skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering when something like this ad campaign would happen. I moved back to my childhood state of Indiana (from Seattle and the Bay Area) in part because of I could take the equity in my house in Seattle and my savings never have to worry about needing a job. I could survive comfortably while pursuing crazy ideas in a way that isn’t possible in a tech city unless you are already a billionaire.
yea and starting salary for zero experience developers is not $120k in most places
Which I also think is reprehensible. The "western media" does not speak for me. Maybe ask my opinion next time before deciding what it is?
> In recent years, Instagram has started introducing more content into people’s feeds that the app’s algorithm suggests, even if users haven’t followed it.

So all they’re changing is the order. I guess it’s a welcome change, but unchecked algorithms still rule what is shown.
To be super pedantic, for one million ops it's closer to a 63% chance every day:

Pr[something happens across 1_000_000 events]

= 1 - Pr[nothing happens across 1_000_000 events]

= 1 - Pr[nothing happens once]^1_000_000 ## assuming independence

= 1 - (1 - Pr[something happens once])^1_000_000

= 1 - (1 - 1/1_000_000)^1_000_000

≈ 1 - 0.378

= 0.632

It's still below 99% for 4 million ops.
Exactly, and:

>In day to day development our decentralization increases reliability (leftpad is a sore memory)

...leftpad became a problem when a commonly-used deep dependency was ripped out of the ecosystem. And because npm is centralized, they can now prohibit anyone from causing that kind of damage again, ever.

Whereas in a decentralized system where people are pointing at random GitHub accounts? Yeah, they could totally delete the GitHub account (or force-push an empty repo) and cause the same exact problem as leftpad.

They are claiming to solve a problem using decentralization that was caused by too much decentralization. And then using Deno as an example install...which has the exact same problem in its ecosystem.

Fail piled on to more fail.
> you want each of p-1 and q-1 to have large factors

Why?
"but we are just to make a few white rich crypto bros richer than ever before"

I was about to be with you until you unnecessarily brought race into this. Do you have reliable statistics on the race of the major miners and does it even matter?
I think I know the answer, but I'll ask anyway.

What part of this project is improved by using a blockchain?

And is that worth the cost?
I dare you to send me a SWIFT transfer. Not only is very expensive, but most likely I will get my account frozen because international transfers are pretty much not allowed.

It's always the same: entitled people from first world countries where the banking system actually works.
We say that but people who follow the account or like his posts must have found some value.
Frankly, they had no other choice: public funding for quantum computing research is unacceptably low in the US. While China is funneling $10B into a single quantum lab [1], the US only spent $800M in the whole area for 2021 [2].

I fear that we're repeating the same mistake we made with Machine Learning funding. A decade ago, the US was quite clearly ahead of China in machine learning, but they're comparable now. In quantum information science, the US is currently ahead of China in terms of research. But will it remain that way?

For more information, here's a panel discussion on the quantum computing race between China and the US (I was quite frustrated by it):

https://youtu.be/KzFEeQ49HHI

[1] - https://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/knowledges/quantum-wars/

[2] - https://quantumcomputingreport.com/u-s-qis-budget-proposed-t...
>"Mariupol with most of the people dead is happening right now"

I have zero sympathy to that rabid dog Putin. However your "most of the people dead" is total BS. Check the numbers on Wikipedia - casualties vs population [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol
If you can write a Dockerfile for your Java app, it can run on Render without issues.
How Europe Got Hooked on Russian Gas Despite Reagan’s Warnings
Same, I was skimming through looking for some pointer as to what this is, but all I got was that they thought it was hard maintaining OSS (which it is, of course) -- none the wiser as to what it was until the parent comment summarised it.
i could not even sso login so it was a bit more impactful than it sounds on the paper
No reason for this comment to be downvoted. It is a major topic discussed by many Chinese intellectuals.

