skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just look at the (absolutely absurd) list of presidential pardons each has performed on the way out...adds lots of color to this story.
I tried putting numbers as words and it did additions perfectly. Pretty magical!

What is fifty plus ninety?
140

What is fifty plus ninety one?
141

What is fifty minus ninety one?
-41

What is minus fifty minus ninety one?
-141

Although it failed in multiplication or adding longer numbers (as words).
In the UK at least, we see politicians talking about what their constituents are writing to them about. I suppose they could all be lying.

I've had a letter I wrote to my local MP passed all the way up to central government and received a reply from them. Later, I actually met someone who mentioned a "certain letter" they had to deal with... Which turned out to be the one I'd written!
> Every time I hear about them, they're either giving GDPR fines or signalling illegal government activity

Yes, now think about all the times we don't hear from/about them. It seems that they are doing more as time goes, but they have done little to stop dragnet surveillance, racial/religious/political profiling by the authorities, the deployment of CCTV all across France, (il)legal ⁽⁰⁾ obligations for ISPs to track their users, school restaurants requiring fingerprints to get a meal (yes that's a thing), public services using Google Analytics / Zoom / Microsoft / Doctolib, stingrays operated by police for political repression, and the list goes on and on...

In "digital freedom" (LQDN, FFDN, April, Framasoft, etc) the CNIL is (or at least used to be) rightly regarded as a joke when it comes to human/user freedom, despite having very noble goals. The fact that the press only talks about them when they're doing their job doesn't change that they've clearly failed their mission to protect civil rights in the computer era, despite very good and reasonable legal guidelines dating from 1978.

⁽⁰⁾ French data retention laws are illegal by european standards.
Where would be better? I think the Aegean Sea is quite deep so it wouldn't be possible to attach wind turbines to the seabed.
Those remarks are always made at launch, not later on. Dropbox and twitter, both of which people said this about, were rather trivial at launch especially with modern tooling. They also, and especially twitter, had growing pains. Twitter defo prioritised move fast and break things.

Obviously copying decades of improvements and scaling lessons you cannot copy unless someone made a product of those parts and you can use those.
I'm curious, does one really need a PhD outside academia? Does sufficient experience make up for it?
A1) No.

A2) Because it's about 1,000x to 10,000x more efficient.

An awful lot of the "ills" of modern development practices boil down to the lack of ingrained rules of thumb related to performance. The difference between a local function call -- virtual or not -- and a network call can easily be a factor of a million.

This just isn't in the mental model of most developers. The terms "nanoseconds" or "clocks" are not in their vocabulary.

I grew up and learnt programming in an era where OO was considered extravagantly wasteful because virtual function calls had an extra indirection! Those precious instructions -- and more importantly -- the lost opportunity for inlining or CPU pipelining were considered brutal performance hits.

These days, people throw Python into Docker containers and run them remotely on the network to invoke what amounts to a page of code. They call this "modern".

Then they go on Y Combinator News and complain about how OO is "bad" somehow. Quite a few of these people have probably never written a class hierarchy from scratch themselves.

I literally just spent a day talking to some full-time developers with years of experience, explaining how to implement a simple "storage abstraction" OO hierarchy. You know, you have a base interface or abstract class with a bunch of implementations like "S3BucketStorage", "ZipFileStorage", "LocalFilesStorage", or whatever... and then you have the meta-implementations that combine them, such as "UnionStorage", "CacheStorage", and "RetryStorage", each of which take the abstract interface as input parameters during construction. So you can have local files act as a cache for S3 buckets (with retry) that override a local zip file of static content. Or whatever! Combine implementations to suit your whims.

They looked at me like I had grown a second head that started speaking Greek while the other spoke Latin.

Then they wrote some spaghetti code of functions with hard-coded parameters, checked that garbage in to the repo, and then dutifully sent out an email to management saying "job done".

