skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it similar to the "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM". If there is any kind of concern over safety, any incident affecting any school, some well-meaning supplier/council/school admin suggests adding security whether fences, ID badges, maglocks, security guards etc. Why not? Anything is better than nothing?

The problem is that no-one would get away with saying, "maybe we don't need the fence anymore, it separates children from the community". "Maybe we don't need to repair the metal detector when it breaks" etc. Sad really. The idea that somehow ID cards are a proportionate measure for some kind of security at a high school is very worrying.
Biden Proposal Eliminate Tax-Free Treatment for Wealthy Households Annual Income
You mean like Amazon?
Every word of what you've just said is correct.

Croatia really has natural beauty. It has gorgeous beaches. Those beaches are usually overcrowded and in many places turned into concrete slabs. It has good life, unless you can't find a decent job. It has free healthcare, in which you wait a year for an urgent medical examination. It has low taxes (10% capital gains tax! 0% LTCG!) but extensive red tape and extremely inefficient bureaucracy and judicial system.

Corruption is a way of life (ask your grandma if it's decent to visit a doctor without a gift). Politics is a joke to such an extreme Boris Johnson looks like a Stoic philosopher. He partied during COVID restrictions, right? Well, our Minister of Health partied during COVID restrictions he invoked, and nothing, whatsoever, happened.

We're like that country in Tropico (the game), only in real life. Even on a map, if you squint, we look like a banana country.

Still, we've free speech, we're fairly well integrated into the EU (barring some unforseen problem, like, dunno, a war on a doorstep, maybe we'll even adopt the Euro next year), we're pretty safe. Child-care is inexpensive, schools are okay for the most part, public universities are free, and if you work in a well-paid industry (like tech, which is booming), it can be a good life.

So, a banana country with benefits?
Ok what if someone attacks the preprocessing. What bad thing happens next?
DRAM Choices Becoming Central Design Considerations
Warning: hot take.

While it is unlikely that Putin would care a bit about Sweden, this is a huge gamble on Finland's side. HUGE.

This can go in one of the two directions: either Putin dislikes but somehow swallows it (the way he did with Baltic states in 2004), or he can go about preemptively wrecking Finland (the way he did with Georgia and Ukraine in 2008 and 2014 respectively).

Considering Russia was very negative on a prospect of having NATO some 450 km from Moscow, the prospect of having them 150 km from St. Petersburg might aggravate Putin even more. And St. Petersburg is not just another Russian city — it's Putin's home city.

Starting with Mannerheim, Finland had a wise policy for the last 70 years, where they largely refrained from taking sides on the USSR/West thingy, and the Soviets let them be. Joining NATO is a complete reversal of that policy, and it is an extremely dangerous gamble at an extremely dangerous time.
okay but why not just take down the entire thing and make something even cooler
A good client can provide more than revenue. All the staff that have contact with them will be exposed to their expertise, inspired by their high standards, and bring back their good business practices.

A bad client can poison a company culture with their own problems and cost more than money.

It's as important to have good clients as it is to have good employees.
> I would suspect that she was looking for a confrontation, even though she claims to not be confrontational.

Tell me more about your mind reading technology
Also see https://www.numberphile.com/videos/the-ultimate-egg-quation
U.S. cities are backing off banning facial recognition as crime rises
Wasn't Trump specifically complaining about many NATO members not seriously working towards the 2% of their GDPs they were expected to spend on defense?
Which was also in the news around February since Germany seriously committed to meeting that requirement in response to Ukraine, thus effectively saying that he was not all too unreasonable to demand that?
The actual quote is:

> And so I was shooed along, collateral damage in the quest to wrap every child in a bubble of perfect safety. Now I sit at my computer, wondering: What would it take to give every one of them a nice, sharp pin?

Obviously the pin is to pop the confining bubble "every child" has been placed in, thus improving their lives. She follows up:

> (Though some authority would no doubt accuse me of distributing weapons to children)
The Internet and Consumer Electronics (Bob Frankston, 1997)
Nah, if you do really believe creating what is effectively a web app is faster than a proper desktop one, go ahead and create it.

The only useful recommendation here is that, when you have some time, and don't have to rewrite an entire app, and if you expect to target the desktop again, you will gain from learning desktop frameworks. But absolutely not now while you are on the middle of something.
Love the idea, but I don't see how this would work in real-life scenario. I think it would be to much trouble.
Well maybe it's more evidence against MOND-like theories explaining dark matter, but those already have little buy-in nowadays.
I don't know much about tethercoins and I might be misunderstanding something here, but if you force to maintain the peg in the backing currency (I assume via smart contract?) then you just changed the failure scenario to "nobody buys the coin", i.e. the value drops straight to zero. Not sure how that's an improvement except it happens in the backing currency.

