skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> I never ever again want to think about IP rules. I want to tell the cloud to connect service A and B!

Dear God this 1000 times. My eyes bleed from IP-riddled firewalls foisted upon my soul by security teams.

If I could also never NAT again, that'd be nice.

> Why do I need to SSH into a CI runner to debug some test failure that I can't repro locally?

Hey I can answer that one. Because an infra team was tasked with "make CI faster" and couldn't get traction getting the people responsible for the tests to write better tests (and often, just hit a brick wall getting higher ups to understand: "CI is slow" does not mean the CI system is slow. CI's overhead is negligible), and instead did the only thing generally available: threw money at the problem.

Now CI has a node that puts your local machine to shame (and in most startups, it's also running Linux, vs. macOS on the laptop) (hide the bill), and is racing those threads much harder.

I've seen people go "odd, this failure doesn't reproduce for me locally" and then reproduced it, locally, often by guessing it is a race, and then just repeated the race enough times to elicit it.

Also, sometimes CI systems do dumb things. Like Github Actions has stdin as a pipe, I think? It wreaks havoc with some tools, like `rg`, as they think they're in a `foo | rg` type setup and change their behavior. (When the test is really just doing `rg …` alone.)

Also, dev laptops have a lot of mutated state, and CI will generally start clean.

Those last two are typically hard failures (not flakes) but they can be tough to debug.

> Do we need IP addresses, CIDR blocks, and NATs, or can we focus on which services have access to what resources?

We need IP addresses, but there's not really a need for devs to see them. Nobody understands PTR records though. CIDR can mostly die, and no, NAT could disappear forever in Cloud 2.0, and good riddance.

Let me throw SRV records in there so that port numbers can also die.

Because it's bothering me: that graph is AWS services, not EC2 services.
There's a ton of research on consumption patterns of those experiencing symptoms of mental illness, and genes can be good indications of predispositions for those illnesses. There's also research on how social media platforms can induce symptoms of mental illness by tweaking the algorithm that shows content to users.

Not only could platforms use that research to optimize engagement/conversions/etc of those with genetic likelihoods of experiencing such symptoms, but unscrupulous platforms can use those genetic predispositions to algorithmically target and induce symptoms of mental illness in the vulnerable. If a platform knows that a user has a predisposition for overeating or depression, they can then try to lead that user into patterns that will make them sick, with the intention of getting them to engage in the desired behavior of clicking, buying, etc.
Interestingly, that wikipedia entry cites the very article I cited. The other article it cites concedes that the so-called myth is actually somewhat true. Not exactly a thorough debunking, but definitely more food for thought.
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This is a poorly reasoned or at least a poorly articulated essay. AI to this point is built to optimize some objective function. What is that function with respect to middle management? Some sort of mathematical expression would be interesting but even a plain-English expression would certainly be helpful. And what exactly are the inputs and output? I guess the inputs could be a roster of employees along with some performance metrics, and output is a list of who is kept and who is fired (?). That’s the best I can come up with, but I still think it’s an absurd and impractical eventuality. The article doesn’t even make an attempt to explain.

This isn’t some sort of nitpick; AI to this point has not in any way encroached upon personnel management to my knowledge and a prediction in that direction ought to elucidate exactly how that could be expected to work. Managing workers involves empathy and understanding human emotions generally and I’ve seen no indication that AI has made advances into this space recently despite its rapid progress elsewhere.
Tbh some of the things that seemed obvious are taking longer than expected while wild advances on seemingly difficult fields pop up out of nowhere. At the start of the year I would have told you by now we would have progressed on automated pizza delivery but not be able to generate convincing art.
Probably would be at least a few SE managers eliminated simply by Jira being more responsive. Not that it would replace all of them but if you currently have five, you might be able to get away with having those same projects spread over four with a similar level of effectiveness if the primary tool wasn't so clunky and time consuming.
+1 and Gunicorn with an ASGI server/Uvicorn
Woah!
Mine is from 25th June 2017 and a mere 25 days 2h
That is not exactly what it says. It says it uses a content-adressable system and you can talk to it as if it was git.
I made far fewer mistakes and could type faster using the BlackBerry physical thumb keyboard. Apple
should sell attachable thumb keyboards for their phones.
I mean GP was focused on interfaces and UX, not privacy.
Thanks, I searched if it was posted and didn't find it
Sounds like the WAIS-III intelligence test. The state tested me using this as an admission criteria for a summer camp full of gifted children. They accepted two kids from our school which was generally pretty rare, especially considering our school’s socioeconomic level.

