skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The remarkable thing here is that the technology transfer was not by contact and osmosis over the centuries, but literal and intentional transit.

We now know that there were two people, a shock troop and a horseman, who served in the same Assyrian imperial army at or around the same time. Then after they retired from the army, one stayed in the region, and the other moved to China.
Yes, I honestly believe the donation model (which is the big share of their revenue) shows a glimmer of hope in capitalism. I wish for a future where it's norm not only for streamers but also companies to have the majority of their revenue come from donations.
better investment then a Ferrari
NER good enough to anonymise free text would be the absolute dream for many governments.
If someone wants to make a new kind of torrent website with federalist that doesn't rely on centralized servers, they now can! It would be helpful for me when I download my Ubuntu ISOs. ;)
In tech the only way to gain respect is to know what you are doing, shouting and using abusive language makes you lose that respect.

That's the platonic ideal, at least. The reality on the ground is often far different.
Please not filebeat. For a few months I had this recurring problem where an app was logging way too much stuff. Filebeat dutifully accepted it and then created ghost files as a buffer which then filled up the disk and crashed the app.

Depending on the velocity at which the log barf was being produced, we sometimes had a short window in which we could manually (!) log in via SSH (!) and restart filebeat to force it to close the open file handles at the cost of losing everything being buffered locally (!).
> You can only charge for things that you have delivered and only the ones which were requested/consumed.

This was requested. By you requesting a product or service which included this as its terms. Same for delivered and consumed.
It's anti-competitive.

There's a difference between hiring talent because you want talent, and hiring talent to undermine a smaller competitor.

It's an analogous to dumping.

That is evil.
Won't work, they have 5x the lawyers to sue you even if the contract is ironclad.

I wonder where they rank in the "largest staff of lawyers" in the fortune 500.
> a key measure of inflation climbed to a level not seen since June 1982.

Am I missing something in the article? Which key measure?

The only other time 1982 is measured in this article is the following:

> Food prices in restaurants jumped 5.8%, the biggest rise since January 1982.
The original story about his arrest [1] has more details about the value of the gold and his evasion of police.

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-reveal-how-fugitive-treasu...
That's pretty common, actually. For instance, Malt-O-Meal Tootie Fruities. https://www.maltomeal.com/products/tootie-fruities/

Also, both Kellogg's and Post make shredded wheat and Raisin Bran.
Yeah, this is it.

BTW, I still moderator in https://www.clubdelphi.com (despite not working on Delphi anymore, like many there!) and see how much mind-share Borland and later lost on the small-bussines/solo-developer side.

You can't imagine how much in the official forums people ask for not ruin it and put real features, and the things that get implemented were so out of touch.

Also, is pretty similar how MS ruin Fox/VB (except not even sell it after): Burn the goodwill in the low-end... in the hope them move to costly products -sql server, ejm- ... and then lost that people to the rising of open source.
In the words of Michael Lewis, “I appreciate this, but I just want to know one thing: How are you going to fuck me?”
Until the day arrives when they were shocked to find themselves on ... the receiving end of that very same treatment.
I financed my first mortgage and refi through Better. They did ping me about once a week even when there was nothing for either of us to do while waiting for an appraisal. I got the feeling they were hitting arbitrary engagement quotas.

Compared to my experience with Rocket it was great. I sat on a phone with Rocket for hours having them put me on hold and go to a manager to negotiate rates only for them to have shuffled the numbers around so that the interest rate looked lower, but the total cost of the loan broke even due to extra points and fees rolled into the loan. The salesperson was manic and desperate. They pretended to have a nice async process on the front end, but they end up dumping me into a phone call at the end where I had to tell them everything I just typed in. Several other online companies had similar tactics. The worst was one that just harvested my info and sold it to every shady lender who proceeded to call me non-stop for weeks.
And then people still question what the use-case of Bitcoin can possibly be.

It's nice to be part of the pyramid scheme! ;D
Because concepts in programming languages mean things. A discrete, named entity (a struct) is a distinct concept from a way to increase readability of a function call (keyword arguments). Overloading them with the same language construct is compressing disparate concepts. It's the same thing when "Go has no set type" comes up and people say "map[T]struct{}!" You might implement a set using a map, but they're fundamentally different concepts
It's not just people copying each other, we have direct evidence of an Assyrian soldier who moved to China after retirement.
Java since 5 has included it’s own logging class. It doesn’t have as many features as log4j, but it also doesn’t load classes via JNDI.
Decompilation of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I'd say Delphi was one notch better than Visual Studio. The pascal language was more highly optimized and easier to parse, so the debugger was much snappier about popping up the tooltips to show you values of variables or F1 to jump into the help pages. I remember being especially disappointed with VS because they would spend hundreds of MB of your precious disk space installing the entire Microsoft Knowledge Base, and the hitting F1 on a code statement would bring up a mishmash of Visual Basic examples (while developing C++) for almost but not the right class. In Delphi, it always knew exactly what class you were dealing with and would open the correct help page before your finger was fully off of the function key. The help pages had been expertly written to show you the most important details first, and were easy to browse. Really, I'm surprised I don't see more people reminiscing about those help files. There was probably as much effort put into that as into the frameworks or compiler or IDE.
Does this mean that spam is illegal? I get so many emails that they overwhelm my ability to process the legitimate ones.
What's the big deal starting at age 30? you still got another 30 years to work at least, if not more. You just study some profession and start working in the field.
Too many acronyms. :-)

