, is when the drift is initiated unintentionally. Say you hit a patch of black ice mid-corner, for example. This kind of work can expand the envelop of the control system to encompass these scenarios.
RSS in the title is misleading. This looks like an email newsletter thing and has nothing to do with the syndication format you can subscribe to in a feed reader.
Though not universally the case, I like to quote @foone's thread on why he publish on Twitter and not a blog post:

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128

(Threader: https://threader.app/thread/1066547670477488128)
Being shown a few examples is not the same as understanding them. If the first time you see an example of the rule is during the explanation of the rule, you have to deal with too much new information at once. A good explanation should refer mostly to information the learner is already familiar with.

The first time you see an example of the rule, there's no need to explain the rule yet. You can just memorize the example. The same is probably true of the second and third example. Explaining the rule only makes sense once remembering the explanation becomes easier than remembering the set of examples you need to know.
I took it as more of a "only did this one aspect of it" statement more so than a "the one thing they did was bad" statement.
The issue is that the earth is being brought out of balance within a few decades. This has rarely happened, and when it did happen (meteorites, volcanos etc) the consequences were bad. And yet we are arrogant enough to think we can pump billions of tons in the atmosphere without consequences.

Our ancestors did enough to balance out a natural decrease in temperature that should have happened. And that was without a global industrial system. So of course what we do will massively influence the system. Going “I don’t believe things will be bad” is basically the same as “I don’t believe in climate change”. Both are an excuse not to do anything.
Baley didn't feel anywhere near a complete human to me. If he has hobbies, hopes, or dreams, they weren't significant to the narrative. Even someone who spends all their time at work must surely have friends, ambitions, petty rivalries - or else he could be a single-minded obsessive who thinks of nothing but solving the case. But neither of those things came through into my awareness, if they were even mentioned on the pages at all. I genuinely couldn't remember whether he was single/married/divorced/widower without looking it up.

None of which is a fault with the stories! You could say the same for, say, Sherlock Holmes: these are not convincingly rendered human characters because that's not the point of this kind of storytelling. My point is that Asimov's work succeeds on its own terms, and resonates today, without needing any of the things that the literary/soft sci-fi fans will tell you are essential.
Whether climate change is disastrous or not is a value judgment. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was disastrous for them but beneficial for us. Radical climate change will be beneficial to some species, but humanity isn’t likely to be among them, as our civilization is rather fragile and built on the assumption of a stable ecosystem. It is self-interest that should drive us to “protect” ecosystems from exploitation and radical change.

I believe the reason this isn’t discussed much is because it is assumed to be common knowledge.
California's over 40% on solar+hydro+wind+geothermal.
What i mean by persistent is : what is the best practice to save an actor’s state so that it can be properly restored in case of a crash without loosing information.

I think i’m still not clear on how you would design a transactional system ( such as order & paiement processing ) with actors in a way that won’t make it look like a microservice based system ( aka : one per subtask, fetching info from a db for each incoming request, and storing the result in a db in the end)

It seemed to me actors had to have a more fine grained context ( such as one per order), but in that case i’m wondering how it’s supposed to handle saving its state regularely so that no information on the order processing state is ever lost
That is an old idea, that begs the question. Why would we evolve a transceiver for something that obviously was not needed for survival? What the hell was all the soul stuff doing before apes evolved transceivers? And what good did the transceiver do before it worked well enough to tune in souls?

It smacks of a desperate attempt to justify believing in a soul. If you want to believe in a soul, just do. Dragging in nervous systems just muddies the water. Gods, souls, Grace, are made out of pure belief. They don't need stuff.
DI services are usually abstracted behind interfaces - and most systems allow you to replace the service interface implementation at runtime.

So if you have a class that uploads files to a cloud storage provider - it would make use of IStorageProvider, and you might have AmazonS3StorageProvider, AzureBlobStorageProvider, LocalDiskStorageProvider, and for testing you would have DevNullStorageProvider.

A program using DI without interfaces with different implementations is missing the other advantages of DI.
Great piece of writing.

"Life doesn’t go on. It goes nowhere except away. Death goes on. Going on is what death does for a living. The secret to surviving in the universe is to be dead."
> I assume to tell the gay people in your life that you would rather they didn't exist?

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ve been through a transition with about 60 devs that went DDD plus microservices.
A few monotliths ended up as a couple of hundred services, and looking back I feel we got basically all positives.

What other people say about scaling teams is true, but I have a few other points as well:

- personally, I spent 6 months writing tooling for service lifecycle management and setting strict conventions. This was before the microservices decision and I was recruited to do “devops” which gave me a lot of head room. :p

- when talks about microservices surfaced I had to fight for several months to get the lead devs on-board with tooling and conventions.
From the infra/cm/systems management side we’re used to manage many thousands of “configuration items” - devs are usually not, and many underestimate the value of proper automated lifecycle management.

- once everyone was on-board we all used a common language. Big win.

- I could form a “devops” team to help develop the tooling further and the infra platform as well.

- almost all teams worked in mobs - amongst other things it really helped with the ownership part, something that’s absolutely crucial. Well defined domains and accountable mob teams, just awesome!

- quality rose by a mile. Small commits and somewhat robust tooling under the eyes of a mob.

- graph the pains. If outdated versions are a problem - put it on a graph, green, yellow, red. Show services in relation to other services - the application is the sum of all connected services.

I could go on, but the post is getting long! :)
Yes, series and parallel connections are the underlying theory behind electrical logic gates, and work with plumbing too.

