skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the only commercial entity to achieve fusion so far"

...is this true? It's pretty trivial to achieve fusion (laughabe efficiency, but still fusion!) with a few thousand dollars and a well-funded garage. Maybe "commercial entity whose goal is to generate positive-yield fusion" is what they mean..
This is incorrect, because you can generally do this for sequence types:

isinstance(items, Sequence)

Or perhaps:

isinstance(items, Iterable) # works with numpy arrays

Or, equivalent to using len() for type checking, you could do:

isinstance(items, Sized)
> The Queen last exercised her veto in 1999. Nothing fell in on itself and that is by design; the Queen is sovereign and parliament is subordinate to her.

I may not have been eloquent but I meant in matters outside of the UK. Trust me, if the Queen tried to withhold Royal Ascent in Canada it would trigger a constitutional crisis. I'm sure this is true elsewhere.
Intel coolers are so ridiculously bad compared to stock AMD ones. Just another small example of how far Intel has fallen behind AMD.
For real. What else is to be done? Pricing out your labor from the local economy isn't sustainable. Plus if the economists are to be believed, once developers are unfettered and available supply goes to infinity to meet our latent demand, rents shouldn't rise beyond wages, and rent control rent increase limits of perhaps 5% a year (as they are where I live) wouldn't even be hit. So why all the consternation? I don't get it.
I don't think so.... my first thought was "this is too cluttered"
After this whole debacle in Canada [1] where two therapists were doing some downright freaky cuddle puddle from hell with a blindfold on a traumatized person, I am more curious about what they're doing to screen the therapists. These people hardly met the guidelines that MAPS set for therapy, and as described quite ridiculously violated people's well being instead.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mdma-ther...
It is fundamentally different in mathematical foundations; some functions are proven formally verified and therefor will execute 100% perfectly (I guess you are talking about actual bugs like hardware issues?); what gpt3 does is not even close to that; if you put the same input to gpt3 multiple times it comes up with different answers. That is nowhere close to a computer executing an algorithm.
Here’s a link to the first paper listed: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/...
I think that the title is a bit click-baity as the Q ratio reported for the experiment is still 0.00005 (0.005 percent quoting the article).

Still an impressive achievement, but would've not used the word "groundbreaking" IMHO. I believe that in the context of nuclear fusion that word is often used to allude at reaching an energy surplus out of the reaction.
Assuming no hardware errors, they do.
I read that this was a tactic the Ukrainians used: flood the roads with water to create mud that the Russians will get stuck in. So low tech, so brilliant.
FWIW I lived in a village with a part-time police presence. Based on our experiences they're great for helping local kids not get run over on the walk to school (and for closing down public spaces when Covid paranoia was at its highest in early 2020). Manhunts or major crimes? Not so much.

I'm struggling to get my head around how a tiny and/or part-time police force should be the (sole?) point of contact for an emergency data request when <drum roll> they're not even there for the majority of every 24h cycle.

"Dear $TelCo, you must immediately release location data for subscriber 1-800-555-2368, it's so important and urgent we haven't got time to find a judge. Since it's almost 4pm we're going off duty now and will be at our desks from 9am tomorrow. Yours, $PartTimeForce"
Your #3 point is great, I hadn't thought about it this way!
> We already have limits on speech (no yelling "Fire" etc etc)

Actually, it's falsely yelling "fire" in specific and very limited circumstances.

You're actually encouraged to yell "fire" when there actually is one and in most circumstances, you're perfectly free yell fire when there isn't one.
I am not a lawyer. That said, I'm skeptical of the merits of this suit.

Here's the actual complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.52...

Ubiquiti seems to be arguing (count 1) that Krebs defamed them by not clearly identifying Sharp as his source in the December 2 post and December 5 update to the original article. That simply updating the original article constitutes repeating everything contained in it and is therefore defamatory beggars belief.

