skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the nation with the most lethal, best organized, and richest military in the region by orders of magnitude - the only military in the neighborhood with nuclear weapons, and invincible submarine-launched nuclear weapons at that - faces any sort of existential threat from anyone is a bad joke. That you see this "argument" so often only speaks to the effectiveness of a decades-long PR campaign, and not any reality.

Does Israel have enemies? Plenty, and justifiably so in many cases! But enemies and existential threats are not the same thing. There is no existential threat to Israel, certainly not any in the form of a foreign aggressor. Anyone even considering becoming a serious existential threat to Israel has to contend with the reality of attempting to get rid of it militarily, assuming they could even come close to doing so: the inevitable (and probably immediate) annihilation, Dr. Strangelove-style, of the entire region in retaliatory nuclear strikes. Israel has militarily guaranteed its continued existence, and wagging our fingers at each other on the internet cannot change anything about it.

If anything, with an arsenal like that, you wonder whether other countries in the neighborhood might ask whether Israel is an existential threat to them. Who could tell them they're wrong?
But doesn't this discourage discussion?
Unfortunately Autocode doesn’t use graphql
"Fuck the ethics, most people won't even find out" - T-Mobile
Let's all use YYYY-DD-MM until they free the standard.
There was a time when you could plug any old RSS feed into your facebook account. I had my posts from del.icio.us, flickr, and twitter all going to facebook with that feature. It was glorious, until facebook unceremoniously ripped it out.

I look at that event as the time when facebook went from a neutral entity to a malevolent one.
Buzzfeed has some legit straight-news reporting though that have had some good scoops the past few years.

But yes most of it is clickbait
Yep we’re running our API at work in a lambda behind API gateway.

It’s “interesting”
How Web Scraping Is Revealing Lobbying and Corruption in Peru (2016)
How do you square this:

> You can’t share a Zapier integration universally.

With then plugging Autocode? How is an Autocode integration any more universal than a Zapier one?

Also, how are you building the code for the various integrations Autocode supports? Is there some underlying interlingua that you codegen from?
I bet you 50 euros that I could pay a random homeless person or drug addict to go buy a basic android phone with SIM card and service at retail. The sort of people who are running drug smuggling and middle/end-retail distribution operations have access to lots of such persons.

'smurfing' methodologies are well known.
The original post is about Israel espionage including blackmailing gay people. My comment is relevant and on topic.
GoogleFi still uses the T-Mobile network. I suspect that without a way for MVNOs to have a way for their customers to log into the T-Mobile page to opt-out, the data sharing is still in effect.

On MintSim, myself.
Why especially? Pointing out that the long term value of the stock is $0 while selling it is what makes it moral IMO.

If I sell my broken car while clearly noting that it’s broken, hat makes it ok, not worse than if I’d left it out.

Do you hold this view for sellers of hertz stock that aren’t hertz? What about sellers of stock that bought the stock post bankruptcy?
I think some people are missing the point when comparing this to a traditional VM setup. Yes it is way more expensive, but it lets you deploy something that works in 10 minutes vs messing with VMs and auto-scaling groups and all that jazz.

If you are a GCP or AWS or bare metal expert that can set this thing up in their sleep, that's great but the majority of people can really benefit from a PaaS like GCR.

Because Cloud Run uses vanilla Docker containers, once you have validated the idea you can move to GKE or VMs or a server under your desk or whatever. And if it never takes off, that's fine too because you didn't spend a ton of time investing in making it work.

Ahmet if you are reading this (hi) it would be REALLY cool to see something like using GKE for the base load and dynamically bursting to GCR to fill in the gaps. Not sure if this possible with GCLB today, but would be super cool.

(Disclaimer: I used to work on this team at Google.)
Used to play this game where we'd ask the interviewer to "go deeper" on how something worked to see where there limits of their technical understanding was. Depending on the level expected (eg junior vs senior) you could expect certain depth.

Eg: "Tell me what happens when you type an address into your browser bar"

Someone junior might say "You type in the address, it fetches HTML from their server, and your browser shows it" -- "go deeper" -- "Their server uses HTTP or something.." etc..

Someone senior might get to something like "Well when you press the first 'w' key it triggers a hardware interrupt ..."
or more likely something about TCP/IP and the rest of the network stack...
Let's not make this more complicated than it is though.

The focus on my post is house edge and how you can't beat it. Many people put up a lot of money on games of chance without understanding this basic idea.

If you do understand this, then go head and proceed to examine how you can still make a trip to the casino pay off.

