skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always felt the there is a deep connection between evolution and thought, or more specifically, genetic algorithms (GAs) and neural networks (NNs).

The state of the art when I started following AI in the late 90s was random weights and hyper-parameters chosen with a GA, then optimized with NN hill climbing to find the local maximum. Looks like the research has continued:

https://www.google.com/search?q=genetic+algorithm+neural+net...

All I'm saying is that since we're no longer compute-bound, I'd like to see more big-picture thinking. We're so obsessed with getting 99% accuracy on some pattern-matching test that we completely miss other options, like in this case that effective subnetworks can evolve within a larger system of networks.

I'd like to see a mathematical proof showing that these and all other approaches to AI like simulated annealing are (or can be made) equivalent. Sort of like a Church–Turing thesis for machine learning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church–Turing_thesis

If we had this, then we could use higher-level abstractions and substitute simpler algorithms (like GAs) for the harder ones (like NNs) and not get so lost in the minutia and terminology. Once we had working solutions, we could analyze them and work backwards to covert them to their optimized/complex NN equivalents.

An analogy for this would be solving problems in our heads with simpler/abstract methods like spreadsheets, functional programming and higher-order functions. Then translating those solutions to whatever limited/verbose imperative languages we have to use for our jobs.

Edit: I should have said "NN gradient descent to find the local minimum" but hopefully my point still stands.

Edit 2: I should clarify that in layman's terms, Church-Turing says "every effectively calculable function is a computable function" so functional programming and imperative programming can solve the same problems, be used interchangeably and even be converted from one form to the other.
You don’t see any possible middle ground between “let criminals run rampant” and “LARP your favorite action movie”? No room to, say, wait the guy out or talk him down before you systematically destroy someone’s house? Even though not immediately resorting to military-levels of violence works better and cheaper in most other countries?
Thanks, that looks fascinating and I’m digging into it.
> These five recurring themes paint a disturbing picture of Boeing’s development and production of the 737 MAX and the FAA’s ability to provide appropriate oversight of Boeing’s 737 MAX program.

No, these five recurring themes paint a disturbing picture of Boeing’s development and production of ALL its aircraft.
The issue we are tackling is the Renewable Energy Sources Act (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...) in Germany. As of 2021 up to 6.000 wind turbines drop out and will no longer earn enough money from selling their energy. Therefore they must be switched off. With our EDC we are able to provide the operator with a second revenue stream.

The economic effect: Continued operation of the wind turbine. The EDC only uses ~5% of the generated power. ~95% of green electricity will be fed to the grid.

Side effect: Preparing for the upcoming need of Edge Data Centers.
I don't actually know much about WhatsApp, so I can't really speak to that.

Let's talk about FTP instead. If I write and sell an FTP client and/or server I do not expect to be liable for the content the users of that software exchange. This is true whether or not my software supports e2e.

If, however, I set up my own network, invite people to use it, and let them exchange CSAM, then I should be liable. This is true whether or not my software supports e2e.
Yes, there are target only guns (Olympics comes to mind), but I bet you still would follow all tenants of gun safety while handling one of those guns...

I enjoy target and clay shooting but I believe they are simply metaphors for the gun's original purpose which is to shoot living things.

We're kinda off track the original topic here though :p
This is really cool! Our search-engine-based impressions dropped substantially in early Feb. and because we didn't have that in our main dashboards, it took us almost 2 weeks to discover that. Orbiter would've been pretty useful for that - got in touch!
> Firecracker: OSS virtualization techno, creating and managing secure, multi-tena

This title is a bit awkwardly worded; in particular, "techno" in American English is a genre of music, not an abbreviation for "technology".
Game Theory Can Help Prevent Disease Outbreaks (2018)
Meh, the price now is what it was in October of last year. Not really the greatest.

I did rebalance my portfolio a bit, but I'm sitting tight waiting for better opportunities.
Iran’s regime set off a coronavirus bomb on its own economy
When you need to run more than 1-2 applications, especially in HA, and you're cost-conscious so just throwing tons of machines in autoscaling groups doesn't work for you.

Said applications don't have to be applications that you're writing as part of your startup. It can be ElasticSearch cluster, Redis, tooling to run some kind of ETL that happens to be able to reuse your k8s cluster for task execution, CI/CD, etc. etc.
Stereotypes are horrible and often used as an substitute for reason. Lawyers will take a solid case on contingency especially against "deep pockets". People have families and friends. People can change their spending habits. Courts exist to bring disputes to a just resolution. The whole meme that justice is only for the rich and average people can't fend for themselves is intellectually lazy and relies on generalization.
I don't know about terminating on the load balancer level, but it works fine on the ingress-level (http router) with cert-manager, nginx-ingress-controller and the Ingress-definition.
You need to spend some time googling “wrongful convictions” there’s literally thousands of these cases and who knows how many we don’t know about.

