skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'd argue that both are incapable, you can't teach experience. Junior Googlers are just more "dangerous" as they probably start their career on bigger problems and share with the average a similar set of "unknown unknowns".

Enterprise languages, like Java and Go (in contrast to Scala or Perl) are designed to keep people on rails. This can be accomplished by for example, limiting the number of ways a problem can be solved by the primitives of the language.

This is why the "most fast and break things" paradigm at Facebook didn't align with me. They basically announced that they're not concerned about these rails. Not to say it's a bad approach, FB is a very successful software company, just one that doesn't align with _my_ values. I think they've since moved away from this.
> no, no, no, no, no

Confirmed Strassen thinks the lower bound is n^2.32192809489.
If there are more companies wouldn't the quality of those companies get watered down and so would the value of networking?

Even just 'networking' doesn't always have value.
I use "Coffee, Instant, Type II"
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You can't trap cold air where there is none.

A better comparison to the hot and humid gulf coast than Mediterranean climates is Singapore, which benefits from density as a matter of necessity, and tons of air conditioning.
>or have been picked up by satellite imagery

>The forthcoming report is to be issued by the defense department and intelligence agencies.

It's 2021. I'm forever done with stories showing low resolution UFOs wobbling about. Will the public actually get defense grade, ultra high-resolution satellite images of UFOs or is this just another "report" saying something was caught on the lens of their 20 year old weather satellite?
Yes! I worked at a well-known regional company about 15 years ago and we built one of these ourselves. It would track servers, software, packages, etc... You could quickly see which web servers were running which versions of .Net and then drill into the applications which had their own tagging to specific .Net versions. Then you'd have a clear picture of the opportunity/costs/consequences of upgrading the version on that machine.

I'm interested in this type of system for my current job and I can't find anything on the market.
I always wondered why religious pilgrimages and retreats where so common back in the history. The motivation is often some sort of healing. Sunshine, Mountain or Forest air is described in literature as things to seek when sick. Just curious if for example molds found in forest air, might play a similar function. Or perhaps being in close contact being exposed to bacteria from other people. Or if viruses can swap genetic code, is there some pathway through which our immune system can import antibodies or genetic information from other people we are in contact with through pheromones to boost its own defences. Perhaps its the drinking of water from new sources along the journey that has benefits. Why does fiji water taste so much better than other waters.
> I abhor smart wifi devices (Z-wave and Zigbee only)

Are you saying you are only OK with Z-wave and Zigbee?
Thanks for the feedback. I agree.
This reminds me somewhat of Project Ara[0], that modular phone project Google was looking into. Interesting to see a similar concept (albeit more niche) being built out further, especially since it's not tied to any major company. Looks quite cool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
Having used this trick before, it's fine. You get the uniqueness property of a set, but no easy way to do set operations, so it's not necessarily that useful.
I still laugh when I see this – although I'm not really sure where you live.

Where I live (Montgomery County, MD), the county municipal services are far, far superior to what the private folks do, whether it's refuse collection, leaf removal, or snow removal. I can't speak to their efficiency though since I haven't scrutinized the budgets.
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How about 999 subscriptions to Penthouse in exchange for 1 subscription to Private Eye?
Snark aside, GP is asking about GPUs. GPUs are not nondeterministic Turing machines.
they exist offline too. it's a very disturbing trend.
What's the one thing 99% of your users will want to do with your project? Put that front and center, with a clear example of what it looks like.

In your case, what kind of queries will I be able to make with this extension. For example, getting a list of neighborhoods, the houses in the neighborhoods and the pets in each household. All of that in a single graph query, what does it look like? Boom selling point.
I'm a big fan of Kanopy. It has roughly 1/3 of the Criterion Collection, and a good mix of classic + modern (mostly indie) movies
> Cause: null pointer dereference

that is actually pretty funny :')
Do you really even need electricity?
No prism is not a Turing machine however it can be used as a building block of a computer to perform an expensive operation.
That would be one incredibly expensive Q&A system. As rightly suggested by others, some search + a finetuned Q&A system is what you need.

I've been building a library that makes solving tasks like conversational Q&A easy.

https://github.com/backprop-ai/backprop

If you need some pointers, we have example notebooks and I'm happy to chat about it as well.
Would love to know if it helps!
Today it's really hard to exchange crypto for fiat without proving your identity first.

Seeing as NFTs are in the same space, I can imagine similar regulations will get enforced for NFC market places.

