skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that nitty gritty formalizations are important to grasp, it's been made clear that the formal sciences were often insufficient in facilitating insight on the type of complexity cyberneticians cared about -- especially that of process oriented circular causality, which often involved paradox and self-reference.

See Stuart Umpleby's lectures on the History of Cybernetics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB81F4FC0EDC4DECC

Or Walter Tydecks on the cultural understanding of mathematics as a sign system: http://www.tydecks.info/online/themen_e_spencer_brown_logik....

> Shannon was like Spencer-Brown a mathematician and electrical engineer. In his study of data transmissions, he has demonstrated how any medium generates background noise that interferes with the transmitted characters. To this day, mathematics has not perceived or not wanted to perceive the elementary consequences of this for mathematics and logic. To this day, mathematics is regarded as a teaching that is independent of the medium in which it is written and through which it is transmitted. Nobody can imagine that the medium could have an influence on the signs and their statements. Mathematics is regarded as a teaching that is developed in a basically motionless mind.

Having taken the last 2 years to really go through the discourse surrounding second order cybernetics beyond Ashby's introduction and Stafford Beer, I learned of a pivotal text called Laws of Form, which was at the heart of second order cybernetics. The formal system was directly incorporated in Varela and Maturana's thesis of autopoiesis, and Niklas Luhmann was also /obsessed/ with Laws of Form for much of his academic career. This is a progenitor of our current interest of enaction and embodied cognition!

With the book's 50th anniversary in 2019, the discourse has been seeing a rejuvenation thanks to some small conferences at https://lof50.com. I've seen some intriguing applications. Some are a bit far out, but that's the nature of systems thinkers, yeah?

A couple that may be of interest:

William Bricken's work on Iconic Mathematics, a system that covers K-12 math and bridges it to purely physical manipulation, shedding matters of complexity difficult that fuel general mathphobia such as: associativity, commutativity, division by 0, bases, functions, order of operations, the disambiguated meaning of equality. Instead, everything is a /structure/.

Bricken's work on computational implementations of Iconic Logic. One example includes a novel SAT algorithm / tautology verification algorithm called Virtual Insertion, which makes extensive use of the notion of semipermeable boundaries, in which the context of a boundary still pervades its content.

Gitta and Ralf Peyn on FORMWELT, a yet-released system aiming to facilitate precise, clear communication of nebulous natural language concepts through the use of injunction and self reference.
> but according to Hiatt older MTV News articles do not show up via Wayback Machine.

So not all, only "older" articles are not available. Wayback Machine only works after someone submits the site for archival; the old site might have used something that made it hard to archive content; and I expect MTV pre-dates the Internet Archive. Any of those factors might result in WM missing stuff. It's not magic.
* showers. many gyms often have soap as well. the Golds Gym I used to go to had that, albeit it mostly handsoap dispensers (with handsoap) in the showers. but it was enough in a crunch if I forgot my own body wash

* lockers. most places claim "24 hours only" but aren't so great about that, and many will let you rent lockers for 24/7 storage for trivial money.

* decent toilets, sinks, mirrors. it's hard to shower, shave, and shit in a gas station bathroom.

* you can wash clothes. gyms with a pool often have drying equipment (like the little centrifuges for bathing suits). also saunas and blowdryers. like if you only have 3 pairs of undies, you can give 2 of em a good wash and spin them mostly dry, then hang em in a locker.

* 24/7 access. hang out or workout at night, and then quietly grab a nap somewhere (mostly) secure. clean your gear, take a shower, get right, without a ton of people around. hit a couple of reps for arms and shoulders while you're at it.

* most gyms I've been to often have powerbars or other cheap meal replacements / proteins in vending machines as well, which may be your only option if you're down to < $5 a day for food
I think the javascript here plays a rather small part in the entire assembly.
>he certainly hasn't publicly stated that it's OK to cut a civilian population's water supply as collective punishment, for example

neither has Starmer... also this never happened...
That's not "always a driver monitoring". They're not actively monitoring all of them all of the time, they're responding to requests from the car.

And they're not drivers, they're supervisors. They don't take over driving, AFAICT they issue high-level commands like "safe to proceed", "take the right lane", et cetera.
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It's quite common in large C programs to have setups where some code might be under an if() statement and the if() condition is something that is compile-time 0 if support for a feature wasn't compiled in. (The idea is that you get syntax checking in a way that you don't for just ifdeffing-out the code, and you don't get weird nesting of preprocessor ifdefs with C ifs.) If you warn about the elimination of code like that, it makes that technique rather awkward.

