skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why create a billions of dollars worth investment ruin when we can also complete it and go the "stick and carrots" route? Let it sit but demand concessions from Putin. He wants to sell the gas, after all...
Hoorah.

But what does this have to do with the Topic discussed about Mexican Cartel operations against the police? Is it relevant?

This is not the right thread for discourse about SA. We shall leave that for the appropriate platform/post.
Todoist has Tags. They call it labels. It's no even in the free-version available. Just write something with @word and the app offes you to create the label. Not sure whether this will work with the API automatically.
I bought an industrial microwave without the rotating plate many years ago and it still works perfectly to this day and heats evenly enough. :) I would never buy a cheap, retail microwave. Not always but sometimes "I am not wealthy enough to buy cheap things" holds and sometimes industrial-grade equipment designed to be running almost 24/7 is obviously more durable than a retail imitation.
String theory for programmers is close to my take. I always think of the STTNG episode where the Federation comes up with a weapon to kill the Borg by giving them an impossible but deeply fascinating problem to ponder forever.

Cryptocurrency seems like that for endless numbers of tech nerds. It’s even worse than the impossible shape they were going to use on the Borg since it plugs right into humanity’s biggest cognitive vulnerability: gambling.

Maybe it’s a weapon sent by aliens to make halt our technological progress. 25 years from now cryptocurrency will have soaked up all surplus capital and locked it into a Ponzi and all our best minds will be churning out increasingly Byzantine coin hacks. Then the hypervelocity impactors start arriving…
I think the real problem with GPT3 etc is it's not really original.

It's a corpus of text so large and varied, that simple requests can bring up a few good examples, which can be mashed together to seem new. It's essentially a smart search & plagiarism process. I suspect if you could view the main contributing sources it would be less impressive.

for example, I was really impressed that GPT3 could write code - until I realised that it contained most of stack-overflow (including code examples) - no actual inference was happening, it was just search.
I initially wanted to do the same (needed a drill and a jigsaw for my project, never used them before), but then decided to go with the cheapest Makita which was ~2.5 times more expensive than the cheapest brand, for one reason: safety. For example, the Makita jigsaw had an electric brake (which stops the saw immediately as you release the trigger), while the cheapest tool didn't. Since I didn't have any experience with it, I'd rather not cut my fingers than save some money.
I understand the fridge annoyance because those things can run at any time. I'd have expect the hood and the food processor to not be much of a problem because presumably they only run when meals are being prepared.

My washing machine got a lot more annoying when I realized its whosh whosh whosh is timed to perfectly accompany the old "Badger Badger Badger" Flash animation [1] [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzagBTcYsYQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badgers_(animation)
I hadn't heard the name Nortel in a long time - I used to work for a company that had a lot of Nortel phone switches. Wikipedia says that they're now defunct, which makes me a little sad.
It turns out Ubuntu can be used with kickstart

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility
The claim of only using software that has source code available to audit never made sense to me.

Does he go through every single line of code on every single application he uses to ensure privacy? Does this mean he is an expert in the Linux kernel? And chromium, and sendmail...

Like I get it's great that these are open source, but it's really not realistic for someone to audit every single line of code in every software to be guaranteed that nothing nefarious happens. If a bad actor wanted to hide an RPC request, they wouldn't label it as _sendUserDataToServer(), so it would require quite a good understanding of the call stack on the functions you are looking at.

Just look at the Linux kernel, it's auditable but recently it came to light that a university had submitted nefarious code to it. Presumably that code passed code reviews, static analysis, and some sort of testing? Yet it still made it in. It's just not feasible to have 100% confidence that third party software is ensuring your privacy.
That’s why I leave my fridge open at night. It is good for the environment!
https://www.harvard.com/clubs_services/books_on_demand/

> We can print millions of titles (including Google Books) that are in the public domain, as well as thousand of publisher-permission titles right to order!

The selection isn't quite the "anything that Amazon has."

They also make note of the quality with some of them that are from Google Books https://www.harvard.com/ondemand/kiosk/

> Public domain Google Books are the scanned collections of a number of libraries, including the Harvard University Library, and they may contain notations, other marks, and scanning errors. Harvard Book Store makes no representation or warranty as to the content of Google Books, and Google Books are non-returnable.
Silly me.

