skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I firmly believe that people from the old establishment abused intelligence work against a political opposition with lies that were picked up by media without a single ounce of sensible criticism. This was such a huge scandal that I cannot condemn anyone that seriously believed that elections were manipulate, maybe Trump himself believed it since it was rather blatant. You are allowed to dislike Trump of course and his behavior relating to giving up power. But that is very much shadowed by using federal agencies to get dirt on people. That isn't democratic at all, it is dirtiest political play and I think more than some people have lost their mask.
I think this malady of social media is (kind of) temporary. It is becoming a conduit for surveillance quite speedily. Let's give it a push. We should support our local legislators so that anything we don't like be surveilled and prosecuted via our mobile devices. That is, we should pass laws so that any electronics with a radio emitter is legally obligated to report any wrongful behavior of their user. And same for social media companies (there we are already half of the way, so it's just a matter of keeping the momentum). Law-enforcement would love this. And in twenty years, we will be back to having pulp magazines and paper books, marketed as being "silicon-free".
Well those are voice coil motors, similar to a subwoofer driver in construction. I don't know how efficient those are, but I did release some info on a brushless linear motor I designed. My linear motor design is like a regular rotary brushless motor but rolled out and made tubular. Maybe better power density than voice coil motors, tho I am not sure. The motor worked great, but I got busy with other things and never commercialized it. I have some details on github.

https://github.com/tlalexander/open_linear_motor
Syncing Stripe and QuickBooks without an accountant
"Wenn man nicht mehr weiter weiß, gründet man einen Arbeitskreis." - Ancient German proverb. (Translation: "If you don't know what to do next, you set up a working group")
The saddest part of learning Rust was discovering that there are no goroutines and that async works like Python and everything needs to be written twice to support both async and blocking styles. Like it was 20 years ago all over again and I'm still trying to mix Twisted and stdlib Python. I got all excited thinking of how the borrow checker would work so well with coroutines, only to discover it got nobbled because Rust's use cases include embedded systems and no runtime (like in a golang 9MB hello_world.exe). I have no idea if Rust could evolve its concurrent programming support to something better than Go's, even if it did drop some of its shackles.
I'm no longer looking for different work but when I was, I definitely had categories of employers I wouldn't work for. Never shy about letting a recruiter know, don't think it had any adverse effects.
No, the reason to clone it is software.
Is saying "transwomen aren't women" free speech or hate speech? Because saying facts like that now can get you fired from your job.
Shared ownership of the business?
I've lost the thread, can you explain what you mean? Who used which agencies?
The tweet from Sam Altman about Hyperscale: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1468392016530739200
> you own your dependencies. You don't blame others.

I love that. Build your service to be robust. Never assume that dependencies are 100% reliable. Gracefully handle failures. Don't just go hard down, or worse, sure horribly in a way that you can't recover from automatically when you're dependencies come back. I've seen a single database outage cause cascading failures across a whole site even though most services had no direct connection to the database. And recovery had to be done in order of dependency, or else you're playing whack-a-mole for an hour)

> VP approval is needed to make updates on the status board.

Isn't that normal? Updating the status has a cost (reparations to customers if you breach SLA). You don't want some on-call engineer stressing over the status page while trying to recover stuff.
Yeah, I thought it was clear from the beginning of the book that no humans were even remotely competitive with any AI (including the main character) but that human game players were sort of an aesthetic throwback, like dog-racing in an era of F1 cars.
This is a great result, but you can see that it's more of a theoretical case because of this: "converging to perfect play as available computation time and approximation capacity increases." That is true for pretty much all current deep reinforcement learning algorithms.

The practical question is: How much computation do you need to get useful results? Alpha Go Zero is impressive mathematics, but who is willing to spend $1mio daily for months to train it? IMPALA (another Google one) can learn almost all Atari games, but you need a head node with 256 TPU cores and 1000+ evaluation workers to replicate the timings from the paper.
The republican president told his top general to deal with BLM Protesters and "just shoot them". I don't know how you are supposed to hold a conversation with someone who still supports him.
This reads as if you bring your preconceptions to the table and are encouraged to make linkages which confirm them, rather than start with a blank sheet and try to note what you learn.
I vote very liberal, but the only hate speech I have ever experienced has been from other liberals, primarily on twitter.
It's not hard. I don't know why you wrote all these unrelated questions. This is simply about direct personal injury from COVID infection caused by those who took no mitigation steps to prevent harm to others(COVID specific harm). They should be held liable like any other personal injury or wrongful death due to gross negligence. Simply a matter of taking individual responsibility for your individual choices. Do we actually do this? No. Unvaccinated get a special waiver to not be held accountable for their actions. All the freedom, none of the responsibilities or accountability for their actions. That is quite selfish and entitled.
You mean the DNC blatantly cheating at the primaries.. again?
Did you read the part where they got exactly what they wanted, by doing something that a tiny minority would even think of doing?
Hence why it requires further research before we can claim causality. My point was simply that assuming we "know" the causal link is something else is also unjustified without further research.

