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Disagree. GPT-2/GPT-3 are able to pass for humans when the reader isn't paying close attention. This article seems insightful to me:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html

A scarily large amount of human speech is essentially word prediction, especially in cases where someone wants to seem impressive without having actually done the work. We're all familiar with the problem of people "bullshitting" about technical topics, especially in the business realm where there are lots of people with no technical background who want to learn and have authoritative opinions on technology, like in this article. The GPT models are quite capable of producing this kind of "sounds legit" speech. And if that isn't a form of intelligence, then what is?
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Yup, same here in Finland. You get an undergrad degree when going to the police academy.
> What specifically gives you that impression?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520626

> since it introduces some novel concepts

They are not terribly novel
With the rise of blackbox deeplearning it's entirely possible that this is actively reinforced by instagram and not just an organic process.
> maybe the protesters should rather try to change the law instead

That's what most of the protesters are trying to do. In fact they tried for years even without any protest and it didn't work. People lost their job because they kneeled down.

You can't kill someone for 20 bucks and not listening. Meanwhile forgiving officers misconduct that led to someone losing his life.

There is fundamental problem with police recruitment and ways to keep them in check and they need to let experts find and cure it. It's wrong to ignore it as much as it's wrong to blame every police officer for it.
I like that Kirill Dubovikov built a weather station and showed others how. The more people who do this, the better, not just for education and skills, but in terms of gathering weather information that can help forecasters. He wrote, "the Weather app on my iPhone is not very good at making accurate forecasts," and I thought, "he must have been using the wrong app." I hope in addition to building weather stations and inspiring others to do so, he'll also give the AccuWeather app a try. [I work at AccuWeather; I admire the work my colleagues do to make and deliver accurate forecasts.] Even if Kirill prefers his weather station, I hope he'll use good apps to cross-check his station. Kirill can help in other ways. I speak Russian, so I volunteered to help beta-test the upcoming new app in Russian. My whole iPhone is in Russian at the moment. But Kirill is a native speaker.
The Intel C2000 issues are nasty. I'm personally refusing to buy a J3XXX series Atom based Synology because of it.
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I think they're saying that any new feature controlled by a flag is only rolled out to a maximum of 95% of the user base. To make sure it gets rolled out to 100% you have to remove the flag controlling it (and therefore the old version of the code).
Yes, that was my point. Not that I think males look ugly, I don't. More that beauty being female only is a clear example of bias. I have seen similar bias with the word "elegant" exactly today. It was prompt in the list of photos and there was exactly one guy and many women in result.

> To me personally it is enlightening to see how 'smart' data driven systems expose the systemic biases in our society.

I also think that they to make that systemic bias bigger. Like, if there is small difference between the gender of elegant in real life, the algorithm will make it higher. The human bias in worst as amplifier too, but I find algorithmic harder to control and even worst in amplifying effect.
What school was it? :) Maybe you could share the curriculum/syllabus of coding classes in that school? Thanks!
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I find it counterintuitive. I would've thought that a night owl is more compatible with being a social person. Much of our social exchange happens in the evening (you rarely meet friends before work). Getting up at 5am as an early bird doesn't really give you any more time with other people compared to getting up later. So why night owls should be less sociable confuses me.
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I get that people like to play with hardware but for practical purposes, there are public APIs with airport weather station data that anyone can use, published at 5 minute intervals (typically).

Considering the data they output must conform to aircraft avionics parsers that are sometimes decades old, they are unlikely to ever change or go away. Since the weather observations are required for IFR flight, the FAA is quick to repair them when they break, too.

Whatever you can build with hobbyist hardware it won't compare to the airport's equipment.

https://www.aviationweather.gov/dataserver
Indexing is something that should be in the purview of the relevant DBMS and should rarely involve you as a programmer or as a user.

There are some things that have a greater on the performance than indexes. One of these is how you have designed the database in the first place. Over a thirty year period, I saw many examples of production databases that did not utilise smart thinking about the database design.

Another area that is problematic for performance is the design of the database queries themselves, especially if there are joins (of any kind) involved and there are large numbers of rows to be examined. Early in my database delvings, I found a particularly slow query (on the order of 1/2 hour execution times) was dramatically sped up (to the order of just seconds) by an accidental change in the specification of the relevant joins used. By this I mean, we removed a couple of the joins and then added them again. This lead me a specific hunt to understand join order and how it influences execution speed. Once one understood the limits on the query engine, one could then look for optimisations of the join order.

