skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about that. Japan caught up to the West twice and surpassed it in some ways without being a planned economy. Same thing with Germany vs England and France. I think the determiner here is a national will and pride that drives the hard work necessary to modernize. There are plenty of positive feedback loops in free societies as well since modernization brings a lot of everyday improvements that are available to everyone in a market economy. Planned economies lack that particular incentive and often have very negative side effects like famine and political purges that probably hinder modernization efforts.
It could be. We've had Microsoft accounts locked when they log in from other countries for suspicious activity. Had to unlock the account from the admin panel and it didn't have any issues with overseas access after that.
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a blue wave is coming
Deterring whom exactly?

US paid 22% of NATO’s military and civilian budget [0]. No other developed country spends 3+% on fighter jets, drones etc. It’s just a waste of ressources and does not bring any peace and protection to the world.

Russia invades Germany: yeah, I’d rather learn Russian than become the nuclear playground for the US and Russia. The world stage has seen enough examples. Like WHY exactly would Russia or China start a war with anybody? Nukes would end the world as we know it. Don’t need 100, just a handful.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44717074
If you are the sole copyright holder, you are not bound by any licensing terms.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oaccou...
Who is legally responsible for the car doing something crazy? Will engineers or executives go to jail?
Tesla shows us high quality mockup[1]. The system has all the features, but nothing really works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockup
I noticed today that youtube-dl was no longer working. I am on the latest version so there is no update that will fix things right now.

It wasn't hard to whip up a cli wrapper for NewPipeExtractor which I am already using on my phone for Youtube via Newpipe.

It is pretty limited currently, but sufficient for my purposes.
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I don't use Ikea furniture because I have to assemble it. It's just, cheap, reasonably good, easy to find and get. The idea of having to buy a non-Ikea desk scares me because I have no idea where to buy it (I'd have to spend time googling, analyzing and coping with uncertainty), I believe it's going to be expensive (which also implies I'll spend the rest of my life worrying about damaging its surface) and heavy. With Ikea I just go there and get whatever I need (+ an awesome Swedish dinner and best coffee ever).
> Enterprises buy what other enterprises have already approved.

I understand why vendors believe this. But I had my share of purchasing discussions when I worked in Enterprise IT, and this was a factor in our decision-making literally zero times.

But we never told the sale guys that when they put a bunch of logos into a presentation. We smiled and nodded at all the crap they threw at us, and then promptly ignored 80% of it and discussed the 20% that really mattered behind closed doors once the sales guys had gone home. And most of the time, it was an analysis of many factors, including how well their capabilities matches our needs, whether their pricing was cheaper than the "build" option with internal talent, and how low-maintenance it would be. We loved buying solutions that affordably provided direct solutions to business needs that did not impact the work of IT department at all. That is why SaaS has taken over, BTW... not because the solutions are better that what could be built internally, but because it lets the internal IT shop just get rid of one problem, so they can spend their time on other problems.

That is truly how to hit product/market fit for an Enterprise product. Just make a problem disappear for the IT folks, and they'll buy.
I'd be interested to know exactly what internal procedures Facebook goes through before they decide to "permanently" lock someone out of their account. It's probably not a trivial process. A lot of thought and consideration (especially in today's world) is likely going into these decisions. There almost certainly had to be emails sent warning of such violations. I am not on Facebook but would imagine there'd be quite an uproar if there was no notice BEFORE being cut off.

So my hunch would be that either (a) your girlfriend is actually doing things that violate Facebook's community standards, or (b) her account has been hacked, but even that would probably be obvious based on IP addresses, etc, Finally (c) it's possible her computer/phone was hacked, which means there's probably no way for Facebook to determine whether or not she's the culprit or the hacker is.
I believe BitCoin is one of the very few successful crypto protocols that, instead of being developed in the open, pretty much came out fully formed. In addition, it was developed first as a Windows program. This makes the conspiracy part of me, suspect that BitCoin may in fact have been developed by the NSA to enable moving black ops money around more easily. It was released to the public so there would be enough background noise that these transactions would not stand out.
I personally think about half or so of both quotes are completely made up straw men, while about half of each are justified. Your approach here is "exhibit A" for the comments above.
Big data is permanently in AWS

Egress costs make sure of that!
"mutation" or adaptive gene for night time predators
Right, Tuesday Morning was the tchotchke store.

It says something about me that I get them confused.
> I thought that was weird, and then started googling their last names and caste systems in India on a hunch.

You saw people asking for opinions from a senior member and your first thought was casteism? How does one even make that leap?
Ask Your Amiga 0.2
With this release Tesla has become a very attractive platform for assassins; if your target drives a Tesla it can be subverted and their death will look like an accident.
Wait. You disagree that the media will try to capitalize on a moral panic?
You just described myself.