Especially given the size of the effect combined with the known interactions between Viagra and Tau proteins.

A comparison with Cialis might well be worth it down the line, but I don't see what it'd give before they've established whether or not there's a causal link.
How is anyone still a republican or democrat these days? I understand being forced to vote as the system is rigged for two parties, but outside of the voting booth, actively identifying with either party? How is anyone finding these absolute crooks relatable?
How do you contrast the denial of the 2020 election's results by the Republicans with the denial of the 2000 election's results by the Democrats? Both lobbed lawsuits and continue to say it was rigged or unfair.

For example, Hillary Clinton compared the 2000 Florida election recount to rigged elections in Nigeria. [1]

The Democrats continue to believe 2000 was rigged.

How about something more recent? Oh yeah, Hillary Clinton claims the 2016 election was "not on the level". Going much further, she calls the result "illegitimate", citing hacking (never proven) and voter suppression (no evidence). [2] [3] As recently as 4 years ago the Democrats were doing the exact same thing the Republicans are doing now.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8314204&page=1

[2] https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-electi...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...
It will either be liquid hydrogen or synfuels. Lemans might look into the former.
Trying to integrate Ukraine into NATO is why we have this senseless conflict in the first place. Biden is a warmonger if he follows through. Should elect Trump again, he was the more peaceful alternative.
Whatever accusations you’re hinting at in your first sentence, they don’t seem to have anything to do with rigging an election even if they’re true.
The most annoying aspect of this for us was that the AWS Organizations API only has a single endpoint, in us-east-1.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ao.html

As a result, even if you weren’t using that region but you were using the API you were hosed for 6+ hours, And the status page never acknowledged that it was out of action.

We had the following Terraform in our production pipeline:

data “aws_organizations_organization” “current” {}

As a result, all of our deployments to our EU regions were borked. Of course, we couldn’t raise a support case because the support system was also down, and despite escalating to our TAM weren’t able to get the status page to reflect reality.

My concern is that the Organizations API specifically will be brushed under the carpet and we will still have a single point of failure in a region which we never intend to use.
Mostly aesthetic and cultural differences. Both lie about other countries, threaten war, perform coups and bomb other countries.

The US democrats exist to divert any worker resistance into channels they can then sabotage. In many ways they're more right wing than the US Republicans, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
Bullshit.

If the government wants to harass or harm you, they will simply turn off the internet and all of your crypto stuff will not work.

It's easy as that.
The second they force it Microsoft Minecraft is dead.

I have decompiled it and will make my own fork at that point.

I still use this launcher which was made explicitly when I reported some obscure GSON bug a few years back and it will probably work for a long time:

http://move.rupy.se/file/launcher.jar
Both parties do it from the other's perspective. E.g. Republicans complain about the left injecting politics and other issues (e.g. Trans and race topics) into primary school curriculums, which is arguably indoctrination and programming rather than genuine debate. To them this is straight out of the Nazi playbook of using children to control society.

Point is, don't think that only one side has genuine concerns about the other trying to "undermine democracy". The whole thing is broken.
I can't wait for this bubble to burst so I never have to hear about these tulips again.
Does this glass need a power supply, or do two ir photons join to make a visible photon? A reverse of scintillation?
OK, but this is programmer to manager explanation. I get how computers work. I know simple things can get very complex at scale. I just thought that the huge extra you pay for cloud services is mostly for battle tested solutions for these scale problems.

As far as I understand it, if you design is sane, the database/storage handles fallback and recovery.

Or maybe in other words - you need to make your service handle single machine going down without any problem - cloud or not. And there seem to be two options - it's your machine or part of a service which AWS provides to you. In second case it's on AWS to handle that and in the first case shouldn't AWS make it such that for you DC is just a parameter and they handle all virtual network and other magic?

To be super clear - I'm not arguing, just trying to learn I would love some specific examples which make the problem hard, because all these stories make me stay away from cloud which in theory is solution well worth paying extra for in a bigger company context.
Processing data IS what thinking is. This literally what Turing intended to do: Find a way to automate thinking.

