skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dogecoin is disinflationary [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
I have multiple work colleagues in Slovakia, a stones throw away from me, who are very definitely against NATO bases expanding into eastern/central Europe.

I suggest you ask your relatives how they feel about NATO encroaching further and further towards Russias' borders, and what do they think about the recent NATO exercise that flew armed nuclear missiles within 20km's of Russias borders. If the tables were turned, Americans would be having kittens - but somehow, Russians are supposed to take these threats lightly?
But they aren't. They aren't breaking the law. Unless you want to call yourself a criminal.
> I guess "the minority" in the title means less than half.

Precisely. Still the largest group, but no longer more than half.
It's a mistake to conflate Putin's interests with those of Russia. His continued attempts to bolster hostile far-right strawmen into something more substantial puts his actions in direct conflict with those he claims to represent. His divide-and-rule politics puts him into a state of active, ongoing conflict with all of us.
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I use reddit all the time and look at none of these things. Despite some obnoxious or downright terrible subs, it's still a useful or entertaining site for folks of many interests.
I think that's a trailing indicator, a reaction by Wordpress to the current "right way" to build web software.
It takes about 10 minutes to add a node to the Bitcoin Blockchain. As soon as it is added, everyone can see it. So DNS servers could ban the new domain almost immediately after it is added. It is a race, of course, as there will be windows in which the bots could successfully phone home.
It's ridiculously easy.

Even 6 years ago when I started, you could just run it in production with `mix phx.server`, much like running `rails server` and use the exact same deployment patterns. Or you could build a release and copy it up to the server however you saw fit. At that time it was painful for some coming from different habits that involved pulling in config at run-time rather than compile time, but those patterns have also been supported since at least 2019.

Since then, the team has been continually making it easier.

Now there's a single command line to do a deploy to Fly and also one to build a docker container for you if that's what you want: https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1468998944009166849
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Why Level-3 Autonomy is a major milestone in self-driving cars
UPDATE: The company revised the NDA to say, "prior to this agreement but after the employee was hired, and pertaining to the business of the company", which is likely what it was supposed to say in the first place, so I'm going to say that this was an honest mistake.
Did you try uwsgi? I have been hosting everything with this thing for over a decade and I still love it: https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Ruby.html
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The description of this is very unclear.

"how many red and blue beads you can string together without creating any long sequences of evenly spaced beads of a single color"
I have had access to GPT-3 for a long while now, and I love it. I updated my Common Lisp and Clojure books with client examples (you can get free copies at https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson by sliding the price scale to “free”).

The code generation is sometimes very impressive, it does a great job at abstractive summarization, I have been having fun by letting it help me write a sci-fi story, etc.

Definitely check it out.

I have been working with neural networks since the 1980s (DARPA NN Tools advisory panel for a year, commercial applications) and it pleases me greatly to see that deep learning models being part of my engineering stack. I wrote a macOS app for the App Store that uses two DL models, and it is difficult to imagine any company functioning without ML.
You can deploy pretty much anything on Render, AFAIK it’s all container based.

Here’s the docs for Phoenix deployments: https://render.com/docs/deploy-phoenix
It is rather well known that the deployment of Nato soldiers to other Nato countries in peacetime serves more purposes than just training together and showing support.

Russia knows well that if they do something on the borders of the eastern Nato countries they will anger not only that nation but they also risk killing young people from a number of other Nato countries at the same time, meaning that broad support for counter action will hopefully build very quickly compared to if only "some people in a former east block country got killed in an unfortunate accident" or "there was a border dispute" like in Ukraine.

Some notes:

- I support this. I am a trained soldier and if my country asks me I will come although I am old enough to realize it will hurt. I have read my history and history is not kind to pacifists - but see also my next point!

- I absolutely do not like how Nato meddled in Afghanistan for about two decades. Defense allianse, not "attack alliance" or "do something vaguely good"-alliance is what I support.

- I'm not sure if it will help in the short term. Russia is unpredictable and they are making a point of it.

- On the other hand however maybe what we see is that it already works: Nato countries sees far less Russian aggression than Ukraine.
The first startup failed and I had joined late anyway.

The second startup I joined when it was only 5 months old and stayed for 3 years. I asked how many shares there were in the company before I joined. I was told X amount and just 4 months later I learned it was 1.4X when one of the managers let it slip. From the one financial document they published I was able to determine that after 3 years the numbers of shares had grown by 2.5X Basically they were issuing new shares to new employees rather than giving them out from an existing pool of shares.

