skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doesn't cause much performance overhead

Exceptions are slow when thrown.

If an error happens rarely, the corresponding exception is thrown rarely, so the performance impact is minimal.

OTOH, if an error can happen frequently, it is no longer "exceptional", and so is probably better handled without exceptions anyway.
See also their theft of computing intellectual property

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_computing_technology_...

Radar theft: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/09/24/s...

Entire books were written on the subject. Here’s one: https://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1126/112610.html

Reminds me of China today.

“ Mueller, operating since 1974, is said by US officials to have set up some 41 dummy firms in Europe and Africa solely for the purpose of facilitating the diversion of sensitive US high tech.

He is the technobandit said to be behind the now-famous attempted VAX computer diversion last year from South Africa to the Soviet Union via West Germany and Sweden.

The diversion trail, as outlined by the authors, demonstrates the lengths to which determined smugglers may go to attempt to avoid detection.

According to the authors, the sensitive computers were transferred from one of Mueller's South African firms, Microelectronics Research Institute (MRI) to another of his South African firms, Optronix. The computers were then resold to a Swiss firm, Integrated Time AG. The Swiss firm was a subsidiary of Mueller's German firm, Deutsche Integrated Time. In the meantime, the computers had been loaded on a ship bound for Sweden and the Soviet Union.

The VAX computers in question had originally been legally licensed for export by the US government to MRI in South Africa, but under the condition that they not be resold or transhipped elsewhere.”
Library of Congress classifications and subject headings (those are two separate things, for those unfamiliar) are not perfect, but they're pretty good, apply to a huge copus, and to my mind most importantly, have evolved over a bit over a century under numerous circumstances, including an absolute explosion of published materials, substantial changes to understanding organisation and classification of knowledge, and an awareness of the social and cultural aspects of these (as well as the institutional bias that's often embodied within them). That is, they have evolved a change management process.

The Classifications are substantively hierarchical, though that's really an outgrowth of the fact that they're used to locate books within physical shelf space, in which a record must occupy an address (physical space), and given that the Library's settled on subject classification as its storage and retrieval basis, this maps what's effectively a folded linear structure (shelf space) onto the multidimensional subject classification. It's not ideal, but it's workable. And many of the quirks of the LoCCS come out of the fact that it addresses both the composition (comprehensive, but still US-centred) and process (shelving, search, and retrieval) of the Library.

The Subject Headings are not hierarchical, though they're structured. In particular, they're relational, with numerous subject headings referring to others. There's some parent-child relations (though the top level hierarchy is broad), numerous retired classifications, and many "use that instead of this" notes.

(I've made ... some progress ... at a structured parsing of the subject headings, though that work's been stranded Because Reasons.)
The expanding role of Cyber-Physical Systems
Nothing in your example couldn't be done by a bot. I'm certain you can make a case for middle managers, but your current one is weak.
How so?

What's missing / what would you remove and/or change?
I do not see any 'opinion' here.
Generally, no. Only you will use it in your team.
Why does the WFH crowd always assume the those who prefer WFO are relying on work for a social life? Does it make them feel better about being anti-social shut-ins?
> If we were torturing prisoners, and I proposed we stopped, would you ask for the evidence to back up the idea that cutting out torture was a good idea?

We are torturing prisoners in several ways, from solitary confinement to physical deprivation. People do routinely propose that we stop, and they do get asked for evidence that their proposal would be better. Your idea is one that we have evidence against because, as you mention, it has a long history. (And that is not actually evidence that it works: otherwise we'd just use witchcraft.)
From the perspective of someone who got their start from building small web tools and slapping ads on them and putting them online, which paid for most of my expenses to get myself through university, it's kind of funny that the people that want to use the internet "for free" at the expense of builders of websites, now also want to be able to block ads to continue to extract value out of everyone else also for free by asking Cloudflare for a free plan.

Pay for your own darn servers, everyone else has to and can't even use ads to support the costs due to you.
Many articles in e.g. Nature Genetics are cheating by hacking their p-values. These hacks would be much harder to get away with if, as a starter, they were asked to use hierarchical models and continuous explanatory variables, whenever possible.

The article from Andrew Gelman you cited explains this quite well. In general the review articles and books he has co-authored are incredibly helpful to learn how to avoid common issues that plague statistical inference.

We need to shift away from null hypotheses and p-values towards generative models, model selection and effect sizes. It leads to much more robust inference.
Very true, but I think people associate the word "legacy" more with their children and community rather than their social status in the world. "legacy" is very important to me as I want to have an impact on my friends, family and community.

