skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe he means they are storing all the data, but for a subset of types of data, sorta like extracting just a few columns out of a big table. Presumably someone on some other team gets use out of having access to the 99.9% of data stored that is not relevant to "performance or capacity related queries."
Might also want to give Prometheus a try as it's extremely simple to setup, and it is very well supported in the open source community.
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It matters if it means that much less people then believed do protest. I don't know if it does mean it, it could, but it also could not. It also matters because it means some people try to manipulate what is perceived as the "Twitter public" opinion.
Great article!

The bit about not being able to use columns for each metric because there were too many ....

the classic solution is to have a column called “metric name” and another for “metric value”.

Can’t spot why they didn’t just do that.
Wow, thanks so much!

Always thought it was bug, turned that straight off.
That xkcd is quite old. Support for the lockdown is down to about 60% now.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/29/corona...
Besides focusing on language 1 vs language 2 I think the author is also highlighting just how hard it is for people to get started in any language. You mentioned R/Rstudio ....

I just wanted to work through an example in a book that I'm reading that has corresponding R code. I type require(package_name) into the command window and that doesn't work. I look at the help for "require" and there is nothing about how to install packages - I would think a reference to the install packages command would be useful (they link to how to check, but nothing obvious on how to install, maybe I missed it). After some searching I find the command and it prompts about whether I want to use the source code or not (after a few reads I understood what was going on but it could be improved). Things started compiling and then I tried to run my package again, no luck. So then I try reinstalling and this time I noticed the error - something like "exited with non 0 status". Awesome. Looking a bit closer I noticed one of the dependencies was not installing. After trying to install the dependency manually I somehow realized it was only for R version > 3.6, I'm on 3.5. So I figured updating RStudio would fix the problem, no luck. It's not like RStudio advertises what version of R they are shipping with Rstudio .... Now I'm on someone's Linkedin post (wtf?) looking at how to upgrade R from within RStudio. They indicate that on my mac I should updateR (or wait, they say that turns out to be not good, so just install from CRAN). Hopefully that works. Do I try my luck with R v4? Nothing's going to break there right ...?

This isn't meant to be a "R is bad" rant. Maybe C# or some other language really does avoid these problems, I don't know. However my experience has been the problems the author mentions are a problem everywhere.
um... I use Google Alerts for this... You might be behind the times. (Not the CCP stuff)
being scolded by my shower is not exactly the future dystopia I imagined.
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All this bot stuff/millions of fake accounts amazes me.

Whenever I sign up at Twitter (entirely because some companies do support there) the account is flagged within a few minutes for "suspicious activity", such as making a coffee and coming back to the PC or searching for the company I want to contact.
The significance of the Moore incident is that it shows that a long-developing pattern of deletions and removals is expanding. The early purges were mainly of small/fringe voices on either the far right or far left, or infamously fact-challenged personalities like Alex Jones.

Unfortunately the ludicrousness of Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google, Cloudflare etc setting themselves up as arbiters of truth or morality will come back to bite them.

Having done it once for "good reason" they will need to justify themselves to whoever is in power as to why they cannot do it for "other pressing reason".

If they cannot position themselves simply as operators of a mechanism that allows individuals and groups to act as their own publishers then they are a threat to us.

Time to get rid of them. I do not need to be protected from the opinions of anyone. I can make my own mind up.
A useful tool with a highly annoying message to the user if you're using Fedora.
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Your first paragraph application of bots is 95+% positive I’d think and I’m 100% supportive of the use of crawlers for that and then hope the humans who pick it up act positively.

(I’m not even sure I’d consider something that was itself read-only in nature to be a “bot” but I suppose it technically is.)
As a reminder, Brian Kemp is the former Georgia secretary of state who oversaw his own election to governor where he won with 50.2% of the vote, in a state that uses electronic voting machines with no paper trail.
See, the “censorship is OK because it’s a private company” people always say this - and it’s strictly correct - but the only reason Moore can still put the film on his website is because the censor mob hasn’t figured out a way to stop him from doing that, too... yet.
That's not how the burden of proof works.

It's also not so much about trying not to make "the site look bad", it's more that it generally leads to baseless witchhunts and flame wars.

HN has an advantage over Twitter and other social networks: posts are supposed to be insightful instead of merely pictures of cats or people doing funny tricks. As a result we can criticize posts based on their intrinsic values instead of having to go meta and wonder about the intentions of the person posting them.

If a bot manages to posts dozens of interesting stories that make it up to the top of the front page every day I say we keep it...
I wouldn’t assume so. Contracts often specify the opposite, that violation of one term does not void or negate the contract.

