skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What problem are they trying to solve?

"cheating" on HackerRank is trivially simple - just have a second computer that you can search for the answer on. Removing some of the github repos for this is really not going to solve that problem.

But that's not really cheating. HackerRank is used to test programmers during recruitment, and I don't know a single programmer that doesn't search for an answer when stumped with a difficult question. Hell, it's Best Practice - why waste time thinking up your own (probably flawed) answer to a problem when there's an entire internet full of working solutions? As any experienced programmer knows, "google-fu" is an essential skill for a commercial coder. They should be giving points for "minimum number of searches needed to find a solution" on HackerRank, instead of trying to stop solutions being available.

The problem here, really, is that using HackerRank as anything but an educational toy is universally stupid. But that would involve explaining difficult things to HR people, and that's a difficult problem that we can't search for an answer to.
Q: A managed db, API and tile-service specifically for mobility data
Would people be interested in a managed database service, API & tile-service specifically for mobility data, trajectories & moving objects? So they can build mobility & transportation analysis apps. I'm pretty close to an MVP but wanted to ask if there is interest or even existing solutions.
> To all of the questions that the person asks, it makes appropriate responses, such that any Chinese speaker would be convinced that they are talking to another Chinese-speaking human being.

This is a fallacy, regardless of the language. Some comms between conscious entities must always contain metaphoric language, including signaling through body language. A shrug is a metaphor for uncertainty. This is why the premise of the Chinese Room is true (we can’t build a mind in a box) but also why conscious machines will necessarily have to have bodies.

Anything that is conscious and can hold a (real) dialog with a human will have emotional output tied to the body and it’s collective experience.
> exact number of rows scanned etc

I'm reading MySQL docs [1] and I can't figure out which value in the example output corresponds to the "exact number of rows scanned".

> It’s a pity that not too many backend engineers know about it now a days.

I use EXPLAIN with PostgreSQL when needed but mostly focus on the execution time, not the number of rows scanned (reading a large row could be orders of magnitude slower than reading a row in a JOIN table of two integers in a row based storage engine).

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/explain.html
I guess you don't travel much. it's very common to have internet but not cell service (so no SMS). it's also common to buy a local sim so effectively no SMS or at least not the one you have registered.

So no, SMS is not perfectly good. it's crap and needs to die in a fire.
So long growers are maximizing THC content and yield per area Hyrdo will outcompete organic soil. Personally I grow organic because I too prefer the taste and I really enjoy composting. However having grown in hydro I can tell you that plants grow bigger, faster, and more potent.
It's Google though.. they stop automating everything?

At least make the screen not show all green or something automatically
From the trenches, about debezium, kafka connect and root cause debugging
I'm not sure how true it is, but I have heard that fast food burgers dry out quickly due to the salt content, and dry stuff just won't decompose as quickly.

So a quarter-pounder left under a car seat might end up looking perfectly edible (though that is not... advised.)
This is sort of wait nails people with DynamoDB pricing. If you mess up your query, you end up scanning through tons of data, racking up the cost.
I remember one story from a lawyer I dated. The woman accused her ex-husband of abuse. Recently divorced and with eyes on custody of the children, so there was a high likelihood of the accusation being false. This isn't just my opinion either, this is what the court's appointed criminal psychologists say based on their experience.

The man was arrested, removed from his home based on the word of his ex-wife. After some lengthy court proceedings, he was released pending further trial on the condition he not approach her in the meantime.

He tried to go home but she was still there. He couldn't go in because of the court order. His home, and he can't go inside without being arrested. She had absolutely no rights to the house since it had been purchased prior to marriage. Despite this, his lawyers tried to negotiate with the woman, to no avail. She simply refused to leave. Apparently there was no way to evict her either.

At some point the situation must have pissed off the lawyers because they got sick of negotiating and started straight up maneuvering. They waited until she left his residence, moved him back inside and changed the locks. When she tried to come back, she couldn't.

Wish I knew what happened after that. All I was told was that her life became a lot harder afterwards.
I just hope that the important ones will reappear and catch my attention, if they didn't before.

edit: If there's some spam-ish stuff going on and I can't easily deactivate it, then I'll just spamblock them, because fuck them.
What games were they playing? PvZ and Animal Crossing? ;)

Stimulations are different, and you can see gaming influences like F1 wheels. https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/en/news/2019/03/how-does-an-f1...

Gran Turismo also helps drivers.

https://www.industrytap.com/worlds-best-gran-turismo-video-g...

https://drivemag.com/news/uk-policemen-use-gran-turismo-spor...
IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor
This is only redeeming to me really because generally its the philosophers that are presumptuous enough to tell other fields what they should do or think. Nice to see the tables turned on them!
Who said anything about business? Even random forum signups are throwing a fit when you tried to use temporary email domains.
I'm sorry for your loss.