(For instance, in QEMU we have code like: "if (kvm_enabled()) { do_something_kvm_specific(); }". In a no-KVM build, kvm_enabled() evaluates to compile-time false, and in a KVM build it does a runtime check of whether the user turned on KVM for this run.)
You raise good points about making sure that all those services are always available through multiple means, but the argument I'm making isn't that all those services are limited to a smartphone - they aren't... I think everything I mentioned (except for emergency calls) are available in a web browser.

The argument is simply; the smartphone is the platform we have chosen because it makes our lives so much better. It does its job so well that it has become a critical part of the economic and social fabric of the country. Thus we need to make sure it's regulated (up to a point, obviously) so that the public's needs and that of the larger economy are met, while still maintaining the financial incentive for smartphone platforms to innovate.

Consider; it's possible to walk to work/banks/government offices for the majority of people but vehicles are convenient and time-efficient so that's what people choose. Accordingly, society accommodates and regulates vehicle use. Same thing for radio and television in the past... it was possible to get information and entertainment elsewhere, but people chose those mediums because they were better than the alternatives. It's because of the popularity of cars/radio/television that those things deserved regulation, nothing else.
I want to avoid the ms ecosystem so much that I use teams vs other tools as a litmus test.

If I am not desperate for work I tell contracting firms "no teams meetings" in writing when we setting up new contracts. Often, this is isn't a problem and they setup a zoom, webex, or even a plain phone call. Frequently, they try to setup calls on teams and usually about 15m before I remind them that I won't do teams and either they tell me to install teams and send me a windows download link (which does me no good) or the frantically struggle to do anything else. When I explain that I won't install ms software and I will skip their offer for it their mind is blown and and I refer them back to the email they saw, responded to, and agreed to. Then I avoid working for someone who ignored me and would likely ignore me again over more serious matters.

I should probably have more filters like this but avoiding this and the C# work closet to me has saved me a lot of long term pain.
For university, it hasn't changed by a lot. Ideally I would want a tool where I could input all slides, worksheets and scripts for a module and then get a nice summary, mock exams, ... nothing can do this which is why I wrote my own tool for this, it works alright, but it isn't 100% accurate and misses bits of information. So I am mostly back to compiling my own summaries and learning based on old exams.

As a side project I am currently building a drone myself on a really tight budget. While I am pretty good on the coding side, my understanding of electronics is basically non-existent. So when I am asking basic questions it's quite helpful; as soon as I am giving it specifications ("Will this brushless motor and this ECS work with a 4S lipo?") it breaks down completely - so it's helpful, but far from perfect.
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> Its primary intent wasn't really to explore POSWID as a general concept that applies nearly everywhere in politics. Its purpose is what it did.

Nicely done. :)
Nobody anchors to temperament, either.

I don't think twice about letting my 7 year old watch shows that I steer my 9 year old away from. The 7 year old, a thrill seeker, enjoys things that would give my 9 year old nightmares for a week.
I understand that it’s best to say this in public, but my dang @ing has a surprisingly high response rate; I’m okay if that’s just cargo culting though. Kibo is probably still summonable: why shouldn’t dang ascend one day?
And whistleblowing is for a different case, it is when you work for an organization and see illegal or dangerous things, and choose loyalty to the law / public interest instead of the organization whom you work for.

Here it is different, it is an activist sponsored/supported by an enemy state actively seeking to create chaos in a foreign government.
It's good that there is research in this area but I always doubt whether it can be scaled up to a meaningful level without doing other damage. In the end I think we need to work more on reduction and reuse even if it's mildly less convenient.
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Many hosting environments give you this.

For example AWS gives you multiple ways of injecting secrets as env vars into your containers when they boot up (ECS + secrets manager, EKS, etc)
> why would the wayback machines archives be gone also

I don't know for sure, but, as a hypothetical example, in this case, MTV could have requested that IA take down the archives from that time period.

(That is, if MTV can prove they owned the domain during the archive period [probably pretty easy]), and if they still hold the copyright to that work [probably], then they could essentially issue a DMCA takedown request [by email], with which IA would most likely comply [there are some HN and IA forum posts about this I think].)

> just because the parent/ source website was shut down

The "just because" part is not a well-founded assumption AFAICT. For all we know, there could have been a request like above.

> why wayback machine and the other archive services aren’t filling in this gap/working in this case?

I see no evidence that IA isn't working in this case, if working is defined as including having a process for handling valid takedown requests that must be acted on according to the rules they follow.

