skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We aren't sure, but the speculation is that in the process of training, GPT-3 found that the best strategy to correctly predicting the continuation of arithmetic expressions was to figure out the rules of basic arithmetic and encode them in some portion of its neural network

I don't mean to attack you personally, but this is a perfect example of what I feel is wrong with so much neural network research. (And I understand that you are just commenting in a discussion, not conducting research.)

In a word, it's baloney. And it's a really common pattern in neural networks' recent history: "How did they perform reasonably well on this task? We aren't sure, but the speculation is that they magically solved artificial general intelligence under the hood." Usually this is followed up by "I don't know how it works, but let's see if a bigger network can make even prettier text." Meanwhile, "it's funny how our image classifiers grossly misperform if you rotate the images a little or add some noise."

A rigorous scientific approach would be aimed at actually figuring out what these models can do, why, and how they work. Rather than just assuming the most optimistic possible explanation for what's happening -- that's antithetical to science.
Spend ~4/7 of your life in mediocre hotels far from home, work itself consists of sitting in a cramped box with even less to do than than the passengers on the flight, money can be good but not career-goals good... I can see it.
You'll notice in the bottom right of the graphic that it says "*exaggerated". Timing is important - the bat is not presented at a constant angle to the ball despite what the graphic implies! You could hit the ball 500 feet but on the wrong side of the foul pole, and you've accomplished nothing.

Modern baseball analytics places a very high value on the the "Three true outcomes" [1]. Batters are "optimizing" for the exit angle of the ball leaving the bat - we're in a juiced ball era (perhaps even a juiced batter era) and home runs are valued very highly. You'll notice that strikeouts are also setting records. Nobody seems to care as much about ground balls or line drives and that seems to be what a "flatter" swing gives you. If we were playing with the same baseball as Ted Williams played with, you'd have a lot more fly ball outs. I'm pretty sure that his "slight upswing" was actually very slight compared to current players.

[1] https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Three_True_Outcom...
Was interesting to compare how Clickhouse and MariaDB Columnstore have improved over the years. Clickhouse still kicks ass :)
Much of America is inhabited by people who left their place of birth in search of better opportunities elsewhere. And most of this happened quite recently: the USA only consisted of 16 states in 1800 and 45 by 1900. I think this has caused American to be inhabited by people who are much more likely to value independence and (perceived) self-reliance.

What you experience is still quite common. Some of my siblings live 5 minutes from my parents and my nieces & nephews basically stay with their grandparents while their parents are working. A lot of my coworkers claim similar situations as well.
In addition to that-- is the pilot's salary a significant fraction of the cost of a flight?
I think it's both. It was a pandemic for many places, peoples, and nations, but because of rampant media over-hype, speculation, and just plain bad reporting, it gave the impression of being far worse than it might actually have been. There is also the justification that the media's hype made it into more of a "scare-demic" as seems to be the case for the media during election years.

2004: Sars
2008: Bird flu
2010: Swine flu
2012: mers
2014: Ebola
2016: Zika
2018: Ebola again
2020: COVID-19

Yes, you will find SNOPES[0] and all sorts of sources that will say these existed prior to the elections. My point is: These outbreaks/pandemics/etc. may have never risen to the level of such mass hysteria had it not been for the media's sophistic instigation.[1.]

[0.]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coronavirus-meme/
“Go and sin no more” is the traditional dismissal, but it’s too often interpreted poorly.

I am not interested in punishment or wailing and gnashing of teeth, or public wearing of hair shirts or sackcloth and ashes. I want to see positive, healing, restorative acts. We’ll call that a good penance.
Nope, not the GP, but I use hotkeys with a browser plugin!
I suspect that the with the current electrical system on airbuses, the emergency electrical configuration wouldn't have enough power to run all those image processing computers at the very least (dual engine failure would cause this). However that could be resolved with additional battery capacity.

A more likely cause of automation failure would be failure or disagreement in the various sensors on the plane. These are typically triple redundant, but there have been cases where, for example, all the pitot tubes ice over and airspeed indications are lost. There are ways to deal with this but they're not currently programmed into the autopilot.

Other possible causes include failure of major flight controls requiring workarounds - eg, dealing with a stuck rudder with deliberate asymmetric thrust.

That being said flight control issues can probably be dealt with, if necessary. The real problem is with dealing with ambiguous situations where you have to weigh risks.

Consider: your radios are out. Per standard procedure you should proceed on your flight plan to the final fix and hold until your scheduled arrival time. However, fuel consumption is high - you're not sure, but you might have a slow fuel leak, and your destination has dicey weather. Do you divert without clearance or risk that you might be marginal on fuel at your scheduled arrival time?
Murthy Leaving Intel
> When it comes to prioritizing tasks, we can have an adult conversation about what should come first based on technical and non-technical considerations. If you don't trust your peers to do their job, the end result is micromanagement - which can work both ways.