I didn't ask any questions as they were telling us someone wanted to buy the company. They gave employees the opportunity to buy more shares because they told us the sale of the company was going to happen. I asked how many shares there were now and they avoided the question 3 different times. I decided not to invest.

For various reasons I lost faith in the management and decided to look for another job. I only learned about liquidation preferences recently.
Man Point 4 is so prescient.

> That said, the proliferation of data is also a serious challenge, requiring new measures of human discipline and skepticism. We must not confuse the thrill of acquiring or distributing information quickly with the more daunting task of converting it into knowledge and wisdom.

Incredibly true, and since the web2.0 we have our nose into that problem on a daily basis.
There are plenty of Montessori schools and thousands of compfy coffee shops even outside of Moscow, let alone in it.
To get a better picture, it might help to compare men with easy access to firearms to men without such access.
You're now making me feel better about our decision to exclude the log4j-api from our spring build entirely.
TSMC is working on similar things.

At one time this research was shared amongst members of Sematech (which is the origin of the current NanoTech center in Albany where this work was done). But about 10 years ago, Sematech broke up as companies decided it was cheaper and more secure IP-wise to "go their own way" (Multinationals Going Their Own Way - or MGTOW ;-) so TSMC started doing their own R&D. This is a large part of why they are currently ahead of everyone else.

https://www.sunypoly.edu/research/albany-nanotech-complex.ht...

The NanoTech Center currently is primarily a boutique R&D center for Global Foundries + IBM with other specific companies invited in as needed.

But there is a "convergent evolution" to this kind of work because the laws of physics are not arbitrary nor are random directions of successful R&D possible - it's a constrained problem so even in independence, solutions will be similar because the physics problems that arise are the same and thus the solutions are going to "rhyme". TSMC is already doing something similar but the process design (the only part patentable) is different.
Reddit was always a feudal system, from the moment they introduced subreddits. Simply being the first to land-grab a name makes you the king. Your chosen loyalists become moderators, and the serfs farm content for you.
Hot take. You're comparing a video game company in the 90's vision and ability to deliver that vision to one of the largest companies in the world ability to deliver?

While you may not want the Metaverse, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "If it succeeds at all, it will be a testament to societies ability to bend to the whims of rich idiots.", plenty of people are happy to try new things. Facebook, the social network, is a estimate to massive amounts of people willing to get on board with an idea that is new, at least to them.
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How much of the jet.com code is still in use nowadays?

Having been through a couple of merges during my lifetime, I guess "it depends".
A news item about Mercedes-Benz's Drive Pilot feature was shared on HN recently: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29517459]

I'm trying to explain to non-technical people why this feature is a major milestone for self-driving cars. On my website, I try to avoid jargon and assume my readers know nothing about the topic.
You 3 months ago: "This is sufficient motivation to abandon my Australian citizenship entirely and move to a country [Germany. Austria]"

And you said the Ukrainian and Georgian expats were here in Austria. I'll leave it to others to decide if you're telling the truth.

> You seem to be aligned with the "might makes right" theory of geopolitics.

Actually I was explicitly saying that Russia annexing Ukraine (might) isn't right. ???
Rigetti announces 80 qubit processor, experiments with “qutrits”
I imagined some people would crop up with experience at RHIC/CERN. I never touched the SixTrack code directly but I've heard legend. The compile time features was a constant on all the projects I touched there and was such a hilarious relic. "The code is flexible! Just know these completely undocumented flags or spend months grokking the dense/obtuse/scattered source files and you can make the code do anything you want, all these hard coded constants will change".

As ugly as things like SixTrack were, I vaguely trust them just because there were usually a lot of eyes on them... even if they were hideous. The more obscure chunks of code that were somewhere in the analysis chain were the ones that really terrified me. I worked on a lot of the code for simulating detector upgrades (I won't get more specific than that) and that was a terrifying place. Designing entire multi-billion dollar detectors systems based on hundreds of different pieces of code and output data that were glued together with no over-arching design or integration. The code 'review' usually came down to "that output looks good"... or not...

Related to this, I now work in the atmospheric sciences, and a completely-unrelated-but-oddly-similar problem exists in the various modeling communities. So many fragmented pieces of code glued together and untouched or touched with no real computing oversight. So many wasted computing cycles. So many failure points.
God, you are making me miss my academic days.

