skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the point is the headline is clickbaity, and for the uninformed masses, it sounds like it's highly likely it's from the lab, when that judgment was made with "low confidence"
if you do not mind me asking, what is ECR in this context?
What most people really struggle with is uncertainty, and they lack the conceptual framework (distributions) and working understanding of how those distributions behave under various scenarios.

One of the better data scientists I've worked with explained to me that his entire job was 'quantifying uncertainty', and after working in the field I definitely believe it. You could play around with RStan for the weekend and gain an intuition for how evidence changes hypothesis and how a hypothesis could be the "most likely" but still "unlikely" in an absolute sense, all with tremendous uncertainty in your prediction.

Still, when you try to communicate the results of a model, uncertainty is simply hard to communicate when people are interest in using your analysis for a snap decision, and the uncomfortable truth is "we can't tell you" is a fine modeling result.
This is a perfect example of subscription abuse! It costs that company nothing (except storage, which is cheap) to host old binaries for those that have licenses, even privately (for people who can prove their purchase). They don't even have to support the outdated software. They're just being greedy.
Actually https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.07051.pdf is DeepMind doing Wason (and other) tests on Chincilla and they find it scores between 40% and 60% on "realistic" and "shuffled realistic" Wason tests (I think. It's hard to read. See Figure 5).
steam would be the biggest for me
I think you're misinterpreting the motivations to oppose hate speech.

Thinking it "might convince stupid people of wrongs" is something we might think of as a trope, but if you think about it it's an elitist fallacy.

It stems purely from the idea that I, smart and educated as I am, must preserve the common idiot from making mistakes.

The reason it's a debatable topic is much more banal und real: It's doing harm and impacting the lifes of the minorities targeted by such hate speech. No need for gullible fools to mistake it for a rallying call and do physical or otherwise subsequent harm. Hate speech is very well suited to hurt, oppress, silence and alienate all by itself.

So yes, free speech must prevail any counterargument! But so does the moral principles not to hurt others, and the logical necessity that my freedom ends when it would diminish the freedom of others.

And freedom of speech does not mean right to threaten others indemnity. If it would, that would do nothing but enable this very freedom of expressions downfall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It’s a legal decision. The case they decided on was not, “should free speech absolutism be protected by law?” The case was about what sort of speech is a type of criminal conduct. A scammer is breaking the law if he lies to you in committing a fraud. That does not mean he doesn’t have free speech. This isn’t difficult to understand for most people who aren’t being contentious in bad faith.
After going through a bunch of merino socks over several years I'm back to bulk packs of basic wool socks for pretty much all outdoor activity. The $20 a pair merino socks are just not that much better than the 2$ a pair basic wool socks.
Right - Marc Gravell and Tim Craver, who worked on the core architecture of Stack Overflow, were both so obsessive about extracting performance from .net web applications that when they couldn’t do any more from the outside, they both quit and went to work for Microsoft on performance improvements in the framework itself.

I feel like it’s similar to how people point to Craigslist as evidence that you can still build sites in Perl - ignoring the fact that Craigslist has Larry Wall on a retainer.

Running highly scalable monoliths is easy! As long as you’re willing to hire some of the five to ten people in the world who are capable of advancing the state of the art of development on that technology stack…
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. This subthread was a noticeable step in that direction and we want the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34949969.)
Late reply, but Firefox allows the uBlock Origin extension to run.
I personally don't have ads on the archive.ph version on my phone. I don't know if others see ads.
My general perception of what happened is that Walker wrote a highly-praised, to the point of hyped, popular science book that was very much celebrated on HN. A blogger wrote a meticulous analysis attacking several details in the book, but probably more nitpicking than actually demolishing its main thesis. That similarly popular analysis has since caused the pendulum to swing to the other extreme on HN, as those who were skeptical of the initial hype has since leapt to it to denounce Walker.

It's all very much groupthink, but that's sort of how pop scientific consensus works- with popular narratives and groups of datapoints and conclusions seemingly overthrowing other narratives and groups of datapoints and conclusions. The average layman is too busy to read either the book or the meticulous critique; I've only listened to about fifteen minutes of one of Walker's hour-long podcast interviews.
Those laws you have the temerity to call “battle-tested” regularly lead to the violation of individual right by way of both arrest and prosecution for harmless and necessary speech.
It's certainly true: architects' primary focus needs to be that architecture/platform work.

Architecture isn't something you can just do on the side when you've got some free time, while still crushing out feature requests and bugfixes 40-50 hours/week.

But.

Architects can't be so detached from shipping code that they have no idea how things are actually made and shipped.