I hope that helps. Again I don't know if this is what happened, it's all hypothetical.
Humans have been nomadic longer than they've been static. You can take a nomad out of the wilderness, but you can't take the nomad out of the boy or whatever. Before these, we had covered wagons. Before that...
Please don't configure important things in the IDE. IDE configs are notoriously fickle and checking them into the repo usually just leads to a lot of problems in my experience, plus it will mean duplicated effort every time you need to do something from the CLI.
You can export your data:
https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-worksp...

For private messages I think you have to send in a GDPR request.

You can view it in a slack like viewer here: https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer
Great example, that makes a lot
of sense.
Syft is an emerging instrument company that has a powerful single-instrument solution that covers a lot of bases:

https://syft.com/industries/environmental/mobile-monitoring/

third-party press release:

https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=23241#

Not affiliated, but I did tour their mobile demo van when it was in the US.
Secrets don’t belong in environment variables either. Place them in a vault and grant specific processes/identities permission to read and decrypt them.

Env vars are prone to leaking and best practice moves the goal post further. Devs love to dump envs to log files, child processes inherit them, admins can very easily sniff them.
As far as I remember there were a few Australian politicians making a few waves about the Assange case.
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I strongly agree with you, but I want to add that each relationship is different and people have the freedom to set their boundaries as they wish (they as in plural; the people who are in the same relationship decide together where the boundaries are).

What I'm trying to say is, it's okay if the person you are responding to wants more strict boundaries than the rest of us. If flirting is cheating to them, then it is and that's that.
The regime change from laminar to turbulent flow is chaotic, so looking at a system in bulk will give you a decent description of the system, looking at any one part of the system will give you a random answer. This becomes problematic at systems boundaries, especially in engineering where we would like to understand the safety factor. Simulation can give you a reasonable starting place, but at the end of the day you still need test articles to see how it performs in reality.

For example, would you consider the three body problem well described? Even if it is, the solution goes chaotic rather quickly.
CO2 is not the only factor. You also have to look at the plastic bags that are floating around in rivers and oceans.
I've always wanted to explore how each religion answers various philosophical and religious questions from official sources, so I've created a tool for comparing them. Let me know how this can evolve to make religion understood to everyone and open dialogue between people from different religions.

Thank you

Some questions you may ask yourselves :
What is the meaning of life?
Why does evil exist if there is a benevolent and omnipotent God?
Is there life after death?
How can we know if a religion is true?
What is the nature of God or the divine?
Can morality exist without religion?
Why are there so many religions?
What is the role of faith versus reason in religion?
Do religious experiences provide evidence of the divine?
How should we interpret religious texts?
How do religions view and treat homosexuality?
Why do some individuals commit acts of terrorism in the name of religion?
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I am going to hold the celebrations until we are sure there isn't anything else on the horizon. He isn't getting a pardon and being declared free and clear of charges in the US is very difficult. Who knows what state prosecutor might want to bring new state charges. He may also be wanted as a material witness. If I were him I wouldn't set foot outside Australia ever again.
In the future, when you're old and quite possibly disabled, you might rethink the whole "walkable cities" thing.

I mean, it's easy to say "just walk (or ride a bike)" when you're 22 years old and in prime health, but the population in most First World countries is rapidly aging.
You don't even have to go that far back, living in RVs is nothing new. "Tiny home" is just a rebranding that removes connotation of a "trailer", but it's essentially the same.
I always used foreman [0] which I found to be superior to dotenv in every way. Even superior to this new dotenvx

[0] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
Do you think the remote operators are driving the vehicles? They can only give the car instructions (pull over, go back to depot etc). In no sense are they driving.
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The problem is much wider than simply people cheating on their spouses. It's the failure of people in aggregate to rein in their predator in virtually any interaction they can get away with being a predator.
It has been complete for years, despite targetting an api that never ceased to evolve. Its bugs are not fixed, including todos in core libraries.

Practically, it’s abandoned.
$300,000 per car. They're burning billions trying to go mainstream.
Commands can have a maximum number of arguments. Try globbing on a directory with millions of files.
The disc moves, but there aren't any moving mechanical parts to cause it to move. It's done with electromagnetic pulses. I'll update it to make this more clear.
I have a copy of some early Grimm's version. It's a bunch of disconnected fragments of stories with events out of order and no particular moral.

The Grimm brothers went around interviewing busy people about stories. Not the storytellers for the most part; just regular people. They had imperfect memories of the old stories, got them confused and mixed up, and probably the whole household was competing to tell the scholars their version. Result: fragmentary and confused.