They also argue (count 2) that the initial March article was defamatory. But it can't have been if if Krebs at the time didn't know the information provided by his source, Sharp, was false. Presumably Sharp didn't share that with Krebs that he was the one behind the breach, so Krebs wouldn't have had particular reason to suspect he was providing false information. Maybe Sharp defamed them, since he obviously did know he was telling falsehoods, but it's hard to see how Krebs did (and two of the supposedly defamatory statements in count 2 are just Krebs describing or quoting what Sharp said).

Bad journalistic practices may abound, but I don't think any of that constitutes defamation. Neither Krebs nor Ubiquiti look great here.
> whose number should also be independently verifiable

This is not a legal requirement. If you fail to comply with a legitimate request because you couldn’t verify the number, you go to jail.
Ukraine raised $100 million in crypto donations. It's going to be offering an NFT series on Ethereum to raise yet more funds:

https://qz.com/2147694/ukraine-is-selling-nfts-like-war-bond...

Beyond the state's fundraising efforts, many in Ukraine were only able to take their wealth with them when they fled the country because they had it in the form of crypto.

>>* Giving criminals and scammers the ability to exchange goods and services anonymously.

And encrypted chat applications give criminals and scammers the ability to coordinate their scams anonymously.

Centralization via mass-surveillance (Total Information Awareness) is not a solution to social problems. It's putting all of society's eggs in one basket, and hoping the basket doesn't fall into corruption.

>>* Allowing nation states to engage in global commerce despite sanctions because they won't stop killing innocent people

And according to this pro-centralization philosophy, a million people dying in Iraq due to sanctions is "worth it".

So are all the people who "starve" due to this philosophy's AML mass-surveillance laws:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/money-reimagined-starve-ugly-...
More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography#Notes
Perhaps true but misses the point. If you’re using len() for type checking, it’s essentially no different than doing isinstance(items, Sized). The latter explicitly calls out what you’re doing and makes it clear, to me, that’s it’s not really correct, in that it doesn’t show your intent, which is to enforce a sequence of items in a container not that the object has a size.
They will, getting closer all the time. I don't think before ~Java 21 but I think that isn't an unreasonable time frame considering how big they are.
If you can predict that for any input then indeed you are right. Gpt3 cannot (yet) though. It is eerily (but logically) flawed in its guessing.
I found a functional link to one of the papers, and I figured there’d be some mention of Erlang, but nada. No mentions of actors, either, although that’s less directly relevant.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/...
> Nothing. The point is that it is the parents' responsibility to address these issues.

What are they going to say? “I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to talk about that. Ask your parents?”
That’s really not the case. What is “bad faith” about suggesting that the secretary of state probably isn’t going to rapidly solve this problem for you?

It’s not even about being a “devils advocate”, the balance of probabilities rests squarely on the side of this being far more difficult than many commenters here try to make it out to be.

I think it is you who is engaging in bad faith.
former netlify employee here. all sites on netlify have a netlify subdomain, that doesnt go away when you add a custom domain. its just useful for deploy previews and stuff, content is basically the same. nothing untoward here
Great article. It’s sad that you see so much written about Ukraine and so little engaging with high level concepts like self determination. Self determination is one of the most important concepts in international affairs. As the article points out, it literally Part I, Article I of the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/.... It’s also devilishly difficult to administer in practice.
If I recall correctly, so did most people in 1929 but when it came time to exit, the to rush to the exits overwhelmed the order sale system so people couldn't sell until it was too late.
Expulsion of the Chagossians
It looks like C# and Java are now developed in parallel with the same features.
Ahh. Nice, hmm :(
The other comenter was probably referring to how in some states, you essentially have something even better than rent control for your property taxes. With rent control, your rent may only rise maybe 5% next year, its not a price set in stone. In places like CA, your property tax rate is set in stone when you buy. So if you bought a house in the 1970s for like $30,000 and its worth $2,000,000 today, you are only paying taxes on property worth $30k. How that's less good for everyone else is now local government has to find other ways to fund things as the buying power of the taxable revenue per property that doesn't change hands each year gets smaller and smaller.
> I don't know why you don't see as much news about the BSDs, but it must be either because BSD is less popular than Linux, or maybe BSD developers haven't put as much effort into fixing the problem.

