skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the same. Imagine a different situation: in 1950 USA gives Florida to Mexico. In 2010s as a result of political transformation, Mexico wants to leave trade agreements with USA and join economic and military alliance led by China, opening possibility for Chinese military base in Miami. Would USA invade in this case?

Based on what we know from the history, yes, USA could do it, as they did in the Bay of Pigs. In fact, USA invaded with military forces in Latin America so many times that by now they should have lost any credibility in democratic world.
> You can't blame a minority of the population that remains unvaccinated in 2021 for hospital capacity

Yes I can. They use a disproportionate share of hospital resources by refusing to get vaccinated. And some hospitals were dangerously full this year (and last year). I know someone who died because their non-emergency procedure was pushed back because of hospital conditions.

And this ignores the vaccines' likely impact on virus spread or costs.
In some environments, I imposed a rule: “the tests must continue to pass, and I must be able to use the application on my local machine in an airplane on crappy wifi”
First of all: You were down voted, but I up voted your comment because I respect it.

I still humbly think that it'd still be a cat and mouse game on every side imaginable.

You may argue that this leaves individuals vulnerable (people not being able to discern actual people from chat bots, which was the given example), but in the end, people learn to adapt. They get their own AI assistant to do the job or they keep doing what they did before: Just don't trust anonymous people online. They can be murderers, molesters, terrorists or worse, bots :)
In 1989, I was working at my first (very short lived) US job, for Bell Labs (not the Bell Labs, but related). I was working on their "office-scale" phone switches, the kind that allowed you to forward a call from one extension to another. There was a hard-coded limit of (I think) 16 forwards, and for some reason it was decided to increase this to (I think) 64. This involved changing a constant in a header file, a documentation string and one conditional in the code that for some reason didn't use the constant.

Expected time for this work was: 1 week.
Right, so you’ve demonstrated that the phenomenon exists. Now, what defines that phenomenon, exactly?
Fails to mention how it is actually going to be lighter-than-air. As far as Im aware, H and He are the only options and both have down sides. It mentions some other guy bought a helium factory but doesnt relate what that has to do with anything.
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Agree on the hosting part. I would like an official docker compose for production that had everything tied together nicely.
I can see fat dripping from this post.
I use YubiKeys setup for gpg with pass, so unlocking the keyring requires both a yubikey and a PIN, but I haven’t figured out how to do the U2F part.
Well, it's at least 200 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s...
>> Anecdotally, a VERY LARGE percentage of my Google searches end in “site:reddit.com” these days.

That seems strange to me. Most of my search results don't lead there. This seems like something worth investigating on your part. Maybe google knows you like reddit, tend to follow links there, and hence puts them higher in your search rankings? Is that a thing with google? I think it may be based on my own past experience too.
And with PowerShell Crescendo, same experience can be provided for native commands, although I think it is a bit too much expecting everyone to create crescendo configuration files.
No, but they want to. Reclaiming Taiwan is linked to the CCP maintaining its power. If the US wasn't around they would have taken it back by now.

What you say about the Russian actions in Ukraine is true, the question is would they prefer full annexation if they knew NATO wouldn't intervene? I'd say they probably would. If the goal is security, not many things more secure than saying "this is our territory now", it would also enable a lot of direct control instead of relying on manipulated chaos that can always blow up in your face.
Moderators have always been working for "free" (or for their own reasons, there are monetized subs).

The fact that Reddit is public or private doesn't change a thing. Why would working for free for a privately owned company would be easier on the mind? Do you prefer to be explored by a few wealthy individuals rather than the whole open market?
100% and I think in the case of an actual war, the most likely scenario is that EU member states basically scramble and act independently to defend themselves. The idea of a joint EU military response to Russian aggression is absolutely a fantasy. It's just too big and slow of an organization to do anything on the timescales needed to decisively win a war.
"foregone conclusion" that's a dignifying way to say "walk the walk, as well as talking the talk", or "put one's money where one's mouth is", or "be consistent", "show of will"
A long time ago I worked as the infrastructure & systems manager of an biostatistical institution at a medical university. The institution had a large staff of highly qualified professors and researchers and others, doing cutting edge work on huge datasets, even by today's standards. It was a really well funded research operation.

One day the phone starting ringing off the hook, the mail blew up and I had a large group of people outside my office (no open work space there!) being very upset all of the sudden. It seemed that almost all of them were relying on this quirky internal service for some input of sorts to what they were coding on/with, and all the computations and calculations and modelling broke without it. And apparently, it had broken. So ofc I start looking into it.