Fluoroquinolones are indeed scary. I was saved from them in college by my hypochondria, when I developed a UTI and my doctor prescribed one to me. I googled, found tendon damage issue and asked for a different Rx. Years later, I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and told never to take this class of antibiotics, since our faulty collagen triggers this side effect and can cause arteries to rupture.
The article lists 16 required elements: C, H, O, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn, B, Mo, Cl.
Point is neither is even close to necessary using git. Git isn't a web application. It's a version control system.
Fairly sure they built a steam box in an old shipping container at some point along the way. Not sure which components it was for.
Anywhere to read more about this?
I've not been following it but I have a very liberal friend who has and he's said he thinks it was a case of self defense.

Several other disagreed but he held his ground.

>Highly impulsive people who lean conservative are more likely to share false news stories.

That seems accurate for my FB feed.

I won't make the leap to assume their desires, and especially "to create chaos". That's not even close to what I see from most of them. I know a few who espouse that though.
One of my pet peeves with so many services! Their obnoxious pre-ads can play flawlessly (stealing your time/eyeballs and giving them benefit), and they can still fail to give you the content you exchanged your time/eyeballs to see. Worse, they can repeatedly fail and repeatedly drill the same ads into your brain.

There ought to be a law that essentially says if ads are “paying” for content, there must be a flawless link between ads and content such that the system can tell if the content is available (or detect after the fact that something was not delivered properly). And then, based on that, it either is required to ensure the ad never plays (since the content cannot be delivered), or that the user must be compensated in some way (e.g. we see you were forced to see an ad but got nothing so we are crediting $1 to your account).
>generally impoverished people would rather have lower rates on the debt that they have.

Generally impoverished people aren't granted lower rates because of the credit system. They typically pay usury rates. Only people with existing assets / collateral get low rates.

>They'd also rather have jobs, which again comes with more investment.

Generally impoverished people have shit jobs, that's why they are generally impoverished. Also, investment leads to automation and offshoring which actually lowers jobs.

>They'd also like to have a higher quality of life, again which comes with more investment in capital/production/real output.

If investment in capital/production/real output helps impoverished people, it's very little. It generally helps already wealthy people.

You're looking at stuff from a textbook macroeconomic position. In the realistic / microeconomic world, things aren't as you are portraying them.
> The sad part is, I now have clients refusing to upgrade Firefox.

If these clients are on Windows... tell them to use Windows Explorer.. it has FULL ftp capabilities.

You don't need a browser for ftp, or even an FTP specific program.
Krugman is the best-sounding stuff of the mainstream. Since that what you brought up, I would start with https://www.crisesnotes.com/paul-krugman-functional-finance-... . Arguable Krugman is so good about not saying terrible stupid shit, that it might come at at cost of not being internally consistent or acknowledging when his views in fact change.

Krugman at least was a "New Keynsian", which is a very complicated confused thing in the way the neoclassical parts and keynesian pieces are mashed together. I mostly subscribe to the Post-Keynesian stuff, which makes a lot more sense to me, and is more embracing of the weird/humanities side of Keynes. https://vebaccount.substack.com/p/the-post-keynesian-worldvi... is a good primer, and really that person's entire corpus is a gem of really good writing. For something that (at least in the last few years) is much more grounded, try http://jwmason.org/the-slack-wire/.

Now you might say that the opposition's views of the mainstream is an unfair place to begin. To that, I say just look at the shit Larry Summers says.
Not really. The point is that as an argument against computationalism about the mind, Searle's Chinese room can't rule out computationalism if mind is merely a relational property of a system.
"The boonies", does that include Calgary? There is quite a bit of road traffic between Vancouver and Calgary via Kamloops and Banff. Or did you mean just West of the Rockies?
By the time he passed, Carl Sagan probably had a net worth of $20M. I'll wager his career and economic success is a major element of peer-disdain (and envy), and "the short answer" is a mostly false, made-up reason to save face.
For what it's worth I don't think you should have been flagged or even downvoted just for being wrong. Corrected yes, absolutely. Sinking to the bottom of low contrast lake was a bit much.

Flags being gigadownvotes on this site suuuuuucks now. How do people learn if nobody can correct them? Daft.

I used to have a vouch option but I guess I used it too much haha
So that rules out the UEFI method, but you can enable and disable in Device Manager without a reboot.
> I’m still yet to understand how a lot of relatively poorly paid work that probably still needs to be done, gets done under UBI.

UBI does not exist in a vacuum, it replaces means-tested welfare programs which reduce benefits for additional work. It may also replace or reduce minimum wage, UBI proponents disagree rather strongly over whether it should do this; very broadly those most Left UBI supporters stend to oppose displacing minimum wage and Right Libertarian UBI supporters tend to support it doing so, but that’s not exactly accurate (for instance, I’m a left-leaning UBI supporter, and I support it displacing minimum wage on about a $2000/yr offsets $1/hr of ideal minimum wage basis, so that an early stage, immature UBI would not completely replace minimum wage, but a mature livable UBI would.)