If you don't understand this, then it's counter-productive to skip it and get right into making money with casino comps, etc.
Beware Burnout
Not any application, the operation is “convert this thing i am dragging into text” for which the result is obvious.
So I don't quite get it. Is the station a metaphor for them having died and are in some kind of purgatory?
I find it fascinating how okay you are with your employer tracking you. We aren’t to the life contract part of the dystopia yet, quit trying to skip ahead and give away your freedom so easily
> The reality is at some point you have to move past history to make the best decision now. It's neither moral nor practical to uproot or kill the people currently living in Israel because the original settlement was wrong or misguided.

Indeed. No one in the right mind would suggest that the European settlers that colonized North America should go home. However, we very much expect them to treat the remaining Native Americans that they didn't exterminate as equals and also to recognize that a genocide took place.

Israel was founded in much the same way. In 1948, 80% of all Palestinians in what became Israel were driven into exile by Jewish forces. They were prevented from returning while Israel confiscated their property and handed it over to Jewish immigrants. "In Israel, only Jews have a right to return" Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed.

To this date, Israel still doesn't allow the Palestinian refugees to return while granting every Jew in the world the privilege of settling in Israel. Israel has not even considered compensating the Palestinians that it ethnically cleansed and whose property it stole.

I think your misconception of the conflict is that it is "all in the past". It is not. 50% of all Palestinians live in exile, unable to visit their homeland. A large fraction of those live in refugee camps or are destitute and dependent on UNRWA for subsistence. Gaza is an open air prison and the underemployment rate is approaching 80%. In the West Bank, extremist Jewish settlers harass Palestinians daily and more and more settlements are being built. In Israel, Palestinians are treated as second-class citizens and explicitly condemned as a threat to the state by leading politicians.
Cloud Run uses docker containers, so the code can very easily be the same.

I'd put a server app up behind a cloud run endpoint, sure, as long as it can fit in a few GBs and start in a few 100 ms. The scale-to-0 aspect is nice, and the scale up aspect is nice too.
Historically European "grand plan" computing pushes don't work. It's great to try.

Anyone else worked through 5th generation, the Alvey report and the MITI catchup?

What does work is sustained organic investment in fundamental science and an environment which stimulates SME.

Its the transition to world scale which seems to defeat European initiated planning.
I'm going to go against what the majority of people have said here at this point in time. I am currently undertaking a Masters and I love it.

Each subject is like a small window into a deep research area.

I've become aware of TLA+, Paxos, Raft, distributed algorithms in general, branchless programming, how to implement various compiler optimizations, etc. I'm okay within these fields, I still have a lot to learn, as I said before the subjects have only been windows into much deeper fields/topics.

I'm not saying that you wont eventually come across these things without a Masters but it helps accelerate the time it takes.

I can gladly say that my programming skills have increased substantially as a result of my Masters.

For you, I cannot give any specific advice unfortunately, since I do not have that much knowledge on GPU programming. I know enough that that field is quite math heavy.

I hope this helps in making a more informed decision. Feel free to ask me any other questions.

My experience is at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Hornsdale power reserve derives most of it's revenue from selling ancillary services, it does not provide energy. Hornsdale's success is not foreshadowing a battery revolution unfortunately.

The reason nuclear costs so much is because we've stopped building plants. There's no industry anymore, let alone economies of scale. It's a fallacious argument to say it costs too much. If we went all in on nuclear to tackle climate change the costs would quickly collapse. After all, they were built in the 70s and dramatically decarbonized the industry at the time.
Well actually it's pretty easy. I know the difference between Ensemble average and Time average. I can see that EUT is using Ensemble average in place of Time average and is therefore wrong.

If you want to determine who is right that is all you need to know.

To simplify this for you, if you saw someone who in their maths equations swapped mean and median averages and told you that their maths usually gives the right answer. What would you think?

"how can you possibly so sure of yourself because the maths looks good to you?" Because I know for certain.

"Especially when experts are saying" A nobel prize winning physicist has signed their name on it (Previous paper in the line).

Now do you really think the nobel prize winning physicist is wrong or some annoyed economists on twitter are wrong?
To me (and a lot of other people), most ADHD diagnosis is clearly not something that should be medicated, especially at such young ages. So this is not a general anti-medication bias, but something that is specifically related to ADHD, and how it is over-diagnosed and over-medicated.
If people commit murder using tools they have available, once you have enough users, it is inevitable people will use your service or medium to commit murder. It’s true to Facebook, it’s true for taxis, it’s true for screwdrivers, it’s true for hotels, it’s true for pretty much anything.

Unless something has clearly been designed to cause problems this way, it’s just blaming the tool instead of the user.
> But he acknowledged at the report's launch that it was still unclear whether this would involve offering tax cuts to woo TSMC, Samsung or another major player to establish a new site within Europe.

Sounds like it'll be another half-assed EU project that won't amount to anything meaningful. They should be looking at home-growing talent (research labs, universities, programs) and rebuilding the European industry (joint partnerships, funding, subisidies, etc.), instead of relying on overseas companies for such a crucial and strategic issue.
That's a little harsh.