Our department's sysadmin was the real hero. He kept people's software running for years after they left the department. We were involved in some global-level public health data, so this wasn't trivial use-cases.
> While I love Django's backend I have found a few clients balk at its general style and non-responsive design, even for un-exciting admin tasks such as approving new objects etc.

It is sort of sad but understandable.

That's why I usually don’t go with an admin framework like ActiveAdmin in Rails. It isn’t that hard to build some general functionality for the admin interface. And the admin interface frameworks I’ve worked with in rails where hell when you needed something special and in my experience there are always a lot of special cases.

Sure you get a less consistent interface and you can argue about how much more work you have to put in to the admin interface when compared to using a gem but you can shut up the customer request quickly and just move on with the none bikeshedding part of the work.
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>> Like the variants that preceded it, Omicron requires individuals to think and act for the collective good—which is to say, it poses a heightened version of the same challenge that the U.S. has failed for two straight years, in bipartisan fashion.

All around the world, politicians, monarchs, etc. show that they don't give a f*ck about collective good. Boris Johnson's Xmas party is disgusting. The princess of the Netherlands recently celebrated her 18th birthday and invited 21 guests while the official regulations allow up to 4 guests per a household. Why would we expect regular citizens to think about collective good after they see all this sh*t?
Microservices mean that different parts of your code are now communicating via (e.g.) HTTP instead of function calls.

It changes the situation regarding deployment, but it does not miraculously absolve you from changing code when data formats change. How could it?
Agreed. I like that there are so many resources for people who want to learn how to program to hit the ground running. Some of the classic textbooks are wonderful for going back and filling in knowledge gaps. I'm at a point in my career where Dover's old proof-based math books start making sense. TAOCP is similar. If you already know the subject matter being covered, you'll have a lot of "Oh THAT'S why it works that way!" moments.
I don't know what's the quantitative trend.

I do know of several founders whose first company was a nasty ad-tech company (spyware), and after making their millions, their second company is a much more honorable digital health company.

You probably can find examples where such people can keep on creating nasty companies, so it would be interesting to see if there was a research about whether or not people pursue more honorable goals after they get lots of cash.
I'm saying if your plan to get rich is to scam people you're just a jerk.
I don't think there is. I replied to someone else in this thread with a similar question.

I got very awkward responses from our management and it was clear they wanted to avoid all questions about where possible investments would come from and how much that would dilute the company. I didn't even know about liquidation preferences until I left that company.

It is definitely something I would ask about before I ever joined another startup.
Once upon a time, I worked on a small project that involved updating a chunk of Fortran code that did some sort of engineering calculation. The company hired some crusty old engineering professor somewhere who had no clue how to use any kind of source control to do the actual code update. My part of the project was to fix/update the part of this tool where the DLL built from this Fortran code was used by an Excel VBA script - you entered the input data in Excel, then some VBA fed it into the DLL, and stuck the output in some more cells. Getting all that to work right was an adventure.
In 2020 my friend and I have spent months building a self driving scrubber, the machine janitors use to clean large hard floors. As we were building navigation stack and SLAM, I always was fascinated of possibly using neural networks in some capacity to improve current state of art. Clearly many insects, including flies use very small natural compute to keep track of where they are in space.
It's really not a novel interpretation.

The goal of a military operation is to achieve political goals. There is no clear delineation between the two. If the political goals weren't reached then the military failed.

A military is only as good as its leadership, is it not? Well, the ultimate leadership is the president.
I'm quoting Matt Levine, who is in turn summarizing the state of US law. That's not my personal philosophy, ftr
Is there a conjecture that says for a field with given a degree of complexity, a given string or function of a can be encoded equivalently in a number of different ways that is proportional to its size and maybe complexity class?

Between this and project zero's analysis (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29568625) of NSO using compression encoding to create a virtual machine for calculating exploit offsets, while unrelated except at a very high level of abstraction, it reminds me conceptually of cryptographic hash collisions, where over a large enough search space or field / domain of complexity there are many equivalent encodings or homonyms/isomorphisms.

The issue with the NSO exploit was they found that the compression encoding for a font was Turing complete, and then wrote a virtual architecture in it, and then ran programs on it that did the calculations necessary for their exploit.