Is OO bad, or are most developers bad? I suspect the latter...
>If you mean dropping the bomb, then that seems pretty controversial

I honestly see this as a purely gut-level reaction to the astonishing power of the nuclear bomb more than anything about the victims. The casualties of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are but a rounding error next to all those who died by fire bombing, carpet bombing, siege and starvations, and all the other infernos of WW2.

It's not that this makes it okay, it just makes it strange that the bombings get all this attention in popular culture over other much more horrific atrocities and massacres. This was probably an effect of the 1960s/1970s/1980s terror of nuclear projected back on the events of 1945.
If you decide you really enjoy 65816 development, just a gentle reminder: The Apple IIGS dev community would love to have you and we're seeing new hardware releases at a pace we haven't seen since the 1990s.
Yes, but they will now leave a breadcrumb location trail that can be followed up by the authorities, unless thieves become smart enough to disable the embedded AirTag while still on the road - and if that becomes hard enough to be infeasible, theft will become too risky.
this is the kind of arrogance that got us into this mess
When it comes to refactoring, the fact that Elixir is compiled helps a lot - there are a set of mistakes you make during a refactor which the compiler will just catch for you.
Not only do they have clearance,

they're also the only meaningful oversight.
No JSP love for Java.
Tangential: I don’t think I know a single person who’s watched any of the Olympics this year
This is great, and definitely scratches an itch that I’ve had. A couple questions:

1. How do I install this? Is it a clojar or a separate binary?

2. How do I use it? You reference bbb once in the README but then use bb in examples farther down.

Both of these may be ID10T errors where I missed a link to additional documentation…
App can vibrate a single drop of blood to determine how well it clots
Great post and intuitive visuals! I recently had to rack my brain around UTF-8 encoding and decoding when building the Unicode ETH Project (https://github.com/devstein/unicode-eth) and this post would have been very useful
I think you overestimate the influence of the FDA around the world.

To point an example, the FDA approved oxycodone for oral administration (and trusted patients with the dosage of a strong opioid). Meanwhile in most European countries it's rarely prescribed, and often only given IV/IM form (i.e. in the hospital).

Anecdotally, a typical post in "Expat in XXX" groups on FB involves Americans shocked that their medicine isn't approved abroad, and looking for alternatives.
Back in 1982 I got the complete pocket TRS-80 with the mini-printer-plotter and the RS-232 communication interface, plus the handy carrying case.

Full documentation was amazing.

Since it was a plotter it could sign your name to the ticket if you took the time to program the coordinates, and the pen moved like someone was actually writing with it. You could also do graphics on the LCD, animation was not too hard.

I had already done some scientific & industrial programming on Atari and Commodores which came out pretty good, and this was going to be a portable version for carrying on board cargo ships to make some difficult independent calculations at the end of the bulk transfer.

It took hours to work through the forms the traditional way with a hand calculator.

If you saw me going up the gangway with it like everybody else does with their laptop today, you probably would have thought nothing of it.

But the IBM PC had just been launched and it would be well over a decade before laptops even became a thing.

Back in the office we got the next model when the good one was discontinued, the newer one would actually fit in the pocet of your coveralls, so no little suitcase.

But it only had 0.5K of memory and I was going to fit in the massive measurement tables which had been finally standardized in 1980 as an algorithm that had been reduced to a few pages of 32-bit Fortran. Floating point and heavily commented by high-stakes engineers with strict instructions during steps when numerical rounding was necessary. From that point on the official values were those generated by the code or from tables printed from the code.

It was the right thing to do but it was only an 8-bit pocket computer.

Had to scale down using a non-universal rudimentary version of Gustafson's UNUMs, and re-algorithm using integer math so it did not resemble the official code at all.

Then without a 32-bit machine, had to come up with some way to check the output, this required the TRS-80 having the 2K of memory to be connected to the little one.

