skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to take a personally guaranteed bank loan to start a startup. Ever. In any situation. No matter how risky they think it is. Ever. No matter what. Just not to. Because I love my family.

Once I'm convinced they understand that, I'd teach them how to model the loan itself - how much they would need to repay for how long etc'.

I wouldn't bother to teach them how to model the bank's risk because they shouldn't care, they ask the bank and get an of|er in the form of an interest rate.

But of course, no bank would finance an early stage startup with a non-personally-guaranteed loan, so this is all irrelevant because I trust them to never ever finance a startup with a personally guaranteed loan so there is nothing to model here.
It seems that the linked chromium change mostly mentions CORS from plaintext unsecured HTTP to local addresses. Why would this thing rely on that?
Im skeptical of a statement from the Union in this case. They may have ulterior motives to releasing a statement like this.
I like my Snark, but I'm a bit troubled by the instructions saying not to leave it on any instrument with a polyurethane finish, which I think is most guitars. Not sure how much I should worry about that.
What do you use it for?

Any benefits over paying with credit cards / cash / direct deposits?
Unlike real sneakers, not one of these look like sneakers that I'd buy though. They look good but there's something off about them.
Just like a full battery doesn’t get you to the next town… you’re still going to need a car. The important takeaway here is that without that full battery, it doesn’t matter what kind of car you have, you’re walking.
This just goes to prove that something about the politics in Xinjiang is not right.
In general this would not be easy.

One way this can be accomplished is by removing all shoes with such logos from the training data. But Nike and Adidas are disproportionally large parts of my training set, so this would not be feasible.

The other option would be to train a machine learning model to recognize said logo's and to use this model to remove sneakers with logo's from my generated images. This could however greatly reduce the variety of images on the website.
This is a fair criticism but the numbers still work out similarly if you look at disposable income.

The question isn't how much wealth the bottom 50% or 80% or 90% of a given country has, the question is if we should want society to be structured in such a way that one person can command upwards of $100bn and what having one or more persons with this much financial power does to the democratic system they are supposed to be a part of.

If capitalism means voting with your dollar, and democracy means every vote counts the same, how can the two systems coexist if the dollar amounts are so unevenly distributed.

The point doesn't hinge on specific numbers, those just define the exact magnitude of the problem. You can say you prefer capitalism, where power flows into the hands of a few from "the market", or you can say you prefer democracy, where power remains in the hands of the people (or in representative democracies temporarily flows from the electorate into the hands of a few elected until the next election). But you can't say you prefer both.
For a moment, my eyes switched two letters and the title I read was "Reflecting on Your Fears of Databricks".

I've never used their services and my company needs some MLOps, but the contents of this thread made me fear it.
So, mission accomplished, dear eyes.
" So it's not like Americans are ignorant of the term or its history. They just don't give a shit until it happens to them."

Most people are thouroughly ignorant of the evils their governments do abroad, and when someone like assange exposes it they are prosecuted hard.

Ofcourse many dont care

I think you are right, there is a certain irony to it
https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard is currently the leading FOSS keyboard, even with swipe input (swipe is English only for now and not as good quality as the proprietary solutions, but it's the first step)
Why is bundling a (L)GPL .dll considered a violation?
As a bit of a sneaker head, it's been quite fun to see how the algorithm changes the shapes when playing with the sliders on the Sneaker Editor.

Impressive that it isn't copying/pasting parts of shoes but actually building them pixel-by-pixel, I was editing a very AF1-looking sneaker and playing with the sliders made actual sensible changes to the shape and design.

Pretty entertaining :)

Quick edit: as a side question, the training dataset included all kinds of sneakers or was it biased towards more popular ones? I ask because from what I scrolled I missed seeing more avant-garde designs and wasn't sure if the model was trained on these or not.
BioNTech begins Phase 2 trial of mRNA-based vaccine against cancer
As of 2018, membership of the global top 1% needed a net worth of $871,320 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...
The world as a whole is burning more coal in 2020 than in 1990 (and 2020 was a big downyear because of covid).

But what's more surprising is that even in per-capita terms, global coal usage has increased since 1990.

However if you change your baseline year from 1990 to 2012, then global coal usage in absolute terms has declined, and will continue to decline over the long term even if there is a bump from the 2020 depressed levels (2020 is a terrible year to benchmark against).
I get that the title is in the theme of this-x-does-not-exist but I don't think it's true in this case. Many of these look like existing models.

The amount of variation in sneakers is limited so when you have 50k training images you end up copying some of them with little to no change because if you deviate too much you end with something that doesn't pass as a sneaker at all.
I work for a university research lab, and started to use Clockify to personally track how much time I spend on various projects (university actually doesn't have a timecard system).

