skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert on these subjects, but reading the original Reuters post reminds me of a similar pattern of events from Russia's entry into Ukraine. IIRC Russia paid or otherwise clandestinely influenced their own insurgents to start violent protests against the Ukraine government and US military presence, and then used the conflict as an excuse for the Russian state to take over territory. Is this the same concept or am I just being paranoid?
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>That being said, abolishing the concept of a consumer credit report entirely is a terrible idea. It is a fact that different people simply present different risks to a lender in their likelihood of default.

And any bank will ascertain this from their forms when applying for a loan well before they do any kind of credit check on you.

Also, YOU should control your credit history. You can give it to a lender if you wish to prove your credit worthiness. They shouldn't be allowed to give it to anyone else. Organizations should not be allowed to track it unsolicited.
And Coca-Cola has an ingredient benefit - the fact they have a license to put coca into the drinks is completely unique in the industry AFAIK. It might be troublesome for a competitor to get that same license.
> Siri is statically-terrible

I don’t think it’s a fair assessment. Sure it’s the worst out of the 3 but it’s improving, albeit at the speed of 0.3 microgoogles.
I'm getting a 404 on the shop page now:

https://gear.xbox.com/collections/power-on-the-story-of-xbox...
If this is a tech company, I cannot see anything beating Dendron. Not Notion. Not Obsidian.

The learning curve is higher than both Obsidian and Notion. But the payoff is huge especially when it comes to knowledgebase (pkm).

https://www.dendron.so/
I assume it's based on the C behavior, where it can be handy with macros

I don't think it fits well in python
It’s not immense compared to almost anything else we’ve done (such as the transition to air conditioning… air conditioners consume about 6% of US electricity). To replace all US ammonia production would require less than 5% of US electricity (see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29842105).

Heck, you can get about halfway there just on the nuclear power plants in the US that have been shut down in the last couple decades!

(Works well with intermittent renewables, too, as hydrogen production can be throttled without much penalty.)
"The Apple M1 chip features four big Firestorm CPU cores for high-load scenarios, backed by four smaller Icestorm CPU cores designed for efficiency. If this sounds familiar, you’ve probably encountered Android phones with a similar ARM CPU layout. ARM calls this layout ARM big.LITTLE and it’s been around since 2014. The CPU uses the AArch64 or ARM64 extension set of the ARM architecture."

AArch64 is the ARM architecture API supported by every Linux variant that has an ARM build that I've ever seen to date. The very reason https://asahilinux.org/ was able to get up to speed so quickly is due to this fact (although they're still working on driver support for various subsystems).

If Intel has already licensed ARM, then what the hell is taking them so long? The M1 runs Intel code at similar speed but 1/6 the power cost. The fact that Apple pulled this off, and not Intel themselves, is hilarious. This would be like Intel coming out with an x64 chip that ran PowerPC code slightly faster than PowerPC itself but at 1/6 the power. x64 is a dead-man-walking CPU API, and it's about damn time.
2010, but interesting.

“Who will be around then to be bored by this apparent overpowering eventual tedium?” A thought occurred. If, by then, only massless particles are present (the rest having decayed), Penrose reasoned that eternity will pass in a flash since no proper time elapses at all for these voyagers along space-time light-cones.

Edit: the review of Penrose's book is by Julian Barbour, who concludes with his own thought:

Despite his great attraction to conformal geometry, Penrose still accords length a real physical role. But in fact we only ever observe angles, never lengths as such. Do we really need them?

Or, as Pauli said, "Your idea is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
I would agree that energy costs are a signifcant factor in fertilizer prices because slim margins mean significant price volatility as a result of the input factors, but what upper percentile of westerner qualifies as rich enough to ride this out, and what happens to the rest?

Given US economic policy directly caused this, wrapping it in climate narrative merely post-hoc justifies that the humans who will suffer from this deserve it because of climate change, and that the humans who are positioned to weather it deserve to have their resources and land redistributed to said victims because of climate change. If I had to guess who makes those redistribution decisions, because their divine authority comes from climate change, I would say committees of appointed politically aligned experts.

On this inflationary policy issue, the climate emperor is naked.
Ask HN: What would you do with $100k USD?
If you had $100k and wanted to build wealth, how would you invest it?

Would like to avoid the obvious like investing in stocks, crypto, 401k, etc.

Would you invest in real estate (how so?), would you open a franchise (which one?), would you build an app (what's it do?), would you do something else?
I think the "SA" in this context referred to Scientific American, not Scott Aaronson.
The removal of implicit string concatenation was proposed for Py3k[1], but was rejected.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3126/
I actually prefer the AA batteries. I've built several custom Game Boy Advances and Colors. My favorite unit is a GBA I built in an aluminum chassis, which necessitated an upgrade to a built-in rechargeable battery. Being able to top off the battery with a USB-C cable is convenient, but I know the battery will no longer hold a charge in a few years or so and will have to be replaced. I've kept the original battery compartments on all my other Game Boys, because I know rechargeable AAs will be easy to find for the foreseeable future.
> And I’m at the bottom with nothing.

