skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A number of bugs will be solved by moving to it (a copied function is typo’d in one cell, etc) and you can test it pretty easily in a cell.

Excel is basically a REPL with cells.
Obviously the biggest one is concern over things like hyperinflation, which has happened in the real-world many times.

Or, not quite at hyperinflation, but your government is enacting policies based on MMT or similar and you are worried that this could hurt you (as a holder of the currency) in the long-run.

Or, maybe you're worried about governments being able to dictate what you are allowed to purchase with "their" money.

Or, maybe you want to send your money somewhere your government doesn't want you to send it (or their government doesn't want the other party to get it).

Obviously there is a lot more to cryptocurrency than just "not being issued by a government" as well though. There is general privacy benefits (Monero) or the promise of innovation if you have programmable money / contracts (Ethereum).
Two people I know bought M1 Macs to get into ML. I do think many confuse training performance with model execution performance.

I currently use a 2080tioc and wish for something faster to not wait for runs that long as they take you out of the zone.
Doesn’t gradient descent use a convex cost function so that it always generates a global minimum?
I would appreciate if you could explain to me how my political viewpoint is distorted inc. how I view things as "binary."

My viewpoint is: calling for ethnic cleansing through violence creates real harm (people have been murdered!), so private citizens and organizations should not support people who advocate for ethnic cleansing.

Also, blaming the two party system misunderstands US politics. Most Democratic politicians have not called for deplatforming of white supremacists — it's mostly a leftist idea.
Why is building an iOS/Android app this hard
The problem with any technology is that hype doesn't equal potential. Up until 2014, bitcoin was under hyped. It had a lot of potential. Since then the opposite has been true: shucksters sell it as the cure for cancer. Plenty of people here tried to get others interested in 2012 and then spent 2016 explaining to their non technical managers why the new block chain product they just bought won't actually work for what they want it for...
The more the company stonewalls you, the more likely your bad faith claims are to be accepted by a court. Bad faith contract violations come with punitive damages that can make it worth your time to fight, and I imagine that the $88 he made on this dispute did not actually take him all that much time. Writing the blog post might have, but that seems more like a labor of love.
There's a reason polystyrene is used as the waveguide between the two stages in a thermonuclear bomb :\
A $300 dobsonian isn't ridiculously expensive. The lenses though - the lenses are the most expensive part. My 10 inch dobsonian (which is roughly the size of a person) is an accessory for my precious lenses.
I could be wrong, but isn't the point of Diem to create a jointly managed payment network that's auditable to its stakeholders?

Seems like a viable reason to create a cryptocurrency that isn't intended to bypass state regulations.
What you mentioned isn't that different from interviewing with a human on the other side. All interview performance is kept on record at most companies. For 5/10/15 years or even more.

That's why it's not a good idea to interview at a place when you're unprepared. Not only are you wasting both your and the company's time, but you're also hurting your chances of getting an interview call from them in the future.

I have seen a lot of people I know make this mistake -- not preparing enough for a interview, failing badly, and then applying to the same company 6/12/24 months later, and not even getting another interview. Very frustrating.
It depends on the frequency. The brain is mostly water, but there are clear differences in the dielectric constant of air, the skull (bone) and the sweet delicious gray matter inside the cavity. By tuning the frequency of the waves, you can set up resonances in the cavity.

For a related effect, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0I
Watch your stock NVIDIA :)
YARA – The pattern matching swiss knife
i could not agree more with this article. everyone producing content on linkedin is passive aggressive and full of shit. it's perpetual apathetic back-patting.

but with that said, i've got an account that i hold for maintaining professional connections... but i long for the day when i can use it for posting dank memes and shitposts! :D
It seems licensezero.com is shutting down, does that impact your license? Do you still consider fuzzyset.js as open-source?
Then you need version control. Better to let the document be the boundary of consistency.
Since #define will still exist, I'd suggest

#define __WHERE__ std::source_location::current()

:)
Why We Switched from bcc-tools to libbpf-tools for BPF Performance Analysis
It’s just a long number with no intrinsic worth. Like money.
Does Google sheets let you do anything like this?
The Organized Professional Method is even capitalized, to make it appear as if it's a thing. Part of the process, no doubt, except the target group for this is the article's readers.
Hm resonance inside the skull isn't something I'd considered, that's a fair point.
Privatize schools
Yep, you're right, people are definitely only using cryptocurrency for illegal transactions.
I agree. The Challenger Disaster was bad, but the Columbia Disaster was worse. They already know before flying that the designs has many problems, they know before reentry that the thermal protection was potentially broken.