By replacing means tested welfare it reduces worker disincentives to low-paying work, and by reducing/eliminating minimum wage, if it does that, it reduces barriers to work which might be mutually beneficial to employer and employee but not viable given minimum wage.

Enabling work that status quo welfare systems inhibit is a major argument for UBI.

If particular work genuinely needs to get done, inflation will necessarily drive the real value of UBI down while demand drives the real compensation for the work specific work up until the combination causes a sufficiently large number of people to be motivated to do the work in question. The work for which that is not true does not, almost by definition, need to be done.
Also, you can pay taxes with fiat currency.
Immigrants are much more of an underclass in Europe than they are in America.
Why do you believe certain comunities do have an interest in classifying stuff?
It’s too bad google offline maps only supports driving directions.
This would be my guess too. Alternatively, maybe they save hashes of all substrings of length > 2 and check all hashed substrings of the new password against them.

(Which - in my limited understanding of infosec - would be only marginally better than plaintext, but I can be wrong.)
In my case? Recreating a build environment in the process of debugging an issue with a build script and trying to get the runtime environment lined up just so; with a side objective of an exploration of the madness of how Python as a language handles packaging (part of which was what kind of footguns are presented by the lang specific package manager, which funnily enough also seems to be completely oblivious to the runtime version it's executing in).

>The package maintainers ship 3.6 by default for a reason and they know better than you! /s

Maybe then! Not anymore! It really does infuriate me because it breaks every aspect of the principle of least surprise and conventional software packaging practice.
Even if you have a number of different hashing functions, each used one, throughout the code, it would make sense to place all of the hashing functions into namespace next to each other. That way you can reuse if needed and checking for security problems is easier. (It can also make the code more readable because the details of the hashing are abstracted behind a method.)
Looks to me like you dodged a bullet.
> "But I can just write a check or hand someone cash, why would I need to send money over the internet?"

But today, I can just use my credit card to pay for anything instantly, anywhere in the world... who the fuck still uses checks??

Why would I want to use crypto and lose all the protections I have from my card company, while having to wait minutes for transactions to be confirmed instead of milli-seconds?? And with the risk of my "wallet" being hacked in an instant and losing everything, without a chance for appealing to anyone for the funds to be returned?? Do you seriously consider that an attractive option to anyone, in the way that the Internet or Amazon (actually, online shops in general!) were?? Seems completely delusional to me.
I use a password scrambler that generates a unique N-character string for every page. It's close to as much entropy as a one-time pad (technically, there is an underlying algorithm, so it could be reverse-engineered... But it'd require stealing my pass from several sites to start attacking it).

... except the sites that require a capital letter and an excalamation point. Those I sign into with "A<some random N-digits>!".

Good job, site designers. You've done nothing to improve security, but you have annoyed the hell out of me.
The argument is against this view of consciousness.

More intuitively: our words are things which do things in the world. When we acquire them we do so by being embedded in the world. When we use them we use them to change the world. (Largely).

If a child in a cupboard reading a textbook out-loud could fool a chemist that the child understood chemistry, it doesn't mean they do. In the end, you need to turn on that bunsen burner.

The chinese room needs to be taken super-literally: does the person just doing a "hash-table lookup" on "the right answers to pre-prosed questions" actually understand.

To me its incredibly obvious that they do not. This does not establish that, eg. cognition, does not involve computational hastable-like processes. I think it does establish that propontents of a naive computationalism have an incredibly big challenge.

The challenge is to specify the environment computationally, since that is the only means by which the computer itself can be sufficiently embedded and actually understand anything.

The issue here is that if "computer" isnt just a trivial property it has to include, eg., measurability, determinism, etc. Properties that reality lacks. Reality isnt a computer.

Starting with the chinese room one /can/ supplement sufficiently until we reach searle's conclusion.
Perhaps you are referring to modern nonstandard analysis, which I am sure has equivalent definition of limits. I will note that in standard calculus Epsilon-Delta is not only used in defining derivatives, but also used in defining function limits, which of course means used in defining integrals.

Just out of curiosity, in nonstandard analysis is there an equivalent of Lebesgue integral?
I used to travel a lot and the exact combination of no signal and internet was not frequent at all.
The Chinese room was originally an argument against the consciousness of automatons, but then EPR was an argument against (fundamental) entanglement, Bell more or less expected his inequality to hold, Michaelson–Morley was interpreted as having found the luminiferous aether, and the Poisson (aka Arago) spot was a reductio ad absurdum of the wave theory of light. All of these things aren’t obsolete, they are still useful pieces of insight, but the state of the art regarding how they should be conceptualized has moved on from what their originators thought.

