skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditionally (ASP) .NET was tightly integrated with the Microsoft stack of Windows Server, IIS and MSSQL. I'm not sure if this was really a must, but from what colleagues told me it was a huge PITA if you didn't use those solutions.

This has changed since with the arrival of (ASP) .NET core which is cross platform and a very open framework. But with many well established Node.js/RoR/Java solutions in startups and enterprises alike, I believe it'll need some time to gain traction.
Discord is a private company, IRC and Matrix are protocols.
You do not speak for most Democrats.

I’m a Democrat; my circle is mostly Democrats. We also knew last year in February and March that we wanted masks.

So trust that Fauci meant well? Yes. He was in an extremely difficult position and in a position of policy advisor.

But trudt that masks were ineffective for the average person? Absolutely not.

It’s a contradiction that masks are effective for frontlines, yet somehow without reason or usefulness for everyone else.

So if it didn’t decline, perphaps it’s more accurate to say that there was only ever a certain type of trust to begin with.

And the past 12 months have borne out that suspicion.
Is this from 2016?

https://freenode.net/news/recent-events-and-future-changes
https://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1455902643
As someone who has implemented plenty of ML-on-IIoT solutions across clients of various sizes, industries, and maturities ..

I'll just say it's unimpressive low hanging fruit to write an article about any wildly popular subject to rehash basic mental models-as-objections-to-hype like Sturgeon's Law, Maslow's hammer, Occam's Razor, and YAGNI.

ML is objectively great at finding signal in noise. When you know what signal you're looking for and how much it's worth, ML is very economical - at certain scales, it's the only sustainable option.

Here are 6 steps to evaluating ML success. The most important point is after each step, if you don't have the economics right, stop what you're doing and go use your money for something else.

1) Choose a pattern recognition objective with a financial benefit Quantify your objective over a fixed timeframe. Focus on how the objective will be achieved. "If we can reduce MTTR by 35% and reduce our fixed maintenance cycle time by 15%, we will see $11.7m gains in net revenue over the next 5 years by reducing our maintenance crew contracts."

2) Draw a clear picture of the data you have and its relationship to the objective. Identify the target variable(s). Assess the quality and granularity of your labeled data. Identify relationships between your data. Declare a hypothesis on the marginal relationship between the model loss function and the objective. Eg: "If this model is 90% accurate we expect to see a 6% lift in upselling / increase maintenance cycles by 14%, etc."

3) Bring a devil's advocate into the room and let them try to tear the idea apart. See if you can piece it back together. Compare your theoretical signal to whatever heuristics you have today. Why is it different? Can you just automate those?

4) Do a 6 week pilot to find the signal in the noise to prove your hypothesis. Do not worry about "cloud scale data platforms." Do not do MLOps. Do not build pipelines. Move heaven and earth to get data out of source systems quickly, by hand if you need to - copy and paste is also data engineering, have a domain SME and a data scientist joined at the hip for avoiding rabbit holes. Use a Kaggle-style holdout set for final model evaluation.

5) Do a field pilot, with your devil's advocate as the judge. A/B testing is usually best - think John Henry vs. the steam engine. Again, move heaven and earth to test your hypothesis in a real world setting. Bathe in uncertainty and confidence.

6) Estimate the cost to create and operate the ML pipeline needed against your expected benefits. Is it justified? Build it; otherwise, either look for ways to augment its value or kill it.

Most ML goes astray at steps 1 or 2. But a lot of good ML solutions are missed because the "elegant scam" skips most of these steps altogether.
Not that I disagree, but doesn't sound like that's the issue here? The issue is that there's been a hostile takeover of freenode.net so the admins have established an network on a new domain for its communities to migrate to, libera.chat.
This is close to on par with Lithium ion (cobalt/nickel) 200-250Wh/kg. Newer Li/S technology is 2x denser (400-500Wh/kg) but currently has durability issues over recharge cycles.

Al/graphene in this form could be more cost effective and probably marginally lighter due to a lack of cooling/heating needed, safety equipment, and rare earth minerals needed.

That it charges faster and has more durability over recharge cycles would be a bonus.

Another open question is if you can produce this at industrial scale relatively cheaply, because having affordable gigawatt storage for renewables would be lovely.

This: https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/gmg-graphene-aluminiu...

may be a better article. Here is a clarifying quote:

> Dr Ashok Nanjundan, GMG’s Chief Scientific Officer, said, “This is a real game-changing technology which can offer a real alternative with an interchangeable battery technology for the existing lithium-ion batteries in almost every application with GMG’s Graphene and UQ’s patent-pending aluminium ion battery technology. The current nominal voltage of our batteries is 1.7 volts, and work is being carried out to increase the voltage to directly replace existing batteries and which lead to higher energy densities.”