This one had a completely different program. It was quite adversarial though not much of a network, it took almost a week and only caught 3 suspected errors which were confirmed incorrect by looking them up in the full 83,000-entry Fortran reference printout.

Never did know how many incorrect entries my artificial not-so-intelligent approach failed to detect.

I guess it might have changed my life too.

I wouldn't say it changed an industry, they're all boarding vessels using laptops now not TRS-80's.
The demand for cheap satellite internet that Starship can provide is clear. Just look in another thread about Starlink of people complaining that the demand is not met fast enough.
I personally know a young man without health complications who developed significant lasting cardiac symptoms strongly correlated with each dose of vaccine who has struggled so far to get a diagnosis after months, quite doubtful he even ended up one of those statistics.

Please stop trying to silence people because you don’t want what they suggest to be true.

I am not at all an anti vaccine person but after I had some inflammation in one of my eyes hours after my second dose, I won’t be getting any more without significant evidence addressing safety concerns.

I am also not a statistic because I did not make an appointment with an ophthalmologist, I didn’t feel like waiting weeks or paying thousands of dollars unless my symptoms persisted (they didn’t).

It is not that implausible that the vaccine is triggering autoimmune damage to some organs, often at initially subclinical extents. It is also not implausible that vaccine morality is making researchers and doctors overly conservative about researching and sharing information about this.
Big providers like OVH and Hetzner (and many others) offer truly unmetered bandwidth. You can max out your line nonstop for as long as you’d like.
The future of Currents and the next generation of collaboration in Spaces
Words with the same length are similar to one another but not well correlated semantically. E.g. bog vs dog.
Are you sure that it's not something else interfering with TipTap? Their long demo https://tiptap.dev/examples/book which has 200,000 words was still very responsive.
That makes the case even stronger. Not sure where you're going with this. Unless you want to imply that everyone has had COVID already, the argument works the same.
> I don't believe that we empirically know the positives either and it is the only way to reliably test.

There are already studies comparing the mortality risk of those who got the vaccines against those who didn't, among only people who didn't get COVID. If you're worried about the vaccines, just take them 8 weeks apart instead of 3, and/or take an ACE inhibitor first to up-regulate your ACE2 receptors.
My cholesterol level are OK and I am Italian, so I surely don't follow an average American diet xD My gf and I love cooking and baking and all our food is freshly, with plenty of fruit and veggies, low salt in favour of spices, low sugar and plant based alternatives for butter and such :)

What's apob?
> Every time I hear about them, they're either giving GDPR fines or signalling illegal government activity

That makes more sense, thanks. I thought they were suggesting they infiltrated progressive social movements (eg. Occupy) as nazis.
He should really thing about making a company to do solar, and maybe an Electric Car company that outsells every other USA EV company 10:1
JIRA?
Surprised that Lake Louise tea house got on the list but the Sky Bistro in Banff didn't.

One of the best meals I think I ever had at the Sky Bistro.
The "Deep Symbolic Regression" paper reports very poor generalisation results that break off after a small n (where n is the number of tokens in the predicted sequence). It works some of the time for n = 1 (predicts the next token) but accuracy drops off for n = 10. No results are reported for N > 10 as far as I can tell in the "Out of Domain Generalization" section (which is the meat and potatoes of the "generalization" claim).

tl;dr they can sometimes generalise to the next 1 to 10 tokens (digits or operators), but no more.

This kind of short-term "generalisation" on OOD data is standard in neural nets trying to approximate symbolic regressions or things like grammars etc as far as I know.

I do like they use 'Out of Domain" rather than "Out of Distribution" as a target though. That makes more sense.
I've felt for a while that there is a ton of news from bootstrapped startups that isn't covered by the press.

Startups can be making millions but won't get any news coverage unless they raise venture capital.