...and this has circled back to your original comment where you say exactly that, but referring to the proposed stablecoin? Not sure what I'm missing!
Either you are an expert in this field than it should be you who writes a clear argument and present it or you are not an expert.

Aren't they are peer reviewed?

What is your expertise in astrophysics?
And that is even less of a dystopia than what we're capable of now: there is no reason for any person to be plugging in to the telescreen to watch someone live, because it can all be recorded and then retroactively browsed at will.
4 years ago my team built out a new CMS website for a large media company that had many different sub brands and multiple language requirements. We did a lengthy comparison against a big range or CMS solutions, we found Django CMS https://www.django-cms.org/en/ fulfilled all our requirements the best.

After having used it for years I can say it's an excellent product. Easy to setup, easy to learn (any Django dev can pick it up almost instantly), secure, has LTS versions. It's just an excellent CMS. It's the first product I reach for now when needing a CMS system.

I am not affiliated with Django CMS in any way, I just really love their product.
Fun things to add:

(1) Despite being classified as separate things in TFA, symbolic differentiation really is the same thing as AD. The apparent explosion in terms comes not from some innate difference but because many symbolic differentiators don't allow you to express term reuse.

(2) It's easy to write locally (in code) non-differentiable functions that compose to something smooth, and AD usually has a bad time with that. Anything involving a branch on the symbols to be differentiated has a decent chance of blowing up this way. Consider x==0 ? x^2+x : x^2. A typical AD framework will either refuse to produce a derivative or will derive the first term and incorrectly produce 1 instead of 0. This sort of issue makes it challenging to derive variable-length algorithms even if they're known to have smooth results (like almost anything with a stable optimization subroutine).
The most likely explanation is that we have no clue, just like every other point in history. Science is always new.

Everyone is different, but most scientists seek areas where experiment doesn’t match the predictions. It’s the only way we learn.

One such instance is the W Boson Anomaly: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdpwrmoj/?k=1

If the equations were right, the experimental error would be zero (modulo uncertainty bars). Instead, we’re quite confident the standard model is wrong (or “incomplete” to phrase it diplomatically).

As an aside, this is also a great example of TikTok turning a corner. I now have 184 educational videos saved, along with dozens of science videos. I learn more on TikTok than any other source now, which I didn’t expect. There’s an avid physicist community, and I made friends with someone who works at CERN. https://twitter.com/simoneragoni?s=21&t=xIkxhA--TzKDWA5XN3ve... Get ready for TikTok to become the new Wikipedia within a decade.
From 2011:

Finally. After more than two years of development the OP-1 is now ready for production.
Due to initial limited supply we now accept reservations.
Manufacturing, assembly and shipping will be eight weeks.

$799

https://web.archive.org/web/20110201230202/http://namm.teena...
> As mentioned in the article, people don't care about facts. Kidnapping is at an all time low in the US. The only instances are family members during a nasty divorce or things like that.

I agree that kidnapping is probably at an all-time low, but it's an unbelievable claim that it's all "family members during a nasty divorce or things like that." I personally know a family who's kid was kidnapped (briefly) by a non-family member.

> "Think of the children" is the main weapon politics have to push regulations and more control. It is important that everybody thinks that kids are in danger at all time otherwise it would stop working.

That's not what's going on here. It's a cultural issue. You've got a longstanding issue with crime, especially particularly "worst fear"-type crime, getting disproportionate attention in the media, creating false impressions and seeds for fear-fantasies. Now, added to that is new cultural obsession with abuse and victim-hood; and the idea of completely stamping that out is possible, and it should be achieved whatever the cost.

You might have a politicians exploiting this cultural issue to accomplish other things, but they certainly didn't create the phenomenon of hyper-vigalent school paraprofessionals.
I'm just gonna leave this here.

https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/sv/tree/master/item/sv.py

(Python code for ASCII-separated values. TL;DR: it's so stupid simple that I feel any objection to using this format has just got to be wrong. It's like "Hey, we don't have to keep stabbing ourselves in the face." ... "But how will we use our knives?" See? It's like that.)
Since we're talking movies, I'll throw in a handful of movie titles that I find inspirational and /or uplifting as well:

Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa

Vision Quest

Tin Cup

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Social Network

Rad

Hackers

Wargames

Iron Man

The Man Who Knew Infinity - based on the book of the same name, which I also recommend.
i agree. the information war is being won by ukraine. i don’t think russia is in as bad of place as the news suggests, mostly because i don’t think i can trust the news. also i’d rather see an EU defense force than using america (nato) as security. ukraine has showed you don’t need eu or nato to get american help
except my screen size is large and I can see the entire modal. Yes, there may be a screen size concern too, however the absence of the link at the bottom exists for some no matter the screen size.
There's System Hungarian, which was apparently the result of a misunderstanding, and Apps Hungarian, which is actually useful: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

I use Apps Hungarian in my own code.
This is basic contract law but you'll likely need to review the specific contract in question to see if they have any clauses you've agreed to about cancellation.

