skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're over thinking it. Stock in the these banks are majority held by the Governments and the rest largely by individuals/mutual funds/pension funds. So when these loans become "non-performing", the people left holding the bag are the common tax-payers. This is simply a less easily detectable way of stealing public money and usually there's some under the table incentives to the individual bankers approving this stuff, together with threat of political strong arm if not.

Awarding government contracts to companies owned by relatives and political allies is another way though that's more easily detected.
We had a replication HA solution, but it was "warm", and customers didn't really want to run another server doing nothing. I think we also charged a lot for it.

The area we were in, customers could tolerate some outage. Restoring from a backup didn't take that long. I believe we were known for good support helping people get back up.

But yeah, what you are saying is all the arguments that kept coming to us. People were used to having a few servers for the database, and different front ends, and layering things like that.
Great insight.
But as for the ML scientists you mention, ethics _is_ their responsibility. We all are ethical beings.
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The feedback loops take care of that. If it gets repetitive then it gets predictable, so then it's less interesting, so then it's off topic. Who doesn't love feedback loops?

Edit: I originally put these links in my GP comment but took them out because I didn't want to overdo it. However, if you read enough to grok the heuristic in each case, you'll get the basic model that this place runs by. Eventually I'll compile this material, but for the time being it's the guidelines and Algolia links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

plus the link I included above: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I agree with some of your post but I also think that reducing it to body count is sidestepping just how differently police treat black communities.

Cops have done horrible things to every race, they are especially aggressive with black people.
Some of the OnePlus devices have mainline Linux support and can run postmarketOS already.
I recall going to a restaurant (now defunct) in LA which was trying to be aesthetic and clever in like 2008. One of the decor items was a stack of analogue televisions, tuned to static so they'd glow and flicker, but papier-mache style covered in pages from novels to diffuse the light.

I wonder if he put any effort into ensuring ventilation so the sets wouldn't fail, but it was about the time where even thrift shops were beginning to reject tube TVs, so he probably just hit up the free part of Craigslist every time one died.
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I don't get the usefulness/effectiveness print debugging. I work in Ruby and JavaScript and I find it much more efficient to know the whole state of the world and the objects in it at a certain place, because I generally know where the problem may be. For example I use pry in ruby and the debugger; statement in JS.

Maybe it is just the way my brain works? I'd rather stop and see what I need behind a condition than have to filter through a lot of possibly unformatted console output.
IIUC, you're looking for true diffs between revisions with different bases. If so, Reviewable deals with that automatically, running 4 separate diffs in the background and integrating the results so that base-only diffs are hidden by default.

As for diffing commits, you can switch a review into "review each commit" mode so that it will create one revision per commit. You can make this the default for a repo but it's not in the demo as it's not the most common way to work. The demo does really need updating, though!
Agreed, and as such the Linux community should counter signal to gain deterrence. If you do this kind of thing and you get caught, a simple apology is not enough: you get banned. It's a kind of a game theoretic approach.
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Spectrum? The ZX?
Hated as they may be, I believe they’ve changed the way we think about code review. The fact is that there are malicious actors out there, likely far more advanced, and in positions of far greater trust. Modern devops has nearly eliminated human code review in favor of functional unit tests, and security is maybe something considered at release testing. And although the Linux kernel devs may be able to catch these things, there are countless other projects now realizing that they would not have. I don’t think humans can do this. We need to develop better automated tools to test for security in continuous integration of individual commits. For instance, it is normal for CI tools to include functional unit tests for interface implementations, but certainly less so to fuzz every interface as well. I don’t think it’s sufficient to simply fuzz the user inputs. A baked-in exploit would never be discovered that way.
And Jack and Jill won't contaminate space when they're sent to start Earth 2?
to the folks picking this apart word-by-word: all evidence suggests that two of the signatures are natives of china, and the third of india. it is reasonable to credit them with not being native english speakers.
Very good point. We seriously need to learn this lesson as you said.
It's not Too big, so it doesn't really impede my wrist's range of motion. It sits just before the bump where my ulna reaches the rest of my wrist.
Is this supposed to be an example of gibberish produced by some kind of AI gone rogue?
I think his point is pretty clear in that paragraph: "Music is haunted by the specters of Beethoven and Mozart, even Elvis and John Lennon, with the canon being built around these names that we are told deserve not just celebrating but worshipping. These old, dead white men." The problem is the dead overshadowing the living.
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The Online Slang dictionary, which is the first user-created slang dictionary on the web.

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/
Unfortunately, Flutter apps still seem to be lagging on the accessibility front. The Flutter web gallery[0] has many examples of beautiful apps, but something as "simple" (on the web) as being able to select text is absent.