The further we broaden police powers to dragnets the more innocent people will be within their crosshairs and have to be “filtered” out, often at the accused expense.

Next watch some “first day in jail” videos on Netflix and see the ridiculous stuff that gets people in scary overfilled jails, even for small even legitimate reasons and it’s enough to make it obvious there’s a serious problem with justice and law enforcement in the US.

One of the worst that affected me was an older middle class guy who ended up spending months in jail because he lost his job and at some point in the last 5yrs had a kid with some woman he met on a christian dating site who refused to have an abortion. The courts eventually ruled and said he owed $4k+ in child support in a short time span (a month?) otherwise you’re going to jail, when he was already struggling to live having lost his job. He was one of the few white guys, the stories of the black kids (most looked straight out of highschool) were often even smaller and even dumber reasons which immediately exposes them to living with other real criminals for extended periods of times which they then become friends with... etc.

The US is extremely punitive and the use of jails/prisons and stupid bail schemes is beyond excessive. That makes wrongful convictions all that much worse. Which all happens well before the trials even start.
The explanation that I’ve seen is that closing is not an effective mitigation anyways, as children often end up congregating elsewhere in even closer contact: e.g. backup care with groups of kids, older kids getting together while schools are closed.

Given the well-known downsides that you list, and the fact that it doesn’t help much, it makes sense to stay open until there are actual cases associated with the schools.
Why should we not let it influence the decision? It's seems to me entirely possible that closing the schools could result in worse outcomes.
To keep up with your first sentence: Yes you do not need to have good math knowledge to start programming, and I would say if you do not have good understanding of math you really should start to get into software engineering.

My two cents on software engineering and math.

- When you start programming, and you start to develop complex algorithms, you will increase your mathematical knowledge just by trying to solve your problem. It is not different from school. When you are a kid and study math, first of you do not have mathematical knowledge at all. I do not think that there are talents, that have a better understanding in some areas just because they were born. Most of the people that are good at math in school, are interested in math, and that's why they try to get better at math. So they practice math. So if you are interested into programming and you come up on a math problem, and your urge to solve the problem, and your interest into software engineering and creating stuff is bigger than your fear of math, the result is you getting better at math. It is simple as that. So if you are interested in stuff you will learn and practice and you will get better at it.

- So your urge to solve the problem in the best mathematical way is not higher than your interest in software engineering: You still should get into SE because you can always create stuff, even if it is poorly implemented. This is not me saying one should start learning bad programming practices, but saying people should code. You do not have the best programming skills, and mat knowledge to create something that solves a problem. And if this project of yours solves many problems, there will be people you can hire, that are better than you in any discipline, and they will do the rest...

Cheers and have a nice day :)
> They also scoop up data from people who have nothing to do with the crime, often without their knowing ─ which Google itself has described as “a significant incursion on privacy.”

This is masterful re-framing of Google's deplorable attitude towards user privacy. Apparently the real incursion on privacy is not when Google collects and tracks this information, but when government officials subpoena the information from Google. Amazing.
I’m 48 with childhood story similar to the author. I do like TikTok for some reason.
It also allows you to add certain common sites, that you may consider ok, to its white-list. That means over a period of time, the amount of auditing required generally goes down.
I’m not sure how decentralized BAT is when a single entity, Brave, controls it. Like the blog said, if you donate to a website that isn’t signed up on Brave’a program, Brave keeps the donation for itself.
Considering that once you get through possibly high upfront cost, it greatly simplifies operational side, I often get the feeling that the "you are not Google" crowd misses the operational side completely, or looks at it through rose-tinted glasses.
Signal's developers don't want to store contact lists on their servers because of their concerns about privacy. They also worry about ease of use for non-technical users.

Their solution is to use the end user's address book as a contact list with users' phone numbers acting as identifiers. The identifiers are mapped to endpoints with some method that is supposed to protect the end user's privacy.

The app could encrypt a list of usernames and store it on a server, but that would affect usability for non-technical users.
Lol, the downfall of high powered output hardware. It then requires equally high powered input hardware. Solving this problem is my life now.
See if this fits:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
It's not controversial, it's mostly downvoted (as of this writing). I'm guess it was downvoted because it adds ~nothing to the conversation. Might as well have commented "this", or all that was added.
No, not at all, nor is concealed or open carry right by me, because of exactly that reason. If we want to say that the state doesn't get monopoly on violence, I don't see any logical reason to limit that simply to a handgun. IMO every person, in such a world, should be allowed to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. Absurd but I see no difference between that and guns other than scale of destruction (and the scale is still enormous for a gun).
As a teenager I always found it suspicious that when I would miss a 7-hour school day, it would take 3 hours at most to do the make up work. If we did that all the time, we could learn twice as much!
At the low end it’s worth considering Fargate distinct from EKS. You don’t need to provision a whole cluster (generally 3 machines minimum) and can just run as little as a single Pod.
start full time, than ask your boss. At least down to 4 days/week is often easy that way.

so far the only easy career-friendly option I found.

