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I always find it fascinating that immoral cultures invented “ethics” because they created economic systems that were inherently immoral and needed a way to rationalize the hurtful actions the system they created now requires them to take.
You're super confident of your number stats while this disease is still not clearly understood.

You should see that as a problem.
I can confirm all of this. I was involved with setting up airflow recently and we had a rather rough time because it is kind of a half assed solution. It's basically a framework that allows you to do stuff with a lot of plugins/connectors that may or may not be useful for you with a rather large variation in completeness, bugginess, documentation, and utility. A lot of it is kind of sketchy or even actively harmful but there are definitely some useful things as well.

It does not help that the entirety of the documentation is written from the point of view of people who are definitely not of the devops variety doing things manually on their laptop. I.e. all the wrong things you should never do in a production setup. Configuring this thing for production usage is largely undocumented, non trivial, and you'll be piecing things together from stackoverflow and various third party github repositories for e.g. using docker, terraform, etc. rather than the official documentation which merely hints at these things being possibilities.

It also does not help that the internals are kind of buggy and wonky. We had a really hard time getting the basic plumbing for running workers, queues, etc. working properly. It would constantly grind to a halt and stop processing stuff. Also there's this minutes long uncertainty principle "is it actually running or still figuring out that it needs to catch up?!".

Also, the UI/UX is terrible IMHO. Think hitting cmd+r a lot because page refreshes are not a thing in Airflow and absolutely everything requires dealing with multiple clicks to navigate complex dialogs (modal, naturally). So, unless you just manually reloaded the page: you are looking at stale information. Jobs that have long finished. Green statuses that have turned red, etc. Even Jenkins/Hudson had auto reload 15 years ago. And given the significant overlap in functionality, you might actually be better off using that if all you need is the ability to run some simple job at specific intervals.

The only valid reason for using Airflow is the ecosystem of plugins. It's valid and it's basically the same reason that people tolerated the craptastic experience that was managing Nagios back in the day. Horribly complicated to setup, terrible/primitive UI, loads of performance issues, non trivial failure modes, etc. but world + dog used it and there were nagios plugins for just about everything. I've been that rabbit hole as well and I'd say the experience is similar enough.

So, definitely use it in hosted form if you can or avoid altogether unless you really need it.
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Both are bad.

Nutrition is really complex and hard, and we learn more every day. But for the most part, it's not like complete bullshit is invented whole-cloth on a piece of napkin. It slowly builds and expands on prior knowledge; as far as I know it's not really "constantly backtracking".
You didn't have to use Windows either. Linux, BSD, etc have been around for quite a while.
Some setups are dead simple and require just 1 or 2 clicks to enable a VPN that was registered before, e.g. Tunnelblick on MacOS. The potential hacker who was explicitly told he has to enable a VPN may look for such an app on the compromised computer.
The most vulnerable died and now it's younger, less vulnerable people being infected and we have safety measures to protect the remaining vulnerable populations?

It will be interesting to see the death rate once this is all over. It might be much lower and the initial numbers were skewed by cases in the elderly.
people like you, who insist on patronizing at every opportunity given, are what make online conversations, particularly on this site, awful.
Odd. How does Hungary break their children down for a lifetime of labor?
Is this the same kind of thing? (english wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilled_beam
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Azure as well
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Haha, neither of those. I guess solving everything with drones = "reuse the same favorite tool for all kinds of jobs".
Yeah, was not impressed. Skipping over the (opinionated) survey of recent AI techniques (and their failure modes) and philosophic theories of cognition that is the bulk of the paper, the only bit that claims to be novel (pp 29-31) is an argument I will summarize as follows:

1) any computational AI can be represented as a finite state machine or FSM (author calls it a finite state automata. Same thing.)

2) when said computational AI performs an "act of cognition" it (as a FSM) will iterate through a defined series of states, based on a defined series of inputs

3) It is possible to build a simpler FSM composed of a counter and a lookup table that would take the same series of inputs + the counter as an input, and produce the same state/output as the original computational AI

4) since the response to stimulus is identical, the 2 finite state machines are equivalent.

