skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mass holding of such a view is exactly what's going to end up with me as an American refugee in Canada sometime in the next 10 years. I grew up in Democracy and I plan to die in it. Watching the USA backslide and imagining the very real risk of Trump refusing to give up power when he inevitably gets it in 2024 is sobering... to say the least
Yes, but that's not what the parent was saying. They were clearly implying 40% YoY, which is beyond even zero hedge nonsense.
What would a government do to try to halt a theory?
Wait till you hear how they compete for suppliers, customers, and regulatory changes. Business is about gaining an advantage over a rival. Scoping up rival employees is a 2x activity, you get talent and a competitor has less.
Is there a fuzzing algorithm used on votes so that early in the voting you can't tell whether it's up or down?

There are also some subs that hide vote counts for a period of time. I assumed this was just a more aggressive way to stop the spam votes.
sounds more like pattern finding. and if you break down human cognition, it isn't much different..
> The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing...

And once they started doing that, everyone switched to some flavor of OpenJDK, many distributions of which are backed by organizations of at least Oracle's size.

https://adoptopenjdk.net/

https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview

https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk
> What do you do when a "Western" "democracy" enforces their laws on you and all remaining solutions point you to services that are beholden to a "Western" "democracy".

Correct the aberrant behavior that caused your nation to get kicked out of the global trade system, or move to a nation that hasn't gone rogue. That's what the sanctions are meant to encourage. Bypassing the sanctions with clever math is just going to get the clever math outlawed; exerting international pressure to keep countries in line is far more important than your coinbase account.
This is right, but also at a fundamental level Gentoo's 'killer feature' has always been a package manager (Portage) that is flexible, modular, portable, maintainable, highly-compatible, efficient. Another package management system over the top of this (pip, flit for python) that doesn't share the same values - in this case doesn't care so much about backwards-compatibility or efficient builds, really breaks Gentoo's potential to provide that experience to its users that is the headline of why people use Gentoo. And the Gentoo devs are therefore forced into filling some of that gap and there's some uneasy compromises in the process.
Free, you say? Oracle, you say? No, no, the price is too high.
- Cross-country administrative bloat is not a literature i know, if it even exists. As a complicating factor, I don’t know if we have too many or they have too few. Probably us too many, but relative to what exactly? That’s hard to say.

- doctors in the US are paid relatively more, generally by A LOT, but the only data I know about this is old. US doctors are not that enthused about hearing they should be paid less.

- as another commenter notes, we have fewer doctors and fewer hospital beds than most other OECD countries.

- related: despite what you may hear, our utilization is lower than most other oecd countries. (At least in the following dimensions: hospital visits are less frequent and are shorter.)

- I don’t know of good data about doctors’ personal expenses. But there is a paper from a few years ago which looked at labor department data and found that a decent fraction of the top 1% of the income distribution in the US was made up of doctors. I may be able to find that reference and the fact I’m citing may be misremembered.

- sure, doctors do have high medical school expenses and debt here relative to other countries but for anyone who is not in primary care, it’s not going to take that long to retire the debt. There are multiple specialties which pay north of $400,000 per year.

- I do not think doctors’ salaries are related in a meaningful way to their debt. Which is to say: if you canceled all medical school debt tomorrow, prices for physician services would decline by about 0%. Those costs are sunk. They are not going to have a large effect on prices.
Some might think this is a joke, but the IT manager at one place I worked was almost fooled into thinking he had to pay licenses for our MariaDB databases running on AWS after Oracle had got his name from a web form.

This is a different company than the other one I mentioned elsewhere where we resold Oracle and they still tried to extort us.
I don't think the parent is saying "what about sugar?", I think the parent is saying "why should we buy that this is consensus when consensus can be bought and paid for, as evidenced by this story about sugar and scientific consensus?"
The Great “Roll Your Own Crypto” Debate, Feat. Filippo Valsorda
Thanks -- it has been neat to see some comments from somebody who knows the industry in this thread.
I mean, kinda, but for many types of work the volume and quality of what can be handled by even a consumer machine has improved immeasurably. A 13” MacBook Air today is far better at audio/video authoring, 3D, and code compilation among other things than a 90s machine that’s highly specialized at just one of those things. A modern workstation tower is practically an entire room of prohibitively expensive 90s workstations plus a render farm in one box, which is pretty amazing.

Of course there’s some things that modern tech really isn’t better at. Is a Ryzen 5950X RTX 3090 tower any better than a Dell Dimension 4100 running Word 2000 or even a Mac Plus running MacWrite for writing a novel? Probably not, but people aren’t buying top end machines for those tasks, and some stick to their old machines where they can.
> I agree that the input should be sanitized but only if the formatting behavior is a bug and was not intentional.