Love it, and converted many of my colleagues to it who also love it! Very thankful for their free tier, as we probably couldn't pay for it from grant funds due to restrictive usage rules (this has to be spent on equipment, this has to be spent on salaries, but never anything for general administrative stuff...)
QE benefits those who already have assets. The rich generally have assets like real estate and stocks.

QE leads to asset-price inflation making those with assets wealthier than those without assets.

The rich get richer and the poor get relatively poorer. The poor get priced out of assets as their incomes do not keep pace with the rise in asset prices.

It is big transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

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On a side twist. In poor third world countries and banana republics the governments in inflationary countries will transfer wealth to the rich from the poor through means of financing "strategic" projects and loans that are below the real inflation rate.
I tried doing some full-screen 3D engine development in SDL through WSL2 early this year, and stood up an X server for it. It didn't go well, so I blew away the WSL and tried running VMware Workstation 16. That was okay, but performance was surprisingly poor. I did some Googling and came to suspect that Hyper-V was the culprit. It was difficult, but I managed to extricate Hyper-V from my system and run the VMware Hypervisor instead. Performance is much better now and I don't have any complaints. Now I'm wondering how this graphical WSL setup compares though. Any experience using VMware Workstation to compare it?
That is because it goes agaist the narrative that the only people that oppose mandates are backwater rednecks that have no education.

It can not be that high skilled professionals oppose having their body autonomy revoked... it can not be that "my body my choice" should extend to more medical choices than 1...

no no. this can not be allowed
I think his gripe is with the fact that US had, in some cases, created those 'shithole countries'
Two reasons:

- If the author already knows some language well, it’s rather inefficient to master another language just to create a new one.

- Rust is likely to be relevant for 11 more years, C is likely to be relevant for 43 more years. Things that have existed for a long time, tend to keep existing longer.
That was not optional. The gov't forced them.
Is this supposed to be one of those Twitter style "clapbacks"? What a terrible look.
Ditto in India;
Due to the uncivilized https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism) 1% owns 73% wealth in India https://archive.is/xnR7U https://archive.is/M4DLV https://archive.is/pOmij
Edit: After seeing the comments, I checked my REPL history, and the bad data was still there. luckily with the spaces displayed as \040. Turns out the offending space was \240, which makes more sense. Please disregard this comment.

If you're curious, the problem stems from stuffing JSON in the description field of an external system to do our own tagging. Someone (me) must have copy/pasted from a screwy source. We were pulling out our hair trying to figure out what was wrong with it, and I just stuck it in the REPL, and saw the offending character was a space. Manually deleted the extra space and it was fine. A quick google showed space was part of the convention, and we were like "woah that's weird how did we never stumble across that before." I am embarrassed that I posted this now. My only excuse is that I just got over Covid, so I'm going with that :-).

This was my original comment:

After about a decade of using JSON I just discovered the hard way that you can only have one space after the colon between a key and value. Atleast with the python JSON library.
They have to provide the source code for those DLLs, which they aren't doing.
Because you have to make the source code available to people who receive your distribution of the library.
There's a sentence in here that really gets to the value of AWS for businesses:

> So while your customers and employees are going to be mad, they’re also going to be distracted from worrying about your downtime.

This is incredibly important for business. If we go with AWS and it goes down, then it's big news and our customers blame AWS. If we choose a different provider, even one which is more reliable than AWS, then our customers blame us.

This reasoning obviously doesn't apply to all systems e.g. air-traffic control or stock exchanges, but it does for the vast majority of businesses, and certainly any business that would host their systems in the cloud in the first place.
Cancer. Surprising to me, as he released new versions of his software only a few days ago.
A less extreme variation would be "unsafe_because "X" " where X must be a string of length at least 50.

You want to do something that the compiler can't understand but you know how it works? Ok, write down _why_ it works so others can know that, too.

Would it be possible to write the above as a Rust macro, and mark invocations of the ordinary "unsafe" operator as a warning / linter alert?

PS: I actually wrapped most F# unsafe (= partial) functions in our codebase in such a way. `Option.get x`, which extracts a possibly-null value and crasheswise, is deprecated and replaced by `Option.getOrFail fmt args x`, where you say why you are sure the value can't be null and provide context variables to diagnose a possible failure.

e.g.

let title =
textLines
|> List.headOrFail "We generated the line lists by subgrouping the original list %A, so we know they're non-empty" originalList
“Welcome to the Amazon Web Services Blog” (2004)
Because enforcing regulations is expensive. They'd rather just take the revenues.
This article is really a reiteration of a https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler argument. I would've sticked to a massively less appealing, but more closer to reality: "We've been lied to: JavaScript is pretty fast, but..." argument.
Michael Dell on how he fell in love with computers
So? Maybe malwarebytes are doing that?
Also in Portugal most these taxes aren't even for people from the 1%, it's just taxing people in the middle class.
> There are some complexities in practice, but they can be solved with work.

