skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I wonder. I've opened "thank you" issues before, and wondered "how much will this annoy the owner/watchers?" For anyone tasked with maintaining a repo, any email notification of new issues must come with a certain level of dread. At least that's what it's like for me, even if I sincerely appreciate and enjoy receiving issues!

I do, then, immediately close "thank you" issues so owners are not tasked with responding in any way, but still... And for any watcher, I imagine they are interested in notifications relevant to actual issues, not thank yous.

My opinion is the current best way to say thank you is probably a star. Beyond that, it would be nice if GitHub added a way to leave a thank you or testimonial or something like that. Or even a formal "the repo is in use by such and such app/company."
Facebook's ad targeting is inaccurate – does it matter?
So .. it is not easy to get into this field. From the outside we tend to see DNA as some freestanding thing that fascinates us. The biology people intertwine DNA with everything they do. The route to knowing about this stuff therefore goes via learning about biology first. One of my favorite books, Molecular Biology of the Cell, covers DNA thoroughly.. by spending time on it on almost every of its 1300 pages. But it is all in between "the rest of biology". In a way I can understand this of course, but it is very very hard work.
And what's worse is that if an American has a joint account e.g. with their (European) spouse in Europe, strictly speaking the bank shouldn't release information on that account as it violates privacy laws, which is part of the reason European banks aren't keen to hold accounts for US citizens.
The method works. The only open question is clockwise or counter-clockwise?

[p.s. I've gotten good result with elongated ovals too, btw. The main feature seems to be that the body is "going back to where one started". This seems to help the thinking process.]
Good way to get results that are almost but not quite verbatim copied, which are still restricted under copyright law.
Think of how difficult it would be to identify or classify anything at the data scale of "all of google". You can parse that into tokens and calculate aggregate relationships, but that's about it.

You can use gpt-2/3 to determine whether it's generated text is "original vs copycat" to a degree by changing the prompt. This is currently more of an art than a science
Absolutely nothing about our march into the future has made things more local. I'm going to need more evidence to believe this will be any different.
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Apenwarr shares thoughts on system design, career paths, products, and innovation versus disruption.
TikTok seems particularly vulnerable to MLM schemes, given its focus on highlighting content beyond a user's social circle. Combined with their younger user base mentioned in the article, it seems clear that TikTok has a lot of good reasons to tackle MLMs.

Claiming that the internet is turning on MLMs seems like hyperbole though - Facebook has been around for a long time and is still a decent platform for MLMs.
It is not excessive, if one operates a drone recklessly with no regards for air traffic over a busy city… well, that behavior is endangering many.

As far as I am concerned, he is no better than someone who tries to blind pilots with a laser pointer (and there's precedent for that):

> Interfering with the operation of an aircraft is a crime punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

(Source: fbi.gov)

Kudos to the FAA for nipping that in the bud.
Price discovery always fixes this problem.

The problem is how long price discovery takes is never known.

But one is certain, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent trying to await that price discovery to finally happen.
I feel like every 2nd man on planet earth bought TSLA at this point.
When they did a 5to1 split, the price just doubled, giving birth to around 250bn$, just like that. Seemingly without anything significant happening around Tesla.
I cant help but think that people only want more, and the amount of people who feel the same way are reached another peak. The last time splitting has this big of an effect on the price, was in the dot com bubble.
I hope I'm wrong.
> Ultraviolet radiation is a common method of killing bacteria and viruses. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University have proven that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, can be killed efficiently, quickly and cheaply using ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) at specific frequencies.

> “We discovered that it is quite simple to kill the coronavirus using LED bulbs that radiate ultraviolet light,” said Prof. Hadas Mamane, head of the Environmental Engineering Program at Tel Aviv University's School of Mechanical Engineering, who led the study with Prof. Yoram Gerchman and Dr. Michal Mandelboim.

> She said that the UV-LED bulbs require less than half a minute to destroy more than 99.9% of the coronaviruses.
The study is the first of its kind in the world. An article about it was published earlier this month in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.[0]

~[0] ; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101113442...
Most countries don't tax their citizens abroad though, so there's no real necessity to give up citizenship.