This is most relevant sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...

> NASA management referred to this phenomenon as "foam shedding". As with the O-ring erosion problems that ultimately doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger, NASA management became accustomed to these phenomena when no serious consequences resulted from these earlier episodes.
I'd blame the scamcoin wave of 2014 or so. And the gox fiasco, of course.

Many people haven't updated their opinions since then. Even if they've bothered to keep up, they see everything in the light of those days and never reconsider.
I'll cop to hand-waving and painting cryptocurrencies w/ a broad brush here. But it seems like Diem hasn't really figured out what its system is gonna be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency)#Implem.... Looking at their docs and such, it seems like it'll be centralized under the stakeholders until they implement proof of stake, which IMO makes it just another reserve bank.
Astrology?
When this was big in the 2000s, maximum extraction is reached because supply is maximized, not because demand has entered terminal decline.
This reads like a fan fiction that’s written by 13 year old, who was 0 idea his economy works, and is just trying to exploit and deepen political dive for personal gain.

Cutting ties with racist militia means that in the future I won’t be able to buy cupcakes across the street, because owner supports different party? That’s classic “where does it stop” argument, used to justify inaction to obviously wrong things, because it could be abused in the future. Omission bias at its best.
An uncontrolled pandemic is also a deathblow to small businesses.

It's telling that even Sweden is giving up on the #YOLO approach.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-a-holdout-from-covid-19-re...

> After a late autumn surge in infections led to rising hospitalizations and deaths, the government has abandoned its attempt—unique among Western nations—to combat the pandemic through voluntary measures.

> Like other Europeans, Swedes are now heading into the winter facing restrictions ranging from a ban on large gatherings to curbs on alcohol sales and school closures—all aimed at preventing the country’s health system from being swamped by patients and capping what is already among the highest per capita death tolls in the world.

> The clampdown, which started last month, put an end to a hands-off approach that had made the Scandinavian nation a prime example in the often heated global debate between opponents and champions of pandemic lockdowns.
Money is backed by a central bank that is accountable to a government body. Crypto is backed by speculation and tech bros (shorthand for the hyper technocratic libertarian).
I also found this 'Open Letter to the Diplomats With "Havana Syndrome"' provided helpful context.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/its-catching/201911/...
Service discovery in Kubernetes – combining the best of two worlds
Collimated microwaves (i.e. a maser) pointed directly at the skull, from a distance, through a window, I'd assume.

What are the reported symptoms from military radio engineers standing in the transmission path of high-power/long-distance ship-to-ship microwave links?
That podcast is fun, but it's only really superficially about engineering disasters.

They even admit this in one of the early episodes, something like "surprise! This isn't about engineering, we're really doing a personality-driven conversational play!"

Most topics are only superficially researched and even more thinly presented. Having 5-10 minutes of information in a two hour episode is usually too little for my tastes.
It's basically the idea of "scientism".

Scientistm being to science what nationalism is to patriotism.

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/science-versus-scie...
Unfortunately I don't see one on their site. The Twitter feed [0] has some links though.

[0] https://twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6
Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital (again)
I also do recruiting and I’d certainly treat hashtagged self-promotion on LinkedIn as a big negative.
I love the branding "custom functions without code" right before a bunch of code.

Reminds me how early word processors (the person, not the software) were convinced to program word processors (the software this time) just by calling the programs "macros".

I'm not joining Microsoft's beta program right now, but I'm curious if anyone knows the data type of a =LAMBDA?
I found myself without a job a few years ago and I really needed a lifeboat.
A job just sort of came to me on Linkedin with very little effort and while it wasn't the best, it was what I needed at the time.

It's worth having a Linkedin profile, but it's car crash of a social network.
imagine node_modules with dozens of layers deep nesting. each write would have 10x or 20x amplification to update the parents.
> If every B/C/D wanted to be As, there would be no B/C/Ds to build things. And it's not always possible to choose to be an A.

1. Person A can be the person that actually builds the product (and often is).

2. It is always possible to be person A.
Wonderful topics. Lot of videos to watch. - Thanks to all the contributors.
You can dismiss it as such, but can you really deny that:

- Cryptocurrency uses tons of electricity

- Climate change is real and super bad

I would (obviously) rather have a livable Earth than cryptocurrency, and I don't think that's weird.
I'll believe Monero is traceable when someone claims any of the various bounties available for proving it.
I think many of us have tried our best to teach people about "shitcoins", but the greed and fantasy of riches has caused lots of people to buy Bitcoin copypastes.