I believe something like this is also discussed in Petzold's famous book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C... )
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That, and also ABS only prevents the wheels from locking (much) under braking. It doesn't help you if you enter a corner too fast, or hit a patch of ice, or stab the throttle too early on exit, etc. Traction control helps with the last of those scenarios, and modern stability control can start to help with others. But as you said, this system would theoretically be able to go straight to the most effective inputs in any given situation, since it doesn't have to deal with a human driver in the loop.
Adding weight to headphones does have a practical advantage: it keeps them firmly on your head.

I had a relatively expensive - but very lightweight - set of headphones a while ago and I swapped them for a cheaper but heavier pair because they just wouldn’t stay in place.
Yes, the micro services + Golang vanity project because you think you’re Google. I really don’t think people understand error states in distributed systems very well, putting possible network partitions everywhere is not a great idea. I would strongly suggest trying a Golang monolith first and seeing if there are one or two heavily used services that need splitting off. Also monorepo. Always.
You got it. Will be adding that soon :)
But no.

This is not about phones. The same argument can (and has been) made about non-uniformed police officers, photography of crowds, video of demonstrations, wiretaps, postal inspection etc.

Yes, democracy can be threatened by the actions of governments and big business. Can be, has been.

The solution is nothing to do with phones, or cameras.

It is about good laws, enforced vigorously.

And that requires us to vote, to become engaged and perhaps enraged.

If anything is breaking democracy perhaps it is the realisation by government that they can get away with things that previously were unthinkable - that breaking the basic rules of democracy does not lead to destruction.

And the only solution is our vote. But enough of us need to be engaged and outraged.

The fault dear brutus is not in our stars, but in our selves.
Very broadly, when scuba diving you're breathing gas at the same pressure of the depth at which you are. So the deeper you go, the greater the pressure of the gas that is being dissolved into your tissues. You don't feel this pressure, only the pressure in the body's "hollow" spaces, like sinuses, Eustachian tubes. That's why you need to equalise on the way down.

When you dive to 50m, the feeling of "being dizzy" happens when diving on air. This is due to Nitrogen narcosis. To minimise this, in technical diving, helium is added to the mix, to reduce the percentage of nitrogen and minimise the narcosis.

Going down to 332m, as you correctly say subjects you to a pressure of 34 Bar. To dive this deep you need to be breathing 4% Oxygen, maximum (compared to 21% that is in air we breathe at the surface). At this level, making the mix needs to be extremely precise and you need to be sure your instruments are properly calibrated, as a 5% mix can potentially kill you at that depth.
Is it this?

https://www.johnkay.com/2004/01/17/obliquity/
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Maybe, but he was a fictional character.
Everyone complained about the lack of a C style stdlib. That's why jQuery was written and everyone used it.
Should you get medical advice from a bot? Doctors aren’t so sure
Thanks honestly the way we use twitter has dumbed down our culture so much it's infuriating.
“That’s one way to tell the story... But there’s another”

“And depending on which camp you found yourself in, there was one of two essays you’d brandish at dinner parties, yell about on Twitter, and pretend to have read that explained what the protests symbolized.

One was by the prolific writer Rebecca Solnit ...

It took until the following year for those inclined to the second point of view to find their voice, which came under the guise of a long post at TechCrunch by journalist Kim-Mai Cutler ... Point being: This decade has been such that, were you inclined to agree with Cutler or with Solnit, you could find plenty of evidence to support your point of view...

As the decade comes to a close, in many ways we’re no closer to a synthesis than when we started. Tech’s villains continue to be awful, both individually and collectively. And our housing production remains anemic.

And yet there are signs of hope.“

In fact the heroes of this story, if there are any, are the “tech bros,” big tech companies, and YIMBY’s who are making attempts to build more housing and be neighborly.
Well, we can pay the rent. Think how do lower class people manage? They don't.
In Kotlin

data class Person (val name: String, val age: Int)
val c1 = listOf(Person("A", 5), Person("B", 6), Person("C", 4))
val c2 = c1.filter{ it.age > 4 }.map{ it.copy(age = it.age*2) }
> There’s no real AST

Perl cannot be statically parsed!

> Theorem: Parsing Perl 5 is Undecidable

https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=663393
> Remember how Beats headphones used to add weights to feel more substantial?

This was not really true, the original tear down that found weights was of a counterfeit pair of Beats headphones.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/07/are-beats-headphones-real...
It takes no effort to write out a story. It takes effort to make a Medium blog, and worse still, you have to get an audience for it.
Isn't SQL -> mongo a meme now? I mean, are people still seriously considering this outside of one or two very specific use cases? At my workplace the only outcome of this would be an awkward silence and weird looks.
Yeah, I'm apparently a complete idiot and forgot basic syntax of a language I have been playing around with for two years...

EDIT:
This is not sarcasm. I am an idiot and he is right.
I’ve seen a fair bit about TiDB but not much from actual users. Can someone who uses this in production explain why and what alternatives they evaluated (we use Citus so would be curious to hear).
You could make a statement like that about any law.

Eg many EU countries also have laws against hate speech, but I saw nobody take down their hobby hacks because of those.
Genuine tip then: write your story on Twitter, then copy paste the compiled story from Threader into a proper blog post and replace your tweets with a link to the blog post. Problem solved!
Exactly my point, isn't it? There is a population explosion underway since ~1900 and it is a major factor in the climate and environmental crisis.