skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it any different from taxes paid by Americans either directly or indirectly through money-printing driven inflation, being used to bail out bankers in the great financial crisis?

If I recall correctly the government took trillions from ordinary citizens to pay out the banking elite as a thank you for the bankers and rating agencies committing rampant fraud in MBS and CDOs - all while none of them were ever charged with crimes and none went to jail. Many bankers even received massive bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailout funds as well.
I'd say maybe remoteok.com but it focuses sole on remote jobs. I know Pietr Levels was looking for a way to add features that would draw SO users to RemoteOk when he learned SO job board was shutting down. Might be worth a look.
it can't learn exponents. it can only multiply.

there's also a difference between memorizing part of a line, and being able to extrapolate it.
> They should be hung in a public square and then all of that person's children and descendants should be jailed for life just to be on the safe side.

Why stop there? Jail their ascendants too! The accused bad education must have come from somewhere? Then just to be on the safe side, I'd include neighbors; the whole city block may be seen as too lenient so jailing the whole city would send the right message!
Yes indeed. We also have something not more similar to what liveview offers. It is here: https://github.com/mmzeeman/zotonic_mod_teleview. It is based on mqtt, and the views are updated with normal html like templates. This makes it possible for frontenders with html and css knowledge to contribute to a project with a rich SPA like interface.
>That will have some serious consequences as well.

According to NASA [1], that is false.

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2953/there-is-no-i...
Also the US movie "The Day After", and the Soviet movie "Letters from a dead man" come to mind. We discussed those in school in East Germany in the 80's. TL;DR: not much point in "simulating" a nuclear war, it will be the end anyway.
Would be interesting to see what the gap is. Thanks for the links btw.

I do know Obama really wanted to get closer to Russia in the sense of a better relationship at the start of his presidency. So what exactly happened I cannot tell.
How would this differ from using an SSH key? Don't we do this all the time? Given prior authorization to add the factor, it is afterwards used on its own to authenticate.
One of the top things gobbled up during the multiple tech failure times (like the first one in ~2001-ish and ~2008 etc...

Was the liqudating of assets from failed companies, and microscopes were abound, and were grabbed up super fast in the asset auctions.

I never needed one, but I always regretted not buying one - ~$5,000 scope for $50...

That and every Oscilloscope were always bought up fast as heck.
So much confusion around this topic out there. Not helped by the fact that there's distinction between Security Keys by Yubico and Yubikeys. Security Keys can't do much other than FIDO2.

Yubikeys on the other hand are split into old ones that did have smartcard functionality unlocked so you could upload your applets into and newer ones which are locked. Locked ones are only marginally easier to tamper with than proper smartcards, nearly impossible to be worth it for anyone than state actors.

If you have any proof of it happening anywhere, then show me a source. Closest I have is this https://ninjalab.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a_side_journe..., which is about Google Titan aka reskinned FEITIAN ePass NFC with some functionality turned off
I was curious if there were any benefits to using the font for someone who's not dyslexic, but rather uses reading glasses and spends a lot of time in front of a screen. I was a bit disappointed to find that the font is $59.95 for a home user licence[0] so didn't try it out.

The font itself is rather pleasing to the eye, having an almost organic non-uniformness. I'd also like to see a monospaced version, if I were to use it for source code.

Edit: I also discovered OpenDyslexic font that is donation-ware[1]. It has more exaggerated stroke weight variations, perhaps more useful for those more affected. There's also a page describing these and others[2].

[0] https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/home-user/

[1] https://opendyslexic.org/

[2] https://www.dyslexia-reading-well.com/dyslexia-font.html
When everybody knows, everybody knows. It doesn't mean anything has to happen or change.

Down here when children break something and the parents ask "Who did that?", they will often reply "It was already like that". With a bad excuse like that everybody knows the children broke it. Strangely enough, almost always the discussion comes to an immediate end with that, except the parents will have a certain smile like "I have been fooled here".

There are sometimes even court cases that are hopelessly lost and this happens. The lawyer is pressured to do anything he can, and comes up with such bizarre stories, that lawyers and judge will know how the situation is.
Another thought is, OK, you deleted all your texts. Then, walking around, a text comes in, and seconds later a cop asks for your phone..

Fear, as you say, is the purpose.
To mi Wiki is a platform that allows collaboration and editing of content.
Regardless, the buying power of those $100 is still the same in Russia. Only the citizens who only have rubles have lost massive buying power due to hyper inflation.
It's funny, I have the opposite perspective. For me, I think design, or brainstorming, is best done independently after long periods of time of thinking unconsciously about the problem.
No...Germany heats with Gas or coal. Electrical heating is negligible (not even 3%)[1] as was nuclear in it's current status. It's no no-topic at this point. You don't need it. It causes more problems to keep it running than continuing to shut it down.

