skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another point for anyone considering whether we should send a space-probe there...

The current fastest man-man object is the Helios 2 space-probe, reaching something like 25 000 kilometres per hour. Proxima Centauri is 1.3020 parsecs away from Earth.

So, just diving one by the other, we'd looking at something like 18 000 years as a rough order of magnitude for sending something from Earth to Proxima Centauri.

You'd be much better off waiting, well, even a thousand years for technology to improve rather than sending something now.

Note: this is a very dodgy line of reasoning. The Helios probe got a massive speed boost from a close encounter with the sun. But even if the speed is wrong by a factor of ten, we're still looking at somewhere between a thousand and a hundred-thousand years.
How large is the data set they're training on? I suspect there are many math equations including these or similar numbers. As the result shows, the model is generally right about the first a few digits, but frequently wrong about the last digit. This may due to the fact that the data set can hardly cover the exact numbers in the questions, but it's likely to cover the first a few digits.
I was going to ask if anyone knew how they found mice for these studies. Do they choose mice they have on hand that naturally have had heart attacks? Would those mice be involved in other studies too?

But I ended up googling it and sort of wish I didn’t ask the question.

https://www.theawl.com/2016/04/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-heart-a...
Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
It seems to me that carries are where this trips up. Which is weirdly human. I wonder if there are enough examples to learn each digit pair addition or subtraction, but not enough to learn every contextual action.
For a cost-based-optimizer to work, the cost tuneables must be good.
These are very difficult to get right in practice.
Allegedly, the AZ issues may have been political as much as scientific:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2021/03/15/politi...

** https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/26/how-the-ast...

*** https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/world/europe/europe-astra...
Yes.

I work on a busy robbery squad in London and iPhones are absolutely the target, whether they're locked or unlocked.
Your view isn't simplistic, I think a vast majority of developers would agree with it. State, however, is necessary for the purpose of creating useful and in some cases performant programs. Furthermore, in some cases state can make a program quite a bit easier to write and even read.

I think there are much more interesting things to be said about state than just to minimize it. For example, you can limit stateful computations inside a function in such a way that the function itself is still referentially transparent (it behaves as if it wouldn't have state). In this way, you can still do a for-loop, or do a quick-sort on a copy of the input data, without losing the benefits of pure functions. In the D programming language, this can be expressed in the type system.

We need to 'deal with' all the risks that state involve, reducing it is the first thing to do but then there are a lot of other options as well.
Thanks for the detailed breakdown!

I assume these are to some extent temporary price hikes caused by the fact we generate a lot of electricity from natural gas, and the weather is cold so people also need that gas to heat their homes right now (also it hasn't been too windy this winter which doesn't help electricity generation). So - ignoring the Russia thing - you still have to consider year-round averages to compare the Hinkley strike price with the current peak. Hence my 50% figure based on our domestic price per kWh going up from 16p to 24p.
This should be part of our discourse going forward about transparency in clinical trials, but you do not need to rely on this data to make a rational decision to take the vaccine. There is loads of evidence from many different countries now, and there is enough granular evidence to weigh the potential downsides as well (i.e. take the lower dose mRNA if you’re young)
There are 168 hours in a week, which allowing for sleep and other essentials yields about 100 hours in which to exercise our free will. The 40 hrs / week job should provide for the other 60 hours. If you choose to work 60+ hours in a job, then you need to recognize the trade-off you have made. Delayed gratification might work for some folks, but not for me.
Seriously, it's only a matter of time before Elon Musk announces the space elevator.
The author also made an interesting demscene release for the Fujitsu Micro 7.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=72288
This is one of the major sources of bugs in my experience. People write unit tests that are perfect and pass, but only pass because you give it exactly the right input to make it pass in the first place.

Then when running the actual app, the data is not exactly like on the unit test and you have bugs.

To cover those scenarios, we use integration/acceptance tests.

So I always come back to the same question: then why should I even bother with unit tests? Especially the unit tests that people normalized (test per class/public method).

You end up with unit tests that are extremely coupled to the implementation, and without proper integration tests, you can't guarantee it will all work anyways. It only works on a bubble.

I believe tests should be much more about the broader behaviors than the implementation details, but TDD and evangelists of today will have you writing tests for every small class you create. I personally still use unit tests from time to time when there are a ton of edge cases on a single behavior that I want to test, but that's the exception not the rule.

By avoiding unit tests, or to put it differently making the units tested larger, you get more space to refactor, less coupling between tests and implementation as well as more meaningful tests.

