skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is 100% wrong.

Russia's misinformation campaign against the U.S. is 100% the cause of our current national discord.

Our entire culture has been maliciously and actively poisoned by a proven state sponsored attack on the U.S. and Western Europe. Everything in the past decade needs to be re-evaluated and filtered through the lens of Russian disinformation.

Day in and day out, for over 10 years, the Russian government has been posting millions and millions of divisive and destabilizing messages online, amplifying the most controversial topics and creating true distrust and hatred among fellow Americans. Their efforts happened to occur along with the unprecedented rise of smart phones, which enabled this campaign conceived during the Obama administration, to have success beyond Russia's wildest dreams.

Additionally, there have been thousands of spies sent to the U.S. in order to infiltrate Congressional and Presidential offices, military personnel and business leaders. How many Russian spies have you heard of? Last night I watched PBS Frontline where I learned of yet another one: the former CEO of Overstock's girlfriend was revealed to be a spy by the FBI (Maria Butina). He was the guy funding and pushing for recount efforts like in Arizona. I remember reading about her, but didn't realize the connection with "stop the steal".

We need to respond. Aggressively and radically. We need to pardon the Jan 6th insurrectionists (I'm a liberal Democrat, mind you) and start a national campaign of de-russification. (As someone named Russ, I don't state that lightly. Haha. Sorry dumb joke.)

The reactions to what I'm saying will be predictable:

1) I'm oversimplifying or exaggerating.

I'm not. This is all fact.

2) I'm a liberal Democrat and I'm somehow trying to target Republicans because I hate freedom.

I'm not spreading a narrative. I'm trying desperately to understand why articles like this from the Atlantic keep trying to explain the state of the country, when we already know the answer.

When is the majority of the country going to realize we've been played and react appropriately??
No, that is not at all what I said.

Giving everyone more money for the same supply of goods is the very basis of inflation.

In Monopoly, if you give 1 player $500 they get a big advantage. If you give every player $500... nothing happens other than all auctions go up.

> I...honestly if that's the actual reason this is happening then it seems like we should be looking at seeing how do we make it so everyone has food and produce food with that metric. Not with a lower metric and be fine with people hungry.

This is exactly the point. If your goal is 0% inflation, the supply of money needs to be tied to actual economic growth. If the economy makes less stuff (like, during a pandemic) you actually need to find ways of taking money out to keep prices stable.
Have you signed up for the waitlist? ;)
Please expound on your claim that you have to maintain machines you aren't using. Is there some requirement for how many working machines you have to possess to qualify for a subsidy?

If so, is that requirement equally as absurd?
Rail is much more expensive to maintain than roads on a per-kilometer basis - where are you getting your numbers from?
It is not just the tax break that makes it cheaper for corporations to buy insurance. Companies with a lot of employees pay a lot less than individuals because they pool the risk. Back before ACA you used to be able to get in a pool with, for example, other small business owners and pay an amount similar to what companies pay but as an individual. ACA made those plans illegal and insurance that used to cost $500 per month jumped to $1800.
> clearly that's not the reality for everyone

might not be the reality, but multiple envs is the only correct answer.
If employees shouldn't complain about not receiving benefits they didn't negotiate for, surely they should get to complain about not receiving benefits they did negotiate for. Knowing anything about benefits administration is not the employee's job and it being "complicated" is not remotely their problem. If the terms of MailChimp's acquisition were incompatible with the terms of its employment agreements, then it shouldn't have agreed to the acquisition. Or it could make an honest attempt at recompense such as through bonuses. But they don't get to both eat and have their cake.
Courier Prime: It's Courier, just better
The third paragraph in the article addresses this. Most of the negative dentries a process generates are going to be invisible to the user.
It makes sense in absence of any acknowledgment of our global economy's structure, sure.
The catalyst for that scenario is likely some form of effective universal healthcare, which you will pay for indirectly via taxes.
Yes, same here. Just looking at the stresses on that front set of legs and the incredibly bad angle which they were pulling from (not to mention: the construction of that hoist) made me physically uncomfortable just watching it.

Also: afterwards the legs appear to have bent quite a bit, and you have to wonder about what kind of stresses that put on the attachment points.

At least they're lucky, you can't deny them that.

What gets me though: they can design and build a rocket motor but get a whole pile of very basic stuff utterly wrong. How is that even possible?
Not sure what this means, I've been using video conferencing on my Linux laptop for work on a daily basis for the last 5 years.
Excellent and interesting response! The idea of responsive audio within a browser-based game had slid right by my old-fart brain. Will be interesting to see how that turns out.
TikTok seem to be learning from what the user is actually watching and for how long and not just the user's "Like"/"Not Interested In" actions. However it still seem to learn from the "Not Interested In" action more than any other platform.
Or ransomware got them.
if it is a local government you directly vote for, that supports your argument.

Often, it is layers of government, way over you, who have no clue of the local needs, and it gets much worse.

Not only does it not know the local needs, it has no expertise in the subject area itself, and so an unelected unnamed bureaucracy rules the roost, and over time, gathers so much power, that regardless of which government comes to power, the true power rests with these bureacrats.
Precious metals and maybe Bitcoin.

Maybe stockpile some cash/crypto to buy a bunch of stocks at the bottom of the market. Assuming there is a market left whenever this all “ends” :)
This isn't surprising. The fastest way to get dangerous foreign materials in the lungs out of them is obviously to exhale them.

If proven this would mesh nicely with my own anecdotal experiences. I've been treating my own respiratory illnesses at home for the better part of a decade under this assumption, and that includes three moderate cases of COVID-19 so far. Even if it's cold I spend as much time as I can outside in the open air. I usually recover in about half the time I would if I stayed indoors.
NXDOMAIN caching has been the bane of my existence recently and I have been meaning to survey how other cache implementations deal with the problem. Looks like everyone suffers from it. I've heard edgy teenagers say that existence is suffering, but I suppose caches teach us that non-existence is suffering too.
Obviously these things happen but his demeanor was a major red flag.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons." -- Douglas Adams.
Volcker raised rates to almost 20% to break inflation in the 70s. But that's when debt was low and we were able to service it. Now that debt is high, how much can the Fed actually increase rates? Are they out of options?
There were a lot of complaints about earlier models being named, say, 'Meena'. (It's very sexist, you know, to name a chatbot a female name.) People won't complain about 'Chinchilla' because chinchillas are adorable. PaLMs aren't adorable, but at least it's neutral.
> Have we as global consumers just accepted that the Chinese don’t have to respect the system of copyright or patent in any capacity at all?

Even if these were prosecuted, would it really help in electronics, for example?

Since everybody has access to the same chips and creating a PCB is cheap and relatively quick, what would you even prosecute? Sure, you could prosecute the exact clones, but, most people are just following the manufacturer reference designs from the datasheet so there's nothing stopping someone else from doing that.

The problem is that once you prove there is a market for a piece of electronics, somebody in China will now pick off that market for cheaper. Is this not capitalism at its most raw?

The problem that this causes in electronics is that this trashes scaling as well as customer support. You can sell a $100 thingit, create a reddit community, and mostly tell people they're on their own with the occasional answer from somebody semi-official. Or you can sell a $10K+ thingit and actually provide excellent customer support.

In both cases, you will get cloned and ripped off--which limits the amount of money you can get from the market.

The current "solution" is to always have a cloud component which can't be cloned. This is, of course, anathema to open source, but I haven't seen anybody in open source have a good answer for this, either.
Who would have thought that the compounds probably responsible for our consciousness are also beneficial to our mental health.

https://www.inverse.com/article/34186-stoned-ape-hypothesis
Providing a better alternative for Etsy sellers
I'm a web person defending web things but providing something on the web has a significant advantage.
I know you've heard this again and again, but I can't emphasize it enough.

You can use the site from most platforms, including PCs and mobiles.
You don't have to install software, a single click is enough.
Of course, browsers have considerable limitations, and serious users will eventually choose other tools, but providing such an accessible software is a really huge advantage for me.

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Russia is ahead of the US, even in absolute tonne-km terms. And I don't know about other EU countries, but we (Czech Republic) seem to be transporting almost exactly as many tonnes per capita per year as the US, despite the fact that we have mixed rail traffic. The US just wins on tonne-km since it's larger, so the average distances are larger as well. But purely the volume of freight seems to be about the same, despite heavy passenger traffic.
...there's no accounting for taste? It really is a great solution as long as you understand the limits - there are more powerful options, but this one is just so quick and easy to get set up if it's valid for your situation.
Trying to figure out how this is different from an OSSC - I guess it gives you composite/svideo - the big question in my mind is if it's easier to configure. The OSSC is powerful, but there's a lot of fiddling around with the raw primitives defining the input and output signals (which can be a good thing, if you're into that).
> Could South Africa join NATO? Thailand?

South Africa or Thailand are not in the area covered by the treaty so no. Hell even an attack in Hawaii would be outside the treaty according the the US department of defense.

This is also why Australia and New Zealand are not part of NATO.

> Russia themselves asked to join but were rejected.

Except they were not. They were told to apply like any other nation and they did and were in the program but their constant threatening (and actual use) of force against their various neighbor countries slowed and eventually stopped the process with a final severing of official relationships due to the invasion of Crimea in 2014. Again the treaty is quite clear in this as a requirement to join nato.
Nonsense. It was a side project that cost a lot of money. He had to take care of his actual job, family, hobbies, income producing side projects, etc. He had no single person on the planet to help him maintain it or update it. So the dependencies went out of date over the years.

Projects with resources can be maintained and updated. This one has no resources and there is no reason to update it because it's a drag on that person's life.
There are a lot of responses here discussing corporations vs. the government vs. the workers when it comes to social responsibility, but ignoring the fact that _everyone_ has become less socially responsible over the last 40 years.

People in general just aren't community or socially minded in the way they used to be[1], and the bosses of companies or leaders of government are all people too.

[1] To be specific, people are still charitable, but we don't have the same culture/institutions where everyone gives and takes in the same way we used to.
Things like working bees, community sport, or even just general behaviours like helping out friends/family/neighbours are all getting rarer by the day.
I don't think crypto has yet been proven to be hedge against other assets... From what I have heard it seems to more or less correlate with the stocks.
Yeah, my immediate thought was of stuff like "ask nginx to give me this misspelled webpage" -> look up that file -> bam, dentry.

Expose practically anything on the internet that leads to a piece of user input causing a filesystem operation (which is going to be extremely common and often unavoidable), and "hundreds" isn't the concern. Millions to billions is.
in the late 70s the politicians also blamed OPEC for inflation. which was also bullshit.
I was given an offer but I passed on. The entire experience was awful. The other interviewers did not bother to turn their webcams on (nor did they even bother to give an excuse for not doing so). The whole thing felt like an interrogation.
Is it just me who thinks cross platform dev is broken?
Microsoft recently announced the end of Xamarin.Forms. It will get deprecated one year after .NET 6’s release. We offer an app, that is based on X.F and is used by very few clients. We don’t even sell that app to new customers anymore. However, I need a solution for my legacy clients. So I just sat down to test some cross platforms app dev frameworks.

Let’s recap:

(1) MAUI preview: didn’t see a chance to get it up and running with Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise.
Following, MS just deprecated Xamarin.Forms, why should I trust in MAUI?

(2) ionic: Settled down for two days to get into the framework. Got an MVP up and running, just to install it onto my phones for testing. And it failed. Googling around just gave me several bug reports. Others complaining about the same issues I got into. Interesting to mention, the bugs were reported over the last few years. So why should I trust into a framework, that just does not work?

(3) Flutter3: Dart seems like a very neat language. However, besides all the languages I’m programming on a daily bases, I really don’t have time to learn another language on top of Flutter.

(4) React.Native: it’s just like learning Dart. I don’t have time to learn another big framework just for a legacy app. Also I’m fearing to experience all the issues, I had with ionic.

So, what options do I have?
Right: Going for a native WebView based app, one for iOS, another one for Android. I’ve messed around with so many damned, not working frameworks, that I just forgot about the basics. So, it took me one day to develop a web-app by focusing on small screens, known languages and frameworks. Followed by another 4 hours to set up native apps. Both apps are now in review. Jobs done. I never touched Kotlin or Swing before, just like Xcode or Android Studio. As long as I remember, all years certificate issuing for Xamarin.iOS even took me 4 hours.

I’m just so glad to see, how well Xcode and Android Studio handles all the signing, just like the development, testing and deployment.

Hope to see some good discussions on cross platform app development here. Maybe you could share similar stories with different solutions?
Please google “we should improve society somewhat”
Considering the company is being acquired, it might index double up as resumé for the CEO - since she will need it.
Off topic: Kettlebells might lose their "heavy" in micro-gravity[1], but they don't lose their "massy". I first read the term "massy" in some sci-fi book, by Heinlein, I believe.

It takes more effort to overcome the inertia of an object with a lot of mass than it does to overcome the inertia of an object with less mass. So, you can still use massy objects to work out in micro-gravity! Or so I've been led to believe by convincing fiction. :)

1: I've also been led to believe that micro-gravity is a better term than zero-g for the conditions experienced during free fall.
This might be a weird outcome of the inability of large groups to process nuance. Groups seem to struggle with the idea that things can be done one way in one place and another way in another place - and struggle in a way that individuals seem not to.

Groups - even small government types, weirdly - seem to fall into a trap whenever something goes wrong. The answer to a challenge is "centralise power, then do things my way". Never mind that power is difficult to coerce, rarely does things your way and any mistakes made are standardised and amplified accross an entire country.

I recall in the early days of the COVID crisis where the US banned working COVID tests (I forget if it was the CDC or some other government body) in favour of their own faulty one, which totally scuppered any chance of controlling the disease. Foreseeable outcome of the strategy. But despite that sort of thing being easy to pick, groups don't argue for parallelism in an emergency.
It was mostly a learning project for me, but I'm planning to do a write-up soon as a guide for Python developers moving to Elixir.

Re: ETS, I was just imagining something like Realtime but without Postgres, just using ETS. Most of the use cases I can think of for this type of thing don't require relational data, so I was thinking of just using ETS as a KV/document store to hold user and application state and then reacting to changes in to that the way you are here. I think you'd lose the benefits of relational queries and persistence but gain some function in overhead and decentralization. I'm moving to Elixir after spending a lot of time doing "serverless" and event-driven architectures, so now I'm spending a lot of time thinking about how to get the benefits of both worlds.
Because all the others are equally bad, basically. The options for enterprisey issue management are quite slim.
For me even the vertical space fully extended is too much visual area since I need to move my eyes/head to scan top to bottom. but I do have a 5k panel relatively close at low scaling so maybe your setup is different
But how does one find a mentor in the first place?
And because they aren't regulated, they can just decide not to provide any coverage at all.

John Oliver covered Health Care Sharing Ministries (often called Health Shares or HCSMs) a while ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFetFqrVBNc
Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track
There's a video, but it's half an hour of calibrating a pick and place machine.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/IAsJbZpvYHU
A brief discussion of a discussion of the paper is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30812746
Actually in the end the US went soft on Iraq. Thatcher wanted to roll into Baghdad and clean it out properly (or, she argued we’d find ourselves there again in a decade or 2). Bush disagreed.
Also, train companies were (and RENFE still is) neglecting night trains because their marketing department and direction were more interested in snazzy high-speed trains, so they didn't upgrade old train stock and stopped night services that were still filled to the brim with passengers.
This hardly seems like a reasonable way to characterize Netflix, which has a personal recommendation system, especially compared to HN, which is ad supported yet gives the same recommendations to everyone.
Not so sure about that. Anti-poaching agreements are supposed to be illegal but I imagine this kind of thing continues today in secret:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
I mean, this post from a year ago makes it sound not that non-standard: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/my...

What you're describing sounds like you mean something on the level of Cockroach, talking the Postgres wire protocol but implemented entirely independently underneath (which came indirectly out of Google). Facebook's MySQL deployment sounds more like a heavily-patched-but-basically-MySQL installation. I think Facebook is overanalogised to Google sometimes, as an engineering org.

(Admittedly I haven't worked at either whereas you have - though I have at another FAANG fwliw - but am basing this impression partly on what I hear from friends & partly on plain old stuff I read on the internet.)
I almost used Affirm the other day because deferring payments at 0% is attractive, but then I realized it would result in a hard credit inquiry, equivalent to opening a new line of credit. (Which it sort of is, but why defer $200 when you could open a real credit card and get introductory 0% for 18 months on potentially $10k or more instead? Even if you only spend $200 on your new credit card, presumably this is better for your credit score as you would be using a tiny fraction of the available credit on that account.)
That seems pretty unlikely to me actually. As the models and training data get much bigger, I think the initial weights become less important (at least assuming your random weights have certain desirable statistical properties, which they do by construction usually).
Averse*
tbh this was my thought too. No need for background processing either, there are quite a few options for amortized-constant-time old-value deletion at lookup time. Or do that cleanup while checking the disk on a cache miss - if you have no misses, the cache is working fantastically and probably shouldn't be pruned.

Or is there some reason those aren't acceptable in-kernel, while apparently a lack of cleanup is fine? Maybe CPU use is too high...?
I have heard very little of his music so far, only in some of the Tarkovsky films like Stalker which I adore.

This theme for Urga: Close to Eden is beautiful, I must watch the film one of these days - https://youtu.be/_U_DOuAWz4g He always seems to utilise a rich mix of styles and instrumentation.
Would EU countries waste their nukes in attrition of RU troops on aligned soil? There aren't that many (by official figures). I'm guessing most countries would prefer not to escalate to nukes unless their own territory was threatened.
For anyone trying to figure out what ESG stands for, it's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social_and_corp...

TL;DR: Environmental groups say crypto is bad for the environment, crypto person gets angry about that
> It's baffling to me why so many people are so heavily invested into that brand here...

Firstly, I never said I am invested in their brand. Nor do I have to be to argue that "cost is very high" is not a good reason to ignore doing something that your business (I would argue) needs to do (keep the knockoff "handmade stuff") in order to the accomplish your stated goals (connect sellers of actual handmade stuff with buyers).
Good luck being able to use, or even make backups of proprietary SaaS offerings.