Expecting people to be able to justify their decisions isn't micro-management. It's a perfectly adult, rational way to work together. If I want to (for example) change the underlying technology used to build a product or set aside some time to clean up technical debt, I need to justify (or at least be prepared to justify) that decision to my colleagues.

Expecting that I can rely on my positional authority over "technical" decisions to deflect questions or criticisms of my decision is a sign of a low-trust organization.
A PC at a desk with a keyboard and mouse is very clearly not a device "device for use only by remote users". The person used their PC when they were in office, and would be using it if not for the current pandemic.

If the device is sitting in a rack in a closet, that is a device intended for use only by remote users.
And here is the original thread on /sci/

https://web.archive.org/web/20181024190314/https://warosu.or...
Feel free to use it however you want :)

Regarding the 0.0/default/skipped -- see my other response about "cardsets", which the more I think about it, the more I am convinced will solve nearly all of your issues:

- you don't have to worry about the skipped vs neutral problem (as it is fair to expect a user to answer all cards in a cardset).
- you don't have to worry about clustering. a cardset is a "cluster".
- you can work around technical limitations by having each cardset be its own cube
- you boost retention by being able to have a library of dozens of cardsets (rather than 250 cards). limitless swiping, and swiping on things that your users will find interesting because they are selecting cardsets that are important to them.
- you can make your site viral by allowing users to send a link where the receiver can (anonymously) swipe all the cards of a cardset and see their "similarity" to the link sender. (Then you can ask them to register to be able to send links themselves).
- futures paths for revenue are endless
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> Boeing and Airbus

I wouldn’t even put Airbus in the same sentence with Boeing; they are using formal methods since 2001[0], whereas Boeing has outsourced its software to $9-an-hour engineers[1].

[0]: https://www.di.ens.fr/~delmas/papers/fm09.pdf

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
The article mentions that.

“For its passenger jets, though, Airbus states the tech won't replace pilots in the cockpit but will make flying safer by helping reduce workload.
…
"For autonomous technologies to improve flight operations and overall aircraft performance, pilots will remain at the heart of operations," Airbus said in a press release.”
Well, ok.

Firstly, note that it provides no evidence. It has a claim, and shows a fancy graphic. That's it. Its not evidence. Anyone can make that sort of thing up. How can one differentiate this from a story I just made up?

Digging in, it says:
"LED bulbs also offer a signal-to-noise ratio that's about 6.3 times that of an incandescent bulb and 70 times a fluorescent one."

Why? Why are LEDs better for this noise reflection stuff, than incandescent or fluorescent ones? They're all in glass. The heat of the glass is stable. The LED itself surely can't help.

Why does Shazam feature in these tests, at all?!

It also says:
"Researchers have known for years that a laser bounced off a target's window can allow spies to pick up the sounds inside. Another group of researchers showed in 2014 that the gyroscope of a compromised smartphone can pick up sounds even if the malware can't access its microphone."

Right. Are we meant to believe that this is what spies do? I mean, a spy just has to access whatever systems are already at his or her disposal and listen to your calls. They don't need to do any of that!

And:
"Still, Nassi says the researchers are publishing their findings not to enable spies or law enforcement, but to make clear to those on both sides of surveillance what's possible. "We want to raise the awareness of this kind of attack vector," he says. "We’re not in the game of providing tools.""

So, they even say that this article is about raising awareness of this kind of attack vector. They are raising awareness. Thanks spies!

The article is a joke. At best this is a puff piece for a spy agency, or more likely just to increase paranoid awareness amongst those in tech. Be scared, danger everywhere! There are spy agencies listening to you everywhere - they're not using your phone, they use light bulbs and leaves!!
Has there been any discussion about the technical details of the attack? I am having a hard time imagining how a compromise of a workstation could result in the entire company -- their own apps, their call center -- going down for days. I can see how malware could break production severely ("kubectl delete deployments" from a trusted workstation). I can see how malware can wipe out your desktop. I can see how malware could f your cloud infrastructure account. But I'm not drawing the line to "we can't build a new release and deploy it on another provider" or "we can't buy an emergency Dialpad account to start taking calls from customers".

My guess is this: two separate attacks occurred. The first attack involved compromising production, and installed a scheduled job that, at a certain time, would delete all database backups and code repositories, deschedule all workloads, delete all DNS records, etc. The next attack involves the fact that all source code is on managed workstations, so they compromised the IT management system to push malware to every machine globally at the exact same time that would destroy all git repositories (etc.) on the workstations. The result was that when the scheduled time occurred, production would crash and there would be no backups. (They must have wiped all the tapes at their offsite backup facility, too. I guess anything can be done for a price!)