Which is not an argument for any particular intepretation of the Chinese room, it’s only to say that the bare fact that the original author thought of it in a particular way doesn’t mean we should do so.
I remember GEM on our MS-DOS Compaqs needing more bytes in patches to work than GEM itself!
I doubt YouTube is using the cloud service. If they're not 100% on Google's services by now, they still use Vitess. Vitess is the open source project PlanetScale manages which lets you horizontally scale MySQL databases.
For anyone who is a fan of Lyn, I highly recommend you follow her friend Luke Gromen.

He's been doing some excellent analysis over the last few months and is one of the few people producing this kind of content who can match Lyn's depth and breadth.

One podcast I liked:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csf4fdV-EOQ
> nRF52840

That's not a standard Bluetooth dongle, that's the go-to chip that runs a lot of smartwatches, tags, and health devices. Has community Arduino support as well.
Awesome job!

I built something similar based on a Lasermad £85 clock kit (1), although with an MQTT based API rather than HTTP. The built in firmware was a bit annoying so I ended up borging an ESP32 in place of the PIC onto the supplied PCB. Now it supports NTP & MQTT commands for power on/off of the nixie tube HV supply, as well as brightness/animations/custom blinks etc. Keep meaning to write a blog post on it.

Something to bear in mind if you're using it a reasonable amount is nixie poisoning [2].
My clock firmware runs all the tubes through each digit in rapid succession for a minute at the top of the hour.

Also that white connector on your power board is an "enable". You could just connect that to a GPIO on your ESP32, and then ditch the tasmota and let the ESP32 control whether the tube is on or not. Would simplify your cabling and software.

If you really want to go overboard, expose it as a MQTT device with HomeAssistant autodiscovery support. It shows up automatically and you can then use any HA integrations to drive it, such as the sunset or presence sensors...

1: http://www.lasermad.com/shop/product/5-tube-nixie-clock-v3-d...

2: http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/different/cathode%20p...
Did you read the article? The entire thesis is that monetary policy (what you call "market regulation through interest rates, money supply etc") is not the primary driver of inequality, but rather it's fiscal policy (what you call political interests).
controversial opinion - I actually like having all these libraries that do the same thing, because I have a nicely documented searchable catalogue of code snippets to put into my own utils.js!
My mind immediately went to surveying the participants in a Skinner box on their perceived well being. It would be incredible if people DIDN'T self-report feeling great after pulling the dopamine levers
Still, though, could there not be a similar scheme where instead of unpublishing the module, the maintainer intentionally inserts a divide by zero somewhere and pushes it as a minor update?
I think this event is going to lead to Canada dropping or reducing its PCR test requirement for (re-)entry into Canada.

The US is still well connected while Canada has just broken itself in 2.
> or a binary that runs on my phone is a deal breaker

Phone numbers, fair enough, but TOTP is an open standard and there are plenty of open source implementations for the client side. It’s also available in most password managers (I use 1passwords implementation).

“MFA can’t require me to run a binary on my phone” is a bit extreme. TOTP is fine.
This is my point exactly. The term QE means so many things. Even a person who knows what Quantitative Easing is, might not catch that it means that. My first assumption was that this was some sort of equity investment like Private Equity, often called PE.
I would ask "Is there a BSDoom?" but this[0] might qualify.

[0] https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
They should be able to continue, albeit delayed, via the US.

Should be possible to head south into Washington State and re-enter Canada at Oroville-Osoyoos.
The Reddit thread seems to be largely given over to speculation about the complete collapse of society globally which is, in my opinion, getting just a little bit carried away and anyway not really informative.
Cache of documents declassified by the NRO for its 60th anniversary
Letter explaining some of the information available here: https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/news/press/2021/202...

"The SIGINT satellite story" looks interesting: https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/HISTOR...
One of the annoying things is python setup.py bdist_rpm seems essentially deprecated (though it still works somewhat).
52 years after he became ‘America’s Most Wanted’, his obituary solved the case
Google Burps, the Internet Reels
The CP mainline that washed out will take a while to fix, but the other mainline, CN, doesn’t seem to have taken any serious damage.

They’ll definitely have some cleanup somewhere, but that happens after every storm.

I hope the two have some mutual aid agreement to bypass over each others tracks.
Title transfers. Really can't say more than that because of NDAs.
Let me balance the chi by linking to a prolific open source contributor who makes actually-good repos: https://github.com/sindresorhus?tab=repositories&q=&type=&la...
laughs in League of Legends
I'm not trying to argue that it is harder, just different in some ways and ignoring that for the sake of "javascript bad" isn' going to change the point that there are challenges involved. Nevertheless I understand your pint a lot better now, thanks for the explanation.
I think we are both on the same page that the JS ecosystem overall is not in a good shape. But, you know, maybe THIS wave of new shiny tools is finally solving the issues once and for all (not holding my breath though...)