No you're not. It's this exaggeration that's getting you into a tizzy. Stop it.

Instead think about all the things that money can't buy. Think about character and resilience.

> I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.

My advice is timeless and was handed down from the dusty tomes of the east AND the west. Who I am and what I have doesn't matter. Listen to our ancestors.
That same case happened to me! Another example is Parking Meters, they don't exist in my country and I'd never seen them before.
That's the world we live in. Many banks have custom forks of Python and various other tools but they don't care to release their code. Illegal? Sure, but they're banks, they're kind of exempt as companies are.

A while ago someone posted here a post of Cray/HPE complaining to a bunch of volunteers on the GCC Fortran project that F2018 support was incomplete. The GCC team fully acknowledges its incompleteness, and knows that it is in fact, incomplete. It is not recommended for production applications. There are about 10 other compilers, some by companies such as NVIDIA and Intel, which would work perfectly fine and which have full F2018 support. But instead of using any of these, or seeing as the one complaining is on the committee that created the F2018 specification, going out and fixing it yourself, they complained to like 6 people because their government project was falling behind because of their inability to even comprehend that some group of internet communists will not do free work for them.

Literally idiotic. You're a representative one of the world's largest companies when it comes to this kind of stuff and perhaps one of the most knowledgeable people on Fortran alive. Go fix it or stop using beta products by internet communists for government contracts.
Robert Redford. Sidney Poitier. David Strathairn. River Phoenix. Mary McDonnell. Timothy Busfield. Dan Ackroyd. Donal Logue. Ben Kingsley. James Earl Jones. Stephen Tobolowsky.

There may exist movies with better casts than Sneakers, but there don't exist many.
This seems to fail in many locations in Sahara. It gets going, then jumps to the nearest sea.

Sahara has endorheic basins (aka closed or terminal basins) without outflow to sea.
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Your claim was “plants aren’t struggling for it”

I’m asking if you can back up that claim. I guess not.
Not just Moscow. Also Warsaw. And Cracow. And so many other cities in countries that believed US is an ally in their struggle, who'll be aiming to liberate them from USSR. Not turn their most beutiful cities into cinders.

https://futureoflife.org/background/us-nuclear-targets/
Their only product appears to be a token, which will likely be a security despite their efforts to call it a utility.

> Akash Production dApps - a dedicated Akash Node is best practice to eliminate reliance on public nodes when you take your distributed apps past the testing phase.

Then what is the point of this tool?
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Omicron is a weird variant. It has evolved to defeat three different therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.

Antibodies are like the immune systems classifiers, a function that takes in a object and returns a probability that the object is a specific pathogen. If the antibody binds to the pathogen for a long time, then P_pathogen is high, if it quickly unbinds or does not bind at all, P_pathogen is low. Brownian motion is constantly bumping around all the tiny objects in the warm soup of your body, so each antibody function can be evaluated thousands of times per second.

In ML terms Omicron is like one of those adversarial image attacks that tricks a classifier into thinking a gun is a duck.

The interesting question is, was Omicron trained by nature or by man?
https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20
> I wouldn't eat them

How would you know unless you asked. When someone offers you something for free, do you interrogate them over their process? They aren't paid to answer your questions either. The end result is no one should accept anything that is free.

Well done, Microsoft just won.

> the wonderful thing about open source is..

Are you writing your own OS, prog-lang and compiler from scratch too?

If "you can take the existing code, fork it" is the only way to get secure code, then the real implication is having secure code requires you to "take the existing code, fork it";

This sounds less like the wonderful thing, and more like the terrible thing.

> No salary? No obligations.

Then why can't people give legal/medical advices without licence?

Why can't I see a dying man in the street and choose not to call 999?

Why can't I refuse jury duty, or the draft etc etc?
What a bunch of nonsense. Do you have any proof of that? I'm in Canada right now and as far as I know, "lockdowns" are not the norm. Ontario yes, much of Canada, no.
For #4 (strict full) the origin server doesn’t have to use a Cloudflare-supplied cert. Any cert issued by a publicly trusted CA will do. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/s...
I wonder if any of the found issues will turn out to be important issues.
A few years back at DEFCON it was supposed to be the movie during movie night.

