skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a Reddit thread a few months ago that gave a recipe for extracting 7k out of New York sports books with relatively low risk or bankroll. Whitney Tilson highlighted it. If you have a decent grasp of probability and the discipline to follow the model, it is easy
No. ZFS is well-renowned for a reason, it's very resilient. The chance of a power cut ever inducing any actual data loss with ZFS is astronomically low. https://superuser.com/questions/1134753/can-zfs-cope-with-su...
> computer says no

Which is rarely the actual case. Blaming the computer is what they will tell you because we don't want to reveal how you got caught so you can defeat detection the next time.
It's only a matter of time before no grocery store will accept cash. The young will prefer the convenience of digital payments and won't care enough about the slippery slope to do otherwise.
Ok so it's very clear that you've been rightly caught up in Russian sanctions. Your recourse is to put pressure on the Russian government of which you are a citizen.
Nukes lack commercial viability because they lack commercial viability.

Much of their cost overburden arises from corruption tax, a problem common to public works projects massively expensive enough to need buy-in from a wide range of stakeholders who then expect patronage, to be charged to extreme cost overruns and schedule slip.

Since no nuke plant has ever been built with private money, and there is no realistic prospect of one ever being built with only private money, this overburden will be lifted only when corruption has been suppressed. Then we will still have the enormous, foreseeable decommissioning cost, the very high operating cost, and the astronomical liability subsidy always omitted from cost figures, but charged to the general public.
Here are the first two sentence from their Wikipedia article[1]:

>The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

>Founded in 1754 by William Shipley as the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, it was granted a Royal Charter in 1847, and the right to use the term "Royal" in its name by King Edward VII in 1908

So they have a focus beyond the arts and the "royal" in their name seems to purely be a historical quirk of the British Monarchy and not any real connection to the government. It sounds mostly like a think tank that would put out exactly this type of report.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Arts
I switched from Gmail to Fastmail years ago (it only takes a few minutes of you own your domain) and whenever I have to use Gmail (for work) it seems slow and bloated.

Fastmail is very quick to load and user-friendly, I don't miss Gmail at all.
Has anyone tried to use these kinds of forecasting skills to improve software delivery estimates?

Software developers are notoriously terrible at estimation and lately I've been thinking that we should look to Superforecasters[1] for inspiration about how to improve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecaster
Sure one company that makes at max a million a year then it’s minuscule. What about considering that this is not the case and there is more than one such company and many that make well beyond that.
Yeah, as I've read other responses to my post I've been able to better define my difficulties in understanding CPU-GPU communication. I was having a hard time separating the MMIO concept from the communications protocol that ties together all of these devices (based on what you've explained that'd be PCIe). I actually haven't learned about PCIe as of yet, so the way you've introduced the concept has set me up to further look into it, thanks.
I don’t know what point you’re trying to make, but a small midwestern town of 10k in the middle of nowhere doesn’t differ significantly from the “small towns” in my example. There is pretty much nothing in either place.

I’ve spent time in small towns like that (not in the Midwest), and I don’t recall anyone having any ambition to attend an elite academic school (but lots of interest in elite sports schools).

I still stand by my suggestion that someone from a small midwestern town of 10k in the middle of nowhere can get into elite schools. I think the information available in the internet makes this easier than ever before. That said, I wonder how many actually apply.
I think lightning network is the next closet. You are correct in that you still need internet, but CBDCs will as well.

For lightning you will either need to host your own node, or rely on a third party node.

Lightning offers a high degree of privacy and fungibility, no exchanges needed, and freezing is not possible. ~2 second confirmation, final settlement.

It is backed by the Bitcoin network which is extremely secure, and not very generous with attack surfaces. To doublespend on it an attacker would need to use more hashpower (energy) than what the network is currently being secured by.

As it would require an enormous amount of resources, and since it is nearly impossible to pull off, mostly now attacks are trying to convince the general population to not use it with fear based tactics, general misinformation, and half truths; which should give you a good idea of how valuable it really is over any permissioned digital money.

Good luck!
They should. ZFS is roughly the filesystem equivalent of an ACID database. It's incredibly resilient to power cuts. https://superuser.com/questions/1134753/can-zfs-cope-with-su...
They get flagged in just a few minutes usually.

It does wonders for community morale to have a site deal, in a timely manner, with blatant garbage.

I no longer visit other social media, but I remember the feeling of impotence upon seeing nothing happen after you report a quadruplicate post, or unhinged death threat, or troll piffle, or disingenuous attempt at self-promotion.

Elsewhere, some users end up with learned helplessness and just accept the site is 50% shit; other users end up being hyper-vigilant and add to the noise with rants and accusations.

Here on HN mods and reasonable users still have control.
Well, the Steele dossier was indeed mostly a hoax.