As for the effectiveness of such measures, well, that is another discussion for another time!
Covid Lockdown - and almost complete absence of ability to visit relatives, travel (especially internationally), go to restaurants, participate in group activities - has been much harder than simply WFH.
What would be reason to assume people have a the same ethics and moral code ?
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I think I explained myself badly. Im entering sites INTO https://web.dev that we make at work. Web.dev is basically Google Lighthouse and tests your website for basic performance, seo, best practices and A11Y.

So for example I enter mycustomer.com and it tells me "avoid http redirects" because I didn't enter the https:// before.

Hsts is included in one of our packages which also includes CSP settings and other security stuff, but barely anyone buys that.
> The ILP manual explains the program’s purpose is to identify youth “destined to a life of crime.” This is absurd. No one is destined to a life of crime.

Poor wording aside, the idea behind the program itself would make sense if it was handled by child protection services and helped them identify youth with in a difficult situation that might benefit from being reoriented to a different path.

I don't like seeing the police involved in those things, if anything we run the risk of antagonizing these kids and pushing them further down.
Seen people list on linkedin, twitter, and others places the batch they are in without listing the company it was with. Who cares what we tried to build look I was in Ycombinator!

It is weird to see.
That seems rather unlikely. If it's not the browser itself, then it's more likely to be an extension inserting it.
This whole thing is not EU business, member states are responsible for medical issues.

The procurement, and the procurement alone, was something the member states decided ad-hoc to pool in this particular instance, in order to avoid exactly the kind of situation between member states that we currently have with the UK.

And that has actually worked remarkably well: all the EU member states have essentially the same percent of their population vaccinated. Solidarność! They are also actually doing quite well internationally, with only the US/UK and Israel significantly better (and some Gulf states).

And of course the US/UK achieved this by not playing fair. Trump tried to buy Biontech outright, and you can bet he would have denied Germany access to the vaccine developed in Germany had he succeeded. Oxford wanted to partner with Merck, but the UK government forbade this and forced them to go with Astrazeneca instead, exactly because they could then foist UK-first contracts on them.

Coming back to the EU procurement process: there simply was no precedent for this, no EU jurisdiction, no EU body that regularly does this, and thus no expertise. Thus the contracts :-/

"The EU took a step back" is incorrect, as there simply wasn't and isn't a role for the EU here at all, even the procurement wasn't really an EU thing.

See also:

https://twitter.com/davekeating/status/1372897635577761803?s...
Many thanks, I would've killed for this about a month ago.
Not to offend, but yeah, if you've already partitioned the work to be done, then of course it's not hard.

I'm pretty sure that anyone who's come into even vague contact with parallel programming understands that the hardest part is communication and synchronization.

Your post feels incredibly pedantic.
Regulating delivery telecom as an open utility doesn't necessarily mean it is operated by the government.

If you want another big-city infrastructure example from the US, look at Empire City Subway. This is a company which has exclusive franchise from NYC to maintain a network of underground conduit in Manhattan, which they can use for their parent company (Verizon) but must also sell access to any other carrier who needs it.

I could imagine a similar approach that actually extends to the residential consumer. I live in a building which has FiOS in the street, but the landlord doesn't care to provide access to Verizon to wire the building, so I'm stuck with the legacy cable provider (which is far worse). If by law all buildings connected to a common utility-scale fiber network and I was simply buying transit from my ISP, I'd be much happier.
I guess you can't understand context. I'm saying they snubbed the vaccine to cover their asses for messing up the orders.
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Not in my experience. In fact I've never noticed a latency issue with Discord - it's way better than Whatsapp or Zoom.
If P=NP, then you can invert in polynomial time (assuming this is practical) arbitrary boolean functions and thus solve any equations (that can be specified as a boolean circuit), find keys to any cryptosystem etc.

For example, you can assume part of the plaintext (like a header in transmission) and solve an equation (which can be restated as a SAT instance) that yields you a key assuming certain cryptographic algorithm was used. So pretty much all cryptography relies on P!=NP.
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This thread (23 points in ~30 mins) has disappeared from the frontpage, exactly as the previous, now flagged thread did at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554697

Dear HN users, if you flagged this or the previous thread, what was your reasoning? I'm curious about what's going on.
>> Too many to enumerate

I take back my previous claim, this is a wrong exaggeration.

> The tool could be extended to support Unicode

Not an easy task. There are some things in the standard that do not map neatly to states, notably foldcasing of characters that change the count of characters and the treatment of the generic line boundary. Edit: after browsing UTS#18, I am almost certain that a conforming implementation cannot be mapped as exemplified in the tool. Maybe there's a neat work-around possible.

> features that would be impossible to support?