Also...there is no scenario and never was to build ONLY wind turbines...there are many scenarios which consider ALL of the renewable sources and you don't even need "the entire land of Germany" for it...[2]

[1] https://www.bmwi-energiewende.de/EWD/Redaktion/Newsletter/20...

[2] https://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Navigation/DE/Service...
> Firefox’s security is fine.

They just patched two vulns as of time of writing. Don't assume a browser is bulletproof. Since a browser is so complex, bugs and vulns appear regularly in them and can exploited for months before a patch arrives.
When your pleasure is causing suffering, maybe that should be a prompt for self-reflection.
Have you ever tried: https://ericlippert.com/2013/02/21/monads-part-one/ ? it was the one that did it for me.
What's the magnification? I'm not sure I would call this a microscope... it's more like a motorized hand lens.
yes. this article reads like an ad.
Does Putin himself come under the purview of this law? He's alleged to have a palace worth 100 million rubles on the Black Sea coast.
> Inbox — This is where all emails sent by humans end up. That’s it.

How do you filter on this? Do you use a CAPTCHA?
Yeah, the tabs on my personal Gmail work pretty well in keeping down the clutter. Very little that ends up in Promotions needs to get looked at and I just delete the whole thing periodically. Updates grabs most of the rest.

I actually used to use a separate email address at Yahoo to handle all the ecommerce cruft but I find that Google does a good enough job of organizing that I don't bother any longer.

It's also not a bad idea to go on an unsubscribe mission every now and then.
People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in
I emailed the author last night basically a copy of my comment, and then the article changed shortly after. So I guess the author feels slightly bad about it?
But a bad one with no case for unique value being made.
If it meant not having fossil fuel plants nearby instead, I 100% would want a nuclear pant near my backyard. Perhaps you don't realize how many people die per year due to air pollution. Comparing the safety records of fossil fuels and nuclear is frankly laughable.
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Does China have a law against mentioning Tiananmen? Ah yes, there is no need for it, because no one knows and those who know do not dare speak. That's what totalitarianism is.

Besides, focusing on the word 'war' is a straw man. You want the discussion to refocus on it without considering whether my point would stand had the word not been used. Here it is, slightly expanded: there is independent and oppositional media that honestly criticizes the government, tirelessly points out that elections are invalid, etc. It legally operates offline and online. Is that possible with your definition of totalitarianism?
Not to mention that Maven doesn't have any mechanism for locking in transitive versions, because typically everyone uses hardcoded patch versions and never update them.
I think causation is not a binary, and tried to mitigate thinking along those lines by saying "factor in causing to happen" not just "causing", but admittedly I didn't make that aspect fully clear. I meant "influenced a chain of events" not "is the absolute most significant factor in the chain of events". I think NATO's actions were a hugely significant factor though, because it's the factor that we control! As I said, we don't control or have responsibility for the actions of the Russian government, so in our decision-making process, we must take those largely as a given. I support the various stop-the-war movements that were making this all plain -- an invasion would be evil, and it would be evil for us to knowingly fail to take reasonable actions to avoid invasion, and likewise for us to knowingly pour fuel on the kindling of war.

> So would you agree that the cause of invasion is not necessary Ukraine sought to join NATO, but Russia simply decided to invade, and this could be avoided if they decided to not invade.

I'd quibble with the negation of causation for NATO's actions and the use of "simply", but, if I understand the final clause correctly, then yes I ultimately agree, there was absolutely a reasonable chain of events under our control that would have lead to there being no invasion, but also, there absolutely exists a plausible Russian government that would not have invaded. But we don't live in a world with such a government, and we have no control over that fact.
Thanks for the links. Mainly mean that a uniform perspective of the situation is being communicated to US citizens. I don’t know if Russia has any legitimate reasons (maybe rational is the better word) because everything is painting the invasion from one perspective. Therefore most us citizens likely believe one form of reality on the issue.

Just makes me feel a little uneasy to see everything from every news source having the same general point of Russia bad Ukraine good. Because it illustrates the power still held over US citizenry.

The unease is because said uniformity makes me believe there is a form of propaganda inlaid with the news US citizens are receiving on the issue - even if I am unsure of the characteristics of it.

Hopefully my point makes sense.
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Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?
And was the best bathroom reading pre-smartphones.
And what's the problem with living in an ivory tower, as someone who also lives in one?

A monad is a mathematical idea. It has some learning curve, some inherent complexity that you can't magically solve.

The post you're mocking attempts to draw a helpful analogy. Maybe it helps the original author who said they couldn't find an explanation of monads that they liked. Maybe it doesn't help.

