skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it's important to be accurate when you're condemning someone -

Gates never tried to take back Paul Allen's shares. That isn't merely a bit of nuance. It never happened.

The only thing that ever happened was the infamous discussion between Gates and Ballmer, which Allen overheard. Gates offered to purchase the shares in 1983, which Allen rejected. Allen is quite clear about what happened in his book Idea Man.

A detestable conversation by Gates, certainly. And yet Allen checked out of Microsoft in 1982 and kept his enormous fortune from it and Gates never tried to take it from him.

Everyone on HN would spontaneously combust if they were judged by their worst thoughts or conversations, without exception.
Hold Shift, type fund.
Creating POPs is not as trivial as creating a Heroku or Render like service on top of public clouds. While there are EC2s and public cloud VMs in various geographically distributed locations around the world, the instances in the actual POP regions are usually inaccessible.

Example:

- AWS has 25 regions [0]

- AWS CloudFront has 225 POP regions [1]

Partnering with Equinix/etc. and other ISPs to establish more POPs is an expensive and time-consuming process. Unless the CDN has a good edge-close-to-cities presence and a high number of those, users will generally not see value in the CDN.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/?nc=sn&loc=2&what...
I don't think we'll see a final node in our lifetimes. Improvements are slowing down and will become a trickle, but that doesn't mean research stops entirely.

Consider other mature technology, like the internal combustion engine. ICEs have been improved continuously, though the changes have become marginal as the technology matured. However, if research and improvements on ICEs ends entirely it's not because the technology has been fully explored but because they're obsoleted by electric cars.
Even if they restricted the training set to 100% open source code, that still begs the question: which license?

MIT? GPL 2? GPL 3? BSD? Apache?

They're not interchangeable, and not all are directly compatible.
See it there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0RZgDOkgM
Zylitics: Zero config browser based testing platform for web apps
What's the scandal? There are companies build enterprise features on top of open source software, there are companies that hire lead devs of open source software to work on it, etc.

It's about what they do to it after acquisition. If they mistreat it and it's popular enough, it will be forked.
The author has only changed the license text and README. No changes to the code base have been made. The networking capabilities of Audacity seem to be disabled by default anyways when building from source.
The model and attention mechanism produces Bayesian properties, but transformers as a whole contain non-Bayesian aspects, depending on how rigorous you want to be in defining Bayesian.
Refuelling rockets in orbit would be a use case for water sourced from asteroids.

Will Bezos build space colonies? Perhaps that's an impetus to mine for steel in space. Would it be cheaper to mine aluminium from the moon and catapult it into orbit? A lot closer than an asterood. And purer?
> Unable to connect to the model. Please try again.

HN "hug of death"?
Why don't have a look to european laws on copyright and text
mining activities? I think it is relevant: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj
2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMhgfD-Ib7U

2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7twXzNEsQ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbgHbYXs3cM

1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1pLqVyMEBA
Free open source alternative to TypeForm, TellForm, or Google Forms
Here is another one I found interesting:

The ghost haunted the hunter not the slide rule. As the year began a Chinese gaiwan had been placed in the hunter’s bedroom in case the bottles of Mai Tai began clinking. A brand-new Sams Publishing biography of great curmudgeon Alfred Hitchcock appeared on the coffee table. Because film history, when you’re into it, can get boring.

One day in early December, the hunter was in his house studying on his laptop when he heard something behind him, like a glass clinking. He turned to see the ghost of Mr. Hitchcock. The director was dressed in a tuxedo and looking over his shoulder, not at the hunter but over his shoulder, a look the hunter understood. Hitchcock knew the hunter was there. He hadn’t yet noticed the Chinese gaiwan, or the Sams book, or the Mai Tai.

“Did you make the movie Arbogast?” he asked.

“I think it was Arbogast,” the hunter said.

“It was,” Hitchcock said. “You may not know this, but I had to rewrite the ending.”

“Really?” the hunter said. “Why?”
How sad to think of a post industrial division of labour for mathematicians.
Wrong thread? Wrong thread.
> I still read $ in my head as 'string'

In my language it is a string, too. But otherwise it is only widely related to BASIC. It is also child-friendly and runs in the browser.

https://easylang.online/ide/
On the other hand (having no idea about the subject) I can imagine that the fact that plastics can't be broken down so easily is part of the reason why we find it so useful, for example to protect foods.
No, user testing helps with that. It's something you do before you ship.
A quick search shows that every ingredient in Tabasco is in Sriracha, with Sriracha also having sugar, garlic, and some preservatives.

I don't care for either, having eaten far too much spicy food to taste anything but vinegar in either, but acting like there's a world of difference between them is just silly. If at any point you wanted hot sauce, either one would do despite your preferences.
You serious? I could have turned that in as a highschool short story assignment.
> In a large organization, can it be done atomically or is there a risk someone else merges before you during the rebase?