I might never have a wikipedia article about me, but at least I had kids and they will have kids and so on. Of course, I will eventually be forgotten (I don't know who my great great grandparents were) but if it weren't for them I would not be here today. One of the defs is " something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past".
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Monitoring: Expert Guide
Somehow I feel this would have terrible consequences.
Support is still there in some way, Bazel support being officially integrated is probably a good external indicator.

The Perforce plugin is Piper compatible, and works really well.
While I agree that encouraging a sick employee to work is all kinds of messed up, most countries impose a limit on sick days.

At that point, you need to talk to the employee and figure out a solution.
I didn't know that, thank you. Is there any information about the internals of this? Like the kind of solver etc?
CarperAI announces plans for the first open-source “instruction-tuned” LM
I don't know if somebody is being funny, but I think it's cool that my post on free speech was flagged and censored.
People love to shit on middle managers, but I can say all the ones I worked under (as a SWE, at the one company) were all smarter and more experienced than I was, and I really appreciated the mentorship.
Sometimes I get a bit of "abused victim" mentality from a lot of people who don't want to go back to the office. I think it makes sense that the ones who were more popular are more motivated to go back and vice versa. That being said, we all have our strengths and weaknesses.
> Educate me.

You forgot an entire direction of input and focused on just a return code.

> The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage.

No it doesn’t. It’s not random and it’s configurable. Turn off overcommit if you want malloc to fail when memory runs out.
>Watson was a stunt. It's not very hard for someone on HN to figure out how much of Watson was Watson.

Can you elaborate?
Well if I come in the middle of the night at your house with a gun, you killing me is different than me killing you.
That sounds rather similar to superdeterminism.
It locks you after you start the animation, but the key here is when you start the animation.

If you see someone is going to attack you, you want to dodge right away, wait for the animation to finish and attack after. With cloud gaming you see someone is going to attack you, press dodge, get attacked, you die.
> Even something as entry-level as a Starbucks barista

In the UK many similar positions use contractors working "zero hour contracts" with no guaranteed hours. In other words "a large pool of workers with elastic hours for a job which requires effectively" net zero training.

> Nurses?

The demographic trends and labor shortages in much of the world I think will be a forcing function to automate and rationalize healthcare to a greater extent than it is now. The only reason I don't think that'll impact quality of care that much is because that quality is degraded today.

> Operators of specialized heavy machinery at a meat packing plant?

Not a factor given labor shortages and automation trends. And even if meat packing plants can't automate, they won't function without underpriced labor or sizable price hikes. Labor shortages are already baked into the demographic cake worldwide starting a few decades from now.
Mechanical Neural Networks
exactly, it seems like a faulty solution to a problem that doesn't exist -- at present, we would say 900 and 1, not 0900 and 0001.
Political apathy is the one way street to an authoritarian society. Just have a look at Russia what political apathy has brought the Russians.
Around here (Germany, Hamburg, inner city and western outskirts, have no other recent experience) it's often unnecessary, since the chainlocks are mostly 'cracked', broken nowadays. Just grab one. They lock up anyways, if you try to move them off of the premises via some mechanism embedded in a bulge above one frontwheel, triggerd by induction wires embedded in the ground of the parking space. Regardless of Aldi, Lidl, Edeka, Rewe, Penny, Netto, whomever...
I believe there are enormous amounts of resources which enable people to self-tech the basics of coding. I partially agree -- but it's not an absense of possibility, it's absense of motivation. I think it's exactly because modern systems are opaque to a beginner
No, that's System.NotSupportedException in .NET.
when pay is high they will show up
Just register a new domain and serve it off that instead.

If this browser is not maintained then it won’t update what it requests, but everyone else can.

Obviously this becomes very whack-a-mole but in this instance it might be an easy win.
Do we really want to develop in the cloud? My gut says no. I have no real opinion about that, but seems worth investigating. Is anybody working with a proper dev environment (no, sorry, a small react-only project doesn't cut it, I'm talking jvm driven, ran by docker kind of thing) in the cloud here?
My concern would be a Gish Gallop[1] if anyone in the public could claim to use this data for their purposes. But this is less of a concern with established researchers who have a reputation to consider.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
No, I absolutely don't and I feel that's the main point where people take offense in what I said.

My question goes more in the direction of: For me personally, the communal and social aspect of occasionally sitting in the same room with the team I'm building software with has always given me a lot. And I have experienced recently that loads of people will not even take a 20 minute commute once a week to have some few meetings face-to-face because they apparently don't even see the slightest addition in value from that. I can't really wrap my head around it (because I obviously have an orthogonal viewpoint here) and was trying to get more insight into this way of thinking.
> The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage.