Maybe freelancing can work, but that's something else all together. Maybe you can find a startup with limited funds.

If you need some encouragement: https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/05/09/part-time-software-d... (also pushing his 50 bucks book about the topic, but maybe it's even worth it, idk...)
While I admire the vision of that webpage, it was really a pain on mobile (Firefox android).
But the “olds” are using it.
Right?

The flip side of this ad absurdist argument is that if a suspect holed up in MoMA, it’s okay to burn it down because he shot three of the maybe fifteen bullets he has in his possession? No, no it is not.
Building the Future of DevOps Automation
Not sure what this means dollar-wise, but accord o e article,

“Both – quantum dots ad perovskites can be easily placed on the surfaces and have comparable costs of production”

Not sure what perovskites cost, but that should give you your answer (or a way to figure it out).
I wish the NYT would cut it out with this super interactive article format. It might make sense for some (very limited) set of things, but a photo album is not one of them
Integrating those things into the browser is for:

1. user privacy – the data for ads is processed in your browser and then only meta is sent to the ad network. Rather than the current system, where Google's/Facebook's ad network fingerprints your browser and then tries to track everything you do on the web.

2. convenience – you can have the browser automatically donate money to the people/websites you visit most without any payment processor middleman.
Kitchen Knives: The New Bling (2013) [pdf]
The scrolling is like going down stairs. Get it?
A malfunction causes red wine to flow from faucets in an Italian town
And those who steal cars can clone pretty much any car keys. No sensation here.
You'll really have your mind blown reading the history of the early earth then. For a couple hundred million years, there was no liquid water. A few hundred million years after that, single celled life appeared. It took yet another few hundred million years for there to be any oxygen in the atmosphere. Fast forward another 3500 million years for something resembling modern humans to appear, a few hundred thousand years ago. Recorded history is only about 5000 years. So, if you live to 100 years old, you will have been around for 2% of recorded history but only 0.000002% as long as the earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...
"“don’t you mean translator?“

Let me explain.

In computer science jargon a translator IS a compiler. It’s exactly the same thing. Those are synonyms."

Every time someone says "transpiler", god kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.
Video demo:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grqXEz3bdC0
Right, but that just means dividend yield understates the misalignment, and we passed the weirdness point (for lack of a better term) a long time ago.
Really excited about this.

We're very early into doing a PoC where we use DataDog/Cloudwatch for our business metrics for this specific use case. We're also looking at tracking data quality metrics. The standard BI reporting tools are very immature when it comes to alerting based on changes in data over time.

I hope at some point you consider ingesting metrics like the ops tools do. Giving you direct access to my database is going to be really challenging but I'm glad to send you what I want you to keep track of.
It is a good point that software has a lot of fat these days, therefore optimization is an easier task (because it's done much more rarely). Windows 98, for however many bugs it had, was so much more responsive.
Thanks! Looking forward to getting connected. We've heard SEO-specific use cases come up with some of the other companies we've worked with too -- you basically need to find out the exact time that your SEO ranking saw a material change cause it's usually driven by something that shipped at that time. Otherwise takes a long time to get back the traffic from GOOG
> The first sentence you quoted is irrefutably correct, and will remain so as long as immortality is not achieved.

Glad you agree. I imagine most of those doctors in their 20s-40s had at least 40 years of life left. Really interesting to hear that half a lifetime fits in your definition of "soon".

> If you believe the second sentence is BS, please provide evidence.

See my statement above, which extrapolates on a fact that you agree is "irrefutable".

Feel free to respond to my third paragraph as well, so as not to avoid the most important issue in this argument.
Load balancer certs via annotations are supported, but they're a bit iffy when pairing with controllers like ambassador, since ambassador expects to own TLS termination (although the ambassador docs do say this is configurable). https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/kubernetes/how-to/configur...
I run a hobby website about this kind of thing: startyourownisp.com. Might be interesting to folks reading about the topic.
Qt for MCUs is definitely interesting, but I wonder if they are able to go quite as low resource-wise as these other lite-graphics libraries (like Littlevgl mentioned in another comment).

TFA boasts RAM usage of 9kb. That's something you can run on almost a literal potato, and I'd be frankly astonished if Qt devs have been able to go as low.