For some use-cases, this is a nonstarter. (Sadly, not to as many as I'd like! But let's simply not regress, to start.)

[0] https://gallery.flutter.dev/
The vast majority of the murders are from violent gangs. That has a much stronger correlation than skin color
Oh yeah, the "mistakes were made" passive-voice non-apology apoplogy. zzzz
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Hi again Brandon!

Been playing around a bit with the protomap's pmtiles.

I notice that POIs have bbox, geom, and just a couple addt'l properties (e.g. name, amenity).

Would it be possible to have the option of exporting the street address into the properties of each poi?

I'd like to be able to (fully offline) generate a delivery route given a list of addresses (that fall within the specific pmtiles region).

Any suggestions or possibility of including this data?
ooooh! This sounds like its made for me, can't wait to try it out.
Not much by way of Blake threads over the years:

William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786182 - Jan 2021 (8 comments)

William Blake’s design innovations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21066650 - Sept 2019 (2 comments)

Glorious Luminary: On William Blake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098991 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)

The Greatness of William Blake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10568050 - Nov 2015 (5 comments)
We are a research group whose members devote their careers to improving the Linux kernel. We have been working on finding and patching vulnerabilities in Linux for the past five years. The past observations with the patching process had motivated us to also study and address issues with the patching process itself.

Can someone please explain why someone who is working with others on a common goal for years suddenly conducts a breaching experiment? What were they thinking?

(Also, there must be experience within Linux about malicious commits, three-letter agencies from all over the world must have tried before. Why not try archeology?)
only dumbs runs ciphered binary...

WTH your shit OS that is able to run this crap :Ð
For the note, in Sciter (https://sciter.com) these (JS):

Window.this.modal(<info>Hello world</info>);
Window.this.modal(<alert>Hello world</alert>);
let r = Window.this.modal(<question>Hello world</question>);

will create real modal dialogs (as separate desktop windows).
We haven't even successfully made the deserts on Earth habitable yet without trucking in resources from more hospitable places.
The question was about educational choices.

Of course I taught my child to read and write. Beyond that, I am not forcing them to get up at 7am and memorize what other adults want them to all day every day. My child can learn about whatever interests him. I pay attention to what he is doing and provide advice, guidance, resources.

For example, if tomorrow I learn that my son has taken an interest in playing guitar, I will encourage him to take lessons, and provide what he needs to do that. I may expose him to music theory or other things I think align with his interests.

I will try and encourage him to cultivate skills and interests, but it is up to him what he wants to do.
How do you use a voltage regulator?
I recently installed some LED strip lighting over my chart table. The strip comes in about a 10ft length and you can cut it to whatever length you want. It has a sticky tape backing that makes installation easy. Problem is that when my batteries are full or the charger is on, the batteries are at close to 14 volts and the LED's run hot. Hot enough that the mounting glue melts and the strip won't stay stuck to the bulkhead. I gather what I need is a 12 volt voltage regulator that will ensure the output voltage is exactly 12 volts, no more, no less. I have looked on line and there seem to be hundred's of models available, ranging in cost from $1.00 to $100.00. Can anybody recommend a specific regulator that will work, hopefully cheap?? Also, should I just put the regulator on the LED supply line immediately ahead of the lights so it only need to handle 1 or 2 amps of current, or is it better to get a 30 amp version and run the entire DC panel through a regulator? Many thanks.
The first one will re-encode.
Maybe the government will make it illegal to sell or possess bitcoins. That might not impact those coins as favorably.
It's not the first tracks. Read http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Stream-selection
> a sincere apology cannot in any way entertain doubt about the fact that there WAS harm

Someone will always be apologizing wrong for some. Some interpretation of what harm there was, is not necessarily the same as my interpretation. There are too many ways to construe what harm there was or may have been according to others to satisfy everyone addressed. This is an efficient wording that doesn't explicitly satisfy your (and many people's) specific issues out of "the community", which illustrates the point.
Not an experience. But if I was given the task, I'll probably think about how those data could be distributed. Maybe use my own instance of IPFS, so each 'node' don't have to store all of the data.
There is a dimension that gets overlooked in these discussions: tests. Every bug should start with a mind set to create a new test: unit, integration, or end-to-end. These are regression tests. Now, whether the test is needed or not is a decision that will fall out the bug fix. There is a distinct difference between the skill of debugging and skill of writing tests. I focus most of my efforts in writing test code. Someday perhaps IDEs will be the test platform for all the test types. That's not today though. The question in my mind is not print debugging versus IDE, but test code debugging versus ad-hoc debugging. IDEs encourage ad hoc debugging because once a bug is fixed, the test code needs to be written from the ground up, a step this is often left out due to time limits. I debug in test code and when the debugging is done the test is written. This applies to new code as well and mirrors the paired programming notion of starting new development using test code.
Time value of money, opportunity cost, etc. An investment that merely pays for itself in a large number of years is a bad investment. An RoI of 5 years is a decent rule of thumb to use.
For better or worse, computation is not unifiable. Each computation generally needs a certain amount of storage space, a gpu that can run N trillion floating point operations per second and K billion tris per frame, etc. You cannot pick a single number, in a reasonable way, to represent all that.
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I've removed the inflammatory stuff, it was out of line. But calling people out on gatekeeping others from contributing in open source is not that, i disagree.