Otherwise you get situations like aloof architecture astronauts casually dreaming up complex distributed or microservice architectures, which look great on the whiteboard, but entail an enormous shift in thinking, tooling, and processes. As well as lots of overhead in general compared to a monolithic architecture. Sometimes that is the right move, but it is a costly one and not a shift to make lightly.

Had another "architect" 20 years ago dream up what was probably the world's dumbest architecture. He demanded that all application layer code be stripped out. We were going to build an entire interactive website with nothing but XML and XSLT. Where conditional logic was required, we could use conditional XSLT <xslt:if> statements. He tried to have us implement a social networking site with that. Had he tried to ship a single bit of code he would have realized it was insane.

Also recently had architecture astronauts push an entirely new primary language on the team. The old one was deprecated. This change was largely championed by people who had never written a line of code in either language with no thought to the tooling changes, process changes, or the overhead of throwing away 10+ years of company-wide language expertise in Language X or the ramp-up time and bruises that would be required to get good at Language Y.

After all, what did they care? They're architects.

One way to avoid/mitigate this is to have architects build and ship proofs-of-concept and reference implementations using the proposed shiny new architecture bits before the rest of the team is expected use and master them. Learn as many of the speed bumps and potholes as possible. They should continue to do this and work closely with scrum teams as those teams build and ship. (That may sound obvious, but lol @ this industry)
Our ability to prove a theory or not is entirely dependent on our ability to gather evidence for or against. How many other theories can be thought of is totally irrelevant.

Low confidence means inability to prove or disprove. That is it.

Edit: extrapolating further about this is just a Rorschach test.
If I'm can be 80 and feel no older then 40 (which is...christ, 3 years away) then I would call that an absolute win.

So you're clearly doing a lot right.
inno installer script too
> I see you offer an opensearch.xml already - if you embed it as link node with the appropriate type it will be straightforward to add it to the browser as (default) search engine

Thanks for the heads up, I used to have a <link rel="search"> to the opensearch in a prior iteration of the site, must have removed it by mistake. Will add in the link in the next release.
My takeaway is that at every level, from Google to the site host to the payment processor, they are financially incentivized to do the Wrong Thing. And he hardly even mentions regulation or law enforcement; because fraud is legal, right?

It doesn't bode well for the future that all these companies are shitting where they eat. It looks a lot like the beginning of a systemic collapse.
Plodding is amazing for quietening the mind. A side effect of less REM is inability to concentrate - so I’m speculating that excess exercise means more repair more deep less REM less concentration. The time both take up is a factor too.
Haha, yeah. I absolutely recognice that. It’s really weird to imagine that some of the people I work with were babies when I left university.
No, it’s a matter of supporting free speech that doesn’t violate existing laws.
Not that a HN’er would ever comment without reading the article, it’s important to note that the fish in the title is not the fish most commonly known in the US as Redfish, the Red Drum. Interestingly the Red Drum was fished very close to extinction starting in the early 80s due to a craze for a restaurant dish called Blackened Redfish.
A lab leak doesn’t mean gain of function, bio-engineered virus, or other engineering. It just means that the virus was spread via a lab leak.

> The October 2021 report said that there was a consensus that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program. But it didn’t settle the debate over whether it resulted from a lab leak or came from an animal, saying that more information was needed from the Chinese authorities.
That's literally the absolute-free-speech feedback loop in action, isn't it? Someone making a statement that a person disagrees with, the second person making an argument against it, and the first person suffering a social consequence as a result. Substitute "a mob to ruin your reputation" for "educating a number of other people about how your argument is a bad one" for a less-hyperbolic result, maybe.
Totally aware, as I have a number of teachers that are part of my close and extended family.

The caveat, somewhat, is that good teachers (true scotsmen) can be closer to a parental and positive influence on a child than a stupid or abusive parent almost exclusively because the (good) teacher is not stupid and abusive.

There's a glaring "no true scotsman" fallacy in my logic above, but my point is that stupid and abusive creates its own opportunity for improvement. My vicarious and anecdotal experience seems to bear this out (but having said that, my vicarious and anecdotal experience comes through teachers who are dedicated, experienced, and committed to the outcomes of the children, which is rarer than it should be).

There's no escaping the trauma of bad parents, but the ability to present the opportunity for a brighter future can help immeasurably. Hope. It can be better than it is.
IIRC, there were two kinds of cancellation ink - black and red. The black just dissolved in isopropyl alcohol, but red was permanent. Probably the result of some cost / benefit analysis.
Throwing 1.5TB of RAM in the SQL Server (server) has to help too!
a more interesting discussion between your point and his would be to show simple examples where each of the views break down. When you're dealing with allocation or handle cleanup, SESE sounds good to me. But with multilevel loop break or continues, even observing SESE I can see room for more gotos. But I don't know what either you or he are talking about.
Would you please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar? You have a long history of doing this on HN. I don't want to ban you again but if you keep this up, we'll have to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Okay, have fun projecting so hard over a very simple claim that companies should have justifications for their actions.

