skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few people, sure, but for the most part what I've seen people attacking is the idea that the Covid pandemic is some kind of unique crisis that demands an aggressive response.

Also, South Korea has very much not contained Covid. They've relied on fairly strict social distancing measures to stop cases outright going exponential, but those cases are still there and all indications are that an increasing proportion of infections have been going undetected since the start of the pandemic. (There's no way of knowing the exact number because they don't seem to have any program to measure the actual infection rate, unlike some other countries, and their level of testing is frankly pretty poor compared to the western world these days.) Those measures are also no longer sufficient, with cases reaching new record highs most days for the last week or so.
My favourite statement of the Axiom of Choice, from AlienAtSystem via https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4035.html :

> As there are infinitely many sets, instead of going through them manually, you have to find an algorithm [to select an item from each set]. So Person A tells the other player an algorithm to select an element. Then that other player finds a set where the algorithm fails.

> If you, for example say: "Take the smallest element", then I say "One of my sets is all negative integers, it doesn't have a smallest element."

> Then maybe you say: "Take the smallest element, or if it does not have that, take the largest." Then I say "One of my sets is all integers, which has neither". Then maybe you add: "If it has neither, take the element closest to 0 (in case of tie, take the larger one)". Then I say: "What about the set of all integers and all their reciprocals? It doesn't have an element closest to 0 either."

> When Person A gives up and says: "Look, there's some algorithm that does it, right, why do I have to recite it manually?", then that person has taken the Axiom of Choice. If they say "Okay, fine, you win, there's no algorithm you can't find a counterexample to", then that person rejects the Axiom of Choice.
Makes sense but Team B's patent would be for their work, not for Team A's work, right? I get that you'd need to license both in this scenario, but the actual tech claimed by the patents wouldn't overlap.
>Chang’s team asked Bravo-1 to imagine saying one of 50 common words nearly 10,000 times

I dropped out of a PhD back in 2018 all about the application of Machine Learning to Neurosignal Decoding, and that quote just perfectly sums up everything wrong with the state-of-the-art approach.

A bizarre prompt, an infeasibly boring task, and they somehow magically expect a machine learning to smooth everything over despite the fact that the subject isn't even generating a consistent signal to start with.
It was just a minor coup at the USA backdoor.

The next victim of US military incursion will be oil rich country. There's no reason for incursion if it is not going to be profitable for the US.

If there's "no democracy" in some country but also no valuable natural resources, it's not worth spending expensive missiles and bombs. E.g. dictatorship in Cambodia would be always safe as there're little gains in occupying Cambodia.

Same for Haiti. It doesn't mean that US won't intervene with cheaper methods like assassinations and/or propaganda.

US literally prints money, it's very easy for them to set up media outlets publishing propaganda non-stop 24/7 in almost every country on Earth.

FAANG monopolies are also a big part of this picture. They all censor all anti-american views and push propaganda. E.g., if you're from Russia, and you register on YouTube, you'll see Navalny channel in recommendations for months, even if you explicitly block his channel and channels of his associates. Facebook regularly blocks pro-Russian persons, groups and posts (including published in Russian in Russia). Many Netflix series (and Hollywood movies) continue to picture US as the exceptional country with exceptional people ("chosen by God") while all the rest are third-world worthless thrash (see Narcos, for example). Also, almost all the villains in Hollywood movies are Russian (Tenet is the recent example).
Yes! Still keeping the dreams alive that one day we will have something like that again. #shutupandtakemymoney
and then Amazon buys Apple.

and then Aliexpress buys Amazon.
True, but Nietzsche would say that socialism and subsequently Marx are consequences of Christianity. So it’s still operating in the same worldview, if unconsciously.
My biggest problem with Wikipedia now is not the bias. I can read through it and I never even made the assumption Wikipedia is trustworthy on political issues.

My problem is that the Wikimedia foundation is becoming more corrupt. They receive loads of money on donations but they need much less, so they spend it on events and paychecks for their friends. My stance is that if you want to help them do not donate now. Their spending is easily 10x inflated even if you account that they are one of the most visited websites on the Internet
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>> I can't tell if they're scripted or they are genuinely taking advantage of the people they are interviewing.

A friend of mine used to live in a small town near another small town where one of the episodes of Ghost Hunters was filmed. That particular episode focused on an "old historic hotel built in the 1800's" and the frontier-era ghosts haunting it. It was a very compelling episode but I found out after watching it that the hotel had been built only a few years prior to the episode being filmed.

My personal opinion is that most of those shows are entirely scripted.
I lived in Russian Far East intermittently 1993-2007.

I can attest, the industry been mafia infested for the last 20 years. All kinds of mafias been invited by Putin to pay tribute, even foreign ones.