> “The real differentiator about these batteries is their very high power density of up to 7000 watts/kg, which endows them with a very high charge rate. Furthermore, graphene aluminium-ion batteries provide major benefits in terms of longer battery life (over 2000 charge / discharge cycles testing so far with no deterioration in performance), battery safety (very low fire potential) and lower environmental impact (more recyclable),” said Dr Ashok Nanjundan.
Thoughts on “Product-Driven” vs. “Customer-Driven”
What if software development isn't the most technically challenging aspect of their operation? Say spaceX or a nuclear physics lab?
Does it? Show me an example.
Death rate per capita I think is a misleading way to look at it. If covid wipes half of my say 10 ppl family and half of someone else’s say 4 ppl family, I lose 5 ppl and they lose 2 ppl. Per capita rate is fine for statisticians after the fact. But during the pandemic you can’t tell me we lost same ppl per capita. Obviously I lost much more (hypothetically)
Here I was thinking about how wonderful it would be to live in a nation like Ireland, where hacks can happen without interested parties attempting in pathetic fashion to cover their asses by invoking the specter of RussiaRussiaRussia... I should have known someone would break the spell.
Eh. From my understanding the people that pay do fine. As sick as it is, these crews following through is good for business. These crews are making tons of cash. If word gets out they don't unencrypt and do publicly publish - people will just stop paying: period. Hell. Some of these crews have a help desk. [1]

https://www.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3659100/how_to_r...
Because 99.9999999% of emails are not encrypted before being sent.
It's unavoidable when discussing residential heating. Just use google for automatic unit conversions, and be grateful that we didn't need to invoke the cumbersome unit of "R-value" to measure insulation!
> Getting the community to use the Principle of Least power is perhaps the hardest

This hurts so much. The nerd in me wants to gush over the improvements in Scala 3, but that pleasure has been ruined by observing in my own coworkers that the people who are the most excited about Scala are terribly self-indulgent in their work. I know when my coworker says he's excited about @inline that our first Scala 3 service (which I'm guessing he will roll out next month) will have more than one use of @inline, for no other reason than his desire to learn it. I am a huge fan of Scala, but I am developing a knee-jerk Grinchiness about any kind of excitement about it.

I hate the way my feelings have changed, but still, I think we have to wrestle with the fact that in many if not most software organizations, the Scala advocates are people who enjoy having fun with technology and leveling up their skills and who cultivate an intentionally and stubbornly unexamined assumption that continually adding new programming powers to their skillset is the best way to serve the needs of the business and the needs of their coworkers.

If I could wish for one impossible thing for Scala, it would be widespread top-down forced adoption, so that lots of people who aren't particularly enthusiastic about Scala are forced to use it. I think people who are less enthusiastic about Scala write better code in Scala. I think they could improve Scala (and Scala could improve their programming as well.) What I'm seeing now in practice is Scala being avoided by those people who have the skepticism and discipline to use it well, and embraced by people whose engineering decisions are determined by their feelings of curiosity and boredom.
Getting a joint right when making furniture from wood requires a lot of logic and precision, probably more than coding in my experience.

But this is the difference between "art" and "craft". The art is deciding what to build, how it should look and feel. This part is imprecise and emotional. It depends more on talent than practice, and is the bit that needs a muse or inspiration.

The craft bit is building it. This part is logical, precise, and needs to be done competently so it doesn't obscure the "art" part (great art can be ruined by bad craft, but good craft with no art is just boring). This needs lots and lots of practice.

This duality applies to writing, coding, sketching, music, movies, any creative practice.
Aristotle defined man as bios politikos, a political animal, quite a long time ago...
Or just get a dedicated server or vps somewhere and run OpenVPN or wire guard. There is no shortage of cheap vps providers so you could create deploy scripts and rotate your vpn endpoint regularly

Disclaimer: I’ve been doing just that for 13 years now
Discord is a centrally controlled walled garden.

The whole point of Matrix is decentralisation and federation - which is closer to the spirit of IRC than what Discord is.

Also, Matrix is a protocol, not a centralised service like Discord.
Your last paragraph I get it but I think that's also a sign of racism? Like say I'm Russian because I kinda am, no one holds me accountable for Putin's actions. The geopolitical positioning of Russia's regime at any given moment doesn't affect how safe I feel in my current country, doesn't affect how strangers feel about me.

The fact that it does for some chinese-americans and other asians.... I'm not sure exactly what it says but there is something there and I don't think it's benign.
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Is it pretty much dead? Yeah, if you’re moving FAANG level traffic you need something more fancy than LAMP + an internet connection, but I’ve seen dozens and dozens of sites with a plain old no-cdn, no-pdn, LAMP tech stack. Working with startups might bias your view - lots of companies are running extremely boring setups and they work just great.
Mattermost CEO here, thanks for being a user!