But you are right in that the headline is misleading: it makes it sound like FEC has recognized this fact.
ok friend
If you dig deep enough into the Turing Tarpit, you can write these in JavaScript too (in fact, some of these have already been written).

It's merely a disagreement about what the label "systems programming" should mean, rather than about capabilities and performance of the Go language. Objectively and undeniably Go relies on garbage collection, and C/C++/Rust don't. Google's implementation of Go prefers fast compilation speed over maximizing run-time efficiency, and C/C++/Rust implementations aim for zero-(runtime)cost abstractions.

I hope it's clear there's no argument about the substantial technical differences between these languages. They have clearly different trade-offs, regardless of what name you think is appropriate to use for that difference.
That's an important lesson, but as devs mature they probably shouldn't react like that.

Ideally you want to be able to keep your head on straight and obviously it's easier to work harder for someone who 'believes in you' ... but that's a bit emotive. Just do a good job, be professional, expect the same knowing you're not always going to get it and that's that.

Instead of someone 'going to bat' you really want someone who's just communicating and helping you create the outcomes necessary.
700 democracy activists imprisoned in the past months in Hong Kong.

Why are these guys that invaded the Hong Hong parliament building 'democracy activists' while the guys that invaded the Congress building on January 6th 'terrorists'?

Double standards.
She doesn't know?
Probably implied, but I’m assuming this requires relocating to Baltimore?
Possibly because that would be illegal (according to the quote you mention) and so they would likely lose further negotiating ground by doing so.
Did it do weird things? Sure, but nothing that made me nervous enough to intervene.

Doesn't sound like much of a data trail. No one disputes that it at least sort works (while also doing "weird things", as you put it) in some conditions. As long as, you know, nothing weird happens out on the road. Like for example rain.

It's the fat tail of "weird things" (and how these systems currently handle them) that leave the question of whether FSD will ever arrive -- very much up on the air.
Nope: I'm not a resident of Russia, neither other shareholders. This is not the case. And the problem is ongoing for 2 months+.

I understand the willingness to bring this, but currently this is not the case.
Unethical Scraping by Autocode Team
It doesn't really answer my question, but from what I've seen in the TOC I'd say it's equivalent to an introductory course on computer architecture + computer systems and some cryptography as well. Kind of an introduction (don't get me wrong with the word 'introduction', it covers a decent amount of material) to the most important concepts and technologies that guide computers and the internet.
adults are just children with jobs and debts
This. Comments, community, and moderation can work wonderfully at a certain (Goldilocks, aka "mid-") scale. Smaller (unless you're deep in some true nano-niche), and it's a load of work for little gain. Much larger, and...yuck.
> Just do a good job

Easy as that, huh?

I think the comment was about what to do when you aren't able to 'just' do a good job for whatever reason, which could happen to anyone. They posted about how to handle a problem and your response was 'just don't have problems'.
I have used discord intensively in the past but it was tightly linked to very narrow interests, like video games. I never discovered anything on discord, I rather got discord invites from other forums or what have you.

Are there discovery features in discord I may not be aware of?
Yes, please, try to oust your...dictator.

Oh wait. That's not how it works? You mean the tyrant who's invading another country doesn't give a rat's behind about the opinions of the citizens of the country he already controls?

Weird.




Edit: typo
Any banks in the US that support hardware key 2FA?
Instagram ads have gotten really good lately, I've found events same-day that I'm interested in, dropped my other plans and went to them.

I can't wait to cancel them in the town-crier for using a Meta ad platform to find me.
It's simple.

Before we had developer and operations teams.

Now operations write yaml and we call them devops.
It won't give lower prices because Apple doesn't allow discounts. Any remotely sensible vendor would give you a 10% discount (or more!) to give you an incentive to not make purchases through Apple Pay - Epic did this to promote their alternative payments system, because when you're not giving Apple 30% of all your revenue you can easily cut prices.

will they cut prices? Maybe not, but right now they can't, because Apple forbids it.
You're right, I'll do better. Thanks dang!
Or a legislature.
GitHub released a great java parser that I think is related to this work https://github.com/javaparser/javaparser

I'm also using that parser for a side project where developers can cross link their source code and host them statically: https://github.com/josephmate/OdinCodeBrowser#readme
here in Australia nobody ever seems to have cash anymore, and it doesn't seem to be an issue. Tap your phone to pay, done.
Ok, let's see one drive through Amsterdam tomorrow morning at 9 am between two random zipcodes and house numbers. I'll bet you it can't do it. "Edge cases" indeed.
Roast Our Docs
It depends on whose "textbook definition" you use. Scholars of fascism have had a hard time agreeing on the conditions to call a regime fascist. Motyl here seems to adopt the very minimal definition of "authoritarian + personality cult" in order to make Russia fit. I don't think any other historian I've read would agree with that definition. Stanley G. Payne, for example, also looks for ethnic exclusivism, ultranationalism, and expansionism.[1]

Russia is a consciously multiethnic state, while post-USSR Ukraine has been disturbingly exclusivist and (internally) expansionist toward the ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

From Ethnic Conflict and Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1991–2001[2]

Over the course of the first decade of an independent Ukraine, the number of ethnic Russians fell 26.6 per cent, from 11.4 m to 8.3 m, and the number of Jews fell by a whopping 78.7 per cent, from 486,326 to 103,600.

