skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR I think its complementary.

Synthetic data is particularly valuable when even the unlabelled data is expensive to obtain. For example if you want to train a driverless car, you may never see an ambulance driving at night in the rain even if you drive for thousands of miles. In that case, being able to synthesise data makes a lot of sense and we have lots of tools for computer graphics that make this easy.

Synthetic data can also be useful to share data when there are privacy concerns but my own feeling here is that there are better approaches to privacy preservation, like federated learning and learning via randomised response (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04942.pdf).

In general though, outside of some vision applications, I'm pretty sceptical of synthetic data. For synthetic data to work well, you need a really good class conditional generator. E.g "generate a tweet that is a negative sentiment review" but if you have a sufficiently good model to do this, then you can probably use that model to solve your classification task anyway.

For most settings, I think synthetic data will work for data augmentation as a regulariser but will not be a substitute for all labelled data.

For the labelled data, active learning should still help.
An economic system simply can't be based around population growth. We're already living unsustainably (with respect to carbon) and population growth works against that. Immigration to keep borrowing money is postponing the inevitable.

Encouraging brain drain and people to flee their developing nations works against world stability, competition, prosperity, and quality of life.
This is the same concern I had. I settled on Caprover (https://caprover.com/), seems to exactly fit the bill.
I’ve nothing against Switzerland (it’s nice) but you’re the first person I’ve ever come across to suggest Zurich (or anywhere in Switzerland) as the coolest and most interesting place in Europe!

I’m genuinely interested to hear more.
It is a common trope that eggs are bad for cardiovascular health because they're high in cholesterol, despite this being shown to be false a number of times over.

A good question is thus how to turn around an urban myth once it's already become commonplace?
>They have decades of iteration on their designs and any major changes always end up having problems.

Even new designs have better fit and finish. The old automakers do know more about manufacturing.

Software is another issue though.
America suppresses and punishes free communication, you just aren't aware of it because they control what you see when you live there.
Is your dietary restriction list from a doctor or internet research?

I would definitely consult with your doctor and not apply general study conclusions to your own diet considering you had a heart attack recently.
If it‘s feasable to shard data by user, you could put it in a close shard, most users don‘t move continents that much. I have never done this but as a latency nut I would like to try it sometime. Seems like Cloudflare‘s Persistent Objects kind of promises to do this automatically.

Then there are a lot of requests you can serve from read replicas or caches that can be close.
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It’s better if we can just switch to a 4 day per week schedule. And still work 8 hours a day.

We don’t work on farms anymore. Software Automation, machines, and robots are everywhere now. But the capitalist bozos owns all of them. If they don’t want to pay higher wages, then make them pay for it by giving people more time off.
They want a break from their present situation so they can concentrate on planning for their future plans since it's hard to plan for the future when they are fully involved in the present. That's why. Not vague at all.
> Vue can be used just like jQuery without any nodejs tooling

You can, but you probably shouldn’t (outside of prototyping). It requires you to both ship the template compiler to the client, and to perform the template compilation on the client, on every single page load (vs serving a cached, pre-compiled JS file).

If you want to sprinkle JS onto an otherwise server rendered page, you’re better off with something like Alpine.js [1]

[1] https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
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if you are in 32-bits you could still have trouble in the future though.

source: two days ago I had the exact same problem, so I mounted a 32gb swap file over an NFS drive because my SD card was 2gb (don't ask) and it still failed because ld tried to use more than 4gigs of ram
Serve as an example? I eat four eggs a day.
Research has said eggs are good for the last 20 years.

It was believed they were bad due to their high cholesterol and cholesterol was considered bad across the board. But modern research shows it's more complicated than that.
Because the people paid the to do (or pretend to do) useless busy-work in Wikimedia Foundation could instead be doing something productive elsewhere. The point here is that the resources in the society at large are not infinite, and if they are wasted at Wikimedia, it’s a real waste even if Wikipedia is otherwise a valuable thing worth of support.

Imagine you have a city, which has a non-profit foundation dedicated to maintaining and improving the city parks. The foundation has 20 people on payroll, $2M in annual spending on wages and materials, and is generally though to do exemplary job. In fact, people like it so much that they keep donating money to it, while the new directors of the park foundation use that money to advertise everywhere that they are starved for cash, and if every park goer donates just $10, they can meet their fundraising budget. After a few years, the revenue of the park foundation is $120M/year, they are still doing pretty good job maintaining and improving the park for $2M/year, and the rest is spent on C-level executive salaries, analyst reports, conferences, travel expenses, shovel R&D, and all kinds of stuff that the parks foundation doesn’t need to do, and which provides little benefit to the actual parks or park goers beyond the $2M they have always been spending, while enriching the employees and executives in the nominally non-profit organization. That’s roughly where the Wikimedia Foundation is today. I see this as profoundly bad state of affairs. I also find it pretty ironic that the goal of the nominally non-profit organization apparently seems to be to maximize the donations and the spend.