If I recall correctly you’re talking about the working memory index. I scored 50th percentile on that portion of the test but top 0.4% overall, which I’ve always felt like reveals something about my “ADHD brain”. It’s definitely not the norm. The administering psychologist seemed super interested in my testing and I asked a lot of questions about the process. She brought me back in for a second day of tests as some of the tests I exceeded the space available. I recall they had a band writing symbol recognition and copying test, and I filled up a page front and back, so she had to come back the next day with more pages to accurately measure me since you aren’t supposed to “ace” a part of an intelligence test.

I often think about it because I often think “well, being 1 in 250 is pretty good, but that also means there’s literally millions of people smarter than me”. Hard work and building good habits like going to bed on time has been key to actually making use of the “raw power” of my brain, and Adderall as an adult has helped a ton with this despite side effects that I try to keep under control (irritability and seeming more ‘robotic’. Every time I try to stop using it I feel like my career slips and I become depressed. The me on Adderall is capable of being a competent software engineering team lead juggling multiple balls in the air. The me without Adderall struggles as a senior software engineer writing code for one project.

I’m excited to take a 2 week break from the meds on vacation later this year though. I constantly feel like I’m “grinding my gears” too hard, so to speak, like the Adderall is adding jet fuel to my engine of a brain and it’s gonna burn me out. It hasn’t happened yet but I really want to avoid tolerance.
Old status quo is over. Demographics are largely to blame. Can’t really do much about that
This is called the working memory index score, for what it’s worth.
opponents of taking action against climate change cheep ammunition

As if they were so principled before, or went out of their way to take other objections so seriously.

A more objective measure would be to estimate the cost it would take to get the equivalent level of publicity, rather than trying to estimate the positive or negative impact which is necessarily subjective.

We don't know whether pissing people off is really ineffective or actually galvanizes more people to action. I'd contrast actions like this with the worldwide protests against the Iraq war in February 2003. Those are estimated to be the largest single political demonstration in history, involving 6-10 million people in ~600 venues around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot...

They were huge protests, close to universal. Subsequents events pretty much validated the protesters' concerns. And what did all that peaceful, dignified, disciplined protest achieve? Fuck all. Protests that don't upset anyone are quite useless.
And if that worker is genuinely sick for whatever reason, can AI beat human in showing empathy?
How would I be able to respond to the post in detail if I didn't read it? What a bizarre, defensive response. To address your points:

- Multiple formats were compared

Yes, but not a zero-copy or efficient format, like flatbuffer. It was mentioned as one of the highlights of postgresML:

> PostgresML does one in-memory copy of features from Postgres

> - Duckdb is not a production ready service

What issues did you have with duckdb? Could use some other in-memory store like Plasma if you don't like duckdb.

> - Pandas isn't used

that was responding to the point in the post:

> Since Python often uses Pandas to load and preprocess data, it is notably more memory hungry. Before even passing the data into XGBoost, we were already at 8GB RSS (resident set size); during actual fitting, memory utilization went to almost 12GB.

> You seem to be trolling.

By criticizing the blog post?
Something I was just wondering about recently: If the earth's magnetic field (and other similar "passive" global effects) can be sensed enough to move a compass needle, can it be used to power low-energy devices?

Like could we ever have always-on displays (like 0.00001 FPS, 10x10 pixels or whatever) or whatnot that are powered by the planetary magnetic field?
They are self-contained
What does chess have in common with retail middle management? As someone who has managed a retail store and played chess, I can confidently answer: nothing.

Remember when Watson beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy? And then IBM saturated the airwaves with ads about how Watson was going to revolutionize industries like energy and health care? Notice how we don’t see those ads anymore? It’s because winning Jeopardy has nothing to do with providing health care and energy. Like chess, it’s an artificially constrained game with a clearly defined goal. Whereas business is unconstrained and nobody knows what will succeed over time.

The hardest thing about management is managing people, who are generally self-centered, opinionated, and wishing they were doing something else. How, specifically, will AI be better at that than humans? AI cannot even reliably autocorrect this comment as I’m typing it. How is it going to convince Jack to switch his shift and come in to cover open on Sunday because Jill’s sister was in a car accident and Jill is watching her niece? How’s AI going to do that better than a fellow human?
I work at a large company that invested countless dev hours in building an automated shift scheduling system, then gave up, bought a scheduling system from a vendor, and has now spent several years tweaking that system to match their requirements.

Guess what? It works OK when everything is fine, but if anything even mildly out of the ordinary happens and more than a few people are unavailable for any reason (year-end holidays, travel, conferences, etc), boom, it's back to a manager manually putting together the schedule again.

And this is the best case scenario with motivated, largely self-managing employees who can be trusted to, say, figure out shift swaps if something comes up at short notice. Good luck automating scheduling at McDonalds, and remember this is only a tiny part of what a manager has to deal with every day.
This article is assuming the title because AI is good at chess? Okay then...
I watched the video when this was last submitted and he makes some interesting points with many of which I disagree.