Besides mounting evidence of refugee flight, there was also the emergence of a post-Soviet popular culture of hate literature, the ubiquity of radical right extremist broadsides that scapegoated Jews and Russians alike for post-Soviet Ukraine's many woes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30583319

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1364298080239683...
What was the name of the 2010s site that made a point-and-click web scraper?
What was the name of the website that made a point-and-click web scraper addon?

I remember a website in the mid 2010s that created a point-and-click web scraper. After installing the browser addon you opened up any page and pressed the "scrape configuration" button.

Each text and image element on the webpage would get highlighted slightly yellow. When you clicked one it would mark other elements with a tick and cross. This was effectively a filtering process to generate the right CSS selector. You would repeat it for each type of element you wanted to select. Once you completed your types, you uploaded the config to their website, where you could select how often it would scrape the webpage.

I distinctly remember an example video being used to scrape the HN homepage.

Does anyone else remember this tool? What was the name? Did they sell?
Meat is by far the production that require land. 1 cow requires 2.5 acres of land, if my memory is right.

If we cut meat consumption, then we have plenty of space available. We should eat much less meat in all cases, that's one of the few points that meta-analyses of effect of diet on health have pointed out.

We really need one piece of red meat like beef per week to get the vitamin B12. And no more than one meal with meat every other day.

Or we can have the same amount per week but with half portion everyday - for example if the dish requires meat for its taste.

With much fewer cows, we can then let them roam freely in forests, which they prefer by far. Grass without shade is good for golf, not for cows.

In the US, most cows don't even have grass ; they walk all day in their own shit, parked in overpopulated enclosure, and fed with soja.

That's so disgusting that cattle breeders went to court - and won - to forbid any photo of their enclosures.

I'm not a vegan, not even a vegetarian and I consider humans to be omnivorous by nature. But I want to eat the meat of happy cows, happy pigs and happy chicken.

Without hormones, without antibiotics, without GMOs feed. That means a more expensive meat but it tastes so much better, really.

Chicken are super tasty when raised in natural conditions. Pork is unbelievably better.
Open Letter: IEEE Spectrum editors apparently fell for Russian propaganda
When you said "literally anything", I thought it was going to be this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpKfx_aPFU
Ringo?
Clearly it's a trade off as everything always is. So you deal with probabilities of various kinds of failure in various circumstances.

Turning on a computer, compare the probability of an issue with the ethernet cable, ie not plugged in as suggested vs a pcb trace being broken. Given that probability do you want to handle one of those gracefully and not fry the machine? Both? Neither. And that's the point of identifying the difference. A thing that is rare and if it occurs everything is b0rked anyway doesn't need to be handled.

That individual components having to be robust on some level (what level? It depends...) to failure difference of distribution via a network connection and pcb traces is probably the reason we don't usually (but we might) refer to the latter as a distributed system.
exactly. I find it vastly more productive to just be available at the drop of a hat to talk someone through an issue. once it gets to the point where we've decided on next steps, we can work on our own until one of us feels confused or something interesting comes up.

yes - lets talk frequently about the work and what makes sense

no - me watching you type and making off-the-cuff comments to keep myself busy
Considering that cars already kill people en mass there's no real advantage to slowing the pace of SDV development other than to make people feel warm and fuzzy. I personally prefer Tesla's approach where they give customers permission to go ham with their latest beta software. The quicker we get to L5 the quicker we can put the automobile safety nightmare to rest permanently.
I find it very interesting that you mention looking at the history of ISA's first in order to understand the current iteration of the technology.

I was reading the RISC-V privileged ISA recently and the amount of seemingly arbitrary registers and behaviours that must be implemented to support a UNIX-like OS is crazy, and that got me thinking about the history behind all of these things that the hardware must support in order to support the OS.

But thank you for the pointers, I'll definitely use this.
Wait until you get to the bullshit around pain management.
Probably the same way sports teams convince communities to build subsidized stadiums: with unrealistic projections about jobs and trickle down benefits.
It took my manager in food service like a half hour to count like 6 tills. For a gas station its probably even faster. Probably not more than a dozen dollars in labor to count the cash at the end of the day. IDK about how the cash is transported like if businesses are using armored cars or what and what that costs.
> They will still take a 27% cut.