> compared to something more detrimental to society like Facebook?

Why would you compare it to Facebook? The choice is not better Wikimedia and Facebook. There are plenty of other projects that could use money better than either Wikimedia or Facebook.
> Wikipedia may have been an amazing idea in the beginning.

> I would gladly pay for an encyclopedia written by actual experts.

While you're entitled to your opinion, this is a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side".

I'm not a fan of the Wikipedia internal politics, but as a user, Wikipedia is one of the best showcases of the Internet and in my opinion the greatest collaboration project in human history.

For the first time we have knowledge available to all, for (almost) free. You want to pay because you're privileged, but that's not the way of improving humanity as a whole, rich and poor, privileged and stuck in a mud hut with a crappy phone.

Of course we can do better, but I find it incredibly dismissive not to recognise the incredible achievement Wikipedia is.

Blame the fact that as a species we're quite tribalistic and selfish, not the collective effort we're making while trying the hardest limit our biases and shortcomings as much as (humanly) possible.
For the rest of us, I guess the canary died.
The paper Smartwatch inertial sensors continuously monitor real-world motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease [1]:

> We developed the Motor fluctuations Monitor for Parkinson’s Disease (MM4PD), an ambulatory monitoring system that used smartwatch inertial sensors to continuously track fluctuations in resting tremor and dyskinesia.

> MM4PD captured symptom changes in response to treatment that matched the clinician’s expectations in 94% of evaluated subjects. In the remaining 6% of cases, symptom data from MM4PD identified opportunities to make improvements in pharmacologic strategy.

[1] https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/579/eabd7865
Chrome, but I couldn't tell you exactly why. It's just that every time I switch, something rubs me slightly the wrong way. So I switch back. Nothing about Chrome ever bothers me.
Yeah I think is a good point. I'm actually planning to do a follow up post that is a case study with some real world data and the plots in that are much more like what you describe.

I may update the post. thanks!
Better hope your doctor is reading the right stuff.
As someone with Essential Tremor, I wonder if this could be used along with the other sensors in the watch to help figure out when the tremor seems exacerbated or less severe.
I agree that it shouldn't be this way, but I remember 2008 and the fact that zero people were punished. The US government will protect corporate profits at all costs.
I am almost certain this already a metric used by matchmaking in certain FPS games like Overwatch.
That may be what you think is going on, but isn't necessarily true. They might have been forced out, or quit because of stress or interpersonal conflict. There is no 'because' in the former CEO's statement.
You don't have to.

How many people have you met who were happy doing nothing, living with nothing, AND who made good employees doing anything at all?

I've met exactly zero.

The ambitious won't want to stay there; the unambitious may "unfairly" get their basic needs met, but they're hardly living the high life, and the lost -useful- labor to society is negligible. Almost certainly more than offset by the ambitious who can now take risks they otherwise couldn't, knowing that if they fail they at least aren't going to end up hungry and homeless.
Could you use this as an “analog hole” to scrape/OCR screen content from iOS apps?
Cockroach has a neat and almost transparent way of doing this. If you key your tables by customer, it'll happily move those chunks of data to the nodes that need them most often.

We almost shipped cockroach but it's missing some Postgres features that most full stack frameworks rely on.
"Conclusions: Our analysis suggests that higher consumption of eggs (more than 1 egg/day) was not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but was associated with a significant reduction in risk of coronary artery disease."

When I was a kid, for a few years, I had a stepmom who was relatively high educated, and was very quick to pivot to the healthy diet of the 90s: grains for breakfast, pasta for dinner.
When I would spend the night out, and come home and talk about how much I loved the breakfast at my friend's house (eggs and bacon) she would call them "ignorant rednecks" and talk about how "some people are just too dumb to listen to science or doctors."

My "redneck" friends has a much healthier diet than I did. We know this now. Yet people still blindly trust the US public health authorities. I'm not a moron, so I don't inherently mistrust their statements either. I just think a healthy skepticism is warranted with US public health messaging and the science that they fund. Entire careers in academia were flushed down the toilet because a brave few tried to point out how incredibly flawed the "dietary cholesterol causes heart disease" narrative.

Think about this: the leading scientists and the scientific community in the 1990s strongly believed that both eggs and avocados strongly increased the risk of heart disease. Avocados. Bad for your health.......... Looking at our collective love of avocados today, it should be a highly publicized rebuke of how awful the FDA's food pyramid campaign was.
While we've gone OT, thanks. That was an interesting read from a different point of view.