I think that's certainly a significant portion of it, but also, the BSD behavior has been fairly consistent for a long time, while the Linux behavior has been changing recently. It's a bigger deal if your embedded system (or virtual machine) breaks when you upgrade to a newer kernel than if it's always been broken.
Just as we're no longer using muskets and cavalry, the method of warfare has changed in other ways. Perhaps meld in aspects of The Cold War as well.

A key change this time is not to split apart, but to simply grab all the marbles and declare the game to be over. I wish I could be sanguine about this and would love to be proven wrong, but it's looking grim.
Ohh I just accepted your previous statement of 2k/yr overall, but of course you're only talking about CS.

> The US graduates 2K PhDs per year, of which >60% are foreign nationals.

It looks like across fields, it's ~55k PhDs/yr, so the "Billions" quote was probably right.
> Gee whiz amazing. An increase from 15 days of PTO. If only we didn't much more than that in my much lower quality of life home country as a standard for tech workers.

I am not saying 15 days of PTO is high (it isn't) but you're comparing different countries. Local customs vary hugely from country to country: for example, when I was at Google UK, I got 30 days of paid annual leave.
From the example generated schema in the docs, it does not look like they have subscriptions.
Aha! I found the parody I had in mind!

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7opi7w/the_idiocracy_o...
Tulare lake was the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi. It’s now 100% dry, and farmed.

Started in the 1870s when water was diverted from the rivers feeding it to irrigate.

The last straw seemed to be the damming of the Kaweah river.

It used to occasionally flood and become a lake again. Now it’s all farmland.
I don’t read it that way; I think they’re advocating architecting a collection of components and rebooting them at the first sign of trouble. So, basically Erlang.

> This cheap form of recovery engenders a new approach to high availability: microreboots can be employed at the slightest hint of failure, prior to node failover in multi-node clusters, even when mistakes in failure detection are likely; failure and recovery can be masked from end users through transparent call-level retries; and systems can be rejuvenated by parts, without ever being shut down.
Sure, but that makes the name Zeopoe, which isn't quite so snappy.
> the only reason anybody was complying with an EDR was because there was a law mandating they do so

Alternatively, it's possible that understaffed and overworked providers are more concerned about their company looking bad when "Missing Child X with schoolbag containing cellphone" isn't located before the next news cycle?

Doesn't due process exist for a reason? Even if that's occasionally a PITA for the authorities?
You are probably right. But I wonder how she could not be considered a flight risk. Her recent history includes a decade of a massive, deceptive (using a shell company, etc.), and brazen theft. And she's up for a possible 30 year sentence. Who is a flight risk if not someone like that?
Sure, it's more specific than just yelling "fire". I can stand and yell "fire" in my house or the park all I like :)

The point is we already recognise that there are circumstances when expression crosses a line.
Wow, this is really, really bad. Try this one to compare.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

I don't work for MSFT.
My first thought was that some VM virtualization repo got 100k stars on GitHub :))
This is literally how it works here in the Netherlands.

Every year I get a reminder, log into an app with my government ID, click "next" a few times while checking the numbers and submit. It literally takes 2 minutes if you don't have anything to adjust.

does the US have a thing like DigiD?
This NPR planet money episode explains why tax filing is still the way it is: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
The crypto part obviates the need for using international wire transfers and the powerful correspondent banks that make it possible.
Will Complex PTSD patients be involved when developing and testing PTSD treatments?
Well, I need it. So, I get to have this. Isn’t the Internet awesome?
Genuinly curious: do people in US report tips on their tax forms? (forgive my ignorance - tips are much less common around where I live)
I’m a backend developper, working on medium to big Spring Boot apps. Two years ago, we introduced Kotlin in our code base with really good results on code quality.

