skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As other commenters have expounded on, the short answer is "no". While I definitely agree that one must be careful about falling into the trap of thinking everything is a nail to be hammered with NNs, it's also pretty common to fall into the "this is easy, why don't you just..." trap for things that humans do with (relative) ease.
If your government was cutting off access to internet over the possibility that people might use it to conduct their business in cryptocurrency, do you think local demand for crypto would increase or decrease?

The cable-cut might work for a while, but it wouldn't take too long for partition tolerant crypos emerge. You don't really need global consistency for most things, given that resources tend to be local.
MFA only works because someone can re-set it for you. That's the point. "Not your keys, not your life" is simply the worst of all worlds.
I wasn't totally clear about the difference between total apathy, which I'm sure facebook had for a small country with a language not in system vs "determined effort".
That's honestly the worst solution I could think of, and not one I would ever want to rely on. Not for me, not for my family, certainly not for my parents.
At what workforce size/turnover do you run into the issue that you might churn through your entire countrywide hiring pool?
I made an observation, in my first comment to the thread, then answered your question, as my second. In response to that, you accuse me of "hijacking".

Again, a very peculiar and one-sided definition of "control" here.

I don't think this discussion deserves any further attention from me.

Cheers.
I don't get why. UCA is defined over NFD. I suppose you could define it in terms of NFC, but why would you want to? It seems like it would be more annoying but otherwise exactly the same.

> There are known gaps, which is why Unicode is up to four different normalization algorithms today.

Like what? The four normalization algorithms serve different purposes, its not like the first one was broken so they made a second one.
Has that been proven or are you just speculating? I don't think increased viral load/shedding is the only mechanism by which a virus becomes more contagious.
> you are just as replaceable and the interview process is only there to filter out the bad candidates

That's one way of running a tech company but what you'll end up with is going to look more like one of those comically bad bodyshops that's used for outsourcing. These have a turnover so high it's almost impossible to find someone with more than two years of experience. And, well, the results speak for themselves.

Truth is there are people out there that are trying really hard to commoditize software engineering, with bootcamps and whatnot. And honestly, I'm not impressed one bit. Best way to build the best software (it's a winner take all market remember?) is simply to bite the bullet and go get the best talent out there. The 10x rule is well and alive.
You can move the fan power to the 3.3v pin on the ESP8266, runs much quieter
It is easy to believe that “all government is bad” when the only government you’ve interacted with is the US government. Thanks for highlighting a counter example.
In general, I agree, though pg's JSONB is effectiuvely hstore2 so its performance is surprisingly good.

This example didn't involve a JSON column in the database at all though, I was talking about turning native database rows into json data - so given tables like users(id, name) and posts(post_id, author_id, title, body) (apologies for pseudocodish rendering) instead of

<author_id>, <author_name>, <post_id_1>, <post_title_1>, <post_body_1>,
<author_id>, <author_name>, <post_id_2>, <post_title_2>, <post_body_2>,

you'd instead get

<author_id>, <author_name>, json[
{ post_id: <post_id_1>, title: <post_title_1>, body: <post_body_1> },
{ post_id: <post_id_2>, title: <post_title_2>, body: <post_body_2> }
]

so on the application side you'd just deal with (for each row) something like

let id = author.id;
let name = author.name;
let posts = author.posts;

and the 'posts' variable would be an array of objects with 'post_id', 'title' and 'body' keys.
They auto-substitute in a different reddit UI but leave paywalled links as-is? Wild.
They feel like the fake LinkedIn stories about "someone showed up for an interview and they were late and had zero relevant skills and experience but I hired them anyway and they turned out to be the best employee I ever had", except with the polarity reversed.
yeah! scribe.rip, teddit, invidious... I'm all for it!
If you can see your car at the inner edge you have the mirror set incorrectly.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15131074/how-to-adjus...

In my automobiles even with side mirrors set correctly there is still a small blind spot but it's much much less. I thoroughly suggest you try this technique.

For parking you can easily move your head over to adjust the angle the mirror and once again see behind for backing up.
So long as you are filtering out all companies with government contracts as "a company culture that sucks," that's true. https://www.samhsa.gov/workplace/legal/federal-laws/contract... requires any organization receiving a federal contract of over $100,000 or a federal grant of any size to do so. Tied to that is a page of HHS-certified labs for drug testing and federally regulated industries.

It's pretty silly but it seems to be a common thread.
Awesome, now where do I sign for the free fastly account? Oh right, they only do enterprise, so who the hell cares? Cloudflare OTOH caters for the whole spectrum.
it is negative. Real banks run negative in practice (in USA).
> Which is a pretty strong argument for a tech workers union

Wrong approach.