Personally, I had never even considered taxidermy on a pet. It'd feel too much like having a relative stuffed and put on display which somehow feels disrespectful.

But then, there are things like Lenin and Mao being on display. Way off topic now so I will stop.
I ran into a fun variant of this last week with MySQL's patented “data integrity is for cowards” feature: someone incorrectly modeled a column as a signed (i.e. default) BIGINT(20) over a decade ago and populated it with the UUID_SHORT() function's output. UUID_SHORT() actually returns an unsigned BIGINT(20) so any value greater than 2^63 would be silently truncated.

The algorithm MySQL uses for generating these numbers starts with the server ID, which meant that the old database system ran for at least 13 years without issues — and the app immediately failed when I deployed it into AWS. RDS Aurora instances have server ID value much larger than the 1 digit values used by the old server and so all of these values had the first bit set. That meant that the first INSERT would “work”, completing without an error (statistically nobody checks warnings and this app was no different), but all subsequent INSERTs would fail because they overflowed to the same value as the first one. One quick ALTER TABLE on a 90GB table later to change it to BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED and everything was working again.

This could also produce some confusing errors: the first report I got was that the database wasn't working because the developer had log files showing the INSERT using a number obtained from an earlier SELECT UUID_SHORT() query being inserted but that value not being present in the table.
This is what you get when "nutrition" is run by the USDA, whose job it is to grow and sell food. This belongs in HHS so there is no conflict of interests. Most of these "studies" are funded by groups with ulterior motives. And then we have billions in lobbying and subsidies to reconcile. It is such a shame. We know what we should do but remain bullied.
No, it's the opposite—if Signal wants exit nodes, they obviously won't block them. It's the entry nodes that need to be blocked. Some are easy to find, but others require you to send an email from a unique email address from a trusted provider to get lists of IPs.
Yeah, I mean Elon refused to learn from the best.

It's not like there are hundreds of books on the Toyota Production System. It's not even a secret. He had to actively ignore it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-th...
> No, seriously, what ongoing action(s) of China “must be stopped” and what actions by whom are likely to succeed without causing more harm than that which would be stopped?

I literally could give some likely possibilities of what they were specifically thinking about from memory, but it's basically a list of major news stories about the PRC from the past several years, which you're welcome to research yourself.

> The win/loss/left-a-mess ratio of the US doesn’t engender positive predictions of future actions especially given how many are in endless overtime. Is it fatalistic to be realistic?

The PRC is a genuinely difficult geopolitical problem. However, you seem to be taking Iraq and Afghanistan as your main precedents for action, when they'd be poor ones even if the US had been far more successful there.
> And as much as doctors and hospitals love to paint insurance as the bad guy, the only reason things like prior authorization is a pain in the ass is because doctors don't actually put in any effort into prescribing generics or really learn how much anything costs.

The only reason? Don’t put in any effort? How is this comment not flagged dead?

This is patently false and essentially slanderous. (I guess libelous since we’re on a written medium)

If you and the rest of the public had any idea how much your insurance company literally does not give a shit about you, when you are for example battling cancer, there would be pitchforks in the street.
Maybe the study mentioned here points to a contradiction to the last part of that quote? ;-)
How do people have such a strong opinion on what level of profit is reasonable if they don't know the default rate?

The average person thinks companies make over 5x the profit they actually make, and they think the amount of profit correlates negatively with how responsible and good for the world the company is (when in fact there's very little discernable correlation, and it may be positive). What profit people begrudge is likely not particularly relevant, given how uneducated those opinions generally are.
This fits nicely with some ideas I've been working on about "Tribal Knowledge". It's going to take some thought to integrate fully. I am primarily looking at the work of Ong on orality and the distinctions he draws between oral and literal cultures.

It's not uncommon to hear the phrase used as a pejorative, with the implicit assumption that oral culture is inferior to literate culture and that tribalism == primitivism == bad and undesirable.

But I've come to believe that there are always going to be things that cannot or should not be represented in written documentation. Documentation is an artifact that must be maintained. Individual professionals and organizations spend a huge amount of energy producing, managing, and maintaining written documentation.

But how much time have we spent on oral transmission of ideas? Almost none. And that's because we dismiss it as an approach. It's seen as less than or primitive, or at best something to discourage.

But if you accept that there must always be some oral information, then ignoring the issues of how we communicate, update, and persist that orally transmitted information seems foolish. There are cultures that have more recently made the the transition from being primarily oral to literal that have not forgotten the skills needed to manage this class of knowledge.

I wonder what practices we can learn from them that we can use to improve our ability to share and communicate more effectively.
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Er, no, "the difference in length between the hypotenuse and base is sqrt(d^2 + 550^2) - d".