(?=, (?!, (?<=, (?<!, (?{, (??{, (?&, (?(…), (?>, (*asr:, (*SKIP)
> I speculate that majority of real world uses of regexp are actually regular

I just surveyed a corpus of regexes with a crude static analysis tool and only 4% fit that restriction, I believe the result to be accurate within the order of magnitude. It makes sense: non-regular features are widely available, and thus people use them.

> state of art regex engines (re2, hyperscan, rust regex)

These are a clear regression from the actual state of art that's in use everywhere. (I know that re2's reason for being is precisely to have less features.) The advent of Perl (and related, libpcre) has utterly obliterated the competition at that time, and newcomers were not able to wrest their crown.
Scientists convert electrical pulses into bits of DNA stored in living bacteria
All of the carefully crafted typefaces featured in the article emphasized recognizable style. None of them emphasized readability.

Personally, I prefer the typeface found on my Timex. It's nothing fancy, but it is very easy to read at a glance.
Something like this is mentioned in the Hagakure, but I didn't understand what it was for until now.
Thanks that looks decent for quick start.
I'd like to see these solutions prioritizing and solving problems for rural America, where broadband availability is a major issue.
> That said, if you're going to claim that all of these things we have done have eliminated the flu, you should take at least a few moments to reflect on the fact that they have done ~nothing to rhinovirus.

Why do you keep saying these measures have done nothing to rhinovirus?

The link you've shared does not support that. It shows relative percentages - and you're confusing that for absolute infection counts.

Unless you also believe that 60% of the population has a stomach virus on a daily basis (data from their other chart).
Be humble, do your job, show respect to other people!

Some people who do their best to "standout", do more harm than good. The last thing you want to be in a new team is an a* licker.
If there's an efficient algorithm for solving NP-complete problems then 99% of current cryptography would be broken. Only one-time-pads would still be secure.

But don't worry, if that happens the world would be so different there might no longer be a need for cryptography.
> then integer factorization can be reduced to k-sat,

It can be reduced already, but then 3-sat can be solved in P time
It’s not profound, but it’s important to point out in a conversation where people are actively denying it.
So these guys successfully got images of objects sitting behind a solid barrier from nearly a mile away by analyzing photons scattered around the barrier.

I imagine the only way to hide objects from this technology is to enclose them well enough to prevent most photons that bounce off the objects from leaving the enclosure.

And this is just an early-stage proof-of-concept. There's a good chance the technology can and will improve significantly over time.

Just saying.
The "8" was very poorly thought-out in my opinion. It has no angles or sharp edges, setting it apart from the other numerals. It'd be better as a full circle on the bottom and a cut 3/4 or 4/5 circle on top.
Dogfighting is already obsolete.

I think the implication / fallout is much more paradigm changing. Impact on order of dreadnought invalidating pre-dreadnought fleets. Competent AI pilot -> autonomous vehicles with more extreme flight performance -> dramatically reduced anti-air capabilities. A UAV without meatbag limits / more fuel = an extremely performant missile that will be significantly more challenging to intercept to the point where anti-air might no longer be viable.

This tech gap = lesser adversaries with generation meatbag hardware get disproportionately stomped harder. But it's a capability reset among peer adversaries with pursuing similar technology, i.e. next gen UAV could make manned aircraft obsolete. Imagine scenario where two sides (US / CN) can have mutual air superiority because future UAVs can no longer be effectively challenged. If the only viable tactic is offense, then engagements shift to numbers games, which will favor whoever can field more in theatre which translates to reduction of viability of carrier based naval power projection. 50 years of US manned naval and aviation buildup and expertise could become obsolete the same way UK's massive pre-dreadnaught navy became obsolete, a technical reset that enabled Germany navy to catch up closer to parity via arms race.
>pi has an infinite number of digits, so all of the energy in the universe can't possibly be enough to compute it.

If the universe is also infinite, then you could calculate Pi with X% of the universe's energy, where X is an arbitrarily small positive number.
what are some military uses of this technology. can we zap someone into a lizard?
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Yes, I only use Z-wave and Zigbee. With the exception of my smart speakers which I see as a necessary evil to be able to control my house. I know smart speakers are a non-starter for some people but the added value and my tentative trust in the manufacturers have made them acceptable to me. An Echo from Amazon is a different story from the Alibaba or cheap Amazon (not made by Amazon but sold by them) wifi smart devices.
We have exposed the large GPT 2 model as an API.

https://backprop.co

Anyone can access it and our pricing is usage based. If you use less than 1000 seconds of inference a month then it's completely free.
Ask HN: What's the fastest stack for making web side projects?
A lot of posts/advice on what stack to use revolves around making real websites that will need to scale.