To me, this sounds too complicated to even be feasible. I am still impressed when I edit some manifest with a new version number that 90% of the time that code eventually starts running. Being able to orchestrate a multiday outage just seems amazing to me, and that you'd make a lot more money being a cloud provider than a cybercriminal.

The other thought I had was that maybe they just kept thinking "we're so close to getting it back" for three days, rather than saying "everything is lost, revert to backups".
Is that logical?

What are the environmental and economic costs of an automated cargo ship going down vs airliner (cargo for comparison)?

It’s hundreds of millions dollars and fuel.
Let's assume for a minute such a thing were to be happening. How would the protagonist go about proving it?
ML is the most automatable domain of programming there is. I never understood this argument.
You raise some very good points.

I don't think there's really anything that can be said at this point. It was an entirely preventable tragedy and the author (and his family) will have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives.

It's incredibly sad, but I really can't empathise with the mentality the author describes that lead up to blindly following Trump, rejecting "mainstream media" and all scientific evidence in favour of a dumb conspiracy theory.

I really don't get it.
That's not a specific enough claim for me to either agree or disagree with.
Curious, anyone know how this would compare performance wise for something like Reddit verses livewire/liveview. I know those would be more reactive, but I like the idea of static pages that are dynamic as well.
> Now why is it that disks lack byte-wise resolution?

Overhead.

Each disk sector is not 512 bytes (or 4096 bytes in modern disks), it's a bit more. It needs at least the sector number (to detect when the head is flying over the correct sector), a CRC or error-correcting code, a gap of several hundred bits before the next sector (so writing to one sector won't overwrite the next one), and a preamble with an alternating pattern (to synchronize the analog to digital conversion). All this overhead would be a huge waste if the addressable unit were a single byte.
If you ever take commercial flights you are already being flown by autopilot, and have been for decades. It might give you comfort that there is a human pilot in the cockpit for backup, but it's only a matter of time before the human backup moves to a ground station.
It'll take the same time for that person who's stretched between many projects, since they need reports from the person they're managing anyway.

It will take more time for the two people since one more people will be included, but that's where opting-out is more comfortable than opting-in: you could have a discussion about the reporting part together and figure out what's most comfortable for everyone (whether it is only sending one person regularly or if both are there, etc). It can even be an opportunity for growth for the more junior person if they take on the reporting duty, since they'll have the help of someone more experienced and they'll hold more responsibilities than they otherwise would have. And all this can be decided by the people involved, who will know better than anyone else what they've actually done.
> Avoid at all costs the combination of: new manager, 1 report, report is new-to-industry, manager is not a subject-matter expert.

This is interesting. Consulting teams are often structured exactly this way, with a Lead managing 2 "managers," each leading one Associate/Analyst. I wonder why that antipattern is so consistent...
I'll use it for functions with two parameters, array functions and the order you pass in arguments is not standardized. I can start just using named functions to make it clear and easier to read/write.
I would advise against folding it into clusters, and instead have each cardset be its own thing. What you have right now is a cardset that I'd label "General" -- abstract the backend so you can create different sets of cards ("Food", "Fashion", etc). If manually curate cardsets, you won't even need to worry about clustering. Yes, it's a shame you spent time on it, but no clustering will ever beat manually creating sets of cards.

In terms of producing a "total match score" with a user, you compute a match score for each cardset that both users have, then use a simple normalized linear combination to get the total.

If users A and B have cardsets X Y and Z in common, you would produce similarity scores "S" for S(A,B,X), S(A,B,Y), and S(A,B,Z). Then, you use the weights that user A selects for each cardset (W(A), W(B), W(C)), normalize such that they add up to 1 but maintain their ratios, and compute total similarity of A matched to B as: W(A) * S(A) + W(B) * S(B) + W(C) * S(C).

As long as you have pre-computed the scores between all user-cardset pairs (your scaling pain point), computing match scores even with weights is trivial and fast.
The cockpit could just double as a simulator in non-emergency situations.
One reason it's not great is there are a lot of pilot wannabees that are stuck flying small commercial feeder flights, and they don't have much experience and training, and they get paid barely enough to live on. They hope to get on to one of the bigger companies (american, united, etc). The flights a few years ago that iced up in NY state (I think that was where) were sleeping on someone's couch for a few hours only before a flight, and they didn't have much training.
You still seem to be missing the point that your arguments are irrelevant since you would have to make them in court which is fraught with uncertainty and unreasonably burdensome even if you win.

And I doubt Microsoft would agree to the premise that you could avoid the "no servers" restriction just by putting the server at a desk and plugging in a keyboard and mouse that nobody has touched in months.
Despite sharing some similarities, there’s a huge difference between those two languages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
If they did PG&E couldn't just run to bankruptcy court and get away with all the fire and destruction they caused.

