skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia has lost the war already, due to their logistical failure.

While true, I don't think this reduces the danger of a nuclear attack, especially given the way Putin has escalated WMD (both nuclear and bioweapons) propaganda against (in both cases) the US and Ukraine in the last couple days.

All signs are that Russia will, in the space of a few weeks of this war, see greater damage in blood and treasure than the USSR endured in a decade in Afghanistan. This is unprecedented territory in terms of cornered, desperate leadership in a major nuclear power, and without the kind of drip-drip decentralization that had preceded (and provided alternate powerbases during) the terminal period of the USSR.
NNs are clever, but what they do is essentially reverse programming. Rather than you write a function that translates a -> b, you give it a -> b mappings and the training writes the function. What GP was saying is something that most programmers should already know: that writing the function is usually the easy bit, and the hard bit is defining and then modelling the problem; NNs can't do that.
Not necessarily, it depends as always.

Heavily penalizing accumulation of cash like that could be reasonable, but doing it without announcing it at least a year forward makes it hard to argue that it's anything but a cashgrap.

But the idea issue is viable if the explicit goal is to make high cash reserves impossible. People would instead have to invest and various accounts (I.e. pension plans etc) have to be exempt. So it's theoretically reasonable if the economy is suffering because the wealth is never being spen, but that sounds like a very unlikely situation to occur in today's consumption society.
Wouldn't that bring a performance penalty though?
> a more precise statement of the universality theorem is that neural networks with a single hidden layer can be used to approximate any continuous function to any desired precision.

That is a very different claim than being able to compute any function.
I thought we were supposed to eventually share cars and reduce traffic.
How does Mozilla have a vested interest in harming the ad ecosystem?
That's a great link! Thanks!

Derp, sorry... Electrons and photons are completely different types of particles. I'm getting things mixed up. And I had just skimmed that video again! I need to pay attention.

Still, I would have loved for the authors of that paper to get a pic of the setup and results on the computer monitor next to it or something.

Also, isn't this stuff fundamental to theoretical quantum encryption? If we try to observe information as it flows by, we always alter it in detectable ways because of the observation effect? I think?

(In some ways it's absurd that here we are, everyday people, chatting away trying to get a mental hold on the weird, abstract yet fundamental way the universe works, as dreamed up by literal scientific geniuses a century ago. But in reality, getting a general grasp of this stuff is knowledge you need to have in so many fields, from suburban electrician to anyone working in high tech. Crazy.)
One of the problems is that it's very difficult to explain to people that does not use HN what is a good comment in HN. In particular, many of the comments are to short, and that doubles the negative effect on the community.

I suggest that the new users that still can edit their comments to write a longer and more personal version. If they can not edit, just self-reply to their own comment and add three or four paragraphs. (Front end or back end? Emacs or Vi? Preferred language? City??? Age range???)

I understand that some may not like to share too many personal details, so I added a few question marks. But if the idea is to show that there are real persons suffering on both side, some personal stories are better than "It seems to be true". I also understand that many may not write English too well, I'm a native Spanish speaker and I make a lot of orthographical and gramatical mistakes here.

Also, avoid cut and pasting the same "personal" story many times, it will cause an even worse effect.

The idea is not foolproof:

* It is possible that dang does not like this longer versions neither and still decide to ban all the new accounts.

* It is possible that someone will acuse you of being a gpt-3 bot, and adding orthographical errors on purpose, or even nastier things.

* I don't expect the community to be super happy with the green account after the expanded comments, just less unhappy.
> We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products. Users are too stupid. They'd break stuff. Coding is too complicated for ordinary people. Besides, we can just do the coding...so why does it matter?

I've always thought of it more as "I want to limit what someone can do, so that I can be sure I've prevented them from doing something malicious". A lot of effort in a lot of pieces of software is making sure that bad actors don't ruin it for everyone else.
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We're looking for full stack engineers (all levels) and front-end platform engineers too. Our tech stack is built on Python, React, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.

We have really talented engineers, committed contracts from the largest players in the space, regulatory approval from 49 states and federal entities. It boils down to an execution problem -- an engineering problem -- for us to take this winner-takes-all market.
My first thought was that most people use TikTok on mobile, whats the point of this (if the ad takes them to play store/app store or to the Uber eats app). Then I realized that this is probably aimed at tracking for new signups, they probably send them to the app stores with a redirect to their site in the middle. TikTok probably doesnt forward them the user identifier hence the tiktok pixel on their page, so they can see the effectiveness of the ad on some TikTok ads dashboard.
This kind of reminds me of the Travel Mode of 1Password: https://support.1password.com/travel-mode/ and I imagine it'd be most useful in similar situations.

