skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
filtering objectionable content actually requires you to build a strong AI model capable of being offended itself, so it knows to hold its tongue in mixed company

edit: lest i leave this comment totally useless, the chatbot engine “chatscript” has pretty good capabilities for disambiguating word meaning and classifying the meanings into “badword” and “verybadword” - its free/libre software and very high performance.

https://github.com/ChatScript/ChatScript/
As a counter-anecdote: multiple startup projects I've worked on with separate MySQL setups where each had just a single master + two slaves (one warm for fast failover in case of hardware failure or upgrades, one cold for slow analytics-style queries) did just fine with millions (to tens of millions) of users. No downtime at all for years on end.

MySQL and Postgres are massively more widely-used than Cockroach and Spanner, broadly very successfully. It's entirely feasible to run it with high uptime.
What does getting 'spotified' mean?

A company doing Agile poorly most likely would do Waterfall poorly too.
OMG, this can't be claimed as never existing, what if it starts to exist, this is too realish:

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microtoxin/eyJ3IjogIm...
I met a guy some years back who specialized in rewriting accounting software user interfaces. He was a former accountant, so he knew all the things that accountants needed to do with software and the order things tended to need to happen. He focused a lot on input order flow. He claimed that the reduced cost of data entry easily paid for his services for his clients, and made the people using the software happier too.

You really don’t want someone good with reverse 10-key data entry to constantly be moving back to a mouse and try to click on some random button or input box.
US bans China Telecom Americas from operating in the country
There is popular consensus that stimulus has change behavior. There’s very little evidence that is actually the case.
The Case Against Winston Churchill
https://texts.com/privacy says:

> Messages, contacts, auth credentials, account information never touch Texts servers.

> Your messages are sent directly to the messaging platforms.

> All end-to-end encryption is preserved when the platform supports it.

> Texts is a client and works like the official app.

Apparently all the code runs on the user's device.
If you look at some of the trades and more artisinal professions (plumber, electrician, hvac, welding, jeweler for some examples), the top matches are often things like "non-medical secretary", book-keeping and accounting, office managers, retail supervisors, etc.

That suggests to me that there's still a lot of cases where they've got their spouse running the office or the business end of a small business. That was almost a stereotypical arrangement for couples of my parents' generation.
Amazon releases free cybersecurity awareness training
Database is the last thing that scales usually so if you put a bunch of computational load on it besides queries, you've set yourself up for scaling/sharding sooner than later.
Umm, intel flatlined basically on chip development. Chip shortages also hit the sector. And the long tail has gotten to point where folks keep systems in workloads even if "better" solutions exist - because existing systems are working fine. 4 years is not unreasonable (now). Once chip shortages ease and development picks up again at intel useful life may decrease again.
Or just... being focused on profit instead of mutual support of others.
To all posters who harp on the "this is stupid" theme: I do agree, but saying this is imo short-sighted.

Much more likely, we're witnessing a good old-fashioned lobbying effort bearing fruits at the expense of the consumer and in favor of a small but politically connected group of businesses.
noun.
kölsch
1. unwanted drinking in or as a means of controlling one's drinking

As a German, I don't see anything wrong here.

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/5mgC
I'm not: French bookshops are really rather good.
Just curious, why? Performance reasons? Compatibility? Something else?

Speaking for myself, I run Linux on the desktop and Windows in a VM for office applications and so forth and it works fine. But obviously I'm not running Photoshop or gaming or anything like that (though in the case of the latter, Proton is already great and is poised to get even better)...
By what metric has Bitcoin been resistant to hard forks? How many forks would there have to be for it not to be deemed resilient?
Thanks! The values resonate strongly (rarely practiced in industry though - power, the pursuit of glory, and partisanship can and do form a toxic combination).
Permacomputing continues to be a baffling concept for me for a variety of reasons. The goals of permacomputing seem ill-defined and highly specific to the community developing these ideas. This would be fine, but these goals are created with sweeping manifesto-like moral and ethical verbiage.

To bring it back to this article:

> You already know the answers! They’d use less power; they’d be hardy against the elements

Less power than what? Are current low-power SOCs not enough? Do we need even lower power? What exactly _is_ the power budget and where do we see this deployed? Why would they need to be hardy against the elements; books certainly are _not_.

> The whole stack, from the hard­ware to the boot loader to the OS (if there is one) to the application, would be some­thing that a per­son could hold in their head.

I mean, whose head? A kernel programmer can probably hold a very different set of things in their head than a network engineer than a web programmer and so on. One person's "easy" is another person's "hard". So how do we define "hold in their head"?

> Basically every com­puter used to be like that, up until the 1980s or so;

Were they? Documentation and manuals were expensive and hard to find. There was no place to ask questions and receive answers like forums or StackOverflow. Computing time was scarce. Only in _hindsight_, now that we have web pages describing these older architectures and their machine code available at our fingertips do these architectures seem easily comprehensible. But at the time, with computer time being scarce and manuals being expensive, this mostly wasn't the case. (This is my other problem with permacomputing, the weird Lindy-effect exoneration.)