This png encoding issue is different, but if you abstract it upwards to find a general principle it may be the effect of, it's like there is fast rule where if if you know the size or definition of the field of possibilities, and then have a definition of a given string in it, the function that describes or defines that string will also yield all strings whose evaluation is the same. It's like Kolmolgorov complexity, but where instead of finding the smallest progam to compute something, it's: given the number of instructions to define programs over a field of inputs of a given size, there are N programs beneath length L that are equivalent.

Sort of a showerthought, but it's interesting to think that our ideas of encodings and general isomorphisms may be instances of the same concept linked by a sort of "imaginary" function.
I simply cannot understand why people care about "fast" anymore with cheap containerization, CI/CD infra and no more dedicated servers. Who cares if its fast? Just add another box. I have this suspicion that anyone who still cares about backend speeds is stuck in the vertical scaling mindset where they need to keep adding cores and processes to a single machine
You are really grasping at straws. The fact that they state that this is out of scope from the obfuscation technique does not mean the attack is practical. It means that they would have to be in collusion with the CDN in order to be able to get IP addresses.

There are plenty of things to criticize about Brave, but what you are pointing out is a non-issue. You keep misrepresenting the information, I don't know if due to ignorance, bias or dishonesty. I want to believe it is only ignorance, because that is the easiest one to fix. Would you at least consider the possibility that you are assuming malice without any strong evidence?
This is a pretty click bait title. Banning congress people and their families from trading any stock altogether is pretty extreme. There are laws against using material non public information in trades that are clearly being violated and these laws should be enforced and strengthened. An outright ban is a bit of a big imposition. Creating narrow trading windows, or requiring trades to be pre-planned are both reasonable approaches, but the article focuses instead on the most extreme form of restriction and ignores any of the more reasonable reforms.
I'm quite concerned that this is a one way street. The United States is the first to lean on other countries to support them in their adventures but I somewhat doubt if the Baltics were in need that the US (for instance: under Biden or god forbid another run of Trump) would step in. They just pulled out of Afghanistan, a mess of their own making, without any consideration for the consequences.
And when the cause of that internal crisis is the rise of far-right populism (either actively funded or at least tacitly supported by Putin), then it really doesn't take much effort to put two and two together. There are no mysteries here, only evil working in plain sight.
> It uses libvirt to start the VM in headless mode.

So then, I could be running virt-manager and manage VMs on an M1? That would slide nicely into my existing virt-manager usage. But, not with a soldered-in SSD. I tend to keep machines running a LONG time, and I'd hate to pitch an otherwise perfectly-good machine because the SSD wore out and couldn't be replaced. The "expensive disposable" situation with cell phones is bad enough, let's not have this in our PCs as well.

As a counterpoint, the only SSDs I've ever had fail on me were some early OCZ units (big surprise), but I still check the SMART data on drives I'm using and see the wear indicators slowly advancing. I keep stuff backed up on ZFS spinning rust.
When you execute a random file you got off the internet (even worse, with sudo) you don’t get to complain about the consequences. The rest of the story is pure fluff.
The study do highlight some conditions. Means restriction is mostly effective when the suicide method is common and highly lethal, its more effective in reducing suicide for women then for men, and when the specific means restriction need to be culturally supported. The specific method also need to be popularly known among the population.

Import note that the study does actually not compare alternative suicide-prevention strategies. It is a meta study of mean restriction and not a meta study of suicide-prevention strategies. It does not compare the effectiveness of healthcare, reducing risk factors, hotlines and others suicide-prevention strategies.
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I'm having the same experience you're mentioning with Laravel and Livewire. It's an amazing and simple way to ship really robust and reliable web apps in a fraction of the time.
One could make the case that the ability to influence the market itself is even more powerful than just knowing some inside data. And we are not even talking about things like defense contracts.
what a horrible name for a site, I can't imagine googling for how to add x extension to postgres with render.
The good, it is a ML language with the goodies from the .NET ecosystem.

One of the languages I enjoy coding every now and then.

The bad, it appears .NET team never really knows how to "sell" F#, and anything related to it comes as an afterthough if at all.

So on MS shops that actually make use of it, it gets relegated to writing libraries, or in a parallel universe with wrappers or competing stacks for anything .NET.
Yeah i do this as well. 100%.

I wish facebook had never existed we wouldn't have to deal with this garbage. I'd be curious what would have filled the gap.
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I think it's this? I found it by googling "shell quote command".

https://askubuntu.com/questions/354915/quote-command-in-the-...