Maybe we should make more utilities be prepared like the USPS.
It's a good book, and one most programmers should read early on (it grows less useful over time), but to think of this as only an incremental improvement over markov chains is underselling the advance. The technology is different, and can scale to much higher levels of capability. AGI levels? Almost certainly not. But it's passing usefulness thresholds so things can progress elsewhere.
Founder here - can you clarify what you mean by "data plane"?

We let you aggregate events and process metrics, should you want to use our platform as the way you aggregate event driven workflows or calculate delivery metrics.

You can run your entire workload on our serverless environment or you can push your workloads to your existing CI/CD + cloud computes - it's really up to you!
Figuring out and exploiting mathematical weak points in lottery systems is perfectly legal. What was he arrested for?
My Yamaha 150 BWs gas powered scooter is 4 stroke and has a catalytic converter.

Are 2 stroke scooters even a thing anymore?
> afford to re-implement an AGPL component

> good enough stub implementation to make the software run acceptably

This is what the company I work for does, and most that I've heard about do, but preemptively.
Also learned about submarine to satellite direct communications with lasers in a 33c3 video at: https://youtu.be/P4Qk88IpND0?t=32m8s

Source: https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/830035138805428224
> From what we see on European roads it's quite common for people in Belgium and the Netherlands to drive to Southern Europe for the summer holidays.

Don't underestimate the amount of people who borrow some relative's car to make this trip. Especially younger people (early 20's to mid 30's).
> I am having a hard time imagining how a compromise of a workstation could result in the entire company -- their own apps, their call center -- going down for days

Can't guess at specifics, but if it's a Windows network, I would be utterly unsurprised if all users had excess permissions to shared drives

Many Windows networks just have a giant X: everyone can write to, and it's been like that forever, and it's so deeply baked into everyone's workflow that it never gets fixed
Back in the day we'd exile them to new frontiers. But now we don't have any frontiers left (and space will not be a frontier for a very very long time).
Total Cyber BS ..
You can get a glimpse by scrolling websites like: https://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog?ppl=view200&sort=title&ocF... [.mil] and looking at DARPA and Office of Naval Research sponsored ML/AI research. The military has been deeply involved with ML/AI research since its inception, and it is near impossible to avoid first - or second degree involvement, if active in ML/AI.

The military wants: automated chat agents/web users that can be sent to dark web markets and hacker IRC channels and report back intelligence. Common sense inference from security and drone footage: predict who the killer is when watching a movie. Author deanonimization and cross-device tracking. Global-scale 99.9%+ accurate face detection.

The Dutch Intelligence Agency organizes a yearly competition with difficult codes to crack. [1] It is rare for someone to answer all questions correctly. The answers require logic, creativity, common sense, linguistics, causal inference, spatial reasoning, expertise, analysis, and systematic thinking. I bet the military would be mighty interested in an automated problem solver for that. And mighty scared some other country gets there first.

[1] https://www.aivd.nl/onderwerpen/aivd-kerstpuzzel
This is just a deathly accident waiting to happen.

We don't have the technology to make airplanes or cars respond to truly unexpected conditions. We have instead a series of (very) sophisticated one-trick ponies, which isn't nearly the same thing than an intelligent system.

Whoever dubbed ML "AI" was a marketing genius.
What’s the danger of blindness?
Peter Watts explores this in the novel Blindsight. I don't want to give the plot away, but the main idea is really interesting, and relevant to this discussion.
"Senpai" means senior/superior (e.g., "Senpai Dev"). A better honorific would be "dono".
"low and away" is a weak spot for almost any hitter. The challenge for a pitcher is to actually hit that spot.

Ted Williams batted as a lefty. Most everything a right-handed pitcher throws has a tendency to trail leftward. A slight mistake and you've got something he will hit very hard.
Just certified to fly without co-pilot would save money.

Maybe freighter drone at first. Might be easier to get certification to fly in drone mode between remote airfields at first.

A350 freighter seems to be under consideration. https://cargofacts.com/airbus-nears-launch-of-a350-freighter...
Our team had started a practice of "devbox setup" scripts in each repo a few years ago. They're invaluable. Instead of following pages of instructions in various state of decay, running just one script puts you into the ready state in a few seconds. Any questions about why something is not working has only one answer: run the setup script.

Highly recommend this.
>but the most fundamental issues they struggle with revolve around factors beyond the control of USPS management.

In other words, they are inefficient.
C&F Discover:Issue N13 .Product Design Challenge – Hoverify 2 and Many More
If you're banning thousands of people, deleting thousands of tweets and updating thousands of people as routine (customer support), it might take time for someone to review what you're doing.
The Impact of Vaccines on Mortality Decline Since 1900
I also use Steermouse so that I can actually bind the back/forward keys to CMD+[ / CMD+], while also disabling regular pointer acceleration alongside the scroll issues.

I also don't think it runs as an accessibility service, but as a low-level driver.

Downside is that it's not free.
What pro and cons does it have versus project Loom?