> I find this totally evocative: it’s easy to imag­ine future permacom­puters that rely, for some of their func­tions, on arti­facts from a time before permacom­put­ing. It would be impossible, or at least for­bid­dingly dif­fi­cult, to pro­duce new model files, so the old ones would be fer­ried around like pre­cious grimoires …

I mean, if I were larping as the monk protagonist of a post-apocalyptic movie sure, but otherwise I don't see how this is desirable.

I'd take permacomputing more seriously if it actually defined terms like "lower power" (how many mW is "low") and then tried to actually motivate why these things tie into their vision of permacomputing.

EDIT: I also _always_ get downvoted without explanation when I raise anti-permacomputing viewpoints which also leaves a bad taste in my mouth when discussing this topic.
It's gonna be pretty funny to watch all the bitcoin people go into a tizzy when the banks buy a ton of bitcoin and start to regulate the economy by changing the money supply at will. It doesn't matter if there's some kind of theoretical cap on the supply. Say the bank buys 50% of the money supply, they can then double the number of coins at will. If they buy 90%, they can increase it by 10x.
It's a refinement of a lightweight version of GPT-2 by Hugging Face -- https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/gpt2.html. I don't recall exact numbers, but once I had the structure of the problem right (i.e. sequencing words, part of speech and definitions) it was around 12 hours on my old 1080 TI.
This narrative presents “the media” as one collective group. People have different opinions even within the same program so of course they’ll have different points of view across an organization. The people working there are also human, bias and all.
Plus, that can be in addition to having JSON too.

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 271.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> '#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]}
#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]}

What is that literal syntax?

2> (typeof '#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]})
cons

cons-cell based object under the hood.

3> (car '#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]})
json
4> (cadr '#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]})
quote

It has a (json quote ...) structure.

5> (caddr '#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]})
#H(() ("foo" #(1.0 2.0 3.0 "bar")))

Followed by a hash table object. We can convert that to a vector to see it all:

6> (vec-list '#J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]})
#(json quote #H(() ("foo" #(1.0 2.0 3.0 "bar"))))

Now actually eval it instead of quoting

7> #J{"foo":[1,2,3,"bar"]}
#H(() ("foo" #(1.0 2.0 3.0 "bar")))

The embedded hash table denoted by the literal is regurgitated.

We can quasiquote JSON:

;; ^ is quasiquote in this dialect not `
1> ^(,(+ 2 2) ,(list 1 2 3))
(4 (1 2 3))

;; cannot use , in JSON for unquoting, so ~ is used:
2> ^#J["foo", ~(+ 2 2.0)]
#J["foo",4]

The quasiquote can be pattern-matched:

3> (match ^#J[~x, ~y] #(1.0 "foo") (list x y))
(1.0 "foo")

Or, using JSON syntax on the right side, which produces the same vector:

4> (match ^#J[~x, ~y] #J[1.0, "foo"] (list x y))
(1.0 "foo")
> Modern monetary theory isn't doing fine and neither are the countries with fiat currencies. They're all in absolute crisis because their economies are built on ever-shifting quicksand.

Okay. What countries use representative currencies and how are they doing?

> The "gold standard" isn't a theory of economics, it's an observation. Money is a medium of exchange - a mechanism for judging the relative value of unlike goods. That is literally impossible if the thing used as money is non-economic, like fiat currency.

Are you saying the world economy is literally impossible?

> The money must be itself a tradeable commodity. Commodities that are useful as money have all the traditional traits you learn in elementary school, and gold is the traditional and current best fit for those traits.

You just said money a medium of exchange. As long as both parties agree to the transaction, and it wasn't a barter, whatever wasn't the good or service was the money.

And you don't mean the money must be a trade-able commodity. No one is going to walk around with a set of weights and tubs of water to determine the purity of coins so they can buy or sell a sandwich. You're making the argument that if the currency could be exchanged for lumps of metal at a treasury office that it would somehow be an improvement.

> Belief in the viability of "monetary policy" and fiat currencies always comes from a belief that no one can really know how economics works, so whatever anyone does right now might not work in the future.

I honestly have no idea what you're saying here. Which economists claim that no one can know how economies work?

> Well, obviously that's going to be true of people who refuse to learn what economics as a field actually is.

So far the fiat currency system has been a part of the most rapid progression of technology and trade in recorded history. I'm not saying it was the driver behind it, but that has been the dominant currency system in place for the last 70ish years. It absolutely has flaws, and absolutely can be ruined by corruption and poor governance. It also works so well that people who hate fiat currencies still use them every day. I'd bet .225 ounces of 99% pure gold alloy that you bought your lunch with it.