I usually just flag and move on, i probably should have done that here too, but i stand by what's left of my comment post-edit.
Now I know who you are.
I used to wear a pear of very thin merino wool gloves and then a MASSIVE pair of very well insulated mitts. After leaving the house I had to take off my mitts to unlock my bike, and I knew it was cold (past -35 or so) when I couldn't feel my fingers after 20 seconds of no mitts.

On my feet I wore thick wool socks, and very well insulated winter boots. They were always hot, even just standing still past -40

For my face I had a toque under my helmet and a big thick merino wool neck warmer that I would pull up until it was right under my eyes - so it covered my ears entirely.

Half way to work I would pull down the neck warmer, unzip my big jacket, etc. in an attempt to not sweat too much.

.. haha, yeah, my path has been a different one, and I'm a thousand times happier than when I sat at a desk. I'm TheRoadChoseMe around the web, and my email is dan @ that .com if you want to get in touch!
Your theory is that although we have clear historical evidence of centuries and centuries of broad societal oppression based on gender and race, that there was some countervailing force in art that perfectly balanced that out such that the playing field for art was entirely level?

Please do explain what that force was. In detail. With examples. Because that sounds entirely implausible to me.
I honestly don't recall what it was called before the Mall existed, then again it was built in the 50's and tons of new neighborhood names showed up then...

Its a stones throw from Daly City so indeed about as far as you can get from downtown heheh.
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Stop intertwining complete nonsense with tropes in order to try add credibility to your outrageous claims.

- IANAL.

- Get a lawyer.

- You probably know a lawyer.

Thank you for adding absolutely nothing to the conversation. The only common theme is that you think you shouldn't interpret a license yourself and act upon that.

What little substance is present in your comments is however in direct contradiction to that. You proceed to interpret a license, and tell people that violating it is fine, because the courts will probably think it's fine.

What? I just really hope anyone reading this can see through the tropes and realise you're in no position to be giving out advice.

The only advice I've given is read the licence, and to the best of your ability, act with accordance with the license. I'm 100% okay with that.

EDIT:

> Look into your social network. I have 3 or 4 lawyers who went to the same college I did. When I have a legal question, I do call them up.

> My experience is that for a volunteer project, open source, or similar, most lawyers are glad to chat.

These claims are highly dubious.

There are several lawyers in my extended family. I went to school with many more. They most certainly are not "glad to chat" about legal matters. Giving out any advice that may be construed as legal advice is a huge deal for them. You either know highly unprofessional lawyers, or you're making this up.
> implies that they're thoroughly disconnected from the realities of ML devops on the cloud

FWIW, I deal with "the realities of ML devops on the cloud" nearly every day -- both at work and in hobby projects.

The comments here make me think I failed to get my main intent across in the post. I actually agree with many of the concrete claims you make here, but they have little to do with the arguments I saw myself as making.

The miscommunication was apparently so complete that if I tried to dig into specific points you make here, I'd end up effectively re-writing my post all over again. It was kind of exhausting to write the first time, so I'd prefer not to.

That said, as an example of something I didn't mean to say: I definitely don't think the sklearn API ought to be standard across ML, certainly not the pickling part! It is a well-designed API that's just right for its own limited context, and ought to inspire others to develop other APIs that are similarly well-designed for their contexts.

