skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another argument the author may not have considered is that by prematurely releasing his implementation, he may be making it more (not less!) likely that future discoveries are hidden away from the public.

It seems OpenAI wanted to release this project in phases, allowing people time to adjust to its nature. If in the future an even more disruptive project is created (by OpenAI or others), if the creator feels they cannot release it in their own perception of what a “safe” way is, they may simply avoid publishing and instead privately communicate with companies and powerful individuals. Which I don’t think is the outcome the author wants. So I hope he reconsiders here.
Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
I have a very hard time believing first graders etc have much use for scores. And beating knowledge into students only goes so far. The downsides to external rewards and punishment vs intrinsic ones are so great anyway, I wonder what the point is with scores many times. It didn't work on me, that I can say for sure.
This may well be the case during normal operation. It seems the worry, however, is that seismic activity etc. could lead to a steam explosion and release of radioactive gases if the plant failed to shut down.

(I’m not a nuclear engineer and the article doesn’t make the assessed risks 100% clear, though.)
I've started to cheat congestion to get away from this paradox by commuting at 10am and 3pm. I'll work-from-home for 5 hours per day and work in the office for 4. That extra hour I save commuting is put towards getting ahead at work.

I would like to be able to optimize this further and WFH fully for 1 or 2 days and schedule all in person interaction on 3 other days but my work has an official no work from home policy so I can't implement that on my team. I can only take advantage of the "flexibility" as they call it
It kinda depends what availability means? That .001% unavailability might be degraded service, might be .001% of clients having a bad time across the entire year, might be 'acts of god' (i.e. broken CPUs and the like). This kind of service is also usually fairly low down on the stack, and higher level applications can usually degrade gracefully. If they couldn't, complex applications such as Google would fail to operate; there's always _something_ broken.
It is disgusting that all cell phones don't have an AM and FM receiver.
No, the JSlint author responded to their request by granting them E in addition to ~E. It’s not what they initially asked for.
Right. For anyone who wants to get a feel for D:

https://dlang.org/ is the main site.

https://tour.dlang.org/ is the D tour site, similar to the one for Go and some other languages nowadays; you can run some D example programs right from the site, without installing the language on your machine.

On my blog, I have a handful (12-13) of exploratory D programming posts, that may also be of interest. They explore various basic but interesting features of D via some simple D command-line programs:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/DLang
Queer Computers in Science Fiction
It might be a dream if the feeling of security, of having assets, money in the bank, is the thing that's missing in your life. That'll be the case to the degree that you were insecure and poor as a child, I'd expect.

I grew up poor, but not as poor as the lady in the article. And it was in Ireland, so there was a social security net, my college degree was paid for, etc. So I feel comfy enough once I have a year's take-home income in the bank. Past that point I feel good spending money on things my partner and I enjoy, things we may not have time for if we have kids or might not be able to do at all when we get old. Working hard is only good if the work in itself is rewarding, or the money buys you things that are rewarding. Money in itself doesn't really have that allure. A six or seven figure bank account wouldn't excite me - I've spent the best part of a million pounds since I started my career, and certainly don't regret not saving it.
It says greater than 5 nines, and it's usually much greater - in usual times, these core services are usually at six or seven nines as measured client side. But it doesn't take long at three nines to destroy your five nine SLA.

The other portion is client side retry logic. It's incredibly easy for developers to mark a lookup with a retry policy and timer, and one of the reasons that that latency is so low is so that even if there's a timeout, the pageview can succeed. The application code doesn't see the error at all if the retry is successful, it just takes longer. The retry code is very good and it's already known at the first rpc call where the retry should go - the connection pool maintains connections to multiple independent servers.
I use “live” traps (a little cage with a flap that snaps shut) and release them in a wooded area nearby. I’ve read the argument that catch-and-release is more cruel than kill traps, but I just keep thinking: let’s say there was some sort of societal collapse due to war or famine and it was suddenly difficult for my family to acquire sustenance. At what point would I be like, “this is too hard; I’d like to step into a glue trap instead?”

When a rat gets into my crawl space, it came from outside and I’m putting it back outside. It does give me pangs to think about the difficulty of life in the wild for critters, but catch-and-release seems like the best of all available options.
The problem is that people who've gotten desensitized to fake Red Alerts, are also going to be skeptical when the National Weather Service issues real alerts, because most people can't tell the difference. Do you know what specific terms the weather service uses for real alerts? I sure don't.
The locals may have been pretty much oblivious to the actual inner workings of the camps, since I imagine they were kept well away from them by the soldiers. But I personally find it hard to believe that once the crematoria were fired up, that they couldn't smell that for miles around.
I'm a meat eater with a clear conscience and I don't count myself as an animal
lover, but, man, those traps are horrible.