Images as illustrations in the code:

Yeah, sure, it would be nice to have the Vitruvian Man in the code, but it's also nice to be able to re-open your text file in 5 years, when development on the IDE has stopped and it no longer runs on current operating systems. Also, animations would be hugely distracting.

Code cells:

With jupyter and spyder I have been bitten by lingering obsolete state from re-running cells or code blocks various time. I find the program much easier to debug if it runs on a clean slate and builds all the state from scratch. If building state takes long, I try to cache, save it to disk, and go from there.

Nonetheless, an interesting perspective.
Those bad papers are an impediment. It's much harder to get your paper/proposal past reviewers when it's for solving a problem someone else claims to have solved already. Also, even if you do get past that higher barrier at an added expense and time (reviewers will want a lot more evidence to support a claim refuting a prior claim versus a groundbreaking new claim), the person who usually gets cited more, funded more, and a bigger career advantage is still the person who's non-replicable publication was first.
I once worked in a startup when we M&A several times in a row. The last time the head of sales was forgotten and didn't get a boss/reporting line and no one talked to him. He got the money but no work. I left to found my own startup and don't know what happened.
Scattered: Attention Deficit Disorder Originates
> There's a quote I cannot find that I miss greatly ...

This is probably it: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." - Alfred North Whitehead

(And I agree that depth is rewarding and civilization allowing us to forget things isn't always tempting!)
A Raspberry Pi Pico conducts this lo-fi orchestra
Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
You know that reactor cooling designs could be different right?

The US has many warm-water ports; Their nuclear-powered ships already had to handle that. The Soviets had a single warm-water port and they'd have no need to base their nuclear icebreakers there, so they likely went with a simpler, cheaper design - "дешево и топорно".
> with decimals serialized with a comma because it was on a dutch user's phone

If you're doing any kind of non-binary serialization/deserialization or file IO, it's always a good exercise to change the user and system regional settings when running tests.
Actually Webb has marginally less resolution than Hubble. Even though Webb is significantly larger the wavelength used is significantly longer resulting in a resolution that is approximately half that of Hubble.

Of course the electronics are better so some of the image capturing is better but the resolution is not.
Their goal is time free to do nothing. It's been realized and they enjoy it.
It reads like you are describing reporting. How many frowny faces were sent out at Store 123 last month for attendance? But the reason you need lower/middle mgmt is that the real question is "so what do we do to stop having these frowny faces?"
Yeah so would I. It's not though.
Nuclear Physicist: Do We Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?
Is IPFS strictly Web3?

Sure it gained traction around Blockchain, crypto DeFI - but the storage technology is ELI5 a massive distributed storage.

I could hazard a guess that in terms of philosophy its closer to BitTorrent than Blockchain
What is the point of a systemd-free distro?

Personally, I will never go back to writing startup scripts again.
If true you should let me, someone who can be put to sleep by adderall and caffeine, the degenerates I know (and love but cannot understand) who take adderall specifically for those opposite effects, and my therapist and psychologist who both ranted to me about their frustrations diagnosing their ADHD patients because they can’t use this test.

I’m not even saying you’re wrong, but it doesn’t match my personal experience at all (in both directions), and the belief is apparently widespread enough that real professional mental health providers believe it.

It would be genuinely surprising to me if someone who works all day with people who take these medications and talk about their effects wouldn’t be armed with a million counterexamples if at minimum the observations didn’t line up. Like they’ve got to be seeing some real effect even if the explanation is wrong.
Considering the flynn effect alone, even a 10 point difference in IQ wouldn't really matter like that.

And if your threshold is 10+, I strongly doubt a single such group exists. I'm not very worried about the risks of upsetting a sufficiently unlikely group.

I'd probably be worried about people mishandling news of some tiny bias, but that's a different problem entirely.
sectors and industries were labelled "essential worker", e.g. grocery stores. Do you think management within those sectors stopped "interpreting" and "encouraging"?
No. It is about excessive resources/bandwidth usage. The customer service response reply isn't great but the context itself is clear because this file is clearly not for displaying any part of the web presence of the easylist site.

Again this is that "pedantic technicality" - why such a fuss when the actual issue is straightforward, and also clearly understood and reiterated by the easylist team themselves in the post?
Exactly. Low https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
By largely adopting anti neoliberal policies…
I would highly recommend any readers on here who have ADHD to read "Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates" by Dr. Gabor Maté[1]

It provides a compelling argument as to the root cause of ADHD.

[1] https://drgabormate.com/book/scattered-minds/
Lol, I didn’t think this would be a thing… but I would think in your statement that you would want a fix for the multitude of viruses that are considered “conmmon colds” right? That’s what I meant.