Rust uses Github, but could easily switch to a self-hosted platform if Microsoft became opposed to Rust's goals; (and yes, Microsoft is a Rust sponsor, but not an essential one). Cargo has support for alternate registries built in.

Some of community is on Reddit and Discord, but most technical discussion takes place on Discourse and Zulip. The official "user questions" forum is a Discourse instance.
Most subcommunities forming around Rust projects use Zulip instances.

The Rust community uses proprietary services when convenient, but it's hardly dependent on them.
Why leave out the cost of fossil fuel power sources throughout history?

And deaths caused by fossil fuel emissions which is in the tens of thousands per year.

Fukushima and Chernobyl combined are a tiny fraction of FF emissions/deaths/costs.
Yes. I was looking for an answer along the lines of a particular model from Telit/whoever. I'd rather use the external micro to control the module with AT commands.
> It's sad how many people here are supporting Israel's war crimes and colonization of Palestine. It's a country that was created in 1948 on top of existing people. They continue to commit human rights violations and expansion of territory.

I'm sure you know this but Israel was there long before Palestine existed; Israel was colonised by Islamists in the middle ages, it's the Palestinians that are the invaders.
If you haven't already, take a look at the detectron2 models and tutorials, especially the colab they have. It is a great way to get started.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2
fire for cause, file a police report depending on what the photos are, and support the victims
Agreed. That's why they're called "paywall" even though cheap.
> I guess it depends on how you define easy. Some may define it as amount of work required, I tend to think as chance of success.

I'm not sure if the chances of success are any higher for getting into a medical school in the US. As a one-shot thing, a FAANG interview loop may be tougher, but there are a lot of big tech companies and you can keep trying your luck. I think Amazon alone has like 50K software engineers, they churn engineers like crazy and the hiring bar isn't quite as high as some of the others. Whereas if your undergraduate credentials aren't good enough or you simply don't do well on standardized exams, you're kind of out of luck in terms of getting into a US medical school. I could be overestimating the difficulty of getting into the least competitive medical school in the US, but my understanding is that they are all pretty difficult, leading many people to go to a medical school in the Caribbean.
It literally says "Authors listed in alphabetical order." right in the paper.

I just don't get some HN assertions...
I think it's correct...

https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/triggering/websockets says:

"Since Cloud Run supports concurrent connections (up to 250 per container)..."
"WebSockets requests are treated as long-running HTTP requests in Cloud Run."
The problems with 23:59:59.9999 etc are aliasing and granularity issues, i.e. breaks and overlaps when used as intervals or inequalities, and the consequences may be anything from innocuous (calendar alarms) to catastrophic (financial reporting).

Firstly, users tend to write them as 23:59:59 or even 23:59. When used as a query, this can skip a second or even a minute of data.

Secondly, 00:00:00.0000 can match the first moment of tomorrow, which may also be wrong, and happens readily when timestamped data is imported from systems with per-second granularity.

Finally, these forms constrain any internal representation, which cannot now ever evaluate to 23:59:59.99995 lest we suffer the same category of fault. This'd limit a standard library's timestamp object to a precision of 10μs, which is pretty coarse for many timing needs.

The proper form, that is, the ideal mathematical representation, is an interval with a closed left/lower bound and an open right/upper bound. That's written like

[00:00:00.0000, 00:00:00.000+1day) or equivalently

{ t | 00:00:00.0000 <= t < 00:00:00.0000+1day }

and can be pronounced "all times from and including midnight onwards, until (but strictly excluding) midnight the next day". These half-open intervals correspond advantageously to the continuously linear assumptions of chronometric time, with two properties of critical relevance: they can be recorded via commonplace machine representations of timestamps; and, they may be compared, subdivided, and concatenated without inadvertent breaks and overlaps. These qualities eliminate most aliasing & granularity concerns.

Some (sadly not all) programming languages have such a construct available in their standard library.

I think there's a paper by Lamport recommending this form, although I couldn't find it in a quick rummage through the archives.
You're half-right - we have a specification called FunctionScript [0] that can act as what's basically a universal translation layer for any API. You just generate a proxy to it using FunctionScript. So it's possible to add GraphQL APIs to our stdlib, it's just not convenient right now. All of Shopify is a GQL API, for example.

The reason we don't support GQL APIs natively is because we designed Autocode to follow the best practices of the top API companies we knew; Twilio and Stripe. Both companies designed their SDKs in a way that feels natural: a call to their API is achieved via a namespaced function call -- it's very Railslike. Everything available in our stdlib follows that convention as we felt it was the most intuitive approach to API / SDK design.