On the other hand, you can build a somewhat nice system with graphics already with a Cortex-M4 and 512 kb of RAM. That sounds something that Qt just might be able to reach, which would be quite awesome.
Don’t that just start to create the same environment that the school closure was supposed to prevent?
He said "after taking inflation into account" which means it must have been like $713 CAD in the account ;)

Enough profit to buy a shitty meal at Tim's.
It's a lot simpler to create a command economy for particular goods under emergent circumstances than to reorder the entire economy such that everyone is resembles homo economicus.

Command economies are fallible because they are run by humans with varying levels of trustworthiness and accountability. But they have their uses, and are often far mroe efficient than trying to automate the human factor away completely and live in a idealized model.
Coronavirus outbreak threatens record stretch of job growth
Technically - easier. They have to remove MCAS and retrain the pilots as a new type.

But rebuilding the trust will be harder.
I did not know that before. I mean of course you can differentiate between them because of the path and domain, but still this can cause problems. Do you have an example of when you would like to have the same cookie for different domains or paths? Is it most likely a problem that occurs when programmers create cookies for the wrong path or domain. Or would you say there is a use case for that?
Boeing is too nationalist to fail; there is no way the US government will allow itself to be without a civilian airliner builder and have to buy planes from Airbus or Embraer. Plus they'd take with them the absorbed remains of McDonnell Douglas.
Is digital dumbing down desirable?
Ah sorry, I completely mis-read your comment. That really is peculiar, I had no idea this was a thing
Of course it made him a suspect. So would anyone caught on security cameras nearby, cars passing intersections that record license plates, and so on. Or anyone a neighbor described seeing walk by.

And then of course he was cleared. Because unless they then find additional evidence like him selling the jewelry on eBay or something... there's nothing there.

I don't know about you guys, but I appreciate living in a world where we have reasonable tools to catch criminals, rather than live in fear of burglary and worse.

I'm glad we can use cell phone locations to help catch the actual criminals. Obviously abusing that power is bad (e.g. a police officer using it to stalk an ex.) But as long as there are procedures, safeguards and accountability in place... this seems like a win, no?
Oops, I misread that! Thank you
I am using a Thinkpad with a Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U. Has been completely trouble-free for me on 5.4+ and this is easily the best Linux laptop I have ever owned.
Great suggestions! I've incorporated them into my next podcast, exclusively available to my Platinum Patrons (tm)
That site is a hot mess on mobile
I did not say they should not necessarily exist, I said they should not exist in their current form. I also want to go back to the days where websites were a labour of love from individuals, not always for-profit enterprises. Ads right now are attention stealing, privacy invading monsters as a result of an arms race for users' notice. They actively harm users for profit. There are ways to advertise without harming users, and hence there is a way to make business work on the web. I will continue to block every ad I see and refuse to use websites that find ways to circumvent ad blockers until providers significantly change their behaviours.
I'm not familiar with the space so my question might not be that relevant - where does OpenShift fit in all of this (I still struggle to differentiate it from Kubernetes) and is there any merit to IBM trying to sell it so hard?
> A lot of low rent internet chum would also disappear. So maybe that's a fair trade off, but it will also hurt your local newspaper pretty badly.

Wow, we have _completely_ different understandings of the value of the Internet. To me, the (realized) promise of the Internet is not just an additional channel for established media, it's the decentralization of publishing in the first place. "Low rent internet chum" is a consequence of that, but IMO it's been far more than worth the tradeoff.
It is from the NYT “Style” section which should tell you all you need to know about its contents.
Dropbox designer name dropped "64-of-96 RS encoding" as if they're the only person that's heard of, or dealt with Reed-solomon encoding before, and expected the author to get scared off. There is, in the case of drop box, plenty of ground to crush Sia into. That is the ground between the 95% and multiple-nines of availability.

Engineering is about tradeoffs. I could build a network as good as Google's with infinite money, infinite time, and infinite help. I could design a product as beautify as Apple's with the same lack of limitations. Unfortunately for me, I have limited money, limited time, and limited help. Every systems designer understands that, innately, so isn't rushing out of the woodword because Sia and Dropbox have merely chosen different tradeoffs. That one has IPO'd is uninteresting in the abstract. It's just money after all.
"Explore your timeline. Rediscover the places you’ve been and the routes you’ve traveled in your timeline. Only you can see your timeline."

Based on TFA, this statement is untrue.
How We're Wired for Goodness
You may be wrong on a few fronts here. Firstly, Congress funded the 1.5bn, not Obama, and these things are never cash - the funding is in the form of vouchers to spend with US defense contractors.

The vouchers are not made available to US allies on the understanding of "our companies will help you develop something, and then you'll share it with us".

That was never the deal. The deal is: "the United States Congress would like Raytheon to upskill in missile defense, why don't you work with them and we'll cover your costs".