I don’t actually know, though. It just doesn’t seem like a safe assumption.
This is certainly an interesting idea, but what's the initial value proposition to customers? How do you convince someone to pay extra to install such an appliance?
Possibly because of your IP? Any ideas why that is happening?
There are a lot of statistics that can be analysed to indicate a bot. If you start with extreme cases and catch 'real' people it might be for the best.

Think about an account that is active 24/7 every day all year, or one that fires off multiple actions per second for long periods of time.

Beyond that, having a limited vocabulary, repetitive phrases, consistently accessing the same thing every few minutes, etc. are all low hanging fruit.
Seriously the feeling when something clicks is a giddy rush that never gets old
This list almost perfectly matches my frustrations when learning a new language, and to be honest it's why I don't bother anymore.

I started off in Python and have looked at Ruby, Pony, Rust, JavaScript, etc so I'm aware there are other ecosystems out there but I feel none of them really approach the ease of C# .NET, especially with .NET Core.

On a new system I can install the dotnet core sdk, call `dotnet new mvc` then `dotnet add package npgsql`. I've got everything I need to write a web app that connects to a Postgres database. I can launch up Visual Studio for free and have almost unparalleled intellisense, etc. Or on a non Windows system Visual Studio for Mac or Visual Studio code. The project template gives me everything set-up and it 'just works'. If I'm not sure how to use a library I don't have to leave the IDE to browse through variable quality documentation, I can autocomplete to victory or use the REPL or just debug and write the code in the debugger with edit-and-continue.

Once it's time to move to production `dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -c release` and I have my production ready deployable application.

Now when I go back to Python or these other languages at least one or more parts of that process is missing. I know I'm biased but it feels like for other ecosystems the 'pain is the point'. It should be as simple as that and it needs tooling, especially an IDE to match.

Almost certainly people feel this way about other languages they use, but I think there's an enraging habit for software development as a field to throw away the old tool we were used to and that was comfortable and worked, for some new thing that doesn't get the job done and is a godawful pain to work with (goodbye XML hello YAML). This really contributes to my burnout and disillusion with the field in general, though I'm on the road to recovery.

Edit: This rant clarified what I'm actually frustrated with. There's no way .NET would have reached the (excellent) point it is now without competition from other ecosystems, the whole dotnet CLI owes a lot to other ecosystems and evolution does improve things.

But I'm just sick, in this field, of feeling like a failure, or a fossil because people are constantly hyped about some hot newness and if it gets introduced, I'm going to have to learn it because that's the job. I'm not excited to learn flavour of the month cloud tool, or database replacement, or configuration language (I hate YAML so much) or language or framework. Other people are, and that's fine and good, but if those people introduce the thing at work then I now have to learn it and 9 times out of 10 we'll be having discussions 5 years down the road about why micro-services, or NoSQL or whatever it might be, was overhyped and we've found the right approach (which was almost identical to the approach before we started this). People should be free to have fun with those new tools, but I feel there's explicit or implicit judgement of people who just want to use the tools they know, that have known best practices and failure modes and whatever else. TLDR: you'll take my RDBMS from my cold dead hands.
Surely the conservation of baryon numbers is just a rule for reactions. I don’t see how crossing the event horizon changes anything. Remember from the POV of the baryon, it never crosses the event horizon. It’s not really ‘destroyed’, it just becomes unobservable to the external universe.
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You're welcome. I still use Mockups :-)

As for luck, you made your own luck. Congrats on your success!
Then you get hate from the hn crowd about how they're violating everyone's privacy by deanonymizing them
What are the technical hurdles to these bots? Is API access required?
Any models or code available?
Thanks for compliment vngzs!

As you and more commenters pointed out, current connection to db isn't very optimal.

I added a note "Allow remote connection to MongoDB port (27017) from 165.22.32.162" while I try to come up with a better solution.

If you can share some advice/article on how VPC peering for AWS & GCP works, I'll be grateful.
> "South Korea endured one of the worst outbreaks of the virus earlier this year"

By what criteria is BBC rating this outbreak? That seems grotesque.
We don't need bots to state that case when so many Americans are receiving more in unemployment benefits than their typical wages.
You can always combine BSD code with your GPL and release the code as GPL.

You cannot however mix GPL code into your BSD code and the resulting work as BSD.
I like your example, but here's some of my own: I was told as a child not to leave the tap on when brushing my teeth. There was a campaign to put a brick in your toilet cistern to reduce the amount of water used on each flush. I take more showers than baths. I have a low-flow shower, I turn it off for the bit in the middle where I'm applying the soap/gel, and I've now read an article saying that a mist shower would be even better at saving water.