I don't see how name calling such conversation as "ivory tower" helps anyone
Did you ever consider that explaining how deep nets "learn in practice" is not the point?
Charities do exist in the free market, yes. They are also a tiny tiny fraction of what's needed to address wider social problems. No charity efforts are comparable to or have the potential to replace something like Social Security and Medicare.

> pushes prices down

Except in the cases where it doesn't, such as luxury brands that exist to show off how expensive something is or for people to believe something is better because of the higher price — and this phenomenon is widespread throughout tons of aspects of the economy. Brands exist that sell essentially commodities at inflated prices through the power of advertising.

> Wealth increases and abounds in a free market.

According to the model you believe in, but that model isn't reality. Reality includes the fact that the wealthiest places on the planet (I mean larger societies, not places like off-share tax havens that just cater to the ultra-wealthy) have markets (but not completely free ones) and a history full of grotesque exploitation. The U.S. built it's initial wealth on slavery, genocide, and theft, and the non-free aspects of U.S. corporate behavior is still today a major factor of life.

You might indeed be right about wealth in truly free markets. But you don't have any controlled experiment on a society-size scale to even use for evidence since no case like that exists. And applying the ideas from one model to other situations doesn't mean it just becomes the model somehow.
How much more agency do you think being in jail grants one?

No, I don't think Russians have much, if any, agency in the path their nation takes. For that matter, I don't think many Australians have much agency of Australia - all we get is representative democracy, and the selection of candidates seems to be almost entirely self-serving to the point of no longer even pretending to acting on behalf of those they represent. I understand that I'm able and capable to do more, I just not that interested in public life, I have an unsavoury criminal record, and the local media, owned by a media giant, already is quite fond of reminding everyone of things that happened nearly a decade a go any chance they get.

I think one of three things is going to happen in Ukraine: either Putin gets what he wants, and Europe are ok with that; he doesn't, and a protracted proxy & guerilla war carries on for possibly decades; or lastly he is deposed by what amounts to an inside job. In neither of these three eventualities does and one, or a group of, average Russian's actions have much, if any, impact.

My personal take is that within about three months Russia will have a new leader, although as often is the case in these situations, the new one will likely be worse than the old one.
>"No matter what the function, there is guaranteed to be a neural network so that for every possible input, x, the value f(x) (or some close approximation) is output from the network"

With "or some close approximation" being a key I fail to understand why is it not obvious.
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No, it‘s not perfect — but if something slips through, I‘ll sort it out manually.
Anyone have a suggestion for those sites that don't allow + or % in the email address? This is always the hangup for me when I try to organize like this.
It's the whole retribution thing.
Modern identity politics in the U.S. seems like the inevitable result of telling people they are "free" but then excluding certain identified groups from social life, jobs, etc.

Over time, people will bond around their exclusion to create a more powerful bloc to assert their rights. It seems to me that the dominant identitarians of the past have largely created the current situation by not following the creed of "live and let live."

Conservatives and the right engage in extreme identity politics, but "identity politics" is most often used as a pejorative against liberals and the left. I wonder why that is. Modern identities probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for historical identification/classification and discrimination.
This whole example is a red herring. This isn’t a splines versus NNs issue at all, you’re talking about the well known fact that choice of basis affects the ability to fit, which has nothing to do with whether you use a network. As a concrete proof, since a spline is (usually) a polynomial function, it can be defined as a linear network with as many layers as the spline’s polynomial order, in other words splines are a strict subset of the functions you can build using neural networks. You can also make a neural network out of spline neurons if you want. And you can cherry pick lots of different functions that work better for splines than other choices, and you can also cherry pick functions that perform worse for splines than other bases. Splines perform far worse on a periodic function of arbitrary domain than a Fourier fit. Your example is contrived because you artificially constrained the range to [0, 2pi].
Shallow reading? It's a one sentence comparison with the movie not my fucking literary analysis.
He has separate email addresses on a custom domain.

He then gives one of those separate emails to humans.

Companies he orders from gets another email address.

Social media companies get another one. Etc.
Hello,

very interesting and thoughful post touching a full spectrum of topics. Please let me come back to you this week - my schedule is full, and I need time to digest what you wrote.

Cheers!
Well, the documentation for Objective-C/C++ has mostly been removed. It's all Swift based how-tos, videos and learning material. You have to hunt Google for getting anything. You get better material for Objective-C/C++ on the LLVM home page. Most of the old Objective-C links are dead.