Another area is to not trust vendor recommendations until you have actually tested them thoroughly. A certain large database vendor had specific recommendations for query design that were problematic. A problem report was submitted about the specific "feature" and even after 3 more major releases, this "feature" still existed. On a relatively small database table of about 10 million records, the database vendor recommendation took about 10 minutes or so to run. By judicious coding of an external user interface, and not using the recommended "feature", the resultant query took less than 1/10 second to run to completion.

My recommendation to new teams members would be to have a good grasp of theory (so make sure that they are adequately trained) and then get them to do a set of little problems with a variety of gotchas to get them to think and to investigate what is happening. Unfortunately, I think this kind of activity went out in the late 80's.
The problem with arguments from analogy are that people often just try to figure out some way in which the analogy doesn't work, instead of challenging the point it made. Which is easy, otherwise it would be a terrible analogy.

In this case, copying a book has cost and reduces quality, are not related to the point of the analogy, even though they differ from digital copys.

Given your last paragraph, it seems that the you and the original comment disagree on what a library is.

In the end, like in your second paragraph, it doesn't really matter what we currently think a library is and what we want to make of it. And that's an important discussion.
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Synology were actually great about it. The server was indeed a Synology 8 bay NAS from ~2016, and even though it failed after about 3½ years they replaced it with a refurbished one (which I couldn't tell the difference from new) within a few days. I didn't pay a penny. I hope they're charging all their costs back to Intel.
Yes, you can't do your price calculations based on 24/7 utilisation. But that's true for almost every other bit of technology as well. What's the average utilisation of a theatre? Of a plough?
> The fact that is even possible is insane. Imagine there being over 700 videos of pilots messing up in one month,

You would easily get this from doctors in one month if they were filmed.

Considerably more in fact. Some studies say medical errors contribute to more than 250,000 deaths per year or even more. That's just deaths, not maiming.
I profoundly disagree with that definition. Racism needs animosity and distrust doesn't qualify as that. You can make a case that this is the accepted academic nomenclature but I would add that the reasoning behind it is not very sophisticated. I would argue that it could even elevate racial tensions if applied to practical problems. Even beyond factoring in the common scholar diagnosing racism in everything.
The blog is informative and interactive,each and every point is also very clear that a beginner can also understand, it would be great if you mention few more examples like clickfunnel affiliate marketing.
Can you expand a bit on what you mean here?

How would you introduce feature flags in a way that doesn't leave any debt behind in contrast to their approach?

Or are you saying that feature flags themselves are inheritly debt-generating (which I think they acknowledge, but are taking it on prudently & deliberately) — in which case, what would you do instead?
From my personal anecdotal experience, there is a large grain of truth in that "chart". Women are the primary decision makers of any sexual activity, they have a much higher bar than (most) men on sexual desirability and amongst those who don't care about any relationships - a large number choose the same men.
I also live in the EU and sometimes I get annoyed by how soft our police are.

I've seen multiple officers unable to take down one violent criminal. Why is there not hand to hand training and strength training? With proper training surely they could do it cleanly without injuring the perp.

I've seen (videos of) cops just walking away from armed criminals, letting them rob a store then tracking them down 6 months later after they do the same thing twice more.

When I look at the US I see the opposite problem. Police shooting a man in the back multiple times. Police using excessive force when arresting people for non violent crime. Police just generally power tripping.

From that perspective I can see why you would want to defund the police but I really would hesitate to do that. The EU is fine with a softer police force because we mostly have no guns and when there are real terrorists we can still bring in armed police. That is not the case in the US plus you are talking about fully defunding the police. Seems like a dangerous experiment to me. Why not reform instead?
Hmm I wonder what the market in nitrogen cooled super-high clocked systems is. At that price range there should be something that you can do, no?
It's a problem because dead tree textbooks cost hundreds of dollars.
Very good. I thought I'd have no trouble but did. On windows , where there's loads of room, if you had fake and true to either side of the cards that would be helpful
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The system trends towards consuming the same cost of power as the mining rewards, so increasing the efficiency of mining doesn't actually decrease power consumption, it just increases the overall hash rate
Same problem, OSX 10.15.4, Chrome 83.0.4
You can have a good body with a six-pack and still fail in a relationship - this is more true for men than women.
Lets say they could get away with it.

What would be a reasonable time span for this?