But if you have an agreement that one side unilaterally changes and the other side doesn't agree you probably don't have a contract anymore.
America's Abortion Quandary
Then you have the cynics like myself who remember the UK anti terrorists powers being used to freeze Icelandic banks assets during the financial crisis. There is a 1.00 probability that the authority will be extended and abused. So like for free speech, you can’t give up fundamental rights even if those rights get abused by some terrible people. Those rights cannot be a roadkill for a good cause.
No it does not. They did not initiate the aggression.

There's a question of semantics here of course. We're contrasting aggressive and defensive military action. I don't see how characterising military action in defence of others as aggressive is a useful or meaningful characterisation. It's defensive, just not defensive of yourself.

Also let's look at the objectives. The intention in Kosovo wasn't to invade Serbia but to end ethnic cleansing. The fact it took force to achieve that was a means to and end, not an end in itself. Without the ethnic cleansing there would have been no military action, so it wasn't about territory or aggression.
I think people like him (i.e. a person without any background in computer science, AI, information security, etc) shouldn't be pushing for a solution they don't really comprehend. To me this is similar to those who were pushing for hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin/bleach as a cure for COVID-19. This is very dangerous, even if you are well-intentioned.
All excellent advice. Damn - I'll just skip that MBA now! I'd expand #9 a bit:
9a: Don't hit on your co-workers
9b: Don't sleep with your co-workers
9c: Don't date your co-workers
Lots of big charities fall into this, probably 100 examples from PETA alone.
Well, I don't disagree that a rock solid codebase is important in either environment. It's the cost of change that is usually at stake, like you mentioned, and that's why I'm arguing that flexibility is more important.than code quality in an agile environment, particularly at the beginning of a project when there are the most unknowns.

You're hitting the nail on the head about burning out though. I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles.
When I was younger I thought it was a smart move to be deceiptive and fool people above my paygrade to make them feel important and or smart, to allow them their foolishness.

It is bad to do that as you just justify their behaviour, and allow them to keep behaving as such by giving them what they expect and want.

Maybe my attitude could land me some enemies and prevent me opportunities, but I decided not to continue that vicious cycle.

We need to surround ourselves with people we respect and respects us equally, somewhere were feedback is possible.

Not only for the better of our minds but also for the better of the things we produce.
>probably figures it's a valid tradeoff if it helps reduce child exploitation to any meaningful degree.

Without actual numbers and rational arguments, this is so subjective it is moot.

People arguing against this aren't against fighting child sexual abuse or even sexual abuse in general. But the entire thing is so riddled with "what ifs" and more, that it's a hard sell to justify another step to the road of potential total control.

Every parent wants their children to have as many lifelines as possible in case something bad happens, to let them experiment safely without predators lurking. What we should be asking is how much we're willing to give up for each lifeline, and at what point we have to accept nature (or in this case, society) just isn't going to be fair.
> There's no intention to get foreign troops to guard our borders (or even foreign troops at all in Finland beyond exercises).

Preferably quite a few exercises in the near future... Until ratification is through.
> Science-fiction and fantasy UK book covers were better too

Same with video games back in the day. The Japanese versions had much cooler box art than the Western ones. But they were often abandoned because they used a style that wasn't as popular in the West.
The EU isn't democratic in the first place. Partly is the reason why it needs to go away.
Yes, but.
There were voices of reason and caution the whole time. People would ask me “you know tech stuff what crypto should I invest in”.
“None, it’s not investing. It’s speculation”

You know how many people listened to me? None of the people who asked me for advice, and got the above advice indicated in any way that it would keep them away. There was a lot of greed pushing the clueless into poor choices.
So now who do we blame?

Honestly there’s enough to go around.
That's the point here. We are living in a post-1984 world. Already.
this guy astronomies.
Those are all aircraft based, so not the fastest mode of deployment.
Not least because stablecoins were meant to be the place to park your money without being subject to the huge +/- swings or risks of almost any other asset. If people are suffering, it’s because they believed the operators of stablecoins when they said funds were in the safest place going. And now look at today: Tether says it is honouring all redemptions as usual — which, as usual, means only redemptions over $100K are honoured. The small fish can go cry, apparently, or try an exchange at the market price whose detachment from $1 is the whole reason for a run on Tether. Take the concept of FDIC insured bank deposits, turn it completely on its head, and that’s what this policy is.
It seems there are mechanisms with fully continuous motion, eg: https://www.grand-seiko.com/global-en/about/movement/springd...
People use USDT to buy and sell other tokens, it's like an on/off ramp to all things "crypto". You give them 1USD, they give you 1USDT, and you can buy whatever fake coin you like.