With Java 17, the gap is narrowing between Kotlin and Java. Kotlin has still unique features that I love (extension methods for instance), but the big one is nullability. You can use @Nullable/@NotNull annotations in Java but I largely prefer having nullability backed in types with Kotlin. Some people say nullability is not a problem: with 30 developers of various quality, I can ensure it is a problem. I don’t see Java addressing nullability in a better way in the near future, so I’m going to stick with Kotlin.
> WHO IN GOOGLE THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD USER EXPERIENCE??!!

I suspect those in Google who use this are using scripting and not the UI. Otherwise the UI wouldn't require more clicks every time it gets a refresh.
This video details some of the ways that nuclear fusion energy reporting gets done (both media, but also the industry) : https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY

We are not near a viable fusion reactor yet. Not close.
More functional links are available at http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/

@dang et al, that link would be preferable to the web archive; more of its paper links are still alive.
> EDIT: I can't find the podcast I heard this in, but pretty sure the tax professor that spearheaded this pilot got followed by people hired by Intuit.

This feels somehow like it should be illegal to willfully and knowingly make the common good worse in favor of your company. Perhaps via antitrust.
With larger blocks, you can still hold your own private keys. As long as ONE of the blockchain explorers you rely on is honest, you also cannot be scammed. Given the blockchain data is public domain, and freely exchanged, the idea that you won't be able to find a single honest information purveyor seems farfetched.
Each page makes a request that returns a list of IDs which appears to then be used to make individual requests for each news story. So each pageload makes dozens of requests. Couldn't that information just be provided in the first request?

Also, the layout is a little too minimal. It's harder to scan headlines than it is on Hacker News. Even just a small amount of spacing between the items would work wonders here.

Overall, I'm not totally sold on this being a clean alternative to Hacker News (which is tough to beat since you really can't get much cleaner than HN to begin with), but I think you could significantly improve the experience without having to change too much.
Right, it should be sold next to the other poisonous stuff at the gas station that has disclaimers for the consumer to keep it away from children.

The public itself needs to readjust its role with the government, where availability doesn't mean endorsement.
Can you explain your point?
This happened to me in Seattle. I have a duplex and my renter just stopped paying. It's a joke that this had anything to do with Covid - the job market is tighter than it's ever been.

I will never again take a chance on a renter in this city. If you have anything wrong with your credit or income history -- I'm sorry, but I can't take a chance on anyone anymore. Good luck finding a place to live. Don't blame me, blame the city government.

The other thing that's happening: people like me rarely advertise our units. Instead we look through trusted networks -- friends, family, and co-workers. If you don't have a connection, you can't find these units at all.
>How much harm does a marketing email even do. Waste 0.001 seconds of your time?

I can't get myself into a frame of mind where I'd find myself defending spam. I'm genuinely fascinated. Why are you taking this angle?
Yup. Ooops, sorry...

I'd _intended_ to quote:

> this service makes Twitter soo much more useful I wonder why it is not a standard built in option??
Potentially time out? I don’t see the difference to, say, a python interpreter with a timeout. What would a human do, are we not Turing complete?

I mean, in the strictest sense that isn’t Turing complete either, because when you have a timeout you cannot run every program a theoretical Turing machine could. But then no practical computer is, because resources are always constrained (e.g. finite memory instead of an infinite tape). So when we talk about something being Turing complete, we usually disregard the resource limitations and effectively substitute something like “we mean Turing complete in the sense that it would be if we also had infinite memory and time”.

So, I still don’t understand why GPT-3 would have to (impossibly) solve the halting problem to be Turing complete[1], but everything else including a python interpreter or lambda calculus doesn’t.

[1] Note that I don’t assert that GPT-3 could or could not be Turing complete, I just don’t know why the halting problem predicates that.
No, except for easy-to-influence websites that scrape numbers from sketchy sources and accept user submissions without verification.