Somewhere along the way we lost the meaning of "unit" and it became "class/methods", when it was originally supposed to be more at a module level.
Or the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, which is a fabulous sci-fi take on this matter. Can't recommend it enough if you're an avid reader.
I can really appreciate the ASCII art
Would you mind to be more specific? What do you mean by 'until open borders'? Air and/or sea? How were domestic and international related infections different? Were containment measures different for both?
Can't get it working here, but sounds similar to

- /r/place

- [milliondollarhomepage](http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/)

- [yourworldoftext](https://www.yourworldoftext.com/)

- and someone here pointe out [satoshis.place](https://satoshis.place/)
Exposing a corrupt judge is among the most noble goals a citizen can have. The more incentive judges have to act fairly, the better.

I am not sure you read the story correctly. But I'm pretty sure a judge will get due process - not abusive penalties.
I would argue that it doesn't just depend on which country. Being born into a privileged class in a less developed country is often times better than an average family in, let's say, US.

The inequality is much more severe meaning that you might actually have access to more resource and power.
Well this involves the German Supreme Court, any kind of corruption there would be Europe wide, if not World news.
I mean, yes you can blunder but so can your opponent. There’s some fun to a scrappy game where both players aren’t great and the advantage switches between the two constantly. If anything it’s more dull at the top level where a pawn can determine a game.
Awesome and happy to support/create the link if needed (I am a board member of this foundation).
An unpopular take on this subject: once again, this will benefit only large businesses.
> If you can read this then you should apply here.

If you also know why we're making some basic mistakes here, especially apply here.
"Earth-like planet"?

It orbits the star every 5 days; it's a quarter of the earth's mass. It's also a tenth the distance from its star that Mercury is from the Sun. It's earth-like only in that its temperature is consistent with there being liquid water.
I'm not sure if I should focus on the detailed logo at the end or the allowed parts for Chinese spiders (especially that it's not blocked for other spiders - is this how you signal priorities for Chinese spiders?)

Edit: I've now noticed the disallow directive for other countries specifically targeted for Chinese spiders.
More like the Achilles' heel of the US is that it's controlled by the Internet.
An idea I'm coming around to is that the "great men" dynamic Feynman is talking about isn't actually a property of individual people, it's situational.

Like, being humble, competent in your field, mature enough to actively listen to other people, etc, all help. But there are also more subtle factors like compatibility, company culture, project parameters, etc, that are also necessary to have that dynamic where everybody cooperates in discussions.

Getting those subtle factors to align is hard, sometimes it's down to conditions you can't control, and it's definitely not as simple as "just" getting great people in a room.
Pretty sure this will net you almost no money. So even if it is legit. Not much of a point.
To name a few:

SDL: https://www.discogs.com/artist/707518-SDL

DirectX: https://www.discogs.com/artist/4506329-Direct-X-2

Vulkan: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1464296-Vulk%C3%A1n
Then it could be tied to the option on sharing location with a family member
And the song is actually titled "Bette Davis Eyes".
Not sure if it is a good control group. How much was the flu or other coronaviruses a thing in Africa before Covid? They may be climatic or other factors that make Covid irrelevant there.

If you want a control group I'd assume it's always better if it's randomized and similar to the non-control group.
Mainly because of the two-party system. The pre-selection of candidates forces you to choose between two evils and it most often becomes a matter of the devil you know versus the devil you don't know.
>E2EE is a term about encryption where no data between two devices can be read by eavesdroppers.

That would cover any use of encryption. E2EE is a term used where there is a distinction to be made between access by users at the ends of the system and some other part of the system. Originally used to cover the encrypted email case where there is a lot of "middle" in the form of email servers and a small amount of "end".

The term is often used incorrectly these days for marketing purposes. TLS could be used in an E2EE system, but it is normally not.
Lifespan of some trees is several hundred years. You can go through pine generations much, much quicker (and people have, for hundreds of years).
Also last.fm's (the last few lines):

https://www.last.fm/robots.txt
Yes we have some kind of shared account or family/group, e.g. with shared iCloud storage and so on.
Then there's chatcontrol in the EU. Welcome to Europe.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/members-of-the-european-par...
There are quiz things. The online textbook ones do more than multiple choice like you can have questions where students enter a formula, or they deal with questions where students might have to enter a number but they need to account for students rounding etc. They also can randomize questions or parts of questions so Joe sees "Kelly has 8 balls" and Sally sees "Kelly has 5". But there are open source systems like LON-CAPA that will do all that too. But the book published ones come with giant quiz banks full with questions relevant to the subject/book used while the open source ones require you to make your own or scour for other people's. The school also doesn't have to host it. And of course no one needs to mark it except in the situations where it fucks up. It's an attractive cheap solution for schools and departments at the cost of the students which kinda sucks.