The US charges far more to give up citizenship than most other countries, and requires you to pay any outstanding tax before you can do so. For some people that is just not possible. What exactly are they supposed to do now that they can't access any financial services?
Many yarns ago I completed a CS minor. I had been coding since early high school so aced the programming courses. The last requirement was 200 level Math dept. "Algebra" or 300 level ECE 'Discrete Math.' Ruined my 4.0 in the minor and to this day I still can't fathom why such a class was a requirement (though CS was in the math dept at the time).

As I recall, the emphasis was primarily on graph theory with no applications. Maybe its nice to have for a undergrad CS major but even there I wonder what percentage will go on to actually need/use such material? I suspect it is fairly niche.
To release and sell my open source mqtt debugger https://github.com/theolampert/Rush and work on an Android version of my most popular app Packrat.
By a widely used and recommended undergraduate level book used in universities and read it.

Concepts of Genetics, 12th Edition (2019)
https://www.pearson.com/store/p/concepts-of-genetics/P100000...
I do walk when talking to people on the phone. I think it's because my brain approach communication as a problem to solve u_u;
I thought the star button was a convenient way to keep track of projects you're interested in.

> is it really considered so unusual for a someone to express gratitude to an open-source project?

I would say yes, it's very unusual. The general lack of basic civility is, in my opinion, just one more reason for the lack of diversity in projects and lowers the number of contributors to open source.
Both the J&J and moderna vaccines can be stored at much warmer temperatures. Pfizer likely can as well but they haven’t done the testing to verify that yet.

I’m not saying that AZ’s stocks of vaccine are going to be thrown out by any measure.
>On a wider note, my guess is that it would be healthy for the open source community at large to practice more gratitude.

I try my part to give kudos, where possible. Most of my kudos are around getting questions answered and problems solved, in venues like SO.

I tend to avoid using dependencies. When I do use them, I often try to share use cases, and spread the word.

The obverse, is that, when I find something to be unsuitable, or bad (in a totally subjective way), I generally don't bitch about it. I just leave it alone, and look for something else.

I am very hard on myself; but it isn't helpful for me to apply that to others.
Twitter is where members of the media are given special status (blue checks) and they generally use it as a tool for self promotion.

Facebook has gained huge shares of advertising revenue once owned by said members of the media.
> Does this imply there is a cloud abstract layer that should come

crossplane.io comes closest afaik

> And is k8s the simplest possible abstraction? And if not - what is?

If you are asking about the simplest possible abstraction for container scheduling and orchestration, then I believe Nomad from HashiCorp or Docker Swarm are simpler. As for managed solutions with wide adoption in all types of environments and the largest investment to date, I am not aware of anything on par with K8S.
Okay, I've probably included an exclamation mark after a "thanks", but that's a very different usage than "I find this outrageous!" which is more like "I'm shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!"
You're arguing the wrong point. I wasn't arguing that he shouldn't get fined, I'm arguing that $182,000 was excessive.
> Interfering with the operation of an aircraft is a crime punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

(Source: fbi.gov)

What he did is comparable, imho.
resuming backup after network has disappeared for a while or after sleep is problematic and mostly impossible to do in an atomic way.

If you have enough local storage, I'd put a local backup process (restic/borg/bup), and then rclone/rsync your backup repository to remote storage.

If you don't have enough local storage, you can restic or bup to a remote server reliably as long as you can complete one scan. On my laptop with a 256GB SSD, a common restic scan with cold caches takes less than 15 minutes; an hourly backup is a few hundred megs, a daily backup is often close to 2 gigs, depends on how many files you have, and how many (and how much) of them change.

Alternatively, you can do an rsync-based snapshot.
GPT-2 was trained with a Dropout of 0.1, which gives it a bit more resilience to noise and unusual input versus no Dropout.
thats how firebase does it. It's quite impossible to have proper pagination on realtime results, that's why I believe they used this approach: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/query-...
I feel like dawn of war 3 commited StarCraft suicide, they scrapped almost everything that made the dawn of war series great and replaced it with a more "StarCraft like" gameplay to cater to a larger audience, instead of evolving what they had from dow1 and 2, making it a mediocre sc2 :(
I think we should build complexity using sort of adversarial system, where things compete like in Nature.

The great lakes is a complex eco system. I remember when Zebra mussels first appeared in the Great Lakes. Tens of articles appeared, how this was an epic natural disaster, that would kill the Great Lakes Eco system, because Zebra mussels would eat all the food.
Now decades later, it turns out that Zebra mussels are great at filter feeding, and have thrived. But this also cleared up the water greatly. To the point that the lakes can look almost tropical, ocean clear, on sunny summer days.