None of these items is in any way quantified or measured - but all of them have or could contribute to me saving water even if none of them has a measuring device attached.
Essentially the writer lays out the drawbacks as:

1. Your salary may go down if you live in city where living costs are less because companies often offer salaries based on the living costs of the city -- Well that's justified. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

2. You might not get free food and snacks that you get at your office -- yeah, that is very concerning (not).

3. Your company will monitor your work activity on your machine more than usual by keeping track of the hours and so on -- Don't companies already do that when you wfh? If you are against such a company, you shouldn't be at theat company in the first place.

4. Your work-life balance will be in disarray when you work from home. -- Sure WHF is not for everybody and companies are not forcing their employees to do it forever, as I understand they offer you the choice to do it if you think it suits you better. If its not for you, then go to work!
Last attempt at remaining relevant - lol.

This isn’t a competition, they are tools. Ansible is widely used and will continue to be so for a long long time. Its foundations - ssh, python and yaml are also in for the long run to manage infrastructure...
The opening of the schools is likely to be tied to a low number of active infections in the local population.
Such an excellent and practical use of AR. Wow I hope the devs that came up with that are really proud of themselves.

I have UBNT stuff all over my house but not the rack switch.
why you feel this paper so important? the best summary are the benchmarks:
first place at question answering (on yahoo task)
First place on language modeling for pen treebank (by FAR)

So it is a totally new model that will probably keep evolving and being applied to more and more kind of NLP tasks. And it seems that it can have the first place on most NLP tasks, its empirically the breakthrough of the year.

It achieve this while having an extremely small number of parameters which shows:
The model is smarter
The model has room for more parameter hence even more accuracy!

Finally, theoretically it is a breakthrough as it is a port of a computer vision technology (variational autoencoders) to the NLP world.
Actually it might be the successor to the Transformer paradigm.
I wonder what pile of incremental improvement will researchers will be able to bring to it like they have on the Transformer paradigm (spanBert, XLnet, etc)
Do you have any examples of this? Have there been any significant instances of this? I’m not saying that the moderation team is not good, but we should be allowed to question and discuss the possibility that they are not.
I'm intrigued, but I honestly don't understand how they rinse effectively.

On the one hand, the article explains how a Navy shower uses a 30-second rinse, which feels like how long I need to rinse for to get all the soap and shampoo off.

But then the article says "a mist shower of 8.9 minutes offers plenty of time to get rid of soap and shampoo".

Huh? If it takes me two minutes to lather up, am I spending 7 minutes just waiting for enough mist to gradually collect to rinse? That sounds... horribly inefficient and just bad design generally.

(It also admits it won't work for people who need to rinse long hair, so statistically this seems very male-centric.)

I'd much rather just get it done with in 30 seconds. In fact, I can't see any benefits over a Navy shower at all here, only drawbacks. Am I missing something?
so you build your docker images all by yourself using just a dockerfile and your statically linked app based on RHEL - for all that HIPPA and PCI compliance?? Iirc the current hottest shit of this shitshow (the dockerhub-using "ecosystem") was to use ansible in you docker builds because it's oh so declaratiev.
> I kinda get this, the "framework maintainers are superhumans who write amazing code and nothing I could write could get close to that" attitude.

I don't think that's the actual message. I think the real message is more like "framework maintainers have significantly more total time invested than you do..." (especially when you add up over all the maintainers and bug reporters over the entire life of the framework) "...so they are more likely to have correctly handled some particular rare bug or special case than if you try to do it all yourself."
If you look at most CCP-related stories posted here they almost immediately devolve into intense flame-wars where any nuance is discarded. The official reason for these posts to be killed is because they trip all sorts of anti-flame killswitches and frankly that doesn't seem far fetched at all to me. These threads are usually an embarrassment for this community honestly.
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s/hetero/vanilla and the point stands
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I would love to try this project, but only Windows binaries are provided and there is apparently no build system; the provided Makefile only builds tests. I'm sure I could hack together a Makefile of my own, but is it worth the effort? It's not clear whether it's meant to run on Linux or not - most Windows-only projects don't even bother to provide a Makefile.
If you spend enough time in those threads to notice patterns, and even look through people's posting history, you're essentially acting like a bot crawling the site.

If you then downvote those posters you disagree with, it creates a very suspicious voting pattern on their end.