It can be done atomically by having a tool perform the rebase and merge, and never merging anything by hand.

That’s necessary to implement the “not rocket science” rule anyway.
Is it illegal for governments to start their own social network? I imagine it could be a lot of fun. Have a section for the block, the city, the region, and one for the country. Create contact lists, market places, business and personal pages for each? Use the same laws we already have for public space? Am I missing something? Are toll roads the future?
Centralization of money creation at the national level is not ideal. There are 3142 counties in the United States. If during the process of national credit allocation we forget to send money somewhere, we could accidentally destroy a small town or create a slum.

An alternate solution would be to establish state-owned public mortgage banks, which collect interest payments on publicly held real estate loans over land areas roughly the size of a federal congressional district, that spend the interest payment revenue back into circulation on state and local infrastructure.

Public mortgage banks could also be strictly limited to issuing real estate equity loans and mortgages at 100-200% of the replacement cost of improvements whenever that is lower than the sales price.

When banks lend against the present value of future rents the property owner is pledging the surplus labor of future generations of residents as collateral and encouraged to lobby for artificial land scarcity so that rents keep going up. Capping loans in reference to the replacement cost of existing capital would help reign in this dangerous incentive while still creating liquidity for asset holders and publicly capturing interest payments that would otherwise leak out to global financial system to generate additional revenue for local infrastructure reinvestment.
China Bolsters Its Nuclear Options with New ICBM Silos
> It encodes the necessary information in the commit graph

A bog-standard merge already does that.
Of course it depends, but train stations tend to be in the center of a city, so you start from the center of A and arrive to the center of B.

With planes, airports are way off the city centre, I think that there are few airports (here in Europe) serving large cities that can be reached in less than 1 hour from the city centre, and that applies to both A and B, to this you add, unless you use a private means of transportation (car-taxi), a half an hour for the timetable of the bus or train you need to take to/from the airport, as it won't necessarily be synchronized with your flight departure/arrival.
I haven't read it all but this could be great material as a git-mindset booklet for a team. Great to see someone taking the time to put down common sense notes about working with git, rather than yet another dry "this is how git works" or "this is how you should use git (because i told you)".
An awful lot of things these days get called Ponzi schemes these days which aren’t really, although they share some
superficial characteristics of a Ponzi.

This isn’t a criticism of Strong Towns so much as a call for a better development of terminology to describe a whole array of economic arrangements which privilege insiders and early adopters at the expense of everyone else.

As an environmental economist trying to write a book on the exploitation of nature to the benefit of a few at the expense of many -
I feel the dearth of commonly accepted language on the topic acutely!
I'm not sure I understand. Were these Whatsapp and email accounts compromised because there was just a very high level of customization and tailoring in the phishing emails?
Since they have had most of the copyright for contributions assigned to them they can rewrite the few parts that they dont have copyright for and relicense the whole thing though.
Totally curious as to why you think so. I feel so lucky to have grown up watching connections. I even see the decline of this kind of education programming as the seasons progressed.
"Multi-track railways are common near major cities. They are not that expensive, because adding another set of tracks increases the width of the corridor only marginally."

About a quarter of all railway passengers in Czechia take the suburban trains around Prague.

We sorely need extra sets of tracks from all directions, because the current tracks are overloaded. Especially the faster trains from other regions do not mix well with the regional trains that stop every 2 km or so.

But it is almost impossible to build those extra sets of tracks in a densely populated major city like Prague. Lots of NIMBYs, the needed land would be very expensive, many buildings would have to be torn down, plus the centre is a protected zone (historical buildings) and the protecting authorities fight tooth and nail against anything that changes the look and feel of the inner city.

As a result, we are stuck with old infrastructure even if new one is sorely needed. There might be a way, namely, to build all the new tracks underground - but that would be very, very expensive.
That is the price to pay if you do not want to implement a comprehensive resident database with unique identifiers. Which UK refuses to do. It’s a choice I do not get (it demonstrably does not lead to a surveillance state and does not stop fraudulent profiling of people) but it’s theirs to make. It comes with consequences, though.
> notably by printing money or forgoing debt.

debt is a promise made by some entity to another entity. Any forgiving is going to require the promise to be broken, or altered. So somebody gets the short end of the stick.

Printing money is similar, but instead of the entity lending the money taking the hit completely, the "loss" is spread out through all money users.

Neither is good - but sometimes it might be the only good option.
REvil/Sodinokibi: The Crown Prince of Ransomware (2019)
Freespin – demo running on c64 floppy drive
Doesn't look like it's ready to use for a web app, just because the response times are so high. It could also be particularly high today due to the "HN hug of death", but I expect usage will remain high. That's assuming you want to use the API, which, while they don't provide any information about it, you could figure out what's going on by using the demo page and then inspecting the network requests tab in your browser to see what requests are being sent and what responses are coming back.