[0] https://github.com/FunctionScript/FunctionScript
This isn't a theoretical exercise. I have demonstrated to friends how the Martingale strategy doesn't work in online casinos. The strategy is alluring because the strategy can (but won't always) "work" for hours of play, then then you eventually get hit with an event which wipes you out. Give someone an hour where it works, and they're convinced.
Love the product, but the site also has a wonderful cookie notification. So much better than a huge banner.
One of the biggest use cases presently is SARS-COV-2 tracing to figure out who needs to be notified they were in proximity for X-time of someone with COVID-19.
Leapfrogging
I’m reminded of the Mexican film ‘El incidente’, probably available on Netflix in your region.
Sounds fun! Could you elaborate on the “interesting” part a bit more?
as a software developer who is constantly frustrated by ambiguous and confusing datetime representations, i'm really glad that your 24:00 display isn't in the spec. that's exactly the sort of thing that leads to bloated specs and programmers complaining about what a PITA dates are.

sure, your use case sounds valid. but that doesn't mean it needs to be part of the standard or implemented by everybody else. it's the sort of thing that should be implemented by the people who need it and that nobody else has to think about.
It really comes down to how it's used. As another commenter pointed out, any company using badges to swipe into doors can track your movements. Most cameras are positioned near entry doors, exteriors, or public areas as it is. The main difference here is the amount of information collected on an unauthorized entrant, and the fact that maybe badge-borrowing doesn't go unnoticed anymore.

I really doubt Cloudflare is the type of company to be tracking where each employee is and whether they are taking too many bathroom breaks. It's definitely an area abuse is possible, but probably not an area it's likely in Cloudflare's case.
I own reolink and amcrest cameras. I put them in a vlan with no outside connectivity (and frankly no inside either!). They try to call home constantly :-(
Cloudflare sells security to people. If you don’t want to work at a company that has security requirements like that, don’t work there. Lots of people choose to donate their fingerprints, facial data, life history, and polygraphs to work for the government. That’s their choice to make.
Taiwan was quite successful with the policies they implemented to home-grow a semiconductor industry:

https://www.nap.edu/read/10677/chapter/9

The entire chapter is interesting, but it also mentions how TSMC came to be:

> The government came to realize that it did not yet have an industry—only one company. The private sector was still fearful of risk and could not raise enough money to start new firms. Once again the government put up money, this time to start TSMC. And this time it applied a condition: The government’s share would be less than 50 percent. Lacking enough funds from the private sector, the government made an offer to Philips, which put in almost 35 percent of the initial investment; this pushed the private sector’s share above 50 percent, and TSMC was born. Again, the technology and all the people came from ERSO, including about 130 engineers, the 2-micron CMOS developed at ERSO, and its latest 6-inch-wafer fab. TSMC had no product, only the fab technology, which matched well with the idea of a pure-play foundry.

I don't get why Europe is so bad at this kind of thing.
If you are in a secure area, like a server room for example, it's perfectly normal for there to be badged entry, cameras everywhere etc. There will also be signs everywhere telling you this.

If it's really secure there will be monitoring of all entrances, including corridors. (And there will still occasionally be people successfully tailgating, usually for perfectly innocent reasons like forgetting their badges at their desks etc. Real security is all sorts of fun.)
That's pretty cynical and optimistic at the same time.

Cynical because it doesn't acknowledge the value that a well functioning and regulated financial system can create. Efficient flow of capital only sounds bad if you haven't seen the absence of it, like projects failing for lack of funding while bad ones are burning money.

Optimistic for thinking that the masses have anything approaching the same level of access. I was hoping anyone with fintech experience could chime in disabuse others of this, but the masses don't have anything. It's depressing to watch so many people (on average) just destroying their savings while they're young and can make the biggest impact on their future savings.
Are you interested in academic work/research? If yes, I think a M.Sc suits you. And perhaps continue till you get a PhD.

If not, hmm probably not. You can learn most of practical knowledge via Udemy/Coursera/YouTube etc these days. And by books as well. I assume taking a M.Sc is not cheap, as well.

I know some people take M.Sc not because their jobs require graduate degree, or so they can brag "hey I have a master degree in bla bla bla". No. They simply enjoy the learning process, having their mind challenged. More power to them :)
I would honestly be okay with a toggle that lets me see multiple filter bubbles and echo chambers.

like

"here's YOUR tailored ads for the three companies in your niche that you already knew about" (this is what currently happens to me)

and

"here is the default unfiltered ad space so you can stay connected with whats happening in the world"

and

"here is somebody else's filter bubble, ssssh! they don't know that people don't think like them nor that people have completely different news and ads and explanations in their own filter bubbles!"
I wonder if this is to make it more inline with a traditional internship, I believe that's about how long my internships were.
When you say increasing the level of indention ... do you have an example handy? I’m working on a pdf / data (word, excel, docx, csv), tool at the moment, and I think it’s pretty robust to things like this.