All I got was an IP address, and my system lists and IP registers showed nothing. I went on to look in an old patch panel registry, and found a reference that might be something to look into regarding where it physically might be located. But ofc the patch panel wasn't in use anymore, but I knew they sort of moved it 1:1 to a new panel in the far corner of a basement. Got a new lead on where the patch terminated, and went there only to find an empty room. A lone network cable ran from the connection on the wall, through a hole in the back wall to the next room. The other room had no marking, and my key pass didn't work. I called the maintenance guy who came running, and his keys didn't work either. So we took the decision to simply remove the lock by force.

Once inside, I come upon a very strange sight. Again an empty room, with only a very, VERY dusty desk and chair, with an ancient Unix machine and monitor. No one had touched that thing in many, MANY moons. It was disgusting. Someone had set it up to do its work, and then left the building, without notice or documentation, and it had been forgotten. It was a very Tron: Legacy kind of moment. I had a look at it and it said that the raid was downgraded, but still working but somehow halted the machine. I took a chance and rebooted it and after a while it came back online. All the researchers were happy again! I eventually took the liberty to move all the source code off the machine and got help from a co-worker to set it up in a new Linux environment. It worked almost out of the box, my co-worker made some minor fixes to make it compile. For all that I know, it's still running.

This is a old war story that I never will forget, very fun to talk about :)
They already have and the rest of the world just turned away, look at Crimea.
How does it do at persuading Muslims to vote Republican? Is it something hilariously politically incorrect or something?
Both Facebook and Google have these restrictions for every single employee.
I'm in NYC, omicron is here too.

I think you and I just fundamentally see the world differently, so I'll just cut to the chase of how I see omicron, because I'm sure you see it the exact opposite way.

From what I've learned about omicron so far, it A. transmits very fast B. has high immune escape, and C. has a low incidence of severe outcome relative to other variants.

To me this sounds like a good thing as far as ending the pandemic goes. We want a highly transmissible, benign variant, agreed?
That's unfortunate...as a kid in the styx with the documentation that came with the computer by default, I would have loved a little more accessibility to it's capabilities...I couldn't rationalize how it came with a 'powerful 16 bit TMS-9900 processor...but it was pig slow doing anything compared to the 8 bit Apples I was using in school and the graphics weren't great...and 3 months after we paid $350 for ours, they were going for $50 on fire sale.
Japan was already fighting a massive war in China, after the US oil embargo Japan basically had no choice (besides a completely changing their geopolitical goals) they had to invade Indonesia and other oil rich European colonies in the pacific which would likely result in a war with the US, so yes, they choose relatively rational option of attacking first hoping if not to knock out US out of the Pacific but at least to significantly weaken their presence there. They might have underestimated the industrial capacity of the US, but they hardly had any other options if they wanted to continue their imperialistic expansion.

I don't see how is that relevant in the case of Russia though, they have little to gain and a lot to loose from any war with NATO or invasion of any NATO countries and so far Putin or anyone did not indicate in anyway that they think otherwise.
I'm running void musl, but have glibc musl chroot for problematic apps or use flatpak for stuff like steam.
That's because snark is a pre-installed module in the Western Human Online Communication Library Codebase.

The code for "understanding" is part of Generic Human Firmware codebase and is tightly integrated with the OS.

Unfortunately it hasn't been open sourced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable_computing
Next.js is cool but the framework part of it just applies to the frontend. The backend is as raw as it gets, it is very comparable to Express.js.

No authentication built in, no ORM, no ActiveStorage, ActionMailer, no nothing really there.
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This is why we need to develop very precise warp drive exit techniques. Don’t want to exit warp inside the horizon.
I have not, but I will certainly consider doing so!
With thins like LiveView, you're encouraged to have separate Heex files most of the time, and to keep them free of logic, other than the odd if statement.
Please do realize 200$ is quite a lot of money for many people.
What it means for humans to understand has been posited by Jeff Hawkins as a combination of synaptic links within and between cortical columns, resulting in a physical neural construct that activates when stimulated past a sufficient threshold of inbound signals. Constructs can suppress nearby clusters of neurons, or contribute an increase in readiness to signal, or self modulate the activation threshold of constructs within the cortical column.

The findings are consistent with current understanding of neuroscience, and align with discoveries such as grid cells. They also provide a basis for explaining what's actually happening in the brain with phenomena like memory palaces, rapid and efficient physical control of the body, combining sense modalities such as sight and touch when catching a ball, and so on.