So I've started doing a round up of interesting news stories from the bootstrapped world. Revenue milestones, acquisitions, podcasts episode reviews etc.
This is crazy cool to see pop up on the front page as learning how to build, manage, and ship distributed systems feels like the next evolution of software engineering. We have all these tools for doing so for a single binary - great IDEs, easily-accessed logs, debuggers, etc. - but our tooling for working with multiple systems running in parallel hasn't caught up yet.

This is the ethos of what we're building at https://www.kurtosistech.com/ : expecting devs to learn the nuances of Docker and Kubernetes is like expecting them to code in assembly. You can do it, but there are higher levels of abstraction that are more effective (e.g. "I want this binary talking to this binary on this port with these args; you figure out the rest").

The hypothesis is that a unified platform for packaging a microservice, wiring it together with other services, setting up dev & testing environment environments, hooking it into CI, and furnishing a toolkit for debugging them (with some of the tools on this list, like a built-in Chaos Monkey) can reduce the cost to develop by distributed systems by an order of magnitude. If we can achieve that, does managing a distributed system become a single-developer job rather than a whole-team job?
> Webmasters also put highly specific URLs they don't want the world to see in robots.txt. Also not a great idea.

I can confirm; I tried to helpfully put a bunch of addresses which would be pointless for a web crawler to crawl in there (links to the login page, etc), but as soon as you say "don't" somebody's gotta go find out why.

I like the idea of putting gzip bombs at commonly-scanned URLs.
Also from a Commonwealth nation and I prefer the -er spelling. It looks more balanced, take the word center as an example, it plain looks nicer, and having a vowel flow onto a consonant for a hard ending means the spelling matches the actual pronunciation. I think centre at first glance would suggest a more French pronunciation - "cen-tray".

That said, I'll never forgive American English for what it did to Aluminium. The word Aluminium just sparkles and glitters like the metal itself, whereas Aluminum has a distinctly cold sound, like an echo in an empty hall early on a winter's morning.
I've used Currents quite a lot few years ago. It had some content formatting issues that weren't there in Google+ but all in all it was a good service.
If appeal didn’t exist for novice or average players then nobody would be over 2000 eventually and the chess would not exist as a (popular) game.
Not really.

Average person on the street is going to correctly say "geez, I dunno. Can I use my phone?"

If you don't forbid them to, then they'll whip it out and get 98% correct (I figure they'll typo a few).

This model didn't have enough understanding to do that (since it literally has no understanding at all).
First, a "half dozen cities" is nothing in China. Currently, the largest city under lockdown is an out-of-the-way city near the border with Vietnam that almost nobody outside of China has even heard of (I'd wager most people in China aren't even familiar with the city): Baise (百色市). All the major cities are open.

Secondly, if you follow the different outbreaks in detail, you see that the Omicron outbreaks are not just being slowed, but completely extinguished. The outbreaks in Tianjin and Beijing look like they're over.

There will continue to be small, isolated outbreaks that occur when the virus slips through the border quarantine measures. However, China has showed that it is perfectly capable of extinguishing these small outbreaks one-by-one.
The thing is, most support agents only get a few shares.

Both of the last two companies I worked for, it cost me about $1,500 to exercise the shares I'd vested after about 2 years, and their 409a FMV was about $26k at the time I exercised them.

One of those companies has since gone public and my piddly little $1,500 became worth over half a million dollars.

It's absolutely a lottery, but if you get in places at the right times, I think it's worth collecting tickets rather than doing the same work for similar pay where you don't get tickets.
Embed the source code directly in your Qt app with qmake and qrc, for GPL compl
You aren't "succesful" because you have a "real" job that you care too much about. (You're a geek, not a musician.) A "real" musician tells the boss, the wife, the son to go "fuck themselves" and plays to an audience of homeless pedos if he has to, because it's in his blood man. It just ain't in your blood.
Not being able to tell if the facts are true I see why one might be inclined to think as much. I did discuss the matter with friends throughout the course of events to assure my own sanity however, also because certain aspects are in our view rather entertaining.