We'd love to improve, are there one or two things top of mind for us to change?
Continuing this story from 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696035
You don't have to do everything on a phone.
In a Spanish accent (or most of them in Spain anyway) the z would be /θ/.
Barbour's work had a big influence on science fiction writer Neal Stephenson. https://www.nealstephenson.com/acknowledgments.html
The key point of hypersonic weapons is that they are maneuverable.
We're wired to come up with simple heuristics like "smaller than 5 microns bad" and "larger than 5 microns fine". It's much harder to hold a true model of the world in our heads: a list of every different disease, how big particles containing it need to be to lead to respiratory infection, and how each type of virus and bacteria behave under different atmospheric conditions (humidity, temperature, pressure). While we can try and not rely on over-simplified heuristics, to really ensure that our heuristics aren't killing people we'll need to eventually offload a lot of this type of fine-grained simulation/prediction to software.
Having ridden the bus to work I've become very in tune to how much I hate having to watch bus schedule to figure out when I'm going someplace. More than once I've had to leave an interesting discussion because my bus was coming. More than once I've packed up and then needed to find something to do for the next 20 minutes. I'm surprised you consider every 15 minutes often enough to not check the schedule, but it would be much better than the every 30 minutes I had.

Too bad I don't work in that office anymore.
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I generally do the normal Firefox release and just put up with it, but I can understand why larger organizations might be frustrated with keeping modern browsers secure. They're worried about info leaks while browser vendors are interested in figuring out how to hook websites up to USB devices and VR headsets, and figuring out how to ad new advertising experiences to the new tab page.
Ideas are easy to be against. Right now, covid is just an idea to a lot of people. They don't know anyone who's gotten sick, or worse. It's harder to be against a person. Once a few people in their social circles get the vaccine and live to tell the tale, the hesitance will fall away. Polls are a snapshot and can turn quickly. That's why pollsters keep repeating them.
But you also don't want your target to know that it is being attacked to prevent countermeasures.
This will scale wonderfully!
When Does Education Stop? (1962)
If you use mail consider if your restore time will be less than your acceptable down time.
The other consideration for myself when it comes to electric vehicles is charging time - I used to semi-regularily drive ~500 km to see my parents. Most electric vehicles would struggle with that and make me consider a recharge. Even if I have to fill up one or two times on the trip if the time it took was the same as filling up a tank of gas it'd make me much less reluctant. The question there of course is if the power grid could support that much power that quickly. I suppose it would need it's own aluminum-ion tanks that charged continually throughout the day.
And that’s a good explanation for why we’ve evolved with finite lives.
Is that really specific to IRC? I'm sure there's at least as much drama on Discord or large Whatsapp/telegram groups today.

Any community with sub-groups and a privilege system for ops/voice/... will generate drama.

It's not a fatality either, I've been on many smaller channels that were focusing on a specific topic and mostly used for technical discussions and the only moderator interventions were to kick spammers or update the /topic.

It saddens me a bit that IRC is so unpopular with newer generations, now the discussion has moved to proprietary, centralized solutions like Discord. Yet another nail in the free, distributed, decentralized, non-ad-driven, non-HTTP-based internet coffin.
It was the first clear sign that the CDC is confident in the vaccine.
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There's immense value in belonging to agenda-driven, no-frills, tiny groups of people that talk about the things they do. It's motivation, it's camaraderie, it's troubleshooting in a group, it's.... just a really really fun way to spend your days.

100% would recommend.
While we are at it, let's also throw 2-3 nukes to the country in case they dont fix it.
Right - ballistic or guided - I really meant kinetic as opposed to energy weapons like lasers.
Would you like to set permissions per column? Read-write-modify?
Don't forget about rasengans cryptocurrency scheme that Freenode has been helping to promote.
Yep, another link has draft in the filename and libera.chat doesn't seem to be operating yet. Looks like there's been a leak.
I budgeted to hire 3 devs. One lead dev, and two junior devs.

So my thinking was to pay the cost of all three salaries in first month to get a super good engineer setup everything up, then hire the more people after that...
Nice! I assume that was just ferrofluid and water?
Shells[1] is a newer option which promotes a virtual desktop but VPS is also an option. They have recently announced partnerships with different Linux distros and offer reasonable prices.

[1]shells.com
I do recall that many ISPs had specific provision against running IRC servers in the ToS (IIRC OVH does/did?), although in my experience it wasn't actively enforced unless you started causing trouble. Ditto for bittorent.
So what you're saying is, the people in charge are really good at privacy? And this is a problem?

