skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, you can have software spit out these meh articles then pay a room full of people with the writing ability of an average 15 year old to go line by line rewriting the content with their own 'voice' and you can easily churn on massive amounts of content based on whatever you trained it on.

For over a decade individuals have used software to take already written content and change it just enough to fool search engines for SEO purposes, it's been an effective tactic despite the articles often being largely unintelligible to a human. If you can make something moderately intelligible to a human, about a given area and have some minimum wage employee 'personalize' it and BAM you can turn a room of a 10, 20, 100 people into a hardcore content machine.

I've suggested to Altman before that, given a sufficient body of work, you could churn out fiction in the style of famous deceased authors by having the machine do the bulk of the work then having a small team go in and edit the work to make it fully coherent and an enjoyable read.

With someone like me, that uses their name as their username virtually everywhere, you could sufficiently train the machine on my reddit and blog alone to imitate me on social media platforms. It could learn my writing style, my habits of using 'heh' and 'haha' way too much on reddit/twitter/facebook and you suddenly create Bizarro Ryan that you can create new social media accounts for and start tossing in some hate speech in an anti-me campaign. While this wouldn't do much to me, to a celebrity/politician/expert in a field it could absolutely ruin their career, even if later proven to have been faked because popular opinion will still associate that person with that undesirable behavior.

While pursuing this technology would be amazing for creating new literary works from people like Verne, Heinlein, Burroughs (your favorite authors here), I can weaponize it RIGHT NOW.

This is the problem with entities like Open AI, they're all "AI is great, AI is good, AI is our future savior, yay AI" but are any of them going "well, here's the 16 ways I can think off, off the top of my head, how to wildly exploit this technology for personal/corporate/government gain"? AI doesn't have to be SkyNet or robotic killing drones to be exploited, an individual can benefit considerably (and cause considerable hardship for an entity) with stuff like this. Who at places like Open AI are asking these questions? Where are the employees/advisors/consultants that look at each project and offer real time feedback on ways to abuse the project in its current and near-future states?

Maybe they have someone but, methinks they don't.
What is insane is that they are the biggest commercial real estate tenant in some of the biggest cities in America (and London).
It's not forcing anything. Don't make a page public then? If a page is public then it is fair game.
This was, in fact, Bin laden’s goal. And he failed.
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Now that I’m the interviewer, I think it’s better to not ask questions than ask a question you don’t really want the answer for. Most questions I get asked by interviewees lower the impression I get of them.
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Well I just replied to a comment before you, but we are definitely on the same page here. It's a mess when you start your first NodeJS backend, especially if there's nobody to help you. You'll probably make some terrible mistakes in your design that have to be later refactored. It's a downside but hopefully things get better. Maybe Deno will give us a fresh start.
You can create a synthetic short with options, no need to borrow any stock at all.
It seems they have primarily isolated the remaining contaminant to tritium?

This seems like it might be a nice source of tritium for tritium deuterium fusion reactors? I am quite sure I am missing some fairly critical elements here... but it certainly would be lovely if that was the solution. (I mean, there are not exactly a lot of fusion reactors... heh).
The entire site looks like a scam. They deserve "credit" for spending more effort on the basic template and bullshit spiel than most scammers.

The name of the "firm" reminds me of Stratton Oakmont.

Probability that they broke SHA-256 - 0%. 0.00000%.
But will it affect the behavior of state owned or state influenced enterprises in the PRC? I guess time will tell.
I feel like LedgerX bragging that they are both an exchange and a clearing house does not inspire confidence in their risk management department, although I'm sure the bright minds at the SEC have done their due diligence as they always do.
Protip: 2to3
Oh I see. Here's how I got there (still using the terminology / notation of my original post).

Without knowing anything about k except that k-1 < r/m, I counted how many cells are column-bad for this value of k. By the pigeon-hole-principle argument in the post this is at most c(m-1)(k-1) cells. Similarly, and still knowing nothing about k except that k-1 < c/n, I count how many cells are row-bad for this value of k and see that it is at most r(n-1)(k-1). Combining these two I know that as long as we have k-1 < r/m and k-1 < c/n the number of cells that are either column-bad or row-bad (or both) is at most:

* c(m-1)(k-1) + r(n-1)(k-1)

Since I want to be able to conclude that there is a cell that is neither column-bad nor row-bad, and since there are rc cells in total, I then further require that k is such that:

* c(m-1)(k-1) + r(n-1)(k-1) < rc

(The point is that this is a strict inequality and so there must be a cell that is neither column-bad nor row-bad.)