I showed up and at the last minute it was changed to something else. Cue my immense disappointment. :(
I used to believe this, but it is a lie wrapped around a small kernel of truth. It is true that "the vast majority of nitrogen-fixation for fertilizers is done using" fossil fuels (mostly natural gas, which is not a petroleum product), but plants do not get their energy from those fertilizers. Moreover, the total energy obtained from agriculture is about five times greater than the energy input used to make fertilizers, as shown in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935130/figure/... (thanks Enginerrd).
Not sure they are fooling anyone. It's more like "is our generated image good enough to make a human recognize what it is to get rid of an annoying pop up?". If there were actually consequences to getting it right/wrong people would pay more attention I'm sure.
This is helpful, thanks. Software is only a hobby for me so you're right, I want to be deploying more than figuring out how to deploy. I'm a curious person, though, so if it's worth learning k8s, I'll do it. At the same time, k8s doesn't seem like the right tool for this job and sometimes the devops people on HN feel a bit like craftsmen with only one tool that makes every problem look like a nail.

v. 1 of my project uses `git push googlecloud` for deployments and I have git hooks that rebuild on push. I have been using docker more and more, though, which is making me interested in swarm as a deploy target (I've also thought of just using docker-compose to push).
Because the purpose of the comparison is to show how spammy the mainstream products have become.
> I'm weary of studies in general because they're capable of justifying absolute bullshit.

Do you have a proposal for an alternative process?

> Anyway, your study was conducted in a regime where getting films for free is illegal and therefore somewhat less convenient than it could be if it were legal.

In Switzerland, the country I live in, piracy is legal. You might be interested in researching the consequences.
As somebody really really struggling with ADD (diagnosed) and burnout due to no productivity wins, I found this article helpful. It may have saved my job.
depends how much net income is being reduced by capital investment costs... for example amazon has been bootstrapping its own version of fedex. They could probably raise net income in the short term by just using existing carriers, but they clearly think long-term profits will be improved by burning money on rolling out an entire internal logistics org.
Don't overvalue correlation. Kazhakstan has old contracts with Russia about (military) riot police support (called Collective Security Treaty Organisation) they are neighbors which has a logistical benefit and many Kazhaks speak russian, allowing a limited amount of communication, compared to, lets say, the french foreign legion (think: announcing surrender, asking for medical help, civilians that are not rioting). Lastly calling in foreign mercenaries to squelch unrest is a very old tactic as they are less likely to switch sides.
Ensuring a minimum standard of living doesn't dictate how people interact peacefully, not does it require oppression, you're attacking a straw man.
I've spent a good chunk of my career as a hiring eng. manager at Fortune 500 companies. IANAL, and I don't work in HR, but I'm getting old, am American, and have managed a lot of individual contributors. :D

There are some details missing, like what your country of residence is, but most large US-based multinationals use HR vendors that make international hiring straightforward. In my experience, that usually translates to being hired as an employee of a regional subsidiary of the parent company, operating in your country.

If it's a small company, that's probably way too expensive and they would need to set up the appropriate operating entities, etc. The contracting offer makes sense in that scenario, but it's a contract and you should negotiate comparable terms.

IMHO, it's okay to be polite and direct with the hiring manager or recruiter. You promised me <x> but offered me <y>. I understand that this might be a result of complexity hiring in <home country>, can you help me understand the detail and work with me to make this new offer equitable? My concerns are that I am no longer guaranteed <x>, <x> or <x>. What can we do?

If they're not willing to have that conversation or resolve those gaps in compensation or equity (totally agree with other folks here that US-employment is generally at-will on the part of both the employer and employee -- your rights as a worker here generally suck compared to other places, and let's not even start on the topic of healthcare and insurance), then I agree with the "this is a bait-and-switch" sentiment.

At that point, you get to choose to take the role under the offered terms (you've got money coming in, and you can keep looking for a better opportunity while performing that role), or you can pass and find a less shady employer.
There’s nothing particularily clean about a multi-week pull request with 50+ commits getting squashed with all the commit messages concatenated together as bullet points. I’ve tried to go back to commits/issues like that and it’s hard to understand what one section of the commit message corresponds to in the diff.

There’s no way to automate version control.
Ohhh, ohhh, now do Elon Musk.
I think that hypothesis needs to be challenged or at least framed differently, since there aren't that many examples of civilizations that "reverted" to nomadism from an agrarian society (it would probably be more accurate that climate change/human activity dampened agricultural output enough that nomadic peoples became more prevalent as the population of agrarian peoples collapsed/migrated elsewhere), at least outside larger contexts like the Bronze Age Collapse where there was a centuries long period of population decline in a large geographic area.

And in more recent centuries, "collapse" is almost always synonymous with political turmoil/change while the peoples remain in place.