The most recent round of dissapointment comes from blockchains being too expensive to use as write only databases, yet people using it for trivial means like crypto kitties.

I predict the next issue will again be unrelated to Bitcoin, but rather non POW coins getting hacked.
Because official policy is to use the original title as written by the authors, which in this case doesn’t mention Facebook at all.
The article should use "old" instead of "boring".

New tech can be borig too.

I think, the main reason people choose old tech is because they know it and don't have the time or the motivation to learn something new, even if the new tech is much better for their business.

And who can blame them? If you invested years to become an expert in a technology, it's hard to admit that something better comes along.
I’m more talking about less than or equal to 12 months. It takes months of investment of my company to train a new hire. At 12 months they’re likely just becoming an effective employee and the investment is starting to see returns.

Leaving early means the investment wasn’t worth it (compared to hiring someone who doesn’t job hop)
The amount of mental gymnastics in this comment is astounding.

I logged my thoughts here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1335634895826087938.html
No, I'm open to discussing it, I haven't decided, I've heard good arguments on both sides.

but, in my experience, most people that put "I'm open minded" in a self description are signaling they believe in certain specific policies and they are actually close minded about whether those policies are good or bad. They've already decided they are good and won't consider (have an open mind) to any suggestions otherwise.
I don't know of anywhere that allows "polyester fiber batts" as a component of insulation. You probably have fiberglass batts, which melt eventually but don't burn.

If the EPS (expanded polystyrene) is covered by fiberglass insulation and/or drywall, it will last sufficiently long for you to escape from a fire.
I had not considered that about the backpack. I'll look into a belt option.
Why, aren't GPUs pretty useful in training SVMs as well?
Fair enough, but the number of support vectors for non trivial problems is still pretty large (as I understand but could be wrong), e.g. 20-30% of the dataset. Having to iterate over 30% of say imagenet on each batch of predictions seems unfeasible.
It's worth pointing out that kube-proxy leverages NAT hard, as does the flannel CNI, iirc.
As far as I remember, those preventive measures were not in place back when hiding file extensions was introduced, which was either in 2001 with Windows XP or perhaps even earlier.
Ex council resident here.

This block was clad as part of the "warm safe and dry" initiative. This was funding provided by central government to make sure that council housing was energy efficient, resistant to both criminal and antisocial damage.

Also fixing roofs. You'd be surprised how many time roofs fail on council houses.

> The national government voted against banning this cladding

This isn't really true. They voted against a specific amendment that demanded that rented accommodation be fit for purpose. (Local councils have had the power to condemn accommodation, but they then have to re-house the tenants. its really complex.)

The scandal here is in three parts:

1) The people that inspect building regulations are paid for by the developers, and not by councils. So there is lots of "optionality" in an otherwise good set of rules

2) The fire ratings of materials appears to not be independently vetted. I'm not sure how they are vetted, but this is a massive failure in the entire system.

3) The firebrigade having shit kit, also failed to learn from larkenhall.

> ignored serious safety complaints from the residents

Local residents always complain about everything. I know because I used to be the vice chair of the Tenants and residents association. 25% of the time they are correct.

Grenfell has some interesting features:

1) it wasn't being managed by the local council. It was owned and run by a "TMO" this is quite common.

2) they appear to have added new flats, which subsidised the works, again quite common.

3) leaseholders were not billed for the repairs. This is very unusual. Normally they'd be liable for a pro-rated proportion of the total bill (ie if the building has 100 flats of the same size and 10million pounds spent, they would be liable for 100k) I was stung for 50 grand, others in my estate had bills of 70k+

This is not the first time that a block of flats has killed people because of shoddy work. What is unusual in this case is that according to the paper work, the work was done to the correct standard.

I felt this tragedy closely. As a fellow council resident, I know how easily it could have happened to me. Fortunately for us, we chose our house specifically with fire in mind (larkenhall fire having happened months before) I was lucky because I had a choice. If I had been a tenant, I'd have little choice.
I liked it when I went to Europe. I ran out of Euros and got some from a Bitcoin ATM at a university for less than the bank fee.

This was a few years ago, fees are probably higher now... Which negates your insistence that the technology is the value.
I'll take the bait:

How do you propose we do that, if all currently known systems of government are insufficient?
Interested to see how quickly you can completely destroy productivity and an economy with your policies. It just sounds like communism with extra steps.
From The Awesome Diem (formerly Libra) Page [1]:

Diem stems from the famous latin phrase 'Carpe Diem' translating to 'Enjoy the present, make the most of today', a common mistranslation is 'Seize the Day' (via Wiktionary)

Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". Diem is the accusative of dies "day". A more literal translation of carpe diem would thus be "pluck the day as it is ripe" - that is, enjoy the moment. It has been argued by various authors that this interpretation is closer to Horace's original meaning (via Carpe diem @ Wikipedia)

[1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-diem
No idea why you are downvoted.