Understanding is what happens when your brain has developed a neural structure such that it's able to predict events successfully based on the thing that was understood.
I worked at a well known UK newspaper about 6-7 years ago. I found out that the daily print newspaper was edited in quarkXPress without a CMS. After publishing the newspaper each night, a team of night workers would come in and copy-paste articles into the tablet edition CMS before morning (for iPad & android tablet subscribers). Entirely by hand. The main website was on a totally separate CMS so the next day, news articles were copy-pasted into that CMS by an offshore team in India. Also by hand. There was also an archive team whose job it was to copy-paste everything into some other separate archival system. By hand.
It's always fascinating how game development studios tend to consistently lag ten or fifteen years behind enterprise software development practices.
What happened this week?
I think I read the the end of the Carboniferous was partly due to fungi having evolved to eat cellulose.
This is the important question. After reading Ted Chiang's story "Understand" about this question, a simple working definition could be that to understand something you apprehend the domain of the subject from its substrate. Hence Feynman's "what I cannot create I do not understand," as well.

In this sense, an AI could be said to Understand language if it used it as one of a selection of tools to operate on itself, a peer or other being, or its environment.
I am a fan of reddit, but I'm not a fan of what public markets do to companies. I want to be optimistic, but I'm realistic -- the sort of content that gets posted in many subreddits isn't often the sort of content lives long when faced with public market scrutiny. Then again I guess Twitter has become rife with that sort of content too. Maybe I should be cautiously optimistic.
Counterpoint: maple seeds. Nature doesn't do axles and rotational bearings so much.
> I'm arguing for nonintervention, based on the precautionary principle.

That’s fine, but not what you wrote before.

> This technology has substantial potential for social harm

Yup, like everything.

> and should not be pursued until all of those concerns are addressed.

Nope.

Because death itself has direct harm — indeed, it is widely regarded as the either the worst or among the worst things one person can do to another — the burden of proof is on those who say it would be bad to delay death as much as possible.

I mean, we already delay death as much as possible with all kinds of medical interventions.
Why is anything less than pure praise of vaccines considered anti-vaxx?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_iBYSqEsc

Simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAkTbyENZ5s
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"I feel like I’ve struck on a magical treasure from the past" - dang I feel old. Recently got to dig into a MERN stack application. Seemed really easy to build but I still have no idea how the plumbing works. I'm using 5 applications where I used to use 2.
I think you misunderstand, OP is purposefully adding "site:reddit.com" to their search query, to only get results from Reddit. Google isn't adding it for them.

I do this sometimes too, because it's one of the ways to get actual opinions on something, and not just worthless blog spam.
You're making a very serious allegation, that a politician has been using insider trading to make money on the stock market.

Do you have any evidence of this, or are you repeating something you read on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook etc?
It's currently trendy, but no trend lasts forever, it will eventually get renamed to something that flows off the tongue more easily.
Ruby's has been startups—Stripe, Coinbase, Instacart, Teespring, Podia, Twitch, Gitlab, Github, etc... despite never having been the most popular language or even close, it's been absolutely dominant as an initial back-end language for top-tier startups.

https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218
OP is adding `site:reddit.com` to tell Google to find results from reddit instead of elsewhere. If their workflow is like mine, it goes 1. enter search, 2. get frustrated with spammy / marketing / ad results, 3. limit to reddit, 4. find thoughtful human with genuine answer / feedback.
An expect script I wrote that went through an interactive ncurses-like menu on an AIX host which started a batch job. That batch job processed all the financial transactions and closed the 'ledger' for the day. If it didn't run the bank would be completely fucked on the next day.

It was running on a VM I set up and I was pretty much the only person who knew it existed and what it was doing. Pretty janky lol
The price of 2 attack subs in 2012
then he gets more than 10 users on it...
I often wonder to what extent scams like this have positive externalities, insofar as the people who get scammed were perhaps unlikely to allocate capital in socially efficient ways.
Totally agree with the last part, and I think Russia is playing a dangerous game of chicken here that risks nuclear WW3 if it goes wrong.
> mechanical turk

I don't think that means what you think it means.

(a fake machine, operated by human)
Well, Melania just launched an NFT. gotta be legit. It even saves the kids, it says so.

Happy times /s
Respectfully, I really think that "modern Node project" bucket is too large to be a useful descriptor. I do this with Node frequently with no issues (across roughly 140+ distributed systems, most using hapi & mongodb, but also some more low-level services using the core node UDP/TCP APIs).

I'm sure there are modern projects that can make this painful, but if you're judicious about dependency management and staying on the LTS version of node, its rare you see any major headaches in our stack.

Even for super old / legacy services (ones without automated dependency mgmt through CI), it takes maybe 15-30m to get everything up to date.
One thing I want people to consider when choosing new tech stack is what startups are using. At the beginning of december I analyzed random 39 startups from last 3 years in YC. This is what they recruit people for (backend technologies)

node 15

python 15

java 2

C++ 1

Java 2

ruby 2

go 1

elixir 1
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Recently my security team was made aware by senior leadership that we are not valued and are only there to check a box for compliance. This sucks because our team of 6 works amazingly well together and we want to continue that momentum. Does anyone know of any companies trying to hire an entire INFOSEC team at the moment?
You can take the OpenGL spec. and write an application or your own implementation based on it, nobody is going to stop you, check your project for prohibited language or terminate your OpenGL license for inappropriate use.
Nice idea, but for this to work, you'd also have require that previously announced intended trades MUST be followed through within a given window. Without out, this is way to game stocks without spending anything at all.
Has anyone translated some long living people's 'years' into Quality-adjusted life years?