Last summer, someone placed one in the house I was staying. We had a plumber
over to fix the kitchen sink and as he was working on it, a little country
mouse poked its head out of a hole on the side. The lady of the house freaked
out and the plumber advised her to get a couple of "glues" to trap it. Someone
went and fetched some and the plumber laid them out. The morning after the
lady of the house left for work in a hurry and didn't check the traps so I was
the first to look and see if the mouse was caught.

Oh, it was caught alright. The moment I opened the cupboard under the sink, it
literally shrieked. A tiny little shriek, like someone pretending to be a baby
mouse. It was tiny, definitely not an adult. It had soiled itself overnight, I
guess when it realised it was stuck and couldn't move and panicked. It
struggled to move away as I reached for the trap but of course it couldn't.

So OK, I put on a pair of tough gardening gloves and pulled it unstuck and
cleaned it up very carefully with a bit of cotton and q-tips and gasoline and
sent it off in the woods behind the house opposite from where the cats stay.
It was totally stoned by the gasoline and it most likely got eaten by a snake
or a bird, but at least it wasn't stuck.

These things are just cruel and malicious. They cause unnecessary suffering. I
mean, kill the poor things if they're such a pest. Just don't torture them.
They absolutely should be made illegal.
Imagine a cheap plastic Crocs stamping on a face recognition database forever.
Trump claims the moon is 'a part' of Mars
For our local one it sold the cafe to Starbucks.
This is a somewhat scaremongering article, as it lacks a plausible scenario in which a meltdown would both occur and breach the containment.

There is, apparently, a valid concern over control rods jamming, but there are two independent backup safety mechanisms: nitrogen injection and the release of boron beads into the core (both absorb neutrons.)[1] The plan, apparently, is to install 'super-articulated' control rods to mitigate the jamming risk.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/barry2/docs/nks... p.21
AI-Driven Time Saver for Founders: Discovery
Sun burn and tan. When you spend most of your time at high altitude and don't use some kind of sun block you get that tone. I have seen that tone in local populations at altitudes > 3000m
You could easily do this buying things locally and selling them on eBay. I do this some and find it quite fun. I do not like listing the items on eBay, that is the necessary evil of it all.

It took me about 3 weeks and a very minimal investment ($40?) before I turned a profit.

I primarily buy things at goodwill outlet, other thrift shops, and yard sales.
Oh and another thing: why should I have to compete with Google by building a new search engine?

That’s just repeating the past.

This is what legislation should be fixing: burning down the tacit obligation to defer to entrenched management.

Market capture by powerful players ALWAYS... ALWAYS... leads to stagnant development of possibly better solutions.

We won’t do much to change CPU designs because Intel and Microsofts of the world would lose out. So we have to compete but that usually means hewing close to their discovery as the costs are too high to support a wholly new way.

So it becomes copy and slightly tweak to gain market share. Not actually make something novel.

And so we barely adapt and modify anything and society stagnates from lack of flexibility for novel ideas of depth. Preferring shallow novelty and tweaks in some misguided belief it shouldn’t be allowed to reinvent itself. No, it must simply compete against it’s tried and true. As if these fools at Google are village wise men we must kowtow to.

Sorry, but America is in the position it’s in because of sycophants to traditional economic theory folks like yourself have had their brains wired to believe in.

No one asks to be born and no one should be obliged to satisfy competitive goals of private power. To suggest we live in a culture with a fondness for a market of free ideas and then so willingly accept the only reasonable option is kowtow to acceptable norms is the sign of a very confused mind.
I use it, thanks for building it! I like being able to take notes and tag pages without having to find a folder in the tree of Chrome bookmarks.
It's not really about spreading fear, per se, it's marketing. Stations want their weather team portrayed as the most accurate and most dependable with the most cutting edge 3D no 4D no HYPERCUBIC storm tracking technology.

They want viewers to rely on their station alone for weather forecasts simply as a means of ensuring viewership and increasing the value of their ad time, so they make those forecasts seem as critically important as possible. It's the same phenomenon that leads to all news being breaking news.
Source code: https://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/
I guess it's analogous to the pros/cons of allowing software to send crash reports... Withholding your data protects your privacy and prevents abuse, but it also causes your problems to be underrepresented in a public data set, which makes it less likely they will be addressed.
I thought Racket (starting with BSL) to incoming freshman at Northeastern University, and they would nearly riot every year when we tell them it's `(+ 1 1)` for the next 4 months (at least).
On one level all wealthy families have this history simple because not long ago everyone was dirt poor.
I, too, am building up financial resources for the point where I have to take care of my parents. They did not plan for their financial future, and now that they have split up, they are in an even more precarious situation.

Although my mother was an excellent saver (to a fault?), she was not interested in learning how to amass/raise capital, nor in any type of investing, other than older, traditional CDs, etc. that are not financially viable in this age of debt and funny money in the US.