I wonder how much money that is.
there are fun types of gameplay that can’t happen without client authority. you can make an aimbot either way so it isn’t a huge deal. like you i had a hard time accepting that pubg using client aide hit detection maee any sense, but after playing it a lot and thinking hard about it I changed my mind. That game is all about pixel perfect aiming. Lag compensation wouldn’t cut it.
> Reason 4 - Vaccines can stop your pregnancy or your period and make you stink

> I have seen zero cases of this, and everyone who's had a vaccine to my nose do not smell, and still have period and can get pregnant.

> I'd give this one a 0.000000000000000001% chance.

VAERS is tracking the following:

17,128 DEATHS

83,412 HOSPITALIZATIONS

92,017 URGENT CARE

127,641 DOCTOR OFFICE VISITS

7,532 ANAPHYLAXIS

10,179 BELL'S PALSY

2,631 Miscarriages

8,408 Heart Attacks

10,304 Myocarditis/Pericarditis

26,199 Permanently Disabled

3,875 Thrombocytopenia/Low Platelet

18,925 Life Threatening

31,753 Severe Allergic Reaction

9,734 Shingles

2,631 Miscarriage

15,158 Menstrual Disorders

5,401 Vaginal/Uterine Haemorrhage (All Ages)

The key question about VAERS data is, how bad is the under-reporting of side effects? The allegations of under-reporting ratios are all over the place, from as low as 1 to 3 undercount, to as bad as 1 to 100 undercount.

We really don't know how bad the situation is, or isn't. We just know there are side effects and some of them are non-trivial.
Alright! Someone shilling on my behalf. Say what you want about NFTs, every time I see one of the homers sell it brings a big smile to my face.
Yep Amazon is mostly great
Even the largest news organizations can no longer afford to staff large investigative teams who can research on stories for months and go through tens of thousands of documents to produce few stories.

The collusion is a far lesser problem than getting the story at all, that capacity is diminishing every year.
BTC is mainstream in all the ways that don’t matter. Fundamentally, it doesn’t work for everyday transactions. The only transactions for BTC now are through exchanges where the exchange never actually passes “physical” ownership to the bankee. That’s antithetical to the whole point of BTC.

BTC now is just mass FOMO over not coming in to the Ponzi scheme early enough to still make money.
Difficulty cannot scale downwards to the level you describe because then it ceases to be Bitcoin. It's supposed to be extremely difficult, this is what secures digital scarcity.

It doesn't help to speak in simplistic absolutes. Miners can definitely become more green and rapidly so. The massive move from China to the US that took place over the last few months likely has dramatically changed the energy mix to mine Bitcoin, for the better. There's also a Bitcoin mining council to promote best practices in renewable mining. There can be additional incentive structures (CO2 tax) to further discourage dirty mining.
Regarding website [4] - I agree with you, I just showed it as an interesting example of what might be found.

But regarding bwo.life, I think you are missing the forest for the trees. I read quite a lot of articles on that site and your comment in no way disagrees with anything written there. Honestly speaking - I got the impression you just wanted to highlight some details you happen to know about development due to your field of work. And you disagree in the first paragraph, saying that there is some natural selection between cells. But then, it seems obvious that survival of the fittest cells cannot explain development alone, so you backtrack and say that this is not the full story while somehow remaining in disagreement with the author. I don't get it.
Press "write your own" and it'll make up a definition for you :)
I wonder how many of the hard copies were bought as gifts or purchased by wandering tourists looking for a paper companion.
Doing Waterfall correctly is easy. Spend 1 year planning, 3-5 years building, 1 year testing, then release. Find out you built the wrong thing, enjoy the earnings from your $10 billion government contract, and start another cycle.
This is such a common fallacy in this topic. They imply people will do these drugs just because they are legal. Does everyone is smoking cigs? Or drinking alcohol? Or taking psychedelic seeds and plants that in a lot of countries are not defined as illegal? No sense.
> GLSL supports the ternary ?: operator. WGSL does not support this, but provides the built-in function select(falseValue, trueValue, condition) which does much the same thing (although mind that parameter order!).

I'd really like to hear a justification for that parameter order. To me it seems like the 4th best option out of 6.
Nah, we've successfully reduced spending on Amazon by >90% in our household.

There are still some obscure items that, due to the sheer spread of Amazon, are incredibly difficult to get anywhere else, online or off - but that was Amazon's original market benefit to begin with. You could always get that weird book on Amazon that you couldn't get in the book store.
There's nothing better than knowing everything and never having to play around with settings to discover what they do, never forgetting what you've set your settings to, and not having children, family members, or friends do the same. There's no way any reasonable person could ever have their uploads accidentally turned on without their full knowledge and consent so that definitely invalidates any reason to argue against the idea that client-side scanning is unreasonable because it only happens to things that you wanted to upload anyway.