The behavior is fundamentally wrong as explained by layer8's comment and in the blog post jcheng linked. Apparently it was intentional, and to me that's a million times worse than if it were a bug that could just be fixed.

log4j is unsuitable for use in a way that many many people are suddenly discovering today. The log4j developers need to rethink this, and even if they do, log4j's users should still strongly consider switching to something else. Otherwise they need to audit the whole codebase for other surprising, broken, insecure design decisions not only in its present state but also on each update. I don't see how it's possible to trust the log4j developers' design sensibilities after this.
Can you back this up with any links? If we banish Huawei from US infrastructure, I can't imagine the DoD signing off on any chips built in the PRC.
Deep learning is pattern finding, not pattern matching.

"Pattern matching" obviously includes "pattern finding" already, in common parlance.

By "deep learning" one means, in effect, "hierarchical pattern finding" (which is basically what "feature" or "representation" learning means to a lay person).

But still, at the end of the day ... pattern finding.

Or that is to say: "just ML", not AI.
Working to get past the impregnable.
Coal gas is a mix that (by energy) is about half hydrogen, as I said. And hydrogen gas a specific energy of 142MJ/kg vs 55.5MJ/kg for methane.
I feel like NER is a poorly designed task in general. You're eventually trying to link the entities to some kind of KB, so you should be injecting that entity information into your system for detecting mentions.
I really love spaCy, it's trivial to throw up a server which handles basic NLP. No complaints here, very happy to see it still being updated
Dope! That is... older than I expected
No, but all those people making "Netflix money" aren't really changing technology, are they? I'd argue FAANG is stagnating it, and telling themselves differently.

I guess if you want to make gobs of cash, fine. You could also just go into finance and make more than FAANG money if you're talented enough.
It's interesting how the unpopular decisions are pushed back, but i think that's an accurate assessment of what will happen.

Biden have just dipped below 40% approval rate and has a lot on his plate with the texan abortion law:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/texass-abortion-law-is-...
A general utility claim: One person suffering from the severest form of migraine is bad. Two persons suffering from the severest form of migraine is twice as bad. Here's another: one person suffering from the severest form of migraine is worse than one person experiencing a mild itch.
> No VM, no interpreter

That's not quite accurate; there is a runtime, it just gets statically linked into the binary instead of needing to be externally installed
> Ruffle investors' feathers, however, and there may be consequences.

Because that's their main power

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29320078
Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You 718 points
Have you ever wondered why?

It's because today isn't about programmer productivity.

It's about enabling teams to work together without tripping over their own feet and killing the business.

So much complexity to solve essentially what is a human problem.

It takes 5 people to do the job of 1 back then, and that's what the industry wants. No one would trust an individual.

Too much money flowed into this industry, leading to waste, as it became clearly a pillar of the future.
I've been thinking - continually I hear the way to help with a problem is to donate money to a charity. But is there a single social ill that has actually been solved (not ameliorated - permanently solved) through a bunch of individuals donating money to a charity to solve it? Is there any track record of success whatsoever?
Now if only MSFT would release a new OS that made a PC feel fast and useful! [/JOKE]
Generally residency spots are limited. This creates a scarcity which keeps prices high.

I doubt the claim of the commenter below who argues that it is malpractice insurance. There are by now plenty of “tort reform” states where malpractice payouts are capped. I would be very surprised if anesthesiology prices are any lower in those states.
There's a dilemma as the magnet links/hashes aren't easily shareable. One option is to create a DMT directory, but this would be centralized. Handshake is the most mature decentralized domain name project, and I opted for it. It uses coins to limit abuse, since anyone can flood a decentralized system. You don't need coins to browse and use federalist. That said, if there are any other immutable DNS systems that aren't centrally controlled that I could review, I'll definitely take a look!
The Ministry of Lies, obviously.

Point taken.
The company trusts the CTO; the CTO trusts AWS, and if AWS goes down, he can deflect responsibility onto AWS. The other C-Suite officers are largely ignorant about tech (that's why they have a CTO), and nod their heads.
Not so sure about the consent forms. I started seeing a new doctor back around 2019. The first time I went we did have to spend ~15 minutes per person answering questions on a tablet. But since then we can either check in on our phone - logging in and then answering a bunch of questions and accerpting a bunch of forms - or by saying "hi, I'm <name>, I'm here for my <time> appointment with <doctor>" to the receptionist.
Looking at his other comments, it seems like it. There is an email in his account. Maybe you should send off an email asking. :)
They verify the number in the sign up process.
You are assuming bad faith here.