I only added the comment about Keras and pickle because I had quoted a tweet that literally said Keras was sklearn API compatible, and felt sort of obligated to point out that this was strictly false. Insofar as this relates to the larger point at all, it does so only as evidence that people like Chollet don't have a deep understanding of the thing they say they're inspired by.
Thank you and my point precisely. This was both an individual and systemic failure and must be treated and rectified as such with all due seriousness.
This is why JSP still exists
Bitcoin uses far less energy than fiat currencies - and its not even close.
I find the recent push to frame crypto as an ecological fight mildly interesting as it clearly appears to be somewhat coordinated. That does not mean it is not true. But it is genuinely hard to not to wonder who is setting that on the agenda.
Pretty sure there are companies that do this. My parents received an offer like this, structured like a lease with a small buyout at the end.
Imagine if instead they did this research with the closed source community. You know, get hired under false pretenses, sneak some vulns into some commercial product, write a paper about how easy it was. Pretty sure if they tried that they would be in jail right now.
Have a look at that: https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter
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Here are some less prominent old languages off the top of my head:

- Rexx (used in IBM text editors)

- Atlas Autocode

- TUTOR (used on the PLATO system)

- MUMPS (actually this is still used at Epic Healthcare but they try to avoid mentioning it)
Vague memory is funding dried up. Vi Hart has some storytelling touching on CDG / HARC history: https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/
If you believe them, anyway. One of these utilities is even PG&E. "Cynical cashgrab" would be an alternative take. They're not making much money selling power to people with solar panels so now they want said people to pay them a flat fee.
get fuckeddddd umn
The author probably should have read the jargon file before attempting this. Also probably should have read the room. (Referring to women as "servers"? Seriously?)
When it comes to buying content, I think I'd rather have a 1x chance of losing all of it (and going on a torrent spree) rather than a 3x chance of losing a third of it (and going on a torrent spree).
Wow really well made! Will definitely try it out.
IDEs are amber and throw away effort. All the break points, data integration and what not is thrown away after the bug is fixed. Further this IDE effort is not shared between developers. Log debugging is reusable out of the gate. Log debugging can easily be promoted to a production statement if deemed important. IDE developers it seems to me need to work on how all the time and energy IDE developers spend on a bug can be generalized to the point these things can be shipped with the code itself. Until then it is throw away work trapped in the amber of the IDE.
If you're tempted to use the phrase "calling out", you're probably not in the intended spirit of this site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That kind of thing has poisonous systemic effects. It's not worth it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Btw, I agree with you on the underlying point. But how one goes about making right points is exceedingly important. It may be more important than wrongness, although that's an unfashionable perspective at the moment.
Let us take a moment to slow down and think about how fragile life really is. Dan was a bright person and loved by many. The value he added to this world will not be forgotten and let us take comfort in the fact that some of us had the great fortune of meeting him.
Rest in peace Dan.
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I'm just getting started with some training and some classes for website development and lead generation. I'm only 5 days in and haven't been able to spend my entire days on this project so far, so don't be mean! Haha. But if you have some serious constructive criticism and can share it without coming across like an a hole, please do. I'm VERY open to any resources I'm not aware of that I should be, ANY golden nuggets that anyone with any experience thinks I should have in my repertoire. Thanks for reading and please let me know!
Clearly the author put effort into making it brief and easy to understand. In the distributed network of computers participating in ETH, one can associate price with computing potential. For a given finite calculation, one can ask how much it would "cost" in ETH, also giving one a reasonable metric for how much modern-moment computational power is required from the ETH network. Maybe the network is always growing, so maybe this is variable, but maybe some computations are variable and grow parallel to the growth of the ETH network, so one could track that subset of calculations or calculations-required in terms of ETH. It's a nifty idea.
I was thinking that it might be nice if hitting ? also opened up the help menu.
Feels like it should have a warning somewhere about the anode circuitry, flyback, and high voltage.

If you're planning on doing something like this, you could also look at old CRT Macs, Kaypros, Compaq luggables, etc. There's usually some on eBay that you could gut and put an Rpi in, and other things to play with, like converting the keyboard signals to something the pi could read.
Was this post flagged?

It was near the top of the front page 5 minutes ago. Now it's not anywhere in the top 200 stories.

The fact that an entire natural gas power plant in upstate NY was purchased to exclusively power Bitcoin mining seems to be pretty newsworthy, at a time where we're trying to cut carbon.
Everything is a conspiracy with crypto promoters.
I agree with this post

> Unless the researchers are lying (which I've not seen a clear indication of), the 190 patches you have selected here are nothing more than collateral damage while you are completely missing the supposed patch submission addresses from which the malicious patches were sent! This all really sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to thier posting. I have to say, I think it's the wrong reaction to have.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/18edc472a95f1d4efe3ef40cc9b8d26...

Greg Kroah-Hartman’s poorly thought out bulk reversion is the bigger waste of time here.
No one is triggered by anything. Do you really not realize that what you said has nothing to do with anything in the link? If someone linked a hammer would you post about a house you want to buy?
Astronomy isn't the only reason though. It affects wildlife pretty badly too.
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