But making a hacky prototype that probably won't have more than 10ish users (if it's even used) is completely different.

What setup allows you guys to go from idea to prototype the fastest? Bonus points for the least amount of packages, installation steps, deployment config etc.

(essentially looking for something at the intersection of these ideas: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology and speed for personal side projects)
NFTs are pretty silly. Based on some discussion on HN and as an allusion to Piero Manzoni I made this silly website. I hope you find it amusing.
So, American with manners and healthcare! Close enough :-)
IMHO - Give me a coding exercise that is needed for a day-to-day life in the target job, I would take it & no hard feelings if I fail. I do not believe Google/Facebook engineers are solving Binary tree problems everyday. Future is all about ML models generating code for you. So you may not even program in the future. What we need is creative intelligence or common sense that you apply for a given situation. Everything sounds very hypothetical though :)
Yes correct. Edited to clarify. Another way of phrasing it -- O notation is insensitive to the specific implementation of a computing model.
What about hiding previous communiques? I have a long list of psuedo-named meeting chats (5 months worth) that are just aggregating on the left hand side. Hide doesn't work. Thanks teams.
Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47
See also:

> “Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don’t strain at them,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author wrote to himself. “Writing can be good. You attack it, don’t let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it!” [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/douglas-adams-...
It's so disappointing that this investigation got practically zero attention. Is it just because it's got the Buzzfeed name on it?
If you think there is a salient difference then you don't understand P=NP at all.
Potential source of frustration: naked domains on http that upgrade to https after redirect to www or some other subdomain. It’s a problem to me now - if I name my naked .org site in GMail it assumes https. At some point I will have to host my own redirection service, just for this one issue.

Side note: it beats me why browsers couldn’t agree a way to specify at least the first redirect in DNS, no web server needed for that part.
Social Capital is not fixed, but Dunbar's number does provide an upper bound to it.
Depends in what context, a language created by MIT researchers with the goal of changing the status quo of Python and R, followed by the creation of a foundation to drive its adoption among commercial entities, is quite different than the thousands of programming languages created across the globe for yet another compiler class assignment.
> A TM can do the same computation as a prism, or any other physical system.

To be fair, this is only an unproven hypothesis. The Church-Turing Thesis is an assumption about the physical world (which so far seems to have held up pretty well) rather than a theorem.
> First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.

> Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.

> They swarm homes in the middle of the night, waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors. They write tickets for missing mailbox numbers and overgrown grass, saddling residents with court dates and fines. They come again and again, making arrests for any reason they can.

> One former deputy described the directive like this: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”

> In just five years, Nocco’s signature program has ensnared almost 1,000 people.
When you access any website using HTTPS the parties involved are You and the Webserver, and the data is encrypted in transit over the open internet. When you request a page, the webserver needs to know what page you request in plain text, so it makes sense for the webserver to have access to the request. With email, the parties who want to communicate are (e.g.) You and Me, and the parties involved are (You, Your company email server) and (Your company's email relay server, My company's spam-filter and DR email clone server), (that and My company's email server) and (My company's email server, Me).

There isn't anything quite like the Browser - Webserver simple connection to encrypt. I would like my connection encrypted to my mailserver using SMTP/POP3/IMAP/HTTP + TLS, which it can be. I would like my email server to talk to your email server using TLS which it can do, but isn't guaranteed, there are several approaches to it (STARTTLS and others). I would like incoming mail to be spam-filtered which means a service that can read the content. My company would like incoming email to be malware and phishing filtered, which means accessing the content. My company would like outgoing email to be signatured and branded, same again. My company requires email to be archived for legal reasons and cloned off-site for DR reasons. The design of SMTP involves store-and-forward, failover and fallback options, multiple MX records, so there's not a trivial path email always takes from sender to recipient. Attackers will try to intercept SSL connections and force fallback to plain text SMTP and people would rather email arrives than doesn't arrive. Tons of companies are using ancient not-updated network equipment which proxies and edits SMTP traffic as it goes through. Coworkers would like Webmail which almost necessarily requires the server having access to unencrypted email to show it to you in a browser.

Trying to put some kind of "secure" on top of that pile of entrenched systems is much harder than saying "the biggest players don't want it", what would it be, which layers would it go in, which sides would manage it, how would it interact, who would standardise on it, how much bother is it for users and for people who forgot their password? The main approach is to public/private key outside email and send encrypted blobs to each other, which is full of key management problems, or a service which intercepts email and pulls the text out and sends on a HTTPS link and a blank "someone sent you an encrypted message. Sign up and login to view it" which sucks, but is a lot more practical and does actually work.
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