Obviously the usefulness of measures like this is likely pretty low if your dealing with tech-savvy adversaries, but if some random border guard or police officer forces you to log into your computer and — I don't know, I'm not very well-versed in these scenarios — show your Facebook messages or your password vault, you could use your duress password to clear cookies and other stuff to show that you don't have a Facebook account or a password manager ... or whatever, you get the general idea.

Or you could use it to not change anything but simply log in and additionally alert your work place that you're under duress and they can cut off your access to critical systems. Provided that you have some sort of internet access of course...
"Per the ipcc model, if we could wave a magic wand and have zero emissions tomorrow, CO2 levels would fall faster than they have been increasing."

Traditionally, the idea is that the ocean would absorb the 'excess' CO2 put there by fossil fuel combustion over the industrial era. However, this is quite a slow process and it's entirely possible to reach a new steady state of relatively high atmospheric CO2 (and high global temperature, i.e. ice-free poles) and stay there for several million years - it's happened in the past. Furthermore, we have the permafrost melt ongoing across the Arctic, and shallow marine sediments are also releasing methane and CO2. This will continue for decades in the immediate zero-emission scenario, that turning point has come and gone.

Maybe if a full transition off fossil fuels had begun in 1980, when the science was clear, we'd be stabilizing at current conditions (*it takes ~100 years for the climate system to finish responding to current forcing, assuming no additional forcing, mainly due to oceanic warming lag effects). We're in for warming for the next 50 years, no matter what, and the world is clearly not getting off fossil fuels any time soon, all the major fossil fuel actors have plans for status quo production for the next 30 years (rather than say 3% reduction per year, which would mean no fossil fuel production in 30 years).

It's going to happen slowly on human time scales, i.e. the scale is decadal for noticeable differences in the year-to-year average, but it's also inexorable. "It's in the post" is the British saying that applies. Like trying to throw the rudder over on the Titanic after the iceberg is detected, it's all too little too late.
As an avid Apple user, I can't stand their naming conventions. I don't have any idea if High Sierra came before or after Mojave, or if Lion was before or after Mountain Lion. I would much prefer version numbers/years.
I have always considered myself a patriot, even in my commie youth. The idea of America to me was revitalized and given honor and dignity in the Civil Rights era. Real sacrifice. Self sacrifice that leads to progress, not sacrificing others for personal profit. Something indefinite, yet you know it when you see it, like porn.

A coworker originally from Russia the other day expressed dismay about Ukraine and worry for the democracy there. Her family back home doesn't know much about the war, but she does. She became a citizen last year, and but she seemed like George fucking Washington in that moment
Piracy is illegal not because it is unethical, but because at some point in history some creators got rich enough to attempt to protect their profits through legislation. The action itself, the copying of information, is morally neutral. It's only illegal because, in theory, it precludes someone from making money from that copying. But that's nonsense, because by that standard it should also be illegal to not pirate and not purchase the copy.
It is quite simple, really. You country, with support of brainwashed majority of the population has invaded another country. Private businesses, undoubtedly under public pressure, responded. Why should an exemption be made for your community? It's not like a visa card for an IT professional will differ from a VISA of FSB "professional". 100% behind Ukraine and VISA/Mastercard on this.
I don't have the answer but I think there are enough creative people in US to find it and advance the state of the art in politics. Event if it is not in US it can happen anywhere.

I also think that the statement "software is eating the world" have not touch politics enough but will happen. Not talking about FB and social media in general.
You, and me, and everyone else in here are not the average user. The average user clicks and opens files all the time.
>I thought Germany was the land of competent engineers and managers?

I've heard that this is a myth; rather, Germans are very good at following rules.

Brandenburg Airport is evidence that German engineering/management is overrated.
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws # California State summary
There's a bunch of categories, the first one is indeed standard algorithms. Full list: Standard Algorithms, Standard Randomness, Standard Sequence Views, Standard Containers, Standard Utilities, Language Mechanisms, Libraries, Design Guidelines, Engineering, Terminology. Seems fairly comprehensive to me.
Rubbish, your country is not occupied. People who rule your country are your people, supported by majority of the population, even if brainwashed
Trucks are in but not like these

S10 is in for example, as a workhorse. It also hasn't produced since 2004, so it's not a show off purchase.

F150 is an example of in as a more showy-off purchase (but also gets used as a workhorse by some)
> Bitcoin offers an almost $1 trillion USD bounty for anyone who successfully attacks it, open for any hacker with internet access.

