skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a useless use of cat.
Oh, sure, but afterwards, the federal government wasn't able to impose its will particularly effectively. It's really hard to see reconstruction as anything but a failure.
And soon, I expect they'll have some form of EW suite to jam and combat drones.
Absolutely. Even if this essay happens to be ok I recognise that I'm fairly unlikely to spot problematic issues in things so I do like to know the context and give it when recommending so that I can give a heads up to those who might be more likely to spot issues.
Well, you were more than halfway to a Yugoslav-style worker-managed company in your first paragraph. They were all destroyed either because of the 90's wars, or by post-war liberal governments who forced dissolution.

There aren't laws against it, but the trouble with such structures is they need stability, so they tend to grow way slower, with new members who go in and stay (50-70 years for the examples below). That's not conducive to a space "race" indeed.

Alternatively they need some state protection until they are big and stable enough - and then you're living in full Marxist-cum-Bolchevik or Maoist territory.

There still exit various such cooperatives in Spain and northern Italy with from 12 to 30'000 members (also including industry). A lot of large Chinese firms also have that form.
Death penalty. Used to be for it, now I'm not.
Kubernetes is not for orchestrating container workloads, it's for making orchestrated containers __portable__.
No offense, but Masha is broke af
Can't wait to try as soon as Lunux built is available.
> "I don't know why it hasn't been done"

I hear so often, "I have this amazing idea and nobody is doing it yet!" and my first thought is, "There could be, and likely is, a reason for that: nobody will pay for it."
Doesn't T-10 usually indicate seconds not minutes?
I wrote a book on how to publish your ebook. The people who read it seem to love it but I haven't marketed it real well. In any case, you might find it interesting if you want to publish your own book or if you wanted to publish your father-in-laws unfinished books.

There's even a bit of information in there about using your computers text-to-speech tool for editing. You have it read the book back to you in order to catch mistakes.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00A4112ZM
I'd say one should judge by other symptoms: what emotions does the patient experience and how do they behave. If the patient is depressed, apathetic and/or persistently euphoric, walks naked in the middle of a city, ignores his chores or attacks people "because they are illusory and the hand isn't even mine so why not" that's an illness. If he behaves like an reasonable compassionate person and seems happy that's good - a reasonable degree of dissociation can actually make a person better, happier and more stable mentally.

Simplifying I'd conclude that this is not a binary but an spectral phenomenon: there are 2, both undesirable, poles of extremity and a harmonious middle. Naturally/culturally people are more inclined to self-association and a slight shift to the opposite generally is desirable. Dissociate from your mind but don't in a degree when you loose it.
in the video game industry, I remember reading a person (an indie maybe, but I'm not sure) saying that values are basically:
idea = 1
prototype = 10
shipped game = 100
shipped game that actually earns money = 1000
Plenty of organizations in which the marketing or PR department maintains the company blog, not their core IT staff. This is likely their "good reason".

Unpatched WP instances full of vulns are also rampant for this reason.
Thanks. I didn't know about the downloader. My actual aim here though is to find the text of a submission I posted there and I'm guessing that's a lost cause :-(

I bet that database is chock full of prior art that would be really useful for patent litigations. I wonder if they're selling it.
> And I paint people that look down at nerds as bad.

"Look down on nerds"? Are we in high school? Nobody cares, dude.

> nowadays skillsets and business seem to trend towards codependency, not independence

They always did and always have, for thousands of years. It's not new.

> I swear to god I am sick and tired of you folks talking down to me about this stuff like you're better.

Not tearing off on a spittle-flecked, unhinged rant because somebody says that calling people "muggles" is unproductive and career-limiting and just kinda not a good way to operate would be a good start towards being better.

People will give back what you put in.
Studying koans is not a very good way of gaining understanding of something like Buddha Nature; they're designed to create confusion. I wasn't in a Zen tradition, and I'm no longer a Buddhist; I appreciate your respect, but I'm not about to start trying to figure out koans. [Edit: aren't you supposed to have a master, when you're working with koans?]

Note that I'm not declaring Buddha Nature teachings to be heretical; in general, I think the really deep divisions between the various Buddhist philosophical positions were (are?) more political than anything else, and I've never considered them important.

I've studied both the Uttaratantra and the Uttaratantrashastra, under the direction of a western academic who specialized in the subject (and also happens to be an ordained Buddhist nun). I've also done meditation practices designed to deepen understanding of Yogacara-style thought. I think I have a reasonably good understanding of the subject, for a lazy, lay practitioner.