A future matter is the health data protection violation the judge's family committed by hiring problem solving consultants first and giving them my personal info, prior to escalating to a false threat claim.

Interestingly the law assigns such cases to her branch of the judiciary.

So this judge might soon become a witness or even defendant at her very own court, in a matter directed against her actions.

I will grant you this sounds crazy on the face of it. It is the law however (SGB X).
That makes sense. When I say "sitting back" I mean leaning back, which is closer to the real distance I should be.

I downsized my desk significantly when we had kids so that's the reason for sitting so close. We're currently working on resolving the space situation then maybe I too can switch to a monster sized monitor!
This might come as a shock to a lot of people, but not everyone's goal in life is to be rich.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. People from such non-profits were key to european institutions developing a proper understanding of the problem space, which directly led to GDPR legislation.

If you're rich enough, be sure to donate some money to LQDN/EFF and others to protect human rights in the digital realm.
Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quectel EG25-G modem (2021)
My shelves full of years and years of SciFi. Great majority - dystopias. Utopias are rather boring, I guess.
> Unlimited throughput on gbit/more lines is commonly available, but never both cheap and reliable

It’s been a long time since you could call OVH “unreliable”, Hetzner chugs along just fine too.

I think you might just be stuck in 2004, reliable unmetered gbit+ has been cheap for years.
Stereotypes, in this case, seem to be borne out by the data.
Rational interpretation, meet law. Law, meet rational interpretation.

we already know how this ends.
Floating turbines are possible:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine
That's conspiracy levels of bullshit right here.
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The simplest would be to let someone else host it for you. There's a lot of decent nextcloud hosts out there.

I believe Hetzner just revised their pricing and are amazingly competitive.
That page just freezes the browser using Brave on Android.
This is hopeful negativism.

- They don't need fusion. A StarShip can deposit hundreds of solar panels and put them on the ground. No, dust isn't an issue because they'll bring a roomba. No, this isn't a joke, NASA martian probes' solar panels were cleaned by a light Martian breeze.

- They will be able to become self-sufficient rapidly. They're not going to send 1M tons of cargo to Mars without a deployment plan. SpaceX and Tesla have already demonstrated effective vertically integrated supply chains and manufacturing. They have the institutional knowledge to mine raw materials and build factories that build complex parts.

- There are plenty of other Earth-bound governments and billionaires that could devote funds to zero-emission large scale energy production projects. Musk, his companies and assets amount to a very small fraction of the global economy. Your ire is misdirected: your anger about the situation is properly directed at the rule of corrupt imbeciles and their questionable resource allocation decisions (Netflix, coal, etc.) here on Earth rather than one team of folks who seem extraordinarily mission driven and effective.
Chess is mainly for enjoyment. It doesn't really matter what your level is because you're playing with people the same level as you.

I'm sure football isn't fun if it's played against pro's but a kick around with friends would seem fine.

You should try lichess. You lose quite a few games until the game understands your level but it's great fun.
> What's the point of being in this business?

Search depends on having sites to link people to, and those sites primarily use ads for monetization. If Google shut down their display advertising business, web publishers overall would make far less money in the short term, and it's not clear how long recovery would take.

Disclosure: I work at Google on display ads, speaking only for myself -- I don't know what the company's strategy is here.
maybe not being in closed beta could help?
Making a living out of music is difficult, but it's not that hard to make pocket money from playing in bar bands. You don't need much in the way of technical proficiency, but probably you'll need to do a lot of playing (esp with other musicians) to learn things like stagecraft and timing before anyone will give you a paid gig.
This is what I get for trying out a clickbaity headline for once…the majority of the article is about cohort-based platforms like Maven and immersive tools like Replit. I give one short-form example because I do think it has a place in education going forward but if you read the whole article you’d see there’s more than that there.
You can use a fork as a spoon but you don't get to complain about how bad it performs. Nowhere in Apple's marketing is the airtag advertised as a device to track stolen things
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