jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I fully endorse the general idea here, but this:

> `someText.firstCharacter()` would have a return type of `text`, with logical length 1

is a huge mistake. There are operations that make sense on characters that do not make sense on texts whose length happens to be 1. The most obvious of these is inquiring about the numerical value of the unicode code point of a character. Conflating characters and texts-of-length-1 is a mistake of the same order as conflating strings and byte vectors. Python makes this mistake even in version 3. As a result, a function like this:

def f(s, n, m): return ord(s[n:m])

will return a value iff m is one more than n. Not good.
If you use Go and want strftime then use one of the available libraries: http://godoc.org/?q=strftime
One wish for both playgrounds: Would it be possible to have a specific error message for the "maximum context window size exceeded" error? At the moment you can only deduce it indirectly from the fact that you're immediately and repeatedly getting an "Unable to connect to the model. Please try again."-error as soon as you hit the prompt button. (And very occasionally it turns out to have been something else after all, because after one more try it surprisingly successfully generates one more round of completions)

Related question: Does GPT-NeoX-20B have the same context window size as GPT-J-6B?
One of the amazing subtleties in this article... if you're a fast reader you'll stop paying attention to the stories as they go through... kind of amazing that this article is layered like that.
I'm amazed at how a tool like email can create and destroy so much productivity. And I still don't really believe that there's not another solution out there - a way to send email without the inbox.
You don't need to rely on a server. With Simplified Payment Verification (section 8 of the bitcoin paper[1][2]) you can verify payments by querying untrusted peers, without downloading the full blockchain.

Bitcoin Wallet[3] for Android and Multibit[4] do this, which is probably why they are now the recommended clients and Electrum is not.

Edit: apparently Electrum also double-checks what the server is saying with SPV. I'm a bit fuzzy on why it still needs a server.

[1] http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Header-Only_...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....

[4] https://multibit.org
The only real way to get money out of politics is to stop allowing politics to have such a high return on investment. Unfortunately, that ship has probably sailed for good.
I like the idea put forward in the comments thread on that article about a "cybercrime Darwin awards".
Without knowing his process, I wonder if he doesn't possibly use clear nail polish or some other paint-on / spray-on coating as he goes, to prevent leads from shorting out.
What is deep learning currently applied to besides object recognition in images?
How does this materially affect the discussion, though? If Texas at 67% fossil fuels is "shockingly green" then California, with at most 45% fossil fuels, must be jaw-droppingly green or some such nonsense.
Maybe companies could stop using reversible encryption to store passwords and use a salted one way hash like grownups. I have so many different passwords that for sites I use irregularly I just have to reset them everytime. Also 2-factor auth is a plus.
You (and parent posts) leave out a few important mentions. SG1, of course; but then some more b-rate but still watchable shows like Andromeda. Stargate at least had some sort of impact, I like to think.
It's OK, you can just speak C and emscripten will turn it into JS for you. Good luck reading what anyone else writes though...
Are you guys talking about the huge, swollen, purple grapes that are incredibly sweet and juicy? In New Delhi, you only find those grapes at large supermarkets. Most grapes sold here are exactly what you described: large bunches of really small fruit. No seeds, though.
Atwood's actions are inexcusable. However, I think, he feels compelled to interfere with this particular site because he says, in the past, there has been so much in-fighting and flagging, compared to other SE sites. He says this site flags at a rate that is an order of magnitude higher than any other SE site.

I generally hang around in Pysics.SE (other than SO, of course) and sometimes am amazed at how fast they close questions.
I think that's actually a great idea. Anyone know how to throw suggestions their way?
The Intel drives are especially reliable.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review/...
But that doesn't change the number of requests. Perhaps it lowers the total bandwidth consumed, but what about the number of requests?
This happens every day in mexico. Paying the ransom will unfortunately only validate the kidnapping "business model". There's no easy solution.
It's a bit more complicated than that: your computing needs may vary with time. One month you may need to do a huge amount of processing on a thousand-node monster while the next you would be perfectly happy with two Nvidia GPUs for number crunching and visualization. In order to justify the purchase of a given computing capacity, you need to make sure you will have use for it.
I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
Minutes before the outage, my account would seem non-existent and all my repositories gone. They really scared the hell out of me.

This will be a good reminder for me to always keep a local copy.
err... Hoboken, Jersey city are not exactly "affordable" either...
Read how a drug dealer got a tax deduction on his drug profits:
http://books.google.com/books?id=IwwcB8Z-dYgC&pg=PA564&#...
I hate you. I just killed an entire evening reading that whole damn journal. Amazing look into what seems like an entirely different world.
Email? Conversations with businesses. Anything that requires an audit trail. Verification/Activation of any account. Reaching out to former colleagues. Contacting code maintainers. System notifications. Billing reminders.