The accusation of heresy is because it's very easy to misinterpret Tathagatagarbha teachings as monism.
I do wish it was easier to publish and get short stories in a similar way to novels. Like, I don't need a 300 page tome every time. But even anthologies of short stories by new authors (as opposed to Sci-Fi classics) seem to be out of style.
DB queries in blogs (especially with this kind of traffic spike) are super correlated, you probably don't even need a cache if you batch identical reads together when the requests arrive within say 10 or 100ms of each other. Not a common technique though.

A proof of concept demo: https://github.com/MatthewSteel/carpool
On my games to create is still this idea of an AI generated super board game. For example I feed it in all board/unit/move/turn/winning/losing conditions etc, and it spits out a random game.

Players can then play and vote on new games so that the popular and good ones rise up.
While I agree that OnlyFans and their creators are certainly abusing this, people need to be educated. We can’t be talking about toxic masculinity, predators and other very valid issues, without naming and shaming the enablers and abusers of these issues. And those creators are certainly abusing it, while OnlyFans is enabling them to.

I agree that what they do is economically genius and legit; but it’s morally dark grey and adds fuel to the fire.
There are plenty of places that rent far below what they cost the landlord in mortgage/taxes/HOA/repairs/etc.

Home ownership, especially buying a home as an "investment" is such an emotional thing that plenty of people buy property just to buy property, the math doesn't come into it. Most of the time, even with the appreciation of the property that they sell, the landlord would have been better off putting their money into other more liquid investments with higher returns.

But, many people just buy property because they don't know any better.
plants can apparently sense water tens of feet away, through solid earth and metal pipes
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You are delusional.
Saying what everyone is thinking here... How many Covid vaccines could have been made and sent to poorer countries for the cost of this vanity trip ?
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Not with all of them but the underlying pretrained NLP model has originally been trained with text data of 109 different languages.
Direct link https://abseil.io/resources/swe_at_google.2.pdf
I’ve had a few pieces on my personal site hit the front page here, and there was no effect on site behavior at all. Just Apache on a very modest VPS, with some non-essential dynamic content handled by Django. I don’t notice the traffic spikes until I look at my server logs the next morning.
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First, these local laws were against Polish Constitution, because politicians cannot influence judiciary and now they can and do, thus, breaking Rule of Law. Second, in Polish Constitution international agreements take precedence over local laws. By that EU Tribunal is actually defending Polish Constitution.
> sort of train delay that's objectionable in Germany is so normal that no-one would even notice it in Ireland

New Yorker here. I noticed. Germany's trains were erratically delayed in a way that was frustrating, noticeable and opaque. Our LIRR and Metro North, on the other hand, run on time. As did Trenitalia when I was traveling from Roma to Napoli last week.
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What it does offer is a social support group for people who choose to be sober, and it does serve that role, and for that I can't fault it, and the core members are more fortunate, as you say, and use it as such. In particular this is effective because alcoholics/junkies tend to have a terrible friend group (all other substance abusers), and this gets better influences in their life.

But there is a huge rotating pool of mostly young people that are obliged to go, do not stay long, and often go back to their old ways. Overall, the program efficacy is in the single digits. I was such a person that went through multiple rehab cycles and periods of going to meetings, but ultimately I stayed sober of my own accord for quite some time, and these days I imbibe an occasional casual beer or toke, with no habit to speak of, but back in the day I used more than just about anyone I knew, to extremely unpleasant consequences.

Just goes to show their core tenet of 'once an alkie, always an alkie' isn't exactly true, and this is corroborated by a lot of other people. Furthermore, the 'once you've had one beer you can't stop' mantra is particularly damaging because some people entering the program internalize this belief, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy anytime they relapse in the future.
SpaceX only "beat" them to a landing if you're disregarding suborbital flights.

Blue Origin landed their booster 23 Nov 2015.
SpaceX landed their first booster 21 Dec 2015.

It really is apples and oranges until BO or VG gets to orbit. Rocket Lab is likely much closer to orbital booster re-use than BO or VG are.
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I'm not sure which parts do you find questionable.

The common geopolitical interests - true as long as you believe Poland is more comfortable with the West rather than in "Eurasian Union". Nordic countries are way more liberal, but they are wary of Russia. Historically Russia was often in conflict with Poland. Scandinavian Peninsula can be a great obstacle to Russia if it wants to expand west. It threatens sea routes and airspace and it's only going to become more important as global warming makes the north more navigable (without icebreakers).

Hammer and anvil - alternate names for the location of Poland (and Ukraine) include Bloodlands(Timothy Snyder), crumple zone(Jacek Bartosiak). Russia and Germany are powerful states and many transport routes lead through Poland. The Carpathian mountains in the South and Baltic Sea in the north form a sort of a bottleneck. Timothy Snyder is of the opinion that central-east Europe had the great misfortune of lying right between two totalitarisms - fascism and communism.