5) if the state machines are equivalent, they must be equivalently conscious

6) the counter+look-up table is obviously not conscious ("reducto ad absurdum")

7) from (6) and (5) no computational AI can be conscious

To me, this argument fails in the following manner; the only way to actually construct the "simpler" finite state machine in step (3) above is to actually let the computational AI react with the world first and record its combinations of input and state. There is no way to predict what series of states an arbitrary FSM will go through in response to a particular series of inputs without actually running it. That would be equivalent to solving the halting problem. Any program can be encoded as an FSM. If you could predict the state sequence of such an FSM, you could tell whether the FSM would enter the 'halt' state.

IMO this is analogous to arguing that:

1) the animatronic band at Chuck E. Cheese could be programmed to play identical music to that which has been (previously) performed by a human band (and recorded in perfect detail).

2) because they produce identical outputs the 2 bands are equivalent

3) if they are equivalent, they must equally be said to create original music

4) the animatronic band obviously doesn't create original music

5) from (3) and (4) no band can create original music

He also elides any discussion of whether or not actual human intelligence manages to avoid the failure modes he uses to conclude that neural networks are not intelligent - e.g. he mentions adversarial examples fooling visual classifier networks without mentioning that "optical illusions" exist and people will reliably misperceive certain images in certain ways too.

I actually agree that neural nets as they currently exist are aggressively stupid, but the author concludes way too much.

TL;DR, author starts from a premise that there is something uniquely special about human consciousness that machines can't duplicate, and reaches the conclusion that there is something uniquely special about human consciousness that machines can't duplicate.
The concept of beta (and non-diversifiable risk in general) is related to the concept of “economic profit”.

They may not be directly related but to claim the CAPM “has nothing to do with this discussion” of economic profit is a bit strong.
Wikipedia is honestly pretty good.
But first in India
You want controls for ethnicity, but cite a Swedish public health report.

You realize the impact in the US is dramatically greater amongst the black and brown population?

Possibly due to: the higher likelihood of being in essential jobs in areas with greater population density than Sweden.

Or, you need ethnicity controls because, eugenics?
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don't you have some degree of poverty where you live, or have you never interacted with someone who earns less then you?
But in neither of those cases did anyone say, you shouldn't wear a mask because they won't work. They recommended against wearing masks because they thought the harms of people wearing masks would outweigh the benefits at that point. I tried to make the distinction between saying "we not do not recommend the public wear masks" and "masks do not help prevent sick people from spreading the virus" clear in my original comment. All comments I saw were the former statement, which I think is not misleading the public or lying, not the latter.

It's possible they were wrong w.r.t. the harms outweighing the benefits but that's easier to say in hindsight.
There are other detectors you could use. You can use a simple photodiode too. But generally they don’t have the same sensitivity. Generally the sensitivity is too low for most radiation monitoring applications as I understand it.

Steganographic storage would make sense, but the article mentions storing on a separate partition.

So the tight integration still seems odd to me. Another comment suggested that they wanted to gain general “iPod” modification skills for other projects. That seems like an interesting idea.

As an aside... I kind of like the idea of playing specific songs, or a sequence of songs to trigger a secondary processor (which is sampling frequencies played). This could potentially take over the USB port if necessary.

That generation of iPods used hard drives, it was possible to replace those with smaller flash drives. This would give you a lot of space to add sensors/secondary compute. And could be done without coordinating with Apple.

It does seem weird that they took the chance of this leaking too... and I would have thought they would have taken any other route possible.
I reject the certainty with which you stated your opinion. Actuarial tables don't "know" anything, but they are models, and as such, they can include in control / out of control as features.

I think it'd be pretty easy for sensors with a CPU to determine what's out of control. That tech is well developed and very stable, similar to how iOS can tell the difference between me walking and me shaking my phone.
At the risk of being early, RIP CloudFormation.

I posited that this was the benefit in knowing Kubernetes all along, and possibly the ace up GCP's sleeve -- soon no cloud provider will have to offer their own interface, they'll all just offer the one invented by Kubernetes.
> our ability to control transmission is pretty limited even with dramatic measures

The ability of politicians to control transmission by making decrees, even dramatic ones, is limited, yes.

The ability of ordinary people to control transmission by taking obvious common sense precautions is not. And those obvious common sense precautions should include, yes, not engaging in activities that have a high risk of transmission.
What really surprises me is Apple is now 2 trillion dollars with another gajillion sitting in cash. Why are they being an optimization company and not really pushing the edge on robotics and automation? I was excited about Apple car but it seems that project is ded.