I could probably tie system notifications into Discord but I prefer email, as I control both the client and servers. I am probably just used to having control but I prefer to keep it that way. It would be interesting if some day Discord supported federation and self hosted leaf-node servers with granular control over what channels are replicated.
Exactly this. Hyper specialized boundary pushing things are easy compared to general purpose good for everything projects.
>Your trickle down benefits would come from any innovative project, whether it were a success or a failure.

Take the $3e11, convert them to physical banknotes, burn all $3e11 bills in Texas last week for warmth, and according to the grandparent the program would still be a success because the money ultimately provided utility to people!

>Grandparent: What matters is the objective outcome that comes from this project.

No one froze to death! We gained _something_ from the program! Operation successful! /s
Not just a vaccine. A 95% effective vaccine. That's never happened before in such a short time frame. The high efficacy vaccines that most of us have been injected with took decades to develop.
I took a course on this, and part of it was just arriving at a definition. One way to think about it is literally the name - genocide is anything that prevents future generations of that culture or population
Somewhat relatedly, this reminds me of the instruction I learned about recently: the PEXT instruction.

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen...
Fair, but I don't think their decision ended up on the right side of history.
Few of them pay what fang pays, though, and even fewer have the same brand recognition. If by 30 she gets bored, with conservative investments into broad market funds, she'll have a few millions in assets and the luxury to choose between a cushy well paid job and maybe starting her own thing.
We are (well, will be) selling physical servers, yes. It involves a lot of that sort of work (hardware design). But we are also writing a lot of software, from the firmware up. And it’s all in Rust. My job responsibilities are firmware/os dev stuff, these folks are working on the higher level stuff. I believe they went over the context in their talk, but haven’t watched it since they gave it, so maybe I’m misremembering.
F-35 is not expensive if you consider the alternatives:

Brazil bought 36 JAS-39E for $5.8 billion. [1]

Taiwan ordered 66 F-16V for $8.1 billion. [2]

Korea is going to get 20 F-35A for $3.3 billion. [3]

[1] https://www.flightglobal.com/saab-brazil-finalise-gripen-ng-...

[2] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/taiwans-f-16v-fighter-j...

[3] https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2019/10/10/s...
That’s assuming the rest have the same behaviors as the 1%, which they inherently do not.
You make a post like that and then accuse foobarbazqux of being a troll. Nice.
A French press ( cafetieres for non-colonials ) will produce great coffee without a doubt and I certainly don't use anything more expensive than that.

Cheapest value-brand coffee though I will take exception to, there is a massive difference in taste between freshly roasted, roasted some what recently and dust in a packet even of the same bean variety.

I can't tell the difference between 1% and 2% milk in a blind taste test, I can tell the difference between good and shit coffee by blind smell alone never mind getting it to my mouth.
Well given that 90% of hardware out there is supported just file with the current setting i suspect 50ms would qualify as quite paranoid.
What was backwards about FWD.us? I thought Facebook was trying to make it easier for companies to hire internationally?

I'm not saying I disagree, and am of course sceptical of Facebook however, you provide nothing to the debate.
Obligatory link to http://howoldistheinter.net/
The argument can be made that the law is bullshit.
That's interesting. So you found that while fresh ground coffee is still different (one would assume best, but lets go with different) -- if you're "pre-grinding" one week old is fine.

Did you keep it refrigerated? Room temperature? Dark/daylight? Sealed?

Btw, what do you mean "unlike" wine? Certainly there's a difference between wine that's been left to breathe, and the same wine straight out of the bottle (well "wine" is a bit wide, but for many good wines).
Because they only cost $1-2 and people feel like they add value to the device (to use it with Skype, Yahoo!, Google+ Circles, and so on).

There is no evidence right now that the intelligence services can remotely activate webcams on any device of their choosing. They would likely need to first install malware on most devices to accomplish that.
No, not that I know of.
I dislike the term fanboy, but I admire Google for their contributions to open source and for not being afraid to tackle hard challenges that might not pay off immediately.
A book I read well over 30 years ago, and is still apparently updated today, is "The Kids' Money Book" by Neale S. Godfrey, which you can certainly find secondhand for cheap. There are updated versions authored by Jamie Kyle McGillian, and so long as they are in the original vein they are probably excellent.

However it's not something I would throw at a 6-year old. A sharp 8-year old should be able to grok all of it though.
...Companies do not warrant immortality. I fail to see how a corporate vehicle being able to persist against those that have bought in sufficient stake to move policy makes any sense whatsoever.
> Until web brokers started I did not even know how to buy stocks. My parents were also not "financially literate" so I had to figure out all kind of stuff on my own.

Same
It feels like I've written this comment. My experience is very very similar to yours.
Not for, eg, lastpass.