At least one of these complexities can't realistically be solved but you likely don't care.

Certificate Transparency is not a policy requirement. Choosing not to log isn't a mis-issuance or a compliance failure. It would of course annoy most ordinary web customers, who expect the certificate you sold them to work in say, Chrome, which it won't until it is logged and they teach their web server how to prove that (good luck explaining to the average web site owner how to do that).

So, this means unavoidably the population statistics from, say, crt.sh are underestimates.

But, probably by a small, and even very small fraction. Dozens? Hundreds a year? There are two cases (besides mistakes) where people wouldn't have 100% logged certificates and both are small populations:

1. They know what they're doing and can arrange to log each certificate as needed for production. Some huge tech companies fall into this bracket, it enables them to get a certificate for shiny-product.example and yet know it won't get logged anywhere and cause somebody to pry into what shiny-project is before it's announced. It requires their TLS server operators understand how SCTs work, but if they're a huge tech company they probably employ some people who wrote the specification.

2. They don't care about the Web, and are only part of the Web PKI as a result of some historical happenstance they'd gladly part with at first opportunity. In this case the fact their certificates don't work in Chrome makes no difference to them, the certificates aren't for Chrome or any web browser, some expensive old industrial device needs a certificate and the ones they're using work. Given the choice between buying a brand new $4M industrial device or retro-fitting logging for the six certificates they issue each year, they'd be very torn and likely find a third way, but for now they don't have to. When the device is beyond economic repair their new one won't be part of the Web PKI because in hindsight that was a mistake.
You described a vision where “the assets still live on the blockchain, and a new platform can easily emerge on top of the same data if there is enough interest” — that requires copyright and hosting to be work. If the assets aren’t on the blockchain and copyright is handled elsewhere as well, we are left with the question of what value the blockchain is providing other than the opportunity to create a market for Ethereum.

Also, you may perhaps be aware that NFTs don’t usually convey ownership but a high percentage of the discussion confuses that. Whether or not that’s an intentional sales tactic there are a lot of people who’ve been confused on that point and left wondering why the price is so high for a link to content owned by someone else hosted somewhere else.
> since, as we know, vaccination is an effective prevention against serious illness and death

Could you please share a meaningful study that comes to this conclusion and does not ignore all potential confounding factors? (I don't mean it in a confrontational way; I'm genuinely curious since I only managed to find heavily confounded data)
They blame the weather or ATAC because then they do not have to issue refunds or pay for hotels

if its internal mismanagement then they do, as always follow the money.....
It might be more accurate to say that every atom in the universe are touching just a little, but the closer together they are, the more they touch. It’s a matter of threshold of probability, really. The inputs to the biological sensorium remain linear off the scale of discernment, but there are mechanisms involved in the sensing that have a nonlinear signal response, giving the very useful illusion of binary edges to sensory phenomena.
Free Returns Are Complicated, Laborious, and Gross
The ideological opposite to corruption is the set of all correct behaviours. This is like a opposition to law and order being seen as a political stance, meanwhile its a society per-requisit.
Metaverse Metaverse? Metaverse
Pachyderm Is Hiring for Go and DevOps to Build the Data Foundation for ML
The Pragmatic Engineer Test
Also in the Netherlands
https://www.trouw.nl/economie/hoge-gasprijs-brengt-kunstmest...
I'd say some don't like to hear the truth. But I get it. It's painful and unpleasant to hear especially when it comes to having any sort of empathy for the demise of fossil fuels and all of the related industries.

In addition to all the fossil fuel vehicles that you mentioned, you have also consider all of the industries and livelihoods as well (I'm sure you meant this implicitly). Those who work in oil-fields/sea-platforms, ICE factories, refinement equipment, and so on... If such a transition could happen over night, it would be devastating to so many industries, individuals... even entire economies and countries.

While it's difficult to have any sympathy for the incumbent/legacy/ICE car manufactures being "unable to compete" with Tesla and new wave of Chinese EV manufactures, it can't be easy for any of them to transition without significant pain. Esp with all of the incentives, laws, etc... that have set up over the last century. You have billions of dollars of oil subsidies, franchise laws, worker unions, and so on.

This where the government needs to step in. Fossil fuel subsidies need to be phased out. Training citizens with the knowledge and experience to work in these new industries needs to be provided. New incentives for manufactures to transition to sustainable methods of transportation need to be created. Old one eliminated.

Ties to and influence of lobbies associated to legacy industries and fossil fuels need to be dismantled, even if the only way to go about that is through the creation of new, more powerful and influential lobbies that represent clean and progressive alternatives. I have my doubts that Tesla would be what it is today if they had played by the book, no matter how superior their technology is.

Clean tech can't fill the void left by fossil fuels? Start promoting and evangelizing the advantages of nuclear options.