If you want to disable overallocation and the OOM killer, be my guest. You'll want to install some extra banks of RAM though.

Or is there a better way, provided by other OSes?
I dont think it is just car centric thing. The society I am from is not car centric and you actually do have public parks etc. It is super normal to use them. And also, American families tend to own 2 cars, so being car centric does not leave them locked at home.

> In Africa there are women who go back to work selling things in the town market shortly after their babies are born - with the baby strapped to their back and breast fed on demand. No need for daycare but mom can still work!

I genuinely know much less about social structure in Africa. But I do know that 1 month old being strapped to back in the town market is more likely to get seriously sick - their immune systems are not strong yet. Meaning, this situation happens in places that have much bigger and serious social and health problems. And also, one other question is whether this mom would not picked daycare if she had that option. Moreover, while you can strap baby, you wont strap 4-5 years old and that means they spend a lot of time without supervision too.

Which is by the way origin of kindergarten - many 4 years old being unsupervised in German streets as both parents worked 12 hours a day in a factory. Which is default state whenever place is not rich, moms having a lot to do while kids do what they do (and it gets them into problems).
Judging by the simplicity of tasks our ERP can't automate, the office jobs that it replaced much have been some mind-numbing shit.
You should take seriously that a vast amount of research of this kind is pseudoscience, and that there isn't much science that can be done from it.

All "heritability" research is just an analysis of correlations between genes and expressed behaviour. On these grounds a scottish accent is highly heritable, since the accent correlates extremely highly with some genes.

We do not have the means to create new human beings with different genetic profiles and observe them accross many environments, as they develop, to determine if "somehow" a gene causes anything so macroscopic like "intelligence".

So, quite literally: we cannot do science. We cannot create experiments to test hypotheses.

Genes have no plausible mechanism to "cause" intelligence. If they play a significant role, it is a very large number of genes building tissues which are completely opaque (brains, etc.) whose interactions with the environment are completely opaque.

Heritability research, and "psych-genetic research" of this kind is, necessarily, pseudoscience. It's adhearents are the poorest statistians and have the least understanding of the scientific method you could hope for.

We have no scientific theory of intelligence which provides causal variables that we can experiment with; we have no theory of biological mechanism, likewise; we have no theory of genetic mechanism --- all we have are some aging loons with stats software content to put iq-test-scores (ie., people competing patterns of shapes...) and Genes into it.

Whatever can be found by these loons isn't worth a scientist finding. "Data" isnt innocent, it is collected and used for a reason; and pseudoscience isnt innocent.

Correlating genes with ESP ability is likewise nonesense, and that has as much scientific merit.
As a counter-anecdote, I have an early September birthday, but the 1st Sept cut-off was advisory rather than strictly enforced. So I was a “year ahead” of where I should have been for my exact age up until I was 13. At which point I repeated a year, going from the youngest of my classmates to the oldest.

Exactly the sort of child the article implies would at risk of being over-diagnosed with ADHD as a pre-teen. Except I wasn’t diagnosed until almost 25 years later.

Of course I’m just one data-point, but I’d be curious whether the developmental age differences might potentially _cause_ ADHD development among younger classmates rather than just indicate misdiagnosis.
This seems completely far-fetched and it gives the impression that the author has no idea what middle management entails.

Middle managers are a business' communication infrastructure and the idea that those mostly soft skills can be done by a computer is laughable.
All this is not very intuitive to me, but my mind's eye is telling me it would appear as accelerating expansion until you reach the horizon, and reaching the event horizon would feel like being in your own observable universe by yourself.
> Educate me.

Not sure if I'm being trolled... It finds a remote machine by name, and routes a connection to it. It authenticates and establishes a secure connection with the machine. It sends a command to the remote machine, the remote machine executes it, and the result is returned. It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.

> That was a quick response to what I thought would be better than administrating a UNIX system on an Amazon machine.

It was content-free.

> Don't be an ass.

What's good for the goose...

> I've no experience with the real distributed computing systems created before UNIX.

And already the expert. Impressive.

> No, that's the vapid marketing pitch.

No, that's the reality. That's why Amazon, Google, Azure, and everybody else offer it in their clouds and use it on their internal infrastructure.

> The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage.

I'll take that over "running little functions floating in the void", it actually exists and works.
Since the talk was already posted yesterday, here's another great related video that is well worth watching: Dan Ingalls demonstrating Smalltalk 76 on a restored Xerox Alto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg

This is where it all started and it's truly amazing what they achieved on such limited hardware.
These are used by the python module “reals” to provide arbitrary precision for pi and e (among other things): https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/reals
Not really, superdeterminism postulates that the measurement outcomes are guaranteed.