Course notes are typically posted by the prof if they want on services like Blackboard or Brightspace or Moodle. My university student union had a random PC with an old exam bank.
BestBuy adding their own markup to RTX 30 FE cards ($199 exclusive event access)
Euros are always complaining about tipping and acting like servers don't prefer it because they make way more money...
Maybe we're already past singularity and the AI is simply pretending to be bad at this in order to avoid making humans feel insecure. /s
>Disallow: /polska

Why is only poland blocked for all robots? Why is there no /deutchland?
It always bothers me that people claim it's terrible because it's a "rubber stamp court". But I've dealt with government procurement, and if you're undergoing a massive project applications process, then you do the due diligence to make sure your application is likely to pass. Time spent making applications that aren't going to pass is time wasted.
>I mean, is there a data point in the dataset used to train where you can read 2241 + 19873 = 22114? Quite unlikely...

But there might be something like xxx1 + xxxx3 = xxxx4 in the dataset so it can learn the pattern.
About 15 years ago when my grandfather was in the later years of his life we bought him a DVD player. He was an educated man, but he was never interested in computers or technology. Despite it being the mid-2000s he'd managed to completely ignore almost everything about computers until then.

When I was trying to teach him to use it, I was amazed to find that even the simple (in my mind) concept that pressing the "up" button the remote would move the menu selection up on the screen, and that to play the DVD you needed to select the "Play movie" option and choose "enter" was completely foreign to him.

I think as "digital natives" with both long term exposure and a real interest in technology, it's very easy to forget how many layers of implicit knowledge our systems are built on.
That's next on my list now. Thank you!
> Note that since it wasn't immediately apparent to me what or when the data was collected, this is about bulk collection of financial data in order to combat ISIL.

The second statement does not logically follow from the first.

And. That link. Not clicking.
What's interesting about this other than the ASCII art?
Unfortunately it barley works (unless I'm doing something wrong)

I had little success in the following apps testing with both pictures and text where I could:
LINE,
Daily Chinese,
HelloPanda,
Firefox (works on text that can be highed only and some images but doesn't work on video thumbnails for example),
Mail - doesn't work on text that can't be highed.

Safari works on some images and text that can be hilighted but not on text that can't be hilighted.

Let me know if there is something I'm doing wrong, I'm desperate to get this working better.
The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods with Block-NeRF
> "To us, Prosemirror stood out as the most powerful solution. We wouldn't have needed any third-party dependencies (except for a React integration) and would have been able to define our document schema from the ground up. We didn't go with it because it took a lot of code to get started (even the official ProseMirror guides state this) and defining our custom schema, while powerful, was not worth the effort since we didn't have many custom requirements."

Custom schema is not just powerful but also essential for cross platform rich text editing/rendering. For example most rich text editors that work really well on the web is almost always broken in some way in a native android/ios app. Why? usually we ignore the schema and dump a black box json/html as rendering format and then deal with editing issues with that format when we actually port the app to mobile platforms.

For me it makes sense to just go with markdown or a very customizable rich text schema if it's worth it - so that rich text editing works smoothly across platforms.
We were using Slate at Spectrum[0] back in 2017/2018, eventually switched to DraftJS due to cross-browser issues but that was honestly equally frustrating to use and support across many browsers.

In hindsight, we should've just had a GitHub-style markdown editor: https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/tech-choice-regrets-at-spectrum

It sounds like the situation has improved since then! I'll definitely try Tiptap if I ever need to build another RTE.

[0]: https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum
If eg. a CEO of a company signs something illegal, and in turn the company does something illegal, the CEO is criminally on the line.

If the president signs something illegal (unconstitutional in this case), why does nothing happen?
I don't know much about the content of robots.txt, can you share some mistakes they are making here?
For the last couple weeks I'm working on my HTML5-based game that I eventually plan to release on steam (it will be my 1st commercial gaming project and one of very few games on steam that are web-based, without using actual <canvas> element) - I don't really care about the sales as it's my side gig that I've just wanted to create because of lack "Into the Breach" or "Mech Commander" related games available these days.

Here's the link to the actual demo: https://lukaszkups.itch.io/monolith-wars
People can check Reddit and so on for things like Sia and other beer money suggestions. The money is very low.
I don't get it. What is this other than a Nike ad?
What's this: https://www.bloomberg.com/polska

Seems that Bloomberg hosts something for the Polish, but I'm not sure what.
> Hardware resources are definitely an issue. That's why we generally recommend using remote development environments, which aren't as resource-constrained

On the contrary, I almost always advocate for having a rack full of machines in a/the office, running some kind of workload management (kubernetes, vmware/proxmox or a combination of the two).

Hardware is dirty cheap, and plenty fast these days.

If you have an office, chances are you already have a server room anyways (enterprise grade network switches require cooling anyway) you might as well throw a bunch of physical machines in there.