JNDI was the "Java Naming and Directory Interface", part of the suite of CORBA-like Java-only distributed object tooling.

My guess is that the "lookups" feature in log4j assumed that all URL protocols were "http:" or "https:" and didn't account for either the full set of built-in protocol handlers or the fact that an application can register additional protocol handlers.
Ask HN: What's the best Christmas present you ever received?
Chanced upon this today, there is a ~$600 prize pool.

Minetest is an open source game engine in which you can make your own voxel-based (minecraft-like) games, in lua. It offers a robust system of mods with dependencies. Mosts aspects of gameplay are easy to mod, visuals as well ("asset packs" are essentially downloaded from the server at login).

It is a bit like the child of Minecraft and Garry's Mod, if you know these.

The goal of the jam is to submit a self-contained game within the time frame. It started 10 days ago, but 11 days remain. It needs not be fancy, but more or less complete. For comparison, Ludum Dare gives developers 3 days.
It's a different experience. POV-Ray is basically a programming language. If you want to generate geometry programmatically there's nothing quite like it. The "programming" features are primitive ("if" statements, loops, eventually they added macros that act like procedure calls...) but the way you describe geometry and textures is actually pretty nice.

POV-Ray is also very old. Turner Whitted's recursive ray tracing paper is from 1979. POV-Ray was released in 1991, but was based on an earlier raytracer called DKBTrace that was written sometime in the 80's. Blender is more modern and isn't built around the limitations of what was feasible to render in a reasonable amount of time on the computers of the 80's and 90's.
Is not that simple (in Rust?).

DB interfacing is pretty deep in the chain so you can't avoid it (without re-implement what sql do already).
"As legend goes, Edison would sit in a chair when he got sleepy, holding a ball bearing in his left hand. Soon, he would enter the “hypnagogic state,” a stage between wakefulness and sleep where many people claim to have visual and auditory hallucinations."

https://cityftmyers.com/1871/Standing-Thomas-Edison#:~:text=....

This technique should work if you can fall asleep without consciously thinking about what is in your hand. I have taken naps at 3pm now and then when I'm exhausted from studying a problem and fall asleep. Recently in a nap dream I come to a part that seemed to beg my belief even while dreaming. And I was somehow able to arise out of my dream state with conscious effort. I should note that I have been quite productive with the problem I was considering. I can't remember what the problem was. I just saw the article and thought it would be fun to share.

Edison's technique should be automatic. Maybe something like a soft object that when a few moments after it is released makes a squeak sound. Might make a fun toy for inventors looking to maximize on this dream boost effect.
I think, for the majority of streamers, the way to set expenses is by looking at long term subscribers rather than day-to-day donations - those donos can fund fun things but you're going to want to try and keep your life expenses carried by the regular subscription income. A lot of the people who have gotten successful doing this have endured extremely lean times when they were trying to break into a decent sized audience - every streamer I've ever heard talk about the financial side of things plans things extremely conservatively.
depends on the Ferrari tbh
T1 is a very extreme example. He seems to have no life, he plays the same game for 10-12 hours/day, he is pretty toxic, he seems to have few other interests and no social life...that is fine, he is an astute businessman but most other streamers aren't doing this. They play variety, they do IRL, they have social lives, they take breaks. Even xQc, another streamer who is notorious for 20+ hour streams every week, plays variety and goes outside...sometimes (he recently did an IRL stream at Universal).

So I think it is like a lot of entertainment: the job can be intense, there is often little separation between personal and private but the pay is generally pretty good. Even on Twitch which really struggles with promoting smaller streamers, there are people far down the chain earning $50k/year with relatively small communities. Is that better than a startup? No. But not everyone can move to SF or go to college either.

I don't think being swatted or harassed is that common either. If you are a big streamer and you leak where you live, then maybe...but it doesn't happen as much as it used to (xQc got swatted repeatedly this year, and someone broke into his house...it does still happen).