Push for real engineering certifications instead. Keeps the free market (no promotions based on seniority) but weeds out the "6 month bootcamp fullstack engineer" disaster from your codebase.
Why haven't they replaced their onboarding team with an app? Watch videos, take tests in a proctored environment, sign papers.. show up to work.
Oh yeah I agree with you there.

What's really grating is that these people and "low skill" jobs that form the backbone of our functional society have been abandoned by the political movement they bled to create (which is obviously now hijacked and totally perverted by the ruling class).

It makes me cringe every time I hear a "left" wing voter or politician boast about how much the uneducateds dislike them, and gloat about how worthless those people must be to be concerned about immigration policies affecting their jobs. It's no surprise their lot is not improving. I only hope they can band together and affect real change again before the ruling class is able to irrevocably divide people against one another. Maybe it's already too late :(
I asked an AI to tell me how beautiful I am
Only semi-related, but why does Cloudflare perform so poorly in Oceania? I've noticed less than stellar performance in Oceania with Cloudflare's CDN, so to see similar stats with workers makes it seem it's not a product-specific issue.
"we don't have a method to prioritize code quality"
And yet - our public culture feels, in many ways, so trapped in discussions about the past rather than creating positive visions for the future. Even much of our popular science fiction appears trapped in pessimism or soulless, futurelessness.
A great theory but in practice in this specific case the legal system will be forced to capitulate. Either a country has to ban all crypto mining or not enforce GDPR on chain nodes. Seems obvious which way it will land in the long run.
Well, yes. As an engineer, you are a very expensive resource, probably working in a department that's considered a cost center.

"Rightsizing" those is great for the bonus.
Seeing some of these designs brought back memories.

My best friend growing up had this huge vaulted-ceiling living room with a balcony above it. Perfect for conducting test flights of different paper airplane designs. I had a book of paper airplane models we used and improvised from to try for the longest flight time. He had a mom who worked for the phone company, and brought home reams of green bar paper reports. [0] Those pages were larger than typical US Letter, but about the same proportions.

Once we got bored of using the green bar, we moved on to newspapers. It was harder to make the airframes rigid, but when we managed it we got some crazy long flight times. One of them just happened to have a flight radius that matched the room and took forever to slowly float down to the ground.

Bookmarked. This is a cool site.

[0] (Example) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F5SC3ME
Fortunately, no one needed to agree to the CloudFlare ToS to read their blog post.
> If it weren't for the fact that I have a full time job and don't want the Five Eyes on me, I'd build it myself.

Give us some more implementation details and whatnot and someone might implement it.
There are now 3 generations of AMD Epyc.

The latest is noticeably quicker than the older ones, and competitive with the M1.
There is a big difference between filming under ideal conditions with the same software customers get, and fraud by using a completely different software than customers get (which is what Tesla did).
> I think you're misinterpreting the clause. But not being a lawyer, I don't really want to get into that discussion.

The clause says "Unless otherwise expressly permitted in writing by Cloudflare, you will not and you have no right to: [...] (f) perform or publish any benchmark tests or analyses relating to the Services without Cloudflare’s written consent;"[1]

IANAL, but this seems to very unambiguously prohibit benchmarking Cloudflare's services unless you have written permission. I know you don't want to get into an argument on HN, but could you like... bring it up to someone inside of CloudFlare who would be capable of changing it? You can point to this thread about how this clause is generating negative publicity.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ section 2.2
Thanks to another commenter I found better pic of correct mirror placement: https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/road-safety/14154...

The rear and side mirrors overlap but only further behind the car and side mirrors don't show the road far behind you at all.

> Also why not make the mirrors capture a slightly wider field so you can have the best of both...?

Probably because it would require either much larger mirrors or much more curved (and thus making things even smaller than they already are).

There are cars with much larger mirrors. If you notice, in most countries cars/trucks that don't have rear window (and thus no rear view mirror) are required to have larger side mirrors that can also cover the road behind the truck.

Though trucks have other visibility problems that come mostly from the fact of just how high the driver sits.
If people aren't doing it, then the money isn't reasonable.
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Contract: 0x4B8f0bc4e86Ea14b0c22d356Af927bd7A43aC2c6

Really though, this coin has a lot of potential as a means of value storage since it pays dividends to holders in BNB.
>automation (and I mean mainly business process automation) has sucked the humanity out of work

What's interesting though is I don't hear a lot of people on HN complaining about CI/CD, which IMO is part of an overall approach that treats devs like cogs in an automated process.

In some ways, I think we even celebrate it because, as devs, we are the automators. But increasingly, we're becoming more beholden to the processes we've automated.
PqR: A pretty quick version of R
lol /r/antiwork…
Good God, what on earth have you lot on the left side of the pond been up to (two years ago)?