Which is probably great for all kinds of plants that now thrive on the extra sunshine reaching deeper down.
It seems like the system just rearranged itself, and new opportunities appeared for some other plants to thrive.
The one feature this has that I am missing in the Duplo set is the ability to choose if the train should go left or right with the "snaps"/programming. The quality look much worse than the Duplo set though. Also really missing USB rechargeable batteries.
"There was also posted proof of the pilot intentionally losing radio signal, and control, of his drone."

I wish there were an exception for this. Likely the drone had programmed waypoints and was in an autonomous mode.

I remember hearing about attempts (back in the 80's?) to send a self-piloting model airplane across the Atlantic. I believe they finally succeeded? Fascinating to me. Utterly illegal I suppose.

But weather balloons get pass? I know amateurs launch balloons as well — perhaps there are restrictions however (like not near an airport, etc.).

Just some random thoughts.

EDIT, found a successful crossing in 2003, I thought there was an earlier one — perhaps only earlier failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Butts%27_Farm

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/model-plane-f...
> from stagnant businesses holding on to dear life to the quick and nimble

It's not "the quick and the nimble," it's the connected and the too-big-to-fail. Our local Mexican restaurant which used to host salsa dancing every Friday and Saturday was doing a thriving business until they were ordered to close for indoor dining. Meanwhile Target, Home Depot, and the Amazon warehouses are allowed to remain open (essentials, donchaknow), and other giant corporations which might otherwise have been in trouble, like the airlines, will be allowed to borrow whatever they need at 0% interest rates to last until the lockdowns are lifted.
Are you certain the slackers are the problem? And not the management?

Some people are very good self starters, they set the structure for their own work, find new challenges, and execute. Though these folks often don’t enjoy the day-in-day-out work. Other people thrive in structure, with lots of good process and stand ups where they see how they contribute regularly. They don’t work well in a vacuum.

Regardless, a team of all self starters isn’t sustainable. And you will need great people who execute well in a structure. If the structure is in place it’s obvious on a regular basis if they’re meeting expectations.

When I was in management, I came close to thinking we should let a colleague go because they weren’t a “self starter” like me. Only to have that person save our company’s bacon once they had a more structured role. They actually wanted more accountability (cause they want to feel their impact). And by giving them more structure, instead of suffocating them, it actually liberated them.
I am not claiming that upper-case is more readable in general. I know the practice to write SQL keywords in upper-case and I find it more readable. From https://stackoverflow.com/a/608201/7714279 "You can easily separate the keywords from table and column names, etc." However, it's a choice. Some people rely for code highlighting but this gets messy if we write SQL code inside Python code. This is especially where this library comes to lend a hand
The sociopath thing is just text classification, you could do that now without gpt-3. Video data would be significantly more difficult to model because it doesn't follow a simple set of rules like written language does
“not every 'close door' button...is a placebo, and until we have more scientific surveys done, we can't be sure how prevalent they are”, but in the meantime we can write click bait headlines that appear to be statements of fact.
Fix the dependencies story in what concerns Ruby and Python.

Native binaries can easily do with static linking (fix glibc or replace it with proper libc like musl).

Other platforms are doing quite fine without containers.
> Unprecedented liquidity of the money supply is giving any individual or business access to $$ to invest, spend, etc. It's unequal, but it's there and it's driving the economy right now.

It is not driving the economy. That's the problem that is being addressed by the continuing printing of money to issue bonds. The banks have every incentive to lend, but they don't. Why? You can see that the banks have a rather simple calculation.

Make money via:

* Lend small amounts to people at a relatively low rate who have an unqualified risk value due to covid and justify the administration of that loan that might get written off at 50% value. Profit, hopefully.

* Buy some sub 1% bonds. Profit a little.

* Buy equities (like mortgages) that are the most reliable (of the other unreliable lending) payoffs. Profit...until people start losing their housing and properties all at once. The govt helps indemnify against this a bit, but in the end of the day you get your inflated property if the little people can't tough it out.

* Buy stocks (like their own) because of the massive debt bubble inflating tech and financial stock portfolios that grow as the massive bond purchases prop it up (every company tries to diversify by buying a couple million here and there). Profit.