You've been repeatedly arguing against a strawman where I want to force companies to make certain decisions. But that's not what I said at any point.
Later he went to develop TypeScript
The best cache is the one built into the database. People seem to forget that the major rdbmses have sophisticated cache strategies of their own and that handing them more RAM (and ensuring they are configured to use it for query or other cache) is usually a good first strategy before trying to second guess and reinvent the cache outside the db.

Thread says SO allocates 1.5TB RAM to SQL Server. Sounds wise.
So, I've been active on HN for almost 12 years now - I see how developers especially young ones chase the new and shiny over the existing.

I work in an industry with useful, important, specialized, but unsexy technology.

PCM Audio, Multicast, lots of analog connectivity, arcane binary protocols (even widely adopted and interoperable ones), lots of manufacturer specific protocols too. Windows and RHEL. We've only just barely figured out what Web 2.0 is, Javascript based UI is new for us. We also do a bunch of embedded development, RTEMS, now Linux, other shops have some VxWorks too. Plus lots of development on just DSP code. This isnt just us I'll note, its my whole industry.

Technology in our world moves very very slowly. We provide decent wages, good benefits and a no requirement for overtime, but it's not sexy and it's not the way the rest of the technology industry is pivoting. We provide solutions that are reliable, and must work, but dont need to serve billions, just hundreds.

Also, as a deployment engineer it takes someone new into my role, about six months before they understand enough of the system to work unaided. It's not that we cant find developers - its that finding people who understand our industry is hard, and even if we hire someone who isnt in our industry, it does take six months or so before they can be productive. The larger issue is, they dont see the technology work on as a good stair-step on their career progression, so they dont wanna work here.
Check out the video I linked above about Survival Heuristics and Avoding Intelligence Traps.

Its fairly standard SOP. If you don't know what it means that video explains it fairly well.
So what about the threat of violence then. If the mob boss tells the shop keeper “it’s a nice shop you have there, it would be a shame…” and the shop keeper gives him money. Is that still free speech? The mob boss didn’t act on the threat. What about the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, it is just speech? The muslims who decide to act on it aren’t coerced, remunerated or affiliated to the Iranian regime. So it’s a threat of violence but you can make the case the authors aren’t involved themselves in any crime.
The end result of this is that the only people who have real free speech are those who can't be threatened into silence.

Even the US has histories of this happening, plenty of hated minorities were silenced, threatened and punished if they spoke up.
A bit OT, but I fell in love with Japanese android flip phones this week. Look at this wonderful Kyocera:
https://imgur.com/a/qiZUHkm // https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/kyocera/dignoky42c/ga...

If such flip phones had decent hardware (being able to run a messenger and Spotify without lag) I would unironically switch from my iPhone. I miss typing with T9 :)
Obviously you can respond with other speech.

Getting someone fired, cancelling their appearances at universities and other public events, blacklisting them from academia -- those things are not speech.
My standard strategy for installing StarCraft (at LAN parties I often had to do it a few times in a row) was just to mash the keyboard a few times until I got through. It usually took somewhere between five and ten tries, in my experience.
Maybe because they are not easy to find? How long did it take to find SARS reservoir?
Are there any civil or criminal consequences for the people who did the atrocious acts of collecting the PII?
SOA was all XML at the API level.

Serverless is RESTful, lower-level, and coupled to the cloud-provider's menu of containers, key/value store, authentication, &c.

"Synonymous" seems a stretch.
Ah interesting... that's a very good point! Then why aren't these programs rolled out all over the US and stuff in public schools? Is it just an example of government incompetence? Are there any younger public administrators seeking to fix the administration or whatever? Sorry I don't know much about this yet but it sounds very promising.
After someone get fired from their job for saying something evil, they still have the freedom of speech to continue saying it.
It's pretty interesting looking at the history of that article[1]. For the first decade or so, the article pretty clearly states that Jemima was a woman. All the sources cited treat Jemima as a woman as well.

Around 2014 you get the first mention that she once said she once said she had mixed together with Christ and was neither male nor female. After 2014 you gradually get more and more edits from the point of view that Jemima was nonbinary or trans (all of the sources for this are post-2010).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Universal_...
> [1.5TB of RAM] that is a third of the entire Q&A dataset.

Yes, but maybe not as much as you’d think.

https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713961951330304
Yeah, I don't think C can teach you assembly. But I think it's a very useful tool for comparing the relatively high-level C code to the corresponding assembly code.