The project is marketed as unblockable, etc and yet we both conclude it is blockable from the start with existing network management tools that are deployed in places like Iran and China.

I was asking a genuine question of use case.
> In a fine-grained ecosystem, the problem is transitive.

Absolutely. You definitely have to own the whole stack. Ultimately, you may have to fix bugs at every level, from your own code all the way down to the OS. Big tech companies do this explicitly, with kernel development teams. Small companies do this by occasionally upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu and hoping for the best.

> But in this case, a thin wrapper that reflects the system call's semantics ought to be available in a common `posix` crate that others may freely rely upon to build their higher-level services.

It is available. If you want to directly call any function in the C standard library, use the libc crate. Here’s the documentation: https://docs.rs/libc/0.2.109/libc/fn.mmap.html

All the other crates on crates.io that you find when you search for “mmap” are higher level abstractions over the raw syscall. They have specific purposes, like file io, or creating circular buffers.
> But people don’t build desktop applications that much anymore.

This might be outside of your echo chamber, but lots of companies still very actively build desktop applications (also completely new ones) for their own line-of-business purposes.
Would this work over I2P?
I can die for a private office :(
The story behind FM synthesis is pretty interesting. A Stanford music professor, John Chowning, came up with the idea in the 1960s and patented it. Stanford didn't think this was what a music professor should be doing and fired him. Meanwhile, Yamaha licensed the patent from Stanford, paying millions of dollars and making it Stanford's most lucrative patent at the time. Stanford changed their mind about Chowning and hired him back, making him a full professor and then department chair.

For more information, see: https://priceonomics.com/the-father-of-the-digital-synthesiz...
Besides that it improved my salary, it made backpacker-like traveling much easier.

Sitting on a bus from one to other town and having an hour or so downtime, I can browse, compare, and even buy my next flight ticket/room booking on the spot, without much thinking about how to get a better deal, giving the flexibility of staying at a place longer if I want.

On the same note, offline maps, guide books (OsmAnd's wikivoyage integration is amazing) are at your disposal any time of the trip, so you can avoid tourist traps.

Additionally, service providers also leverage "technology", advertising to and connecting with their audience through chat apps, social media. Often using online translation services to bridge the language gap.

This is a combination of "technologies": mobile internet, mapping, booking services in phone apps, community-sourced content, online translators, and network effect on services like WhatsApp and Instagram.

The kind of flexible traveling I am doing currently in South America couldn't have been done even 20 years ago.
dang, I see you do this on a regular basis. Is it automated or are you doing this manual?
This is my point. Constraints sometimes take us to places where we otherwise wouldn't have gone.

The world is (imho) a better place because Japan has bad iron ore. If that wasn't our reality, we would never have guessed it.
I feel like there was a missed opportunity with the title, why the departure from using Roman numerals and call this article part IV?
That is a good point. California is top both on tech start-ups and illegal immigrants.
I've been using it for a year for one of their Ampere instances and haven't received any phone calls.
Might be because I'm in the UK (region UK South (London)), I imagine they're much more call happy in countries where the laws are looser.
All I know is my favorite Taco Bell meal is up 20% year-over-year
I always roll my eyes when crypto bros roll out the argument that BTC would bring peace because there's an immutable record of who owns what.

I can still just seize the factory, ledger be damned.

Or deploy a military to seize your private keys. Unless you're sole copy is in your own head it's on a hard drive SOMEWHERE
This feels like that 100% beef thing that McDonalds was rumoured to have done. (Urban legend)
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I think they should be held to account, if they're slapping that label on things.
This one could use decent coverage in English.

tl;dr: Sebastian Kurz got to be chancellor of Austra by all means fair and foul, and specifically, in his case, that means foul, foul, foul, foul, foul, foul and then some more foul. The article covers his downfall, part of which involves the prosecutors getting hold of several years of messaging history of one of his aides, which is a story I think many HNers would appreciate, both for the techical and the organisational bits. And for the hilarious quotes.

The machine translation is probably usable.
The Beaker browser looks interesting -- it looks a lot like DHT/DMT (https://hypercore-protocol.org/), but I speculate it's likely more specialized for the use case.

Handshake names are decentralized and on chain, so as long as you have access to read the chain, it would work over ad hoc networks as well (and offline/local).
I know zsh has all the new fancy stuff but keeping the bash shell as default for macOS would have made my life just a little bit easier.
Your original comment refers to the fact that the USA generally treats detainees poorly, not that it "brazenly breaks many other assurances it makes in this regard".

You haven't convinced me why the court is wrong to believe the USA on this point. You just seem to repeatedly state that it's ridiculous without saying why.