The hypotenuse is cos(angle)*base.

If you think about it at a minute if a sat is 500 miles up directly overhead that's the closest it ever will be, as it flies off the hypotenuse gets longer, not shorter.

So ideally you bounce off a sat overhead, (distance of 1100), any single hop will be longer, and to get across an ocean you'll likely need more than one hop.

Basically the sin(beam path) will will never be less than 550 and the length of the beam will never be less than 550.
Not to be obtuse, but what is your point?

Obviously there exists some complex set of life circumstances, personal histories, elements of chance and so on that lead to there being some people who will interact in an insistent, even hostile, way with strangers on the streets.

In that both I and those people form part of the same economy, inhabit the same political reality, my actions are probably implicated in some unfathomably complex way. I have "a role".

To that extent: yes, it is not "that simple", in fact it's unknowably complex. But, in practical terms, what are you proposing?
For more on what's wrong with this, see gwern's "In Defense of Inclusionism" [0], an essay on this topic.

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
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The Great Suspender pulled from Chrome after being flagged as malware
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Github's PR review tool has some irritating limitations this way. If a changed function could cause problems for an unchanged caller, there's no way to add a comment on the caller unless it's within a few lines of the changed code. You cannot add comments on specific file lines that are "too far" from a changed line.

My review flow now is to check out the branch under review, read it in IDE with git annotate on, and do all my actual review work there so I can see the full context. Then add line-by-line comments on Github where I can. Comments relating to older parts of the system that should change in tandem with the current PR have to go in as "general" comments, with file/line number included manually.
And what if it happens with 0.01% of users on a popular Muslim social network?

What percentage of Parler users were advocating or planning for violent protest?

Also note that this stuff happens on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks all the time, and yet they're still online.

These are really messy gray areas, and the choices we're making will set precedents for our future.

There are so many potential responses by both the host and the service/platform. You can ask the network to deal with it (as they did with Parler), you can involve the FBI, invoke lawsuits... I don't think deplatforming is the second course of action to take when politely asking doesn't work out.

Was it even Amazon's prerogative to ask for content removal? It might be in their TOS, but what would the DOJ say?

Unless the FBI or CIA says it needs to go, I don't think it's Amazon's call. That should be our bar.

Social networks should be able to set their own rules and operate within the laws of the United States. Web hosts shouldn't meddle.
>This is the core difference

Got it! Thanks for taking the time to point out my error.
A plan that calls for a massive increase in low-income housing but has no idea who will build it. Low income housing isn't profitable for developers, which is why in thirty years of the too-expensive Bay Area, hardly any has been built.

In reality, the new housing will be too expensive for the sliver of working class people who remain in the Bay Area, who will have no choice but to go even further out.

In any case, the problem is solving itself, as tech workers realize there is electricity and internet connections in other States too. The only thing missing in most of the States they are heading to is taxation.
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I have >200 bitcoins locked into a wallet I've used to pay for a seedbox in 2012 :)

At least you paid your bills.
Azure has two central US locations: one in Iowa and one in Texas. They are probably larger than GCP and IONOS put together.
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It can work as a "smart cache" - like for example:

https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/graphql-edge-caching-apollo/

I'm not entirely convinced this is a great idea (and apparently the example uses plain http between the graphql prox/cache and openlibrary.org - that might be considered a bug, I suppose:
https://github.com/fly-apps/edge-apollo-cache/blob/master/sr...
At any rate I'd assume whatever source you're proxying (eg your own openapi rest end points) - you might want ssl - or connect the db/api to fly.io via vpn a la:
https://fly.io/blog/building-clusters-with-serf/
See also the linked:
https://fly.io/blog/incoming-6pn-private-networks/
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> Imported labor (as well as automation) drives down labor costs and affects unskilled and semi skilled workers the most.

The impacts of automation are massive, I really recommend this Andrew Yang interview [0]. It's a real eye-opener.

I had not realized the scale of this mess before watching that episode. Interesting numbers and insights in that 17 minute segment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAtyv8NpbFQ
To our fellow readers: Notice how Layke1123 has dodged my original question no fewer than 4 times (!), all while continuing to launch barrages of new questions in an effort to derail the conversation and avoid having to answer it. This tactic has a long history in Soviet propaganda.

Let's try again:

If the USSR had such a wonderful society, why did they have to systematically mass murder ordinary people who wanted to leave this wonderful society?

Don't deflect. Don't evade. Answer.
I'm curious how much your architecture also plays into it? I read a blog post you did a few months back comparing the big-picture architecture to others like IDEA, and it sounds fantastic. I've worked on observables-based/unidirectional data-graph style projects before (not compilers), and at least in my experience that paradigm really opens up head-room for productivity