Readers who are not familiar with the history of Communist China can read following Wikipedia pages:

破四旧 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds : The Four Olds or the Four Old Things (simplified Chinese: 四旧; traditional Chinese: 四舊; pinyin: sì jiù) was a term used during the Cultural Revolution by the student-led Red Guards in the People's Republic of China in reference to the pre-communist elements of Chinese culture they attempted to destroy. The Four Olds were: Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Customs (Chinese: Jiù Sīxiǎng 旧思想, Jiù Wénhuà 旧文化, Jiù Fēngsú 旧风俗, and Jiù Xíguàn 旧习惯).[1] The campaign to destroy the Four Olds began in Beijing on August 19, 1966 (the "Red August", during which a massacre also took place in Beijing[2]), shortly after the launch of the Cultural Revolution.

批林批孔 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin,_Criticize_Confu... The Criticize Lin (Biao), Criticize Confucius Campaign (simplified Chinese: 批林批孔运动; traditional Chinese: 批林批孔運動; pinyin: pī Lín pī Kǒng yùndòng; also called the Anti-Lin Biao, Anti-Confucius campaign) was a political propaganda campaign started by Mao Zedong and his wife, Jiang Qing, the leader of the Gang of Four. It lasted from 1973 until the end of the Cultural Revolution, in 1976.
The campaign continued in several phases, beginning as an academic attempt to interpret Chinese history according to Mao's political theories. In 1974 the campaign was joined with another, pre-existent campaign to criticise Lin Biao, who had allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao in a failed coup before his death in 1971. In early 1975 the campaign was modified to indirectly criticise China's Premier, Zhou Enlai, and other senior Chinese leaders. In mid-1975 the Gang of Four introduced debate on Water Margin as a tool for criticism of their opponents. The campaign ended in 1976, when the Gang of Four were arrested.
>1000 euro/day

Where and how does one get 1000 euro/day as a DevOps Engineer?
This is one of the developments I've been watching with interest.

Saudi Arabia seems to be interested in trading oil in Yuan now [1], which would mark an enormous shift away from the petrodollar. And from one of the US' biggest oil trading partners, at that.

Does anyone with more context in the energy / geopolitical world care to add some color?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-considers-acceptin...

edit: add link, +" away from the petrodollar"
For some background, Colossal Cave Adventure is arguably the first narrative computer game, and probably the first text adventure. It was developed in the 70s by Will Crowther (who helped create ARPANET) and Don Woods, who added most the game's puzzles.

It's a very oldschool fantasy text adventure which, by today's standards, requires a lot of patience, but it created a genre and inspired games like Zork (and by extension Infocom), and Adventure for the 2600, which itself inspired many other games.

Rick Adams has a great website dedicated to it with a lot of history and fun facts (https://rickadams.org/adventure/), and you can play the game directly on the site.

Very exciting to see the Sierra crew taking this on. It seems like a bizarre thing to adapt but I'm a big fan of them and the original.
That's great. They make good points on securing databases as well. Everything has to be open with Heroku's basic dynos. It would be nice to secure PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch so the IP is not publicly available.
> let's assume there is a .1% chance of nuclear war over the next 2 years.

Depending on which institute you track the current estimates looking 12 months out are between 5 and 10%. So I think you should update your assumptions.

For instance:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3810284-theres-a-10-change-of-...
We’re both private school kids, I can tell. Glad you think you get your full dollar’s worth on military spending and infrastructure, especially rural infrastructure.
Without decentralization you wouldn't have "A few Telco's" you would have 1 global telco. The most hardcore form of decentralization usually means that there is no centralization ontop of the decentralize medium. I think this is in general unlikely. People are lazy and tend to congregate together and therefore there will always be some form of centralization. Not everyone wants to think about the implementation details and just wants stuff to work without caring how. Whats important with decentralization is choice and future proofing. When one company dies or becomes untrustworthy you can jump onto a different one.