My father is a spendthrift, so there is always a hole in his pocket.

I see in them the reluctance (or refusal?) to shift from the "American Dream" (go to school, get a good job, save for retirement, your employer/the government will take care of you) to what it more realistically takes to grow any sort of wealth in the current US financial climate.

Consumption was the biggest negative factor, I think, as well as the inability to sacrifice some of the present for the future. It seemed necessary as a kid growing up, if we were going to keep up with the Jones'. I remember being envious of having an "Ocean Pacific" jacket as a kid, and the only pair of "Britannia" jeans I had came from a second hand store. I was very caught up in the whole name-brand thing... That was the 80's, for me.

Now I save up and invest in Real Estate, effectively short the US dollar, as that seems to be the vehicle I am most comfortable with. My wife and I are accelerating the process as much as possible, without scrimping too much, as her mother, likewise, has little to live on. And being at the mercy of governmental healthcare is the pits, as I watch both sets of our parents attempting to navigate those hoops.

So I understand the author's motivation from my own point of view, and I think she has adopted practices that will serve her well, as long as she also has enough consideration for taking care of herself, her husband, and any kids they may choose to have, as well as her parents.

It is definitely possible, although I find I have to ignore all of the "consume this now" messaging I perceive blasting at me from all angles in media.

Side benefit: Ignoring that media helps on the political front, though, as well. I used to become (still sometimes become?) the raving lunatic when I pay attention to what higher politicians (non-local) and larger government employees get up to, technically on my behalf.

I feel much more calm ignoring that and focusing only on what I have a chance of affecting: My home, family, friends, and immediate neighborhood. I have even served in local government, and although I did not enjoy it (the waste! the pettiness!) it helped me make more social contacts locally that have positively affected my life and immediate living environment.

I now volunteer more often, as well, as there is much need in the community, and few obvious answers (to others' points of view).

It seems to be working for me... YMMV.
The line about saving $1.7 million caught me off guard!

Btw, the woman's blog "Merry for Money" that's linked at the end of the article has a few extreme methods such as how to make money from PornHub:
https://merryformoney.com/make-money-pornhub/
Does it worry you that this kind of fear-mongering might be bad for society even if it doesn't impact you personally? You might not watch the local news, but many other people do.
He said the client pivoted to another product idea. I doubt he's going to use someone else's code he didn't pay for then find another developer to work on it...
I think about this a lot, as another frugal but high-earning household that earns way more than we spend, even after maxing out 401(k) contributions. Most people in our position save more than they need partly as a means of hedging personal risk (higher-than-typical retirement and medical expenses, children who grow up unable to financially self-suffice), and partly (IMHO) just because they gain some satisfaction from seeing numbers climb and because hoarding wealth is not seen as having any downside. However, at least the first of these reasons could be much more efficiently managed by having social (rather than individual) safety nets, for the same reason that insurance works. Some people also save with the thought of giving away a ton of money at death, but this again holds money out of useful purposes until decades away. With these thoughts in mind, and with the example of religious folks with much less disposable income than us who tithe, we annually give away whatever money we don't have use for after sensible but not excessively conservative allocations for immediate and future needs. To be clear, I'm not certain this is the right thing to do; ask me how I feel about it in a few decades!
> fingerprint binaries compiled from GPL code

I think it's actually a good idea for discovering GPL violations, but false-positives are a real issue: it's trivial to reuse public-domain or BSD code and relicense them in a GPL program, and it's not uncommon obtain a separate license/exemption from the copyright holder. Also, some things are not even copyrightable (e.g. a lookup table of generic data). Discovering identical code snippets don't always mean a GPL violation.

But as long as the threshold is not too low and a real human (instead of a robot) is reviewing them case-by-case, I think it's okay.
Writing simple code is difficult, more difficult than writing clever code, and is a better skill to grow.
Not spending it means not competing with other people for current consumption, which means lower prices for everyone else.

If the money is parked in property or some other rivalrous asset, then you're more correct. But not for money.
Can you please show us the best poetry example you generated? Does it rhyme?
> America, and indeed many countries in the world, do not have the social safety nets to take care of its own people when they can't work anymore.

I don't see any good alternatives to having children take care of their parents. Abuse is common at even the most expensive nursing homes. You can't always blame the caretakers either because being constantly surrounded by grumpy, dying people has a huge psychological toll.
It is clickbait, but I can see how most expenses (including mortgage) could be covered through Airbnb in a city like Seattle.

I would also think that "90% of my income" is really "90% of our income", since they're married.
This is a great improvement. The inability to fork within an organization always made bootstrapping new projects from a template just ever so slightly too annoying.
"A Non Dimensional Model Of Reality" #NOBELPRIZE
I am not familiar with anyone who has developed a model quite like Michael E. Byrne's. Brilliant. Opens the kimono on how a "Zero Dimension" may propagate consciousness (at the very least our subconscious) via "wave functions" in this pre-Big Bang "non separate or unified" environment.