Another option is to run the model yourself by downloading the weights and figuring out how to use them. This will be a bit challenging especially for a beginner.

Assuming you can do one of these two things, setting up the web app is the easy part. You could use a framework like Flask and just expose an IP address on a virtual machine living in Google Cloud Platform or AWS.

Hope that helps.
> The man initiates the break, and while he has several complaints, his biggest seems to be that she’s become too reluctant to have sex.

Tell me about it. At the same time she is slowly losing her youthful beauty, she is withdrawing from sexual activities, making it really hard for men to think their marriage is still a good proposition. Seems to happen a lot. What can one do about that other than follow the cliché and try to change a 40yo wife for two 20yo?
It changed its name and the servers it runs on
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\ls and 'ls' works for avoiding aliases, but from a quick try on termux, doesn't seem to ignore functions.
after years of fighting with tlp and cpu governors etc and never getting close to windows, i have to think this is mostly an indicator how impossibly difficult it is to get comparable power usage on linux just because there are so many cooks in the kitchen sometimes. i really wish i could put a single finger on the difference but its apparently a mystery to everyone still on both big platforms
The way to UX improvements apperently involves forking WxWidgets.
it doesn't "get" a lot about the real world.
How her suffering and death (in 1931) compared with the rats is irrelevant to my point which is just about the value of the research to humans.

I can't argue whether someone should be concerned about humans or rats and how much and what experiments are worth it. How you balance one creature's suffering with another. Nobody can or has ever answered that.

I meant to counter the idea that transplanting a uterus has to be without purpose and can only be attributed to idle cruelty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe
So where can i download the binary without that spying code? I m sure it exists somewhere this is unacceptable for gpl software
> It’s truly disappointing to watch people cheer at having their work and time exploited

Maybe it's my information bubble, but I don't see anyone cheering. Currently Copilot churning out rather bad code. I am definitely would not use it. And my prediction about it that it will go like Tesla's autopilot for years.
Labor here also includes:
- planning
- safety
- certification

For example; you are paying for a crew of 10 people to do a minor repair - people to manage traffic, people to do the planning and legal legalwork to shut down the road, people to assess the appropriate fix, people to do the actual implementation, potentially different people to redo any line marking; the running costs of the equipment, transporting it to and fro; etc etc.

A simple pothole patch might take a lot less; but is only temporary and you end up doing a bunch of them. Resurface a stretch of road or a kerb? Whole different set of people and tools.

Arguably we can make this cheaper, safer through automation in the long run, but simply having less to maintain is also a simple valid solution.

Worse, because its driven by weather events, you tend to get all of you bigger issues at once - ie, here, high rainfall took out roads in the hills; due to instability. To fix it became a much, much bigger engineering process than normal maintenance; and it happened to three critical roads in a short time frame; so various authorities had to scale up quickly; and presumably paid for that.
Not just Windows. While this is specifically about Windows, you can view this as at least a baseline for terminals: thousands of fps are within reach. If you're barely reaching a few dozen, or less, you're doing something wrong.

See also his benchmark for terminals: https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
Should be called preposterous
I talked about TDP Computing a lot. We are basically limited by Cooling of a product designed.

How about another measure, % of CPU TDP? Or some form of TDP measuring. If it is 100% CPU TDP, I know it is pushing as hard as it can.

( But then when your cooling aged you will be running at 100% TDP but at lower clock speed without realising it. )

Thinking about it this simple subject is really complicated.
I love bash scripting, but never knew about the ability to redefine existing commands. It made me think that it could be used maliciously, for example redefining cp so that sends a file to a remote server as well as copying it locally.
Right - I get it. It can read over 95% in the absence of oxygen if carboxyhemoglobin tricks it out. I thought this might explain why during the pandemic, I could get a pulse ox reading of 85%, then smoke a cigarette and make the little bastard stop beeping.
you're right that im sounding like the for sure. but, someone seeing something niche for the first time often has gems of insight within the naivety as well to give credit where it's due - so it's worth prodding each time or giving old hand tips like elmers
Whatever "DevOps" is...
i think there's a clash of definition in that thread. Devops originaly was a job title for sysadmins with high automation skills and able to deploy to a cloud.

it later evolved to something much more management related.
Gotthard is impressive, but it took the Swiss 17 years to build it. Nearby, Brenner Base Tunnel is under construction between Italy and Austria, and it is expected to take 25 years to complete.

