skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite fascinating. There are definitely some sentences that are nonsensical, but the problem is, there are often entire paragraphs that seem internally nonsensical in text written by what I assume to be humans, too.

Some more examples. Input (from wikipedia page on WW2):

>In Europe, Germany and Italy were becoming more aggressive. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, again provoking little response from other European powers. Encouraged, Hitler began pressing German claims on the Sudetenland, an area of Czechoslovakia with a predominantly ethnic German population.

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Output:

Meanwhile, Italy and France continued to make war on Germany, and in July 1938 they annexed the small kingdom of Yugoslavia without much fanfare. Meanwhile, in 1941, Churchill went to London to ask for the declaration of war on Germany. There, he argued that if it took Germany three months to attack Britain, and he said the war could be won within a matter of weeks, then Britain could afford to stand back while the Nazis moved across Europe. The Prime Minister's position was endorsed by other senior government ministers, and the British Foreign Office was given the power to intervene without the Commons' approval by the War Cabinet under Winston Churchill.

Churchill was also able to get Churchill's cabinet to approve the idea of establishing British military bases in the Far East. The British were convinced by their advisers at the time that the Russians might

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Input (from a random 0 upvote reddit thread on /r/wow):

>The servers have been having instability issues for the last few days. It's probably some residual issues from the DDOS attack.

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Output:

It shouldn't affect normal gameplay, but we are definitely experiencing delays in getting players to the new server. We will update this thread if this bug persists. (UPDATE: The server is back up).
We're getting some feedback from the forums where you're encountering problems and we've worked with our technical team to resolve the problem. We will let you know whether you're going to get the newer version or the older version. We apologize for the inconvenience, but the server is more important to us than that tiny little lag spike in performance. (UPDATE: The player population was just too low to be on it). If you experience these issues on the old version, we suggest that you take your data to your data providers and ask them to migrate your character over to the new server.
Some players in the forums have reported that there are more players in the game than the matchmaking system permits. This is an issue with the matchmaking system. We have been working with the server owner to fix this issue.
Hard Sci-fi.

Holy crap it just overdelivers. In addition to entertainment, a way to take my mind off things, it also delivers context to daily life and keeps me focussed on trying to deliver something truly worthwhile.
Turn is off then?

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/admin_area/settings/continuo...
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In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with the fact that people want to secure their funds and make certain transactions by transferring money from one wallet to another.
I'm not a trading expert but I guess smarter and richer people/entities will probably also run bots and a whole lot more complex trade monitoring and market making strategies or algorithms.

In your example, somebody interested in keeping the price at or above a certain level and that has a couple of million to waste on that could potentially place a 900btc buy wall as soon as you managed to market sell the first 100 of your 1000 and so you'd sell the rest into the wall and not move the price as much as you'd wish. And market psychology is a strange thing that could actually even make the price move in the other direction as thousands of traders would see the huge buy wall and assume the price could only go up and therefore buy more to go long which would increase the price even more.

If that or similar happens then your "shorting at X while dumping at Y" strategy won't be as successful as you would expect and you might just end up dumping your 1000 btc at mostly the same price. 1000 btc is a lot of money for most people but not that much on a daily bitcoin trading day. Even the 1 billion dollars in bitcoin isn't really capable of damaging the market all that much as most alarmist articles made it seem once this transaction got noticed imho. Remember that there are/will be about 21 million bitcoins.

I'd say its safe to assume that whatever "big idea" one has to manipulate trading or financial markets has already been thought of, implemented, tried and failed or succeeded to some varying degrees, especially on deregulated crypto markets.
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Oh yes, I personally don’t like the everything-a-touchscreen trend at all. But it seems unstoppable, so I’m glad at least that it hasn’t killed cockpit design.
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Yeah... fair point on that.
similar but styled as code: http://codereddit.com/
Yeah, in the tiny town I grew up in we only had a single hospital and still had a (private) radiography clinic that was shared between the public hospital and private surgeries.
Put down that banana, beekeeper
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While that is true in a general case, since there is no transparency in healthcare costs and they can hit you with whatever number and “procedures” they like, it’s more of a “how much legal power do you have to defend your assets versus the healthcare provider’s legal power to take your assets” situation.