I read that as Worldstar
So it becomes part of you by integrating into your DNA? It's only going to be a fraction of your cells that contain that DNA. I don't see how that makes it any more you than a virus that doesn't integrate. Herpes stays in your system for life, and doesn't incorporate into DNA.
Taxation and benefits is not even in the same universe as forced sterilization and abortions.
As I understand it, it was detected by the radar too, so that eliminates the possibility of a mirage.
This is not an unexpected move. In Russia, we even have an established phrase that refers to the common situation of hurting own citizens under the pretext of imposing sanctions on foreign powers
Mmm, I have much the same misgivings about the likes of EDF being allowed to go on spending sprees in other countres - including my own, Britain - when they are mostly owned by the French state.

At the less knuckle-dragging end of the Brexit voting spectrum, stuff like this showed a clear two-tier level of behaviour in the EU and was hard to rationalise in the minds of people somewhat on the fence.

I know that I - as a Remain voter - had an on-going irritation at the situation. Samesame huge state/EU loans to the likes of Spain's Ferrovial to go on spending sprees here too.

Perhaps if we'd as a country had a bit more spine and a bit less hesitance to occasionally mangle EU rules to our favour as our continental cousins were, our industrial Brexit-supporters (Dyson et al) might not have felt they were being so unduly hard done by.

Oh well, it matters not any more.
Has to be the same root as 'cybernetic'.
%100 agreed. It has been really challenging figuring this out myself over years when reality contradicts mainstream opinion. Scandinavia, Amsterdam, Berlin etc.; are doing a huge PR campaign to attract foreign talent with "we speak English here, it's fine"... It is all BS. They're slowly becoming more transparent about it, not out of honesty, but because of the rising push from right-wing/populist politics.
If anyone happens to know, can you make a lib in Rust and call it from Rust or C?

> zbus: Why oh why? also how?

From that link:

> D-Bus is a popular IPC mechanism [...] there was only one Rust D-Bus crate and [...] not happy [...] that it depends on a notoriously bad C library, libdbus. zbus, was created out of this demand for a pure Rust API that makes D-Bus easy and simple.
That would likely hurt Germany (by reducing options).
I hated that. It hurts my brain to hear a series of sentences that are basically coherent English but don’t carry any meaning.
Ask HN: From Back-end developer to DevOps engineer?
Hi,
any advice on transitioning from back-end Web developer (Node.js) to DevOps engineer ?

Already have the entry-level AWS certification for what it's worth.

What are key skills regarding DevOps that are not typically asked from a developer ?

What tech to learn to be credible (I know basic Bash scripting and did some Go, on top of years of Node.js services and APIs) ?

Java / Python seem to come up often in positions where I'm looking ? Also, notice less focus on languages and more on processes.

Thanks
That quote is about sharing knowledge not about educating people. Different things with different requirements, a different (related) activity.

Sharing knowledge is a well understood long lasting profile, education is not.

Also the 'need' for sister projects is an unfunded claim, a mere opinion. Actually the "bring you unlimited access to reliable information" that is explicitly mentioned in fundraisers already thrives for long without sister projects.
I don't know where the talk about evil individuals came from - Uber's billing is not the result of a single "potentially evil" individual. Instead it is the result of the company culture and processes. This incident was not an intentional decision to charge drivers to work, but still a predictable outcome of the way they operate, and thus indistinguishable from actual malice from the perspective of the customer, both in terms of result and predictive value.
I don’t know what you’re referring to, exactly. I’m pretty sure you’re talking about the post linked above but I don’t remember reading that in it. It’s possible I missed it!
Replace crypto with Internet and you got a perfect article from 1997 about this new weird technology called Internet.

Where the author declares all good ideas and startups around this Internet has already been "mined to perfection".
Not everyone lives suburban houses, some live in apartment buildings with central heating that you have little control over. It's a problem for people all around the world in different environments.
Funny you mention it. I recently visited a site which did exactly that. It blatantly stated, that content is not available for EU customers gabba gabba yadda yadda and in the end it said "No tracking cookies were served with this page", yet ublock origin and privacy budger showed 8 blocked cookies from various souces on this site.
Yeah, thanks for nothin'.
There is a different project that grafts the existing rustc frontend to the gcc backend: rustc_codegen_gcc. The existence of both projects is currently very contentious, as there are concerns about duplicated effort and possible fragmentation of the community. Some of the goals, like the ability to target more architectures, are equally supported by both projects, but for other goals (mostly more organizational and less technical, to my ears) they're pretty different.
"To my mind" isn't really a legally defensible position.

It's unlikely Kairosoft, or any company, will sue in the US without first notifying. Courts much prefer you solve things without taking up their time, and so most company lawyers know to first give notice.