No, it doesn’t. BTC would implode if it were successfully attacked. You can try to put on a massive short but you’re left with worse issues and capital utilization.
Play both ends against the middle. Have the US and the EU duke it out with Russia, then run off with the spoils. It would make good sense from their perspective and it might just happen.
Sweden has some good examples of how these laws are counterproductive. When the "party for the environment" was in the government (they stepped out of it a number of months ago) they pushed through a high tax on plastic bags ($1 on normal shopping bags, $0.05 on those flimsy bags used for fruit and vegetables). They expected to get a lot of extra taxes this way (the true reason for the law) but were warned the net effect would be an increase in the use of fossil-fuel derived plastic. Why? Because Swedish plastic shopping bags are to a large extent - somewhere around 95% - made from renewable materials like sugarcane. Those bags were used to take home shopping after which they did double duty as garbage bags. The tax specifically targets shopping and produce bags, not just any plastic bag. The net effect is that people have started buying plastic garbage bags which, unlike those shopping bags, are made from fossil sources. They more or less stopped buying renewable shopping bags since nobody likes to be punished for doing the right thing, no matter how much that "party for the environment" thought they would. The plastic bag tax has not nearly brought in the amount they thought it would and has led to an increase in the use of non-renewable plastics and a decrease in the use of decomposable garbage bags. It also functions as a warning for any company which wants to invest in creating renewable plastics, the government can pull the rug from under your business any time.

These laws are not just ineffective, they are counterproductive.
Money, as opposed to goods for barter, only exists because of the State.

Bitcoin is essentially a decentralised ledger for recording transactions. That those transactions have any meaning, financial or otherwise, is entirely and solely determined by those who use the ledger. Should those who use the ledger one day decide the numbers are in fact meaningless, then Bitcoin becomes worthless.
It's bullshit. Domestic oil production is significantly higher under Biden than any previous president.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
Trucks have been the "in" thing among certain demographics in the US for a long time. More recent is the continual size inflation of them. Trucks that are considered "tiny" now by US standards were the standard size for a personal truck two decades ago, and "normal" trucks now in the US are absurdly large and tall [1].

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/the-dange...
To be fair, Firefox is the only browser that has implemented subgrid. It's a pretty new feature
>I've lived in Europe for a few years total without ever owning a car and rarely feeling the lack of one

You lived in a big European city. Feel free to tell someone living in rural France, or Ireland, that they must live without an automobile.
Does anybody know which cat came before another though?

Numbers are best. Years are fine. Names are... Cute but Impractical.
> Given there's a clear historical parallel (not identical, but appropriate enough) with the Cuban Missile Crisis and Monroe doctrine, I don't think it's rational to ignore the NATO "encirclement" argument as pretext

Given that there is much more recent precedent (e.g., Iraq 2003, including the preceding advocacy by groups like PNAC from which key Bush policy officials were selected) that actually fits the chain of events much better, I don't think it's rational to ignore “false and exaggerated claims of geopolitical threat, ideological terrorism, and WMD as a pretext for a war for economic gain and imperialism from people who don't even bother to not keep saying the imperialist parts out loud”, either.
Fire up your morse code trainer and practice.
If websites are turned into web apps with more features, it's probably because it's bringing in money, in the form of users or consumers, don't you think? If consumers tended to like simple "interactive" websites like we used to have 10 years ago, companies would probably not bother building modern web apps. But that's not the case. Web apps, in general, do provide a way better experience than simple websites, and users do like them. There is no propaganda at work here, just simple market mechanisms.

If anyone is to blame for showing that a better user experience is possible, it's probably those who pushed for quality UI in native apps, that web apps are trying to match.
I find when you're physically prepared for what might happen next, anxiety tends to decrease.
You could use word2vec [0] to process bodies of text in those languages, then use your C++ to build cool visualizations. The geometrical shapes that the processing finds in the languages might give you interesting insights.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERibwqs9p38
Do you mean vitality or do you mean that using nukes is a sign of a high sex drive?
One recent find that makes me doubt the debunking:

>doctors in Wuhan said that unless pneumonia cases were linked to the Huanan market, they did not meet Wuhan Municipal Health Commission standards and were often not reported or counted.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/149956665134336000...
Go to the park and start running. The faster you run from crazy people, the better
It is quite sad the propaganda machine has convinced many that Ukraine hasn't done anything wrong at all. I am still catching up with a lot of the recent history in the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

I am certainly not saying that Russia didn't take advantage of the situation here. But as always the situation is much more complicated than what is typically presented.
Of course, a single man walking around and killing people. Superman. Please, how stupid do you think everyone is?
If you jump in the car, you're going to get stuck in traffic immediately.
What are "draft PRs" for then?
As someone said in another reply, setting these team expectations is important so that the developer won't assume the reviewer will do the heavy testing, and the reviewer assumes the developer must have done it, leading to preventable production outages.