* others that are not lending related...

> (3) We're witnessing one of the greatest wealth transfers in the history of our country,

Yes, for the reasons listed. Small banks are doomed. Even credit unions are combining.

> 4) ...resulting in massive dislocation of where dollars flow to residential and commercial real estate.

I'm not sure why you were so vague. Residential real estate has been inflated and commercial real estate has cratered.

These trends will continue as long as there are covid fears and lockdowns. The economy is already so damaged, it will not recover in our lifetime and will likely result in an alternative currency...that is also strictly controlled by the central banks, of course.

YMMV
Basically, completely reversing course:

1) Focusing on the winners (FAANG and those that sell shovels to the gold miners)

2) Momentum driven companies where tons of liquidity is flowing to (TSLA etc)
I think it is important to grok that what people today consider 'investing' is what most not that many years ago considered 'highly speculative trading.'
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Yes, I have no way of knowing if that’s the reason why I haven’t been contacted by banks or the US but I assume it’s a good possibility. They probably just scan a list of names with birthdates. Unless you’ve already reported being a US citizen then they probably have an easy way of contacting you.
That is cool, but tangential to the question posed above - given that every part of surveiliance capitalism is currently working against my interest, either to sell me something I dont need, to inflienxe the way I vote, etc. Will the simulation of my brain belong to a megacorp, and be used to do even more damage?
hterm just base64-encodes the file with some metadata and escape codes around it: https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter...
lol no. not at all what that level of government is set up to do
Similarly, I got a shoutout/tag on a PR that used some of my code. It made my day, and made me assume that the org the engineer works in must be a pretty good place to work.
> right action

If a fight is required, 'energy-draining', 'needless' or 'counterproductive' would be more appropriate adjectives than 'right'.
Yeah, ideally you'd use an active placebo (same side effects as the active drug) but that's hard to do well and presumably wasn't a priority.
One bit might be a bit less than people would like to express a large range of human emotions arising in a large range of circumstances.
Ocean water already contains 4 billion tons of uranium: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/gorin2/
What aircraft did he interfere with? It will surely be visible on that aircraft's path. Let's see?

In actual reality he didn't even attempt to interfere, not by choice nor by accident. There wasn't any other aircraft. Even supersonic aircraft can be seen early enough to land the drone.
Unilateral kindness in the face of unkindness, is the key here I think. Read the four paragraphs following the graphs in your AnandTech link and square that interpretation with your own. Yes I did notice that the OP wrote 9i and in the context of the thread I knew exactly what they were referring to. A charitable interpretation is a typo or autocorrect while typing on a mobile device, maybe from someone who has written about Oracle 9i before.
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
I think that's a reasonable conclusion, yeah. Optimization for virality as the bottom line is a disaster.
wow having this kind of mindset would probably have left us in the stone age.
Its amazing that such a sober take on the issue is getting downvoted without a single counterargument
When logging in with GitHub, it asks for the following permissions:

* Verify your GitHub identity

* Know which resources you can access

* Act on your behalf

What does the last one mean, and why is it needed?
Empty pages and blogs for self described "contrarians". The irony is delicious meanwhile multi MB (gasp!) javascript downloads are running the global economy.
Grid attached solar doesn't work without something buffering production.

Batteries, pumped storage, conventional power stations, things that benefit hugely from scale.

Even if solar was free, the sun still goes down, the clouds still come out.
I wonder how different the world would be if it was something that could simply be resold.

Of course, that would probably result in the end of it being acquired by birth ...
the shift from a asynchronous communications (email) to real-time chat (slack/teams) may have led to a significant reduction in "thinking things through"

Writing an email or a SO question has a pretty significant upfront investment and requires clearer articulation, whereas real-time chat seems to lead to shallow enquiry.

In other words with real-time chat, the recipient has become the rubber duck.
How about speeding tickets then? Speeders certainly endanger many. Would you argue that a $182,000 speeding ticket isn't excessive either? If not, what's the differentiator in your opinion?
I ran an experiment through GPT-3 with just that frame: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments/tree/master/e...
Slashdotted, anyone got an archive?
Yes. In other crisis you could argue that people over extended themselves or for greedy. Here a lot of small business are going to get wiped off through no fault of their own. Politicians have not helped