> At some point it becomes so bad that my waking hours are at night and vice versa

This. One week I'm sleeping at night, some weeks later I've shifted to sleeping during the day. Then back to nights in a few weeks. Granted, this only happens when on my own -e.g.: working home and alone- otherwise I have to "adapt" by staying up all day, just like you. Not funny.
Care to share? I am sure that would be very useful for me (and probably many others).
We're honoring the fantastic actor, not his poor advice. You try to paint him as a monster but he was happily married for 40 years, not a small feat.
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I’m super interested in FP for AGI, but one issue with such setups (see Jax.experimental.stax) is the neural nets are parametric functions, and if recurrent, can have state, too. That adds up to a lot of extra work for a programmer to manually pass around these parameters. It’s doable but also distracting from the real work of cognitive architecture, which is why I switched from stax style to Flax.

Flax is currently by far my favorite neural net library, despite being pretty small, because it lets you write a neural net module as a function and decorate that with @nn.module — the decorator wraps your function in a class instance to manage the params and state. This can shave 10 lines per module, and if you’re like me, you have like 50 bajillion ideas for different neural net modules, it really adds up.

TLDR: Check out Flax if you like functional programming and neural networks!
I would be interested in any background you have on this. (I know Steaknife was the worst example of this, but am interested how far it went - and as a fairly obvious corollary - what would happen if instead of "turning" terrorists they were just arrested as normal criminals mostly are. If there are lessons on the war on drugs for example.
Now is that 3am standard time or DST?
The dude has no idea what he is talking about. I’m not gunna be like USA is an amazing place but there is some derangement syndrome going on about how people think life is like in different countries. People actually believe Europe is this perfect establishment and USA is a death sentence for black men. Europeans are crazy as Americans lmao. It’s just you need to compare USA to all of Europe and suddenly the differences in how people
Act are less. And this is my theory, I garuntee random Americans are kinder and more generous than a random European. I would be willing to put money
On that
Few months ago I've had an issue with someone trying to fraud money via partner program, testing and using a lot of credit cards, changing IP each time he tested one card. In the end he managed pass trough fraud checks around 50 times. All IP's were from northvpn/expressvpn. So no wonder that you might get ban elsewhere by using same IP as someone else trying to do someting illegal.
Out of interest, what would you say is a reasonable minimum amount of disk space for a user to have to devote to their bitcoin node, such that the number of nodes does not cause significant extra centralisation (over and above the centralisation of mining pools and development teams)?
I don't know how it looked like in the US, but in several European countries the web was basically built in PHP. In 2005 the entire web market in my country was PHP with a few uncool Java enterprisey jobs here and there.

Being able to mix PHP and HTML code was brilliant and setting up PHP on a server was child's play compared to Java. Because state was stored in the DB and individual pages were ephemeral, we didn't have any issues with e.g. memory usage or performance.
At that time I was already familiar with C, C++ and C# and I didn't find it worse to use PHP. It was a good match for the job.
the perfect answer as to why this isn't working as expectations in the west #liberties add to that fake news,oh boy
This doesn't work with those companies. I once tried to create a Twitter account but unless you provide them your phone number the account just gets blocked straight away. You then have to give them your phone number anyway to unblock it. Since I didn't want to give a random company my phone number I wanted to go to settings and remove the account completely since it was useless and I couldn't even follow people using it. Long story short - the website will not allow you to do that despite GDPR laws. I even filed support tickets to have the account removed and the requests were denied "because the account is inactive", in violation of my laws granted by the GDPR.
> However, theories of planet formation and evolution predict the existence of free-floating (rogue) planets, gravitationally unattached to any star.

What's the theory that predicted this? After billions of years, I would expect all planets be attached (gravitationally) to a star, shouldn't they?

> Indeed, a few years ago, Polish astronomers from the OGLE team from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw provided the first evidence for the existence of such planets in the Milky Way.

Wait. Evidence is not the theory. Did they predict this or discover it?
Yes, human driving is far from perfect and sometimes that has tragic consequences. But there are two issues at play here.

The first is whether we expect the autonomous vehicles to become safer than the population of human drivers they would be replacing under normal circumstances. This is a population measure, and it's about overall safety and averages, and given enough time and data it seems a realistic outcome.

The second is the risk of a single catastrophic failure, which is a risk that doesn't generally exist with today's human-controlled vehicles. It is no exaggeration to say that the kinds of autonomous vehicle technologies we are conceiving here have the potential, if they go wrong, to cause more harm than any WMD ever deployed in war. And not only the theoretical potential, but given the current state of our software development abilities, a non-trivial chance of it actually happening in practice.