Also, Twitch chat is toxic but most of the negative comments are not serious. I understand why normies wouldn't understand that but part of the fun for (some) streamers is battling with chat. It isn't a very serious place.
While it's somewhat true, most of the people in premodern agricultural societies couldn't read (especially those concerned with when the harvest should happen), and probably couldn't care less about dates in the calendar. Even today, weather and actual crop lifecycle plays a larger role in agriculture than particular dates.

Even if people were tracking dates, adjusting for a couple of days every 200 years wouldn't be that hard: nobody would remember the good old times when we did the harvest on September 22nd in 1234, and now we do them on September 20th in 1434.

Finally, matching up with astronomical events would sometimes put sidereal year (and day) at the forefront: a day that's ~4 minutes shorter than the solar day making the tropical year Gregorian calendar is based on. Things get murky quite quickly once you start going down that path of what "correct" really is.

Note that in the Gregorian calendar, Spring equinox in 2021 and 2022 fell or falls on March 20th. It's only pretty good when averaged out over a 400-year cycle.

Basically, all of these calendar systems are attempts to "square the circle": find something resembling the least common multiple of non-integer values (solar day length and tropical year length), and then try to mix in a bunch of events observed in a different coordinate system (to overly simplify it, all the night stuff is "sidereal").

So we get back to what is really "useful"?

If you don't care about knowing how many days ago, or on what date in the proleptic calendar of your choice something happened in the past just from the date inscribed on it (eg. imagine a letter dated January 5th, 1605), you would certainly be fine with just dropping 10-13 days somewhere along the way. I can, however, understand when someone thinks it's easier to be off from astronomical events for a few weeks to avoid all that administrative trouble, for instance. However, the biggest practical problem today would be that everyone else has written those 10-13 days off, so it's probably easiest to switch too, especially in the global world we've got today.

But there is nothing intrinsically better in the Gregorian calendar that makes it win on all counts. It's just another agreed-upon approximation.
This seems to be more a simple programming language than a shell. A shell is first and foremost a UI, only secondarily a scripting language... That is the point, that you can easily take a series of commands you'd do manually and put them in a script.
Was the machine shut down, or was the instance deleted?
On desktop you can choose to remain on the old format.

On mobile you seem to need to do old.reddit.com every time.

Never installed the app on mobile.
The Hermit of Socotra Island
Ask HN: At what level of experience did you start freelancing?
I'm currently employed as a web developer, but I'm finding myself digging into freelancing topics more and more. I'm still relatively young (23) and have worked in IT for four years, but I'm afraid that I miss out on important experiences when making the switch too early in my career. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.
Ah ok sounds like a good setup, I could never get past the slow image pull times for systems like that though? Maybe I missed a setting. Containerd especially was quite slow at pulling images. Image of 2GB~ could take a couple of minutes to come down, order of magnitude more than straight s3 download. Once you’ve got your images fine, but if your build nodes are elastic you can easily hit cold/new nodes and pay the penalty.
Consider cash in your wallet... you quite easily hand out tokens to clerks for transactions.

Instead of a dialog box run by an application to open a document, you have the OS do the same thing, and enforce the decision of the user. As far as the user interface, the same steps would happen, but security would be radically improved.

Broad based permissions are horrible kludges, and make explaining fine grained capabilities much harder to do, but I don't have a better term for it.

If some random application wants to phone home, you could allow it, or not, or give it X amount of bandwidth, the options are limitless. I don't know what the optimal conventions we'll settle on will be. I know if I were to specify them, they'd definitely be the wrong ones. ;-)
There's nothing in what you've quoted to suggest that she was freed because she's trans. In any case, this seems like a strange tangent to go off on.
I call equity "Bison dollars": https://youtu.be/Shxiy7l5b_4

It's only worth anything if the world-domination plans go off without a hitch.
Would you be ok with logging also checking the contents of what is passed in for sensitive data that should not be logged? (I do this and am curious if there’s a better pattern, to provide defense in depth against mistakenly logging eg secrets)
So build it yourself or get someone else to build it for you.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but cars are the definition of an absolutely terrible investment - they might beat out randomly hoping you'll land big on r/wallstreetbets but both are extremely poor investment decisions.
Not that the giants haven't tried to be a cartel when it comes to labor. Including Jobs at Apple.
That some things in history took the span of multiple generations to finish was quite the revelation to me. The Cologne Cathedral took over 600 years to finish. As another example, this amusing video [1] tells the story of how King Louis XIV wanted a map of the entirety of his kingdom from Cassini, and how it was apparently Cassini's great grandson (4 generations over 120 years) who finally concluded the project.

For some generations in the middle of such projects, I can imagine that their huge undertaking is just "something they do", essentially just their job, and from their point of view it has always been there, and will always be there to the extent of their lifetime.

Do we still have anything like this?
In physical sports the barrier to entry is very high. Even if you have good reaction time, high strength, etc. you will still need 1000s of hours of practice from a very young age to excel.