Not that the inability to confirm a phone number in a hypothetical phone book would be an excuse for noncompliance anyway.
Thanks for linking this.

That is… really fucked up. Predators in the healthcare industry need to face serious punishment. Unfortunately, they largely don’t and get away with things.
> Airbnb and Uber essentially disregarded local regulations

Not really. There were almost no AirBnB regulations before AirBnB because no one was doing anything like that at scale.

Uber/lyft got started as a "town car" service, which is legally very different from a taxi. The essential difference is that "town cars" can't do "street hail" - they can only do rides when they're specifically called (or messaged). "Street hail" is where you flag down a ride.

Confusing this is that most taxi companies also offer town-car services, but even pre-Uber/Lyft, most town car providers were not taxis.

No one thought that town car services could compete with taxis before Uber/Lyft. Plus, all previous town car services were "call us for our cars", not two-sided market places/aggregators.

That's why there were very few town-car regulations.
OpenBSD also still targets like 7 or 8 arches and did some bunch more a while ago
Also:

Getting them to do carbon restriction by fiat will be even harder.

Oh, a state organized decreases in carbon consumption could look like: "here's an electric car you can trade your broken down gas car for", "here's a program that will insulate your house for free", "here's a bunch of public transit lines leading to shopping centers, recreation and work". The state doesn't have to solve these problems by applying "the stick" to the average person, despite the average HN commentors' apparent eagerness to do this.
Is ubiquiti serious about enterprise anyway? How’s that 50 Vlan limit coming along?
War in Space Would Be Disastrous
These rules would avoid war between states only to encourage civil wars within states. People will only put up with being forced into the same body politic with people they don’t consider to be their own people for so long before they start shooting each other.

War is an essential form of conflict resolution. War should be avoided, but not at the expense of allowing intractable situations to fester. My parents’ generation went to war to secure a country for our ethnic group (Bengalis). It was a good thing—we managed to get out of Pakistan before it’s slow descent into being a failed state. Your principle would have caused a bad situation to get worse.
When you get the first big check from work treat it like a lottery win
In the UK, I’m told how much I owe. A year later, I get fined because they told me the wrong amount.
This is 10 years old. Here's the making-of post from 2012: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...
Freedom fries!
Algorithms can be improved until they approach something close to perfectly secure..

People cannot be made to become perfectly incorruptible. Look at what happened in Canada, with the federal government envoking emergency powers to shut down bank accounts without due process. Look at the "haircuts" during financial crises, where states have seized citizens' funds held in bank accounts, to bail out troubled banks.

Look at Hong Kong after the protests, where some of those involved in the protests were prevented from opening bank accounts.
A few hours? HOURS? The 1040EZ was like 6 questions, it shouldn't have to take you more than 10 minutes.
Any plans to expose RPC functions inside of GraphQL?
Just look at the readme. It says 100 FPS. Vim isn't even close to that, and Vim sucks with large files.
Insufficient entropy is the root cause of this:

https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf

which is still happening:

https://www.quintessencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/...
The date here is currently 3/30/2022 (12:56 AM), but the calendar tells me it's the 29th of March (I assume that's what the red box around the day means).
The addition of cryptocurrency to the process adds no value (and in this case adds unnecessary risk). You might as well suggest using cryptocurrency to buy a Big Mac at McDonalds. Here's how you do it:

1. Deposit your money in a bank. Wire it to Binance. Buy Bitcoin.

2. Go to a McDonald's.

3. Hire a gig worker through an app, pay them in cryptocurrency to buy a Big Mac with fiat and give it to you.

4. Eat your $55 Big Mac, and wonder at the amazing real-world utility of cryptocurrency.
I remember. Didn't they hand out cash? And there was concern around having that much cash at HQ. What a time.
Just wait until they disallow using credit scores for determining who is credit worthy.