I know first hand that the US as a whole is capable of delivering some incredible flavours - many of which are frankly world beaters - even at a "fast food" level. My exhibit A has to be something like TLC (Texas Land and Cattle). This chain majors in grilled beef. They grill with aromatic chips and use decently aged beef. It's TX: the quality of the raw ingredient should be assumed superb and it is. Quantities are ridiculously large. I ask for "blue" and get it and it's still hot. Proper job. I could also whitter on about the quality of seafood in FL, and of course the Key Lime pie. LA - more quality seafood and in NOLA you get the utter nonsense that is the Po'boy: a monster sandwich that originated as a charity thing from those who had a little to feed the poorer than themselves. The Poboy has grown to gargantuan proportions. I could go on and on (I still have 20 states to visit) but:

Then you get to things like cheese and creme and supplementary flavours and sauces. Something goes wrong here. It's not endemic as such but something is a bit wrong. I am singling out the US but I see this everywhere to a much lesser extent.

For example - cheese: I have eaten some gorgeous cheese in the US but that's quite rare. "Swiss, Cheddar or American", which translates into "white with optional holes, off white, or weird" I think there's an orange coloured option too. If you are really unlucky, it is sprayed out of a can. They all taste like Monday (differing name, same thing).

Right, let's do sauce: Mayo is Belgian (Probably French invention but I think that BE is the main modern user around these parts. NL is also a contender). Ketchup: Complicated. Basic tomato ketchup ("You say tomatow ...") is probably GB. DE (Germany) has quite a lot of options including the divine "Gewurz" versions.

Mustard. Right, you lot have completely lost the plot here. Mustard should destroy your tastebuds by default or at least have some flavour. OK that's a bit daft. US bog standard mustard tastes like bog standard senf (German) with the flavour removed. DE has a lot of mustards beyond the stuff sold in the schnellis (fast food booths - Anglicised) and so does the US but it is hard to find. French mustard eg Dijon is quite mild but loads of flavour, English mustard is rather warm but not rudely hot. A touch of the stuff can enhance a boring mouthful or make a good one sing. Our horse-raddish on the other hand can leave you completely breatheless.

BTW I live quite close to Cheddar ie the gorge, where the cheese comes from.
This is a really cool paper (that I definitely haven't had the time to fully grok) but the jump from the theoretical environment to concerns about superintelligent AI taking over is a bit strained. It misses the same key issues that most similar arguments miss, even while presenting some really amazing results on statistical properties of optimal policies - there's a lot hidden in the "if physically possible" part of the quote from the paper: "Average-optimal agents would generally stop us from deactivating them, if physically
possible". I can see how the arguments in the paper lead us up to the possibility of kinetic conflict with intelligent robots, but the dynamics of power at that stage then seem to be more about how we've embodied those robots rather than optimality results of their control policies. Did we give them off switches? Will they run out of energy after a while? How susceptible to physical damage are they? If someone outfits a million Predator drones with a control policy with a will to live, we may have trouble, but we probably were going to have trouble from the group that decided to build a million Predator drones, too. If the number is lower, more realistic, then you're talking about standard armed conflict.

I could see this line of work having implications for autonomous weapons systems in a hypothetical future, but my understanding is that at this time they're on a pretty short leash with very narrow AI systems if they're using AI at all. Incentives could push those systems to get smarter as the autonomous arms race heats up, and if it does so in an unrestricted manner that could spell trouble along the lines discussed in this paper, but incentives are definitely aligned for any group to build weapons systems that can't be turned on their handlers, whether by human hackers or their own volition. Theories on optimal policies have no bearing if there's some encrypted remote kill command, or if as we start understanding ML models better, we can do things like hardware-block policies that lead to certain predicted outcome sequences (blocking an off switch, harming a human, etc.). Ultimately, the dynamics here seem to be an evolution of the problems of human force and violence, rather than a qualitative jump to a different sort of threat entirely.
Haha this is spot on actually
> Which is a pretty strong argument for a tech workers union (

Yeah, let's do it when we get there
Sounds like you have it right.
New ones born every year?
We used this at work to connect into the VPN. It's very handy.
There's an alternative solution that enables people to produce content that doesn't require them to make an income through advertising or subscriptions.

It can be accomplished through higher taxes and a universal basic income.

Essentially: ensure that all people on earth have their basic needs met. A lot of people will produce incredible creative work, and it has been shown time and time again that government support of artists incubates incredible art.
If you needed 0.5% of the world's economy to run a node, nobody in the world could afford it. The amount needs to be a lot lower.

Let's make things more concrete and say we have two actors: (1) the NSA, and (2) Cryptopunk Joe. Let's assume you need to lock up $1000 to run a node. That's already pretty expensive, so cryptopunks will be deterred, yet the NSA could easily spend a few million and run thousands of nodes. i.e., there is no dollar amount that attracts the Cryptopunk Joes of the world, but is out of reach for the NSA. Would you disagree? How do you solve that problem?