Proof of Work is one implementation but not the only one, there are many more
efficient versions now. You might as well complain about Dial-up saying internet is a waste and will never amount to anything because the phone line is always tied up....
Doesn't mean the idea is "non-viable"

In fact, it may be precisely the opposite: that it (or something cloesly akin) is being used already generally validates the basic principles of any given "idea"
The pop and rock greats who love model railways
Plenty are on GOG, too.
You might wonder why there are only 2 members and that is because this was just announced. Chris Fritz used to live in the Lansing area and is the guy who turned me on to Vue.

He did such a superb job on the Vue docs that he serves as an inspiration for my Code For America project documentation efforts. Burnout is real whether it's on a startup or an open source project.
i was diagnosed with schizoprenia and work for Amazon.

You dont have to disclose it.
Yes I deployed a django application to render w/ a couple of additional services: database, 2x background workers and redis. Overall the experience was positive but I feel that it tries too hard to have a "simple" UX which ended up annoying me in the end. I would use it again but I didn't "love" it. I have a feeling it will be pretty good long term. Here are some annoyances I had:

- Environment previews don't always work, hard to easily switch between services running in environment previews

- Slow deploys because it rebuilds the docker image every time, no way to connect it to a registry

- Documentation is shallow, especially when things get technical or complex related to their "blueprints"

- Ran into a bug with their environment groups

- They proxy through cloudflare and had some intermittent issues

- Zero downtime deploy wasn't actually zero downtime
I need a loan from Apple Bank!
'https://' is included in the title in the submission. Unless you're saying it was somehow emphasised more than that here?
The Taylor rule describes monetary policy in a regime where the federal funds rate is the primary monetary policy tool. It doesn't apply in a regime with enormous QE/QT going on.

It also requires instantaneous measurement of its variables. These can be estimated in normal times but it's hard when there's been a recent anomaly. Is the 5.6% T4Q real growth the new normal or just the result of measuring out of a trough?

One view of monetary policy is that its ultimate goal should be to stabilize NGDP growth -- usually to something like 5%. Looking at the trailing 8 quarters since 2019-Q4, NGDP growth has been 5.2%. Remarkably good.

But there is some cause for concern. In my view: rising petroleum prices, QT, and further supply constraints from zero-Covid policy in China (in that order).
Sorry for those ones, my english isn't perfect!
If you could please send me the corrected version of it, I will really appreciate it!
Bigger nations have (rightfully!!) stopped being willing to kill or enslave everyone if there is any form of uprising or resistance. It's not like the Gauls or the British or the Jews didn't try to rise up against the Romans, or Native American groups against the US, they were just incredibly brutally put down.
That's a fun question. I'm not entirely sure. The only feature request I would have is maybe a few more hints or links to documentation. I'm learning Rust and tackling the Redis challenge, and I got stuck on one point because I don't know enough about how to parse strings in Rust. In Go or JS it would be very easy for me, but since I don't know Rust, I'm spending a ton of time poking around in some Rust tutorials and docs to find what I need.

But back to your original question, some random things that might be fun:

- A search engine (Elasticsearch?)

- A raytracer

- A LZW or GZIP compressor/decompressor

- IRC client/server

- Static blog generator (Hugo, Jekyll, etc)
Since 2000 or so targeting any other client is malpractice in most cases.

That is, you update a web application and you're done.

Make an update to a desktop app that is just the beginning of the installer engineering process.

Make an update to a phone app and you pray that the app store will accept it, never mind wait.
Interesting idea. I've been using Django for 10+ years and like all the choices you've made here. Not 100% what I personally prefer but close. And the decisions I differ on I'm curious about: "Hmm, should I be doing it that way?"

In the past few months I've been working on side projects and have gone through the process of setting up a similar template (just for my own use), which I've used with two different side projects.

I think my interest in buying this is not so much to replace my own template but to borrow parts of it.

From the borrow perspective, I wonder if this could be worth it to some established, non-agency companies that use Django.

Really nice code you can copypasta over? Doesn't take too much of that to get to $1000 of value.
We are in CET and maybe we use Github differently than you.
> Things like django-coookiecutter are great, but they only really cover the project structure.

This is an important point, for me anyway.