And a lot of what governmental positions today are doing is processing files, basically mapping files to files. A lot of corruption stems from the fact that this mapping can be done outside of the law with nobody noticing. This can be fixed.
I’m not that surprised that CIA is deep into the ecosystem.
But please guys, the conspiracy of “CIA created Bitcoin”? Seriously?
Next phase is gonna be “CIA created Bitcoin to control novax”
Probably a highly jaded opinion, but the way I perceived this is that left leaning is seen to signify higher social empathy -- which is something that people on that end would value from peers.

Where as on the flip side, right leaning people likely don't have the same conservative requirements for a partner.

So i'm not really surprised at all by the results.
"These shaking molecules can donate their energy to visible light that they encounter"

The extra energy comes from visible light. To me it sounds a bit like how transistors amplify a signal without violating energy conservation.
Cameras don't see colors, a wall or a texture on that wall. Cameras merely capture a grid of values. All color perception, object recognition and figure segmentation happens in the brain.
The key to whether those certifications offer any value is in setting appropriate expectations.

First of all don’t ask software developers. Software has few certifications of which none are widely recognized or appreciated. This is more a factor of the unstructured nature of software employment than anything else. For software developers who have never performed another line of work there is only angst and antipathy towards any form of credentials.

Generally, at least according to all commentary on HN and developers I have spoken with online, a computer science bachelors degree is super extremely important, serves as both a certification and license to operate, and nothing else matters as far as any credentials. The opinion is a bit extreme but quite common and a reflection of the distrust of credentials in the industry.

As for other more established areas of technology certifications hold higher credibility. In networking the Cisco certs are widely respected. The higher the cert the more respect it carries with the CCIE having a sort of extreme reverence.

In security the certs are generally used to qualify entry level employment and/or management.

As for actual real world value certifications can serve as a reflection of experience. If you have to intensely cram for a certification and still only barely pass you are probably not as experienced as you might think. On the other hand if you can pass with ease drawing from professional experiences you are likely well qualified to operate.
I hate what the Democratic party did to Bernie Sanders in both 2016 and 2020; It was profoundly caustic. However, a political party's primaries are its own business and they are free to run them as un-democratically as possible. Even without the "cheating", the Democratic party already has a goofy system of superdelegates, caucuses, and other things that skew things away from the will of the voter.

I think a lot of this is perhaps a function of the fact that the US electoral system is really only built to support 2 parties. The Democratic party knows it has a captive audience of voters sympathetic on social and economic issues that it is under limited obligation to deliver on because of its opposition.
Since the DNC is organizing the Democratic primaries and therefore makes the rules, it - by definition - cannot "cheat" in the primaries.

Did the establishment use every available lever to ensure that their preferred candidate had a leg up and that any outsider candidate was disadvantaged from the start? Bet you they did.

Just as any establishment power usually does.
What the heck are peer review scores? And why would you expect it to be correlated with citation count? High quality research isn't the same thing as highly citable research. Peer review is supposed to check plausibility and maintain minimum quality standards. Peer review isn't a sign that something is good. But if something can not even get peer review it's a sure sign that it's pretty bad.
I surely hope they were privately funded, because being funded by taxpayers money and keeping the results a secret is a really shitty thing to do.
Everything wrong with the internet, for me, is nothing crypto can solve.

I am concerned about monopolies turning evil. Average Joe wants facebook, and google. People need those services to be regulated.

And average Joe can't deal with descentralization. Average nerd should deal with that.
I honestly can't tell the difference between when people are talking about QAnon or BlueAnon unless a specific event is stated that would give me more context. Seems like others cannot tell the difference either.
These tools behave like trojans, allowing complete control over a machine. Why would anyone want to run something like that without being able to check for malicious code is beyond my comprehension.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act
McKinsey is basically bullshit as a service. I don't know anyone who worked there who held its services in high (or any) regard.
That is over-simplified.

The web is also free because I can use it to promote myself and my work by writing articles, posting images, doing whatever I like.

I'm willing to pay the hosting fees for that and it's my decision not to pass this on to any visitors.
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A lot of people in that younger generation are one step before becoming Stormfront 2.0 because they despise the sensibilities of naive bubble accademics. Just as with minorities you should at least ask before effecting change in their names. They aren't inclusive, that is their brand. Same group dynamics apply to everyone.
Nepal's honey hunters risk lives for prized honey in cliff hives
Three systems beneath network effects
Although this is from an investment blog (I cut them a slack) it is no for me on the on the 1st conclusion and in fact on the premise for it. Extremes do not lead to extremes in nature (extreme is relative, and hence only in the realm of human language and perception), nothing inherent in nature. And, The interplay of fire season to wet season is not causally linear as implied, there is resource management by institutions (subject to many many constraints). As for the second point, yes, compounding is a non-linear concept and we have generally poor intuition about its effects and implications.