/s
A term policy is more, I’m not sure what the rates are for non-term but I wouldn’t buy a non term policy. That’s literally throwing away money, but I guess from a business perspective it’s just a cost so you may be “more” right :)
End 'Gain of Function' Experimentation
> “It charges so fast it’s basically a super capacitor,” Nicol claimed. “It charges an iPhone coin cell in less than 10 seconds.”

Are iPhone batteries considered coin cells? Isn't a coin cell like the ones shown here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_cell which are much smaller in capacity? If he is indeed referring to a 2000-4000mAh battery size then that is amazing.
Ooo, great news, thank you!
United Nuclear hasn't changed in decades. I remember buying thermite and other fun mixtures from them for my high school chemistry class experiments 15 or so years ago. Nowadays, you can probably find some of their products much cheaper elsewhere, but they've been selling these cool things for hobbyists for so many years, I like to support them.

And by them, I mean Bob Lazar,.. United Nuclear is his operation. (UFO guy who is likely viewed in a polarized fashion here, I myself am not into the conspiracies)
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The, often corrupt, sell off of community assets feels like a constant in human society.

From government kickbacks from oil companies down to community sporting clubs there is a tragic phenomena where if you have corrupt individuals in charge at a single point in time then there is a chance for an irreversible loss of a public good.

Here's a link about a community club in Australia where one of the directors ended up owning the clubs assets after some bad decision [0].

[0] - https://www.michaelwest.com.au/a-barilaro-affair-how-the-bar...
My guess is this.

The nuclear weapon would work with or without Fogbank, with one caveat.

If the weapon got banged up a little in storage, transport and use, the shape of the fogbank-filled cavity could change. Two things are important: (1) the precise shape of the cavity, and (2) the cavity really being a cavity.

That is, the Fogbank fills the cavity with something that is highly transparent to radiation, show that X-Rays radiated by the primary bounce interact with a precise geometry and compress the secondary. If the space was empty the precision of the geometry couldn't be guaranteed. Fogbank is the closest thing to empty that fills the space.
Depends on what you are doing. If you are building track, then distance is what matters. If you are spacing trains out for safety both distance and time matters. If you are planning a schedule time is what matters (unless you are mixing local and express service on one track - see the safety sentence before). If you are planning track than you need to start with ideal schedule and iterate around the rest until you find something that actually works for all considerations.
What is the typical state of matter at 3 kelvin in deep space?
Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that
Containers under the Hood
Freedom from corporate wage slavery and mind-numbing bureaucracy is of critical importance to me.

If you're corporate cattle and you like it, then good for you but don't tell a slave that they're sick for not wanting to be a slave.
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In this case, SpaceX is actually landing those Falcon boosters pretty reliably now. So maybe their secret proprietary stuff isn't as advanced as they make it out to be, but whatever they're doing it does seem effective.
He asked an acquaintance what would be expected of him if he took a research post. The answer—to publish one or two good papers a year.

Oh man... I wish it was that easy.
I have given it a fair spin a while ago and I wasn't impressed at all (too many problems.. even with simple 2-person chat).
Distributed database based chat isn't really the way to go to get something reliable (where nothing gets even close to IRC).

Also there are new modern irc servers around (such as Oragono) that integrate lots of things that are often missed/bolted on externally, like history, bouncer, authentication, etc.
Sounds like they know how to keep private.
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I think as a first time founder, I got too excited too soon. The things that I initially spent money on were probably things that I could have done myself for a fraction of the costs. Also, being impatient and wanting to get things done quick eventually led to not doing enough research on whom I was about to work with for marketing and so on. I think it also took me longer than it should have to say NO.
Wow I’m paying 500/year for $1M 20 year term. That’s where I estimated my numbers from.

From my perspective term makes more sense. I will have a net worth over $1m in 20 years and that’s more than enough for my family to survive on. The insurance is mainly for my family in case something happens to me in the near term.
The 1% Principle
No, what scales is us making our DDoS and bot detection not disrupt the crawling of legit search engines that respect robots.txt, don't crawl at ridiculous speeds, don't do dumb stuff like pretend they are the Googlebot. We have teams who work on that. You can read more here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/bots/

But let's suppose someone is building a new cool search engine and our ML stuff is blocking them. Then... contact us/me.
Local-First Cooperation: why does this thing need the cloud?
Say I’m interested in building a small scale domain-specific search engine and only just started development. There’s no prototype yet and may never be. In this situation, how do you determine it’s a legit crawler?

And what about crawlers with even more limited scopes (targeting only a handful of sites) that they can’t possibly be called search engines? Are they ever considered legit?