Your master password is the key that decrypts your password vault.

Some sort of escrow would be good, that unlocks a document with access instructions upon receipt of a valid death certificate.
"October Sky"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Sky

Learning for the joy of it, even in the face of opposition.
Take a sport manager. If the manager give their athlete drugs to improve performance in order to boost their own status or profit, then clearly something is wrong with the incentive structure. Managers could be held to a higher legal standard and liability, require a license like accounting, and we could fund police investigation when abuse is suspected. If the problem still remain we could regulate how managers are allowed to profit from athletes, removing some of those incentives for abuse. Going even further and more restricted, managers could be government appointed rather than hired, requiring that managers go through a strict government process.

I am sure there are even more ways that I can't personally think of, and obviously some would not be culturally accepted.
To me, luxury and comfort are two separate things. Comfort is not having to worry about the things that you need. Luxury is having things that you don't need. Comfort is having one or two new reliable and safe cars for your family. Luxury is also having that convertible sports-car for the weekends.

It's context dependant too. My 2003 Accord is a luxury, despite being far less nice and older than what I could afford, because I really have no need for it. Everything I need is within easy walking or transit distance, so even that car is a luxury for me.
Talking to a one time girlfriend who is an obstetrician while she was at work one day she said "better go, I need to deliver this woman's baby".

"Hope it goes well", I replied.

"It won't" she said, "the baby is already dead".

That put every shitty day I've ever had at work in context.

Not saying we don't have bad days, we do, just there are some things that thankfully we'll never come face to face with.
If you're interested, HubSpot is currently looking for engineers and interns: http://github.hubspot.com/#frontend-jobs
"If your documentation is a directory full of files on GitHub, I close the tab."

Without even stopping to see if there is an INDEX or README that gives the files a hierarchy? Without considering whether those files are well-written? Without remembering that plain text files are portable, easy to author in many tools, and easy to view on many devices? You'd rather see a glitzy website with no content?

"If your documentation is generated from source code, I am immediately skeptical."

Even though keeping documentation with the code it documents makes it more likely the two will be in sync? Even though some library authors use their source code documentation tool to write entire files that are nothing but documentation? Maybe you're viewing it wrong: my documentation is not generated from source code. My documentation includes the source code and will generate the library.

Since he seems bent on judging things in 30 seconds I guess it is inevitable that he will elevate form over substance.
Often? That doesn't seem true to me. Can you give examples?
My purpose wasn’t to argue either way, I just wanted to add numbers to the discussions.
Sure, but that applies to anything, does it not? If one multiplies anything one does by 7 billion there is a good chance a large number will come out. Maybe that is a little interesting at first glance but not in any larger sense.
well if that is true then it will mean that we will just be able to use the same quantum processing to make the encryption strong enough that it won't be able to be cracked for X million years or whatever.

you could argue that things encrypted today might be easily decrypted though
Google does not need to drop Quora from its search results, Quora itself is already on the way to irrelevancy. It used to be a place for thought provoking questions and answers, nowadays it just contains a copy pasted text from the first google search result. A perfect example of a niche but strong product ditching its target audience in order to pursue popularity.
> You seem to be conflating web certificates (for lack of a better term)

Two suggested better terms for future reference:

Certificates in the Web PKI - in one sense "Web PKI" is a misnomer because this PKI is for all TLS on the public Internet which is a lot more than the web, but in another sense it's accurate because in practice all standards development, public oversight, trust store policy setting, and so on takes place because of the Web and not other TLS applications.

PKIX Certificates - by using PKIX, the IETF's dialect of the X.509 standard, certificates actually work and have a clearly defined meaning on IP-based networks. This is a broader idea than the Web PKI, encompassing private IP networks, private CAs issuing for constrained uses, and non-TLS traffic for IP networks.

But your thrust was correct, code signing is a quite different application for X.509 certificates than PKIX, and especially than the Web PKI.
The article seems like a collated excerpt from stories shared on the front page of the internet, albeit still a good read. In between the bizarre justification for why water costs more. There are book-ended TIL moments like: for Lufthansa and Air New Zealand departures, I carted out extra handles of alcohol ─ a 'handle' translates as 1.75L (half-gallon/60-pounder) of liquor bottle, to the cheesy ending:

One time, the team popped a can of Pringles and found a live cobra.

In this case, once you pop ─ you will stop.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-term-handle-...
This is just provably false. Basecamp and GitHub are the famous counterexamples, but there are many, many more. (Although GitHub changed course when they got larger.)

Working from home doesn't work for companies who don't know how to do it. It's not the same as working in an office and of course many companies are doing it wrong right now because they leaped into it without any knowledge of how to do it.