The developer can definitely do work like providing samples of generated SQL, UI screenshots and so on. Again, knowing who will do that deep due diligence is more important than the actual decision.
>It would only constitute "the exercise of border checks" if the response to your non-compliance was to escort you back to the country where you boarded the train.

Not true according to the regulation:

> ‘border control’ means the activity carried out at a border, in accordance with and for the purposes of this Regulation, in response exclusively to an intention to cross or the act of crossing that border, regardless of any other consideration, consisting of border checks and border surveillance;

Note, it covers "response to crossing a border" and includes "border surveillance".

edit:

For full context:

> ‘border checks’ means the checks carried out at border crossing points, to ensure that persons, including their means of transport and the objects in their possession, may be authorised to enter the territory of the Member States or authorised to leave it;

> ‘border surveillance’ means the surveillance of borders between border crossing points and the surveillance of border crossing points outside the fixed opening hours, in order to prevent persons from circumventing border checks;
I'm one. Just a schmuck, but I haven't given up on the idea of America. Not like George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln, or JFK, but like George Washington Carver, or MLK Jr. The idea that the American Revolution never ended. That the Civil Rights era was just another phase in our centuries long progressively more democratic experiment in self-government
Stop and frisk might have ended. But…

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/nyregion/nypd-arrests-rac...

Meet the new boss…
Europe is small enough that there isn't many places > 2500 km away from the front line right now, I think a lot of parties are re-assessing what it means to not be on the 'outer border' of the EU. It certainly doesn't feel far. From here the nearest approach to an active warzone is now about 1600 km, which is a bit over what you can drive in a day. Not much of a safe zone, and my colleague is living within 200 km.

I think implicitly everybody has always relied on France having 'our' back, the French have been pretty strong and independent military wise over the last 35 years (and long before then, in fact) and have been very careful about what they do and what they don't subscribe to from a military point of view. No nuclear codes owned by the US for the French.
Who said my truck was my daily?
Microsoft lost my trust in the 1990's. Never been happier without them since.
The last feature vanilla CSS needs to render most pre-processors obsolete (imo) is nesting. The latest CSS nesting specs are looking great and it's kinda sad to not see it being prioritized
It's been cancelled in the same way that the name "Frisbee" has been cancelled, ie. it's a trademark that isn't used in any competitions, organizations, or any of the communities around them because of trademark stupidity.
No, it just makes people feel like no preparation will help and then they'll do nothing - while in fact they can do a lot of things to be prepared.

For example:

- Learning basics of emergency medical help

- Putting together a basic "evacuation bag"

- Finding out where are the nearest emergency shelters

- Buying stuff like flashlights, batteries, powerbanks
Yet the United States have tortured POWs, arguably worse than murder for the immense suffering that causes both physically and psychologically.

>There’s rarely a single person you can hold accountable for embodying our bad ideas and behaviors.

Which is much more dangerous than being able to place responsibly on a non-amorphous, single person. The US has an extensively long history of interfering in the matters of other countries. You can overthrow and point fingers at one figure head, but you can't overthrow a system, systemic, and systematically unaccountable foreign policy that changes face every 4-8 years.
every new dotnet package, powershell module, go module, container image, etc that i pull and want to start using results in about 10 minutes of complete system unavailability due to defender going off the rails with ram and cpu consumption. it used to be i’d have to wait for the compiler to build, now i have to wait for defender to defend.
Oh well, if YOU define it THAT way...
What does this mean - can you link to something.

If they are doing a keystroke logger (ie, capturing typed private user data) where are they logging this keystroke log too? Or is the run command history sent up?

Are you talking about folks with Send my activity history to microsoft checked?

I have a script that sets default privacy preferences to my own preference when I start using a machine, you might consider that.
Have you seen the rivian reviews? The range while towing went from 300mi to 60.

Not an option if you actually use your truck.
You don't even need to provide your own domain - Fastmail gives you a subdomain for free. For example, if your Fastmail address is myname@fastmail.com, then any_address@myname.fastmail.com will get to you.
People in power fly private jets and have no limits on amounts of cash they transfer over the border. 0 f given for Visa or Mastercard. In Russia, only scarce middle class really knows these words.