In e-sports there's millions of people practicing every day and the built in ranking system can filter that down to the current top 0.1%. At this point branching out into actual competitions is not nearly as difficult as getting noticed by a NBA, NFL, etc. recruiter.

It does depend on the Game. CSGO players play a very limited number of maps so pure reaction time and hand-eye coordination is often the deciding factor. Strategy games like LoL and softer FPS games like Fortnite are less dependent on physical talent.
>I no longer hold the view that our media deserves the first amendment protection that it does.

I think the Assange case is an excellent reminder that "our media" doesn't really have any First Amendment protection. You don't need First Amendment protection if you are spewing DC blob talking points all day. And if you challenge the DC blob, like Assange did (or Gary Webb and others), it very quickly becomes clear that those protections don't exist at all.
> I won't hold my breath for ?.

Good idea :) `?` hides a control flow that Go takes great pains to make explicit. Adding it to the language would be a disaster.
I have a 2005 FF...never replaced the headlights (gf has a 2007 fusion - similar): and you say 'several times'?
How remouldable computer hardware is speeding up science
It's the second set. The first known set was found in the Middle East somewhere and is in the Met collection. The conclusion of the paper is that these two sets were manufactured around the same time, and one of them stayed put, while the other was carried 3000 miles to China
A token generator, a little device where you push a button and get a password. Sorry that the language was confusing, I wanted to make the point that tokens, codes, keys, whatever they want to call them are another password.
NPM has less reason to exist than Java

React and Angular are out of date already, surely, being JS frameworks?
> Overall, there's no open-source high accuracy NER model that you can use out-of-a-box"

Part of it is most underestimate the complexity of NER and the rest of it, in my opinion, is that NER is not well-defined as a classification problem.

At least in my experience, having a specific battery of questions to query documents, first by transformer based semantic search and narrowed by Q/A models, removed the need for explicit NER, entity linking or relation extraction. For the case of entities as features for rule systems, shallow models and using all label predictions instead of just selecting argmax has been sufficiently robust. Using big transformers for classification doesn't pay enough to be worth it there.
As with all of the various "Do Not Track" signals (browsers, phones, etc.), they often end up being another data point to be used for tracking, rather than preventing any tracking.
Are there any publicly available examples of what it actually looks like to implement this for a given language? Is that somewhere in the linked rust crate? It seems very cool but I'm having some trouble imagining what the actual implementation for a given language would look like. Thanks!
It's a spectrum, though. A language can be between 0 expressiveness (Go) and 100 expressiveness (Perl, maybe Lisps), and claiming that the only way to avoid the mysterious evil team member who will wreck your codebase is to patronizingly limit them "for their own sake" is insulting
HN might be such a place even if most people here agree with you.

My snarky comment critical of trickle-down[1] has been flagged and hidden when it reaches a score of 66; and the admins have threatened me with a ban.

I don't mind this strict adherence to the "be kind, don't be snarky" rule, but I haven't seen it so vigilantly enforced on fumigation from fiscal conservatives, which I routinely see here.

I feel like it reflects a dynamic in which flagging is used to steer a discussion, instead of improving its quality.

I would be curious to see the stats on people to flag comments. Do they comment themselves? Do people agree with them?

But I digress. I'm surprised your comment is still here, but that's a good sign.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483790
I think these meme job ads (we need 30 years of Go experience), as well as inexperienced technical recruiters and software engineering managers, have soured the market. If somebody is a good programmer, the last thing I care about is whether they know what NRECONC means... all that stuff can be figured out on the job.
I actually worked on that project, and yes, it is. It was a good idea whose implications were not fully understood -- but Amazon will eventually get it right and it will stop causing problems, because they have a good 'make mistakes and fix things' loop. (I think this has already started happening but this moves very slowly.)

The main reason for commingling inventory is to be able to ship a product from the closest warehouse if it's the same as something in another warehouse (if you order it on the east coast and the nearest Amazon-owned inventory is on the west coast but an FBA seller has it on the east coast, ideally you could fulfill the order from the east coast).

The problem is, nobody anticipated the degree to which sellers began cheating this system when they figured it out. I don't think Amazon was ready to fully moderate the whole system against exploitation. They are no doubt working on it but it's a huge battle.
a million dollar signing bonus? Is there documentation of this?
To be fair in the Star Trek universe there was a lot of global thermonuclear war going on so it makes sense that broadcast TV would die out as the spectrum became too noisy to effectively transmit signal.
> Abusing employees is more or less expected, out in techland.

Which techland do you live in? In my techland there are tons of jobs at places without abusive leadership where you can get a job in a few weeks. No one I know in my land expects this sort of treatment as everyone knows it won't stand.