Maybe 5 years?
I have a gtx970 in my pc which is 5 years old by now. While the card is fine by itself, it is too slow and thus getting replaced in the near future and moved into an office pc.

But which data center uses 5 year old graphics cards?

It is save to assume that dedicated compute card gets replaced from time to time anyway.

Moores law is still too strong.
This just another cat and mouse that just proves how flawed PoW is. It will always favor people who have access to cheap power thus consolidating the chain in the hands of few powerful people.
It basically comes down to mastering a firewall on your side and having visibility of what's going on with incoming traffic. I' ll do my stack the old-school way. I've got a nice Mikrotik combo router with a lot of very advanced configuration options for pennies (a pretty advanced ones are like $70, will do for 1Gbps WAN), including a nice firewall) and I already mounted it on the edge of my home network; I didn't have time to tinker with it extensively yet so learning the firewall is yet to be done. I'd like to somehow process at least firewall logs from that device in a centralized way with alerting for DDOS like events (easy to do - the Mikrotik already can send logs to a central server, so I only need to decide which network monitoring software I', going to use). For the incoming traffic analyzing I'll use GoAccess harvesting logs from NGINX, which works as a reverse proxy for all web services on my home Pi.

All of that is easier to do than it sounds. It's all about having visibility over what's going on and being able to react when needed.

The idea of Cloudflare - yeah, I don't like it either, because what they do is basically a man-in-the-middle probing on my personal services, but temporarily, or if one is under heavy attack, it does the job too. This is what that service has been intended for - to make the external IP address for your web services unavailable / not visible for general audience of the Internet.
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Ah, very sorry. I can't fix this spontaneously now, but i'll check it.
Twitter as some source of truth, really?
It was screen size for me. When I shrank it beneath a certain size the cards drew correctly.
Ask HN: Do you hoard online courses and tutorials?
I have more courses bookmarked or bought than I have actually watched. Some I have started, but never finished (either from boredom or my own impatience). Many others (the majority) haven't even been started. The sheer number of courses only adds to the anxiety of wanting to complete them. Or maybe I'm suffering the common afflication knows as 'stuck in tutorial hell'?

Are you in a similar situation? How did you overcome it?
> It can - you pass objects to functions declared with named parameters, and you pass lists to functions declared with positional parameters.

Once again: these are workarounds and there are no "functions declared with named parameters" in Javascript. There are functions that accept objects as a parameter, and they employ additional code to work with those objects.

Example:

function add(x, y) {}

No matter how much you try, you cannot "use the core thing in the language" to make this function accept this

add(x = 1, y = 2)
// or
add({x: 1, y: 2})

without writing additional code inside the function itself.

So if a library gives you `function add(x, y)`, that's what you're stuck with, forever. You cannot pretend that named arguments can be solved by "javascript's core language". It cannot.
You can also ignore cops in the US killing people and note the police have about 40 million black people in the US living in fear.
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TclTk is extremely cryptic. I used to code IVR scripts for Cisco access servers in early 20th, most of them still in use today. A couple of unsuccessful attempts were made to customize them by other people, but nobody (including me myself) knows how do they work. The art had been lost forever.
If you present your research such as even a 5-year-old kid understands it then it will be suitable for the wider world.
If you can’t find someone to fill a position as a police officer, I would suggest increasing the compensation or leaving the position unfilled before simply accepting anyone who might want to be a cop with no standards whatsoever.

Similar logic would apply to a position for a crane operator or a pilot. If an airline had a pattern of pilot errors, and their excuse was “if we required all our pilots to have adequate pilot training and meet stringent skill requirements, it would be very difficult to hire pilots,” would you accept that?
As an amateur the aero tuck looks like a tempting way to get a marginal gain in speed on the descents. It costs no money and does not demand superhuman fitness. It is easy. But if you get it wrong you get hurt.

My point was that an easier marginal gain is the tyre pressures. So often overlooked, tyre pressures are often gauged by feel for the rider to think their tyres are rock hard for them to actually be half inflated.

If you don't have fitness or an expensive bike then the air in tyres idea is better than the aero tuck for getting some speed.