(Aside—sorry you're getting downvoted. I'm generally a crypto skeptic, but I love to see people tackling hard problems in novel ways, and I try to stay open-minded when I hear about a new project.)
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This is a false comparison: everything new has opponents (everything has opponents, even loving a girl, laughing at jokes or shaking your hair in some places), so yes ofc there are people who said social networks wouldnt find a business model without being predatory as there are people now saying crypto cant serve a purpose without lying.

That doesn't remove from you the duty to explain why we should allow giant cons for the sake of trying someth. It's not like stocks of public companies, which were half scams half building railways. I d argue here crypto is not helping build railways :(

Oh and it's harder to lose all your saving on a speculative frenzy with social medias, so I d say we need to be more cautious this time.
> The point of fines and regulations is to encourage drivers to drive better to reduce the chances of the accidents taking place. E.g. Speed limits encourage drivers to change their behavior so that we have fewer accidents.

Driver behavior is a factor, they have some responsibility, and yes you can modify behavior with incentives. But the world and most things in it are complicated systems & processes. The design of vehicles, the design of roads, the design of walk-ways are major factors etc. When you only promote solutions that have to deal with driver behavior, you are absolving all the other stakeholders of responsibility and de-facto blaming the driver.
It's easy to blame this on Amazon, but anyone who's worked in retail for a big company knows that this is just your standard low level employee incompetence and power tripping.

It's really a swamp down there. Glad I made it out.
> edit: c'mon people, stop the downvotes, this was a joke

What's the joke, though? Saying something mean that you don't really believe could be part of a joke but it's not a joke by itself.
> speed is one of the best predictors of pedestrian fatality and injury severity

True, but a total red herring. Speed might be the main factor affecting severity of injury, but it's not the main factor affecting probability in a left-turn scenario. Remember left turns? It's what OP is about. Very few people are going the speed limit while turning left, and that would remain true even with lower limits. Visibility is the dominant factor here - around other vehicles, around the A-pillar, etc. The least severe accident is the one that doesn't happen. "Lower speed limits" is a great hobby horse, but not one that belongs here.
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It’s always been surreal when I’ve had the chance to be/sit next to contractors whose every minute is accounted for and who cannot take a single day of vacation without finding someone to swap shifts with, every action under the scrutiny of a shift manager lording over them like a narcissistic parent.

All the while, the salaried, fully insured and vastly more expensive ‘real’ employees all show up late to meetings, randomly work from home because their ISP is upgrading their equipment and occasionally drag a lunch to two hours or more.
Finding new and creative ways to stick advertisements in front of people in ways that they can't easily avoid is indeed a way that some people try to make a living.

It just happens to be a way of making a living of which many people, on HN and off, have a negative opinion.

There have been plenty of poorly regarded professions throughout history that still drew people because they were paid, despite the negative publicity. Tax collectors in Ancient Rome were also just trying to make a living.
Eh, I work in audio ml, where most of the interesting and useful work is in conditioned generative models. Compression, TTS, source separation. The bias towards classification is a side effect of people starting at imagenet too long; I really think it's holding the field back.
The safety people need to be there.
I didn’t tell anyone to install anything. I just said what’s all is not secure. Because it’s not.
Not necessarily: the real-world size matters too. Desktop-sized UI is hard to hit on a touchscreen when shrunk; meanwhile mobile-sized UI wastes space when enlarged on a desktop monitor.
First comment on the video mentions that the road is gong to be fixed. There are probably a bunch of similar roads with the same problem but not the same publicity that aren't getting fixed though.
Random anecdote: I remember trying to get a job at McDonalds and I had to take these tests like "would you rather kill 1 person or 5" it's like you had to choose one. I did not get that job. Similar process for other stuff like washing plates at chains.
I feel completely to opposite, though admittedly I am a hardliner on ads (I think they're a scourge). I make every effort to eliminate and automate them out of my life. Some things I'll pay for, others I'll ad block, and others I'll simply eliminate.

Our lives are filled with so much which seeks to ensure we're constantly passively on autopilot, consistently following the path of least resistance. Putting a paywall in front of something forces you to really assess - "does this really offer me any value? Do I really want to be doing it?".

If it's not something you're willing to go through the motions to pay for, there's probably something more personally fulfilling you could be doing with your time.

The web is filled with so much rubbish that is "just good enough" to get users to sit through ads. I couldn't care less if all that ad-supported dreck goes under. In fact I'd welcome it.
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I think this has more to do with the fact that not everything has to be a market all the time.
> he'll sell with less capital gains taxes.

On a house? Most people don't have cap gain taxes on house sales. Only extreme high value homes.