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You don't shoot in any direction where missing the target is a problem. If there a a house near-by or a busy road and the path of a bullet not hitting its target may encroach that space you don't even point your gun let alone shoot. For deer hunting an elevated position in a stand makes it more likely you see a deer but also makes it far less likely that a miss will go somewhere you don't want.

Reminds me of Starbucks does not use two phase commit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229004

What % of students struggle and never really get the maths? What % do fine with the maths but never need them in their adult lives? I would argue this is far more than 75% of all people. Same can be argued probably with higher %s for foreign language in the us. I think learning advanced maths and foreign languages are great but I also think we waste insane amounts of human potential and $$$ with the way we go about it.

is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_b4NRTB6k

The tests are designed to have high false positives because they have to bias toward few false negatives and there are no perfect tests. What gets me is that the negative result is the one bearing meaningful information but not the positive result, yet everyone mistakenly talks about positives as if they are far more informative than they actually are.

Having felt the pain of maintaining my own instances, deploying, updating, dockering, when all I wanted was to have a function deployed out there somewhere I was stoked when serverless functions were announced at AWS Re:Invent. I never felt it was a stupid name because I was done with the servers and all their annoyances. FaaS (functions as a Service) could be interpreted as a dumb name with the same logic we’ve been executing functions the whole time!

I wanted to teach, I went to school to teach art. I wanted to change how the system worked. I saw so many things wrong with my experience, which was demonstrably well above average. In the end I found out I'm horrible at classroom management and great at programming and design. So I became a programmer and not a teacher. I have huge respect for the professional educators that can manage a classroom and raise the bar for the entire room every day. Now as a parent my wife and I decided, given my decent salary, that we would forego her income to focus on other aspects of our quality of life. Part of that is homeschooling our children.

One way I frame homeschooling is a simple question. From your experience weigh the value of even a single day sitting under a tree reading a great book vs the value of a week in in an english classroom. Personally this captures the difference they are fundamental, qualitative differences.

Homeschooling is an unfair advantage in a lot of ways. Not everyone can afford to do it. Society needs to provide universal education and when almost every family needs dual incomes schooling provides a secondary (arguably primary) service of child care. That however does not represent the only or best option for your kids. When I'm in a more negative mood I call schooling, of any sort, is a kind of institutionalization. That does not make it all bad, there are great social outcomes for submitting to that institutionalization. However there are other paths to just as good or better outcomes just not in a societally blanketing kind of way.

This point is totally valid but in the case at my work it is actually both. The old saying in marketing is "I know i'm wasting 50% of my marketing budget I just don't know which 50%." It still holds true for companies with large budgets. We have applied XGBoost to produce many and better models for how to best allocate these budgets. The results are both better and cheaper outcomes.

The most obvious answer to me is PsyOp. Don’t need any advanced tech to produce pixels and compelling testimony.

Why would any military allow something as top secret as such evidence and then confirm its veracity to the point of allowing pilots to go on 60 mins to talk about it? This reeks of fabrication. To what end? Who knows but I’m sure there will be money flowing to address this new “threat”.

Interesting to me how the mainstream media is running with this now. Why? There are tons of UFO reports from military eye witnesses going back to WWII. Why are we now getting this wave of, ok it’s reasonable to elevate this topic to nightly news and congressional inquiry?

There are legitimate uses for such things. We are currently implementing a processing rules configurator UI and backend that must ultimately be executed in sql. It must support arbitrary nested boolean logic and comparison expressions. Last time we did this we ended up developing a custom data structure for the front-end and a custom printer for the sql output. This is a standardized version of solving just that problem.

My question is if not a solution like this how then SHOULD I be implementing communication of such rules from the frontend to the backend?

I don’t think the demise of 3rd party cookies is going to be the boon for privacy some think it will be. Marketers still want to advertise and track performance of ads and are all moving to first party cookies with Facebook and Google and other mar-tech vendors. This could lead to leakage of data as it gives anyone let into the fist party domain access to all the other tracking identifiers.

The difference is a fantasy at least in the US. Your online activity even if protected by the company and not sold on the open market is subject to the subpoena powers of the state. These powers apply to all "business records" and have been contorted to serve as a justification of mass surveillance.

This illustrates the how governments are using tech companies to do their dirty work. They are the velvet glove over the iron hand of the state. They conceal and enable that which would otherwise be an obvious authoritarian grab prevented by civil liberties providing a convenient fig leaf over over otherwise naked government power.

I would expect this to be the case in all jurisdictions these companies operate in.

“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”

David Foster Wallace

my solution to version changes in a rest api is to sent a version header with every response, the app checks it and if it does not match reloads the page, thus loading the new js.

Another aspect of this db file per client configuration that is fantastic is the ability to offer data ownership and portability by allowing users to download the database file for themselves. No sql dump or service needed just a signed download url.

This is fantastic. I have hemmed and hawed in doing similar things to build a serverless database. (both in the embedded sense and the FaaS sense) I could have a file or more per client and pay nothing until they load the app. There are a lot of use-cases as in mine that have low read frequency and low or no updates yet high write throughput. I would love to not have to pay for keeping all my indexes in hot ram If at all possible by sacrificing a cold-start and maybe some latency. I could see doing that with Litestream.

1000% yes to all points. I also wish there were gpu options in serverless compute and shared attached ssd or other fast storage, not to mention cross function communication.

The length of this dual language transition period is a travesty and an incalculable waste of money and time. They dragged this out for more than a decade. That’s the problem, people just got used to there being two versions. Should have just ripped the bandaid off way sooner.

All that will change is first party cookie will become the new normal having even more privileges.

Came here to make a similar point. Both political sides in the US can point to the observations in the excerpt as chilling historical illustrations of current and potential near-term events. That illustrates in my mind what is so terrifying right now. That there is something bigger going on than political ideology and I don't think anyone can stop it. In fact I would posit that thinking so makes it all the less likely to be stopped. This is because either side will identify a different source of the problem and both will be wrong.

just gonna put this right here https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/host-git-style-repo/

Can you go deeper on this, honestly interested. I use NPM all the time have not run into too many issues.

I would love to see this open sourced live the marriage of a database, git, and json files!

If a cyborg were to "do everything" on deep learning would it have a meaningful model of reality or would it simply be behaving as if it did?

You mention the performance issues of the queries in postgres, I'm curious if a graph database would perform significantly batter?

I have taken to using AWS Lambda via serverless framework for much of my api needs and for more expensive ongoing work I like AWS lightsail and expose services only within the vpc that get accessed by apis and step functions.

There is a very powerful dynamic going on between those well intentioned but perhaps too optimistic that we can or should try to protect everyone from bad ideas.

That debate is nothing new and in the mean time as we wait and see how these forces play out the correct answer for any person is to stop wanting and waiting for the powers that be to save us from ourselves. It has always been the case that media serves to manipulate even if unintentionally. That includes both the "platforms" and their various participants.

So we should consider our situation and duty to be like that or any intelligence analyst. Take in all the information, no matter the reputation of the source, with hefty skepticism knowing that there are various and sundry games afoot and a clear picture of reality is unlikely. Opt instead to weigh varying degrees of confidence against each other rather than seeking to sit pat on our well formed conclusions from "reliable sources". Becuase the only thing you can rely upon is that if smething is being waved in-front of your face there is a motive and it's not for your benefit.

“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”

― Upton Sinclair

And with that I would urge people to disengage from this kind of battlefield, turn and look in the opposite direction of all these debates because there lie mountains of uncontested and ignored realities that are never spoken of and this is fully intentional.

Ok dumb question why don’t we settle the question by conducting the experiment for covid19?

Yes, every word