If one want to understand the rather unique position California posses due to it geographical location (in terms of wet and fire seasons) I would recommend starting with this great talk by a professional working on it for decades: M. Ralph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4hvK7l3lA
This was unavoidable.
We need good regulation to weed out the… weeds.

The more focus on actual projects with actually useful products the better for humanity.
I think these are good points. Some of these really speak to the subjectivity of interviewing.

I'm currently interviewing for software development roles and it just seems like a lot of luck is involved, good or bad. Uber ghosted me a week ago after the recruiter missed our appointment. A few weeks before that, I completed a week long 'test project' and haven't heard back from them.

For such a technical field, there's too much bullshit involved in finding a job.
You might also like the work of Collizi and Hogeweg. They did some rather interesting theoretical work on RNA world hypotheses, particularly on the issue of the error threshold.
Finland is deciding on its biggest national purchase ever this year, new fighters to replace the F/A-18 Hornets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HX_Fighter_Program .

It seems every fighter has had its share of scandals, though the local press of course doesn't report of a lot of it.

The lift fan space in the B variant has forced a "fat" design on all the three variants, with resulting aerodynamic penalties.

To me, it seems it would have been relatively easy to just design a new airframe ignoring any commonality in airframe, because - the airframe is not the expensive part. Maybe it was in the fifties still. Instead use all the systems like the engine, avionics, sensors, software etc where the cost anyway is nowadays. Even aerodynamic design can be done with computers nowadays so you don't need so much calendar time in costly wind tunnels.
Since when have you been waiting? What will you do in twenty years if it hasn't burst by then? And in forty? Continue to wait?
The point is that you CAN see the execution; wether you spend the time to learn to understand is your perogative. If you don't, you rely on experts, just like today. But unlike today, these experts can be independent of the process they explain.
Toughening up phone screens with perovskites
Examining the Twitch Hack Data
The entire point of cryptocurrency is to bypass this stuff.

If you're using a regulated exchange, just go and buy Apple shares or use a bank instead. It really is almost completely pointless.
VR games like Beat Saber and Smash Drums do make me enjoy songs with strong beat/rhythms more.
The big leap is that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe.
From an outside, non-US-citizen perspective, it boggles my mind that people in the US think of relatability as a distinguishing factor when choosing a political candidate/party to run their country.

I do not need to happily drink a beer with Merkel to know she was an efficient chancellor who all things considered did a lot of good (and some bad) to my country, nor do I need to find Scholz unlikeable to believe his coalition will be a net negative for our general well-being. What people around me care about is whether their government is capable of solving what the voters think are pressing matters, not necessarily if politicians are likeable.

Sometimes, it is all about trade-offs, even if the less bad choice comes with a crook.
imho a distinct admin account is better than elevating a useraccount, which also runs a browser.
A correctly designed infra and app, will have zero issues with hard failover.

It has been my experience however, that as more people use the cloud, all that "ease of use" both adds layers of complexity, and further, abstracts the backend away.

Thus, by outsourcing sysadmin tasks to AWS, no in house experise exists. People don't know how to handle correct failover, unless the platform 100% does it all for them.
Bundling your own glibc components will break eventually anyway even without other system libraries: glibc does not guarantee compatibility between components across different versions and (barring containers) you can't bundle all of glibc because the dynamic loader needs to be at a fixed absoulte path (/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 for glibc-based amd64 Linux distros).
Very happy with the development of the engine. Maybe one day it will overtake Unity
Your advice to the comment, sadly, amounts to someone telling a drug addict to "just not use drugs", or a depressed person to "just go outside".
I think there's a huge problem with attention span on the internet. Dopamine rush from new content is a thing and there is so much of it available that people can't help chase it all the time. This kind of engagement really degrades the quality of a community and I think we should do all we can to keep it at bay. Explicit, inoffensive, boring headlines can go a long way in weeding out people who are looking for their next rush. I don't know, maybe if this post was titled, "Scientists discuss what concepts ought to be widely known", it would lend itself less to clickbait?
Is it, though?

There are still many good blogs out there, niche news sites, people who really love sharing what they know.

What we need to do (again) is to make these hidden gems accessible and "findable" by whatever means, as we see that search engine providers are often motivated by money alone which leads to declining quality in their results.