Yeah $1000 can be a lot for an individual (myself included), especially for a hobby/side project. For individuals, at this price, it's probably more of "I've built a small revenue generating project before, and I'm going to skip some steps this time + connect with some other people doing it in a similar way"?
KFP is one of my favorite movies; I (an adult without kids) watch it yearly on my birthday. It's got so much heart and it's fight choreography is up there with other all-timers (ip man, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, the matrix).

If you only watch one clip, check out this segment from the training montage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCk9VAxEpD0&t=156s

Their use of visual boundaries and transitions is just so superb.
I used to live across the street from a federal reserve branch. Correlation was not causation.
> When a military unit operates out of civilian infrastructure, that infrastructure becomes a "clean" target

We have zero evidence of the military operating out of civilian infrastructure that doesn't come from Russia. We have independent evidence of the Russian military targeting civilian infrastructure which had zero military presence.

Hate to have to look at this kind of stuff, but a 61-day old account parroting Putin's propaganda points doesn't look credible per se.
Seems unlikely that you could prevent all thefts through social methods so technological methods should still be used.
“Hide”s expire, which is something to keep in mind.
A little background - I've written a couple of Verilog compilers - you can have always statements with multiple events, protocol state machines a bit like:

always @(posedge clk) begin
do some stuff
if (condition) begin
@(posedge clk);
do some more stuff
end else begin
@(posedge clk);
do some different stuff
end
......
end

Synopsis will happily synthesise this, generating the implied state variable. There really is a loop in there. In fact 'always' is exactly 'initial #0 forever'
I'd buy a phone that did email and slack (unfortunately) with no camera or anything else beyond making calls and sending SMS. I don't need MMS or RCS either. Plain boring text would be sufficient.
Yeah that's a good comparison.
how does pricing compare with Elasticache?
I personally think facebook saw itself dieing which is why it focused so hard on the Metaverse and acquiring companies. Facebook as its own product may die but the company will probably live on in some form or another. I feel like unlike Yahoo, Facebook is full of very capable and technical people. Even if they make a bunch of misteps and bad predications they will find alternatives and will make a come back.
how does pricing compare to Elasticache?

with elasticache, there are different node types you can pick from. are there different node types to pick from with Render?
"Coding" in Unity and UE4 simply isn't fun. UE4's C++ macro abomination is bad but I find that 90% of the value in amateur game development is in the art content. Since I'm not an artist, I've simply given up game dev as a hobby.
The problem here is that I'm tied to "Wise", and they can single handedly change how the service works. They decide to which accounts I can send money, not me. They decide what data I must share, not me. They decide the fees, not me. It's just another middle man, like Payoneer, Paysera, Paypal, Revoult, Bankera, Western Union, etc. (yes, I tried them all).
It's not beside the point because you cannot separate the two. Operating the war, from the start is an issue. Even attacking Ukrainian military personnel is an issue, let alone civilians.

> That is why not every Nazi officer was a war criminal, only the ones who committed war crimes, even though they were ultimately carrying out an illegal war of aggression.

Yes. Hopefully we'll be able to hold these Russian officers accountable. Though I think it's unlikely unless they slip up and travel to the wrong country where the United States and allies have enough sway to extradite and bring these criminals to trial.
> Filing for a design patent should invalidate any claim to copyright on the features of the design that are claimed in the patent. Pick your IP protection lane, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Oh, I so wish that were true.

Software is the poster child for multiple IP regimes applying to the same thing, with copyrights applying twice over (source code and object code/binary executable) as well as patents. Patents can in theory also be applicable to the compilation of source code into object code, but as far as I'm aware no one has pursued a case on that basis, and in any case open source compilers are now standard.

But it gets even crazier when you start adding trademark and trade dress (ie. "look and feel" etc.) into the mix.