There's definitely no way a new version could patch your system and turn something on without your knowledge. No, there's absolutely never been a situation where some new setting has shown up and you didn't know what it does or inspected what it was set to by default. And there's absolutely no way you could have restored a backup and not had all of your settings transfer over correctly. No, there's no way you'll ever turn the setting on and forget that it's on when you plug your device into some network. And you know you will never be the victim of any malicious activity that could screw you over in some way. You've never had some app automatically connect to something that you didn't know it could even connect to. You'll never have someone else pick up your phone and take random pictures or recordings that you don't know about because those would never get automatically uploaded because, of course, you didn't turn on that setting for yourself. You'll never have to worry about your battery going low because you turned on automatic uploads and not only did your upload happen but your device also scanned your uploads too. You never use your phone for work because your work definitely pays for a new device for you to use for work.

Gosh it sure is weird hat so many people don't want client-side scanning. Scanning your device before uploading anything is just a very reasonable thing to do.

/s
As someone who's never used this API: is there some kind of permission prompt for this before websites start trying to use my GPU for crypto mining? Most CPU crypto miners were basically worthless, but GPU power is a whole lot more powerful.
The entire copyright industry for example.

You mean like... books?
> This study captures P(running into a profession) x P(preference for that profession). I would love to them model P(running into a profession), so that we could get the much juicer preferences of each group for various professions.

The page links to a different visualization of the same data, [0] which attempts to control for the prevalence of a job within the population.

Maybe it doesn't go far enough for you but that's a pretty big first step in that model.

[0] https://flowingdata.com/2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/
That's the job of an API IMO.
Ah crap, good call. I did a first-pass at filtering for the ones displayed on the site but my regex must have had some misses.
Great for who?
The USA is the geothermal king, top of the world, so it'd be exciting for them to up their game, no one else is.

The depths they are talking about here would be in the top 10 deepest holes and they need to go sideways, unheard of, so it's pushing technology which is also exciting.

Geothermal doesn't rely on supply chains for fuel so the military might help with funding.

I expect it's not economical, but it's a cool thing to try, bring back 50's science, we need to continue fighting the Woke.

This is just a 'study' which generally is code for won't happen, but it would be good if it did, good on Texas - https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/sage-geosystems-to-explore-ge...
Seems like a harsh but fair move on France's part to stop unfairly subsidizing rural areas. Honestly living in rural areas should cost more - maintenance of infrastructure, power, etc are significantly more costly for rural areas in a way that's not nearly accounted for by their tax base.
What is so special about that port? Is it the default of a framework?
> With vanilla MySQL there are limits to how big a database can get.

It's always been unclear to me what these limits are in practice. Is it a certain combination of the number of rows for table size in GBs?
I saw an X appear above the box. Clicking it closed the newsletter. I'm on a desktop browser. Might be different on mobile.
I was in B+N last summer, and as I recall they had 6 full shelves of "Trump Is Bad" books. I amuse myself by collecting them, and have 36 so far (all different). I pick them up at the thrift store for a buck or two.

I started a Biden collection, but only one book so far. Things that make you go hmmmm....
I'm sure people would want to have an ETF for pre exit companies in the same way that they'd like to have a NYSE without SEC oversight.

I'm pretty sure there are rules which involve "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, legally it's now a duck" which make it hard to trade pre-exit companies with any kind of useful liquidity.
Yup, WMT most recently reported $566B in revenue.
Dengue. The initial vaccine did not target all subtypes of dengue, causing "severe dengue" in infections after a naive individual was vaccinated. The same could happen if someone moved from one region to another, since the subtypes inhabit different regions. Your body will respond to one subtype's antigens primarily with it's initial conditioning. If you weren't conditioned with that subtype, you get original antigenic sin / severe dengue

https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/prevention/dengue-vaccine.html

The worst-case scenario for a vaccine is not "no immunity", it is negative immunity. If your adaptive immune response outcompetes your innate immune response in binding to antigens, but does not neutralize them, then your immune system will struggle to fight off an infection
The only way the number of bitcoins can change is if they change the hardcoded amount. JPMorgan could buy 50% of all bitoin made tomorrow, but they'll have done nothing to the actual bitcoin protocol.
Francophone universities are significantly cheaper, but you have to speak French.

As a Montrealer the thought of paying 53 000$ to study a year at McGill is insane to me. Especially since international students have to study one more year than those from Quebec!

McGill being more expensive than other universities is a large part of why I chose not to study there, and that was only around 10 000$ extra over my whole degree.
"Get Signal, it _probably_ won't send random pictures to your friends."
Funny enough, my anecdata has been the inverse. Thats is being a software engineer has been sufficient evidence for people to walk away without even getting to know me. Which is definitely interesting because I've had people say "I cant believe you're an engineer, you're nothing like the other engineers I know" outside my work context.