Given that, it makes perfect sense NOT to ask for permission. If Kairosoft is unaware of it, or okay with it, for the time being at least, they can just ignore it. If that stance later changes, they will almost assuredly notify (especially given the international nature of it, since an international court case, against fans, for something they're not selling, is going to be a lot of trouble and expense and loss of good will, for no real gain) in which case the translation can be taken down.

So legally, this is the sounder strategy. But you may be talking about the ethics of it. We'd have to define what we mean by ethics before really diving into that, but consider - if they were to ask permission, even if everyone involved in creating the game, even if the CEO of the company, were all on board letting them translate it...the lawyers likely wouldn't be. Actually, the lawyers might WANT to say yes, too, but feel it their legal duty to say no - "If we give them the okay others might etc etc and it would weaken future cases in court and etc etc". And based on that the company would say no, even though -everyone involved- there wants to say yes. Not asking, then, gives the company plausible defense later should they need to assert their copyrights, without actually telling the translators 'no' now.

In short, not asking, regardless of how the company feels about it, risks only that the translators will later have to scrap their work. It does not risk the company anything (and in fact gives them the option to allow their work to reach a broader audience AND to assert their copyright any time they choose). As long as the translators are okay with that risk, it presents a win-win.

Now, what makes sense to do -in Japan-, I couldn't say.
Wikipedia has gone from being a decent resource to a horrendous politically biased site in the last few years. Like Reddit its only worth using for subjects that don't have a political angle. The far left have ruined something that was good.
"WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil. It was published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, and later written also for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, and Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program. Starting with WordStar 4.0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
> Now ask yourself why these cities had “black neighborhoods” instead of anyone being able to live in any part of the city they want.

By and large it was 'systematic racism'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(law)#Exclusionary_co... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Racial_segregation_i... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town just for starters.
It's not high for a software engineer in California.
The Rust people don't believe in specs. (I guess the reasoning is that if you ignore the problem is just goes away?)

Anyways, their loss, not mine.

Until Rust gets a real standard it will forever be a toy language. For many (most?) people in the systems programming sphere (including me) the lack of a standard is the #1 impediment to using Rust.
Soviet Mars 3 was also the first probe to achieve soft landing on Mars. Like most of the Soviet Mars missions, it failed, but it failed only after landing (unlike most of the rest ...).
Sounds like they’re making good financial decisions. Isn’t this what we want?
Yes. And it still is less annoying to use than some of its successors. (Your mileage is intended to vary.)
Why is it unfair that middle eastern carriers are offering a better product at a lower price?
Creamy Cauliflower Soup
They were saying it was weird for Russia not to give clearance.
Why React is not Functional
Putting aside the ethics of eugenics, the tacit assumption there is that encouraging children is a good thing.
> How can we claim this policy has no effect if clearly people are still killing female infants?

Strong statement. Evidence please.
As I said below, one example of a significant advantage is not needing any sort of Rust compiler. It’s not one to me but it is to some.

I am not saying that the project is above criticism, or that there are no downsides to its approach, but this article isn’t interested in dispassionate engineering analysis.
> but it's really not realistic for someone to audit every single line of code in every software to be guaranteed that nothing nefarious happens.

This is missing the point. Having the source code decreases the chance of having malicious software by allowing random people to read the code. Anyone can raise alarm if they see anything suspicious and it's easy to check such claims.
I believe gcc-rs has a dependency on Polonius, the new(ish) experimental Rust borrow checker.
"The paddlefish has been dammed to extinction"
Are you thinking of the 1993 WTC bombing instead?
> Despite full Maoist Communism in China, descendants of former landlords and rich peasants today earn 16% more than descendants of others.

> They couldn't inherit wealth from grandparents, parents were barred from university in Cultural Revolution, but they inherited something

https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1301012672138285059
Hmm. i am vaccinated but no one should be forced to get a vaccine, it should be a choice, but i see where employers are coming from.
No 115v AC outlet (std US)
Sorry. I realize that. I just think the comparison gives the wrong impression because of how much more you can get in service from Sweetwater, that most people would never realize were possibilities if Amazon is what they are used to.

Was only trying to improve the info you offered a bit more.
Your test doesn't work because as a sender, your mail program stores the mail including the BCC field. You need at least some other email adress in order to learn by experimenting hwo BCC works :-)
Not related to dementia, but "Poverty and Witch Killing" [0] does a great job of using extreme weather (rainfall or drought) to estimate the effect of income shocks on violence in Tanzania. Roughly: negative income shocks translated into older women being accused of witchcraft and killed (one less mouth to feed).