The saying was to count how fast people are shot when they try to enter the lumber business.
good job parotting the propaganda about working in the advertisement webshit mines being considered a prestigious job
And then The Semiconductor Manufacturing Company takes shape.
Fun story: four years ago, I hired Adrian to move a second-hand piano into our house. We lived on a very steep area with a narrow elbow driveway. Adrian has this incredible spatial memory and fine motor control that I still find it hard to believe how he did it.

He loaded the piano in his trailer and basically backed his BMW all the way up with half meter at most on each side, slowly through that elbow bend and parked the trailer's door right on where we planned to unload the piano. Maybe 2cm away from where he intended to land it.
That doesn't work well with CGNAT or VPNs/Tor. That's why the latter is captcha'd more often.
You don't have to convince me that the git workflow is more powerful and affords more opportunities to recover from error - I completely agree and could go on at length.

However, the git workflow requires you to understand a larger number of concepts and I can personally attest that these concepts are not intuitive to new learners. For example, in Git you need to do the following, just to create a PR editing a file:

1. Checkout master

2. Pull master

3. Create a new branch off of master

4. Edit files

5. Stage edits

6. Commit

7. Push the local branch to the remote

Consider the equivalent SVN workflow:

1. svn update

2. edit files

3. svn commit

Notice what I didn't have to understand there. There's no branches, no division between local and remote, no index and distinction between staged and unstaged changes.

All of these concepts are like an unexpected speed bump when someone is trying to learn to accomplish a task; they're trying to do one thing at a time and are forced to instead learn 5 other things until those are fully reinforced. And we haven't even gotten into the various minutia of commit-squashing etiquette, rebasing vs. merge commits, and all the other powerful abstractions that simply don't exist in SVN.
The problem with actionable anti-procrastination content is that they have too many steps and to little immediate action. As procrastinators, we've marinated our anxious brains to develop sophisticated techniques to ignore any and all remedies.

The ultimate anti-procrastination app? It just has one "Stop procrastination" button.
>before universal omnipresent cameras and grassroots media to distribute

Back then people used to actually talk to eachother instead making some small talk in between stretches of staring at their phones all day.

>Whites who weren't personally perpetrators or direct witnesses of racist acts (and even those that were occasional witnesses) were less likely to be aware of the spectrum of racist harassment

I've never had a conversation with an old timer about what it was like back in their day where they weren't extremely in tune with race relations in their hometown with the kind of specificity and subtleties that twitter and other media today just don't have the capacity for.
Pointing out that it addresses a artificially created political problem is unpleasant but hardly be classified as a “bad faith statement”.
The collapse of civilization happened in various ways many times already, no wonder it's present globally in the unconscious. Doubt it's a specialty of West.
Wow. I don't use freenode so I can't speak on that but what the American government is doing here is extremely worrying. They're dismantling open society.
Well, in a free market supply and demand will match. But the free market is totally capable of throwing up "most humans die" as a path to equilibrium, if all the available energy disappears.
No, lots of critics of the model (like me) consider the conclusions of the model to be invalid. It's inherent in the nature of validity actually - a fraudulent model like World3 cannot be said to be "valid" even if a few of its vague prognostications end up in the right general area. Any definition of validity that allowed such a thing would also have to apply to fortune tellers, who often say things that seem directionally accurate but whose methods are of course not "valid".
N900 is legendary when it comes to utility, It's also when the smartphone manufacturers realized that providing utility doesn't result in profit as compared to black box bricks with just biannual camera upgrades for that selfie.

I'm sure there will be keyboard cases for the steam deck, We still might have to carry round a GSM radio module if we want that LTE/call/SMS.
I'm just trying to find the root cause. I see that is PR is merged by a contributor "xtuc". Root question is that why was this PR merged? Apart from reading/writing to other files in the build pipeline instance (which is a really good catch), primary problem I see here is that anyone is able to deploy any arbitrary code/javascript to serve it from cdnjs. Just send a PR, then some contributor will merge it without checking the release package content. Don't you think that is open to a lot of issues?
> Google just announced a new proprietary packaging format to replace APKs ... Once the transition is complete and previous APK-based packages are fully deprecated, it’s easy to see a future Android release that no longer supports APK at all.