But anyway, ultimately we will be able to see whether or not the USA does let Assange (if convicted) serve his sentence in Australia or not.
> It does not overwrite anything nor does it make anything invisible

Sure it does. It causes the renderer to reverse direction, which overwrites the previous characters. It's EXACTLY this effect which allows for invisible malware insertion into code.

Errors in ASCII are not justification for going bananas adding them everywhere.

>> eurt ton
> I'm not even going to address that other than to say LOL

You could try. Somehow I managed to trick HN into rendering text right-to-left by never stepping outside of ASCII.

Unicode further botched things up by introducing modes.

And how many official Unicode letter 'a' glyphs are there? Somehow Unicode decided it needed to confuse fonts with characters. They're not even always different fonts, they sometimes are indistinguishable.

I wouldn't be in the least surprised if Unicode added a clockwise spiral rendering mode.

clock
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Dare I ask - is there one already?
Hated that company when I was shopping for a refinance. They had the slickest website (which is probably why they call themeselves fintech) but were extremely opaque about their quotes even after they forced me to answer 100s of detailed personal finance questions. And very spammy
But ignoring PPP does the opposite of whitewash the accumulated wealth. Ignoring PPP makes the disparity greater, not less
It's fine to lock down and dictate what a server can do. It's not fine to do that to free people in perpetuity.

Constant boosters, lockdowns, etc are burning lots of good will offered by people who originally opted to compromise personal liberty for the greater public good. It's getting old and the ROI of the compromise is getting smaller every day.
Had this exactly error couple of weeks ago. Tried multiple good CC and it never worked. Blessing in disguise.
Do you need/want the bars of the 3d bar chart to cast shadows? You can turn the shadows off, too.
It's free because no one would choose them over AWS, GCP, etc if it cost anything. The second they think they no longer have to dangle free things in front of developers in order to get their business, it will no longer be free.
Most large hospitals are not publicly traded. The money is not going to rich stockholders because they don’t have any. Many, for example, are large academic medical centers attached to universities.

Also: most large hospitals are technically “nonprofit”. Most of the money there goes to salaries for hospital employees, including well paid administrators.

As I note elsewhere in a reply to another comment: it is an ongoing open research question whether “nonprofit” and for profit hospitals actually do anything different. My strong sense (indicated by my “”!) is that the answer is no! They are equally rapacious.
See related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29504755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514746
I'm pretty sure they meant "pattern finding" as "discovering new patterns that can be used for matching", not "finding a pattern that matches an existing known one".
Don't take the obvious flamebait. HN's favorite comment on any Go article is "it's designed for bad programmers", implying that if you like it, you're bad at programming. I'm good at programming and like Go, so that implication is clearly false.
I've used the chrome one but it's not even close to the Firefox extension regarding usability. The tree-style view disappears when you do anything but interacting with it and you must confirm closing a tree which slows things down severely. It works but it's just not integrated as well on Chrome as on Firefox.

Thanks for pointing out the Opera one, I'll have a look at it :)
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.

On a side note I do use their free tier stuff (the amd vps-es) to host my website and it's been fine. Used the ampere instance to transfer stuff between two rclone encrypted remotes and haven't had issues so far.

Be careful though, the ampere instances aren't treated as "always free" so after the trial period ends, they get suspended and you either have to contact them or delete the instances and set them up from scratch... Had to spend a few hours setting up a book stack app instance again.
> For me, it's not a question of terseness -- it's more about communicating intent, and not polluting the scope with incidental variables.

A mapping for loop doesn't pollute scope with incidental variables:

results := make([]Result, len(input))
for i := range input {
results[i] = callback(input[i])
}

^ This only adds `results` to scope, which is the same as `results := map(input, callback)`. In the for loop example, the loop variable `i` is scoped to the loop.

Moreover, if you don't care about terseness, you can always pull this out into a well-named function or annotate it with a comment.

> Everyone knows what map/filter/reduce do

In isolation, but for complicated chains of map/filter/reduce (especially with error handling logic in languages which return errors rather than raising them as exceptions) it's much easier for me to read the corresponding for loop equivalent. Even my colleagues at a Python shop had limits on the complexity of list comprehensions beyond which point they were required to rewrite into a for loop because while packing that complexity into a single expression is elegant and clever, it's not particularly readable or easy to understand.

I guess my view can be summarized as: for very simple cases, map/filter/reduce are a bit clearer, but for those same simple cases a for loop is still easily understood and a for loop's readability scales better with complexity.
Satoshi doesn't get any credit for stating what people have been stating literally for decades before "he" came along. Let's not give him credit for anything other than the bitcoin algorithm.