Although the term is "inflation hedged asset"
Fire related deaths have been falling for decades in the UK so that system must be working.
Is software eating the world, or is the Star Trek computer not enough?
If at first you don't succeed, tou try again, again and again... until a significant percentage of your less technically savvy populace is interceptable.
I don't know, books were pretty good.

Too bad the capitalists came in and locked schools into pricey purchase agreements that required slick new books to be re-purchased every couple of years and started to drain our school budgets.
Win95 has MIME too in a bolted on sort of way. I think the only application is to associate them with a file extension so that email attachments via MAPI will get the right MIME type.
>"hey, do you mind if I go through your address book and contact all your friends and family and ask them to be my friend too? If you consent, say, 'what' or 'huh'"

At some point I spent some hours to investigate how they did it and trying to tell google (gmail) to not let Linkedin do it (again?). Not sure how much success I had. I think it is a mistake/problem of Google to allow such things.
It's hard to prioritize (and convince) "let PC sleep". The negative impact+workaround make it too easy to justify putting off.

The other fun part: what will making this change break?
Technology is such an embarrassment of riches! Highly promising environments like this are too numerous to keep track of. And nobody uses any of them.
In the context of this paper, you can think of the "gradient descent step" as optimizing the parameters of the kernel (i.e. the parameters that generate the kernel space). There are no explicitly optimality guarantees beyond those of standard gradient descent.

The "SVM step" would still find a global optima within the kernel space, but the qualifications of the previous step mean that the kernel space generated might be useless.
Money (at least in the US) is backed by the "full faith of the US Government" for whatever that is worth.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/145722-what-really-backs-th...

a lot of people like that crypto isn't backed by a gov, but i'd like to believe that most people would agree that the government has some intrinsic worth.
>it's hard to admit that something better comes along.

90% of the time it isn't better it just the latest fad. Remember NoSQL was the cool thing a few years back. Now my company is stuck on a shitty mongodb backend for what should be a relational database. We have kubernetes which causes a problems from time to time. We don't actually need to scale for the foreseeable future.
This is how I use coinbase. I have some Bitcoin for free and instant payments.

I'm not saying where most of my Bitcoin is.
True, but it sounds like you’re just shifting computation from training to inference. And I’m not sure that’s a very good trade off to make, you’re likely to predict on much more data than you trained on (e.g. ranking models at google, fb, etc)
What is the point of being person A if you don't get any benefit over person B/C/D? Why would anyone take on the extra work and risk of being the person that starts the business when you can just be the person that joins and effectively get the exact same things with 1. less work 2. less risk?
Count another vote for Sophie's World as a breezy introduction. Call it the root node of your tree search.
If the US or EU (etc.) valued their goods and services in BTC, banked in BTC, built monetary and foreign policy around BTC then you would be correct. It is all meaningless, and that's the definition of fiat.

What distinguishes one fiat from another is "do important people believe in it". There may come a day when that's true for cryptocurrencies, but that day is not today.

Further, I doubt it ever will come, because cryptocurrency's core scarcity hamstrings monetary policy. No competent government would ever accept such restrictions. This is a feature for cryptocurrency enthusiasts (digital gold bugs) but a huge shortcoming for everyone else.
The media replicating the study will not emphasise these weaknesses; they will instead go with the sensational speculation: A secret microwave weapon.

The purpose of the release of this sensational and unsubstantiated report is for the outgoing administration to box in the incoming Biden administration on foreign policy.

This will make it harder for Biden to normalise relations with Cuba.
What does the status of the person's account have to do with their comment?

It's remarkable to me what a low standard for evidence people have when it confirms their biases.
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Small claims can work with some companies, but others simply laugh at County Court Judgements.

Then once again you just have to actually follow through. Obviously a business can't just decide to ignore a court ruling against it and get away with it if you take steps to enforce. And if you don't want to, there are professional organisations who are experts in the relevant law and will act as your agent and take enforcement action of the appropriate type for your case.
Even without reading that, "electronic cash" seemed obvious to me when I first heard about bitcoin: I could see digital artists using it to sell commissions. Especially adult art, since PayPal has (had?) a tendency to kick them off the platform once they find out what's being sold.