Why not invest that money in moonshot ideas ? It seems Elon musk is the crazy one with Tesla, Solar City and SpaceX.

It blows my mind how their massive rockets reach orbit and land back. Why haven’t we been making breakthroughs like this in robotics?
I have a feeling this requires the database to be available to collect data. That's a bad pattern. No database can be up all the time and an application like this should not lose data.

Have a look at patterns that resolve this like Snowplow Analytics.
Ugh. I remember listening to Searle on the BBC in the early 1980s, and becoming quite irate, as a 17 year old does, at his mistake in defining the boundary within which intelligence should be found as the operator not the whole room.
I've ordered clothes, furniture (desks, chairs), books, supplements, rugs, and probably a few other things. Everything shows up, seems to be exactly as claimed, is functional, and has worked.

So my initial question still stands on what people are complaining is rife with fakes and knock-offs. It seems to be quite niche electronics (huge hard drives, computer components, etc)

And if the knock-offs are so good (in your game example) that the end user can't tell the difference (and no one else can either), what does it matter?
Ask HN: What web browser engines are under active development?
With the recent layoffs at Mozilla, I'm wondering quite simply: which browser engines are actively being developed, and which browsers are using them? From what I understand, we're just left with WebKit, Gecko, and Blink?

Are there any other engines in active development?
Just like the flu... which we vaccinate for and doesn’t sweep through the population.

So... not like the flu in scale or scope.
I'm sure better equipment and software helps, but there's all sorts of mostly unavoidable issues [1] that make a video call harder than meeting in person. If your school is replacing several hours a day of in person meeting with several hours a day of video calls, it's going to be awful.

You absolutely need to do things differently, but kindergarden is not going to work with look at the morning message, do tasks from a list, including watching some videos, and do a check-in call once or twice a week.

[1] like latency and a/v sync. You could get pretty low latency if everyone was on land lines and called into a conference hosted at the school. But, nobody has land lines, so we're doing audio with the video over the internet. So we have the delay for the encoder, we have delay to get a big enough packet to send over IP, we've got last mile network delay (I'm at 20 ms to get out of my provider's network), plus network delay to wherever the conference server is, plus processing time, and then all that on the way back. If you're on congested wifi because nobody runs wired ethernet anymore, but you've got two kids and two adults all having to do this, that ads inconsistent delay, so now you need a jitter buffer. That is a reminder to try to set up my kid with wired networking though, thanks.
Snowplow. 500 million events a month is nothing.
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Wow, that's pretty good advice. Thank you!
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As evident from their replies elsewhere in the thread, working well means that they personally are well-compensated.
But you did not have to steal your bike to survive, like in post-war Italy (Ladri di biciclette 1948). Interestingly Italy with no cars, no motoscooters and no fat people looks much more habitable place. Likewise one might ponder what India would be if even more people would afford cars instead of bicycles.
> And how long are you expecting people to avoid the more risky activities? What are the exit criteria?

There are some obvious ones, like: no new cases in the city/county reported in 14 days.

For some reason, it seems people thought this would take a month or two, and then everything will be back to normal. But it wouldn't. Two months is a ramp-up period, a default if you do nothing. "Flattening the curve" measures were always going to extend the partial lockdowns until late this year. We knew that in March.
Maybe Palantir top brass are tired of the human rights protests and bloody handprints being painted over and around the outside of their building.

Good riddance.
Still cannot believe Modi got away with it. Glad I could help some people directly, instead of donating to the fund.
As a big fan of UBI this infuriates me. We can't test it unless we do it nationwide. In business school they hammer into you that "cashflow is the lifeblood of the business". It stands to reason that the same goes for the economy so why are we messing about with pointless 120 person trials. That isn't testing the right aspect of the system. We need to test it's systemic impact not the impact it has on individuals.
It's not false at all. When your life is unimaginably shitty, it's hard to plan for the future and most excess income is used to make yourself feel better (flavorful food, alcohol, drugs, etc). I've observed this about myself (the worse I feel, the less money I save) and others. I lived in Africa for two years, and it's quite common for men to spend money on alcohol or meat, even if that means going hungry. Clearly, more value is being derived from a nice meal or a drink than a shitty, flavorless one.