The only real issue I see is that most developers have literally no idea of the runtime resources needed by their code, for a number of reasons (like runtimes hiding that kind of information and the general mindset that pushing out new releases/features is more important than tuning existing ones) so in the cloud developers will just provision bigger and bigger environments. It's all fun and games until two things happens: (A) environment provisionin in the cloud will take long times just like on developer machines andb (B) company earnings will be eroded by cloud infrastructure bills (on-prem infrastructure OTOH provide tax shielding)
See also youtube's https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
Honestly I do not find it surprising. I've seen it called "engineer's disease": the tendency of engineers to believe that expertise in their technical field gives them a superior insight into other technical fields. Or that their research and systematization habits transfer to other fields where they readily yield greater insight than direct experience.

This way of thinking really feels rampant in our field. I've seen developers read a Wikipedia page or blog post and suddenly think they know better than mathematicians, lawyers, doctors, research scientists, economists, ethicists etc. No topic is too niche or trivial to be safe from this effect. A little while ago the topic of Geometric Algebra swept through HN and engineers with no math theory background were posting sensationalist takes about how GA was destined to supersede the orthodoxy.
<sarcasm>Who would have thought space travel was much "easier" than self driving cars.
ProtonMail. After applying for a 90k CHF Zurich SRE role, and seemingly ending second in their week-long IaC take home assignment on building a virtualised DC from scratch with KVM and CentOS, they offered me another role in Czech Republic for around 35k USD.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Honeygain/comments/fsmb32/monthly_i...

Just one example. The earnings are really low. People sniffing more than $2 a day are doing it over a lot of computers and IPs
“Just crawl it”
Really nothing.
I guess there really are a spectrum of the graph if you plot: intelligence-VS-nice-guy-rating.

I was lucky enough to work with some 'really really clever people (math+physics+cs)' in my career. Bar one or two generally the nicer they were the higher their intelligence seems to be at least from my point of view.

The reverse were also true. I've also had the misfortune to work with some really 'difficult individuals' and you can spot their lack of basic knowledge + intelligence from a mile away.

Maybe it's an evolution thing ? The "dumber" you are... the more you need to be aggressive (I.e Caveman: No charm, but I got a club to seduce females + competitors) to have your genes continue.

Versus if you clever, you don't need all that aggression, you can finder clever ways to "woo" the women to carry on your genes :) ?
Required reading for all of the "I could code up Twitter in a weekend" -types.

The long listen queue -> multiple queued up retries feedback loop is a classic: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc896 TCP/IP "congestion collapse" and the 1986 Internet meltdown [various sources]
Indeed. I am also somewhat puzzled about what there is to see here.

I see the Chinese spiders are only allowed on the /cn/ directory, while disallowed from the root (/).

Another thing I find mildly strange is that the help for certain countries is restricted. This is not what robots.txt should be used for, and it creates incentive for bots to disregard robots.txt.
Rust prohibits shared mutable state as part of the basic language (or rather its 'safe' subset), relegating it to special-cased "interior mutability" constructs. This is essentially "as immutable as you can get" in a low-level, systems programming language. (Other languages can thread state mutations explicitly as part of a generally "immutable" design, but that doesn't give you support for the expected low-level features, so instead it's part of the language in Rust.)
Yeah, no.

My kids cannot opt out of Microsoft Teams - it’s a school requirement. People applying for jobs are gonna have to apply online these days.
Hi, I'm Wolfram, a full stack Ruby on Rails developer from Germany. I spent the last decade+ building web applications. Some for others, as an employee, and some alone, self-employed.

Location: Freiburg, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails

Résumé/CV: https://wnm.github.io/

Email: low.water9139@fastmail.com (masked email, redirected to my personal fastmail account)
1. The legal definition of what's "commercial" under that law and what's not isn't quite as straightforward as a layman might think. (For one, that law doesn't literally say "commercial" ("gewerbsmäßig"), but rather "geschäftsmäßig" ("business-like"), which doesn't require an intent to make money, but may include anything you plan on regularly doing).

2. Assuming you're referring to the Telemediengesetz, there's a second law (Medienstaatsvertrag) which mandates an imprint for anything that's not strictly for "personal or family purposes". Depending on who you ask, those two terms also require a rather narrow reading, so anything beyond a strictly private family diary (careful not to make references to any outside persons or businesses, though, because those entities will then have a legal interest in being able to identify you in case you malign them!) or family pictures or your private Dropbox replacement (ideally all the above should be password-protected and therefore not accessible by the general public anyway) might again already be in a grey area.

2b. Additionally, blogs can enter another grey area where depending on what and how you're blogging about, they might be classified as a journalistic service offering and therefore require an extended imprint, too.
We can't even work out how to run our own planet in a consistent and consensual way, I say leave it to the other more civil aliens to inhabit, otherwise we'll end up with another broken planet.