I use CalyxOS. Most of the apps I install are open source apps from F Droid. But probably 20% of the apps I use don't have a suitable alternative, so I get APKs from Google via the Aurora Store. If APK packages are deprecated, I imagine there will be several apps that I can't get at all without installing Google Play and surrendering to be tracked and controlled by Google. I've already got a very small (Unihertz Jelly) phone that I use only for some banking apps that require Google Play Services. I could switch to an Apple device to protect myself from being exploited by surveillance capitalism, but the Apple "nursing home" is far worse than Google at blocking open source software.
In what sense are the iPhone and iPad not gaming related? Games are 90% of the App Store’s revenue, every new i-device boasts a more powerful GPU that they advertise on stage with top gaming companies. I agree they’d probably never be so gauche as to launch pure gaming hardware but it’s clearly a core pillar of their business at this point.
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No numbers exist, they are abstraction on human-created procedures. Even naturals, which are an abstraction over pointing to things and counting.
This isn’t an expensive server. It’s just not a problem that requires substantial resourcing.
Ah. Nice.
Perhaps, but I think the moralistic approach to it is definitely a Western phenomenon.
Yes, what a coincidence that as soon as the cold/flu season is approaching covid symptoms are equal to cold/flu symptoms
COBOL's big problem has always been verbosity rather than age. Fortran and Lisp are older yet both have a more positive image. Fortran and Lisp are each far more succinct languages than COBOL.

(Contemporary Fortran and Lisp have evolved a lot since their initial version, but the same is true of COBOL.)
How are they more existent? They are both patterns of recognized concepts in human brains.

Is it because more people understand rationals than reals? Ok, that would make rationals more existent, as they exist in more brains.
Well here's one example: Deepmind made Wavenet, which turned text-to-speech on it's head. Variants of Wavenet underlie most or all of the talking machines (Google assistant, Alexa, etc.).
There's a status report on the blog https://openinsulin.org/our-blog/spring-2021-progress-report...

But I agree, for being "open" there's a distinct lack of documents, schematics, inventory, videos, pictures, etc.
Simple rule of work "don't talk shit about your coworkers"

Paraphrased from the book "the rules of work"
Yes, which makes me wonder why hasn't this been done before? How were the standard length in today's piano determined in the first place? The piano making history and a whole loads of questions unanswered and need time to dig deeper.
Nice strawman, only problem is that I wrote nothing of the sorts.
I use a database that was designed by someone who understands one sometimes wants to run a migration. It’s not hard to add new fields.

Perhaps my experience is unusual having worked on a distributed database for several years but this stuff just seems like table stakes.
What is the axiom of choice... hmm... maybe a way to claim legitimacy for the recent spate of US presidents?
I've been doing protein pharma research and the structure is only a first step, then years of figuring out the kinematics and dynamics of the protein, figuring out how it works, how all the natural ligands bind and affect the kinematics.. and only after all that you might conceivably start to engineer drug compounds (unless you bootstrap by a natural ligand to tweak "randomly", but then again, that's how pharma development traditionally works).

Still, even if structure determination is not on the "critical path", it IS a big barrier that has (started) to fall now.
yes, that's my guess. there's 4051 of the things.

or maybe there's another exploit to publish a bad version of someone else's package to npm that is already approved to have new versions mirrored by cdnjs robots ( i have no evidence that this was done in this case, but an attacker might be able to do it. there's a lot of surface area to attack in build & release pipeline of 4000+ packages )
The Storage Capacity and Price are quite a pain point.
I really hope it will be possible to extend it on your own, then I will definitly buy one.
It's actually the opposite of what you wrote. Minimum wage is precisely "minimum standard of living", not a "minimum value job". There's no such thing as a standardised minimum wage for various types of job, every job has a different requirements that set the minimum wage. The reason why we (at least in Europe) set the minimum wage is to cover basic costs such as housing, health insurance and food or in other words basic costs of living.
Just 5% = do what you did 20 times and the problem is solved. They only need 1,000 plants.

Compared to all the construction China has done in the past 50 years, it doesn't seem that difficult a target.

> Also, China can build a hundred coal plants in a year, but there's no way it can do that with nuclear.

That isn't a law of nature. They can build hundreds of plants of any type in a year.
Seems very reasonable to me.
>Personally I would have preferred to die

You do, someone else would not. I don't see any issues with this, it's not a zero sum game.
Not to dismiss this course since I never tried it, but my personal experience is that I procrastinate a lot when I don’t enjoy my work, have a lot of FUD around the project, or simply not passionate about the profession.

On the contrary, when I got motivated by my work and feel excited, I just naturally stop procrastination. In fact, it becomes difficult to pay attention to things beyond work at that state.

My advice to people who suffer from procrastination: first think about the root cause, that is whether pivoting from current job is what you really need to do.
Also reliability: by using a 3rd party service for important parts of your page/site/app for performance reasons is essentially RAID0 for web requests. You now have two (or more) points of failure (your infrastructure and the CDN) each of which can single-handedly break your stuff. And the break doesn't have to happen at the CDN, it could for instance be a failed DNS lookup, or an odd routing error at an ISP which affects the CDN but not your main location, a plugin such as noscript, or many other possibilities.

Yes, there are methods that allow you to fall-back to your own local copy if the CDN copy fails to arrive, but that is adding further complication and could effectively slow down your page/app by getting in the way of some “make the initial render as early as possible” techniques.