\,,/.<(_)> "live long and prosper"

http://sciencefront.org/ojs/index.php/jfap/article/view/86
There would have to be a pretty interesting contract that states if the client defaults that they retain ownership of any work related. They may likely be able to make some claims around any IP related.

But you can put anything in a contract, so whose to say.
Work in finance and you can move integers around!
I believe the easiest way to alleviate this issue is to pool together capital to buy machines that can’t be purchased by individuals. This encourages more affluent makers to join and pay dues.
It's not that hard.

She rents the house she lives in for more than the cost of her mortgage. She makes income from that there. They don't own a car. Her husband gets a free bus pass from work. No housing or transportation expenses. So what's left? Food?

Her husband works in tech (first Amazon, and now Google!) and saves 100% of his income. And they live off hers. They have like $1.7 million saved from his Amazon stock which should be a nice investment income too.

Their expenses are around $1000 per month.

Not that hard to imagine the math.
I don’t have domain knowledge, so to me intuitively it feels like the risk of this crack quickly widening is real. Experts also seem to have called out risks due to factors such as quakes, steam escape etc.
"It's pressure on young climbers by some companies describing Everest as easy. Everest is never easy."

Not just companies - it's 'common knowledge' now that Everest is just a hike with rich clients being dragged up by poorly paid sherpas.
This isn't a login service, this is an ACL service. Related space, but different concerns. You wouldn't send a user's password here to find out if it's correct (authentication), you'd use this to figure out if a user can do something once you know who they are (authorization) :)

Also, generating the login page etc is often more expensive than the actual 'validate the username and password'. Getting to the server is also going to dwarf these latencies; you probably don't store all your passwords in PoPs, so you need to make the full trek to your local Google datacentre to complete a login :)
The new stuff is high DPI aware plus I'm pretty sure is even VR ready.

Microsoft most assuredly has a plan.
I greatly appreciate the author's generosity in this case. The code looks very interesting.
It feels like a recipe for marital disaster that she's living this extremely frugal lifestyle despite him making good money and he "goes along with it" (her words)
Great! Put coder's skin in the game
The copyright of a work belongs to its creator by default. (That's U.S. law; no contract is required to make that happen.) A standard contract for a contractor will stipulate that the copyright will be assigned to the client upon payment. If payment never occurs, the copyright stays with the work's creator.
Sinclair media owns most local TV stations in the US and uses them to shape public discourse in less-than-ethical ways. I think when local news has gotten as consolidated as it is, it ought to have some kind of obligation to the public, and shouldn't be able to hide behind "it's a private company" to justify bad behavior.

John Oliver did an informative bit on Sinclair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
You build a reactor and specify its lifetime, then push the reactor past its design lifetime, then you find way too many cracks in your reactor and you want to run it for 4 more years by asking for an increase in the $number_of_allowed_cracks?

What could possibly go wrong?
That's not risk. That's likelihood. The article admits that the likelihood is low, but the severity could be high. Risk is a combination of severity and likelihood. The nuclear industry has an entire discipline (PRA) dedicated specifically to risk assessment [1].

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/risk-informed/pra.h...
And I don't think rat poison is any better. Another time I was outside my work building and I saw a mouse just standing there in the middle of the driveway. I walked right up to it and it didn't run. I squatted down next to it and I saw it was heaving and shivering, like it was trying to regurgitate something. All the time I sat there and watched it, it didn't once seemed to acknowledge me.

Sometimes they only eat a bit of the poison and then they die even more slowly and painfully. That just sucks. There must be a better way to kill them off, than to subject them to this kind of cruelty.
Summiting Everest, as a tourist, is basically unimpressive and a strong indicator you're an empty box-checker. Any moderately fit person with $100k lying around can get short-roped or crawl up the fixed lines to the top while sucking down bottles of oxygen, endangering the lives of the people helping them on their way.

If you meet someone who has climbed Everest, don't validate their ego.
That's power is fun, not size. A Honda Civic Type R is probably even more fun, and with less body roll.
> Imagine where mankind could be if we had everyone being able to have the basics, and ample free time to think, to explore, to experiment, to create.

Realistically? Probably better than 99% of people would play video games and watch TV their whole lives. Not everybody is oriented to be an artist/author, an inventor, a scientist, or some other creative type.
Rights of the Child,https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-te... is a reasonable baseline.
Air compressor was weird to me because most battle bots AFAIK use a hydraulic systems, Kraken is one of the few to use compressed air. Actually, to be precise they use SCUBA tanks used in ocean diving.

Also they got a cool logo and have their own font-face