Just about the only form of IP that in practice is invalidated by the other forms is trade secret, as the others all involve some form of disclosure or publication.
I was affected by the one last week, the one yesterday and the one today. The one today was harmless but the other two disrupted out work. All three were "core incidents", but the one today felt shorter.
MacPaw SpyBuster – tool that spots apps with servers in Russia and Belarus
They're suggesting you enter 2 financial derivatives contracts. Specifically options on the level of the S&P 500 index as it will be in Dec 22.

The first transaction is to buy a, so-called, put option struck at $3625. This means that if the level of the S&P is below the strike price ($3625) on the 16th Dec, you will make the difference between the level then and the strike price. Buying this contract will cost you some money, called the premium.

They're also suggesting selling a similar contract struck at a lower price ($3600). It will have a similar payoff to the first one but for the buyer of the contract. For you, you'll lose the difference between the S&P level and the strike price if the S&P level is below $3600 in Dec. You will receive a premium from the buyer for this trade. The premium will be a little less than the cost of the option you bought because the strike price is further from the current market level.

The reason for the 2 together is that, for most future levels of the S&P, gains and losses will largely net out. You'll lose a bit of money (the differences between the premia) if the level doesn't go below $3625. But you'll gain a bit more if it does ($25 - the diff between the premia if I recall correctly).

The current level is about $4470, so the premia for both should be quite low as the strike price is a long way from the current level. We call that an out-of-the-money option. As such, the differences between the premia will also be very small.

In summary, they're suggesting a pretty cheap way to make money if the S&P tanks by Xmas. And you would lose (relatively) little if it didn't tank.

Do not consider this to be investment advice. I reserve the right to have completely forgotten options 101 which I did 20 odd years ago.
>if a tiny black hole had formed at LLC and swallowed the Earth

The point is that tiny black hole, man-made or from the outer space, can't swallow Earth in any reasonable amount of time: when it's gravitationally captured and orbits through Earth internals "forever", it's event horizon is so small, that it's very rarely interacts and captures new matter (after all, matter is not "dense" on the atomic level), so it grows very very slowly, even if it doesn't evaporate at all.

Any light black hole has really minuscule size. For comparison: black hole of mass of Earth is couple centimeters in diameter. Now, if such black hole comes from outer space and hits Earth, almost nothing will be left.
You are right of course that it shouldn't, but in practice it always is.

The pragmatic reason for that is that if a team spends a month and a few thousand dollars developing and tuning a system, and then they find that the first time they test it on their held-out test set it doesn't work, there is no way that they'll just drop it and accept that all their effort and funds got to waste. They'll just keep trying until their system retruns the best results on the test set. At which point they've overfitted their system to the test set.

It's rare that this is described as clearly as in the paper I quote from but I think that's because the authors of the paper are not machine learnig people. In most machine learning papers you really have to squint between the lines to be sure what's been done.

Edit: btw, this is the paper I quoted from, linked by the author upthread:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00275

I should have posted my comment under theirs but I got distracted and posted it on top instead.
@dang

F-Droid Was Unreachable.
20 PRs waiting in line for half a day to be merged is pretty annoying. We’ve had that on multiple occasions the last few weeks due to GitHub incidents.
Do you knit?

Do you wear sweaters?

The sweaters you have -- did you knit them?

Do you wear shirts?

Did you sew them yourself?

If not, why are you so lazy?
I agree, but people also used offsite, hosted memcache... so... shrug
Render supports building / deploying docker containers so it supports everything, including Java.

render.com and fly.io are in a similar niche of "deploy your app easily".

To me fly.io prioritized the wrong thing: deploying apps close to users. I care more about low price, ease of use and features than optimizing latency.

render.com is the best (that I know) "run a server for your app" service. I used Digital Ocean vps and then apps before.
At it's simplest, the algebraic structure of the integers modulo (pq) is simpler when p-1 or q-1 are "smooth" (have no big factors for some definition of "big") and that means that algebraic methods of factoring can be more effective.

It's a complicated topic.

The magic terms to search for are "strong prime" or "Sophie Germain Prime".

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert ... someone else might be able to comment more usefully.
> created: 61 days ago

hmmm.