I think that's important too, because we're not seeing so much of a "collapse" of our global civilization, but migrations of peoples across it, and a rise in political turmoil as a second order effect.
I assumed it was borrowed from shell, where everything can just be put next to eachother since it’s all text.
I wouldn't say Hackers captured the spirit, but more like captured an aspirational desire. Everyone wanted to be a slick William Gibson cyberpunk inspired digital cowboy. Truth is, there were way more Dan Aykroyds than Jonny Lee Millers.
The judge here is being incredibly silly. They are ordering the FDA to perform medical grade redaction on 55,000 pages a month.

These clinical trial documents are chock full of patient data and clinical notes.
What should they do, light candles, fast and hold silent protests to revolt against decades-long autocratic government based on nepotism and systemic corruption? Perhaps a couple viral Twitter hashtags might help?

History teaches that revolution is paid in blood, every time. It's quite naive and first-world to assume any extreme political change can be done peacefully.

You need blood to create democracy, and you need blood to tear it down.
Probably because most of those people never go to a good bakery or pizza place at home.
And a whole lot of time, temperature, and pressure driven through geological processes.

Energy from gravity and radiation are contributing factors to fossil fuel production, even if the hydrocarbons broken down for use are largely photosynthetic in nature/origin, they owe their energy density that makes them a viable fuel source to factors beyond solar. Breaking that down has side effects beyond pure photosynthetic processes.
Many governments forbid getting paid cash under the table, especially without a visa.

I believe history will show cryptocurrency to be even more resilient than cash as an international, sometimes private, means of transferring value between individuals.

People will do what it takes to survive. Regulations can slow but never stop “illegal” workers.
Of course Eliot was a great poet, but the impulse to hagiography is one that should be resisted, and despite a gesture at that fact this article mostly fails to do so.

Here's what Eliot had to say about Judaism in After Strange Gods:

> The population should be homogeneous; where two or more cultures exist in the same place they are likely either to be fiercely self-conscious or both to become adulterate. What is still more important is unity of religious background, and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.

After Strange Gods is a compilation of lectures given at the University of Virginia in 1933. This was the Jim Crow-era Deep South -- and Eliot regarded the outcome of the US Civil War as a disaster.

His grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, was a Unitarian minister and abolitionist. One of T.S. Eliot's literary preoccupuations was the degeneration of society. If you contrast his grandfather's life of civic virtue with his cosplay reactionary Anglophilia, you get a pretty good illustration of the principle that every complaint of the conservative is fundamentally just projection.
See previous discussions dating all the way back to 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4059356

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875090
This is exactly what happens in practice.
What happens when there are literally truly no IPv4 addresses left for sale? Not today’s reality, but the clock is ticking.
They had an advantage because the movie is mostly about social engineering (which requires acting), and less about actual hacking (computer screens and such which are less exciting to watch on a silver screen).

The pandering comment is funny to me though, because every single Robert Redford character has the same humblesmug, morally superior talk-down-while-encouraging-his-students "cool professor" vibe to me.
For many generative models, this is on the way to become a standard- using Humans as a judge of generated material, and this is not limited to Computer Vision either. I am about to use this technique to judge the sanity of text generated by a Transformer model for a paper that I am writing (with a small group).

There are also attempts to properly standardize it, and this is called- HYPE [0]. And there are big names like Fei-Fei Li and Michael Bernstein behind it.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01121
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I think the wording in your post is wrong - That economist article says people would want to be paid $1,500 if they had to sacrifice access to a search engine (not that people would pay to sacrifice access).
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Thank you! Where are your production figures from?
Sorry, but I couldn't resist checking out the APIs and sending a fake score ("sorry"). Make sure to delete it!
Everything seems obvious in hindsight.

I think the true innovation and problem that Sonos solved when they started was to have synchronised compressed audio streams play on multiple speakers with do audible delay between them. That is not a partially "easy" problem to solve, and bear in mind that when they started they had to implement their own wifi network for the speakers as the wifi standards of the time (from memory) both wouldn't provide the necessary bandwidth but also few people had wifi at the time. The were no smart phones when they stated, they had their own "smart" remotes even.
The pharmaceutical companies have had a gangbusters year and we're implementing vaccine passports in places like NYC on the basis of this data.

I think they can hurry.
Kazakhstan: Why are there riots and why are Russian troops there?
Literally the second item in the "Zen of Python" (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/):

Explicit is better than implicit.

And yet, s = ["one", "two" "three"] will implicitly and silently do something, that is probably wrong most of the time.
AKA "We're going to need to practice on someone."

>allow the military IO operator an avenue for developing proficiency in the release of “precision guided messages” to foreign audiences.
Shoot… :-)
Appimages are the only ones I ever bother with, and everything snap/flatpak related is removed as soon as possible. I spent enough time trying to debug the others to know they really arent worth the trouble.
I am a bit in shock. Accidental string concatenation. Python just lost a lot of reputation in my brain.
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