And then solve this to get the formula for k. Of course when expositing it in the post, I _start_ with the formula which perhaps makes things seem mysterious at first, but I thought was efficient.
Vestager as EU competition, Goulard as defense, Timmermans on climate. These are the ingredients for a strong EU, and it's good news for the world.
Some artists do special masters for vinyl, though. For Devin Townsend's new record, Empath, he spent an extra month (I believe) just mastering the vinyl version, not to mention the tremendous effort for extra artwork. This intentionally different sound offsets the technical inferiority of the format.

Wholeheartedly agree with your comment, though. My house as a "music room" without any screens for that purpose. Some people might say that's a bit excessive, but I too enjoy my hobby. :)
LaTeX is really great. My CV is a 7 kB file with embedded fonts. My thesis is 1.2 MB with embedded fonts, 60 vector images and hyperlinks (references and ToC). LaTex is a serious amount of labor but it makes the best documents.
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oh my gosh man this is so cool I legit almost teared up a bit. It looks awesome even without it but I cannot wait to see where you land using augmented-ui.

This is the first time I've got to see someone use it for a big project ^__^

I bookmarked it, will keep an eye on it!

Thank you!!
It depends on what you need. If you're building chat and want presence features so you can see who's online (and with how many and what type of devices), Elixir + Phoenix gives it to you out of the box.

I agree with your point about a sparser number of libraries, and sometimes that slows me down. That said, Elixir's ergonomics and documentation is fantastic.
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..? I’m not seeing anything on that page that isn’t based on “facts”, and none of it seems obviously incorrect..
[not speaking on behalf of any employer, opinions my own]

I think many people underestimate the challenge that the 2 to 3 migration presents for large enterprises. The core issue is that even though the migration for any given module is normally really easy, the total effort required to migrate is still essentially O(n) in module count/file count, because even with current tooling you still need to have an engineer look at every module to do the change safely. Even if it only takes ~5 minutes per module to make the changes and validate that it works correctly, this becomes a giant undertaking when you have tens of thousands of files to migrate.

The fact that it takes a long time also creates other problems. Your business isn't going to hit "pause" on other development, so there will be changes constantly introduced into modules you've already "swept". It's going to be hard to make sure 100% of your engineers and code reviewers are knowledgeable about the specific requirements to make sure the code works in both 2 and 3, so you would really like some automated safeguards to make sure they don't introduce anything that won't work in 3. Pylint helps with this, but won't catch everything. Unit tests are obviously essential, but:

1. Even a well-tested project won't have tests that cover 100% of code paths and behavior.

2. You're stuck running the tests on both python2 and python3 for the duration of the migration, which doubles the resource (compute, memory, etc.) cost of your Python CI and regression testing infrastructure for the duration of the migration.

I see far too many commenters attributing the delayed migration to laziness or complacency. In reality, most big companies have passionate Python advocates who really want to be on Python 3, but the scale of the problem and the lack of tooling to tackle it with a sub-O(n) amount of effort make the overall project risky and expensive for the business.
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For some reason I had thought the impact crater was in the US - perhaps that was a different impact
Using image search on mobile is a truly a painful experience
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The post is now here:

https://reason.com/2019/09/09/scraping-a-public-website-does...
I just thought that Bush had a score to settle and now there would be no friction to do that. It may have been completely wrong, but that was my instant thought.
Just in time m. This is exactly what I need for a meeting in 2 days
You can head over to cocalc.com, fire up a sage worksheet, and stick this in:

for n in range(1, 13):
field = GF(2^n)
count = 0
for x in field:
for y in field:
if y^2+y == x^3+x:
count += 1
print n, 2^n, count

if you want to play around with some of these numbers.
And if you Google for "Treadwell Stanton" the results are almost all about this announcement and fizzle out after three or four pages with nothing dating back further than a few months. Their Twitter page is mostly noise too.
Was always told when I was in the Marines the Masses pay for the few. Easy to see the masses pay for the few corrupt politicians. The few corrupt companies who spend billions to lobby. On and on down the line. We have lost morality and instead feed on emotions and greed.
It's surely not literally driving women from the industry, but it does make the product look outdated and the team behind it look insensitive.

It's like doing a presentation with a prominent stain on your shirt: ideally the audience should be able to separate appearances from content, but the reality is that they can't.
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> nobody died of radiation at Fukushima.

Are you sure?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45423575

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles/get-a...
> Is a fact that radioactivity kills people. No need to demonstrate it statistically. We have enough empirical evidence.

It's a fact radioactivity kills people over certain thresholds. This is the same as saying water kills people or potatoes kill people. Radioactivity itself is not bio accumulative. Some radioactive particles are bio accumulative.