But plenty of companies have done very well with working from home, and had all the healthy teamwork anyone could ask for. It's not a matter of opinion, it's proven fact.
"how many engineers have probably worked on these attacks. And the answer we came to was, well, certainly more than 1,000,"

A thousand engineers is a huge project. You have no better knowledge than Microsoft about the attack.
Manufacturing.
This is cool! I've lately been rediscovering my love for radio, and this helps a lot.
Seems there's a VScode plugin that will export Mermaid diagrams as SVG:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug...
One is required for the other, though - you're not going to get any good open hardware for a closed ISA, and RISC-V and OpenPOWER seem to be the two shots we've got.
We practically need an open ISA to succeed as a prerequisite for open hardware to do the same.
There are lots of other open source options[0]. Whether you would consider any mature is a bit more subjective.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
I think this is generally true, but it's a matter of magnitude. For example, a public transit program helps everyone in the neighbourhood, but especially helps those who can't afford to drive. So when someone says "hey, we should help low-income people by building a subway", they're not saying that it'll only help low-income folks, but that it'll especially help low income folks.

The point of the "neurodiversity program" is to focus on avoidable practices which heavily impact certain groups of people. Those practices might also impact other people, but not to such a debilitating extent.
Something tells me a shareholder suit by a foreign company in Chinese court, in connection with not blocking internet traffic, would not go down well for Naspers :D
I see two practical ways out for facebook:

1. Many advertisers will revert back to using pixels instead. I wonder if you can even redirect people from an app post signup to a website with a pixel and track them that way? (or do the Apple ToSs not allow that?)

2. Alternatively Facebook need to build a tool where you can create your entire apps signups process inside facebook, so all tracking still takes place inside the facebook app, which post signup redirects via a magic link to the targeted app? So you'd basically have something like Facebook leads but built for actual signups.
I would like a job writing Clojure and/or Elm.
I feel pretty much everywhere with permanent WFH is ok for neurodivergent folk. I'm in the spectrum and I know this setup is so much better for me.
I tend to prefer the trailing paren on the following line. I'm not sure if there's a principled reason it helps (or hurts), but stuff like:

assert outputs.get("foo.bar.baz", "default") == pytest.approx(
time_recorder.time_taken, abs=0.0001)

always feels a bit off and "unbalanced" to me. The opening paren doesn't have anything immediately following it, so it feels 'symmetric' that the closing paren shouldn't have anything preceding it.

And also it feels like the open and closing parens should be on lines that start at the same indentation level. Honestly this I think does aid in readability a bit.

> Part of the twisted beauty of PEP-008's narrow lines is that you're forced to extract (named) variables, or avoid overly indented code by extracting methods or applying higher level abstractions.

This feels orthogonal? The line is wrapping either way, which might sufficiently annoy someone to extract things out a bit more. But IMO it feels like a bit of an anti-pattern to create abstractions on the basis of syntax as opposed to the structure of the program.

> writing readable code isn't just about getting the spaces and brackets right...

? I mean of course not, but that's what we're talking about in the context of formatters right? I think the real, major way auto-formatters help with readability is by getting people to stop wasting mental cycles on things like spaces and brackets so that they can focus on more important code organization concerns.
But even when renting the roof still needs to be replaced. Owner pays for it, but it is financed from rent money.
This kind of thinking has always baffled me, because faking a passport card will get you in way more trouble than just some replica of some state's poorly designed driver's license.
Definitely possible, but I doubt it could be both trained and/or performant on a single frame, which is what would be required. The other option would be to save all your replays, and have it be an option to train it on a server over several days, and then you can share your AI with others that can download it, but probably just for a fancy training AI, which can still be useful.
Going by the canary email addresses I put into my devices from time to time... nowhere good. Those email addresses receive spam despite never sending or being signed up to anything. Apps are actively uploading and selling email addresses. I'd not be surprised if some Big Data company has a massive graph of mobile numbers / email addresses sourced purely from app uploads, let alone reasonable signups. Then its all correlated with other sources like linkedin. Yay! Profit!
though if you just compare specs and ad-copy, you can just get a one designed for indoors and control room applications. Which behaves like a typical TV priced around 20-30% below. At least this seems true for the samsung lineup, which roughly looked like "cheapest option (for sure not worse than their awful 350$ TVs) < 24/7, medium brightness (got that and it's super nice in a bright living room, also non "calibration" issues ) < high end, QLED" - this mirrors their "normal" lineup very closely and I think economies of scale dictate that they won't use custom panels (as indicated by their yearly update of this bland, simple to understand lineup) so I guess these won't be any worse than what you get in a TV. Backlights are obviously not tuned for super-highend-HDR, but I don't think people here complaining about ads are in the market for that and full sRGB is pretty ok on a device which just works (no banding, no ads, no "image-improvement" algos in the background).
I've seen people call themselves xNTJ or INFx.