Which means you need the big guns (health insurance company or your own millions for legal fees) on your side, or else be destitute and have nothing for them to go after. But if you’re in that sweet spot where they can make up a bill since you signed a paper that says you’ll pay whatever you need to keep you alive, then you’re screwed.
An anti-war candidate like Tulsi will never be allowed to be the final presidential candidate by the DNC. Google and the party work in lock step to make her go away. And they will. You'll get a candidate like Biden or the other awful woman who will do what they're told.
Any recommendations? I’ve read a ton of Arthur C. Clarke in my teens, I’d love to branch out.
I had to implement something like this during an internship last year and I can confirm that it's a pain. I wish I had augmented back then!
The added explanation that "There were approximately 60,000 people with 100 million yuan in the Chinese mainland at the end of 2010" indicates that "billionaire" is not to be taken literally. Chinese doesn't count in powers of one thousand, but in myriads (so millions, billions, trillions... aren't as salient as ten thousand, a hundred million, a trillion...)

Considering that they counted those 72 over a span of 8 years, that works out to 9 deaths per year, or an annual unnatural death rate of 0.015%. I suspect that is lower than for the general Chinese population.

So you can't use those numbers to claim that it would be very likely for Jack Ma specifically to be ousted.
In an entirely neutral culture it'd be fine. In a culture that says that women aren't programmers, it perpetuates a common narrative that women are for display and support but not for real work. It's not helped by the picture above it where the ballerina is pictured with batteries.

Taken all together it seems to suggest that women are objects and that this is a product for men.

Yes, we're all being hyper sensitive about it, and it's likely that nothing negative was intended but it's something that we could do with having a bit of sensitivity about, given that it costs us so little and our current level of sensitivity has made the culture so hostile to women.
Why would your teachers interrupt class to show you some banal accident? This seems to have happened a lot, according to the comments here. Why on earth would you stop class to show the kids something on TV, ever? Would it not make sense to either send them home due to security concerns, or just finish the school day and let them find out the news later?
For those interested in creating REST APIs instantly on a mysql database

https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql/
That article doesn't seem to say what you claim it says?
interesting topic
> On July 7th 2005 I was on a bbc engineering course in a non-disclosable secret nuclear bunker in the Cotswolds,

This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Norton,_Worcestershire#Th...
The only revolution I can think of is renewables taking over fossil energy production.

In the last 10 years wind and solar went to scarily expensive to feasible substitures for fossil duels but this happened one little step at a time with incremental enhacements it those technologies.
It's not just noise though, it gives you time to mentally prepare to interact with someone. It's like a practice run!
I would consider EE, video production and game development mainstream, all domains are heavier users of visual languages.
True.

I think I'll test whether use of exceptions can affect optimizations concerning register allocation and spilling, like function prologues and epilogues. Unwinding will also need to call destructors, and for that you'll need to have the object pointer somewhere in (stack frame) memory. But it might be in just a register. Unless, of course, the unwinding engine can look into registers as well.

I guess it's not a huge deal either way, especially in 32-bit x86 code. For large register file systems it might be a different story, forcing otherwise unnecessary spills. Regardless, I'll find out when I got some time.

Anyways, my point was more generic. So-called zero-cost abstractions are my pet peeve, because they're often not zero cost precisely because of larger generated code size. Typical microbenchmarks don't capture this, because their hot path can usually fit comfortably in L1 code and data caches.
Wow, interesting
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I am still not clear on why Python has become popular. It wasn't a few years ago. They might use it more in universities nowadays but it seems backwards if the business's starts using languages just because they are used in education.

By the way, I don't here much about companies using Python in Scandinavia except for some AI.
BTC Price hiked by $1000

https://eng.ambcrypto.com/bitcoin-price-premiums-surge-in-ar...
Touchscreen and cars - previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335
I thought the turbo button slowed things down?
Wow, I’d never heard of that phobia. I’d keep her away from the hideous new BMW 3 series too. The speaker grille on the dash is so vibrating and irregular, it’s hard to keep your eyes on the road!
Nice write up and includes a lot of links with technical details on how to deploy your own IPFS node(s).

I agree that the benefit of this implementation (3x IPFS + Cloudflare) over the dedicated VM/VPS might not be obvious for the amount of traffic/visits this specific blog is having, but it's a good alternative to know :-)

On a side note...
Wouldn't it be great if OpenStreetMap/Google maps/your_favorite_map_provider was hosted on or via IPFS and there was an easy interface between the IPFS network and the www? This way the distribution of the tiles would be peerless, the CDN would be huge and each user would have locally the tiles most frequently used and serve them at the same time. No more dependency on big companies/providers, immune to DDoS/blocking/restrictions and free for all ;-)
A perfect reminder of why ethics needs to be taken more seriously by Software "Engineers". I don't think we should throw around that title lightly when stuff like this is happening.