This is a bit of contrast with Hungary, which is now completely inland and land transport is about 10x more expensive so it's not as good for trade.

Or do you mean the Finland? I can expand but you can find common points between Poland and Finland.
That's one of the methods, not the only one.

The point remains that a launch is zero emission because of the fuel used. In turn it is perfectly possible to produce that fuel 'cleanly'.

I mentioned this because I thought that this was interesting as, IMHO, it shows that space launches are not necessarily ultra polluting.
Probably Yaris didn't work well on focus groups, most likely being associated with something that wasn't suited for the brand.

Or simply people liked Prius more.
True, but in this case I was specifically referring to Amazon, which you can pretty easily live without ordering on.

I have family that doesn’t have internet, never have and are doing fine. It’s quite possible. Just because you can’t handle it, doesn’t make it not possible.
> Latin and AngloSaxons have very different approaches

"Anglo-Saxons" are not part of the federation anymore, and stuff like "PIGS" is simply casual racism. Do Northern European countries have a casual-racism problem? Very much so. Would that stop a federation from working in the long run? I doubt it very much. Otherwise Texas and New Jersey would have parted ways a long time ago.
> I’ve checked a few other papers and think I’m tentatively confident in this line of reasoning: certain bugs take more time to fix (and cause more damage) than others, and said bugs tend to be issues in the design. I haven’t vetted these papers to see if they don’t make major mistakes, though. It’s more time-consuming to do that when you’re trying to synthesize an stance based on lots of indirect pieces of evidence. You’re using a lot more papers but doing a lot less with each one, so the cost gets higher.

Empiricism and quantitative metrics have indispensable value, that much should be clear to everybody I hope. But too often people forget (or have active contempt for) the value of qualitative metrics which can only be judged subjectively. Such considerations are naturally harder to deal with than cold hard data, so it doesn't surprise me that people want to avoid it. But when you blind yourself to the qualitative and subjective, you do yourself a huge disservice. Just ask McNamara; he thought he could win the Vietnam War with quantitative metrics and utterly neglected difficult to quantify metrics like public sentiment, both in Vietnam and America. I see echos of this in our industry today; we love to talk about empirical measures like the number of bugs, but subjective metrics, like the severity of those bugs, receive less attention.

Many university programs are set up to address this, by making engineering students earn credits in the humanities as well. But I fear the value of this is often inadequately explained. Contempt for the humanities and scientism go hand-in-hand, and are a worrying trend particularly in the tech industry.
I am confused, you cannot work with 20/40 vision?

I don’t know much about vision but my doctor said my vision is 20/100, isn't that worse? I am able to do web dev just fine.
Came here to say the same thing. It's a brilliantly wonderful place.

Also in DC, don't forget the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It's one of my favorite modern art museums in the world, and I live 20 minutes from it. I don't go anywhere near often enough.
Yeah, this is huge in an age where a lot of people are dinged through recurring subscriptions. You could rack up 5 or 6 charges and not even realize it, at which point you're out hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees.
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Here's a link to the NASASpaceflight video.

https://youtu.be/PGl8MRJheiA?t=7844

Despite all the criticism about whether suborbital is to be consider space or not, I find this to be incredibly exciting time to be alive.

On another note, the footage of these landings from either Blue Origin or Starship totally remind me of something out of the original Thunderbirds show when Thunderbird 1 is landing.

https://youtu.be/tGMppsrZoJw?t=153

Or maybe even something from Neill Blomkamp.

https://youtu.be/Tm0V24IEHao?t=793
An important distinction is that if you think that work under capitalism isn't exploitative you take on assumptions that make it very hard to argue that sex work is. It's hard to argue that being a coal miner for example isn't exploitative despite irreversible and severe, often deadly, harm to your body, but selling pictures on onlyfans is exploitative.

Ultimately the vast majority of work requires you trade away your health and youth in some way or another. If you're going to say that only some work is exploitative, you need to draw an arbitrary line, and I think if you're drawing that line to begin with you're going to include most people in the exploitative category.

Or you can take the voluntary association position and then you're back to absolutes.

So I'd argue that whatever your position is the argument is repairable. FWIW the argument that working for someone else and being their subordinate is always somewhat exploitative is not a bad one.
Patent duration of 3 years instead of 20. Long head start on execution but removing the ability for patent trolls to sit on them for decades.
Testing different methods of development in terms of speed, cost and quality is really hard. The most convincing approach to me would be a single blind experiment to hire two software development teams and have them build to the same set of requirements in two different ways. But then it is hard to know whether you are really comparing the method of software development or the quality of the software teams. So two software teams isn't enough to get a statistically valid inference. You can see that, given software development rates, this could become a very expensive experiment.