The issue is that it's true that for every 1USD you give to Tether, there's 1USDT, but it's not true that for every 1USDT Tether mints, there's 1USD in some bank. Estimates are in the low 10%, but it's probably less.
They have essentially a money printer.

(Some) people really believe that USDT is pegged to the dollar, so they really believe that if they have some ETH for instance, and they sell that ETH for USDT, that the translation ETH -> USDT -> USD is maintained, but that's the whole problem, nothing stops them from minting USDT without the real USD existing. So nothing stops them from "buying" your "hard earned" ETH/Bitcoin/whatevercoin with USDT pulled out of thin air.

That's why New York said essentially "these people are liers and nothing they say is true". It's just that people continue to play this game. And why is that? Because no financial institution would give you Bitcoin/ETH/whatever for dollars, because if they do, they are essentially banks and all the KyC rules / regulations apply.

So they came up with this charade, these "stable coins" are nothing more than a workaround for on and off ramps, because people have FIAT money (real money if you ask me).
This is why Bitcoin doesn't go lower than 30.000, because there's huge amount of Tether being used to buy Bitcoin and keep the price up. Once this money printer charade goes bust we will see the actual price of Bitcoin, Ether, NFTs and so on.
author here - I am an exited founder looking for next thing - I dug so deep to find the value. This was my conclusion too.
(2005)

(Malcolm Gladwell)
Where do you get “most states?” Only 13 states passed trigger laws after Roe. Nearly all are places where that’s probably what the majority in those states want. Several states like Michigan and Virginia have pre-existing bans on the books. I expect those will get quickly sorted out.
With all the copious computing power today and given this problem seems mostly non-quantum, do simulations bring any significant insight at all?
Banning E2E doesn't "solve the problem of CSAM," anyway.
Dude, if you’re going to go all in on conspiracy theories you can’t just say things like “I don’t think Obama was being disingenuous”.

Here, let me drop in another element of this theory for you: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

This, along with the other patents granted to Salvator Cezar Pais, is pseudoscientific nonsense. And yet Dr. Pais has legitimate engineering credentials and backing from the Navy. Why would the Navy sponsor research into pseudoscientific nonsense that is, by sheer coincidence, consistent with the reported properties of the alleged UFO sightings that the Navy allegedly cannot explain? Perhaps this is not pseudoscientific nonsense and the Navy has a secret aircraft development program that is beyond the bounds of publicly known science, and which their operational pilots have unwittingly stumbled upon.

(If it was aliens, why the hell hasn’t the Air Force ever run into them? Only the Navy, which by sheer coincidence is the exact same branch that sponsors Dr. Pais’ research?)

But if that was the case, why would they patent it and release the gun camera footage instead of telling the pilots to STFU? It’s because someone is meant to believe that the Navy has a secret aircraft development program. That someone being a geopolitical rival of the United States who would presumably be terrified of falling behind in the arms race and thus react by investing their own time and resources into the sorts of pseudoscientific impossibilities that the Navy has apparently already developed.
It's a security and is regulated as such. So SEC, torts, etc.

In this case if you're marketing $TOKEN as a stablecoin and there's no resources to back it up then it's literally a $PONZICOIN.

$USDC might be okay, I know they've made moves to back their coin in dollars and treasuries.
This seems like pedantry. One side can be a proxy while the other side isn't, right?
Which industries do you consider as the lowest hanging fruits?
If you have no customers you'll work on your project and eventually give up. If you have multiple customers you have a business of some sort. If you have only one you are in a dangerous place.

A case study from last year. I'm on a board of a company that had a small product under way but got excited by a much larger market. They even got a customer who paid a small down payment (~75K). So they spent more than a year developing the new product (several engineers on staff) in close partnership with this customer. We board members kept urging the CEO to find a second customer but he was more interested in engineering than sales. You can guess what happened: after a year the customer declined to make the second payment of ~75K. So I called the customer and he said he wouldn't pay but would just buy the company for a pittance (less than had been spent on development). The board declined, and as I predicted the customer attempted to recruit the development team, so we just fired the customer. He was quite irate because he had built this into his own development plans, but fuck him. The one fun part was that he couldn't re implement what he needed himself as we had patents they would need.

If that wasn't bad enough, the customer's use case was quite specific and not adequate for the broader market. So further development was needed (development that would already have been done had there been marketing and product management) before the company could even try to enter the market.

In the end I had to come in and do a restart and spin out. A regular starup would have died.

It doesn't have to be as bad as that. But a big company can be committed to you and then cancel a whole product for whatever reasons that have nothing to do with you.

And I wasn't kidding with the Google example. They have struggled to develop new lines of revenue, even pulling puny old Nest back onto their balance sheet for an extra percent or two of non-advertising revenue. With a more diversified revenue stream wall street analysis would drive the stock price up. If there's a secular change in the advertising market they really would suffer. So this advice isn't just for startups.