Your post shows a staggering amount of misinformation which is exactly the reason we need hard numbers.
Good. She has upheld her stance on antitrust matters and demonstrated above-average literacy with digital economy issues (for a politician). We should prepare an agenda for her to look at during the forthcoming EU commission legislature.
> If the event didn't occur, dinosaurs may not have all just become birds.

I'm not trying to suggest that. I'm just saying that we don't know enough, but that based on the limited things we do know (birds never got to primate level societal complexity), we can hypothesize that dinosaurs would never have made it.

It could well be that some other dinosaur subfamily could have taken a turn towards becoming a complex society, but I wouldn't have bet on the ankylosaurs, the sauropods or the ornithopods either for this.
not at all, but you need to consider the context of what happened. the protesters were throwing molotvs.

there are footage of protesters beating the police with equal brutality, but i guess you won't find it on reddit.

i'm ending my discussion here with you, you can choose to consume and believe whatever media you like.

my 2 cent was that reddit is a cesspool of propaganda now.
Just keep in mind that there is a difference between happiness and pleasure. There are unpleasurable things, such as helping at a homeless shelter and such, can bring you happiness. On the other hand, there are pleasurable things that can lead to unhappiness.

The Dalai Lama makes this point.
Wow, that one's not for me. While I enjoy reading post-apocalyptic sci-fi, I don't want it to actually happen.
That’s how you get every other startup thinking Heroku is the solution and then two years later they realize they might need to invest in building out their own self-documenting, automated architecture. More than happy to upvote you as it means more work opportunities for me down the line.
> People are animals

Well, yes, we're really just pretending otherwise. Also agree with TeMPOralL's sentiment :)
In the wider context they're talking about if it's going to be used to attack a populated area. If the pilots determine that is the intent, then the most limiting action you can take is to take the plane down. I really don't think being far underground in a bunker Cheney felt threatened.
I find it fascinating that the "spliced" screen animation, an phenomenon unique to CRT screens, still persists as a cyberpunk trope. No doubt it's because cyberpunk imagery has its origins in the 70s/80s when all we had is analog screens. I think it will continue to be one of those weird anachronisms future generations won't know why it exists unless you do some deep digging (or were around for its origins).
I know almost nothing about Dick Cheney, so what do you mean by saying this:

> he did not hesitate was because his own person was in mortal danger
Me to, especially as a Buffalo native.
The place where Ruby really wins is speed of development. Despite massive ecosystems and many libraries, Python, .Net and especially Java all lag Ruby in terms of how long it takes to build a web app.

I'd say part of the reason is expressiveness of the language (since it's very easy to make DSLs with Ruby and Rails benefits greatly from them), but another part is cultural. Python, .Net and especially Java communities tend to suffer (and benefit!) from a strong emphasis on correctness and purity over speed and developer experience.
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There's a need for comm that works without middlemen that can predictably fail.
Ask HN: Quick and Dirty DevOps/SRE Salary?
There is a lot of data when it comes to SWE/software dev but not as much when it comes to DevOps/SRE.

This HN user is getting compensated so well that he doesn't look at jobs that pay under $350k. [1] This Reddit user is currently making $340k with 5 years of experience.[2]

$180k+ DevOps jobs are easy to find. What about things beyond that?

- Annual total TC
- Location including work from home or travel

My current comp is $190k in Portland.

Is anyone else breaking $250k without living in NYC or SF? What's your experience with high-end DevOps/SRE jobs?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20848770

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/cxiprc/experienced_200k_technical_jobs_nonmanagement_low/ez0hug9/
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They got invested into by the same investors all the same. It's the only reason why they are being thrown into the mix of "tech companies" and what puts the rest of the tech bubble in trouble.
SoftBank themselves are a hilarious joke. Over half of corporate debt in Japan....is held by SoftBank.
No idea, but there's a lively enough market that I've seen older ultrasound machines at veterinarians' offices.

Vet services, by the way, do cost approximately as much as they do in the US, at least for birds.
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HL7 is so awful. My introduction was is seared into my memory as I hadn’t realised the various line break methods allowed/used.

I have dealt with a vendor who’s existence began is still heavily propped up by their HL7 broker service. It seems rather lucrative.
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Maybe the US would do well to obsess a little less about wars? After spending 90%+ of its time existing on being at war, it sure would seem like a good time to take a break and stop attacking other countries maybe.
That is so cool, i'll be keeping an eye on it.
That's for data. This conversation is about voice communication.
You don't even need a nation state. 1 person could sufficiently weaponize this against multiple individuals by using it to mimic their writing style by training it on their social media/blog/articles they've written and then using it to start various accounts online as the target and slowly building up followers with content and at some point switching to saying highly controversial, or downright offensive, things to immediately cause people to change their opinion of the individual. Racist/sexist/etc content, allegations against someone else, fake content about a company/product/service that could cause varying levels of financial damages to the company etc.