Regarding your anecdotal MTB speed experience, you have changed quite a few variables - suspension might better suit the road surface, disc brakes might give you quicker braking, the upright bars might help you pick a better line, the smaller wheels might be more aero, the higher bottom bracket might enable you to pedal out of tight turns, the situational awareness from the upright position might give you more confidence on the road and familiarity with the MTB rather than the Sunday special road bike might also be part of the apparent speed gain.
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a process of internal generation of notions

How is this "knowledge extraction from data" process different?
Is it surprising they've stuck with them through the Lenovo era? I'd expect NASA to have a policy of buying American (I know components are going to be made in China regardless) even when there isn't a national security consideration.
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You should improve transparency. "Try it free", without a pricing overview site doesn't look like very trustable.
I sure hope you were joking.
> Another anachronism in the article: the West never practiced "racism" in the modern sense until the sixteenth century at the earliest.

The West in antiquity may not have practiced racism in terms of overt discrimination against people based on the color of their skin. However, many influential thinkers hold that othering a non-Western person based on his skin color or origin is a form of racism, and there are a number of attestations of sub-Saharan Africans in Roman and Greek literature where the author or his society is obviously othering them.
> In order to enforce copyright in the 21st century, computing freedom must be sacrificed.

Actually, with the lack of copyright, they might just go the route of software anyways: Book-as-a-Service, Steam-for-books, license checks whenever you startup your book.
There's a difference between using Instagram and having to wear a Bikini on Instagram even if you don't want to.
From your profile I can gather that you are affiliated with the source so I'd really be interested in what you mean by this
At this point just block all the cookies with the browser setting.
Technically, you are not telling it what symbols are printed on the keyboard, but which symbols you prefer to type. Because you can setup different symbols than those printed, which many people make use of.

But sure, having some default-value returned by the keyboard would be sweet, but probabvly also more problematic than helpful.
What does the existence of riots have anything to do with these instances of police brutality on _peaceful_ protestors?
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One of the issues we've seen is that the police act as a political organisation. It's a message from the Police: "Look at these looters, you need us". They use their position to push for the political outcome they want. Similarly you can elect a mayor who will reform the police, but what's likely to happen is that the police just tweak their behaviour to allow an increase in crime so that come next election, the mayor's "reforms" have made his citizens less safe and you get rid of the mayor - because the police aren't accountable, the mayor is. An institutional interest has emerged and really the only way of changing that is to remove the institution and replace it.
Me too. My first streak was 6 and I’m not going to beat it
> Echo cancellation is really supposed to be application layer and up to you as well, but I think this will probably shift to be the browser's/WebRTC's/getUserMedia's responsibility at some point.

Echo cancellation typically can't be application layer. The APIs I've seen (Android, iOS, WebRTC), require low level latency and works best as close to hardware as possible.

{ echoCancellation: true } as a track constraint in getUserMedia works.
That's not the point. The law is there, we have to deal with it. But implementing it on browser side would just be a less awful way to implement it everywhere.
Fun idea!

I will say that the interface feels a bit mobile-first to a fault: the swiping interaction isn't very desktop friendly. It'd be nice to have some buttons to click on for those of us using mice or trackpads.
Then block them. Use uMatrix or one of the other plugins to do so.
What’s heartbreaking is that he didn’t trade any leverage at all. He executed an options spread that was worth about $700k on each leg. Due to the nature of buying and selling options, the app showed his position as short $700k because the long leg hadn’t settled yet. All he needed to do was wait and he would have seen the balance go back to what he expected.
except giving me more troubles whether as a developer or a web surfer, I don't know what value is given by GDPR
It took me a while to figure out that I should drag the headline left or right. I first tried to click the red "fake" and green "not", I tried to click on the headline, etc.
I then realized that it was written in the light grey message to which I was not paying attention.

It may be my fault, just giving the feedback in case it can help to improve the UX.
I'm just concerned that's inviting an arms race where unwelcome page elements get randomized CSS namespaces. Fuck that noise.
What's your argument here ? Police brutality is ok because US police officers are more prone to being killed ? By now there are thousands of videos clearly showing people not resisting, sometimes not even participating in any crime, being beaten and/or killed by the police, it's not normal and no one should defend that.

Gun violence in the US is the symptom of very deep problems, you can't consider it just by itself while disregarding the societal issues being it.
> For actually writing business logic, replacing code with drag and drop logic blocks is... not really helpful to anybody.

It occurred to me once that for the typical front end dev, there are 4 data types being dealt with, disregarding individual chars which don't have a whole lot of use on the internet at large. Now, someone who is using a framework of a framework is going through AT LEAST 4 translations. High level framework -> low level framework -> javascript -> machine code via the runtime.

4 data types, 4 languages. Just in the UI, not even talking about the server and the database.

Perhaps the trend is a reaction to poor language and framework design...