Until we've dealt with the latter problem, which I don't believe we currently know how to solve, any arguments based on the long-term superiority of autonomous vehicles over the capabilities of any human driver is going to be fundamentally flawed.
But as consumer devices become miniaturized and waterproofed, these kinds of advances come into natural tension with ease of repair. They are also the keys of somebody's data kingdom, and external repair shops bring in some risk.
> Even sentence structure has changed: others have started to say names at the beginning of a sentence, rather than at the end.

I think this is a great pattern to be using all the time in meetings, especially larger ones.
that's not why gold is valuable, historically. Historically gold is valuable because it's rivalrous, fungible, and most importantly, easily verifiable.

You can assess approximate purity of the metal with very low-level technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_(assaying_tool)). Transactions thus have a lowered barrier of trust. Before gold and money, you could only transact in debt to labor (see debt: 5000 years) or socialized obligations, and to be sure the person would conduct that labor, you had to trust them, or trust society to honor the obligation.

More interestingly in particular, once gold came into being, two people could reliable transact over a very long social distances, (without necessarily knowing each other's reputation). You just had to trust an intermediary party to transport the gold. Nonetheless, that opened markets up considerably.
NYPD deploys robot dog after woman shot during Brooklyn parking dispute
This article is a demonstration of a method of mask testing. It's not a test of masks. From the authors "As the title indicates, our work focused on developing a simple technique for mask evaluation that can be replicated at other labs, rather than a comprehensive mask test.

They do not test how long the masks stop droplet transmission. Other studies say that these masks start losing effectiveness as soon as you put them on, and most masks are ineffective after a few hours.

And, again, we do not care if masks stop droplet emission. (It's very likely that they do). What we care about is whether the public wearing masks in a pandemic stops virus transmission, and at the moment we don't know if it does or not.
Make Nightmare Men in Blender - Lazy Tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgfJIZEDY44&ab_channel=IanHu...
What is the bottleneck here? If it is the uplink (not sure about the correct terminology, I mean the connection from the local box up to the Internet) maybe we can use local caching for stuff like the Netflix OpenConnect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_details_of_Netflix#O...

> Netflix settlement freely peers with Internet service providers (ISPs) directly and at common Internet exchange points. In June 2012, a custom content delivery network called Open Connect was announced.[28] For larger ISPs that have over 100,000 subscribers Netflix offers free Netflix Open Connect server appliances that cache Netflix content within the ISPs' data centers or networks to further reduce Internet transit costs.[29][30] The Open Connect appliances are purpose-built servers that focus on low power and high storage density, and run the FreeBSD operating system, nginx and the Bird Internet routing daemon.[31] By August 2016, Netflix closed its last physical data center, but continued to develop its Open Connect technology.[32]

> A 2016 study at the University of London detected 233 individual locations over six continents, with the largest amount of traffic in the USA, followed by Mexico.[33][34]

Maybe there are generic solutions for this (Maybe squid? I really don't know anything about these things) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(software)
New Airport, Symbol of ‘Irreverent’ Berlin, Is Opening After Delay of 9 Years
Expression Studio: Microsoft’s Failed Challenge to Adobe
cute.

Propaganda is not a recent phenomena and we went through an entire Cold War with a noted power with excellent propaganda techniques (soviets) without censoring at this level.
Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware
You not experiencing it does not mean it does not exist. Please see other instances besides "vegetarian" argument where it is blatant.
Programming can still be magical
Found another crazy head. You started decently but ended up just saying more random biased points. I also do not know where you get the idea USA is anti European. I don really get that anywhere. I will tell you for a fact that many Europeans spend their entire life ignoring their own countries politics and only comment on Americans and the politics of America ( another separate problem) there is no stereotype of a European for an American but there 10000 percent is the other way. All these comments about America vs USA just expose commentators with their random assumptions about how other countries are.
Chinese Database Tracks US Nuclear Scientists, Military Officers
> The bad rep is totally deserved.

This sentence really got me thinking. "Deserved" is some sort of moralistic word, I'm not sure how it applies to a tool, unless it means to apply to the makers and/or users of the tool.

And I guess it makes some sense. A bad reputation is a sort of social communication utilizing shame and stigma. Maybe it causes people not to use PHP without having to pay the cost of really understanding why, which is likely only accessible with lots of experience and/or study.

This is basically by definition an inaccurate bias, of lacking nuance, but perhaps a net good. If PHP was such a poor tool for productivity and security then it was probably good if shame and stigma were helping people to use better tools without paying the cost themselves first.