Could you distinguish your own behavior from that of a bot (or a bot-assisted human) if you didn't know it was just you in front of your screen?
You can! Click the link for the post(X hours ago), and hit favorite.
The Gaetan Dugas thing seems to dominate every discussion about And The Band Plays on which is too bad because the book is like 600 pages long, tracks dozens of real life individuals, has tons of incredible primary source material, and gives a very touching, grounded, contemporary look at AIDS in the early 80s.

And out of the small portion of the book that talks about Dugas, I never got the impression that Schilts was trying the blame him for causing the pandemic, but rather that he was using him as a real life example of the type of man that existed in that era, who flew around the country having sex with thousands (yes thousands) of other men, whose behavior doubtlessly and unknowingly sped the spread of AIDS.
There is some helpful literature, though. You might possibly appreciate “Modern C”: http://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
All valid points, but I disagree with the conclusion, for several reasons:

* First of all, the GPT-3 authors successfully trained a model with 175 billion parameters. I mean, 175 billion. The previous largest model in the literature, Google’s T5, had "only" 11 billion. Models with trillions of weights are suddenly looking... achievable. That's a significant experimental accomplishment.

* Second, the model achieves competitive results on many NLP tasks and benchmarks without finetuning, using only a context window of text for instructions and input. There is only unsupervised (i.e., autoregressive) pretraining. AFAIK, this is the first paper that has reported a model doing this. It's a significant experimental accomplishment that points to a future in which general-purpose NLP models could be used for novel tasks without requiring additional training from the get-go.

* Finally, the model’s text generation fools human beings without having to cherry-pick examples. AFAIK, this is the first paper that has reported a model doing this. It's another significant experimental accomplishment.

More generally, I find that some AI researchers and practitioners with strong theoretical backgrounds tend to dismiss this kind of paper as "merely" engineering. I think this tendency is misguided. We must build giant machines and gather experimental evidence from them -- akin to physicists who build giant high-energy particle colliders to gather experimental evidence from them.

I'm reminded of Rich Sutton's essay, "The Bitter Lesson:"

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
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True, but from the point of view of an observer at infinity, the baryon falls and comes to a halt, while the event horizon of the black hole expands and encompasses it (or would, if you could measure the diameter of the black hole with sufficient precision).

This is just the essence of the information paradox, expressed in terms of baryon and lepton numbers. Either the Hawking radiation that comes out is ‘correlated’ with the matter that fell in (meaning that black holes have hair) and information is preserved, or they’re not, and information is destroyed. That’s literally the crux of the matter.
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So much promise; so much investment.
Then you lose the benefits that columnar databases have for time series data.
Then why even call it a "Manifesto"? Why the need for a "movement"? These imply a struggle against something that needs to be overthrown or toppled. If you want to start a sensible discussion about "using the right tool for the job" you don't need to write a "manifesto" - a simple blog article will suffice. Manifestos - even the ones written with the best intentions - lead too often to just another kind of dogmatism (looking at you, Agile).
> There's the idea that, felons have opted out of civilized intercourse.

Not all felons, though. Only the ones we choose to surveill and prosecute. So coke-sniffing bankers tend never to be caught. But 19 year old poor hispanic kids with weed in their pockets end up in jail on a three strikes violation because the police stop them all the time just for standing on the street.

> if I were officiating a baseball game

Now extend this analogy appropriately: what if the RULES of the baseball game were only written by the winning team? And that team made it so they were allowed to do this stuff without penalty? So they always win.

And the loser team can't fix that. Because to change the rules to make them fair they have to win, and they can't. Because of the rules.

That's how this works in reality: the point to disenfranchising felons isn't to punish them, it's to keep them from voting for the party whose policies might make them less likely to be felons.
My concern is that we may see the same dynamics as the reconstruction era. White liberals may lack the stomach for the kind of serious reform that would preserve democracy in the face of a white supremacist bloc gradually eroding voting rights and the rule of law. I wouldn't expect a Hitler-style dictatorship but we could see one-party rule.
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I think the prevailing notion is another, namely that an electrically charged black hole would quickly neutralise by preferentially attracting particles of opposite charge.
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Not yet, I wanted to see if someone finds this actually useful first.

Is it possible for you to connect directly with a single database?
Software is a field where I can just create something out of nothing, virtually in my own. Even at a non-senior level I can make the vast majority of design and implementation decisions for a project - it just might not be as ambitious or complex of a project as someone senior.

Most weeks I leave work, something exists that did not before. Bonus points if I’m proud of the design and execution.

Eventually I would love to work on open source software like OS’s or languages/compilers. The idea of making even a tiny contribution to something that helps build and run the world and will be used for decades or longer is amazing.