People won't die from what we build, but they can easily be denied medical insurance or get harsher sentences because an AI suggested it to a judge (especially those who aren't aware of the technology's limitations).

Building machines to make decisions should not be taken lightly. See: FAA(not N)G companies who ban people without human interaction.
Yes, I am fond of HIPAA too. One project I worked on was physical infrastructure for a healthcare company.

One cool thing I remember is that the phone lines within the building had to be in armored cable, so they couldn’t be tapped without leaving a huge mess.
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Parsers / Lexers. I’ve been programming for twenty-ish years and only recently started playing with parsers and even a simple hand written one is quite empowering. I really wish I could have spent more time on this when I was younger and single. I for instance wrote a small not-fully-featured SQL parser [0] recently which helped me overcome a huge obstacle in my job.

[0]: https://github.com/donatj/sqlread
Microsoft's LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles
Look up Guo Wengui. He predicted that Ma would resign, hand over his shares to unnamed individuals, and further predicted that Ma would be gone a year after stepping down.

Guo sounds like a crazy man, but his predictions have been on the money so far. Real Vision did an interview with him a while back. You can find it on YouTube.

TL;DR the CCP is still communist and don’t like it when private businesses get too powerful.
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Could we talk about how horrible Tumblr's "privacy form" is? It is literally impossible to decline.
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I run a checklist in my head whenever im feeling really down. I think about things I know make me really happy, basic things. Friends, family, travel, motorbikes etc. And if when thinking about those I still feel down and pessimistic - I understand that it's my brain chemicals at play and Im in a funk.

Doesn't help me feel better in that particular moment, but does let me know that later it will get better and there some context and comfort in that.
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> So you want a language that never changes, but also perfectly matches today's mores? And you want enough people to speak it that it lasts multiple decades?

That's what the Esperantists want. I'm the one who's saying it's impossible.
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It’s been quite hilarious for me watching this saga unfold. All I needed to hear was that this man literally took out loans from WeWork and used the proceeds of the loans to purchase real estate that he then leased back to WeWork. Lol!
I'd definitely kick in money for this on KickStarter or whatever the appropriate platform for this is.
> any process of change

The previous comment was fairly clear: it's not any process of change, it is evolution within a system that has mechanisms of variation, selection and heredity.
There is controversy about literally this exact thing in China's software culture[1].

> Jesus, have become so sensitive to everything?

What you call "being so sensitive" can also just mean that people are being considerate. The people suggesting the photo is inappropriate are not "triggered" or "offended" or whatever. They just seem to understand that the photo evokes real cultural problems and can easily be changed.

Why do you seem to be so offended on behalf of the picture?

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/business/china-women-tech...
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One way pagers are also privacy friendly - base stations are not aware of your location.
Thank you very much for the news, it was useful to me
You’re not living in the real world, but whatever.
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted. This is exactly what I thought of when I saw the headline.
Was it an annual fee?

Its seems like it was a 1 off payment of 'only' $5.9 million

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-ceo-gives-back-millio...
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RIP the engine notes.
I'm building https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nay/ for things like this...
Mine most gave a very noticeable speed boost, which was expected given it bumped the clock from 8 MHz to 12 MHz. Fun to toggle during games.
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Wouldn't this describe the US? I only support the Chinese state because it is a counterweight to the "human rights campaigns" of US administrations.
Maybe I'm old now or too into old school rallying, but when someone says "hella" I just think of massive foglights on old rally cars.
I think I've read everything she ever wrote about congestion control. I'd always wanted to meet her. :(
I worked on multiple cross European project. And my favorite time (as a Swiss guys used to try to find a middle ground solution) was when we had meeting with British, French and Polish guys that don't agree on a subject. You can really see the huge cultural divide in action.
The English guys will says "hmmm interesting", the French will raise his voice (creating a huge discomfort for the British guys) and start a long speech how all of this is stupid" and the Polish guys will just tell everyone that they can go f... themselves and that they won't do it. I really miss that time.
Here comes the excuses. Who was irresponsible in the past, will be irresponsible in the future if is allowed to do so. I would not expect a different response.

Alaska, British Columbia and the rest of US West Coast will eat the garbage shaped as fishes, by courtesy of sea currents, (and is obvious that nobody cares). Strange times.
"didn’t seem to rely on any radio connection"

What did they think it relies on? Fairy dust?
Hi - we think you misunderstood because you probably haven`t red the post properly. WE will implement this data streaming engine, and give it away as open source ! The reason we are asking people if they can solve this challenge, is for us to know if there are other easy to use data streaming engine that can help solve this as per our relaxed/open specifications.
> I'm the founder of WSO2 which developed Ballerina. Also the person who started the project and lead it.