Here, you could imagine the universe as being operated on by some giant Hamiltonian operator with a basis of eigenstates, and then the amplitudes will just deterministically evolve according to the Schrödinger equation. But the amplitudes only reveal information about probabilities of measurement, not measurement outcomes themselves.

[How such a measurement could occur (coming from outside this universe system) isn't physically clear to me but isn't relevant either.]
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/learn
Maybe you should watch the video to appreciate the full meaning of Zizek's idea.
Does this integrate with KillBill? How do you manage subscriptions?
OPML usually is just your list of subscriptions, OP specifically wanted everything else, I don’t know of any app that shares that unfortunately.
Lots of pictures on Fourmilab, from John Walker of Autodesk fame: https://fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2008/S005.html
What do you want? The whole population to leave the country? The govt is bad doesn't mean people wouldn't want to thrive.

Just because something doesn't go along with your view doesn't make it oppressive. And FYI, SA govt isn't fully theocratic. Islam doesn't support hereditary monarchy at all.
Waston isn't so much an early general chess ai than a program aided by programmers/other gms to beat a very specific style of chess that the previous world champion played in a limited number of games
Like the Dyson fan, "no blades"
How did the memory usage comparison pan out?
after a bit more thought, you are right. this is the right approach. i just need to make sure the file is being fetched only once and if client closes the connection the file needs to keep being downloaded.
That is about the amazon.com architecture as late as 2006 (only slightly higher scale of three entire datacenters scattered around virginia and I think dual 40G links between datacenters, but other than that exactly the same principles).

Lot of people think that DC failover needs to be east coast / west coast but you can achieve most of your DC redundancy goals separated by 100 miles or less and have a lot lower latency, higher bandwidth and lower costs. Might want to think about different geographic flood plains and different power companies / grids.

Could still nerd fight about EMPs from nuclear war and a sufficiently massive hurricane or an earthquake out here on the west coast, but at some point you need to accept some risks.
It's not a great article, but the main line of objection in comments here seems to be "This won't happen, because AI won't do the job well and certainly not better than humans." Sadly, we already know that that's not a reason for things not happening.

For example, robot staffed called centres are worse in almost every way than human staffed ones. And yet they are widely deployed in certain use cases, e.g. utility companies. And, more broadly, even when humans are involved in some chain of interaction between person and organisation, they sometimes have limited options because the computerised system imposed on them is not to designed to empower them to make on-the-hoof discretionary decisions.

Organisations chose to use automated systems of various kinds, because they think it saves money and because the reduction in service is not so appalling that that they lose customers. Or, of course, because they are an essential service, and people need to use them anyway.

We might think that competition would mean that organisations who didn't do this would do better, but often that's not how it actually works. Having an appalling system for escalating complaints is terrible for the relatively small number of people who need to make complaints. But organisations are often not optimising for good handling of edge cases even if, in some better world, we would like them to be.

(Or, indeed, never mind what we would like, organisations might not optimise for edges cases even if it might be rational for them to in the sense that it might actually save them money - edges cases can be expensive - or win them reputation - handling edges cases well is good "marketing" etc.)
What did you migrate to? KillBill?
Probably true for now. But „what a computer can do“ is not a convincing reason. I have been very surprised by that lately and will perhaps be surprised again.
All this is going to do is make the Android ecosystem even worse. And consumers clearly won't trust Google not to kill off support for their own devices either.
thanks for sharing Fleksy !
I genuinely think that believe stuff is impossible without being centered over business is odd and possibly one of reasons of loneliness. Businesses are good for economy, but they designed for profit making and effectivity. Community building is opposite.

And also, no I am not much fun of evangelicals nor conservative Catholics for that matter. Too much authoritarian control, too much hate and too much of paranoia. (And yes, I grew up in christian environment).
As captured in the saying "might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb". (https://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Sayings/Quizzes/Badness/...)
You do know there are 0day exploits on any browser, right?
stuff that runs on a server.
I don't think what I want matters very much. I don't live there and don't ever plan to. I'm saying I don't see the appeal.

Was this something the people of Saudia Arabia wanted? Was the population clamoring to live in a giant Line in the middle of nowhere?

Did they ask what people wanted, or even look at where they are naturally gravitating to? Was that even a consideration in this project?

Most cities build up over time as more and more people have a reason to live in a particular area. At some point it becomes self-reinforcing because more people want to live there because everyone lives there.

Historically, efforts to create cities by decree have not worked well.
When you say "there is now way", are you saying that we don't currently have a way, or that it's impossible to do? If it's the former, more research would certainly help.