So you would want a global replacement.
Plot twist: This article itself was written by AI.
Normally some cop-on-cop mayhem is worth a grim chuckle, but that's quite a hair-raising account. Great find, thank you.
Scientists may do research for any reason. In your own example, plenty are doing cancer research simply to get paid.

>And despite how much "truth" they could discover by performing unethical experiments

Why have you put the word "truth" in quotation marks here?

(I'm doing it because I'm quoting it as word, rather than using the word itself.)

>ethics boards and the Hippocratic oath subordinate that goal to the broader ideas of medical ethics and what is "good."

The issue would be ths experiment, not the truth that comes out of it. The truth is always good in my view.
This reminds me of an argument I got into at a bar with someone who claimed robots would inevitably replace bartenders. I took the view that bartenders would be the last occupation to be replaced by robots because if the goal was to minimize the cost to consume alcohol people wouldn't be coming to bars in the first place.

There's a misconception that jobs with higher pay and more prestige will be the last to be replaced by robots. In many cases I think the opposite is true and in this case I think upper management will be replaced by robots before middle management.
This article doesn't even understand what middle managers do. The functions listed like "scheduling, negotiating, training" are for line managers, who are directly responsible for supervising the line workers actually doing the work.

Middle management is the next layer up the food chain: the managers of managers, responsible for executing strategy coming from up high, but lacking executive power to actually change that strategy.
You have succinctly encapsulated my thoughts on AGI.

AGI faces an extrapolation gap.
I have spent much of my career reading and understanding code written by others. Comments have helped me twice in that time.

Many other times the comments have made understanding the code harder.

My motto is that comments are the only part of the code you can be sure are not tested. At best they record the intent of an author at some unknown point in the past.
Sometimes there the probability is mispriced by a large factor because nobody's paying attention.
There are a lot of people that think like this, you won't be able to convince them that prisoners should be treated with dignity.

I've found that they are receptive of evidence when it comes to efficacy, recidivism, cost, etc. If you care about those things, our prison system makes no sense, it only makes sense if cruelty and maintaining a steady supply of forced labor are the only things they care about.
The mass of what? There aren't literally three quarks inside a proton.
Lakes and Oceans
Just own a tablet? How?
You made a lot of people happy now.

Wonder if the NIH can ask to delete the data. Shouldnt it be public property since it s tax-funded and open source and all
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Server runs de-DE, my dev machine is en-US. So many errors found with formatting/parsing because of it :D
A moment of silence for the brave veterans of that war.
> Even so, we continue to serve about 100TB of “Access Denied” pages monthly!

I might be ignorant of the scale of things but surely a 404 page can't weigh more than half a kilobyte right?

I think EasyList maintainers have every right to break stuff in this case. Also could easily turn the list into a HTML file as it's just as parsable as txt.
Everyone’s just trying to get that Nature paper. If torturing mice will do it you will torture mice. This kinda research is so hard that really you just care about getting your thing out there; thinking about abstract stuff like doing good is a luxury you can’t afford.
Another suggestion: Don't build you identity around a language or platform. They come and go. Except SQL. It's been around for longer than either of us.
Surely you could get android phones and a type-c PoE adapter for cheaper?
To be very pedantic back, it's not public property but it is in public. Brandishing laws obviously differ from state to state, but the "public" part of brandishing means that people can see you.
Nice. Combine with restoration like this https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/j01y9u/d_b... would bring life to many old photos.
It is possible that one of your neighbors has a camera system. You would have to seek help from a specialist technician to help you, as they have specialized equipment to detect spy cameras. Unless you want to buy a spy camera detector.
If you think what an accomplished spammer doesn't have $250...
The state machine example is a good one. It's a textbook case of unreachable code.

The null-checking example is not good. If the external API returns a null where you don't expect one, UnreachableException will be thrown. It doesn't matter if the documentation says it will never be null; clearly the code isn't unreachable. All you need to reach it is bad data! (InvalidDataException would be a better choice, though arguably not an ideal one.)

If you can write a unit test that makes your code throw UnreachableException, you almost certainly should be throwing a different exception.
Or choose to leave. I have walked out of meetings, having been repeatedly interrupted despite telling the interrupter that I did not appreciate it.

I’m not hard line on “no interrupting”, but if I ask someone to stop, then I expect them to stop. Or I’ll just leave. I have other things I could be doing.
with a typical iPhone + macOS combo, you can enable SMS via Messages app by enabling a setting in the System Preferences. I use this and frequently receive all SMS messages via this route.
What the system does is the rostering system preferences the workers with the highest scores when assigning shifts. And I suppose makes this number viewable to the workers so they can see why they have to optimise.
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