Last point. I think that even writing a specification down to the level that it could be implemented using formal methods might be the biggest game changer. Agile stories rarely come even close to covering all of the potential edge cases. If we had a process that required product owners to literally think through all possible failure modes (what systems of formal methods do) and write out how to handle them then the cost of writing specifications would go way up. Per economics, I think we would end-up with simpler specifications which might be its own benefit.
I would assume a place like that would have security 24/7. 24×7/40=4.2 Security Guards.

It's not much more than 1 watching cameras and 3 rovers.
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Well to be fair, they don't compete with Walmart. Walmart almost doubled Amazon's revenue last year, and that was during the height of a pandemic, which naturally steered people towards more online orders, something you think would tip the scales in Amazon's favor.
Reminds me of the (in?)famous tumblr blog: https://whartoniteseekscodemonkey-blog.tumblr.com/
I am living in Baltimore and work out of DC as an ML engineer. The commute sucks, but with because of covid, I have been WFH. DC has a lot of tech companies, but lots of connections to defense.
> Unfortunately, this size_t is also passed to functions whose size argument is an int (a signed 32-bit integer), not a size_t.

Is this the type of things that could be caught by a linter or strict compilation rules? This seems to be to be a failure of the type system.
Thank you. I've been circling this thought process for a while and didn't know if it is completely incoherent.

The thought process began thinking all mathematical equations can be translated to English and vice versa. There must be a shared structure to language and math, or an isomorphism at the least. The effectiveness of mathematics then is more about its conciseness, not that it says anything new about the world we don't have with language.

One "natural" idea is that both our internal representations and external reality depend on spatio-temporal relations. Through sptatio-temporal relations a sound might hit our left ear before our right, or that we have a memory of the past and not the future. Noticing these relations are what are brain is good at, because it too is spatio-temporally laid out. We could then imagine from this base set of relations we construct language and math, to capture them.

But, and I hate to sound cliche, quantum mechanics might be showing relations beyond this picture of spacetime. Does math and language need to add some new relations to its repertoire to capture entanglement and wavefunction collapse? Or can it get there with its current structure? It kind of depends on what QM really is telling us. But how to get there... If math and language were built from only relations our brain and body could sense, maybe we are in danger of making empirically-refutable mathematics. How would that even look I have no idea. I have come across philosophy of mathematics essays saying math is our most global framework, able to accommodate any and all structure thus far, but still open the possibility of empirical refutation.

I don't want to get too "out there", but QM did spell the end for our classical picture of the world. Math gives us the precise statistics (e.g. wavefunctions), but does not tell us the causal story of QM. There are current-mathematics causal stories of QM (bohmian, etc), but they too disrupt our conception of spacetime and relativity. If the world is not spacetime limited, then doesn't that call into question our senses and language and math if they came about in the above method? I'm not entirely sure how the classical picture fits with math and language, but they seem connected to a large degree.
"No, we don’t use Kubernetes - because we bodged together a homegrown version ourselves for some reason"

Jokes aside, it sounds like they should just use ECS instead.
I was in Romania primarily, many times. Have been to Poland a couple of times, but indeed I haven't seen this there. Sorry I was indeed extrapolating my experience in Romania to other countries. I assumed this happened in more countries.

The plastic bags on windows were really common though. There was a really poor apartment block just beside the office and I always felt so guilty looking at it. From the well heated office with free coffee.
> Accusations are not proved unfounded, he was freed from prison because of a mix of politics, procedural errors from judges that imprisoned him, and changes on how the judiciary works

You are talking about Lula, who was jailed after massive procedural "errors", mishandling of evidence, witness intimidation (bordering on torture), evidence inflation and many, many others, conducted by a partisan judge who would be named by the election winner (a win Moro helped him secure by preventing Lula from running) to head the ministry of justice.

Dilma's maneuver was later considered legal and not grounds for an impeachment.
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But specifically with respect to software engineering, it's really hard to do solid, repeatable experiments. It's not like physics, it's like sociology or psychology - which also have trouble doing precise, repeatable science.

Why is it like sociology or psychology? Because it's about people, not about things. Software engineering is not just about languages and programming techniques; it's about how people interact with those languages and techniques. The people have far more variability than the languages and techniques do. Cutting through that to be able to accurately say something about any language or technique is... really hard.
ably ceo: Our website is throwing 500 errors!!!

ably cto: Go talk to the CMO, I can't help.

ably ceo: What!!

ably cto: Remember when you said the website was "Totally under the control of the CMO" and "I should mind my own business"? Well I don't even have a Wordpress login. I literally can't help.
A similar story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222467