Rust, sure--in some cases, when you're using it in a C-like sense, could serve the same purpose.
>I think it has more to do with the fact that one opinion is supported by more conspiracy nuts.

Evaluating an empirical claim based on the aggregate character of those who are supporting it rather than actual steelmanned arguments is poor epistemic hygiene. It's a commonly-used justification for tribal epistemic closure - "the red tribe has lower IQ than average, therefore they are wrong in every disagreement with the blue tribe."

There's an equally-negative opposite of a "conspiracy nut" here - something like "sheeple".
So, I personally prefer to use exceptions for "panic" scenarios, like assertion failures, where the application has hit a state it doesn't expect and cannot handle.

Crashing makes sense in these scenarios if the application is only doing one thing. But I am usually working on multi-user servers. I would rather fail out the current request, but allow concurrent requests from other clients to continue.

Yes, I understand the argument: "But if something unexpected happened, your application could be left in a bad state that causes other requests to fail too. It's better to crash and come back clean."

This is not my experience in practice. In my experience, bad states that actually poison the application for other requests are extraordinarily rare. The vast, vast majority of exceptions only affect the current request and failing out that request is all that is necessary. Taking down the whole process is not remotely worth it.

Moreover, crashing on assertions has the unintended consequence of making programmers afraid to write assertions. In a past life, when I worked on C++ servers at Google, assertion failures would crash the process. In this argument, I saw some people argue that you should not use assertions in your code at all! Some argued for writing checks that would log an error and then return some sort of reasonable default that would allow the program to continue. In my opinion, this is an awful place to end up. Liberal use of asserts makes code better by catching problems, making the developer aware of them, and avoiding producing garbage output when something goes wrong.
That’s nice though. Until I was like 30 years of age I felt like a child compared to all the ‘adults’ around me, but now I just feel like everyone from 30-100 is more or less the same, just at different stages of life.
I should pause and ask what you mean by 'coddling'? Perhaps give an example?

The word coddling generally has a negative connotation and implies the relevant actors / systems do too much of it.
> Getting someone fired, cancelling their appearances at universities and other public events, blacklisting them from academia

None of these are restricting someone's freedom of speech. It's the same badly constructed talking point over and over again.
My 166Mhz Pentium MMX laptop was encrypted too, with the full disk encryption feature of network associates' PGP Desktop. It could handle it fine even without AES-NI. Slower computers also had slower disk access so the burden wasn't big.

I think there was just less focus on security back in those days. We used the same password everywhere, left thumb drives in taxis, used telnet instead of SSH and regular http.
What does modern debates on free speech in the US have to do with Jews in medieval Europe? I’m struggling with the connection here because it almost seems like you’re implying that the proponents of unfettered free speech are coming from a place of some sort of generational pattern of blood libel and free speech is just an excuse, but that can’t be what you’re saying can it?
> Do you think the government is going to use that power to benefit the minority groups that need defending, or to advance their own agenda?

Governments that want to abuse laws can use nearly any law. Don’t like what a media outlet is saying about you? Investigate them for tax evasion.

If you’re worried about government abuses you can argue against having any laws at all.
>> In ideal free-speech land, these platforms are relaying our speech, and the decision to do so or not is part of their freedom of speech.

>> It isn’t obvious to me that there is an absolute direction. It seems like an interplay of the speech interests of various entities which may push against each other.

> Well, you're not entirely wrong, but I feel perhaps like you're missing some nuance.

I don’t think I was missing some nuance, I was describing a point where free speech absolutism misses some nuance.

> Anyway, apart from all that, free speech as a value is much broader than the legal requirements of the First Amendment. I'm reminded of Alan Berg, hosting and debating bigots on his radio show, because limiting expression always ends up hurting minorities, and because suppression of such thoughts just drives it underground; sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I do think there’s a value to open and thoughtful debate.

Free speech as a general value is good, but sort of abstract. I think open, thoughtful, good-faith debate is a closely related but slightly better value. Sometimes it is fine to not host a discussion if one of the parties is just there to spew propaganda for example.

Edit: removed a bit about Alan Berg, wasn’t familiar with his story. I don’t have anything to say other than, that’s just tragic.
That's the exact kind of thinking used by various oppressive and totalitarian movements and governments in the past. Sooner or later, it ends in physical violence.

It's just sad that those self-proclaimed anti-oppression activists don't see they're using the very same methods for their supposed goals.
Semiotics for Beginners
That’s an engineering choice not cloud vs. cloud. How many services are down when AWS us-east has a problem?
Its really not that hard, I don't see how you can have such a negative attitude.

I linked a video above that explains it very simply.

There isn't much nuance to it at all.