Perhaps I should have said feature frozen on-the-way to deprecation instead. All new development in lang/ux is happening in Swift/SwiftUI.

https://medium.com/geekculture/swift-5-uikit-is-dying-14b475...

https://medium.com/geekculture/swift-5-uikit-is-dying-part-2...
Dunno. I spent a year at a unicorn at ~100k€, and I hated the lack of meaningful work so much that I went for a contractor job in a public institution. It pays more, and I get to serve the citizens instead of serving mad corporate overlords.
Then you have to setup a more complicated filter on the client side based on sender, etc.
How about just not having a navigator and driver. Having gone through a "wing-it" approach to pairing extensively, it really is an awful experience for those who hate having to fight for control.
Apple has been trying to do various fancy things to solve this problem using AI, ML, PFL in recent times and I feel these have made things just worse and lose focus for the team.

The team in SWE that’s responsible for this feature is basically totally checked out and this is very apparent from how bad this is. On iOS the built in dictionaries are missing some very common words and probably hasn’t been updated for ages to include common tech terms and acronyms. All this is true for macOS as well as the code and data is shared.

A great example of AIML can make things much worse for users when every engineer wants to get something on the resume and is trying to get promoted or increase comp. Epic fail.
Another tip is that for your inbox (human sent email), treat it as "other people's todo lists". This means you put yourself first at work before you get to other people's work. Your strategy may vary depending on your organization.

When I changed my perspective on email in this light, I started to really see who were the delegators and who were the experts. As you might imagine, the delegators don't typically do much and the experts are usually doing it all.

You can then strategically ignore email and when experts come asking for help, you know it's something impactful. Same applies for delegators, but you typically view them as lower priority as they usually aren't impactful at all from your perspective.
Not a great idea to expect to learn about the world from sensationalist TV. Especially not such an immature field as climate science in the 90's.
- a while back I tried to apply this principle in my gmail - filter everything not from a human out of my inbox using rules and filters (filtering anything with the word “unsubscribe” works well until someone forwards a thread to you that started with an email from a service).

It is a little frustrating though, I’m sure gmail and most modern email services could do a very good job on a filter like this if they tried.
Every word here.

Pairing was highly encouraged in my previous job. We did it for 5 or so years, even when working remotely using tmux. In my last 2 years there, in an attempt to increase throughput / save time, pairing became something you only do for crucial task.

I could argue that the code quality declined as well as the distribution of knowledge while not seeing significant increase in throughput of work done.
Even more, and due to knowledge sharing, code review time increased.

I recently asked a friend who's a team lead at a FAANG company if and how they do pair programming. His answer was that it is not encouraged, mostly because "performance reviews assess contribution of individuals, and pairing would disrupt this process".
Internet of Shit classic!
Doesn’t sound like that is what is happening here. Don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough at least in the short term.
This is an important study because most (all?) scenarios used by the IPCC depend heavily on these (as of now) wildly optimistic CO2 removal levels, either with BECCS or DACs.

In order to hit the "brief and rapidly closing window" we have for effective action, we need to look into lowering material flows and energy use by targeting overconsumption. We simply don't have time to wait for a tech miracle, and – as this study points out – the miracle can have huge downsides.
It's declared so it's all ok
The definition of computation monads (in sense of Moggy) is simple, but not trivial. It's deep since it generalizes many computation "phenomena": side effects, exceptions, etc.

Conceptually, a "pure" function is something as `A -> B`, so all information about its internal (e.g. side effects) lost: we put something of type A but we can only observe a result of type B.

The idea of computation monads is to attach the result type of the function with a "constructor" T, then the type T B is used to "restore" (or to reason about) the lost information.

In composing such functions, T X (for some result type X) is all information we need, then this explains naturally the third rule of the Kleisli triple `f: A -> T B; g: B -> T C`: A -> T C
Outlook has aliases. I sign up for non-important stuff like newsletters with an alias, which filters into its own folder.
Title is completely wrong. It's actually:

[sum of family's last 3 years income] + 10,000 rubles > [sum of family's account balances].

> the bank accounts of civil servants, as well as members of their families, including minor children, will be checked by the prosecutor’s office. If it turns out that the proceeds from them exceed the total income of the official and his relatives for three years by more than 10,000 rubles, a lawsuit will be filed with the court for the forced withdrawal of these funds to the budget.
As the person who originally posted this to HN, after reading some of the refutations of Matt Y’s piece (the OP), I’ve come to believe the evidence for zoonotic origin is stronger than Matt Y gives credit for.

One short rebuttal I found particularly understandable to a layperson comes from a prominent economist (not a virologist), pointing out a few considerations that Matt’s piece appears to give insufficient credence to:

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/case-closed-2/

There’s also the twitter thread by one of the original research article coauthors, but I actually found that harder to evaluate as a layperson.

In particular:
1. Matts piece may overweight how much of a coincidence the virus emerging in Wuhan was if it were zoonotic
2. Matt’s piece may underweight the coincidence of emerging at a live animal market if it were a lab leak
3. Matt’s piece underweights the finding that the market hosted both the original A and B variants