Not one of the stories in this old book resembled anything in any modern telling. E.g. There were several versions of Cinderella-like stories all different, with entirely different endings, some with no ending. Different slippers or no slippers. One or two or three sisters. Various parents dying, sometimes both! Her inheritance stolen and she exacted revenge to get it back. And so on.

The second half was more like story fragments, nothing complete. Just notes really.

So never mind 'original' versions, there may be no such thing.
Great post, you're clearly on the right track. I totally agree that there is a major gap in modern theoretical understanding of how and why complex systems emerge. Breakthroughs in understanding the physical/informational processes that underlie complex adaptive systems could be immensely useful.

I'll add a word of caution though. I'm most familiar with systems theory applied to biology. Biology is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of complexity. However, it's less well acknowledged that it's also very, very complicated. This is important because it means that we have very incomplete knowledge of the base components of any biological system. Like we still don't really know the basic biochemical function of most proteins. Hell, we only just got a partial view of what most proteins even look like (in isolation) via AlphaFold. Measuring the number of all of the proteins in a single cell is effectively impossible with current and near future technology. Any feasible solution for this would probably be destructive, meaning that true time-series measurements are also impossible. These details of what we know and what we can (or can't) observe matter quite a lot, not only because they are the sort of raw matter of a systems theory, but also because they are the levers that we have to use to manipulate the system. There are only about 1000 proteins that we know how to reliably bind molecules to. There are (probably, we're not sure) more than 50k different proteins, if we include isoforms. So, all that to say, we have very incomplete knowledge of biology and very incomplete control of cellular behavior.

This isn't meant to discourage you! Instead, I think there's a tremendous opportunity for systems theory to be really useful (especially in biology) if it becomes a practical, routine analysis like statistics. But, for that to happen, we have to keep in mind the limitations and specific details of the system we're dealing with.
Sure, and "beating Vegas" is about skill and following a system, too. /s
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Well, hardware engineers make mistakes too but they're covered by us software guys :) Drivers are full of workarounds for buggy hardware. And when things can't be hacked around with a firmware update hardware sometimes needs entire product recalls .... something we fortunately don't have to worry about.
Be careful what you ask for.

The United Kingdom went from a country with enormously outsized global influence to just another European nation. The downward spiral has been stark. The economy stagnates, more and more people live in poverty, and voters decided to inflict further self-harm by cutting themselves off from economic treaties with neighbors based on an illusion of self-importance.

If America ends up in the same place, its collapse will be harder and more dangerous.
A few months ago in Sweden we had a major news story about a journalist who went under cover as an employee of a political party media department in order to follow a story. They explicitly took the job in order to leak information which their employee contract disallowed. They will, practically guarantied, not get in legal problems for it.

People occasionally talk about this tactic as being a bit of a morally grey zone but under cover journalism with an intention of leaking information (if they get their hands on it) do happen from times to times.
> Nobody wants to hold a tablet up to their ear to make a phone call.

No idea what device it was, but I have seen that!
While it is a fair assumption that a programmer using a given language is fluent in it, it's generally unreasonable to expect them to be an expert. Here I bet that not the overwhelming majority of C programmers are aware of the different handling of divisions by zero depending on whether it's a floating point or integer operation.

Further, those 'checks' might be in place for a long time, outlasting compiler versions and perhaps even language standards.
TLDR; we need more research into game theory

I totally agree; it all boils down to math. Linear algebra formed the foundation of a lot of what we have achieved today, including computer simulations and AI, but now society is demanding problems that aren't based in linear algebra but in game theory, as the author describes. So we need to study game theory, that's what the next period of accelerated advancement will be based on
Assistance != taking over.

It's driverless by definition because... there's no driver in the seat. The car is in control and is responsible for its safety at all times.
I think for some reason people don't like such simple tools. I think it seems more reasonable to deploy a vault service running on kubernetes with jenkins. In some comments, they didn't even understand what the tool was for. Dear dude, you can travel between dimensions with this tool.
It's rather complex, there's a whole team handling it, we have servers in ~20 data centers distributed globally, large pools have > 20k pods running on each, each dc has 100TB to 1PB of RAM available.

We have pod affinity rules (we usually flush entire racks for infra updates) so failures don't bring down services.

Node failure is rather unusual, it's more likely that we either need to flush a rack to update it or some service has some issue.

We have separate environments with isolated hardware pools for production and testing (it may be colocated in the same dc).

Nodes have high performance NAS available and ephemeral local storage (SSDs) that it's wiped on pod restart.

If a node fails, you remove it from the pool and send someone to replace it when feasible.

Provisioning depends on the application, you can provision your own pod (if you have the right access), but applications tend to have deployer services that handle provisioning for them.