I guess my point is it's going to be painful no matter how much people fetishize clean tech. Everyone is going to suffer in one way or another, but it has to happen and it needs to start now. I know that there are things being done about it already, but it's not enough.
Yeah python is not exactly a language for the web. I know fresh grads and inexperienced professors claim otherwise but its not.
PHP Monitoring Instrumentation for Laravel Web Artisans
I’d argue that geopolitics have much more to do with the prosperity in the US than the economic system. It helps to be the largest English speaking nation and separated by two large bodies of water from any possible threat.
It isn't just the city of London. It is all the squeaky clean modern financial centers like Switzerland, Singapore, etc that help cleanse black money flowing in from countries like China, India, etc. Countries like Cayman Islands, etc. come into attention, but the heavy lifting of enabling corruption is done by many countries high on the transparency index. It is just that the people affected are mostly in third world countries so no one cares.
It took me quite a long time to understand what happened there too!

(Pseudo code, let's call them num1 and num2 for better readability)

num1 + num2
= num1.__add__(num2)
= num2 + 42 (that's why the order is important)
= num2.__add__(42)
= 42 + 42
= 84
Cars are a comfort utility for sure, but the alternatives are not viable any more. It gets really cold here and the snow gets really deep. Walking to town is possible but transporting anything meaningful beyond what fits in a rucksack is challenging in the snow. Stores don't like people bringing in rucksacks. Most people are not fat-adapted and aren't healthy enough to make that journey on a regular basis carrying that payload. The elderly would for sure freeze to death. I could ride a horse into town but there are no longer designated hitching areas or at least not many, so I would be putting the horse at risk. Horses emit CO2 and consume fuel even when you are not riding them. Most vehicles here are trucks and half of them are diesel. I have not seen any EV's in that class of vehicle yet. The closest is the Ford Lightning which AFAIK is not available until spring 2022 and that is a light duty truck.

When will medium and heavy duty EV trucks be available? What companies are working on these? Are they all-wheel drive? How heavy of a trailer can they tow and how far? Are any of them flat-beds with a 5th-wheel hitch option?
No, my vaccination protect me. They are not threat to me once I have been vaccinated, the data and science show this fact.

There is no reason for a vaccinated person to view an unvaccinated person as a threat.
I dont think you can ascribe a thousand legal, technological and societal changes to the gold standard
Huh?

1. In America, it comes down to do you have enough EBITDA to service your debt (DSCR) and when you don’t have sufficient EBITDA are there sufficient assets to cover a creditors exposure

2. Shop for the best possible deal because there are lenders everywhere when you have sufficient EBITDA

3. If you’re a person of color, it’s best to have a white friend call lenders for you so that you can get accurate information

4. Don’t ever sign a personal guarantee if you have EBITDA

5. All that other stuff you can go to school for but since your little brother is trying to be an entrepreneur he should probably focus on his business (eg. Customer satisfaction, product/market fit, pricing, sales, attracting talent, etc etc)
The increasing standards are a part inflation, at least as perceived by consumers.

Younger generations keep citing cheap housing of older generations. One of the differences is that in 1800, I could chop down some wood, and put up a home, with no electricity, plumbing, or much of anything else. Basic shelter was available to anyone willing to do the work of building a log cabin, and who can afford an axe.

In 2021, the baseline cost includes everything from inspections and licensing, to fancy manufactured insulation, to sophisticated plumbing, to meeting fire codes. It's worth reading about the legal troubles of people trying to live off-grid.

Same thing with cars. If I could, I'd buy a 2021-equivalent to a VW Bug, but I can't.

There's a mandatory minimum standard of living.

This has all sorts of cascading impacts, not the least of which are the power dynamics of wage slaves lacking a BATNA.
Don't give up on having kids because of climate change
I think you are all missing the context here. The "Association for Mathematical Research" is a new organization created by various people who got in trouble on woke math twitter. Nobody had heard of it until yesterday. (Their crimes are mostly opposing diversity statements in job applications, or favoring gifted programs.) It looks like a schism with the AMS (which more-or-less publicly takes the opposite view on these things), though they deny it. The impetus for the new group is clearly political. They got a few big names on there, but everybody on the board is already known for holding retrograde political views and I think they all signed one of the dueling petitions about this in the AMS Notices a year or two ago.

This is just a filler page to make it look like they have some content. It's not a serious list of mathematical software. There are good ones of those done elsewhere.
I'll have to brush up on this, GPL that's not seen by people say it does something in messaging or part of DNS or something, it would still have to be public? Use case is part of some web-app that isn't installed.
Buried in that article is this very fun and creepy link:

https://genesis.malwarebytes.com/api/v1/wai.gif

Not sure I would ever trust any privacy claims from a company that stores this type of made-for-fingerprinting data.
Why Mozilla doesn't host their own WireGuard-based VPNs? Could be a good way to lure users.