This will probably change. We know governments find this cut abusive, and requiring third party payments was intended in a lot of cases to address this. Google and Apple playing cheeky 27% workarounds will not fly for long.

If anything, these companies aggressively refusing to stop fleecing people is going to lead to much more draconian regulations that will turn them into regulated utilities.
This is really good advice. It also forces you to figure out what you want exactly. For example, someone might get frustrated by poor performance (real or imagined) of a peer, but what they're really looking for is a promotion and they see the peer as an obstacle to that. Figuring out the positive outcome you want (promotion, successful project, etc) and then working with management on that is a good tactic.
Text version of that article: https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...
Maybe they don't need to go to bat for you; maybe they just don't jump on the chance to throw you under the bus.
But you are a citizen of Russia? Do you pay tax to Russia?
Any reason to worry about prod systems?
There are certain metrics that can be used, such as the ratio of upvotes to comments. I red it somewhere that a post with 100+ upvotes but no comments can be spotted programatically.

HN I see sometimes where it isn't the link that's the goal, it's the top comment for the link. So the OP is a bot with a clean record but the top commenter is the narrative pusher.

Plus there's the good old link to the blacklisted but unbanned topics. Check out J**n P***n's spam and they aren't blocked but the accounts that post them get a strike.

It's a moving target and they get better all the time. I red it somewhere that you could post about i*l and p***e and in minutes the bots would appear, but the i word has gotten a lot more sophisticated lately. Their s emm emm operation is among the best in the world.

Lastly, many state actors are very good on offense (S and the I word) but everyone is terrible on defense. It's still the wild west out there and the bad guys are winning.

My $0.02 YMMV
Venmo is telling me to delete and recreate my account
Can someone explain the first VPE example? I just don't understand what it's talking about.
That sounds effective but I wouldn't want to work there. I do pair programming but on an as-needed basis. I find it very effective in short focused bursts but I couldn't imagine doing it all day. I would go insane.
He can't single-handedly oust a dictator, obviously. But sanctions have collateral damage and that's very much intentional. Lots of people who are actually in Russia are having a much, much harder time than OP right now.
The truth hurts. People prefer a warm blanket.
Have you renounced your Russian citizenship?
It's located between Baltimore and DC in Laurel Maryland. I commute from central baltimore and the drive is around 40 minutes.

It's looking like some amount of in office time will be required (2-3 days a week) although some people have been working remotely since before the pandemic. If you're working on classified stuff you'll also need to be on campus.
People forget what a creative profession coding is. The assumption that programming is a factory is what is being challenged. Most companies seem to have a factory approach and so you end up with technical debt weighing everything down to the point people just can’t get stuff
done and the job becomes
more about explaining why you can't do stuff.

To give a more concrete example a pair programming session might avoid putting in foundational code that ends up being a bad design choice and slowing down the team by 1% forever. Maybe at a cost of millions. That 1% will never show up in any OKR or KPI that just basically measures superficial stuff about the status quo (bugs raised per quarter, features delivered on time etc.)

I mean it is like we forget we live in an age where still someone smart coding at their laptop can launch a million dollar business.

If you can figure out a smart “hot take” way of working, like maybe pair programming it is a big competitive advantage.

To the point you probably wont find a job for a company that works that way because they can more than make do with a small team.
At a high level, it's actually really simple. Your PCIe devices are each given a region of the address space, say, 0x8428000000000000-0x8428000000000fff. Just write to that region from kernel mode. But what do you write? Well, that isn't standardized. It's not even really documented. The best documentation is the source code to the GPU drivers in the Linux kernel, which are usually added to by engineers working at GPU vendors, and they don't discuss it much.
So respond back to Google with the wire receipts where you paid Whitescape for the app and divested yourself of any ownership in that entity.
Perhaps, although the outdoor ground-level radiation should not be at a sufficient level to cause acute radiation poisoning, as I understand it.

According to Wikipedia, 237 people suffered from acute radiation sickness as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster[1], mostly workers from the facility and firefighters responding to the situation.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Human_impac...
If I bothered to actually submit my times, I'd be ranked #9 for any% and #5 for 100% for the 2014 reboot of Strider. Not because I'm any good, but because hardly anyone has submitted records.
Turns out I had to post here before my google-fu finally worked.

The company was called Kimono Labs: http://www.kimonolabs.com/ They sold to Palantir.

Looks like there's very little out there that exists these days. Here's a video of how it worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_hSNj1gI0
Can you explain like I'm 5? I'll be honest I have no idea what you're even trying to say here.