But it's always very frustrating if you actually know what's bad and what's good about a thing, or even just know that it has both bad and good parts (even if you don't know precisely which is which), and you see a memetic belief held up as truth rather than acknowledged as a useful heuristic.

And while it feels dirty, maybe this shame and stigma also serves to influence the creators of the language and its ecosystem to make it better. I don't know. I hope there are better ways than shame and stigma but I'm just a d00d writing a post on a web forum.

What does seem clear to me, though, is if is a good tool NOW, as a result of years of work by the people who kept at it, then a bad reputation is no good anymore; no longer a positive force but a negative one.
If in California, you can use CCPA to do this as well. But I've found about 25% of companies just delete your info when requesting access and another 25% just don't respond . I'm sure Facebook will respond, but I have no idea how it would work if you can't log in.
exactly, had a lot of attack attempts from nordvpn/expressvpn, no wonder someone might got ban because of same IP.
AGPL and GPL3 do allow for a proprietary alternative that has clearly separated modules that use only the GPL3/AGPL code as binaries. They could have done something similar to the qt licensing scheme.

I think the developers who change the licenses of this repo have bad faith and yes, I agree, they deeply misunderstood the licenses or they planned all along to ride the 'free software' banner for adoption to then make money out of it. They could have done it in a more elegant way.
See also the Maxim Gun in the 1st WW, and no less lethal... the phone network supplied by ITT in the 2nd.
We Chose Node.js over Python for Our Product
I love how excited and happy biologists get on twitter whenever something like this happens.
Asking for your science is not arrogant. Addressing your link, that is somewhat persuasive, but they didn't correct for other behaviours.
which in the case of GAF means adtech

I've lost track, which is A now? Only Facebook and Google are adtech, Apple wants to sell hardware and Amazon wants to do retail, adtech/surveillance capitalism could be banned tomorrow and both the A's would not skip a beat.
What would have been the incentive for either side to start a war that would end civilisation for all times?

I do understand that a lot of well paid people had us buy weapons we don’t need for decades; they did a good job in convincing our parents and their parents that evil is just about to make its move.

Just spend less money and have a compulsory military service. Young men without any military ambition from the very society they are supposed to protect are just very eager not doing anything and not shooting anybody up - until shit really hits the fan in their home country and they have to.
Yeah, if you wanna to work for free for the richest company(s) in the world, you should use MIT license instead.
It's well-known that the gas-guzzler you own today is more green than scrapping it and buying a new car.

Constant replacement eliminates any possible "green" savings.
Apple does charge you to upgrade the OS.
Microsoft offers both free and paid services. There’s the old Hotmail via outlook.com for free, and for $5/mo you can get Office 365 and access it via Outlook (app or web) and they won’t treat you like a freeloader.
Russia is a great example. Russia and China push the envelope whenever they can. The idea is that the US won't just nuke anyone that invades someone else, but they can provide ground/air support (sans nukes).

So that's why just having the nukes isn't enough. They're mostly just there so that the US/allies don't get nuked, not good for much else (but very good for that).
In most situations, micro-services are for organizing domain-specific functional concerns into decoupled teams/services so that functional domain changes can be done rapidly without risking rippling or inter-locking changes across the systems. The technical stack layer-cake is usually same for all the micro-services – that allows it to be 'micro' and yet be economical. You want less than 20% of your engineering force to be responsible for operating this technical layer-cake while the 80% of the engineering workforce to be productive on actually solving the functional domain problems of your business.

What you are referring to is the old-school SOA where each SOA service could be built by completely different companies using different stack and deployed in different environments and yet interact. This is applicable in financial/banking ecosystems (say real-time payment systems across banks/payment-networks).
That's because Bill Gates listened to the scientists, and you can see him write about this. He knows to not put all his eggs in one basket. So he invests in small nuclear, because it is a technology we have and can fix deployment issues. He invests in solar because it is a far cheaper option in sunny areas. He invests in carbon capture and sequestration to reverse the effects of climate change to this point and how we'll likely continue to pollute. He invests in battery technology so we can use those renewables without a base load (really would be a phase in). And he's investing in fusion because it could make all these questions obsolete. He's investing from many different angles because you can't really predict what will work.

There's this weird myth of "either or" here. People are treating money, labor, and materials as if they are these static things. This isn't a video game where if you need more pylons you just buy them. In reality we only have so many experts in a field at a time. We can't just solve fusion faster by throwing more money at it. There are diminishing returns after a point. So you use this money elsewhere. This weird myth of "either or" really comes down to thinking that everyone is stupid and "I'm an expert" (the "It's so simple, you just..."). I find this odd on a site full of tech nerds who have to frequently deal with these types of logistical issues and laymen making wildly naive conjectures.