[0](http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/assets/assets/miguel_resear...)
My understanding is that you can intercept a plane in transit in your airspace. The problem is that Belarus lied when they said they had information of a bomb onboard.
They deserve no sympathy, it was sheer madness, and it is.

> As ideas go it isn't an obvious mis-step in the class as, say, Communist economic policies.

No, it's an exemplary case of completely bonker policies in rank with "4 pests" campaign.

Sadly, stuff like that is very much intentional, and are signature of Maoesque political thought:

You intentionally make populace outraged over something very obvious, and then keep obsessing over it for no reason making people think it's a big thing, when it isn't.

When people people have something more close, personal, and painful to be outraged about, it shifts people's attention from an even more obvious fact of complete governance failure, and communist occupation of the country.
Wow, this really illustrates how much of an impact a skilled actor can have on a script.
None of those questions are answered by block chain, you just add additional problems.
My understanding is that it doesn’t answer all the risks you call out, it’s just that it is lower than the same risks and more for proprietary, non-OSS software.

If components are OSS then I have an easier time auditing. And perhaps I audit one section, and trusted people audit other sections and we can all run a trivial verification program.

Again, it’s not perfect, it’s just better. And it at least has the conditions for perfect review, while other methods do not.
CNNText (2006)
There’s almost no overlap between SOAP and GraphQL (еxcept that you seem to not be familiar with either of them).

Especially odd is the "scalability" remark, given those are protocols, they have no bearing on any aspect of the "scalability" of the implementation that I can think of.

Actually both SOAP and GraphQL are often used as aggregate endpoints for exposing internal APIs, often for the infrastructure of entire companies (see how GraphQL is used at Netflix for example). So they're predominantly used where you NEED scale, and REST fails them, due to the heterogenous nature of their clients (external and internal) vs. the "prebaked" structure of REST as a large-grain resource protocol (Fielding's words, not mine).

And the "companies that profit from complex solutions" is a rather poor theory. GraphQL was designed by Facebook, which doesn't profit from "complex solutions". Quite the opposite, they want APIs that are accessible both to their teams and the world. Same with Netflix. GitHub. Shopify. Airbnb. PayPal.

Where are those evil companies conspiring to profit from complexity?
They don't check the cargo?

In any case, I wonder if it's possible to insist on deposits for hazardous materials, proportional to damage if leaked - and harsh fines/sentences for smuggling.
The Rust people firmly believe in specs and are working on one (most of the activity is currently in Ferrocene). On the other hand, they fully appreciate that writing a good spec is very hard and takes time, while a bad spec can do lots of damage to the ecosystem.
I disagree. A tax on (large) inheritances being passed to children who did not work for it is more legitimate than a tax on your labour.

Ultimately you need to get the money from somewhere. I'd rather it come from: LVT, inheritance tax, luxury goods tax, etc, than from what it currently comes from: taxes on labour.
That salary is enough to sustain a comfortable middle class life and is not sky high. The problem is the ever-increasing wealth gap that has decimated the middle class since the 70s and that everyone else's salaries are gutter-low.
> We barrel down this road under the guidance of a great many economists

Properly understood, economics has always been harnessed as a tool to maximize profit for the rich, a bit like shady "doctors" for elite athletes administering performance-enhancing drugs, optimizing their short-term gains at the expense of long-term consequences, completely unlike real doctors who look out for the general well-being of patients. There are few economists who care about long-term consequences that actually influence policymakers.
I think that would be a shot at the bow. A shot across the bow would be to maybe stop buying gas from Russia for a week or two during the summer. I have no clue how much that would cost, but I have started to think that it might make sense also as an supply chain disruption exercise.
> isn't ketamine treatment just taking it and letting the chemical work.

Generally, no. Self-administering a psychotherapeutic drug, while isolated and without training, can have the lowest likelyhood of a positive outcome.

Having an experienced guide or trained therapist present - someone to provide appropriate nudges/direction/counseling or sometimes just for company - this is where we often see experiences with huge, lasting benefits.
What does it to better than Obsidian.md?
Well done Apple. A little step to improve privacy.
Please dont mix Austrian economics into the picture. The few "austrians" that took the bait for BTC are either stupid or scammers at heart. I consider myself the student of Austrian economics, i work as a gold dealer, and both me and hundreds of my clients (whom many likewise are "austrians" or libertarians) believe BTC and cryptos are a scam.
> the mass spying is a recent development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK