skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many questions

This makes you think what is real art? Beauty, meaning, context

Can this achieve real art? Or just composing existing art?

If we don't preserve the art industry, and global industry flocks to the lowest common denominator, what will that mean for the future of art

If an artist invents something new and someone unrelated uses it to train a model and generate 100s of compositions who should profit from it?

What was the "license" on the images used to train the model
What science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?
False Futurism
Wow really? Was the rumor that they overwrote a prod db with a test db?
I think you should educate yourself about something called rockets.
Yanukovich decided to flee when an agreement with opposition, co-signed by three ministers of foreign affairs of EU, were just ditched by the crowd and the opposition.
> Nobody in the west organized Euromaidan and it was not a coup.

You can listen to the "nobody" organizing the "not a coup" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k
I don't think a natural gas tariff would kill anybody in Brussels. Not a single person.

But if burnt corpses start piling up in Brussels, I'll come back to this thread and admit to being wrong.
Interesting article. I would love to implement something similar in python
The hiring process is screwed up. A large number of companies expect starters to "hit the ground running", despite not being remotely close to providing the facilities needed to do so.

Someone else already said it. Ideally this is a company problem. In practice this often becomes a personal problem.
AP story: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-pakistan-re...
Can’t that be done in parallel to parent’s claims ? By helping the gov. France secures its influence on the area and makes sure French company’s business is safe.

For instance from a quick search Mali seems bound to Veolia for its water distribution network building. And I’d assume it is or will go the same for electricity, transportation etc. where anytime a big contract needs to be passed with an external technology provider, excluding French companies from the call won’t be an option.

PS: to add, French companies entering these kind of deals will usually be predatory and make sure the gov. is under enough pressure that they can’t just move to another provider. Development will only happen within a tight control of the situation by external debtors.
The issue here is that the Turing test is getting ever harder - aren't you afraid of the time when you are going to start regularly failing it yourself ?
I'm sorry you're having a stressful time of it at the moment but I wanted to offer three points of encouragement:

1) In my experience, I've learned and improved the most when things have been the hardest. It's tough for you now but stick with it; even just from your opening comments, you've clearly learned a lot already, and that should be the main focus of your first job.

2) A degree doesn't generally prepare you for the world of work, and computer science and software engineering are two different things - success in one won't automatically translate to success in the other. More important I think is that you have the will to work hard - remember the old quote about genius being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

3) At my first job, I was working on a client's system because their tape backup drive had developed a fault. As an interim "solution", I configured the backup system to write to a file on the hard drive (so they would at least have a second copy of their data in the event of a problem)... then forgot to mention it to the support engineers and left it like that. Fast forward three months and their hard drive developed bad sectors - my "backups" were corrupted and their tapes were three months out of date. Oops. At the same job, while working on a project to write data to disk using assembly language, I made a mistake and trashed the file system on my development machine, which also contained the only copy of the code I'd spent a couple of weeks working on. It took me another two days to manually piece together enough of the FAT to recover a recent copy of my work (I was making backup copies!) and get back on track. These are the two most memorable f-ups from that job but certainly not the only ones.

Now I'm a senior software engineer and I haven't made any mistakes like that in a while :-) But I wouldn't be here without all the failures.

Good luck!
I cannot speak for other countries but in Ukraine people started protesting by their own will. To allege that it was due to foreign influence is to deny Ukrainians of their agency. Let's not believe this Russian propaganda that Ukraine is not a real country and its people cannot decide by themselves.
The scale is notable.

> The results are as shown below as of end-2018: USD57 trillion, nearly three times the size of the US economy before it was hit by the COVID-19 virus. Even if this measure is not complete, it underlines the scale of the market.
Remember Abu Ghraib?
Easy things made complicated. They'd need the light saying "no more ham biscuits". Delegating the actual meaning to the light color or blinking status is just a call for wrong interpretation.
Yes. The banks are the ones that ultimately are creating money through giving out loans. The fed, as far as I understand, can only influence this indirectly.

Interest rate setting is supposed to throttle the demand for loans. Lower interest rates, higher loan demand. Therefore, more money enters the economy.

However, the other side of the equation is the banks' appetite for giving loans. There are times when banks (due to regulation or market risk they perceive) that they'll be more or less likely to make loans regardless of the demand side.

The fed seems to be only controlling the demand and not the supply. They cannot force banks to make loans more willingly directly.

Another aspect is the appetite for the sorts of loans banks want to give. There's an argument that too many loans are now given for speculation (housing, asset purchase) and not for things that grow the economic pie like small businesses. Small business are more risky for the banks than speculation so we end up in this sort of undead economy.
That's exactly my thoughts. They had an internal engine they could open source, so they did it. Probably to simplify the management of intellectual property rights between several companies. Making it a popular choice for indie devs has never been the goal.
Nah you’re doing it right! I’m just using the tool to select the best ones to eventually visit and maybe rent
Exactly. Thank you for reusing cardboard while the airlines fly empty planes just to maintain their slots.

It makes you feel better for having a moral high ground, sure. Objectively it's not that big of a change, while systemic social changes take time. For the most people, it feels like not in their lifetime.
Nice. A veiled reference to the great replacement conspiracy theory mixed in with "i have an ethnic friend so couldn't possibly be racist" exceptionalism.
I had my cat read it to me.
I don't see how would "year in industry" make the very same companies better at on onboarding. There would be exact same issues, except students would be more powerless and more likely to be taken advantage of.
I really passionately hate the “there’s only 12 notes” argument. There’s “only” 26 letters in the alphabet but you don’t see people arguing that your bound to write identical poems to others by random chance

There are obviously more to it than that with music. But I just feel like whoever tries to argue “few notes”=“random copying is common” just don’t understand just how big the space of possible combinations of a few common building blocks is.
Archive to get round paywall
https://archive.ph/QIH6D
Firstly, you got your _first_ swe job in August. Companies that hire juniors for first jobs shouldn't expect to have fully formed contributors from the gate. It's probably a year or two before you should be expected to be a reliable contributor.

I know with todays inflation in "senior" titles, it comes earlier, but personally, I have low trust in anyone who hasn't done the job for 10+ years.

As more concrete advice:
Own the fact that you are green & new. Ask the "dumb" questions. If you are unsure on how to start something, ask "what would be a sensible, concrete first outcome on the way?". Ask, ask, ask.

Also, as a junior, it is immensely valuable to pair on problems and code with more senior members. So if it's not a thing, maybe suggest if you could try pair programming from time to time in the team. It reduces bugs and errors even for very senior people.

Finally, mistakes happen. Sure, try to avoid them, but don't freak out when they happen, just find a solution to correct it. Every mistake you make is a mistake you are less likely to make again (but some of them, you will make again, and that's fine).
If you are able to do expensive mistakes on production systems, I'd suggest it's more of a process problem than a people one.
> The west gives enough humanitarian aid to feed the continent a few times over. It's hard for some to understand but adequate amounts of money or assistance isn't the problem here.

The west?

The continent?

"isn't the problem here"?

Citations needed. Definitions needed. Tell us what you perceive is the problem here?
The article is about how these coups are reducing US influence and strategy.

The sub headline: "Insurrections are disrupting American security strategy in the region and giving Russia an opening to gain sway."
Can you describe which specific resources and what labour is presently being extracted en masse as per #4?
Still reading, but this seems counter factual:

“Whereas dogs have been bred for utility, cats have been bred solely for appearance.”

My understanding was cats largely served as pest control from the human perspective. It’s probably why they continue to hunt even when well fed.
Ah, yes, a glimpse of the world where sites exist to placate Google into delivering some traffic, and Google is the supreme judge of whether a site gets a piece of the webs.

Might be funny to see the dissonance when people begin to make decent art or memes with AIs, and Google will have to either drop the site, or ignore its own rules.
I heard wanted an African Union and trade oil in gold instead of dollars.
ThePrint , thewire are all part of the propoganda outlets that have popped up in the last few years.

I am not saying casteism isn’t present in India but the way you are projecting is way over the top , especially in urban areas.

Do you know anything about the stringent SC/ST act.? It has now been abused so much against the upper caste , that few years back Supreme Court had to intervene and direct the Govt to not immediately arrest in case of an FIR.
There was a huge protest by the SC/ST community over this order and within few weeks Govt had to bow down and pass an ordinance to repeal the order by Supreme Court.

Just Google about “misuse of SC/ST act India” it is mind boggling.
Or partner with local entities to push local production of goods and sponsor infrastructure building directly owned by the gov. and not external providers.

Giving away stuff without helping to build a production chain is usually just “we’re helping” signaling.

PS: except for very punctual, extraordinary events. Like helping rebuild schools after an earthquake.
"Well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions" -- the CIA, probably.
The GitHub page definitely does a better job at pointing that out.

https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw
How intelligent are cats? Intelligent enough to be the subject of a very long article about feline intelligence which I also did not read in full due to it's excessive length!
I think the point is that when cats were intentionally bred, it was for appearance. The natural selection of feral/domestic non-bred cats took its own course.
Were it not for discrepancies I how federal policy effects states, the Supplementary Poverty Measure would be an excellent measure of how well you are doing at distributing the returns of economic activity generated. As it is, it's a decent measure anyway.

California (contrary to a lot of the images people have of what a progressive state would excel at compared to a more conservative one) is excellent at generating aggregate economic activity with great conditions for capital and a narrow elite labor segment, and very bad at distributing those aggregate gains to the rest of society. (To be fair, there is a very significant way in which that compared to other states, is because the more you fail at the first, the more the feds will ship money from the states that succeed at it to you as long as you commit to spend it on the second, so part of why Missippi looks better is that the gains of the strong aggregate economy California generates are skimmed at given to reduce local poverty in places like Mississippi, not based on relative need as measured by the SPM, but based simply on Mississippi’s weaker aggregate performance.
> falling foul of the military.

I was going to say citation needed but then I googled. Astounding. So.... again we're paying for all this insanity. Imagine if we had spent this 18 billion on ourselves. I dare say that would have been better for ourselves as well as for the people of Pakistan and the whole world since these areas we mess with tend to be major exporters of smaller scale terror as well.

"
Financial aid to Pakistan since the 11 September 2001 attacks. Between 2002–2011, US Congress approved $18 billion in military and economic aid from the United States. However the Pakistan Treasury only received $8.647 billion in direct financial payments.
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Currently, somehow people who can wrap their heads around the "modern devops practices" command the highest wages, not the lowest.

In my opinion, the promises of devops and other automation are largely overblown, and these concepts are just replacing one set of problems with another - at least in software development. In hosting/provisioning, I agree that cloud was a game changer and for example renting a cluster of DynamoDB is massively simpler than running your own Cassandra.
Cats and dogs can be roughly assessed as being about the same in intelligence but vary strongly in trainability due to their different motivations. Dogs gain advantage by pack living, cats by loose association. Pack living offers a better platform for coordination and training hence dogs are more motivated to learn tricks.

In the past this trainability was associated with intelligence but modern studies indicate trainability and intelligence are not correlated as closely as we used to think.

In short: you train a dog, your cat trains you aka the old joke about dogs having masters and cats having staff is probably true.
I often find I write out a series of commands interactively in the shell, then decide I want to save them as a shell script, which I might then want to share.

I enjoyed fish, but found it too annoying to have to translate things into bash when I wanted to share them.
In future, depleted uranium usage will make it into the list
I’ve noticed this as well. That is why I’ve started scraping those agency websites and send an email whenever a new listing matching my criteria came online. I even made a tool out of it for others to use [1] (it currently crawls around 50 sites).

[1] https://housemail.nl
Is it just me or are all the diagram links broken? It's pretty hard to understand without them.
There are two erroneous assumptions in this proposition:

- People Want Customization
- Searching for web content would be better if users did half the work.

Both are ridiculous. See here: https://chapra.blog/search-is-still-dead-demand-side-woes-72...
It's basically an adverisement for an upcoming TV show. Popular science needs to be accessible and entertaining, which is generally at odds with the cold hard facts. New Scientist often has me eye-rolling in this regard.
After he rejected EU under pressure from Russia, by his own words. Against what quite a lot of Ukraniens wanted, voted for and worked for for a long time. You can't ignore preceeding pressure and meddling from Russia in this story.

And despite all the effort to engineer pro Russia sentiment in Ukraine, it never worked, because it is not actually that easy to create large scale support for anything from outside.
In an R&D org where this is not a thing (pair programming). Any pointers on how to get started? (mechanics wise .. who controls the keyboard? Is the senior dev supposed to be quiet unless an issue? Is there talking throughout?)
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/flash-roms-raspberry-pi
Edit button, at least for a limited time, is a good idea. I write with too many embarrassing typos that need to be corrected.

But I don't like the idea that you would need to pay for it or some other non-crucial feature. Unfortunately that is the direction where social networks are going. They have so much power that they are going to squeeze the users to increase their profits and get even more power.
Why do people continue to believe nonsense like this? The US wants stable governments, not unstable ones.
It is possible that what Imran Khan has claimed was true and USA has succeeded to remove him, but it is equally possible that his claim was an intentional lie and his removal did not have anything with USA, even if the change might be welcomed by USA.

This is probably the first rule in the playbook of any dictator, whenever some opposition is sensed, as a preemptive strike, the dictator claims publicly that some wicked foreign power wants to remove him from power, so that any identifiable opponents should be considered as evil foreign agents, who must be punished for their treason.

There have been a huge number of examples of this behavior during the last century, in many countries.
https://chapra.blog/

I just wanted a personal blog so I bought some wordpress hosting and used the default theme with some color changes.
Putin says that he is invading Ukraine to fight Nazis. Everybody hates the Nazis, but Putin's war is still wrong.

Similarly, everybody hates imperialism, and Putin's war is still wrong. It doesn't change what actions we must take to stop Putin.
Show me a DIY solution that is as small and power efficient as an off-the-shelf solution such a Synology or an ixsystems box.

A DIY NAS will be costlier, bulkier, noisier and will consume more power, break more often and take more time to maintain.
One main difference was that the world was extremely critical of the invasion of Iraq. Not just "some countries", but Western societies at large, including - or mostly - the ones whose governments decided to participate. For anybody sane, it was a stupid war for stupid reasons and with unpredictable consequences. Not hundreds of thousands but millions of people protested in main European cities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot...

I was too young to remember the war in Vietnam but my older colleagues told me the general feeling was very much anti-war, and they had to do pretty hardcore stuff in order to avoid being drafted.
Islamists in Africa will eventually come to France and wreak havoc there, so France has a good interest to nip the threat in the bud.
I got my first swe job this past August and it honestly has not gone well. I've enjoyed it, but it is clear that I am not seen as reliable and definitely not known for completing things fast.

Question, why do you think it is? If you're truly objective an honest with yourself, might there be a reason you can think of for this? If so what is it?

I would say as a more senior engineer and someone who hires juniors, some of the most frustrating but easy to fix things are as follows:

1. Not asking questions and doing the wrong thing instead. You mentioned it's too late to ask, bullsh!t, it's not too late, start asking now, explain why you're asking, come clean, tell them why you're starting to ask...because you want to improve and help them. If they do spend time answering though, you better either remember or take notes so you don't forget. If this reason isn't good enough, maybe start looking for new team mates, they should be very happy you want to improve.

2. Not communicating, just in general, "I didn't update you because my dog was sick, so I took the dog to the vet, it's ok now, but them my girlfriend was sad so I took her for ice cream", ok cool... but just tell me before disappearing for the day, then it's much less of an issue and I don't have to chase you.

3. Being too slow and not accomplishing things. There's many, maybe infinite reasons why this happens, but just don't be that person, if something is assigned to you, take a deep breath, step back, and plan your path to success. If there is a reason why something isn't achievable, that's cool, go back to point 2. Make sure you communicate it, ask for help.

4. Understand the big picture as best you can, be less fixated on code, problems and solutions. Be more focused on solving issues the team is facing. If you're just focused on tasks, you're likely to produce solutions which might not be ideal and properly contribute to the overall success of the team.

5. Not being reliable, honestly, you might just have to sacrifice sometimes, I think it's part of learning and being a junior, but it will be part of being a senior too. If you committed to doing something, just make sure you do it. If you've accepted a meeting invite, make sure you're there. It's basic stuff, just do it. Be disciplined.

Should I be writing reminders to myself to always double check everything? Should I write down the steps to every process?

Yes, you should be doing that, surgeons and pilots use checklists, you should be too and you should be documenting things, the whole team should have visibility into this documentation. The next time a junior comes along, you can become a mid-level, because you've made yourself somewhat redundant by documenting the things they will need to know.

Last thing I want to say is, no one is perfect, we're all learning. I'm not perfect, you're colleagues aren't perfect, you will never be perfect, we're all students, we all have things to learn, and we're always going to make mistakes...at least from what I've been told :)

Hope it helps.
> Don't conflate being a good programmer/engineer with being a good employee.

Very true. I've been working in IT since 1994, initially as a programmer, later as a sysadmin, and nowadays as a cloud-guy.

In all my jobs I've done good. Except one. I just didn't fit in. Tasks that even I could recognize as being simple were a real struggle, and I was frankly doing a terrible job at them.

I've always fit in, I've always had both people and technical skills, but in that one particular company I was doing a terrible job and it was obvious to everybody, and myself.

The topic of a "performance improvement process" came up, but I admit I'd spent so many weeks struggling to get better, to do better, that I just quit the day it was raised. It seemed obvious that for some random reason I just couldn't do the damn job, and it was better to admit defeat gracefully than stretch it out over additional weeks and months.

I've done a lot of reflection, but even now I don't know what was going wrong, or why I was so bad. All my other employers have been happy with me, and I've always felt proud of my work.

I guess culture/skills fits are real, in a way I'd not appreciated until then. Happily the very next job I accepted things worked out wonderfully from day one ..
What would be the legal basis for a maximum window for returns?
'Shock and Awe' isn't a war crime simply because the US and the 'coalition of the willing' won. By any objective measure, it's far worse than anything Russia has done so far, which is saying quite a bit.