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that this is utterly false, but I'm telling you that this isn't the case.
All the Dulles siblings are interesting in their own ways.
What do you think would happen if everyone stopped using tobacco and alcohol over night? Would poverty disappear?

It’s of course tragic when parents make a bad position even worse, but addiction is a symptom of poverty and not the cause.
Anecdote and first-hand experience deny the claim that they're doing well. The criticisms section on the wiki cites a lot more than just stress and bullying:

> The Japanese educational system has also been criticized for failure to foster independent thinkers with cultural and artistic sensibility. Japanese students that attend schools overseas often face difficulty adapting and competing in that environment due to lack of international viewpoints.
> It’s airborne, at least we know that part but the clusters in nursing homes and indoor parties also indicate there is some mechanisms in play when indoor.

No, the clusters in nursing homes and indoor parties indicate that airborne transmission is a lot easier when you have high risk people who can't avoid close contact with others, or a lot of people in close contact in a small space, in a closed environment where air is recirculated.
The paper is right, all impressive achievements amount to just curve fitting.

But ... maybe that's why the human brain works so well. The 10s of billions of neurons in your brain are designed to adapt to patterns and adjust to external stimuli from sensory input.

Just like compression algorithms can only compress something so far before losing data, maybe being limited by how much processing we are throwing at this problem limits the usefulness of our solutions.
Yes. It was presented as poor person does this, overcomes massive difficulties, while the govt doesnt address difficulties, etc.

I can read Hindi
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> link time optimizations

Ah, fair enough.

(Personally, I don't generally find that the performance delta between having lto on|off is worth the compile time. Maybe for release builds. But usually performance is jut not that much of a concern; I don't bother.)

void Move(List* units)
{
foreach(node, units, {
Unit* unit = node->data;
unit->position.x += unit->speed.x;
unit->position.y += unit->speed.y;
}
}

My approach doesn't enable anything fundamentally different from this. But it makes it more ergonomic and safer.
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Most of the times it is because of fear of breaking something during a rolling update. So people usually create a new cluster from scratch and slowly migrate one by one.
I think the point is more that, for most people, cutting back on minor luxuries wouldn't actually matter much because it doesn't actually add up to enough money to materially improve life in other ways.

Or, more pithily: You're not poor because you spend everything on beer, you spend what little is left over on beer because you're poor and really need the pick-me-up.
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They write up is excellent, but here there is a tl;dr

The Google Cloud console offers a way to export data into cloud storage based on a SQL query expression.

By exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability related to that SQL query expression field, the attacker learned that they had file write access to /mysql/tmp.

The attacker found a second vulnerability affecting the API endpoint used to export data. This endpoint invokes mysqldump behind the scenes.

Then, the attacker creates a database with a malicious plugin embedded in a BLOB. This plugin is a C program that creates a shell process where standard input and output file descriptors are an alias for a socket file descriptor, creating a "reverse shell" where the attacker can execute commands remotely.

Then, this malicious database was imported via mysqldump, and the malicious plugin was written to /mysql/tmp, then loaded, thus executing the malicious plugin.

Using the reverse shell created by the malicious plugin, the attacker found that the process was running in a Docker container using host networking, which could be used by the attacker to monitor network traffic in the VM host machine.

Using traffic monitoring, the attacker found traffic related to the Google Guest Agent, and then used a TCP connection hijack attack to hijack connections to the Google Guest Agent.

The connection hijacking was used to trick the Google Guest Agent to authorize a new SSH user, which was then used to escape the Docker container VM.
So how is R&D being funded in China? China has government-funded everything. How's that working out?
"Who will pay for corporate profits and who will receive it", the degree to which it's "fair", "just", or "equal" becomes obviously nebulous
> I've never seen a more pointed example of most people's abject inability to perform utilitarian reasoning than this pandemic.

Yep, me neither. If more people could, we wouldn't have this problem, because people who could would stay home. And going to the gym is indeed one of the "more trivial things".

I suppose the problem is that it's hard to impress on people the seriousness of the situation. If instead of a virus, you had a madman or enemy soldiers going through the street and shooting every two hundredth person at random (even with a heavy bias towards the elderly), everyone would stay home and keep crying the government needs to do more.
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The original idea was that there was no way that policy was being informed by the trade-off described by parent, so it was a moot point. I think I was not clear enough.
You should read Andrew Yang's plan on how to pay for it. It is far more affordable than you think.