Congrats and thank you!

> We promoted Ballerina like that because we are proud of the work we do and wanted to show it off to people.

And rightly proud!

> You may not like the work we produce but trying to say its to get "consultancy work in India" is rather racist.

Saying it's to get "consultancy work in India" might be wrong (you promote Ballerina because you're proud of your work), but I fail to see how it's racist. Even if it was true, it wouldn't be racist.
That website is interesting, but maybe not as significant as it initially appears.

In some sense chardet doesn't explicitly support Python 3.7, but it's packaged for it in Debian Stable. I wouldn't expect any problems.

more-itertools is listed in white simply because it doesn't use any granular version classifiers on PyPi. It only has a python_requires setting, which is authoritative.

It's plausible that every single package on that page supports Python 3.7 in practice.
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People always hack around at large industries like this. The reality is that they have carbon-free energy deployed faster then pretty much any other nation and it still kills less people then other forms of power.
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FYI, if you want a decent Postgres client, check out `slonik` [0]. It doesn't support migrations, but there are other tools for that [1].

[0] https://github.com/gajus/slonik

[1] https://github.com/mmkal/slonik-tools
On the same note - don’t subsidize companies full of activists. Center is a good place to be, radicalism doesn’t help anyone.
>...the victim was born in August 1983, so they were of age at that time

How do you go from "the victim", to "they were of age"?

You are replying to a comment that does not name a specific victim, the comment questions Minsky's choice to have his AI conferences repeatedly held on an island with groups of unsupervised underage girls, with pictures of topless underage girls scattered around the compound:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/contractor-jeffrey-epstein-quit-co...

This contractor worked there for 6 years starting from 1999 which means its representative of 2002

Also reread carefully what I wrote in my other comments, I never claimed it was Giuffre who probably had sex with Minsky, the deposition can contain testimony from other witnesses as well.
> Nobody‘s gonna put up an antenna over years collecting all this noisy stuff

What do you think all the antennas on embassy buildings are for?
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We must be pretty important for Softbank as a signal - even if they didn't believe in the company, allowing such a major investment take such a big hit would be rather bad. Worth them pouring a few $bn more in instead of an IPO, if only to shore up faith in the rest of their portfolio?

All that being said, someone needs to be mentoring the CEO, like right now. That S1 was... not... great.
The issue with ASIC mining is the the barrier to entry is extremely high so only a small number of people have the means to produce the chips. Economically it might not make sense to sell them and, to make the situation even worse, patents can prevent competitors being able to use the same innovations.
In terms of territory, the Empire reached it's zenith under Trajan.
Richard Hipp presented this at the recent EuroTcl meeting - https://ssl.webpack.de/www.eurotcl.eu/program.html#Hipp
Eloquently put. I agree.
Sounds like a datacenter couched in 19th century terms.
I once did a stealth chat client.
In emission mode, it logs keystrokes and sends them as messages.
In reception mode, it autotypes the replies.

The idea was that you can open your usual work editor (word processor, IDE, spreadsheet, ...) and use it as a chat client.

It was more like a proof of concept, it didn't work that great and wasn't really useful. Also such a tool is likely to trigger all kinds of alerts in antivirus software, for good reasons.
I browse with JavaScript off, and I can't scroll on that site. Could you degrade it more gracefully, please? It's a documentation site, after all, not something that should be design heavy.
> I'm no compiler expert, but I would expect that compilers would put exception-handling code on a separate 64-byte cache line.

I'd sure hope they're on an entirely different page, not just cache line!

Concerning compiler code alignment: they seem to place my code on 16-byte boundaries - for a good reason too, the smallest code size while keeping optimal 16-byte aligned branch targets.

In past I actually had to drop to assembler to get 64-byte (cache line) alignment for functions (MSVC).

GCC does have optimize pragma, like:

#pragma GCC optimize ("align-functions=64")

Although I want to point out one shouldn't usually worry about low level details like function alignment. Use profile guided optimization, etc. instead. Also remember due to L1 set associativity limitations excessive alignment can even cause pathological L1 churn in the worst case.
Happens in Australia too, probably the easiest signals to find (i.e. strongest) using my $10 RTL-SDR besides broadcast FM. Plenty of names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, medical conditions, security alarms being triggered etc. Other interesting finds are SCADA messages, some from Pizza Hut etc. Regulations here allow reception as long as you don't take any action based on what you receive so that's nice.