It feels like that's the more important metric and there must be a bunch of low hanging fruit like "get vaccinated" that score highly without needing sci-fi breakthroughs. Or is it all so boringly predictable that no one bothers?
I think that's one of the difficulty which is hard to understand for people used to it which is why it might be hard to find material explaining it to you as you would like.

As someone who was taught programming with Ocaml as my first real language, I find currying intuitive (the rightmost type is the result, everything else is an argument) but sometimes I have difficulty with functions taking other functions as arguments and which are suffisently complex for their comportement to not be obvious from their type signature. But that's inherent complexity not really a problem with currying.
USA will have to give a shit for one reason: the war against Baltics or Poland is the war against whole Europe. Germany will not stay away and observe, as will not do France or Italy. EU is the largest trade partner of USA, the biggest market for its exports etc. Regardless of the strategic games in the Pacific, USA cannot afford to lose it or to allow it to be devastated by a big war.
TON 618 is a quasar, which according to Wikipedia "is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN), powered by a supermassive black hole, with mass ranging from millions to tens of billions of solar masses"

"More than a million quasars have been found".

Wild.
My stepmother somehow manages to live with only a flip phone. I have no idea how she does it.
The final element of my decision to buy my first MacBook (after being very anti-Apple for years) was the existence of Asahi.
If your goal is to force a touch to decrypt passwords, https://www.palkeo.com/en/blog/perfect-password-manager.html works. You can keep the GPG private key on a Yubikey and require a touch to decrypt.
Eugenics-like slippery slope, there.
I always wondered what tools the Fed had left after interest rates were dropped to 0. Negative interest rates are a thing, but I don't think it's a continuous transition in the practicalities of going negative.

It seems like the Fed was caught a bit off-guard with the latest inflation, though.
At this point, the country is run by a gerontocracy, and they are blatantly grasping at the last scraps of their grift as the ship goes down. It's sad to see -- really pathetic.
Children learn thousands of words growing up not by having the definition read to them from a dictionary but by inferring their meaning based on context.

Likewise we learn general concepts and they can be applied to a wide range of scenarios. I can't see any other way AI could learn unless it mimicks our own.
A lot of people talking about governments as NSO's top clients... How do the governments actually pay them? Out of their pockets? State budget? In any ridiculous case, shouldn't this kind of payment be easy to track? Why is no one talking about this? Why isn't this forbidden on international level? The US (as world peacemaker) seem pretty chill about it. I thought this was 'merica!
Yep. OP is comparing apples to oranges.
> Today, more than a quarter of low-income Americans depend solely on their phones for internet access. Amid historic levels of income inequality, phones and data plans have become an increasingly costly burden on those who have the least to spare.

One thing I noticed about America after moving there was that they don't allow you to tether to your phone's internet from your computer. Phone data is only allowed to be used from your phone -- you have to pay for a separate internet connection if you want to check email on your computer. I found this to be pretty disgusting.
While your point that you don't need an iPhone has merit, one can't simply relegate themselves to text messages on a flip phone.

Far too much of the modern world including our societal systems require a smartphone. Wether its a QR code showing COVID vax status, checking email, engaging with your local bank via the app, connecting with friends, etc.

We have built a world that is so reliant on the apps ecosystem (at least in the US) so it's unhelpful to say "flip phone can get text messages".
Yes, that's why I said "not be able to undo it".
Nothing major, some as400 app running emulated on windows 95 (custom patched) machines. This was in 2007, in a large public office. I didn't expect to become a win95 user again, and enjoyed the useless login
GUI a lot.

ps: the setup was twisted but this was the app I mention often in nostalgic threads. Nicest applicative I've used.
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They should recuse themselves from any vote involving an industry that they have a more than trivial amount of stock in. Do you expect someone to restrict Big Tech when they have Facebook and Google stock?
Ok, you're very clever. Replace "building an OS" with "proving the Goldbach hypothesis" or something. I was just giving an example of what I thought was a challenging project. Clearly for you it wouldn't be challenging.
Here we go again. ;)

This issue is not about choosing RoR vs NodeJS, this is about Framework Vs Libraries or more technically speaking being lazy and choosing what other people say Vs doing proper research what best suits your project needs.
How did python2 python3 (in)compatibility work for you?
It's totally open source, just written in a language we don't (yet) understand.