It also is a new tool for blackhat SEO, instead of paying people to write crappy content, or running relevant articles through any number of commercially available software packages that will rewrite the article enough to fool search engines as being unique for weeks or even years, you can simply train the software on stacks of books of material about a given subject and have it churn out semi-intelligible-to-humans articles about the subject that could allow you to build a rather large amount of content to manipulate search engine rankings or even to just create contextual/affiliate ad farms.

If you have the software churn out smaller sets of content, then quickly edit it yourself, a single individual could churn out 10-20,000 words of content a day with banners/images/contextual ads inserted. A small blackhat SEO team in a country like Bangladesh or India could offer prices far cheaper than competition using more traditional methods, have articles that are more 'natural' in the customer's language, and be of a likely higher quality in a much higher volume.

This is the problem with entities like Open AI, they're all "AI is great, AI is good, AI is our future savior, yay AI" but are any of them going "well, here's the 16 ways I can think off, off the top of my head, how to wildly exploit this technology for personal/corporate/government gain"? AI doesn't have to be SkyNet or robotic killing drones to be exploited, an individual can benefit considerably (and cause considerable hardship for an entity) with stuff like this. Who at places like Open AI are asking these questions? Where are the employees/advisors/consultants that look at each project and offer real time feedback on ways to abuse the project in its current and near-future states?
Exactly the same hours for me. Parent confused me!
It sure seems like Softbank is a house of cards. This seems like the most likely place for the cards to come crashing down.
This totally misses the point which is that there is no equivalent option in the node ecosystem. Ruby would be some toy project for enthusiasts if Rails hadn't come along and given huge numbers of developers a compelling case to put it in production.

It's not clear to me why people make this choice with node when after you choose it you are left to solve solved problems from scratch. Chosing node is the explicit choice to enter an ecosystem that does not have good cohesive solutions to basic problems. To do things that could be done easily with a framework like rails the very hard way.
I'd happily submit my CV as json... :)
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I'll add my two cents and feedback:

I like the GitLab flow, and I absolutely love the "Create merge request" button in the issue detail. I miss it dearly whenever I'm working on GitHub, and `hub pull-request` isn't quite the same.

I don't like the code review functions: for example when I'm in the changes tab, where I can both resolve discussions and double-check the code, cycling through unresolved discussions breaks every time and I have to go back to the discussions tab where to check the code I have to open the linked diff in another tab.

I don't like the settings UI, with all those "expand" buttons so far on the right side. I mean, there's even one of those buttons in places where you have only one fieldset worth of settings.
If only however the military industrial complex is to big. I think America is more like a hired gun never at home hence why home is not in best of shape.
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...Which can be a fine philosophy, if you define the "center" relative to some absolute.

If your idea of "the center" is "precisely between the two current mainstream left-wing and right-wing parties", then right now you'll end up with something along the lines of "well, some genocide is OK, so long as it's of people I don't like."

There's no special virtue in saying "both sides have good points" all day long, no matter who the sides are that you're dealing with. The political center, by any objective measure, is way, way to the left of what the "center" is in the US right now.

Or, to put this all more succinctly: I don't think anyone whose primary position is "Nazis are bad and we should treat them the way we did in WWII" should be classified as an "activist."
Very cool. I want to use this somewhere soon. Just have to free up time to work on passion projects. : )
When you’re on top, everyone else is going to try to take you down. And make no mistake, we’re still very much on top.
> Nobody‘s gonna put up an antenna over years collecting all this noisy stuff.

I think you misjudged how interested in radio some people can be. People do this to ADS-B (airplane location) all the time.
Just a quick look at the code. One of the first lines in the random first file I checked:

> function printBasis( state: any, dynamicBasis: any, staticBasis: any, indent: number = 0 ): string { ...

When Microsoft removes the 'any' type this language (and hype) is dead. I've never came across a TS code base that is actually 100% type safe, and that apart from the fact that at run time there is no type checking at all, just Javascript.. That's why I still prefer the ease and security of dynamic type checking, because it is real safety. I know TS can still help in a large code base especially for the less experienced dev's out there, but it comes with a very high price that no TS proponent dears to admit or cannot assess. We live in a world of dreamers.
Smart of them to disable the chat. YT chat is very toxic