I never liked the idea of loading code from CDNs, or anything else for that matter, even when the benefits seemed more real than they do now.

> Finally performance: … there used to be the argument that the JS may already be cached

For larger CDNs with the resources to have many widely distributed points of presence there is a potential benefit that is still relevant even with partitioned caching: multi-view DNS or any-cast routing can result in a user's request being served from a topologically closer host than otherwise.

Though I suspect that is you care that much about this small benefit you are probably running your own multi-homed infrastructure using the same technique(s) so CDNs aren't needed for you to benefit from them. And back to reliability: such methods further abstract away from the simple “make request, get response from expected host” arrangement and make diagnosing problems further down the line more difficult.
Rules and regulations? It's not a food supplement, insuline is injected, I imagine governments having opinions?
Yeah, especially when there's occasional extremists that refuse to acknowledge that putting one's own first isn't the natural state of things.

I guess the way forward is to build a sustainable future for everyone and their families. And to get everyone to agree it's the best way to go about things.
What is "BigTech"? Is this a term of art or do you refer to "big tech" as in the big players in an industry?

I see social media companies called "tech" in the media, but I don't care for that. I see phones comprising the entirety of "tech" and "high tech" coverage in some outlets, but that's not interesting at all.
> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction

I don't think the typical HN user insists on not paying for the software we use. I don't understand people who insist they want unpaid software.
> Operator overloading just seems like such a strange bugbear of Zig folks to me.

Not operator overloading; just overloading. You can't overload ordinary-named subroutines in Zig either.

> and then you know plus (with two arguments) has a different meaning in that module.

That's not overloading, that's shadowing. Overloading is when the same name refers to multiple things depending on the type of its arguments. Erlang allows overloading based on arity, but that's something that can be understood from the call-site code.
Thanks the reply and for the details.

> If you click settings from the banner, the switches default to on at that point

This is annoying; also, not allowed under GDPR. Cookie and privacy consent should be opt in instead of opt out. Clicking “settings” should not be treated as opting in.
I would hazard a guess here that taking the parameters and continuing training constitutes "using" the parameters. Then when you get the subpoena you would have to explain the thousands of emails and slack messages discussing how you extend their parameters... :)
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I expect the same. They probably will not provide much support for the operating system and just redirect users to the communities.
These days you bundle everything with Java apps too. Or at least that's the direction the JVM authors want people to go in (see: jlink and jpackage).

It's not a single binary like Go, but in practice that's rarely an issue. Most normal programs have more than one file making them up.
South Korea seems to manage building a nuclear power plant in six years or so, they don't have to take decades to get online.
Not to mention the countless rebellions that ended with the rebelling peoples' heads on spears. Farmer rebellions usually fail.
Just like Google.
It can still leak information, like if a companies customers have sequential id's and your id is 590 then it is reasonable to assume that the company has had around 500-600 customers.

It is usually not something to worry about, but in some cases you want to avoid leaking that info.
It has been tried before. What happened is that the established players will start giving it away for free until you are out of business.
Because it's illegal. America has protectionist policies for their big pharma.
Yeah that's also true. What I don't understand is, if it bothers them that much, then quit and find flexible jobs. Instead of taking legal action, talking to lawyer lol.

Its company's policy, they wanted to work there in the first place.

Nowadays people are complaining about everything
Wouldn't it be better to switch to a self-hosted copy of the file and retain the SRI attribute ("reasonable fallbacks" as robin_reala said), until you get time to investigate it thoroughly?
Does anyone know if Stroustrup has spoken in detail on Rust, the current most likely long-term replacement for C++?
It's a surprisingly reasonable and fair ruling, who would have thought such a thing is still possible.
Operators are a red herring here; what Zig disallows is overloading of names, period. Yes, overloading is resolved statically at compile time, but that's not the point (Zig does allow dynamic dispatch). The point is that a simple understanding of what the code does requires information available outside the unit (subroutine or even file). A subroutine can contain two references to `foo` resolving to two different targets, but you can't know that from the code in the subroutine. The meaning of a name must be defined in one place in Zig, and a name can only refer to one thing.

We could certainly argue on whether disallowing overloading is helpful, but it's first important to understand what the principle is, and it's not about the operators.
There is probably no good reason to use such CDNs nowadays:

1) The biggest benefit of using cdn was that scripts stylesheets were often loaded from cache. This is no longer the case anymore.

2) It's adding an unnecessary vulnerability as seen from this case.

3) CDN scripts can be (possibly) used to track your website traffic.

4) They often drop third party cookies which decreases your website load speed among other things.

It's best to just host your script on Digital ocean spaces or S3 and use a Cloudfront proxy.