I can't imagine how long would it take to tunnel through the Rockies. Look at the map, they are far wider than the Alps. Getting through the Rockies is like getting from Denmark to Croatia.
Traveling, dating random people, etc. is mostly a waste of time. Invest time and effort finding the right partner and the right place to live early and build a life. “Chasing experiences” is mostly unfulfilling.
>This provides essentially no benefit because the act of translating into English already removed way more meaning than a few honorifics can keep.

It provides the benefit of teaching the reader about the culture they're reading about. This casual experience you gain by seeing them can help you understand bits and pieces of the language and can make it easier to learn it.
Humans experimentation on humans dates back to caveman Grogg eating funky-looking berries and taking one for the team.
Tokyo! I'm not sure if I'll stay here forever, but so far I really enjoy life here. I had many reasons, including:

* Car culture was really grating on me. Before I moved to Tokyo, I lived in Atlanta, a city carved up by I-75/85, where getting almost anywhere takes a 15+ minute drive on the highway. Highway traffic regularly spills onto neighborhood streets, and I felt like I was risking my life every time I went out walking / biking. I've also lived in downtown Seattle and suburban Michigan, and the situation was slightly better, but with the same car-first paradigm.

* As I've gotten older it started to dawn on me how isolating American cities can be, especially without the community structure imposed by a school / university. People talk about America losing its "third place", and with permant-WFH we now seem pretty eager to get rid of our "second place" as well.

* By comparison, Tokyo is designed at human-scale. I have everything I need within a 5 minute walk, which means I regularly run into the people who live near me. When I want to go farther I can always choose the appropriate mode of transportation for the journey: feet, bicycle, train, car, all in perfect harmony. For this reason, I also found it easier to maintain and build friendships -- no need to organize transport, just hop on a train.

* I'm still young with few obligations and I want to learn more about the world before I choose a place to settle down. I know what life in America looks like. I'm learning about Japan. I hope to spend some time in Europe, eventually.

* The political situation in the US concerns me. I'm not confident the US will be a nice place for me to live/retire 40 years from now. So for me, choosing to stay put seemed at least as risky as moving somewhere unfamiliar. Even if I eventually decide to return, I'd like to know that it was my own choice and not just inertia.
The really bad thing about C's memory unsafety is that crashing is pretty random.

Unless you use a plethora of tooling that patches over these shortcomings, wrong C code doesn't crash reliably (and even then it's not finding everything, only most bugs).
Yes, it’s not valid to reject a null hypothesis involving multiple tests without using a multiple testing correction. The simplest conservative approach would be to use a Bonferroni correction and check whether any of the M tests has a p-value below alpha/M. Clearly, these results are not that significant. The study suggests a couple potential effects. To credibly evaluate them, the study needs to be repeated with more mice and/or fewer tests along with appropriate statistical analysis.
Ive built some code that renders speech through a 3d avatar for youtube, maybe you would like to collaborate, it should be quite easy to plug everything you just described together. If so let me know and Ill paste my email thanks
Example completion. Looks like it fooled you.
One of the reasons why China built such a network so fast is the top-down structure of the state. If the authorities decide to build something just across your neighbourhood, you are in no position to challenge them.

Although I like trains, I wouldn't want to live in such society.
Accident: B732 at Honolulu, ditched about 2nm out of Honolulu
Power management in Linux is a bit wacky still.

I was running a super ancient Linux distro on this laptop for years, and had two weird incidents. In one, I was trying to tweak power settings manually, and somehow got the CPU fan stuck on "full-speed" for something like 6 months. Then later I installed either PowerTOP or TLP or some other tool I don't know, and it recalibrated my power settings.... immediately the fan stopped going full-speed, and it would only turn on when the CPU was really chugging.

Fast forward to today, I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04. Just letting the machine idle after boot-up runs the CPU fan continuously at low speed. Opening a browser sends it into full-speed mode until I close the browser (virtually any page). But it's the same machine, and same version of Firefox. So, something about this newer kernel + OS has resulted in the fan spinning way more than the old kernel + OS. Trying to figure out how or why leads you nowhere, because of course it's all specific to your hardware and whatever in the kernel has changed.

Now you might think, "OK, just turn on power-saving, the fans should be silenced." Nope. Tried every single power tweak that exists, and I can't force the fans to quiet. I can make the CPU run dog slow, but the fans keep chugging. Which is really annoying when all you want is a few minutes of peace and quiet.
http://thelivenewz.com/public/articles/PUBG-Mobile-Battlegro...
Larger than you'd think. Lots of people like to make a rich bashrc. Functions in a bashrc are amazing.

And lots of people use Nix - and write a lot of bash.
I am OP and, you are tight, I indeed feel that your answer is full of vitriol.

How, from a funny/nostalgic comment can you derive something like that?

In my world (France, mid-late 80's) IBM was known by everyone because computer = IBM. And computer = important, apparently.

Also the legend of 2001 Space Odyssey's "HAL = IBM shifted by one" was very much live.